After listening to Qian Zhuangfei's report, Zuo Political Commissar thought for a while and said: "I see that it is just a trick of the army, a bluff, and the purpose is to contain our army. I don't believe that the Yue army has the courage to start a duel with us at this time, you must know that not long ago we inflicted heavy losses on the Yue army in northern Shanxi, and the Yue army in northern Jin will not be able to recover its combat effectiveness so quickly. Secondly, there is no need for the army to fight to the death with our army, you must know that although there are many threats to us, they are far inferior to the more than 200,000 troops of the National People's Political Axe in Tojo Mountain and the hundreds of thousands of Jin Sui troops in Yan Xishan. The army will not and cannot transfer the main forces to clean up our Eighth Route Army, and Binshan Yuan and Umezu Mijiro are not stupid, and they do not know what the combat mode of our Eighth Route Army is, and it will take almost two years to start the war, and there will be 80 sweeps of all sizes, and each time it is not in the movement of our army, the army will be dragged to death by being thin and dragged to death, and that time is not worth the loss, as long as there is no problem in the head of the senior generals of the army, they will not fight a decisive battle with our army in the whole of North China. So I think we should be ready to rescue the troops of the Eighth Route Army in the southern Hebei region, just in case. Of course, we can't relax, and the Japanese army may also make a desperate bet and confront our army in several places at the same time, so I suggest that the military region issue a state of first-class alert. What do you think, Commander? "Political Commissar Zuo is worthy of being a general who followed the chairman all the way, and his analysis is still very reasonable, and with only a little information collected by Qian Zhuangfei, it is very good that Political Commissar Zuo can analyze it to this point.

Han Yunhua cleared his throat and said, "The first-level alert state will be exempted, I think it will be the next level of combat readiness." ”

Han Yunhua's words immediately caused an uproar, you must know that the alert state of the Inner Mongolia Military Region was formulated by Han Yunhua himself, and it is divided into six levels, the lowest level is the third level of alert, the second level of alert, the first level of alert, and then the higher state of combat readiness. The state of combat readiness proves that there is definite evidence that the base areas are seriously threatened, and that the troops must be ready for a major war, and the state of combat readiness is also divided into three levels of combat readiness, two levels of combat readiness, and the highest level of combat readiness. According to Han Yunhua's stipulation, once the first level of combat readiness is reached, all base areas must enter a wartime state, and all counties, except for the troops, must complete the assembly in the shortest possible time and wait for orders at any time. In addition, the common people must also cooperate with the troops, and all counties, villages, and towns must be ready to move at any time, and they must ensure that the walls are clear and the wilderness is clear. In addition, the common people living in the county towns and major cities must also be subject to the control of the lights of the military region to prevent being bombed by military planes. You must know that in this way, almost all of the military regions will be busy, and this will also cause serious inconvenience to the production and life of the common people, and the cost will be quite large. Since its establishment, the Inner Mongolia Military Region has issued a total of one order for the first-level combat readiness, that is, the last time the Battle of Saibei was met, and Han Yunhua had never issued such a serious order in addition to this.

"Commander, I don't think there's a need for this, is Binshan Yuanzhen really going to wipe out our army with those troops in Datong, Zhangjiakou and Chengde? As the political commissar analyzed, the main force of the army should be placed on the body of the Dongtiao Mountain and the Jin Sui army in southern Hebei and southeast Jin, and they will not take the slightest advantage of us, and it will be really thankless to fight with us, and it is very likely that they will lose their wives and soldiers. I don't think the army will do anything against our army at the moment, and once it does, it will be impossible for the army to have the strength to move other troops in southern Hebei. Shen Yuquan said suspiciously, he very much agreed with the words of Political Commissar Zuo, you must know that Political Commissar Zuo used to be the deputy chief of general staff of the Eighth Route Army, and he had a very good set of strategies and tactics. In particular, the layout of the war and the dynamic analysis of the war are good at it.

But they also knew that Han Yunhua was not a person who was good at jokes, especially in this kind of military meeting, every word Han Yunhua said and every decision he made was related to the lives of a large number of soldiers. Coupled with the cautious and cautious surname that Han Yunhua has always shown, they have to carefully consider every word Han Yunhua said.

Han Yunhua was not hypocritical, got up and explained: "Comrades, it is said that the army will not die if the heart of China is destroyed, and a detailed battle plan has been formulated. As early as June 27, 1927, the Honda Yoshiichi Cabinet convened the so-called Oriental Council to decide the general policy of aggression against China, which is also known as the Tanaka Cabinet and the Oriental Conference. In May 1927, the main discussion of the Oriental Conference was to obstruct China's reunification and safeguard the colonial rights and interests of the Communists in China, and in May 1927, the Communists sent troops to Shandong to cause the Jinan Massacre. On June 27 of the same year, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka convened and presided over a "meeting" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was attended by senior bureaucrats and generals of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Army and Navy Ministries, the General Staff Headquarters, and the Kwantung Army, as well as ministers and consuls general in China. On July 7, the meeting formulated the "China Policy Program," declaring the use of force to safeguard the interests of the Chinese people and trying to suppress anti-Japanese actions in various parts of China. He stressed that "Manchuria" (i.e., Northeast China and Inner Mongolia) have a "major stake" in the defense and survival of the "Manchurian and Mongolian regions" and that "appropriate measures" will be taken to ensure the special interests of the Manchurian and Mongolian regions. According to the Chinese political axe at that time, after this meeting, Tanaka presented a fold to the emperor, advocating that "if you want to conquer China, you must first conquer Manchu and Mongolia; If you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer China" and so on. Although no other contents of the "Tanaka Concert" have been discovered, the Huanggutun Incident in 1928, which killed Zhang Zuolin, the "9-18" incident in 1931, and then the launching of a full-scale war of aggression against China in 1937, are all consistent with the plans and arrangements of the conference's "China Policy Program" or "Tanaka Concert". And all the actions of the Japanese army are only a continuation of the Tanaka concert advocated by the Tanaka cabinet, so we must look at this attack of the Japanese army from the background of the fight. After the Battle of Wuhan, the Yue army returned with a heavy defeat, and because we handed over a large part of the ships of the Third Fleet to the hands of the national political axe, the Yue army had lost its superiority on the water on the Yangtze River, and his aircraft carriers could not enter the Yangtze River anyway. And the air force of this was also beaten by the Chinese air force, and it was covered with bruises. The most important thing is that if you want to completely take Wuhan, this Nanchang is a hidden danger, and it can't be solved if it is not solved. Therefore, I judged that the next move of the Yue army was to attack Nanchang in preparation for the second Battle of Wuhan. ”

Han Yunhua had just paused, and Shen Yuquan spoke: "Does the commander mean that this action of the Yue Army has something to do with the Yue Army's attack on Nanchang?" ”

"That's true, you must know that Nanchang is one of the few air bases in China that is still in China's hands so far, and once something happens in Wuhan, the Chinese Air Force can arrive in less than an hour, so for the army, Nanchang must be taken. However, due to our army's strong performance in the Battle of Wuhan, the Yue Army had to guard against a repeat of the fiasco in the Battle of Wuhan, so we first let the North China Front Army probe the bottom of our Eighth Route Army, and it was best to contain the main force of our army, so I judged that the Yue Army would launch an attack on our military region, but the scale would certainly not be too large, and the reason why I said it was because the Yue Army could not hold a decisive battle with our army for the time being. Because from March 1938, the national political axe sent a large number of [***] teams led by General Wei Lihuang to retreat into the Zhongtiao Mountains of Shanxi to resist the army, at that time Chiang Kai-shek strictly ordered the [***] team north of the Yellow River to stick to the Zhongtiao Mountain, not allowed a soldier to retreat across the Yellow River, and the army in the "Battle of Xuzhou", and then dispatched heavy troops to the Yellow River crossing in the Zhongtiao Mountains in the east and west roads to launch a fierce attack, the east road said that the army was in the Xiyang River Valley of Yuanqu County, was heavily damaged by the [***] team commanded by Wei Lihuang. Because of the presence of Zhongtiao Mountain, the main force of the First Army stationed in Shanxi will not mobilize much to attack our army, but our army has to prevent little devils and dogs from jumping over the wall to free up their hands to clean us up, so our military region must make preparations in advance. After a slight pause, Han Yunhua said again: "Also, the army has reached the door of my Eighth Route Army, and it is imperative to counter-sweep in southern Hebei, but I am a little worried about whether the 129th Division has the strength to compete with the army." The main reason is that the 386 Brigade has just changed its military commander, and it is still unknown how much combat effectiveness the 386 Brigade can maintain without Brigade Commander Chen, so our army must also be ready to support other units of the Eighth Route Army at any time. ”

As soon as Han Yunhua's words were finished, the seven or eight senior leaders of the Inner Mongolia Military Region in the conference room began to discuss, they did not expect Han Yunhua to take such a long-term view, especially about the fact that there was such an inside story about the army's sweep in southern Hebei, or that the army had such a purpose.

About ten minutes later, Zuo Political Commissar spoke first: "Let's be quiet, since the commander has analyzed the causes and consequences of this battle and what wishful thinking the little devil played, then I want to ask the commander what plan he has for this battle situation?" ”

Han Yunhua smiled and said: "In order to sweep the southern Hebei region, the enemy mobilized more than 30,000 people from the 10th, 110th, 114th, and 26th divisions along the Pinghan and Jinpu railways, and carried out a large-scale "sweep" of the southern Hebei region from the east and west lines and divided into 11 routes, in an attempt to flank the main force of our Eighth Route Army in the southern Hebei Plain. The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army plus all the troops of the 129th Division can only be used for combat by the 85th Brigade, the 386th Brigade, the Youth Column, the Eastward Column, the Advance Column and other combat groups. If this force is added, then the anti-sweep in southern Hebei will be in great trouble. Therefore, I decided to launch another major battle of sufficient scale in the Saibei area, which provoked the nerves of the North China Front of the Chinese Army, so that it had to transfer a part of its troops back to support the Saibei. As for the specific battle plan, I will hand it over to the Central Military Commission tomorrow, but before that, we must properly handle the future affairs of the military region, especially the defensive gap left by the departure of the large troops. Han Yunhua said quickly, and the heads of the military regions in the conference room listened very carefully, for fear that something would be left behind.

(To be continued)