In fact, Han Yunhua did not know that as long as the officers above the rank of major general of the Japanese army were favored by the emperor, they would have the opportunity to be given the imperial guard by the emperor. The number of the Emperor's guards varied, some were three or four, some were more than a dozen, and some were three dozens, so it was no wonder that Shen Yuquan regarded the guards protecting Lieutenant General Hasunuma as a "special advance killing squad".

Strictly speaking, Lieutenant General Hasunuma's guards cannot be called the Emperor's Guard, because the Japanese Emperor only gave him 12 members of the Emperor's Guard, and the remaining 300-odd people were all new members who were trained by these members of the Emperor's Guard after they arrived in China, and their combat effectiveness was far from being comparable with the combat effectiveness of the real Emperor's Guard.

According to Shen Yuquan's understanding, the devils in the opposite building were like the pro-guard team (saber special operations team) trained by Han Yunhua, a group of invincible monsters. After being in Daqingshan for so long, Shen Yuquan couldn't be clearer about how the saber special operations brigade trained, and he had personally learned the combat effectiveness of the saber, he witnessed a saber special combat team assassinating nearly seventy defenders in a stronghold of devils in one night, capturing nearly thirty puppet soldiers, and easily taking down that stronghold, in the process there was no shot, Shen Yuquan was shocked, and it was at that time that he threw himself into the ground that he admired Han Yunhua, the unpredictable commander, and was completely impressed by Han Yunhua.

Moreover, there are thirteen special combat members in his guard team now, but these thirteen are only the second batch of special combat squadrons trained by the Young Phoenix Special Operations Squadron, and they have not been personally taught by Han Yunhua. It's not that Han Yunhua is stingy and reluctant to give Shen Yuquan the first batch of special combat personnel with strong combat effectiveness, but that Shen Yuquan has opinions about the first batch of special combat personnel trained by Han Yunhua himself. Shen Yuquan was dissatisfied with the level of murder shown by the Saber Special Operations Team in the course of carrying out its mission, but as a high-ranking officer and the nominal supreme leader of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, he knew that the Saber Special Operations Team was right to do so. Although he is a soldier, he doesn't like special combat members like killing machines, so he rejected Han Yunhua's proposal to classify the Xiaofeng Special Combat Squadron as his guard, but only selected 13 from the second batch of 128 qualified special combat members as instructors of his guard company.

Because of this, Shen Yuquan is extremely sensitive to devils like the Saber Special Combat Team, and he knows that the destructive power of these people is not something that ordinary people can imagine. is the same as Li Dayong's approach, since they can't be attacked, let them be completely destroyed. The same 150mm caliber field heavy artillery shelled continuously for ten minutes until all the buildings around the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps were leveled.

Under the attack of the field heavy artillery, there were less than twenty devils who survived, and the rest were either blown up or crushed under the rubble.

Although there was a pot of porridge outside, the inside of the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps was unusually calm, and when the soldiers rushed into the office area of Lieutenant General Liannuma, they only saw a Shao Zuo and a dozen guards kneeling at the door of Lieutenant General Liannuma's study. Seeing Shen Yuquan and the others rushing in, these devil guards did not resist, and were all controlled by the soldiers.

Devil Shaozo said in Chinese, which is not very proficient: "Our surrender, may I ask which of you is the commander, please come out, I have something to say"

Shen Yuquan stepped out of the crowd and said loudly: "I am Shen Yuquan, the political commissar of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, that is, the commander you call them, what do you have to say?" ”

"I am the chief of guard of His Excellency the General, and the General has committed suicide in his study, and he does not want to be a prisoner of your army. The general Yu Sha told us to surrender and asked us to plead with your army, hoping that your army would allow us to bury the general's body outside Guisui City, because this is the end of his life and the only fiasco in the general's life. Japanese soldier Shaozo said slowly.

Shen Yuquan looked at the hidden study and didn't speak, staring at the Japanese Shaozo with his eyes, hoping to see something in the eyes of this Shaozuo, but obviously this Shaozuo was telling the truth, Shen Yuquan motioned for the guards to go in and take a look at the situation in the room.

After a while, Shen Yuquan's guards came back and reported that there was only one Japanese lieutenant general who had committed suicide in the house, and there was no one else. ,

Shen Yuquan didn't care where the body of Lieutenant General Liannuma was buried, whether he let Lieutenant General Liannuma bury this old devil outside Guisui City, this was all a matter after the battle, and the main thing now was to solve the remnants of the Japanese army in Chahar and Suiyuan, and then go to eastern Hebei to solve the crisis of Commander Han Yunhua.

Shen Yuquan did not stay long in the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps, he explained that the guards around him took all these surrendered devils into custody, and then took the rest of the soldiers out of the city quickly, and joined forces with Li Dayong's troops to rush to Baotou to reinforce the devils, and at the same time left three regiments of soldiers to clean up the remnants of the enemy in the city and do a good job in the defense of the city, because Shen Yuquan received news that a wing of Japanese troops had set off from Zhuozishan County and came towards Guisui City.

At the same time that Gui Sui Cheng was broken, Major General Tanaka Shinichi, chief of staff of the Mongolian Corps, received a telegram from Lieutenant General Hasunuma, in which Lieutenant General Hasunuma said that he had made up his mind to live and die with Gui Suicheng. In his capacity as commander of the Mongolian Corps, he also ordered Major General Tanaka Shinichi to lead his troops to break through the encirclement, and fled while the Chinese army had not yet taken care of them.

The next thing is simple, Li Dayong and Shen Yuquan when the two men and horses converged in the right banner of Baotou Tumut but found that the reinforcements from Guisui City were missing, and after many searches, they found that the Japanese army of about 5,000 people fled in the direction of Liangcheng, and now it is too late to catch up. Li Dayong and Shen Yuquan glanced at each other, both with regretful expressions.

Originally, these 5,000 devils must have been unable to fly, but under the encirclement of the 88th Regiment and several regiments led by Shen Yuquan, the devils of this wing and those puppet soldiers still have a way to live. It's a pity that Lieutenant General Liannuma Fan is too cunning, and he has to put Shen Yuquan with him when he dies.

Shen Yuquan ordered the Saibei Army to divide two regiments to defend the newly recovered cities of Baotou and Guisui, while the rest of the troops were to attack eastward with all their might, join up with Yang Ruihua's troops in Jining, and launch a counteroffensive against the Japanese army.

At 11 o'clock that night, the news of the success of stealing the sky finally reached Jidong, Han Yunhua's always calm face could not hide the joy, and immediately reported the news to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and at the same time, of course, Han Yunhua did not forget to send a report to Yan'an's ** and Vice Chairman Zhou.

The general battle, which lasted for nearly 20 days and affected the entire Saibei region of China, finally took a turning point, and the next day the news that the Japanese forces had been completely expelled from Suiyuan reached the leaders of many powerful groups in Chinese political circles. Although neither the Eighth Route Army nor Yan'an came forward to make any statement on how to recover the two cities of Suiyuan and Baotou, almost everyone knew that the two famous cities of Baotou and Guisui were now in the hands of the Eighth Route Army. For a time, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army sent congratulatory telegrams.

The achievements of recovering Baotou and Suiyuan are not only Chiang Kai-shek and other Kuomintang veterans and generals who can't believe it, but even the heads of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters are unexpected, although Han Yunhua has also mentioned that he has the intention of attacking these two cities, but the Eighth Route Army Headquarters believes that this is just a strategy for Han Yunhua to force the enemy to come back, and almost no one thought that this little guy who was temporarily emerging had such courage.

Baotou and Suiyuan are obviously not comparable to a small city like Jining, whether in terms of military value or political sense, Jining cannot be compared with Guisui, and of course cannot be compared with Baotou.

In terms of military value, once Baotou and Guisui were lost, the Japanese army's forces in Suixi and even the entire Suiyuan would have no support, and it can be said that the Japanese army's forces in Suiyuan had reached a precarious point, and as long as the Eighth Route Army was willing, these remnants could be uprooted at any time. Moreover, Baotou is also an important military base of the Japanese army, where the Japanese army not only built steel mills, mining fields and other military industries, but also built a tank base there, and there are already nearly 200 tanks and armored vehicles lying in the warehouse of the Baotou tank base, and now all the guns and ammunition have fallen into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and the Japanese army's losses are not heavy. Moreover, Baotou is also the energy base of the Japanese army in northern China, second only to Datong, and a large amount of coal and other resources are transported to other places every day to supply the Japanese army for front-line operations. Now that Baotou is lost, the Japanese army has lost an important military base and an energy base at the same time.

From a political point of view, the recovery of these two cities is the latest result of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it is also the first large city that the squadron took the initiative and successfully recovered, and it is also the capital city, and its significance is self-evident. At the same time, the recovery of the two cities of Guisui and Baotou greatly boosted the morale of China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and dealt a severe blow to the arrogance of Japanese imperialism. ,

Such a record not only did not dare to think of the Eighth Route Army, but even the Nationalist Government with millions of troops did not have the courage, Chiang Kai-shek had thought about it and had ambitious actions, but it was a pity that the entire Battle of Xuzhou The Nationalist Government invested millions of troops but still lost Xuzhou City, so from then on Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to think so.

Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Lucheng

The atmosphere in the conference room was a little weird, the smoke was like a fire, although the faces of the leaders of the Eighth Route Army were still very solemn, but the joy on their faces could not be hidden.

Commander-in-Chief Zhu said with some relief and some worry: "Everyone has read Xiao Huazi's telegram, and everyone has said it, and if you have any opinions, everyone will come out and discuss it." ”

Li Wenkai, director of the Political Department, was the first to speak: "Xiao Huazi's courage is really big, how can he dare to confront the hundreds of thousands of main forces of the Japanese North China Front with the strength of a military region, but this kid is indeed a material for war, even a big city like Guisui can be taken back from the hands of devils, it's not simple, I just don't know if they can hold it?" ”

Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng said with a smile: "Lao Li, you have said this more than a dozen times, since the devils have attacked Chahar on a large scale, you have said these words every day, what you said is not annoying that we listeners also feel annoyed, can we change a few fresh sentences, ah" Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng burst into laughter after speaking, and the other people in the conference room also laughed.

Li Wenkai was not angry at all, but said disdainfully: "I am not a big mistake in being cautious, it is better to be cautious than careless, didn't Comrade Han Yunhua say last time that only a cautious person can live a long time on the battlefield." ”

Chief Zhu commanded: "This is true, but this kid will also play tricks, and he still does his own thing in his bones, which is not at all different from his old man." ”

Tan Furenqi, head of the Organization Department, said: "Oh, how can I say this, although Comrade Han Yunhua does not like to ask the headquarters for instructions in terms of operations, but as a general with tens of thousands of elites in his hands, if he needs to ask for instructions in everything, he is tying his hands and feet, is the commander-in-chief talking about other things?" ”

Commander-in-Chief Zhu said with a smile: "If you are worthy of engaging in party and government work, you can speak." Yes, the boy always said to be careful, but he himself always liked to put himself in danger. Now that the overall situation in Saibei has been decided, it is impossible for Terauchi Shouichi to mobilize so many troops in a short period of time to recapture these two big cities from the hands of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. What I'm most worried about now is his safety, if Terauchi Shouichi desperately sends a large army to storm the Eighth Route Army in eastern Hebei, then Xiao Huazi will be in trouble. ”

"What the commander-in-chief said is that Xiao Huazi is indeed a bit risky to do this, but compared to the results they have achieved, this risk is still worth it. Besides, didn't Xiaohuazi say that he still has more than 50,000 troops in his hands? Thinking about his personal safety, there should be no problem, and isn't there still Lao Zuo in Jidong? He would never let Xiao Huazi get into danger. Deputy Commander Peng said.

Speaking of this, Commander-in-Chief Zhu suddenly asked, "By the way, is there any news from Lao Zuo?" ”

Cai Gan, Minister of the Ministry of Enemy Industry, said: "The situation in eastern Hebei is now very good, and uprisings have occurred one after another in various places, and they have responded to our Eighth Route Army. Yesterday Comrade Deng Hua also sent a telegram to the headquarters, saying that although the devils are pressing the border with heavy troops, the situation in eastern Hebei is still very favorable to us. There are tens of thousands of elites of Comrade Han Yunhua outside, and the Japanese puppet army inside is already a toothless tiger, and the threat to the rebel troops is not great. ”

"Comrade Deng Hua's thinking is a little simple, although now it seems that in the eastern Hebei region, we and the Japanese army are evenly matched, and the strength of each other is not far behind. But all this is based on the fact that Xiao Huazi can stop the Japanese army of nearly 100,000 troops on the periphery of eastern Hebei, as long as there is a problem on Xiaohuazi's side, then no matter how many rebel troops there are in eastern Hebei, it is useless, and a million untrained peasant armed forces who lack weapons and ammunition cannot be the opponent of Gu Shoufu's Sixth Division, which is only 20,000 or 30,000 people. Moreover, a large number of Japanese puppet troops have also been found in Fengning and Beiping, and the situation in eastern Hebei is not optimistic, mainly because we have too few regular troops there. Although the insurrectionary forces developed rapidly, they were all peasant armies that had not been systematically trained, and it was not possible to fight against the regular army. Commander-in-Chief Zhu analyzed. ,

Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng also added: "What the boss said is reasonable, you can see that Xiao Huazi's telegram only said that Guisui and Baotou were captured, but did not say the specific battle process and the casualties of the enemy and us. I think their casualties will not be small, plus their losses in various battlefields some time ago are very large, even if the Inner Mongolia Military Region wins this battle, there will not be many people left, and even if Xiao Huazi has great merit at that time, I am afraid it will be ......"

Speaking of this, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng didn't say anything further, but what he meant was that everyone in the conference room understood that such a fact was not easy to say too bluntly, and it was okay to tacitly do it.

Li Wenkai, director of the Political Department, said: "I went to Yan'an for a meeting some time ago, but I heard some gossip about Comrade Han Yunhua, but it was quickly stopped, and the chairman also deliberately criticized some comrades in the party during the meeting. It is said that they are laymen commanding insiders, and it is strictly forbidden for such things to happen again in the future. Moreover, Comrade Han Yunhua has made tremendous contributions to the party and the people, and those within the party who have opinions about him are not directed against him personally, but at the army in his hands that has complex composition and eclectic behavior. In the eyes of some people, the army led by Comrade Han Yunhua is an unorganized, undisciplined, unpatriotic and people-loving force. ”

"Fart, who said this, let him come to the Chahar region to see how our Eighth Route Army is loved by the people in the Chahar region. What kind of tragic situation is in other places, we all know that after the devil crossed the border, it was not Dai Xiao, who died in the village. The common people do not have enough food and clothing, and they still have to supply our troops to fight. But you go to Chahar and see, where the devils are beaten, they don't dare to go down to grab food, and they don't even dare to collect some normal taxes. Before the war, the Inner Mongolia Military Region had special personnel to organize the relocation of the people, and each village had its own place of refuge. In order to lighten the burden of the common people, the Inner Mongolia Military Region has not collected any taxes from the common people since its establishment, and all expenses have been collected by seizing them, and it has also provided relief to the villagers in need from time to time. Although the composition of the troops led by Xiao Huazi is indeed a bit complicated, and the actions are a bit arbitrary, no one can deny that those well-known men are not patriotic and do not love the people, otherwise what is their bloody sacrifice for, it is really his grandmother's random piano. Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng said angrily.

Li Wenkai responded: "Lao Peng, don't get excited, this is just the individual opinion of some people, and the main leaders of the party still trust Comrade Han Yunhua very much." Before leaving, Chairman and Vice Chairman Zhou talked to me and said that although Comrade Han Yunhua was young, his military thinking and operational concepts were very advanced, and this can be seen from the firepower configuration of the units he organized. But he is still too young, although he has been in the party for a few years, but he does not know anything about some things in the party, and likes to do things according to his own preferences, so he needs to be treated by the headquarters of our Eighth Route Army and help him well. ”

When the meeting of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was held, the leaders of Wuhan and Yan'an, the centers of struggle in the two countries, were also discussing this matter.