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Chapter 489: Eastward Expansion

As judged by Han Yunhua, Okamura Ninji received a tip as early as the day after Han Yunhua returned to Guisui, but Han Yunhua's reason, wisdom and decisiveness all the time made Okamura Ninji suspect that this was a trick given to him by Han Yunhua, so although the Japanese army continued to gather in the northwest of Shandong, it never dared to cross the border between Hebei and Shandong.

However, the Japanese army's actions scared the Nationalist fǔ side enough, and the **This time it was a rare tough attitude, which also made the Nationalist fǔ think that ** had no intention of getting involved in the Hebei region this time, or that he didn't want to wade into this troubled water. Under Chiang Kai-shek's personal order, a list of ** members and progressives secretly detained by the Kuomintang was in the hands of Yang Chengwu, and as long as the Inner Governor agreed to stay in Hebei, then all the people on this list would be safely sent to Yan'an.

Yang Chengwu didn't dare to call the shots in this kind of thing, and immediately sent this list to Han Yunhua and asked for Han Yunhua's opinion. After reading it, Han Yunhua immediately called back and told Yang Chengwu that he had added a lot of names to that list, including Luo Shiwen, Song Yiyun, etc., and ordered Yang Chengwu to contact the Kuomintang immediately, so that they must send these ** members to Yan'an safely, otherwise the two sides could not reach a consensus.

In fact, Han Yunhua knew that Chiang Kai-shek was playing tricks when he saw the list at first glance, at first glance, Shi Fangde's list was full of a large piece of paper, and there were more than 200 people in a careful count, but Han Yunhua found that there were few important ones, either guerrilla leaders or clerks of the county party committee, but the few important people who were arrested did not mention any news.

Others may not know who is being held in the Xifeng concentration camp, but Han Yunhua knows everything about it. In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the 'Fourth. 12 'anti-** coup d'état, arrested many influential ** people and progressives, and first imprisoned them in the Kuomintang's 'military prison' in Nanjing. 1937 'VII. Seven 'incident, the Japanese invaded on a large scale, Nanjing was in danger, Chiang Kai-shek passively resisted the Japanese, actively, ordered the military commander to move this group of people to Wuhan, and soon moved to Yiyang, Hunan, and finally transferred to Guizhou to build the Xifeng concentration camp.

There are four categories of people detained in the Xifeng concentration camp, the most important of which are the ** people arrested from all over the country, such as Luo Shiwen, representative of the First Route General Headquarters of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, secretary of the Sichuan Kang Special Committee, and Che Yaoxian, military commissar of the Sichuan Kang Special Committee; Song Qiyun, member of the Northwest Special Branch; Zhang Lùping, secretary of the underground party special branch who broke into the headquarters of the military command, as well as Han Zidong, Xu Xiaoxuan, Liu Piguang, Wen Ze, etc.; The second ones were imprisoned were anti-Japanese generals and well-known patriotic people of all classes in society, such as Yang Hucheng, Huang Xiansheng, Xu Linxia, Yang Xingmin, Deng Yanda, Ma Yinchu, etc., and hot-blooded young people who were stopped and arrested on the way to Yan'an; There are also spies who have made mistakes within the military command, so-called wavering elements within the military command, young women who have been abandoned after being tainted by Dai Li, people who have lost the face of Chiang Kai-shek and the military commanders, and people in society who are suspected of leaking the secrets of the concentration camps by the military commanders; The last category is the most peculiar, that is, the imprisoned foreigners, such as the nobility of the Russian White Russians, soldiers, priests, Czech progressives, Spanish businessmen, and overseas Chinese from all over the world who returned to participate in the anti-Japanese war and visit relatives.

This time, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to reluctantly agree to Han Yunhua's request, but he did not intend to bring out those important cadres, especially those like Luo Shiwen and Che Yaoxian. However, Han Yunhua is also a stubborn person, he is most indignant at the secret execution of these patriots and outstanding ** members by the Kuomintang on the eve of the liberation of New China.

After the telegram replied, Han Yunhua no longer paid attention to this matter, he knew that now that Chiang Kai-shek and the entire Kuomintang were kings, it had fallen to the freezing point, and if the people were allowed to see that the Kuomintang had lost the whole of North China again, then how would the people of the whole country view the Kuomintang. Therefore, Han Yunhua believes that as long as Chairman Jiang's head is not kicked by a donkey, he will definitely agree to his request.

Han Yunhua's most troublesome thing now is that the central leaders inspect the battle in Saibei and the eastern Hebei front, unlike Saibei, the troops in Saibei are facing the cavalry units of the Kwantung Army, and the number of puppet troops in this cavalry unit accounts for more than half, so Shen Yùquan's troops will win so easily. However, the eastern Hebei front is different, the Japanese troops on the eastern Hebei front are the elite of the Kwantung Army, and the strength of the army has been increasing during this time, from more than 50,000 people at the beginning to 120,000, and even the tank division and artillery brigade have been transferred to the periphery of Shanhaiguan.

Compared with the strength of the Kwantung Army, the strength of Chen Geng's division is much weaker, and in addition to the combat effectiveness of the independent 77th Division, which is not bad on the entire Shanhaiguan front, there is no unit that can compete with an integrated infantry division of the Japanese army. Although there are now nearly 150,000 troops stationed on the eastern Hebei front, it is much weaker than the southbound cluster of the Kwantung Army.

Fortunately, there is now the dangerous terrain of Shanhaiguan, coupled with the effective command of Master Chen, so far the eastern Hebei army division has not suffered losses, but the troops have fought quite hard during this time. In just one and a half months, the entire Eastern Hebei Army sub-district lost more than 30,000 soldiers, and although the wounded accounted for the vast majority, the number of dead also exceeded 10,000.

To put it bluntly, the foundation of the Inner Eternal Ancient Military Region and even the entire Eighth Route Army is weak, and it is okay to fight an ambush, because the casualties of the ambush are limited. However, if it is said that fighting positional warfare and attrition warfare is not what the Eighth Route Army is willing to do, because often even if the enemy is completely annihilated in a battle, its own casualties are enough to discourage people.

The war in eastern Hebei made Han Yunhua worried, but despite this, the eastern Hebei Army subdivision still persevered, because once Shanhaiguan was lost, the main force of the Japanese Kwantung Army would definitely go south to assist the North China Front Army to recover North China, so Chen Geng's headquarters must hold on.

However, fortunately, Shen Yùquan's department was still very powerful, annihilating the 90,000 troops of the Japanese puppet army and giving the Kwantung Army a powerful blow. In addition, Li Dingguo's troops had already entered Tongliao, threatening the safety of the Japanese puppet army's largest transit point on the northern steppe, and it was impossible for the Kwantung Army not to increase its troops.

However, the most important role of the Japanese Kwantung Army was to prevent the Soviet army from moving south, so the troops that could fall out to deal with the Inner Armed Forces were originally very limited, so Han Yunhua judged that as long as the Inner Ancient Military Region continued to increase its troops in Suidong and continued to attack the Japanese puppet forces in the northeast and northwest, the Kwantung Army was likely to withdraw its troops from Shanhaiguan.

After thinking about it for a while, Han Yunhua sent a telegram to the Suidong Army Sub-district, ordering Shen Yiquan not to let the troops rest and recuperate, and the center of gravity of the entire Suidong Army Sub-district was moved to the east, and at the same time, he mobilized three new infantry divisions for the Suidong Army Sub-district, so that the strength under the jurisdiction of the Suidong Army Sub-district reached a huge attack cluster of 210,000 people with a total of 5 infantry divisions and 8 cavalry divisions.

Han Yunhua knew very well that the military region had developed to the current scale, and it could no longer use the way of survival of other units of the Eighth Route Army to change places with one shot. What the military region has to do now is to attack, and the offensive is not to seize much territory, but to bring out the prestige of the Inner Ancient Military Region, so that those Japanese puppet troops tremble when they hear the Inner Ancient Military Region, and when the time comes, the Japanese will not dare to use 100,000 troops, even if they use a million troops, they will not dare to easily hit the attention of the Inner Ancient Military Region.

What the ancient military region needs now is a stable development, and the ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］