Chapter 18: Mentoring

After six hours of emergency transportation, all the seized supplies were transported out of the city before dawn. Now in the entire Yangyuan County, only Shen Yuquan is left with a squadron to distribute food to the people, and the others have already followed Han Yunhua out of the city.

By the time the North China Dispatch Army Headquarters realized that something was wrong, Han Yunhua and Shen Yuquan, who later caught up with the large army, had already crossed the Sanggan River and entered the vast mountains of eastern Jin.

Han Yunhua knew that the situation was very urgent now, although they had captured Yangyuan County, but the army at least had a three-way army of about 8,000 people to encircle and suppress Nie Rongzhen's Eighth Route Army in the south, 50 kilometers away. If these armies returned north to attack them, Han Yunhua did not think that his tired army could withstand the attack of the Yue army. So he asked all the captives to change into the military uniforms of the army, and rushed all the way to the mountainous areas around Hunyuan, Shanxi.

After a day of rapid marching in the middle of the night, Han Yunhua's troops finally crossed the Sanggan River and arrived within the scope of the Jinchaji Military Region where Nie Rongzhen was located. Finding a hidden valley as a temporary camp, Han Yunhua asked Shen Yuquan to organize the troops to rest and eat, while he himself planned to write a good news to the headquarters.

Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. As soon as it was dark, Commander-in-Chief Zhu, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng, Deputy Chief of Staff Zuo, Division Commander Liu Bocheng, Comrade Deng Lao and others were having a meeting, and at this moment, Han Yunhua's good news came.

Mr. Zhu took the battle report handed over by the combat staff officer and read it, his face was a little red with excitement, and he actually read it aloud in his hometown dialect that he had not spoken for a long time: "Chief of the General Headquarters: Following the ambush of the Fifth Division of the Yue Army on the night of December 8 and killing more than 3,500 people of the puppet army, our department made persistent efforts and launched a surprise attack on the Yangyuan County occupied by the Yue Army on the night of December 9. None of the enemy's officers and soldiers escaped the net, and two divisions of the puppet army were completely annihilated, more than 2,700 puppet soldiers were captured, and 17,865 Type 38 rifles, 1,234 Type 38 carbines, 678 crooked handle machine guns, 458 Type 92 heavy machine guns, 138 mortars, 98 mountain artillery, 12 field guns, 235 grenadiers, more than 8 million rounds of various bullets, more than 10,000 shells, 200,000 melon grenades, more than 1.3 million catties of grain, 500 boxes of military canned food, more than 20,000 sets of military uniforms, and a car of gold. Four silver dollar carts, 623 war horses, more than 800 pack horses, more than 300 carriages equipped with mules, and a lot of other military supplies, our army suffered more than 120 casualties. Because the mountain artillery and field artillery were too heavy to take away, they were all blown up along with more than 3,000 shells, and the grain could not be taken away because of too much capture, so our department gave all the surplus grain of about 800,000 catties to the people in Yangyuan area, and now our department is safely transferred.......

In fact, these things are not all the seized materials, Han Yunhua also secretly underreported 138 Taisho 14th style pistols, 38 97-style sniper rifles, 13 radio stations, and thousands of gas masks, these things are all urgently needed by Han Yunhua now and cannot be obtained, he is afraid that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army will give him communism, so he simply does not report it.

After reading the report sent by the Mengji Anti-Japanese Detachment, Mr. Zhu said to the operational staff officers beside him: "You send this battle report to the chairman without changing a word, so that the chairman and they will also be happy." ”

"Now, the heavenly card of Shou Yi in the temple is going to be ruined by this kid, and this old devil has made this 'Eight-Way Siege' self-defeating." Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng said excitedly.

Commander-in-Chief Zhu couldn't help but echo and said: "This kid is really a ghost, he hasn't been to a military school but can write that extremely valuable training syllabus, and he hasn't led soldiers for a few days, but he can clean up the devil's elite as a dish, which can be said to be the devil's nemesis." ”

The deputy chief of staff of the left also echoed and said: "In just over two months, there are three Dazuo who died in the hands of this kid, and the small miscellaneous fish below Zhongzuo are even more innumerable, what a fierce general!" ”

Deng Lao: "............."

The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was thunderous, but the commander of the North China Front Army was a different scene, Terauchi Shouichi took the ancestral chrysanthemum sword given by His Majesty the Emperor and smashed all the things in the study, and roared in his mouth: "Baga, Han Yunhua, your death is dead, and Yalu ......... Baga"

Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okada knew that His Excellency Commander Shouichi Terauchi needed to vent, so he took a group of generals and officers to kneel in the conference room and wait for Terauchi Shouichi's arrival.

After a pause, Terauchi Shouichi walked into the conference room with these newspapers, and said with a serious expression: "Everyone, our logistics base was attacked by the Shina troops last night, and all the defenders were shattered, and no one survived, let us mourn for the Yamato warriors who died in battle!" ”

After pondering for a few minutes, Terauchi Shouichi lowered his head and said: "Gentlemen, the Chinese army that attacked the Fifth Division the day before yesterday has taken the initiative to appear, it is a detachment belonging to the Eighth Route Army, and the leader of the detachment is called Han Yunhua. You all have to remember this person for me, it is he who makes our entire North China Dispatch Army unable to raise its head in the base camp, what do you think we should do next? ”

Major General Naosaburo Okada, chief of staff, analyzed: "Your Excellency, I think it may be this Han Yunhua who attacked Yangyuan County last night, since he was able to completely annihilate more than 3,500 people of the Fifth Division in a very short period of time, it shows that this detachment has a lot of people and strong combat effectiveness, and only they have the ability and motivation to sneak attack our logistics base." In addition, Tianzhen County is only more than 80 kilometers away from Yangyuan, and this branch of the army is fully capable of launching a surprise attack on Yangyuan, so I think it is this Han Yunhua and his detachment who sneak attack Yangyuan. ”

Terauchi Shouichi's expression stretched a little, and said with satisfaction: "Okada-kun is reasonable, I am sure that it was this cunning Eighth Route that attacked Yangyuan County, and his purpose was to force me to besiege the Eighth Route Army's Nie Rongzhen Army's several large armies to come back, so that my Eighth Route Siege would end without a hitch, the Eighth Route Army was cunning and cunning, and Han Yunhua was greatly cunning. ”

Terauchi Shouichi calmed down the anger in his heart, looked around at the dozens of generals in the conference room, and said: "After receiving the news of the attack on Yangyuan, I sent a petition to the base camp, and at the same time ordered the intelligence department to put Han Yunhua on the list of dangerous enemies and prepare a special file. Okada-kun, you and the General Staff Department must come up with a plan as soon as possible, the purpose of which is to eliminate the Han Yunhua detachment of the Eighth Route Army. ”

"Hello," Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okada said, standing up.

At the same time, Terauchi Shouichi said softly to a gorgeous female officer sitting in the first seat on his lower right: "Miss Meizi, I have to trouble you for Han Yunhua and his detachment's intelligence collection work. ”

The female officer replied coldly and arrogantly: "Your Excellency, Commander, I promise that next week, all the information about Han Yunhua will be presented to your desk!" ”

Shouichi Terauchi said with satisfaction, "Then please Miss Umeko." ”

After speaking, Shouichi Terauchi sighed again and said: "This Han Yunhua has really hit our soft underbelly, and the battle plan of Nie Rongzhen's department of the Eighth Route Army can be stopped." Alas, it fell short! It's a pity. ”

On November 27, the main force of the first detachment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region set up an ambush on the cliffs and high ground on both sides of the Chaoguanling mountain road between Hunyuan and Guangling, and annihilated the enemy's Kwantung Army Chahar sent a regiment of about 200 people, and the remnants of the enemy retreated back to Wei County.

On 2 December, the first detachment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region raided the 14th Division dispatched along the Pinghan Railway in the Dalonghua area of Yi County, fought fiercely all night, annihilated more than 200 enemies, and more than 100 remnants of the enemy fled back to Yi County.

Just as Nie Rongzhen was trying his best to organize a larger-scale counterattack, the army suddenly launched a large-scale attack, and before Nie Rongzhen and others could react, they retreated like a tide, and then the leaders of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region suddenly realized that the purpose of the army's false shot was to smoothly withdraw its troops from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area, and the "eight-way siege" launched by the North China Dispatch Army, which lasted half a month, ended hastily, more than half a month earlier than in history.

The leaders of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region were busy consolidating the base area, while Han Yunhua was hiding in a small ravine in the east of Jindong to educate the puppet army prisoners.

Han Yunhua learned from the practice of the Eighth Route Army in later generations to educate the prisoners of the Kuomintang troops anyway, first complaining, then using national righteousness education, and Shen Yuquan's cooperation. In just two days, Han Yunhua pulled out more than 30 puppet army officers and soldiers with bloody cases from this group of captives.

Under Han Yunhua's deception, of the more than 2,600 puppet army prisoners, 2,468 were willing to join the Eighth Route Army in the end, and Han Yunhua was ready to transfer the rest to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and let them settle these people in the base area to live.

There is new blood to join, so the establishment of the unit has become a new problem, but Han Yunhua considered that it will not be long before the entire detachment will be expanded into a brigade, and the troops will have to be reorganized and the cadres will also be adjusted, so now simply add two reinforced companies to each brigade, so that these people can be mixed with the original soldiers.

After not closing his eyes for several days, Han Yunhua was ready to take advantage of the time of the reorganization of the troops to squint for a while, and soon after lying down, Shen Yuquan came to report that the soldiers sent out to find the Jinchaji Military Region had returned, and at the same time an officer from the Jinchaji Military Region and about 20 soldiers came.

Hearing the news, Han Yunhua immediately stood up, took Shen Yuquan's hand and asked, "Old Shen, where are those people?" Take me there? ”

Shen Yuquan smiled bitterly: "People see that the mountains and fields are full of 'devils', how dare they come in, I finally appeased them and asked them to wait outside the valley, isn't this just coming to you, what do you say?" ”

Han Yunhua said as he walked out: "It's okay, you go and send a telegram to the headquarters, report our current situation to the headquarters, and let the heads of the headquarters contact Nie Rongzhen, the commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and we can wait for good news here." ”

As soon as he walked out of the valley, Han Yunhua saw more than 20 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army wearing gray military uniforms staring nervously at the soldiers of the Mengji Anti-Japanese Detachment who greeted them at the mouth of the valley.