The speed at which Han Yunhua's troops retreated was very fast, to the point that even Han Yunhua himself was surprised. In just three days, Wang Zhifu's brigade had all withdrawn from Yanggu County, and although it was far away from southern Hebei, it was far away from Yanggu County, the center of the storm.

At the same time, the main forces of the other two brigades under Han Yunhua's command also began a thousand-mile transfer. In order to ensure that there were no accidents on the way to the transfer, Han Yunhua ordered Tong Jiayong to lead the three infantry battalions left in Liaocheng to do their best to hold back the main force of the Yue army.

Although this exposed Tong Jiayong and others to the firepower of the army, Han Yunhua still believed in Tong Jiayong's strength. As one of the middle and senior officers who have followed Han Yunhua for the longest time, Tong Jiayong has already fulfilled Han Yunhua's true inheritance, although there are still some deficiencies in strategy, but in terms of tactics, Tong Jiayong is already very good, at least it is enough to deal with these second-line troops of the Yue Army.

The large army went out day and night, and it took less than a week to reach Zhang Tieji, Daming County, Hebei Province. As far as the entire map is concerned, Daming County is already one of the southernmost counties in Hebei Province, and Zhang Tieji is the closest township to Shandong in Daming County.

The reason why Han Yunhua chose Zhang Tieji as the gathering place of the instructor is that, on the one hand, it is the intersection of Shandong, Hebei and Henan, although it is not a strategic place, but it is still very beneficial to develop here. At the same time, Han Yunhua also knows that the ruling power of the enemy in the region with better conditions is also strong. If Han Yunhua in the past would definitely come head-on, in his own words, my Han Yunhua's troops would be elite.

However, the situation is different now, and southern Hebei has always been a weak area under the rule of the Chinese army, and like eastern Hebei, it is a key area for the military to guard. At this time, the instructor's troops were scattered, and many of them were not built back to the building, and even Chen Guang's department, which came to respond, was still five hundred miles away. Therefore, for the sake of insurance, Han Yunhua still decided to gather troops in the small place of Zhang Tieji, and then develop to other counties and cities in Hebei.

The appearance of a large number of squadrons in southern Hebei has aroused great attention from the top level of the Chinese army, and although they do not know where these troops came from, they have always been very taboo about the Eighth Route Army in the north. In the words of a letter presented to Emperor Yumoto by General Binshan Yuan, commander of the North China Front Army....... "The political axe of China has lost its important industrial cities along the coast, and a large number of people are controlled by our empire, and its most important economic lifeline is also controlled by the empire. Although the armament has been greatly improved, it is still an opponent of the empire from time to time. However, the army has a very strong ability to agitate, and sometimes it can pull up a peasant army of tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, in a very short period of time, and sometimes there will be a force with extremely strong combat effectiveness, such as Han Yunhua's ....... in Saibei."

All in all, the Yue Army now attaches great importance to the Eighth Route Army, especially for those troops that suddenly appear and are not recorded in the archives of the Special High-tech Branch, they are the key targets, and they really can't withstand the appearance of Han Yunhua's second. One Han Yunhua has caused the army to lose its troops and lose its land and lose the city, and what is even more embarrassing is that although the high-level of the army has deeply realized the horror of Han Yunhua's department, they still have no way to take Han Yunhua. The Inner Mongolia Military Region is located in the north of the country, and has also established its own heavy industry base, from which weapons and ammunition are being produced in a steady stream and transported to other base areas controlled by the Eighth Route Army.

All the senior commanders of the army, including General Binshan Yuan, were well aware of this fact, because the news from various battlefields showed that the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army at this time had undergone a qualitative change. Most importantly, the ammunition of the Eighth Route Army has become very sufficient, although the number of ammunition for each person is still less than a quarter of that of the Imperial soldiers, but the 50 rifle rounds per person is already ten times that of the original Eighth Route Army.

After paying huge casualties and exposing a number of hidden piles, the senior spies of the special high-tech finally figured out that a large arsenal had been established in the Saibei area controlled by the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and at the same time, many supporting industrial infrastructure facilities had been established, and the prototype of the industrial base had been initially formed.

The army panicked, sent spies to Baotou many times to sabotage, and even dispatched precious bombers, but everything was in vain.

This time, I received news that a large number of Chinese troops had appeared in southern Hebei, and they were also well-equipped Chinese Eighth Route Army. If it were said that a large number of well-equipped Central Army or the Jin Sui Army had appeared, the top brass of the Yue Army would not have been so anxious, because from the bottom of their bones, the Central Army and those armies controlled by local warlords had good combat effectiveness, but they lacked initiative and courage.

And the Tu Eighth Road, who was born in [***], showed enough "greed" in this regard, as long as it was suitable for the development of the Eighth Route Army, there would be guerrillas in the Eighth Route Army. The combat effectiveness and destructive power of the ordinary Eighth Route Army and guerrillas are not large, and even an infantry squadron can defeat a regiment of the Eighth Route Army (a small regiment of about 1,000 people), or even annihilate it completely. However, the combat effectiveness of the well-equipped Eighth Route Army is extraordinary, especially the main forces such as the 129th Division, 120th Division, 115th Division, the 300th Integrated Division, the 77th Reading Division, and the Eighth Brigade of Reading Force.

In just two days, a combined army consisting of an infantry brigade, a cavalry squadron, and a chariot squadron set out from Feixiang, passed through Guangping and Wei counties, and entered the county seat of Daming, and sent a large number of reconnaissance troops to the counties and townships below to investigate the whereabouts of Han Yunhua's department.

Han Yunhua's mood at this time can be described as very good, the more than 40,000 troops of the instructor have all been assembled, all kinds of strategic materials have been distributed to all units, and even the headquarters of the company and the rear has been relocated to the brigade headquarters of the third brigade, bringing up the troops for Tong Jiayong who stayed in Yanggu County.

Moreover, not long ago, Chen Guang sent a telegram saying that the main force of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division had arrived in the Feixiang area, and it was less than 200 miles away from Zhang Tieji, where Han Yunhua's unit was stationed, and more than 2,000 veterans of the two remnant brigades in Shandong had already arrived in Guangping County, and they were scheduled to join Han Yunhua's headquarters in two days.

Now it is time urgent, it won't take long, at most a month, the elite field infantry of at least three divisions of the army will be transferred back to North China, if Han Yunhua's department has not opened up the situation at that time, then the next battle will be extremely fortunate.

In view of the complexity of the actual situation, Han Yunhua decided to immediately launch an all-out attack on Feixiangbu, Guangping, Weixian and other counties and cities, completely disrupting the original pattern of this area and cleaning up the pseudo-forces in the area.

According to some information sent by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and some information collected by the intelligence department of Han Yunhua's department, in the entire southern Hebei region, the military command has one infantry brigade, three other reading infantry brigades, two cavalry brigades, and one tank squadron, as well as four groups of the puppet North China Public Security Army, with a total strength of about 28,000 people.

Like the senior officers of the Yue Army, Han Yunhua was not optimistic about the puppet North China Security Army, although Han Yunhua was very suspicious of the elite infantry of the Yue Army in Hebei Province. But for the old opponent Qi Xieyuan's puppet army is still not very eye-catching, in Han Yunhua's opinion, those people are holding sophisticated weapons and equipment for nothing, in fact, they are doing some bandit and thief things, bullying the common people is very good, on the battlefield they are a bad seed.

Of course, the basement of combat effectiveness has profound historical and practical reasons, which have a great deal to do with the history of the establishment of the North China Security Army. In 1937, after the invaders launched the July 7 Incident that shocked China and the rest of the world, they began to actively support the puppet regime in North China. After many instigations, the puppet Republic of China Provisional Political Axe headed by Wang Kemin was established in Yanjing on December 14, 1937.

No matter what kind of regime it is, the army is the foundation of its foothold, and the military power without reading power is nonsense. When the puppet provisional political axe was established, Wang Kemin did not have a suitable candidate for public security. At this time, Qi Xieyuan, who was born in the late Qing Dynasty, graduated from the artillery department of the Beiyang Army Academy, and was the military affairs supervisor of Jiangsu and the deputy envoy of the Suzhou-Anhui-Jiangxi patrol, entered the sight of the army. Qi Xieyuan received "preferential treatment" from Lieutenant General Tada, and was recommended by Lieutenant General Tada and appointed as the chief of the puppet Ministry of Public Security. Qi Xieyuan surrendered in Beiping after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in July 1937. In October of the same year, Qi Xieyuan, Wang Kemin, Wang Yitang and others organized the Preparatory Office of the Puppet Political Axe and planned to set up the Puppet North China Provisional Political Axe.

Qi Xieyuan graduated from the Beiyang Army Academy, so he has his own most direct and bloody understanding of military power. After experiencing those things in the early stage of President Yuan and the national political axe, Qi Xieyuan decided to form a force that was completely obedient to his orders. He believes that in order to organize and train the army, it is impossible to use party and military personnel, and other talents have a sense of lacking, and it is necessary to "first train cadres and generals" and train a group of young people to be their own minions before they can be reformed anew. Therefore, Qi Xieyuan shamelessly threw out the plan of "setting up schools first, then building an army" to the army, and as the army continued to invade China, its troops gradually became insufficient. In order to solve the shortage of troops and suppress the resistance forces, the Yue army wanted to use Qi Xieyuan as a "puppet" to establish a regular puppet army in North China and serve as cannon fodder for the Yue army's invasion of China. The army believes that the basic cadres of a regular army must undergo strict military training. The army wanted to recruit a group of simple-minded young people and instill in them the idea of servitude, so that they could be easily driven.

Therefore, as soon as Qi Xieyuan's plan was thrown out, it was supported by the Yue army. In August 1938, Qi Xieyuan established an officer school, an officer training team, a sergeant training regiment, and an interpreter training class in Tongxian and Qinghe, Beiping, to train officers for the founding of the army. The officer training team recruited the lost old officers of the Kuomintang army and trained officers above the company level. The Sergeant Training Corps recruits young people with primary school education and trains sergeant squad leaders. Translation training, recruiting young people who know a little Chinese, and cultivating Chinese translators. The duration of each of the above-mentioned training institutions was one year, and the first class graduated in early September 1939. Before graduating, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the puppet government in Beiping issued an order to all counties in North China to forcibly recruit strong men (according to the quota of Baojia) and establish a "regular army" in October 1939, October 1940, and October 1941 respectively to participate in the so-called "North China Public Security War".

After the establishment of the army, the name of the team was named "North China Security Army". The commander-in-chief of the North China Public Security Army was concurrently served by Qi Xieyuan, the "Chief of Public Security" (later renamed the "Supervision of the General Administration of Public Security"). Each unit is called a "group" (with two regiments under its jurisdiction) and a "reading regiment". The regiment has battalions, companies, platoons, and squads, all of which have a "three-three" system. Each "group headquarters" consists of a staff office, an adjutant office, a military needs office, an ordnance office, a military justice office, a communications team, a transport team, and a guard team. The commander has the rank of major general, and the chief of the division has the rank of lieutenant colonel. Each regimental headquarters has a colonel commander, a teaching officer, a lieutenant colonel, a lieutenant lieutenant regimental deputy, a lieutenant adjutant, a lieutenant flag officer, and a captain medicine. Each battalion headquarters has a major battalion commander, a commander of the battalion, a lieutenant battalion deputy, a captain secretary, and a lieutenant adjutant. Each company and platoon shall have a captain company commander, a second lieutenant platoon commander, and a warrant officer chief of the division. The real power of the armed forces is in the hands of military advisers at all levels. After three army formations, the North China Public Security Army has set up a total of 13 group headquarters (excluding the teaching group), 38 infantry regiments, and an artillery team, with a total strength of nearly 100,000 troops.

That is to say, the so-called group of the North China Public Security Army is actually a shrunken version of the infantry brigade, and the army is not at ease with the puppet army, and often adopts the addition of its official positions and the reduction of its troops, and a regiment often has only more than 100 or 1,000 people. Therefore, such a puppet army group is only a few thousand people at best, and an infantry regiment under Han Yunhua's department is at least more than 3,000 people. In terms of troops, Han Yunhua's office is not without losses, and although Han Yunhua's department does not take advantage of weapons and equipment, it is no worse than those puppet troops who hold weapons in the hands of the defeated troops captured by the national political axe. But in terms of morale, it is not half a star, Han Yunhua's department is like a rainbow, and the puppet army is cowering. How many such troops are there are they are the captains of the transport brigade under Han Yunhua, and they come and eat as much as they want.

Moreover, when Han Yunhua's department was in eastern Hebei, he had to deal with this North China security army, and Han Yunhua's department would make a lot of money every battle. So when Han Yunhua figured out the enemy's defensive situation in southern Hebei, he was happy in his heart, in Han Yunhua's original words, with Qi Xieyuan, the captain of the transport brigade, would our instructor still lack weapons, ammunition and qualified soldiers.

(To be continued)