On October 1, 1939, under the leadership of the central authorities, the Inner Mongolia Military Region was reorganized, and after the reorganization, the division of labor of the Inner Mongolia Military Region became more refined; in addition to the commander and political commissar, the entire military region also had seven departments: the Armed Forces Department, the General Staff Department, the Political Department, the Logistics Department, the Military Industry Department, the Intelligence Department, and the Ministry of Education. Han Yunhua still served as the commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, but the political commissar was transferred from Luo Ronghuan, the political commissar of the 115th Division, and Zuo Quan served as the chief of staff of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. At the same time, the central authorities have also readjusted the existing leadership group of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, with Cheng Zihua as the director of the armed forces department and the chief of staff, that is, the chief of staff, who is the general person in charge of the general staff. Shen Yuquan, political commissar of the Jizhong Military Region, will continue to serve as director of the Political Department, Yang Ruihua will continue to serve as director of the Logistics Department, Ye Baoguo will continue to serve as director of the Military Industry Department, Qian Zhuangfei will continue to serve as the intelligence department, and Liu Mingyuan will continue to serve as director of the Ministry of Education. Among these high-level leaders, except for Qian Zhuangfei, who was specially requested by Han Yunhua, the rest were all decided by the central government, including Ye Baoguo and Yang Ruihua.

At the same time, with the support of the central authorities, Han Yunhua completed the reorganization of all units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region in a very short period of time, and after the reorganization, the Inner Mongolia Military Region retained 10 infantry divisions, 4 cavalry divisions, 2 artillery brigades, 1 reading mechanized brigade, 4 reading force guard regiments, and 1 special combat team, and also retained 22 local security regiments.

According to the needs of the battlefield and the characteristics of the Inner Mongolia Military Region itself, Han Yunhua adjusted the establishment of each infantry division into a reinforced infantry division with two brigades and six regiments, that is to say, each infantry division of the Inner Mongolia Military Region has two infantry brigades, and each infantry brigade has three infantry regiments, in addition to one regiment each of cavalry, artillery, engineering, and guards, in addition to the establishment of 2,500 infantry regiments, the remaining cavalry regiment is 1,300 people, and the artillery regiment is 1,500 people. The 1,200 men of the guard regiment and the 1,200 men of the engineer regiment, plus the sharp knife battalion, communications company, and health company of the division headquarters, all have a total strength of 21,200 men.

Each cavalry division of the Inner Mongolia Military Region has only four cavalry regiments of 1,500 men and one fire support regiment of 1,200 men, all of which have a total strength of 8,000 men.

The most important thing is that Han Yunhua has also adjusted the special combat team, upgrading the existing four special operations squadrons of Flying Dragon, Eagle, Cheetah, and Young Phoenix to brigades, each of which has three special operations squadrons, and each special operations squadron has four special operations squadrons and one teaching team. Each training squad has four combat groups of 13 people under its jurisdiction, and in principle, the training squad does not participate in combat, but mainly stays at the Saibei Military Command College to carry out teaching work and continuously provide personnel for the special combat unit. Although the number of each special operations group is only about 600, the specifications of the entire special operations group are brigade-level military units.

The Party Central Committee also gave overall consideration to the military and political chiefs of various units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and decided to transfer Zhang Hao, director of the Political Training Office of the 129th Division, Wang Weizhou, deputy commander of the 385th Brigade, Xu Shiyou, deputy commander of the 385th Brigade, Chen Xilian, commander of the 769th Regiment, Hu Qicai, deputy commander of the 770th Regiment, Xu Shenji, commander of the 771st Regiment, Huang Xinyou, chief of staff, Wang Jinshan, deputy commander of the 772nd Regiment, Zhang Xianyue, commander of the Teaching Regiment, Hu Darong, captain of the 115th Division's Teaching Brigade, Wu Shi'an, head of the Special Service Regiment, and Liu Xiyuan, political commissar of the 686th Regiment. Xiao Hua, commander and political commissar of the eastward advance column, Zeng Guohua, head of the 5th detachment, He Guangyu, commander of the 6th detachment and Taixi Military Division, Zhang Beihua, political commissar, Wang Fengming, political commissar of the 4th brigade, Li Jingquan, deputy commander of the 358th Brigade of the 120th Division, Dun Xingyun, deputy commander of the 715th Regiment, Huang Yanqing, director of the Political Training Office, Song Shilun, commander of the 716th Regiment, Wang Zhen, deputy commander of the 359th Brigade, Wen Niansheng, head of the 718th Regiment, and Peng Shaohui, head of the Teaching Regiment, A total of 25 military and political cadres were transferred to the Inner Mongolia Military Region. However, the central government did not give instructions on how to arrange these people, but only let Han Yunhua arrange them at his own discretion, and at the same time gave the Inner Mongolia Military Region 75 places to study in Yan'an.

After getting this list, Han Yunhua was also dumbfounded, there are several generals in this list alone, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, these are at least major generals, and there are no major generals below at all, like Xiao Ke, Wang Weizhou, Chen Xilian, Li Jingquan, Song Shilun and others are famous military veterans in the history of the Republic, plus Luo Ronghuan, the military god among the top ten marshals in later generations, Han Yunhua himself doesn't know how to arrange them.

However, Han Yunhua also knew that the reorganization of the troops could not be delayed, and in any case, these people were all arranged by the party Central Committee, and in addition, several more divisions and brigades had been added to the reorganized troops this time, and there was a shortage of senior cadres, and those division commanders and political commissars of the original military region were all temporary, and they were withdrawn if they were withdrawn, and although the party Central Committee said that the original intention was to "mix sand" this time, in Han Yunhua's view, the party Central Committee had done him a great favor.

After high-level discussions at the top level of the military region, it was decided that Han Yunhua would no longer hold the post of commander of the 300th Division and the instructor division, and that all the 12 infantry divisions of the whole army would be changed into field divisions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, except for the numbers of the 300th Division and the 77th Division, which had remained unchanged, and the specific arrangements for military and political cadres were as follows:

Yang Chengwu, commander of the 300th Division, Song Shilun, political commissar, and Hu Qicai, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Office, were reorganized.

Chen Geng, commander of the 77th Division, Chen Xilian, political commissar, and Xu Shenji, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Office.

Wang Weizhou, commander of the 1st Field Division, Jiang Yunshan, political commissar, and Huang Xinyou, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Department.

Xiao Hua, commander of the Second Field Division, Wang Jian, political commissar, and Wang Jinshan, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Office.

Wang Zhen, commander of the Third Field Division, Zhang Mingliang, political commissar, and Wang Zhifu, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Office.

Li Jingquan, commander of the Fourth Field Division, Zeng Guohua, political commissar, and Wu Shi'an, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Office.

Li Dayong, commander of the Fifth Field Division, Wang Fengming, political commissar, and Li Jiaxiang, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Office.

Xu Shiyou, commander of the Sixth Field Division, Zhang Beihua, political commissar, and Liu Xiyuan, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Office.

He Guangyu, commander of the 7th Field Division, Peng Shaohui, political commissar, and Dun Xingyun, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Office.

Guo Weidong, commander of the Eighth Field Division, Huang Yanqing, political commissar, and Wen Niansheng, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Office.

The commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, Aao Liege, and the political commissar Li Lieguang.

Hu Ao, commander of the Second Cavalry Division, and Jiang Guanglie, political commissar.

Tong Jiayong, commander of the Third Cavalry Division, and Wang Zhiyong, political commissar.

Lu Jiang, commander of the Fourth Cavalry Division, and Xu Shiguo, political commissar.

Li Baoguo, commander of the 1st Artillery Brigade, and Wang Jialiang, political commissar.

Zhang Fuyong, commander of the Second Artillery Brigade, and Huang Zhiguo, political commissar.

The commander of the mechanized brigade, Wan Guoquan, and the political commissar Xu Guoqing.

As a result of this major reorganization, only 280,000 regular troops remained in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and all the rest were turned into reserves, that is, local security regiments. At the same time, under Han Yunhua's order, cadres at and above the regimental commander level of all units immediately reported to the military region, including the regiment commanders and political commissars of various local security regiments, and all the regiment commanders and political commissars went to the Saibei Military Command Academy to study for three months. The 121 cadres who have been replaced by the Inner Mongolia Military Region will go to Yan'an to study for six months and one year for those who have not held posts for the time being. As for the affairs in the troops, they will be temporarily taken over by deputies such as deputy division commanders, and the military region will rest in the northern part of the country for about half a year.

The central authorities were very satisfied with the reorganization of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and of course, when they received a telegram from Luo Ronghuan about the serious shortage of high-ranking military and political cadres in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, the chairman and others seemed to know that their party had been swept away by Han Yunhua again. However, the Inner Mongolia Military Region has done a really good job in these things, especially when the chairman and others returned to Yan'an, the more than 200 large trucks full of materials and the more than 80,000 pieces of cotton clothes that have been sent to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in the past few days have indeed reduced the pressure on the central authorities, so the chairman and others did not care about these small things.

After the reorganization, all units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region appeared to be a little confused, and both the leaders at the top and the soldiers at the lower levels had some opinions on the military region's major readjustment, and one of the most important reasons was that many cadres familiar to the soldiers had been transferred out of their leading posts, including more than a dozen brigade commanders, deputy brigade commanders, and brigade political commissars, and the soldiers could not figure out what was going on for a while. On the other hand, because the newly arrived cadres lack a complete understanding of the situation in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and many leaders used to lead only one or two thousand infantry regiments, but they were suddenly promoted to division commander, deputy division commander, or division and brigade commander, and you must know that the number of an infantry brigade in the Inner Mongolia Military Region is as high as 8,300 people, which is not much worse than that of an infantry division of the Kuomintang, so these cadres appear to be a little restrained as soon as they are promoted.

But fortunately, this time the Party Central Committee did not embarrass the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and the cadres transferred are all real elites, and these people are all pillars of talent who came from the Long March, especially young heroes like Xiao Hua. Don't look at Han Yunhua at this time, he is already the commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and he is only twenty-five years old, but Xiao Hua, who has just been promoted to the commander of the Second Field Division, is younger than Han Yunhua, Xiao Hua, who was born in 1916, is only 23 years old at this time, two years younger than Han Yunhua.

It is precisely because of these real cadres that Han Yunhua dared to carry out such a major reform of the military region. Although the original Inner Mongolia Military Region had many troops and its combat effectiveness was not bad, its command system was somewhat disordered. First of all, it is because the Inner Mongolia Military Region has always had too many small establishments, because it was limited by the establishment of three divisions of the Eighth Route Army, among which Commander-in-Chief Zhu was only the commander of the 18th Group Army, and the troops under his jurisdiction were only three B divisions, while the Inner Mongolia Military Region at that time had more than 300,000 troops. Therefore, Han Yunhua did not dare to reorganize the troops, otherwise he, Zuo Quan and others would have fallen on the heads of Commander-in-Chief Zhu and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng.

However, after inspecting the Inner Mongolia Military Region this time, the chairman and others were relieved that the troops would not be able to improve their combat effectiveness without reorganization, and that small-scale battles would be fine, but if they really fought large-scale battles, it would be troublesome. Just like in the Battle of North China, the original number of more than a dozen columns was quite a lot, but they could not compete with the seven or eight divisions of the Chinese army, so they had to temporarily reorganize the troops.

This time, Han Yunhua instructed the troops to devote a large amount of time to training in positional warfare and tackling tough battles, and military commanders at all levels should also strengthen their study of positional warfare and tackling tough battles, and the engineer commanders of various units were also gathered to teach how to build fortifications.

After more than a week of adaptation, the soldiers finally accepted the current situation, and when the soldiers saw that the commander took the cadres above the commander of the military region to train every morning, the old vigor returned. In addition, the selection of a new round of members of the special combat team is about to begin, so the soldiers are training more desperately, which makes Luo Ronghuan, who has just arrived, more soberly see Han Yunhua's personal charm.

Speaking of Luo Ronghuan, everyone is no stranger, he was one of the top ten marshals in later generations, and served as the director of the Political Department of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. In September 1937, he led the Political Department of the division and a small number of troops to mobilize the masses in the areas of Fuping, Quyang and Lingshou on the border of Shanxi and Hebei, organized anti-Japanese armed forces, and established the anti-Ming boiling regime. In 1938, he went to the Luliangshan area and fought with the acting division commander Chen Guang to command Wucheng, Jinggou and Xue Gongling, and defended the Yellow River. In the autumn of the same year, he participated in the enlarged Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and then served as the political commissar of the 115th Division. Just when Han Yunhua was about to lead the main force of the 115th Division eastward into Shandong, the Central Committee transferred him to the Inner Mongolia Military Region as a political commissar.

To be honest, Luo Ronghuan has no opinion on serving as the political commissar of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, as a real [***] member, he has dedicated his life to the cause of the party, so it is completely obedient to the decision of the Central Committee. But when he really saw the strength of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, he realized how heavy the courage was on his shoulders.

Before taking up his post in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, Luo Ronghuan specially returned to Yan'an from the front line to meet with the chairman, who specifically told him that he should coordinate relations with Comrade Han Yunhua no matter what, especially in the military aspect, and that Han Yunhua's decision could be supported as long as it did not violate the principle and make a mistake.

If such words were said from other people's mouths, Luo Ronghuan would definitely scold him, but when he said it from the chairman's mouth, Luo Ronghuan had to pay attention to it. After cooperating with Han Yunhua to complete the reorganization of the troops, and after having a relatively sober understanding of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, Luo Ronghuan truly understood the intention of the chairman's conversation with him. And during this time, he also deliberately got to know the young commander and wanted to understand his psychological dynamics.

"Kick ....... kick...... Pedal ......."

"Come in!"

Han Yunhua looked up and saw that it was Luo Ronghuan, the army god who came in. Han Yunhua immediately put down the pen in his hand, got up and said, "It's the political commissar, hehehe, sit down, Yun Qian quickly pour tea for Political Commissar Luo!" ”

Political Commissar Luo is not hypocritical, through the past few days of getting along, he also knows some of the surnames of this young commander, and knows that he is not a person who likes to be pretentious, so he sat down opposite Han Yunhua's desk and said with a smile: "I just watched the training of the 300th Division, so I stopped by to see the commander, didn't disturb the commander?" ”

"No, no, the political commissar came at the right time, and I have nothing to do to write a little idea about the economic development of the military region, since the political commissar is here, then we will discuss and discuss with each other!" Han Yunhua said with a smile.

"Oh, I didn't expect the commander to know so much about the economy, no wonder the chairman relies on you so much, what is the idea, it just so happens that I have a long experience, hehe!! But before that, I have to say, I think why is the title between us so awkward, you call me political commissar, I call you commander, not at all like the title between revolutionary comrades-in-arms, if the commander doesn't mind, I will call you Yunhua in the future, you will call me Lao Luo! ”

Han Yunhua hurriedly said: "Lao Luo is worthy of being engaged in political work, and he sees things much more clearly than me, and in the future, Lao Luo can call me Yunhua, or call me Xiaohuazi, hehe." ”

Political Commissar Luo smiled: "If you are a big boy, we are simply illiterate people who can't read a lot of words, hehehe." I think the economic development of our military region is not bad, you see that Guisui City is not very lively every day, compared with those big cities in the southeast of Shanxi, you are not satisfied? ”

Han Yunhua said: "Hey, it's not that I'm not satisfied, but the economic development of the military region has seriously affected the development of our troops, and it is definitely not possible for us to engage in agricultural production in the northern part of the country, the most fertile land in the northern part of the country is in the Hetao area, but it is the territory of the Kuomintang, to be precise, the territory of Fu Zuoyi's department in the second theater, so the taxes we have collected from the peasants in the past two years are very small, and if we count the seeds we subsidized, we even have to paste a lot of them." But even so, the people's living standards are still very low, and the food stocks at home are still pitiful. This year, we can barely have enough food and clothing, and some individual areas even have to be relieved by military districts, so if we continue to suffer an economic blockade by the puppet army, or if we encounter a disaster year, we will not be able to bear it if we do not want the army to attack us at all. And I think that if we encounter this situation, the army will definitely fall into the ground, and I am afraid that even the national political axe will attack us at that time, so we have to take precautions! ”

It's not that Han Yunhua is worried, but he knows very well what [***] will face in the next two years. It can be said that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the financial sources of the entire Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, and the party and government organs in Yan'an were divided into two stages and two different sources. Between 1937 and 1940, foreign aid was an important source of revenue for the border areas. In 1941, after the Southern Anhui Incident, the political, economic, and military blockade of the Kuomintang made the border areas financially difficult. After that, the political axe of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region began to carry out large-scale economic construction, which also launched a vigorous large-scale production movement, so the development of the economy is already an urgent matter, and Han Yunhua wants to set an example in Saibei, so that all the base areas in the country will realize the importance of economic development.

(To be continued)