On July 11, 1939, it was said that the fifteen mile garden in Yanggu County was the residence of the instructor and the teacher's department.

Due to the fall of Wuhan and the impact of China's defeat in the Second Battle of Wuhan, Han Yunhua had to make strategic adjustments. In order to be foolproof, Han Yunhua ordered all military cadres at and above the brigade level to rush to Yanggu County for an emergency meeting on 11 July.

The military and political cadres who taught the instructor were still very punctual, no matter how urgent the matter, but they all arrived at Fifteen Mile Park on time at 8 o'clock in the morning on July 11. In the conference room, Han Yunhua, Jiang Yunshan, Tong Jiayong, Wei Peng, Wang Zhifu, Ju Fei and others sat down in turn.

First of all, Han Yunhua informed everyone of the detailed battle report of the Wuhan battle, of course, including a series of bad news such as the fall of Wuhan and the collective retreat of the high-level leaders of the national political axe to the south. However, to Han Yunhua's expectations, these senior officers of the Eighth Route Army were not surprised at all, as if the defeat of the national political axe was expected by them.

Han Yunhua couldn't help but ask: "Why, everyone behaves so indifferently, did you all expect the defeat of the national political axe?" ”

"Division commander, this is not, we don't have the ability to calculate like you, but we are really not optimistic about the Kuomintang's batch of wine bags and rice bags, and our indifference is just that we have listened to the defeated telegrams too much and are used to it. In your words, it's immune, anyway, it's a miracle that they win the battle, and it's a common thing to lose the battle, so it's not surprising. Jiang Yunshan said with emotion, anyway, he didn't want the national political axe to be defeated, after all, it was China's national defense strength that was lost. But who let those well-armed big men of the national political axe not fight, the army of millions was defeated by the army of less than 500,000 little devils, and even the temporary capital was lost.

Tong Jiayong said fiercely: "This group of bitches raised them, they lost Nanjing two years ago and went to Wuhan to continue to enjoy happiness. Last year, they also lost Guangzhou, Nanchang, Jinan and other big cities, and this year they also lost Wuhan, what are they doing to eat, more than a million people have been beaten like this by more than 500,000 little devils, what face do they have to flee to Chongqing. If Yucheng is lost, I see where they will flee. The angry Tong Jiayong slapped heavily on the table of the Eight Immortals in front of him, splashing a lot of water in the teacup placed on the table.

Han Yunhua also knew the grievances in Tong Jiayong's heart, as a soldier, especially an officer with an extremely strong patriotic heart, hearing that his country's army was so vulnerable, no matter who he replaced, he would not feel good in his heart.

However, Han Yunhua still opened his mouth and said: "Jiayong, in fact, we can't evaluate the Second Battle of Wuhan like this, let alone arbitrarily say that the soldiers who shed blood and sacrificed for the country and the nation on the battlefield are not wrong. In fact, it is not clear to everyone that the vast number of Chinese officers and soldiers in the Battle of Wuhan were generally heroic and tenacious, and they used their flesh and blood to resist hundreds of thousands of troops of the imperialists who were armed with steel, and they also killed and wounded a large number of the Japanese army, dealing a major blow to the Japanese army. But because, as you know, first-rate soldiers, second-rate non-commissioned officers, third-rate generals, unpopular commanders. The inadequacy of the operational guidance of the top decision-makers and some high-ranking generals directly led to the large number of squadrons on the outskirts of Wuhan consuming the enemy and exerting themselves and the army too much. The Chinese soldiers are lovely and heroic. ”

Han Yunhua's words were sonorous and vigorous, and although these officers in the conference room had one or another prejudice against the Kuomintang and the Kuomintang-led troops, they all agreed with Han Yunhua's point just now. After all, every officer has experienced the most difficult years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and they all know how difficult it is for China to fight with the Chinese army until now.

"Yes, the Chinese soldiers are all good, maybe some of our officers do nothing, but our soldiers are all simple, and they are all worthy of our respect. In particular, a series of local armies such as the Sichuan Army often play the prestige of the [***] team. Jiang Yunshan said.

After listening to Jiang Yunshan's words, Han Yunhua's mind suddenly appeared with the main picture - Sichuan military baby. It was a photo that Han Yunhua saw at the same time at the National Military Museum and the Patriotism Education Base a long, long time ago, a Sichuan doll wearing a tattered military uniform and straw sandals, carrying an old-fashioned Hanyang manufacturing on his back to the battlefield of resistance against Japan. As Jiang Yunshan said, although the combat effectiveness of the miscellaneous armies in those places is limited, the military morale shown by them should not be underestimated, such as the Sichuan army.

In 1937, the Central Committee clearly put forward the policy of the anti-national united front, advocating the cessation of the civil war and unifying with the outside world. Liu Xiang believed that by unifying with the outside world, Chiang Kai-shek could be diverted from targeting his spearhead, and decided to change the policy of supporting Chiang Kai-shek, unite with the Communist Party to form friends, and participate in the War of Resistance. In the spring of that year, he sent Zhang Siwei as a representative to Guangxi, and signed a "Sichuan, Gui, and Red Agreement" with the [***] deputies, Li Zongren, and Bai Chongxi aimed at "uniting as one and resisting together." At this time, Liu Xiang, excited by the national indignation and dissatisfaction with Chiang Kai-shek's exclusion of dissidents, actively prepared for the War of Resistance, and wanted the children of central Sichuan to win glory for the nation and the country.

Seven. The day after the outbreak of the Qilugou Bridge Incident, Liu Xiang immediately sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, asking for a war of resistance. At the same time, the whole country was electrified, calling for unanimous protest. On August 7, Liu Xiang flew to Nanjing to attend the National Defense Conference and strongly advocated the War of Resistance. He said: "In the Anti-Japanese War, Sichuan can send 300,000 troops, supply 5 million strong men, and supply tens of thousands of stone of grain. After returning to Chengdu, according to the deployment of Nanjing's political axe, Jiang appointed Liu Xiang as the commander of the Seventh Theater, and organized the Sichuan Army into two group armies, Deng Xihou, commander-in-chief of the 22nd Group Army, and Sun Zhen, deputy commander, with jurisdiction over the 41st, 45th, and 47th armies (expanded from Li Jiayu's new 6th Division), and the 23rd Group Army was commanded by Liu Xiang as the commander-in-chief, and Tang Shizun was the deputy with jurisdiction over the 21st and 23rd armies. Chiang first transferred the 22nd Group Army from northern Sichuan to Shanxi and included it in the Yan Xishan Second War Zone, and when the 23rd Group from Sichuan arrived in Hankou, Chiang assigned it to the Chengqian First Theater to defend the periphery of Nanjing. When Liu Xiang arrived in Nanjing, he didn't know where the defense area of the Seventh War Zone was, and before he knew what the task was, the Sichuan army under his command was all gone, and Liu Xiang completely lost control of the Sichuan army, and soon died of illness. After Liu Xiang's death, the 5th Division and 2nd Brigade and 16 security regiments in Sichuan were commanded by Pan Wenhua, and they were organized into the 26th Group Army during the Anti-Japanese War. After the Anti-Japanese War, it was reduced to three integrated brigades, which were assigned to Zhang Zhen, Bai Chongxi and Xiangfan Kangze, Pan Wenhua became the commander of the Guang Pole Sui Administration, and later the 164th Brigade was annihilated in Xiangfan, and some of the annihilators fled back to Sichuan to reorganize into a regiment, Pan combined the regiment with the team directly under the Sui Department into the 235th Division, and his son Pan Qingzhou served as the division commander, which became Pan's last family background.

The Sichuan army is out of Sichuan, but the Sichuan army is not favored when it goes out of Sichuan. When the Sichuan army left Sichuan, it was widely regarded as the "worst army" in China at that time, with insufficient equipment, lack of ammunition, supplies and medical equipment, and soldiers still wore straw sandals on their feet when fighting in Shanxi in winter. However, it is such a unit that has made countless of the most arduous and tragic sacrifices in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and has made great contributions to the cause of the Chinese nation's national reading power.

It's not a blow-up, it's a real record. For example, the Yang Sen Department of the 20th Army, which was notorious in the civil war, was the first Sichuan army to fight the Sichuan War of Resistance in the Anti-Japanese War.

The 26th Division of the Sichuan Army, which participated in the Battle of Songhu, was one of the five divisions with the best combat record, with more than 4,000 officers and men in the division, but only more than 600 people remained when they were evacuated from the battlefield, with more than 85 percent casualties.

In the defense of Nanjing, the 21st Army of the Sichuan Army defended the southern front, of which the 145th Division defended Guangde, under the siege of the superior enemy, the position was lost, the division commander Rao Guohua resolutely led the remaining only one battalion of troops to rush into the enemy formation, in order to restore the position, and finally because he was outnumbered, he was surrounded by heavy encirclement, and the ammunition was exhausted, and the general did not want to be a prisoner, and he raised his gun to kill himself. Guo Xunqi, commander of the 144th Division, was also seriously wounded in the battle.

At the end of 37, the 22nd Group was incorporated into Li Zongren's miscellaneous army theater and participated in the Battle of Taierzhuang, the commander of the 122nd Division, Wang Mingzhang, was ordered to garrison Teng County, and the 5th Division of the main force of the army, Itagaki Seishiro, attacked Tengxian County, bombarded with heavy artillery and aircraft, and blew up the city wall. After the martyrdom of the division commander Wang, the officers and soldiers of the department resisted house by house, fighting to the last man, and the wounded soldiers in the city did not want to be taken prisoner, so they used grenades to die with the enemy who rushed in. In the first battle of Tengxian, more than 5,000 people of the 122nd Division were almost all killed or wounded. Chen Li's Division, which was deployed in the Jiehe and Longshan belts north of Tengxian County, also suffered four or five thousand casualties. There are wins and losses in wars, and there is no shame. The 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army, under the leadership of Wang Mingzhang, died in Tengxian County. In a strictly military sense, it should have been a crushing defeat, because the sacrifice of 3,000 men was exchanged for only 66 casualties of the Japanese army. But in the eyes of various public opinions, the Sichuan army has won respect. It was the great sacrifice of the Sichuan army that won the victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang, Li Zongren once said with tears: "The Sichuan army was outnumbered, did not hesitate to make heavy sacrifices, blocked the enemy from going south, completed the combat mission, and wrote the most glorious one in the history of the Sichuan army." ”

Li Jiayu's 47th Army, long-term operations in the southeast of Shanxi, later organized into the 36th Group Army, stationed in Henan, in the battle of central Henan, by the Kuomintang upper command is not effective, the western Henan departments in the chaos transferred, the 36th Group Army because it is a miscellaneous card, was ordered to act as a cover, on the way to transfer, the headquarters directly under the team unfortunately encountered with the army interspersed with detachments, the commander-in-chief Li Jiayu was shot and killed on the spot, becoming the highest-ranking general of the Sichuan Army who died in the Anti-Japanese War

Strictly speaking, the Sichuan army in the Anti-Japanese War was not a regular unit of the [***] team, but a local warlord army. Neither the equipment, military quality, nor treatment of the troops can be compared with the Kuomintang Central Army. However, in the War of Resistance against Japan, this unit exchanged its fearless sacrifice for the reputation of "the Sichuan army can fight" and "the army cannot be formed without Sichuan". In the decades of civil war, some of them may have done bad things and even hurt nature, and the vast majority of them do not have a high level of education and cannot make any big senses. It is difficult for them to have the same perception of the relationship between personal interests and national interests as some "elites with reasonable surnames"; in troubled times, they may feel the concept of "country" the least, and the "big and small" commanders who feel the most should be large and small. From the time of its formation, such a unit was in fact someone's personal guard. Personally, they may never have felt what the "state" had done to them, but they knew that "fighting a civil war" was the greatest shame for a soldier! They may have run rampant in the countryside and may have eaten the common people, but only when they threw themselves into the Great Patriotic War, in the struggle to safeguard the territorial integrity of the country and defend the nation's reading power, did they truly realize the mission and honor of a soldier! It is only in the struggle for the freedom of the nation to read that the passion of fire in them is awakened and bursts forth like a volcano, so that they can go forward in spite of the disparity in strength between the enemy and the enemy, and for the sake of the 40,000 compatriots behind them, they would rather fight to the last man than retreat!

Thinking of what these local troops had done for the country and the nation, Han Yunhua couldn't help but feel a burst of enthusiasm. China is the China of the Chinese, and the Chinese are the greatest race in the world. Although the country is in danger now, with these people who are willing to sacrifice for the country and the nation, China will not die.

Han Yunhua eased his expression, stood up and said: "Comrades, the second battle of Wuhan has ended, although our country has been defeated again, but we must not give in, think about the Sichuan army wearing single clothes and straw sandals and still insisting on fighting in North China, we are ashamed of ourselves. Although we have achieved brilliant results in Saibei one after another, China and the entire Chinese nation are a whole, a whole with a history of 5,000 years of civilization inheritance, so we cannot look at the victory or defeat of one city or one place, we must look at this war from the perspective of the overall situation. Although the national political axe was defeated as usual this time, this time it was different from the previous ones. The first few times, whether it was the Battle of Songhu or the Battle of Xuzhou, the national political axe was defeated so much that it was called a nest, although this time it was not too glorious, but it was definitely more meaningful than the previous times. This time, more than 100,000 soldiers were killed and wounded in the battle, and this was the most serious loss on the battlefield in China. This time, although the army won an unprecedented victory strategically, it lost tactically. Although the national political axe lost the big city of Wuhan, it was equivalent to losing a big burden on the body, and hundreds of thousands of troops who could fight well could be transferred from defensive garrisons to offensive assault forces, while the army had to send a large number of troops to defend Wuhan. In this way, the offensive and defensive momentum of the enemy and us has been reversed, and it is still very meaningful to look at this matter from this level or this angle, and the second battle of Wuhan is still very meaningful. At the same time, China has a vast territory, and in war terms, the strategic depth is deep enough that there is more room for maneuvering with the Chinese army. However, the army is an island country, and it is not one-tenth of China's strength in terms of resources and troops, and although the space-for-time strategy is rather cruel, it is still a feasible method in such a situation. Han Yunhua eased his breath, knocked on the Eight Immortals table in front of him with his hand, and continued: "Anyway, we should respect those soldiers who made great sacrifices for the country and the nation on the battlefield in Wuhan. The defeat of the Second Battle of Wuhan and the fall of Wuhan are a foregone conclusion, but the impact of the Battle of Wuhan is far-reaching, so we must adjust our strategic deployment. ”

"Division commander, you have considered it more thoughtfully, the reason why we developed so smoothly some time ago should have something to do with the battle over there, and the army does not want to clash with our army again in Shandong, so as not to affect the war in Wuhan. But now it is different, the battle of Wuhan has ended, and some of the main forces of the southern transfer of the army should also return to the division and go north, and then we will become the target of the key attacks of the army, and some of the operational plans drawn up in the past must be adjusted, otherwise we will become extremely passive at that time. As an officer whom Han Yunhua values and focuses on cultivating, Jiang Yunshan's military quality and strategic vision are still very accurate.

Han Yunhua nodded with satisfaction and said, "Comrades, this is indeed the case. China's defeat at the Battle of Wuhan meant that China had lost control of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the fall of the big city of Wuhan dealt a serious blow to the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the Chinese people. At the same time, because the battle line was too long, and the guerrillas of our Eighth Route Army were developing vigorously behind enemy lines, the Yue Army had to stop the pace of attacking cities and conquering cities, turn around and reorganize the occupied areas, so that China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression entered a new stage. The new stage and new tasks, although the little devils are rampant, they are definitely not stupid, we have developed to such a scale in Shandong, if we say that the army is not aware of it at all, it is a lie, but even if they know, what can they do. I, Han Yunhua, am not frightened, let alone look at my face. Moreover, I judge that this time it is very likely that Ben will change his attitude towards various parties in China, and that he will probably adopt a strategy of using military attacks as a supplement to political inducements to surrender to the Kuomintang, and further speaking, he should fight a row and pull a faction and support a puppet regime with a national surname in China to serve as their spokesperson in China. In this way, those people in China who have been unresolute will inevitably become like this puppet regime that is about to be established, and our pressure to resist will also be greatly increased. In order to consolidate the rear, the Eighth Route Army will inevitably be the key target of attack, especially the Inner Mongolia Military Region, which has been in the limelight for a long time. The sweep is about to begin, so we should also do a good job of counter-sweeping, and the commander of the 12th Army in Shandong, Lieutenant General Ogaka Kamezo, is an extremely cunning person, and that old devil will not be able to let us develop forever, comrades, the military plans we have formulated must be adjusted to a certain extent, otherwise it will be very unfavorable to our future operations. ”

After half an hour of analysis and speech, Han Yunhua said that he was reasonable, and most of these officers here were taught by Han Yunhua, so they had full confidence in Han Yunhua's prediction.

(To be continued)