Han Yunhua has his own considerations, now there are more than 6,100 people gathered on Jingyang Gang, which is already an extremely large team, although Shandong has been a place where there are many bandits since ancient times, but it is still rare to be able to gather more than 6,000 bandits. So it's not a way to go on like this, even if Ampeiichiro doesn't come to beat him now, Han Yunhua feels that the bandits have already pretended to be the end.

In addition, a few days ago, Tong Jiayong and Jiang Yunshan both sent telegrams to Han Yunhua to report their respective situations, although they did not have the luck of Han Yunhua, but their development was very good, Jiang Yunshan now has five fully manned infantry battalions and a cavalry battalion, an artillery battalion and a strong guard company, with a total strength of more than 4,300 people. As for Tong Jiayong, it was a little worse, but the unit was also expanded to three infantry battalions, a machine gun battalion, and a guard company, with a total strength of more than 2,800 people. Coupled with those small troops scattered in other places, the troops in Han Yunhua's hands now reached more than 13,000 people, about thirteen times larger than when he first came to Shandong.

In just one and a half months, Han Yunhua was able to achieve such results, which was completely beyond Han Yunhua's own expectations. There are some adventures on my side, and it is nothing to be able to pull up a force of more than 6,000 people in a short period of time. But Jiang Yunshan and Tong Jiayong can also achieve such a lot of results in such a short period of time, which is indeed much beyond Han Yunhua's expectations.

However, the expansion of the number of troops is also a good thing, and what Han Yunhua lacks most now is people. For a unit composed of almost half of the soldiers is special forces, armament is no longer the most important factor limiting the development of the troops. Although the troops in Han Yunhua's hands are less than one-tenth of what he commanded before, more than 10,000 people are enough for him to gain a foothold in Shandong.

Moreover, Shandong region and Saibei are simply two different concepts, unlike the emptiness and loneliness of Saibei, Shandong has been a densely populated province since ancient times. Moreover, the folk customs in Shandong have not been known for their weakness since ancient times, whether it is the one hundred and eight generals of Shuibo Liangshan who are famous all over the world or the Boxers who terrify foreigners, they all originated in Shandong. It can be said that what Shandong lacks now is a kind of correct guidance, as long as there are people who dare to stand up and resist at the first time, and there are enough correct theories that can move people's hearts, then Shandong's revolutionary surname will inevitably show the trend of a beacon fire.

The current situation is imminent, so Han Yunhua does not dare to be careless. In order to ensure the victory of this counter-sweep, Han Yunhua ordered Jiang Yunshan and Tong Jiayong, as well as the small troops scattered in other places, to assemble secretly immediately. At the same time, Han Yunhua also reorganized the troops operating in Yanggu County, and the troops that were reorganized this time were the 6,000 people he was now directly under him. After discussion, Han Yunhua reorganized the more than 6,000 people into a brigade, which was called the First Brigade of the Shandong Advance, and the brigade commander was personally appointed by himself. The 1st Shandong Advance Brigade has two infantry regiments, an artillery battalion, a cavalry battalion, a fire support battalion, a special operations squadron, and a guard squadron.

Han Yunhua had high expectations for the newly established Shandong Advance First Brigade, and if nothing else, the composition of the personnel of this first brigade made Han Yunhua very excited. The vast majority of the battles of this Shandong Advance Brigade were strong men who had undergone long-term martial arts training, and although these people were very ordinary in terms of guns, it would be great if they played hand-to-hand combat. After this period of training, Han Yunhua believed that with the strength of these people, even the elite field troops of the Yue Army could not compete with each other. However, with the same number of troops, it is still more than enough to fight against the second-line garrison troops of the Yue Army.

You must know that the current book is not the book of two years ago, although in the past two years, the army has robbed a large amount of resources from China, whether it is gold, silver, coal, iron, grain, livestock, or even labor. But on the whole, it is said that the profit in this war is not as rich as imagined, and it can even be said to be a loss-making transaction. As the war gradually fell into a stalemate, the economy of the country has begun to decline seriously, and there has even been a rapid recession in some local economies. The most serious thing is the massive attrition of veterans, which has seriously reduced the combat effectiveness of the army. The year 1939 was a dividing line, and the combat effectiveness of the Yue army before 1939 was generally relatively strong, and in the case of one-on-one or even one-on-two, it was difficult for the [***] team to win favor in the hands of Yue himself. However, after 39 years, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army has generally declined sharply, and in addition to the important factor of the decline of the national strength, a very important point is that due to the stubborn resistance of the Chinese army, especially the several large-scale battles organized by the national political axe, the effective force of the Chinese army has caused a huge lethality, and the direct result is that the number of veterans of the Chinese army has dropped rapidly.

As everyone knows, the number of veterans is directly related to the strength of a unit's combat effectiveness. The reason why the army was so strong before was because the vast majority of the soldiers in the previous army were composed of experienced veterans, and the shortest service was more than three years, plus the army continued to send troops to China and the Korean Peninsula, and trained troops with the resistance forces of North Korea and China, so when the war started in 37 years, the combat effectiveness of the army was at its peak. During the same period, although China was also prone to wars, there were countless excellent soldiers. However, at that time, China was not the opponent of the Chinese army in terms of the quality of its soldiers or weapons and equipment, so as soon as the war broke out, China presented a one-sided unfavorable situation, and it was precisely because of this that the arrogant and complacent Chinese army shouted the arrogant slogan of "destroying China in three months."

However, nearly two years later, China is still persistent, and although China's losses are surprisingly huge, the losses caused to Yu Yue's army are also extremely heavy. Until now, China has not surrendered as the Western powers expected, but it has become more and more tired.

Han Yunhua's reorganization of the troops this time initially condensed the combat effectiveness of the troops, and Han Yunhua believed that as long as he did a good job in this counter-sweep, the reputation of the Eighth Route Army would expand at the fastest speed in Luxi. At that time, both the puppet army and the remnants of the Kuomintang stranded in Shandong will be impressed by this Shandong First Advance Brigade, and the common people will regain confidence in this unit.

However, there is another obstacle in front of Han Yunhua's department, in addition to the army stationed in Shandong, there is also a puppet army or an armed force subordinate to the puppet Shandong Provincial Office that has entered Han Yunhua's sight. The puppet Shandong Provincial Office is the Han Dynasty regime established after the occupation of Shandong by the army, which was established in 1938 and existed for more than 7 years (changed to the puppet Shandong Provincial Government after August 1943), and was the leader of the puppet regime in Shandong Province under the control of the army. At the end of September 1937, the army marched south along the Jinpu Road and entered Shandong. All the Chinese forces in the Shandong region withdrew from Shandong with little effective resistance, and in December they forced their way across the Yellow River and laid siege to the provincial capital, Jinan.

On December 24, Han Fuyu, then chairman of Shandong Province, led an army of 100,000 troops to retreat south, and set fire to various organs, commercial ports, warehouses, and freight yards on Jiaoji Road and Jinpu Road. However, it caused chaos in Jinan, and the chaos seriously threatened the interests of big landlords and businessmen in Shandong. After the chaos in Jinan, the commercial port was sealed, and the overseas Chinese shops and burning warehouses were looted. Speaking of the "Jinan Public Security Maintenance Association", we have to say that Jinan Provincial Academy, Jinan Provincial Institute was founded in 1921, formerly known as the Jitan set up in Jinan by Liu Shaoji, a subordinate of Ma Liang. The Taoist Institute is based on the five religions of Hui, Hui, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and promotes feudal superstitions such as Fuping, which is a gathering place for dignitaries in Jinan City. In 1921 and 1922, the Daode Society and the Red Swastika Association were set up in the Taoist Institute (the Chinese Red Swastika Association was set up in Yanjing). In 1923, when the great earthquakes occurred in Tokyo and Yokohama, the Red Swastika Society went to the city with food money to offer condolences and attracted overseas Chinese to set up a Taoist temple in the city. After 1924, the Taoist Institute and the Red Swastika Society developed in the book of the Chinese language, and since then, there have been frequent exchanges between the Chinese and the Chinese. Therefore, the Jinan Taoist Institute and the Red Swastika Society became the first force that the army relied on. When the army marched south along the Jinpu Road, Yue Te instructed Ma Liang and others to secretly organize the "Maintenance Society" based on the Taoist Academy and the Red Swastika Society. After the soldiers came to the city, He Supu, the head of the Jinan Provincial Yuan, Zhang Xingwu, the president of the Red Swastika and the president of the Jinan Lawyers Association, and others, together with some personnel of the Jinan Chamber of Commerce, came forward to "maintain order" and discuss ways to welcome the army.

On January 1, 1938, the "Jinan Public Security Maintenance Association" was officially launched, with Ma Liang as the president and Zhu Guishan as the vice president. The maintenance committee consists of the Secretariat, the Civil Affairs Section, the Finance Section, the Education Section, the Construction Section, and the Police Bureau, and maintains the functions and powers of the administrative axe on behalf of the association, which is directly under the pseudo "Provisional Political Axe of the Republic of China", and is under the command of Nakano Hidemitsu Osa, the head of the Jinan Special Service of the Military Department (later Watanabe Watanakasa), and the police station is under the command of the Jinan Garrison Command and the Military Police.

The maintenance committee gathered a group of old warlords, Han anniversaries, and politicians, and prepared the backbone for the establishment of the puppet Shandong provincial regime. Subsequently, the puppet "Provisional Political Axe of the Republic of China", whose capital was located in Beiping, issued an order to establish the "Shandong Provincial Office" and appointed Ma Liang as the governor. At the same time, Ma Liang and the directors of various departments took office in Jinan, and the puppet Shandong provincial regime was officially opened.

(To be continued)