The Eighth Route Army occupied more than half of the entire Chahar province and Suiyuan Province, including the provincial capital of Suiyuan, Guisui City, which made all the senior military and political officials of the entire Nationalist Government, including Chiang Kai-shek, extremely dissatisfied.

But there are still some wise people within the Nationalist Government, until now when they have not turned their faces with ** from time to time, and with the strength of the second theater of war, even if they can recapture the Suicha area in their hands, I am afraid that they will not be able to hold it, and in the end it is likely to be cheaper for the Japanese.

After some arguments, Chiang Kai-shek still decided not to turn his face with **, but it can't be cheap**, so a negotiation team headed by He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs of the Nationalist Government, set off from Wuhan to Yan'an to formally negotiate with ** on the issue of Chahar and Suiyuan provinces.

** After receiving the telegram from the Nationalist Government, all the leaders of the Party Central Committee remaining in Yan'an convened a special meeting on this matter. At the meeting, Han Yunhua's opinions were read out in public, and his and Vice Chairman Zhou's views were also attached. Everyone is well aware of the purpose of the Nationalist Government delegation's visit and understands some of the things involved, so the leaders attending the meeting are very cautious, and they all believe that they cannot turn their faces with the Chiang Kai-shek government by saying anything now, otherwise it will only be the Chinese people who will suffer. This anti-Japanese national united front that I should draw up is contrary to each other and is not conducive to uniting all forces that can be united.

However, the Inner Mongolia Military Region had bought the area under the jurisdiction of Han Yunhua's 100,000 troops with countless lives and blood, and they could not just let it out like that, otherwise they would not be able to give an account to more than 100,000 people from all over the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and the situation would even cause the troops to mutiny. Moreover, the composition of the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is too complicated, and if it is not good, it is very likely that the foundation of Nuoda will be ruined in one fell swoop. Therefore, for the National Government's request for a surprisingly unanimous opinion within the party, it is impossible to give up territory by saying anything, but it can make appropriate concessions in other aspects.

Not to mention that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are fighting back and forth for the territory of Saibei, which has caused red ears on both sides, which has made people from all walks of life frightened, and they are afraid that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party will fight with their own people before the foreign enemies are expelled from the country. At present, the atmosphere in Japan is also very tense, first because the North China Front concentrated its main forces to attack the troops of the Eighth Route Army in the Chahar area, thus stranding the operational plan for encircling Wuhan jointly drawn up by the Central China and North China Fronts. Subsequently, the North China Front Army attacked the hinterland of Chahar, where Han Yunhua's division was entrenched, and was stubbornly resisted by Han Yunhua's department, and caused Han Yunhua to lead the main force eastward into the eastern Hebei region, triggering a large-scale rebellion of the Chinese people in the eastern Hebei region, shaking the empire's rule in the region, and having to mobilize troops in the Chahar region to urgently rescue and quell the chaos. In order to continue to maintain the advantage of the war, the North China Front transferred the already small defenders of Guisui to the Jining area to continue to besiege the Zhina troops in Jining. However, what happened next suddenly broke away from the expectations of the Japanese army, Guisui City and Baotou City were successively captured by the Chinese army, the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps was completely destroyed, the lieutenant general commander Lian Nu Pan committed suicide, the garrison commander of Major General Baotou was captured, and a large number of weapons and equipment fell into the hands of the Chinese people, including all the weapons and equipment needed by a chariot division and a motorized brigade. Then the bad news was even more bad news one after another, the capital city of Chahar was broken, the important town of Chifeng in northern Saibei was broken, officers above the rank of major general were captured and killed one after another, and even the most elite second division of the Kwantung Army suffered at the hands of the Zhina. The morale of the Japanese Empire was severely damaged, and on the third day after the end of the Battle of Saibei, the Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo announced the results of the Battle of Saibei to the Japanese people in the form of radio and newspapers, using words such as "disastrous defeat", "heavy losses", and "severe blows".

This is the second time since the outbreak of war in 1937 that the Japanese army has used such terms to describe its own troops. The first time was after the Battle of Taierzhuang before the Battle of Xuzhou four months ago, when Japan's Asahi Shimbun used such a word. According to the data given by the Japanese military department, the Japanese army lost more than 13,000 soldiers in this battle, killed and wounded more than 100,000 people of the Eighth Route Army, and both sides lost tactically in this battle. Strategically, the Great Japanese Empire lost all of Chahar and part of Suiyuan, which can be said to be a failure, and a fiasco. ,

This is the first time since the start of the war that Japan has frankly admitted its military defeat in front of the international community, even if the Battle of Taierzhuang was annihilated by the Fifth Theater of Operations more than 10,000 elite Japanese troops did not say such a thing, it can be seen that the Japanese army was indeed hurt in this battle.

After the war, the Japanese headquarters ordered General Terauchi to be relieved of his post as commander of the North China Front and transferred back to Tokyo for review. At the same time, General Binyamamoto was transferred to replace General Terauchi Shouichi as commander of the North China Front, and at the same time to supplement the establishment of four mixed brigades for the North China Front. In addition, the establishment of the Corps stationed in Mongolia was abolished, and the 26th Division and the 6th Division, which were originally subordinate to the Corps in Mongolia, were included in the battle sequence of the troops directly under the North China Front.

The day after the Asahi Shimbun announced the results of the Battle of Saibei, a number of domestic news media rushed to report and reprint a series of reports from the Asahi Shimbun. The prestige of Han Yunhua and the Inner Mongolia Military Region once again spread all over the country, and the domestic anti-Japanese atmosphere suddenly ushered in a rare **, and Han Yunhua and the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region also became another heroic unit after the 31st Division of the Fifth Theater.

For a time, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the headquarters of the Inner Mongolia Military Region received congratulatory telegrams from a number of government organs in China and senior leaders of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, among which the famous Kuomintang included Chiang Kai-shek, Chen Cheng, He Yingqin, Wei Lihuang, Yan Xishan, Zhang Zizhong, Xue Yue, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, etc., and on the other hand, there were **, Vice Chairman Zhou, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the General Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, Zhu Commander-in-Chief, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng, the 129th Division, the 115th Division, the 120th Division, The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Headquarters and others all sent congratulatory telegrams. Most of them were congratulating the Inner Mongolia Military Region on its unprecedented victory in resisting Japan, but some of them came to knock on the bamboo poles of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, such as Nie Rongzhen and He Long, who opened their mouths to see hundreds of light and heavy machine guns, more than a dozen mortars, and so on.

Beiping, the office of the commander of the North China Front, at this time the owner here is no longer the original one, the short general who has just been exchanged for a generous face and a little old seems to be very satisfied with the environment here, most of the staff officers in the headquarters have heard of the name of the newly appointed commander - Binshan Yuan.

Binshan Yuan, a famous general and marshal of the Japanese Army. He was born on January 2, 1880 in Fukuoka Prefecture to a samurai family. In April 1893, he entered Fukuoka Prefectural Toyotsu Junior High School. In March 1898, after graduating from junior high school, Sugiyama Mototo was enlisted as a remedial officer in the army. In December of the same year, he was transferred to the 14th Infantry Wing of Kokura. In December 1899, Sugiyama entered the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and on December 21, 1900, he graduated from the 12th class of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School. In August 1914, Sugiyama was appointed commander of the 14th Infantry Wing. In 1915, he was again appointed military attaché in British India, where he visited Germany and learned about the role of aircraft in the First World War. After returning to Japan, he vigorously advocated the establishment of army aviation, and was later appointed as Japan's Minister of Aviation. In August 1917, he was promoted to Nakasa, and in December 1918, Sugiyama was appointed captain of the 2nd Air Group. In June 1921, he was promoted to the rank of Commander. In April 1922, he was appointed Chief of the Aviation Division of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of the Army. In August 1923, he was reappointed as the head of the military department. On May 1, 1925, Moto-Sugiyama was promoted to major general. In August 1928, he was transferred to the Military Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of the Army. August 1930. Promoted to lieutenant general, appointed under-secretary of the army.

Binshan Yuan was a staunch Japanese imperialist who firmly believed that Japan could only survive by constantly waging wars of aggression against foreign countries. In July 1931, Binshan Yuan presided over the formulation of the "Outline of Policies for Resolving the Manchurian and Mongolian Problems," which clearly stipulated the principles, steps, and measures for Japan's invasion of Northeast China. Binshan Yuan is China's "nine. In the early morning of September 18, after the news of the September 18 Incident reached Tokyo, Sugiyama made an urgent appointment to meet with Shigeharu Ninomiya, deputy director of the Showa General Staff Headquarters of the Ministry of the Army, and jointly decided to use this opportunity to expand the situation and realize his dream of dominating Northeast China in one fell swoop. Due to the instigation and instigation of Sugiyama Mototo and other military leaders, the Kwantung Army stepped up its expansion of the war of aggression. Soon, the entire territory of Northeast China fell under the control of the Kwantung Army. On December 13, 1931, the Inukai Tsutomi Cabinet was formed, with Lieutenant General Araki as Minister of War and Lieutenant General Sugiyama Motomo as Vice Minister of the Army.

At the same time, after the Japanese invading army invaded and occupied Northeast China, in order to divert international attention, it provoked a new war in Shanghai. The 28 Incident and the beginning of an armed attack on Shanghai. The 19th Route Army stationed in Shanghai resisted and fought a fierce battle with the Japanese army, dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese army. At the beginning of March, the Japanese army landed at Taicang and Liuhe, and the 19th Route Army was forced to withdraw from Shanghai. At this time, Sugiyama Moto, who was the vice minister of the army, assisted in organizing and directing the Japanese military operation, and his hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese at one time. ,

At the end of February, when the Japanese invading army was fighting the most fierce battle with the Chinese army, Sugiyama was transferred to the commander of the 12th Division stationed in Kurume and left the Ministry of the Army. The 12th Division of the Japanese Army belongs to the first-class division, and its station happens to be in Sugiyama Moto's hometown, which can be described as "returning home". But he was very unhappy in his heart, because Sugiyama Mototo, who believed that he had left the War Ministry before the Shanghai Incident was over. During his more than a year as division commander, Sugiyama held lectures to incite militaristic ideas in response to Chinese aggression.

In 1933, Moto-Sugiyama was transferred to the head of the aviation headquarters. During his tenure, the aviation code of conduct was reformulated, which laid the foundation for the tactics and aviation education of the Japanese Army Air Force. Thanks to his continuous efforts, the Japanese Army Aviation developed into an effective combat force, and he was therefore known as the first person in the Japanese Army Aviation.

After the September 18 Incident, the struggle within the Army between the "Imperial Road faction" centered on radical young military officers who supported Sadao Araki and Shizaburo Masaki and the "Unification faction" led by Nagata Tetsuyama Daisa, director of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of the Army, became more and more acute, and in 1934 it entered a white-hot stage. In the struggle between these two factions, Sugiyama Mototo, who took advantage of the fisherman's profits, was promoted to deputy chief of staff and concurrently president of the Army University in August of the same year. After the 26 incident, Sugiyama resigned as deputy chief of staff because he was implicated.

In August 1936, Sugiyama was appointed Director of Education and Military Staff Officer, one of the three core leaders of the Army, and on November 2, he was promoted to Army General. In February 1937, he was appointed Minister of War in the cabinet of Hayashi Mijuro. After the collapse of that cabinet, he remained Minister of War in the Konoe Fumiro Cabinet.

On July 7, 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out. As Minister of War, Sugiyama strongly advocated increasing the number of troops stationed in China and expanding the scale of the war, and he strongly retorted to Ishihara Wanji, who did not expand: "The so-called non-expansion is only to avoid a full-scale war, not to ignore the prestige of the Imperial Army." He promised Emperor Showa that the China incident would be resolved in three months. On 11 July, the Ministry of War and the relevant departments of the General Staff Headquarters were instructed to jointly draw up an "Agreement on Operations in North China" and propose to the cabinet a plan for increasing troops in North China; on 18 July, Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe convened a "five-phase meeting." Sugiyama Motoli, who was the land minister, advocated the increase of troops in North China, and on the evening of 23 July, he personally issued a mobilization order to the 5th, 6th, and 10th divisions in the interior. 200,000 troops and 50,000 horses were added to North China. On August 10, Sugiyama decided to send two additional divisions to Shanghai. On August 15, the Japanese government issued a "Declaration of War on China" drafted by Sugiyama Moto, and a full-scale war of aggression against China was put into practice. At this time, Sugiyama was very optimistic and clamored for "a quick and complete blow to the enemy, in order to clean up the situation as soon as possible." Immediately afterwards, there was an incident in which the Northern Branch Dispatch Army was established, the Central Branch Dispatch Army was dispatched, the army base camp was set up, and the capture of Nanjing, the capital of China, was captured, but Chiang Kai-shek retreated into the interior and still did not give in, and there was no time to solve the Chinese incident.

Prime Minister Konoe changed the foreign minister and the land minister in order to resolve the war against China at an early date. In June 1938, Moto-Sugiyama was reappointed as a member of the Military Council. In September, Sugiyama was transferred to the commander of the Northern Branch Dispatch Army while recuperating from appendicitis surgery.

Before taking over as commander of the North China Front, the headquarters gave Sugiyama the task of "maintaining stability in the North China region that is now occupied, striving to quickly restore law and order in the northern part of Hebei Province, Shandong Province, the western part of Shanxi Province, and the Inner Mongolia region, and ensuring the safety of the main lines of communication." ”

The base camp did not think that Binshan Yuan would be able to solve the North China problem in a short period of time, but the base camp did not want the situation in North China to continue to deteriorate.

Binshan Yuan has a simple face, looking like a kind elder from a distance, Binshan Yuan was nicknamed Fool Yuan when he was in school, and he also has a nickname called "Ben Sho Hui", which means that it can be pushed open inside and out like a toilet door, in fact, Binshan Yuan's character is extremely stoic and stubborn, which is vividly demonstrated in his 47-year military career. No matter how powerful an opponent he encounters, Binshanyuan will face it without fear, and in this regard, Binshanyuan has a certain similarity with Han Yunhua.

Binshan Yuan knew that his command skills were not much better than those of General Terauchi Shouichi, or even inferior, but he had the tenacity and courage that General Terauchi did not have. When he was in China, Bin Shanyuan studied the tactics of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and also thought of some ways to crack it, but Bin Shanyuan was not completely sure that he could curb the momentum of the rise of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. ,

Before coming to China, Emperor Hirohito put a squadron of the Emperor's Guard under his command to protect him. After watching the performance of this unit, Bin Shan Yuan was overjoyed, what he was most afraid of was not the regular armed forces of Zhina, but the elusive special combat team of Han Yunhua's department.

Binshan Yuan knew that General Terauchi Shouichi had actually failed under his own carelessness, and the special combat team of Han Yunhua's department did not attract the attention of General Terauchi Shouichi from beginning to end, which made the North China Front lose the lead in both intelligence and fighting for fighters. General Terauchi Shouichi did not achieve nothing, at least he made a lot of contributions to the economy of Han Yunhua's department. In the view of Senior General Binshan Yuan, the hundreds of thousands of disaster-stricken people in the area under Han Yunhua's command who have nothing are definitely a big burden for Han Yunhua, and these hundreds of thousands of people restrict the development of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to a certain extent.

Now Senior General Binshan Yuan is waiting for a person, a person who knows the Inner Mongolia Military Region very well, and a person who is extremely important to him and the entire North China Front Army. After the Battle of Saibei, all units of the North China Front suffered heavy losses, especially the 6th Division, 21st Division, 26th Division, and 109th Division, which had been serving as the main offensive force. However, due to the dismissal of General Terauchi Shouichi and the reprimand of many high-ranking generals of the North China Front Army from the base camp, these troops have never been effectively replenished. Therefore, the North China Front is now at its weakest moment, although Binshan Yuan also knows that the Inner Mongolia Military Region will not and cannot launch any major offensive in a short period of time, but because the Central China Front has once again written to the Tokyo base camp about the operational plan for attacking Wuhan, and hopes to get the support of the North China Front.

When he came to China, Bin Shanyuan heard through the gossip that the base camp had decided to let the North China Front Army cooperate with the Central China Front Army to encircle Wuhan. Although the news has not yet been confirmed, it is almost certain that the battle of Wuhan is in the final stage of determination. This made Bin Shanyuan very worried, after all, it was still unknown whether the North China Front, which had just experienced a crushing defeat, could afford such an arduous combat mission.