The Baotou Arsenal is very important, especially Han Yunhua also knows that from 40 years later, the Eighth Route Army will usher in a rather difficult stage, if the Baotou Arsenal can meet Han Yunhua's standards, then the situation of the Eighth Route Army will have a qualitative change. The reason why the Eighth Route Army was so miserable in the two most difficult years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in history was only because it was difficult to replenish weapons and ammunition and the ammunition was seriously consumed. As we all know, the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army are already bad, most of the guns are captured in battle, not only the caliber is not uniform, but the ammunition needed is also miscellaneous, and even the ammunition captured on some battlefields can only be used by one company and one platoon, and the remaining soldiers can only stare dryly, so the power of the Eighth Route Army has shrunk quite seriously in those two years.

However, as long as the Baotou Arsenal is built, then with the production capacity of the arsenal, then the Eighth Route Army can reequip part of the troops in a very short time. Although it is not possible to equip all the troops with the new standard equipment as quickly as the Japanese army or the Nationalist Government did, it is still possible to concentrate all the guns of the same type in the whole army and equip the troops. Just like Han Yunhua, although there are various types of weapons and ammunition seized, just take the rifle as a whole, there are 38 big covers used by the Japanese army, Zhongzheng and Hanyang used by the puppet army, as well as old sleeves and Liao 13-year rifles used by bandits and other armed forces. But now although Han Yunhua's department has captured a lot and has a lot of money, even so, there are still many models of rifles equipped by the active troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, in addition to the vast majority of the 38 big covers, there are also Zhongcheng and Mauser K98.

Despite this, the logistical pressure of Han Yunhua's department was not great, because Han Yunhua had uniformly reequipped the guns and all light and heavy equipment of the troops a year ago, and he equipped all the 38 big covers to the field troops fighting on the front line, that is, the three units of the 300th Division, the 77th Independent Division, and the 8th Independent Brigade. The troops directly under the military region used all the middle and formal ones, and all the teaching ones were Mauser. For the machine gun, the 38 big cover is equipped with crooked handles and 92 type, and the middle official is equipped with Maxim and Czech type. Therefore, the caliber of the guns in Han Yunhua's department is also very miscellaneous, but the logistical pressure of the troops is not large, and the combat effectiveness is also very strong.

It's not that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army doesn't understand this drawback, and it's not that there is no way to solve it, but now there are too many troops of the Eighth Route Army, and the vast majority of the troops are very short of weapons and ammunition, and many troops still use two or even three people in turn with one rifle, so it is very unrealistic to change equipment in a centralized manner. Moreover, the various parts of the Eighth Route Army were scattered quite widely, and there were frequent transfers, and even the higher-level leaders of some troops did not know which village or store they would be stationed in tomorrow, and the difficulty of changing clothes was not ordinarily small. But as long as there are a few thousand rifles as an intermediary, it is still possible to reload them one by one. That is to say, as long as Han Yunhua's department provides 8,000 to 10,000 Type 38 rifles to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, then the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army can use these guns to replace the Zhongcheng and Hanyang in the hands of the 129th Division or other troops, so that all the equipment of the first unit to be reequipped will be the 38th big cover. Then the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army will replace the rifles of different calibers in the hands of other troops in the hands of Zhongguan and Hanyang, and it will not be long before the weapons of all the troops of the Eighth Route Army will become unified. Although this reunification is only on a small scale, it may be a division or a brigade, or even a regiment or a battalion.

Therefore, the importance of the Baotou Arsenal to Han Yunhua's department and the entire Eighth Route Army is by no means something that ordinary people can imagine. Therefore, the task of forming the Baotou Arsenal this time Han Yunhua was handed over to the veteran leader Zuo Political Commissar to complete, and he himself was in Gui Suicheng to count the losses and achievements of the Inner Mongolia Military Region during this period.

After reading the losses reported by various units, Han Yunhua was worried for a while, the number of soldiers who sacrificed in the month of the reorganization of the 300th Division was 1,341 and the number of wounded was 3,421, of which 1,231 were seriously wounded, and the casualty rate was 11%. The 77th Independent Division lost 4,328 men in this battle, of which 2,325 were killed, 2,003 were wounded, and 1,412 were seriously wounded, with a casualty rate of 29%. The Eighth Brigade suffered the fewest casualties among the troops under Han Yunhua's command, with only 1,009 casualties, and the number of casualties was also very small, only 299, with a casualty rate of only 6%. The troops directly under the military region led by Ye Baoguo were the troops with the most losses in this battle, and there were 5,404 soldiers who died directly on the battlefield in eastern Hebei, 6,213 were wounded, and 2,212 were seriously wounded, and the casualty rate reached a terrifying 69 percent. That is to say, the Inner Mongolia Military Region lost more than 22,000 people in this battle, accounting for about 30 percent of the total troops. The absolute losses were more than 9,000 people, accounting for about 10% of the total force. ,

At this time, Han Yunhua also understood why the leaders of the Eighth Route Army mentioned the importance of guerrilla warfare and movement warfare in history. After every large-scale positional battle, the capture of the Eighth Route Army was not as many as its own casualties, which was definitely a loss-making transaction.

However, because Han Yunhua's department is now a shotgun to change artillery, there are not no well-armed troops on the entire Chinese battlefield that can be better equipped than Han Yunhua's department, just like the first division of the Kwantung Army that I encountered on the battlefield in eastern Hebei some time ago. However, there were several units like the First Division in the entire Japanese Army, so there were definitely not many Japanese troops that were better equipped than Han Yunhua's headquarters. So this time, Han Yunhua's subordinates gained a good harvest, in addition to killing and wounding more than 100,000 Japanese puppet soldiers, they also captured nearly 20,000 people. The amount of weapons and equipment captured was also huge, especially the army led by Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru under Li Dayong's subordinate was taken by surprise, so that the Japanese army was overwhelmed by the powerful armored forces before they even had time to blow up the supplies.

However, in terms of other battlefields, the weapons and equipment captured by the Inner Mongolia Military Region were far less than those captured by Li Dayong's troops, especially the ammunition was not much. According to the situation reported from various battlefields, Han Yunhua could see that the Japanese army base camp seemed to have given some mandatory orders. When fighting against Han Yunhua's subordinates, the Japanese soldiers had to fight all the heavy weapons in their hands and blow up all the heavy weapons when there was no hope of victory. This made Han Yunhua very worried, if this was the case, then it would be almost impossible to maintain the battle by capturing in the future.

In fact, it was precisely because of this that when he judged that the reason why Han Yunhua's troops could rise in a short period of time was that the materials "supported" by the empire were not less helpful, General Binshan Yuan, in his capacity as the commander of the North China Front, issued a sternly worded order, he demanded that all units of the North China Front Army must remember the discipline of the First Army, and that the troops of the North China Front Army would never be allowed to fight with Han Yunhua's troops with bayonets when they still had ammunition in their hands, let alone allow the troops to leave weapons and ammunition to Han Yunhua's headquarters. After the defeat of the troops, it was necessary to destroy the radios, military flags, and arsenals as soon as possible, including the telegraphers.

However, thinking that it would not take long for the Baotou Arsenal to be put into production, Han Yunhua was not only much less worried. Although Han Yunhua has been fighting outside during this time, he knows about not a single major event that has happened in the military region, and there are two things that make Han Yunhua the most happy. The first is that the second batch of students of the Saber Special Combat Team is about to graduate, which is not comparable to the quick semi-finished products such as Li Dingguo. Therefore, Han Yunhua decided to set up two more special combat teams, and at the same time expand the scale of the saber special combat team, after all, there are more than 1,600 special combat personnel who graduated this time. The second thing was that his daughter Xiao Sihan would call her father, which made Han Yunhua so happy that he couldn't find the north. For Han Yunhua, an iron-blooded soldier from later generations, in the eventful years of war, Li Yuhan and his daughter Xiao Sihan are the best proof of his existence in this era and the greatest concern.

During this time, Han Yunhua was both painful and happy, he was so busy every day, and there was no time to rest in the middle of going out early and returning late at night. But every day when he returns home, he can take a walk with Yuhan or tease Sihan, Han Yunhua feels that this is ordinary happiness. All year round, he is fighting with the enemy on the battlefield, fighting with devils, traitors, puppet soldiers, and even fighting with the reactionary establishment in China, Han Yunhua himself is about to become numb, and only when he returns home will he get real relaxation.

However, such days did not last long, in view of the fact that the Shandong Provincial Party Committee was almost completely destroyed by the Japanese army, and Comrade Guo Hongtao, secretary of the provincial party committee, was seriously wounded, the situation in Shandong took a sharp turn for the worse, and the great cause of resisting Japan fell into a low ebb. Therefore, the Party Central Committee and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army believe that Shandong now needs a strong leader to preside over the overall situation, otherwise it will not be able to deter the Japanese and the puppet. In the end, after the recommendation of Guo Hongtao, secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, and after discussion by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, it was decided that Han Yunhua, commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and commander of the 300th Division, and president of the Saibei Military Command College of the First Branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, should lead some soldiers such as Shandong to preside over the overall situation. During this period of time, the party Central Committee was also at a loss for Shandong's defeat, and could not think of any way to solve Shandong's problems. In the words of **, Han Yunhua can build a powerful military region of Nuoda in less than two years, then I believe that he can build a new Shandong for our party. Therefore, with the approval of the party Central Committee, Han Yunhua, commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, was transferred to the post of secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and was responsible for the establishment of the Shandong anti-Japanese base area. However, Han Yunhua's commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and other positions remain unchanged, he is still the commander of the reorganized 300th Division and a member of the ** Northern Bureau, but the part-time position of the president of the Saibei Military Command College has been abolished, and Liu Mingyuan, director of the Education Department of the Military Region, has been replaced. ,

The Party Central Committee has no choice but to do this, and Han Yunhua's prestige in the Inner Mongolia Military Region is unmatched by anyone, although Han Yunhua himself has paid close attention to it, and has repeatedly emphasized that personality cults are strictly prohibited. But no one can grab the name of the founder of the military region and the god of war, and the unprecedented victories have raised his popularity to an extremely high level. Up to now, not only has no one in the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters made irresponsible remarks about Han Yunhua, but even the Yan'an Party Central Committee has not found fault with Han Yunhua for a long time. Therefore, the Party Central Committee and Vice Chairman Zhou and others have no doubts about Han Yunhua's loyalty, and they have no opinion on making him the secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee. But now there is such a problem here, those bigwigs in Yan'an and the leaders of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters all know that almost more than half of the troops in the Inner Mongolia Military Region are adapted from the prisoners of the puppet army and the rescued Kuomintang troops recruited by Han Yunhua, and the time to form combat effectiveness is not long, so Han Yunhua can control these proud soldiers and fierce generals with his personal personality charm, and others may not have this ability. In addition, the North China Front Army has now regarded the Inner Mongolia Military Region as the biggest enemy in northern China, and even the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army and other units of the Eighth Route Army in the Second Theater have been compared with Han Yunhua's subordinates. But there is really no one who is suitable to preside over the situation in Shandong, so he can only let Han Yunhua's "name" stay in Saibei to deter the little devils, while his people go to Shandong to fight.

After the order arrived at the Inner Mongolia Military Region, Han Yunhua himself was also surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, he was quickly relieved. Now that Han Yunhua's name is in full swing, it is not surprising that the Party Central Committee and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters can think of him. In addition, he has always been the errand of the fire captain and the transportation captain, and at this time, Shandong did not look for anyone he was looking for.

Fortunately, the chaos in Shandong has become a reality, so the Party Central Committee did not rush to let Han Yunhua take office, but asked him to deal with the affairs of the Inner Mongolia Military Region as soon as possible, and then Vice Chairman Zhou also hoped in his personal name that he would do his life's work before taking office. After all, although Li Yuhan, a yellow flower girl, is not married, she nests with him every day, and she is still holding a little girl, what is this called, and it is not good to spread the impact.

Han Yunhua thought about it, he himself was okay to say, after all, there were so many bigwigs above for him, and some rumors and rumors would not cause substantial harm to him. But for Li Yuhan, it's different, no matter how you say that Yuhan is also a little girl, although compared to this era of getting married and having children at the age of fifteen or sixteen, Li Yuhan is already an older girl at the age of twenty-one. But compared to the era that Han Yunhua is most familiar with, Li Yuhan, who is twenty-one years old, is only twenty years old, and Yuhan's birth month is relatively small, and he is a little more than nineteen years old. This age is nothing more than a student who has just entered college or is in high school. Besides, women in this era are the most important names, but those who know know that Han Yunhua couldn't bear to suffer Xiao Sihan and adopted this little Japanese girl. But those who don't know are likely to think that Yuhan had children out of wedlock, which is not a trivial matter for a woman. In addition, I don't know when I will come back after leaving this time, so Han Yunhua also promised to marry Yuhan as soon as possible.

The next day, all the senior leaders of the Inner Mongolia Military Region stationed abroad received a telegram in which Han Yunhua ordered them to hand over the affairs in their hands to their deputies, and then immediately rush back to Sui, including the political commissar Zuo, who had just been gone for less than a week.

On April 7, 1939, Gui Sui? Conference Room of Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Seeing that the time was already half past eight, Han Yunhua didn't wait any longer, he slowly stood up from the chair, and then said loudly: "It's all here, let's start when it's all here."

After a round of applause, Han Yunhua continued: "Comrades, now I would like to announce for you the latest instructions of the Party Central Committee on the Inner Mongolia Military Region. After discussion and decision by the party Central Committee: Comrade Han Yunhua will be transferred to the post of secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and commander of the Shandong Military Region, but Comrade Han Yunhua's current position remains unchanged, and he is still the commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the commander of the 300th Division. After Comrade Han Yunhua was transferred to Shandong, the Inner Mongolia Military Region was temporarily taken over by Comrade Zuo Quan, and the reorganized 300 Division was commanded by Comrade Yang Chengwu, political commissar, and the rest of the personnel could be transferred to Shandong after completing the handover tasks of the troops if Comrade Han Yunhua needed ......".

After Han Yunhua read out the order of the Party Central Committee, he then said to the senior leaders of the Inner Mongolia Military Region present: "This is an order personally issued by the Party Central Committee, and the reason I think everyone knows that the situation in Shandong has been eroded to the point of being out of control, even Comrade Guo Hongtao was seriously injured, and all the regular troops in Shandong have withdrawn to the southern Hebei region, so the Party Central Committee ordered me to carry the banner of resistance against Japan in Shandong." Comrades, this is the trust of the Party Central Committee in me, Han Yunhua, and in everyone, so we must make concerted efforts to fight this battle. If the little devils can drive our Eighth Route Army out of Shandong, then we will fight back. Okay, if you still don't understand anything, just ask, and after that, I will announce some new appointments to the military region. ”

Those who came to attend the meeting were all senior cadres at the division and brigade level or at the level of ministers and directors of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. The shock of this news is no less than the death of the Japanese emperor, especially for senior officers like Li Dayong and Ye Baoguo who followed Han Yunhua all the way.

"Commander, you... You... If you really want to be transferred to Shandong, what should we do? Li Dayong asked incoherently.

For Li Dayong and the others, they were used to fighting under Han Yunhua's orders, and they were really not used to leaving Han Yunhua. This is not to say that Li Dayong and the others have a low command level, not to mention that they are incapable, but since they fled to Chahar, they have become stronger and stronger under Han Yunhua's careful planning, so everyone has already regarded Han Yunhua as a symbol of victory. With Han Yunhua here, no matter how difficult the conditions and how dangerous the situation is, they are confident that they will defeat the enemy and achieve the final victory.

"Dayong, what kind of bastard are these, you won't fight devils without me. With me and without me, I have to continue as before, don't say that I am not used to such nonsense, no one is born with war material. This time, you alone and the Eighth Brigade didn't win the battle without me, and wiped out more than 24,000 Japanese puppet troops in the first battle, which is a big deal" Han Yunhua said with a smile, he understood Li Dayong's mood and knew what he wanted to ask.