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Near the railway line, someone had already come to greet him, and after crossing the railway line, he arrived at Xuanhua. The troops of the Jinzhou Column and Rehe were already distributed along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, and while the war had not yet begun, they should hurry up to expand the base areas and eliminate the traitorous government at the grassroots level.

Xuanhua and each formed a command center, with Wang Wenbin as the commander, Zhang Shouhou in charge of logistics and other affairs, Lei Jingmin as his political commissar, and Du Xigang as chief of staff.

When Wang Wenbin saw Xiaolu coming, he asked Xiaolu to command. Xiaolu said: "This line is still under your command." I personally have another task, and the task assigned to me by the headquarters is propaganda. As for the battle in the Rehe area of Suiyuan, I just made clear the current deployment and preparation of troops, and I didn't care about anything else. You are directly accountable to headquarters. ”

The Jinzhou Column was faced by the Japanese troops stationed in Mongolia.

The Mongolian garrison was the first to be born from the Tojo Corps of the Japanese Kwantung Army, and captured Zhangjiakou, Datong, Guisui, Baotou and other places. Their main enemies were Fu Zuoyi and other Jin Sui troops in Suiyuan, and Outer Mongolia in the north.

At the end of 1937, the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army made a compromise decision to establish an independent corps stationed in Mongolia, directly under the base camp of the Japanese Army, with a strength of 20,000. On July 4, 1938, the Corps Garrison in Mongolia was reorganized into the Army Garrison in Mongolia. The strength of the army stationed in Mongolia is 25,000 people, which belongs to the combat sequence of the Japanese North China Army. The headquarters is stationed in Zhangjiakou.

The commander of the troops stationed in Mongolia was Masataka Yamanasa, and the chief of staff was Major General Shigeyoke Takahashi, who had just taken office on August 1, 1940. The headquarters is in Zhangjiakou.

Their troops were stationed in a large number of Inner Mongolian cities, such as Bailingmiao, Zhangbei, Zhangjiakou, Ejina, Alxa, Datong, Xisunit, Abaga, Guisui, Baotou, Duolun, and Dehua.

Due to the lack of troops, at the beginning of 1940, when "Fu Zuoyi was punished by Yong", more than 30,000 people and more than 1,000 cars were transferred from the Pingsui and Tongpu lines, and under the command of the head of the Kuroda Shigetoku Division, they went crazy to the Suixi Hetao area. On February 3, it invaded and occupied Wuyuan. Fu Zuoyi took advantage of the enemy's main force to retreat eastward, and on the night of March 20, he led his troops to launch a fierce attack on the enemy entrenched in Wuyuan, and attacked Baotou for more than 150 consecutive days, fought Suixi, and recovered Wuyuan.

Inner Mongolia is too big, and tens of thousands of Japanese are only untenable.

The army stationed in Mongolia has also set up a large number of army secret services in these places.

The Mongolian army established the spy training school in Zhangbei, which happened in April 1939.

Xiaolu asked Wang Wenbin to send some small troops to Zhangbei to eliminate the Sun and Moon Liao, one battalion is enough, and the students cannot stay, but the teachers and equipment must be seized. The scourge of spy schools is endless, but the equipment is much needed.

For other military affairs, Xiao Lu saw Wang Wenbin's arrangement, and agreed very much, and just followed Zhang Shouhou all day long to study the expansion of the base area and the construction of the grassroots government, raise food, and transport ammunition. Autumn has arrived, and winter clothes must be transported immediately.

When the troops in southern Liaoning heard about the battle, they demanded that a campaign be launched in southern Liaoning, but the trail was strictly stopped. The various units in the northeast have developed well-developed communications, and they have long had to move in the Guan. Every unit is a smart character, knows what to fight, and asks for battle.

When Xiaolu arrived at Xuanhua, he immediately telegraphed the entire northeast troops, and copied the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, saying: "The order is forbidden!" The units of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Democratic Alliance Army, which are not covered by the operational plan of the General Headquarters, require all units in the Northeast and the militia and other self-defense forces under them not to launch combat operations without authorization and not to disrupt the strategic deployment of their superiors. Violators will be punished by military law! ”

Everyone had never seen Xiaolu's tone so grim, and everyone was solemn.

Chongqing's covert contacts with the Japanese became frequent, which was manifested in the high-pressure posture of the Nationalist Army against the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army.

Through contact, the bombing of Chongqing by Japanese planes suddenly stopped. However, the Japanese army in Guangxi stepped up its attack on the troops of the Fourth Theater of the Guofu Army in Guangxi.

On October 19, 1940, the Kuomintang government, in the name of He Yingqin and Bai Chongxi, chiefs of staff, sent a telegram to General Zhu and Peng Dehuai, commanders of the Eighth Route Army, and Ye Ting, commander of the New Fourth Army, and Xiang Ying, deputy commander of the New Fourth Army.

Haodian said that the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army did not obey the orders of the Kuomintang central government and freely expanded the army, and so on, and forced the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in Central China and south of the Yangtze River to withdraw to the area north of the Yellow River within a month. After enumerating a series of conflicting events, the telegram said:

“。。。。 The crux of the problem is that the units under the 18th Group Army and the New Fourth Army are: 1. Freedom of movement without defending the theater; 2. Freedom to expand the number of establishments that are not complied with; 3. Disobedience to the orders of the central government and destruction of the administrative system; Fourth, do not fight the enemy

Specializes in annexing friendly forces. If the above four ends are in fact the root cause of the so-called friction incident, that is, the fact of the illegal actions of the 18th Group Army and the New Fourth Army, if they are not corrected, how will they become the revolutionary forces of the National Revolutionary Army? Except for other orders of the Northern Jiangsu Incident Committee, which I hope will be earnestly observed, I hereby thank you for officially copying the central reminder that has been previously discussed and approved, and all units of the Eighteenth Group Army and the New Fourth Army will be sent to the Central Committee within one month

The territory of the combat site as stipulated in the third question of the reminder and the other provisions indicated in this question shall be earnestly observed, and the central authorities shall issue orders on the implementation of the other issues in the reminder case. ”

This telegram is simply an ultimatum.

Xiaolu also received this telegram. The only explanation for this ultimatum is that under the general situation of the Japanese army pressing on the southwest step by step, Chongqing actually has the leisure to purge the New Fourth Army, which is an absolutely dangerous signal.

This shows that there is a certain degree of tacit understanding between Chongqing and the Japanese army in East China, and the Japanese army mobilizes some troops to attack Indochina, and the military strength in East China is reduced. In the process, the Japanese army relaxed the pressure on Chongqing. At best, the Japanese army no longer regards the southwest as its current strategic goal, and at worst, the surrender of Chongqing is also possible.

For the sake of the overall situation of China's resistance against Japan and the fate of the New Fourth Army, the time is ripe for the Battle of the Hundred Regiments.

After the Japanese occupation of Vietnam, the atmosphere of Chongqing's surrender became stronger, which made Yan'an confirm the necessity of the Battle of the Hundred Regiments. Haodian showed that the time had come for the Battle of the Hundred Regiments. If they don't fight again, the reputation of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army will be over.

The day after Haodian was sent, Yan'an issued an order, and the Battle of the Hundred Regiments began in North China.

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1. From September 12, 1939 to September 29, 1040, the commander of the army stationed in Mongolia was Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe. The next commander will be Lieutenant General Masataka Yamanyo.

2, Lao Jiang's Haodian was the prelude to the Southern Anhui Incident. Here we see some of the wisdom of the Japanese. In fact, if the Japanese had not been so aggressive towards Chiang, Chiang would have compromised early, Chinese history would have changed, and Northeast and North China would have been completely lost.

3. The beginning of this chapter mainly explains the background before the Great War. In fact, the historical context is more complex. There are many factors, first, Inner Mongolia; second, Chongqing; third, the Indochina Peninsula; Fourth, eight-way; Fifth, the Japanese army in North China. The role of the protagonist of this book is roughly equivalent to that of Liu Deng in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments.