The results of the Gao Shuxun movement are gratifying, and many officers and men of the Kuomintang army have improved their thinking to a certain extent after they have gained the understanding of political work, and after they have come to their senses, the Kuomintang army will inevitably break away from imperialism and feudal scholars, refuse to be their tools, and stand on the side of the people.

This is a law, and this law is true in the Xinhai Revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty, in the war to protect the country and fight against Yuan, in the Northern Expedition against the Beiyang warlords, in the ten-year civil war after the defeat of the Great Revolution, in the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and even more so in today's struggle between the two lines of reading, peace, and Ming Cooking, and betrayal, civil war, and reading talent. Commander-in-Chief Zhu De's far-sighted conclusion that "the Gao Shuxun movement will inevitably achieve greater development in the future" has since been completely proved by the practice of the four years of the Liberation War, and in the first year of the Liberation War, the number of Kuomintang troops who revolted and were captured by our army was 694,000, accounting for 62.0 percent of the total number of enemies destroyed by our army in that year. In the second year of the Liberation War, the number of Kuomintang troops who rebelled and were captured by our army was 981,000, accounting for 64.4% of the total number of enemies destroyed by our army that year. In the third year of the Liberation War, the number of Kuomintang troops who rebelled, surrendered, accepted reorganization, and were captured by our army was 2.478 million, accounting for 81.2% of the total number of enemies destroyed by our army that year. In the fourth year of the Liberation War, the number of Kuomintang troops who rebelled, surrendered, accepted reorganization, and were captured by our army was 2.206 million, accounting for 92.7% of the total number of enemies destroyed by our army in that year. In short, during the four years of the War of Liberation, the number of Kuomintang troops who rebelled, surrendered, accepted reorganization, and were captured by our army showed a trend of increasing year by year.

Therefore, through Gao Shuxun, our party launched the Gao Shuxun Movement, and the Gao Shuxun Movement allowed our army to find a highly efficient method of rectification work and achieved great results. Han Yunhua has always brought these concepts into the military region when he established the Inner Mongolia Military Region, whether it is a puppet army prisoner or a bandit, whether you are a Mongolian or a Hui, whether you are a peasant or an officer, as long as you sincerely resist you, you can accept the leadership of Han Yunhua, on the other hand, as long as you sincerely resist me, Han Yunhua will dare to accept you.

Facts have proved that Han Yunhua's approach is completely correct, and although there are still certain misgivings about Han Yunhua's approach within the party due to historical limitations, there is no doubt about the strength of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. Moreover, it is precisely because it has followed this principle and policy of the party and abided by these principles in actual combat that the Inner Mongolia Military Region has developed by leaps and bounds in just two or three years. It is precisely because of this that Han Yunhua paid great attention to Gao Shuxun, a patriotic general, and counted Gao Shuxun before the layout of southern Hebei.

Although it is very unkind to calculate such a patriotic general, and he also knows that Gao Shuxun's son is not easy after killing Shi Yousan, the army has no scruples when he sees that Shi Yousan is removed, so he concentrates his superior forces to attack Gao Shuxun's department. Gao Shuxun's troops survived with difficulty with the assistance of the Eighth Route Army. Moreover, the Kuomintang was deeply concerned about Gao Shuxun's killing of Shi Yousan without trial, although Gao Shuxun insisted on resisting the war behind enemy lines for 5 years, bringing back the strength of the two armies of the 39th Group Army to the Kuomintang. However, Chiang Kai-shek wanted him to go to Yucheng to meet Jin, and a few days after he left, Tang Enbo poached his 69th Army. Soon after, Chiang Kai-shek sent Hu Bohan as the commander of the New Eighth Army and seized his military power. What made Gao Shuxun even more unexpected was that when he met Chiang Kai-shek in Yucheng, Chiang Kai-shek almost asked Dai Li to detain him. What happened later made him even more indignant: he asked for 3 million yuan for the 39th Group Army, Chiang Kai-shek asked him to go to He Yingqin, He Yingqin just pushed it, and Hu Zongnan, who was also the commander-in-chief, asked for 30 million, ten times the amount he wanted, but Chiang Kai-shek did not refuse; In 1945, when the Sixth Plenary Session of the Kuomintang circled the members of the Central Committee, the commander-in-chief of the country, Gao Shuxun, was the only one who was not elected by the circle, which made Gao Shuxun feel embarrassed.

However, Han Yunhua also knew that Gao Shuxun was bound to become a comrade with him, and it was not a big deal to use it now, it was all for the country and the nation.

Chen Guang was very happy after learning that Shi Yousan's department had been buried alive by Gao Shuxun, although in his opinion, Shi Yousan's 69th Army was a paper tiger even if it added the New Eighth Army, and it was not the opponent of the instructor and the 334th Brigade at all. Although it will take a lot of effort to deal with the two armies of the national political axe, it is definitely not a difficult task. But since it is better to have someone to do it for you now, and after receiving Han Yunhua's callback, Han Yunhua spoke highly of Gao Shuxun, and even called Gao Shuxun a comrade, saying that Gao is a comrade who can be trusted. Don't underestimate the title of comrade, at that time, ordinary people could not be called comrades, comrade comrade, that is what only like-minded people can say, I have never seen [***] call Chiang Kai-shek a comrade.

Although Han Yunhua said in the telegram that he could give Gao Shuxun and the New Eighth Army led by him appropriate help when he needed it, but in Chen Guang's opinion, it was a matter of picking grass and beating rabbits.

Since the little devil is looking for trouble with Gao Shuxun, and his troops are also going to fight devils, then helping Gao Shuxun is the same thing as completing his own task, and at the same time, he can let a lieutenant general of the Kuomintang lose his favor, why not do it.

Whether it is the former enemy headquarters in southern Hebei or Han Yunhua's general headquarters set up on Daqingshan, they are all very happy, although this period of time is quite hard, but the progress of all units is not bad. But for the commander of the 32nd Division of the Army, Kimura Hyotaro is different, Shi Yousan was killed and the surrender of the 69th Army was completely ruined, which made this war machine full of killing extremely angry, after executing a large number of civilians, Kimura Hyotaro ordered the 32nd Division, the 35th Division, and the 3rd and 4th Brigades to immediately go south to fight and attack Gao Shuxun's headquarters with all his might, and he wanted to take Gao Shuxun by surprise when Gao Shuxun had not yet fully mastered the 69th Army.

Although Gao Shuxun also expected that the Yue Army might attack the New Eighth Army and the 69th Army, Gao Shuxun still underestimated the Yue Army's hatred for him and the New Eighth Army.

On August 22, the 32nd Infantry Wing of the 32nd Division of the Yue Army arrived at Shahe, south of Xingtai, while the main force of the 2nd Division and the 35th Division led by Kimura Hyotaro was stationed in Xingtai.

After receiving a telegram from the 181st Division stationed in Wu'an, Gao Shuxun immediately ordered the 181st Division to enter the combat state, once the army attacked Wu'an, then the 181st Division should hold Wu'an at all costs, and also told the commander of the 181st Division that there was a division reinforcement that would soon arrive in Wu'an to support them, but before that, it was necessary to hold Wu'an.

As the gateway to Handan, Wu'an has a geographical location similar to that of Shahe, as long as Wu'an is held, the army does not dare to attack Handan unscrupulously. But Gao Shuxun himself also knows that the Yue Army is determined to take down his New Eighth Army, and once the war starts, it will inevitably be a bitter battle to the death. Therefore, before the start of the war, Gao Shuxun sent a telegram to the Ministry of Military Affairs asking for help, hoping that Chairman Chiang would send troops to the rescue.

To tell the truth, Chiang Kai-shek didn't have a good impression of Gao Shuxun, and he didn't plan to deal with him, but Chen Cheng was a real soldier, and he himself hated Shi Yousan's betrayal of the enemy and persecution of friendly troops. Moreover, considering the overall situation of the war, Handan's 69th Army and the New Eighth Army must really be reinforced, otherwise these miscellaneous armies will not be easy to command in the future. Originally, the Northwest Army was Chiang Kai-shek's great enemy, and many veteran generals of the Northwest Army did not have a good impression of Chiang Kai-shek and the Central Army headed by Chiang Kai-shek, even if the whole country was formally unified, but the generals of the Northwest Army still did not give Lao Chiang some problems, so that Lao Chiang could not step down, whether it was Feng Yuxiang of the former Northwest Army or Yang Hucheng, the leader of the Northwest Army, they had made Lao Chiang lose face, so the contradiction between the Northwest Army and Chiang Kai-shek can be said to have been around for a long time. If this time there is a fuss, it will be really fun to see death and not save it.

Therefore, Chen Cheng persuaded Chiang Kai-shek to proceed from the overall strategic situation and the people's fighting spirit, and should still send troops to support Gao Shuxun, after all, the current Gao Shuxun is still subordinate to the National Revolutionary Army's battle sequence, and if he does not support it, it will make people poke his backbone. The most important thing is that now [***] is fighting hard with the army in North China, but the national political axe is not moving, then the political axe will be blamed by domestic and international public opinion. If Gao Shuxun's department was forced by the army to jump over the wall in a hurry, he would probably surrender to the [***] Eighth Route Army, and then the entire [***] face would be lost.

The Chiang Kai-shek in front of him didn't care at all, just said it. I think that when he massacred [***] in Shanghai in 27 years, there were many people who scolded him Jiang in the open and secret, but so what, now he is not alive and well. Whoever says it, let him say it, it's a big deal to let Mr. Zhou and those reporters scold in the newspaper again, it doesn't matter. But Chen Cheng's latter sentence caught Lao Jiang's itch, and when the Northwest Army was in Shaanxi, he was with [***], and Yang Hucheng and others dared to secretly "murder" him, and they couldn't guarantee that this Gao Shuxun really dared to take refuge in [***].

Chiang Kai-shek thought about it and finally decided to send a force to support Gao Shuxun, but which force to send was far away, and the water could not quench the thirst of the near when the distance arrived, and when the daylily was cold when the troops in the distance arrived, it would not play much role at all. There is really no force in the vicinity that can undertake this support task, and southern Hebei is close to Henan, Shanxi, Shandong, the geographical location is very important, neither can fall into the hands of the person nor into the hands of [***], in the past two years, the territory seized by [***] is large enough, almost half of the Suicha area has fallen into the control of [***], and more than 20 counties and cities in eastern Hebei have also become [***] in the bag, Coupled with the so-called Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border region in Shaanxi, the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and other places, and the territory controlled by the New Fourth Army in Jiangnan, now [***] is about to become a behemoth. Therefore, southern Hebei cannot fall into the hands of [***] in any case, even if the Kuomintang and the Communist Party turn their faces.

After thinking about it, Chiang Kai-shek still decided to let Sun Dianying, who was fighting guerrillas in the mountainous areas of northern Henan, and the main force of the Second Army in northern Jiangsu go north to support Gao Shuxun's department.

Gao Shuxun was not very happy to receive Chiang Kai-shek's telegram, Gao Shuxun was very aware of the current situation of Sun Dianying's department, although Sun Dianying is now also the number of an army, but in fact there are not many troops. In the spring of 1938, the Xiangyue Division of the Yue Army launched a large-scale attack on the southeast of Jin, Jincheng was soon lost, and Sun Dianying's troops turned west to Yangcheng and Qinshui. In the ancient town of Fengtai in Yangcheng, Yang Mingqing and Yang Keyou of Sun encountered the enemy, and after several fierce battles, although they repelled the attacking enemy and kept the positions in Yangcheng and Qinshui, their losses were also extremely heavy.

In January 1939, Sun Bu withdrew from southern Hebei to northern Henan, and fought with the enemy in Shahe in Hebei, Jiyuan in Henan and Dongxiyicheng respectively, the battle was fierce, and the two sides suffered casualties on both sides, and finally Sun Bu thwarted the invading enemy and kept the north-south communication artery of the Yellow River. In this battle, Shi Zhenwen, the leader of the 1st Squadron of the Sun Department, was killed. After the war, Wei Lihuang, the commander of the theater of operations, issued a commendation and allocated a batch of guns and ammunition to Sun Bu. In the same year, Sun was transferred to Linxian County, Henan Province for garrison. Not long ago, after Sun Dianying's activities, the unit was soon reorganized into the new 5th Army, which was subordinate to the 1st Theater. Although Chairman Jiang agreed to the reorganization of Sun Dianying's troops into the New Fifth Army, he only gave Sun Dianying an empty number, and there was nothing like weapons and equipment. As far as he knows, the current New Fifth Army has two divisions and four reading regiments, and there are a total of 10 regiments, large and small, but in fact there are only six full-fledged regiments, and the other four regiments are just empty shelves, and they cannot go to the battlefield to fight at all, so the troops that Sun Dianying can send are really limited.

As for the Second Group Army, it is very good, especially the deputy commander-in-chief of the Second Group Army, Sun Lianzhong, was originally an old man of the Northwest Army, and he still takes good care of their juniors, but the Second Group Army is now far away in northern Jiangsu, and it is really difficult to say whether he will be in a hurry or not, and the current form of the Second Group Army is also very complicated, and the composition of the troops is very mixed, and it is still unknown how many troops Sun Lianzhong can transfer by himself.

The Second Group Army was formed in early August 1937 by the 26th Route Army composed of the former Northwest Army, with Liu Zhi, commander-in-chief of the group army, Sun Lianzhong, deputy commander-in-chief, and the 27th, 30th, and 31st divisions of the group army as the basic units of the group army, which were under the command and jurisdiction of the First Theater, and the 52nd, 32nd, and Third armies all joined the battle sequence of the group army. The group army was the first squadron to march into North China to reinforce the 29th Army after the 77 Incident, and fought against the Yue army in Liulihe, Liangxiang and other areas. Later, he was ordered to be transferred to the command of the Second War Zone and participated in the battle of guarding the Niangzi Pass of the Hebei and Jin Provinces. At the beginning of 1938, the group army was transferred to the command and jurisdiction of the Fifth Theater, and Sun Lianzhong succeeded as the commander-in-chief of the group army, and its basic troops were organized into the 30th Army and the 42nd Army. The 55th Army of Cao Fulin, the old department of Han Fuyu, and the 68th Army of the National Revolutionary Army of Liu Ruming, the old department of Song Zheyuan, also joined the battle sequence of the group army. It can be said that the Second Group Army is a group army dominated by the Northwest Army, and Gao Shuxun believes that his former colleagues will not abandon him.

Sun Lianzhong was indeed very good to the generals of the former Northwest Army, so after receiving the order from the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Nationalist Axe, he immediately sent two divisions to rush to southern Hebei at night. At the same time, Sun Lianzhong also came forward to send a telegram to Sun Dianying, hoping that Sun Dianying could proceed from the interests of the party and the state, obey the order of the political axe, and send powerful troops to support Gao Shuxun's department.

However, the command of the North China Front immediately ordered the troops stationed in Henan to attack the New Fifth Army in northern Henan, and at the same time, the Twelfth Army stationed in Shandong also received an order from General Binshan Yuan to immediately attack the Second Army on the Sulu border.

Suddenly, the situation in the whole of North China became even more chaotic, and there were wars everywhere, and smoke broke out everywhere in the Pingjin region, Hebei, Chahar, Suiyuan, Rehe, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Jiangsu, and Anhui. Originally, it was an anti-sweeping campaign organized by [***], but in the end, the Kuomintang Central Army, the Jin Sui Army, the Sichuan Army, the Northwest Army, the [***] Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and the hostile puppet army were all involved.

Obviously, neither General Binshan Yuan, who provoked the war, nor Han Yunhua, who was forced to fight, did not expect that the war would develop in the direction it is now, and the two sides that were not prepared suddenly became nervous, and the situation became even more difficult to judge. In any case, the troops on the flank battlefield of the Yue army were blocking the Kuomintang troops at all costs to reinforce Gao Shuxun's headquarters in southern Hebei, while the Yue army in southern Hebei was concentrating their forces to storm Wu'an, the gateway to Handan, and Yongnian.

In order to contain the Eighth Route Army in North China, the First Army stationed in Shanxi and several infantry divisions directly under the Front Army were almost all engaged in the encirclement and suppression of the Eighth Route Army. In particular, Li Dayong of Qian'an suddenly felt the pressure on the battlefield increase sharply, and the army seemed to be possessed by the god of war all of a sudden, and in just two days, the two defense lines on the periphery of Qian'an were broken by the strong attack of the army, and the defenders suffered heavy losses. Fortunately, the army also took into account the heavy casualties of the troops and the serious consumption of ammunition, so Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka was forced to suspend the attack, and only let the aviation unit wantonly bomb the Qian'an area, whether it was military or civilian, as long as there was a little sign of the building, all the buildings had to be destroyed.

Lieutenant General Hyotaro Kimura, commander of the 32nd Infantry Division, never imagined that the ragtag army of Shina Masoch, which was like a leper dog in front of them, would suddenly become so fierce. On the first day of the battle, the two sides won and lost each other, and the attacking side suffered heavy losses in comparison, forcing Kimura to increase the number of troops to Takeyasu's forces on the third day of the battle.

(To be continued)