When it came to the third guard unit, Master Chen couldn't help frowning, and said solemnly: "This third unit guarding the eastern Hebei region really has a lot of origins, I don't know if you still remember that some time ago, when we attacked the Datong Coal Mine, the special combat team led by the commander was met with stubborn resistance from a powerful devil, which eventually led to the combat effectiveness of the special combat team dropping by nearly half, and more than 40 special combat personnel were killed in battle. ”

"Commander, do you mean that there is such a force in eastern Hebei?" Li Dayong asked in surprise. Li Dayong knew about the losses suffered by the special combat team in Datong, and he also deliberately rushed back to Sui from Baotou to attend a secret funeral presided over by Han Yunhua himself, and the news that the Cheetah special combat team had killed more than 40 people was also told to them at that time, and he especially told them to pay attention to the vanguard units of the Yue Army.

"Well, a few years ago, the comrades of the underground party in eastern Hebei sent an urgent telegram of 10,000 words, and a high-ranking intelligence officer subordinate to the party Central Committee who was lurking in Yin Rugeng's pseudo-political axe risked his life to send back the news that there was also a secret guard force in eastern Hebei, the North China Special Garrison. It is a special service unit belonging to the North China Front Army that specializes in sabotaging Chinese [***] and other anti-Japanese organizations. Its predecessor was the "Gendarmerie in China". Long before the Lugou Bridge Incident, there were more than 20 gendarmes below the rank of military police captain in the Chinese garrison. In June 1936, in order to meet the needs of preparing for the war of aggression against China, the General Headquarters of the Chinese Army set up a "Military Police Corps in China" subordinate to the commander of the Chinese garrison in Tun, with its headquarters in Tianjin, under the jurisdiction of the Beiping and Tianjin military police detachments and the Tongzhou, Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao, Tanggu, Tangshan and other detachments. In June 1937, a "special high class" was added to the headquarters to specialize in espionage work. With the establishment of the "Special High Division", the strength of the gendarmerie has also increased. Seven. After the Seventh Incident, on August 25, 1937, the General Headquarters of the Yue Army issued Lu Jia Order No. 13, officially promulgating the temporary establishment of the "Chinese Military Police Garrison", stipulating that the total quota was 237. The headquarters of the team is located in the Tianjin concession, and the chief captain is Ono Yizuo, which directly governs Tianjin, Qinhuangdao, Tanggu and other detachments. In addition, the "Special Yenching Gendarmerie Headquarters" was also set up in Beiping, which was subordinate to the Tianjin Headquarters (Captain Chito Shoji Nakasa), commanding the detachments of Tongzhou, Fengtai, Chengxi, and Chengdong of Beiping. At the same time, the 1st and 11th armies and the Mongolian Corps under the North China Front were attached to the field military police and the military police station respectively. On 31 August, in accordance with the order of the General Headquarters of the Chinese Army, the establishment of the "Chinese Gendarmerie Garrison" was readjusted, and the "Headquarters of the Gendarmerie Corps in China" was set up, with Lieutenant General Sasaki to No. 1 as commander, and the total number of personnel increased from 237 to 1,624, and 10 gendarmerie units were recruited. There are 38 detachments and 1 gendarmerie training center. The 10 gendarmerie units were respectively taken into Beiping, Tianjin, Jinan, Qingdao, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Linfen, Zhangjiakou, Xuzhou, Kaifeng and other places (some of which were stationed after 1938) in the gendarmerie headquarters, and set up the general affairs department (composed of general affairs, accounting, and the first section, with Hiroichi Ohno as the minister) and the police department (composed of the second and third sections, with Ishida Otogoro Osaku as the director). The second section is responsible for military police, foreign affairs and espionage prevention, economic police, and management of bad people; The third section is responsible for the work of "eliminating the Communist Party," strategic defense, and political police. In November 1938, Minister of General Affairs Hiroichi Ohno proposed the establishment of the "North China Committee for the Elimination of the Communist Party", which was adopted by the Front Army. On November 12, the "North China Committee for the Elimination of the Communist Party" was formally established, and its working organ was called the "Investigation Department" to the outside world, and it was set up in Huangcheng, Beiping. The task of the "Committee for the Elimination of the Communist Party in North China" was to study the Third International, the relations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the "experience of suppressing the Communist Party in Manchuria." Jing proposed measures to the North China Front Army through the "Military Police Headquarters in China." Not long ago, Umeko Yamaguchi, a senior spy of the Chinese military stationed in China, was promoted to commander of the North China Corps of the Military Police Headquarters in China, and this Umeko Yamaguchi was the same Jiang Xueyin who had infiltrated our military region, and was also the culprit in the destruction of the headquarters in Daqingshan. According to the secret investigation of the underground party comrades in eastern Hebei, there are a total of 1,285 military police officers in four detachments in eastern Hebei, and this is not counting the military police of the second division, the fourth division, and Yin Rugeng's puppet army. As for the last defense force, we are no strangers, that is Yin Rugeng's puppet army, and the puppet army is not a big threat to us, so we can ignore it for the time being. As long as we defeat the three armies in front, then the clowns who jump off the beam and others like Yin Rugeng will not be able to make any big waves. He knew that this battle was related to the life and death of the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei, and if this battle was fought well, the situation of the War of Resistance in northern China would be very good, not only the Eighth Route Army had the right to speak in Saibei, Jizhong, southern Hebei, northwest Shanxi, and southeast Shanxi, but even the eastern Hebei that had been working hard would also become the world of the Eighth Route Army.

"Commander, how many puppet troops are there in Jidong now, if there are too many of them, there will still be a certain threat to us, so it's better for us to be cautious." Wang Yuanhua, political commissar of the 77th Reading Division, spoke.

"According to the information sent by the intelligence department of our military region, the puppet army in North China mainly refers to the security army under Qi Xieyuan, which is a puppet army group that spreads throughout North China, and the department has a total of eleven groups (equivalent to brigades) at most. Each group of more than 3,000 people was equipped with 54 light machine guns, 8 heavy machine guns and mortars, and more than 2,400 Czech rifles. The headquarters is stationed in Beiping, and the infantry divisions under Yin Rugeng are also subordinate to the battle sequence of this security army. Commander-in-Chief of the Security Forces: Qi Xieyuan. Consultant: Tajima. The commanders and chiefs of staff of each group of the public security forces have the official rank equivalent to that of a brigade commander, and the teaching group is stationed in Beiping. The first group is stationed in Qian'an, Hebei, commander: Liu Fengchi, deputy commander: Li Runquan, chief of staff: Jin Shaoye. The second group is stationed in Yutian, Hebei, Commander: Huang Nanpeng, Deputy Commander: Li Ying, Chief of Staff: Song Guanyi. The third group is stationed in Qian'an, Hebei, commander: Huang Nanfeng, deputy commanders: Liu Zusheng, Lu Fengce, chief of staff: Su Luqing, Luo Baotai, Tang Chunlin...... There are more than 20 regiments of the puppet army stationed in eastern Hebei: the first regiment (Ouyangming, Yang Zhenbiao) is stationed in Zunhua, Hebei, the second regiment (Zhu Wenlan, Wang Shuji) is stationed in Qian'an, Hebei, the third regiment (Qi Jingyu, Yang Qi) is stationed in Zunhua, Hebei, the fourth regiment (Wang Xiyan, Wang Xiruo) is stationed in Tangshan, Hebei, and the fifth regiment (Wang Zhensheng, Zhang Yichao) is stationed in Zunhua, Hebei......" As soon as Master Chen finished speaking, there was a noise in the conference room.

"So many, more than 20 regiments, at least more than 40,000 people? Fuck these dogs, do all the bastards who lose their conscience and act for the tiger, and the conscience of these guys is eaten by dogs. Wang Yuanhua scolded angrily. He couldn't figure out why so many people were willing to be Han Zhan, you must know that when Han Zhan was a thousand people, they were not allowed to enter the ancestral grave after death.

"Hey! In fact, these Han annihilation puppet armies are also alive and dead, just as all the decisions of the puppet political axe must be under the orders of the advisers, and all the actions of the puppet army must be under the orders of the army. An important form of control over the puppet army is the battle meeting. The puppet army participated in the combat meeting of the Japanese army and had almost no right to speak. Fighting, taking the lead is always a puppet army. Those Han Jian provincial governors, garrison commanders, and police chiefs sound much bigger than their official names and advisors, but in fact, they are just like the puppet show in the puppet show, no matter how they jump, they can't help themselves, so there are so many puppet troops who are willing to do it anyway, and you don't forget how our military region developed, it is only by those puppet armies that they will arm so many troops. During the period of the Anti-Japanese War, revolts broke out one after another in the occupied areas, and a large number of regular troops for combat were held back in order to suppress local revolts. In order to solve the problem of insufficient combat troops on the front line, it is hoped that the existing local troops will be used to maintain the rule and that the local people will be recruited to take charge of law and order in the occupied areas. The puppet regimes do not have the right to interfere with each other's puppet army activities, but they have the right to dispatch the puppet army in any area at any time. Because of this, the commander will be magnanimous and willing to accept the surrender of those puppet troops, so we are not afraid of how many puppet troops come. Li Dayong said with emotion, and at the same time, he also greatly admired Han Yunhua's military command ability. The puppet army will be treated differently, and the puppet army will be killed all, and the puppet army will be given a way out. In this way, not only did it create a lot of contradictions for the puppet army, but these contradictions usually seem inconspicuous, but they can play a big role when it is critical, which has been effectively proved during the armed uprising in eastern Hebei.

Master Chen motioned for everyone to be quiet for a while, and then said: "Since everyone is clear about the deployment of the army, then I will assign the task next, I think everyone knows the important surname of this battle, so I will not repeat it here." But I hope that everyone will not underestimate the enemy, the second division is not an ordinary army. At present, our army has two echelons and three units, the first echelon has the 77th Division and the Eighth Brigade of the Duli, and the second echelon has the mechanized brigade and artillery brigade of the 300th Division. This time, the two brigades that reorganized the 300th Division played the leading role, so I ordered the eastward column to divide into two routes, the first of which was the 77th Division from Guyuan, Longhua, Lingyuan, and Pingquan, and then entered the eastern Hebei region. The second route was the 8th Brigade and the two brigades of the 300th Division, which made every effort to break through Fengning, Luanping, Xinglong, and Zunhua, and then joined forces with the 77th Division under Chengde City. These two roads were supported by the 8th Brigade of the Independent Brigade, and the 77th Division of Reading was used as a cover. The specific battle plan is that on the night of 5 July, the 77th Brigade of Reading will take the lead in launching an encirclement and annihilation battle against the Sichakou Army, and then the 77th Division of Reading will fight all the way along the road from Guyuan to Longhua. On the 7th, the 8th Brigade and the two brigades of the 300th Division joined forces under the city of Fengning, and with the powerful armored force as the forerunner, they made every effort to break through the army on the front line of Fengning, and then advanced to the east of Hebei according to the predetermined plan. At the same time, Li Dingguo and Comrade Bao Sen's troops will cooperate with us in the area of Qianxi, and we must not forget that Comrade Li Dingguo has a squadron of special combat units in his hands, and this is very important to us. I'll leave this battle to everyone, and the meeting will be dismissed!! ”

With the end of the meeting, the chariot of the entire eastward advance column was rapidly running, and a great war in the eastern Hebei region was about to break out.

(To be continued)