Han Yunhua's idea was good, Master Chen and the 77th Reading Division under his command were also very effective in combat, and the miscellaneous troops that came out of Qinhuangdao were quickly eaten up by the Reading 77th Division in the Twin Mountains area. In this battle, the 77th Division of Reading Li killed more than 6,420 puppet troops, captured more than 7,300 people, and killed 78 officers under Aso Osa, commander of the Qinhuangdao garrison of the Japanese army, and captured a lot of them. However, not long after Han Yunhua reported the telegram of the great victories in Chengde and Shuangzishan to the headquarters of the Yan'an Party Central Committee and the Eighth Route Army, an urgent telegram came from the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, starting at 5 o'clock in the afternoon of 17 March, the 12th Army of the Chinese Army stationed in Shandong and a large number of mysterious troops without numbers suddenly appeared in the Shandong area and carried out a surprise siege and killing the [***] team operating in the Shandong area, and the Eighth Route Army, which was active in the southeast of Shandong, was the focus of the army's attack.

The most worrying thing is that the army was extremely well prepared and the intelligence was quite accurate, and the regular troops and guerrillas scattered in various places were destroyed in a very short period of time. By the morning of 20 July, one column, six infantry regiments, two cavalry battalions, and one of the 31 guerrilla units under the jurisdiction of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee had fallen into the encirclement of the Japanese army, while four infantry regiments had already been besieged and killed, the regiment commander and political commissar had been killed, and the troops had been routed. The 31 guerrillas were intact except for the railway guerrillas who had just received orders from their superiors to prepare for a major rest before being upgraded, and the rest were either completely annihilated or suffered more than half of the casualties.

In a short period of four days, the army dispatched a motorized infantry wing and two cavalry wings to raid Nanshangzhuang, Tai'an County, where the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Political Axe are located. Two hours later, more than 4,000 people of the Shandong First Column of the Eighth Route Army, the only one in Shandong that did not suffer losses, came to reinforce it, but because they were outnumbered, although some leaders of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee who suffered heavy losses were rescued, the first column suffered extremely heavy losses, and the regiment responsible for covering the large army did not escape even a single soldier. During the service, the Shandong Provincial Party Committee lost 47 cadres, Guo Hongtao, secretary of the provincial party committee, was seriously wounded, and the special service regiment, guard battalion, cavalry battalion, and communications company directly under the provincial party committee were almost completely wiped out, and even the first column that came to reinforce suffered more than 60 percent casualties.

At this point, the anti-Japanese situation in Shandong as a whole almost collapsed. At the same time that the Shandong Provincial Party Committee was raided by the Yue army, more than 15,000 people under the command of Sun Liangcheng, director of the Lunan Administrative Office of the National Political Axe, were surrounded by the Yue army in the area of Xuya in Fei County, and after the breakthrough, there were less than 3,000 people left in the army of more than 15,000 people, and Sun Liangcheng, a big man at the level of army commander, suddenly shrank to colonel and regiment commander.

On the 21st, Lieutenant General Odaka Kamizo, commander of the 12th Army stationed in Shandong, personally commanded the 5th Division, the 21st Division, the 114th Division, the 5th Brigade of the Reading Mixed Brigade, the Cavalry Group (owed to the 4th Cavalry Brigade), and three brigade-level troops without a number, marching towards Luxi Lunan in 15 routes, and all Chinese armed forces were wiped out along the way, whether it was the Eighth Route Army, the troops under the Nationalist Axe, or the bandit Daomen forces.

In the urgent telegram sent by the Shandong Provincial Party Committee to the Party Central Committee, it was specifically mentioned that during the current sweep of Luxi and Lunan in Shandong, the Yue army also dispatched a mysterious armed force on many occasions, and the number of this devil squad was not too many, each squad ranged from about 30 to 100 people, and all of them were equipped with automatic weapons, including one submachine gun per person, and there were also portable small steel cannons and grenadiers. The offensive capability of this small unit of the Chinese army was particularly strong, and the command of the second column under the jurisdiction of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee was given to the command of the second column by this mysterious devil detachment an hour before the total number of devils, with the result that the command system of the second column became extremely disorderly during the war, and was broken by the army.

By the 23rd, the situation in Shandong had become so eroded that it was out of control, and the guerrilla commanders and directors of the administrative offices in southern Hebei, Luxi, and Lunan of the Kuomintang and the provincial political and local committees of the Eighth Route Army had to urgently withdraw from Shandong. Originally, many cadres of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee hoped to hide for the time being and move all their work activities underground, but this time they underestimated the intelligence and reconnaissance capabilities of the army. Senior General Binshan Yuan, commander of the North China Front Army, specially assigned Major General Umeko Yamaguchi, who was in charge of the North China region of the Special High-tech Branch and commander of the First Military Police Brigade, to supervise the battle. Temporarily going underground, they could not escape the search of the army, and the only remaining 2,400 people in Shandong were transferred to the southern Hebei region along with the provincial party committee.

On 23 March 1939, General Binshan Yuan, commander of the North China Front, personally invited journalists from all over the world to announce the latest results of the recent "law and order" operation centered on force under his command of the garrison in Shandong. At the press conference, General Binshan Yuan officially announced that after three months of careful layout, the North China Front Army destroyed in one fell swoop the Luxi Lunan Administrative Office led by the Nationalist Axe and the North China Base Area led by [***] to resist Mingzhuo behind enemy lines. In this battle, the Imperial Army annihilated a total of 8,600 Chinese and captured more than 43,000 Chinese soldiers, and won the decisive victory of the "public order and rectification" operation.

At the same time, the Central China Front also held a press conference in Nanjing. Lieutenant General Yamada Otozo, commander of the Central China Front Army, officially announced that the Imperial Army had occupied Nanchang, the capital city of Jiangxi Province and an important military town in the south of the Yangtze River, and that more than 30 Chinese divisions under the command of Luo Zhuoying, the left wing of the Ninth Theater of the Chinese Nationalist Axe, were routed and annihilated more than 49,000 Chinese troops.

Han Yunhua's Jidong victory and Chengde, Shuangzishan victory also lost a lot of color under the combination of the army, standing at the national level of China, the Chinese [***] team did not achieve much advantage in the battle for more than a month, but lost almost all the territory in Shandong and Nanchang City and more than a dozen surrounding counties and cities. The more than ten counties and cities recovered by Han Yunhua's department alone could not make up for such huge losses. Even though Chengde is also the capital city of Rehe Province, you must know that Nanchang is a key city on the flank of Wuhan, and the gains and losses of Nanchang are related to the success or failure of the Second Battle of Wuhan. At the same time, Nanchang is also one of the few air bases in China, and after the occupation of Nanchang City, the already extremely weak Chinese Air Force can only fly to Wuhan Airport. Therefore, Chengde is not as good as Nanchang in terms of geographical location and strategic importance to China, and it can be said that the war between China and China for more than a month has been dominated by the Chinese army.

However, from the [***] aspect, the continuous victories of Han Yunhua's subordinates have greatly boosted morale, especially in just over a month, Han Yunhua's subordinates have killed and wounded more than 60,000 puppet soldiers and captured more than 18,000 puppet soldiers. At the same time, it also occupied Tianzhen and Yanggao in northern Shanxi, Yangyuan in western Hebei and more than a dozen counties and cities in eastern Hebei, expanded the base area controlled by the Inner Mongolia Military Region by one-third, greatly expanded the power of the Eighth Route Army, and became the second largest force in northern China after the Jin Sui Army led by Yan Xishan, the commander of the Second Theater of Nationalist Axe, and its reputation is increasing at a rapid pace. However, the chaos in Shandong has now become a problem for the central leaders and the head of the headquarters, and the Yan'an Party Central Committee and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army have discussed this matter many times, but still no result has been reached.

The Battle of Nanchang is not over yet, but the defeat is decided. This is not only due to the superiority of weapons and equipment, but also because of a series of mistakes by the Chinese side. After that, the army pursued westward and captured the important town of Gao'an on March 27. The [***] team retreated. After that, due to the lack of troops, the army stopped the pursuit and withdrew part of its troops from the Nanchang area, and the battlefield was relatively stable. However, due to the pressure of public opinion at home and abroad and Chiang Kai-shek's personal face problem, the Chinese Nationalist Axe was unwilling to be defeated by the Yue army in such a short period of time, so Chiang Kai-shek ordered Chen Cheng, commander of the Ninth Theater of Operations, to prepare for a counterattack on Nanchang.

However, defeat is defeat, and a counterattack can be prepared in a short time, and the preparation stage for a major campaign alone is more than a month. Therefore, the Battle of Nanchang ended with the fiasco of the Nationalist Axe, and of course the Nationalist Axe did not recognize the victory declaration of the Nationalist Axe. The Kuomintang political axe announced to the outside world that the troops of the ninth theater of the Nanchang Battle had suffered a slight defeat, and although Nanchang was lost, it did not mean that the [***] team had been defeated.

When the National Political Axe and the Central China Front Army were fighting a war of words, Han Yunhua was thinking about his harvest happily. Due to the sudden northward movement of the Yue army that had logged in at the mouth of the Dapu River, most of the 77th Division were infantry, and there were only a few dozen cars, and there was no fast marching speed of the Yue Army, which was equipped with a large number of chariots, so Han Yunhua canceled the order of the 77th Division of Reading to take the opportunity to occupy Qinhuangdao. At this time, the number of the mysterious army unit registered at the mouth of the Dapu River had also been investigated, and when Han Yunhua learned that the mysterious army was the first division with the most well-equipped weapons and equipment, a white sweat suddenly appeared on his back, and the first division was not comparable to the half of the second division led by Lieutenant General Toji Yasui. The First Division is also known as the Tokyo Division, commonly known as: Jade. On May 14, 1888, it was reorganized from the old Tokyo town platform, and the place of formation was called Tokyo, the capital of Tokyo, and the supply military area was also Tokyo. The 1st Division is the oldest division in the history of the Imperial Army, and the 1st Division is also one of the earliest military missions to participate in the invasion of China, in the 1894 Sino-Japanese War (called it the Qing War), the 1st Division landed on the Liaodong Peninsula and participated in the attack on Jinzhou City and Lushun. The 1st Division was one of the most trusted units of the Imperial Family, and served as a guard for the capital Tokyo for nearly 30 years, from the end of the Meiji period to the Taisho period (around 1890 to around 1920).

However, the 1st Division was not a completely obedient force to the Imperial Family, as the Imperial Family imagined, and in fact, in the early days, the 1st Division had become a gathering place for the Imperial Daoist faction in the Imperial Army. On February 22, 1936, the order was issued for the division to go to Manchuria to garrison the cantonment, including the 1st Division. Some people believe that this is a deliberate attempt by the upper echelons to transfer those young Zhuang officers who are clamoring for "the side of the Qing monarch, absolute royal power, and the Showa Restoration" far away from the central government, in order to prevent military personnel from participating in politics. On February 26, the officers of the Imperial Road faction, with the 1st Wing and the 3rd Wing of the 1st Division as the backbone, gathered 21 officers, 94 non-commissioned officers, and 1,358 soldiers, divided into several teams, and began to operate according to the predetermined plan. The world was shocked by the "two? The "Twenty-Six Incident" broke out. The rebel soldiers killed Minister Minoru Saito, Director of Education Watanabe Shotaro, and Minister of Finance Takahashi Isaki, seriously wounded the Emperor's attendant Kantaro Suzuki, and then occupied the Nagata area for four days.

The coup d'état staged by the officers of the 1st Division, Shaozhuang faction, shocked the Imperial Family, and under the repeated urging of the Emperor, the hesitant military headquarters finally made up its mind to suppress it. With the Emperor's consent, Deputy Army Commander Sugiyama Motomo issued a "Decree of Honor" instructing the martial law commander to quickly evacuate the officers and subordinates who occupied Miyakezaka and return to their subordinate units. The troops involved in the suppression of the coup d'état were 7,000 men from each of the Guards Division and the 1st Division, and 6,000 troops from the 2nd and 14th Divisions were transferred from Sendai and Utsunomiya, for a total of nearly 24,000 troops. On 5 July, the Military Judge Advocate Council sentenced 17 officers, including Isobe and Koda, who had played a leading role in the coup, to death. After the incident, the 1st Division was transferred to Manchuria as originally deployed.

After the full-scale outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the main force of the 1st Division was deployed in Sunwu, Qiqihar, and Bei'an, serving as the defense of northern Manchuria and participating in the Chahar operation. As far as Han Yunhua knows, by the end of 1937, the 1st Division had under the jurisdiction of the 1st Brigade of the Infantry (under the jurisdiction of the 1st Brigade of the Infantry and the 49th Brigade of the Cavalry), the 2nd Brigade of the Infantry (under the jurisdiction of the 3rd Wing of the Cavalry and the 57th Wing of the Cavalry), the 2nd Brigade of the Cavalry (under the jurisdiction of the 1st Cavalry Wing, the 15th Cavalry Wing, the 16th Cavalry Wing, and the Mounted Artillery Wing), and the 3rd Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery (under the jurisdiction of the 1st Wing of the Field Heavy Artillery, the 7th Wing of the Field Heavy Artillery, and the 1st Wing of the Field Artillery). Directly under the division: Yokosuka Heavy Artillery Wing (note: fortress artillery), 2nd Anti-aircraft Artillery Wing, 2nd Tank Wing, 1st Engineer Wing, 1st Baggage Regiment. A total of sixteen wings. The main armament of the 1st Division (1937): about 360 light machine guns, about 110 heavy machine guns, about 342 heavy throwing canisters, and 14 ten-year throwing canisters; 18 Type 92 70mm brigade guns, 12 Type 41 75mm wing guns, 24 37mm rapid-fire guns, 18 97 automatic guns, 30 light tanks (tanks), 7 light armored vehicles, 12 Type 95 75mm field guns, 24 105mm howitzers, and 12 four-year 150mm howitzers. (Excluding Yokosuka Fortress Artillery).

Not to mention that Li Dayong's division can't bear such a huge firepower, even if Han Yunhua's most elite integrated 300th division is pulled up, it may not be able to compare. Although the reorganized 300th Division is not inferior to the 1st Division in terms of individual weapons and equipment, and far surpasses the 1st Division in terms of armor, it must be known that the reorganized 300th Division has no air force support, and it is far from being the opponent of the 1st Division in terms of artillery strength. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as the artillery brigade of the 300th Division and the first division are facing each other, no other artillery can be fired, and only 24 105mm howitzers or the 12 four-year 150mm howitzers can bombard the more than 100 mountain artillery field guns of Han Yunhua's artillery brigade into slag.

Fortunately, the 1st Division estimated the safety of Qinhuangdao and did not fight to the death with the 8th Independent Brigade, otherwise it would be good if the 8th Independent Brigade could now have half of its strength left. If the entire 1st Division concentrates its firepower to deal with the 8th Brigade, although it may not be possible for the 8th Brigade to break through in the eastern Hebei region, the strategic goal of blocking the army east of the Great Wall will certainly not be accomplished.

After learning that the 1st Division had arrived in eastern Hebei, Han Yunhua ordered the 8th Brigade and the 77th Division of Reading to retreat urgently, and the distance from the 1st Division of the Yue Army must be more than 100 miles, and at the same time ordered Master Chen and Li Dayong to pay attention to the movements of the 1st Division at all times, in case they were dumplings made by the 1st Division.

However, Han Yunhua is also very happy now, although some people are crying and some are laughing during this time, but he, Han Yunhua, is definitely the person who laughs the brightest. Back in Guisui City, Han Yunhua ran to the main backyard to see his fiancée and daughter for the first time. Yuhan, like her husband who greeted Triumph, gave Han Yunhua a big hug and told him to go home for dinner tonight. And Xiao Sihan, who is already able to babble, is relying on Han Yunhua for life and death, and even Han Yunhua has to hold her in the office, otherwise the cry is definitely earth-shattering.

The fighting on the front line has basically ended, so the list of casualties, captures and needs to be replenished reported by various units has already arrived on Han Yunhua's table, and the batch of weapons production lines that were rushed back have all arrived at the headquarters of the military region, and they are about to be installed and put into production. So during this time, Han Yunhua was so busy that he didn't even have a basic meal time.

During the period since Han Yunhua left, all departments of the military region have been operating well, and there have been no major malaise. And the administrative ability of the left political commissar was also fully affirmed by Han Yunhua, so Han Yunhua handed over the matter of building a giant arsenal to the left political commissar. Due to the extremely huge scale of the arsenal to be set up this time, according to Han Yunhua's plan, it is divided into five factories, namely the rifle production area, the heavy machine gun production area, the light machine gun production area, the bullet production area, and the shell production area. In order to avoid bombing by military planes, Han Yunhua prepared to place the arsenal in Baotou. On the one hand, Baotou has iron ore and copper ore and other resources needed to manufacture weapons and ammunition, and at the same time, Baotou is the innermost city in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, which is relatively far away from the front line and has sufficient labor.

Moreover, Baotou is very close to Yan'an and the 120th Division and other fraternal units, and the transportation is convenient and safe, and the transportation of weapons and ammunition is also convenient. Due to the relatively important task of this time, in addition to building factories and warehouses for the production of weapons, it is also necessary to expand the scale of supporting projects such as the Baotou Steelmaking Plant and the Copper Plant.

For the sake of safety, Han Yunhua planned to build the arsenal into the belly of the mountain, so that the planes of the army would not be able to pose a threat to the arsenal. However, the scale of this project is extremely huge, and although Han Yunhua organized troops and local comrades to start digging caves in the name of building air-raid shelters when he was training mechanized brigades and artillery brigades in Baotou a few months ago, he has only dug dozens of large caves, which is still far from Han Yunhua's requirements.

(To be continued)