The matter of forming a local security regiment is not as complicated as Shen Yuquan and others imagined, Han Yunhua has made a decision on the defense of the base area a long time ago, so each county under the jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolia Military Region has its own county brigade and district squadron, although this county brigade is only a battalion-level unit, but Han Yunhua has also put a lot of effort into the local troops. The county brigades of the other units of the Eighth Route Army can only be a supplement to the regular troops, and at most they can pack up the puppet army Han Annihilation and plainclothes teams and fight against the regular field units of the Japanese army, which is simply a joke. But the local troops that Han Yunhua wants to form now are not just used to clean up the Han annihilation of the guards, what he wants to form is an elite force that can compete with the devil's field troops. And this elite army must use all the locals, and only those who are full of affection for this land can defend their hometown wholeheartedly when the main force of Han Yunhua's department goes out to fight.

Although this is not an easy task, both in terms of the quality of personnel and the degree of training, the local troops are incomparable with the regular field troops, and besides, the Inner Mongolia Military Region is now seriously short of labor, and if the military region organizes 17 infantry regiments from among the already insufficient men, it is very likely that part of the fertile land under the jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolia Military Region will be turned into wasteland in the coming year.

However, Han Yunhua has already taken these difficulties into account, and during this period of time, the resistance of the people all over the country has risen one after another, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have also made concerted efforts to achieve good results in many battlefields, giving the army a heavy blow. The situation of the development of the Inner Mongolia Military Region has attracted the attention of the people of the whole country, and the strong combat effectiveness displayed by Han Yunhua's unit has made many homeless refugees see the hope of stability, and many refugees come to the jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolia Military Region from various places almost every day. Therefore, Han Yunhua believes that the shortage of labor is only temporary, and as long as the military region has enough food and labor positions, it will not be a problem to have as many people as it wants.

However, when sowing seeds this year, the military region was attacked by the Chinese army, and more than half of the crops were destroyed. Fortunately, Han Yunhua ordered all taxes to be exempted, but only a small part of the grain was levied with those landlords, so the food and clothing of the people in the northern part of the country was not a problem for the time being.

Although Political Commissar Zuo, Shen Yuquan, and others did not understand Han Yunhua's practice of raising grain everywhere instead of holding on to a large amount of garrison grain, they knew that Han Yunhua must have his reasons for doing so.

At present, although the Yue army did not dare to launch a new offensive against Han Yunhua's headquarters, it carried out a strict economic blockade on the northern part of the country. Under these circumstances, if the Inner Mongolia Military Region wants to make great progress, it must strengthen its armed forces, and at the same time, it must also make preparations for a major war.

With Han Yunhua's strong order, almost all the people in the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region moved, especially in various county towns. Han Yunhua ordered the fifteen counties of Xinghe, Zhangbei, Kangbao, Shangdu, Huade, Zhuozishan, Chahar Right Wing Front Banner, Chahar Right Wing Middle Banner, Chahar Right Wing Rear Banner, Siziwang Banner, Fengzhen, Liangcheng, Tuzuo Banner, Qingshuihe County, and Tuoketuo County, as well as Jining and Daqingshan, which were the main places for this expansion. Han Yunhua ordered the responsible persons of each county to cooperate with the armed forces department to reorganize all county brigades and district squads in each county, with a local security regiment in each county, and each regiment has two infantry battalions, one cavalry battalion, one machine gun company, one engineer company, one mortar company, one guard company, and one communications platoon, with a total strength of 2,245 troops.

Han Yunhua ordered all counties to put up the shelves of the security regiment for the time being, and as for the lack of military cadres, weapons and ammunition, the military region allocated them. As for the most difficult source of troops, the commanders and political commissars of each regiment will solve them by themselves, and if they can't solve them, they will automatically leave the class.

Before you know it, the Spring Festival of 1939 is coming, and in the eyes of the Chinese, another year has passed, and many things have happened in this year, the most unforgettable thing is the recovery of the northern part of the country and the high-profile rise of Han Yunhua's department. At the same time, China's two major political parties made concerted efforts to defeat the elite of the Chinese army in Wuhan, and the three major branches of the army, navy, and air force suffered heavy blows one after another, and the lieutenant general and major general suffered a lot of losses.

Like everyone else, Han Yunhua is also full of expectations for 1939 (the Year of China), and he knows that 1939 is an extraordinary year, a year in which the world and China are spent in turmoil. 1939 is also the most important year in Han Yunhua's memory, in 1939, Austria's Meitner and Frisch proposed the explanation of uranium fission, and predicted that each nuclear fission would release a large amount of energy, providing the initial theoretical basis for the atomic bomb. In 1939, Oppenheimer and Snyder predicted black holes in the United States. On top of that, World War II broke out in 1939. China no longer fought against the fascist forces alone, and China's War of Resistance entered a new stage. On January 1, 1939, the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang held an extraordinary meeting and decided that Wang Ching-wei would be permanently expelled from the party and removed from all his posts for violating the party-state. But because the Battle of Wuhan did not go according to history, but ended with a great victory for the national government, it also caused Wang Jingwei to defect to the enemy as in history, although Han Yunhua knew that sooner or later this guy would still do that thing that was indignant to heaven and man, but now he can't stop it. On the same day, the US political axe note announced that it would not recognize the 'new East Asian order'. On January 14, the "Military and Political Magazine of the Eighth Route Army" sponsored by the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army was launched in Yan'an. At the same time, the Kuomintang army conquered Fenglingdu. At the same time, the British political axe note stated that Britain adheres to the principle of the 'Nine-Power Pact' and will never accept or recognize any situation caused by force. At the same time, the United States announced a ban on the export of aircraft and some materials. On January 20, Chiang Kai-shek succeeded Wang Jingwei as chairman of the National Council. At the same time, the Council of the League of Nations decided to assist the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek. At the same time, the base camp announced that since the war of aggression against China, a total of 1,010 planes have been lost. On January 21, 1939, the Fifth Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the Kuomintang opened in Yucheng and closed on the 30th. The meeting decided to set up a Supreme Council for National Defense, with Chiang Kai-shek as chairman and Zhang Qun as secretary general. The "Measures for Restricting Abnormal Activities" was adopted, and it was decided to establish a 'Committee for the Prevention of Communism'. Since then, the Kuomintang has shifted the focus of its policy from external to internal, and has formulated a set of specific policies for 'suppressing the Communist Party,' 'preventing the Communist Party,' 'restricting the Communist Party,' and '[***]." On January 22, the army invaded Zhongtiao Mountain and was defeated. At the same time, more than 3,000 troops in Dagu in Tianjin staged an anti-war mutiny and were suppressed.

On February 26, 1939, more than 10,000 people of the Yue army invaded the base area in the northwest of Shanxi Province in six ways. Except for Xingxian, all county towns were occupied by the army. The main force of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army fought hard with the decisive column for more than a month, and the army was repulsed, and all the lost counties were recovered except for Ningwu, Hequ, and Jingle.

On March 23, 1939, the northern Jiangxi army invaded Anyi. At the same time, Yan Xishan and others proposed such motions as abolishing the political commissars of the New Army, reducing the powers of the commissioners, replacing the Sacrifice League with a comrade's association, and restricting the mass movement.

On April 21, 1939, the Central Committee issued the "Instructions on the Development of the Chinese Armed Forces," pointing out: The central task of North China is to consolidate the work, and Central China is the main area for the development of the armed forces of our party. Strategically, Central China should become a hub linking North and South China, which has a bearing on the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and has a great future. On April 23, Qi Hui fought. The main force of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, under the command of He Long, concentrated the strength of more than 7 regiments of the main force and annihilated more than 700 enemies after three days of fighting, and achieved a great victory in Qihui.

On May 4, 1939, planes bombed Yucheng continuously (3 days, 45 sorties) from yesterday, and a fire broke out in the city, killing more than 4,400 citizens, injuring more than 3,100 people, and destroying more than 1,200 houses. On May 5, Wang Jingwei sneaked from Hanoi to Shanghai under the arrangement of Ying Zuo and Inu Yangjian, the special envoys sent by the Zheng Axe to Hanoi to meet him. At the same time, Chen Anbao, commander of the 29th Kuomintang Army, died in the Battle of Nanchang. On May 6, most of the newspapers in Chongqing were destroyed due to indiscriminate bombing, and 10 newspapers in the city: Central Daily, Ta Kung Pao, Current Affairs News, Sweeping Daily, National Gazette, Xinshu Daily, Xinmin Daily, Business Daily, Southwest Daily, and Xinhua Daily published a joint edition in the cave. It ended on August 12 of the same year. On May 25, the plane attacked Yucheng and two planes were shot down. At the same time, [***] put forward in the article "The Third Anniversary of Kang Da": "Kang Da's educational policy is: firm and correct political direction, hard work style, flexible strategy and tactics". At the same time, the Third Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation was established, composed of the Third, Sixth, Ninth and Eleventh Armies of the Anti-Japanese Federation, with Li Zhaolin as the commander-in-chief and Feng Zhongyun as the political commissar, and was active in various parts of northern Heilongjiang Province. At the same time, Wang Jingwei led Zhou Fohai, Mei Siping, and Gao Zongwu from Shanghai to visit Yuben.

On June 3, 1939, the First Division of the Eastward Column of the New Fourth Army attacked the Hongqiao Airport in the suburbs of Shanghai at night, destroying four enemy planes. Subsequently, the base area was extended to the shores of Taihu Lake. At the same time, the Soviet-Anhui detachment of the New Fourth Army crossed the river from the Zhenjiang area into Yangzhong, Yizheng, and Taizhou, and began to establish a Soviet-Chinese anti-Japanese base area. Chiang Kai-shek met with Zhou Enlai and Ye Jianying, and said: The communist army should keep its promises, obey the orders of the political axe, implement national decrees, and resolve disputes in various places. Conspiracy to restrain the resistance activities of the [***] army. On June 11, the planes attacked the cities of Chongqing and Chengdu and were shot down by five planes. At the same time, the tragedy in Shenxian County. Zhang Mengwu, commander of Hebei security, attacked the rear organs of the Eighth Route Army in Shenxian County, and brutally killed more than 400 people of the Eighth Route Army and its rear personnel. On June 12, the Pingjiang tragedy occurred. The special service battalion of Yang Senbu, commander-in-chief of the 27th Group Army of the Kuomintang Army, searched the Pingjiang Communications Office of the New Fourth Army and brutally killed six staff members, including Director Xu Zhengkun and Major Luo Zhangming. On 13 June, it was said that the navy's Wugang Zhenshou Special Marine Corps and other troops landed in the Shiyuesuo area of Shandong. At the same time, China and the Soviet Union signed the "Treaty on the Use of $150 Million in Payments" in Moscow, stipulating that the Soviet Union would lend $150 million to China for the purchase of Soviet arms, gasoline, and other industrial oils. In China, the price of tea and tungsten is repaid. On 20 June, the Fifth Special Marine Corps of the Navy's Wugang Town Guard Mansion and other troops landed on the Zhoushan Islands, and the landing ended on 18 July. At the same time, Xiao Yirong published the article "The Achievements of the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army in the Past Two Years": A total of 3,219 battles were fought, 72,030 people were killed and wounded, 15,430 people were killed and wounded by the puppet army, 1,339 people were captured by the army, 9,615 people were captured by the puppet army, and 19,301 people were killed by the puppet army. On June 22, the first batch of U.S. aid supplies (510 trucks and 300 tons of military cloth) arrived in Haiphong for internal transportation.

Han Yunhua carefully recalled what happened in the first half of 1939, although there were many things he didn't remember or changed due to his arrival, but Han Yunhua still knew that the general context of historical development had not changed much, just like Wang Jingwei still wanted to rebel, and Chiang Kai-shek was not all single-mindedly resistant, but there was a little error in time, so he had to remember these things clearly and prepare as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, due to Han Yunhua's strong intervention, the entire Saibei region has undergone earth-shaking changes, so many things that have happened or will happen in history have undergone unpredictable deviations. What annoyed Han Yunhua the most was that his memory had dropped a lot, and many things that he remembered clearly when he crossed over had also become blurry.

However, Han Yunhua also knew that when he crossed over, he probably relived all the experiences of his previous life, so he would remember so many things clearly, and his memory was as strong as a demon. You must know that most of these things have already been sealed in the depths of his memory, and he doesn't remember them anymore. But after being reborn, he found that he remembered it clearly, as if he had just watched a movie, and even remembered the books he had read word for word. But during this time, he found that his memory seemed to be developing in a normal direction, and he would forget what he should forget.

Han Yunhua didn't know whether to cry or laugh, he vaguely realized that he should be undergoing an unknown mutation, or fusion. He has always felt that in fact, the real Han Yunhua's consciousness is not completely dead, and occasionally it will have a certain impact on him, just like the attitude towards Han Yunqian and Li Yuhan. But now he found that the underlying consciousness had less and less influence on him, and it was almost nothing.

Han Yunhua also knew that the record of what happened in 1939 in his memory was not comprehensive, and there were many things that he knew very little about, including in his previous life. What he knows is some of the more important things that happened in the first half of the year, and it is not very helpful for him now.

(To be continued)