Baocheng is derived from the Mongolian language "Baoketu", which means "place with deer" in Mongolian, so it is also called Lucheng. It borders Mongolia in the north, the Yellow River in the south, the Tumochuan Plain and the Hetao Plain in the east and west, and the Yinshan Mountains traverse the middle.

The mineral resources of Baocheng have the characteristics of many types, large reserves, high grade, concentrated distribution and easy mining, especially metal minerals.

Sufficient water resources in Baocheng are an important condition for economic development. The Yellow River flows through Baotou for 214 kilometers, with a water surface width of 130 meters to 458 meters, a water depth of 1.6 meters to 9.3 meters, an average flow rate of 1.4 meters per second, a maximum flow of 6,400 cubic meters per second, and an average annual runoff of 26 billion cubic meters. In addition, the Abugai River, Hademengou, Kundulun River, Wudanggou, Shuijian Ditch, Meidaigou and other rivers have considerable water flow and are also important water resources that can be utilized.

Because of this, Mu Han took Huaishuo in Baocheng as the most important rear base and military production and scientific research base of the Dragon Guard. Therefore, since the outbreak of the world economic crisis in 1928, Mu Han arranged for Chen Qi and others to use the ocean shipping company acquired in the United States to bring back a large number of various machinery and equipment from the United States, most of which were placed near Baotou Huaishuo. These equipment are all idle equipment of many enterprises that have closed down in the United States in the past two years, including iron and steel smelting, chemical production, textile printing and dyeing manufacturing, machinery and equipment manufacturing, firearms and artillery manufacturing, ammunition production, pharmaceutical production, medical equipment production, radio research and manufacturing, engine manufacturing, various ore mining, oil exploration and exploitation, tractor manufacturing, aircraft research and development, production and manufacturing, and so on. In later generations, many companies in the United States that closed down in this global economic crisis had their equipment purchased and shipped back to China by Soviet Russia at a low price, but now, nearly half of these equipment were secretly shipped back to China by Mu Han at an extremely low price. This also slowed down the pace of development in Soviet Russia in this lifetime.

Since Zhou Da had the title of county magistrate of Huaishuo County Government and commander of the security regiment, with the full support of the Rehe Wolongshan Headquarters, he immediately began to clear all forces around Huaishuo, and now almost the entire Suiyuan Baotou area is secretly in the hands of the Chinese Dragon Guard. Mu Han even commanded Wolongshan's company in the United States to take advantage of the opportunity of the Great Economic Depression in the United States in the past two years, and under the banner of providing employment opportunities for the US government to solve the pressure of unemployment, a large number of American skilled workers and other talents were sent to Baotou. For a time, the entire territory of Baotou seemed to have become a large construction site for production and construction and a base for the second entrepreneurship of Americans.

At the same time, considering the need for secrecy, Mu Han instructed Zhou Da and others to take military control measures against Baotou at that time, strictly blocking all information about Baotou, and setting up multiple checkpoints around Baotou and sending heavy troops to guard them.

In fact, at that time, the warlords of various factions in the country fought in the dark, and barren places like the northwest at that time would not have attracted the attention of the outside world. After all, the current political, military, economic, and cultural centers of the country are all in the eastern coastal areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangzhou. The domestic forces did not pay much attention to this place, and with the help of the Americans, even the Kuomintang central government did not dare to do anything to obstruct it. However, Mu Han still raised the level of martial law secrecy in Baotou to the highest. As a result, all the secret agents and agents of all parties who want to spy on the news of Baotou will disappear without a trace as long as they enter Baotou. Japan, Britain, France, and other powers knew that Baotou seemed to be labeled as the United States, and they could only secretly be jealous in their hearts, regarding Baotou as a new sphere of influence demarcated by the United States, and it was not good to interfere and obstruct too much. This has also created a stable and convenient time and space for the development of the Chinese Dragon Guard Army in the northwest.

Mu Han and his entourage quietly entered the territory of Baotou, Suiyuan, and were also attracted by the hot construction atmosphere here.

Along the way, the first phase of the steel plant with an annual output of 500,000 tons of steel company in Baotou County is about to come to an end; Linhe's large-scale cement plant with an annual output of 300,000 tons has been fully put into operation, and the infrastructure construction of Wuyuan Industrial Zone, Anbei Industrial Zone and Dongsheng Industrial Zone has taken shape, Mu Han nodded with satisfaction.

Of course, Mu Han and his entourage knew that since they entered the Baotou range, they had been targeted by several secret reconnaissance forces. However, in the face of the secret scouts of these disciples and grandchildren, although Mu Han, Zhao Zhengfeng and others did not pay attention to them, they also felt very relieved, so they let them follow secretly.

But what Mu Han never expected was that although the fiery development of Baotou in Suiyuan had not been affected much in China, it attracted the incomparable envy and covetousness of Qiao Shan, a high-ranking cadre of the Mongolian People's Party in Mongolia that had actually become independent at that time, and they even had the ambition of encroaching on and plundering factories, materials and money.

On April 29, 1931, on the pretext that Baotou had intercepted merchants going to Mongolia for development, Qiaoshan sent 10,000 Soviet soldiers of the so-called Mongolian People's Army led by Cherbatu, a powerful general, and 3,000 Soviet soldiers of the First Regiment of the Third Independent Division of the Russian Far Eastern Revolutionary Army.

Suddenly, he received a letter from the telecom, and he had to give up the itinerary for the covert investigation, so he had to rush directly to Huaishuo, the headquarters of the Fifth Division of the Chinese Dragon Guard.

In Huaishuo, where the war fell, the ordinary people who had not yet received the news were still full of hope to work and open the market, and the cars and people were bustling with each other.

Mu Han and his entourage went directly to the regimental headquarters of the Huaishuo County Security Corps. The soldiers on duty, seeing that a group of people were coming extraordinary, were just about to raise their guns to signal them to stop, when suddenly a squad leader on duty who was originally the core elite force of Wolong Mountain recognized Mu Han, Zhao Zhengfeng and others at a glance, and immediately signaled the sentry to put down their guns and salute and let them go.

Mu Han didn't care about returning the salute, and walked straight into the headquarters of the security regiment.

Zhou Da, who was staring at the map and the sand table, suddenly felt that someone had broken in, but when he raised his eyes, his tightly locked eyebrows immediately stretched, "Commander-in-chief, you are here, now I am relieved." ”

The people in the audience couldn't care about the old days that they hadn't seen for a long time, and Mu Han asked directly: "Uncle Zhou, how is Qiao Shan's strength now?" Where exactly did you get there? What about armament? Was there a Soviet Russian's command behind it? ”

"According to the investigation of our department, the main reason for the attack by Choibalshan is that the high-level leaders of the Mongolian People's Party are trying to divert the so-called financial crisis and internal ethnic contradictions within Mongolia. Now 3,000 cavalry led by Cherbatu, the right-hand man of Choibalsan, has entered the Urat Central Banner, followed by 7,000 infantry and 3,000 Soviet soldiers. The unit is mainly light weapons, with a small number of small-caliber artillery. On the contrary, the Soviet army was equipped with an artillery battalion with a total of 10 75-caliber guns. At the same time, according to intelligence, the Soviet Far East Army did not show any signs of mobilization, so it can be analyzed that the Mongol attack was not known to the Soviet high-brass. ”

"Humph! What an arrogant Qiao Shan, I haven't cleaned you up yet, but now you have taken the initiative to send it to the door, and you dare to offend my Dragon Guard with this bit of strength, you are simply looking for death!" Mu Han killed this gang of traitors,

"Uncle Zhou, how is the strength of my department in Suiyuan now?"

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief! In the past two years, we have collected and reorganized more than 9,000 soldiers from the Northwest Army and other forces mixed with refugees with excellent military quality and good conduct, collected and integrated more than 6,000 bandits and horse bandits who have no bad deeds, and now the total number of people in the Third Division of the Dragon Army is more than 28,000. The troops stationed in Huaishuo County with the name of the security regiment are directly under the division headquarters, and the other regiments, armored units, heavy artillery units, and divisional flight brigades are secretly lurking in Baotou, Linhe, Wuyuan, and Urad Houqi!"

"What is the state of armaments?"

"At present, the Fifth Dragon Division has a total of 18,000 Dragon rifles, 5,000 submachine guns, 5,000 light and heavy machine guns, more than 20,000 Japanese guns, 1,000 artillery pieces of various calibers, 200 tanks, 200 armored combat vehicles, 500 automobiles, and 30 bases of corresponding ammunition. A field hospital and 1,000 boxes of various medical supplies. There are three secret airports and 300 aircraft of various types. It's just that our technical arms are still insufficient, and counting foreign instructors and pilots of combat vehicles and planes recruited from foreign countries, we still have not formed the combat effectiveness of all vehicles and aircraft. Only a small number of elites of our newly cultivated technical arms can participate in the war, and the rest have not yet formed immediate combat power. ”

"Good! How much rice, how much cooking! It's enough to deal with this gang of traitors, and now I'm worried about the reaction of the Russians, after all, there are still 3,000 Russian Red Army among the enemies who came to attack! Mu Han pondered and said, "Uncle Zhou, how are you going to deal with the enemy now?" ”

"This? Commander-in-chief, you know my details, you let me train the troops, this specific march formation, battle command, I am really a strong duck on the shelf! This is the first battle since the secret formation of the Dragon Guard, in order not to affect morale, it is better for you to command! Zhou Da said with embarrassment.

Mu Han nodded secretly in his heart: These fathers really know the general situation, and they are not carried away because of the development and growth of their forces, and they don't know how many catties and taels they have!

"Oh well! Uncle Zhou, you will be the chief food officer for me, and the little nephew will help you destroy this gang of traitors this time! However, in the future, you will have to strengthen your experience in tactical command, and we will have to fight more battles in the future, so you can't let me personally command the battle every time, right? ”

"Commander-in-chief! Actually, I was about to tell you that our stalls are getting bigger and bigger, and we old brothers are getting less and less able to develop. Take these old brothers of our Dragon Fifth Division as an example, let them perform any tasks alone, it's no problem! But with the troops in battle, it's hard for them! So I thought ......."

"Okay, Uncle Zhou, I know this, and when this battle is over, we will solve these problems! Now you immediately order a meeting of all divisional officers at and above the battalion level. ”

"Yes!"

Two hours later, the main officers of the 5th Division gathered in the Huaishuo Security Regiment.

Zhou Da first saluted Mu Han very respectfully with the military salute of the Chinese Dragon Guard, and then began to introduce his main officers:

"Pang Hu, the commander of the 51st Regiment of the Fifth Division of Long, is an old man from Wolong Mountain, who once served as the commander of the Yijun Infantry Battalion under Jiang Guidi, the commander of the Rehe Metropolitan Commander, and later trained for one year at the Longshan Military Academy."

"Hello Commander!" Pang Hu's eyes were hot, and he immediately straightened up and saluted.

"Song Liancheng, the commander of the 52nd Regiment of the Fifth Dragon Division, is also our old man in Wolongshan, who once served as a company commander under Guo Songling's account in the Feng Department, and later underwent a year of training at the Longshan Military Academy."

"Hello Commander-in-Chief!" Song Liancheng's calm face was also full of passion, and he saluted in a standard manner.

"Zhu Gang, commander of the 53rd Regiment of the Fifth Dragon Division, former infantry major of the 9th Independent Division of the National Revolutionary Army, graduated from the 9th Infantry Section of the Baoding Army Non-commissioned Officer School." Zhu Gang, who had a pair of big eyes and bright eyes, stared at the young supreme commander in front of him and calmly saluted.

Mu Han stayed on Zhu Gang's face for a few more moments, then nodded and motioned for him to sit down.

"Zhou Shun, the head of the regiment directly under the Dragon Fifth Division, and the captain of the special operations squadron of the Dragon Fifth Division."

"Hello Commander!" Looking at his brother when he was a child, Zhou Shun was not only excited but also worshiped from the heart, and saluted Mu Han respectfully, Mu Han walked over and patted him on the shoulder.

"Huang Qiwei, the commander of the armored regiment of the Fifth Division of Longshan, the nephew of the Huang Weishan brothers, is the first batch of rising stars who were sent to Germany to study in Wolongshan, and they have undergone three months of special training at the Longshan Military Academy." Mu Han looked at Huang Qiwei, who looked like Huang Weishan, and felt a little gloomy in his heart, and also walked over and patted him on the shoulder.

Huang Qiwei hurriedly got up and saluted, and said respectfully: "Good commander!" I heard about you when I was studying in Germany, and they took good care of me because of that. Huang Qiwei said with a standard salute.

"Claire, the captain of the flight group of the Dragon 5th Division, was recruited by a European company the year before last and is a retired officer of the Luftwaffe."

"Dear Eastern Demon Dragon, I am very honored to be able to serve under your command now!" Claire saluted Mu Han excitedly.

"Oh, you know me?" Mu Han was a little surprised to see the German Claire say his nickname at the Berlin Military Academy.

"Yes, respected Oriental Magic Dragon, there are almost no middle and high-ranking officers in our Germany who do not know about you!"

Mu Han nodded a little surprised, and then saw that Zhou Da stopped his introduction, so he asked, "Uncle Zhou, why don't you see the cavalry regiment?" ”

"Report to the commander-in-chief, our Fifth Division is located in the grassland area, so the cavalry is no longer a separate regiment, and each regiment of the division has a cavalry battalion! All the cavalry together is far more than the strength of a cavalry regiment! ”

Mu Han smiled: "Well, this is a good job!" Alright, now let's get straight to the point! Brothers, as soon as we gained a foothold in Suiyuan, some people were red-eyed, and now someone is bullying us at our doorstep, what should we do? ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill! I'm invincible! All the Dragon Guard officers present shouted in unison.

"Good! I am very satisfied with everyone's momentum! Although I am a young person, many of you here know some of my things. What did I secretly raise troops in Wolong Mountain for? I can tell you clearly, the Chinese Dragon Guard is definitely not my personal army, nor does it belong to any family, I give the Dragon Guard the definition of the guardian of the Chinese nation, the protector of the descendants of Yan and Huang, as long as no one in the country takes the initiative to provoke us, the Dragon Guard will never point their guns at our compatriots. I can responsibly tell you that our Dragon Guard Army is used to defend the country and defend against foreign aggression! Now a group of delusional traitors dare to commit crimes, then we will sacrifice them to the flag, I command"

"Brush!" Everyone, including Zhou Da, stood up straight.

"The infantry unit of the 51st Regiment of the 5th Dragon Division infiltrated the Urad Zhongqi to secretly ambush, let go of all the enemy troops, and then tied my pockets tightly to cut off the retreat of the Mongolian army!

Half of the infantry of the 52nd Regiment of the 5th Dragon Division infiltrated the front banner of Urad and was responsible for the offensive on the left flank and the protection of our western industrial base! The remaining forces are stationed at the headquarters.

In addition to the artillery unit, the 53rd Regiment of the 5th Dragon Division infiltrated Durhan and was responsible for the offensive on the right flank, while keeping an eye on the movements of the Kuomintang troops.

The regiment directly under the 5th Dragon Division broke through to Sugedi to defend against the enemy head-on. All departments should bear in mind that the lion fights the rabbit with all their strength, and must not be careless. We must win this battle, and we will capture as many prisoners as we can, and we will not let go of an enemy. We still don't have a lot of labor on the site! Mu Han finally said a joking word, which made the atmosphere in the field a lot more relaxed.

"Hahahaha!" "Rest assured, your subordinates will do their best to win the first battle!"

"Alright, let's all go down and prepare! Meeting! ”

"Yes!"

At this time, in the conference room, only Huang Qiwei, the commander of the armored regiment of the Fifth Dragon Division, Claire, the captain of the flight team of the Fifth Dragon Division, and Zhou Da and others remained.

"Commander, why don't you send our armored regiment?" Huang Qiwei asked a little anxiously, "Yes, there is also our flight group, at least we can provide aerial firepower strikes and reconnaissance!" Claire was also looking forward to it.

"To deal with these traitors, we don't need an armored regiment and an air force, and now the combat effectiveness of your second division needs to be improved, and I don't want to leak our full strength too early! Do you understand? Now your task is to train solidly, form a full combat force as soon as possible, and you will be the main force in the future battles! ”

Mu Han didn't pay attention to the longing eyes of the two, but set his eyes into the distance.