At the end of September last year, the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division of the main force of the army raided Shanxi, but it was a heroic raid by the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army at Pingxingguan, and with the support of the Yan and Huang Army, the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army have been greatly improved. The Eighth Route Army is not a good fighting force of the Yan and Huang Army, and in addition to being a little behind the Yan and Huang Army in terms of weapons and equipment, its morale and combat effectiveness will not be worse than that of the Yan and Huang Army.

This made Yue himself very frightened, because [***] has always insisted on resisting Yue, and has always supported the Yan Huang Army openly and secretly. The alliance of Yang Jingyu and Peng Hu in the northeast is the most direct example, although it is clear that they are two troops, in fact, when they fight, they are like right-hand men, and they move freely, and Wei Chendong's Yanhuang Army can achieve such results in the northeast, which is inseparable from the unremitting efforts of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the rear.

Wei Chendong himself also knows this, so he spared no effort to support the brothers and sisters in the rear to fight hard, he specially planned that some companies and factories of the Yan and Huang Army produced materials, all handed over to the rear troops, and no other troops should be reckless, if it is really urgent, it must be an IOU, and after being dispatched, it will be repaid in the future.

It was Wei Chendong's resolute support that made the brothers in the rear troops suffer a lot less, and they were also much more flexible in the battle with the enemy, and in turn contained a large number of troops for the anti-Japanese troops fighting the Japanese army head-on.

Although the army suffered a big defeat in Pingxingguan, but they had a large-scale battle with the [***] team in the next Xinkou area, Wu Dingbang took the initiative to ask Chiang Kai-shek to fight, but Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that the Yan and Huang army would have an adverse impact on the political axe after entering the pass, so he politely refused, in desperation, Wu Dingbang had to send more than 200 fighters and more than 200 artillery and other heavy weapons to support, get these things, Yan Xishan guaranteed to be able to win the battle of Xinkou.

In order to end the North China War as soon as possible, the reinforcements of the Yue army marched to Xinkou one by one, and Chiang Kai-shek's political axe still did not agree to Wudingbang's request to send the Yan and Huang troops into Shanxi, [***] also kept mediating in it, but did not make much progress, until after the fall of Nanjing, under the pressure of the national surname, he reluctantly agreed to the Yan and Huang troops to enter the Central Plains to fight, but this is a later story.

In the Battle of Xinkou, more than 300,000 people participated in the battle, and the army was less than 100,000 at first, and finally increased to 230,000 at the peak, with nearly 80,000 casualties.

Now, except for Inner Mongolia, North China is basically under the control of himself. In Central China, after occupying Shanghai and Nanjing, the Yue army did not stop, marching all the way to Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places, and joined forces with the Shandong army to wantonly occupy Chinese land.

Due to the victory of the Yue army in North China, Central China, and even South China, the base camp began to change a certain strategy, and they planned to occupy North China, Central China, and South China first, in order to force Chiang Kai-shek to surrender with the political axe, and then deal with [***] and the Yan and Huang armies with peace of mind, in order to achieve the goal of plotting the whole of China, and they did the same.

But he didn't expect that under the influence of the fall of Nanjing, the Nanjing Massacre and other reasons, Chiang Kai-shek's political axe agreed to the request of the Yan and Huang armies to enter the Central Plains to fight.

At the beginning of 38 years, Wu Dingbang appointed himself as the commander of the Central China Front of the Yan and Huang Army, and personally led 100,000 Yan and Huang troops into Central China to fight, and Wei Chendong immediately drew Zhang Guoxing's 100,000 Yan and Huang troops from the northeast to enter North China from Inner Mongolia to recover the lost territory.

Due to the withdrawal of almost all the Kuomintang troops in the occupied areas such as North China, the Yan and Huang armies continued to strengthen cooperation with the [***] troops behind the enemy, which was also an opportunity for the sublimation of the relationship between the two armies, and it was also a place that worried Chiang Kai-shek.

In mid-January, the army launched the Battle of Xuzhou, and the Yan and Huang armies relied on the rapid reinforcement along the railway from Xi'an to Jiangsu, and a large number of military supplies were dispatched to the past, and 100,000 Yan and Huang troops arrived in several batches.

On January 26, 1938, the 13th Division of the Yue Army attacked Fengyang and Bengbu in Anhui Province. The defending 11th Army of the 31st Army, after resisting one by one in the area on the west bank of the Chi River, retreated to the west of Dingyuan and Fengyang. By February 3, the army had captured Linhuai Pass and Bengbu.

On the 9th and 10th, the main forces of the 13th Division of the Yue Army crossed the Huai River at Bengbu and Linhuai Pass respectively and launched an attack on the north bank. The 51st Army fought a fierce battle with the Yue Army, suffered heavy casualties, and on the 12th retreated in the direction of the Lu River and the Hu River.

The Fifth Theater led his troops to the aid of Zhang Zizhong, commander of the 59th Army, and advanced to the Guzhen area, where he cooperated with the 51st Army to stubbornly resist the Yue Army in the area on the north bank of the Huai River. At the same time, on the south bank of the Huai River, the 48th Army of the 21st Group Army held the Luqiao area, and the 7th Army coordinated with the 31st Army to attack the flank of the Dingyuan Yue Army in a roundabout way, and forced the main force of the 13th Division of the Yue Army to return from the north bank of the Huai River. The 59th and 51st armies took advantage of the situation to counterattack and restored all positions north of the Huai River by early March.

The 21st Army and the 31st Army were concentrated from the south bank of the Huai River to the north bank. The two sides confronted each other across the river.

By the 15th day, 50,000 people in five divisions of the Yan and Huang Army were personally led by Wei Chendong's father-in-law Huang Keqiang to attack Shandong from Shangqiu to threaten the enemy in Shandong, and the other five divisions were personally led by Wu Dingbang into Anhui, of which 40,000 people entered Fuyang from Dancheng, and together with the [***] there, they immediately went eastward and pointed directly at the 13th Division.

Upon hearing the news of the reinforcements of the Yan and Huang Army, the main force of the 13th Division, which was attacking fiercely, immediately returned to help, and the two sides met in Huainan.

Wu Dingbang led three divisions to personally supervise the battle, the two sides fought with Fengtai, and the battle lasted for a long time, the army immediately used poison gas, and the Yan and Huang troops were also prepared, and the soldiers still insisted on fighting with antidote and gas masks.

"Commander, I said that I used poison gas, what should we do? Ready to use it too? The chief of staff asked with an anxious expression.

"General Wei has always emphasized the way of the other, and the enemy will use it first, why don't we use it, too pretending to be pure will only be struck by lightning. But this is in our own country, and if we are not careful, we may hurt our compatriots, and this is absolutely not allowed." In terms of his attitude towards himself, Wu Dingbang has the demeanor of Wei Chendong, so he also agrees with Wei Chendong's combat policy very much.

"Yes, it's with that in mind, that's why we're embarrassed," the chief of staff frowned.

"Hehe, don't worry, don't we still have that thing? Although it can't be fatal to use, the effect is also very good, even if we have compatriots poisoned, we can still have time to heal it", Wu Dingbang sneered.

"Oh? Is that thing the commander talking about? Haha......" The chief of staff was stunned for a moment, then realized and laughed out loud.

(To be continued)