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Chapter 193 The Game of Attack and Counterattack
The news of the great victory at Jiuyuan reached the secondary capital.

This caused crazy celebrations among the people. It should be noted that this was a rare case of recovering a large city since the Anti-Japanese War, and it had a significant impact outside the Great Wall.

But in an official residence in the temporary capital, someone was furious.

"Damn it, what a bunch of rubbish! They didn't even get any news beforehand. How do you do intelligence work in the border areas? How do you do intelligence work outside the Great Wall?

A bunch of good-for-nothings, I think they should all be shot!"

"Immediately send an order to the border region, ordering them to hand over the defense and management rights of Jiuyuan City. Who allowed them to occupy the land at will? This place must be handed over to our Suiyuan local government."

"Principal, I heard that the ones occupying that place now are our Temporary Third Division." Someone reminded cautiously.

"Damn it, the Temporary Third Division is not a good thing. We have been summoning them back to Shaanxi and Gansu to purge their thoughts, but they have been pretending to obey but secretly disobeying us. Now I think their true nature has been exposed, right? If there is no trick, would the border area be so kind as to hand over a place to them?

We must issue them orders one after another, ordering them to immediately hand over the area to the Suiyuan authorities and return to the Yike Zhao League. At the same time, we require all cadres above the regimental level to go to Chang'an for military education!"

The second day after the Jiuyuan victory.

The Third Temporary Division announced its victory in a high-profile manner and held a grand banquet at Zuixianlou, the most famous restaurant in Jiuyuan. The commander of the Third Temporary Division personally invited many leading figures in Jiuyuan to the banquet to discuss important matters.

At the banquet, the commander of the Third Temporary Division proposed the idea of ​​joint autonomy of the grassland and the establishment of the Suimeng Self-Defense Army. He called on everyone to unite and drive the Japanese out of Suimeng, Chahar and Rehe!

In this era, there are many people who want to cause trouble as long as they have a little power.

However, they were a little bit unconvinced that the Temporary Third Division could handle this situation. Although Jiuyuan City was claimed to have been captured by the Temporary Third Division, in everyone's perception, the Temporary Third Division, which had been conducting guerrilla warfare in the Ikh Ju League opposite Jiuyuan, did not have such strength.

Although there is no evidence, everyone believes that it was the border area that took action.

Therefore, everyone thought that the idea of ​​the Temporary Third Division coming out to pick peaches was a bit far-fetched and would not be recognized by the border area at all.

However, unexpectedly, after the banquet, everyone saw that the border area had no objection to this joint autonomy, and allowed the Third Temporary Division to jump out and stir up trouble, and allowed the Third Temporary Division to swallow up the entire Jiuyuan in one bite, and set up the signs of the Grassland United Autonomous Committee and the Suimeng Autonomous Army in Jiuyuan, and even after purging the high-level leaders of the captured puppet Mongolian army, began to reorganize the Second Division of the Suimeng Autonomous Army, which was under the command of commanders at all levels sent by the Third Temporary Division.

This makes people think a lot.

At the same time, some smart people began to come forward to find out the truth and the location.

Now the Suimeng autonomy is very simple. It is a joint autonomous committee. Everyone elects 19 local leaders of all ethnic groups to serve as members. As long as they firmly support the War of Resistance and drive out the Japanese, no matter what nationality or party they belong to, they can be selected to join the joint autonomous committee to replace the original government in charge of local people's livelihood and development issues.

This committee is in charge of various local government affairs and obviously has considerable power. It has jurisdiction over wherever the Third Temporary Division’s troops are pointing.

After several days of mopping up, all the Japanese strongholds and puppet army strongholds within hundreds of miles near Jiuyuan were cleared out one by one.

From Jiufeng Mountain in the east to Guyang in the north to the border between Urad and Wuyuan in the west, the Suimeng Autonomous Army controlled an area of ​​more than 200 square kilometers, about 70 kilometers long, kilometers wide, and on the north bank of the Yellow River opposite Ikh Ju League.

Although many places are nomadic areas without fixed personnel. The Temporary Third Division is nominally a unit of Guosu. Although some people still don't understand how the Temporary Third Division is so close to the border area, the Jiuyuan secretly conquered by the border area is handed over to the Temporary Third Division for management, but it does not prevent some powerful people on the grassland from being tempted and ready to join the joint self-government.

There are many tribes on the grassland near Jiuyuan. If we try to recapture them one by one, it will take more than half a year just to walk around this vast grassland.

Therefore, when Ren Zhong formulated the grand plan, he came up with a simplified version of the autonomous region model in advance in order to resolve the risk of Qiluban and Guosu coming to receive the fruits of victory after the attack.

After all, under the current system, it is undeniable that the border area is still under the jurisdiction of Guosu. After taking Jiuyuan, Jiuyuan is no longer behind enemy lines, and there is no excuse for behind-the-enemy-line jurisdiction.

If Qiluban and Guosu send people to take over, it would be difficult for the border region to refuse without breaking up relations.

So they simply came up with a grassland joint autonomy. The Temporary Third Division was mainly composed of genuine grassland locals. Although most of the middle and senior levels had secretly joined the organization, as long as the parties involved denied it, no one could use this to make an excuse. Anyway, as long as the local powerful people recognized it, the Temporary Third Division could become the real ruler of the Suimeng area.

The Saibei Military Region is located outside the Great Wall, and forms two light and dark lines with the Temporary 3rd Division. It is the best option at present.

What happened on the grassland was like a bomb dropped into a pond, which not only killed many Japanese soldiers and puppet troops, but also caused quite a stir. Although the Third Temporary Division had painted a big picture, those who were making trouble on the grassland were all keeping an eye on the Japanese soldiers' movements. The Japanese soldiers were now very powerful. Although the Third Temporary Division had taken Jiuyuan with its strength, no one knew whether it could withstand the counterattack of the Japanese soldiers. Before the dust settled, no one dared to surrender.

Ren Zhong didn't care about these things. He was sure that even if the Japanese didn't admit defeat, they would have to bear it.

The Japanese soldiers in Qingcheng now have no strength to come here for revenge.

The great victory at Jiuyuan shocked not only the country, but also dealt a great blow to the Rogue Eagle team stationed in China. It successively annihilated two brigade-level battles of the Japanese army, showing the strength of the border area and the Eighth Route Army. This made the Rogue Eagle team, who were beaten black and blue in Nanyang, seem to see a glimmer of hope.

General Shi was particularly interested in this, so he flew to the border area in person and had an in-depth exchange with the top leaders of the border area, discussing whether this could be used as a starting point to launch a stronger offensive in North China.

Through local counterattacks, the Japanese forces remaining in the north were pinned down.

Everyone was very frank during this exchange, and General Shi very directly requested the border areas and the Eighth Route Army to reduce the pressure on the Japanese to move south as much as possible.

The border region also stated very frankly that its other bases did not yet have the configuration and strength of the Jiuyuan Saibei Military Region. They could launch offensives against some counties, but they did not have the ability to launch a counterattack against the main force of the Japanese in North China.

The border area currently lacks sufficient heavy weapons, sufficient daily necessities, and even more so, well-trained reserve forces.

Because now the base areas and border areas are being targeted by the preserved fruits, a lot of strength is wasted on internal friction.

However, for the overall interests of the Allied Forces, the Border Region and the Eighth Route Army could launch attacks on some counties to further expand the base area.

If Rogue Eagle can further assist in building a light vehicle factory, provide the border area with a number of automobile production lines, or even a Sherman tank production line, the border area will improve its strength as soon as possible and prepare to launch a counterattack in Jin.

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