When the whole division was busy advancing into Qilu, Zhang Cheng was alone in the conference room, quietly thinking about how to develop and strengthen the Qilu base area after the troops entered Qilu. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As early as October 1937, the Japanese army invaded Qilu, and the Qilu Provincial Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party led the people's anti-Japanese armed uprisings in Culai Mountain, Heitie Mountain, Tianfu Mountain and other places in the winter of the same year, and established more than 10 guerrilla units to carry out anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare.

Later, in order to unify the leadership of the anti-Japanese armed forces in Qilu, on December 27, 1938, with the approval of the Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party, the Qilu Column of the Eighth Route Army was established, with Zhang Jingwu as the commander, Li Yu as the political commissar, Wang Bing as the chief of staff, and Jiang Hua as the director of the Political Department.

After the establishment of the Qilu Column, the anti-Japanese guerrillas in various localities were reorganized into the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, and 12th detachments of the Qilu Column, the advanced and Longhai South advance detachments, the 1st Brigade of the Lunan People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Corps, and the Lintan Independent Regiment.

The above-mentioned troops were distributed in Lunan, Luzhong, Taixi, Qinghe, Jiaodong, and coastal areas to carry out guerrilla warfare and create anti-Japanese base areas, which were also the prototype of the five major anti-Japanese base areas of Qilu in later generations.

It's just that after the eastward advance of the 115th Division was ordered to enter Qilu, due to the small difference in strength between the local troops in Qilu and Qilu, the two sides failed to achieve the effect of one plus one equals two, and the forces have not been able to integrate.

It was not until March 12, 1943, when the commander-in-chief, Mr. Zhu and other central leaders merged the 115th Division with the Qilu Military Region in the name of the Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party and the Central Military Commission, and appointed Luo Ronghuan as the commander and political commissar.

Of course, now it is Zhang Cheng who has more than 70,000 troops to enter Shandong with more than 70,000 instructors, which is very different from the situation in history when only a few thousand people from the 115th Division entered Shandong.

On the question of how to get along with the local armed forces of the Kuomintang after the instructor entered Lu, Zhang Cheng also did not give the other party room for development, he must drive out the Kuomintang forces, although it is still a period of cooperation among migrant workers to resist Japan, but with the rapid growth of the Eighth Route Army, Chang Kaishen, who is guilty of pink eye, will definitely engage in friction among migrant workers.

Moreover, the strength of the Kuomintang armed forces in the War of Resistance behind enemy lines was very weak, and in history, during the Japanese army's rule in Qilu, the Kuomintang armed forces soon could not hold on, and most of them defected to the Japanese as puppet soldiers and became the dogs of the Japanese. In this case, Zhang Cheng will certainly not be polite to the Kuomintang armed forces.

With the huge population of Qilu, Zhang Cheng believed that once the Qilu anti-Japanese base area developed, its scale would definitely exceed that of the Great Northwest Base Area, and that such a powerful base area would naturally not allow other forces to get involved, and he wanted to dominate the Qilu land and make the Qilu base area a bridgehead and base camp for the Chinese army to resist Japan.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of March 3, the Second Brigade of the Teaching, which had long been ready to go, went south to Lunan under the leadership of Ding Wei, and on the occasion of parting, Zhang Cheng told Ding Wei: "At present, the Kuomintang Army and the Japanese army are fighting fiercely in Xuzhou, Lunan and other places, and the Second Brigade must be low-key after arriving in the Lunan area, and it can be broken into the mountainous areas of Lunan to develop guerrilla troops, and once the Kuomintang army is defeated against the Japanese army, it can launch a surprise attack on the Japanese army to cover the evacuation of the main force of the Kuomintang to the south. ”

On 14 March, under the cover of the air force, the 10th Division of the Japanese Army launched a full-line attack on the front-line positions of the 45th Army on the periphery of Tengxian County, but they unexpectedly ran into a hard nail in Tengxian County, and General Wang Mingzhang, a fierce general in Sichuan, commanded all units in Tengxian County to defeat the enemy's fierce front and block the enemy's advance, thus gaining time for the assembly of Chinese troops in the Xuzhou area, and also causing the Japanese 10th Division to suffer great losses, creating favorable conditions for the subsequent victory in Taierzhuang.

However, on March 17, the Japanese army mobilized elite troops to attack the city under the cover of heavy artillery and aircraft, the defenders and the Japanese army started hand-to-hand combat again, Wang Mingzhang personally came to the crossroads in the center of the city to command the operation, unfortunately was strafed by the enemy's machine gun, was shot several times, and died on the spot, after the sacrifice of General Wang Mingzhang, the officers and soldiers defending the city still continued to fight with the Japanese army, except for 17 people who broke through, the rest were spilled the last drop of blood.

Although he and General Wang Mingzhang and his troops belonged to the two parties of the People's and Workers' Party, Zhang Cheng still admired his heroic deeds of resistance and heroic sacrifice, so Zhang Cheng specially instructed Ding Wei to save them if he had the opportunity to save them and retain some more vitality for China's all-out war of resistance.

For two days in a row, Zhang Cheng, political commissar, and other members of the division sent away one by one the brigades that were going to be scattered to the development base areas in various parts of Qilu, and told the brigade commanders of all departments to go deep among the masses, fully mobilize the masses, extensively carry out the war of resistance behind enemy lines, and expand the anti-Japanese armed forces a thousand times over, so as to lay a good foundation for an all-out counteroffensive against the Japanese army in the future.

On the morning of 8 March, Zhang Cheng, who had not yet left the Daimyo, received a telegram from the Central Committee, in which Zhang Cheng eagerly awaited the news, which said: In order to better develop the Qilu anti-Japanese armed forces, with the approval of the Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party and the Central Military Commission, the Qilu Branch of the Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party was formally established, directly under the leadership of the Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party, and unified command of the anti-Japanese armed forces in Luji and some areas of Anhui and Suzhou.

The Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party Committee was mainly formed by the merger of the Party Committee of Teachers and Tutors and the Provincial Party Committee of Qilu, and was composed of nine members, including Zhang Cheng, Xiao Hua, Zhang Fengming, Ding Wei, Li Yunlong, Hu Wei, Zhang Jingwu, Guo Hongtao, and Li Yu.

In addition, the Qilu Military Region was also established under the jurisdiction of the Qilu Bureau, and seven members of the military region were Zhang Cheng, Xiao Hua, Zhang Jingwu, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Zhang Fengming, and Guo Hongtao, of whom Zhang Cheng served as commander of the Qilu Military Region, Xiao Hua served as political commissar of the Qilu Military Region, and Zhang Fengming served as chief of staff.

At the same time, the sub-bureau consists of the Organization Department, the Propaganda Department, the Security Department, the Logistics Department, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Communications, and other permanent institutions.

For the strong support of the central government for the tutor, Zhang Cheng is not only excited but also under pressure, and the center of Qilu's big stage has been built for the tutor, but whether this play can be sung well depends on Zhang Cheng.