After the advance brigade advanced to the Jilu border, it fought the first battle of Lianzhen, then Ningjin, blew up the Ziya River Bridge in the third battle, and then recovered Qingyun, Wudi, and Yanshan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, the Red Army composition of the advance brigade is low, and most of the troops are incorporated and reorganized, and there are great hidden dangers, so we must calm down and train the troops, unify our thinking, and improve our fighting quality!

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Siming calmed down to grasp the construction of the army.

The start-up base area on the border of Jilu is waiting to be revived!

The top priority at the moment is the reorganization of the troops, the building of the party, the building of political power, and the training of cadres!

Xiao Siming is a soul traveler, familiar with historical trajectories, and can avoid detours!

After in-depth exchanges with Wang Lushui and Ma Zhenhua, Xiao Siming wrote and drafted a telegram to the division headquarters, the headquarters and the headquarters of Yan'an, reporting on the work since the advance into the Hebei-Shandong border area, analyzing the current situation of struggle in the Hebei-Shandong border region, and proposing that the top priority at the moment is to straighten out the relationship between the party organizations and leaders in the Hebei-Shandong border region, establish a unified anti-Japanese democratic regime in the Hebei-Shandong border region, reorganize and expand the troops, and build up the local armed forces and militia contingents in the counties and districts.

In the report, Xiao Siming wrote: "The organizational relationship of the party in the Hebei-Shandong border region was originally divided into two parts, one was the Jinnan Special Committee under the leadership of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, and the other was the Lubei Special Committee under the leadership of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee. After the 77 Lugou Bridge Incident, Shandong Province appointed Comrade Yu Wenbin to the Hebei-Shandong Border Region, contacted Ma Zhenhua, Di Yudong, and other comrades of the Jinnan Special Committee, and established the Hebei-Shandong Border Work Committee to lead the party's work in the two regions of Jinnan and Northern Shandong. At present, in view of the fact that the Jilu border is isolated behind the enemy, separated from central Hebei by Jinpu Road in the west, and separated from Shandong by the Yellow River in the southeast, the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and the Shandong Provincial Party Committee are unable to provide timely guidance to the Hebei-Shandong border area. Therefore, it is recommended to straighten out the subordination between the party organization and the anti-Japanese democratic government in the Jilu border area! ”

The affiliation of the army itself is very clear, it belongs to the command of the 115th Division, and there is no need for Xiao Siming to make any suggestions!

In his telegram, Xiao Siming suggested to the division headquarters that the Jilu Border Military and Political Committee be changed into the Jilu Border Region Party Committee to exercise unified leadership over the party building, political power building, army building, economic construction, and the struggle against the enemy in the Jilu Border Region. At the same time, following the method of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the Hebei-Shandong Border Military Region, the Hebei-Shandong Border Region Anti-Japanese Democratic Government, and the Hebei-Shandong Border Region Senate were established.

As for the members of the party committee of the Jilu Border Region, the anti-Japanese democratic government of the Jilu Border Region, and the Senate of the Jilu Border Region, Xiao Siming did not mention the list of candidates, but only made a report to the division headquarters on the resumes of the existing principal cadres in the Jilu Border Region for the reference of the division headquarters, the general headquarters, and Yan'an.

With regard to the work of the army, Xiao Siming reported that after the eastward advance brigade advanced to the Hebei-Shandong border, it successfully joined forces with the 31st Detachment and recovered Ningjin, Qingyun, Wudi, and Yanshan, plus the county town of Leling, which was previously controlled by the 31st Detachment, and now controls five county seats. At present, the troops are dividing their forces to mobilize the masses and form local political power and local armed forces. After the work of building the party, government, and army in the five counties of Ningjin, Leling, Qingyun, Wudi, and Yanshan had a preliminary foundation, the troops were divided into southern Jinnan and northern Lubei, and they were engaged in guerrilla attacks on the Jinpu Road.

Xiao Siming truthfully reported on the current strength and composition of our army on the Jilu border, saying that after the first batch of recruits completed their one-month intensive training, all of them would be incorporated into all units of the advance brigade. At that time, it is planned to combine the 1st, 4th, and 7th battalions into the 1st Regiment of the Jilu Border, the 2nd, 5th, and 8th Battalions into the 2nd Regiment of the Jilu Border, the 3rd, 6th, and 9th Battalions into the 3rd Regiment of the Jilu Border, and the 31st Detachment into the 4th Regiment of the Jilu Border.

In addition to these six infantry regiments, Xiao Siming reported that it was planned to expand the artillery battalion into an artillery regiment, with an air defense battalion, a rapid-fire artillery company, and two artillery battalions. Among them, the two artillery battalions did not have mountain artillery and field artillery for the time being, and they were trained first, and then replenished their equipment after the Japanese mountain artillery and field artillery were captured. The existing Type 92 infantry guns and mortars are all equipped with the first, second, and third regiments.

Since the heavy machine-gun battalion, armored battalion, engineer battalion, baggage battalion, reconnaissance company, and communications company were all not yet fully staffed, Xiao Siming said in his report that after the first batch of recruits are assigned to the troops, these units must be guaranteed to be fully staffed.

Xiao Siming reported that the Great Plains is suitable for cavalry mobility, and it is planned to expand the cavalry company into a cavalry battalion, and in the future, it will be expanded into a cavalry regiment and a cavalry brigade; The guard battalion has now been expanded into a guard battalion and is being put into training.

As for the military and political cadre schools, teaching teams, arsenals, field hospitals, and other units, Xiao Siming said in his report that the military and political cadre schools in the Hebei-Shandong border have been set up, and they are now recruiting cadres and recruiting cadets, and it is planned to recruit 500 cadets in the first batch, divided into three teams: political corps, military corps, and local cadre corps, and study intensively for three months. The training team has also been formally formed, and the training period is also three months, and the training period is also three months. On the issue of the arsenal, Xiao Siming reported that there are no metal deposits in the Hebei-Lu border area, but it is rich in nitrate salts, jujube wood, etc., which can make explosives and gunpowder, and produce explosive bags, grenades, and mines.

Xiao Siming was very ambitious and reported to the division headquarters that after the training of the first batch of recruits was completed and the troops were replenished, the recruit regiment continued to train the second and third batches of recruits, and each batch of recruits was given a three-month period to ensure the quality of the recruits. At the same time, we should take advantage of the interval between battles to conduct concentrated rotation training for the existing units to ensure the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the troops.

While stepping up the regularization of the main forces, Xiao Siming reported that by the end of the year, it is necessary to complete the building of county brigades, district squadrons, and village militia teams in all counties in the Hebei-Shandong border region, and form a three-in-one armed system of the main forces, local troops, and militia in the Hebei-Shandong border region.

At the end of the telegram, Xiao Siming reported that the situation on the Jilu border showed that the Shandong region was particularly suitable for expanding the troops. This is because Shandong began to train rural peasants before the Lugouqiao Incident, and both schools and rural areas organized students and young and middle-aged people to conduct a four-month military training, and the quality of the soldiers was relatively high. Moreover, due to the warlord scuffle, bandits are the scourge, people need to protect themselves, and there are especially many civilian guns. The availability of soldiers and weapons is the reason why there are many local militia groups in Shandong. After these local militia groups are reorganized into the main force and local armed forces, they will become anti-Japanese armed forces capable of fighting well after being tempered by the flames of war. On the other hand, if our army does not hurry up to march into Shandong, and wait until the ***** Shandong Provincial Government relieves itself and begins to reorganize the local armed forces, these local militia groups will accept the reorganization of the ***** Shandong Provincial Government and thus refuse the reorganization of our army. At that time, due to the need to maintain the united front, our army will be helpless against the local armed forces reorganized by the ***** Shandong Provincial Government!

Xiao Siming's meaning is to urge the main force of the 115th Division to advance eastward!

After this telegram was sent, the division headquarters quickly called back.

In mid-April, the Japanese army base camp was secretly deploying troops to prepare for the Battle of Xuzhou to gather and annihilate the main force of the Chinese army in the Xuzhou area; On the Shanxi battlefield, the nine-way siege launched by the Japanese army on the southeast base area of Shanxi was in full swing; In the northern section of the Jinpu Road, the Japanese Army's Fifth Brigade was launching an attack on the central Hebei region.

Under such circumstances, the advance brigade captured Ningjin, Qingyun, and Yanshan, eliminated the puppet army in Ningjin City and Qingyun City, eliminated the Japanese puppet army in Yanshan City and the old county town, and the Japanese army stationed in the northern section of Jinpu Road independently mixed into the Fifth Brigade, and did not even care about immediately sending troops to retaliate, giving Xiao Siming a rare opportunity to reorganize the miscellaneous armed forces and reorganize the troops.

For this reason, after receiving Xiao Siming's telegram, the division headquarters quickly asked the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the headquarters of Yan'an to send a telegram back to the military and political committee of the Hebei-Shandong border after only one day.

The first sentence of the telegram was: "The achievements made in the march to the Jilu border show that the line you have implemented is correct!" ”

This kind of tone can only be found in Yan'an headquarters!

During the war years, the instructions to the subordinates must be accurate, timely, and correct, otherwise it may lead to failure and great losses!

The instructions from the Yan'an Headquarters were very clear: 1. The 115th Division's Eastward Advance Brigade was renamed the "115th Division's Eastward Advance Detachment," and the troops were expanded according to the telegram plan, with Xiao Siming as commander, Wang Lushui as political commissar, Huang Hua as deputy commander, Hu Qingyun as chief of staff, and Huo Cheng as director of the Political Department; 2. After the completion of the reorganization, in accordance with the principle of consolidating southern Jinnan and developing northern Shandong, the army will rapidly develop into northern Shandong, build the party, build the government, and build the army, and do its utmost to expand the base areas along the Hebei and Shandong borders. 3. In order to avoid unnecessary troubles, the 18th Group Army's Hebei-Shandong Border Military Region, Hebei-Shandong Border Party Committee, and Hebei-Shandong Border Senate will not be established for the time being, and the party, government, and military work in the Hebei-Shandong Border will be under the unified leadership of the Hebei-Shandong Border Military and Political Committee, which will be under the command of the 115th Division; Fourth, after the end of the siege of the nine-way anti-Japanese army in the southeast of Shanxi, the five detachments of the 115th Division, which are now temporarily under the command of the 129th Division, marched to the Jilu border and supported the advance detachment to open up the Jilu border area; 5. Xiao Hua, deputy director of the Political Department of the 115th Division and political commissar of the 343rd Brigade, led the headquarters and cadres of the 343rd Brigade to the Jilu border and commanded our army in a unified manner. After Xiao Hua arrived, our army on the Jilu border was reorganized into at least three brigade-level detachments, and the main force was expanded by at least 9 regiments; 6. After the 685th Regiment of the 115th Division escorted the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army to Xuzhou for a meeting, it was deployed in the Huxi area to create a base area; 7. After the 115th Division led the troops directly under it and the 686th Regiment to complete the combat mission of defending the river defense, it chose the opportunity to march into Shandong; 8. After completing the task of building the third brigade and the ninth regiment of the army, our army in the Hebei-Shandong border was transferred to return to Yan'an to defend Yan'an and handed over to the command of the left-behind corps. The troops to be transferred must be fully manned and have sufficient ammunition. At the same time, our army needs to open up the connection with the south of the Yellow River and the Xiaoqing River valley, and open up the connection with Luxi and Jizhong, and several regions will support each other.

The instruction telegram from the Yan'an Headquarters transmitted by the division headquarters deployed tasks to the Military and Political Committee of the Hebei-Shandong Border Region from a strategic height, and also clarified the future development policy of the Hebei-Shandong Border Region.

After receiving the callback, Xiao Siming looked at it several times, pondered and pondered, and did not understand why he still sent Xiao Hua to lead the 343 Brigade Headquarters and cadres to advance into the Jilu border as in history.

When Wang Lushui saw Xiao Siming's pondering over and over again, he told him that he had called the division headquarters, the headquarters, and the Yan'an headquarters, asking for a higher level of leadership to be sent to the Jilu border to take command.

Xiao Siming blamed Wang Lushui in his heart for having a lot of farts to do, since he and Wang Lushui were on the Jilu side, where did he need to send a more senior leader, didn't he feel comfortable and put a spell on his head?

What he thinks in his heart, Xiao Siming will definitely not say it! (To be continued.) )