Wang Lushui was in a hurry to report to the division headquarters the results of the attack on Liancheng Town, but several people discussed this report to the division headquarters on the issue of leadership and command in the unification of the Hebei-Shandong border, and Wang Lushui immediately went to draft a telegram. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The night was too late, everyone was sleepy, and when Wang Lushui went to draft the telegram and send the telegram, the others went separately to rest.

Wang Lushui's telegram was written in great detail, which was equivalent to retelling the story of the battle in Lianzhen, and the capture must have been written more clearly, including the establishment of an armored battalion by the advance brigade and the appointment of Yuan Gang, an instructor of the first battalion, as the commander of the armored battalion.

During the war years, work efficiency was high, telegrams came from the front, and the division commanders were all ready to read and return immediately. Because of this, the division headquarters received a telegram from Wang Lushui, and learned that the eastward advance brigade had arrived at the Jilu border and had achieved fruitful results in a surprise attack on Lianzhen, and had also joined up with the comrades of the Jilu Border Working Committee and the 31st team, and did not stop for a moment, and immediately sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and Yan'an Fei, and sent a telegram back instructing that the military and political committee of the eastward advance brigade and the Jilu border work committee should be established on the basis of the military and political committee of the eastward advance brigade and the Jilu border work committee, with Wang Lushui as secretary, Xiao Siming as deputy secretary, Huang Hua, Hu Qingyun, Huo Cheng, Ma Zhenhua, Xing Renfu and five others were members of the committee to give unified command to our army in the struggle against the enemy in the Jilu border and to create a base area behind the enemy in the Jilu border.

In the reply telegram, the division headquarters instructed that the most important task of the advance brigade at present is to gain a firm foothold, reorganize the training of the troops, and strive to fully complete the strength of each battalion and form combat effectiveness. Otherwise, nothing can be done!

The division commander seemed to have a thorough understanding of the situation of the advance brigade, and knew that the advance brigade seemed to be well-equipped and had a lot of troops, but in fact it mainly relied on the eight or nine hundred men of the old independent battalion to continue to train new recruits and replenish troops.

The situation in the Hebei-Shandong border area was rather complicated, and the original Hebei-Shandong border work committee was set up by Yu Wenbin, who was appointed by Shandong Province to northern Shandong, and Ma Zhenhua, responsible person of the Jinnan Special Committee. Now, due to the Japanese occupation of Jinan, the Shandong Provincial Party Committee went to the Lunan Mountains to launch an uprising and form an anti-Japanese armed force, which was separated by the Yellow River and could not be contacted. Before Yu Wenbin's death, the working committee had already sent Li Guangwen, a political traffic officer, to Tianjin to find the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, and the Hebei Provincial Party Committee had already decided to send cadres to the Hebei-Shandong border, but it had not yet arrived.

Historically, after the five detachments went to southern Hebei with Xu Qianqian, deputy commander of the 129th Division, because Liu Jingliang's troops besieged Qingyun City occupied by the 31st detachment, the 31st detachment was in danger, and sent people to southern Hebei again to ask for help, and the fifth detachment and the Jinpu detachment were ordered to advance to the border of Hebei and Shandong. At that time, since the Fifth Detachment was subordinate to the 115th Division, it was temporarily under the command of the 129th Division, and Ma Guorui, director of the Propaganda Department of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Provincial Party Committee, who accompanied the army to the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Provincial Party Committee, served as a special commissioner of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Provincial Party Committee to guide the work of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Working Committee. Under the circumstances at that time, the Jilu Border Military and Political Committee was composed of leaders of the Fifth Detachment, the Jinpu Detachment, and the 31st Detachment, with Ma Guorui as secretary.

Since most of the area along the Jilu border belonged to Shandong, the five detachments of the main force advancing into the Jilu border were subordinate to the 115th Division, and when Zeng Guohua, the commander of the five detachments, reported to his superiors and requested that more powerful leaders be sent to the Jilu border for unified leadership, Xiao Hua, deputy director of the Political Department of the 115th Division and political commissar of the 343 Brigade, was ordered to bring a group of leading cadres eastward to the Hebei and Shandong borders, and the five detachments, the Jinpu detachment, and the 31st detachment were unified and reorganized into the eastward advance column of the Eighth Route Army, with Xiao Hua as the commander and political commissar. Subsequently, the Military and Political Committee of the Jilu Border Region was adjusted, with Xiao Hua as secretary.

At that time, because the headquarters of the 115th Division had not yet advanced eastward, the East Vertical was temporarily under the command of the 129th Division, the anti-Japanese democratic regime in the Hebei and Shandong provinces was under the jurisdiction of the southern Hebei Province, and the party organizations in the Hebei and Shandong Border areas were under the leadership of the Northern Bureau.

Now and unlike the situation in history, the 115th Division's eastward advance brigade is directly under the leadership of the 115th Division, and it has entered the Jilu border a few months ahead of schedule, and the strategy before departure has been repeatedly discussed, and there are not so many entanglements in the issue of unified leadership and command in the Jilu border area.

After thinking about it repeatedly, Wang Lushui, who received the telegram from the division headquarters, recommended to the division headquarters and the general headquarters that Comrade Xiao Siming be appointed secretary of the military and political committee of the Hebei-Shandong border region and Wang Lushui should be reappointed deputy secretary to lead and command the party, government, and army in the Hebei-Shandong border region to create a base area and launch the struggle against the enemy.

The reason Wang Lushui stated in the telegram was that Comrade Xiao Siming had a good cultural foundation, had passed the life and death test of the 25,000-mile Long March, and had grown into a commander with both wisdom and courage through the study and training of Kang Da. The series of battles from Yuxian to Lianzhen, especially in the struggle to sweep through the Xingxi area, proved that Comrade Xiao Siming not only had strong military command ability, but also had an extremely high policy level, and was fully capable of taking charge of the situation on his own.

Wang Lushui also said in the telegram that the 21 counties in the Hebei-Shandong border region have a population of 6 million, and the Japanese puppets and stubborn sects are intertwined, and the situation of struggle is extremely complicated. Moreover, the east of the Jilu border is the sea, the west is the Jinpu Road heavily defended by the Japanese army, the south is the Yellow River, the north is Tianjin, and the territory is an endless plain, without the cover of mountains, it is a place of four wars that is easy to attack and difficult to defend. This kind of topographical environment and complicated political situation require a strong leader who is both military and political as the core of leadership in the border region, and no mere military or political worker can do this job. Therefore, he solemnly recommended to his superiors that Comrade Xiao Siming should lead the struggle against the enemy in Hebei and Lubian in a unified manner!

Wang Lushui was originally a talent with both military and political skills, but as a party, government, and military leader in the Jilu Border Region, his qualifications were a little shallow. Now, he actually recommended Xiao Siming, who is less qualified than him, to his superiors, which shows that he is very optimistic about Xiao Siming and thinks that Xiao Siming has this talent!

Wang Lushui's original intention was to recommend talents to the party, but the problem was that Xiao Siming could fight again, but after all, he was too young and too young, so he was indeed a little too tender to make him the leader of the Jilu border area. Therefore, the division headquarters called back to criticize Wang Lushui and encouraged him to conscientiously shoulder his responsibilities and lead the work of building the Jilu border base area.

Perhaps in view of the fact that Wang Lushui's qualifications were too shallow to be a party, government, and military leader in a strategic region, the division headquarters said in a reply telegram that it would seek instructions from the General Headquarters and Yan'an, and strive to send a number of high-ranking cadres to the Jilu border as soon as possible to strengthen the leadership force in the Hebei-Shandong region.

If Xiao Siming knew about this, he would definitely say that Wang Lushui took off his pants and farted - one more thing!

Xiao Siming's soul traverser, whose vision and thinking are far higher than the vast majority of people in this era, are looking forward to being able to create a base area alone and realize the strategy and tactics in their hearts. Wang Lushui's modesty is nothing, it is very likely that Yan'an and the headquarters will really send senior leaders to the Jilu side to sit in town, and then Xiao Siming will have another mother-in-law on his head, if he wants to play according to his own style, I don't know how much nonsense he will say!

What Wang Lushui did not expect was that after the division headquarters reported the victory to the headquarters and Yan'an, the headquarters and Yan'an began to call to inquire about the detailed technical indicators of the captured Japanese tanks and armored vehicles.

Wang Lushui didn't understand this, so he had to call Xiao Siming up and ask him to call back to the headquarters and Yan'an.

Xiao Siming said that he didn't know, he just thought that tanks were similar to cars and three-wheeled motorcycles, and if he could drive a car or ride a three-wheeled motorcycle, he could drive a tank and armored car. As for the detailed technical parameters of Japanese tanks and armored vehicles, we have to go back and study them in detail.

Wang Lushui had no choice but to report to the division headquarters that he did not know the technical parameters of the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles, and then report when he went back and figured it out.

The unexpected is yet to come!

The Eighth Route Army was subordinate to the Second Theater of Operations, and in the past, when the Eighth Route Army won a battle, it first reported its victory to Yan Xishan, commander of the Second Theater, but now the 115th Division's eastward advance brigade advanced to the Jilu border and won a great victory at Lianzhen on the Jinpu Road.

The battle of Taierzhuang has reached a fever pitch. The Japanese army has already attacked Taierzhuang, and the defenders will not retreat, and they have fought flesh-and-blood with the Japanese army.

At this time, in Taierzhuang, the defenders are looking forward to saving soldiers like fighting fires!

The eastward advance brigade paralyzed the Jinpu Road in Lianzhen, and also captured tanks, armored vehicles, and ammunition supplies that the Japanese army had transported to the front line in Taierzhuang. In particular, more than 1,000 supplementary troops transported to Taierzhuang were eliminated, and although the support for the Taierzhuang front line was indirect, it was absolutely powerful, effective and significant!

Therefore, after receiving a telegram from the headquarters of the 18th Group Army, the Central Military Commission quickly forwarded the telegram to the Fifth Theater and the troops guarding Taierzhuang and Linyi to boost morale. At the same time, the Military Commission urgently sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, demanding that the number, strength, and name of the commander of the troops that captured Lianzhen be quickly reported!

The 115th Division's eastward advance brigade advanced to the Jilu border, which was far away from the main force and fought alone, requiring a high degree of concealment. The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army wanted to report to the Military Commission the exact number, strength of troops, and the names of commanders, fearing that the Military Commission would publish the battle report to the outside world, which would cause the Japanese army to retaliate against the advance brigade. However, the Central Military Commission is the commanding body of the anti-Japanese forces in China, and it is wrong not to carry out orders. In desperation, out of caution, the head of the general headquarters reported to the Military Commission that it was the 115th Division of the 18th Group Army that attacked and occupied Lianzhen, and that the detachment leader Xiao Siming, deputy detachment leaders Wang Lushui and Huang Hua, chief of staff Hu Qingyun, director of the Political Department Huo Cheng, and the total strength of the detachment was about 1,000 people.

This was the first time that the names of Xiao Siming and others appeared in the telegram from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to the Military Commission.

The bigwigs of the Military Commission who received the telegram, after repeatedly studying the map, then sent a telegram to the 18th Group Army, ordering the 115th Division of the 18th Group Army to advance to the detachment to counterattack Dongguang County, contain the Japanese army in Pingjin, so that it could not increase troops to the front line of Taierzhuang, and complete the defense of Taierzhuang in the Fifth War Zone!

Fortunately, the telegram from the headquarters to the Military Commission said that Xiao Siming's troops only had 1,000 troops, but did not say 3,500. Otherwise, the Military Commission does not know what kind of order it will give!

This is not that Chiang Kai-shek deliberately wants our army to fight with the Japanese army to break the net, but that the defenders of the Taierzhuang front line fought too tenaciously, too hard, and too miserably. Whether it is the bigwigs of the Military Commission or Chairman Chiang, what they are thinking about at this time is how to prevent the Japanese army from increasing troops to the Taierzhuang front line and create conditions for the Fifth Theater to encircle and annihilate the Segu Detachment, but it is also out of the public desire of the War of Resistance!

There was no regular army of the Chinese army on the North China Plain for a long time, and if there were, the Military Commission might have ordered an attack on Jinan and Dexian long ago, all of which were aimed at containing the Japanese army and preparing for the Battle of Taierzhuang in the Fifth Theater. It is a pity that there is no regular army with combat effectiveness on the North China Plain, and those miscellaneous armed forces are neither reliable nor contactable, and now a regular army suddenly appeared on the Jinpu Road, and as soon as it struck, it intercepted three Japanese military columns, eliminated more than 1,000 Japanese puppet troops, and even the tanks and armored vehicles transported by the Japanese army to Taierzhuang were captured. Such a unit, needless to say, is the elite unit of the 115th Division, the main force of the 18th Group Army, which just came in handy! Not now, but when!

As a result, the telegram issued by the Military Commission to counterattack Dongguang County arrived at the headquarters of the Eighteenth Group Army! (To be continued.) )