After explaining the matter of the anti-Japanese advance detachment in the northeast, Zhang Cheng gave Chen Jinbiao a warrant to receive supplies, and ordered him to immediately lead his troops to set off secretly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At present, the Battle of Xuzhou is in full swing, and the Japanese army is concentrating the main forces of the two major fronts in North China and Central China and the Kuomintang army to carry out a decisive battle with the main force, in a vain attempt to annihilate the main force of the Kuomintang army in one fell swoop and force the Kuomintang authorities to surrender.

Zhang Cheng knew that although the Japanese army won the Battle of Xuzhou and occupied more large cities in China, its strategic intention of annihilating the main force of the Kuomintang army was not realized, and finally Chang Kaishen ruthlessly broke the embankment at the mouth of the garden and caused a large area of yellow flood, so as to block the footsteps of the Japanese army, so that most of the main force of the Kuomintang withdrew to Wuhan.

Unfortunately, Lao Chang's hand still did not save the defeat in the Battle of Wuhan, and only four months after the embankment was broken, the Japanese army still won the Battle of Wuhan.

However, the Yellow Flood caused by the bursting of the embankment of the Kuomintang army caused a profound disaster to the people of North China, 900,000 people were drowned in the flood, tens of millions of people were affected, and directly led to the disaster and famine in Henan Province in the next two years, 3 million people were starved to death, and millions of people died of disease and starvation on the way to escape.

Later generations praised and deprecated Chang Kaishen's action of breaking the embankment, and those who praised it believed that this move delayed the pursuit of the Japanese army, allowed hundreds of thousands of main forces of the Kuomintang to escape, and preserved the main force of the Anti-Japanese War. They believe that the cost of exchanging the lives of 900,000 people for the escape of the main KMT force is completely worth it, because only by preserving these hundreds of thousands of KMT troops can the KMT government persist in the war of resistance to the end.

Detractors pointed out that when the Japanese ordered the pursuit to be stopped, the Chinese army had not yet excavated the embankment at the entrance of the garden. The embankment burst at Huayuankou was excavated on the 7th, and the water only came out on the 9th, and the order of the Japanese army to stop the westward advance was issued 3 days before the embankment burst at Huayuankou. They believed that the bursting of the embankment at Huayuankou had nothing to do with the overall situation of the Anti-Japanese War, but only caused 900,000 people to be affected and drowned by floods.

Zhang Cheng naturally belonged to the ranks of detractors, and the Kuomintang authorities paid for the incompetence of the soldiers at the cost of hundreds of deaths, which Zhang Cheng could not accept.

Zhang Cheng was determined to prevent the Huayuankou embankment breaking incident, and the Kuomintang authorities were not the main force that could not get rid of the pursuit of the Japanese army? Zhang Cheng believed that he could implement the method of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, and he would lead his instructors to attack the big cities occupied by the Japanese army, so as to attract the main force of the Japanese army to come back to rescue and help the main force of the Kuomintang escape.

If the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao was not successful, and the Kuomintang army still had to break the embankment at the entrance of the garden, Zhang Cheng had a second plan, that is, to send a force to put on the clothes of the Japanese army and ambush the Kuomintang embankment breaking force. Anyway, Zhang Cheng will not let the Huayuankou embankment burst incident repeat itself anyway.

Of course, there are still more than three months before the levee bursting incident, and Zhang Cheng still has enough time to make arrangements, and Zhang Cheng's main work now is undoubtedly to prepare for the teacher's strategy of advancing into Qilu.

In addition, Zhang Cheng had already received instructions from the central authorities, ordering the instructor's department to enter southern Hebei to establish an anti-Japanese base behind enemy lines. The instructions issued by the central government soon reminded Zhang Cheng of the historical Jidong Rebellion, but the leader of the rebellion was Deng Hua, the commander of the Eighth Brigade under Zhang Cheng's account.

Zhang Cheng saw from this historical event that Deng Hua had the ability to take charge of himself, and he thought that southern Hebei was bordering Qilu, so he decided to let Deng Hua lead the Eighth Brigade to take the lead in southern Hebei, establish an anti-Japanese base behind enemy lines in southern Hebei, and explore the way for the main force of the instructor.

The establishment of the Eighth Brigade in southern Hebei can not only be connected with the Qilu base area planned by the instructor, but also echo with the base areas behind enemy lines established by other brother units of the Eighth Route Army.

In addition, Zhang Cheng also planned to follow the successful experience of the Eighth Route Army in history, and after the main force of the instructor entered Qilu, he would establish the five major anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines in Luzhong, Lunan, Bohai, Jiaodong, and Binhai, and expand his influence to the entire Qilu with points and areas.

Of course, such a huge idea Zhang Cheng naturally could not be decided in a word, he convened all the members of the teaching instructor division, informed everyone of his plan to advance to Qilu, and intended to obtain the unanimous support of the division, and form a resolution to report to the central government for approval.

When Zhang Cheng unveiled the entire huge plan to march into Qilu at the meeting of the party committee of the division headquarters, all the members of the division headquarters were stunned, and they all stared at Zhang Cheng with the eyes of aliens, and admired Zhang Cheng's grand idea.

You must know that Qilu is not a deserted northwest region, under the hard work of Han Fuqu, Qilu at this time has a developed economy and rich people's livelihood, with a population of nearly 40 million people, far exceeding the area of the northwest more than ten times larger than it.

Although Han Fuqu did not let go of a shot to give up the land of Qilu to the Japanese devils, it is despicable, but its farming ability is still very good, and Qilu has become a very economically developed province in China under his governance in recent years.

If the instructor can occupy Qilu and use Qilu as a base, the political commissar and others even think that with Qilu's huge manpower and material resources, the instructor can defeat the Japanese army without entering the northeast.

Zhang Cheng was noncommittal to these whims of the political commissar, they did not know how strong the industrial strength of the Northeast was, so they said such childish words.

However, entering the Northeast is an established strategy that Zhangcheng must implement, and it is also very important to obtain the consent of the political commissar and others, so Zhang Cheng reported several industrial data in the Northeast, which shocked the political commissar and others into a cold sweat.

After listening to Zhang Cheng's introduction, the political commissar changed his attitude and told Zhang Cheng that he would simply march into the northeast now, saving the step of advancing to Qilu.

In fact, Zhang Cheng also wanted to do it in one step and go to the northeast now, but unfortunately the time had not come, if the Japanese army did not form a southward strategy, with the power of the instructor, in the face of the complete Kwantung Army, there was really no certainty of victory.

If the instructor marches into the Northeast now, it will undoubtedly be a hellish level of difficulty, and only when the Kwantung Army draws a large number of troops south, the difficulty will be reduced to the difficulty level.

Zhang Cheng told the political commissar that if the preacher entered the northeast now, his strength was far from being the opponent of the Kwantung Army, and only by taking Qilu and building a powerful field army with Qilu's powerful manpower and material resources could he enter the northeast and compete with the Japanese Kwantung Army.

After listening to Zhang Cheng's words, the political commissar calmed down his restless heart, and after thinking about it carefully, he had to admit that Zhang Cheng's opinion was correct, after all, the Japanese army was far stronger than the Eighth Route Army, and if the Eighth Route Army wanted to defeat the weak and drive out the Japanese invaders, it really had to follow the division commander's advice step by step, and there was no shortcut at all.

After the opinions of the people who unified the advanced army Qilu and then marched to the northeast, they planned around how to march into Qilu and establish the Qilu base area.