When the Battle of Taixi reached the siege and annihilation of the remnants of the 14th Division, Liu Yimin began to draft a telegram to the Central Committee and the General Headquarters.

The sound of artillery could be faintly heard in the distance, and the sound of the radio station sending and receiving and the sound of staff officers making phone calls in the room hit the ear drums, and Liu Yimin sat at the table, sometimes contemplating and meditating, sometimes moving his pen like flying.

Luo Ronghuan knew that Liu Yimin was going to report to the Central Committee on the follow-up battle plan after the end of the Taixi Campaign, so he asked Li Xiaoshuai to brew a large tea jar of strong coffee for Liu Yimin and put it in front of Liu Yimin.

After the 14th Division, the 35th Division and the 13th Brigade of the Japanese Army were annihilated, "the Japanese army will inevitably gather greater forces and carry out retaliatory operations against the main force of the instructors, in an attempt to eliminate the main force of the instructors and restore public order in Shandong." Moreover, the Japanese army will definitely learn the lessons of the Jiaoji Road Battle and the Taixi Campaign, and will no longer divide its troops and advance rashly, but will stick to the line of communication with a considerable number of troops, sweep the base areas, and advance in unison with several elite divisions and regiments under the cover of aircraft" or outflank in a roundabout way to find our main force for a decisive battle.

In view of this situation, Liu Yimin proposed in a telegram that in order to break the heavy offensive of the Japanese army, it is necessary for our army to divide its troops, return the main force to the base areas to stabilize the situation in the base areas, rest and wait for the situation, and take the newly formed brigades as the mainstay, sweep through southern Lunan, form an enemy posture of encircling Xuzhou and preparing to attack eastern Henan, and lead the enemy's heavy army group to the south. When the Japanese army pursued near Xuzhou, the various units of our army went south and divided their forces again, and a camouflaged main force broke through the Longhai Road and went south to "advance to the Jianghuai area, and continue to attract the enemy's heavy army group to pursue." The rest of the troops withdrew to the Lunan Mountains and the Weishan Lake area to "consolidate and develop the base areas."

The reason why Liu Yimin wanted to make such a plan was that he could not let the Japanese army's heavy army group stay in the east, and that the fighting in Shandong would be too frequent, which would affect military production and "be detrimental to the development of our army and the base areas." It is necessary to let the devils achieve a superficial victory in recovering Jinan, Jiaoji Road, and Jinpu Road" in order to achieve the goal of mobilizing and dispersing the devils, and turning the devils' field divisions into a communication line garrison. Only in this way will the little devil's strategic gaze be shifted from the Eighth Route Army, and our army will have fighters.

Liu Yimin's purpose is to bring the main force of the little devils back to the track of war in history, "Otherwise, it is impossible for the little devils to launch the Battle of Nomenkan if they blindly entangle the Eighth Route Army, and it is impossible to launch the Pacific War in the south."

In order to achieve the goal of luring the enemy southward, Liu Yimin proposed to the Central Committee that Luo Ronghuan should be left in Shandong, and that he himself lead a part of his troops to the south, "so that he can mobilize the devil's heavy troops out of Shandong" and can also support the Northern Jiangsu Detachment and the New Fourth Army, so as to open up the situation of the War of Resistance in the Jianghuai region.

As for whether the Japanese army will pursue the southbound troops and force the southbound troops to the Jianghuai Plain to encircle and annihilate them, Liu Yimin's method is that in the event of a crisis situation and when the troops cannot get out, he will order the main forces of Luzhong, Jiaolai, and Jiaodong to advance northward to "capture Qingdao, and order the main forces to advance to Cangxian and Dexian to capture Cangxian" and "completely cut off the supply lines of the Japanese army."

There is also a possibility that after the Japanese heavy army group pursued to Xuzhou, "it will no longer go south, and concentrate its forces on sweeping the base areas in Shandong." After analysis, Liu Yimin believed that there was basically no possibility of abandonment, and if the Japanese army stopped pursuing, the southbound troops would keep fighting southward, threatening the Japanese army's Yangtze River defense line, and the little devils would inevitably chase after it and use the Yangtze River defense line to flank our southbound troops from the north and south.

After drafting the telegram and handing it to Qian Zhuangfei and He Xinghua to take it for hair, Liu Yimin stood up, picked up the coffee on the table and drank it in a flat tone.

Luo Ronghuan laughed at him, such a cultivated person, drinking coffee is like a cow "Fortunately, Ni Hua didn't see it, otherwise he would have to die of laughter."

Liu Yimin put down the tea jar and called Li Xiaoshuai to make another pot, saying that it was still coffee to refresh himself, and he didn't sleep for two days and two nights, "The iron man will not be able to stay up."

When Li Xiaoshuai brought coffee again, he reported that the soldiers of the guard regiment were going crazy and wanted to go to the line of fire.

After winning the battle, Liu Yimin's face was full of pride, and he laughed, saying that Li Xiaoshuai was late in reporting, and now that he is on the battlefield, I am afraid that he will not even be able to see the bullet shells and shells of the little devils.

As soon as the words fell, Qian Zhuangfei sent a telegram from the "Lord" seat and the headquarters.

The chairman and the headquarters agreed to Liu Yimin's plan.

In the telegram, the chairman pointed out that the Kuomintang was convening the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee, and the central topic was to discuss the military, political, economic, diplomatic, and party affairs of the Second Phase of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. However, just before the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek made an appointment with Zhou Enlai to raise the issue of merging the two parties into one big party, and after being refused, Chiang Kai-shek asked Zhou Enlai to consult the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and give a clear answer during the meeting. On the first day of the opening of today's meeting, Chiang Kai-shek made a speech in the morning, and in the afternoon members of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang represented by Li Zonghuang submitted a motion calling for restricting the development of our party and our army.

In view of this situation, the "chairman" pointed out: "There are all kinds of indications that Chiang Kai-shek still adheres to the one-party dictatorship and attempts to annex the Communist Party, and it is very likely that the Fifth Plenary Session of the Kuomintang Central Committee will study the issue of how to restrict the development of our Party and our army, as the intelligence said, and may even set off an anti-communist upsurge after the meeting." Based on this, after careful study by the CPC Central Committee, the CPC Central Committee is preparing to give a clear reply to Chiang in the near future: The CPC will continue to consolidate and develop the long-term cooperation between the KMT and the CPC in line with the principle of "seeing each other with sincerity and keeping each other with trust," so as to unite the whole country to "tide over difficulties." The cooperation between the two parties in opposing the common enemy and realizing the common program is one thing, and the so-called merger of the two parties is a purely different matter. The former is the necessity of modern China, and the latter is not allowed by the fundamental principle. The Communist Party is sincerely willing to work together with the Kuomintang to strive for national independence, civil rights, and the people's livelihood and happiness, but the Communist Party must never give up its belief in Marxism and merge its organization with any other political party.

Considering that the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was a long process that required close cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the chair pointed out that in the future, all localities and units, including Shandong, must heighten their vigilance when cooperating with the national army, and while paying attention to maintaining and developing the united front, they must "be vigilant against the national army suddenly turning its face and making small moves."

The chief demanded that our army in Shandong divide its troops to the south, not only to transfer new brigades and detachments to temper its combat effectiveness, but also to transfer two or three main brigades to "form an elite corps to go south" to ensure that it can crisscross the Jianghuai River and quickly open up the situation, "to provide great support to the New Fourth Army, and the two armies to join hands to establish a powerful Jiangbei base area." After the situation is opened, one or two garrison brigades should be transferred to the leadership of the Central Plains Bureau, and one garrison brigade or detachment should be transferred to strengthen the New Fourth Army. The main force returned to Shandong with Liu Yimin to fight. However, in order to fight in the south, it is necessary to properly handle relations with the national army.

After reading the telegram of the "Lord" seat, "Liu Yimin's heart was gloomy, and he could not have imagined that the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression would have such a situation as it is today" Chiang Kai-shek still wanted to engage in his set of propositions of "preventing communism, limiting communism, dissolving communism, and opposing communism." It seems that this Chiang Kai-shek is really hopeless, and when the situation eases a little, he remembers the anti-communist scripture again. Did Chiang Kai-shek really want to set off several anti-communist upsurges, as he did in history?

Think about this is also normal"Since the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army have grown rapidly, and it would be strange if Chiang Kai-shek did not take measures to restrict the development of our party and army!" Chiang Kai-shek, as the leader of the Kuomintang and the Nationalist Government, allowed the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army to develop, and I am afraid that he would really die as he said.

Regarding the "big party issue", Liu Yimin knows it.

At the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee, Mao Zedong proposed in his political report that in order to ensure the long-term cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, it is necessary to solve the problem of the common organizational form of cooperation between the two parties.

Mao Zedong proposed two possible forms of organization: first, the Kuomintang itself became a national alliance, with all parties joining the Kuomintang while maintaining their independence; The second is that "all parties will form a national alliance on an equal footing, and support Chiang Kai-shek as the supreme leader of this alliance." Mao Zedong believed that "the first form is the "best form of organization", and proposed that a different method could be adopted from the first KMT-CCP cooperation, namely: first, all Communist Party members who joined the KMT should adopt an open form, and the list could be handed over to the KMT leadership. Second, not to recruit any Kuomintang members to join the Communist Party, and to persuade those who want to join "not to join." Third, the Communist Party's young members join the "Three People's Youth Leagues" and adopt the same method and do not organize secret party groups.

When Liu Yimin attended the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth CPC Central Committee, the meeting was nearing its end. When he saw the contents of Mao Zedong's political report on behalf of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, he "also specially sought out the chairman, and pointed out that under the current situation of rapid growth in the strength of our army, raising this issue would be an addition to the problem and would easily arouse the suspicion of the Kuomintang." At that time, the chairman criticized him, saying that he was a doll, commanding wars, and not thinking about political issues. The establishment of a unified organizational form of cooperation between the two parties is conducive to the long-term unity of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and to breaking the difficult situation in the stage of strategic stalemate.

Liu Yimin knew that the "chairman" was looking at the future of the all-people War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and put forward constructive suggestions, so he did not say more.

As Liu Yimin expected, after Vice Chairman Zhou met with Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek was very interested in our party's proposal to persist in the protracted War of Resistance and develop cooperation between the two parties, and asked Vice Chairman Zhou to write a written opinion and hand it over to him for study by the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang. This study has gone wrong. Chiang Kai-shek, on the grounds that "everyone does not approve of it," explicitly rejected the "cross-party" method of openly joining the Kuomintang while maintaining its independence, and instead proposed that the Communist Party and the Kuomintang form a "single organization," and proposed that if the Communist Party could not join the Kuomintang as a whole, it would be possible for some members to join the Kuomintang without "crossing the party."

The reason why our party proposed the establishment of a joint organizational form of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was to better unite the War of Resistance against Japan, so that Chiang Kai-shek's change would become the annexation of the Kuomintang by the Kuomintang, and Zhou Enlai naturally wanted to sternly refuse.

What Liu Yimin didn't know was that on the evening of the introduction of the sun, when the main force of the instructor launched the general offensive of the Taixi Campaign, "in the living room of Yunxiu in Huangshan, Chongqing, hugging Chiang Kai-shek's official residence, Zhou Enlai was debating with Chiang Kai-shek.

At this time, the Japanese army temporarily stopped the attack on the national army, and the Fifth Plenary Session was held as scheduled, and the only battle occurred between the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army. Chiang Kai-shek always said that he was in a good mood, and when he met Zhou Enlai, he asked if there was any report on the progress of the war in Jinan.

Although Deputy Zhou was in Chongqing, he was naturally very concerned about such a big battle as the Battle of Taixi, and he could also receive telegrams from the instructors, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, and the Military Commission in a timely manner. However, Deputy Chairman Zhou knew that Chiang Kai-shek also knew some information, after all, he had sent a communication and liaison group to his instructor, and he also gave Liu Yimin an order to stick to Jinan today.

Deputy Chairman Zhou replied: "Chairman, the war in Jinan is tense. As far as I know, the Japanese army dispatched five divisions from the direction of Dexian "to launch an attack along the Yellow River." After noon, the Japanese 1st and 2nd Divisions suddenly outflanked us from the north and south flanks in an attempt to encircle and annihilate our blocking troops. According to Liu Yimin's report, "the troops of our army's northern front are in a critical situation" and are urgently retreating. On the Eastern Front, the Japanese army dispatched four elite divisions and one armored brigade to attack rapidly along the Jiaoji Road and the Jiqing Highway. The Japanese army on the eastern front had already captured Weixian and was advancing towards Jinan. The Japanese army on the southern front attacked the front line of Tai'an and Feicheng with all its strength today, and was in a fierce battle with our army. The situation on the entire battlefield is not optimistic, "Whether there can be a miracle or not depends on tonight." ”

Although Chiang Kai-shek did not know that Liu Yimin was going to command the troops to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Japanese army on the southern front this evening, he knew that Liu Yimin's troops were out of luck and could not suffer losses under normal circumstances. Of course, it would be good if the little devil could make Liu Yimin suffer a big loss, lest he not know how to raise the sky, so he would not know how to lift.

Chiang Kai-shek pondered for a while and said: "Enlai, I have ordered Liu Yimin to stick to Jinan, fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army, and defeat the arrogance of the Japanese himself." Unless the Japanese army breaks through the city, it is not allowed to retreat privately. This is a military order: "Make sure you tell him." ”

Zhou Enlai frowned, could it be that Chiang Kai-shek urgently summoned him for this matter? After thinking about it, he still said: "Chairman, we are fighting against the Japanese army" is a protracted battle, and we cannot fight to the death with the Japanese army, which is exactly the trap of the Japanese army. General Liu Yimin is his wife's cousin-in-law, and the chairman of his troop strategy committee must also know that it is better to let him fight in a mobile way than to let him defend Jinan." ”

When Chiang Kai-shek heard this, his face was not very good-looking: "Has Liu Yimin already evacuated Jinan?" Niang Xipi! Han Xiangfang gave up Jinan without a fight, Liu Yimin dared to learn from Han Xiangfang, and he would also be spurned by the people of the whole country! It won't end well! ”

When Zhou Enlai heard this, no matter how good his self-cultivation was, he couldn't help it: "Is it a loss of nasal passage for the chairman to comment on General Liu Yimin, who has established immortal feats and is commanding troops to fight the Japanese army?" Everyone understands that "in the face of the attack of such a large number of Japanese troops", Jinan is a dead city. Sticking to Jinan is to want Liu Yimin to live and die with Jinan City. Is it better to let a people die in Jinan, or let him lead the troops to jump out of the devil's encirclement to find fighters to annihilate the enemy? Mr. Jiang said: "It's too chilling for the soldiers fighting on the front line. ”

Chiang Kai-shek was so choked that he rolled his eyes, and after a while, he said hatefully: "What kind of guerrilla warfare" is purely guerrilla warfare! The little devil came to fight Jinan, and Liu Yimin gave up Jinan. If the little devil comes to fight Chongqing, "Do I have to give up Chongqing?" What anti-Japanese generals? Under the fame, it is actually difficult to deserve! ”

Zhou Enlai knew that Chiang Kai-shek wished that Liu Yimin and his instructor would be surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army in Jinan City, and almost wanted to scold Chiang Kai-shek, so he endured it and said patiently: "Chairman, whether Liu Yimin is a famous anti-Japanese general, and how this battle should be fought, I believe that Liu Yimin will give a satisfactory explanation to the people of the whole country." Is that what the chairman summoned? If these are the case, please ask the chairman to order the resident tutor communication and liaison group to report in detail. I know very little about the situation at the front of the Great Rear "and cannot report in detail. ”

When Chiang Kai-shek heard this, he stopped dwelling on the war in Jinan, and instead asked the CCP about the answer to the "question of a big party."

Zhou Enlai had long expected that Chiang Kai-shek would summon him to discuss this issue, and directly replied: "Chairman," our party advocates the establishment of a unified organization of the two parties in order to establish mutual trust between the two parties. However, after all, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are two parties, and it is impossible to merge the Communist Party into the Kuomintang, and it is not conducive to unity in the War of Resistance. ”

Chiang Kai-shek's black-and-white eyes were fixed on Zhou Enlai: "My responsibility is to merge the Communist Party into the Kuomintang into one organization."

I beat you in the past to save the Communist Party's grass elements and merge with the Kuomintang, and this matter is a matter of life and death for me, and if this goal is not achieved, I will die and my heart will not be at ease, and it will be meaningless if the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is won, so my opinion will not change until I die. ”

What Chiang Kai-shek did not say was that he wanted to "dissolve the Communist Party," that is, to completely dissolve the Communist Party like the Kuomintang.

Zhou Enlai had already reported to the Central Committee of the CPC Central Committee and had also received principled instructions, so he replied without humility or arrogance: "The attitude of the chairman is too persistent. Now is the period of solidarity and resistance to war, at least we can cooperate with each other and develop together. ”

Chiang Kai-shek's attitude was arrogant, directly interrupting Zhou Enlai: "The Communist Party cannot develop among the people, because the people belong to the Kuomintang." If the Communist Party develops among the people, conflicts cannot be avoided. ”

Chiang Kai-shek's words are basically exactly the same as in history. However, history has changed, and with the strength of the Eighth Route Army today, the Communist Party no longer needs to look up to others. It's just that for the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Communists hoped that Chiang Kai-shek would lead the people of the whole country to unite and resist insults, and they were unwilling to have cracks in the united front.

What kind of person is Zhou Enlai, where would he be afraid of the threat in Chiang Kai-shek's words. I heard him say slowly: "The Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army were developed behind enemy lines, and they were developed among the people in the occupied areas. If it were not for the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army to lead the people in the occupied areas to persist in the War of Resistance, the situation of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China today would have deteriorated even more. To take the simplest example, if there was no main force of the Eighth Route Army to attract the main force of the Japanese army, would Hengyang still be able to hold it now? As the leader of the country, the chairman of the CPPCC National Committee should have a broad mind, "Don't be in the shoes of himself and Wang Jingwei and his ilk." ”

This said this, so angry that Chiang Kai-shek's face turned pale, and it took a long time to squeeze out a sentence from between his teeth: "Send off guests!" ”！ ~！