Liu Yimin originally wanted to keep these gentlemen in the Shandong base area and prosper Shandong's cultural and educational undertakings. Like Zou Taofen, he can serve as the president of Shandong's "Popular Daily", a position that has been vacant since Jingjing's sacrifice; Xiang Mao Dun, who can serve as the chairman of the Shandong Federation of Literary and Art Circles, is much more well-known and influential at home and abroad than Zhao Xiaoman, and can attract more writers to the base area; Like Xia Yan and Ouyang Yuqian, they can serve as the director of Shandong Film Studio and the chairman of the Dramatists Association; Xiang Ge Baoquan, who can serve as the head of the Department of Foreign Languages of Shandong University; Like Liang Xiaoming, he can serve as the president of Shandong University. It can be said that each of these cultural elites has a suitable place in Shandong.

Liu Yimin even envisioned learning from the Shanghai Concession's management methods for news and cultural undertakings, encouraging and supporting cultural celebrities to set up newspapers, radio stations, film companies, theater troupes, and publishing houses, so as to compete freely and let a hundred flowers bloom. In the future, we can take the lead in setting up television stations in Shandong, with private investment and government support, to form a well-developed news and cultural network, and to give birth to large market-oriented news groups, publishing groups, radio and television communication groups, and film companies.

Thinking about Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Cao Yu, and Xia Yan, who shone during the Republic of China and rarely produced masterpieces after the founding of New China, Liu Yimin thought about creating a good market for the prosperity and development of cultural journalism with free competition and a hundred flowers, creating a strong democratic atmosphere inside and outside the party, and cultivating a healthy democratic order within the party.

But now the conditions do not allow, and if the northeast is occupied, this plan can be implemented immediately. Not now. The base area in central and southern Shandong has a long coastline, which cannot be guarded against. The north, west, and south sides were blocked by rail. The area is small, and there is a lack of readers and audiences in big cities, whether it is a theater troupe or a movie, including newspapers and books. It can only be free propaganda to resist Japan. It's too difficult to form a cultural market. If all the supply system is implemented, these cultural celebrities will be dragged with their families. If you are accustomed to living a prosperous life, you will have different ideas over time, which is easy to cause unnecessary verbal disputes. And. There were frequent wars in Shandong. The Japanese army may be brewing a sweep of the base area in central and southern Lu! It is too unsafe to leave these cultural celebrities here, and in case of casualties, the losses are too great to outweigh the losses.

After the discussion with the cultural celebrities, Liu Yimin immediately instructed Cai Zhong to solicit the opinions of these gentlemen. In principle, we should try our best to mobilize everyone to go to the rear of Shaanxi, and those who want to go to Chongqing can also go to Chongqing. Arrange the transfer as soon as possible.

Next. Liu Yimin threw himself into the pile of affairs, busy dealing with military affairs and government affairs, and prepared to finish handling the matter at hand, so that he could return to Xi'an to report to work as soon as possible.

There is no way, Liu Yimin is not only the commander of the Shandong Military Region, but also the secretary of the Shandong Bureau, and he has to take care of the affairs of the party, government and army. He is the number one, and many things need to be reported to him for instructions in the final analysis.

At this time, the defense of Moscow on the Soviet-German battlefield was in full swing.

Because the predetermined objectives in the German army's "Barbarossa" battle plan were not fully realized, on September 30, the German Army Group Center concentrated 1,700 tanks, more than 14,000 artillery pieces, 1,390 aircraft, and 1.8 million troops to launch the "Typhoon" operation to attack Moscow, in an attempt to take Moscow within 10 days and completely defeat the Soviet Union. On the same day, the Germans tore open the Soviet left flank and made a detour. By October 8, the Germans had surrounded the main forces of the Soviet Western Front, the Reserve Front and the Subryansk Front, and were clearing the encirclement. On October 10, Stalin merged the remnants of the Western Front and the Reserve Front, which had broken out of the German encirclement, to form a new Western Front, and appointed General Zhukov as commander of the Western Front, with overall responsibility for the command of the Moscow Defense. On October 13, the Germans again broke through the Soviet defense line and surrounded the main Soviet army. On the 14th, Soviet government agencies and missions abroad withdrew from Moscow, but Stalin remained in Moscow, and the German army broke through to Mozhaisk, which was only 60 miles from Moscow, and at the same time completed the liquidation of the Soviet troops in the two encirclements of Vyazma and Bryansk, and the Soviet army was 663,000 prisoners, losing 1,242 tanks and 5,412 artillery and mortars.

Moscow, exposed to the guns of the Germans.

By this time, the weather was getting colder, and the road to Moscow was turned into a mud swamp, and the Germans had to stop their offensive and wait for the ground to freeze so that their armored clusters could pass.

Hitler never dreamed that the German army had missed the opportunity to capture Moscow during this short rest.

The Germans stopped their large-scale offensive and gave the Soviets a respite. On October 20, the Soviet Defense Committee imposed martial law on Moscow and its vicinity, ordering the population to build fortifications in the streets, even near the Kremlin, and to form new militia divisions to prepare the city for street fighting.

At the same time, the USSR Defense Committee began to draw reserves to concentrate on the Moscow front.

On November 7, Stalin ordered a military parade on Moscow's Red Square, in which teams of newly formed Red Army units were paraded in front of the Kremlin before heading to the front as if they were dead.

Heroic Moscow is preparing for a final desperate battle.

On November 15, the readjusted and replenished German forces launched another onslaught on Moscow.

At this time, the Soviet soldiers and civilians on the front line in Moscow had no way to retreat, and they hated the same enemy and fought to the death against the Germans.

The Soviet Red Army was in a more dangerous situation at this time than in history, the main forces of the Red Army in the western region were basically lost, most of the area west of Moscow had fallen, and the main forces of the Red Army guarding the Moscow line were the remnants of the Western Front and the reserve troops transferred from the rear. The main forces of the Red Army in the Far East, which Stalin had been waiting for, suffered another heavy blow in the Japanese-Soviet war, with astonishing losses. Moreover, although Japan and the Soviet Union signed a treaty of friendship and neutrality, and the Soviet Union temporarily avoided fighting on two fronts, the Red Army in the Far East could not advance west to reinforce the battlefield on the Western Front, because the Japanese army was wolf-like, and only relied on a paper treaty to restrain them from attacking the Soviet Union from the east at all, and Stalin was not at ease! Because if it were Stalin personally, he did not dare to guarantee that he would not fall into the ground.

Fortunately, although the Moscow area has entered the winter, the roads are frozen, but the German tanks are all gasoline engines, this winter is a rare severe winter in the history of Moscow, most of the German tanks, self-propelled guns, armored vehicles, and automobiles are difficult to start, and the soldiers lack winter coats and other equipment, and even the white cloth used for camouflage is not well prepared, and the offensive is difficult to continue. On the contrary, because the Soviet military and civilians were in danger of annihilation, they were determined to live and die with Moscow, and they were replenished and reinforced, and their morale was greatly boosted, and their confidence in holding Moscow was getting higher and higher. The famous words of the hero Crochkov circulated among the troops: "Russia is big, but there is no way back, behind it is Moscow!" ”

At this time, Stalin's greatest hope was for the Japanese army to immediately move south to Southeast Asia to fight, so that he could transfer the main forces of the Red Army in the Far East to the Moscow front, withstand the German attack, and turn to the counteroffensive.

General Apanashchenko, commander of the Far Eastern Military District, who relied on the Outer Khingan Mountains to deploy defenses, was already making preparations to reinforce Moscow, and this courageous general was not discouraged by the defeat in the Far East, but incorporated all the young and middle-aged people between the ages of 18 and 45 who retreated to the front line of the Outer Khingan Mountains into the Red Army, including the girls and those prisoners who were imprisoned for the Great Purge.

Stalin, who had come and go, finally received top-secret information: the Japanese army was about to fight south in Southeast Asia!

This valuable information comes from the Japanese detective Ko Nakanishi, the hero of the Sorge Group!

On October 10, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested the painter Miyagi, one of the core members of the Zorg group. The gendarmes tortured Miyagi, who committed suicide by jumping off a building, and was seriously injured by a broken bone blocked by a tree branch. The gendarmes still did not let go and continued to torture, but Miyagi could not survive and confessed to Hidemi Ozaki, the core member of Sorge's group, the secretary of Konoe Fumima, and the telegraph operator Clausen. On October 15, Hidemi Ozaki was arrested. On 18 October, Clawson and Zorge were arrested. Neither Miyagi nor Ozaki knew that Zorge's true identity was that he was an intelligence officer of the Fourth Bureau of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, only that Zolg was working for the Comintern. But with the arrest of Clausen's wife, Anna, the secret is revealed. Anna was a White Russian, who had been vetted by Soviet intelligence after marrying Clausen, so she knew that Zorge and his husband Clausen were working for the Soviet Army. Anna confessed the truth, and Clausen then confessed the truth.

This time, Sorge's identity as an adviser to the German Embassy in Japan and a special correspondent of the "Frankfurter Zeitung" in Tokyo was useless, and it was useless for German Ambassador to Japan Ott to personally meet with Japanese Foreign Minister Sadajiro Toyoda and ask for his release; the Japanese military police of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department cracked the big case, gave no face to anyone, and pursued and attacked fiercely, hoping to wipe out the intelligence network of the Soviet Red Army in China and Japan.

Sorge was arrested too suddenly, and he still has an important task to complete!

Sorge had already known confidential information about Japan's determination to advance south before his arrest, but he did not know the exact time of the war. He was trying his best to gather information when he was arrested by the Japanese military police.

At this time, Sorge had a variety of options, and the best choice was not to say a word and refuse to explain. In that case, he could be rescued by the organization. However, in this case, the Japanese military police will inevitably pursue and continue to track down the organization and intelligence personnel of the Sorge intelligence group in China. At this time, the Soviet Union was at its most critical, and accurate information on the movements of the Japanese army was urgently needed. If the Japanese military police had sabotaged the intelligence organization in China, the Soviet army would not have been able to obtain accurate information on the southward movement of the Japanese army, and the main force of the Red Army in the Far East would not have been able to move west to participate in the defense of Moscow. The most urgent task at the moment was not to think about personal life and death, but to think about buying time for the intelligence officers in China to find out the accurate information about the Japanese army's southward advance.