Liu Yimin knew that Wang Mingzhang's martyrdom was on the third day after the fall of Teng County.

During this time, Liu Yimin was busy setting up the leading organs of the Shandong Bureau and staffing various ministries. After being busy for a few days, it can be regarded as basically getting a little busy, and the selected and transferred cadres began to concentrate in the Culai Mountains from various units and localities.

After the initial completion of the work of setting up the organs of the Shandong Bureau, Liu Yimin sought out Zhong Xiaopei, director of the Propaganda Department, and proposed that the newspaper of the Shandong Bureau should be established immediately to meet the needs of publicizing the people, educating the people, and serving the War of Resistance against Japan. He was asked to immediately report to Political Commissar Luo Ronghuan, and Political Commissar Luo, Cai Zhong, and Zhong Xiaopei were responsible for studying the candidates for the newspaper's leading group, and after deciding, they immediately put into work.

Zhong Xiaopei asked Liu Yimin if he had any suggestions for the candidates for the newspaper's team, and Liu Yimin thought about it and proposed that Comrade An Jingjing graduated from Yenching University, joined the Red Army in Chengdu, served as the deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper of the Red Seventh Army Corps, and prepared for the establishment of the Shaanxi Provincial Anti-Ming Cooking Political Axe Organ Newspaper. This comrade has been tested by the war, is loyal to the party, is familiar with the newspaper gathering and editing business, and is an expert, and the main task of the central authorities sending her to Shandong should be to establish a newspaper, and it is suggested that she be appointed secretary of the party committee and president of the newspaper. Send her two assistants, one is Liu Daosheng, 25 years old, recommended by Comrade Sun Taolin, joined the party at Peking University in 1935, served as the secretary of the party branch of Peking University, was one of the student leaders of the 129th Movement, and the chairman of the All-China Federation of Students; The other is Kuang Yaming, 32 years old, sent by the central government, with deep revolutionary qualifications, and graduated from Shanghai University. The specific circumstances of these three people are clear to Political Commissar Luo and Director Cai.

After Zhong Xiaopei reported to Luo Ronghuan, he put forward a list of suggestions, proposing to appoint Comrade An Jingjing as secretary of the party committee and president of the soon-to-be-established Shandong Bureau, Comrade Liu Daosheng as member of the party committee and vice president, and Comrade Kuang Yaming as member of the party committee and editor-in-chief.

After the list was confirmed, Zhong Xiaopei led three people to meet Liu Yimin. Liu Yimin put forward that the guiding ideology of running the newspaper is to propagate the party's principles and policies and to propagate unity and resistance. The newspaper is positioned as an organ newspaper of the Shandong Bureau of the Central Committee, and the policy of running the newspaper is to publicize and serve the public, and to make the newspaper a large-scale newspaper with a comprehensive surname that integrates politics, struggle, knowledge, literature and art, and interest.

Jingjing reported on the personnel, equipment, and funds needed to prepare for the establishment of the newspaper, and explained the distribution and use of the newspaper-running equipment that was brought back from Tianjin, and that the newspapers in southern Hebei and western Luxi were all set up using equipment seized from Tianjin, and now they have the equipment, editors, reporters, and printing workers, and the conditions for preparing for the establishment of the largest and most influential newspaper in Shandong. Ask the teacher to name and inscribe the masthead of the newspaper that is about to be born, and if possible, ask the teacher to write the statement for publication.

Liu Yimin happily ordered the pen and inscribed the four big characters of "Popular Newspaper". Then he wrote down four sentences: "The voice of the Anti-Japanese War, the voice of the people, the window of knowledge, and the fountain of culture". After writing it, thinking that it was not comprehensive enough, I inscribed four more sentences: "firm and correct political direction, serious and serious work style, real and persistent news guarding, vivid and fresh new style of writing."

After putting down the pen, Liu Yimin said to Jingjing and the three of them: "Among the three of you, Jingjing is a journalistic talent of our army and has made many great contributions. Comrade Kuang Yaming is a veteran party member and comrade who has rich experience in struggle and has experienced the test of arduous struggle. Although Comrade Liu Daosheng was young, he had experienced the baptism of the 129 Movement and was a prestigious student leader. It is hoped that the three of them will work closely together and cooperate with each other. All cadres and workers of newspapers are under militarized management, and they must undergo military training, and they are reporters and editors who pick up a pen, and they are team members and combatants when they pick up a gun. At the very least, everyone should have the ability to protect themselves and be able to fight bravely in the face of the enemy. Comrade Xiaopei went to the chief of staff in a moment and conveyed to him my order to transfer cadres and fighters from all units directly under the division to turn Jingjing and Zhao Xiaoman's guard squad into a guard company of the propaganda and cultural system, which was responsible for the security work of the newspaper office and the radio station and art troupe that was to be established. The guard company should have field capabilities to ensure that it can cover the safe transfer of the propaganda department in times of crisis. All staff of the newspaper are issued with weapons and ammunition in accordance with the standards of the guard regiment. The problem of funding should be solved by Wu Zheng, and the supply should be guaranteed. In the future, the funds will be included in the financial supply of the political axe and will be allocated on time. As for the publication statement, it is up to you to write it. Later, the newspaper was under the leadership of the Propaganda Department, and reported to Minister Zhong if there was something to do. Particularly major issues are to be checked by Political Commissar Luo. ”

Jingjing saw that all the problems of preparing for the establishment of the newspaper had been solved, and even the safety and security problems had been solved, she was happy, her eyes were shining, her face was vivid, and she stepped forward to pour water for Liu Yimin. While pouring water, he said, "Thank you!" ”

Zhong Xiaopei is a senior leader, he knows a little about Liu Yimin, and when he saw the expression on Jingjing's face, he was afraid that she would say something that would embarrass Liu Yimin in excitement, so that Kuang Yaming and Liu Daosheng could see the emotional entanglement between the two, and after standing up and shaking hands with Liu Yimin, he pulled the three of them and left.

When he went out, Liu Daosheng complained to Zhong Xiaopei and said, "Minister Zhong, why are you in a hurry to leave? What a precious opportunity today, Chief No. 1 is so busy that he can find time to listen to our report, and I still have many questions I want to report to him and listen to his instructions! ”

Zhong Xiaopei said with a smile: "Comrade Liu Yimin is very busy, and we are also busy. ”

Jingjing glanced at Zhong Xiaopei, sighed, and muttered in a low voice: "The original Director Cai is biased, and Minister Zhong is also biased. ”

Zhong Xiaopei's ears were sharp, and when he heard Jingjing's words, he laughed silently, and asked the three of them to go back and quickly set up the editorial department and printing house first, and make preparations for the establishment of the journal.

After sending a few people away, Liu Yimin found Li Yu to discuss how to carry out the financial and taxation work in the base area.

According to Liu Yimin's line of thinking, the Shandong base area must establish its own bank, issue renminbi, and straighten out the financial system. Establish an industrial system in the Yimeng Mountains, open up coal, iron, and gold mines, and use the technicians, workers, and national capitalists mobilized from Tianjin to set up various enterprises to ensure the normal production of daily necessities in the base areas. As for the military industry, it is under the overall management of the Logistics Command. On the commercial side, the idea is to try to maintain circulation, formulate preferential policies, and encourage traders to trade with the base areas. After the coastal city has been established, it is necessary to think of doing business with foreigners, especially those neutral countries, and use the money to buy their goods to meet the needs of the development of various undertakings in the base area. In terms of agriculture, in addition to wheat, the autumn crops in Shandong are mainly sorghum and soybeans, and corn is rarely planted. The plains are not bad, but the mountainous areas are not, the yield of wheat per acre is between 50 kg and 110 kg, and the yield of sorghum and soybeans is even lower. As for vegetables, there are even fewer types, basically radish, cabbage, green onions, ginger and garlic, which are far from the number of varieties when they were reclaimed in Xi'an. With such a grain output, the Yimeng base area could not support so many troops, so it could only wage a war for grain with the Yue army in the plain area. Therefore, it is necessary to vigorously transform seeds, build water conservancy, and increase the output per unit area. It is also necessary to vigorously promote the cultivation of corn and sweet potatoes, and replace fine grains with coarse grains to ensure grain supply.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of these major pieces of work, Liu Yimin asked Li Yu to organize personnel to seriously study and set up a financial and taxation department as soon as possible to adjust the economy of the base area by fiscal and taxation means; Organize the land reform committee as soon as possible, study and formulate the land reform policy in the base areas of Shandong with reference to the policy of the base areas in Shaanxi, and truly turn the peasants into the main force in our resistance.

Liu Yimin said a lot, and Li Yu remembered a lot. Finally, Li Yu said: "Secretary Liu, what you said is very good, I heard that you once wrote a plan for the construction of the Shaanxi base area, and the central government organized the construction of the base area step by step according to your plan. ”

Liu Yimin said yes, but after all, Shandong is different from Shaanxi, it is a large rear, and it is generally safer. Shandong is the front line of resistance against Japan, and some policies in Shaanxi have to be reconsidered in Shandong. For example, in the land reform, Shandong has now completely fallen, puppet regimes have been established one after another, and many leading figures and landlords have become Han annihilation. This would have been a good thing, clearing some of the obstacles to land reform. However, if all the landlords' land is confiscated, it will be easy to push the vacillating landlords to the opposite side, and it will also be easy to chill the landlords who actively support the resistance. This issue must be carefully studied.

After the two of them discussed, Li Yu took his leave. Liu Yimin was thinking about asking Li Xiaoshuai to see if there was any information on the operation of the Jinpu Line, when He Xinghua sent a telegram from the headquarters.

Liu Yimin saw that the telegram from the headquarters reported three things: First, after sweeping the western part of Jinxi, the Shanxi army began to concentrate its forces to attack the northern section of the Tongpu Railway, and judged that the purpose of the army was to open up the connection between Taiyuan and Datong and consolidate the line of communication. Second, he reported a telegram from Chairman Xingying of Wuhan Committee, saying that Chen Yaoguang's parents had been released and someone had been sent to escort them to Xi'an. The third is to report on the operation situation on the southern front of Jinpu Road, Tengxian County has been lost on the night of March 21, and all 5,000 defenders have been killed except for 500 who broke through the siege. Wang Mingzhang, the former commander-in-chief of the 22nd Group Army and the commander of the 122nd Division, was martyred when he broke through the siege.

After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin was extremely irritable, saying that the army's combat situation in Shanxi was nothing, he occupied his line of communication, and I built my base area, or it would not be long before the current strength of the 115th Division, the 120th Division, the 129th Division, and the Reading Division, as soon as the devil's heavy army group withdrew, the devils guarding Shanxi would be forced to be trapped in the communication line and unable to move. Chen Yaoguang's parents have nothing to do, touch their toes and count, you can know Chairman Jiang's expression when he received his telegram, with Chairman Jiang's surname, he will naturally let Chen Yaoguang's parents go, but the unlucky one must be Dai Li, he must have called Dai Li to scold again, saying that he lost his wife and soldiers, and then had to release people.

The most unexpected thing for Liu Yimin was Wang Mingzhang's death. Thinking about what a fucking bag, I have already sent Zhu Zhexiao and Wang Pengju to see Wang Mingzhang, and told him all the roundabout tactics that the army may adopt, and even the accurate marching route and assembly location of the army are clearly stated, how can there be a heroic battle to defend Tengxian County like in history! Can't we concentrate our forces to ambush it, not to mention annihilating it completely, at least defeat it with the 10th Wing or the 63rd Wing of the Seya Detachment!

Now it is good, not only has the army taken Tengxian, but the Fifth Division in Heze and the 16th Division in the Yimeng Mountains have already made preparations to attack Xuzhou. It is foreseeable that once the 39th Wing of the 10th Division reinforces the 6th Brigade and fails to attack Linyi, the 16th Division will inevitably pounce on it like a hungry wolf, and Pang Bingxun's troops and Zhang Zizhong's troops will be powerless to stop it. If this development continues, it is very likely that not only will it fail to achieve the great victory of Taierzhuang in history, but it will even become a rout in Xuzhou.

The more Liu Yimin thought about it, the more annoyed he became, so he asked He Xinghua Ma Shan, who sent the telegram, to contact Hong Chaoyuan, and thought of sending troops to contact Zhu Zhexiao and Wang Pengju, and walked out of the courtyard by himself and rode his horse to the mountain.

This Culai Mountain is the sister mountain of Mount Tai, according to legend, Culai Mountain is the product of Zhang Guolao and Bixia Yuanjun's fighting spirit, it is said that Zhang Guolao in order to compare with Bixia Yuanjun, riding a donkey from all over the mountains stacked together. Therefore, Culai Mountain is also called Daolai Mountain. Later, the mountain was too high, and many goblins gathered to plague the people, and they were condemned by the Jade Emperor. Zhang Guo whipped it in a fit of anger, and it became the current Culai Mountain.

It's March 24 now, and the lunar calendar is also in late February, and the peach blossoms and apricot blossoms are already budding. Liu Yimin came up the mountain, his eyes were full of green, and only the tall pine trees seemed to be waiting for a warrior, holding his head high. Liu Yimin couldn't help but recite the Book of Songs. Lu Song" in "The pine of wandering, the cypress of Xinfu." It is a break is a degree, and it is a ruler. ”

After groaning, he found a flat stone slab and sat down, looked at the new green in his eyes, and silently thought about his thoughts.

His original plan was to secretly enter Shandong, take advantage of the opportunity when the main force of the army went south to fight and had no time to take care of it, bury himself in development for a while, and expand the troops and base areas as much as possible. Now the first step has been made. So far, the army did not know that the main force of the instructor had advanced eastward, and the 22nd Division, the 23rd Division, the 24th Division, the 27th Division, and the Fifth Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Brigade were still honestly staying on the communication line and staring at central and southern Hebei. If the army learns the truth, these divisions and regiments will immediately set off another storm in central and southern Hebei. If they go south, the pressure on Xuzhou will suddenly increase. If they go all out to encircle and suppress the Jilu border, then Zhang Hongtao may have to jump to the outside line to fight.

His original idea was to divert the spearhead of the devil's attack from the Eighth Route Army, return the war track to the original strategy of the Yue Army, let them occupy Xuzhou, let them launch the Battle of Nomenkan, and finally launch the Pacific Campaign. Now it seems that history has changed, and the situation of the army may also change. If there is no great victory in Taierzhuang, the army will soon launch the Battle of Wuhan, and the losses of the Chinese side will be great.

Thinking about it, Liu Yimin felt that he seemed to have changed a little during this time. The officers became bigger and bigger, the troops under their command became larger and larger, and they became more and more like a senior chief. However, self-restraint is also growing. Thinking about the first time I saw [***] them in the passage, I couldn't help but talk at length, and I didn't care about the consequences of these words at all. If it were now, would you still say those things?

Liu Yimin couldn't help laughing, if it were put now, I am afraid that if I want to say it, I will say it in a different way and quietly. From this point of view, it shows that he is mature and sophisticated, but he also lacks a lot of sharpness. Are you still the Liu Yimin who walked in the front and led the team forward? It's a big truth for me to open and close my mouth now, of course, I haven't said anything wrong, and the overall decision is right. However, if this development continues, the fresh, youthful, and charismatic Liu Yimin may be gone, and he will be replaced by a consistently correct little old man of Marxism-Leninism. If this is the case, don't say that you deliberately avoided Zhao Xiaoman and Jingjing, I'm afraid that even Ni Hua and Tang Xingying will regret why they fell in love with themselves in the first place.

Thinking of this, Liu Yimin couldn't help but blurt out: "! ”

As soon as the words came out, Liu Yimin couldn't help but glance around, and saw that the mountains were all quiet, except for the guards and soldiers, there was no one else, Liu Yimin smiled and continued to think about what to do now.

There is no doubt that the most urgent task in the operation on the Jinpu Line is to think of holding back the Fifth Division, the 16th Division, and even the 114th Division, which is rushing to Yanzhou, so that they cannot go to reinforce Taierzhuang, so that the Fifth Theater has time and ability to defeat the 10th Division. Li Zongren must have also made arrangements. However, with the strength of the Third Group Army in the southwest direction of Shandong and the troops of Zhang Zizhong and Pang Bingxun in the Linyi direction, it is still possible to block the devils of a brigade and regiment, and it is absolutely impossible to block a complete permanent division. I am afraid that once the 5th Division and the 16th Division are pressed by the whole army, the 20th Army of Townenbo will not be able to withstand it.

It seems that the question of how to make a move will have to be seriously studied!

When this thought came together, Liu Yimin couldn't sit still, couldn't help but touch a cigarette, and pondered while smoking which devil was the most suitable target for him.

It's still the old rule, and in a war, capture must be taken into account first. Tianjin is naturally the material base of the North China Front, but now it is impossible to go, and if you want to go to Tianjin, you have to pass the pass of the 24th Division in the northern section of the Jinpu Road. Jinan is not yet the time to go, that is to [***] in Xuzhou breakthrough or Wuhan battle to go to the place, take Jinan to play a role in pulling back the main force of the army, to save the situation. Now it's time to work quietly, so that the devil's arsenal is emptied and you don't know who did it. If this is the case, then Yanzhou has become the preferred place, where the rear base of the 10th and 5th Divisions is hoarded, and the arms and materials of the two divisions are hoarded, as well as their field hospitals and logistics organs. After taking Yanzhou, the arms supply of the 10th and 5th Divisions will be completely cut off immediately, so that the devils who say that they can't fight if they want to!

How can I get to Yanzhou? Liu Yimin suddenly thought that in history, Dawenkou Town, which was not far away, was not only an important commercial port and material distribution center, but also the location of the airfield when the army attacked Taierzhuang, and it was also a second-class station on Jinpu Road.

Liu Yimin regretted it at once, he was just thinking about passing by at that time, why didn't he want to take advantage of the situation to occupy Dawenkou?

(To be continued)