The war was imminent, Liu Yimin didn't think much about it, and directly called Li Yu and told him that the other leaders of the Shandong Bureau were going to the front line, and he stayed in Longting to preside over the work of the Yimeng Central Base Area, and the task was to quickly complete the Shandong Anti-Ming Boiled Senate Council, and after the Luzhong Campaign began, the news of the establishment of the Shandong Anti-Ming Cook Senate would be announced to the public. It is necessary to seize the time and come up with the statute of the Shandong Senate as soon as possible, and immediately go to Political Commissar Luo and Director Cai to take out the list of Chengren members of the Senate Group and the responsible persons of various departments, and submit them for approval.

At the Dragon Court meeting, Li Yu was criticized by Liu Yimin, so when he saw Liu Yimin, his demeanor was a little unnatural. Who is Liu Yimin? How can you not see through it? So he pulled Li Yu to sit down, asked the guards to pour water, and patiently explained why he was criticized at the meeting.

According to Liu Yimin, the reason why Li Yu was criticized was because after the main force advanced eastward, the Shandong Bureau was established, and the leaders had arrived, and Comrade Li Yu had strong organizational principles, and he reported a lot of incidents, but he did not dare to make a decision on some things, which was a little inconsistent with Li Yu's fearless spirit in the early days of going to Shandong alone to restore the party organization. Now is the period of arduous anti-Japanese war, what people need is not to scruple about rules and regulations, but to dare to think, dare to speak, dare to do, and do everything to rapidly increase the strength of our party and our army and eliminate the Japanese invaders as the overall situation.

Finally, Liu Yimin patted Li Yu on the shoulder and said, "I appreciate your indomitable spirit when you first arrived in Shandong, and we need this spirit." Comrade Li Yu, we want to build a new China in the future, and Shandong is an important base for us to build a new China. As a high-ranking cadre of the party, a loyal member must dare to be responsible, just like the original uprising in Culai Mountain, heroic and resolute, overwhelming all enemies and difficulties. Now that we have entered Shandong, the situation is developing rapidly, and the work requirements are even higher. The reason why you are in charge of political affairs is because you take a fancy to your talent and knowledge and are more familiar with Shandong than we are. You are bold, the Central Committee and the chairman trust you, I trust you! ”

Liu Yimin's last words made Li Yu's eyes, which were a little melancholy due to criticism, suddenly light up, and he talked with Liu Yimin for a while about the preparatory work for the establishment of the Senate, and then left.

After Li Yu left, Liu Yimin thought that he was busy with patronage, and Zhu Rui and Guo Zihua didn't know if they had set off, seeing that it was already dark, maybe they would have to go on a night walk, so they had to see them anyway. So, I asked Li Xiaoshuai to see if Comrade Zhu Rui and Comrade Guo Zihua had left Longting. If not, please come and have a meal and meet with us.

Li Xiaoshuai reported that the two chiefs were waiting outside, saying that they were coming to resign. In addition, Huang Wenhu and they are back, Wang Pengju and Zhu Zhexiao are also back, and they are all waiting outside.

As soon as Liu Yimin heard this, he asked him to invite Comrade Zhu Rui and Guo Zihua, and let Zhu Zhexiao and Wang Pengju go to dinner first, and see them after the meal.

After Zhu Rui and Guo Zihua came in, Liu Yimin asked Li Xiaoshuai to light the lantern, go to open a few boxes of canned food, and get a can of Moutai wine, he wanted to chat with the two comrades while drinking.

Guo Zihua is an old revolutionary, this year is 42 years old, is a native of Guo Songzhuang, Tushan District, Pixian County, Jiangsu, in 1919, during the May Fourth Movement, he was elected as the president of the Xuzhou Student Federation, and participated in the establishment of the [***] early Marx Theory Research Group, with very old qualifications. Before serving as the head of the United Front Work Department of the Shandong Bureau, he served as the secretary of the special committee of the Sulu-Henan-Anhui Border Region, and had just organized and led the armed uprisings in Peixian, Tengxian, and Yixian in early March. At that time, Liu Yimin was leading his instructor into Shandong, and when he received a report from Li Yu, he immediately instructed to merge the rebel forces of the three counties and drive them to the Baoqinggu Mountains to persist in the struggle. Later, Guo Zihua reorganized the armed forces of the three counties into the first corps of the Lunan People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Corps, appointed Zhang Guangzhong as the captain, He Yiping as the political commissar, and Wang Jian as the new director of the political department.

Zhu Rui is also amazing. He is a native of Zhu Daxingzhuang, Longhe Town, Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, and went to the Soviet Union to study at Sun Yat-sen University in 1925, and after graduation, he went to study at the Soviet Artillery Officer School, and also joined the Soviet Union. After returning to China, he served as a special commissioner of the Central Committee and chief of staff and secretary general of the Military Commission of the Yangtze River Bureau. After entering the Central Soviet Region, he served as the section chief of the General Headquarters of the Red Army, a teacher of the Red Army School, the political commissar of the Red Third Army, the political commissar of the Red Fifth Army Corps, and the director of the Political Department of the Red First Army Corps. Historically, he not only served as the political commissar of the Shandong Column, the secretary of the Shandong Military and Political Commission, and the secretary of the Shandong Branch, but also the founder of our army's artillery, the principal of the Yan'an Artillery School and the Northeast Artillery School, and the commander of the artillery column of the Northeast Field Army.

Liu Yimin knew that the positions held by these two people in history were not in line with their qualifications and contributions, and even the chairman felt that Zhu Rui was a bit demoted to the Northeast, and Guo Zihua was even more so. However, at that time, the [***] people were bent on resisting, and they generally didn't talk about their personal grievances.

Seeing that Liu Yimin was going to invite him for a drink, Guo Zihua and Zhu Rui both said that No. 1 was not polite, they were here to listen to instructions and farewell, and they were about to leave.

Liu Yimin asked them to sit down, and waited for Li Xiaoshuai to open the can and pour the wine before saying: "Two brothers, you are about to go to the front line, as the saying goes, wine strengthens heroes, and we drink to see us off, which can be regarded as imitating the ancients." When I used to read "Water Margin", I thought that the best chapter written by Shi Nai'an was Wu Song fighting the tiger, and when I read that Wu Song slapped the table after entering the wine shop: 'Shopkeeper, cut two catties of beef, sift three bowls of wine', my heart beats, that is the true character of a hero! ”

Zhu Rui was educated in a formal military academy and had a rigorous style, but Guo Zihua was different, he was a legend himself, and his long-term career as a professional revolutionary had already trained him to become an old man. As soon as I heard Liu Yimin say this, I felt that this number was my temper, so I directly picked up the wine bowl and took a big sip, picked up the chopsticks and sandwiched a piece of beef from the canned food box, and said after eating: "That's it, I also feel the same way, I like the hero Wu Erlang the most in the Water Margin, heroic and righteous, and his heart is like a child." No. 1, you don't want the two of us to be Wu Song, do you? ”

Even Zhu Rui laughed out loud at this.

After laughing, the three of them started chatting while drinking.

Liu Yimin said to Guo Zihua: "Do you know why I sent you to Luzhongnan? ”

Guo Zihua kept a wine glass in one hand and chopsticks in the other, and said while eating: "Isn't that why you fancy my familiarity with the surrounding areas of Xuzhou?" You are the leader in terms of position, and I am a brother in terms of age, so if you have anything to explain, you can say it directly! ”

Liu Yimin touched a drink with him, and then said: "You are right, I really fancy your influence in the Sulu-Henan-Anhui border region and the Lunan region. However, there is nothing here, with our main forces here, as long as we win more battles, any problem can be solved. What I value most about you is your firm ideals and beliefs, as well as the spirit of unremitting struggle and perseverance! ”

When Guo Zihua heard this, he felt that he had met a bosom friend, so he opened the conversation box and told him about his struggle experience in developing the party organization in the Sulu-Henan-Anhui border area after losing contact with the party organization.

After hearing this, Liu Yimin said: "In my mind, you are one of the representatives of outstanding [***] people. Without further ado, I sent you to southeastern Ludong this time, first, to ask you to assist Wang Nanhu in commanding the southeastern Lunan detachment. This is a newly established unit, but the foundation is an old unit, politically reliable, excellent work style, strong combat effectiveness, Wang Nanhu is a first-class general brought out by me, both military and political. You can just go with confidence. The second is to ask you to pull the team. Xuzhou may fall soon, I judge that after the fall of Xuzhou, Lunan, southeast Lu and even the entire Sulu-Henan-Anhui border area is a situation where heroes are swarming and there are many commanders. I am happy to tell you that after the main forces of the Fifth Theater retreat, our army in this area will be the boss, and we will have the final say. Your task is to rely on the Fifth Brigade and the Southeast Lu Detachment to vigorously reorganize the armed forces of various local forces and strengthen the armed forces of our army. The First Brigade of the Lunan People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Corps should be reorganized into a regiment of the Lunan Southeast Detachment, which will provide logistical supplies and military training for it. In the future, as the main force of our army, the Fifth Brigade will mainly undertake field tasks, and the southeastern Shandong detachment will rapidly expand and assume the garrison tasks in the southeastern and southern Shandong regions. Hong Chaoyuan, Hu Xuerong, and Wang Nanhu will do this. However, they generally adopt the method of disarming and reorganizing, and this method is applicable to the more reactionary armed forces, but not to the local armed forces that are actively resisting. Letting you go is to make up for it. You have already done some work in the Mo Zhengmin Department of Ju County, and I heard that Mo himself is also willing to join the party. This time, after you take Ju County, you will compile the Mo Zhengmin Department and the Southeast Lu Detachment, and all the officers of the Mo Department will enter the first branch of Kang University to study. After studying, Mo Zhengmin can serve as a regimental-level cadre. The third is to eliminate the Han annihilation forces. Speaking of Han Jian, it is a headache, and you also know that many Chinese people are insensitive, do not know how to rise up to fight, not to mention, and can not withstand the temptation of small favors and small favors of the Yue army, and often help the Yue army spy on intelligence for a few dozen yuan, and the Battle of Songhu suffered this loss, and the landing site of the Yue army's reinforcement of the roundabout troops was selected by those who received money from the Yue army's reconnaissance troops. Now there are many Han annihilation in the surrounding areas of Jinan and Qingdao. If this development continues, it is likely that there will be a tragedy like Zhang Hongfan's destruction of the Song Dynasty. When the time comes, our army will have to concentrate on fighting against the Han annihilation puppet army, and it will be dangerous. How to avoid the situation of too many Han anniversary? The most important thing is to formulate policies that are supported by the masses, so that the masses can support us, support us, and love the country and defend the country. Of course, fundamentally, it is necessary to rely on the elimination of the puppet forces in order to stop the phenomenon of Han annihilation and mass uprising. Therefore, I have ordered Hong Chaoyuan to eliminate Liu Guitang, the commander of the Puppet Emperor's Cooperative Army. This Liu Guitang is basically all scum, as bad as this devil. We don't want any of them, and all of them will be shot for the most heinous crimes, and those who have committed less serious crimes will be escorted to work at the logistics base. Fourth, it is necessary to develop the political power organization in southeastern Shandong and strive to build southeastern Shandong into a solid base area. You can rest assured that our party has a certain foundation in the southeastern part of Shandong, such as the Wulian Mountain Area, where there are our party organizations, and you must rely on them to restore their organizational relations and quickly establish political power. ”

After Liu Yimin finished speaking, Guo Zihua said: "No. 1, you are southeast Lu, Lunan, and Sulu-Henan-Anhui border area, where do you let me focus on?" ”

Liu Yimin said: "You are the head of the United Front Work Department of the Shandong Bureau, and the political commissar of the Shandong Southeast Detachment and the Secretary of the Party Committee of the Shandong Southeast District are only part-time. Now the southeastern Lu detachment and the Fifth Brigade of the Jiao are used intensively, and after you go there, these issues will be considered in a unified manner. ”

Guo Zihua nodded, wiped his mouth and said, "I also drank the wine and ate the canned food." I'll be gone. Secretary Liu, Commander Liu, Division Commander Liu, and Commander No. 1, although you can rest assured that you will go north to organize the campaign, the Lunan Military Region and the Lunan Military Region will resolutely complete the task and never disappoint your expectations! ”

Liu Yimin glanced at Guo Zihua and saluted him solemnly, so panicked that Guo Zihua hurriedly saluted. While saluting, he said: "Brother Commander, it's not right for you to salute me first, it seems that I don't have a military demeanor, is this making me ugly!" After speaking, he put the two packs of cigarettes that Liu Yimin put on the table into his pocket, saying that he was walking at night and taking two puffs to relieve his fatigue, and then walked away.

After Guo Zihua left, Liu Yimin said to Zhu Rui: "Comrade Zhu Rui, the Fourth Brigade is a brigade with the highest proportion of the Central Red Army in the entire teaching instructors. The combat effectiveness is relatively strong, and the equipment is second only to the three main brigades. But now that there is no political commissar in the Fourth Brigade, a big battle is about to be fought, and the Fourth Brigade will inevitably undertake arduous tasks. I didn't ask for your opinion beforehand, I'm sorry. ”

When Zhu Rui saw Liu Yimin say this, he replied: "I am a soldier, I enforce discipline and obey organizational arrangements. Besides, being able to serve in the combat unit is also something I look forward to. The commander does not have to be so polite. ”

Liu Yimin knew Zhu Rui's surname and was not polite, so he said directly: "The Luzhong Campaign has a great impact, and if it is fought well, our situation in Shandong will be greatly improved." Luzhong is a good place, the land is fertile, the population is dense, and it is an area that our army is determined to achieve. After you arrive at the Fourth Brigade, you should pay attention to focusing your energies on the construction of the base areas, because there will be thunderous decisions in the matter of fighting, and the building of local political power and economic development will depend on you. Of course, this is also temporary, and when the Fourth Brigade has a suitable political commissar, you have to come back to grasp the construction of local armed forces and contribute at the strategic level. ”

Zhu Rui saw that Liu Yimin was in a good mood, so he said: "Actually, I really want to set up our army's own artillery school to train artillery talents. ”

Historically, Zhu Rui returned to Yan'an with Chen Guang after the chairman chose Luo Ronghuan to govern Shandong, and went to Yan'an to open the Eighth Route Army Artillery School, which trained a large number of artillery talents and laid the foundation for the establishment of the artillery column of the Northeast Field Army.

Hearing Zhu Rui say this, Liu Yimin picked up his wine glass and touched it with him, and after drinking, he said: "This matter is easy to do, we can suggest to the chairman and the boss that the Eighth Route Army Artillery School and Artillery Headquarters be established to uniformly deploy and use our army's artillery units to improve our army's ability to attack fortified positions." I suspect that the chairman and the CEO may be waiting for us to make this proposal. In the next step, our Shandong troops will set up artillery divisions, and I think that the 115th Division, the 119th Division, the 120th Division, the Reading Division, and the river defense units in Shaanxi must at least have field artillery regiments and mountain artillery regiments to make up for the lack of firepower. Artillery is easy to manage, the military factories in Shaanxi can produce some of it, and we have captured some of it, the key is that it takes time to train artillery personnel. There is no delay in this matter, and I will send a telegram to the chairman and the boss. ”

After Zhu Rui took his leave, Liu Yimin thought about it, and basically arranged the arrangement, so he asked Huang Wenhu to come in and report the results of Liao Lei's 21st Group Army's handling of the transfer of the Red Army guerrillas in western Guangxi.

After Huang Wenhu came in, he first said to Liu Yimin that he was a little sorry for Comrade Chen Yaoguang, and that Comrade Chen Yaoguang wanted to sing to the soldiers on Yunlong Mountain in Xuzhou, but was rudely interrupted by himself. I regret it now that I think about it. If I knew that this was the kind of ending, I would definitely ask Comrade Chen Yaoguang to sing to everyone.

To further talk about it, Liu Yimin interrupted him and asked him to report directly to Liao Lei.

Huang Wenhu reported that the trip to Liao Lei went smoothly, but only 1,000 of the 1,600 people came back, and all of them had been handed over to the New Fourth Army. Most of the others have already died, and some are still reluctant to come back, wanting to persist in resisting with the 21st Group Army.

Liu Yimin knew that there would inevitably be someone who couldn't withstand the temptation of [***], so he didn't ask anymore, and let Huang Wenhu go to eat and rest, and the troops would leave tomorrow.

When Zhu Zhexiao and Wang Pengju came in, Liu Yimin inquired in detail about the results of their meeting with Wang Mingzhang, and asked them about the situation of observing the army all the way from Lunan.

Wang Pengju wanted to see his uncle Wang Mingzhang in a daze, but he didn't expect that he revealed the plan of the army to attack, and as a result, Wang Mingzhang was martyred. Therefore, after getting the news on the road, Wang Pengju and Zhu Zhexiao went back to see Sun Zhen, worshiped Wang Mingzhang's body, and wept bitterly before returning to the army.

After seeing Liu Yimin, Wang Pengju was still full of grievances to talk about, but thinking of Chen Yaoguang's sacrifice, the division commander must have felt very uncomfortable, and the words came to his mouth and took them back.

Liu Yimin asked Wang Pengju to go to Cai Zhong immediately, receive the task, and ask Zhu Zhexiao to prepare, stand by at any time, and prepare to go to Luzhong with him.

After dealing with all this, Liu Yimin can be regarded as going home. He wanted to discuss with Tang Xingying and let Tang Xingying and his son go to the front line in Luzhong with him. Because after experiencing Chen Yaoguang's sacrifice, Liu Yimin felt that it was better to let his wife and son act with him. Although he knew that he would inevitably go to Qingdao to meet Ni Hua, it was very embarrassing to bring Tang Xingying, maybe as soon as the two of them met, they would embarrass themselves. Especially if both of them are new female surnames, they are arrogant, and if they don't do well, they will leave themselves and let themselves end up in a chicken and egg fight.

Sure enough, Tang Xingying refused when she heard it, saying that she was staying here with her son. If Liu Yimin really loves her and her son, he bravely told Ni Hua that he has a wife and a son, and he doesn't need others to intervene anymore. Could it be that she still has to accompany her husband to meet his new love? Don't go too far, especially don't treat shamelessness as love, burying the word love.

made Liu Yimin disgraced and depressed.

On this night when the spring breeze was intoxicating, torches were shining everywhere in the depths of Yimeng, and groups of Eighth Route Army carried heavy machine guns, horse-drawn or loaded cannons, and marched in the direction of Dawenkou on the side of Culai Mountain. That's where the first shot of the Battle of Ludong was fired.

(To be continued)