Chapter 777 Sheng Zijin

The actions of the units of the 1st Brigade and the 1st Brigade of the New Brigade in the areas north of the Huai River and west of the Jinpu Road in northeastern Anhui were sudden and rapid. At the same time, the Eighth Route Army's cavalry brigade, the new third brigade, and the new seventh brigade launched a battle to sweep through northern Jiangsu from the junction of Jiangsu and Anhui. In the entire Suzhou-Anhui border area west of Jinpu Road and north of the Huai River, suddenly spring thunder exploded, and the sky changed!

After Liu Yimin dealt with the Tanggou incident, he met with Sheng Zijin, inspector of the Sixth Administrative Region of Anwei Province and commander of the Fifth Guerrilla Commander of the Fifth Theater, in Bancheng Town.

The Eighth Route Army has been hiding and waiting in northeast Anhui for so long, and Jiang Shangqing is working beside Sheng Zijin again, it is impossible for Sheng Zijin not to know the situation of the Eighth Route Army in northeast Anhui. It's just that Liu Yimin has a big goal and keeps it secret from the outside world, and Sheng Zijin doesn't know that Liu Yimin is in northeast Anhui. The smooth handling of the Tanggou incident and Liu Yimin's situation in northeastern Anhui may still be a secret to the Japanese army for the time being. But for Sheng Zijin, it's no secret.

At this time, Sheng Zijin, with the support of Jiang Shangqing, Zhao Min, Zhou Tun, Xie Jinghong, Liao Liangzhi, Lu Liangping, Wu Yuntun, and other members, had already set up a special office in Zhengji and a government organ of Sixian County, accepted 1,000 guns from Meng Guangtai and Ma Hanzhang, subordinates of former Commissioner Sun Bowen, confiscated some guns for self-defense of the masses, set up several self-defense regiments, and opened a "military and political cadre school," thus gaining an initial foothold.

Sheng Zijin came to Liu Yimin this time, first, he was ordered to act and ask when the Eighth Route Army would return to Shandong. The second is to ask Liu Yimin for advice, because in his fund-raising, his means are too strong, in addition to withholding all the tax revenue of the Provincial Finance Department in Si County, he also arrested some inferior gentry, fined them with guns, and angered these guys. With the support of Lingbi County Magistrate Xu Zhiyuan and others, they jointly sued Sheng Zi Jintong. Liao Lei, chairman of the Anhui Provincial National Government, originally transferred Sheng Zijin to be the director of the Sixth Prefecture Administration for two reasons, on the one hand, because Sheng Zijin had recovered Lu'an with the cooperation of the ** guerrillas, and should be rewarded. On the other hand, because of the military background of Sheng Zijin and his wife, it seems that they are suspected of spying on the Gui family, and Liao Lei is eager to drive Sheng Zijin out of Dabie Mountain. Now Liao Lei is sick, the work of the Anhui Provincial Government and the Security Command is basically presided over by Li Pinxian, another general of the Gui Department, this person can fight, but his character cannot be compared with Liao Lei, as soon as the Tanggou incident happened, Li Pinxian immediately realized that Northeast Anhui and Northern Jiangsu were about to become spheres of influence, and he couldn't control North Jiangsu, and Northeast Anhui should definitely be under the jurisdiction of the Fifth War Zone and the Anhui Provincial Government. In this way, not only the inferior gentry in Si County sued Sheng Zijin for collusion, but even Li Pinxian felt that Sheng Zijin should be dismissed. From Jinzhai County in the Dabie Mountains to Si County in northeast Anhui, there are strange sounds of inverted and prosperous everywhere. The third is that Sheng Zijin himself also has questions, it is said that he is the biggest official of the national government in northeast Anhui, the Eighth Route Army is fully launched, Sheng Zijin knows that he is a fool in the dark, the Eighth Route Army is such a powerful force in northeast Anhui, you don't need to ask to know, in the future, he, the inspector of the sixth special district, will not be able to speak. He wanted to ask Liu Yimin how the anti-Japanese united front in northeastern Anhui should be handled.

Historically, this was the time when the founding general Zhang Aiping single-handedly entered northeast Anhui to develop the armed forces, and it was also a critical period for Sheng Zijin and Xu Zhiyuan to have contradictions. Zhang Aiping had mediated the contradiction between Sheng Zijin and Xu Zhiyuan back then, and used Sheng Zijin to support the unity of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to establish a joint office of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in northeast Anhui, so that our army had a legal identity in northeast Anhui. Although history has changed, Liu Yimin still set up a special committee for northeast Anhui, and asked Zhang Aiping, Jiang Shangqing and Sheng Zijin to contact and establish a joint office of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. It's all the same as history. The difference is that although the main force of the Eighth Route Army was hidden and waiting for the rest of the time ago, the special committee of northeastern Anhui greatly strengthened its work due to the support of the main force, and grasped the organizational building with one hand and the armed construction with the other, and it was doing a good job, which made Sheng Zijin, who originally wanted to use it to develop and strengthen his own forces, feel the pressure.

It was for these reasons that Sheng Zijin rushed to Bancheng with his team and asked to see Liu Yimin, the instructor of the Eighth Route Army.

When Sheng Zijin arrived, Liu Yimin was thinking about the construction of political power in the Suzhou-Anhui border region and the reorganization of the armed forces in the Huai subordinate areas.

After the Lugou Bridge Incident, the negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party ended, and the persecuted people in the former Huaihai area during the Great Revolution returned to their hometowns one after another. Among them, Wu Jue, Xie Bingyan, Li Gancheng, Sun Haiguang, and Zhu Yueshan from Huaiyin, Chen Yachang and Wan Jinpei from Lianshui, and Sun Cunlou and Zhou Chunru from Guanyun were all released from prison and returned home. Xia Ruai and Song Zhending, who fled to other places, also returned to their hometowns.

After returning to their hometowns, this group of old people used the Japanese army to organize the Battle of Xuzhou, temporarily shelved the short period of deployment to occupy northern Jiangsu, contacted each other, and established the "Northern Jiangsu Anti-Japanese Alliance", with Song Zhending as the chairman, Xie Bingyan as the secretary general, and Song Zhending, Wu Jue, Xie Bingyan, Chen Shutong, Xia Ruai, Xue Hanyang, and Jiang Xiwen as the executive directors. Under the leadership of the Northern Jiangsu Anti-Japanese League, Li Gancheng, Wan Jinpei and others were in Lianshui, Zhao Xinquan was in Huai'an, Xia Ruai was in Huaiyin, Sun Haiguang, Sun Cunlou and others were in Guanyun, Xie Nan was in Siyang, Tang Rushan was in Funing, Li Jinong and Hu Yang were in Yancheng, Huang Xingxiang was in Taixing, and Jiang Ruoyu was in Yangzhou. Later, Han Deqin banned the "Northern Jiangsu Anti-Japanese Alliance", but these veterans did not lose heart in the face of setbacks, on the one hand, they actively sought out the party, and on the other hand, they began to develop their armed forces. When the Eighth Route Army used the tactics of morning glory and went south to northern Jiangsu, the old party members in the Huaihai area got in touch with the Shandong Bureau, and under the guidance of the northern Jiangsu detachment, they began to vigorously develop local armed forces.

Huaiyin County, a Huaiyin Prefecture in the Huaiyin region, set up a "Huaiyin Anti-Japanese Volunteer Brigade" with Wu Jue as commander-in-chief, Zhang Fangjiu as chief of staff, Xie Bingyan as secretary general, Song Zhending as director of the Political Department, and Zhang Yiping as adjutant general; Lianshui County established the "Lianshui County Anti-Japanese Volunteer Brigade" with Li Gan as the captain, Chen Yachang as the adjutant, and Lin Shijun as the staff officer, and Huai'an established the People's Self-Defense Force.

In the areas of Shuyang, Guanyun, and the East China Sea in the Haihai region, Qian Xulie, Wang Zhan, Qian Tiansu, and others initiated the organization of the "Shuyang County National Liberation Vanguard," the "People's Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Force" organized by Tang Shuhong, the "Binhai Brigade" led by Sun Lianghao and Wu Shu, the "Shuhe Brigade" led by Wang Shilin, the "Donghai Brigade" led by Cao Tongzhi and Song Yaonan, and the "Shuyang Brigade" led by Xiao Songfu and Chen Yunlong.

In order to unify its command and regularize its troops, the Northern Jiangsu Detachment of the Eighth Route Army reorganized the anti-Japanese guerrillas formed by our party in the Donghai, Guanyun, and Shuyang areas into the Dongguanshu Independent Regiment, with Tang Shuhong as the regiment leader, Zhang Kexin as the deputy regiment leader, Zhou Ruiying as the political commissar, and Chen Fei as the director of the political department. Due to the distance from the area of activity of the northern Jiangsu detachment, the Huai subordinate area has not been reorganized for the time being.

Historically, at this time, the party committee of the Suzhou-Anhui District had combined the anti-Japanese volunteers of Huaiyin and Lianshui counties and the Huai'an People's Self-Defense Force into the Eighth Regiment of the Longhai South Advance Detachment of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army, with Wu Jue as the head of the regiment, Chen Shutong as the deputy head of the regiment, Zhang Fangjiu as the chief of staff, Li Gancheng as the director of the Political Department, Gao Xingtai as the deputy director of the Political Department, and Chen Yachang and Lin Shijun as the deputy officers and directors.

At this time, the southward troops of the Eighth Route Army were deployed in northeastern Anhui and northern Jiangsu, and the situation was very good, and it was a good time to establish local political power and reorganize local armed forces.

Since joining the Red Army in Xinwei, Liu Yimin has been considered experienced in a hundred battles. These years of combat experience have allowed him to thoroughly integrate the knowledge from books with specific operational commands. Not to mention anything else, Liu Yimin has a lot of experience in the reorganization of the troops alone.

From the 18th Red Regiment to today's instructors, the most critical factor why the scale of Liu Yimin's department has been able to continue to expand is that it has a backbone force as the foundation. This backbone unit, in addition to the units of the 18th Red Regiment that was reorganized along the Xiangjiang River, is the old Red Army unit that the Central Red Army has sent to the 18th Red Regiment, the Central Guard Division, and the Red Seventh Army Corps several times. Without these old Red Army units as the backbone, it would be impossible to support such a large contingent of instructors.

As a matter of fact, the development process of our army in history is also like this, and the most fundamental reason why the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army were able to develop and grow in the war was that the Red Army, tempered by the Long March and three years of guerrilla warfare, was the backbone and seed.

Before arriving in Xi'an, the soldiers of Liu Yimin's expanded troops were all prisoners of the regular army of the Central Army, the Gui Army, the Hunan Army, and the Sichuan Army. In other words, the training of soldiers for the Red Army ensured the basis of the tactical qualities of the Red Army soldiers.

After going north to resist the Japanese, the instructor army continued to expand, but there was one point, the new soldiers who joined the army were all trained by the new recruits of the training headquarters, including those who were originally soldiers. The Eighth Brigade of Xiangjiao is the stragglers of various departments after the Taiyuan Meeting.

The backbone troops, together with the absorption of prisoners from the regular army and the reorganization of stragglers and miscellaneous armed forces, as well as the powerful ideological and political work represented by the activities of complaining about grievances, are the secrets of the Eighth Route Army's instructors maintaining their strong combat effectiveness.

Now that the instructor controls most of Shandong's territory, with Shandong's military resources, it is not surprising that Liu Yimin does not take the route of elite soldiers, not to mention 500,000, even if he pulls up an army of millions. The problem is that the combat effectiveness of the troops is not necessarily proportional to the number of troops, and the troops that have not undergone rigorous training and battlefield training are not called the main forces, but at best they are new regiments.

Liu Yimin knew in his heart that the local armed forces in the Huai area were still at the level of local guerrillas. In order to truly build combat effectiveness, it is necessary to concentrate on training. Including the Northern Jiangsu Detachment and the Dongguanshu Independent Regiment, there must also be a process of intensive training, otherwise it will be impossible to increase combat effectiveness. Think about it, Wang Xuwu and Zhou Faqian booby-trapped Tang Shuhong, and the Dongguanshu Independent Regiment had no choice but to take these two guys, and had to be transferred. If this had been left on the main force of the instructor, I am afraid that there would be no need to worry about it at all, and it would not have been necessary for Wang Laohu's No. 1 Special Operations Squadron to take action, and Wang Xuwu's Shuyang County Standing Brigade would have been wiped out long ago. The reason for this is that the combat effectiveness of the Dongguanshu Independent Regiment is not good.

As soon as he thought of the combat effectiveness of the troops, Liu Yimin remembered that it was not just a situation in which a division was driven away by a brigade of the Japanese army, for example, there were so many guerrilla forces in northeastern Anhui and northern Jiangsu, and if it were not for the main force of the Eighth Route Army, even if these armed forces were concentrated and organized into a regular army, I am afraid that they would not be able to deal with a single brigade of the Japanese army for the time being. I remember that in history, Zhang Aiping formed an armed force in northeast Anhui, and later developed into the Ninth Brigade of the New Fourth Army.

When Liu Yimin was thinking, **Feng reported that Comrade Jiang Shangqing came with Sheng Zijin.

"Sheng Zijin? What is he here for? ”

**Feng saw Liu Yimin's eyebrows raised, so he reported that Sheng Zijin only said that he was asking to see the division commander, and he didn't say that he wanted to do it, and he also brought more than 1,000 people with him.

When Liu Yimin heard this, he said: "With 1,000 people? Interesting. ”

Feng explained that the 1st Guard Battalion and the Baggage Regiment could have stopped them a long time ago and even disarmed them. It was Comrade Jiang Shangqing who reported that Sheng Zijin was afraid of an accident on the road, so he led the troops, and there would be no problem.

Where would Liu Yimin see Sheng Zijin's local armed forces, and explain that ** Feng arranged to entertain Sheng Zijin's troops, and invited Sheng Zijin in.

As soon as Sheng Zijin entered the door, he took out the style of the inspector of the sixth district, laughed, stretched out his hands, made a gesture of shaking hands, and said: "Master Liu, look up for a long time!" Long admiration! ”

Liu Yimin stood in the center of the room, looked at Sheng Zijin with a smile on his face, and said, "Commissioner Sheng, you are welcome to come to Bancheng as a guest." You didn't report it in advance, you missed the distance! ”

Sheng Zijin saw Liu Yimin standing there motionless, his mouth was good, and he didn't mean to shake hands at all, and he felt a little embarrassed. He suddenly remembered in his mind that he was only thinking about protecting safety, forgetting that the young general in front of him was a ruthless corner that scared the Japanese into peeing their pants, and this half of the town was now the location of his headquarters, and he recklessly broke in with a team of about 1,000 people, in case he wanted to go somewhere else, wouldn't this armed force that he had worked so hard to build be sent to the tiger's mouth?

Sheng Zijin's face began to sweat hot, and beads of sweat fluttered and dripped down.

Jiang Shangqing once said that Sheng Zijin has a nickname called "Pink King Kong", which means that he is beautiful. In addition, he was also very conceited, thinking that he was a graduate of the sixth phase of Huangpu, and he was romantic, comparable to Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin during the Three Kingdoms, so he changed his original name to Sheng Zijin.

Seeing Sheng Zijin sweating profusely, Liu Yimin laughed in his heart, and called Li Xiaoshuai to take a flutter fan and hand it to him, and asked him to sit down and talk.

After Sheng Zijin sat down, his heart was still pounding, and the pu fan in his hand couldn't fan the sweat on his face no matter how he stirred it, so he had to take out a handkerchief and wipe it.

Liu Yimin looked at the two guards standing behind Sheng Zijin, with shell guns in their waists and rifles on their backs, and said with a smile: "Commissioner Sheng, do you want these two brothers to go down and rest for a while and drink herbal tea." We can just say what we have to say here, and we don't need to stand here and be burdened. ”

Without waiting for Sheng Zijin to speak, his two guards said in unison: "We are not tired!" ”

Only then did Liu Yimin understand the reason why Sheng Zijin was sweating, and the smile on his face became thicker and thicker: "Commissioner Sheng, it's safe to get here." Don't worry, I can't see your 1,000-odd men, let the brothers go down and rest! ”

Sheng Zijin heard Liu Yimin's words clear, and his heart was calm. Thinking about it, after entering the Eighth Route Army's defensive area, the Eighth Route Army did not ask its troops to do anything, which shows that the Eighth Route Army was open-minded and had no bad intentions at all.

Feeling relieved, and sweating went down, Sheng Zijin waved his two personal guards to go down to rest, and he and Liu Yimin sat down to talk.

The reason why Liu Yimin didn't shake hands with Sheng Zijin just now was because he wanted Sheng Zijin to understand that he should not put any pedigrees of the commissioner, the fifth guerrilla commander, and the county magistrate of Si County in front of him, it was useless. Now seeing that Sheng Zijin has settled down, Liu Yimin also sat down and listened to Sheng Zijin's intentions.

After the polite words, Sheng Zijin finally expressed his intentions, saying that the Eighth Route Army had been in northeast Anhui for so long, and had launched several attacks on the devils on the Jinpu line, which stabilized the situation in northeast Anhui. This time, he came to the labor army.

As soon as Liu Yimin heard it, he knew that Sheng Zijin was not telling the truth. What kind of labor army, why didn't you see the goods of the labor army?

Glancing at Sheng Zijin, Liu Yimin opened his mouth and said: "Commissioner Sheng, everyone is responsible for defending the land and resisting the war, so you don't have to be polite." ”

Then, Liu Yimin praised Sheng Zijin for insisting on unity and resistance after arriving in northeastern Anhui, and the military and political training class was very good, and it was an important measure to train cadres and protract the war of resistance.

Sheng Zijin has been a head shorter since he entered the house, and when he heard Liu Yimin's affirmation of his work, he finally eased up and began to introduce the measures he took after arriving in northeast Anhui.

After he finished speaking, Liu Yimin nodded and told him that although the territory of northeast Anhui is not large, it is between the two major railway arteries and canals, and its strategic position is very important. The reason why the Eighth Route Army advanced into northeastern Anhui was because it became a occupied area after the troops of the Fifth Theater withdrew westward, and in accordance with Chairman Chiang's instruction that there was no distinction between north and south, the Eighth Route Army advanced behind enemy lines and recovered the territory from the Japanese invaders, which was the most direct manifestation of the unity in the War of Resistance.

When Sheng Zijin heard this, he immediately became nervous again, and couldn't help blurting out: "Senior Commander Liu, when will your department return to Shandong?" ”

Liu Yimin finally understood, Sheng Zijin was ordered to send off guests!

I heard Liu Yimin say lightly: "The Eighth Route Army will not leave northeast Anhui. Could it be that Director Sheng wants the Eighth Route Army to return the recovered territory to the Japanese devils? Even if I agree, the people of Northeast Anhui will not agree! ”

As soon as Liu Yimin's words came out, Sheng Zijin finally figured out the hole cards of the Eighth Route Army. Then there is a bit of negotiation.

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