Han Yunhua is very dissatisfied with the current situation of Han annihilation rampant in Shandong, although the situation in Shandong is not optimistic, and the negotiations between the army and the Huyan family seem to have made substantial progress, if the Huyan family is lost, it will be difficult for Han Yunhua's department not to expose himself under the investigation of the special high-tech department of the army. But Han Yunhua still decided to teach the Xinmin Association an unforgettable lesson, otherwise there will be more wavering wall grass willing to be the lackeys of the army, which Han Yunhua does not want to see.

After the reorganization of the instructors, there was a shortage of personnel in all departments, and according to Han Yunhua's idea, the instructors were expanded into a first-class division. Therefore, when Han Yunhua set up the shelf, he came according to his own idea, since the Inner Mongolia Military Region has a division of the first type, then Shandong's anti-Japanese armed forces should not be too shabby. The shelf has been erected, but this shelf is a little bigger, so there is a real shortage of instructors now.

After all, a first-class division is not so easy to form, otherwise how could he only form so many first-class divisions with Jiang's surname. And what Han Yunhua lacks now is not only a matter of soldiers, weapons and equipment and the most important officers have become very important factors restricting the development of Han Yunhua's department. What made Han Yunhua feel most difficult was that the organs of the party organizations in Shandong had basically been paralyzed, and since Secretary Guo was injured and transferred back to Yan'an to recuperate, the party affairs in Shandong have almost come to a standstill.

Although Han Yunhua also has the title of a committee member in the Northern Bureau, Han Yunhua is a military leader who directly leads troops to fight in wars after all, so Han Yunhua himself will subconsciously avoid interfering in local party affairs, so Han Yunhua almost does not ask about the work of the Northern Bureau of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. Except for some meetings where he had to be present himself, Han Yunhua rarely went to the office of the Northern Bureau.

From the very beginning, Han Yunhua knew very well that the Eighth Route Army was able to achieve such great development in such a short period of time, and that in a few years it would even defeat the whole of China, and even the invincible US imperialism suffered a great loss under the fried noodle rifle of the volunteers, which was inseparable from the ideological guidance of the party organization. This requires that the party organizations in all regions must be complete, be able to mobilize all the forces that can be mobilized to cooperate with the troops' actions, and provide all convenient conditions for the troops.

However, due to the destruction of the enemy, the party organizations in Shandong have fallen into a state of semi-silence, let alone helping Han Yunhua's subordinates, even if they protect themselves, it is difficult to solve this problem. In addition, the gang of people of the Xinmin Association made a hindrance, which led to heavy losses to the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, the provincial political axe, and the local prefectural party committee organizations.

In order to do a better job in the anti-Japanese work, Han Yunhua sent a telegram to all the bigwigs in Yan'an, hoping that the chairman would send a party veteran with sufficient weight to Shandong to preside over the construction of party affairs in Shandong. At the same time, Han Yunhua also hoped that the party Central Committee would be able to solve some cadre problems for the instructors, and it would be best to send some fierce generals in the army.

Soon Yan'an sent a telegram back, and the leaders of the Party Central Committee expressed their satisfaction that Han Yunhua had been able to achieve such great achievements in such a short period of time, and at the same time expressed their gratitude to Han Yunhua for his contributions to the party and the country. At the same time, the Party Central Committee decided to send Luo Ronghuan, political commissar of the 115th Division, to Shandong to assist Han Yunhua in his work, and ordered the work of rebuilding the Shandong Branch. Han Yunhua was appointed as the secretary of the Shandong Branch and the head of the teaching tutor, and Comrade Luo Ronghuan was appointed as the deputy secretary of the Shandong Branch and the political commissar of the teaching tutor.

This decision of the Party Central Committee made Han Yunhua feel dizzy, which and that, which completely deviated from the trajectory of history. Han Yunhua clearly remembered that there was indeed Luo Ronghuan among the [***] senior military and political leaders who advanced into Shandong, but the most important thing was Chen Guang, a fierce general. However, now Chen Guang is still commanding the battle in southeastern Hebei, and the party Central Committee has no intention of sending him and his 115th Division to Shandong to preside over the work.

Han Yunhua is very confident in the work of rebuilding the Shandong Branch, because the foundation of the Shandong Branch is still there, as long as the anti-Japanese forces in Shandong break out, in order to carry out the Shandong Anti-Japanese War, the Shandong Provincial Party Committee (Secretary Li Yu) in accordance with the spirit of the party's Luochuan Conference and the instructions of the Northern Bureau, sent cadres to various parts of Shandong to restore and establish the party's organization, launch an armed uprising against the Japanese, and form an anti-Japanese armed force, which uncovered the Shandong people's work in China. Under the leadership of the anti-Japanese armed struggle.

Because Shandong is in the position of a strategic hub linking North China and Central China, it is of great significance for realizing the strategic policy of consolidating North China and developing Central China put forward by the Central Committee at that time, and the Central Committee has shown great concern for the work of Shandong and sent a large number of Red Army cadres to assist the Shandong Party organizations in establishing and leading the anti-Japanese armed forces. In late May 1938, Guo Hongtao was dispatched by the [***] Central Committee to lead a group of cadres to Shandong, succeeding Li Yu as secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee (at this time, Li Yu went to Yan'an to report to the Party Central Committee). Subsequently, the Shandong Provincial Party Committee was expanded into the Provincial Party Committee of the Sulu-Henan-Anhui Border District, and Guo Hongtao remained secretary. Since then, the anti-Japanese guerrilla units in Shandong have entered the stage of vigorously opening up and developing anti-Japanese base areas, from basically being in a state of mobile warfare in the past. After a year of arduous struggle in 1938, Shandong's anti-Japanese armed forces made great progress, won a series of victories in the struggle against the enemy, and established a number of anti-Japanese base areas and vast guerrilla areas.

Historically, after the fall of Wuhan, the national war of resistance entered a phase of stalemate. In order to further strengthen Shandong's military command and political leadership and unify and rectify the anti-Japanese situation in Shandong, the Central Committee decided to establish the Shandong Branch and the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army. In November 1938, the central government sent Zhang Jingwu and Li Yu to lead the students who graduated from the Military and Political University and the Northern Shaanxi Public School, as well as a part of the Red Army cadres and nearly 200 cadres from the former White District, to the embankment where the provincial party committee of the border area was stationed. In December, according to the decision of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee in November, the Provincial Party Committee of the Sulu-Anhui Border District was changed to the Shandong Branch of the Central Committee, with Guo Hongtao as secretary and Guo Hongtao, Zhang Jingwu and Li Yu as members. From May to September 1939, the Northern Bureau decided to expand the Shandong Branch into the Sulu-Anhui Branch, with Guo Hongtao, Zhu Rui, Xu Xiangqian, Luo Ronghuan, Chen Guang, Li Yu, Zhang Jingwu, and Peng Xuefeng as committee members and Guo Hongtao as secretary.

Historically, the CPC Central Committee has been extremely concerned about the anti-Japanese situation in Shandong. Great changes were also made in the military aspect, so at the same time as the establishment of the Shandong Branch, the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army was announced to be established, with unified command of the anti-Japanese armed forces in Shandong (excluding the Hebei-Lubian and Luxi regions), with Zhang Jingwu as the commander and Li Yu as the political commissar. The Shandong Column is a local armed force under the specific leadership of the [***] Shandong Branch. Its establishment marked the growth of the Shandong people's anti-uprising armed forces from a number of scattered guerrilla units to a guerrilla regiment with a unified strategic command. In the spring of 1939, Chen Guang, acting commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and Luo Ronghuan, political commissar, led the division headquarters and the main force of the 343rd Brigade into Shandong. In June, the central government sent Xu Xiangqian and Zhu Rui to work in Shandong, and on August 1, the first column of the Eighth Route Army was established, with Xu Xiang as the commander and Zhu Rui as the political commissar, to command all the units of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong and northern Jiangsu. In October, Zhu Rui took over as secretary of the Shandong Branch and concurrently served as secretary of the Shandong Military and Political Commission, leading the party, government, military and civilian work in Shandong in a unified manner.

Han Yunhua still recognized the work of the Shandong Branch in history, and the great achievements of the Second Shandong Branch also surprised Han Yunhua. Because the Shandong Sub-Bureau implemented a series of correct principles and policies of the CPC Central Committee on building anti-Japanese base areas, and because the 115th Division and the Shandong Column fought in concert, the anti-Japanese base areas and the people's armed forces in Shandong expanded rapidly. By the end of 1940, eight anti-Japanese base areas had been established, including Luxi, Qinghe, Lunan, Luzhong, Huxi, Jiaodong, Hebei, Lubian, and Binhai; The 115th Division has grown to more than 76,000 troops, and the Shandong Column has grown to more than 54,000 troops. The party's organization has also developed greatly, with more than 110,000 party members.

The period from 1941 to July 1943 was the most difficult period for the Shandong Anti-Japanese Base Area. Intimidated by the development of Shandong's anti-Japanese forces, the invading army carried out a brutal and inhumane campaign of "sweeping" and "strengthening public order" against the anti-Japanese base areas, causing serious division, blockade, and destruction of the base areas. Under the extremely difficult situation, the Shandong Sub-Bureau relied on and led the people in the base areas to carry forward the revolutionary spirit of heroic tenacity and arduous struggle, implement the correct policy of reducing rents and interest rates, streamlining the administration of the army, and practicing strict economy, carried out guerrilla warfare in which the surnames of the people were scattered and the surnames of the masses were scattered, and the "flanking tactics" were adopted to counter the enemy's blockade, "encroachment," and "sweeping" in a-for-tat manner.

At a time when the struggle between the military and the people of Shandong against the so-called hypocrisy and stubbornness was in an extremely difficult situation, and the leaders of the Shandong Branch Bureau urgently needed to unify their thinking on some major issues, the Party Central Committee sent [***] to Shandong in March 1942 to guide the work. He made a correct appraisal of Shandong's work over the past few years, sharply pointed out the existing problems, made clear the policy of struggle for the future, unified the thinking of the leading members, and played a decisive role in reversing the passive situation in Shandong's work. Subsequently, the Shandong sub-bureau promulgated regulations on rent and interest reduction, tenant loans, and other regulations, carried out rent and interest reduction experiments on a pilot basis, and carried out an extensive and in-depth mass movement to reduce rents and interest rates in the Shandong anti-Japanese base areas, with the mobilization of the masses as the center, and further strengthened the work of building the party, building the government, building the army, building the people's armed forces, and the anti-Japanese mass organizations, so that Shandong's work was built on a solid mass foundation, and the Shandong anti-Japanese base areas made great progress in the struggle against the hypocrisy.

(To be continued)