After reading the telegram from the chairman and the headquarters, Liu Yimin pondered for a long time, and the rampant activities of the little devil spies showed that the army had unscrupulously dealt with the Eighth Route Army. This kind of thing happened in history, but it was after the army ended the Battle of Wuhan and occupied Guangzhou, and after the army failed to lure Chiang Kai-shek to surrender, it turned to concentrate on the Eighth Route Army. Now that it happened in advance, it can only be said that I have clearly realized the threat of the Eighth Route Army to them, and the donkey skills are exhausted, and they have begun to play black hands.

For the internal security work, Liu Yimin has always let Hu Di be in charge and rarely asked, and Qian Zhuangfei is responsible for the intelligence work. After thinking about it, it had been a long time since he had communicated with Qian Zhuangfei and Hu Di, so Liu Yimin asked Huang Wenhu to send someone to invite Qian Zhuangfei and Hu Di, and he and the political commissar wanted to listen to the report.

It didn't take long for Qian Zhuangfei and Hu Di to come. Liu Yimin called Luo Ronghuan and listened to the report of the two together.

Qian Zhuangfei and Hu Di are both intelligence masters. With them in charge of teaching tutors, Liu Yimin is basically not worried. The reason why the army's secret services have repeatedly failed to infiltrate and investigate the instructors is directly related to the work of the two men.

Seeing that the division commander had just returned to the division headquarters and listened to the report on the security work, Hu Di's eyes lit up at once, and he began to give a brief report on the work of the security department since its establishment, and then focused on three issues: First, he taught the instructor the issue of building the security departments of various units; now there are security departments in the divisions, but there are no security departments in all brigades, and the political departments and guard units of the various units are generally responsible for the security work. Second, because the troops have been in motion for a long time, it is impossible to grasp the work of safeguarding the security of the base areas. There are advantages and disadvantages to such a situation, and on the positive side, it is not easy for the army to grasp the specific position of the main force of our army, it is difficult to approach us, and there is no way to start sabotage; On the negative side, the base areas are unstable, and it is impossible to truly form a system for defending the base areas; on the surface, the spy Han Annihilation is easy to handle, and wherever the troops go, it is swept away, but it is very difficult to deal with the concealed spy Han Annihilation. Third, it is necessary to set up mass anti-special hoeing and annihilation organizations as soon as possible, and educate the villagers to be able to identify the spies who spy on intelligence and sabotage in the base areas, so that those Han and annihilation spies who enter the base areas will not be able to move an inch and throw themselves into the net.

After Hu Di's report, Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan discussed it and immediately gave answers to Hu Di's three questions: First, it was decided that each brigade and regiment would set up additional security offices, and that the Political Department and the Organization Department of the Shandong Bureau would select and transfer cadres and hand them over to the Security Department for training. Second, the main force of our army will soon completely restore the base areas in central and southern Shandong, southeastern Shandong, and southern Shandong, link them into one, and deploy troops to defend the base areas. In the future, it will ensure that the Yimeng Mountains will not fall again, and maintain the logistics and military production in the Yimeng Mountains. The Ministry of Security should develop a programme of work along these lines, in particular to ensure that the arsenal is not exposed or damaged. Third, on the pseudo-basis of local political power and militia organizations at the village, district, and county levels, we have established a tight network for defending the base areas, so that the identities of all those who enter the base areas are clear, and Han Jian, and plainclothes detectives of the devils must never be allowed to enter the base areas.

Hu Di was very satisfied with the reply given by Chiefs Liu and Luo, and asked whether to issue orders in the name of the party committee of the Shandong Military Region or the party committee of the instructors for all units to carry out.

Liu Yimin nodded in agreement, and then asked about the security unit formed by the Ministry of Security.

In addition to the development of the guard unit of the original platoon of the Security Department into a guard unit of 200 people, 15 backbone cadres have also been recruited from the special combat team, trained according to the standards of operational agents, and specialized in the work of hoeing and annihilation.

At the same time, he asked Hu Di to discuss with Cai Zhong and urge Yang Dalin to speed up the construction of the Shandong Public Security Corps, and in the future, it is necessary to form a pattern of defense work in which the public security corps is in the open and the security department is in the dark, and the base areas will be built into fortresses where devils cannot be inserted and water cannot be spilled.

After Hu Di left, Qian Zhuangfei began to report on the work of the hidden front.

Due to the appearance of Liu Yimin, both Qian Zhuangfei and Hu Di avoided the doom of sacrificing on the Long March. However, the two of them don't know. After Qian Zhuang flew to work as a tutor, the biggest feeling was that Liu Yimin was broad-minded and able to recognize and employ people. Like the hidden front work that Qian Zhuangfei was responsible for, Liu Yimin completely delegated power, and let him be directly responsible for Vice Chairman Zhou, and he basically didn't ask questions. Liu Yimin had never heard his report in the past, and this time he specifically asked for a report because the report from the headquarters aroused his vigilance.

Finally, Liu Yimin wanted to listen to the work report of the hidden front, and Qian Zhuangfei also attached great importance to it, sorted out his thoughts, and began to speak. Who knew that as soon as he started, he was interrupted by Liu Yimin. The reason was that Liu Yimin told him to only listen to the intelligence work in Tianjin, Qingdao, Jinan, and Xuzhou, and not to talk about or listen to the rest.

As soon as Qian Zhuangfei heard this, he knew that Liu Yimin was consciously abiding by the discipline of confidentiality, and he was a little surprised, this doll teacher is not very old, and he has a lot of words in his stomach, and he really asks what he should ask and resolutely does not ask what he shouldn't ask.

The reason why Liu Yimin wanted to listen to the intelligence work in these places was because we could see the changes in the entire North China army from the movement of troops and the changes in policies in these cities. Not to mention Tianjin and Qingdao, our army has captured them, and the local Han annihilation forces have been dealt a heavy blow, and our underground staff have successfully infiltrated the main institutions of the pseudo-puppet, and the intelligence transmitted is of high value. Jinan has a special committee of Jinan, and last time it cooperated with Wang Laohu's No. 1 Special Operations Squadron to make trouble in Jinan City, and the results shocked the whole country. Only Xuzhou, the work is relatively weak.

After Qian Zhuangfei's report, Liu Yimin instructed him to intensify his work in Xuzhou, monitor the movement of the Xuzhou army in an all-round way, and judge that the army was about to launch the Battle of Wuhan, and Xuzhou was connecting the Jinpu and Longhai railways, and at the same time connecting the North China Front Army and the Central China Front Army. The main reason why our army is now only asking for the restoration of the base areas, and that it has to adopt the form of cold guns and cold artillery, gradually compress and encroach on the Japanese army, and gradually restore the base areas, is mainly to wait for the opportunity to wait for the Japanese army to attack Wuhan and the southward attack on Guangzhou. At the worst of all, it is necessary to completely divide and isolate the army in a few major cities and railway lines. Therefore, we must keep our eyes wide open, keep a close eye on the changes in Tianjin, Qingdao, Jinan, and Xuzhou, and we must not let go of any disturbances.

Qian Zhuangfei is a master of intelligence, but he is not a strategist, let alone a military commander who directs wars. After Liu Yimin's thoughts came out, Qian Zhuangfei finally understood why Liu Yimin didn't even look at his wife and children after returning to the division headquarters, and directly listened to his and Hu Di's reports. Now that No. 1's idea has been clear, the next task is to complete no matter how difficult it is. Therefore, Qian Zhuangfei solemnly assured Liu and Luo that all the personnel of the Intelligence Analysis Department would keep their eyes open even if they were sleeping, and they would definitely capture and analyze intelligence in a timely and accurate manner, and would never delay major events.

After Qian Zhuang flew away, Liu Yimin had to continue to work, Luo Ronghuan reminded him that it was time to go and see the child, if I remember correctly, the day after tomorrow should be Ping'er's full moon, Tang Xingying's mother and son were waiting for him!

Luo Ronghuan said this, Liu Yimin couldn't sit still, pulled his legs and left, and went home directly.

This Dadian town is the settlement of the Zhuang family of the Wang clan in Shandong, and there are 72 halls of the Zhuang family. In fact, there are more than 300 halls, and the 72 halls are only the more powerful ones. The so-called Tangkou is the name of the new courtyard after the brothers of the wealthy family split up. For example, the three brothers originally lived in the courtyard of the husband and wife, and when they married and had children, they naturally had to rebuild the house and divide the family. At that time, people with a little money, a little culture, and a little power all liked to be vassals and elegant, and called their houses seven more elegant names, and called them so-and-so. Those compounds in Jinzhong, like Shanxi, are all in this way. The dealer has been prosperous for hundreds of years, there have been 8 Jinshi, 23 people, 20 tribute, and also sent children to study abroad, 300 people have been all kinds of officials, but also business industry, schools, cinemas, that is naturally very elegant, all the houses are called so-and-so.

Liu Yimin was not in the mood to check the Zhuang family's manor in detail at this time, and returned directly to the courtyard where Tang Xingying lived.

When I went to the gate, I saw that the houses were really like them, with tall gatehouses, heavy wooden doors, and the courtyard walls were made of blue bricks, and even the road surface was paved with green bricks. However, the door painting of the Eighth Route Army fighting devils was pasted on the gate, which looked both festive and mighty.

Entering the courtyard to see, facing is a wall, in the middle is a blessing word, the brick carved plum orchid bamboo chrysanthemum pattern is very exquisite. Bypassing the wall, you can see that the yard is very large and magnificent, with blue brick paving and flower beds and bonsai. Looking at the house again, there are five main rooms, and there are brick carvings on the roofs, and the windows are all carved. There are two ear rooms on both sides of the main house, and there are wing rooms on the left and right sides of the courtyard, and the front room at the entrance of the courtyard together form a quadrangle. At a glance, Liu Yimin knew that this was a hall let by the enlightened landlord of the Zhuang family.

Hearing the movement in the yard, Xiao Zhenghe stumbled out of the house and rushed straight to Liu Yimin.

Liu Yimin was afraid that the child would fall, so he hugged his son as soon as he stretched out his hand, kissed his little face, and asked, "Where's Mom?" ”

Xiao Zheng and Xiao Hand pointed to the main room, and said in a milky voice, "Mom is hugging my brother."

Liu Yimin walked into the house with the child in three steps and two steps, Tang Xingying had already walked out of the bedroom with the baby in her arms, and asked weakly, "Are you back?" ”

Liu Yimin saw that his wife couldn't hide her tiredness with joy on her face, and she lost a lot of weight, so she felt guilty in her heart, hurriedly stepped forward, put Xiao Zhenghe down, helped Tang Xingying sit down, held the baby and took a look, and saw that it was white and pure, tiger head, and her eyes were bright and bright, so she couldn't help but kiss it. This kiss, the child began to cry. Tang Xingying took the child, hugged it and slapped it gently, coaxing and saying angrily: "It's not light or heavy, just make the child cry when you come up!" ”

Liu Yimin smiled embarrassedly and followed Tang Xingying's body to look at the child.

After watching it for a while, seeing that the child was no longer crying, he took it and hugged it again, and then asked Tang Xingying how she was doing and whether she was eating well.

Tang Xingying said that she was in the car all the way, and the soldiers took good care of him, and with Chen Meisheng's help, it was not too hard. It's just that his mouth is a little greedy and he wants to eat the food cooked by Liu Yimin.

When Tang Xingying said this, she was still a little embarrassed, and her face turned red. When Liu Yimin heard this, he was very distressed, if this was left in the era in which he lived in the later generations, Tang Xingying would be confined, at least he would have family members to serve him every day, and he would eat whatever he wanted. In this damn war era, Tang Xingying, as a confinement mother-in-law, also had to be transferred with the troops, starved and full, and damaged her body in the future.

Let Tang Xingying rest in the house, Liu Yimin went to the kitchen of the guard regiment.

Due to the successive battles and the great capture, the kitchen of the guard regiment was rich in ingredients. However, the troops are either fighting or transferring, and it is not easy for the cooking classes to steam out the steamed buns and cook the rice, how can they take care of Tang Xingying's mother-in-law in this month? Liu Yimin has been married for a few years, he has already figured out his wife's taste, he is usually busy, and he can't care about improving her life, this time he went home, Tang Xingying made such a simple request, Liu Yimin naturally wanted to do it himself, cook a delicious meal for her, and let her improve.

It didn't take long for Liu Yimin to make four dishes, one soup and a bowl of noodles, make a tray and carry it, and returned to the room. When he entered the door, he shouted: "Xing Sakura, come and taste it, see if my craftsmanship has declined?" ”

In fact, as soon as Liu Yimin entered the house, Tang Xingying and Xiao Zhenghe smelled the aroma of rice and walked out. Liu Yimin put down the tray, took the child over, and let Tang Xingying and Xiao Zhenghe eat first.

Tang Xingying was unwilling, and Liu Yimin had to eat first. The two of you pushed me for a long time, but Xiao Zhenghe smelled the fragrance and was so hungry that he squatted in front of the basin and washed his hands, ran to the table and reached out to grab it and started eating.

This time, Liu Yimin and Tang Xingying didn't argue, they both sat down, Liu Yimin held the child, and Tang Xingying beckoned Xiao Zhenghe to eat first. When his son was full, Tang Xingying hurried to eat. After eating, he took the child and let Liu Yimin eat.

After eating, the child also fell asleep, Tang Xingying asked if there was a way to take care of the mother to take care of the child, or she had to find a sister-in-law to help take care of the child, she had to work, a mess was waiting, she couldn't always take care of the child at home like this, it would affect the work.

Liu Yimin knew that Chen Meisheng had gone to the intelligence analysis department, Tang Xingying was very hard to take care of the child alone, and besides, she needed to go to work, and she couldn't delay the big thing because of the child, so after thinking about it, he said that it was impossible to pick up his mother-in-law for the time being, it was too dangerous to cross the blockade, so it was better to find a sister-in-law to help take care of the child.

Tang Xingying is looking forward to bringing her parents over, not to mention that her father is busy with work, at least she can let her mother come over to take care of the children, which is safe and can reunite the family. But what Liu Yimin said was the truth, and now he can only find a sister-in-law to help him first.

Liu Yimin likes to set up his headquarters in the city, because there is electricity, and many things are easy to do. However, at present, the target of the city is too large, and the strength of the military aviation is so strong that it is really not suitable as a headquarters station. This Dadian town is surrounded by mountains and hills in the east, a fertile field in the west, the mountains are not visible, the transportation is convenient, and the Zhuang manor has many real estates, so it is really a good choice to locate the headquarters here. It seems that the small Yan'an formed here by the 115th division in history is now going to become the little Xi'an created by the instructor.

Liu Yimin looked at the room and saw that the windows in the room were bright and clean, and the antique furniture looked simple and atmospheric. Tang Xingying's bedroom uses an old-fashioned big bed, and there is a small bed next to it, needless to say, it is for Xiao Zhenghe to sleep. When I walked to the room at the west end, Tang Xingying asked someone to arrange this place as an office, with a table and a chair, and a map already hung on the wall.

After Liu Yimin saw it, he said to Tang Xingying: "This place is good, we will settle down here." However, the office is not placed here, so that the sister-in-law and He'er, who come to take care of the children, live. I work at the division headquarters, you go to the Women's Rescue Association to work, the left and right wings are for other leading comrades to live in, and the front room is for guards and soldiers. I thought about it, and this place will be used as the headquarters of our Shandong Military Region and Shandong Bureau in the future. In this way, a large number of houses are needed. Political Commissar Luo and Director Cai did the same where they lived, and several families lived in each courtyard. We live a little tighter, firstly, to reduce the burden on the masses as much as possible, and to provide more houses for you to run more classes. ”

Tang Xingying asked, "You mean we can live here for a year and a half?" ”

Liu Yimin nodded: "Yes, we need a stable rear to develop the military industry, develop industry and commerce in the base areas, train cadres, and train new soldiers." This place is good, and there is a school, so you girls can live here for a while. ”

Saying this, Tang Xingying breathed a sigh of relief, slapped her chest with her hand, and said, "God, I can finally take a breath." ”

Liu Yimin smiled and said: "Don't think it's too beautiful, it's only temporary." I'll lead the main force to the front at any time. You must also be prepared to transfer at any time, and you must not be careless, in case you let the army come in, it will be troublesome. ”

As soon as Tang Xingying heard it, he said: "Don't say it, I will go to the front line if you go to the front, and I will follow you wherever you go." Don't forget, I've fought all the way here. I'm still thinking about what I think of the general who captured a devil and let you see it! ”

Liu Yimin knew that Tang Xingying's surname was Ganglie, and she had been doing rear work since she got married, so I am afraid that she was already eager to try. But the child is too young, and if she wants to go to the front, she has to settle the child well. Thinking about it, Liu Yimin felt that Tang Xingying was so good, if she really went to the battlefield, maybe she could really continue her legend on the Long March. Always let her take care of children and do women's work, which is really a bit of a burying talent. However, thinking about it, Liu Yimin is still willing to protect his wife and children well, which can be regarded as a little selfishness!

After dinner the next morning, Liu Yimin went to the division headquarters, and after meeting with Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong, Luo Ronghuan introduced the current positions and operational arrangements of various units. Among them, the 3rd, 4th, and 6th Brigades were deployed to the north, with the aim of restoring the base areas south of Jiaoji Road and west of Jinpu Road as soon as possible; The 1st Brigade and the 2nd Regiment were concealed and recuperated, and the other units cooperated with the 5th Brigade and the Tai'an Detachment to spread westward, with the aim of restoring the Lunan area; The Cavalry Brigade and the Eighth Brigade defended to the south and monitored the enemy's movements from Lianyungang to Xuzhou; The southeastern Shandong detachment was still deployed in the southeastern part of Shandong, mainly to consolidate the base area and defend to the east.

After listening to this, Liu Yimin read the progress reports of the various units again, and once again told Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong that they must tell all the units to control the scale of the battle, control the rhythm of the offensive, take a covert rest for the main force, and send small units to carry out a cold gun and cold artillery campaign. We must conceal the truth about the return of the main force of our army, otherwise we will be beaten and rushed by the surname, and the thoughts of the previous morning glory operation will be in vain.

Cai Zhong said: "Commander, you don't know, the little devil has scooped the base area too hard. Wherever they passed, they were murdered and set on fire, and they were burdened with blood. When the cadres and soldiers of all units came back, they were all red-eyed, and they had to find the little devil desperately. What you said about controlling the scale and rhythm of the battle, this is not easy to do! ”

Luo Ronghuan pondered for a long time, and said to Liu Yimin: "I think about it, in the future, we must try to take the initiative to attack, go to the devil-occupied area to fight, and try to protect our base area." The large-scale encirclement and suppression of the devils has indeed caused too much loss to the base areas. Wherever the devil goes, there are very few villagers who have not been transferred in time. This little devil is simply the most unnamed army in the world, and he has done all the bad things. ”

Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong's words made Liu Yimin speechless for a long time. Yes, the main force of the main force of the Hebei-Shandong border to annihilate the enemy, the Jilu border to annihilate the enemy, and then the covert southward operation, from a strategic point of view, are all correct, and the purpose of luring and destroying the enemy has also been achieved. However, after the main force left, the base areas were basically lost, and the common people naturally suffered. Even now, the central Hebei, southern Hebei, western Hebei, Hebei-Lubian, southwestern Shandong, and Taixi regions are probably all purgatory on earth. Not only are the common people looking forward to the return of the main force of the Eighth Route Army, but even the troops, local armed forces, and local cadres who insist on the local area are probably also looking forward to the return of the main force like the stars and the moon. It's Jiaodong, didn't Zeng Zhongsheng also look forward to the main force quickly going north and completely eliminating the Jiaodong army?

As soon as he thought of this situation, Liu Yimin was eager to immediately command the troops to make a large-scale attack to the north and west, and resolutely wipe out all the puppet troops that had penetrated deep into the base areas. However, if you think about it calmly, the heavy army group has not yet launched the Wuhan Battle in an all-round way, and now that there is a big fight, it is very easy to lure the devil heavy army group back to Shandong, so that not only will all the sacrifices made in the early stage be in vain, but even the villagers in the base areas will be destroyed again. You must know that if the heavy army group comes again, it will definitely retaliate even more bloodily.

Liu Yimin took a breath, slammed his hand on the table, and said viciously: "Tell all troops that orders must be strictly implemented." We can only attack with cold guns and small troops, gradually encroach on the little devils, and resolutely not expose the truth about the return of the main force to Shandong. There are many opportunities for revenge, let the comrades endure it again, and when the devils launch the battle of Wuhan and fight until they can't attack or retreat, that's when we strike hard. When the time comes, the little devil just wants to concentrate all his strength on us, and I'm afraid he won't be able to do it. ”

(To be continued)