After sending the telegram, Liu Yimin calmed down and sat in the room thinking quietly.

Don't look at Liu Yimin's eloquent talk at the press conference, saying that the prospects of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression are brilliant, as if the army is about to stop the offensive momentum, the War of Resistance will soon enter the stage of stalemate, and it seems that the situation will soon get better after entering the stage of stalemate, and it will immediately turn to a strategic counteroffensive, in fact, it is mainly to encourage the morale of the army and the people to resist the war, and it is not the same thing at all in my heart.

Historically, while Xiao Yue instinctively invaded China in an all-out way, he always wanted to go north or south, because of his strong strength. The reason why the army did not attack on a large scale after capturing Wuhan and Guangzhou was that the troops were limited and needed time to consolidate and digest the occupied areas, but in fact it was because there was a change in their own strategic thinking, and they had already seen through the imminent great changes in the world situation, and they were anxious to suspend the war against China so that they could free up their hands to participate in the distribution of future world interests, and the strategy toward China changed from the main solution by force and supplemented by political settlement to the political solution and supplemented by force, and they were bent on luring Chiang Kai-shek to surrender. Or establish a puppet regime with a unified surname in opposition to Chiang Kai-shek, help them rule China, realize the integration of Manchu and China, and then lay the foundation for their greater aggressive plans.

I remember that many netizens in later generations put forward many hypotheses when discussing the War of Resistance Against Japan, one of which impressed Liu Yimin was that if he hadn't been so unpopular to launch the Pacific War, he would have honestly attacked China, then it would be really difficult to say what the outcome of China's War of Resistance would be. You must know that in history, the elite divisions of the Chinese army were all consumed under the artillery fire of the US army, and if the little devils did not start the Pacific War and did not annoy the United States, the Southern Army under the command of Shouichi Terauchi alone, whether it was Yucheng or Yan'an, I am afraid it would not be able to hold it. If that happens, it is estimated that China's Han annihilation and puppet army will increase on a large scale, and China's war of resistance will really be even more difficult. If I take 10,000 steps back, I will stop in time after capturing Wuhan, retreat to the northeast and hold on, and do not provoke the United States and the Soviet Union, so even if China wins the War of Resistance, according to the hearts and surnames of the Americans, British, and Soviets, I am afraid that they will support the occupation of the northeast.

Of course, this is just the assumption of netizens, but fortunately, history has no assumptions. However, when Liu Yimin thought about it calmly, he had to be a little afraid, he had now changed part of history, and he could only promote the development of history in favor of the Anti-Japanese War, but he must not push it to the opposite side.

From this point of view, we must also talk about strategy in fighting devils, especially at the strategic level, and we can't be brave for a while, so that Xiao Yue doesn't dare to let go and start the Pacific War, then the gains will greatly outweigh the losses.

Thinking of this, Liu Yimin was thinking about what the old devil Shouyi in the temple was doing now. He couldn't figure it out, what happened to the devils now, don't talk about those reading mixed brigades, don't talk about the 21st Division, this is the Eighth Division, why didn't the old devil in Terauchi commit suicide by disembowelment? Emperor Hirohito is also evil, such a big thing is not to order Terauchi Shouichi to cut himself, this is not the tradition of the army!

I laughed when I thought about it, what kind of character is Shouichi Terauchi, how can he be casually disemboweled? History says that the army failed in the Battle of Nomenkan, didn't the commander of the Kwantung Army, Kenkichi Ueda, not have a caesarean section? However, the Eighth Division was completely annihilated, but the losses were much greater than those in the Battle of Nuomenkan, and the old devil Shouyi in the temple did not disembowel, which made Liu Yimin haunted in his heart.

Since the old devil Shouyi in the temple is shameless and does not cut his abdomen, Liu Yimin has to think about the next actions of the army. It is certain that planes are bombing indiscriminately, and it is also certain that heavy armed groups are encircling and suppressing them. It's just that it depends on where Shouichi Terauchi starts first.

At present, the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th, 14th, 16th, 27th, and 114th Divisions are all on the front line in eastern Henan, and the 10th Division is defending in Xuzhou. In Shanxi, due to the return of the 1st Division to the Kwantung Army, the 8th Division was annihilated, and the 6th Division participated in the Battle of Xuzhou, leaving only the 20th Division, the 25th Division, the 109th Division, and the 8th and 9th Reading Mixed Brigades, and the 26th Division stationed in Datong, the puppet Mongolian army, and the puppet Manchurian army. On the Shandong side, only the 108th Division stationed in Jinan, the 7th Brigade of Reading Li in Dexian, the 13th Brigade of Reading Li stationed in Tai'an, and the 114th Division stationed in Yanzhou and Jining were left behind. On the Hebei and Pingjin lines, the 24th Division stationed in Cangxian County, the 5th Division of the Reading Mixed Division stationed in Tianjin, and the Jinpu Railway Wing stationed in Tianjin, and the 23rd Division stationed in Shijiazhuang, the 22nd Division stationed in Xinxiang, and the troops directly under the North China Public Security Army stationed in Qikuiyuan and the North China Front Army stationed in Beiping on the Pinghan Line.

According to the original historical deployment, at this time, the 110th Division of the Chinese Army should have gone to North China to take over the defense of Shijiazhuang and Baoding. However, since Qingdao was captured, it is worth thinking about where the 110th Division will be used, and it is very likely that it will be used to attack Qingdao. However, Terauchi Shouichi felt that this time he was fighting with his instructor with superior forces, and he would definitely not let a 110th Division take the risk of attacking Qingdao, and it was very likely that the troops that should have been formed in 1939 in history would be organized in advance to form a heavy army group to attack Qingdao.

According to historical records, the Yue army was organized into 10 divisions at this time, and because of its arrival, the Yue army was terrified, and not only the 21 st Division, the 22 nd Division, the 23rd Division, and the 24 th Division were all organized in advance and put into the North China battlefield, but also the 25 th Division was organized in advance and stationed in Shanxi, which is different from history. At this time, the army should have sent the remaining six divisions, namely the 15th Division, the 17th Division, the 10th 4th Division, the 10th Division, the 110th Division, and the 116th Division, to China. The 110th Division came to North China.

At this time in history, the army had already begun to launch the preliminary battle of the Battle of Wuhan, and now the Battle of Wuhan has been postponed. Because the 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 13th divisions are all in eastern Henan. Perhaps Terauchi Shouichi had already come up with a battle plan at this time, and he wanted to transfer all the heavy army groups of the Yue Army gathered in eastern Henan to Shandong, and then fight the Battle of Wuhan after the Shandong problem was resolved.

If Shouichi Terauchi decided to concentrate all his efforts on eliminating the Mentor, he would inevitably attack several ways at the same time, and the offensive would be extremely fierce. Not to mention anything else, just the few permanent divisions in eastern Henan are not easy to mess with. Although he told reporters that he welcomed the first-class divisions of the Chinese army to attack, that was just talk. If you have a division, you will naturally not be afraid of him with the firepower and strength of your own troops, but if it is really six or seven permanent divisions and regiments that go together, God, it will be troublesome.

Looking at the battles he has fought since his mentor set out, it is mainly a surprise four words, but this advantage is disappearing. Because now that they have a base area, it is impossible to fight and leave as they did in the past, and the little devils are so cruel, if they enter the base area to take revenge, I am afraid that it will be a situation of slaughtering villages and destroying households, and there will be no man's land everywhere. Besides, the Yimeng central base area is still under construction, and so many materials, equipment, and personnel have been brought back from Tianjin, plus the materials and equipment brought back by Ni Hua and the materials and equipment that have been brought back from Qingdao this time, the base area will inevitably prosper, and all kinds of equipment of the troops will be upgraded to a higher level. If the central base of Yimeng is occupied by devils, the losses will be too heavy. Moreover, although the scale of his own troops has expanded, the main force is still the old troops, like the five newly formed garrison brigades, and it is okay to attack and disturb, but if they really want to confront the first-class troops of the Chinese army, they will soon be defeated.

Liu Yimin knew in his heart that he had beaten the little devil painfully and ruthlessly, and the next devil's revenge would be extremely tragic, and he must have done his best to complete the battle, and he could think of it with his toes that this time the devil must be a heavy army group that will toss Shandong all over like a comb. The sky is a non-stop flying reconnaissance plane, and there will definitely be a small army of devils infiltrating and reconnoitring underground, plus the devil's heavy army group is going hand in hand like a rolling mill, and the main force of the instructor wants to move unconsciously without knowing it, it's difficult!

It is necessary to follow what the chairman said, deploy the enemy first, mobilize the enemy first, rest and recuperate first, move before the enemy, highly concentrate the main force, strive to annihilate one of them, and repel the devil's sweep.

Thinking of this, Liu Yimin sent a telegram to Luo Ronghuan, asking him to follow Liu Yimin's deployment before leaving, urge the staff office to quickly formulate a battle plan to repel the enemy's siege, urge Qian Zhuangfei to closely monitor the movements of the army, and urge Luo Yan's reconnaissance battalion to be scattered, and the reconnaissance companies of all brigades to be scattered to monitor the movements of devils on Jinpu Road. At the same time, it was ordered to set up instructors and an artillery command of the Shandong Military Region, which was responsible for the deployment, use, training, and operational command of the artillery units of the division. Organ of the Artillery Brigade and Organ of the Artillery Command, Chief of the Artillery Brigade and Head of the Artillery Command. It ordered the establishment of a special operations command, with Li Lingfeng as commander, Wang Tongsheng as political commissar, and Wang Laohu as deputy commander. The special operations command should quickly draw up a special operations plan to repel the attack of devils and submit it for approval. The 2nd Brigade was ordered to withdraw from the vicinity of Jinan, and the main force entered to rest. The Fourth Brigade of Jiao went out of Jinan to retreat, joined the main force of the brigade, and rested on the front line of Zhangdian and Zhoucun. The Sixth Brigade and the Luxi Garrison Brigade withdrew from Dexian County and moved to concealment for recuperation. Wu Zheng was ordered to go all out to reload the artillery shells, and be sure to replenish the ammunition consumed in the Luzhong campaign for each artillery regiment within ten days.

After issuing a series of orders, Liu Yimin continued to think about how to defeat the siege of the devils. At this time, the chairman's telegram arrived.

In the telegram, the chairman first inquired about the seizure of materials in Qingdao and the evacuation of the materials transported by Ni Hua, and told Liu Yimin to pay close attention to it, not to have any illusions about the army, that it is already very precious to be able to buy a few days, and that he must not hope for the mediation of the envoys of the United States and Britain, as he will regret it. Then, the chairman asked whether the instructions of the former telegram to send backbone troops to the Sulu-Henan border region to carry out guerrilla warfare had been implemented, what troops were sent, and who led the troops?

Finally, the chairman criticized Liu Yimin for being reckless and entangled personal life issues with work. Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Chiang led the representatives of the Mingzhuo party to express their condolences to our army, which was an affirmation of our army's heroic achievements in fighting and a great opportunity to publicize our party and our army. As the principal responsible person of our party in Shandong, we should consider this issue from the political level, instead of entangled in personal feelings. Shandong is so big, can't you find a place to park your planes! Qingdao can't do it, so Weixian can't do it? Is Gaomi and Jiaoxian okay? Is it okay to be cloudy? Liu Yimin is required to choose a suitable place to receive Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Jiang and their party, and must ensure safety.

After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin's heart, which had been slightly calm, immediately became irritable again. He knew that Ni Hua's performance was seen by everyone, and it was considered to have withstood the test and been recognized by everyone. But the problem is that a woman is a woman after all, she has her own self-esteem and her own ideas. Although she kicked herself out of the door and said it very resolutely, if she didn't know her intentions, she would be pretending to be confused and playing bastard, I'm afraid she was thinking all the time that she could divorce Tang Xingying and propose to her. But Tang Xingying is the wife and son of her own Ming Media, and the husband and wife are in love, so they can be parted with casually? Originally, I didn't want to think about it for the time being, but the good sons and daughters put their energy into fighting devils and let time decide. This is good, Song Meiling is coming, this time, I'm afraid I will force myself to make a statement. Mrs. Sun may not know that she misses Ni Hua, and she really came to visit the troops. This Song Meiling came so high-profile, and clearly said that she wanted to get married, what was her intention? Isn't that adding to the chaos?

As soon as he remembered that after the Battle of Wuhan in history, the Kuomintang began to restrict and dissolve the Communist Party, Liu Yimin became more and more irritable. Although everyone knows that Ni Hua is Ni Hua and Song Meiling is Song Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek will definitely make some fame and fall into the eyes of those who are more leftist in the party, and I am afraid that the little shoes will be put on one by one.

I couldn't be irritable, so I smoked more and more, and finally coughed tears flowed out.

In the end, Liu Yimin figured it out, at this time, it was still the Republic of China period, and there was no marriage law at all, and some were only the Kuomintang's Six Laws Encyclopedia, which did not stipulate that monogamy was necessary. Sun Yat-sen and Song Qingling got married and didn't see Sun Ke's divorce! Soong Meiling believed in Christianity, so she forced Chiang Kai-shek to make a newspaper statement, which was just a newspaper statement. It is simpler for our army cadres to get married, just report to the organization. Divorce is just a report, and there is no need to report it. All in all, this was a time when the institution of marriage was very imperfect.

After figuring out this truth, Liu Yimin felt that he had a lot of choices, and there should be four ways to go: one was to report to the Central Committee to divorce Tang Xingying and marry Ni Hua. The second is to make it clear to Ni Hua that she has a family, and let her find a new love. The third is that as long as two people can accommodate each other, deal with it vaguely, and don't talk about divorce, just get married. Fourth, you don't want anyone at all, it's more neat to be single and fight devils, there are not so many worries, when you sacrifice, it's a matter of time, and the province is entangled with women all day long.

Although Liu Yimin is not good at dealing with emotional problems, he is extremely smart, and immediately wrote a reply to the chairman, first reporting that the war had just ended, and he was thinking about how to defeat the devils to encircle and suppress them, and the matter of sending troops south to the Sulu-Henan border region would be implemented after the battle plan came out, and he would resolutely follow the chairman's instructions. Then he wrote out all four of his ideas for dealing with marriage issues, asked the chairman to adjudicate, and kicked the ball back. In the end, he reported that he asked the chairman to inform Madame Chiang that the special plane could land in Weixian and that it must fly to Weixian before 7 o'clock in the morning, where there was an air defense brigade and there was no problem with safety.

Liu Yimin didn't expect that the chairman's reply would arrive soon, with four words on it: "Handle it safely!" It made Liu Yimin stammer. However, there was no time for him to ponder any more, the consuls of various countries in Qingdao had already arrived, and he had to brace himself and fool this group of foreign consuls.

In this era, the consuls of various countries in Qingdao were actually half businessmen and half spies.

When the U.S. Consul in Qingdao, Sockbin, saw several Eighth Route Army soldiers walking into the banquet hall with a handsome young man wearing a white shirt, black pants, tie, and leather shoes. With that, he stretched out his arms and hugged him.

Liu Yimin also recognized that this was the American Consul Suo Kebin from this big grin, let him hug him, and then said with a smile: "Mr. Suo Kebin, it's a pleasure to meet you!" ”

Next, Liu Yimin exchanged greetings with the consuls of various countries.

After sitting down, Liu Yimin said: "Gentlemen, I have two purposes for inviting you, one is to get to know each other, make friends, and ask you to convey to the people of your country the sincere greetings and best wishes of China [***] and the Eighth Route Army. Second, I would like to discuss with you how to ensure the safety of Qingdao. As everyone knows, after our army captured Qingdao, in addition to confiscating the fake assets and suppressing the Han annihilation, it actively maintained the social order in Qingdao and did not commit any crimes in the autumn. But now is the time of war, and the warships of the invaders are cruising in the sea near Qingdao, and they may attack Qingdao anytime and anywhere. Although our army has put forward the best plan for resolving the Qingdao issue, that is, China and the Chinese side are not allowed to fight or station troops in Qingdao, and Qingdao should be set up as an international free trade port and the citizens should be self-governed, but I estimate that the Chinese army will not agree. In this way, our army will inevitably have a decisive battle with Yue Kou in Qingdao. When the time comes, it is very likely that the planes and warships of the Chinese military will accidentally bomb the consulates of various countries, and it will be difficult to guarantee your personal safety. Therefore, I would like to ask you what measures can be taken to ensure that the beautiful Qingdao is not attacked by the devils? ”

(To be continued)