After dinner, Liu Yimin sat down and sorted out the situation in Shandong's anti-Japanese base area that he later generations knew, and synthesized it with the information he had obtained from all aspects of Shandong, and basically sorted out the situation in Shandong at this time and the methods and measures that should be taken after arriving in Shandong.

Since the retreat of Han Fuqu, all the troops and local powers of the national government on the ground in Shandong have withdrawn south, only General Fan Zhuxian refused to retreat and insisted on the war of resistance in northwest Shandong. The general sweep launched by the commander of the Second Army, Nishio Shouzo, with the aim of completely sweeping away the resistance forces in Shandong, was unprecedented in history. General Fan Zhuxian was martyred ahead of schedule, and most of the resistance forces he left behind were absorbed by our army. In this way, there is no longer a trace of the armed forces of the national axe in the whole of Shandong. On the contrary, with the exception of Luxi, which is all under our control, the Shandong Provincial Party Committee is organizing armed uprisings in various localities and actively organizing anti-Japanese armed forces.

Historically, there has always been a problem in the Shandong base area of the 115th Division and the Shandong Column in smoothing the relationship, and the main reason is that the 115th Division has a small number of troops advancing eastward, and it is difficult for it to play the role of the core backbone, and in addition there is a lack of core leaders, the various units of our army in the Shandong base area cannot form a powerful fist for a period of time. It was not until 1943 that the Central Committee made it clear that Luo Ronghuan was in charge of Shandong, and the situation changed greatly. Now the instructor is the main force of our army, and more than 100,000 people in the whole army have marched into Shandong, and they have their own towns, and the situation of resistance in Shandong is very different from that in history.

As for the reaction of the National Political Axe Association after the instructor marched into Shandong, Liu Yimin felt that it could not be considered. Because in history, Chiang Kai-shek only remembered to arrange troops to carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines in Shandong and southern Hebei after the Battle of Xuzhou, and most of these troops later became puppet troops. Liu Yimin felt that as long as he developed in Shandong, gained a firm foothold, and could effectively support other anti-Japanese battlefields in the country, even if Chiang Kai-shek sent Shen Honglie to be the chairman of Shandong Province, it would be just a formality.

The party committee held until 10 o'clock in the evening, and made a clear division of the route of the various departments of the instructors to the east into Shandong and the development area after arriving in Shandong. This time, after careful analysis, the instructor's party committee held that the whole division could establish a base area that was even more powerful than the Shaanxi base area by developing toward Shandong, because Shandong's population was much larger than that of Shaanxi, and the mountainous areas of central and southern Shandong and the mountainous areas of the Jiaodong Peninsula could be established as a consolidated base area, and once the time was ripe, it would be completely possible to cut off the Jinpu Road and control the entire territory of Shandong. In accordance with this guiding ideology, there have been marked changes in the development areas of various military units compared with the plans made at the last cadre meeting. Among them, the Second Brigade of the Teaching, as the first-class main force of our army in northwest Luxi, still adheres to the west of Jinpu Road and the northwest of the Yellow River in the Luxi region, and undertakes the task of supporting the combat missions of northern Lu, southern Hebei, and central Hebei. The 6th Brigade is equipped with the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment, and the development area is south of Cangxian County, east of Jinpu Road, and north of the Yellow River. The 3rd Brigade led the 7th Brigade and the 8th Brigade to be guided by the 1st Squadron of Wang Laohu's Special Warfare, secretly crossed the railway from near Dexian County, crossed the Yellow River in the east, and developed in the area east of the Yellow River, north of the Jiaoji Line, and west of Daze Mountain. The Eighth Brigade advanced to Jiaodong and established the Jiaodong Military Region east of Daze Mountain, with the brigade headquarters and the Jiaodong Military Region, stationed in Laiyang; The 7th Brigade is equipped with a medium-sized mortar regiment, which is deployed in the area east of Yishan and south of the Jiaoji Line, and the brigade headquarters is also the Jiaolai Military Region, stationed in Anqiu County. The 1st Brigade, the 4th Brigade, the 5th Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, the Artillery Brigade, and the troops directly under the division all concentrated in the Liaocheng area and crossed the Yellow River to the east. Among them, the 1st Brigade was deployed in southwest Lu, west of Jinpu Road and south of the Yellow River, and the brigade headquarters was also the southwest Lu Military Region, stationed in Juye; The cavalry brigade moved with the Jiaoyi trip and developed to the Shandong-Henan-Anhui border region, and the brigade headquarters was also the military region of the Shandong-Henan-Anhui border region, stationed in Shan County; The 4th Brigade of Jiao was equipped with a mountain artillery regiment to advance to Luzhong, and the brigade headquarters was also the Luzhong Military Region, stationed in Boshan; The Fifth Brigade marched into Lunan, and the brigade headquarters was also the Lunan Military Region, stationed in Mengyin County; The division headquarters led the troops and organs directly under the division to advance to the mountainous area of central and southern Shandong and established a rear base in Yiyuan County.

The specific order and route of the eastward advance of each unit shall be carried out in accordance with the plan formulated by the General Staff Office.

In order to ensure the quality of the training of recruits and also to reduce the pressure of marching, the party committee decided that the training headquarters would temporarily move with the second instructor and continue to train recruits in Linqing. After the first batch of recruits completed three months of regular training and were assigned to various units, they concentrated on training the armed forces of Luxi in Linqing. After completing the task, the formation and training headquarters crossed the Yellow River east to join the division headquarters.

One after another, orders were sent to all the instructors, requiring all units to quickly transfer to rest and recuperate, to teach the 2nd Brigade to immediately return to defend Luxi, and to teach the 5th Brigade to concentrate in Liaocheng to prepare for the main force to cross the river. All other brigades should organize and send advance detachments to cross the river and march eastward in advance to open the way for the main force to enter Lu in a big way. After the troops of the 129th and 115th Divisions arrived in southern Hebei and central Hebei, the whole division crossed the river and marched eastward by separate routes.

After the meeting, Liu Yimin went home to reunite with his wife and children.

Seeing that her husband finally came home, Tang Xingying was so happy that her face was full of smiles, she quickly got up, boiled water and made a bowl of egg tea, and forced Liu Yimin to drink it.

After drinking, Liu Yimin asked Tang Xingying if he let the children eat dumplings on the first day of the new year, Tang Xingying shook his head and said: "What did the devils blow up in southern Hebei, they were busy saving people and relocating the masses, where can they take care of eating dumplings." ”

Liu Yimin took out a silver dollar from his pocket, saying that he did not give his son New Year's money during the New Year, and this father was a bit derelict in his duties. With that, he went into the bedroom, kissed his son's little face twice, and put the silver dollar under his pillow.

This toss actually woke up the little guy, and he had to pester Liu Yimin to hug him, and he also pestered his father to tell stories with a milky voice.

Fighting and killing all day long, when he saw his wife and son, Liu Yimin's heart was warm, and regardless of the fatigue of the day, he held his son in his arms, wrapped the two of them in a military coat and told stories while walking around the yard. It was not until 12 o'clock that his son's small mouth finally opened and yawned, and Liu Yimin carried his son back to the house.

Chen Yaoguang had already woken up, and was also waiting in the house at this time, when he saw Liu Yimin entering the house, he asked "I'm back", stretched out his hand to carry the child over, and turned around and entered his room.

Lying on the bed, Liu Yimin whispered to Tang Xingying how Chen Yaoguang has been doing recently, and if he is willing to go back?

Tang Xingying said that this girl has been doing very well recently, and she no longer mentions any aunts and wives, not only can she help take care of the children, but also go to the hospital to take care of the wounded. Especially in the last devil bombing, this girl was very brave and went to help rescue the injured fellow. It seems that this time is indeed educated.

Liu Yimin sighed and said, "Vice Chairman Zhou sent a secret telegram, and Chen Yaoguang's identity has been clarified. She herself was indeed born into a family of intellectuals and was a student at Jinling University. Dai Lian took her parents up and coerced her to come to us. As for her identity as Mrs. Jiang's goddaughter, it is all a cover. Vice Chairman Zhou said that according to the analysis, Chen Yaoguang did not accept any specific tasks, and Dai Li just wanted to use her beauty to conquer me and cast a long line to catch big fish. I want you to talk to her more recently, and try to mobilize her to go back, just say that you already know her true identity and don't want to expose it, so as not to make Chairman Jiang and Madame Jiang look bad. ”

Tang Xingying asked, "Then what if she doesn't leave?" ”

Liu Yimin sighed again: "Try to let her go voluntarily." Vice Chairman Zhou meant, although we know her true identity, in the current situation, we can't lose a big one because of a small thing, because of such a trivial matter to fight with Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling. You have to leave her behind, and you have to keep her safe. ”

Tang Xingying sat up as soon as she heard this, and when she opened her mouth, she wanted to speak loudly, so panicked that Liu Yimin hurriedly covered her mouth and pulled her to lie down.

Tang Xingying was angry for a while, and held back for a long time before muttering in a low voice: "The security department doesn't know what to eat, and every day they stare at the spy to catch the spy, this spy lives in the same room with us, and I don't see any action from them, a bunch of stupid people!" ”

Liu Yimin actually felt uncomfortable in his heart. It turned out that he knew in his heart that Chen Yaoguang was a trap set by Chiang Kai-shek, but once it was confirmed, he still felt very uncomfortable. I hate Dai Li, I hate Dai Li, I can use any indiscriminate tricks, such a beautiful female college student, I just let him be forced to be bait. Isn't that harmful?

Tang Xingying saw that Liu Yimin was no longer talking, so she whispered again: "It's a pity that you are the general of the Eighth Route Army and my man." If only you were one of those little warlords, you could have three wives and four concubines, wouldn't you die beautifully? Where is the heart of who sent her! ”

Liu Yimin stretched out his hand to hug his wife, and the two of them were speechless.

On the morning of the next day, Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan inspected the troops in central Hebei.

After this period of rest and recuperation, the mental outlook of the cadres and fighters of the Jizhong army has changed markedly. In particular, a large number of supplements were received from the instructors, and those that had no guns had guns, and the broken guns that had no rifling were replaced with good guns supported by the instructors, and all companies were equipped with light and heavy machine guns, and battalions and regiments were equipped with small guns. All the cadres and soldiers received subsidies from their instructors, and their military uniforms were changed into brand-new uniforms of the Eighth Route Army.

After inspecting the newly reorganized regiments, Lu Ben, Meng Qingshan, and Lu Zhengying gathered together the cadres above the platoon level of the central Hebei army and invited Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan to give speeches to everyone.

Luo Ronghuan took his own experience as a clue to talk about the uprising in southern Hunan, the Autumn Harvest Uprising, the Nanchang Uprising, the establishment of the Central Soviet Region, the struggle against encirclement and suppression, and the Long March. It is necessary to clearly explain the history, surname, and goals of our army. In the end, Luo Ronghuan told the cadres earnestly: "Our army is a unit with a glorious history and glorious traditions, and history since the founding of the army has proved that only by adhering to the party's leadership can we ensure that the troops have strong cohesion and combat effectiveness. Although the Jizhong troops were young, they did not show weakness in the face of a strong enemy and fought back. This spirit is the inheritance and development of our army's spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice and fighting tenaciously. I believe that after the comrades return to Jizhong, they will be able to defend and build the base areas in Jizhong and train the Jizhong troops into the main force of our army. ”

It was the first time that Liu Yimin had listened to Luo Ronghuan's long speech, and he felt that this old man was worthy of being the marshal of our army's political work, and this speech would certainly leave an unforgettable impression in the hearts of the cadres of the central Hebei army, and it would play a great role in the development of the concentrated troops into the main force in the future.

When he was savoring Luo Ronghuan's speech, he listened to the applause of the cadres, and when he retracted his thoughts, it turned out that Lu Ben, Meng Qingshan, and Lu Zhengying were all saluting themselves and asking themselves to speak to the cadres.

Liu Yimin stood up and returned the salute to the three people, and then began to say: "Just now Political Commissar Luo reviewed the history of our army for everyone, and some comrades may have questions after hearing this, why did Chiang Kai-shek launch five encirclement and suppression, and it was both aircraft and artillery, and what kind of encirclement, pursuit, and interception, why couldn't he destroy us?" There are many reasons for this problem, and the political commissar has already talked about a very large part of it. Next, I will focus on telling comrades about the flexible and mobile strategy and tactics of our army. ”

In view of the situation in central Hebei under enemy conditions on all sides, and in light of our army's combat examples, Liu Yimin gave a special lecture on mine warfare, tunnel warfare, guerrilla warfare, and movement warfare. In particular, he talked about the principles and essentials of anti-encroachment, [***], and anti-sweeping operations.

Finally, Liu Yimin demanded that after the units in central Hebei returned to central Hebei, they should organize armed engineering teams behind enemy lines and vigorously carry out the cold gun and cold artillery movement. He vividly compared: "This devil is still a behemoth, and with the strength of the Jizhong troops, it is impossible to swallow them in one bite." Especially in the environment of Jizhong, if the devils detect that the main force of our army has left Jizhong, they will carry out a sweep anytime and anywhere. What to do? That's the knife slow cut. Just like we deal with a nest of wasps, if you make a mistake and provoke it, it is likely to come out of the nest and sting people to death. But if you make some beats, and one person takes one and stares at it from a distance, and one comes out and kills the other, won't the hornets not form a swarm attack? This devil is like a hornet, if you destroy its squad in a group, it will retaliate, that is, tanks and planes together. We have to think about how to avoid the devil's revenge. What to do? This cold gun cold gun movement is very good. We divided the large army into small units, and let the militia cooperate, and the stragglers and sentinels who specialize in fighting devils are what the common people often call devils who are lonely. Before shooting, lay a mine, kill a devil and leave, and let the devil step on the mine as soon as he pursues. In this way, the number of the devils is not less, but the soldiers are decreasing every day, and at a certain time, the devils are going to gather and sweep, and when the whistle blows, grandma has a leg, and there are no soldiers. Let's think about it, what will be the expression of the devil officer at that time? ”

The cadres immediately burst into laughter.

(To be continued)