Just when Liu Yimin was deploying the creation of the base areas in southern Hebei and western Luxi, General Terauchi Shouichi also held a military conference in Tianjin.

Although he did not capture the main force of the tutor, nor did he catch Liu Yimin, who made the imperial army hate, he recovered Tianjin after all. Although the current Tianjin was emptied by Liu Yimin, and the economy has regressed for at least 20 years, which makes General Terauchi Shouichi sad when he thinks about it in the middle of the night, he finally has an explanation for the base camp. Otherwise, the loss of Tianjin and the loss of the North China Front Aviation Corps would have been enough to make General Terauchi Shouichi disembowelment 50 times. Therefore, on the whole, in these days in Tianjin, the mood of General Shouichi Terauchi is still good.

Shouichi Terauchi, who is in a good mood, is naturally full of energy when he works. On the one hand, he commanded the army to restore law and order in the eastern Hebei region and the Beijing-Tianjin region, causing many tragedies, and adding thick blood stains to his hands; On the one hand, they also stepped up preparations for the establishment of puppet political axes, police stations, and secret agencies at all levels in Tianjin and eastern Hebei, and vigorously expanded Qi Kuiyuan's puppet North China security army to consolidate the foundation of his rule. At the same time, we did not forget to repair railways, highways, and locomotives.

In his free time, Terauchi Shouichi went to a rented hotel where he lived in a high-class courtesan, where he spent a lot of time drinking.

This Tianjin is really a world of flowers, and even the courtesans are more foreign and educated than the girls in Beiping. Shouichi Terauchi felt much younger, and even his beard seemed to be a little thicker than before.

After receiving the order from the base camp to open up the Tongpu Railway and the Jinpu Railway, General Terauchi Shouichi thought to himself that it was time to give the Central [***] team a good look, otherwise, the face of the imperial army would be lost.

At present, in addition to the North China Front, General Terauchi Shouichi also has three divisions of the Eastern Army's southward corps, the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd divisions reinforced by the mainland, and the newly formed 24th Division from Harbin, a total of 15 divisions and regiments, and their strength is very strong. The only thing that worries him is that the supplies and aviation troops transported by the mainland have not been able to arrive for a long time, and the other is that the replenishment of the battle losses of the 6th Division, the 16th Division, the 10th Division, the 1st Division, the 8th Division, and the mixed brigades of the garrison army needs to be solved urgently. However, the base camp has been called back, and the military supplies and supplementary troops have been shipped, and they will soon arrive in North China.

Senior General Kenkichi Ueda has been constantly sending reports to the base camp, asking the Kwantung Army to return to the south. General Matsui Ishine also kept sending reports to the base camp, asking for more troops. It seems that we must step up our actions, and we can't let the Kwantung Army's southward corps travel around North China in vain, right? Anyway, we have to let them do something.

General Terauchi Shouichi, who had made up his mind, asked Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo to rush to Tianjin with the staff team, and after a few days of busyness, he finally came up with a battle plan and submitted it to the base camp for approval.

The base camp quickly approved the battle plan, but the base camp emphasized two points: first, the first division of the southward corps of the Kwantung Army could only stay in North China for a month at most, and the first division must be returned to the Kwantung Army after one month. Second, the aviation regiment that has been transferred this time is already the maximum number of aviation units that can be transferred in China at present, and the North China Front must strictly protect it and not lose any mistakes. The reason is very simple, it takes time to train the pilots of the Great Empire, and the valuable pilot resources are not inexhaustible.

General Terauchi Shouichi's heart was numb, as if the base camp thought that the two heavy losses of the North China Air Corps were due to his poor protection of Terauchi Shouichi. Don't they know that this is the result of a sneak attack by the cunning Liu Yimin? These stupid guys!

However, this is all right, with the strong combat power of the 1st Division, you can do a lot of things in a month. Shouichi Terauchi decided to punch hard.

Still at the headquarters of the military barracks in Haiguang Temple, on January 12, Shouichi Terauchi held an operational meeting of the North China Front.

Wearing a crisp general's uniform, Shouichi Terauchi sat on the main seat of the conference room, his eyes scanning Lieutenant General Kiyoshi Kazuki, Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo, and the commanders of the fifteen lieutenant general divisions sitting at the conference table.

Seeing that the generals were sitting straight, solemn and solemn, General Terauchi Shouichi was very satisfied, and then began to speak: "Ladies and gentlemen, since the North China Incident, the Imperial Army has fought on the two fronts of North China and Central China, although it has made rapid progress, and has captured Nanjing, the capital of China, and Shanghai, Hangzhou, Beiping, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Jinan and other large cities, but except for the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Taiyuan, it has not been able to effectively eliminate the main force of the China Army. In particular, after the Eighth Route Army entered the war, it continued to infiltrate the areas occupied by the imperial army, and its instructor Liu Yimin caused heavy losses to the imperial army of the Great Imperial Army in Taiyuan and Tianjin. As a result, the awareness of the Chinese political axe and the people's resistance increased, and the Chinese political axe army along the Yangtze River began to counterattack the imperial army, and the Chinese army in the western direction continued to compress around Taiyuan, and the public security situation in the entire area occupied by the imperial army deteriorated extremely. ”

Speaking of this, Terauchi Shouichi glanced at the audience coldly, and saw that the generals were all sitting upright and not squinting, Terauchi Shouichi coughed, cleared his throat, and then said: "The overall strategy of the Great Empire is to occupy the whole of China and build a Manchurian community. In order to realize this strategy, Chiang Kai-shek's regular army of the Nationalist Axe must first be eliminated. The primary combat mission of the North China Front and its subordinate units is to destroy all resistance forces in North China, build offensive bases to occupy the whole of China, and use the resources and manpower of North China as the support for our continued operations. By accomplishing this task, we will be able to chase the Central Plains and drink the Yangtze River, and realize the ideals of struggle of several generations. ”

Terauchi Shou was a little excited as he spoke, Suo stood up, walked to the map, and directly compared and spoke on the map: "The operational concept of the North China Front is: the eastern front, open up the Jinpu line, and communicate with the Central China Front; The middle line opened up the connection between the Pinghan line and the Longhai line, and then went south to Wuhan and joined the Central China Front Army in Wuhan. On the western front, the Tongpu Railway was opened, and the Chinese political axe army on the Shanxi side was driven south of the Yellow River, so as to restore effective control over Chahar and Suiyuan, and restore law and order in Shanxi. To this I order: "

The generals of the Yue Army, who were sitting upright and listening to the lecture, stood up with a "sigh".

I only heard Terauchi Shouichi say viciously: "The 24th Division stayed in Tianjin and eastern Hebei, and the 23rd Division strengthened the first-line security defense in Shijiazhuang and Baoding. Lieutenant General Xiangyue Qingsi of the First Army commanded the 1st, 6th, 8th, 20th, 25th, and 109th Divisions to be responsible for operations on the Shanxi front, and the task was to recapture all the lost territories of Suiyuan and Chahar, open up the Tongpu Railway, capture Jinzhong and Jinnan, gather and annihilate the Zhina Political Axe Army and the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, and at least drive them across the Yellow River. Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo of the Second Army commanded the 5th Division, the 10th Division, the 16th Division, the 21st Division, the 108th Division, and the 3rd and 4th Brigades of the Reading Division, which were responsible for operations on the Jinpu Line, and the task was to completely sweep away the Kuomintang political axe army in Shandong and open up the Jinpu Line. The 22nd Division advanced to the front line of Handan and Anyang, and planned for the 14th Division to fight against Henan. After the eastern and western fronts achieved the campaign objectives, they would encircle the troops of the Kuomintang Henan First Theater from the east and west, and remove all obstacles to the southward march to Wuhan. ”

After saying it in one breath, Terauchi Shouichi paused slightly, and then said: "All the armies must plan carefully, quickly complete the replenishment of troops and materials, keep it strictly confidential, ensure the sudden launch of the battle, and carry out a thunderous blow to the Chinese army, completely destroying their will to resist." In particular, when encountering a Shina instructor, you must form a heavy army group to annihilate it, and you must not let it escape. Warriors of the Emperor, do you understand your mission? ”

Immediately, the conference room resounded with the bird song of Hai and Hai.

After the overall campaign was arranged, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe came up with a battle plan, broke down the tasks of each unit in detail, and made detailed arrangements for the offensive line, attack targets, attack priorities, and tactical tactics.

The commanders and chiefs of staff of the divisions also exchanged views on the tactics and tactics of the squadron.

After the meeting, Shouichi Terauchi found a group of high-ranking ladies in Tianjin to entertain these senior generals, so that this group of well-dressed beasts could relax.

The sword of the army has been sacrificed, and the land of North China will soon be in a storm again.

After the meeting of instructors and cadres, the troops began to move, and the 100,000-strong army was deployed in the southern Hebei and western Luxi regions, and soon set off a storm of resistance.

At this time, there were no regular Kuomintang troops in southern Hebei and western Luxi, and many county towns were empty. The common people have long been accustomed to the scene of dozens of [***] more than 1,000 people running around, and they have lost confidence in [***]. However, the common people around Dezhou and Xingtai were angered by the burning, killing and looting of the Japanese army, and by the humiliation of a Chinese soldier walking on the street and the common people all over the street had to bow, and they eagerly hoped that the Chinese [***] team and the Chinese political axe could lead them to rise up to resist the war. Therefore, as soon as the instructor showed the banner of the Eighth Route Army, it immediately aroused the response of the common people. In addition, the Eighth Route Army is different from the previous commanders and even the troops of [***], the discipline is strict, and there is no crime in the autumn, and it is indeed a soldier of the people, so it naturally won the support of the people.

Liu Yimin was very busy during this time. After the troops were deployed, a series of problems came to the fore, such as the problem of the lack of cadres in grassroots construction, the problem of how to make the masses fairly and reasonably bear the burden of military rations and salaries, how to treat the various types of armed forces differently, how to more effectively propagate and mobilize the masses, how to deal with the relationship with the individual remnants of the Kuomintang regime, how to promote land reform, how to solve the problem of commodity circulation and supply in the base areas, and so on. Fortunately, he is no longer the time when he first joined the Red Army, and he is no longer a time-traveler who wins with historical knowledge alone. After three years of struggle, Liu Yimin has grown up and truly has the ability to match his position and responsibilities.

The cadre problem is easy to handle, and the method adopted by Liu Yimin is to closely rely on the Hebei-Henan Provincial Party Committee and the Zhinan Special Committee, and first gather the backbone cadres of the party organizations from all over the country to Nangong to hold training classes to teach the strategy, tactics, and policies of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and then transfer a number of cadres and fighters from the division-level troops, the cadre regiment led by Lin Feng, and the six veteran backbone battalions of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Brigades to work in the localities. Like Song Guangwu, Yan Yaocai, and Wu Shengzhi, they were all sent to the county to be the secretary of the county party committee. By the time Song Renqiang, Li Jingyu, Chen Zaidao, and Liu Zhijian led the cadres drawn from the Hebei-Henan Provincial Party Committee, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, the 129th Division, and the 129th Division's eastward column to Nangong, the backbone cadres of the counties had basically been arranged.

Seeing these people, Liu Yimin thought that fate was really strange, obviously history had changed, and the instructor occupied southern Hebei, but the cadres supported by the central government were still these people. However, this is also good, and the leadership force in southern Hebei has been greatly strengthened. After discussing with Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, and Zeng Zhongsheng, Liu Yimin reported to the central authorities and appointed Song Renqiang as deputy secretary of the party committee of the Southern Hebei Administrative Region, Chen Zaidao as deputy commander of the Jinan Military Region, and Liu Zhijian as director of the Political Department of the Southern Hebei Military Region.

Liu Yimin has no experience in this area when it comes to the issue of fair and reasonable burdens of military food and salaries, and his instructors have fought large-scale battles since the 18th Regiment, and after arriving in Shaanxi, they soon opened gold mines and started reclamation, and the funds and materials of the troops have been very abundant, and they have never extended their hands to the common people! However, the War of Resistance was a long-term process, and one of the most important purposes of establishing a political regime was to collect taxes and grain to ensure the needs of the war. This matter was not difficult for him, so he directly handed it over to the political commissar to take the lead in researching.

As for the issue of differentiating between various armed and reactionary associations, Liu Yimin at this time had fought many battles, and he was never soft in his decision to kill, and he would not even have bones left after eating bones. Moreover, he also knew that in the early days of the base areas in southern Hebei, the reorganization of various types of armed forces was not very successful, not to mention the small group of bandits, and after the large group of civilian armed forces accepted the reorganization of our army, many troops fled and rebelled, and the reason for this was that these units were not dispersed and integrated with our army, and the political work system of our army was strictly enforced. For Liu Yimin and his instructors, who had been recruiting new recruits for the reorganization of prisoners since the beginning of the Xiangjiang River, a complete set of methods had already been formed for how to reorganize the troops of local forces. Liu Yimin naturally will not repeat the mistakes of history, now that the regular army of the Kuomintang has all retreated, even the political axe of Hebei Province has withdrawn to Luoyang, and no one has supported these local forces for the time being, and the strength of the instructor is so strong, so what is Liu Yimin polite? Naturally, he strictly ordered the resolute elimination of the bandit forces, resolutely banned the Liuli Society, the White Gun Society, and other Taoist organizations, all local armed forces were to surrender their guns and reorganize, and all cadres at and above the squad leader level were to study in the study class, and the study was completed and the work was uniformly distributed. Soldiers are uniformly assigned to all new regiments under the Formation and Training Headquarters for education and training, first carrying out a campaign to complain about grievances, conducting "three investigations," and changing their thinking.

Not to mention the propaganda launch, Cai Zhong has already been trained by Liu Yimin to become an expert, Li Jingyu and Liu Zhijian are also great talents in this field, plus the propaganda cadres of the political departments at the division and brigade levels, the intellectuals and literary and artistic talents newly recruited from Tianjin, and the equipment transported from Tianjin, the Southern Hebei Newspaper, the Luxi Newspaper, the Luyi Branch, the Division Art Troupe, the Southern Hebei Military Region Art Troupe, and the Luxi Military Region Art Troupe quickly pulled up the team. Everywhere the troops went, they put up anti-Japanese propaganda slogans and staged anti-Japanese theatrical performances, rendering the atmosphere of anti-Japanese propaganda in southern Hebei and western Luxi fiery and fiery.

The issue of dealing with the relationship with the remnants of the Kuomintang regime is relatively complicated, because at this time, the Nationalist Axe implemented the armor protection system, and the Eighth Route Army belonged to the [***] sequence. It's a pity that Liu Yimin came through time, and he never took the Kuomintang regime seriously in his heart, so how could he tolerate keeping the Kuomintang in his base? Therefore, Liu Yimin made it very clear at the small-scale meeting that whether it is the Han annihilation regime or the national political axe regime, I have been cleaned clean, and there is only one kind of political power in the base area, that is, the democratically elected anti-Ming boil regime led by our party and widely participated by all strata. The No. 1 commander is this kind of guiding ideology, and the following units will implement it more thoroughly. made Song Renqiang, Li Jingyu, Liu Zhijian, and Chen Zaidao, who had just come into contact with the instructor, do it well, do it right, and do it well.

Liu Yimin asked Luo Ronghuan to take the lead, refer to Shaanxi's land reform methods, and revise them in light of the characteristics of the new areas in southern Hebei and western Hebei, so as to give greater consideration to those landlords who were actively resisting the war and try their best to achieve relative satisfaction between the peasants and landlords. As for those landlords who resolutely do not support land reform, Liu Yimin said that the long pain is better than the short pain, and those who are unwilling to change should first go to the study class to study, and if they can't educate them, they will be forced to carry out the land reform. Now it has come time for the country to be ruined and the family to die, and they are still holding on to their land and not letting go, watching the landless peasants flee for food, die of poverty and starvation, and these people have become a stumbling block to the resistance. There is only one way to deal with a stumbling block, and that is to move it away and throw it away.

In fact, the most difficult thing to deal with at the moment is the problem of commodity circulation and supply in the base area, although the base area is new, but the common people eat salt and oil must be solved! At present, although there is no need to worry about the salt and oil transported back from Tianjin and Tanggu as a guarantee, these things are mainly to meet the needs of the troops, and it is difficult to ensure the supply of such a large population in the base area. In particular, after a long period of time, the army will inevitably impose a strict blockade on the base areas, and when the time comes, there will be no good circulation channels, and the army will be sad.

Liu Yimin felt that the key lies in expanding the base areas, and only by realizing the self-production and self-sale of the main means of production and subsistence, establishing banks, and using the renminbi can we fundamentally solve the problem. In the short term, the problem can only be solved by thinking of expanding trade with other base areas and [***] occupation areas. Therefore, he demanded that the administrative offices of southern Hebei and Luxi should set up special trade institutions to lead commercial work.

(To be continued)