Chapter 605 Report

On the night of November 23, the ancient Huaqing Pond became a sea of joy.

In order to welcome Liu Yimin's victorious return, the canteen of the central organ specially slaughtered the pigs, arranged a banquet with four cold and four hot dishes per table, and took out the stored wine.

Energetic, pinching his waist with one hand and holding a wine bowl with the other, his voice was loud and powerful: "Since the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Japanese invaders have regarded China as a no-man's land, and have gone on a rampage in an attempt to destroy China in three months. At the critical time when North China was about to fall completely, the Eighth Route Army, which was reorganized by the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, swore to go north to resist Japan. The 115th Division fought the first battle at Pingxingguan, breaking the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese army. Immediately afterwards, our 120th and 129th Divisions all achieved extraordinary results with flexible tactics, either surprise attacks, ambushes, or blockades. The birth of the Eighth Route Army played the role of a mainstay and greatly encouraged the determination of the whole people to resist the war."

Liu Yimin hadn't seen the chairman for a year, let alone listened to him, and when he heard it, he felt that the thick Hunan accent was indescribably cordial, and he sat there motionless and listened carefully.

I listened to *** continue: "On November 6th, my powerful instructor crossed the Yellow River from Hancheng and went north in concealment. This time, it's amazing, the mountains and rivers change color, the good news is frequent, and the little devils are frightened. In the first battle, the main force of the most elite and fully mechanized Fifth Division of the Japanese army was eliminated, and then the Chahar Dispatch Corps, which was basically composed of the elite of the Kwantung Army, was eliminated, Taiyuan was recovered, and the major airports of the Japanese army in North China were attacked, forcing the famous Japanese generals Itagaki Seishiro and Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, who single-handedly directed the 918 Incident, to commit suicide by caesarean section. Immediately afterwards, he leaped forward for a thousand miles, attacked Tianjin, and punched the Japanese army in North China in the heart. Next, the 21st Division and the 4th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, under the iron fist of my powerful instructor, turned into a wisp of smoke and dust on the North China Plain. ”

Liu Yimin heard the chairman say that the instructor's achievements were so accurate, and knew that the instructor's bloodshed, sacrifice and sacrifice were all imprinted in the leader's mind, and his heart was excited, and he couldn't wait to get up and applaud and cheer immediately. But after thinking about it, he still sat there and didn't move. The chairman is praising himself and his instructor, and if he can't hold his breath and take the lead in applauding, it will be a bit too much.

The more he talked, the more excited he became, and his voice became louder and louder: "Especially after the instructor went east to Shandong, he fought several great battles, what the Japanese ace Eighth Division and the Tenth Division, what independent mixed brigade, what habitual bandit Liu Heiqi, traitor Zhang Buyun, and what Japanese ronin Zhang Zongyuan organized the pseudo-Shandong Autonomous Alliance, all of which are not our army's opponents. Our army marched east into Jiaodong and south to northern Jiangsu, and the Japanese army was like a blind cow and a blind horse, led by our army by the nose. In the just-concluded Jiaoji Road Campaign, our army not only eliminated the 1st and 343rd Divisions of the Japanese Army, the Jinan Garrison and the Jiaoji Road Garrison, but also captured Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province. The two commanders of the newly organized Twelfth Army of the Japanese army all became prisoners of our army. Comrades, what a glorious achievement, isn't it worth drinking and celebrating? ”

There was thunderous applause in the courtyard of Huaqing Pond.

glanced at Liu Yimin, who was sitting beside him, his eyes were full of joy, and he said: "After the main force of our army went north to resist Japan, the leaders of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and several main divisions have returned. Tonight, our legendary hero Comrade Liu Yimin escaped from danger and returned to Xi'an and returned home. The Central Committee held a banquet at the venue of the Sixth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee to welcome Comrade Liu Yimin, who had made great achievements in fighting for China and the War of Resistance Against Japan, and wished him the instructors who led LinkedIn Xiong to guard against arrogance and impetuosity and achieve greater victories."

After the speech, the banquet began.

It may be to congratulate Liu Yimin for the rest of his life after the disaster, or it may be to affirm Liu Yimin's contribution, Liu Yimin became the object of toasting that night, not to mention the chairman, Vice Chairman Zhou, Mr. Zhu, Zhang Wentian, Chen Yun, Mr. Peng, etc., these old leaders who were familiar with him frequently touched wine, and even Wang Ming, Xiang Ying, and Kang Sheng, who had never met, also came to touch the wine, which made Liu Yimin keep saying thank you all night. In the end, Liu Yimin was drunk like when he married Tang Xingying, and was helped to rest by the soldiers in the laughter of *** and others.

When he got up the next morning, he didn't let Liu Yimin continue to rest, but sent a guard to call him to report on the work of Shandong and the tutor.

In view of Liu Yimin's report focusing on military struggle, *** did not let more people participate in the report meeting, but only let Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Zhang Wentian, Chen Yun, Peng Dehuai, and Ye Jianying participate in listening to the report.

Liu Yimin was very well prepared, and the whole report was divided into several parts.

The first part is the achievements made since the anti-Japanese war in the north, and this part is only a brief report, because the leaders know very well that every campaign from planning to implementation to results is reported to the central authorities in the form of telegrams.

Of course, the battle record is brief, and when it comes to each battle, it is detailed and detailed. For example, in the battle of destroying the Eighth Division in the Luzhong Campaign, Liu Yimin painted the voice of several major battles from how to move the troops, how to preset the battlefield, how to use the attack on Sasaki to the third brigade of an independent mixed brigade as bait to lure the enemy to attack, how to concentrate artillery fire to defeat the devil's will to fight, how to carry out a cavalry assault to defeat the devil's artillery and baggage troops, and ensure the capture, and so on. In particular, when talking about the Jiaoji Road Campaign, how our army hid for a long time, how it secretly went north, and how it attacked the headquarters of the 10th and 8th Divisions instead of the command of the devils, and carried out a segmented encirclement and annihilation of the devils, the chairman who listened to them all laughed and applauded.

The second part is the building of political power in Shandong. This part is one of the key contents of Liu Yimin's report. Liu Yimin began to report on how to establish a base area with the main force brigades as the main force brigade before he received a telegram from the central government to set up a Shandong bureau, and focused on the experience of popularizing the establishment of village-level political power through democratic elections in various base areas in Shandong. All villages where the village-level government has done well have achieved results in the devil's sweep, and production recovered quickly after the devil's sweep was completed. Moreover, tunnel warfare and mine warfare, mainly by the village militia, played a role in covering themselves and destroying the enemy.

Introducing the experience of building political power at the village level, Liu Yimin reported on the process of the Shandong Bureau's preparations for the establishment of the Senate of the Shandong Anti-Japanese Democratic Government, and gave a detailed introduction to the organizational setup and personnel composition. At the same time, the central authorities were provided with a document on the organization of local political power in Shandong, which contained detailed information on the party committees and anti-Japanese democratic governments in various regions.

At the end of the report on the state of political power building, Liu Yimin reviewed the deficiencies in Shandong's political power building, and the most important problem was the lack of cadres. One reason is that the party organization in Shandong was too badly damaged by the Kuomintang regime, and before the instructor marched eastward, there were only more than 70 party members in the whole province, and most counties did not even have a single party member. Another reason was that due to the brutal sweep by the Japanese army, the local party organizations and local political power formed in the early stage suffered serious losses. The third reason is that many cadres of the main forces are unwilling to work in the localities and leave the combat units.

In view of these three problems, the Shandong Bureau and the Party Committee of the Instructors have adopted a series of measures, including expanding the scale of cadre training classes and mobilizing and transferring cadres of the main force to work in the localities and local armed forces, which are now being organized and implemented.

The third part of Liu Yimin's report is the main construction. In this part, Liu Yimin gave a detailed report on the organization of the instructor's eight main brigades, artillery brigades, cavalry brigades, and directly subordinate units, as well as the deployment of firepower, vehicles, and horses.

Liu Yimin proposed that in light of the current reality of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the main force of instructors should be expanded, and the original report on the establishment of an engineer headquarters and the upgrading of an engineer regiment to an engineer brigade and the establishment of a heavy machine gun headquarters and a heavy machine gun regiment to a heavy machine gun brigade are aimed at uniformly leading the construction of our army's specialized and technical arms in Shandong, including the baggage regiment, which should also be expanded into a baggage brigade to meet the needs of logistical support in the war. As for the eight main brigades, it is suggested that the central authorities study whether they can be fully or partially expanded into divisions, and at least the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Brigades should be expanded into the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Shandong Divisions, together with artillery brigades and cavalry brigades, to form a powerful field corps for offensive operations. If you don't want to expose your strength, you can consider changing the name to the Shandong First Column, Shandong Second Column, and Shandong Third Column. After the expansion, each division will have jurisdiction over three infantry brigades, artillery regiments, machine gun regiments, cavalry regiments, engineer regiments, baggage regiments, division guard battalions, communications battalions, and special service battalions, with a full strength of 35,000 people. By concentrating three divisions and heavy firepower units directly under the military region, it is possible to find and annihilate one permanent division of the Japanese army at a time.

The overall goal is that the main force of our army in Shandong will build an elite field army of more than 300,000 by the end of next year. By the end of 1941, the year after that, a million-strong army would be built to carry out a strategic decisive battle with the Japanese army.

In view of the fact that the instructor had a certain amount of armored forces, it was required to build armored units separately as assault arrows of our army in Shandong.

In view of the lack of artillery personnel in our army in Shandong and Shanxi, according to Comrade Zhu Rui's proposal, it is planned to establish an artillery school of the Eighth Route Army, which will be responsible for training artillery cadres at the battalion, company, and platoon levels, and sending artillery personnel to the whole army.

The fourth part of Liu Yimin's report was on the building of local armed forces.

At present, there are three detachments in Shandong: the Tai'an Detachment, the Southeastern Shandong Detachment, and the Northern Jiangsu Detachment; judging from the terms of troops, cadre allocation, and firepower, the Tai'an Detachment and the Southeastern Shandong Detachment have the strength to directly catch up with the main brigade. The northern Jiangsu detachment was behind enemy lines, and although it was also a brigade-level detachment, its strength was too weak, and it needed to be pulled back to the Shandong base area to supplement the training.

The Luxi Garrison Brigade, the Luxi Second Garrison Brigade, the Qinghe Garrison Brigade, the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade, the Southwest Luxi Garrison Brigade, and the Taixi Garrison Brigade have markedly improved their combat effectiveness after battlefield training. After the expansion of the main force, it is planned to increase the number of garrison brigades, including the Lunan Garrison Brigade, the Luzhong Garrison Brigade, the Jinan Garrison Brigade, the Jiaolai Garrison Brigade, and the Qingdao Garrison Brigade. At present, the overall situation in the Shandong base area is stable, the supply of troops is sufficient, the weapons are sufficient, and the main forces are well-trained, and they can completely provide cadres and backbone cadres for the garrison brigades. After the completion of the construction of the above-mentioned garrison brigade, our army in Shandong will be able to form two major groups, the inner line and the outer line. The inner line troops are mainly garrison brigades, whose task is to defend the base areas and train and replenish the main force. The outer front troops are organized into the main force and used as the strategic force of our army to organize and launch major campaigns.

As a supplementary force to the garrison brigades, various counties in Shandong are currently in the process of organizing and restoring county brigades, district squads, and militia joint defense organizations. This work is assigned to the main brigades, detachments, and garrison brigades, and one regiment covers two counties, and the task must be completed.

The fifth issue reported by Liu Yimin was economic construction.

In agriculture, Shandong has begun to popularize the two-cropping method this year, and next year all base areas will popularize the two-cropping farming method in one year, so as to greatly increase grain output. However, due to the war in Shandong for many years, the river channels have fallen into disrepair, and the water conservancy facilities have been seriously damaged, so that Shandong's agriculture must not only guard against wind and flood disasters, but also prevent drought, and must make great efforts to renovate the embankment of the Yellow River, renovate water conservancy facilities, and improve soil fertility in order to ensure Shandong's grain supply.

In terms of industry, Shandong's industry was mainly concentrated in Qingdao, and after our army occupied Qingdao, although most of the industrial equipment was rushed, it was impossible to develop industry on a large scale due to the air superiority of the Japanese army. As a result, Shandong's industrial level will decline, and the sales of agricultural products such as cotton and silk will inevitably be poor. After the end of the Jiaoji Road Campaign, the situation in Shandong was relatively improved, and the area of the base area was greatly expanded, and there was a broad strategic depth. In view of this situation, it was decided to restore the production of iron mines, coal mines, and copper mines, and to build relatively hidden small enterprises such as iron and steel plants and machinery factories in the mountainous areas to serve military production. At the same time, it is necessary to use the power of non-governmental capital to resume the production of textiles and silk industries, so as to meet the needs of the troops and the needs of the masses.

Commercially, the Shandong Bureau and its instructors have always strictly implemented our army's policy of protecting national industry and commerce, paying attention to dredging and protecting trade routes, and maintaining commercial circulation in base areas. However, after our army entered Shandong, it fought fierce battles with the Japanese invaders, and after the Japanese army's heavy army group, all walks of life in Shandong suffered heavy losses. Among them, business has been hit the hardest. The main reason is that the units of the Japanese army's heavy army group did not have the task of holding Shandong for a long time, and everything was mainly plundered, and commercial facilities, merchants, and commodities were the key targets of their plunder. Although measures were taken to clear the wilderness, the main force of our army did not reach the area, lacked effective organization, and was particularly badly poisoned by the Japanese army. Most of the merchants' assets accumulated over generations have been destroyed in the war, and they are bankrupt or frequently bankrupt, and they must be properly supported financially.

Financially, the Bohai Bank, which was established by our army, has abundant capital, issued renminbi, and began to open the business of deposit and loan in renminbi and legal tender. The next step was to wage a major financial war with the Japanese army, and on the basis of prohibiting the circulation of yen and counterfeit currency, it was necessary to think of printing counterfeit yen yen and joint bills, purchasing materials in enemy-occupied areas, and striking at the Japanese army's financial system. We will also use the large amount of yen we have seized to go to the international community to buy the materials we urgently need, speculate and sell the yen, and try to depreciate the yen and hit Japan's economy. Second, the Eighth Route Army's base areas will be able to deposit and exchange the renminbi, legal tender, and foreign currency deposited in Shaanxi Province in Shanxi and Shandong, so as to invigorate the financial sector and reduce the losses of industrialists and businessmen on the road.

The sixth issue reported by Liu Yimin was the construction of the military industry. The arsenal of the Instructor Logistics Command has now resumed the production of explosive kits, grenades, and mines, which can be reloaded with ammunition, and is trying to resume the production of bazookas. However, as the size of the force increases and the scale of the campaign increases, it is not always possible to rely on captured and reloaded ammunition, there must be a solid production of ammunition. Considering the scarcity of copper and the difficulty of supply, the next step is to engage in scientific research and use as much steel as possible instead of copper.

Considering the fact that Shandong has a long coastline and is convenient for Japanese aircraft to attack, Liu Yimin proposed that it is necessary to restore the production of the Mianxian Arsenal as soon as possible, and that it is necessary to expand the output, otherwise it will affect the operation of the troops.

Liu Yimin reported a lot of content, including Shandong's education work, women's work, transportation construction, and so on, and it took a whole morning.

After listening to the report, *** was excited, and after smoking two cigarettes in a row, he said: "Shandong's work is very effective, but the most important task at hand is to repel the second heavy army group encirclement and suppression that the Japanese army is likely to launch." The Battle of Wuhan is over, and it is necessary to further observe whether the Japanese army will take advantage of the victory to pursue and attack Hunan, Sichuan, and Shaanxi, or whether it will transfer the main force to restore law and order in North China. However, since the instructor's achievements in the Shandong operation were too large and too brilliant, I estimate that the Japanese army is very likely to abandon other battle plans and first carry out retaliatory operations against Shandong. This reason is very simple: after our army occupies Shandong, as long as there is a period of development, it will inevitably grow rapidly. and then threatened the Japanese army's rule over the whole of North China. We know this in our hearts, and the little devils will see it very clearly. ”

Zhou En said: "We underestimated the development of the war situation. When our army went north, everyone did not know enough about the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, and they did not expect that the instructors would be able to achieve such great achievements, and the guiding ideology was to carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, develop covertly, increase strength, and cooperate with the Kuomintang in frontal combat through guerrilla warfare to consume devils. Now two points are already very clear: one is that as long as the main force of our army has sufficient artillery support, it can completely fight the Japanese army head-to-head. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the artillery building of the 115th Division, the Independent Division, the 129th Division, and the 120th Division as soon as possible, and a division must have at least one or two artillery regiments, so that several main divisions can intensify their attacks on the Japanese army in Shanxi and form a pattern of coordinated operations with their instructors in one east and one west. At present, the troops of these divisions have expanded rapidly, but due to the weak artillery force and the excessive dilution of the main force, the combat effectiveness has not advanced but retreated, and there has even been a situation where one brigade cannot attack one wing of the devil, which is the same as the combat level of the first division. If we do not increase the intensity of training and firepower, the combat effectiveness will not be able to return to its original level within one year. The other is that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is uneven, with the combat effectiveness of the permanent divisions and regiments being strong and the combat effectiveness of the ad hoc divisions and garrison divisions and regiments being weak. In the next step, we should choose the target of the battle, pick up soft persimmons and pinch them, destroy more units with poor combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, and seize weapons and ammunition to arm our army. ”

Mr. Zhu was responsible for leading the work of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and had accumulated enough experience in fighting the Japanese army for a year. After listening to Liu Yimin's report and the words of Chairman and Vice Chairman Zhou, Mr. Zhu said: "The combat effectiveness of the Japanese army cannot be measured by the achievements of the instructors. The instructor's artillery fire itself is the most powerful of all units of our army, and the cultural level of the soldiers is also the highest. In addition, what kind of special operations and other novel tactics are engaged, the little devils are confused, and naturally they suffer losses one after another. Other units of our army did not have the artillery fire of the instructors, and when they fought with the Japanese army, they could only choose ambush warfare and assault warfare, with large casualties and small results. Take the battle of destroying the Eighth Division as an example, if it were not for the concentrated artillery bombardment of the instructor's artillery group, the elite Eighth Division would definitely not retreat, but relied on its artillery superiority and armor superiority to break through our army's blocking position in one fell swoop and attack Weicheng. Therefore, from the perspective of the overall situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, we should not overestimate the combat effectiveness of our army and underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army. At present, all the ammunition reserves for the instructor's combat come from capture, and once the Japanese army encircles and suppresses them again, and the arsenal has to stop reloading ammunition, then the problem will be serious. It is necessary to closely coordinate guerrilla warfare, movement warfare, and special operations, and to take multiple measures at the same time in order to break the new round of heavy encirclement and suppression that the Japanese army may be coming. It is not advisable for the time being to simply fight with a large corps and fight hard, and it is even more impossible to spread it to other troops. The top priority at the moment is to think of resuming ammunition production, and it is best to negotiate with the Soviet Union so that they can support the equipment and sufficient ammunition of several of our artillery divisions. ”

Chen Yun is most concerned about economic issues, and has discussed with Liu Yimin along the way from Yichuan to Xi'an. Opening his mouth is Liu Yimin's point of view: "To fight a war is to fight the economy, money and grain, my opinion is that our army's next operation should be to completely restore the base areas in southern Hebei and central Hebei as the first goal, there is a granary, the supply of troops is sufficient, control central and southern Hebei, and then try to control eastern Hebei, then we can force the Japanese army to the Pingjin area, not only to support the troops in Shanxi, but even to support the northeast region." This is especially important when you have food and don't panic. ”

Zhang Wentian is also chairman of the Shaanxi Anti-Japanese Special Zone Government, and what he said is that the Shaanxi Anti-Japanese Special Zone Government can send a group of cadres to Shandong to help establish county and district political power. Since Shaanxi's fiscal and taxation system has already been established, more cadres can be sent in this regard to help Shandong develop.