After the reception was over, Liu Yimin returned to the division headquarters and summoned Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, Wu Zheng, Qian Zhuangfei, Wu Zheng, Li Yimo, Han Qianjian, Chang Qiankun, Lin Feng, and Yao Yilin.

Li Yimo reported that the air defense posts have been deployed as required, the new regiments and artillery battalions have also been put in place, the antiaircraft machine guns and antiaircraft guns of the air defense units of the Tianjin airfield can be equipped with an antiaircraft machine gun battalion and a reinforced company of antiaircraft guns, and the antiaircraft machine guns and antiaircraft guns seized from the arsenal of the Yue army in Tianjin can be equipped with an antiaircraft machine gun regiment and an antiaircraft artillery regiment, and the ammunition is sufficient. Although the new regiment is a regiment, its number is as high as 4,000 people, and the strength is enough, and the key is that it has not been trained in the use of anti-aircraft firepower, and it will be seen whether the division commander can transfer two more backbone battalions from the artillery brigade.

Liu Yimin directly replied that it was impossible, it was enough to have the backbone of an artillery battalion, and it was enough to pay close attention to training, and good soldiers were trained on the battlefield, and he also hoped that these air defense units would develop into air defense brigades, air defense divisions, and air defense forces in the future! In addition, it is necessary to recruit more soldiers from among the college students in Tianjin, who have a high level of education and a strong ability to accept them, and will soon be able to master the skills of weapons and use.

Wu Zheng gave a detailed report on the funds, materials, munitions, and equipment he received in Tianjin, and Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong, who listened to it, had their eyes shining.

Liu Yimin was secretly surprised in his heart, he couldn't imagine that this trip to Tianjin would gain so much, and the seizures from the beginning of the passage to Taiyuan were not as big as this one. Not to mention anything else, food alone is enough for his own instructor's army of 100,000 to eat for a year. That's how much relief food was distributed, otherwise it would have been eaten for two years.

Thinking about it again, this is also normal, from the beginning of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Tianjin has been responsible for the task of transporting grain from the south to the north, and by the time of the Republic of China, a large-scale grain market has been formed, which not only needs to supply Tianjin's huge population with grain, but may also undertake the task of transporting grain to Beiping. Now Tianjin has a population of more than one million, and the tutor eats for a year, which is equivalent to the amount of grain used in Tianjin for a month, so it is not too much. In such a big city, it will do without three months of food reserves?

After thinking about it in my heart, the funds of the bank, the capital commercial bank, the overseas Chinese, and the Han Dynasty are enough for the troops to last two or three years, and whether it is to develop the base areas or the troops, there is no need to worry about money for a long time. Liu Yimin was happy in his heart, so he instructed Wu Zheng that, in addition to keeping and transporting the baggage regiment, he should transport money, grain, military uniforms, cloth, and medicine to all units as soon as possible, and each unit should keep and transport them separately. For example, money, gold bars, silver dollars, and banknotes can be carried separately by cadres and soldiers, and the Red Army adopted this method during the Long March, and then handed over to the base area for unified management and use. All brigades should vigorously mobilize young people to join the army, allow each brigade to rapidly expand by one or two new regiments, and each brigade should dispatch cadres on its own, organize them, temporarily act as transport teams, train while marching, and then conduct intensive training after arriving at the base areas. In addition, captured weapons cannot be passively transported, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Brigades each set up a mixed regiment of field artillery, mountain artillery, and mortars to strengthen firepower. Other weapons can be immediately distributed to the brigades for the elimination of the old Hanyang-made Type 79 rifles. As for food, cloth, uniforms, and medicines, what is taken away by the troops is managed and used by the troops. The migrant workers in front of the support mainly carry grain and various equipment, such as schools, farms, factories, newspapers, radio stations and other equipment. In addition to the front-supporting migrant labor teams organized by various military units, the baggage regiment should concentrate its efforts on organizing a large-scale migrant labor team in Tianjin, which has a large population and a large number of young and middle-aged laborers, and will use both automobiles and horse-drawn carriages.

Chang Qiankun reported on the bombing of the Pinghan Line, the Jinpu Line, the Zhengtai Line, and the Jingfeng Line by the Second Air Brigade today; in Chang Qiankun's words, all the bridges that should have been bombed have been blown up, and it is impossible for the army to use the railway to transport troops.

Liu Yimin praised the Second Air Brigade and appointed Cai Zhong to draft an order to award the Second Air Brigade of the Eighth Route Army a collective first-class meritorious service in the names of the former committee, the instructor, the Shaanxi Provincial Military Region, and the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. Then he ordered Chang Qiankun to strengthen the combat vigilance, make preparations for evacuation, continue to reconnoiter the movements of the troops from all directions, and withdraw the whole team to Shaanxi the day after tomorrow.

Chang Qiankun thought that it was possible not to withdraw, and now that the trainees had already flown on their own, even if the army came to bomb, they could also take to the air to fight the enemy. The officers and men of the Air Force, when the big war is coming, would rather spill blood in the sky than retreat.

Liu Yimin stopped Chang Qiankun and told him to pay close attention to training after arriving in Shaanxi, and the ace pilots were all fed with flight time. He gave the air force a maximum of three months of training time, and after three months, he would ask the Central Military Commission to send them to Shandong and North China. At present, if you want to stay here and fight against the military air force, it is tantamount to suicide.

Qian Zhuangfei reported on the results of the information warfare explained by the division commander since the departure from Taiyuan. After hearing this, Liu Yimin asked Qian Zhuangfei to concentrate his efforts on creating the false impression that the instructor would stick to Tianjin and swear to live and die with Tianjin in two days, and at the same time publicize that in order to defend Tianjin, the instructor would take all the overseas Chinese to residential and commercial areas, key enterprises, and important military facilities to deal with the large-scale air raids of the Chinese army. It is also possible to organize the taking of photographs of instructors and instructors strengthening key fortifications in Tianjin and its surrounding areas, and to report more on the news of the division commanders, political commissars, and directors of the political department inspecting Tianjin's defense, inspecting Tianjin's public security, and visiting the personnel of embassies and consulates of various countries. Until the whole army withdraws.

Cai Zhong took out the telegram from Chairman of the National Political Axe Lin Sen to commend the instructor and the telegram from Chairman Jiang of the Central Military Commission.

Cai Zhong asked for instructions on how to call back Chairman Jiang in Wuhan, and Liu Yimin smiled: "That's your business, don't bother me!" ”

Seeing that the situation in all aspects had been reported, Liu Yimin said: "Today's meeting is the last meeting before the evacuation of Tianjin. Tomorrow, all the leaders of the division headquarters will go to the troops in the order of march when they originally attacked Tianjin, supervise the transportation of supplies and secretly evacuate, and on the night of 30 December, the whole army will be withdrawn. Comrade Yao Yilin was responsible for leaving the unexposed comrades to persist in the struggle, and the rest of the personnel were evacuated with the army. Before evacuating, it is necessary to select some party members, backbone people, and intellectuals who have not been exposed, and actively participate in the work of forming a puppet organization after the army reoccupies Tianjin, so as to penetrate into the enemy's interior. It is also necessary to do the work of these comrades, so that they can organize some citizens to welcome the army, so as to prevent the army from taking revenge on the masses in anger and shame. Special attention should be paid to using the power of newspapers and radio stations in the concession so that the army would not dare to brazenly retaliate against the masses. Please rest assured, comrades, that after we have attracted the heavy army group to the south, we will soon send troops back to the eastern Hebei and Pingjin areas to establish base areas and carry out armed struggle to encroach on and compress the enemy. Echoing with the base areas of southern Hebei, central Hebei, Jinchaji, and southeastern Shanxi, weaving a huge net and trapping the devils here. Tianjin, Beiping, and even the entire North China, Shandong, Northeast China, and even the whole of China will be ours sooner or later, and no one can take it away! ”

After the meeting was adjourned, Liu Yimin told Cai Zhong that he must find a way to give Bill tomorrow. Clemen and Liu Qianqian had a wedding, and it was best to hold it early, around nine o'clock, because he had to go to Langfang and Cangxian to inspect the defense of the troops, and he had to hurry.

After thinking about it for a while, Liu Yimin said again: "Zhao Xiaoman and Jingjing don't want to be in the field hospital, give them a position, Zhao Xiaoman will serve as the chairman of the Association of Literary and Art Circles in the Base Area, and Jingjing will serve as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper in the base area, and let them each bring a platoon, and cooperate with Wang Pengju to raise all the equipment, materials, and personnel needed by the newspaper, radio station, and literary and artistic groups in the base area in Tianjin, and retreat with the army." ”

After Cai Zhong agreed, Liu Yimin went back to his residence to rest.

The next day, the front pages of various newspapers in Tianjin were basically full of columns with the headline "Tianjin Anti-Ming Cooking Political Axe Established, Mayor Liu Yimin Announces the Recovery of Tianjin Concession on Behalf of Political Axe," which reported in detail the establishment of Tianjin's anti-Ming cooking political axe and the details of Liu Yimin's answer to reporters' questions. Ta Kung Pao. The "Tianjin Recovery Edition" also used two full pages to publish Liu Yimin's incentives for encouraging the mobilization of the whole people and striving to be the heroes of killing devils and the achievements of the instructors; the third page was a full-page report on the deeds of the heroes of the instructor's battles in the Taiyuan Campaign and the battle to recover Tianjin; and the fourth page was the various crimes committed by Yue Kou in Tianjin.

While reporting the above content, "Tianfeng Daily" published "What if the devil bombs Tianjin?" in a prominent position on the first page. The article said: "If the devil bombs Tianjin on a large scale, the first unlucky and the first to be killed must be himself." This is because Mayor Liu Yimin said that it is necessary to concentrate the thousands of captured expatriates in residential areas, commercial areas, key enterprises, and military points, so that they can personally experience the ferocity of the invaders. At the end of the article, it was written: "Xiao Yueben, let's bomb it, although we don't have so many planes to start an air battle with you, we can let those expatriates who invaded China be bombed first, and if there is a kind of bomb, you can bomb it!" ”

Many newspapers also reported the news that General Liu Yimin, the head instructor, was determined to hold on to Tianjin and completely annihilate the reinforcements of the Yue Army under the city of Tianjin, and reported that Liu Yimin, the new mayor of Tianjin, held a drinking party and called on envoys from various countries to ask them to support China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and stop the Chinese army's attempt to reoccupy Tianjin.

One of the funniest newspapers actually wrote an article like this: "The consuls of Britain, France, and Italy are ready to negotiate with Yue and plan to designate Tianjin as an undefended city." The article took great pains to write: "After Mayor Liu Yimin held a reception to entertain the envoys of various countries, he reached a consensus with the envoys of various countries to designate Tianjin as an undefended city. The envoys of various countries prepared to form a mediation group in the near future and went to Beiping to negotiate with General Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front Army, and demanded that the army not attack Tianjin, and that General Liu Yimin not attack Beiping for the time being, and take the surname of General Terauchi Shouichi. If the army does not agree to this proposal, the embassies and consulates of the three countries will support General Liu Yimin to lead his troops to recover Beiping and capture General Terauchi Shouichi on behalf of their own political axes. ”

Why is this so? The article further wrote: "At the beginning of the reception, General Liu Yimin announced the recovery of the concession, and announced that he had completed the deployment, and would launch an attack on Beiping in the near future, in order to completely annihilate the Beiping army and capture General Terauchi Shouyi. But at the end of the cocktail party and the ball, the British Concession, the French Concession, and the Italian Concession each produced a young woman to dance for General Liu Yimin. Under the bright lights, General Liu Yimin is particularly fond of the Italian Milanese beauty Malena. Miss Marlena is twenty-eight years old, with a slender figure and a beautiful dance, and the two of them are walking fast and swaying, so comfortable. What General Liu did not expect was that Miss Marlena was the beloved daughter of a senior diplomat of the Italian Consulate General, and considering the friendly relations between Italy and Yumoto, she couldn't bear to see her old friend General Terauchi Shouichi dead and a headless corpse, so she invited General Liu Yimin to the Italian Consulate through Miss Marlena. As for whether General Liu Yimin spent the night at Miss Malena's house, and whether Miss Malena's courteous service satisfied General Liu, the reporter does not know. However, in the early hours of the morning, the news came that the embassies and consulates of the three countries were ready to join hands to form a mediation team and prepare to go to Beiping for mediation. The reporter thought that Miss Marlena must be born beautiful, and the hero was sad to pass the beauty pass, which made General Shouichi Terauchi live for a while longer. ”

When Liu Yimin saw this article, he was attending Bill. Clement and Liu Qianqian's wedding.

There are many churches in Tianjin, according to Bill. Clement means that he wants to have a wedding in the church. But Liu Qianqian disagreed, she knew that the Eighth Route Army was not prosperous. In the end, the two of them still held a simple wedding at the instructor's department of Haiguang Temple.

Liu Yimin did not break his promise and officiated at the wedding for a couple. However, due to the hurry, Liu Yimin did not let Wu Zheng and them fool around like he did last time he got married, but after announcing the start of the wedding, he asked the two of them to make a wedding vow and hug each other. Liu Yimin then quoted a poem from the "Book of Poetry" entitled "The peach dies, the son is home, and the family is appropriate," and told the two people the truth of loving each other on the revolutionary road, wishing the two newcomers happiness, growing old, and striving for the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people and the peaceful development of the world.

As soon as he finished saying the words of blessing, Huang Wenhu handed the newspaper to Liu Yimin. After Liu Yimin saw it, he said, "A person as good as Deputy Chief of Staff Qian has learned badly, and he arranged me like this." I am not afraid of others saying that I have compromised with the enemy and that my revolutionary will is not resolute. I think he wants my wife to scold him! After speaking, he rushed to Langfang with the guards.

General Terauchi Shouichi heard the news of the establishment of the Tianjin Anti-Ming Cooking Political Axe from the radio broadcast of the Tianjin Concession.

When he first heard it, General Terauchi Shouichi was so angry that he pulled out his war knife and slashed a table in the war room at once, and scolded a few times in his mouth. By the time he heard the news that Liu Yimin had announced the resumption of the concession and his determination to stick to Tianjin, General Terauchi Shouichi had already calmed down, asked the guards to bring tea, and began to taste tea slowly.

It wasn't until the radio reported that the Tianjin Anti-Ming Cook Political Axe publicly announced the sentence of the Han Annihilation spies and executed 450 Han Annihilation spies, including Kawashima Yoshiko, Mokawa Hidekazu, Yin Rugeng, and Gao Lingwei, that General Terauchi Shouichi became angry again and slapped the guards who were waiting on the side.

As soon as General Terauchi Shouichi stopped his efforts, there was a report on the radio that the instructor had taken several thousand captured overseas Chinese to Tianjin's residential areas, commercial districts, enterprises, and military points, and that as long as the Chinese army dared to bomb Tianjin on a large scale, they would let these overseas Chinese in Xi'an taste their own bombs.

General Terauchi Shouichi was so angry that his face was blue and white for a while, and he kept cursing Liu Yimin for being despicable and shameless, and he actually used such a means to use the expatriates of the Great Emperor as shields, which simply damaged the honor of the soldiers.

is scolding, there is a report on the radio that Liu Yimin designated the reward measures for killing devils, what is the reward for killing a devil with five oceans and the like, at this time, General Terauchi Shouichi was completely crazy, and caught a few staff officers in the war room crackling and opened, until several staff officers' noses and corners of their mouths began to ooze blood, and General Terauchi Shouyi, who couldn't lift his tired hands, calmed down, called Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo, and asked: "Okabe-kun, how is the progress of the reinforcements?" ”

Seeing that the commander had calmed down, Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo reported: "Because the cunning Shina instructors used Imperial Army fighters to blow up the railway bridges on the Zhengtai Line, the Pinghan Line, the Jinpu Line, and the Jingbong Line, the troops in Shandong and Taiyuan could only be reinforced by cars, pack horses, and on foot, and they also had to prevent air raids, so the speed was relatively slow. Among them, the southward corps of the Kwantung Army on the Taiyuan side can reach the front line of Niangzi Pass today. The 10th Division and the 108th Division on the Shandong side, whose troops are relatively scattered and take a long time to assemble, plan to set off from Jinan this afternoon. The 6th Division, the 16th Division, and the Guoqi Detachment, which had been transferred from Central China, had already rushed to Shanghai by car, and planned to board the ship and set off for shipment this evening. The newly formed 21st, 22nd, and 23rd divisions in the base camp can assemble at the port today, and it is expected that the combined fleet can depart in the evening. The 24th Division had already taken a car to the south, and after arriving in Mukden, it would change to a car and move forward. The Kwantung Army is rushing to repair the Shenyang and Shanhaiguan airports, and it is estimated that they will be able to resume use tomorrow or later. The air support we want will be the day after tomorrow at the earliest. ”

After listening to the report, Admiral Terauchi pondered for a while, and ordered: "Send a telegram to the base camp urging the combined fleet to speed up its actions, and tell them that Tianjin is bleeding and North China is bleeding. A telegram was sent to General Matsui Ishine, requesting that the Central China Front mobilize aviation to escort the fleet of the 6th and 16th Divisions of the North Movement and strictly prevent a sneak attack by the China Air Force. Send a telegram to Senior General Kenkichi Ueda, asking him to speed up the maintenance of Shenyang Airport and Shanhaiguan Airport, and I will see Tianjin Airport reduced to ashes the day after tomorrow at the latest. A telegram was sent to the Kwantung Army Southbound Group and Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo of the Second Army that the troops would rest during the day and march at night until air supremacy was restored. It is necessary to form a heavy army group, and not provide any chance for the Chinese army to sneak attack. ”

After Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo went to draft the telegram, General Terauchi Shouichi summoned Major General Seiichi Nishida, head of the Special Service Department of the North China Front, and asked him why he had not reported to the Front Army Headquarters until now what method Liu Yimin had adopted, by what means, and when he had arrived in Tianjin.

Kita Seiichi was originally the head of the Zhangjiakou secret service, but he was promoted to minister when the North China Front Army established the secret service department in September.

There is a strange phenomenon in the army, many generals are spies and generals at the same time, Kita Seiichi and Kenji Dohihara are the same, they are all in this way. He graduated from the 19th class of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School and the 31st class of the Army University, and served as a squadron leader, group leader, wing commander, and also a member of the General Staff, and then began to engage in intelligence work. Tall, big fat and round face, it looks like a thing that specializes in bad things.

Seeing that General Terauchi Shouichi's tone was not good, Kita Makoto hurriedly reported immediately: "Your Excellency, the actions of this branch of the Chinese sect are extremely secretive, and we still don't know when, what route they took, and what method they took to Tianjin. However, in the past few days, I have carefully checked the information left by His Excellency Lieutenant General Tu Feiyuan, and found that this army is the best at camouflaging the enemy's surprise attack. It's just that I don't know how they disguised the Imperial Army. Because, if they want to disguise the imperial army, they will not be able to pass the language barrier in the first place. In addition, it can be seen from the Battle of Taiyuan that they cracked the code of the imperial army and used the imperial army radio to lure the imperial army into being deceived. I'm thinking about how I can take a prisoner of their rank and unravel all these mysteries. ”

Terauchi Shouichi's face looked a little better, nodded, and encouraged Kita Seiichi to work hard, and strive to decipher the code of the Shina Sect Instructor, grasp their accurate movements, and let the Imperial Army wipe them out in one fell swoop.

Kita Makoto thanked him repeatedly, saying that he had caused trouble to the commander, and asked His Excellency the commander to take care of him.

Shouichi Terauchi stood up, walked to the window, looked at the gloomy sky outside the window, and said coldly: "I want Liu Yimin's head, send the best agents, find him, approach him, whether it is with poison or with a gun, kill him!" The sooner the better! ”

Kita Makoto hurriedly bowed his head and said, "Hai! ”

Shouichi Terauchi said again: "Hidekazu Mokawa and Yoshiko Kawashima are both masters of your intelligence community, and they have made contributions to the Great Shoben Empire. Now they have been publicly shot by Liu Yimin, this is a shame for the North China Front, a shame for the Great Empire, and even more a shame for the intelligence community of the Great Empire! We must avenge the revenge of Maochuan-kun and Miss Yoshiko, and we must use Liu Yimin's head to pay tribute to the heroic soul of the Yamato warriors. However, this branch of the army has obtained the heavy weapons of the imperial army and is well-equipped, even if the imperial army encircles and suppresses it, it is difficult to guarantee that Liu Yimin will not escape. Therefore, please I'll leave it to Seichi Kita! ”

After saying that, Shouichi Terauchi turned around and bowed respectfully to Seiichi Kita.

Panicked, Xi Duocheng hurriedly returned the salute and said loudly: "Please rest assured, commander, I will dispatch the best agents to kill Liu Yimin at all costs and eliminate harm for the Great Empire!" ”

(To be continued)