Volume 1 Red Star Shines on China Chapter 1 049 Advance Team Going North (Continued)-

Chapter 1049 Northbound Advance Team (continued)

Since Liu Yimin was determined to send an advance team to the northeast to help the First Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, he immediately began to act. 4∴ he found Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong, explained his thoughts and thoughts, and analyzed the reasons why he could not send the main force to reinforce the Anti-Japanese Union at present.

After Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong heard this, they immediately expressed their support. Because they all know the importance of the Northeast to the Japanese army, and they also know the difficult situation of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation.

Cai Zhong went to draft a telegram to the Central Committee and the General Headquarters asking for instructions, expounded Liu Yimin's thoughts, and then asked for instructions: In view of the current difficult situation of the Anti-Japanese Federation and the importance of the Northeast to the Japanese army, the Shandong Military Region plans to send a small special operations unit of Jīng Rui to the Northeast by sea to help the Anti-Japanese Federation persist in the struggle and relieve the pressure on Yang Jingyu's Anti-Union First Army in the Changbai Mountains.

At this time, the chairman was worried about the difficult situation of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and was about to send a telegram to ** and Nie Rongzhen, ordering the 115th Division to intensify the attack on the Japanese army stationed in Méng, attracting the Kwantung Army to transfer reinforcements and relieve the pressure on the Anti-United Nations. Liu and Luo's telegrams arrived at the right time, and the chairman's eyes were immediately attracted to southern Liaoning.

The chairman sent a telegram back to Liu and Luo, asking them about the names of the commanders of the troops to be sent and their combat experience, how long the troops could continue to fight with the amount of ammunition they carried, what kind of boats they were preparing to use to cross the sea to the north, about the current changes in the direction of the wind in Bohai Bay, and about the choice of the landing site, how far away it was from the starting point, and whether the crossing could be completed overnight.

The fact that the chairman's telegram inquired in such detail shows that he attaches great importance to the dispatch of special operations units by our army in Shandong to fight in the northeast.

Liu Yimin immediately sent a telegram back to the chairman, reporting that he planned to transfer three squads from the 2nd Special Warfare Squadron Chōu and two squads from the 1st Sniper Squadron Chōu, and carry the 2nd Squadron to support firepower to form an advance team to go north, with Zhao Yonggang, squadron leader of the 2nd Special Operations Squadron, serving as the leader and political commissar of the special operations task force. Zhao Yonggang was born in the Central Red Army, and was absorbed into the special combat team on the Long March.

Subsequently, Liu Yimin reported that he was going to transfer a cargo ship in Qingdao to the US Consul Mr. Suo Kebin to transport the special combat team to infiltrate the northeast. The landing site is selected in Dahuzui, which is about 150 kilometers away from the sea in a straight line, and can be reached in six hours according to the speed of the Zhenyuan about an hour.

The chairman also called to ask if he could first send a regiment to join forces with the First Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, so as to serve as the vanguard of our army's northward advance in the future and establish a consolidated base area.

As soon as he read the telegram, Liu Yimin knew that the chairman was anxious, and he was afraid that he wanted to send the main force of our army in Shandong to the north as soon as possible to compete with the Japanese Kwantung Army for the northeast, so he hurriedly sent a telegram to the chairman, analyzing the current strength of the Japanese army in the northeast, and explaining that it was not the best time to march into the northeast. The purpose of sending a special combat team is to set fire everywhere in the northeast and reduce the pressure on the anti-coalition forces. If you send a regiment of combat troops, it is tantamount to sending a bun to the mouth of the Kwantung Army, and you must not do it.

The chairman called back and agreed with Liu and Luo's plan, and the order was executed immediately, as soon as possible.

After receiving the approval, Liu Yimin immediately issued an order, Chōu transferred three squads of the Second Special Operations Squadron and two squads of the No. 1 Firepower and Sniper Squadron to form the northbound advance team, appointed Zhao Yonggang as the leader and political commissar of the northbound advance team, and ordered him to immediately return to Dadian to accept the task.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Yimin sent an order to Zhou Zijian in Qingdao to prepare the ship.

Zhou Zijian is a native of Hunan, Jinggangshan in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, graduated from the Red Army School, and is the backbone of the 1st Army to support the 18th Red Regiment. When the Eighth Route Army first attacked and occupied Qingdao, Liu Yimin ordered Chen Dayong, the commander of the Seventh Brigade, and Liu Yi, the political commissar, to send a backbone cadre of the old Red Army to participate in the management of the merchant fleet operated and protected by the U.S. consul in Qingdao, Suo Kebin, on behalf of the Eighth Route Army. TXT eBook Download**

The Red Army and the Eighth Route Army were revolutionary schools. In particular, Liu Yimin personally formulated the textbooks for primary and junior high schools in the Red Seventh Army and later adapted the instructors, and personally grasped the study of cadres and soldiers. In particular, Japanese and English were paid special attention to when I was in Xi'an, and a group of cadres with a certain cultural foundation made rapid progress. This week, Zijian is a language day, learning Japanese and English quickly, and has become a famous cultural teacher of the Seventh Brigade.

The old Red Army, who knew Japanese and had a certain foundation in English, Zhou Zijian became the first choice to fight with Suo Kebin.

The telegram sent by Liu Yimin to Zhou Zijian made it clear that he should immediately contact Suo Kebin and try to contract the freight from Yantai and Longkou to Dalian, and that a cargo ship must be mobilized to be on standby at the designated place at the designated time and ensure the safety of the cargo ship.

After receiving the telegram, Zhou Zijian immediately went to find Mr. Suo Kebin.

Suo Kebin now admires the Eighth Route Army and Liu Yimin very much.

After the Eighth Route Army evacuated Qingdao for the first time, Suo Kebin took the initiative to find the commander of the newly established Qingdao garrison of the Japanese army after the reoccupation of Qingdao in accordance with Liu Yimin's treatment method, and said that the two Japanese-funded cruise ships given to him by the Eighth Route Army free of charge by the Eighth Route Army were bought back from the Eighth Route Army with money, and he was willing to return Jiāo to Japan and deepen the friendship between the United States and Japan.

Two cruise ships, what is that concept? The commander of the Qingdao garrison of the Japanese army originally thought that it would be difficult to fight with the Yankees, and was ready to report to the country, so he asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deal with the US government.

Suo Kebin struck while the iron was hot and applied to the commander of the Japanese garrison in Qingdao, requesting that the cargo ships purchased from the auction of the Eighth Route Army be used to form a fleet and set up a shipping company to serve the economic recovery of Qingdao.

What Mr. Suo Kebin didn't expect was that a little devil is a little devil, and he doesn't do anything when he receives gifts. When the commander of the Qingdao garrison heard this, he shook his head like a drum, and said that it was impossible, on the grounds that all the merchant ships that Mr. Suo Kebin had auctioned from the Eighth Route Army were the assets of the Great Japanese Empire and must be returned to the Great Japanese Empire free of charge.

Suo Kebin was a Yankee, and the Yankees had a big temper, and when they heard it, they were annoyed, accusing the Japanese army of not paying attention to credibility and not protecting American commercial interests, and it was obviously a merchant ship that the Mobil Company had bought from the trophies of the Eighth Route Army, but the Japanese army wanted to occupy it by force. In this case, he withdrew his promise to return the two cruise ships to the Japanese army free of charge, and wanted to use the two cruise ships to engage in passenger transportation from Qingdao to Shanghai and Hong Kong. The intermediate dispute is handled by the Secretary of State of the United States of America or the Ministry of Commerce, and they are involved with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

As soon as Suo Kebin was tough, the commander of the Japanese garrison in Qingdao softened. He knew that in accordance with international practice and legal principles, Suo Kebin had indeed obtained the ownership of these ships through legal means, and the United States was not easy to provoke, and the guys in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs lowered their eyebrows when they saw the Yankees, and they were simply unreliable to rely on them to fight with the US Department of Commerce.

The commander of the Qingdao garrison of the Japanese army began to bargain with Suo Kebin.

As soon as he saw that the commander of the Qingdao garrison of the Japanese army began to bargain, his attitude became more and more tough, and he insisted on taking back the two cruise ships that had been given to Japan free of charge.

The two men negotiated for several days, and it was best to agree that the six gunboats that Mobil had bid for from the Eighth Route Army auction would be returned to the Japanese army, and that the remaining ships would be operated normally by Mobil to form a new cargo fleet, but that they would not leave the route of the Japanese occupation area, and that the accurate movements of the fleet should be reported to the Japanese garrison headquarters in a timely manner.

The verbal agreement was reached, and the commander of the Japanese garrison in Qingdao could not be the master, and reported it layer by layer, and finally Suo Kebin finally got his wish. Of course, Suo Kebin still had to secretly stuff a check for $50,000 to the commander of the Japanese garrison in Qingdao. As a result, the shipping company established with the ships captured by the Eighth Route Army was put into operation in a grand manner.

Zhou Zijian found Suo Kebin and told him Liu Yimin's telegram instructions.

At this time, the United States had broken off the maritime and commercial treaty between the United States and Japan, and the relationship between the United States and Japan was already very delicate. Although the Japanese have been trying to negotiate with the United States, since the American government has seen through the wolf ambitions of the Japanese and is burying its head in accelerating preparations for war, where will it re-conclude a commercial treaty with Japan? Anti-American sentiment is growing in Japan, and the military is also drawing up a war plan against the United States and has begun to conduct secret exercises.

In this political environment, Suo Kebin, who is accustomed to doing tricks and grabbing business, feels a chill. In particular, Qingdao was occupied by the Eighth Route Army twice, the market was extremely depressed, and business was really not good. Therefore, after listening to Liu Yimin's instructions conveyed by Zhou Zijian, Suo Kebin did not hesitate and asked Zhou Zijian to go to Cào to do this.

Things are easy to do! Zhou Zijian immediately contacted the freight trade from Qingdao to Yantai, Longkou, and Dalian, transferred the Zhenyuan from the fleet to standby, and then secretly sent a report to Liu Yimin, reporting that everything was ready.

Zhao Yonggang, who received the order, rushed to the big store and accepted the task.

Liu Yimin inquired about the operation of the Second Special Operations Squadron, and then began to assign tasks.

Liu Yimin first briefed Zhao Yonggang on the situation of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation.

It was an afternoon that day, Liu Yimin, Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, and Zhao Yonggang were sitting under a locust tree in the headquarters compound, with a white porcelain tea jar in front of them, drinking and chatting.

Zhao Xiaoman sat on the side, his notebook on his lap, taking notes.

Liu Yimin said that after the September 18 Incident, Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army gave up the three eastern provinces without firing a single shot. However, all strata in the northeast were unwilling to give in, and set off a vigorous anti-Japanese struggle, forming a number of anti-Japanese volunteer troops, which reached 300,000 at the maximum. It dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders. It is a pity that the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army is divided into three systems: the Northeast Army system, the National Salvation Association system, and the support club system, which are basically formed on the basis of the Northeast Army's participation in the troops and the absorption of civilian spontaneous anti-Japanese forces. Under the blow of 30,000 Japanese troops, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army held out until 1933, and the main force was almost gone. Later, the volunteers in the south had to retreat into the Guannai to recuperate, and the volunteers in the north negotiated with the Soviet Union and turned to Xinjiang through the Soviet Union at the cost of $3.7 million. There were more than 40,000 volunteers in this part of the volunteers, including more than 10,000 family members, infants and young children. After arriving in Xinjiang, there were more than 10,000 remnants of the army, and only 5,000 family members.

Zhao Yonggang asked, "Are they all starving to death?" ”

Liu Yimin nodded.

Several people did not speak, and drank water in silence.

Liu Yimin took a sip of water, and then said that the Anti-Japanese Federation was developed by our party in Northeast China, and its predecessor was the remnants of the Northeast Volunteer Army, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Guerrillas, and the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army. By September 1936, it had grown to 11 armies and 30,000 men. Among them, the First Route Army was formed in July 1936, with jurisdiction over the 1st and 2nd armies of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, with Yang Jingyu as the commander-in-chief, Wang Detai as the deputy commander-in-chief, and Wei Zhengmin as the director of the Political Department, with a total of more than 6,000 people, belonging to the South Manchurian Provincial Party Committee; The Second Route Army governed the 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, and 10th armies of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, as well as the Wang Yinwu Department of the Salvation Army and the Yao Zhenshan Department of the Volunteer Army, which was formed in October 1937, with Zhou Baozhong as the commander-in-chief and Cui Shiquan as the chief of staff, under the Jidong Provincial Party Committee; The Third Route Army was under the jurisdiction of the 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 11th armies of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, which was formed in May 1939, with Li Zhaolin as the commander-in-chief, Feng Zhongyun as the political commissar, and Xu Hengzhi as the chief of the general staff.

Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong are not very clear about the situation of the Anti-Japanese Federation, let alone Zhao Yonggang. The three of them all gathered to listen to Liu Yimin.

I heard Liu Yimin say: "The struggle of the Anti-Japanese Federation in the Northeast has restrained the Kwantung Army and has become a thorn in the heart of the Japanese army. In desperation, the Japanese army adopted the strategy of Lieutenant General Sasaki to the First Lieutenant General we killed in Weixian, implemented the system of group tribes and armor protection, separated the common people from the Anti-Japanese Federation, and mobilized heavy troops to continuously carry out brutal crusades and sweeps against the Anti-United Nations, resulting in greater and greater losses of the Anti-United Nations. Especially since January 1938, the frequency of the Japanese puppet army's sweeps has become higher and higher, and the situation of the Anti-Japanese Federation has become more and more difficult. Up to now, after so many hard battles, the main force of the Anti-Japanese Federation is afraid that it has suffered heavy losses. ”

Liu Yimin only knows the heavy losses, and he doesn't know how heavy they are. Because history has changed after all, he proposed to the Central Committee to strengthen the leadership of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and if necessary, let them withdraw to the Guannai to join the main force of the Eighth Route Army. In particular, the development and growth of the Eighth Route Army in the pass forced the Japanese Kwantung Army to enter the pass several times, and it was beaten suddenly, and the situation of the Anti-Japanese Union should be much better than in history. Last time, the 115th Division fought in the western Liaoning region during a covert movement, and the confrontation alliance was of great help. Judging from the fact that Yang Jingyu's radio contact is still unimpeded, it should be much better than in history.

Luo Ronghuan sighed and said: "The lone army is hanging in the midst of the heavy Japanese army, there is no food and grass inside, and there are no reinforcements outside, the situation of the Anti-Japanese Federation is indeed difficult!" ”

Liu Yimin said: "Isn't it just difficult? For our anti-union warriors, it is a great happiness to be able to eat tree bark and gnaw grass roots! ”

Speaking of this, Liu Yimin turned to Zhao Yonggang and said, "Comrade Zhao Yonggang, this time I sent you to the Northeast to let you establish contact with the Anti-Japanese Federation and help them tide over the difficulties. The specific tasks are threefold: First, to carry out special guerrilla warfare in the northeastern region, where the Japanese army is most tightly controlled. In layman's terms, it is to set fire everywhere and fight the rhythm of the Kwantung Army's encirclement and suppression and crusade against the Anti-Japanese Federation. The second was to establish contact with Yang Jingyu's First Route Army, Zhou Baozhong's Second Route Army, and Li Zhaolin's Third Route Army to cover them and rescue them. Third, it is necessary to disseminate to the comrades of the Anti-Japanese Federation our experience in persisting in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, mobilizing the masses, and establishing base areas. ”

Zhao Yonggang said: "Commander, the leaders of the Anti-Japanese Federation are all commanders, and the troops are also divided into three provincial party committees, even if we establish contact, will they listen to me?" ”

Luo Ronghuan immediately said: "The leaders of the Anti-Japanese Federation are all loyal members, you are going on behalf of the Shandong Bureau, and you have orders from the Central Committee, they will definitely listen to your suggestions." However, Comrade Zhao Yonggang, you have to remember that you are not asked to be a special commissioner who is above the leaders of the various units of the Anti-Japanese Federation, but only to lead the previous squad to the northeast to carry out special guerrilla warfare, mobilize the Japanese army, and cover and support the Anti-Japanese Federation. It's discipline, and it's important to keep in mind! ”

Liu Yimin also continued: "The political commissar is right. Although the main reason for the fact that the Kwantung Army was too strong and the Japanese army's policy was too vicious, in the final analysis, it was an internal problem. One is that the Anti-Japanese Federation lacks backbone military generals, and its command is not satisfactory. The second is that the anti-coalition forces are different from the main forces of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, which we developed from the Red Army, and their composition is relatively complex, and the cohesion of the troops needs to be strengthened. The third is that due to geographical reasons, they have certain ties with the Soviet Union and are greatly influenced by Wang Ming's ultra-left thoughts. The fourth reason is that they do not know how to mobilize the masses and establish base areas, and retreat into the deep mountains and dense forests as soon as they are swept away by devils. The deep mountains and dense forests can not only cover the troops, but also increase the difficulty of the troops' survival, at least the food problem cannot be solved. Just like us, if we do not establish a base area on the plains and rely solely on the Yiméng Mountains, such a large number of troops, without waiting for the Japanese army to fight, will make the troops lose their combat effectiveness if they do not have enough to eat. Therefore, after you go, you should conscientiously convey to the comrades the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee, convey the strategic thinking on protracted warfare, and stream our experience in establishing base areas. As for the specific command of the anti-coalition forces, it is not something for you to consider, and you are not qualified to command them. ”

As soon as Zhao Yong understood thoroughly, he asked the commander to make specific arrangements.

Liu Yimin shouted to Li Xiaoshuai to take the map of the Northeast captured when he wiped out the Eighth Division, spread it on the small table in front of him, held a pencil, pointed to the map, and began to tell Zhao Yonggang how to enter the Northeast, what actions to take first after arriving in the Northeast, and how to contact Yang Jingyu and them. Until Zhao Yonggang saluted and reported that he would never disappoint the hopes of the commander and political commissar and resolutely complete the task, Liu Yimin laughed: "This time, we will learn from Sun Wukong, get into the belly of the Iron Fan Princess, and poke a knife at it in the place where the Japanese army is most tightly ruled." The little devil can't do it if he doesn't do it! ”

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