As soon as Liu Yimin finished sending a telegram to the Central Committee and the General Headquarters, he climbed on his desk to draft a war report and handed it to Liu Yimin for reading and signing.

Liu Yimin took it and looked at it, and the [***] wind wrote very clearly: "After the Jiaoji Road Battle was launched, all units of our army acted quickly. Among them, the 1st and 2nd Special Warfare Formations successfully attacked and occupied the Matoushan Airport and Luotuoshan Airport in Xuzhou in the early hours of this morning, seized more than 60 planes of various types, and successfully rushed to transport some aviation ammunition. At this point, the First Air Brigade of the Eighth Route Army has regained its air combat capability and can be dispatched to participate in the battle at any time. With the cooperation of the 3rd Special Operations Formation, the 1st Regiment successfully attacked and occupied Weicheng in the early hours of this morning, completely annihilating the artillery wing, baggage wing, engineer wing, cavalry brigade, field hospital, and sick horse factory of the 108th Division of the 10th and 8th Divisions stationed in Weicheng. At about 8 o'clock this morning, Zhou Yi, chief of staff of the 1st Brigade, led the brigade guard battalion to successfully capture alive Lieutenant General Ogaka Kamizo, commander of the enemy's 12th Army, who had come to Weixian to supervise the battle, at the Shilipu airfield near Fangzi, and captured the commander of the Yue Army for the first time in the history of the Sino-Japanese war. We taught the troops of the 4th Brigade to capture Boshan, the 3rd Brigade to capture Linqu, the 6th Brigade to capture Gaomi, and the 8th Brigade to capture Jiaoxian. The Luxinan Garrison Brigade and the Taixi Garrison Brigade fought jointly in Taixi, and all of them were annihilated and mixed into a brigade of the 13th Brigade. The main forces of our Luxi Group and Lunan Group are still in a state of concealment and standby, but they have sent troops to launch an active attack. The troops on the Jilu border attacked the puppet army last night and uprooted five puppet strongholds. ”

After reading it, Liu Yimin continued: "In the next step, the army will dispatch planes to conduct large-scale reconnaissance of Weicheng and Fangzi, and after discovering that the Ogao Turtle Hide has fallen into the hands of our army, the Yue Army will inevitably mobilize two brigades of the 108th Division and the 33rd Division to attack Weicheng with all their might, in an attempt to rescue the Tail Turtle Hide and recapture Weicheng." The commanders of all brigades must attach great importance to concealment and air defense, and act quickly in accordance with the battle plan to ensure the smooth implementation of the Jiaoji Road Campaign. ”

After writing, sign the words Liu and Luo on the draft of the telegram and hand it over to the [***] wind to send to all units.

Mr. Zhu and Mr. Peng went back to Yan'an to attend the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee, and after receiving Liu Yimin's telegram, Deputy Chief of Staff Zuo Quan couldn't help but be overjoyed.

During this period, the Central Committee convened the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee in Shaanxi, and its main task was to sum up the lessons and lessons since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, determine the party's basic principles and tasks in the new stage of the War of Resistance against Japan, resolve the right-leaning mistakes that once appeared within the party, and unify the understanding and pace of the whole party. In a word, it is to solve the problem of unifying thinking. However, it is slightly different from the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee in history, one is that the location is different, and the venue is not in Qiaoergou in northern Shaanxi, but in Huaqingchi. Second, the content has added the issue of how to deal with Zhang Guotao's mistakes.

The meeting had been going on for a long time, and the debate was fierce due to disagreement on a number of issues. The focus is on two points, one is how to deal with the issue of Marxism, and the other is how to deal with the issue of the united front.

[***] put forward a proposition, that is, the Sinicization of Marxism. In his political report "On the New Stage," delivered on behalf of the Politburo, he pointed out: "To talk about Marxism without Chinese characteristics is only abstract and empty Marxism. Therefore, the Sinicization of Marxism, so that every expression has the necessary Chinese special surname, that is, applying Marxism in accordance with China's characteristics has become a problem that the whole party urgently needs to understand and solve. ”

In fact, the Sinicization of Marxism is to integrate the basic tenets of Marxism with the practice of the Chinese revolution and guide the Chinese revolution in a more scientific way. In layman's terms, it is to solve the problem of unsuitability of Marxist theory to China after it arrives.

Regarding this point, Liu Yimin has already made it clear when he was in the passage, and the comrades who have experienced the Long March have also deeply experienced it. But when it comes to studying and discussing, this issue has been debated for the longest time.

On the question of how to deal with the united front, the cause of the incident was that Wang Ming, first secretary of the Yangtze River Bureau, published articles in Wuhan on many occasions, proposing that everything should go through the united front, which ran counter to the proposition of the majority of the comrades of the Central Committee such as [***] that they should independently carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, so the controversy was also fierce.

As for Zhang Guotao's question, the meeting issued "Materials on the Mistakes Made by Comrade Zhang Guotao in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Base Areas and the Sichuan-Shaanxi Base Areas in the Suppression of Counterinsurgency Movements." Zhang Guotao himself also inspected the meeting.

On the morning of November 8, [***] had breakfast early, preparing to have a conversation with Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Guan Xiangying and other generals who had returned from the front.

Mr. Zhu and the others hadn't arrived yet, but the secretary excitedly brought Liu Yimin's telegram.

As soon as I finished reading the telegram, Mr. Zhu and Mr. Peng joined forces. Mr. Peng's big voice was full of joy: "Old Mao, great joy, Liu Yimin caught the turtle grandson of the commander of the 12th Army!" This is an unprecedented event! ”

Mr. Zhu also looked happy, but he was generous, and he just said with a smile: "Since the Opium War, all foreign wars have ended with the Chinese failing to cede land and pay compensation. Today, it is said that he can capture two lieutenant generals of the army, which can be regarded as the first time in the world. Runzhi, I see if I will inform Chiang Kai-shek and strengthen his determination to resist the war! ”

[***] was also happy with his eyebrows and smiled, and it took a long time to remember to beckon the two bosses to sit down and call the guards to pour water.

lit a cigarette, took a few puffs, [***] said slowly: "This Liu Yimin, alas, can always surprise us." When I first met him in the passage during the Long March, I thought that this son was extraordinary, and the subsequent situation also confirmed this. I'm wondering whether to let Enlai send a report to Chiang Kai-shek immediately, or wait a little longer and wait for Liu Yimin to send a report after their Jiaoji Road battle. ”

Mr. Zhu said: "Capturing Ogao Kamizo and Xia Yuan Xiongmi is only the first step in the Jiaoji Road Campaign, and the next step is to eliminate the main force of the 108th Division and the 33rd Division of the Yue Army. I think that there must be chaos within the army now, but it is not yet the most chaotic time. I have to tell Liu Yimin to take action quickly. I am worried that the North China Command and Base Camp of the Chinese Army will change their deployment after learning that Otaka Kamizo and Shimoto Kumaya have been captured, and if they order the two dilapidated brigades of the 10th and 8th Division to turn around and return to Jinan, the results of the battle will be greatly reduced. In particular, the 33rd Division should not always think that it might withdraw to Qingdao, but also think about whether it would fall to Laizhou Bay nearby, because the navy of the army is strong and has the strength to pick up the 33rd Division in Laizhou Bay and transport it to Qingdao or Lianyungang, or Jilubian, or Pingjin by sea. In that case, we're in for a void. In this battle, it is still mainly to destroy the enemy's living forces, and if these two divisions are let go, the Jiaoji Road Battle will be blinded. ”

Mr. Peng's surname is straight, and his voice is also high: "Lao Mao, boss, without further ado, we will grasp it with both hands at the same time, one is to announce the news of the capture of Weigao Guizang, but strictly keep the news of Yuan Xiong Mi's capture, and let Liu Yimin mobilize the Yue army in the name of Xia Yuan Xiong Mi, and let the Yue army attack desperately." Give them a head to think that Odaka Kamezo just fell into the hands of our army by accident. As long as you increase the intensity of your attack, you will be able to save Otaka Kamezo. In this way, it is not appropriate to set up a battlefield in Fangzi, and it is easy for the little devils to suspect that Weicheng and the tribe of the commander of the 108th Division are in our hands. I considered putting on a posture of retreating to Anqiu with my sneak attack troops, and asked Liu Yimin to send troops to pretend to be in Weicheng and chase after the rank and tail of the army, surround Anqiu, and attract the army to fight a decisive battle under Anqiu City. The second is to let Liu Yimin send troops back behind the 33rd Division, cutting off the retreat of the 33rd Division, so that he can't run if he wants to. At the same time, he ordered the instructor to fight in Luxi, Taixi, Hebei, Lubian, and Lunan troops, so that the little devils could not figure out the position of the main force of our army, and had the illusion that it was a cover to cooperate with the capture of Odaka Kamizo. Damn, it's finally ripe for the buns, can you still let him fly? ”

After thinking for a while, he said to Mr. Peng: "Mr. Peng, you personally go to the confidential room to send a report to Liu Yimin, tell him the opinions of the boss and you, and ask him to consider it, hurry up the deployment, and see if there is a better way to confuse the enemy, and the purpose is only one, that is, to completely annihilate the 108th Division, the 33rd Division and the Jiaoji Road garrison, and absolutely not let them escape." At the same time, Liu Yimin's telegram was forwarded to Chiang Kai-shek and asked him to publish it to the outside world. ”

After a pause, [***] said: "Tell Liu Yimin that the key to this battle is not to be afraid of reinforcements from the army, but to be afraid that the army will slip away." It is best to let the garrison of the little devils stationed in Jinan, the 35th Division stationed in Tai'an, and the troops stationed in Hebei and Lubian all go to reinforce them, and take out the strength of a central guard division in Qingxi Town against Xue Yue's eight divisions, and solve the Shandong problem in one battle. When necessary, the Lunan troops and the Taixi troops can be transferred to the north, and the Luxi troops can be transferred to cross the river and march eastward to join the battlefield. Don't be afraid that after our army in Lunan goes north, Xuzhou will say that the puppet army will go north to flank our army, the more they go, the better, and the faster the speed of the attack, the better. In that way, when our army ends the battle of Jiaoji Road and turns south, the little devil will not be able to run. Our army is strong in Shandong, and there are more than a dozen artillery regiments, are you afraid that these special divisions and garrison divisions will not succeed? ”

When Mr. Peng heard this, he stood up excitedly and shouted: "Right, this is how to fight, if you want to beat the little devil to pee his pants when he mentions the three words of the Eighth Route Army." With that, he got up and went to the war room.

Mr. Zhu asked a little worriedly: "Runzhi, are you inspired by Liu Yimin's achievements, and your courage is a little bigger?" ”

Waving his hand, taking a puff of cigarette, his eyes looked out of the window, and he had a leisurely posture: "Boss, that Shandong is not Shaanxi, with a population of 38 million, and it is a natural granary." If we can occupy Shandong in its entirety, it will be a matter of having soldiers, money, and grain. It is not a problem for the main force of the Eighth Route Army to expand by hundreds of thousands. When the time comes, even if the little devil mobilizes a large army to attack again, will we avoid it again? ”

Mr. Zhu said: "After this battle, Shandong basically fell into the hands of our army. At worst, it can also compress the little devil on the Jinpu line. However, we must not be blindly optimistic. The combat effectiveness of the little devils is still very strong, Liu Yimin and they put it bluntly, they are all skillful battles. If you fight with the little devils, you will lose 1,000 enemies and 800 yourself, and the losses of the troops will be very heavy. The little devils are either in vain, or they are special divisions, and their soldiers are also very high-quality. The 109th Division in Shanxi is very powerful. In my opinion, it is still necessary to be cautious, and cannot encourage Liu Yimin to have a strategic decisive battle with the little devil now, he is still young, if he can't hold his breath and fights with the devil openly, it will become the target of the main force of the little devil. Maybe next time, the devils will remobilize the main force to kill Shandong and ruin our base area again. Besides, the real main force of the instructor is the first seven brigades, which is a little more than 100,000. It is better to teach the Eighth Brigade that those garrison brigades are all newly organized units with limited combat effectiveness. It's okay to fight a good fight, but if you encounter the elite troops of the Yue Army, you have to suffer a big loss. Runzhi, you have to know this in your heart, don't forget the past of the Red Eighth Army by the Xiangjiang River! ”

[***] flicked the cigarette ash and said slowly: "I just saw this, so I wanted to seize the opportunity of the elite division of the Yue Army to stay away from Shandong, and let Liu Yimin and them fight." One is to destroy the devil's living force, and the other is to train the troops. ”

Seeing that [***] mood eased a little, Mr. Zhu said again: "There is another point, which is very important, that is, the instructor's ammunition is all captured, and the arsenal can only reload ammunition now, which is far from meeting the needs of the war." If this is a big fight with the devils, the ammunition consumption will go up. If nothing else, shells alone will not solve the problem. What is the use of artillery without shells? The military has a complete equipment production system. They are not afraid that we will fight with them, but they are afraid that we will not fight with them. ”

After Mr. Zhu finished speaking, [***] thought about it, smiled wordlessly, and said, "I'm a little anxious." The boss is right, it's better to be safe. However, as long as the Jiaoji Road Battle is over, we will have strategic depth in Shandong and will be able to truly gain a firm foothold. After a while, you will send a telegram to remind Liu Yimin that he should judge the situation and make a decision according to the changes on the battlefield. Another matter is that the work in the Shandong base area needs to be strengthened, and the building of the troops also needs to be strengthened. Last time, Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan sent telegrams, asking for the expansion of the main force, and they also wanted to separate the Second Regiment from the armored regiment, set up another armored regiment as a mobile assault force, and also wanted to establish an artillery school of the Eighth Route Army. We have to look into this matter and settle it as soon as possible. In addition, Enlai will come after a while, and we will discuss it, and my opinion is that the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee should be concluded as soon as possible, and it should not be delayed for too long. When the Battle of Jiaoji Road is over, I would like to telegraph Liu Yimin to return to Shaanxi and ask him to speak at our meeting. The little guy's ideas are fresh, and perhaps his speech will inspire the comrades. ”

When he said this, Mr. Zhu laughed: "Liu Yimin, this kid has been gone for so long, I really miss him a little." Tang Xingying has already given birth to a second son for him, and he doesn't know if the little guy is strong or not. If you want him to come back, let their family come back, we will gather in Xi'an, and punish this kid for making hot pot and kebabs for us. This stinky boy, my gluttony is thinking about him. ”

[***] listened, and couldn't help but laugh too.

At this time, the Battle of Wuhan was really coming to an end, the main force of the army was basically surrounded on all sides, Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to issue an order to evacuate Wuhan, and the main force had begun to disperse and withdraw from the battle, turning to the enemy's rear and flanks. Only the last covering force to hold back the enemy is still fighting fiercely with the devils. It's just that he is still a little unwilling, and wants to see if Liu Yimin's mentor will launch a thunderous blow at the last moment, create a miracle, and make the little devil stop outside Wuhan. Therefore, after all the departments of the Military Commission had been evacuated, Chiang Kai-shek remained in Wuhan. But the plane was ready, and he was ready to go.

After receiving Liu Yimin's telegram from the headquarters of the 18th Group Army, Chiang Kai-shek's depressed face immediately flushed with a red tide, and he called He Yaozu, director of the General Office of the Central Military Commission and director of the Military Command Bureau, who stayed in Wuhan with him, and ordered word by word: "Immediately announce to the international community that our army has captured Lieutenant General Otaka Kamizo, commander of the 12th Army of the Japanese Army, and will openly try the chieftain at an appropriate time, investigate his responsibility for participating in the war of aggression, and punish him with a canonical sentence." At that time, the national political axe will invite all friendly countries to send personnel to observe. The national political axe is telling the aggressors to stop the war of aggression and go back to the original country. Otherwise, the end of the tail turtle hiding today will be their end tomorrow! ”

After He Yaozu finished recording, Chiang Kai-shek added: "Send a telegram to the 18th Group Army, order Liu Yimin's department, and order them to report meritorious soldiers, and the Military Commission will reward them." Inform the whole army of the battle report of the captive Odaka Kamezo to boost morale. ”

After thinking about it, Chiang Kai-shek said: "Send a report to the communication and liaison group stationed in the instructor to ask if it is safe to arrive." They were asked to join General Liu Yimin as soon as they arrived and report to me. ”

After He Yaozu left, Chiang Kai-shek thought about it, took out the notebook, and wrote on it: "Today, I received a report that Liu Yimin's division of the 18th Group Army captured the commander of the 12th Army, Otaka Guizang, and was greatly relieved. It's a pity that he was captured by the Eighth Route Army, but if he was captured by my Central Army, how happy it would be! Slightly regretted! He said that the army attacked our Guangdong, attacked our Wuhan, and occupied our Zhengzhou, and I captured the commander of his army, which can be regarded as a draw. If he can capture the enemy chief Shunroku Hahata and Shouichi Terauchi, he will be even more happy. ”

After remembering the account, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the troops of the Ninth Theater guarding Wuhan to persist in the battle, and then decide whether to withdraw or hold on after the enemy's situation became clearer.

Liu Yimin just wanted to give Ogaka Kamizo a chance to send a report for help before he was captured alive, so as to further mobilize the Yue army to divide and annihilate in the movement, although he also thought that after capturing Ogaka Kamizo, the Yue army would be extremely shocked and would try every possible way to rescue Ogaka Kamizo, but he did not expect that the reaction of the Yue army would be so strong.

Kobayashi Asaburo was already about to go crazy at this time, and after he gave the order, ten minutes later, Fangzi's 105th Wing did not reply. It was only at 15 minutes that it was reported that the troops had been assembled and marched towards the Twenty Lipu airfield, and it was expected that they would arrive in about 10 minutes. The headquarters of the 108th Division stationed in Weixian County was even more desperate, saying that the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Shimoto Kumaya, knew that Commander Otaka Kamezo was coming, and took the chief of staff, Toshiyuki Suzuki, and the officers of the directly subordinate wings to rush to the airport to meet them, but as a result, it collided with a truck of the baggage wing at the Chaoyang bridgehead in Weicheng, and the leg of His Excellency the division commander was broken, and His Excellency the chief of staff had three broken ribs, and several wing commanders were also injured and were being treated in the field hospital. Let him get out of the hospital immediately, carry the stretcher to the car, and command the troops to rescue His Excellency the Commander, even if he dies, he will die at the Twenty Lipu Airport, in front of Commander Otaka Kamizo.

On the contrary, Jinan Airport and Qingdao Airport reacted quickly, and they reported that they had ordered the plane that was about to go to Xuzhou Airport for reconnaissance to turn around and fly directly to Shilipu Airport to find out the situation as soon as possible.

Thinking about it, Kobayashi Asaburo directly sent a telegram to the two brigade commanders of the 10th and 8th Division, asking them to mobilize all means of transportation, trains, cars, motorcycles, bicycles, mules and horses, horses, Those who dare to disobey military orders will be punished by military law.

After thinking about it, Kobayashi Asaburo felt that if Commander Takakamezo fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, they would most likely realize the determination of the Imperial Army to recapture His Excellency the Commander, and maybe they would immediately open the way and slip away. Therefore, Kobayashi Asaburo sent a telegram to the commander of the 33rd Division, Lieutenant General Ganji Shigetaro, ordering him to take immediate action and advance to Weixian, assist the 108th Division in attacking Fangzi, and rescue His Excellency the commander.

Just when Kobayashi Asaburo was so busy that he was dizzy, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu, commander of the 114th Division stationed in Xuzhou, personally commanded the two wings and the field artillery wing directly under the division and regiment to rush to the Matoushan airfield and the camel mountain airfield. Among them, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu commanded a wing to pounce on Matoushan Airport, and his chief of staff, Saburo Tsuta, led another wing to pounce on Camel Mountain Airport.

When he was about to arrive at Matoushan Airport, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu saw that there were still two fighter planes taking off from the airport, and he wondered if there was a mistake in the information, and the airport was operating normally. As a result, he was greatly disappointed. When I entered the airport, the sky above the apron and runway was empty. Shigeharu Suematsu did not give up, and carefully checked one nest after another, where was the shadow of the plane. When I looked at the tower again, except for the corpses of the people on duty in the tower, there was only an empty tower left.

Shigeharu Suematsu's heart was cold, and he asked the soldiers to search the air defense position, the pillbox near the barbed wire fence of the airport, and went to the only office building at the airport himself.

As soon as he entered the door, he smelled a strong smell of blood, and Shigeharu Suematsu didn't dare to slack off, and directly pushed open the office of the captain of the 90th team, Mori Yu Tokumitsu Daisa, and he was greeted by the cold corpse of Mori Yu Tokumitsu, which was already stiff.

(To be continued)