March 8, 1944. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Beiping, Songzhuang Village, Songzhuang Town, Tongxian County.

The atmosphere in the headquarters was quite tense, and a staff officer took a telegram clip and read: "Lu, Yang, Liu, Wang: It is reported that the Japanese army in Shanxi has secretly made peace with Yan Xishan, and wants to lure the enemy of Beiping into Jin and resist our Shanxi troops. Your troops must annihilate the Japanese army in Beiping halfway, do not enter Shanxi, and do not make peace take shape. If not, we look forward to resuming the call. Cmc. ”

Xiaolu said: "What we were worried about before has finally happened. ”

The original plan was to encircle Beiping. If the Japanese army can enter Shanxi, then the Northeast Coalition Army and the Eighth Route Army can recover Shanxi and occupy the entire territory of Shanxi in the name of resisting Japan. Now it seems that this plan has been fully realized and is impossible.

Yang Jingyu: "The original plan was that in order to protect the ancient city of Beiping, we retreated, let the Japanese army leave Beiping, and let them enter Shanxi. The Japanese army also agreed to leave peacefully and not to destroy Beiping. Then, we wiped them out on the way from Hebei to Shanxi. If we change our plans, we will be very reactive. ”

Liu Yalou said: "If you attack Beiping in advance, not only will the preparations not be complete, and there will be no certainty of victory in the battle, but Beiping will also be in danger of being defeated. If Beiping is not attacked, the situation may get out of control, and a large number of Japanese troops will enter Shanxi, which will have an extremely adverse impact on the situation in Shanxi. ”

Wang Detai: "If you change the plan, you have to do it as soon as possible, otherwise, the transfer of hundreds of thousands of troops is not a trivial matter." ”

Xiaolu said: "Since Yan'an has set a strategic direction, we will discuss a countermeasure to make a reference for Yan'an's decision-making." Say it and ask you to discuss it. ”

When the people saw that he had a opinion, they heard him say it.

Xiaolu said: "The central idea is to make the Japanese think that only going to Shanxi is the only hope. Let them think that the Shanxi warlords have to cooperate with them. Then, we wiped them out on their way to Shanxi. ”

With that, Xiaolu led everyone to the big map.

Xiaolu said: "We are loud and loud in Rehe, Tianjin, eastern Hebei, and Shandong, and be more realistic, so that they can truly realize that these directions are dead ends." Then we make gestures to force them to surrender. Otherwise, destroy them. ”

Wang Detai: "There is an element of political warfare in this, and we want to make the Japanese General Staff Headquarters not allow them to surrender." Fortunately, in these places, our strength is readily available. ”

Xiaolu said: "At the same time, we use various means of public opinion to expose the conspiracy of Yan Xishan and the Japanese puppeteers, so that Yan Xishan can realize that if he does this, after the victory of the anti-Japanese war, Lao Jiang can use this as an excuse to get rid of him, the biggest dissident." On the surface, we are forcing Yan Xishan not to cooperate with the Japanese. But the actual effect was to push Yan Xishan to the side of the Japanese. ”

Liu Yalou said: "It's hard to grasp the proportions. ”

Xiaolu said: "Not bad. But if this matter is given the color of infighting among the Chinese, then more people will believe it. ”

Liu Yalou said: "Fortunately, our communications are developed and there are many talents. I'm confident. ”

Yang Jingyu: "I'm worried, what if the Japanese make a mistake and insist on fighting us in a decisive battle in Beiping?" ”

Liu Yalou said: "Give them a way out, they won't fight with us." We can do something to keep them from working hard. The intelligence said that because of the lack of food, they had no intention of holding out, so they either fought to the death or abandoned the city. The internal controversy is fierce. ”

"We can contact them and ask them to surrender." It shows that we do not want to break Beiping's intentions. However, we must seize Beiping. ”

Xiao Lu didn't say anything else about his thoughts. In fact, in history, the Japanese retreated many times in World War II. Every time they sensed that it was no longer possible, they either negotiated peace or retreated. Examples of peace talks are the Battle of Nomenkan, and there are many examples of retreat, Kuah Island, Imphal, and even the Northeast.

The retreat of the Japanese army from Kuah Island is typical. They retreated very smoothly. In the eyes of the Japanese army, which had consistently won battles before, the retreat was simply a great shame. However, it was supposed to retreat, and they retreated anyway. They want to save face, avoid the word retreat, and control the number of people who know the retreat plan. In addition, orders were conveyed verbally or in writing, without the use of telegrams.

In this way, the Americans could not know what the Japanese were really thinking, and judging by common sense, they thought that the Japanese were increasing their troops on Kuah Island. Because the naval forces were not superior, the Americans were most anxious about the supply of the American troops on Kuah Island, and did not dare to attack the Japanese army. By the time it became known that it was too late for the Japanese to retreat.

Yang Jingyu: "We have channels. Japanese people are also willing to contact us. Last time, we put forward three conditions to them: First, Shanxi and Hebei did not allow the existence of Japanese troops. Second, we can guarantee the safety of the diaspora and their families and allow the evacuation to Shanghai. Third, we demanded that the Imperial Allied Army in Hebei surrender to us and hand over the traitors. These three have conveyed the meaning of not fighting them and allowing them to leave here. It's going to make them weigh it up. ”

Xiaolu said: "The rest is the tactical action." First of all, our military strength and Shanxi Eighth Route actively cooperated and arranged a suitable battlefield. Second, we must actively contact the puppet army in Shanxi and win them to revolt on the battlefield. Third, the Northeast Coalition Army attacked the periphery of Beiping, surrounded three and missing one, and let the Japanese army flee from the direction of Changping to Shanxi. Fourth, the Japanese army was encircled and intercepted on the way to Shanxi, and strive to annihilate the Japanese army before the Japanese army entered Shanxi. ”

Liu Yalou said: "Yes, I see, let's scrutinize the details and make a detailed plan." The point is that large forces are not detected and quietly enter positions. ”

Yang Jingyu: "Confidentiality, confidentiality is the first priority. If the Japanese army learns the true intentions of our army, it will not be able to completely annihilate the enemy. ”

Xiaolu said: "Let's make a good play." ”

March 9, 1944. The Northeast People's Radio Station broadcast an unsigned article, exposing the process of collusion between Yan Xishan and the Japanese in Shanxi, and exposing that Yan Xishan, when the Japanese army was declining, went so far as to defect to the Japanese army for his own selfish purposes, in a vain attempt to relive the dream of the king of Shanxi under the wing of the Japanese army.

Then, Ta Kung Pao in Chongqing published an article describing the collusion between Yan Xishan and the Japanese army. This article is very rigorous, and Yan Xishan colluded with the Japanese army in an attempt to contain the Japanese army, an attempt to shield traitors, and reoccupy Shanxi.

Almost on the same day, various large and small newspapers in southwest Chongqing appeared in various editions of articles, adding oil and vinegar, and interpreting the process of Yan Xishan's surrender to the enemy as if Qin Hui had surrendered to the enemy.

March 10, 1944. The Northeast People's Radio broadcast an article, still unsigned, saying that the Japanese were attacking Hebei from Shanghai, Xuzhou, Wuhan, and other places in a vain attempt to recapture the newly liberated Hebei.

However, we have the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, General Luo Ronghuan in Shandong, and Commander Xu Shiyou in Shandong, and they are enough to become the fence of the liberated areas of Hebei, and we insist on the goal of moving the central government from Yan'an to Beiping after the liberation of Beiping.

Today, under the guidance of yesterday's newspaper articles, newspapers across the country have begun to pay attention to the war situation in East China.

However, many small newspapers still grasped the story of Yan Xishan's defection to the enemy, and did not know who it was, and provided a lot of details, and the common people knew that Yan Xishan and Tohihara Kenji were classmates, and on May 6, 1942, An Da 23, chief of staff of the Japanese North China Dispatch Army, and Iwamatsu Yoshio, commander of the Shanxi Dispatch Army, held an Anping meeting in Anping Village, Ji County, and so on.

This time, many articles also exposed the story of Yan Xishan's business with a Japanese trading company, and sold penicillin provided by Yan'an's friendly army to the Japanese army at a high price.

It was penicillin provided by the friendly forces in Yan'an!

Immediately afterward, Xinhua Radio broadcast the medical supplies seized in the military hospitals in Beiping and Tianjin, including penicillin packaging boxes produced in Yan'an, and even unopened penicillin. Broadcast the news, no comments, no speculation.

But those who care about the news immediately think of articles from other newspapers today.

However, in the past two days, the article has been overwhelming, and the spearhead is directed at Yan Xishan, there is evidence and facts. Of course, the news immediately spread to Shanxi. The military and civilians in Shanxi were in an uproar, and some people spared no effort to spread the news.

A large number of leaflets in the northeast were propagandized, and Commander-in-Chief Lu and Yang Jingyu were commanded, and Yang Chengwu commanded the army to besiege Beiping in Tongxian County.

However, the Japanese spies in Shandong came with the news and discovered the whereabouts of Xue Rui, the wife of the commander-in-chief of Lu.

Commander-in-Chief Lu has been with his wife all these years, and it is said that in order to prevent other beautiful women who envy heroes from approaching him, she even resigned from other public offices and only became her husband's confidential secretary. The husband and wife have never left in recent years.

Then Commander-in-Chief Lu arrived in Shandong.

However, the briefings of the Northeast Coalition Army all said with great fanfare that the commander-in-chief of Lu was in Tong County.

March 11, 1944. The Northeast People's Radio rebroadcast the "Letter of Urging the Japanese Army in North China to Surrender" written by Mao Gong.

On this day, the spies in Beiping once again discovered that although Yang Jingyu, the former commander-in-chief of the Northeast Coalition Army, was propagandized in Tongxian, he never appeared in the reporter's lens with a clear face. On the contrary, spies in Shandong also discovered a large tall man among the commanders of the Eighth Route Army.

At the same time, the news of the Japanese army in the southern part of Hebei was immediately cut off, and no more information came back.

Shanxi spies also sent back information.

Because the Eighth Route Army occupied vast rural areas, small and medium-sized towns and many county seats, the Japanese spies suffered a huge blow. The limited information sent back by all the remaining spies indicates that a large part of the Northeast Coalition Army, together with the large force of the Eighth Route Army in Jizhong, is heading for Shandong.

By now, the Japanese army in Beiping had affirmed that the Northeast Coalition Army had divided its troops, and some of them had entered Shandong in the south, and some of them were still besieging Beiping. The situation is obvious, it is impossible for the Shandong Imperial Army to go north to rescue Beiping, and there is only one way to survive in Beiping.

March 11, 1944. The Japanese army received information from the spies at Yan Xishan, and Wang Shiying, a representative of the 18th Group Army of the Communist Party, visited Yan Xishan and put pressure on Yan Xishan. In addition, it can be known from Wang Shiying's conversation that the Communist Party demanded that they not surrender to the Japanese army.

March 12, 1944. The Japanese army in Shanxi received information from the spies in Chongqing, and Yan Xishan and Chongqing were frequently telegraphed. Chongqing comforted Yan Xishan, but the Central Army in Shanxi made a move, moving north along the Fen River valley from southern Jin. Yan Xishan confessed to Chongqing in a few days, saying that his determination to resist Japan to the end could be seen every day. In addition, Yan Xishan also sent a special envoy to Chongqing, which is currently on the road.