Chapter 748 The wind is blowing

After sending the telegram, Liu Yimin felt weak to turn around, as if he was sick, so he sat down on a chair and asked Li Xiaoshuai to pour a glass of water and drink it with his head down.

Liu Yimin couldn't figure it out, he took so many measures, from the Long March to the Red Army University, and then to the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee, the truth was told one after another, and even Zhang Guotao and Wang Ming were criticized. Is it true that man's destiny is unchangeable?

Liu Yimin, who was in a depressed mood, drank water slowly in small sips, as if he was tasting wine, and felt dizzy while drinking, it seemed that Gao Jingting walked in from outside the courtyard, saluted him and reported: "Commander Liu, the Red 28th Army has worked hard for several years to get to where it is today, and I have no mistakes. ”

Liu Yimin opened his mouth and said: "Comrade Gao Jingting, you have made meritorious contributions in insisting on Dabie Mountain, in establishing, preserving, and developing the Red 28th Army, in leading four detachments to fight in central Anhui, in the first battle of the New Fourth Army in advancing behind enemy lines, in the battle of Jiangjiahe, and in the successive battles in central and eastern Anhui. Your merits will surely be recorded in the history of our army's war. Do a good job, there are so many little Japan, enough to add pen and ink to your credit book! ”

Gao Jingting shook his head: "Commander Liu, I, Gao Jingting, for the revolution, my parents were killed by the Kuomintang, my wife was killed by the Kuomintang, and my son was lost. My hatred for the Kuomintang is as deep as the sea, and I am never afraid of death in war. However, the comrades still wronged me for opposing the party, opposing the Central Committee, disobeying military orders, and possibly leading my troops to defect to the enemy. ”

Liu Yimin was furious and shouted loudly: "Who said that? It's just nonsense! Comrade Gao Jingting, don't be afraid, I will definitely uphold justice for you and return your innocence! ”

Gao Jingting glanced at Liu Yimin deeply: "Commander Liu, you're late." I'm leaving, I'm going to find my parents, wife, children, and comrades-in-arms. You kill more little devils for me! After saying that, he retreated step by step.

Liu Yimin was so anxious that he shouted: "Comrade Gao Jingting, come back, don't leave, I still have to talk to you." The two of us went to Hongze Lake, where the crab féi fish is fresh, I will show you my hands, let you taste my ability to grill fish! ”

A pair of small hands touched Liu Yimin's forehead, and he whispered anxiously: "Yimin, wake up." One people, wake up. Yimin, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me, wake up. He'er, call you Dad! ”

Liu Yimin finally woke up, and when he looked up, Tang Xingying didn't know when he led He'er to his side, and was looking at him with a worried face. The son's little hand touched his face, and he pinched his nose while shouting "Daddy, Daddy" angrily.

Liu Yimin shook his head, what's the matter, why did he dream of Gao Jingting in broad daylight? Could it be that Gao Jingting's heroic spirit is immortal and has come to avenge himself?

To clear his mind, Liu Yimin hugged his son to his lap and opened his mouth to ask, "Xing Ying, why are you here?" ”

Tang Xingying replied: "It was Huang Wenhu who called me over, saying that you were guilty of glaring, let me come and have a look." What's going on? ”

Liu Yimin smiled bitterly and said in a low voice: "Gao Jingting, the commander of the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army, was shot dead by Commander Ye. ”

Tang Xingying let out an "ah", took two steps back, covered her mouth with her hand, and said for a long time: "How is it possible?" Why did Commander Ye shoot him? ”

Liu Yimin sighed: "After all, it was unjustly killed." Poor Gao Jingting did not die under Chiang Kai-shek's guns, nor did he die under the bayonets of devils, but was killed by his own people. When he came, he was also charged with inexplicable anti-party, anti-central government, disobedience to military orders, and possible leading his troops to defect to the enemy. What a grievance! ”

Liu Yimin's words should be said to Luo Ronghuan, Zeng Zhongsheng, Tan Zheng, and Cai Zhong, but it is a bit wrong to say to Tang Xingying. However, Tang Xingying is now a veritable senior cadre, and after several years of training, the Red Army NV soldiers who fell behind on the Long March have already become the director of the Women's Committee of the Shandong Bureau, and naturally they will no longer have Liu Yimin in their eyes and nothing else like when they entered Leshan.

Seeing that Tang Xingying was silent, Liu Yimin said again: "I am angry with the chairman, I don't know if the chairman will be angry." ”

When Tang Xingying saw Liu Yimin talking, He'er was tired of him, and kept tugging his ears, pinching his nose, and touching his face, and he didn't stop for a while, so she shouted her son to come down and not be naughty.

Although He'er is young, he is already a three-year-old child, and he can already see his parents' faces clearly in his small eyes. At this moment, Liu Yimin and Tang Xingying talked to Yan Yue scerely, obviously there was nothing wrong, and the little guy refused to get off his father!

Tang Xingying turned to Liu Yimin: "Yimin, you are not in Xi'an now. At that time, although you were busy, the focus was on thinking about the affairs of the troops. Now that you are the top leader of Shandong, you can't speak and do things by yourself. We are now in the northeast of Anhui, so far away from Xi'an, but it is not like when we were in Xi'an, what can we say to the chairman's house, eat Sister He's dumplings and discuss with the chairman slowly. With such a large number of troops, it is impossible to rely on telegraph communication to say it in person. You have so much respect for the chairman, why do you want to make the chairman angry? Besides, the central government is not monolithic, there are people who support you, maybe there are people who look at you as unlucky! Would you like to send another telegram to the chairman and explain that it would not be good if there was a misunderstanding. ”

Tang Xingying spoke softly, her voice was like a yellow bird, and she listened tactfully. As soon as Liu Yimin heard this, he realized that what Tang Xingying said was right, no matter what the background of the Gao Jingting incident was, who was responsible, and how to deal with it in the future, it would be wrong for him to play an attitude towards the chairman, and it was especially wrong to say that he was unorganized and undisciplined. In any case, the unjust murder of Gao Jingting, whether in history or now, has little to do with the central authorities, and there is no reason to be angry at the chairman. Besides, he is a traverser, and he values human life as bigger than the sky. In this era, many people are not like this, some old soldiers may say things like Lao Tzu killed you if they don't agree with each other, or even directly pull out their guns and hold fire. **Some units have been shooting junior officers and soldiers more because of the jīmáo garlic skin incident. The Eighth Route Army is different from **, but Commander Ye has never participated in the Long March, nor has he entered the Red Army University, nor even participated in the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee, so it is possible that he does not have a good understanding of some issues. You can't just kill Gao Jingting by mistake, just because you killed them by mistake, what about Commander Ye, Zhang Yunyi, and Deng Zihui, right?

The reason is figured out, but the bad breath in the chest can't get out, and it's uncomfortable. Liu Yimin put down his son and walked quickly to the desk, and wrote down the words "Red Army generals, anti-Japanese heroes, and the heroic souls of Gao Jingting's martyrs will live forever". After studying it for a long time, he sent a report to the chairman, first making self-criticism, saying that he was saddened by Gao Jingting's death, said nothing, was angry with the chairman, and lived up to the chairman's cultivation education and expectations. Then it was reported that an offensive would be launched in northern Jiangsu, central Jiangsu, and northeastern Anhui in the near future, which would destroy the defense line of the Japanese puppet army in one fell swoop and open up a base area in the Henan-Anhui border region.

After sending the telegram, Liu Yimin's face returned to normal, bent down and picked up his son, put it around his neck, teased for a while, and then said to Tang Xingying: "After this battle, you are ready to prepare, go back to Xi'an, report to Sister Kang, Sister Liu, and Sister He about the women's NV work in Shandong and Suzhou-Anhui border areas, and go to see the chairman and them on the way." ”

Tang Xingying glanced at Liu Yimin's face, turned to look out the window, and his tone was full of bitterness: "I divorced you, and I went to see the eldest sister and them again, I don't know what to say." I don't want to go back to Xi'an, I don't want to see my eldest sister, and I don't want to be a joke for others. ”

Liu Yimin glanced at Tang Xingying, put his son off his shoulders again, held him in his arms and threw it into the air a few times, making his son giggle, and then said softly: "Everyone knows that you are my son's mother, this is more important than anything else." No one will laugh at you and look down on you. The comrades respect you very much, and know that you are a good nv person who values love and righteousness, and divorced me to save me. Whether you want to or not, in this life, no matter what time it is, everyone will treat you as my wife, my son's mother. You are so smart, you must have thought that I wanted you to go back to Xi'an on my behalf. You're right, it's true that it's too far away from Xi'an, and you can't just rely on telegrams, you have to report it in person. As long as you go back, everyone knows in their hearts that I let you go back. ”

Tang Xingying turned around and looked at Liu Yimin with two eyes. Looking at it, the tears rolled down uncontrollably. In the end, Tang Xingying threw herself into Liu Yimin's arms and cried.

Tang Xingying's crying made Liu Yimin feel uncomfortable, and he no longer had any interest in teasing his son, standing there like a puppet, letting Tang Xingying's tears flow on him.

When Tang Xingying had cried enough, Liu Yimin helped her to sit on the chair, brought a máo towel, went to bring a basin of water, and washed Tang Xingying's face, and then said: "It's all my fault, I have wronged you, I will compensate you." When I go back, I will take you and your son to Yangzhou City to see the Slender West Lake, accompany you to taste Yangzhou's famous food, and enjoy the scenery of Huaiyang. ”

Where can the grievances in Tang Xingying's heart be resolved in three sentences or two sentences, hearing Liu Yimin say this, tears immediately came out again. was so panicked that Liu Yimin hurriedly coaxed and persuaded him, this guy, I don't know how to coax him, he actually coaxed Tang Xingying into tears and laughed, and happily took He'er's hand and left.

Sending Tang Xingying away, Liu Yimin shouted the ** wind, and began to deploy the battle to sweep the Suzhou-Anhui border area against the map.

In order to ensure the success of the campaign, Liu Yimin prepared a telegram ordering Lunan Hong Chaoyuan to command the Fifth Brigade, the New Fifth Brigade, the New Eighth Brigade, the First Field Artillery Regiment of the Artillery Brigade, and the Mountain Artillery Regiment to break through the Jinpu Road and move south to join the Suzhou-Anhui battlefield. Lunan Defense Jiāo was under the direct command of Luo Ronghuan.

At this time, Yu Xuezhong, the commander of the Sulu Theater who had been lingering in Luxi, crossed the Yellow River and advanced eastward under the strict orders of Chiang Kai-shek, and with the cooperation of the Eighth Route Army, broke through the Jinpu Road defense line and entered the mountainous area of Lunan. In order to unite the War of Resistance, Luo Ronghuan reported to the Central Committee for approval and negotiated with Yu Xuezhong and Shen Honglie to assign the areas of Yixian, Cangshan County, and Tengxian County to the Sulu Theater Defense Zone. Undertake the task of guarding and guerrilla in Xuzhou.

According to the establishment sequence of **, the instructor of the Eighth Route Army is only a division-level local unit that does not enter the rank. However, everything is based on strength. Whether it is Chiang Kai-shek or Yu Xuezhong, they all know that the instructors of the Eighth Route Army are strong and are the main force capable of destroying the divisional and regimental units of the Japanese army. Therefore, after Yu Xuezhong arrived in Lunan, he did not dare to put on a score, and took the initiative to meet Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan to discuss the division of defense areas. Liu Yimin was not in Shandong, so naturally he couldn't see him, but Luo Ronghuan came as promised.

As soon as he saw Luo Ronghuan, from the kind of behavior that was neither humble nor arrogant, and calm as a mountain, Yu Xuezhong knew that the strength of the Eighth Route Army instructor must be very strong, otherwise Luo Ronghuan would not be so calm. You must know that Yu Xuezhong is tantamount to grabbing territory in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and he is even ready to clash with the Eighth Route Army. As a result, Luo Ronghuan was very happy and agreed to Yu Xuezhong's request to divide the defense area. Of course, it is impossible to ask for more counties. Luo Ronghuan said clearly, Lunan, Lunan, and Luzhong are all base areas of the Eighth Route Army, and there are many little devils on the Jinpu Road, so if you want to resist Japan, you have to find a place where there are devils to fight, and you can't attack and advance to the rear base of our army, right?

Yu Xuezhong is a professional soldier, of course he wouldn't do that, and he wouldn't dare to do that. He also thought clearly along the way, no matter what, he couldn't offend Liu Yimin. First, the instructor of the Eighth Route Army is too fierce, and he will never be able to please him if he fights hard. Second, Liu Yimin is the cousin-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek's two sons, and they are a family. If there is a conflict with Liu Yimin's department, it is estimated that it will not be a big problem to take advantage, and if you suffer a big loss, there will be no place to reason.

What Luo Ronghuan didn't expect was that Yu Xuezhong did not have a conflict with the Eighth Route Army, but had a conflict with Shen Honglie. The reason is that Shen Honglie's seniority in the Northeast Army is better than that of Xuezhong and belongs to the old commander. According to the sequence of the national affairs fǔ, Yu Xuezhong was the commander of the Sulu Theater and had the right to control the Shandong provincial government and the Jiangsu provincial government, and Shen Honglie should listen to his orders. Unexpectedly, Shen Honglie couldn't swallow this breath, so he was ingenious and preemptively announced Yu Xuezhong's appointment as the deputy commander of Shandong Provincial Security, which meant that Yu Xuezhong had to listen to him. No matter how much Yu Xuezhong respects an old-timer like Shen Honglie, it is impossible to respect it to such an extent, so he turned his face in front of Shen Honglie and walked away.

After receiving Luo Ronghuan's report, Liu Yimin smiled secretly in his heart, these old-school characters are very cute, they have reached the point of ruin of the country and the family, and they are still fighting for power, they simply don't know the current affairs to the extreme. It just so happened that Liu Yimin was going to open up the Suzhou-Anhui border area, and the troops going south were slightly insufficient, so he was ready to report to the chairman that Chōu would transfer the main force of southern Lu to the south and temporarily give the defense to the New Fourth Brigade, the Southeast Lu Garrison Brigade, and Yu Xuezhong's troops. He knew that Yu Xuezhong at this time would definitely not engage in any tricks. What's more, Yu Xuezhong himself has gotten along well with the Eighth Route Army in history, and his troops have a group of ** members who can master his every move.

It is not so simple to destroy the power of the Japanese puppet army in the Suzhou-Anhui border area in one fell swoop, and the more troops there are, the better. Liu Yimin remembered Han Deqin's 24th Group Army, which was hiding in the Yanfu area. This Han Deqin is also strange, Xuzhou fought well during the battle, and Wuhan also contributed to the battle, but then he hid in northern Jiangsu and did not move, and never launched an active attack on the Japanese army, as if he had a tacit understanding with the Japanese army. If you don't use him at this time, won't you look down on people?

Based on this consideration, Liu Yimin planned to send a report to Zhang Jingwu and Li Congmin of the Northern Jiangsu Detachment, asking them to send someone to Han Deqin to tell him that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was about to launch an attack on the Japanese army in Northern Jiangsu, and hoped that he would lead his troops to cooperate. Otherwise, when the Eighth Route Army completes its campaign plan and retreats north, he will become the focus of the Japanese army's retaliation. It is believed that Han Deqin will report to Chiang Kai-shek, and with Chiang Kai-shek's strategic vision, he will definitely let Han Deqin cooperate in the battle, and he will also let him follow behind the Eighth Route Army to grab the fruits of victory. Maybe the battle is over, Chiang Kai-shek will telegraph Liu Yimin to lead his troops back to Shandong and give Han Deqin the defense of northern and central Jiangsu.

If the Central Committee and the General Headquarters approve Liu Yimin's battle plan, Liu Yimin's troops at hand will be greatly increased, and everything will be ready, just waiting for an order.

According to Liu Yimin's plan, the campaign was divided into three stages. In the first stage, the Shandong troops implemented the tactics of small troops attacking from multiple routes to Jiaoji Road, the northern section of Jinpu Road, and Longhai Road, with the main force in the rear, attracting the Japanese army to pursue, striving to annihilate the enemy, and attracting the attention of the North China Front; The guerrilla detachment of the New Fourth Army commanded by Peng Xuefeng made guerrilla attacks on the section from Suxian to Xuzhou on Jinpu Road, and monitored the movements of the Japanese army in Xuzhou; The Northern Jiangsu Detachment of the Eighth Route Army commanded by Zhang Jingwu and Li Congmin made guerrilla attacks on the section from Xuzhou to Lianyungang; Han Deqin's 24th Group Army attacked Yancheng and Gaoyou respectively, cut off the connection between the Japanese army in China and northern Jiangsu, and covered the main force of our army to attack the northeast of Anhui and northern Jiangsu. In the second stage, the 1st Brigade, the 5th Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, the 1st Brigade, the 3rd Brigade, the 5th Brigade, and the 7th Brigade swept through northeast Anhui and northern Jiangsu. Among them, Gao Yuan and Cheng Cuilin commanded the armored regiment, the first engineer regiment, the first brigade of teaching, and the new first brigade to sweep through the northeast of Anhui; Hong Chaoyuan commanded two artillery regiments, the Fifth Brigade, the New Fifth Brigade, and the Artillery Brigade, to capture Shuyang and Guanyun, and march to Funing; Liu Yimin commanded the Hu Laohu Cavalry Brigade, Chen Dazhong's New Third Brigade, and Liu Yixin's Seventh Brigade to capture Sixian and divide their troops, seize Ning, Suqian, Huaiyīn, Baoying, and Lianshui, and control the canal and Hongze Lake area. The third stage, the strategy of the Soviet Union. Seven infantry brigades, one cavalry brigade, and Han Deqin's 24th Army marched southward, sweeping through the Soviet-central region east of Jinpu Road and north of the Yangtze River, with the ultimate goal of the campaign being to capture Yangzhou.

According to Liu Yimin's campaign concept, he led several staff officers to carry out map operations and sand table deductions, and soon came up with a battle plan. After Liu Yimin read it, he signed it and submitted it to the Central Committee and the General Headquarters for approval.

The telegram from the chairman and the headquarters soon arrived, and both the chairman and Mr. Zhu raised a question in the telegram: Why not use the four detachments of the New Fourth Army to cooperate in the operation? The four detachments are in the eastern Anhui region, which can completely contain the Japanese army. The chairman's telegram was very straightforward, asking Liu Yimin whether he was worried about the New Fourth Army because of the Gao Jingting incident and was unwilling to cooperate with the four detachments.

Liu Yimin explained that the four detachments were in eastern Anhui, and if the Japanese army in the southern section of the Jinpu Road and the Japanese army came to the east, the four detachments would inevitably be put into battle. However, considering the current situation of the four detachments, it is not too late to let them rest for a period of time and unify the thinking of the troops before entering the third phase of the battle.

When the chairman called back again, he warned Liu Yimin that Ye Ting, Zhang Yunyi, and Deng Zihui were all old comrades who were loyal to the party. Although Ye Ting is not a party member now, he has already submitted a request to the Central Committee to join the party, but he only considered the issue of the united front and asked him to stay outside the party for the time being. The Gao Jingting incident is a tragedy, and the central government will send people to investigate, but even if Gao Jingting was indeed unjustly killed, it cannot negate the entire work of Ye Ting, Zhang Yunyi, and Deng Zihui. The chairman asked Liu Yimin to contact the Jiangbei command directly and assign combat missions.

In the end, the Central Committee and the General Headquarters approved the battle plan, but made modifications, that is, the scale of the campaign was reduced, stipulating that the battle should mainly be to destroy the Japanese puppet army in the areas outside the Jiāo Tong trunk line in northern Jiangsu, central Jiangsu, and northeastern Anhui, and not to make arrangements for capturing the fortified fortified cities of the Japanese puppet army, including Yangzhou, so as not to cause the Japanese North China Front and Central China Front to attack heavily and lose the results of the battle. Therefore, the chairman and the general headquarters did not agree with the southward movement of the Lunan Hongchaoyuan group, on the grounds that after the group went south, the garrison strength of Lunan was too weak, and the desire to harm people and guard against people was indispensable. In addition, the chairman also did not agree to use Han Deqin's department to join the battle, for similar reasons to Liu Yimin's conjecture,

Probably afraid that Liu Yimin would not understand, the chairman said in the telegram: "For the Xuezhong Department, Shen Honglie Department, and Han Deqin Department, we cannot take it lightly. All kinds of evidence prove that after the Fifth Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the Kuomintang, the Kuomintang's intention to restrict the development of our party and our army has become more and more obvious, and incidents of misfire will occur at any time. In addition, after our troops went south and entered northern Jiangsu and central Jiangsu, they did not have a month to complete the scheduled combat mission, and the Japanese army had the time and ability to mobilize a large army to advance from the north to the south and flank our army. In view of this situation, our army should focus its attack on the strongholds of the puppet army in northeastern Anhui and northern Jiangsu, and the Soviet-Chinese-Japanese puppet army far away from the main line of Jiāo, so as to achieve a situation in which our army occupies most of the areas in northeastern Anhui and northern Jiangsu and central Jiangsu, and allows the Japanese army to be trapped in the county seat and the Jiāo line. This is conducive to the protracted war of resistance in northern and central Jiangsu after the main force of the instructor retreats south, and can also avoid heavy casualties among the troops. ”

Liu Yimin thinks about it, it is easy to sweep northern Jiangsu and central Jiangsu, but it is difficult to hold on. Once the instructor moves south and the main force retreats north, as soon as the Japanese heavy army group arrives, the county towns on the Jiāo line may have to change hands.

It is worth the loss to cause the Japanese heavy army group to retaliate frantically!

Liu Yimin immediately revised the battle plan in accordance with the chairman's instructions.

At the end of June, when the wheat was harvested, the rice was guarded, and the grains were returned to the warehouse in northern and central Jiangsu, Liu Yimin issued an operational order to sweep the Suzhou-Anhui border area. Suddenly, from Shandong to the Suzhou-Anhui region, the situation suddenly changed, and all units of the Eighth Route Army began to launch large-scale attacks and operations in accordance with the order.