Liu Yimin said: "The chief of the general staff is right, theoretically, these two troops cannot withstand the Central Army and the Jinsui Army. I'm not going to let them force the attack, then the losses of the troops will be too great. My plan was to lay mines and explosives at the Hefang Wharf and Tongguan and the Xiaoqinling mountain passes, block the enemy's advance, and the small troops resist step by step, and then kill and wound the enemy in the main position, and then take the initiative to withdraw when the enemy attacks on a large scale, and then the blocking troops will continue to lay mines on the main road, and attack and harass on both flanks, with one purpose, to delay the enemy's offensive speed and win time for the main force to rush back. In addition, I wanted to send an elite unit to smuggle across the Yellow River in advance, covertly enter the hinterland of Shanxi, and strike at key military targets, so that Yan Xishan would feel that the Red Army was operating in his heart. In this case, I estimate that Yan Xishan may withdraw as soon as he hears that the Ma family's army has been annihilated, the hinterland is unstable, and our main force is outflanking him. If he doesn't withdraw his troops, that's even better, and when my main force arrives, he won't be able to go back if he wants to. After Yan Xishan withdraws, it is difficult to say how much will the Central Army will still have, and the ideal is for them to obediently retreat. If you dare to continue to attack Xi'an, then you are welcome. All the leaders are in Xi'an, and they must not be allowed to alarm the leaders. ”

Mr. Zhu said: "Of course, it's good to have a dense mine array, but unfortunately we don't have mines, where do you get these things?" ”

Liu Yimin smiled: "Commander-in-chief, mines don't have to be iron, clay pots, water tanks, and stones can all be made of mines." We have already used it in the last battle in Qingxi Town, and it works very well, you don't have to worry. Think about it, with mines and explosives bags under your feet, and enemy officers around you who keep falling, can the Central Army still go fast? It would be nice if he didn't break up. ”

[***] asked: "Comrade Liu Yimin, why don't you envisage that one reading division will contain Ma Jiajun, and two reading divisions will block Yan Xishan, and concentrate the main force to meet the Central Army?" That can be a one-time battle to determine the winner, huh? ”

Liu Yimin replied: "Chairman, this idea is what I started thinking at the beginning, and there are several reasons for abandoning this idea: First, this battle itself should not be fought, and it was imposed on us by Chiang Kai-shek. Now that Kou is constantly stirring up trouble in North China, and we are still killing each other here, the Chinese with a little conscience do not want to see this war. Therefore, subjectively speaking, I don't want the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army to be seriously damaged in this battle. Song Zheyuan's 29th Army, Yan Xishan's Jin Sui Army and the Central Army are the main direction of attack of the Yue Army, if the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army are greatly weakened in this civil war, it can only make the initial victory of the Yue Army come faster, which is not conducive to the overall situation of the National War of Resistance. Therefore, the Central Committee is also requested to consider contacting more local forces and Mingzhuo parties to exert pressure on Chiang Kai-shek and try not to fight this campaign. Even if it is opened, it is necessary to put pressure on Chiang Kai-shek to stop as soon as possible, control the scale of the campaign, seize the precious time, and make preparations for resistance. ”

After a pause, Liu Yimin continued: "The second reason is that the main force of the Central Army in the direction of Tongguan is too large to swallow in one bite, and it is necessary to drag the fat horse thin through delay and blockade to wear down its sharpness. If necessary, it is also necessary to carry out continuous ambushes, bite by bite. If we confront the Central Army as soon as we come up, it is very likely to fall into a state of stalemate, so that the enemy's air superiority and heavy artillery superiority can be brought into play, and our army will be in a state of being beaten and bombed, and even if the order is the last to repel the enemy, it is very likely to be a lose-lose outcome. In particular, now that Chiang Kai-shek has suffered several losses, he will also change his tactics, and once the Central Army does not rush forward alone, but adopts the method of group attack and steady and steady attack, this is not the terrain like Hunan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, and there is no good ambush position, which is suitable for the enemy's large corps to fight. In this case, it will be very difficult for our army, and there will be no other way than to retreat and find another fighter. And once our main force and the Central Army are in a stalemate, Yan Xishan will devote all his forces to attack Xi'an and flank our main force. It is also very likely that the Ma Jiajun on the Shaanxi-Gansu border will break through our defense line and enter the Weihe Plain. Eight hundred miles of Qinchuan is a good battlefield for cavalry operations, when the time comes, our soldiers are sleepy and tired, there are enemy planes in the sky, the ground is squeezed by the enemy's heavy army group, and a large number of cavalry roaring and charging to kill. It is difficult to say the situation of the battle, and it may be that the situation of the Seventh Army is even more dangerous than the situation during the Battle of Xiangjiang at that time. ”

[***], Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and Liu Bocheng all nodded again and again. Liu Yimin also said: "The third reason is that the discipline of the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army is relatively better than that of the Ma Jiajun, and it is better to let the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army enter Shaanxi than to let the Ma Family Army enter Shaanxi, especially the Qingma Army, and we must not let them enter our base area, and we must annihilate them outside the base area." Besides, in this plain battle, the threat of cavalry is too great, and if the Ma Jiajun is eliminated, the rear of our army will be stable, even if the battle situation on the front line is reversed, our army will have no worries about retreating. Therefore, it was planned to fight Ma Jiajun first. ”

Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and Liu Bocheng asked some details and estimated the possible troops of the Ma Jiajun, the Jin Sui Army, and the Central Army.

In the next few days, the central government quickly promulgated a land reform policy, which was issued and implemented in the name of Shaanxi Province's anti-Ming boiling political axe.

The cadres of the central column were all mobilized, together with the cadres transferred from the former Sichuan-Shaanxi base areas, and quickly formed a county to resist the Ming Dynasty and the political axe, and with the cooperation of the Red Seventh Army Corps and the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, they formed a task force for land reform and began to launch a vigorous land reform movement.

After the Red Army occupied Shaanxi, the underground party members of the former Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee no longer had to hide their identities, and the central authorities mobilized all of them to participate in the work of resisting the Ming Dynasty and boiling political axes at all levels, and to lead and mobilize the masses to carry out land reform.

Liu Yimin looked at the land reform policy in Shaanxi issued by the central authorities, and saw that the basic spirit was the redistribution of land ownership, and many things that were too leftist were removed; except for defining bullies and landlords, there was no longer a definition of rich peasants and middle peasants, and the center was that everyone had land to grow and everyone had food to eat. Even the landlord also stipulates that as long as he donates the land that he cannot plant, he can no longer be treated as a landlord. After reading it, he was relieved, anyway, whether before or after the crossing, he was not familiar with farmers, agriculture, and the countryside, and the only knowledge he had was theoretical. On the contrary, [***] and his comrades-in-arms have studied the peasant question very thoroughly, and as long as they do not engage in ultra-leftism, the land reform will naturally avoid many mistakes and tragedies.

The arsenal is now going all out to make explosives packs, and Liu Yimin ordered the artillery regiment to expand the thundering force into three battalions, actively train, and be ready for defensive warfare at any time.

In order to reduce the difficulty of transportation, Liu Yimin asked the engineer regiment to send people to Tongguan and the Yellow River to instruct the engineers of the Second and Third Divisions to use local materials, make black powder, use brick kilns, and fire clay pots.

Seeing that everything is in place, just waiting for the Kuomintang negotiators to arrive, Liu Yimin thought that Tang Xingying had been participating in the land reform team for a few days, and wanted to see this girl, so he took Li Xiaoshuai, Huang Wenhu, and Geng Qiang, three guards, and rushed to Wangqu Town, Chang'an County, where Tang Xingying was squatting.

At this time, it is already the end of the first month, and the footsteps of spring have really walked on the Weihe Plain, the spring grass has been green, and the peach blossoms and apricot blossoms have grown buds, and they are waiting to be released. Riding a horse on the field, Liu Yimin was in a particularly happy mood, and couldn't help but think of Tolstoy's wonderful description of the spring forest in "War and Peace", and thought about how comfortable it would be to take a beautiful girl to wander in the spring forest without this damn war.

The village where Tang Xingying is located is Huangsi Village in Wangqu Town, Chang'an County.

Because he was the deputy political commissar of the Logistics Command of the Seventh Army Corps, Tang Xingying served as the captain of the task force. There are four people in this task force, one is a cadre named Song Guangwu drawn from northern Sichuan, one is an old Red Army named Yan Yaocai drawn from the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, the other is an underground party member named Wu Shengzhi from Xi'an, and there is also a squad of guards and soldiers sent by Liu Yimin to protect Tang Xingying's safety.

Tang Xingying, the young team leader, had never been in contact with rural work at all, and his eyes were black, although they received a day of short-term training before they came, but after all, it was like a mountain separation, and Tang Xingying was so anxious that she wanted to cry every day.

Fortunately, several team members still have some work experience, and after coming for a few days, they basically figured out the situation.

In the 30s, this Huangsi Village was already very large, with a population of 420 people, and the land in the village was basically concentrated in the hands of a few landlords.

In accordance with the spirit of land reform, Tang Xingying led the team members to do work several times, hoping that these landlords would take the initiative to give up their land and distribute it to landless peasants, but the result can be imagined, and none of them took the initiative to hand over the land.

Song Guangwu and Yan Yaocai's opinion was to arrest these landlords first and directly distribute the land to the landless poor hired peasants. Tang Xingying felt that this was not entirely in line with the spirit of the central government, and the central document did not allow for large-scale criticism of landlords, but emphasized that landlords should be encouraged and mobilized to donate land, and only if they were unwilling to donate land could they be forced to distribute land. Song Guangwu and Yan Yaocai felt that Tang Xingying was too conservative, and gave her advice several times.

The landless poor hired peasants in the village were very curious when they saw a female Red Army leading a dozen Red Army soldiers into the village, and when they heard that they had come to carry out land reform, they were very enthusiastic at first, but then they gradually stopped moving.

When Liu Yimin came, Tang Xingying was in a difficult situation. As soon as he saw Liu Yimin, he threw himself into his arms and cried, asking him to take him back to the army, the work of the team leader could not be done.

Liu Yimin saw that Tang Xingying lived in a blue brick and blue tile house, the bed was clean and tidy, and Liu Yimin, who had watched "The Storm", immediately knew what the problem was. persuaded Tang Xingying, who was crying, and called several team members over to understand the situation, and enlightened Tang Xingying. First of all, the place where they lived was not right, they should not live in the landlord's house, but in the house of a landless poor farmer. The second is that they do not realize that this land reform is a revolution, not only in the distribution of land ownership, but also in the ideology of all the peasants, including the landlords, who participate in the land reform. We have proposed to mobilize landlords to donate land as much as possible in order to avoid going to the extreme of the left and hurting some landlords who are more progressive in their thinking and willing to donate land. With regard to those stubborn landlords, it is necessary to mobilize the masses to wage struggle. The agrarian revolution is the basis on which we established the anti-Ming boiling regime. Third, we should sincerely be the leaders of the poor peasants, think for them, treat them as relatives, mobilize them, and rely on them. Otherwise, it will go from the extreme of the left to the extreme of the right.

After listening to Liu Yimin's words, Tang Xingying knew that he was indeed conservative. However, she whispered to Liu Yimin that she was afraid that the conditions of living in a poor peasant house would not be good, and personal hygiene would not be good.

Liu Yimin said that if you are wounded on the battlefield, it is very likely that these poor peasants will take the risk to save you, and the landlords may also save you, but it must be enlightened and progressive landlords. Think about it, if they were your saviors, would you still hate them for being dirty? Do you still think their food is not delicious? Why don't those old Red Army soldiers think like you? Because they come from the poor, and they fight for the poor, they are not as squeamish as you.

Thinking about it, Tang Xingying can't be blamed for this, she decided to let her down at the beginning, just thinking about letting her be trained, without considering that she was just a new soldier who had been in the army for a few months. Although he has been promoted to a meritorious service, his rural work experience is actually equal to zero. Besides, she used to have good living conditions at home, and after joining the army, her own troops won battles all the way, and she did not suffer any real hardships.

This girl needs to be honed!

Liu Yimin felt that land reform involved a wide range of policies, and Tang Xingying was too reluctant to serve as the captain, so he directly designated Tang Xingying as the instructor of the task force, Song Guangwu as the captain, and Yan Yaocai and Wu Shengzhi as the deputy captains. Considering that he was the commander of the Seventh Army Corps and the commander of the Shaanxi Provincial Military Region, he had no right to appoint cadres of the task force, so he asked Tang Xingying to report to the Chang'an County Land Reform Work Corps and asked them to make supplementary appointments according to their own opinions.

After appointing the cadres, Liu Yimin asked the work team to immediately move out of the landlord's house and live in the poor peasants' homes, and asked Tang Xingying, Song Guangwu, Yan Yaocai, and Wu Shengzhi to each take three soldiers to go deep into the poor peasants' homes to do work, publicize policies, find out the backbone as soon as possible, elect village chiefs and militia captains, and lead the masses to carry out struggles.

Song Guangwu, Yan Yaocai, and Wu Shengzhi have very rich work experience, and there is no difficulty in doing these jobs, but because Tang Xingying's identity is not good to talk much, seeing Liu Yimin's quick knife to cut through the mess, he quickly straightened out the work, admired it in his heart, and did his work according to Liu Yimin's deployment.

Liu Yimin originally just came to see Tang Xingying, and didn't plan to stop here longer. Now seeing that Tang Xingying's work is in difficulty, I really want to stop here for a few days and help this girl. I don't want Tang Xingying to look innocent, gentle and subtle, but her surname is very strong. After Liu Yimin's enlightenment, she already knows what is wrong, she graduated from the normal school, and the reason is clear when she thinks about it, where do you need Liu Yimin to help her. Besides, Liu Yimin is busy with big things, and he can't affect his work, so he will send him away.

When she walked out of the village, Tang Xingying asked Liu Yimin if he had reported to the central government, and Liu Yimin replied that he would wait until she completed the land reform task.

Tang Xingying was reluctant, so he told him that he must come to see her when he was free.

Liu Yimin asked her to move quickly, because the Kuomintang negotiators were about to arrive, and as soon as the negotiations were over, the troops might take action to complete the land reform task as soon as possible, so that they could keep up with the combat mission.

After Liu Yimin left, Tang Xingying moved to Aunt Zhang's house to live.

This aunt has been pitiful all her life, her husband died early, her son was arrested and there was no news of Zhuangding, and her daughter worked as a maid in a big family in Xi'an, guarding three broken grass houses alone.

Seeing the female Red Army coming to live in her house, Aunt Zhang called her a girl, Tang Xingying's heart was warm, and she was also a big girl, and the two of them sat on the kang and pulled away.

Aunt Zhang asked, "Girl, where is your home?" ”

Tang Xingying said: "Auntie, my home is far away from here, in Guangxi. ”

Aunt Zhang said: "It's so far, I'm afraid there are thousands of miles." You are a little girl, and you are so handsome, your parents are willing to let you be a Red Army? ”

Tang Xingying said: "Auntie, I escaped from marriage, and after I met the Red Army, I knew that the Red Army was a poor man's army, so I became a Red Army." You don't know, the soldiers on our team are all children of our poor families, and we want to fight the world for the poor. ”

Aunt Zhang has a lot of old words, and Tang Xingying is smart and well-behaved, and she gets close when she pulls it. Tang Xingying asked Aunt Zhang to call a few bitter people to understand the situation.

At night, the oil lamps were lit in the grass house of Aunt Zhang's house, and Tang Xingying and the six farmers called by Aunt Zhang were together to learn about the situation.

"Instructor Tang, Russia knows that there is an old Liu in northern Shaanxi, and that is the team of the poor in Russia. When you first came, Russia thought you were Lao Liu's team, and hurriedly looked for you, who knew that you were living in the house of the smiling tiger. I just thought, you are not Lao Liu's team, if Lao Liu's team would not live in the Smiling Tiger's house. Now you live in the homes of the poor in Russia, and Russia will believe you. ”

Tang Xingying hurriedly said: "Comrade Li Shishi, it's my fault for living in the smiling tiger's house, it's because I have no experience and don't understand the situation, so I salute the villagers and make amends." When he had finished speaking, he stood up and saluted.

Aunt Zhang hurriedly said: "This girl, why do you salute while talking?" Sit down, sit down. ”

Tang Xingying said: "Auntie, I made a mistake, and the chief criticized me today." I should give everyone a salute and apologize. By the way, Li Shishi, tell me, why do you call Li Fucai a smiling tiger? ”

Li Shishi knocked the cigarette pouch pot to the ground and said: "This Li Fucai is not a good thing, his land is not only in our village, but also in other villages, other villages, other towns, and other counties, he has two nicknames, one is called Banchang'an, which means that he has more land and more money." The other is the smiling tiger, which means that no matter who he meets, he is smiling, looks very kind, and has a poisonous hand behind his back. ”

Tang Xingying immediately said: "Let's talk about what bad things this smiling tiger has done!" Now Shaanxi is the base of our Red Army, and those who have done bad things and bullied the villagers, our Red Army is the master for everyone! ”

To Tang Xingying's surprise, everyone stopped talking, and the room was very quiet.

Tang Xingying and Liu Yimin have learned a lot of things during this time, especially Liu Yimin's good at agitation, Tang Xingying has a lot of experience. Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Tang Xingying knew that this smiling tiger must be very bad, and it was very powerful in this area, so everyone didn't dare to say it.

Tang Xingying straightened out her thoughts a little and said: "Maybe everyone is afraid of smiling tigers, but now the situation is different, our Red Army is here, and the poor don't have to look at their faces anymore." Not only do we not have to be afraid of him, but we will divide his land and his possessions in return! You all admire our Comrade Liu Zhidan, then you should know that Lao Liu is an iron-clad man, and he is not afraid of any enemy siege. What is the smiling tiger, Chiang Kai-shek has so many troops, planes and artillery, don't we defeat him in the same way? I dare to go to the battlefield with a gun as a little girl, you are all men, a smiling tiger scares you like this, I feel sorry for you! ”

As soon as Li Shishi heard this, he said, "What Instructor Tang said makes us ashamed. This smiling tiger is poisonous, Russia is afraid that your Red Army will not arrest him, and as soon as you leave in the future, Russia will become a ghost under his sword. Forget it, let it out. O said first. This smiling tiger ancestor is also an honest farmer, and when he arrives at his father, he is still the same as the Russian family. Later, the biggest landlord in the village was killed by the bandits, and the girl was also spoiled by the bandits. Soon tortured the landlord's daughter to death, and then everyone found out that this kid's hands were so black. Later, this guy became more and more not a thing, and when he saw people in person, he was an uncle and aunt, and when he saw someone's land behind his back, he wanted to file a lawsuit, and he had to occupy it. He had money, and both the government and the bandits helped him. The Lei family in the east of the village originally had 30 acres of land, and it could still be watered with water from the Wei River, good land! This made the smiling tiger see it, first he wanted to buy it, but the Lei family didn't sell it, so the smiling tiger sued the Lei family to Chang'an County, saying that he was a bandit. Now it's okay, the man died in prison. The woman went to beg the smiling tiger, this beast actually ruined people, and the daughter-in-law of the Lei family finally hanged herself. The two children of the Lei family were young, they were both teenagers at the time, and they wanted to avenge their parents and set fire to the house of the smiling tiger, but the house was not burned down, and the two children were beaten to death by the smiling tiger. Hundreds of people in the village knew about this. ”

Tang Xingying was a little puzzled, so she said: "The smiling tiger killed two children, there are hundreds of people in your village, isn't there one who comes out to stall?" ”

Li Shi said sadly: "By the time we arrived, the children had already been killed. At that time, it was a little better, the smiling tiger did not have a gun, and the people in the village dared to reason with him. Not now, two years ago, when Liu Zhenhua besieged Xi'an, the smiling tiger bought a few quick robberies from Liu Zhenhua's troops, as well as pistols. Who would dare to mind his business? ”

As soon as she heard that the smiling tiger had a gun, Tang Xingying immediately became vigilant, called the three guard soldiers she brought, strengthened vigilance, and notified Song Guangwu, Yan Yaocai, and Wu Shengzhi to bring the soldiers here to gather.

A man in his thirties said angrily: "It would be nice if I could catch the smiling tiger and put away his gun." ”

Li Shishi said: "Ergen, you think the right thing, and Russia thinks the same way." If the Red Army could take away his guns, Russia would be the first to be a militia and fight them. ”

Tang Xingying said: "Ergen, you can also talk about it." ”

Ergen said: "Russia can't wait to kill him now." The Russian family rented his land. In the eighteenth year of the Republic of China, Daddy went to his house to borrow two buckets of wheat, saying that it would be better to pay back four buckets during the New Year. As a result, after the wheat harvest the next year, he said that he was talking about two stones and four buckets. Where is there so much wheat after the Russian family pays the rent? Russia was not convinced, and asked him to take the IOU to see, who knows that his IOU has somehow become two stones and four buckets. Russia said that he had changed the IOU to fool Russia, so he hung Russia up and beat him severely. Oh Dad felt sorry for Oh and went to him to plead for mercy, he called Oh Dad uncle, and at the same time said that it really didn't matter, let the Russian girl go to his house to cook for a year. Daddy couldn't do it, thinking that it would be nothing to cook for a year, so he sent the Russian girl there. The Russian girl was only seventeen years old, and she had just promised someone, but she died in his house. Daddy was also angry. Russia wanted to fight with him several times, but the Russian mother said that if Russia died, the Russian family would cut off the incense. Instructor Tang, you take us to take revenge, as long as you take away his gun, Russia will be a militia with you, and Russia will be willing to be a Red Army. ”

The emotions of several people in the room were aroused, and they all said that they would follow the Red Army to fight the Laughing Tiger.

Tang Xingying thought to herself, she was really stupid, why did she live in the Smiling Tiger's house without knowing anything, that guy has a gun, if he is in a hurry, maybe he will be poisoned, his own sacrifice is a trivial matter, and even the comrades will have to be sacrificed, then the loss will be great. Fortunately, he came to see me today, so he corrected his mistake and moved out in time. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't know how to die. Thinking about it, didn't you just witness the cruelty of the wicked boy when he killed the maid? There are really too many murderous bad guys in this world, and you can meet them anywhere. Since he let himself exercise, when he arrives in Huangsi Village, he will eliminate the harm for Huangsi Village and let the poor people turn over.

Thinking in my heart, I wrote it in my hand, and I beckoned others to speak.

The poor people who opened the bitter box, without Tang Xingying mobilizing again, one by one, the bloody facts were revealed, and Tang Xingying's hands were so tired that they were sore and sleepy. Seeing that the windows were clear, several people finally stopped talking. Tang Xingying asked them to take a break, they didn't have to go home, they just drank soup at Aunt Zhang's place, and waited for themselves to discuss with Song Guangwu, Yan Yaocai, and Wu Shengzhi, and strive to act in the morning.

Song Guangwu, Yan Yaocai, and Wu Shengzhi rushed to concentrate one after another, and it turned out that they, like Tang Xingying, talked with the masses all night. Several people put the situation together, this smiling tiger is indeed a blood debt, a typical bully, and has a gun. Measures must be taken immediately, otherwise if he is alert, he may run away or resist stubbornly, and the loss will be great.

After the opinions were unified, Tang Xingying immediately ordered the guard squad to prepare for battle, and let Song Guangwu and Yan Yaocai go with him to catch the smiling tiger, and Wu Shengzhi took the backbone of the masses to prepare to go to the smiling tiger's house to make floating wealth and collect the land deed.

(To be continued)