The jeep stopped at the school gate, Li Zhilong did not move, his eyes looked at the plaque hanging on the wall, there are two plaques, the first is the North China Theater Military Academy, the second is the North China Theater Second Cadre School, both of which belong to the Association for the Promotion of Democracy, and Chen Mingshu is presiding over it, training grassroots cadres and lower-level officers for the Association for the Promotion of Democracy. /.qb5, c0М//

Since he became director of the political department of the theater, Li Zhilong has rarely stayed in the headquarters and has been running almost all over the theater, nominally organizing and mobilizing the masses and strengthening political work, but in fact he is inspecting cadres and coordinating political ties with the third party. In addition to this cadre school, there is also a cadre school in the war zone, that is, the first cadre school, which is Zhuang Jihua's cadre school, which is presided over by Ao Lu, the former principal of the cadre school of the Southwest Development Team, and this cadre school has been moved from northern Hubei to Jinan.

After the Xi'an Incident, the Southwest Development Team successively transferred a large number of cadres, and these cadres were mainly distributed in the 15th Theater and the Sulu Theater. These cadres have accumulated a great deal of experience after several years of grassroots work and social reforms, and Li Zhilong wants to examine their political attitudes and then find a way to gather them together and enter the war zone from the localities for future preparation.

In the past six months, Li Zhilong has traveled all over Shandong, Hebei, Henan, and Hubei, and the jeeps have been changed twice, and a front team of 6 million people has been organized, and almost every village in Shandong, Hebei, Henan, and Hubei has sent a front team, and the villagers have sent materials to the front line step by step by using ants to move, which has greatly relieved the pressure on the logistics department.

The adjutant returned to the car, the jeep started slowly, drove into the school, and stopped in front of the school administration building, Li Zhilong got out of the car, looked around, the school looked not small, in addition to four or five teaching buildings, there were several rows of bungalows that were obviously used as dormitories.

The office building is not very high, only two floors, the exterior wall is a little mottled, the corner of the wall is moss, obviously the small building is some years. "In the field."

Seriously walked out of the building quickly, and Li Zhilong hurriedly saluted Serious. From the perspective of official positions alone, the director of the political department of Li Zhilong is higher than that of the serious principal, except for this, the other Li Zhilong is lower; The military rank, seriously already a second-class general, seniority, of course, not to mention.

"Hello teacher, this is going to Zhengzhou, stop by and have a look." Li Zhilong smiled slightly.

Take a serious look at Li Zhilong, Li Zhilong has dark skin, deep eye sockets, sunken cheeks, but his eyes are bright, and he is obviously in good spirits. Seriously returned the salute, and then stretched out his hand, and Li Zhilong held Serious's hand.

"I didn't expect you to come, the battle of Pingjin is fierce, and you came here without being at the headquarters."

"I can't help militarily, just have the Cultural Revolution and Bai Chongxi." Li Zhilong is self-aware: "There are nearly two million troops concentrated on the Pingjin front, and the logistical pressure is air, and the Cultural Revolution has allowed me to mobilize people from all over the country to organize the front team to reduce the logistical pressure." ”

Seriously let go of his hand and nodded slightly, the two of them did not go upstairs, but turned around and walked to the side, and said seriously as they walked: "Yes, the military operation of two million people is unprecedented and unprecedented. ”

The two walked and chatted, bypassing the office building, passing through a moon gate, and then through a long corridor, and entering a small courtyard. Li Zhilong obviously felt that the security of this small courtyard was tight, there were two checkpoints in this short distance, there were several fixed sentry posts around the small courtyard, and there were two small buildings in the courtyard, and the two small buildings were set up side by side.

After entering the small building, Li Zhilong concluded that this was the military headquarters established by the third party, and the security in the small building was tighter, and there were guards at the entrance of the two-story corridor, and Li Zhilong even thought that there were guards on the roof of the building.

Chen Mingshu already knew that Li Zhilong was coming, but he didn't go downstairs to greet him, but still stayed on the second floor, and after Li Zhilong came in, Li Zhilong noticed that Huang Qixiang was also in the office.

For Huang Qixiang, although Li Zhilong has little contact, he also knows him, and he has known him since he was in Guangzhou. However, according to his intelligence, Huang Qixiang should be in the Jiangnan War Zone, why did he appear here?

After a slight greeting, Li Zhilong asked, and Huang Qixiang smiled: "Chen Cheng is the commander, if I don't leave, people will drive me away, and I will be driven away, so I have to be driven away." "It turned out that after Chen Cheng served as the commander of the Jiangnan Theater, he imitated Zhuang Jihua to organize the army, and also nakedly incorporated the miscellaneous army and dismissed the miscellaneous generals. Huang Qixiang is a member of the third party, of course, he can no longer be the deputy commander of the group army, so Chen Cheng arranged for him to be a senior senator, Huang Qixiang pushed the boat down the river, expressed his dissatisfaction, resigned, and went to Chen Mingshu to teach. All this seems to be a matter of course, but it was in this way that Chen Mingshu gathered the main military generals of the Third Party into the military academy and formed the military command center of the Third Party.

After listening to Huang Qixiang's explanation, Li Zhilong was happy that there were more than 20 officers working in two small buildings, and there were seven high-power radio stations in the basement of the other small building, which were responsible for liaising with the armed forces of the third party in various places.

"What about General Chiang? I heard he was here too. Li Zhilong asked Jiang Guangnai, who is nominally the school's dean.

"He's in class, and he's going to take students to camp training after class, I'm afraid you won't see him." Chen Mingshu explained.

Chen Mingshu asked about the situation on the front line, but unfortunately the battle had not started when Li Zhilong left, and he had not returned to the headquarters until now, and he did not know the situation on the front line.

"Two million against half a million, we still have firepower and air superiority, unless the Cultural Revolution makes a mistake, the person in charge Okamura Ninji has no chance." Li Zhilong said lightly, his tone was very calm: "From what I know about the Cultural Revolution, he is a very cautious person and has not taken any risks. ”

Nodding seriously, he agreed with Li Zhilong's opinion: "The Cultural Revolution seems to be witty and humorous, and he is actually very cautious, and his boldness is actually based on a full understanding of the situation between the enemy and the enemy. ”

"I'm afraid the most dangerous move in his life is the bull fight." Li Zhilong added in his heart, and the cooperation with you.

Seriously shook his head: "I'm afraid not, I think his most risky thing is the southwest development, and this project is more risky than the Niu Xing War." ”

Li Zhilong participated in the development of the southwest from beginning to end, and once presided over the development of the southwest, he did not think that there were any risks in it, but when he said it seriously, he remembered that the risks in the development of the southwest, from the initial entry into Sichuan, the seizure of Chongqing, and social reform, Zhuang Jihua was taking risks at almost every step. Chen Mingshu smiled and stood up: "It seems that Zaitian is in Lushan and I don't know the true face of Lushan, but I am also optimistic about the Cultural Revolution, he is cunning and treacherous, Nanjing Shangqiu, he can also make a move in such a difficult situation; In the Battle of Pingjin, he has a lot more cards in his hand than Okamura, and with his character, he will never give Okamura a chance. ”

Serious and Li Zhilong nodded in agreement almost at the same time, Huang Qixiang also nodded, he had not worked with Zhuang Jihua, but he was the first to clearly propose to cooperate with Zhuang Jihua, and it was precisely because of his suggestion that he entered Sichuan to work beside Zhuang Jihua.

"Teacher, General Chen, what is your situation here?"

Chen Mingshu smiled meaningfully at Huang Qixiang, then stood up, took out a document from the file bag next to him and handed it to Li Zhilong: "I estimate that the Cultural Revolution will understand our situation, this is our plan." ”

Li Zhilong opened the document, which was a third party's troop distribution and short-term battle plan behind enemy lines in eastern Hebei. Li Zhilong took notes while reading, and after a while, he took out a pen and paper to record a few numbers, then closed the file, closed his eyes and thought about it.

According to the documents provided by Chen Mingshu, the Third Party had a base area in eastern Hebei and Rehe, with a strength of 5,000 and 7,000 troops respectively.

In order to cooperate with the Battle of Pingjin, Chen Mingshu ordered the main force of the Redong Base Area to move south, and together with the Jire Base Area, launched an offensive in eastern Hebei, pinned down the Japanese army, and at the same time expanded the base area.

"General Chen," Li Zhilong thought for a while and said, "The Kwantung Army is about to enter the pass, with a total strength of about 300,000, and when the time comes, the Japanese army will gather in eastern Hebei, and it will be difficult for the troops to survive." ”

Chen Mingshu nodded, he already understood the situation, Cai Tingkai had already passed the news, but he believed that the Battle of Pingjin was the top priority, even if there were sacrifices, as long as the victory in the Battle of Pingjin could be won, these sacrifices would be worth it. Because once the Battle of Pingjin was won, the Japanese would never have a chance again. "I mean, it may not be possible to contain the Japanese army in eastern Hebei, I think it is possible to advance to the northeast, so that the Kwantung Army can really be contained." Li Zhilong said.

Chen Mingshu Huang Qixiang and seriously did not answer immediately, Chen Mingshu said softly: "Northeast? To the Northeast? ”

"Yes," Li Zhilong nodded: "In order to reinforce North China, the Kwantung Army almost poured out, not only draining the troops in the Northeast, but also emptying the Far East battlefield, and there are almost no troops in the entire Northeast, and now is a good time to enter the Northeast." In fact, you may also know that Yan'an has already taken action. ”

Yan'an's actions, Chen Mingshu also knew it, and he had reported to him below, and he also guessed Yan'an's purpose, but he didn't care. According to Zhuang Jihua's plan, the Northeast will be the world of the third party and Zhuang Jihua, and there are also parts of Yan'an. The reason why Yan'an is taking action now is probably because he is worried that Zhuang Jihua will not admit it after the war.

Chen Mingshu was a little worried that after several years of fighting behind enemy lines, the importance of the base area had been shown in various ways, and once he left the pass, it would mean that he would leave the base area and enter an unfamiliar area, and the troops would probably suffer serious losses.

To open up a new area and contain the Japanese army, the task of the troops is too heavy, and whether they can complete the task or not makes Chen Mingshu and Huang Qixiang in a dilemma.

"I'll see it." Huang Qixiang seemed to be more flexible and responsive than Chen Mingshu, and first understood the main point of this deployment: "The Japanese are empty of troops in the northeast, and after we enter the northeast, we will try to divide our troops and operate in South Manchuria and North Manchuria, especially on the Sino-Soviet border and the Sino-North Korean border. ”

Chen Mingshu also understood, but he didn't think it was in South Manchuria, but it should be North Manchuria. Zhuang Jihua was a reaction to Yan'an's actions, Yan'an sent troops into the northeast, naturally to get a piece of the pie after the war, but Zhuang Jihua was also worried that Yan'an refused to keep its promise after the war and did not give up the occupied Liaoning region.

In addition, the march into North Manchuria, which seemed dangerous, was actually not very dangerous, the Japanese forces here were more empty, and the mountains and forests were suitable for guerrilla warfare. "Okay, order them to march into North Manchuria with the main force and leave a strong force in western Liaoxi." Chen Mingshu also agreed.

"Before I came out, the Cultural Revolution talked to me, and he asked me to tell General Chen and Director Deng that they could take further action politically." Li Zhilong looked at Chen Mingshu with blazing eyes.

Chen Mingshu seriously understood the meaning of this sentence, but Huang Qixiang didn't understand it. Compared with the huge military progress, the third party's political moves can be described as thunder and rain, Zhang Bojun and others have asked for further actions several times, but they have been suppressed by Deng Yanda and Li Jishen, the main reason is Zhuang Jihua's demand.

According to the agreement reached with Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua demanded political stability until the end of the war, so the third party evolved into the Association for the Promotion of Democracy, and did not launch a bigger move.

Now that Zhuang Jihua has spoken, he not only liberates them, but even asks them to take some action, which makes Chen Mingshu and Zheng a little strange. "The purpose of the Cultural Revolution was to keep the country peaceful after the war, moving from the current one-party dictatorship to a democratic constitutional government," Lee continued. Before coming here, Zhuang Jihua sent him a long letter in which he explained in detail his purpose and the actions that the third party should take.

"The Association for the Promotion of Democracy is just a loose organization, and the Cultural Revolution suggests that you set up a political party, a new political party, and rely on this party to carry out activities."

"There is a ready-made thing, the chairman of the committee agreed to implement universal suffrage in the 16 counties of Chongqing, and suggested that your party should start on this and promote this universal suffrage."

Huang Qixiang frowned slightly and was a little puzzled: "In Tian, the establishment of a new party, this is within our plan, but as a new party, we will participate in the general election, and we may not be able to win." ”

"It doesn't matter if you can't win, what you want is to promote the general election." Seriously smiled faintly, after all, he has worked with Zhuang Jihua for many years and understands his way of doing things: "The purpose of the Cultural Revolution is to elect the chalk, and he doesn't care who wins or loses, what he wants is the way of the chalk election." ”

Chen Mingshu nodded solemnly, with the foundation laid by Zhuang Jihua for the Kuomintang in Chongqing, it is impossible for the third party or any other party to win the election. Zhuang Jihua's move can be called a desire to take the first place, and the third party made a sacrifice this time, but this sacrifice can open a door to eliminate the war and achieve post-war peace. "Okay, I'll pass on the suggestions of the Cultural Revolution to Xue Sheng and Ren Chao." Chen Mingshu readily agreed. According to the division of labor, he was in charge of the military, and Deng Yanda and Li Jishen were in charge of political affairs.

Li Zhilong was a little surprised that things went so smoothly, after all, it was the third party that launched the political action at the expense of the Cultural Revolution, and the Cultural Revolution was originally intended to help financially, after all, the establishment of a new party required a lot of money.

"Zaitian, how many days can you stay here?" Chen Mingshu stood up, walked to his desk, took out two cigars from the drawer, turned his head and asked Li Zhilong, "Do you want one?" The two of them couldn't stand the smell. ”

Li Zhilong shook his head, took out his paper cigarette, and gave it to Zheng He and Huang Qixiang: "I'll leave later, I'll rush to Zhengzhou before tomorrow, Hong Junqi is waiting for me there." I can't stand it either, General Chen, when you take action, Mr. Jingjiang and the old man will take action to cooperate with you; In addition, Yuntian will prepare some funds for you, and ask Director Deng to contact Yuntian. ”

Chen Mingshu seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: "This is great, we are short of funds, I called Chongqing several times to ask for funds, but the call back of the choice is for us to raise ourselves, if it weren't for Bei Tingfang, I'm afraid I would have stopped here." ”

Li Zhilong was a little surprised, he frowned and asked, "What about the school's funds?" The war zone has not been dialed? Impossible, right? ”

Chen Mingshu smiled bitterly: "The number of students enrolled in our school is twice the quota, and in addition, intelligence work and directly subordinate units also need money, our intelligence work has just taken shape, and there are many places that need funds, but after the start of the Pacific War, the donations received by our party have been greatly reduced, and we have been unable to make ends meet." ”

The main source of funds for the third party was donations from overseas Chinese in Nanyang, and after the Japanese occupation of Nanyang, the donations naturally decreased by a large margin, and life was very difficult. "I talked to Bei Tingfang, and he decided to mobilize another 20,000 people and want to form a new army." Huang Qixiang said.

Li Zhilong smiled: "Is General Yuxing's hands itchy?" ”

Huang Qixiang and Chen Mingshu smiled bitterly, to be honest, as soldiers, who would not imagine Zhuang Jihua commanding a million-strong army and fighting a decisive battle with the enemy.

"I'm afraid not." Li Zhilong restrained his smile and said: "After the battle of Pingjin, there will definitely be a large number of casualties in the troops, and you are asking for the establishment of a new army at this time, I am afraid that ...... The chairman will not agree. ”

The vast majority of Chen Mingshu's armed forces were in the North China Theater and under Zhuang Jihua. In the document submitted by Chen Mingshu just now, the armed forces of the Third Party are listed in detail, and the total strength of the armed forces has reached 600,000, which is still insufficient compared with the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army, but the quality and equipment are surpassed, especially the main force commanded by Xia Yanglin and others.

"However," Li Zhilong looked at Huang Qixiang, "However, General Huang's wish can be fulfilled." ”

Huang Qixiang was in high spirits, and asked again and again, Li Zhilong smiled and said: "According to the practice of the Cultural Revolution, it is certain that the troops will be rectified after the war, and the troops that perform poorly in the battle will be reorganized, and in addition, several group armies will be reorganized, by the way, do you have any connection with Yu Xuezhong?" ”

Chen Mingshu replied without thinking: "Yes, long before the Xi'an Incident, our party had contact with Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, but after the Xi'an Incident, there was less contact. After the start of the Anti-Japanese War, we had contact with Yu Xuezhong and He Zhuguo and Zhou Fucheng, but they were wary of us. ”

Li Zhilong thought about it and understood that during the Xi'an Incident, Deng Yanda led the Third Party to oppose it and advocate a peaceful settlement, which made the Northeast Army angry. However, after all these years of the Anti-Japanese War, people of insight in the Northeast Army also understood that the third party was actually their best destination, and Yu Xuezhong, He Zhuguo and Zhou Fucheng began to cautiously resume contact with the third party, and Liu Duoquan, the former heavy general of the Northeast Army, simply joined the third party.

However, Chiang Kai-shek was very strict with the Northeast Army, and the entire Northeast Army was dispersed, Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army and Miao Zhengliu's 53rd Army were in Shandong, Liu Duoquan's 49th Army was reduced to a division after fighting in Songhu, Liu Duoquan was transferred to the Military Senate, and the remaining troops fought in Jiangxi under the leadership of Wang Tiehan, and the 53rd Army was first in Hunan, and now in the Jianghuai Theater; In addition, there was the 108th Army, which was reduced to the 67th Division, and the Second Cavalry Army of He Zhuguo.

This is a huge force, Chiang Kai-shek wants to eliminate this army, ** and the third party are pulling this army, and Zhuang Jihua is also fighting the idea of this army. "Teacher, General Chen, after the Battle of Pingjin, it is to march into the Northeast," Li Zhilong thought for a while and said: "You can contact the generals of the Northeast Army who are familiar with you and ask to participate in the battle to recover the Northeast; However, the chairman of the committee will certainly not agree to this, and when the Cultural Revolution comes, he will propose to the chairman to reorganize the Northeast Army, break up the Northeast Army, mix and reorganize with the Northwest Army and some local troops, and reappoint a group of generals. The Cultural Revolution estimates that under these conditions, the chairman of the committee may agree, General Huang, so that your opportunity has come. ”

Seriously and Chen Mingshu smiled almost at the same time, reorganizing the miscellaneous army, this is Chiang Kai-shek's unswerving policy, and Zhuang Jihua's idea is indeed likely to be approved by Chiang Kai-shek. Of course, they also thought at the same time that Zhuang Jihua would certainly not be so "kind", and some of them must have fallen into his hands.

In the Battle of Pingjin, the casualties of the troops must be staggering, and Chen Mingshu knew that the new batch of reserve soldiers had already been conscripted into the army and were stepping up training in the rear. Every county in Henan has a new barracks, and the situation in Hubei and Shandong is similar, and of course the southwest is even more so. As a matter of fact, this conscription has already spread to Liangguang, and recruits from Guangdong and Guangxi have already been sent to northern Hubei.

It must be explained here that after the start of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi announced that they would accept the leadership of the central government, and all the resources of Guangxi were willing to be handed over to the central government.

After such a big battle, the army must have three to five months of rest, which gives Zhuang Jihua a chance to reorganize the army, and at this time there must be a chance to fish in troubled waters.

"The royal line is going to be in the army, I'm afraid we have to prepare now." Chen Mingshu reminded. Of course, Li Zhilong understood, Huang Qixiang couldn't go directly to the army from the military academy, so it was best to go to Zhuang Jihua's side in some name now.

But it's just difficult, Zhuang Jihua already has Cai Tingkai by his side, and suddenly added Huang Qixiang, with Chiang Kai-shek's suspicion, it's strange that he doesn't have suspicion.

But Li Zhilong did not immediately refuse, and several important generals of the third party returned to the army to seize military power, which was originally scheduled, but it just needed an opportunity. Next, the four of them went to the war room to discuss the number of troops and the area of activity of the customs in front of the map, and in this regard Li Zhilong showed his weakness, he lacked the experience of leading troops to fight, and had been engaged in administrative and political work for a long time, and combat became his weakness, so he mainly listened.

Mainly Chen Mingshu was talking, Huang Qixiang occasionally interjected to ask questions or supplementary explanations, and the staff officers next to him kept supplementing, and finally Chen Mingshu decided to let the two base areas of Rehe in eastern Hebei mobilize 8,000 troops to go out of the customs, but Chen Mingshu also asked Li Zhilong to report to Zhuang Jihua that before leaving the customs, replenish a batch of weapons and ammunition for the troops leaving the customs.

Li Zhilong looked at the time, and before he knew it, three hours had passed, and it was time to go on the road, so he said goodbye to Chen Mingshu and Zheng, but Zhengzheng asked him to eat dinner before leaving, so he hurriedly ate dinner, and Li Zhilong went on the road.

Chen Mingshu and Huang Qixiang did not send Li Zhilong out, and were still in the small courtyard. Looking at Li Zhilong's back, Huang Qixiang was a little puzzled, the content of Li Zhilong's transmission is important, but there is no need for Li Zhilong to run in person, just let Cai Tingkai convey it?

"This is where Zhuang Wenge is cautious." Chen Mingshu sighed.

This time Li Zhilong came over on behalf of Zhuang Jihua, the main problems are two, one is a political issue, the other is a military issue, Zhuang Jihua is worried that they have doubts or opinions, so he arranged for Li Zhilong to tell them and explain to them, of course, it is also for confidentiality.! ~！

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