When Liu Yimin saw this posture, he smiled in his heart. Yes, after the devil's sweep, the villagers in the base area are very vigilant, and if they encounter a suspicious person, they will immediately report it to the troops.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who rushed over were from the training headquarters, and the leading squad leader knew what was going on as soon as he saw Huang Wenhu and Li Xiaoshuai, and then looked at the people behind Huang Wenhu and Li Xiaoshuai, who were about to stand up and salute, and when they raised their hands, they suddenly realized that the division commander and political commissar were wearing civilian clothes, and they were clearly secretly acting, so they quickly put their hands down again, turned to the hotel owner and said: "You did the right thing, we will take these people back for interrogation." Thank you, fellow! ”

After the squad leader finished speaking, he asked the soldiers to put away their guns and escort Liu and Luo away.

The boss saw that the Eighth Route Army did not arrest these people, but left together, he was a little puzzled, thought about it, and felt that the Eighth Route Army would definitely find out the identities of these people, so he no longer bothered, and was busy greeting guests.

After Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan arrived at the training headquarters, Yuan Guoping, political commissar of the training headquarters, and Xu Guangda, commander of the training headquarters, knew that the division commander and political commissar had arrived, and hurriedly greeted them.

After the group entered the headquarters, Yuan Guoping complained that the division commander and political commissar were too risky, what if they encountered spies? Then he criticized Li Chengyi for not learning the lesson of the Chengdu assassination, how to explain if something happened?

Li Chengyi hurriedly reported that the first battalion and one company of the guards had done a good job of secret vigilance in advance, and that nothing would go wrong, so please rest assured that the commanders would not be able to do so.

Liu Yimin knew that his comrades-in-arms were concerned about the safety of him and the political commissar, and he didn't care, so he directly asked Yuan Guoping and Xu Guangda to report to work.

Yuan Guoping said: After the training headquarters crossed the river, the training headquarters directly engaged in anti-sweeping operations because the army began to sweep up. Before the war, the recruits recruited according to the mobilization order of the division headquarters acted together with the baggage regiment during the operation and undertook the task of transporting logistics materials. In particular, the materials transferred from Lianyungang were jointly completed by the Logistics Command and the Training Command. Now that the situation has stabilized and the training has begun to formalize, in two months, the recruits will be able to complete their training. The fly in the ointment is that this batch of recruits was recruited from various base areas in accordance with the pre-war division headquarters mobilization order, and they are all veterans of the original demobilized warlord units, and they are a bit older and the number is not large, only 8,210 people, which is far from the target of 30,000 people in each batch.

Yuan Guoping's report was the truth, since the formation and training headquarters was ordered to cross the river to the east, the troops have indeed been in anti-sweeping operations, and there is no time to recruit new soldiers. However, this work must be stepped up now.

Liu Yimin and Xu Guangda were not familiar with each other in the past, but they knew their people and affairs very well, and they were famous founding generals in history! Therefore, after Yuan Guoping finished his report, Liu Yimin asked Xu Guang if he was not accustomed to his living habits after arriving in Shandong, and whether he got along well with his comrades.

Liu Yimin and Xu Guangda are not familiar with each other, which does not mean that Xu Guangda does not understand Liu Yimin. Although he met Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan for the first time since he came to Shandong, everyone said Liu Yimin's situation as a legend, how could Xu Guangda not understand it?

Seeing Liu Yimin's warm greetings, Xu Guangda hurriedly saluted and reported that everything was fine, the living conditions did not matter, how difficult the Red Army period was, and the current conditions were many times better than those at that time, please rest assured. After speaking, he said that before coming to Shandong, Mr. He specially entrusted him to ask Liu and Luo how they were doing. Mr. He also said that the Jinsui area is short of materials and the source of troops is difficult, so he asked Commanders Liu and Luo not to forget the 120th Division, and if the captured artillery and machine guns are not used up, support the 120th Division a little more.

Xu Guangda said this, Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan laughed when they heard it, Luo Ronghuan said while laughing: "This Mr. He, I can't forget the autumn breeze at any time." ”

Xu Guangda said: "Political commissar, you don't know, Mr. He told me that when the Red Second Front Army arrived in Shaanxi, it was particularly difficult, there were many attritions, many wounded, lack of food and money, and weapons and ammunition could not be compared with the Central Red Army. Fortunately, thanks to the strong support of the Red Seventh Army, the farms were given to the Second Front Army, and Commander Liu specially supported weapons, ammunition and medicines. After going to the battlefield of resistance, the instructor in Taiyuan gave the 120th Division support and supplementary equipment. Mr. He said that the current division of the Eighth Route Army is the 120th Division, which is developing slowly. There is no way, the Jinsui area is sparsely populated, the grain output is also low, and the development space is also small. In order to strengthen the ranks, the prerequisites are, first, to solve the problem of food, second, to solve the problem of weapons and ammunition, and third, to have a source of soldiers. All three are difficult to do right now. According to me, division commanders and political commissars, if you criticize you wrongly, the overall strength of the 120th Division is only equivalent to two or three brigades of our instructors, and it is a brigade that ranks low. In terms of firepower, it is even more incomparable, and each brigade of our main brigade has an artillery regiment, and the 120th Division, 115th Division, 129th Division, and Reading Division all have no artillery regiments. ”

Liu Yimin was silent after hearing this, knowing that the army was frequently sweeping on the Shanxi battlefield, and the main force of the Eighth Route Army took the initiative to attack in order to cooperate with other battlefields. Mr. He said this, it must be that the 120th Division suffered too many casualties in the battle, and the loss of weapons and ammunition was also large.

After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Yimin said to Luo Ronghuan that he must find a way to deliver a batch of weapons and ammunition to several divisions, not to mention the 120th Division, and most of the rebel troops in eastern Hebei are probably still holding big knives and sticks. The instructors are now all mechanized, and the logistics command has stockpiled a large number of obsolete old state-made weapons. These weapons are backward for the instructor, but for the eastern Hebei uprising troops and local armed forces and militias, they are undoubtedly the treasure of the treasures. Let the logistics command check whether the ammunition reserves are sufficient, and if they are not enough, concentrate on producing a batch of ammunition, and prepare for the next step of the combat operation, send these weapons and ammunition back to central and southern Hebei, and let several main divisions go to central and southern Hebei to pick them up. The matter requested by the chairman to equip several divisions with artillery regiments was completed this time, and the artillery cadres of the company brought artillery and artillery shells and sent them to central and southern Hebei together.

Yuan Guoping interjected: "Division commander, I have an idea, the 115th Division, the 120th Division, the 129th Division, and the Reading Division have a high Red Army composition, while our instructors have too low a Red Army composition, which is not conducive to improving the cohesion of the troops. Do you suggest to the chairman that one regiment from each of the above-mentioned divisions be transferred to Shandong and mixed with the garrison brigades and the Eighth Brigade of our division? We transferred troops from the 8th Brigade and the garrison brigades and sent them to the divisions together with the equipment. I wonder if this suggestion will work? ”

Liu Yimin said: "Of course this suggestion works. However, there is a problem, it is easy to teach the Eighth Brigade that most of the soldiers are [***] and Jin Sui Army soldiers brought by us from the Shanxi battlefield, and they can be transferred anywhere. The soldiers of several garrison brigades are all natives of Shandong, and they have only been in the army for a short time, and they have been hastily transferred to other battlefields, and they still have a lot of work to do. In this way, let alone a regiment, it is recommended that the central authorities transfer a battalion from each of several divisions, but it must be an old Red Army battalion, not a newly expanded unit. With the addition of a Red Army battalion to each garrison brigade and our cadres, the combat effectiveness should be raised to a higher level. ”

Luo Ronghuan was very calm, and after listening to the conversation of several people, he thought for a while and said, "In this way, since you want to make suggestions to the chairman, then be comprehensive." The population of Shanxi and Shaanxi is already small, especially in Shanxi, where most areas are barren, and food supply has been a big problem since ancient times. I consider that the central, eastern, and southern Hebei regions are densely populated, the land is fertile, and the grain output is high. Although the army has the upper hand now, we cannot let them occupy our granary like this. It is suggested that the central government send the main force of the 120th Division, the main force of the 129th Division, or the main force of the Reading Division to advance into central and southern Hebei, and cooperate with the remaining troops to restore and develop the base areas and expand the team. In this way, it will not only be able to contain the North China army from going all out to carry out the Shanxi operation or going south to the Central Plains to participate in the war, but it will also be able to connect western and Hebei, Hebei, and Lubian with central Hebei, southern Hebei, and even eastern Hebei. ”

Luo Ronghuan's proposal, Liu Yimin didn't know how many times he had thought about it, and he wanted to suggest it to the central government several times, but considering that the central government had sent 120 divisions to advance into central Hebei in history, and the current North China Plain had a huge number of troops, allowing these troops to enter central Hebei and southern Hebei to fight to the death with the army did not conform to the chairman's consistent strategic thinking, and he thought that he would wait for the army to draw reinforcements from North China in the later stage of the Battle of Wuhan before making this suggestion. I don't want Luo Ronghuan to be a commander-in-chief at the strategic level, and he can see at a glance that the army is attacking Wuhan with all its might, so as to take a defensive position in North China.

However, there is also a problem in this way, that is, it is very easy for the Japanese army to concentrate its forces again to clear out our army's armed forces on the North China Plain, and even cause heavy losses.

Liu Yimin himself does not take the matter of losses caused by fighting devils very seriously, whether fighting a war is a matter of life and death, and the army is not a fool, standing there motionless and waiting to be beaten, it is normal to have sacrifices and losses. However, if the army is used as a target and sent into the devil's pocket, Liu Yimin will never do it, even if he wants to, he can't do it, who are the chairman and the boss, how can they make low-level mistakes? However, now is indeed a good opportunity, the elite divisions of the army are all in Wuhan and the Central Plains battlefield, and the rest of the North China Plain are special divisions, garrison divisions and garrisons, although after this period of battlefield training, the combat effectiveness of the third-rate and fourth-rate troops of the little devils has improved, but Liu Yimin believes that they will at most draw with the main force of the Eighth Route Army. If the 120th Division, the 129th Division, and the Reading Division were not allowed to go to the plains to collect food and cloth at this time, the winter would be very difficult.

In addition to the above suggestions, Liu Yimin reported that in view of the tight situation on the battlefields of Wuhan and the Central Plains, he decided to concentrate the main force of the instructor to go north to Luzhong, gather and annihilate the enemy on the Jiaoji Road and the Jiqing Highway, and then wave his army to the south to capture Xuzhou, completely disrupting the rhythm of the offensive of the Yue army.

After writing it, let Luo Ronghuan read it, and the two of them signed it together, and they were directly shot at the training headquarters.

After sending the telegram, Liu Yimin asked Yuan Guoping and Xu Guangda to accompany him to the various teams of the training headquarters to inspect the training situation.

This inspection lasted for two whole days. The reason is that Liu Yimin thinks that the composition of this batch of recruits is complicated, not to mention their age, they have all served as soldiers in various warlord units, and their experience is too complicated. It is very difficult to completely transform them into qualified soldiers of the Eighth Route Army. Therefore, he and Luo Ronghuan worked hard, and spent two days in each company to exchange and talk with the soldiers and teach combat skills.

The cadres at all levels of the Formation and Training Headquarters are the backbone of the various units of the instructors, and they have a profound understanding of the political work of the instructors. Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan came, went out with everyone in the morning, guided the training in the morning and afternoon, and during the meal, Liu, Luo, Yuan, and Xu stood separately in front of the cauldron to cook for everyone, and helped the soldiers pick up blisters in the evening, and the soldiers had a homely meal, and corrected the soldiers' literacy books. In the past two days, the new fighters have thoroughly understood what the old Red Army traditions are, what it means to integrate officers and soldiers, and what it means to be a new type of people's army.

When leaving the training headquarters, Liu Yimin ordered Yuan Guoping and Xu Guangda to immediately distribute weapons to the soldiers, speed up the completion of training subjects, and pull all personnel of the next combat training headquarters to the battlefield to fight for training. After the battle, they will come back to continue training, and they should truly train these new recruits with rich combat experience into the elite of the Eighth Route Army, so that they can serve as the backbone of the battle when they are integrated into various units in the future. The next batch of concentrated training of the Qinghe Garrison Brigade and the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade will not miss a single day of training in three months, and it is necessary to raise the combat effectiveness of the two garrison brigades so that they can serve as the mainstay of the Ludong region and free up their hands to participate in large-scale operations with the main force. Next, it is necessary to let the Eighth Brigade, the Second Brigade of the Luxi Garrison, the Tai'an Detachment, and the Southeastern Lunan Detachment return for rotational training, and the standard is the training standard of the First Brigade, and if the requirements are not met, it is not allowed to end the rotational training.

After Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan left the training headquarters, they went directly to the southeast Lu branch office and met with the party, government, and military leaders of the southeast Lu region.

During the war years, they had a strong sense of secrecy, and Liu and Luo stopped in Juxian County for two days, but Guo Zihua and Wang Nanhu did not know that the No. 1 and No. 2 chiefs were by their side. Therefore, as soon as they met, Wang Nanhu complained that the division commander and political commissar looked down on the new troops, no matter what they said, the backbone troops of the southeastern Lu detachment were all old troops, and there was also a battalion of the guard regiment, so couldn't the southeastern Lu detachment be allowed to assume the guard unit of the division commander and political commissar?

Guo Zihua was old, and when he saw Wang Nanhu complaining with the division commander and political commissar, he knew that this was the intimacy of the closest old comrades-in-arms, so he didn't bother them, and quietly watched and smiled on the side.

Liu Yimin was pressed for time, and after meeting with the cadres, he asked everyone to be busy, leaving Guo Zihua and Wang Nanhu to listen to the report and explain the task.

Wang Nanhu reported that some time ago, the southeastern Lu detachment cooperated with the Fifth Brigade and the Tai'an detachment to carry out anti-sweeping operations, and fought very hard. The enemy's forces are too large, there are many planes, and they are all advancing in groups, so there is no chance of fighting a war of annihilation at all, so they can only attack and block with small forces, and take advantage of the mountainous terrain to fight the enemy. The casualties of the troops were large, and the loss of ammunition was also large. Fortunately, Wang Laohu and the others got a lot of ammunition back from Jinan, all of which were supplemented by the Fifth Brigade, the Tai'an Detachment and the Southeastern Lu Detachment. Now the situation is better, the unit has received a lot of new soldiers, and the four infantry regiments, one air defense battalion, one artillery battalion, one engineer battalion, and one baggage battalion of the whole detachment are basically at full strength. The county brigades, district squadrons, and militia organizations in several counties have also set up coastal defense posts to monitor the movements of the Chinese army and navy, and the air defense posts have been set up in accordance with the requirements of the air defense brigades, thus basically forming a relatively complete security system.

Guo Zihua reported on the economic development of the southeastern part of Shandong, and said that the method of cultivating crops twice a year has been implemented in agriculture, and the autumn grain is about to enter the harvest season, and it is estimated that the output should be a bumper harvest year. If there is such a stable environment next year, the southeastern region of Shandong will be able to provide at least 50 percent more military rations on the basis of this year. In terms of business, the situation is more gratifying, and there are more than 500 merchants in each of the four counties of Zhaozhao, Juxian, Zhucheng and Yishui. In particular, Ju County, because it is in the core base area, the situation is relatively stable, and the merchants who have withdrawn from Tianjin, Qingdao and Weixian have now begun to open stores, and the number of merchants has now exceeded the 1,000 mark, and it is likely to continue to rise. In industry, the logistics command is in charge, but some private workshops and small factories are also actively trying to start construction and production.

After listening to the reports of Wang Nanhu and Guo Zihua, Liu Yimin demanded that the work in the southeast of Shandong should be strengthened. Militarily, it is necessary to expand the army on a large scale, the main force of the southeastern Shandong detachment must be fully organized and reorganized according to the standards of the main brigades, and the county and county brigades must be developed into reading regiments or garrison regiments, and small maritime patrol units should also be prepared; in the future, they will plan to seize the torpedo boats of the Japanese army and launch a guerrilla warfare at sea, and if necessary, they can attack the Japanese warships and expel the devil warships from the coastal seas, so that they will not be able to carry out landing operations at will. Economically, if we grasp the building of the fiscal and taxation system with one hand and the basic industry with the other, such as the salt industry, we can put the local law into practice and ensure that the residents in the base areas eat salt. In agriculture, we should continue to implement the method of double cropping in one year, and we should also mobilize the masses to raise more livestock, and every household should raise cattle, pigs, and chickens, and the masses in the mountainous areas should raise more sheep, horses, donkeys, and mules, so as to increase their incomes and improve the supply of troops, and they can also use farm manure to increase grain output. In the future, the retired war horses of the troops can be handed over to the masses for stocking to make up for the lack of agricultural production and storage. The horses, mules, and donkeys raised by the masses should be supplied to the troops on a priority basis, so as to solve the problem of insufficient pack horses for the troops. In the fishing industry, we must also pay close attention to it, and mobilize fishermen to go out to sea to catch more fish, except for fresh goods, the rest must be salted into dried fish and stored. This winter, it is necessary to make use of the night time to organize the masses to build water conservancy projects and dredge rivers and canals. It is also necessary to dig more deep pools in some rivers to replace reservoirs for water storage. Every household should dig a water cellar to store water for shortage. In the event of a major drought next year, we can also deal with it by storing water from a variety of drought-tolerant crops and water cellars to ensure that agricultural yields are not reduced or reduced.

The reason why Liu Yimin said this is because he knows that from 1939 to 1944 in history, Shandong has been in continuous drought, and the reason why Wuhua and the Ministry of Culture and Culture became the Han Dynasty was that in addition to Chiang Kai-shek's curve national salvation policy and the factors of the army sweeping, the most important thing was that there was no food and people starved to death every day. Liu Yimin is familiar with history, so he naturally doesn't want the soldiers and civilians in his base area to go hungry again.

Speaking of this, Liu Yimin asked Luo Ronghuan to convey his order to Li Yu, Guo Hongtao, and Wu Zheng immediately after he returned, to come up with funds, and to organize businessmen to buy grain in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and to think that the three cavalry battalions and the northern Jiangsu detachment operating in the Soviet Union and Central Jiangsu should seize more grain from the army, and when the main force carried out the southern front operation, they would also be transported back to Shandong for reserves.

Guo Zihua felt that Liu Yimin, a young man, was getting more and more interesting, and he was a bit of a god, how did he know that there would be a drought next year? But after thinking about it, Guo Zihua didn't want to interrupt Liu Yimin, who was foaming at the mouth, because he knew that Liu Yimin was extremely accurate, and he was more famous than Yang Zhicheng, the new political commissar of the Logistics Command, who was known as a fortune teller.

Finally, Liu Yimin demanded that all organs and troops in southeastern Shandong should be mobilized quickly and organize the villagers to do a good job in supporting the front. In particular, the military uniforms and military shoes for the winter must be started now, and the logistics headquarters will provide cloth and cotton, and the villagers will receive and sew the materials from every household, and we must solve the problem of winter clothing for the troops before the beginning of winter.

After Liu Yimin finished speaking, Wang Nanhu put forward the hope that the southeastern Lu detachment could participate in the main operation, and now it is easy to expand the army, and there is no problem with weapons; in the last sweeping operation in southeast Lu, a large part of the weapons captured by the Fifth Brigade were given to the southeastern Lu detachment, but the supply of ammunition is a problem. All units of the southeastern detachment are old units with strong combat effectiveness, but the cadres and fighters are very arrogant and unwilling to apply to the logistics headquarters for ammunition supplies, saying that we can completely go to fight some battles such as the attack and occupation of Lianyungang to solve the problem of ammunition supply. Please consider this point. In addition, the cadres reported that the number of detachments is a bit nondescript, and the combat effectiveness, equipment, and achievements of the southeastern Lu detachment and the Tai'an detachment are kept there, so it is not possible to consider changing the name to the 9th and 10th Brigades, so that it is easy to boost morale.

As soon as Liu Yimin heard this, he criticized Wang Nanhu for not being able to let go of the main shelf. What is Workhorse? It is not only the main force to be invincible and invincible in wars, but also to be able to defend the base areas and take charge of the situation on its own, and to organize the masses to develop production. The main force of the division is going to fight in the south and the north, and the southeast of Shandong is currently the most stable base area in Shandong.

Luo Ronghuan saw that Liu Yimin had trained Wang Nanhu to ashes, so he said: "Comrade Nanhu, what the division commander means is not that the Tai'an Detachment and the Ludongnan Detachment cannot be renamed the Ninth Brigade and the Tenth Brigade, but that no matter what the name is, they are all the Eighth Route Army, and they are all fighting devils. At this stage, our army needs concealed strength and must bury its head in development. Bringing out so many main brigades, wouldn't it make the eyes of the little devils and Chairman Jiang focus on us? Not only do you want to change the number, but which of the several garrison brigades doesn't want to change it? Brother comrade, there is no need to talk about this matter again, it will naturally change when the time is ripe. I know you want to join the big battle with the main force, but what if the little devils sneak up on our base area? Now there is a main force here, and we are not afraid of one or two divisions of the little devils, so what if the main force goes north and south? If the main force goes north to launch a major battle, then the task of guarding and blocking the Longhai Road will inevitably fall on your head. In this way, you should first apply to the Logistics Command for ammunition replenishment, and then hand it in when you have captured it in the future. ”

Wang Nanhu hurriedly stood up and saluted, and said, "Thank you for the criticism of the division commander and political commissar." ”

(To be continued)