After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin was silent for a long time, and it can be seen from the information revealed in the telegram that because the Eighth Route Army fought well as a whole some time ago, it caused panic in the base camp of the Yue Army, prompting the top level of the Yue Army to begin to re-examine the operational strategy. It is very likely that the army is trying to use heavy troops to trap its instructors in the vast areas between the Pinghan Line and the Jinpu Line, south of Baoda Road, and north of Hanji Road, in order to stabilize the instructors, concentrate forces on the Shanxi and Jinpu operations, and begin to encircle and suppress the instructors with heavy forces after the operations in the two directions are completed.

Thinking about it again, although the top leaders of the Yue Army attach importance to the Eighth Route Army, they are now ambitious, and it is very likely that they will plan a bigger conspiracy, such as taking advantage of the situation to carry out the Battle of Wuhan after solving their own instructors and completing their established strategy. It may even be the same as in history, launching the Battle of Nomenkan and implementing the strategy of advancing northward. In short, this little man is a big ghost, and his ambition cannot be satisfied.

Anyway. With this increase in troops, the garrison force will be greatly strengthened, and the field divisions and regiments will be able to carry out strategic offensives with all their might. The only thing that needs to be observed is whether the southward corps of the Kwantung Army will be quickly rebuilt, and if the southward corps of the Kwantung Army is rebuilt, it means that the base camp of the Kwantung Army will still be hovering in the grand strategy of advancing north and southward as it did in history. In that case, I must fulfill them, let Xiao Yueben fight with the Soviet Red Army for a longer time, fight harder, and die a little more. Otherwise, I'm sorry to cross this trip.

Thinking about it, I feel that I will not play too many new tricks, and their intrigues and strategic policies are completely transparent in the eyes of a person like myself who has specialized in the history of war in later generations, and no matter how much he changes, he cannot do without his overall strategic thinking. Since this is the case, then he will beat him, I will beat mine, and it is not a skill if he doesn't beat the little devil all over the ground to find teeth.

Thinking through and through, the corners of Liu Yimin's mouth once again spread into a smile that was almost like a signboard, and several people in Cai Zhong who saw it were happy in their hearts, knowing that the division commander had come out of the shadow of Li Yimo's sacrifice and returned to his usual mentality, this Xiao Yue was afraid that he was about to be unlucky again.

Sure enough, after Liu Yimin received the telegram handed over by He Xinghua, he said while reading: "The reading force division is doing well, and Comrade Zeng Chunjian, the old head of our 18th Regiment, is especially good. By the way, Director Cai, send a telegram to the Central Committee, saying that our army needs high-level military cadres, and ask the Central Committee to transfer our old regiment commander back, and I need him to be a brigade commander here. In addition, if the central authorities have high-ranking military cadres who are temporarily idle, they can all be sent to us, and these central Hebei, southern Hebei, and western Hebei are all large plains, densely populated, and the quality of the soldiers is high, so let them come to us, and we will be responsible for organizing the contingent and taking charge of weapons and equipment, and the central authorities can transfer them and their troops to other strategic areas to enrich the strength of other troops. ”

Cai Zhong said with a smile: "Teacher, this is what you said, don't feel distressed at that time." I estimate that as soon as such a telegram is sent, the 115th Division, the 120th Division, the 129th Division, and the Reading Division will rush to send us military cadres without waiting for the central authorities to speak. Maybe there will be another good story of the drunken instructors of the captains! ”

Liu Yimin laughed: "What do I feel sorry for!" It's all the Eighth Route Army, and everywhere you go is fighting devils. There are so many little devils, can we just rely on our instructor to finish the fight? It is still my original sentence that only when the overall strength of our army grows rapidly can we achieve victory as soon as possible. ”

Laughing, Liu Yimin had already finished reading the telegram, and asked He Xinghua to check whether the chairman's telegram had arrived and whether Li Lingfeng's telegram had arrived.

After He Xinghua left, Yuan Guoping came to Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan to report on the progress of the reorganization of Zhao Yunxiang, Duan Haizhou, Qiao Mingli, and Fan Zixia, who had been evacuated from Jizhong.

The situation of these four people Liu Yimin is clear if he doesn't listen to the report, they are all characters that can be found in the memoirs of later generations, in addition to Fan Zixia is a famous martyr, Qiao Mingli has had many frictions with our army in history, and the uprising during the Liberation War ended well. Duan Haizhou left the brigade commander of the Eighth Route Army alone, took refuge in [***], and finally became a county CPPCC member in Sichuan after the uprising. Zhao Yunxiang's department was not adapted by our army, but it once fought side by side with our army, and was later incorporated by [***], and finally surrendered to the army as a puppet army, and surrendered to the New Fourth Army during the Liberation War.

After this heavy encirclement and suppression by the army, these forces suffered heavy losses and retreated to southern Hebei. In accordance with Luo Ronghuan's instructions, Yuan Guoping led the infantry battalion of the artillery brigade and the engineer regiment to reorganize these forces. Among them, the Fan Zixia Department had a positive attitude after doing ideological work and took the initiative to accept the reorganization. There are many young intellectuals in Duan Haizhou's department, who tend to be progressive, and they are willing to accept reorganization after doing their work. Qiao Mingli and Zhao Yunxiang's troops both refused to reorganize our army, saying that this was an annexation of friendly forces, and asked the Eighth Route Army to let them lead their troops to leave southern Hebei and move to the Taihang Mountains.

After listening to the report, Liu Yimin told Yuan Guoping that these units must accept the reorganization of our army, and they must be thoroughly reorganized in accordance with our army's system. As for Zhao Yunxiang, Qiao Mingli, and Duan Haizhou, they are all capable and high-level people, and I asked the political commissar and Director Cai to talk to them a few more times, telling them that joining the Eighth Route Army has a future and is glorious. When we teach our instructors, they will definitely improve, be reused, and be able to develop their individual talents. If they really want to leave, give them more money and escort them out of southern Hebei. But you can't take away a single soldier, a single shot, or a bullet.

Yuan Guoping asked, should I ask the division commander to meet these people in person, although the four forces suffered heavy losses this time, but after all, there are still six or seven thousand people together!

Liu Yimin thought for a while before saying: "I don't have time now, I have to set off in the evening to hold a public memorial ceremony for General Fan Zhuxian, and the political commissar is sitting in Nangong, and these things are handled by the political commissar." ”

Yuan Guoping saw that Liu Yimin not only didn't see these people, but also had a very tough attitude towards the reorganization, so he said directly: "If Qiao Mingli and Zhao Yunxiang's department have been refusing to adapt, I have no choice but to disarm them uniformly." In this case, is there a suspicion of sabotaging the anti-Japanese united front? ”

Liu Yimin glanced at Yuan Guoping, then at Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, and Zeng Zhongsheng, and saw that everyone was looking at him, waiting for him to express his position, so he said: "The infantry battalion and engineer regiment of the artillery brigade sent to you are to be reorganized by force, otherwise the political commissar will not send you such a main force." As for the question of whether or not to sabotage the anti-Japanese united front, you have thought far ahead. You must know that among these people, Fan Zixia is the most resolute in resisting, like Zhao Yunxiang, on the one hand, on the one hand, and on the other hand, in order to expand his personal strength. If our army does not reorganize its troops, it is difficult to say what path his troops will take in the future. We reorganized them, first, to help them and to pull them together with us. The second is to preserve the strength of resistance. This is a move to consolidate the united front of resistance against Japanese aggression, and there will be no mistake in doing it boldly. ”

After Yuan Guoping left, He Xinghua brought the telegram from the chairman and Li Lingfeng, and when Liu Yimin saw that Li Lingfeng's telegram said that he had found the target, he directly handed the telegram to He Xinghua and carefully read the telegram of the chairman himself.

In the telegram, the chairman congratulated the instructors on their great victory in eliminating the main force of the 21 st Division, forming the Fourth Brigade and Regiment in the Fourth Brigade, and recovering Jizhong, and gave clear support to Liu Yimin's proposal to transfer troops into Shandong one after another, and said that the sooner the better, the sooner the better. It is necessary to rush before the army besieges on a large scale, unfold the main force in Shandong, and make every effort to run Shandong and develop it in the surrounding areas. As for the division according to the regions, the chairman clearly replied this time that central Hebei, eastern Hebei, Rehe, and Chahar are all divided into the development area of the 115th Division, northwest Shanxi and Suiyuan are divided into the development area of the 120th Division, and the Reading Division is mainly developed in Jinzhong, western Shanxi, and southwest Shanxi, and the 129th Division is developing in the southeast, west, south, and north of Shanxi, and the instructors are making every effort to develop Shandong, eastern Henan, and northern Jiangsu.

In the telegram, the chairman also demanded that when the instructors went east to Shandong, they should be fully equipped with all the variegated armed forces that had been reorganized in southern and central Hebei, and that the troops of the 115th and 129th divisions should be sent back to Taihang Mountain for further training, and that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army should uniformly deploy them to all divisions. In principle, all materials seized in Tianjin will be brought to Shandong, 30 percent of the funds will be handed over to the central government, and the remaining 70 percent will be used for the construction of the Shandong base area.

After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin asked Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, and Zeng Zhongsheng to circulate it, and sent someone to call Wu Zheng and ask him to take a look at it. He then told Luo Ronghuan that 40 percent of the funds seized in Tianjin would be handed over to the central government, and 60 percent would be reserved for the development of the Shandong base area.

Cai Zhong looked at Liu Yimin with a smile and said: "I feel that many of the division commander's ideas always coincide with the chairman's ideas, and just now he said that he wanted me to send a telegram to the central government, requesting the dispatch of military cadres, and said that as long as there are military cadres, we will have all the personnel and equipment, and let the central government uniformly deploy them to all troops." The draft of this telegram has not yet been drafted, and the chairman's telegram has already taken away all the troops that we have worked so hard to reorganize. ”

Liu Yimin scratched his head and said with a smile: "Everyone can think of good things, let alone a man of great talent like the chairman?" ”

Wu Zheng asked whether it was better to suggest to the central authorities that southern Hebei and western Hebei should be adjacent to each other, so as to facilitate unified operational command. The Central Committee had already approved the establishment of the Southern Hebei Military Region and the Administrative Office, but now it was immediately handed over to the 129th Division, fearing that the comrades would not be able to figure it out. Besides, the tutor has been operating in southern Hebei for a month, and he has established a relationship with the people of southern Hebei, and he is really reluctant to leave. Moreover, Political Commissar Luo has already ordered the reorganization of the various forces in Jizhong into four garrison regiments, and the cadres who will be transferred are the backbone of the various departments of the instructor, and it will not take long to bring out the four backbone regiments of the hard state.

Liu Yimin patted Wu Zheng on the shoulder and told him that the chairman had a long-term vision for such a division, and that the consideration was that the size of the army was getting bigger and bigger, and eating and dressing were big problems. It is true that the 129th Division is located in the mountainous area southeast of Shanxi Province, which is convenient for guerrilla warfare, but there are few people and land in that place, and the grain output is low, so it cannot support such a large number of troops. This was also the case with the Jinchaji of the 115th Division, and the situation was similar in the Jinsui area of the 120th Division. In the future, if Chairman Chiang does not pay his military salaries, and the army is blockaded and encircled, the bitterness of the Eighth Route Army will come. The chairman's intention is to use central and southern Hebei as the granary and troop source base of our army, which is tantamount to giving a letter of responsibility to various strategic groups. The chairman trusted us very much and forced us to make up our minds to go east to Shandong and go to Shandong to fight with the Chinese army. Of course, Luxi is adjacent to southern Hebei, and once the army sweeps on a large scale, the two districts will still have to be under unified command and fight side by side. As for the cadres who were transferred to the four garrison regiments, after the troops of the 129th Division arrived, they were all withdrawn and used as cadres of the four regiments of our army, and they moved with the division headquarters to replenish the troops after arriving in Shandong.

Luo Ronghuan and Zeng Zhongsheng are not only old Red Army, but also one of the founders of our army, and they are very happy to see Liu Yimin understand the chairman's telegram in this way. Luo Ronghuan immediately instructed Cai Zhong to sort out the division commander's original words, report them to the Central Committee and the General Headquarters, and send a report to the chairman in the names of Liu and Luo, resolutely implement the strategic decision to advance eastward into Shandong, and ask the Central Committee to quickly order the 115th and 129th Divisions to send troops to central and southern Hebei to take over the defense and accept the recruits and weapons and equipment of the reorganized troops, and escort the funds back to the Shaanxi base area.

Cai Zhong went to draft a telegram, and Luo Ronghuan said to Liu Yimin: "Since the chairman wants us to hurry up and advance eastward, I think the division commander should not rush to Liaocheng, anyway, Hong Chaoyuan has buried General Fan Zhuxian, and what is missing is only a public memorial ceremony." When we enter Liaocheng in the east, we can stop in Liaocheng and hold a public sacrifice ceremony. The most urgent task at the moment is to make good arrangements for the eastward expansion. Moreover, our troops are far away in the western part of central and southern Hebei, and it will take some time just to concentrate our troops. It is recommended that the division commander stay in Nangong and deal with these problems. ”

Liu Yimin nodded, and asked Zeng Zhongsheng to be in charge of organizing the staff office, re-studying and revising the eastward expansion plan, and notifying the air defense brigade and the Jizhong troops, and the division commander and political commissar to inspect the two troops. Yuan Guoping was informed that the day after tomorrow Zhao Yunxiang, Duan Haizhou, Qiao Mingli, and Fan Zixia would be invited to the division headquarters, and the division commander would personally talk to them.

When Wu Zheng asked whether the integrated troops in Luxi would be handed over to the 129th Division, Liu Yimin shook his head and replied that the chairman's telegram made it very clear that it was the transfer of the integrated troops from central and southern Hebei. The reorganized troops in southern Hebei had already asked Chen Zaidao to bring them back to the Taihang Mountain base area last time, and the rest were the counties and districts we had established and the armed forces were handed over to the 129th Division. Gao Shuncheng's troops, who were captured in Jizhong this time, were handed over to the 115th Division, and the reorganized Zhao Yunxiang and others' armaments were handed over to the 129th Division, and after being brought back to Taihang Mountain, they were uniformly deployed by the headquarters. Luxi reorganized the armed forces and brought them back to Luxi, to supplement the combat losses of the Fifth Brigade and build garrison units in various places. All in all, in the future, all base areas must be handed over to the local garrison units for defense, and the main forces must be concentrated at any time and clenched into fists to fight a war of annihilation.

Seeing that it was not early, Liu Yimin discussed with Luo Ronghuan, and after dinner, the party committee held a party committee to study the issue of eastward expansion in detail.

(To be continued)