Nangong County is located in the southern part of Hebei Province. Historically, it was the command center of the Anti-Japanese War in southern Hebei, known as the red capital of the Anti-Japanese War in southern Hebei, and more than 50,000 heroic sons and daughters died on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War and the War of Liberation.

After a few days of night marching, Liu Yimin finally led the cavalry brigade and guard regiment to Nangong and joined the division headquarters.

This time, Liu Yimin stayed in Tianjin, using himself as a bait to lure the Yue army to return to attack Tianjin, and the risks during this period can be imagined. Even Tang Xingying felt that her lover was afraid that she would say goodbye to her forever this time, and she washed her face with tears every day, for fear that one day there would be bad news. Fortunately, Liu Yimin grasped the psychology of the Yue army, which was eager to recapture Tianjin and was afraid of the attack, and rushed out unconsciously while the enemy's blockade line had not yet been completely formed.

Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, Zeng Zhongsheng, Wu Zheng, Qian Zhuangfei, and Hu Di, who had already received the news, had already led the personnel of the division headquarters to greet them outside Nangong County. The reunion of comrades-in-arms was extremely exciting. Cai Zhong held Liu Yimin's hand tightly, and kept muttering, "I finally came back alive!" ”

Liu Yimin smiled and said: "Okay, Lao Cai, don't be sour anymore, as long as you and Lao Qian stop arranging me indiscriminately, just say that I am greedy for the love of the Italian beauties' bed, and I will burn high incense." Don't get it to the end, the devil can't kill me, and the lace news you made up made me unable to live, so it will be troublesome. ”

When this was said, several people laughed.

After returning to the division headquarters in Nangong County, Liu Yimin immediately reported to the chairman and the general headquarters the news of the safe extrication from difficulties, and reported that he would quickly lead the army into Shandong, capture Jinan, transfer the main force of the army to the south, and then establish a consolidated Shandong base area in Shandong.

After receiving the telegram that Liu Yimin had escaped from the predicament and returned to the division headquarters, he immediately replied and instructed the instructor to go to Shandong immediately, and leave a strong force behind to create a base area in southern Hebei and open up the situation of resistance in southern Hebei.

Liu Yimin naturally knows the history of the resistance in southern Hebei.

In that year, Chen Zaidao led the troops of five companies of the 129th Division into southern Hebei, led the people of southern Hebei to fight bloody battles, and fought a famous army in the history of our army.

During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, heroes emerged in southern Hebei, and more than a dozen brigade-level cadres of the Eighth Route Army alone were sacrificed. In the most difficult time, the children of Comrade Song Renqiang, secretary of the Party Committee of the Southern Hebei District, starved to death here. It is precisely because of the struggle and sacrifice of the martyrs that the base area in southern Hebei survived in the arduous struggle.

Now it is different from history, his own instructor and the whole army entered the Nangong area, and while the army had not yet reached the area around Nangong, he would soon be able to sweep away the bandits and the remnants of the Kuomintang here, and establish a stable base area. Besides, when the 129th Division established the southern Hebei base area, the backbone troops were too small, the weapons and ammunition were insufficient, and the combat effectiveness could not be improved in a short period of time after the large-scale expansion. There are no such problems as their own instructors, and as long as they leave a main brigade, the base area in southern Hebei will be very stable. Probably the chairman also took a fancy to this point, so he wanted to teach the instructor to create a base on the spot.

At this time, in addition to the main transportation routes, the army had not yet penetrated into the counties of southern Hebei. There are a lot of stragglers in southern Hebei, and there are many commanders, detachment leaders, and the like. At the same time, the local party organizations are relatively sound and have a good mass foundation.

After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin presided over an enlarged meeting of the party committee attended by the heads of all brigades, briefly reported on the situation in the last two days in Tianjin, and recounted the process of coming all the way.

Luo Ronghuan reported on the work of the troops since they entered the Nangong area. Because Liu Yimin's original order was to wait in concealment in the Nangong area, in order not to affect the next battle plan of the troops, after the instructor's various units entered Nangong and its surrounding areas, they did not carry out more operations, and everything was based on the principle of concealing the intention of the main force.

Wu Zheng reported that all the materials transported from Tianjin were transferred to Nangong, and asked for instructions on whether to establish a base on the spot and organize production as soon as possible. Otherwise, the workers and technicians brought out of Tianjin will have nothing to do, and after a long time, it will affect their positive surnames.

Zeng Zhongsheng reported that in accordance with the instructions of the division commander, the General Staff Office has drawn up an operational plan for the whole division to enter Shandong and seize Jinan, and is waiting for the division commander to review it.

Cai Zhong reported on the recruitment of new soldiers in Tianjin. Among them, 20,000 people are enrolled in Tianjin, and 12,000 people are enrolled in Tangshan, Cangxian, Jinghai and Langfang. There are also 60,000 migrant workers mobilized from Tianjin waiting to be repatriated with travel expenses.

Qian Zhuangfei reported on the recent hostile situation. From the radio broadcasts received, it was learned that Terauchi Shouichi had gone to Tianjin, and that the army was carrying out a large-scale sweep in the Beijing-Tianjin area and eastern Hebei, with the aim of capturing the main force of the instructor. For the time being, the enemy has not discovered that the main force of our army is hiding in the Nangong area.

After the work report was completed, Liu Yimin read the chairman's telegram, and then began to study the issue of the army's eastward march into Shandong and the creation of a base area for the southern Hebei anti-Japanese war.

The first thing to study is the issue of establishing a base area in southern Hebei. This problem is relatively easy to handle, and now there is neither the army nor [***] in the counties around Nangong, and it is basically a blank. Although there are some Kuomintang county political axes and security teams, as well as some stragglers and fighters who are armed with various types of armed forces under the banner of resistance, Liu Yimin, who is familiar with history, knows that these guys are actually using the banner of resistance to prey on the common people. When the army sweeps up, these Kuomintang county political axes will naturally disintegrate. Therefore, Liu Yimin proposed to leave a brigade behind and set up the Southern Hebei Military Region and the Southern Hebei Administrative Office to lead the anti-Japanese struggle in the southern Hebei region in a unified manner. Chen Dayong was ordered to teach the Seventh Brigade to stay, with Chen Dayong appointed commander of the Southern Hebei Military Region and commissioner of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, and Liu Yi appointed political commissar of the Southern Hebei Military Region and secretary of the Party Committee of the Southern Hebei Region. Under the leadership of the newly established Southern Hebei Administrative Office and the Southern Hebei Military Region, the most urgent task at present is to quickly wipe out bandits in the counties around Nangong, integrate local armed forces, establish base areas with the Nangong area as the center and radiating Xinhe, Julu, Jixian, Wuyi, Hengshui, and other counties, organize and mobilize the masses, and establish county and township political power.

In view of the performance of the recruits of the air defense command in the defense of Tianjin Airport, Liu Yimin demanded that all the recruits of each brigade stay in the Nangong area, and the Seventh Brigade should be responsible for centralized training. After the completion of the training, they will be integrated into the units.

The second issue to be studied was the issue of marching into Shandong, and Liu Yimin's opinion was well known to all, that is, to quickly seize Jinan, shake the enemy, and attract the heavy army group to the south, and then the whole division would be deployed in various parts of Shandong to create a base area in Shandong. The reason why the instructor left Tianjin was because of this goal. Therefore, there is nothing to study on this issue, and it is enough to organize and implement it by the division commander and political commissar.

As for Wu Zhengti's question of organizing the production of enterprises on the spot, considering that the southern Hebei Plain was not in danger to defend and that it was impossible to defend itself, the meeting decided to establish a central base area in the Yimeng Mountains after the troops entered Shandong, and to rely on the mountainous terrain to develop the base industry.

In the end, Liu Yimin made several points: First, after the capture of Jinan, he still adopted the method of emptying Jinan and moving Jinan's industries to the base area. Second, our army entered Shandong with the aim of establishing a strong base area. Therefore, it is imperative that the building of political power keep up. The political commissar and Director Cai should consider it in an all-round way, and on the basis of the cadre regiment led by Lin Feng, recruit cadets from among the young students and underground party members who went south with the army in Tianjin, set up cadre training classes, and train a large number of staff members who can become village heads, township heads, county heads, and political axes in various fields. After entering Shandong, it is necessary to vigorously train local cadres in Shandong and strive to train a number of backbone cadres for us in a relatively short period of time. Use this group of cadres to build base areas and organize and mobilize the masses to rise up to resist the war. 3. The Seventh Brigade of the Seventh Brigade that remained in southern Hebei should learn to do united front work, ponder how to deal with the Kuomintang regime and the [***] troops, and unite them to resist together. Fourth, political power at all levels in the villages, townships, and counties in the base areas must be elected to ensure that they can represent the will of the people. 5. All base areas shall implement a three-tier mechanism of the main force, garrison force, and militia; the main force shall mainly undertake mobile combat tasks, the garrison units, including county brigades and district squads, shall mainly undertake local garrison and guerrilla combat tasks; and the militia shall strengthen training and carry out joint defense in various villages. In particular, in the base areas in the plains, it is necessary to organize the villagers to dig tunnels, and then cooperate with mine warfare to turn the base areas into fighting fortresses connected by tunnels. Sixth, we must resolutely implement our army's principle of building branches at the company level, give priority to the allocation of political work cadres in the newly formed units, and set up party groups in each squad to effectively play the role of the core of the battle and ensure that the troops cannot be defeated or dragged down. Seventh, except for the Seventh Brigade, all brigades mobilized immediately after returning and waited for orders.

After the meeting, Liu Yimin asked Chen Dayong and Liu Yi to stay, made specific arrangements for them to create a base area in southern Hebei, and gave them a detailed explanation on how to carry out tunnel warfare and mine warfare, and asked the two of them to organize troops to start as soon as possible and quickly open up the situation in several counties around Nangong.

It wasn't until Chen Dayong and Liu Yi thoroughly understood the essence of tunnel warfare and mine warfare that Liu Yimin waved them to leave, and he would go to his residence to rest.

The instructor department is located in the Nangong Huaxing Tobacco Distribution Office of Tianjin British American Tobacco Company on North Street in Nangong County. This is a building built in the early years of the Republic of China, with 12 rooms in the west building, 5 rooms in the north house, 6 rooms in the double entrance deep east house, and 3 rooms in the south house. After the 77 Incident, the master Jia Xinwu went to Tianjin with money, and it became an empty house, so Luo Ronghuan set up the division headquarters here.

Tang Xingying already knew that Liu Yimin had returned safely, and he also went outside the city to greet him. But Liu Yimin was busy talking to the division and brigade leaders, and then there was a meeting, and so far he hadn't said a word to Tang Xingying and his son.

(To be continued)