The Lianyungang area has been famous since ancient times because of the benefits of fishing and salt. During the Xia and Shang periods, it belonged to Dongyi and was called Renfang Dongyi, Renfang Guo, and Yuyi. After the success of King Wu of Zhou, due to the large-scale division of meritorious heroes, the eastern region originally known as Dongyi began to be gradually developed, and by the time of the Qin Dynasty, it had become Donghai County. Since the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Lianyungang area has been called Haizhou.

Ancient Haizhou is built in Longtho, at the mouth of the Shu River, near the Shu River, along the East China Sea, and is a very beautiful coastal riverside city. During the Tang Dynasty, Haizhou had a population of 180,000, accounting for nearly one-twentieth of the country's population of 40 million at that time. After the great poet Su Dongpo arrived in Haizhou, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion of "wanting to abandon his wife and children to guard the city" and "wanting to help Donghai County, hating the stone bridge".

Unfortunately, in the Southern Song Dynasty, due to the war between the Southern Song Dynasty and Jin, Zhang Jun, the ruler of the Southern Song Dynasty and the marshal of the front line, miscalculated the situation, and under the premise of Han Shizhong's general Wang Shenghaizhou's victory, he actually gave up the strategic place of Haizhou, demolished Haizhou City, and immigrated all Haizhou people to Zhenjiang.

During the Mongol and Yuan periods, Haizhou became a pasture for the Mongols, and it was almost uninhabited. It was not until the middle and late Ming Dynasty that the towns around Haizhou gradually became large-scale again. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu rulers implemented sea cuts and sea bans, and in order to prevent the late Ming Dynasty and Taiwan's Zheng sailors from using the bay and estuary to launch attacks and occupy Yuntai Mountain as a base, they used giant trees to block the port at the mouth of the river and the seaway. In just twenty or thirty years, the strait between the wide Guhaizhou and Nanyuntai Mountains has silted up into land, and the port has become farther and farther away.

However, after the middle of the Qing Dynasty, due to the unique port advantages of Lianyungang, it is not only navigable and trade-oriented, but also has developed fishing and salt, and is close to the freshwater rivers and lakes in the north, which is convenient for production and life, and it has slowly developed here. From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the Republic of China, Lianyungang became a hot spot for businessmen to chase. Especially after the construction of the Longhai Railway, the railway leads to Lianyungang, the port is at the bottom of the river and Dagang after Xinpu, the berth is in the old kiln, the freight and passenger trade is prosperous, and Lianyungang has become the channel of foreign trade in northern Jiangsu.

On June 1, 1934, Chen Guofu, governor of Jiangsu Province, presided over the 662nd meeting of the provincial committee and passed the "Provincial Political Axe Resolution Planning Lianyungang Port Municipal Bill". The municipal case pointed out: "The eastern end of the Zilonghai Railway has reached Laoyao Town, Guanyun County, this province, and the first phase of the Lianyun Port project will also be completed." Therefore, the planning of the municipal government of the port is urgent, and the Brigadier General is south of the Linhong River, north of the Shaoxiang River, west of the East and West Islands, and east of Xinpu and Banpo, and the land and water areas are all formed by the Land Bureau to measure the land status and send personnel to handle the land inspection report, which will be completed within three months, and then the new urban area will be determined. ”

After doing a series of preliminary work, on January 18, 1935, Chen Guofu presided over the 718th meeting of the Provincial Committee, which decided: "Lianyungang Port will set up an ordinary city and name it Lianyun City." Its water and land area is temporarily south of Linhongkou, north of Yaoxiang River, east to Dongxilian Island, and west along Linhong River Xinpu and Banpu to the east. First, the Municipal Preparatory Office was set up, and the two departments of construction and civil affairs should quickly draft organizational rules and submit them to the committee. ”

After Jiangsu Province's opinion on the establishment of a city in Lianyungang Port was reported to the central government, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Republic of China held that the conditions for establishing a city were insufficient. According to the Organic Law of the Municipalities promulgated by the National Government in May 1930, the conditions for municipalities under the jurisdiction of the provinces were:

First, it has a population of more than 300,000 people. Second, the population is more than 200,000, and the business tax, license fee, and land tax collected account for more than half of the total income of the place every year. One or the other.

According to the situation of Lianyungang Port at that time, the population was only about 100,000, and the tax revenue was not much, which was indeed far from the conditions for establishing a city stipulated in the "Organic Law". However, during the deliberation of the Executive Yuan, it was believed that Lianyungang Port was an important coastal town, and the port construction had begun to take shape, and the Donglonghai Line had been opened to the old kiln. After the completion of the port, the central and western parts of China have a convenient outlet to the sea, and the municipal planning and infrastructure construction of the port are urgent. Therefore, in November 1935, the Nationalist Axe approved the establishment of Lianyun City.

Chen Guofu was bent on building Lianyun City, so he hired Lai Lian, a master of Cornell University in the United States and a native of Fujian, as the director of Lianyun City's municipal preparatory department, and began to survey land and engage in urban planning in April 1935.

Lai Lian was in charge of the reconstruction plan of Nanjing City, and satisfied the authorities and citizens of Nanjing City construction. After accepting the task of preparing for the construction, Lai Lian was ambitious and determined to build Lianyun into a big coastal city, at least in terms of economy and transportation, surpassing Shanghai to the south of the coast and Qingdao to the north. Therefore, he proposed that Laoyao should be a port area, Xugou should be a residential scenic area, Dapu should be an industrial area, and the area around Huangjiubu should be a municipal center and a high-tech area.

As for the construction land, the Preparatory Office has formulated land administrative regulations that are in line with the actual situation in Lianyungang. The general content is: After the land in the urban area is quoted by the landlord, the political axe issues land price coupons of the same amount to buy the land in the whole city. After the completion of the construction of the port and the development of commerce, the land price will inevitably rise, and then it will be sold by the political axe. In this way, in addition to paying off the land price vouchers, the surplus part will be used to set up municipal axes and municipal construction funds. This kind of regulation set a precedent for the government to raise construction funds through land management.

It's a pity that the devil is coming, and the national political axe has to stop the plan to build Lianyun City and lock Lai Lian's plan in the safe.

At this time, Lianyun City was still a concept on paper, and even a mayor had not had time to appoint. Donghai County, Guanyun County, Ganyu County, and Shuyang County around the port belong to the Eighth Administrative Supervision District of Jiangsu Province.

Historically, Lianyungang fell in early 1939. Due to the birth of Liu Yimin, history has changed, and in order to implement the Battle of Xuzhou, the army sent the Sixth Division to land from Lianyungang, defeat the defenders, and march west along the Longhai Road to attack Xuzhou. At this time, due to the capture of Qingdao, the supply of troops in Xuzhou was only carried out through Lianyungang, and the ships in the port were gathered, which was rare and lively for a while.

After Liu Yimin led the main force of the instructor to the south, he hid in the Sulu border area in the southern part of Juxian, the southern part of Linshu and the northern part of Ganyu.

During this time, although the Yue army launched a frantic attack on Luzhong, Taiyi Mountains and Lunan, Liu Yimin was unmoved and led the main force to rest in concealment. He was waiting for the opportunity, waiting for the two armies of Tada Jun and Gangbe Naosaburo to rush to Luzhong and Ludong.

The Second Jiao Brigade, the Luxi Garrison Brigade, and the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade led by Liu Jianli have also reached Shuyang County and Guanyun County, and have carried out secret reconnaissance of Lianyungang.

Now the main force of the instructors of the Eighth Route Army is gathered around Lianyungang, just waiting for Liu Yimin's order to seize Lianyungang, cut off the Longhai Road, and give the little devil a thunderous blow.

Liu Yimin calmed down and seriously pondered the issue of the construction of the Shandong base area.

In Liu Yimin's view, if we want to build Shandong into an unbreakable base area for resisting the Japanese Defense, there are several difficulties at hand: First, the devils were relatively strong in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, Shandong had a long coastline, and there were Jinpu Road and Jiaoji Road, which were the two transportation lifelines that I was determined to win. Second, although the instructors are strong, they consume a large amount of combat ammunition, and it is easy to say that ordinary bullets and artillery shells are like the ammunition of the Bayi automatic rifle, the Bayi machine gun, the rocket launcher, the antiaircraft gun, and the antiaircraft machine gun cannot be reloaded alone, and in particular, it is impossible to reload the ammunition of the rocket. If there were no bazookas, anti-aircraft guns, and anti-aircraft machine guns to deal with the devil's tanks, combat casualties would inevitably increase greatly. Therefore, it is necessary to have a base area that cannot be attacked by little devils at all, to build military industrial enterprises, and to ensure the combat needs of the troops. Third, the production level in this era is low, the grain output is not high, Shandong has a large population, and the army is so frantically sweeping, solving the problem of food has become a big problem. But now that the army is gathered, and it is too late for the people to save their lives, where can we take care of the development of production? Fourth, if the fight continues in this way, Shandong's industrial and commercial foundation will be completely destroyed, and there will be no way to talk about education and public health.

The root cause of these problems lies in the fact that the army and the instructor are in bond, and as long as the main force of the instructor is in Shandong, the army and the heavy army group will also stay in Shandong. In this way, there is no way to talk about the construction of base areas.

Considering the overall situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Yimin felt that he should stick to his original viewpoint, that is, let the Yue army capture more places, keep dividing troops to guard, turn field divisions into garrison divisions, and completely fall into the quagmire of the war of aggression against China. Otherwise, Xiao Yueben could organize a group of lifting troops to sweep frantically anytime and anywhere, affecting the overall strategy of the Anti-Japanese War.

In this way, within a certain period of time, the main force of the instructor should appropriately rein in its edge and not launch a large-scale offensive for the time being, otherwise, it will be impossible for the little devils to continue to implement their strategic policy if they are blindly entangled with the Eighth Route Army.

According to this thinking, Liu Yimin was determined that after the capture of Lianyungang, the main force of the whole division would be deployed in northern Jiangsu, completely smashing the defense line of the Yue army in northern Jiangsu, and mobilizing the main force of the devils to go south for reinforcements. After the main force of the devils left Shandong, the main force of the instructor returned to various parts of Shandong in concealment, and Liu Jianli led the Luxi troops to camouflage the main force, attracting the devils to the south, and dragged the devils to the Yangtze River, so that they could consolidate the Yangtze River defense line. When the little devil launched the Battle of Wuhan, the instructor launched an offensive in Shandong and mobilized the army back and forth. In the end, a situation was formed in which the Shandong Army was trapped in the communication line and the Eighth Route Army was developing in full swing in various base areas.

Now the troops have been resting in secrecy for some time, and they are ready to bend their bows.

After receiving the report of Hong Chaoyuan and Zhang Haitao on the Zhizaburo Group of the Military Gang Department and the Tatianjun Group going all out to the north, Liu Yimin was overjoyed, and the sacrifice of the Ludong Group was finally rewarded, and the little devil took the bait, and immediately instructed Zeng Zhongsheng to continue to lure the enemy, and once the three-way army of the devil gathered on Jiaoji Road and realized the rendezvous with the defenders of Qingdao, he quickly broke away from contact with the enemy, retreated to Jiaodong in great strides, and was ready to go to Kunyu Mountain to fight guerrillas.

I don't want to, I am happy to be happy, Tang Xingying gave birth in the field hospital on June 25, and he is another son, white and chubby, and he likes people a lot.

Liu Yimin was pleasantly surprised, named his son Li Zhengping, and joked Tang Xingying that it seems that you are a life with many sons and many blessings, maybe you will really give birth to four sons in a row. Tang Xingying looked shy, and whispered to Liu Yimin to get some happy eggs and let the comrades taste them.

When He'er was born, Liu Yimin was busy building a military factory in Hanzhong, and did not take care of his wife and son, and now it was the leisure period before the war.

As soon as Tang Xingying woke up every morning, Liu Yimin brought washing water to wash his wife's face. Then there is brown sugar poached egg or preserved egg lean porridge. At noon, it's either chicken soup chaos, or three fresh noodles, or rice stir-fry. In the evening it is millet porridge, shrimp paste pancakes. The dishes are even richer, basically Tang Xingying said that she could eat whatever she wanted. Even the bean curd that Tang Xingying wanted to eat, Liu Yimin made it.

In this place of Ganyu, the most famous snacks are Qujia dog meat and Songzhuang shrimp paste. The dog meat was too hot, and Liu Yimin couldn't figure out whether the confinement mother could eat it, but the shrimp paste was edible. Liu Yimin asked the sister-in-law in the village to spread out thin pancakes, roll them with shallots, shredded kelp and mushrooms, buy shrimp paste, dip and eat, which is more nutritious than the local people's pancake rolls and scallion dipping sauce.

It's okay now, not only Xiao Zhenghe revolves around Liu Yimin's ass every day, but even Cai Zhong comes to Liu Yimin on time every day, saying that he is stupid and can't do it, and his wife hasn't eaten anything good during confinement, and now he borrows Tang Xingying's light to compensate his wife.

In the end, Chen Tong, the director of the field hospital, suggested that Liu Yimin could change the cauldron to improve the lives of the seriously wounded.

Liu Yimin thought about it, it was okay, Lulu's own craftsmanship, so he simply went to the cooking class of the division headquarters, stewed pheasant, fried rabbit, seafood soup, and brought stewed noodles, whistle noodles, and chaos, and those seriously injured who ate them felt that they had recovered much faster.

Three days later, Liu Yimin asked Huang Wenhu to boil hot water, bathe the child, and wait for his wife to bathe and change into a clean military uniform.

Lin Yueqin and Ren Ying saw that Liu Yimin was so dedicated to Tang Xingying's waiting, so they joked that Tang Xingying was blessed, such a big division commander, he was majestic when he started a battle, and he couldn't imagine that he was really good at serving the confinement mother-in-law. It seems that Don Jr. has a few more to do. Tang Xingying pursed her lips and smiled.

Originally, Liu Yimin's model husband could continue to be a man, but unfortunately the little devil did not cooperate, and Tada Jun's southern line group finally detoured back to Jiaoxian and joined the devil marines in Qingdao, and the large army soon marched to Jiaodong.

On July 2, that is, the day Terauchi Shouichi left Beiping and returned to Yueben, Liu Yimin issued an order to capture Lianyungang, requiring Liu Jianli to command the Seventh Brigade, the Luxi Garrison Brigade, and the Southwest Luxi Garrison Brigade to act quickly and capture Lianyungang that night. He commanded the main force to rush to the devil's defense line on Longhai Road, preparing to gather reinforcements from the direction of Xuzhou between the East China Sea and Subei.

(To be continued)