After seeing off Madame Chiang, Madame Sun, and Ni Hua and her entourage, Luo Ronghuan returned to the deserted division headquarters, did not dare to stay for a moment, and immediately drafted a telegram to report to the Central Committee in detail the situation of Madame Sun, Madame Jiang and their entourage coming to Weixian County to express condolences to the troops, and finally reported Ni Hua's return to Zhengzhou with Madame Chiang, and reported to the Central Committee word for word about Liu Yimin's attitude and request to report to the Central Committee for divorce and the situation that Ni Hua should no longer be called Mrs. Liu Yimin in the future.

After sending the telegram, the sky was already bright, and Luo Ronghuan didn't sleep all night, so he slept in his clothes at the division headquarters.

Not long after lying down, the chairman's telegram arrived, with only four words on it: "Childish, stupid." ”

Luo Ronghuan's scalp was numb, and he was thinking about how to explain to the chairman when the second telegram came, which read: "Liu, Luo, and Cai fell for Song Meiling, she was afraid that Ni Hua would stay in the Eighth Route Army and compete with them for American aid in the future." According to common sense, Song Meiling should support Ni Hua to stay with Liu the most, and she later took Ni Hua away almost by force, and it is very likely that she was inspired by the medical team and the press corps that came back with Ni Hua, and she didn't want to take Ni Hua away. She took advantage of Ni Hua's self-esteem, Mrs. Sun's sense of justice, and Comrade Liu Yimin's guilt towards Ni Hua, and succeeded in one fell swoop. After Ni Hua left, if our party tried to plot to win US aid, it would be extremely difficult and almost impossible, and the company in the United States would also be greatly affected. The damage to this matter is incalculable, and we can only wait for time to judge. Liu is young, involving his own feelings, confused thinking, and afraid of discipline, which is understandable. Luo and Cai have experienced a hundred battles, and they were deceived by Song Meiling, hateful! Why not report it in a timely manner? Why not take decisive steps to keep Ni Hua? Luo and Cai should review the failure to properly handle the matter to the Central Committee. In particular, it is necessary to examine the dangers of subjective constraints. Liu joined the party and joined the army for a short time, and he had many ideological concerns. Luo and Cai are both backbone cadres in the initial period of our army, so why be afraid? Why can't we be held accountable when it matters most? Why can't you support Liu at a critical moment? How exactly are the duties of political commissars and directors of the political department performed? Who should bear the responsibility for such a significant loss? What a pity! What a pity! The top priority is to stabilize Liu's mood and think about the war as soon as possible. As for Liu's report on the divorce and the dissolution of the marriage contract with Ni, it was purely Liu's irrational words and deeds when he was forced to get emotional by the Second Song Dynasty, which can be laughed at. I believe that when his mood is stable, he will treat it correctly. The matter must not spread outward. After the battle is over, Liu Qin will report all the problems to the Central Committee. Be sure to! ”

After reading the chairman's telegram, Luo Ronghuan woke up like a dream, scolded twice hatefully, "Chiang Kai-shek and his family don't have a good thing," and hurriedly asked Li Chengyi to go to the special combat team to ask Liu Yimin to return to the division headquarters. He knew that Liu Yimin loved to go to the special combat team when he was in a mood swing, and he must be there at this time.

After Liu Yimin left the division headquarters, he did go to the special operations headquarters, asked Li Lingfeng to take two steamed buns, filled his stomach indiscriminately, and fell asleep.

When Li Chengyi arrived at the Special Operations Command, he happened to meet Wang Laohu, the new deputy commander of the Special Operations Command, who had not had a good face for Zhang Haitao and Li Chengyi since Liu Yimin was attacked in Chengdu last time, and was criticized by Liu Yimin for this.

Seeing Li Chengyi this time, Wang Laohu's anger didn't come to one place, and he slipped away directly: "Yo, isn't this Grand Master Li?" Which gust of wind brought you here? This guard regiment has done a good job recently, the guards come and go to the guards, and they even let the division commander not eat, drink or sleep for a day and a night, and the Eighth Route Army in Shandong is the best among you. Let me discuss something for you, do you please report to the division commander and political commissar, find a temple for the group of old soldiers of your guard regiment, and let the division commander and political commissar serve you tea and water. Our Special Operations Command sent a team to take charge of the division commander's guard mission, where to rest where it is cool, see that you are tired! ”

Li Chengyi smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, my deputy commander Wang, you can spare me." Why don't you give the division commander a suggestion and let me go to the 1st Brigade to be a battalion commander, even if it is a company commander or platoon commander, I am willing to do it. There are so many opportunities to kill devils by the side of the division commander, and my Lao Li's hands are itching. ”

With this, Wang Laohu's face looked a little better, and he said to Li Chengyi: "If there is no major event, don't disturb the division commander and let him sleep for a while." If you don't rest, where can you think about big things? ”

Li Chengyi nodded, but still let Li Xiaoshuai wake up Liu Yimin, and reported in person that the political commissar asked him to return to the division headquarters immediately.

Liu Yimin was so sleepy, although this sleep was short, he slept very deeply. After being woken up, thinking about the experience last night was the same as dreaming, Ni Hua was taken away by Song Meiling in front of him. Thinking about it again, it feels wrong, Chiang Kai-shek tried every possible way to arrange women by his side, and finally Ni Hua came back, how could Song Meiling take her away? It is still possible to say that Song Qingling asked Ni Hua to leave him out of a sense of justice and feelings for Ni Hua. This Song Meiling was still thinking about the mud at first, and wanted to leave Ni Hua behind, but then why did she suddenly change her hexagram? Don't say that she is really embarrassed to force herself to divorce because her wife is pregnant, in that case, the liars and ghosts will not believe it. If she had that awareness, she would not have forced Chiang Kai-shek to sever relations with poor Mao and Chen Jieru. So why exactly? Anyway, forcibly taking Ni Hua away was definitely not Chiang Kai-shek's intention, the problem must be Song Meiling.

Thinking about it, she thought of Ni Hua's activities in the United States, and as soon as she thought about it, Song Meiling's intentions were clearly revealed, she was afraid that Ni Hua would contact and liaise with the United States on behalf of the Eighth Route Army again. This woman is really thoughtful, and she deserves to be the husband of a woman!

After thinking clearly, I had to smile bitterly, even if I wasn't excited last night, what if I saw through Song Meiling's intentions at that time? Could it be that he really dared to hold a public wedding with Ni Hua? Even if she dared, Song Meiling would not agree, and the excuse that her Tang Xingying was pregnant blocked everything that could be done.

sighed, got up and washed his face, got up and went back to the division headquarters.

After arriving at the division headquarters, seeing Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong sitting there with bitter faces, their eyes were also red, they felt that what they said to Cai Zhong last night was too heavy, and they felt a little apologetic, so they took the initiative to say: "Director Cai, go and see your sister-in-law, see how the child looks, whether he is well-behaved." I'm waiting to hold my niece! ”

Cai Zhong heard Liu Yimin say this, there was no joy on his face, and he said with a bitter face: "Division commander, we are in charge of Song Meiling, and the chairman sent a telegram to ask me and the political commissar to write an examination!" ”

Liu Yimin stretched out his hand and took the telegram and read it, but he was silent for a long time. In the end, he said: "There is no need to write the examination, send a telegram to the chairman, and say that the revolution cannot be succeeded with the help of a woman, and that it will rain and the mother will marry, so let her go." We and the Chiang Kai-shek clique themselves are two cars running on the same road, and we will never be able to get together. Of course, Ni Hua is different from them, she is our comrade and comrade-in-arms, and we still have to think of taking her back. However, if she wants to become my wife Liu Yimin one day, she must completely cut ties with Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling, otherwise everything will not be discussed. I Liu Yimin can not want my life in order to resist the war, let alone feelings? This time we were fooled, but there were also benefits, and the trace of respect for Song Meiling in my heart also ran away. In the future, we are us, they are them, and our army will no longer receive visits from Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, and I will no longer go to them to talk about any military issues, let alone any condolences and rewards from him. He fights his frontal battlefield, I fight guerrilla warfare and movement warfare behind enemy lines, and militarily we can cooperate with each other in order to fight against a common enemy, and we can be politically clear and not the slightest bit sticky. ”

When Cai Zhong said this, Cai Zhong immediately shouted happily: "That's right, we are the Red Army, they are the White Army, and there is an enmity between them." The joint resistance is okay, and the others are less to Lao Tzu to make the ghost famous. Annoyed, Lao Tzu even cleaned them up with the devil! Division commander, you deserve to be my good teacher and brother, you wait, I will go and send a report to the chairman. ”

Cai Zhong turned around and was about to leave, Liu Yimin stopped him and said: "The big war is imminent, in order to avoid accidents, send a telegram to Wu Zheng, asking him to complete the production task, grasp the strong wall and clear the field, lead the arsenal experts, the main technicians, the first branch of the Kang University, the art troupe, and the newspaper to form a column directly under the division, move closer to the main force, and hand over the other personnel to the command of the training headquarters to conduct military training in the central base area of Yimeng and actively prepare for war. In addition, Tang Xingying, Lin Yueqin and the children were escorted here to meet the main force. Ren Ying's sister-in-law and Wu Zheng's lover are both in the field hospital, so don't think about it. ”

Cai Zhong said yes and left. Luo Ronghuan was happy when he saw that Liu Yimin had recovered his spirit so quickly, and said with a smile: "Aren't you going to divorce Tang Xingying?" Why do you care so much about her safety? ”

Liu Yimin looked at Luo Ronghuan and said in a sullen voice: "She is my wife, my son's mother, and she is still pregnant with my child in her belly, if I can't protect the safety of their mother and son, what division commander will lead any soldier!" Don't say that there is no divorce yet, but divorced, whoever dares to touch her finger, I want him to look good. ”

"What about Ni Hua?"

"Same!"

Luo Ronghuan shook his head and said, "You don't remember your surname for a long time when you are beaten." The righteousness and strictness that I said just now became confused after a while. Isn't it true that if you don't marry Ni Hua, she won't be able to fall in love and marry someone else? If you divorce Tang Xingying, will it be possible that she will have to guard you for the rest of her life? This is selfishness, not love! Think about it! After speaking, without waiting for Liu Yimin to reply, he went to bed and lay down to sleep.

Liu Yimin just said, "That's my temper", looked up and saw that Luo Ronghuan had already gone to lie on the bed, the snoring sounded, shook his head, and went to the combat office.

After arriving at the combat office, Liu Yimin first asked Zhu Zhexiao to immediately convey the order, and all units of the division should end their rest and recuperate, enter a state of readiness for war, and expand the scope of reconnaissance. The troops of Jilubian, Luxi, Southwest Shanxi, Taixi, and Lunan were ordered to quickly report the situation of the enemy. Then let Zhu Zhexiao call Qian Zhuangfei and Luo Yan to report.

It didn't take long for Qian Zhuangfei and Luo Yan to come. Luo Yan reported that the devils on the Jinpu Road were tantamount to martial law on the entire railway, and the investigators couldn't get close at all, and the devils shot at 200 meters away from the railway. It's not okay to wear devils and puppet army uniforms, especially at night, the devil's password is changed every two hours, and if one is wrong, it will be a machine gun and a rifle to greet directly. Many people died along the railway, and they were all killed by devils when they were not paying attention when they were passing by.

Qian Zhuangfei reported that according to a report by the Tianjin underground party, the military has also imposed martial law on the railways from Tanggu to Tianjin and Beiping, and the wagons have been changed into stuffy tank carriages, and the passenger cars and wagons have stopped transporting passengers and goods, and the transportation has been extremely busy in the past two days. Even the highway was also said to be under martial law by the puppet army, and there was a movement of devil troops at night. It's a pity that you can't get close to the reconnaissance. The situation on Pinghan Road is similar to that of Jinpu Road, and the devils have implemented martial law. In addition, the devil's radio station has changed its password again, and it can't be cracked for the time being.

Liu Yimin immediately asked Qian Zhuangfei, is it the same way as the last time the devil swept in Jizhong?

Qian Zhuangfei replied yes.

Strangely, in addition to the martial law on railways and highways, the Tai'an detachments of Jilubian, Luxi, Luxinan, Taixi, Lunan and Zhang Haitao all reported that there was no obvious change in the enemy situation in front of them.

Chen Dayong reported that the German consul in Qingdao, Feng Saoken, had frequent contacts with our army in the past two days and held consultations on the ransom of the Chinese nationals. However, Feng Saoken was very cunning and bargained with our army, I don't know if it was a delaying tactic.

After listening to the intelligence report, Liu Yimin instructed Chen Dayong to propose a deadline for Feng Saoken to make a transaction, so that a group of overseas Chinese who had committed the most heinous crimes could be shot in public first, so as to deter Yue himself and urge them to trade as soon as possible. Qian Zhuangfei and Luo Yan were ordered to strengthen the monitoring of the enemy situation in southwest and southern Lu, and be sure to figure out the deployment of the devils on the front line in Xuzhou.

After Qian Zhuangfei and Luo Yan left, Liu Yimin called Wang Tongsheng and asked Ni Hua if the sniper rifles, silencers and 200 K98 sniper rifles provided by Tada Lingfu were equipped with troops.

Wang Tongsheng has been fainting with joy these days, the sniper brigade originally only had sniper rifles, all of which were captured in Taiyuan and Tianjin, but this time not only did Ni Hua bring back some American-made Chuntian-style sniper rifles, but also silencers, scopes, walkie-talkies, and silent pistols, which could be regarded as an eye-opener for the soldiers of the special operations brigade and the sniper brigade. In particular, the 200 German-made K98 sniper rifles that Liu Yimin got back from Qingdao are directly equipped with silencers, and the scope is also six times larger, and they also have periscopes, so that the general snipers of the sniper brigade can directly shoot their heads at 300 meters and hit their chests at 600 meters. If Wang Tongsheng and a few squadron leaders and squad leaders make a move, the effective distance can be even higher.

As soon as he heard the division commander's inquiry, Wang Tongsheng reported that all the weapons had been fully equipped, and each soldier had a sniper rifle, a Bayi automatic rifle, and a barge gun, and that he could fight silently.

After hearing this, Liu Yimin said: "Tongsheng, let the sniper brigade immediately take a car to the direction of Jinan and carry out a sniper battle on the Jinpu line, and we must provoke the little devils, call their numbers, and show their intentions." Set off immediately, be quick, it's too late. It is necessary to remind the fighters to pay attention to the fact that they should strictly guard against the snipers and special forces of the devils, and prevent the bombing and artillery fire of the devil's planes. ”

As soon as Wang Tongsheng heard this, he came to stand up on the phone, and said happily: "Commander, listen up, we are thinking of reporting to you and finding a place to test the gun!" ”

Putting down the phone, Liu Yimin sat down in front of the map again, and began to think about what Shouichi Terauchi would do along the lines of yesterday.

At this time, the headquarters of the North China Front Army in Peiping was extremely busy, and a staff officer was guarding one telephone, all of them were constantly shaking the phone, conveying orders, and asking about the progress of the troops.

General Terauchi Shouichi was in a good mood at this time, and he actually pulled Tada Jun to play Go in the headquarters.

In fact, the old devil Shouichi Terauchi also had no choice, the combat meeting was held, and the combat order was issued, but the scale of the troops mobilized was too large, and the railways and highways in North China were often destroyed by the Eighth Route Army, which affected the speed of troop transportation. In addition, some troops were transferred from the northeast, some troops were transferred from North China, and some troops were brought by boat from the mainland. For example, if you want to transfer back the permanent divisions and regiments in eastern Henan, you must have troops to take over the defense. The troops that received the defense were not in place, and Terauchi Shouichi did not dare to draw away a few permanent divisions, because he was afraid that Yudong's [***] would take advantage of the situation to counterattack and chop the 27th division and eat it cleanly. Another example is the troops drawn from the Kwantung Army, General Ueda Kenkichi has a lot of opinions, the reason is very simple, the Eighth Division was collectively broken because of the reinforcement of the North China operation, and General Ueda Kenkichi is afraid that the tragedy of the Eighth Division will be repeated, in that case the Northeast will be very empty. You must know that the task undertaken by the Kwantung Army is to prepare for war against the Soviet Union, and the withdrawal of so many troops makes Ueda Kenkichi feel bottomless, for fear that the Soviets will give him a ruthless attack at this time, and then the joke will be big. In addition, the North China Front Army lacked supplies, and the Kwantung Army had to bring its own baggage, so the time for the mobilization and concentration of troops could only be extended.

The troops are not in place, and the old devil of Terauchi Shouichi can't do anything, and he doesn't want to let Tada Jun wait here, so he has to pull him to play chess.

Just as he was descending, Naosaburo Gangbe came in and reported that all the troops of the Central China Front had arrived at Lianyungang and that they would soon be able to build a defensive line. However, the Kwantung Army was very slow, so please ask the commander to send a report directly to Commander Kenkichi Ueda, urging him to hurry up, otherwise, Liu Yimin is likely to find out, which will lead to the defeat of the battle.

Shouichi Terauchi looked up from the chessboard and told Tada that it was up to him to contact the fool Ueda Kenkichi and order him to act quickly in the name of the base camp, and to make sure that he arrived at the designated position on time to make sure that the attack was launched on time.

Tada Jun was also straightforward, and directly got up and sent a report to Ueda Kenkichi, urging him to speed up his actions and not affect the overall battle plan.

Kenkichi Ueda poured bitter water on the phone, first saying that the troops' baggage was not yet ready, and they would be hungry if they attacked rashly. Angered Tada, he threatened Admiral Ueda Kenkichi and said that he would report to the emperor that the Kwantung Army was afraid of the enemy like a tiger and passively avoided the war. It wasn't until Ueda Kenkichi reported that the troops would be loaded and shipped today, that Tada Jun returned to the chess table, sat down cross-legged, and began to fight with General Terauchi Shouichi wholeheartedly.

(To be continued)