In the land of Luxi in the first month, the smell of the New Year has not completely subsided.

Although this year is different from previous years, Yue Kou once attacked and occupied Liaocheng and killed General Fan Zhuxian, the flag bearer of the Luxi people, but Yue Kou did not gain a foothold in Liaocheng, and the Eighth Route Army, which was like a divine soldier, quickly recovered Liaocheng and annihilated the fourth brigade of the Yue Army that attacked Liaocheng, avenging General Fan Zhuxian. Therefore, this year is a year of joy and sorrow for many ordinary Liaocheng people.

On February 28, in the morning light, the instructors rushed to Liaocheng, and the representatives of the troops and the people of Liaocheng rushed to General Fan Zhuxian's purpose one after another.

At half past six, Cai Zhong, director of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, announced the beginning of the Republic of China Political Axe, the Republic of China Political Axe Military Committee, the Central Committee, and the 18th Group Army Headquarters to commemorate General Fan Zhuxian.

After Luo Ronghuan finished speaking, Liu Yimin delivered an important speech. In his speech, Liu Yimin pointed out: At present, the Kou are invading China in an all-round way, arrogant, burning, killing, looting, and committing heinous crimes wherever they pass. The best way to commemorate General Fan Zhuxian is to unite to resist the insult and drive the devils out of China. All Chinese, including soldiers, intellectuals, peasants, workers, and businessmen, must unite, have the money to contribute, and make a strong contribution, pick up the steel guns, hoes, knives, and spears in their hands, fight the devils, and drown them completely with our blood. Finally, Liu Yimin shouted that all Chinese should learn from Fan Zhuxian, be heroes who died in battle, not fleeing bears; Be a model of resistance, not a surrendered Han annihilation.

After the commemorative meeting, Liu Yimin asked Cai Zhong to inform the Propaganda Department of the Political Department not to report to the public for the time being, and to strictly seal the news of the arrival of the instructor and division in Liaocheng. It was only by telegram that the Central Committee was reported on the convening of the commemorative meeting.

Back at the division headquarters, Liu Yimin received an order from the central government. The order said that after the decision of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the Shandong Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Shandong Military Region were established, which were directly under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee and were responsible for the unified leadership and organization of the anti-Japanese struggle in Shandong, eastern Henan, northern Jiangsu, and northern Anhui.

The Central Shandong Bureau was merged with the former Sulu-Henan-Anhui Provincial Party Committee, composed of seven members: Liu Yimin, Luo Ronghuan, Zeng Zhongsheng, Guo Hongtao, Zhu Rui, Li Yu, and Cai Zhong, with Comrade Liu Yimin as the first secretary of the Shandong Bureau, Comrade Luo Ronghuan as the second secretary of the Shandong Bureau, and political commissar of the Shandong Military Region.

The Shandong Bureau consists of the Organization Department, the Propaganda Department, the United Front Work Department, the Ministry of Democracy Movement, the Ministry of Society, the Youth Committee, the Women's Committee, and the Secretariat, Li Lin is the Organization Minister, Zhong Xiaopei is the Propaganda Minister, Guo Zihua is the United Front Work Minister, Li Zhuru is the Minister of the Democracy Movement, Liu Juying is the Minister of Social Affairs, Sun Taolin is the Secretary of the Youth Committee, Tang Xingying is the Secretary of the Women's Committee, Li Jun is the Director of the Secretariat, and the Instructor Division Department is also the Shandong Military Region, Comrade Liu Yimin is also the commander of the Shandong Military Region and the Secretary of the Party Committee of the Shandong Military Region, and Comrade Luo Ronghuan is also the political commissar of the Shandong Military Region. Comrade Zeng Zhongsheng concurrently served as chief of staff of the Shandong Military Region, Comrade Cai Zhong concurrently served as director of the Political Department of the Shandong Military Region, Comrade Wu Zheng concurrently served as director of the logistics department of the Shandong Military Region, Comrade Qian Zhuangfei concurrently served as deputy chief of staff of the Shandong Military Region, and Comrade Hu Di concurrently served as director of the security department of the Shandong Military Region.

After reading the order, Liu Yimin felt heavy in his heart. He knew that in history, the central government set up a branch in Shandong, which belonged to the leadership of the Northern Bureau. It was not until 1945 that the Shandong Branch merged with the Central China Bureau to form the East China Bureau. The central government's arrangement in this way not only takes a fancy to Shandong's strategic position, but also places infinite high hopes on itself and its instructors. It can be said that this is to let himself govern Shandong, create a strong base area, and create a large army to conquer the Quartet.

Luo Ronghuan saw that Liu Yimin was a little excited, and knew that he was feeling pressured, so he suggested that he go to Haiyuan Pavilion in Liaocheng to have a look.

Liu Yimin shook his head and ordered the central telegraph to be sent to all brigades and Comrade Li Yu. Then he began to draft the "Instruction Telegram on the Eastward Advance of the Main Force of Our Army", which was later known as the "Eastward Advance to Shandong No. 1 Instruction Telegram".

In the telegram, Liu Yimin wrote: "The purpose of our army's main force marching eastward into Shandong this time is to unite and lead the 38 million Shandong people, raise the banner of Shandong's resistance, establish a strong Shandong anti-Japanese base area, drive out the Japanese and eliminate Shandong, and then use Shandong as a base to support our army in Pingjin and central Hebei in the north, support our army in southern Hebei, northern Henan, and Taihang Mountains in the west, and open up base areas in eastern Henan, northern Jiangsu, and northern Anhui in the south. After two to three years of hard work, we have established a powerful anti-Japanese base area spanning Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, and the Soviet Union, and pulled up a powerful field corps to carry out a strategic showdown with the heavy army group of the Chinese army, so as to speed up the pace of victory in the anti-Japanese war. To this end, the following instructions are given to the work of our army after its eastward march into Shandong.

First, we must give top priority to mobilizing the masses and establishing political power. In accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the Nangong Conference of the division party committee, after our army advanced eastward, it established a base area with brigades as a unit, established a five-level political power at the executive office, sub-district, county, district, and village levels, and mobilized and organized the masses to rise up and fight with us. To this end, the commanders of all brigades must personally grasp the building of political power, organize the reclamation and development of production, and improve the wartime economic system in the base areas. When the time is ripe, Shandong Province will be elected to manage Shandong's civil affairs, public security, transportation, commerce, industry, agriculture, and education affairs in a unified manner.

Second, it is necessary to grasp the expansion of the armed forces as the central task. In addition to the unified distribution of new recruits to each brigade in the training headquarters, all units should actively mobilize young people to join the army in their respective base areas, and after the formation and training headquarters have completed the training task of recruiting recruits in northwestern Shandong and advanced eastward to join the division headquarters, they should guide the establishment of armed forces departments in each base area and train new recruits at different levels. The preliminary plan is that each brigade will build two or three new garrison brigades under the three-three system in the base areas, which will initially assume the garrison tasks in the base areas, and after training in cooperation with the main force in combat, they will be mixed with the main force. Divisional garrison regiments, county brigades, district squads, and village militia teams. After three years of struggle, a four-level armed system of the main force, local garrison forces, county and district armed forces, and militia has been formed, and at least 400,000 elite field troops have been raised. The whole division must strive for this goal!

3. In order to ensure the construction of the base areas, three measures have been adopted: First, in terms of political strategy, the work of the Shandong Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the party committees in various localities will not be announced to the outside world, and all base areas will implement the unified leadership of the party committees and the anti-Ming boiling political axe, and the affairs of the local area will be handled in an overall manner in the name of the anti-Ming boiling political axe. Second, militarily, in the early days of the eastward advance, the method of fighting with large corps was not adopted for the time being, and the campaign of cold guns and cold artillery was extensively carried out, and frogs were stewed in warm water, so that the number of devils would not be reduced, and the number of soldiers would not be reduced, and the small amount would be accumulated. After gaining a firm foothold, we will concentrate the main force and take the initiative to attack the devils, and seek opportunities to annihilate the enemy's wing, brigade, and divisional units. For this reason, the troops of the Jiaoji Line and the Jinpu Line have temporarily refrained from making arrangements to completely cut off the enemy's lines of communication and paralyze the enemy. But in the guerrilla guerrilla form, it is possible to attack a certain station of the railway line without stopping, capturing enemy supplies. Third, vigorously develop the economy of the base areas, and the logistics headquarters will prepare for the establishment of the Bank of Shandong, issue renminbi and unify the tax rate, and organize the mining of mines to ensure the normal progress of military production and self-sufficiency in grain, cotton, oil, and other daily necessities in the base areas. After the establishment of the Shandong Anti-Ming Cooking Political Axe, the above work was handed over to the Political Axe.

Writing here, Liu Yimin felt that the land of Qilu was rich in products and heroes, and it was a good battlefield for fighting devils, and he didn't feel radiant. With a turn of the pen, he wrote: Shandong is a province with a large population and resources in China, and there is nothing to be wanted here. Every comrade must keep in mind the chairman's teachings that people are like seeds, which can take root and sprout wherever they go. Through our struggle and efforts, we should recover the whole of Shandong as soon as possible, rely on the support of the Shandong people, and then engage in a strategic showdown with the heavy army group of the Chinese army to usher in a complete victory in the war of resistance against Japanese aggression. ”

After writing it, I asked Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, and Zeng Zhongsheng to read it, and then sent it out in the names of Liu and Luo.

People are so strange, Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, Zeng Zhongsheng and Liu Yimin have been together for a long time, and they have long been infected by his strong self-confidence, and they are also full of confidence in the prospect of moving east to Shandong described by Liu Yimin. In fact, at this time, it was the peak of the Devil's soldiers, and many people were full of confusion in the face of the prospect of the Anti-Japanese War, otherwise, Han Fuqu and his ilk would not have escaped, and many Han Anniversaries would not have gone to be Han Anniversary. Only the Eighth Route Army, a unit that came down from Jinggang Mountain and was reborn by the fire by the Xiangjiang River, was full of confidence in the victory of the war. In particular, the instructors of Lian Zhan Lianjie, the cadres and fighters all despise devils psychologically, and their morale is naturally high.

After sending the telegram, Liu Yimin was relaxed and took Li Xiaoshuai and Huang Wenhu to the Haiyuan Pavilion Library.

Haiyuan Pavilion and Changshu Qu's Tieqin Bronze Sword Building, Gui'an Lu's Baibai Song Building, Qiantang Ding's 8,000-volume Building, and have the late Qing Dynasty four major bibliophiles.

Haiyuan Pavilion Library is located in Liaocheng Wanshouguan Street Road North Yang's house, is the late Qing Jiangnan River Governor Yang Yizeng built, the collection of books mainly from Wang Shi Zhong Yiyun Book House and other Jiangnan book collectors and Qingyi Wangfu Leshantang secret collection, with the Song version of "Mao Poems", "Three Rites", "the first four histories" for the treasure of the town treasury. Haiyuan Pavilion has Song and Yuan Dynasty paintings and antiques, and there are more than 200 more than 200 collections in Duanyan alone.

Before entering the Haiyuan Pavilion Library Building, Liu Yimin already knew that this Haiyuan Pavilion had already existed in name only. According to historical records, during the Republic of China, due to the repeated wars in Liaocheng, the garrison used Haiyuan Pavilion as its headquarters, and the soldiers used rare books as pillows and mattresses, and even used books to cook on fire, not to mention those who stole and sold books. By 1931, Haiyuan Pavilion was empty. This time I came here, just to pay my respects, and sigh a few times for the Song Yuan rare books that the ancestors had worked so hard to preserve.

Sure enough, after entering Haiyuan Pavilion, the courtyard was empty, and it looked indescribably desolate. When he walked to the second floor of Haiyuan Pavilion's treasured Song and Yuan rare books, Liu Yimin found that someone was like him, sighing again and again.

After just a glance, Liu Yimin knew that it was Jingjing's girl, and just wanted to turn around and leave, he heard Jingjing whisper: "I am also a book lover, why don't you stay for a while?" ”

Liu Yimin had no choice but to say: "We're late, it's a pity." ”

Jingjing's eyes looked out the window and sighed faintly: "In the war period, human life is like grass, those books can't say that they can't move, and the ending is naturally worse than people." When I think about it, I hate the owner of this library, when the Commercial Press was willing to pay 200,000 yuan to photocopy the Haiyuan Pavilion collection, but the owner of the library did not agree in order to keep the right to his exclusive secret book. If the Commercial Press had made a photocopy, it would have been possible to keep the complete information. Fortunately, a large number of books have been lost and destroyed. ”

Speaking of this, Jingjing turned around, looked at Liu Yimin and said: "My greatest wish in this life is to run an influential newspaper and open a big library, the purpose of which is to improve the civilized quality of the Chinese people." If we win in the future, you must remember my wish and help me make it happen. ”

Liu Yimin has known Jingjing for several years, although he basically avoided her later due to avoiding emotional problems, but he still understands her thoughts. When she said this, she said, "As long as we win, your wish will surely come true." ”

Jingjing smiled sweetly and said, "You never count, but I believe what you said this time is true." ”

Liu Yimin also smiled and said, "Don't worry, when we win, libraries and newspapers will be built all over the country." When the time comes, you will be very useful. I'm afraid you'll not be able to eat your busy meal! ”

Liu Yimin was about to leave after speaking, walked to the door, thought about it and said: "The troops are about to set off, you must take your guard squad wherever you go, pay attention to safety." Especially when crossing the railway, you must move quickly. If not, you can follow Tang Xingying with Zhao Xiaoman and help her take care of the child by the way. After arriving at the base area, he immediately organized the publication of the "Shandong Newspaper" and made the newspaper lively. ”

As soon as Jingjing heard Liu Yimin say this, the smile on her face disappeared, and her eyes were covered with a layer of mist. I endured it, but nodded.

Liu Yimin looked at Jingjing, and when he saw this girl's expression, he knew that as soon as he left, she would definitely cry bitterly. sighed, but still said, "Let's go, I'll go out with you." ”

When Jingjing heard this, she hurriedly walked up and walked out of Haiyuan Pavilion with Liu Yimin.

After returning to the division headquarters, Liu Yimin called Liu Jianli, Hong Chaoyuan, and Yuan Guoping, who rushed to Liaocheng, to make specific arrangements for Liu Jianjian's task of staying in Luxi, and ordered him to remove impurities from the 30,000 local armed forces reorganized by Hong Chaoyuan, organize them into three garrison brigades, complete cadres, and hand them over to Yuan Guoping's training headquarters for training. The 10 th detachment and other units under the former control of our party should also conduct special training to enhance their combat effectiveness. After the training, the three garrison brigades were retained as one brigade in Luxi, one brigade in southwest Luxi, and one brigade in Luzhong to take up local garrison tasks. As the main force of our army's field operations, the Second Brigade can only be used for offensives, and it will have major combat missions at any time, not only to support the operations in central Hebei, southern Hebei, and northern Shanxi, but also to support the First Brigade and the cavalry brigade in the south at any time. Therefore, the cadres sent to the garrison brigade must be backbone cadres from the old Red Army, and the ideological transformation work must be done in a down-to-earth manner, and after combat training, they should be mixed with the main force to expand the main force. In the near future, it is necessary to pay special attention to the movements of the army on the Jinpu line, and it is estimated that the army is about to launch an attack on Xuzhou, and the enemy's situation must be clearly grasped and reported at any time.

Yuan Guoping reported that after two months of training, the first batch of recruits had completed the training subjects. Because these recruits were all recruits recruited by various brigades in Taiyuan, Tianjin, and eastern Hebei, they had all undergone preliminary training in the supplementary regiments of each brigade, so the training speed was fast and their political quality was high. Since the main force is all heading east, it is better to let all these recruits go to the troops. It turned out that the total number of recruits in the first batch was 30,000, 3,000 were drawn from the air defense brigade, 1,500 were drawn from the engineer regiment, and there were still 25,500 people waiting to be allocated.

Liu Yimin thought about it and felt that when he went to check, the recruits performed really well, and some recruits with good training results had already been drawn to the air defense brigade and engineer regiment in advance. However, considering that these recruits are all good seedlings who have voluntarily joined the army, we must try our best to protect their safety when conducting actual combat training, and as long as they fight two or three battles, they will become qualified soldiers. Therefore, Liu Yimin immediately called Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, and Zeng Zhongsheng, and after several people studied it, they decided to add 5,000 recruits to the Fifth Brigade, and 2,000 to each of the remaining seven infantry brigades, a total of 19,000 people. The remaining 6,500 people were all added to the artillery brigade, cavalry brigade and divisional units, of which 2,000 were supplemented by the artillery brigade and 1,000 were added to the infantry battalion of the artillery brigade, the infantry battalion of the artillery brigade was expanded into an infantry regiment, the original battalion leader was promoted to the regimental leader, and 1,000 soldiers were assigned to each artillery regiment for further training; the cavalry brigade was replenished by 500 men; The baggage regiment was supplemented by 1,500 people, and three new baggage battalions were added, making a total of six baggage battalions in the whole regiment; The heavy machine gun regiment was supplemented by 1,500 people, and the whole regiment was organized into six heavy machine gun battalions; The engineer regiment was replenished by 500 men, and the whole regiment was organized into seven engineer battalions; The Guard Regiment will be supplemented by 500 personnel, which will be mixed with the existing two Guard Battalions to supplement the strength of the Guard Regiment.

After the discussion was decided, the order was immediately issued, and the troops directly sent people to pick up the recruits, and the brigade commanders and regiment commanders could not keep their mouths shut. In particular, the heavy machine gun regiment, the engineer regiment, and the baggage regiment have basically turned one regiment into two regiments in terms of numbers, and when they see that they will be upgraded to brigades if they develop further, the regiment commander and political commissar are naturally smiling.

After Hong Chaoyuan arranged for the troops to welcome the recruits, he came back and reported to Liu Yimin on the preparations for the main force to cross the Yellow River eastward. Liu Yimin was very satisfied after hearing this, and told Hong Chaoyuan to go to the ferry with Ren Chaoran, the commander of the engineer regiment, to inspect the pontoon bridge and the thickness of the Yellow River ice to ensure that nothing went wrong.

In just a few days, all the instructors' units were ready to march eastward.

Hu Laohu is now used to being the first echelon, and his task is very clear. Therefore, after completing the preparations for the eastward advance, he immediately asked Liu Yimin for instructions to take the lead in southwest Lu. After receiving the reply, Hu Laohu led the cavalry brigade to take the lead and crossed the Yellow River to kill southwest Lu. Subsequently, the 1st Brigade crossed the Yellow River in Puxian County and entered the Southwest Lu Plain.

Seeing that the 1st Brigade and 2nd Regiment, the only armored unit in the division, made a detour to cross the river smoothly, on 5 March, Liu Yimin ordered the whole division to march eastward by two routes, north and south, opening up a magnificent history of Shandong's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

(To be continued)