"Nani! Yamaoka Michitake-kun, why hasn't the military train we sent to Heihe Fortress yet arrived, what the hell is going on, are your intelligence departments all eating dry food? The new commander of the Kwantung Army, General Umezu Mijiro, patted the table and said.

"Your Excellency Commander, our intelligence department is investigating the matter, and a telegram from Major General Otozaburo Yano, commander of the Heihe garrison, found our robbed military column at the intersection of Heihe and Morgen, and all the laborers disappeared, and Fujiwara Hirotai Nakasa, who was guarding the military column, was also martyred." Michitake Yamaoka said with his head down.

"Yamaoka-kun, Otozaburo Yano, did he say who did it? Is it a mountain bandit or a Soviet army? ”

"Your Excellency Commander, I think it is possible that the Anti-Japanese Union in China ambushed our military columns, and the Soviet troops have the Heihe Fortress to guard them, and they can't get through, unless they fly over."

"Nani! Didn't General Kenyoshi Ueda say that they had been wiped out? How is it still active. ”

"Your Excellency, Commander, we eliminated more than two or three of the main forces of the Anti-Japanese Federation near the rear banner of Guoerlus in June this year, and we have eliminated a lot of the main forces of the so-called Second Route Army in the North Manchurian region, and their commander Li Huatang has returned to his evil and joined our troops, as well as Xie Wendong, the commander of the Eighth Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and Cheng Jun, the commander of the First Division of the First Route Army. And Yang Jingyu in the South Manchurian region is now being chased and hiding by our Imperial Japanese Army, and I think it won't be long before we can destroy them. Michitake Yamaoka said.

"Yamaoka-kun, I don't want to listen to those useless things, I give your intelligence department three days to find out about this matter, otherwise you will go back to the army school for me to repeat for a few years."

"Hey! Rest assured, Your Excellency, Commander, that I will be able to complete my mission. Michitake Yamaoka turned around and went out after speaking.

Umezu Mijiro had just finished instructing the Intelligence Division, and when he sat on his chair, he thought that a small branch of the Anti-Japanese Federation was so difficult to fight and could not be defeated, and it was not easy to eliminate the Second Route Army in North Manchuria, but a Third Route Army came out, and we must eliminate the Anti-Japanese Federation this year.

"Bell! Clang! ”

"Please come in."

Walking in was the senior staff officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Chief Tarada Masao, and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, after our analysis, we suspect that the Soviets may send a small force to infiltrate our weak areas to sabotage in retaliation for the Battle of Nomenhan. ”

"Is it possible that Terada-kun is a member of the Anti-Union or a bandit?"

"Your Excellency Commander, it is absolutely impossible, according to the statistics of the intelligence department, there are now less than 3,000 people in the entire Manchukuo, and they are still scattered, there are only a few dozen people in a team, and there are only about 100 people, without heavy weapons and offensive weapons, how can we quickly break through our group tribes."

"What you said is very reasonable, this time we lost the Battle of Normenhan, losing nearly 10,000 heroic imperial soldiers, I think in order to strengthen the group tribes, we plan to send these wounded soldiers who cannot return to the battlefield to various group tribes, on the one hand, to solve the problems of their future lives, on the other hand, we can also let them continue to serve the empire."

"Commander wise."

"Terada-kun has learned the Chinese."

"Your Excellency Commander, do we need to mobilize troops to solve the so-called Anti-Union Third Route Army?"

"Not for the time being, the troops have just gone through the Battle of Normenhan and need to rest, wait for a month to solve Yang Jingyu in South Manchuria, and at the same time seize the time to let the soldiers who have just returned to the homeland familiar with the environment in the northeast."

"Hey!"

"Comrade Qingshan, do you really want to leave?" The commander-in-chief said reluctantly, in these days of getting along, he found that Meng Qingshan is a general who is good at both military and political affairs, and the commander-in-chief will come to Meng Qingshan to discuss anything, of course, in the eyes of some people, Meng Qingshan is a guy who has shit luck.

"Commander-in-chief, this time I must go, I have already arranged the things here, I will go this time, first, the situation in the Sanjiang area is very serious, I will go to command the operation, better carry out the base areas behind the enemy, and second, it is also to meet the fourth detachment of Commander Yang Jingyu who is about to advance."

"Comrade Qingshan, this fortress is occupied by you, and only you know how to contact the Japanese army, what if the Japanese army suspects us?"

"Don't worry, commander-in-chief, don't forget the tunnels I told you about before and we have built a secret camp in the mountains hundreds of miles away from here, if the headquarters leaks here, you can hide in the secret camp, and besides, don't we still have a radio station? You can send me a telegram if you have something. ”

After saying goodbye, Meng Qingshan left the fortress in September 1939 and took more than 2,000 people from the newly reorganized Seventh Regiment, artillery battalion and guard regiment to the Xiaoxinganling base area, while the headquarters stayed at the fortress to train the third detachment that had just been formed.

On the one hand, Meng Qingshan went to Xiaoxinganling this time to see if he could get in touch with General Zhao Shangzhi, so on the other hand, he was worried about the First Army, although the telegram was transmitted, but he did not know the specific situation of the First Army, and of course, on the other hand, Meng Qingshan only had the right to speak here, expressed his opinions, and it was their business to disagree, and at the meeting they vetoed Meng Qingshan's military division plan, and at the same time sent Wang Yachen away according to the formation of the detachment. Meng Qingshan felt that in the eyes of these people, although he was a cordial voice of Comrade Qingshan on the surface, from their eyes, Meng Qingshan knew that they looked down on him, a junior of the Anti-Japanese Federation, why could he become the deputy commander-in-chief with less than 25 people.

In less than a week, after Meng Qingshan recovered from his illness, he found that almost all the remaining personnel of the army except for the old guard regiment and the artillery battalion were taken back by the headquarters, and at the same time, Shen Qingshan and Han Hao, as well as Wang Yachen and Li Yanping, came back in the middle of the night and secretly told Meng Qingshan, who was lying in bed to recuperate, that someone in the headquarters was talking to them and learning about Meng Qingshan's situation, Meng Qingshan felt that if he didn't leave, he might not be able to leave, after all, he had heard about the group of people in the Soviet Union in his later life, and even the chairman had been rectified by them, not to mention him. In particular, when they heard Meng Qingshan say that the Soviet Union was not good and that Meng Qingshan was from a background, they felt that Meng Qingshan was a pest who had entered the revolution, and they were already secretly collecting evidence of his crimes and preparing to solve him.

In this group of people who came back, there were not only old comrades who fought for the resistance against Japan, but also a few people from the Soviet Union who Wang Ming stayed in the Soviet Union that Meng Qingshan did not expect, and there were also several Soviet officers and Koreans. During the period, the team was almost in a fight because of the quarrel, the reason was that an instructor sent from the Soviet Union scolded Meng Qingshan as a bandit when he passed by the hospital, saying that his army was all bed bugs, and as a result, the veterans of the guard regiment who were recuperating heard it, got up and picked up the pots and pans beside him and surrounded the Soviet instructor for a fierce K, if it wasn't for Meng Qingshan and the commander-in-chief and others to arrive, maybe this Soviet man would have gone back to see their great leader, Comrade Stalin.