In the lobby of the southwest government, Li Mo stood alone on the podium, giving a lonely speech, he didn't understand that he didn't choose to give up Dabie Mountain, he hoped to see Liu Yuan in person, but he was told that Liu Yuan had embarked on the road to the United States.

The administration of the southwest was temporarily handed over to a three-member administrative group composed of Chen Yun, Song Ziwen, and Liu Xiang, while the military was managed by a five-member military group of Nie Rongzhen, Xu Xiangqian, Du Yuming, He Long, and Jiang Fangzhen.

As for Li Mo's arrival, everyone still had a respectful attitude, so everyone organized this speech, and all the members of the headquarters were present four-fifths, and the conditions for convening the alliance conference were already met.

Therefore, after consulting Liu Yuan, the alliance held a discussion meeting on the Dabie Mountain issue, and there was only one speaker at the meeting, that is, Li Mo, who was in tears on the rostrum and gave a hysterical speech.

"I Dabie Mountain has gone through many bloody battles in the road to get to where we are today, we have 55 county party committee bases, we have organized a ** government, we have a population of 1.5 million people, our economic level exceeds 33 percent of the economic level of the Nanjing government, where there are more than 10,000 alliance members struggling, where there are hundreds of thousands of us who died in battle, not long ago, in order to defend the materials of Sichuan, we Dabie Mountain fought with the central government with our own strength and captured Chiang Kai-shek alive, Forcing the Central Committee to give up the resources that belong to us, then, the former secretary of the Southeast Bureau, with unparalleled courage, cooperated with the Central Committee and the Red Party, and coordinated the elimination of two Japanese divisions and regiments, with a strength of 56,000 troops. Li Mo was hoarse, and the people below were very moved.

I don't know how many people applauded Li Mo in Lu Dao, Li Mo spread out the map, and continued, "Many of you here are comrades in the military circles, and I think you can also see the importance of Dabie Mountain from a strategic point of view, and Jiang Xianyun once said that Dabie Mountain is located on the Central Plains, and if we take root in Dabie Mountain, we will have the ability to compete in the Central Plains, and the Central Plains spans the five provinces of Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Shaanxi, and extends to the Yellow River in the north, the canal in the east, the Yangtze River in the south, and the Barberry and Hanshui in the west. It is an area that must be controlled for the prosperity of a country, and the core of the national government is here.

Our relationship with the central government is not clear, if we want to have an equal status with the government, we have to do something on the Dabie Mountain, you see that Dabie Mountain is intimidating Nanjing, forcing Xi'an in the west, strangling the Yangtze River and Wuhan in the south, and even forcing Jiangnan, this is the result of the discussion between the chairman of the CPPCC National Committee and Jiang Xianyun in the past, and it is to revitalize China's game of chess and make an important move.

The whole hall was quiet, and many people felt that Li Mo's words were right, but no one was willing to stand up, they felt that it was right to give up Dabie Mountain for the sake of the overall situation, but did they have the courage to take on this responsibility.

At this time, Song Xilian, who had never spoken much, stood up and asked, "Member Li Mo, I have a question, the million-strong army of the Central Army has begun to gather in the area of Nanjing, once the attack on Dabie Mountain is launched, how will we rescue a so-called base area that has spent a lot of resources to build?" ”

Li Mo pointed to the map and said, "What's so difficult about this, why is it difficult for Chen Mingren's army to retreat south, we can contact Zhang Zuolin and send a large army to approach the Henan, Anhui and Soviet areas, and we in Sichuan can also eliminate the mobile troops and enter Chongqing, and the three-way army will form a character formation and advance to the Central Plains. ”

"Commissar Li Mo has superb attainments in military command, but have you ever thought about it, our two major princes, openly confronting the central government, and letting the world see us, how the people see us, and how the central government will see us, so that China may fall into chaos again." Nie Rongzhen stood up and objected.

"Chiang Kai-shek's face is thick and black-hearted, and he is shameless, so why should we cooperate with him to unify the whole country in form. We don't know how many men died in Langdao to cover the retreat of the main force of the headquarters, and I don't know how many good men in Langdao died in battle under the city of Nanjing, why did you give up on us with a word, I don't accept it. Li Mo's eyes were red, and his voice was hoarse, trying his best to make the last defense.

"I'm sorry, cooperating with the central government cannot be changed in the next ten years, and you know the reason for the matter, the Japanese are eyeing us, we need development in the southwest, and the country needs to develop, instead of entering endless wars, so I choose to reject your Dabie Mountain proposal." Jiang Fangzhen said coldly, he is a pure soldier, and he doesn't want the military to be mixed with too many emotional factors.

Chen Yun also spoke, "I sympathize with you Dabie Mountain, but you also know that you are in a high-pressure environment, and it is impossible for the headquarters to spend a lot of resources to continue to build you, because our efforts may be given to others at any time, and I think that your Dabie Mountain team should be disbanded, because according to our statistics, your Dabie Mountain lost more than 10,000 excellent veterans in the last Chuhe Battle, and most of the remaining soldiers are new soldiers, although Jiang Xianyun once again summoned tens of thousands of new soldiers, However, once the Central Army attacks Dabie Mountain, Dabie Mountain will be shattered. ”

"Why do you stubbornly think that Dabie Mountain will be attacked by Chiang Kai-shek? Chiang Kai-shek had appointed Chiang Hsien-yun as commander-in-chief of the 21st Route. Why do you conclude that we cannot continue to live in peace with the central government? Li Mo looked at a group of ruthless people strangely.

"Who is Chiang Kai-shek, he once said in public, you must first settle the inside, now you are in the hinterland of the area controlled by Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek will not encircle and suppress you for nothing, do you really think Chiang Kai-shek is so kind? If Chiang Kai-shek really does not encircle and suppress Dabie Mountain, there is only one possibility, that is, Jiang Xianyun has fallen to the Nanjing government, then I must give up Dabie Mountain, and Jiang Xianyun must be held responsible. The representative of Nanyang District spoke.

Just when Li Mo was like duckweed, facing everyone's criticism, Liu Yuan had already arrived at the Dabie Mountain base, and the officer at the reception office had been waiting for Liu Yuan for a long time, and after seeing Liu Yuan, he told Liu Yuan that Jiang Xianyun had gone to the countryside, do you want to inform him, Liu Yuan chose to go to the countryside to find Jiang Xianyun by himself.

This Dabie Mountain has really been war-torn for a long time, walking on the road between them, Liu Yuan can't see many prime of life at all, mostly some women, and children, and the newly built tombs on the village can be seen everywhere.

Fu Tao, who was supposed to go back to the southwest of Fu Tao, was temporarily responsible for the construction of the Heroic Pavilion, so he hadn't gone back yet, and he led the way for Liu Yuan on this trip.

Liu Yuan didn't go to an area controlled by the alliance, so he had to observe the state of the local people, especially the living standards of the local people.

Liu Yuan also had to sigh that Jiang Xianyun had really made great progress, because he found that many families actually had their own farming cattle, and many of the houses were also newly built solid brick houses, some small factories were smoking, and even he saw the postman on the rugged road, delivering letters on bicycles.

Although the road above ground is not asphalt, it is also very strong and flat, and there are saplings planted on both sides, and the saplings are growing well, and they are already more than one person tall.

There is an uncle who sets up a stall on the side of the road, the child is dressed in thick clothes, riding on the back of the old cow and shouting, and from time to time he also grabs the hair of the old cow, and the old cow lies on the ground and pouts the grass leisurely.

The old man wore a straw hat and leaned against the trunk of a tree to greet guests.

"Uncle, how do you sell this melon." Liu Yuan picked a handful of cucumbers, and cucumbers can be grown in this season, which is obviously the role of greenhouses, but he didn't expect that there are already greenhouses in Dabie Mountain.

"A dime and a pound and a half." The old man smiled and said, "Little brother, I see that you are in a hurry, so let's even have a few sticks." ”

"Uncle, your melon is too expensive, we came from Nanjing, and we didn't see that the melon in the city was much more expensive than your family." Li Erniu held a melon in his hand and complained that the money had been given to the family back then.

The old man found Li Erniu's money, and said with a smile, "The little brother turned out to be from Nanjing, to say that a few years ago, it was a problem for us poor people to live, there was money to eat these melons and fruits, but since Commander Jiang came to Dabie Mountain, this Dabie Mountain has changed, although the landlords have money and land, but their lives are not as comfortable as our ordinary people, we have cooperatives, cattle, fields, babies, poor families have relief food from the government, children can go to primary school for free, men can go to work, Women can also get jobs in the army, and the commander always builds bridges and roads for us, builds collective factories, and we ordinary people have land to plant and money to take, and this life is getting better and better. Life is better, and there is a little spare money in my hand, my Li Laohan is not a trick at all, this dime is not expensive. After speaking, the old man picked up a cucumber and chewed it.

"Did we do something wrong," Fu Tao's expression was not very good, and when he saw that Liu Yuan was no longer talking, he asked Li Laohan, "Uncle, I heard that Commander Liu has a bad relationship with Chairman Jiang." There was a war a few days ago. ”

"Phew, Chiang Kai-shek of the dog day just can't get used to our poor people living a good life, and wants me to continue to suffer poverty, but the people of our Dabie Mountain are people who have lived a good life, who wants to go back to the past, when they can't even eat, as long as they dare to enter the territory of our Dabie Mountain, our more than one million old and young masters in Dabie Mountain are not jealous." After the old man finished speaking, he waved his hand, showing that under his wrinkled arms, the muscles that had not completely subsided, showed his glorious years.

Liu Yuan didn't say a word along the way, just watched and listened, the further he went, the closer he got to his destination, the more Liu Yuan's brows wrinkled.

Until he arrived at the village in front, Jiang Xianyun's hat was pinned to his waist, holding the plowshare, a woman in front of him was leading the cow, and several children were picking grass on the ground, very happy.

Liu Yuan had just walked a few steps forward, and suddenly a group of half-headed boys ran out of the woods, a group of people with red scarves, big boys with red tassel guns in their hands, and a pair of scrapped helmets on their heads, and a 38 big cover in their hands, Liu Yuan found at a glance that it was a wooden gun used for training in Dabie Mountain.

"Stop, who are you, Second Uncle Li said that there are spies who ask questions from east to west, and Ha Luha was really caught by my Wang Da Lei." Wang Dalei chased after a group of child soldiers and tightly surrounded Liu Yuan in the center.

"Say, 'Who sent you, and what are you coming to us for?' Wang Dalei held a gun and pointed at Liu Yuan like a soldier in the army.

Fu Tao's face is blue and purple, he has lived for more than 20 years, when has he ever seen this kind of scene, it is too funny, Liu Yuan said with a smile, "Children, are you in the children's group?" Who is the head of the regiment. ”

"Nonsense, didn't you see me with a gun? I'm the captain, just say anything to me, be lenient in confession, and strict in resisting. The little guy said righteously.

"But your gun is wooden, and theirs is at least a real weapon." Liu Yuan pointed to Wang Dalei's gun and said with a smile.

"Hah! Ha! Ha! A few bad boys behind Wang Dalei laughed, and a few of them were about the same height as Wang Dalei, Da Lei said that you have to listen to the two of us to change guys, let this villain laugh.

Wang Dalei's young face was flushed with shame, but he was worthy of being the squad leader, and his face still maintained a minimum of sanity, "Wang Yi, you go to report to the militia captain, just say that we caught the spy, we surrounded him, and didn't let him escape." ”

"Captain, go back and play with me, or I won't go." Wang Yi is a five- or six-year-old child with pigtails on his head.

"Obedient, I'm going to shoot bad guys, I'll give it to you when you grow up, go and inform the captain, I suspect they have accomplices. If the enemy comes, I'm going to fight with my soldiers with my uncles. Wang Dalei said righteously.

"Captain, I listen to you." After saying that, Wang Yi ran away, Liu Yuan and Liu Yuan looked at everything in front of him dumbfounded, this Jiang Xianyun is too powerful, isn't all this in front of him the whole people in the future.

"Little brother, big brother has sugar here, can I ask you a few questions before the militia uncle comes?" Liu Yuan said with a smile.

"Okay, bring me the sugar, you ask." Wang Dalei said.

"Brother Da Lei! Don't take him with sugar, the village party secretary said, be careful of the enemy's sugar-coated shells, especially these bad guys who specialize in deceiving us children. A few children said anxiously.

Wang Dalei gave everyone a piece of candy, and several people hesitated at first, but when they saw Wang Dalei's very sweet and happy expression, the people who couldn't resist the temptation for a long time began to eat it.

Wang Dalei has a gun in his hand, and he has long asked you to read more and listen to the veterans, "The great commander-in-chief, General Liu Yuan, said that I have asked the enemy to send sugar-coated shells, and we must eat the sugar and shoot the shells back." Guys, listen to me and give me a beating up for this bastard who bribed the members of the Great Children's League. ”

"Little bunny, dare to do it to me, see how I beat you." As soon as Fu Tao wanted to fight back, he heard Liu Yuan shouting, "Fu Tao, you bastard, they are all children, if you dare to touch them, I will give you a demerit when you go back." ”

Liu Yuan's words were not finished yet, a stick had already hit Liu Yuan's head, and after Jiang Xianyun came, Fu Tao had already been beaten to death, but Liu Yuan's kung fu was good, except for the beginning of a stick, nothing else happened. "Okay, you Liu Yuan, you still have the face to come to see me and see how I beat you." Liu Yuan, who was originally ready to talk, fought with his old classmates and fought the first moment he saw Jiang Xianyun.