When Liu Yimin returned to Pingyiji, it was already dark.

Cai Zhong also ended the negotiation with Wang Jingxuan, chief of staff of the Sulu Theater, and rushed back to Pingyiji from Feixian County to join Liu and Luo.

As soon as the three met, Luo Ronghuan said that the Chairman and the headquarters had sent a telegram, canceling the order to force Yu Xuezhong's troops to leave Shandong. The Executive Yuan of the National Government announced that Army Commander Mou Zhongheng would be appointed as the Chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government.

Upon hearing this, Liu Yimin asked: "Is there any movement by the Japanese army?"

Luo Ronghuan replied that there were no big moves, but starting from noon today, northwest of Shandong,

Near Yantai in Jiaodong, around Qingdao, on both sides of Jiaoji Road, and in the eastern section of Longhai Road, small-scale plainclothes teams of Japanese and puppet troops were found wreaking havoc.

Things in the world are like this. When you are not doing something, you are afraid of wolves and tigers. If you really do it, you will do it. Once you do it, it will be easier to let go. Because of the love between Meng Yang Hebian and Zhao Xiaoman.

, Liu Yimin felt like a clear spring flowing into his heart, all the dullness and irritability,

All the depression was swept away, and a cheerful atmosphere filled his whole body.

Hearing this, Liu Yimin laughed and said: "Eat first, fill your stomach and then discuss in detail.

Doesn’t the emperor need hungry soldiers?”

Luo Ronghuan didn't expect that Liu Yimin still looked like an eggplant beaten by frost when he went out in the morning. The trip to Wanshou Palace for just half a day actually made Liu Yimin's mood return to normal. Looking at Zhao Xiaoman who was following Liu Yimin again, his beautiful eyes were shining at night

Feeling both happy and angry, Luo Ronghuan couldn't help but raise a question mark in his heart.

After dinner, Liu Yimin, Luo Ronghuan, and Cai Zhong gathered together to analyze the current situation between the enemy and ourselves and study countermeasures.

Zhao Xiaoman came in and lit the lantern, took a sewing needle, and made the wick of the lantern bright and clear. Then she turned around and took Liu Yimin's daytime clothes hanging on the wall and ran out to wash them. This girl, after being nourished by love,

, as if after a night of spring rain

It blooms like a peony. The Chongqing girl's skin is already good, like gelatin, and it becomes even better after being moistened by love. No, Zhao Xiaoman's face is red and white, her eyebrows are full of joy, and she says with every gesture

Unrivaled lightness and elegance.

Cai Zhong watched Zhao Xiaoman pick the lamp wick and take the clothes, and suddenly said: "Comrade Xiaoman, I have been running all the way, and the clothes are dirty. Just in time, you can help me wash them, and remember to use more soap or soap.

Wash off the smell of sweat on your clothes. I'll ask your sister-in-law to treat you to dumplings later."

After saying that, Cai Zhong took off his shirt and stuffed it into the hands of Zhao Xiaoman who was about to go out. He didn't forget to turn around and said to Luo Ronghuan: "Political commissar, it's just a wash anyway, so take off your clothes and wash them too. You

Look, my sister-in-law is in confinement, and your clothes are scratched and no one has patched them. Xiaoman, remember to wash the political commissar’s clothes and patch them."

Luo Ronghuan smiled and said: "No, I will wash my clothes myself."

Zhao Xiaoman quickly said: "Political Commissar, take off your clothes and I'll wash them for you. Don't worry, the insurance can wash them cleaner than the guards."

Luo Ronghuan stopped being polite and took off his coat and handed it to Zhao Xiaoman.

After Zhao Xiaoman left, Liu Yimin looked at the faces of Cai Zhong and Luo Ronghuan, and after a while he said, "This is not how you bully someone!"

Cai Zhong chuckled: "Washing one piece is a wash, washing two pieces is a wash. Is this worth the injustice for a commander as big as you?"

Liu Yimin said angrily: "Zhao Xiaoman's hands are used to play the piano, not to wash clothes.

You have to wash your own clothes, and you can't do anything special or bully lesbians."

Cai Zhong looked at Liu Yimin seriously and said after a long time: "Isn't it just to wash clothes? Why are you so anxious? If you feel that you are at a disadvantage, wait until your sister-in-law comes and I will ask her to wash your clothes for a month. That's all right, right?

?”

Liu Yimin muttered: "So you said you would let Ren Ying wash my clothes for two months, but you and your wife haven't fulfilled your promise yet."

Cai Zhong immediately retorted: "It's not that your sister-in-law won't wash it for you, it's because there is no chance!"

Luo Ronghuan didn't want to hear it anymore and said quickly: "Stop joking! Commander, first read the telegram from the Chairman and the headquarters, and then let Lao Cai talk about the negotiation with Wang Jingxuan and the kid's redemption of the body. We will study it later.

Let’s take a look at the current situation.”

Qian Zhuangfei had already sorted out the telegrams and brought them over, and he was sitting aside with a notebook to take notes.

This time the [Chairman] did not criticize again, but said in the telegram that frontline commanders have the power to make improvised decisions based on the actual situation. The so-called generals are not left to the commander. He also said that since the Eighteenth Red Regiment, the [Central] Central Committee has always given Liu Yimin

Comrades were given full trust and practice in their right to make arbitrary decisions when the opportunity arises.

It proves that Comrade Liu Yimin has lived up to the trust of the Central Committee and the expectations of comrades. The Central Committee will not send a working group to Shandong in the near future. After the Japanese army's heavy raids are over, Mr. Zhu or Comrade Dehuai will be invited to come.

A delegation from Shandong visited comrades and reviewed our heroic army.

The [Chairman] also said in the telegram that the anti-friction principle proposed is very good and applies especially to our army in Shandong.

For the New Fourth Army and other base area troops, we can "take the offensive politically and withdraw when the situation is favorable militarily"

Change it to "Be offensive politically and be defensive militarily." We oppose civil war, but we must actively stop friction with victory in anti-friction operations. We must also pay attention to taking the initiative politically and unite and mobilize all democratic forces and

Let us work together to stop the anti-communist upsurge that Chiang Kai-shek is trying to launch.

〖Chairman〗The chairman reminded Liu and Luo that they must not take the Xuezhong Department lightly to prevent the Xuezhong Department from retreating without a fight when the Japanese army attacked, and then attacking and occupying the central area of ​​our base area, causing our army to be attacked from both sides.

Boss Zhu and Boss Peng said in the telegram: "The previous telegram order has been withdrawn. There will be no expulsion of the Yu Xuezhong Department out of Lu in the near future, but the department's dynamics must be closely monitored. For example, when the Japanese army is heavily engaged in raids, the department will take advantage of the battle between our army and the Japanese army.

Those who make sneak attacks on our base areas should be resolutely annihilated. If our troops really insist on resisting Japan and sincerely cooperate with our army, we should do everything possible to support our troops and prevent them from being wiped out by heavy Japanese troops."

Boss Zhu and Boss Peng asked Liu and Luo to focus on the Japanese army's heavy raids and deploy in advance to avoid being caught off guard by the Japanese army.

The headquarters forwarded a series of personnel appointments from the Military Commission, all of which were adjustments to the positions of officers within the Northeast Army. Liu Yimin took a look and found that Mou Zhongheng, commander of the 51st Army of the Sulu Theater Area, was appointed Chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government, and the 53rd Army of the Ninth Theater Command

Commander Wan Fulin was appointed as a member of the Military Commission, and Zhou Fucheng took over as commander of the 53rd Army Ninth War Zone

Wang Tiehan, the commander of the 105th Division of the 49th Army, went to the special class of Mainland China to study. The position of division commander is temporarily held by Lin Yaotang, the deputy commander of the 49th Army. Zhang Wenqing, the commander of the 108th Division, was promoted to the commander of the 25th Army. He Zhuguo, the commander of the 1st Theater Cavalry and the 2nd Army, was promoted to the deputy commander of the 15th Group Army.

Xu Liang, commander-in-chief and commander of the 3rd Cavalry Division, took over as commander of the Second Cavalry Corps.

Liu Yimin looked over and over for a long time, but he couldn't see what mystery Chiang Kai-shek was up to.

It's no wonder that Liu Yimin was far away in Shandong, and the incident at the official residence was a huge secret. Liu Yimin wanted to break his head, but he couldn't imagine the flash of swords and swords at Chiang Kai-shek's official residence in De'anli, Chongqing, let alone Zhang Xueliang, who actually shot and wounded Chiang Kai-shek, and was also killed.

The shi guard was seriously injured.

The enemy situation reported by various units attracted Liu Yimin. Why are there traces of the activities of Japanese plainclothes troops in so many places? I remember that when studying the history of the Anti-Japanese War, Tada Shun had a very vicious trick when he implemented the cage policy, that is, every day

When the Japanese army was about to launch a counterattack against the Eighth Route Army base area, they first sent agents

They went to cause trouble, pretending to be the Eighth Route Army to collect food and distribute funds, and acted recklessly, arousing the people's resentment against the Eighth Route Army. After the raids were over, the Japanese army would also send propaganda squads of the secret service to appease the people, preach the purpose of the Greater East Asia Jihad, and paralyze the people. Could it be that

Is this a signal that the Japanese army is about to launch a major sweep?

Liu Yimin was puzzled. What was Tada Shun going to do? Does he want to surround Shandong from all sides? Does he have that much capital?

Liu Yimin repeatedly calculated that although the Japanese army in the pass is much larger than in history, the combat losses are also much greater. In the eight years of the war of resistance in history, the Chinese army was not able to organically eliminate a Japanese division or brigade. Now it is

Big difference. The Japanese troops in the pass are now

It's just a carrot and a pit. There aren't that many mobile troops for Tada Shun to use. Moreover, Tada Shun will not rely on the expansion of new divisions to encircle and suppress the instructors. They are a group of new recruits who are purely here to deliver weapons and ammunition to the Eighth Route Army.

Unless the Kwantung Army enters the border on a large scale to fight.

When he thought about whether the Kwantung Army would enter the border on a large scale to fight, Liu Yimin couldn't sit still. He immediately asked Qian Zhuangfei to send a report to the Central Committee and the headquarters, informing the underground party organization in the Northeast that the 1st division of the guerrilla force would come out of the border to resist.

The joint forces will closely monitor the movements of the Kwantung Army and immediately report any abnormality to the Shandong Military Region.

After Qian Zhuang flew out, Liu Yimin asked Cai Zhong to report on the negotiations with Wang Jingxuan, chief of staff of the Sulu Theater Command.

Cai Zhong said: "Commander, political commissar, Wang Jingxuan was entrusted by Yu Xuezhong to negotiate with us. This man has a very tight reputation, and we can't find out anything more from him. During the negotiation process, Wang Jingxuan emphasized only one issue over and over again.

, that is, the willingness to adhere to the spirit of the Feixian County Joint Operation Conference and the Eight

The Route Army jointly fights. For major battles, the Eighth Route Army formulates a battle plan, and the Sulu Theater Forces are responsible for cooperating. The condition is that the Eighth Route Army must not attack the Sulu Theater Forces to ensure the supply of military food for the Sulu Theater Forces. It seems that Yu Xuezhong, because of Rongzi

Henglv participated in the Linyi Incident and was already frightened."

Liu Yimin shook his head: "I won't be scared out of my mind. Yu Xuezhong knows in his heart that we will not do anything to him. He has dealt with the Lou people several times and has a certain understanding of us. He knows that we will not launch a large-scale attack on the Japanese army.

We started fighting with him the night before. The reason why he drove to Taierzhuang overnight was because he didn't want to confront us head-on."

Luo Ronghuan said: "This was all decided by the Feixian County Joint Military Conference. Didn't Wang Jingxuan propose new conditions?"

Cai Zhong shook his head: "No!"

Liu Yimin asked: "Didn't Wang Jingxuan ask us to agree to their retreat to the base area in the Lunan mountainous area when the Japanese army encountered heavy raids?" Cai Zhong said: "No! They just asked us to agree to their logistical deployment and the wounded to Taierzhuang."

retreat and ask us to provide them with [medicine] in accordance with the spirit of the Feixian County Joint Military Conference."

After speaking, Cai Zhong took out two volumes of paper and handed them to Liu Yimin.

Liu Yimin looked at it and saw that it was a secret agreement signed by Cai Zhong and Wang Jingxuan. The content was very detailed, including the contact information of the two armies in case of emergency. However, there was no mention of important things, such as the request to divide the Sulu War Zone into separate defense zones.

Important matters such as rear base areas are not mentioned above.

Liu Yimin was silent.

He took out a cigarette, handed one to Cai Zhong, lit it with a match, and took a few puffs. Liu Yimin began to pace around the room again.

Luo Ronghuan didn't smoke, and he felt uncomfortable being smoked by two cigarettes. He stood up, opened the window, took two breaths of fresh air outside the window, turned around, frowned and said: "There is something fishy about this matter. There is nothing in Taierzhuang except the canal."

Danger can be defended. During the Taierzhuang battle, it is said that Sun Lianzhong's troops relied on the canal and Taierzhuang to defend, but it was only a brigade of the Japanese Tenth Division attacking. If the Japanese army encountered heavy

If a military group attacks, it will definitely be impossible to defend. With Yu Xuezhong's qualifications, he will not fail to see this. Think about it, if the Japanese army groups heavily attack from the north and south, and the main force of our army conducts mobile operations to evacuate the Jinpu line, Yu Xuezhong will

Where is Xuezhong going? He was ordered to persist in the war of resistance behind enemy lines in Shandong, so why didn't he ask our army to allow them to evacuate to Linyi and the mountainous areas of Feixian County in times of crisis? What is he going to do?"

Liu Yimin stopped pacing: "Yu Xuezhong is preparing for the worst. I guess he wants to lead his troops south to the Henan-Anhui border area at the critical moment if the Japanese army launches an attack with heavy troops, and the first theater there, the second

The troops from the five theaters are converging. We will wait until we can avoid the sharp sweep of the Japanese army before making plans."

Cai Zhong was anxious: "In this way, wouldn't our south gate be opened? Then wouldn't our army be attacked from both sides? No, we have to go to Yu Xuezhong, he can't be so unjust!"

Liu Yimin blew out a smoke ring and said calmly: "If it rains, my mother wants to get married, let him go. If he is not allowed to retreat south, will he be allowed to enter the Lunan mountainous base again? I think, Yu Xuezhong

It is better to withdraw to the south than to enter our mountainous base area.

After hearing this, Luo Ronghuan walked quickly to the map, climbed up to the map with a lantern and examined it.

Liu Yimin finished smoking, threw away the cigarette butt, and said: "Political Commissar, don't look at it. The map is printed in my mind! Let's study the next battle plan. The Japanese army is about to launch a large-scale attack. Leave it to us."

Time is running out!”

Luo Ronghuan then returned to the table with the lantern and sat down, and said to Liu Yimin: "Tell me what you think!"

Liu Yimin sorted out his thoughts for a while and said: "This time the Japanese army's heavy raids will probably be larger than the previous two times. The main reason is that fascist Germany achieved temporary victory in its adventure in Europe and stimulated Japan.

My ambition. However,

Because of our victory, not only did the Japanese lose face in the international arena, but it also delayed the Japanese army from participating in the struggle for world hegemony. The Japanese military decision-makers were eager to change this situation and restore public order in North China. Since then, the Japanese army has been very

We must remove this stumbling block."
Chapter completed!