Chief of Staff Teng called everyone into the room. There were about 120 people from the Taihang Base Area who needed to go to Yan'an to study this time, including personnel from both the military and local government systems.
In addition, the five regiments and artillery teams are the main ones, supplemented by guards, entourage and family members of various cadres, totaling more than 2,200 people.
"This trip to Yanzhou is different from before. The target is really too big. Besides, each of you brought a lot of supplies. Those who didn't know better thought you were going to Yanzhou to enjoy yourself!" Chief of Staff Teng joked.
"Chief of Staff, there are so many of us, and we are all fully armed soldiers, I'm afraid we won't be able to pass through Luoyang!" said Chen ** from the Jinan Military Region.
"The Eighth Office of Luo was banned by the First War Zone!" the brigade commander said suddenly.
"Ah? When did it happen?"
"Just after Mamoru Iinuma's trial ended, the First War Zone suddenly canceled our party's office in Luoyang and ordered our personnel to leave the country immediately!" Chief of Staff Teng said.
"The Nationalist government obviously did this on purpose. They repeatedly asked Mamoru Iinuma to no avail, so they shut down the office when they returned!"
In the spring of 1938, the First Army blocked the Luliang Mountains in western Shanxi, cutting off the communication line between northern Shaanxi and southeastern Shanxi.
Personnel from the Eighth Route Army headquarters going to Yanzhou can only go through Mianchi or Luoyang and detour from Xipian. Similarly, personnel from Yanzhou going to the base areas in North China or Central China must also pass through the First War Zone.
Under this situation, Yanzhou decided to set up an Eighth Route Army office in Luoyang.
At first, this request was flatly rejected by Cheng Qian, the commander of the First War Zone. After negotiations, Cheng Qian reluctantly agreed that our party could only set up a communications office in Luoyang.
In early 1939, the Chief of Guard succeeded Cheng Qian, the commander-in-chief of the First Theater Command, and agreed to change the Communications Office into an office.
Since then, the 18th Group Army Office of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army in Luoyang (Luoba Office) has been formally established.
The Eighth Route Army Office in Luoyang has a special geographical location, like a red hub, connecting transportation, materials, and information between Luoyang, Yanzhou, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Southeast Shanxi, the New Fourth Army in Central China, and the Central Plains Bureau.
In just three years, the comrades of the Luobao Office have transferred more than 70 batches of more than 1,400 military and political personnel of our party, escorted more than 2,700 progressive young people to Yanzhou, raised and transported a large amount of military supplies for the base area, and effectively
Locally supported the anti-Japanese struggle in North and Central China.
The relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was up and down, and the office was a thorn in the side of the Kuomintang die-hards. They often set up stalls in front of or behind the door to do business, which intensified the tracking and monitoring of the office.
"Before this, the director of the office, Yuan Xiaoxuan, rebelled and confessed a lot of confidential information. The personnel who were evacuated to Xijian are now safe, but the confidential personnel and radio operators who were evacuated to our Eighth Route Army headquarters on the other side were captured by the first
The Political Training Department of the war zone arrested six comrades and a child under one year old, including Party branch secretary Comrade Li Panxi!"
"So someone needs to come forward to rescue them!" After Chief of Staff Teng finished speaking, he first glanced at the brigade commander and then at Zhou Weihan.
"I haven't done this for a long time, but Luoyang is the core frontline town of the Nationalist Government. It's not easy to rescue people in Luoyang!" said the brigade commander.
"That's why I want you and Comrade Zhou Weihan to go there. You two have suitable identities. The comrades in the office have made great contributions in the past three years. They must be rescued!"
"According to the intelligence forwarded by the Northern Bureau, the Political Training Office of the First War Zone will recently transfer people to the Xijian Concentration Camp. This is a rare opportunity!" Chief of Staff Teng said.
After the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began to cooperate for the second time, but the friction between the Kuomintang Army and the Eighth Route Army never stopped, and friction incidents continued to occur.
An interesting phenomenon is that in the past year, the National Army fighting behind enemy lines north of the Yellow River has had a close relationship with the Eighth Route Army. This is true whether it is the National Army in Zhongtiao Mountain, the Changzhi area, or the Sulu Theater.
South of the Yellow River, the Nationalist Government has never stopped. The situation of the New Fourth Army has improved slightly after the Wannan Incident. However, the Ninth Theater of the National Army has always been a serious problem for the New Fourth Army in Jiangbei.
In cities occupied by the national army, preventing the development of our party's underground personnel and preventing the infiltration of Japanese spies are equally important priorities.
The brigade commander and Zhou Weihan were both senior generals of the Eighth Route Army. Logically speaking, they should not put themselves in danger, but they both had inextricable connections with the Nationalist Government.
When the brigade commander was in Huangpu Military Academy, he was the eldest brother of the Hunan children. He saved the old man's life during the Eastern Expedition. After he was arrested in Hudu, many national army generals from Huangpu united to plead for the old man's release.
The brigade commander has one horse.
Mrs. Song personally visited the brigade commander, and the old man also talked to the brigade commander many times, hoping that the brigade commander could return to the national army camp and promised to reuse him.
In the end, under the noses of the Zhongtong secret agents, the brigade commander escaped, let alone Zhou Weihan.
"Now the Japanese army is showing signs of waning, both behind enemy lines and in the front. It's obvious that they can't fight. As soon as this little devil took a break, the Chinese army immediately jumped up. I wonder if the two sides have reached some secret in private.
An agreement has been reached!" Zhou Weihan guessed.
"Don't talk nonsense without real evidence. Now tell me which channel we will take to reach Yanzhou!" Chief of Staff Teng said.
Even if the Luoyang office had not been banned, it would have been impossible for so many people to go through Luoyang this time. Fortunately, the Luliang Mountain base area where the Luliang Military Region under the Shanxi-Sui Military Region is located is also one of the routes to the west.
Compared with the Taihang Mountains, just after the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, it crossed the Yellow River eastward and fought with the Shanxi-Sui Army. The battle between the two sides took place in western Shanxi with Luliang Mountain as the core.
Therefore, the Eighth Route Army has a deep mass foundation in the Luliang Mountain area.
The Luliang area adjacent to Yanzhou spans southwest and northwest Shanxi and connects northern Shaanxi and Shanxi. It has become an important hub connecting Yanzhou with the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines in North, Central and South China. It is known as the "steel link to Yanzhou".
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On the Qixian to Taigu section of the Tongpu Railway, the Eighth Route Army has been active with an armed force called the Tongpu Detachment.
This time, we only need to cross the Tongpu Railway and Taifen Highway in the Qitai section, and go west through Xi County and cross the Yellow River to reach Yanzhou.
Finally, according to the arrangements of Chief of Staff Teng, the brigade commander and Zhou Weihan led the elite personnel to go south and arrive in Luoyang first, while the rest of the personnel followed and headed westward under the escort of the Fifth Regiment.
"What? You don't come with me? How about I go to Luoyang with you!" Wen Qiang said in surprise.
"No!" Zhou Weihan immediately shook his head after hearing this: "This trip will go to Luoyang and then pass through Xi'an to reach Yanzhou. We need to walk a lot of unnecessary roads in the middle. Zhou Tainan is still young, so it would be better to make less trouble!"
After calming down Wen Qiang's emotions, Zhou Weihan called Liang Daxi over and told him to follow Wen Qiang all the way.
"Commander, let me go with you!" Liang Daxi said coyly.
"This is an order!"
"yes!"
This little guy Liang Daxi is good at everything, but he blushes whenever he sees a woman, stumbles a lot when talking to lesbians, and can't even speak well.
In fact, there is no need for Zhou Weihan to explain that family members like Wen Qiang who are accompanying the army must be the targets of key protection, not to mention that the escorting troops are the Fifth Regiment of the Tainan Military Region.
"Lao Zhou, where are you going if you don't act with the large army? What is your special mission?" Li Yunlong on the side couldn't help but ask.
Zhou Weihan hadn't spoken yet, but the brigade commander had just finished explaining to the comrades below, and happened to hear Li Yunlong making inquiries here.
"Li Yunlong, Li Yunlong, what's the matter with you? Don't ask about things you shouldn't know. Don't you know?"
Suddenly the voice of the brigade commander came from behind, which made Li Yunlong startled. He quickly said with a smile: "Oh, old brigade commander, when I knew that you were going to Yanzhou to study, I thought, even the brigade commander, you
They're all gone, what qualifications do I, Li Yunlong, have to negotiate terms?"
"Oh, I don't know who I learned it from. I haven't seen you for a while, and my glib tongue skills have improved greatly!" the brigade commander said and glanced at Zhou Weihan with a smile.
"What, Li Yunlong, do you want to go with me?"
When Li Yunlong heard this, he wondered if he could go with the brigade commander all the way.
He immediately expressed his position: "Brigadier, you must have an important task. Since my superiors have not informed me, it definitely does not require my participation. You are busy, I will go see if other comrades need help!"
After Li Yunlong finished speaking, he left. Seeing the sound of Li Yunlong leaving, the brigade commander couldn't help but said: "I thought that Li Yunlong would cause a lot of trouble when he was under your hands, but now it seems that the changes are not small!"
Zhou Weihan grinned, it was because someone above was helping Li Yunlong, but he said: "Comrade Tan and Comrade Luo Benzhong have done a good job, saving a lot of trouble!"
"That's right, Comrade Luo Benzhong was carefully selected by me to treat Li Yunlong, a stubborn person!"
At noon that day, the group heading west set off from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. However, the brigade commander and Zhou Weihan did not set off immediately. Instead, they studied the people accompanying them.
"This time we go to Luoyang, it is better to have fewer people than too many. I have asked Political Commissar Wang to select thirty soldiers from the Armed Forces Team under the Ministry of Enemy Industry. We can meet up at Tunliu!" said the brigade commander.
"It's almost the same with me. A small group of soldiers from the reconnaissance company set off for Tunliu!" Zhou Weihan nodded.
The full name of the Armed Work Team is the Armed Work Team behind Enemy Lines. Its personnel are all selected from the main force of the Eighth Route Army as reconnaissance staff, enemy workers, outstanding company and platoon leaders, and a backbone of soldiers. They are mainly engaged in organizing the people, instigating the puppet army, and eradicating and reforming the traitors.
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Relatively speaking, they were the special forces of the Eighth Route Army during this period.
In contrast, although the reconnaissance company has outstanding combat effectiveness and is also good at camouflaging and lurking behind enemy lines, the variety of tasks it performs is far inferior to that of the armed workers team that specializes in this area of work.
On the same day, after two comrades from the Northern Bureau arrived at the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, the group set off from the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and went straight to Tunliu.
In Tunliu City, since Kong Jie's independent group occupied Tunliu and the northern area, the local county party committee office has moved into the city.
After some thought, Kong Jie considered that the future settlement would be a transportation hub connecting Taibei, Taiyue, and Tainan. For the safety of the county, he moved the headquarters of the regiment to the city.
That night, it was already dark.
But the regiment leader Kong Jie kept wandering around the wall of the North City Gate: "It's already dark, why haven't the brigade commander and the others arrived yet? Could something have happened?"
But it was Kong Jie who was specially here to greet the brigade commander and Zhou Weihan and others. When he saw that the time was already past seven o'clock, he suddenly felt anxious.
After more than half an hour, a bright fire came speeding towards Tunliu County.
"Hey!" The soldier pulled the reins, and the horse gradually slowed down: "Commander, we have received the brigade commander and Zhou **, safe journey!"
A soldier from the cavalry company of the Independent Regiment was afraid that Kong Jie would be worried, and regardless of his own safety, he rode a horse at night in order to report the news to Kong Jie in advance.
"Okay, hurry up and enter the city!"
"yes!"
Not long after, more fires appeared. Seeing this, Kong Jie hurriedly asked the soldiers to open the city gate.
"Brigadier, Zhou **!" Kong Jie took the lead in saluting a military salute.
"Well, have you been waiting all this time? That makes you worried!" the brigade commander laughed.
"No, in the southeast of Shanxi, not to mention the base area, it is the territory of the little devils. Who can stop you, brigade commander!" Kong Jie gave him a flattery.
"Brigadier, you're still talking about Li Yunlong. This old Kong's ability to flatter others is getting better and better!" Zhou Weihan said straightforwardly.
"Haha, let's go and take a look at the city first!"
Everyone walked in the city and found that there were many pedestrians on the streets at night. The brigade commander said in surprise: "It's only been half a month. Compared with the last time I came here, the changes are quite big!"
"This is all due to the comrades of the local government. Since our Eighth Route Army occupied the county, Comrade Wang Shufeng of the county committee has re-planned Tunliu County, demolished many abandoned houses facing the street, and widened the streets!"
"The people who originally took refuge in the city have also returned. Two large warehouses have been built in the west and south of the city, and several shops, restaurants, and inns have also been opened in the city!"
"What a good idea. Maybe it can develop into something like Pingshun in the future. We must try our best to meet the requirements of local comrades!" the brigade commander instructed.
Kong Jie said that Wang Shufeng was indeed a talented person, and he had some plans for the future before the troops occupied Tunliu County.
The biggest advantage of Tunliu is that it is located on a traffic artery. Cargo merchants coming from western Shanxi must pass through Tunliu along the Lintun Highway, while cargo merchants from the Taiyue area also need to pass through Tunliu before arriving in Pingshun.
It is precisely because of this convenience that Wang Shufeng attracts a large number of foreign tourists, but if you need to go to Pingshun, you must stop in Tunliu.
Servants, laborers and goods are left in warehouses outside the city, while shopkeepers and those with respectable jobs must come to the city to spend some time.
