Chapter 289: Ambiguity (Part 2)

(...There are frequent conflicts between the anti-Japanese armed forces. What the brothers cannot accept the most is that some of our hostile armed forces fled to the occupied areas of the Japanese to hide from us. When we pursued them, the Japanese actually provided firepower support to them; maybe this was the Japanese trick, but the Japanese succeeded, and the hatred between the anti-Japanese armed forces became deeper and deeper... Excerpted from "My Memories of the Anti-Japanese War - Cao Xiaomin")

Chen Zui just arrived in Zhengzhou and returned to his residence. He received an order from the "boss" to ask him to go back. What is the urgent matter?

"The *** people plan to negotiate with Cao Xiaomin to discuss some compromises about northern Jiangsu after the battle..." Dai Li handed a telegram to Chen Zui and smiled: "You also said that your brother is a pure soldier and will not be an official. I think he has learned a lot... This is his telegram to the commissioner, he is very smart..."

After watching it intoxicatedly, Cao Xiaomin explained all the details of the whole matter in the telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, and also expressed his views. He agreed to make certain compromises with the Japanese, after all, this was related to the livelihood of millions of civilians. Cao Xiaomin also listed the negotiation conditions he thought of in the telegram, estimated the bottom line that he could accept for the other party, and also made an idea of ​​how to carry out guerrilla warfare during the compromise. But he also raised his own concerns, whether such a secret compromise would be imitated and amplified by other defense zones, and whether it would be used by some people who were already passive in resistance as a negative basis... Finally, Cao Xiaomin's conclusion was very smooth: his position is a vulgar soldier on the front line, but he could not see through the overall situation of concern for people's livelihood, and he could only put forward his own opinions, or was too biased. All decisions must be approved by the commissioner before he dared to act according to orders...

"This telegram is so smart..." Dai Li smiled: "If he didn't send this telegram, he wouldn't know how he died... If he was stubborn in the officialdom, he wouldn't be able to live long if he was more skilled! The commissioner wants to save him, and you have to go to the front line again."

"We all know that pseudo-governors like Liang Hongzhi have contacted our people in private; those people make their own decisions after contact, some refuse immediately, some refuse to take over the property, and some secretly collude with them... But no one has given the whole story to the Commissioner..." Dai Li stared at the intoxication: "You are on the right boat, and the Commissioner values ​​you, brother, very much, and told me to deal with this matter..."

Dai Li analyzed this matter: The people of *** do have a tacit understanding with the anti-Japanese forces in northern Jiangsu, and stabilizing the rear is a very necessary move for them to continue to move westward. If they use this matter to have a certain tacit understanding with Cao Xiaomin, it will not only ease the relationship between the two sides' bows and crossbows, but also accumulate some evidence of tacit understanding between the two sides through multiple contacts, and publicly tear Cao Xiaomin's flag to pieces when necessary!

"The commissioner personally reminded that in order not to let Cao Xiaomin's flag be torn apart by the *** people or slandered by other people with ulterior motives, and considering the people's livelihood in northern Jiangsu, this secret negotiation with the pseudo-government in Nanjing cannot be held responsible for Cao Xiaomin. He must completely separate him from this matter..." Dai Li said to the intoxicated: "So a person with higher qualifications than Cao Xiaomin in his position must come forward. Who do you think is suitable?"

"Of course this is Han...ah, no, it should be because Xiaohou came forward!" Chen Zui suddenly woke up: the central government has been trying to find an excuse to completely overthrow Yu Xuezhong, the Northeast Army flag after Zhang Xueliang was under house arrest. This may be an opportunity!

"Okay!" Dai Li nodded slightly with some praise: "Then I don't need to say what you should do when you go out this time... By the way, you can leave this information to Cao Xiaomin, and he knows how to use it..."

Chen Zui took it and saw it. He was really shocked by the information: "This... are all these real?!"

Dai Li nodded and said, "We couldn't have thought that the relationship between the two sides would deteriorate so quickly and to this point. However, the knife was not stabbed directly on the back of the central government, so the central government did not intend to turn against each other immediately, so let the Guizhou clique have a headache..."

The information Dai Li handed to Chen Xi was a report sent back from the front-line theaters such as Anhui, Henan, and Hebei. The content was all related to the conflict between the Kuomintang and the Communist armies. Among them, the conflict between the Gui army and the New Fourth Army in Anhui was the most powerful, and it had reached the point of head-on attack. Even the *** knew the relationship between the two sides, and when the two armies were fighting, they actually watched and pulled the sidelines!

"...As our regiment's sixth company completed its blocking mission, it was ambushed by the New Fourth Army, nine people were killed, twelve people were injured, and seven people were captured. The company commander was injured. Because there were no casualties in the battle with the Japanese army, the sixth company did not dare to pursue the ambushed enemy, and allowed a hundred of them to escape up and down..."

"... During the battle between our troops and the Japanese army, we suddenly heard that the baggage was attacked by the New Fourth Army, and countless materials were burned. We had to retreat to the second line because we had no ammunition to replenish our troops..."

"...... Our army changed defenses and rested in the early morning. By dawn, the New Fourth Army was suddenly attacked. The guard company quickly counterattacked the Red Bandits to the Japanese-occupied area. The Japanese army actually provided machine gun fire to cover the Red Bandits' evacuation. Seeing this, the officers and soldiers of the participating troops were all sad and angry. Please go up to the peak to allow the New Fourth Army to raid and sweep the New Fourth Army's garrison..." (The above similar content is mentioned in the memoirs of several Guangxi bosses in the Anhui War Zone. If you are interested, book lovers will look for it themselves...)

In Shen Zui’s information, there were nearly 100 conflicts between the Gui army and the New Fourth Army. These were all happening in the past month, which means there were more than three incidents every day! (In history, the outbreak of the conflict between the two armies was after the Battle of Wuhan, but in the novel, it was triggered in advance due to the protagonist’s cave sweeping operation in northern Jiangsu...)

The intoxicated hand was a little trembling. He knew that the two parties and the armies had always been incompatible with each other and the friction had never stopped. But he really didn't expect that the two armies would fight to the death during the general battle. When he looked at the report that the New Fourth Army fled, the Japanese army actually provided firepower assistance, and the anger in his heart was hard to describe. Although this was obviously intentional by the *** people, this kind of provocation would definitely succeed: Will the New Fourth Army have tasted the sweetness and will be occupied by Japan after every conflict. District escape? Those officers and soldiers who have fought with the *** people for countless battles did not get angry when they saw one! Even if the New Fourth Army and the *** people had no secret agreement, the scenes shown were enough to make the two Chinese teams incompatible. In addition, the struggle between the two parties in the local area of ​​the local government... The situation of the national war of resistance in Anhui was over, and we could no longer return to the unity during the bloody battle of Qingliuguan!

I remembered the advice Cao Xiaomin gave to Han Deqin. He understood how important the task of returning to northern Jiangsu this time was...

He Yan completed an intelligence transmission openly in front of the telegraph. She sent out the initiative of the 112th Division to not participate in the battle but to enter the east and enter Nantong and other places to take over the empty defense of the 57th Army. She didn't expect to receive a reply immediately and ask her to report the transfer time and number of the 112th Division in detail... This is too dangerous! How is it possible!? She immediately thought that this might be a big move of her own team, and she had to rely on the transfer operation of the 112th Division.

Just as she was sending out some of the information and was still wearing headphones, she suddenly noticed someone walking into the tent!

It's the division commander! He Yan pretended to be missing and continued to work, but the content changed. The last message she sent was to give the vanguard troops of the 112th Division who had already arrived at their destination in advance, asking them to report the local situation...

"Ah, Master..." He Yan took off her headphones and pretended to be surprised to find Xie Zhong who had been standing behind her for a while.

"What are you busy with?" Xie Zhong asked with great concern. He Yan felt very familiar and annoying, just like the group of leaders in the "holy land" who ran to him all day long.

"You have been in the 112th Division for a month, right? Are you still used to everything?" Xie Zhong asked.

Why are the leaders on both sides the same accent? He Yan is of course very good at dealing with such concerns. She can pass it over with just two or three sentences without any meaning.

"How is it? Have you ever thought about taking charge of more and more difficult tasks?" Xie Zhong stared at He Yan with a smile: It's really beautiful. He took off his military cap and had headphones around his neck, and even the headphones became very special. Is it because the military uniform made her more beautiful or did she make the military uniform so gentle?... His brain showed that Cao Xiaomin was stunned when he was in front of He Yan.

"What task? Master's seat... Master's seat thinks I'm not doing well in the 112th Division?" He Yan looked confused.

"Oh, no, no, you are very good, really good..." Xie Zhong was a little unnatural: "But, during this period, I found in Chief Cao that there were too few transmitters, and each radio station had no standard of one reserve. Sometimes, the senders in the fierce battle could only lie on the side of the radio station to sleep... What if the command center happened to encounter an enemy attack and suffered casualties? I wanted to transfer you to the headquarters of the Guerrilla Corps... Chief Cao is my old commander. If you are not the best, I dare not let you go..."

Xie Zhong is from the world and is very good at looking at people's foreheads. He was stunned when he saw Cao Xiaomin looking at He Yan on the ruins. At that time, he wanted to send He Yan to the headquarters of the Guerrilla Corps...

It turned out... It turned out that this teacher Xie and the political commissar, all the instructors, were all here to do their work! He Yan understood that when she was in the "holy land", there were many such people around her, always saying good things to some leaders, and some of the sisters around her later became the leaders' lovers. But she didn't, she couldn't accept living with an uncle, and she felt disgusting as long as she thought about it; so she went to the spy department for special training. Although this could not completely avoid the concern of the leaders, at least the leaders could not come to her.

Isn't this the task she had accepted? Going to work with Cao Xiaomin, maybe even... Well, the opportunity has come... I just thought it was an acceptable task, but after seeing the famous hero in the country, she suddenly fell in love with this task.
Chapter completed!