(...If the Chinese people talked the most about the Anti-Japanese War in the summer of 1939, I think it must be the Expeditionary Force. Because the situation on the domestic battlefield gradually calmed down, everyone's eyes were focused on this army that was hoped to expose the power of the enemy and could shock the enemy's courage to exchange for peace. Every detail of the establishment and training and equipment of the Expeditionary Force was paid attention to by the public... Excerpted from "My Memories of the Anti-Japanese War - Cao Xiaomin")

...Our expeditionary force shoulders the mission of nations to become stronger. Once they achieve brilliant results in joint combat with the Soviet Union, they can prove to the world that the Chinese nation cannot be insulted. No country in the world dares to underestimate the Chinese... This is a very plain editorial published by the Central News Agency. Originally, this editorial could be very sensational, but Cao Xiaomin stopped it!

"All government official media must not use words such as "outdoor power, going abroad to fight, etc.! We must be prepared and prepared for the international public opinion dispute that day. We must never say that sending troops to Mongolia is going abroad..." Cao Xiaomin said at an internal high-level meeting. Only Jiang Jingguo, Chen Guofu, Chen Lifu, Dai Li and others attended the meeting, and even He Yan was the clerk. At this meeting, Cao Xiaomin set the tone for the official propaganda of the Expeditionary Force and also reviewed the first draft of the intra-military propaganda and education materials for the future. At the same time, Cao Xiaomin also proposed to get a propaganda and education material for the return of the Mongols...

Although the Central News Agency, the Central Daily News and others did not do their best to promote the expeditionary force, which can be said to be relatively low-key, the frequency of this word appears in radio and newspapers is too high. Chinese people are paying attention to it. Now not only Chongqing, but also the people in the enemy-occupied areas are privately discussing the new thing of the expeditionary force!

"Yu!" A bullet actually penetrated the mound of earth and flew over from the "glasses" face!

Although I have experienced countless life-and-death deaths, my "glasses" were still scared and sweated in cold sweat, feeling weak in the hot flashes...

This is the encirclement to annihilate the remaining enemies on the Jinzhong defense line of the Japanese and puppet army. Fu Zuoyi's main force was transferred to Taiyuan, leaving only the troops who were crippled in the front battle to reorganize a very small defense line. ** Other encirclement tasks have been handed over to the troops of Wei Lihuang who kept up and the troops of the original reserve 31st Legion Tang Enbo. And there are many defensive sections for the Eighth Route Army on the east and west sides of this large encirclement. Now these troops siege the enemy feel very pressured and no longer have the pride of vowing to wipe out the enemy at the beginning: except for Wei Lihuang and Tang Enbo's new forces, who have many soldiers and generals. The defense lines of the Jinsui Army and the Eighth Route Army have been broken through many times by the Japanese and puppet army. They have been repeatedly fought for countless sacrifices before blocking the enemy again!

"The enemy's snipers are so active, their combat power is still very strong, everyone should be careful..." The "glasses" slid down the small slope and came to a group of brothers resting below and said, "Be careful, don't rush out without attacking orders... Is the ammunition enough?"

The brothers of a squad stood firm in this small position, and they all seemed very tired. Because Shanxi had just experienced such a big disaster, the army's supply is very scarce, and each of them was on the line of fire was a piece of cake and a spoonful of porridge a day. When they wanted to launch an attack every day, they could only concentrate on half an hour after the cake was released. Otherwise, they would not be able to cope with the consumption of the tug-of-war!

"Sir, there are still some bullets. If it is gone, you can still fight a bayonet..." A brave soldier couldn't help it: "It's just that I don't have food. Can you give us more stuff to fill our stomachs... We were weak before we ran to the opposite foot of the mountain last time we counterattacked..."

"Glasses" had a sore nose: the battles were so stalemate that the soldiers were all yellow and thin, but they didn't even approve any extra grain!

He took out half a piece of light cake from his arms and handed it to the soldier. A quarantine officer rang in his ears and made people angry: "What? The Japanese snipers are so powerful? Then let the transport soldiers go up again at night, it's okay, save a meal..."

He had just been promoted to battalion commander, but he was immediately demoted to company commander because he almost killed the quarantine!

"...They are all madmen coming down from the fire. Who told you to provoke madmen..." When he left the regiment headquarters, he vaguely heard a commander scolding those grievance-looking baggage soldiers...

"Brothers, the Japanese are worse than us. Didn't you see it? The Japanese ran slower than the turtle when they charged, and they didn't dare to attack until they walked fifty meters..." "Glasses" could only boost morale like this, and his stomach was sore. The cake that he had hidden in his body for a long time, which he had been hiding from the regiment headquarters and had not been willing to eat for a long time had been broken into small pieces and divided into each soldier in this squad... He still had ten squads under him! But he went to the regiment headquarters to move again and again but was told that many of the supplies that were to be allocated to the front line had been allocated to the expeditionary army...

"What? We're drawn to the Expeditionary Force?...What is the Expeditionary Force?" A platoon leader of the Eighth Route Army who was also tortured by hunger was called to the command post, and his superiors asked him to withdraw his troops.

"You can recognize the words, read it yourself..." The battalion commander handed him a newspaper, Chongqing's Central Daily News!

"Go to you, I don't read the counter-revolutionary newspapers... Expeditionary Force? Didn't you let the Kuomintang command us?" The platoon leader suddenly stood up: "When did Yao Jiefang hear the command of the Kuomintang reactionaries..."

"Okay! You are still obeying Cao Xiaomin's command now!" The battalion commander ran the platoon leader with one sentence: "This big counterattack is a military order issued by the Kuomintang reactionary Cao Xiaomin. Did you not implement it? Don't tell me that you have not participated in the battle these days!... Obey the orders, and gather the team now!"

"The Eighth Route Army is preparing to withdraw its troops to the Soviet Union to fight. Fu Yisheng...ah!" Yan Xishan sighed: "Shanxi is no longer the Shanxi before. What can you do if you show it to others with a prank? Now everyone wants food!"

He sighed when the boss sighed. Xu Yongchang, who Yan Xishan trusted the most, could not find any words to comfort him. Now he was anxious: the land of the Three Jins was suddenly robbed by war, and the people were living in poverty. At this time, they should do their best to save the people, and their entire Jin army system did do this; but there was no food in their hands!

Since Cao Xiaomin worked hard to prepare for the expeditionary force, various aids in Shanxi have been captured in the hands of Tang Enbo, so the materials transported continuously have been cut off! Now Yan Xishan can't even afford his own troops, let alone help the victims. But at this time, the Central Army departments took the initiative to use military rations to provide disaster relief... What does this mean? Isn't it just to win people's hearts? Now the victims all know that waiting at the logistics bases of various Central Army units will free up food for them; even the Eighth Route Army troops are the same. They transport very precious food to Yan'an to bring to the victims. After this period, is Shanxi still the Shanxi of Yan Xishan? If there is no soldiers, there is no food to recruit soldiers...

"Commander, I think this is the case..." Xu Yongchang said cautiously: "We are actually the biggest in Shanxi now. If we say that money is still a little savings, we have no food. But the Commission will not see our influence in Shanxi, especially the millions of guerrillas are still ordered by me... I mean, if the Commander-in-Chief can fly to Chongqing in person to lose sincerity to the Commission; the Commission will definitely not be able to save him, and this is all he wants. Now the Central Army distributes Nanyang rice and Indian flour to the refugees, which is to demonstrate to us..."

Yan Xishan had thought about showing kindness to the central government; he was not invisible to see through the Central Army's current appearance; but it was hard to accept it in his mood... Yan Xishan didn't say anything, he knew Xu Yongchang's character; although this old guy was a bit too gentleman and too kind, he would never betray people from Shanxi for his own selfish interests.

Perhaps this is the only way. After thinking hard for a while, Yan Xishan ordered someone to take out his speech in Chongqing in January (referring to a series of remarks that Yan Xishan proposed to prevent the Communist Party, limit the Communist Party and dissolve the Communist Party at the Fifth Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the Kuomintang) and was about to bow to the central government.

It would be great if Cao Xiaomin was still in the political war zone! Yan Xishan sighed secretly, but judging from the situation where Cao Xiaomin devoted himself to the preparations for the expeditionary army, he had to sigh that his life was in a miserable state. Who made such a huge thing suddenly break out!

"Now the whole country is staring at us!" Cao Xiaomin was rarely at ease and used the excuse to inspect the 21st Factory. In fact, the inspection work did not take long before detouring the Jialing River to fish.

Those who accompanied Cao Xiaomin to have a leisure time were the confidential director, his wife, his parents-in-law and brother-in-law, who also came with official business. There were many people outside the Cao family, such as Zhang Jingjiang and other important people who took over the Chongqing economic overall planning work... There was also a busy figure who also participated in the picnic party of the general's family - Lieutenant General Lie Chenggan, who was almost fully responsible for the daily affairs of military industry.

This show he is now comparing with the civil servants who abused official cars to travel for a family in later generations... Cao Xiaomin thought lazily that this time he was not pretending to be leisure and actually busy with work. Although Li Chenggan thought so, Cao Xiaomin was really fine!

Everyone outside speculated about the busy formation of the Expeditionary Force. Zhang Jingjiang and Li Chenggan were around him debating how to use military industry to drive the development of Chongqing's private industry and commerce... Cao Xiaomin was frowning and contemplative, but in fact he was always admiring his beloved wife from a dispersed perspective! Originally, the establishment and development of the Expeditionary Force was about to be in the current situation: the thunder was loud and the raindrops were small!

Just when he was serious but extremely leisurely, he suddenly reported that Chongqing assembled the only troops among the various departments that Cao Xiaomin thought were practical combat effectiveness. Sun Liren, the captain of the Anti-Smuggling Corps of the Ministry of Finance, came to his headquarters to meet Cao Xiaomin and had been waiting for him for an hour!

Alas! The emperor is not in a hurry. The eunuch is anxious... However, this person is Sun Liren. Cao Xiaomin thought for a moment: "Notify the headquarters and take General Sun to the riverside..."

(Author: The exam is over, and I will only read the grades a month later, but I feel that there is no problem. I thought I could write more tonight, but I didn’t expect that a group of classmates came back from dinner and were exhausted. I forced myself to write a chapter in the morning, and I felt like I had a fever. Maybe I was too busy a while ago and I felt a little relieved... Let’s do it during the second update tomorrow during the day.)! ~!

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