The jeep stopped at the school gate, but Li Zhilong did not move. He looked at the plaque hanging on the wall. There were two plaques. The first was the North China War Zone Officer's School and the second was the North China War Zone Second Cadre School. Both schools were affiliated to the Democratic Promotion Association (i.e. the Third Party). He was in charge of Chen Mingshu and trained grassroots cadres and lower-level officers for the Democratic Promotion Association.

However, both schools are now under the name of the North China War Theater, and the cadre schools are still under the jurisdiction of the Political Department. Since becoming the director of the Political Department of the War Theater, Li Zhilong rarely stayed in the headquarters and almost all traveled around the war Theater. In name, it is to organize and mobilize the people and strengthen political work. In fact, it is to inspect cadres and coordinate political ties with the third party. In addition to this cadre school, there is also a cadre school, the First Cadre School. This school is Zhuang Jihua's cadre school, hosted by Ao Lu, the former principal of the Southwest Development Team Cadre School. This cadre school has moved from northern Hubei to Jinan.

After the Xi'an Incident, the Southwest Development Team successively dispatched a large number of cadres, mainly distributed in the 15th War Zone and the Sulu War Zone. These cadres implemented the Chongqing model in the local area and implemented social reforms. After several years of grassroots work, they accumulated a lot of experience. Li Zhilong had to examine their political attitudes and then find ways to gather them together and enter the war zone from the local area for the future.

In the past six months, Li Zhilong traveled all over Shandong, Hebei, Henan and Hubei. He changed his jeep and organized a six-million-strong team. Almost every village in Shandong, Hebei, Henan and Hubei sent a front team. The villagers used ants to move the supplies to the front line step by step, greatly alleviating the pressure from the logistics department.

The adjutant returned to the car, and the jeep slowly started, drove into the school, stopped in front of the school's administrative building. Li Zhilong got out of the car and looked around. The school looked quite big. In addition to the four or five teaching buildings, there were several rows of bungalows that were obviously used as dormitories.

The office building is not very tall, only two floors, the exterior walls are a bit mottled, and the corners of the walls are clear. It is obvious that the small building has a few years. "In the field."

As he walked out of the building quickly, Li Zhilong hurriedly saluted to him. Judging from his official position alone, Li Zhilong's director of the political department was higher than that of the principal. In addition to this, Li Zhilong was lower than that of the other ones; his military rank was already a second-level general, and his qualifications were of course not to mention.

"Hello, teacher, I'm going to Zhengzhou, come and have a look." Li Zhilong smiled slightly.

Look at Li Zhilong seriously. Li Zhilong's skin is dark, his eyes are deep, his cheeks are concave, but his eyes are bright, and he is obviously in good spirits. He returned a greeting, and then stretched out his hand, and Li Zhilong held the serious hand.

"I didn't expect you to come. The battle between Pingjin and Tianjin is fierce. You are not at the headquarters but you are here."

"I can't help in the military, just have the Cultural Revolution and Bai Chongxi." Li Zhilong knew it himself: "The Pingjin front line concentrated nearly two million troops, and the logistics pressure was air. The Cultural Revolution allowed me to mobilize people from all over the country to organize fronts to reduce the logistics pressure."

He let go of his hand and nodded slightly. The two of them did not walk upstairs, but turned to the side, and said as they walked: "Yes, the military operation of two million people is unprecedented and unprecedented in scale."

The two walked and chatted, bypassed the office building, passed through a moon gate, and then passed through a long corridor, entering a small courtyard. Li Zhilong obviously felt that the small courtyard was tightly guarded. There were two inspection posts in this short distance, and there were several fixed posts around the courtyard. There were two small buildings in the courtyard, and two small buildings were built side by side.

After entering the small building, Li Zhilong concluded that this was the military command established by the Third Party. The security in the small building was more tight. There were guards at the entrances of the corridors on both floors. Li Zhilong even believed that there were guards on the roof.

Chen Mingshu already knew that Li Zhilong was coming, but he did not go downstairs to greet him, but still stayed on the second floor. After seriously coming in with Li Zhilong, Li Zhilong noticed that Huang Qixiang was also in the office.

Although Li Zhilong rarely contacted Huang Qixiang, he also knew him, so he knew him in Guangzhou. However, according to his information, Huang Qixiang should have been in the Jiangnan War Zone, so why did he appear here?

After a little greeting, Li Zhilong asked, and Huang Qixiang smiled: "Chen Cheng serves as commander, and if I don't leave, they will drive me away. Zesheng told me not to resign on his own initiative, so he had to be driven away." It turned out that after Chen Cheng served as commander of the Jiangnan War Zone, he imitated Zhuang Jihua to reorganize the army, and also nakedly arranged a miscellaneous army and dismissed the miscellaneous generals. Huang Qixiang was a member of the third party, and of course he could not serve as the deputy commander of the group army anymore. So Chen Cheng arranged a vacant position for him as a senior senator. Huang Qixiang went with the flow and expressed his dissatisfaction. He resigned and ran to Chen Mingshu to teach. All this seemed natural, but in this way, Chen Mingshu gathered the main military generals of the third party into the military academy and formed the military command center of the third party.

After listening to Huang Qixiang's explanation, Li Zhilong was happy. There were more than 20 officers working in two small buildings, and there were seven high-power radio stations in the basement of another small building, responsible for armed contact with the third party forces in various places.

"Where is General Jiang? I heard that he is here too." Li Zhilong asked about Jiang Guangnai, who was nominally the school's teaching director.

"He is in class and he has to take students to camping training after class. I'm afraid you won't see him." Chen Mingshu explained.

The conversation naturally cannot be separated from the situation on the front line. Chen Mingshu asked about the situation on the front line on Pingjin. Unfortunately, the battle had not started when Li Zhilong left, and he had not returned to the headquarters yet, and he did not know the situation on the front line.

"Two million to five hundred thousand, we still have firepower and air superiority. Unless the Cultural Revolution makes a mistake, Okamura Nishiji has no chance to take charge of it." Li Zhilong said lightly, his tone was very calm: "From my understanding of the Cultural Revolution, he is a very cautious person and has not taken any risks."

He nodded seriously and expressed his agreement with Li Zhilong's opinion: "The Cultural Revolution looked humorous, bold, and actually very cautious. His boldness was actually based on a situation where he had a full understanding of the situation of the enemy and us."

"I'm afraid the most dangerous move in his life is the Niu Xing Battle." Li Zhilong added in his heart, and his cooperation with you.

He shook his head seriously: "I'm afraid not. I think his most risky one is Southwest development. This project is more risky than the Niuxing War."

Li Zhilong participated in the Southwest development from beginning to end and once presided over the Southwest development. He didn't expect any risk in it. But when he said it seriously, he remembered the risks in Southwest development. From the beginning of entering Sichuan, seizing Chongqing, and social reform, Zhuang Jihua took risks almost every step. Chen Mingshu smiled and stood up: "It seems that Zai Tian was in Lushan Mountain and did not know the true face of Lushan Mountain. However, I am also optimistic about the Cultural Revolution. He is a cunning person. In Nanjing Shangqiu, he can also make moves in such a difficult situation. In the Battle of Pingjin, he has more cards than Okamura. With his personality, he will never give Okamura a chance."

Jade and Li Zhilong nodded in agreement almost at the same time, and Huang Qixiang also nodded. He had never worked with Zhuang Jihua, but he was the first to clearly propose to cooperate with Zhuang Jihua. It was precisely because of his suggestion that Jade Jade went to work with Zhuang Jihua.

"Teacher, General Chen, what's going on here?"

Chen Mingshu smiled at the stern and Huang Qixiang with a deep smile, then stood up, took out a document from the file bag next to him and handed it to Li Zhilong: "I guess the Cultural Revolution will understand our situation. This is our plan."

Li Zhilong opened the document, which was a third party's troops distribution and near-term combat plan behind enemy lines in Hebei East. Li Zhilong looked and recorded. After a while, he took out a pen and recorded a few numbers, then closed the document, closed his eyes and thought for a while.

According to the documents provided by Chen Mingshu, the Third Party had a base in Hebei and Rehe, with troops of 5,000 and 7,000 respectively. The two bases were not connected into one. The Redong base part extended into northwest Liao, and the Hebei base area spanned inside and outside the Great Wall.

In order to cooperate with the Battle of Pingjin, Chen Mingshu ordered the main force of the Redong base to go south, and jointly with the Hebei base to launch an attack in Hebei, restrain the Japanese army, and expand the base at the same time.

"General Chen," Li Zhilong thought for a while and said, "The Kwantung Army is about to enter the pass, with a total force of about 300,000. By then, the Japanese army will gather in eastern Hebei and the troops will find it difficult to survive."

Chen Mingshu nodded. He had already understood the situation and Cai Tingkai had already spread the news. However, he believed that the Battle of Pingjin was the top priority. Even if there were sacrifices, as long as the victory of the Battle of Pingjin was achieved, these sacrifices were worth it. Because once the Battle of Pingjin was victorious, the Japanese would never have a chance. "I mean, in Hebei, the Japanese might not be able to restrain the Japanese army. I think we can advance to the Northeast, so that we can truly restrain the Kwantung Army." Li Zhilong said.

Chen Mingshu, Huang Qixiang and the serious did not answer immediately. Chen Mingshu said softly: "Northeast? to Northeast?"

"Yes," Li Zhilong nodded: "In order to reinforce North China, the Kwantung Army almost came out in full swing. Not only did it take time to rush into the Northeast, but it also took time to rush into the Far East battlefield. There was almost no troops in the entire Northeast. Now is a great time to march into the Northeast. In fact, you may also know that Yan'an has taken action."

Chen Mingshu also knew about Yan'an's actions. He also reported to him below. He also guessed the purpose of Yan'an, but he didn't care. According to Zhuang Jihua's plan, the Northeast will be the world of the Third Party and Zhuang Jihua, and there are also some areas in Yan'an. The reason why Yan'an took action now is that he was afraid that Zhuang Jihua would not admit it after the war.

Chen Mingshu was a little worried that after several years of fighting behind enemy lines, the importance of the base area was shown in various aspects. Once he left the customs, it meant leaving the base area and entering a strange area, and the troops were likely to suffer serious losses.

To open up a new area, we must restrain the Japanese army. The troops are too heavy to complete the tasks, which put Chen Mingshu and Huang Qixiang in a dilemma.

"I think it's OK." Huang Qixiang looked more flexible and responded faster than Chen Mingshu. He first understood the key points of this deployment: "The Japanese were empty in the Northeast. After entering the Northeast, we tried to divide our troops and move around the South Manchuria and North Manchuria, especially the Sino-Soviet border and the Sino-North Korea border."

Chen Mingshu also understood, but he did not think it was in the South Manchuria, but in the North Manchuria. Zhuang Jihua responded to Yan'an's actions. Yan'an sent troops into the Northeast, so he naturally wanted to get a share of the pie after the war. However, Zhuang Jihua was also worried that Yan'an refused to keep his promise after the war and did not give up the occupied Liaoning area.

In addition, it seems dangerous to march into North Manchuria, but in fact there is not much danger. The Japanese's troops here are even more empty, and the mountains are high and dense, so it is suitable for guerrilla warfare. "Okay, order them to march into North Manchuria with their main force and leave a powerful force in western Liaoning." Chen Mingshu also agreed.

"Before coming out, the Cultural Revolution talked to me, and he asked me to tell General Chen and Director Deng that we could take further political actions." Li Zhilong looked at Chen Mingshu with bright eyes.

Chen Mingshu and Huang Qixiang understood the meaning of this sentence seriously. Compared with the huge military progress, the Third Party’s political actions were loud and thunderous. Zhang Bojun and others asked for further actions several times, but they were all suppressed by Deng Yanda and Li Jishen. The main reason was Zhuang Jihua’s request.

According to the agreement reached with Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua demanded that political stability be maintained before the end of the war, so the third party evolved into the Promotion Association of Democracy and did not launch any greater actions.

Now Zhuang Jihua spoke, not only liberated them, but also asked them to take some actions, which made Chen Mingshu and the Serious. "The purpose of the Cultural Revolution was to maintain national peace after the war, and to shift from the current one-party dictatorship to democratic constitutional crucible," Li Zhilong continued to explain. Before coming here, Zhuang Jihua sent him a long letter, in which he explained in detail his purpose and the actions that the Third Party should take.

"The Promotion Association of Democracy is just a loose organization. The Cultural Revolution suggested that you establish a political party, a new party, and carry out activities based on this party."

"There is something ready-made. The Chairman agreed to implement universal suffrage elections in the sixteen counties of Chongqing. He suggested that your party start from here and promote universal suffrage."

Huang Qixiang frowned slightly and was puzzled: "In the field, we have established a new party. This is within our plan. However, as a new party, we must participate in the general election, and we may not be able to win."

"It doesn't matter if you can't win, what you want is to promote the general election." A serious smile was made. After all, I worked with Zhuang Jihua for many years and understood his way of doing things: "The purpose of the Cultural Revolution is to general election. He doesn't care who wins and loses. What he wants is the general election."

Chen Mingshu nodded solemnly, using Zhuang Jihua's foundation for the Kuomintang in Chongqing, no matter the third party or any other party, it would be impossible to win the election. Zhuang Jihua's move can be called "wanting first", and the third party made a sacrifice this time, but this sacrifice can open a door to eliminate war and achieve post-war peace. "Okay, I will pass on the suggestions of the Cultural Revolution to Zesheng and Ren Chao." Chen Mingshu agreed readily. According to the division of labor, he was in charge of military affairs, and political affairs were led by Deng Yanda and Li Jishen.

Li Zhilong was a little surprised that things went so smoothly. After all, it was the third party who was making sacrifices to launch political actions. The Cultural Revolution originally planned to help with funds. After all, a large amount of funds were needed to establish a new party.

"In Tian, ​​how many days can you stay here?" Chen Mingshu stood up, walked to his desk, took out two cigars from the drawer, turned his head and asked Li Zhilong: "Do you want one? They can't stand the smell."

Li Zhilong shook his head, took out his cigarette, and scattered it to Yu and Huang Qixiang: "I'll leave later. I'll arrive in Zhengzhou before tomorrow. Hong Junqi is waiting for me there. I can't stand it. General Chen, when you take action, Mr. Jingjiang and the old man will take action to cooperate with you; in addition, Yuntian will prepare some funds for you, and please Director Deng go and contact Yuntian."

Chen Mingshu seemed to sigh of relief: "This is great. We are short of funds. I have called Chongqing several times and asked for funds. But Zesheng's call back was asked to raise our own funds. If it weren't for Bie Tingfang, I would have been interrupted."

Li Zhilong was a little surprised. He frowned and asked, "Where is the school's funding? The war zone has not been allocated? Isn't it possible?"

Chen Mingshu smiled bitterly: "Our school recruits twice the quota. In addition, intelligence work and direct troops also need money. Our intelligence work has just taken shape and there are many places that require funds. However, after the Pacific War began, the donations received by our party have been greatly reduced and it has been underestimated."

The main source of funds for the Third Party was donations from overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. After the Japanese army occupied Nanyang, the donations were naturally greatly reduced, and life was very difficult. If it weren't for the fact that there was a little savings before, it would have been out of stock. "I talked to Beetingfang, and he decided to mobilize another 20,000 people and want to form another new army." Huang Qixiang said.

Li Zhilong smiled: "Is General Yuxing itchy?"

Huang Qixiang and Chen Mingshu smiled bitterly, to be honest, as soldiers, who would not want to command a million troops like Zhuang Jihua to fight the battlefield with the enemy?

"I'm afraid it won't work." Li Zhilong said with a restrained smile: "After the Battle of Pingjin, the troops will definitely suffer a large number of casualties. You are requesting to establish a new army at this time, and I'm afraid... the Chairman will not agree."

Most of Chen Mingshu's armed forces are in the North China War Zone and under the command of Zhuang Jihua. In the document submitted just now, Chen Mingshu listed the armed forces of the Third Party in detail, with a total force of up to 600,000, which is not enough compared to the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army, but the quality and equipment exceed that of the main force commanded by Xia Yanglin and others.

"However," Li Zhilong looked at Huang Qixiang: "However, General Huang's wish can be fulfilled."

Huang Qixiang was refreshed and asked repeatedly. Li Zhilong smiled and said, "According to the practice of the Cultural Revolution, it is certain to rectify the troops after the war. The troops who performed poorly in the war will be reorganized. In addition, several armies will be reorganized. By the way, do you have any contact with Yu Xuezhong?"

Chen Mingshu replied without thinking: "Yes, our party had contact with Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng long before the Xi'an Incident, but there were fewer contacts after the Xi'an Incident. After the war of resistance began, we had contacts with Yu Xuezhong and He Zhuguo and Zhou Fucheng, but they were wary of us."

Li Zhilong thought about it and realized that during the Xi'an Incident, Deng Yanda led the third party to issue a telegram to oppose it and advocated a peaceful resolution. This move made the Northeast Army feel uneasy. However, over the years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the knowledgeable people in the Northeast Army also understood that the Third Party was actually their best destination. Yu Xuezhong, He Zhuguo and Zhou Fucheng began to carefully resume contact with the Third Party, and Liu Duoquan, the former Northeast Army general, simply joined the Third Party.

However, Chiang Kai-shek was very strict in the Northeast Army, and the entire Northeast Army was scattered and used. Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army and Miao Zhengliu's 53rd Army were in Shandong. Liu Duoquan's 49th Army was reduced to one division after fighting in Songhu. Liu Duoquan was transferred to the Military Senate. The remaining troops were fought in Jiangxi under the leadership of Wang Tiehan. The 53rd Army was first in Hunan and now in the Jianghuai War Zone. In addition, there were the 67th Army, which was reduced to the 108th Division, and He Zhuguo's Second Cavalry Army.

This is a huge force. Chiang Kai-shek wanted to destroy this force. ** and the third party were trying to win over this force. Zhuang Jihua was also trying to make the idea of ​​this force. "Teacher, General Chen, after the Battle of Pingjin, he would march into the Northeast," Li Zhilong thought for a while and said, "You can contact the generals of the Northeast Army who are familiar with you and ask to participate in the battle to liberation of the Northeast; however, the Chairman will definitely not agree like this. At that time, the Cultural Revolution will propose to the Chairman to reorganize the Northeast Army, dismantle the Northeast Army, mix and reorganize it with the Northwest Army and some local troops, and re-appoint a group of generals. The Cultural Revolution estimated that under this condition, the Chairman may agree, General Huang, so that your opportunity will come."

The serious smile and Chen Mingshu almost at the same time, reorganizing the miscellaneous army was Chiang Kai-shek's unswerving policy. Zhuang Jihua's idea was indeed very likely to be approved by Chiang Kai-shek. Of course, they also thought that Zhuang Jihua would not be so "kind" and that part of it would definitely fall into his hands.

In the Battle of Pingjin, the casualties of the troops must be astonishing. Chen Mingshu knew that the new phase of reserve soldiers had already been recruited and were intensifying training in the rear. Each county in Henan has a new camp, and the situation in Hubei and Shandong is similar. Of course, this is even more so in the southwest region. In fact, this recruitment has affected Guangdong and Guangxi, and the new soldiers from Guangdong and Guangxi have been sent to northern Hubei.

It must be explained here that after the War of Resistance began, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi announced that he would accept the leadership of the central government and that all the resources in Guangxi were willing to hand over to the central government. Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi did what he said, and in addition to replenishing the Guangxi army, the source of Guangxi also replenishing the Central Army.

After such a war, the army will definitely have three to five months of rest, which gives Zhuang Jihua a chance to reorganize the army, and at this time there will definitely be a chance to take advantage of the situation.

"I am going to join the army, and I'm afraid I need to prepare now." Chen Mingshu reminded. Of course Li Zhilong understood. Huang Qixiang could not go directly to the army from the military academy, and it would be better to go to Zhuang Jihua in some name now.

But it was just a difficult situation. Zhuang Jihua already had Cai Tingkai around him, and Huang Qixiang suddenly increased. It would be strange if Chiang Kai-shek's suspicion did not arise.

But Li Zhilong did not refuse immediately. Several important generals of the Third Party returned to the army to gain military power. This was originally planned, but it only needed an opportunity. Next, the four people went to the war room and discussed the number of troops and the area of ​​activity on the map. In this regard, Li Zhilong showed his weakness. He lacked the experience of leading troops to fight and had been engaged in administrative and political work for a long time. Fighting became his weakness, so he mainly listened.

The main reason was Chen Mingshu who was talking, Huang Qixiang occasionally interrupted and asked questions or supplementary explanations, and the staff next to him continued to make up. Finally, Chen Mingshu decided to let the two base areas in Hedong Rehe to mobilize 8,000 troops out of the customs. However, Chen Mingshu also asked Li Zhilong to report to Zhuang Jihua that before leaving the customs, he would supplement a batch of weapons and ammunition for the troops out of the customs.

Li Zhilong looked at the time. Before he knew it, three hours had passed. It was already time to go on the road, so he said goodbye to Chen Mingshu and the god of blood. However, he asked him to have supper before leaving. So after having supper in a hurry, Li Zhilong got on the road.

Chen Mingshu and Huang Qixiang did not send Li Zhilong out, but were still in the courtyard. Looking at Li Zhilong's back, Huang Qixiang was a little puzzled. Although the content of Li Zhilong's transmission is important, it is not necessary for Li Zhilong to go there personally and let Cai Tingkai convey it?

"This is what Zhuang Wenge is cautious and careful." Chen Mingshu sighed.

This time, Li Zhilong came to represent Zhuang Jihua. The main problems were two, one was a political issue and the other was a military issue. Zhuang Jihua was worried that they had doubts or opinions, so he arranged for Li Zhilong to tell them and explained to them, of course, it was also for the sake of keeping the secret.!~!
Chapter completed!