Just when Yang Zhen urgently dispatched troops to carry Ma Chunsheng to hand over a large number of arms and supplies, he did not know that in a cave in Yan'an, the revolutionary holy land in the northwest, thousands of miles away, a conversation was unfolding about him and the current situation of the entire Second Route Army.

The person who reported to the central leadership was Ji Qing, the former political commissar of the Second Route Army and the Fifth Army, who was sent by the commander-in-chief to contact the central government when he was in the secret camp of Lao Heidingzi at the end of last year, but there has been no news.

Although Ji Qing served as the political commissar of the Fifth Army, he did not participate in the Western Expedition of the Fifth Army. When the main forces of the Fourth and Fifth Armies of the Second Route Army went westward, only one guard brigade of more than 100 people had weak guard troops. When the Seventh Army was cut off in the Xiajiang area and could not be dispatched to cover the headquarters, he led the Third Division of the Fifth Army to transfer the headquarters to cover the headquarters.

With the loss of contact with the main force of the Fifth Army, the lone army and the thousands of Japanese troops encircling and pursuing the headquarters of the Second Route Army were in the deep mountains and old forests. With absolutely inferior troops and equipment, they stubbornly dragged the footsteps of the Japanese puppet army.

In the face of the grim enemy situation, although he led the third division to brilliantly complete the task of covering the headquarters to break through. But in the face of the superior Japanese puppet army, the five armies and three divisions led by him also paid a great price.

Not only in a short period of more than a month, but the two division commanders died one after another. The Third Division, the division with the strongest combat effectiveness of the Five Armies, was almost an empty shelf. Most of the original forces were lost, and a small number were scattered. After the headquarters jumped out of the encirclement of the Japanese army, he himself had almost become a military political commissar of a bare-bones commander.

Ji Qing, who had almost no soldiers available in his hands and the main force of the Fifth Army did not know where to go, and could only act with the headquarters, became the best candidate for liaison in the eyes of the commander-in-chief because of his firm political position, courage and resourcefulness after arriving at the secret camp of Lao Heidingzi.

After receiving the task, the youngest military-level cadre in the entire Second Route Army, according to the method Yang Zhen said, did not make any contact with the local party committee, and quietly transformed into a Japanese teacher, not even bringing security personnel, but went to the Guannai alone to find the central government.

After starting from the old black top secret camp, it was also smooth all the way. The so-called passports and documents for going abroad that were handled by the previous underground relations, under the personal escort of Li Mingrui, crossed the blockade line around the secret camp of the old black top by the Japanese puppet army, and got on the train safely in Dunhua.

Although after several car changes, in addition to being investigated more severely at the so-called Huaman border in Shanhaiguan, and when changing cars in Harbin once, he was almost not recognized by a traitor of the Fifth Army and was in danger, he still arrived in Beiping relatively smoothly.

Perhaps all the Japanese puppet soldiers did not expect that this person who spoke fluent Japanese, was polite, and carried only a few original Japanese books with him in addition to simple clothes would be the leader of the bandits they had wanted for a long time. I didn't expect that this liaison officer who was sent to the customs by the Anti-Japanese Federation would dare to blatantly take the passport issued by the puppet Manchurians and swagger into the customs by train.

What's more, the passport he has in hand, except for his name and photo, is all genuine. The only difference is that all the handwriting and date on the passport are filled in by yourself when you leave. The stamps on the photo were also temporarily forged by Guo Bingxun.

In addition, the Japanese puppet forces are far less strict than those who enter the customs from outside the customs as closely as those who leave the customs inside the customs. So along the way, in addition to the necessary inspections, Ji Qing was not subject to too much interrogation.

After arriving in Beiping in Shun Lì, he followed the road map drawn up by Yang Zhen for him, and after changing trains in Beiping and taking the Jinpu Line to Baoding, he changed to walking. According to Yang Zhen's instructions, he was going to Buping County, Hebei Province to find the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Eighteenth Group Army, as well as the Jin-Cha-Ji Provincial Party Committee and the border district government.

As a result, he did not expect that as soon as he left Baoding and entered the guerrilla base area, he did not expect that something would happen. This area is the base area formed by the 1st Northeast Army and the old Eighth Road that moved east after the 18th Group Army marched eastward to the anti-Japanese battlefield behind enemy lines. The mass base is excellent, and the vigilance of the common people here is unimaginable in other places.

Ji Qing did not have a letter of introduction from the underground party, nor did he have a special traffic officer to escort him. In addition, he had a northeastern accent and a so-called puppet Manchukuo passport, so he did not travel west long after leaving Baoding, and as soon as he entered the base area, he was detained by the militia as a Japanese spy.

It's no wonder that the militia here regard him as a Japanese puppet spy. At that time, the Jin-Cha-Ji base area had just been smashed and the Japanese army had concentrated more than 20,000 troops to besiege the Jin-Cha-Ji anti-Japanese base area. In addition, most of the spies used by the Japanese army at this time were trained in the Northeast, and almost all of them spoke with a Northeast accent. So as soon as he entered the base area, he was arrested.

Fortunately, although the militia here is extremely vigilant, they also hate the Japanese puppet spies to the core. But the discipline is still extremely strong. Even if he was mistaken for a Japanese spy, he was not lynched, but handed him over to the Jizhong Military Region, his superiors.

As a result, when facing his fellow villagers in the Northeast who were originally from the Northeast Army in the Jizhong Military Region, Ji Qing, who had almost no paper on his body, except for a few original Japanese books, was speechless, and no one believed that this scholar was the military and political commissar of the Anti-Japanese Federation and the liaison sent by the Anti-Japanese Federation to contact them.

It's not that Ji Qing doesn't want to bring a letter of introduction that can prove his identity, even if it's a simple letter of introduction written on the lining of his clothes. Having served as the propaganda director of the county party committee and the secretary of the provincial special committee, he knows very well the cruelty of the struggle between the enemy and us. Without any formalities, he declares that he is a person who resists the United Nations, especially in the ***, which is known for its strict organization, the ghost will not believe it.

But no matter how he explained and affirmed the importance of identification, Yang Zhen insisted that he was not allowed to carry a qiē item that might reveal his identity except for a few Japanese books used as a cover. Not even if it's written in the lining of underwear.

Under the situation that the Japanese puppets are extremely strict in controlling the Northeast and spies are everywhere, once a word is leaked and seen by someone with a heart, it will bring great danger to Ji Qing. He shouldered almost the only hope for the Northeast Party to connect with the Central Committee, and there could be no slip-ups.

Yang Zhen would rather be arrested by the troops in the gate as a Japanese puppet spy after he arrived at the base area, rather than risk revealing his identity and carrying items that could prove his identity. After several arguments, Yang Zhen not only persuaded the commander-in-chief, but also Ji Qing, who was a little worried about being killed by mistake and dying in the hands of his own people for no apparent reason.

In fact, Yang Zhen still thought about the cruelty of the struggle between the enemy and me in the pass too simply. The reason why he insisted on not letting Ji Qing carry the certificate was because in Yang Zhen's impression, as soon as he came out of Baoding after Beiping, the first stop was the Jizhong Military Region of the Eighteenth Group Army. The units of the 18th Group Army, which were active in the central Hebei region, were formed on the basis of the former Northeast Army No. 1 that had not been withdrawn from Hebei.

With this foundation, Ji Qing entered the base area, at least he could use the relationship of his fellow villagers to find contact. Because as far as he knew, many cadres of the Anti-Japanese Federation were transferred to work in Guannai after going to study in the Soviet Union. It seems that one of the division commanders of the Fifth Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance was transferred back to Guanneihou and worked in the sequence of the Jizhong Military Region.

Yang Zhen didn't know that it was this memory of him that almost killed Ji Qing. The commander of the Anti-Japanese Union Division who was transferred back to work in Guannai did not work in the Jizhong Military Region. Instead, he was first in the 120th Division, and later transferred to the Daqingshan Cavalry Detachment as the director of the regimental political department and the director of the Armed Forces Committee of the Suimeng Military Region. He confused the 120th Division, which had fought in Jizhong, with the Jizhong Military Region.

When Ji Qing, who didn't know that he had been shaken by Yang Zhen, proposed to find the cadres of the Jizhong Military Region who had fought in the Anti-Japanese Federation to identify himself. However, I was told that although there are many people in the Northeast of the Jizhong Military Region, most of them are from the Northeast Army, and none of them have ever worked in the Anti-Japanese Federation.

Hearing this news, Ji Qing, who didn't expect that the young man with great magical powers and who was like a god would also make a mistake in memory, was immediately dumbfounded. I can't find anyone who can prove my identity, and even if he is full of mouths, it can't be explained clearly.

To say that the cadres who live in war situations all the year round in this era are clean and neat. When the person in charge of the enemy engineering department of the Jizhong Military Region, who was extremely vigilant, saw that he had no valid identity certificate, and that he could not find anyone to prove his identity, he directly regarded him as a Japanese puppet spy and sentenced him to death, and immediately executed him.

Fortunately, Ji Qing's luck is not bad. Although Yang Zhen remembered the wrong people's troops, he was not wrong about one thing, this time was when the 120th Division arrived in the Jizhong Military Region. And the old comrade-in-arms of Ji Qing in Yang Zhen's memory, Li Jingpu, the former commander of the First Division of the Fifth Army, was transferred to Moscow to study and graduated, and was assigned back to Guannei, where he was working in the 120th Division at this time.

If it weren't for the fact that he had been sent to the Soviet Union to study and had been transferred out of the Anti-Japanese Federation for two years, after hearing the enemy cadres of the Jizhong Military Region accidentally mention that he had caught a puppet Manchurian spy who claimed to be the Second Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Federation, Li Jingpu, who was eager to inquire about the situation of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation, rushed over to confirm his identity and rescued him from being tied up in the court. I'm afraid that he really fulfilled Yang Zhen's words and was mistakenly killed by his own people.

After learning of Ji Qing's intentions, Li Jingpu, who knew the seriousness of the situation, did not dare to hesitate in the slightest, and immediately reported his situation to the headquarters of the 120th Division and the head of the Jizhong Military Region.

After learning that this scholar-looking person, who was almost shot as a puppet Manchurian spy sent to Guannai, was actually sent by the Anti-Japanese Federation to Guannai to find a liaison of the Party Central Committee, and that his identity was actually the political commissar of the Anti-Allied Army, the heads of the 120th Division and the Jizhong Military Region were also shocked.

After sending a telegram to Yan'an and getting in touch with the former commander of the Fourth Army, who had been transferred to the post of deputy director of the Northeast Working Committee in January, and thoroughly confirming Ji Qing's identity, the cheerful division commander of the 120th Division immediately sent Li Jingpu, Ji Qing's old comrade-in-arms, to personally escort Ji Qing to Yan'an.

Although Ji Qing set off in January, he arrived at the Jizhong Military Region that month. But after such a twist and turn, and the communication line between the Jizhong Military Region and Yan'an where he was located at this time was not very smooth, and he relied on walking all the way. By the time I arrived in Yan'an, it was already May.

Ji Qing didn't know that when the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation was eagerly looking for the central government, the central government was also looking for the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation in many ways. After the establishment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the establishment of the Shandong Sub-Bureau, in a short period of more than a year, the two places were ordered by the central authorities to secretly enter the northeast many times to look for the Anti-Japanese Alliance, but there was no result.

Knowing that there were people in the northeast who were able to reach the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines in North China without going through the Soviet Union, the central authorities attached great importance to it. After Ji Qing arrived in Yan'an, less than a week later, he was received by the main leaders of the central government.

When Ji Qing was accompanied by Li Yanlu, the former commander of the Fourth Army and the current deputy director of the Northeast Working Committee, and Li Jingpu, who had already been transferred to work in the Daqingshan Cavalry Detachment after returning to Yan'an, he was also taken aback. In addition to the commander-in-chief of the Eighteenth Group Army, the central leader who Yang Zhen said was also eloquent.

Although the first meeting was a bit restrained, the humorous words and kind attitude of the central leader soon made Ji Qing let go of the burden in his heart, and reported in detail the shape of the Northeast and the increasingly difficult situation of the Anti-Japanese Federation, the most important thing is the current situation of the Second Route Army.

Of course, all he knew was the situation of Yang Zhen's department when he was leaving. As for the great development that followed, the scale of the thousands of people he left had grown to the situation of having tens of thousands of elite divisions and continuously thwarting the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, and he did not know that he had left the army for several months.

Hearing that the Second Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Union in front of Ji Qing was surrounded and suppressed by the Japanese army, it was forced to march west but failed miserably, and the two main forces were almost wiped out. The Third Route Army was also encircled and suppressed by the Japanese army, unable to gain a foothold in the Xiajiang area, and was forced to advance westward, suffering heavy losses.

The First Army, which was active in South Manchuria, was also in an increasingly difficult situation because of the defection of the main division commander, and all the secret camps, communication lines and underground relations were exposed. Compared with the previous time when Li Yanlu and Li Jingpu left, the shape of the Northeast War of Resistance can even be described as a sharp deterioration.

In particular, after hearing that the commander-in-chief of the Third Route Army crossed the river to ask for help and was detained by the Soviet side, and that some units of the 1st, 9th, and 6th armies, the main forces of the Third Route Army and the Third Army, retreated into the Soviet Union because of the defeat in the battle, they disappeared inexplicably and were sent to Xinjiang by the Soviet side, which made the Third Route Army and even the entire North Manchurian Anti-Japanese Federation lose all their cavalry and suffered great losses.

There are more than 500 cavalry, and the central leaders who have heard Li Yanlu's report on the situation of the Northeast War of Resistance clearly know that this is almost all the cavalry of the North Manchurian Anti-Japanese Alliance. However, these cavalry were lost in this way and were forcibly sent to Xinjiang without the slightest knowledge of the central government. This really made the leader a little unhappy with the big brother's behavior.

When I heard that under the heavy encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army and the strict blockade, the soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Federation, who were short of food and ammunition, could only wear thin clothes because of the lack of cotton clothes in the severe cold of minus thirty or forty degrees. The leader's brow furrowed even deeper when he could not find a grain of grain in his stomach for several days, in the ice and snow, even the roots and bark of the grass that could be swallowed, and the almost daily battle was almost almost cruel to the environment.

The leader's frowning brows did not loosen slightly until he heard the report of Yang Zhen's subordinates. Regarding the experience of Yang Zhen, who was born in Ji Qingkou's mouth, the leader and the commander-in-chief were extremely curious and listened very carefully.

They were very curious about how such a weak man from a college student could lead a group of stragglers composed of Kuomintang and Communist prisoners of war to kill from the heavily guarded secret base of the Japanese army? Can even pull up an anti-Japanese armed force that is not small in scale and sounds quite good in combat effectiveness under the situation that the enemy situation is so strict, and in the situation of both people and land?