In fact, Yang Zhen received Jiangbei's reply from the commander-in-chief, and he was actually very dissatisfied. Although the other party not only met their own needs, but even added a lot of projects on the basis of their own requirements. However, there has been no reply to the request for a land link with northern Shaanxi through the Soviet Union.

In other words, the current Soviet Union, under the circumstance that it has restored its radio contact with the Central Committee, still does not want to restore its direct communication with the Central Committee. What exactly they wanted to do, but Yang Zhen couldn't figure it out. If they had delayed and refused to reply before, now they have no reason to drag on.

The central authorities have already sent a telegram informing them that they are negotiating with the Soviet side and are preparing to send a group of cadres who are now studying in the Soviet Union to form an inspection group headed by the well-known former commander of the 1st Red Army Corps and the commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, who is being treated in the Soviet Union, to come to the northeast for inspection.

Yang Zhen has already forwarded this call from the central government to the commander-in-chief, hoping that he can talk about this matter in the negotiations with the Jiangbei side on the next step of cooperation. But no matter how the commander-in-chief negotiated, the other party always had a clear and confused expression. In a hurry, he said that he had never received any application from the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, the blind can see that this is their excuse.

Regarding the commander-in-chief's request to withdraw several times, Yang Zhen only replied in one sentence, that is, to continue to grind with him without tearing his face. Show them the telegram from the central government. Let them know that we're not as foolish as they think we are.

After receiving Yang Zhen's reply, no matter how anxious the commander-in-chief was, he could only be patient and work with the plenipotentiary representative of the Soviet side, Major General Wang Xinlin, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Far Eastern Military Region, and Ivanov, political commissar of the Military Region and first secretary of the Party Committee of the Frontier Region, behind him.

Things came to a standstill with a conscious delay on the part of the Soviet Union. It was not until July that the Soviet side replied to the commander-in-chief at a farewell ceremony held by the commander of the military district, Senior General Abanasek, to the commander-in-chief of the Third Route Army and the two commanders of the Sixth Army and the Tenth Army, who had been detained on the Soviet side.

General Abanashek clearly told the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief of the Third Route Army, and the six or eleven army commanders present. Moscow has agreed and provided five of the latest Li-2 transport planes and two TB3 bomber planes to transport the CCP delegation to Manchuria. At the same time, a group of ordnance experts provided by the Soviet Union and the last batch of 107 mm seamless steel pipes were among the materials previously requested.

He hoped that when the commander-in-chief returned, he would seize the time to urge the troops to rush to repair a temporary airfield, so that the planes could directly transport the Chinese communist delegation and supplies to the base areas of the Anti-Japanese Federation. So as not to stay too long on the territory of the USSR and leak secrets. At the same time, in order to carry these personnel and supplies, the Far Eastern Military District has been ordered to mobilize the best pilots to Moscow.

The commander-in-chief was overjoyed by General Abanashek's reply. However, the commander-in-chief did not expect that Yang Zhen was resolutely opposed to the Soviet side's idea of directly landing the plane in China.

The airport is there, ready-made, and there is more than one. There are two field airfields in the north of Tangyuan, and there is also one in Luobei, both of which are ready-made field airfields built by the Japanese army. Although it is a field airfield, there are no problems with taking off and landing transport aircraft. But the point is that these airports have neither navigation equipment nor their own navigation talents.

Without any air superiority, or even navigation, it would be a death to let a group of unescorted transport planes enter the country. This is the transport of personnel, not paratroopers airborne with a navigation map is enough. If you get lost at night, the consequences will be even more severe. Yang Zhen insisted on landing in the Soviet Union and crossed the river in Luobei.

At Yang Zhen's insistence, after the efforts of the commander-in-chief, the Soviet side, which did not know what medicine had taken the wrong one, finally relented. The plane landed at Boli instead, and at the same time sent a car to transport personnel and supplies to the small Soviet border town of Samara opposite Luobei to cross the river.

After receiving that the Soviet side changed his mind, Yang Zhen breathed a sigh of relief. The commander-in-chief was told not to rush back, but to return together after the arrival of the central delegation.

After arranging the itinerary of the central delegation, Yang Zhen hesitated for a long time, but still sent someone to find Gao Yumin, the top person in charge of the original Third Route Army who stayed in Xiajiang and is now the director of the independent division's political department. He also informed the news of the imminent arrival of the central delegation, and hoped that he would send people to the area around Helen and invite the commander of the Third Route Army to come and meet him and listen to the instructions of the central authorities.

Hearing the news, Gao Yumin immediately agreed excitedly. It's just picking and choosing, and among the most suitable candidates, Zhang Zhenhua, the former political commissar of the Third Division of the Fifth Army and the current political commissar of the Logistics Department, is picking on the shoulders of the party and government, and he is already so busy that he almost doesn't even have time to rest, and he really can't leave.

Li Tai, another former acting commander of the Second Division, who is now the deputy political commissar and director of the Political Affairs Department of the First Division, was at the critical moment of assisting the No. 1 and No. 2 leaders of the Military Division and stabilizing the Military Division.

Not only did the central delegation have to report to the Third Route Army about the arrival, but even the troops left behind by the Third Route Army in the Xiajiang area have been merged into the Second Route Army, and Gao Yumin also felt that he should make a report to his original superiors. After all, he is a member of the North Manchurian Provincial Party Committee, and the troops left behind are also the troops of the original three armies.

Although he seemed a little hesitant, Yang Zhen finally agreed with Gao Yumin's decision. In order to protect the director of the political department who had crossed more than 100 kilometers through the Xiaoxing'an Mountains and arrived safely at Hailun, where the headquarters of the Third Route Army was located, Yang Zhen specially selected the most elite platoon from the reconnaissance battalion and equipped it with a radio station and sufficient supplies.

Of course, there are also Japanese canned food, sugar, and Western medicine for the head of the headquarters of the Third Route Army, as well as 10,000 rounds of 38-type rifle ammunition and other materials for the troops of the Third Route Army. It's not that Yang Zhen is stingy, it's just that these things have already filled a full seven pack horses. In the belt more, once they encounter the Japanese puppet army, can the escorted troops still fight?

Gao Yumin, who was in excitement, set off in the afternoon in order to bring the news to the headquarters of the Third Route Army as much as possible. After Gao Yumin left, Yang Zhen seized the time to contact Dong Ping, who was leading a reconnaissance company south to find the headquarters of the First Army, hoping that they could find the headquarters of the First Army in South Manchuria.

According to Yang Zhen's later memories, at this time, the headquarters of the First Army should have been active in the Huadian, Mengjiang, Antu, and Fusong areas along the Sino-North Korean border. The focus should be on the Changbai Mountains on the border with Antu in the east of Huadian.

Although Division Commander Chen, who is the division commander and political commissar of the Second Army and the Fifth Division under the First Army system, is resting here with Yang Zhen at this moment. But Division Commander Chen, who has lost contact with the First Army for a long time, does not know exactly where the headquarters of the First Army is. He can only provide an approximate location, and as for the detailed location, he still needs to find it one by one.

As a matter of fact, the Fifth Division of the Second Army, as the northernmost unit of the First Route Army, has mostly fought with the Second Route Army and the Fifth Army since its formation. This division commander Chen was also transferred from the Second Division of the Fifth Army to the Fifth Division of the Second Army as the division commander. The Fifth Division of the Second Army is not so much a unit of the First Army as it is only a structure. In terms of command, there was more contact with the Second Route Army.

It's just that this division commander Chen is too principled, although he was born in the Fifth Army, he spent most of his previous time fighting with the Second Route Army. But he still thinks he's a soldier all the way. If you want to return to the Second Route Army, you can, but you must have an order from the First Route Army. In his opinion, the Fifth Division of the Second Army was the only force covering the northern front of the entire First Route Army.

Once the Fifth Division of the Second Army withdrew from the First Route Army at this time and joined the Second Route Army, which had become the backbone of the North Manchurian War of Resistance in front of us, it would be even more difficult for the First Route Army, which was already alone in South Manchuria. So he was still insisting, knowing that there was little hope of perseverance, but he still refused the invitation to return to the Second Route Army.

However, in order to recover the troops that had been greatly injured under the heavy encirclement and suppression of the Japanese puppet army in the winter and this spring, and to look for the headquarters that had lost contact for a long time. This division commander Chen still listened to Yang Zhen's advice, and sent a company of the Fifth Division, led by Hou Guozhong, deputy commander of the Fifth Division, and with the assistance of a company of the reconnaissance battalion sent by Yang Zhen, carrying the radio provided by Yang Zhen, to the south to find the headquarters of the First Route Army.

Hou Guozhong is an old man who has worked in the Fifth Division since its formation, and since the Second Army was merged into the First Army, he has become extremely familiar with the head of the General Headquarters. I also have a general understanding of the secret camps headquartered in Huadian, Fusong and Mengjiang. In particular, the headquarters is most likely to be hidden in the Changbai Mountains in the east of Huadian. He has been to report to the political commissar of the former Second Army and the current political commissar of the First Army many times, and he is very familiar with him.

But even if Dong Ping, who is familiar with mountain and forest operations, leads the reconnaissance battalion to cooperate, and Hou Guozhong, who is familiar with the head of the headquarters of the First Route Army, leads the team. However, under the strict blockade and suppression of Jilin, Jiandao and other places by the Japanese puppet army, it was still very difficult to find the headquarters of the First Route Army.

While the Japanese army tightly sealed the Yang Zhenkong zhì area in the Xiajiang area, it intensified its efforts to clear the First Route Army in South Manchuria. As soon as Dong Ping and his entourage passed through Ning'an and entered the territory of Dunhua, they found that Dunhua was very different from the situation they had evacuated at the beginning of the year.

Except for the old base area at the junction of Dunhua and Ning'an, which is slightly weaker because it is too high and densely forested, the entire territory of Dunhua is almost full of Japanese puppet troops.

After the secret camp of Lao Heidingzi replenished some of the grain left by Peng Dingjie when he was ordered to withdraw, although he was already familiar with the terrain of Dunhua and Ning'an, but when he could not find a breakthrough for a long time, Dong Ping could only take the territory of Emu and advance in a roundabout way.

Fortunately, as soon as he entered the mountainous area east of Emu, he encountered a regiment of the guard brigade led by Han Renhe, the political commissar of the 1st Army Guard Brigade who was active here. It's just that the reconnaissance company led by Dong Ping is too well-equipped, and the light machine gun is actually a Type 96 machine gun that the Japanese army is rarely equipped with.

Therefore, as soon as the two sides looked at each other, they were regarded by Han Renhe as the elite of the puppet Manchu army, and there was almost no fight. And Hou Guozhong, who led the team, was almost not shot to death as a traitor.

If it weren't for the fact that Dong Ping was carrying a German-made eight-fold Zeiss telescope, and Hou Guozhong heard the unique sound of the water bead rifle that the Japanese puppet army was not equipped with at all, he could have avoided the outbreak of a civil war between the two armies on the spot.

However, although the fight was avoided, Han Renhe, who had suffered enough of the traitors, obviously did not trust Dong Ping and his party. It wasn't until Dong Ping, in order to avoid a fight, ordered his subordinates to put down the weapons in their hands first. In addition to taking off the gun he was wearing, he even took off the telescope that Yang Zhen gave him that never left his body, and personally explained to Hou Guozhong that he was convinced.

But he really gained the trust of the other party after Han Renhe saw the handwritten letter from the commander of the Second Division of the Fifth Army. I really believed that the well-equipped troops in front of me were sent by the Second Route Army to find the headquarters of the First Route Army.

During his tenure as secretary general of the First Army, Han Renhe, who was already very familiar with Division Commander Chen, was naturally familiar with Division Commander Chen's handwriting. After seeing Master Chen's handwritten letter, he relaxed his vigilance. After hearing Hou Guozhong and Dong Ping explain their intentions, Han Renhe smiled and said, "The commander-in-chief is not in Emu or Antu, and he should be active in Huanan now." However, the General Political Commissar with part of the troops is now in Emu. This is when I was with the commissar. You're thankful for meeting me, or you won't even be able to find the headquarters even if you search all over Emu and Huanan. ”

"Since the defection of the commander of the 1st Division, our underground organization in the entire South Manchurian region has almost been destroyed by embers, and most of the secret camps have been exposed. So in order to avoid these traitors who are chasing us like mad dogs, we have changed the original rules of activity, and most of the secret camp has changed its location. If you still look for us in the same way as before, you will definitely not be able to find us. ”

Speaking of this, Han Renhe looked at Hou Guozhong and said a little strangely: "Where did your fifth division run this winter?" The First Army has now changed its formation. The original establishment of the First and Second Armies has been abolished and has been changed to the Three Front Armies. Originally, the General Political Commissar decided to organize your 5th and 4th divisions together into the Third Front Army. ”

"I have only sent many people to look for you, but they have never been able to find you. So the adaptation has dragged on. At the end of last year, at the beginning of this year, the 4th Division encountered the main force of the Japanese puppet army several times, suffered losses and almost lost its combat effectiveness. The remaining dozens of people were assigned to our guard brigade. Lao Hou, it seems that the deputy commander-in-chief of your front army will not be able to do it. ”

"This time, our guard brigade was divided into two routes, and the brigade commander led part of the troops to cover the commander-in-chief. I accompanied the political commissar with a regiment. The political commissar is now in the mountainous area at the junction of Emu and Huadian, and I will take you there. ”

Speaking of this, Han Renhe looked at the things carried by the pack horse behind Dong Ping, swallowed the saliva in his mouth, and said a little embarrassedly: "Old Hou, I see that the horse behind you is carrying a lot of grain, can you give us some." The commissar had barely eaten in the past two days, except for some wild vegetables. ”

"We're strong, but there's nothing going on. But the political commissar has been in poor health, and he can't stand eating wild vegetables. Occasionally, a little game was played, and it was also given to the wounded. We came out this time to get some food and recuperate for the political commissar. ”

Hearing that even the general political commissar of the First Route Army had been out of food for several days, Dong Ping, who knew what kind of predicament the First Army had fallen into, hurriedly said: "Things are originally everyone's, and nothing is uneven. This is not only food, but also some sugar, canned food and other nutritious products that our deputy commander-in-chief brought to you Political Commissar Wei. ”

Hearing Dong Ping's words, Han Renhe said extremely gratefully: "Thank you so much." The devils have now mobilized nearly 10,000 puppet troops, and several special operations teams composed of traitors who are familiar with our activities have been chasing us all day long. It turns out that I can rest, rest, and get something to eat at night. ”

"But now the devil's plane is flying along the treetops, barely giving us a breather. We have been wandering around this mountain forest for half a month before we get rid of the pursuit of traitors. The already small amount of supplies has long been exhausted, and it has been without food for several days. Seeing that the political commissar's health is getting weaker and weaker day by day, I am in a hurry. ”