For Yi Jianping after the transfer left. The candidate for the political commissar of the three divisions, Yang Zhen is also a headache. It turned out that when I read the history books in later generations, I was still angry at the ending of Deputy Commander Zhao. But since the two individuals teamed up and worked together, Yang Zhen found that this guy with too much personality was sometimes really difficult to get along with.

Yang Zhen has always believed that military commanders must have a certain personality. In Yang Zhen's view, a commander without personality will only blindly obey the superior leader, that is, a mediocre commander. And his current troops just can't tolerate those who are mediocre and don't want to make progress. That's why he used to tolerate Du Kaishan's unauthorized actions again and again.

Although this deputy commander Zhao has outstanding military talents, his personality of not allowing sand in his eyes, not listening to different opinions, and holding a skeptical attitude towards all people is difficult to accept many times. If it weren't for the foresight of the commander-in-chief, who only agreed to him as the commander of the sub-district and not to allow him to concurrently serve as the first secretary of the sub-district party committee, he would not have known what would have happened.

If it weren't for Yi Jianping's humility, he would be very tolerant of him most of the time. In addition, he is a person sent by the central government, and his identity is somewhat special, which makes Deputy Commander Zhao, who has suffered a big loss, somewhat scruples. Otherwise, I'm afraid that the work of these three divisions will not be done at all, and it will be a quarrel all day long. And judging from his experience in the Third Route Army, it is easy to quarrel into a platform and become a political struggle to the death.

Du Kaishan, who had cooperated with him in battle, found Yang Zhen several times after the battle. said that he would rather fight with the devil with a bayonet than partner with this deputy commander Zhao.

In Du Kaishan's view, this Deputy Commander Zhao is too stubborn. As long as he determines something, it must not be implemented in the slightest error, and even the slightest flexibility will not work. If you have a different opinion on his thinking, I will get you a hat to wear.

And Du Kaishan is just not the kind of person who fights to the death and has a tendon in his head. The cooperation and combat time was not long, and Du Kaishan was almost not driven crazy. If it weren't for Yi Jianping and Tao Jingfei from Zhongyuanhe, coupled with Yang Zhen's repeated instructions before leaving, and the severity of the shape that made Du Kaishan have some scruples, the task assigned by Yang Zhen could still be completed there. Both of them are in the middle of the battle, and the two people with a bit of arbitrary personalities don't fight well, so it's not bad.

Although this Deputy Commander Zhao has a strong personality, Yang Zhen is the commander of the military region, not the political commissar of his third district. When considering things, we should proceed from the military region as a whole, and we should not accommodate one person in everything. The adjustment of Yi Jianping is not only the need for all-round work, but also for the stability of the army as a whole. So after a short period of consideration, Yang Zhen decided not to change his original decision. As for Li Yanping, I'll explain it later.

Regarding Yang Zhen's insistence on transferring Yi Jianping to be the political commissar of the column, Li Yanping was somewhat incomprehensible. However, in order to maintain the authority of Yang Zhen, commander of the military region and first secretary of the party committee, he still did not insist on his own ideas. At least not at the venue did not insist. He decided to wait for the meeting and discuss it with Yang Zhen.

Seeing that Li Yanping acquiesced, Guo Bingxun, who has never interfered in political work, naturally would not object. And Gao Yumin, for some special reasons, didn't want to express his position at all.

It's not that he slips his head, it's just that he has too many scruples about things involving his old superior. In the opinion of Gao Yumin, who is familiar with the style of Deputy Commander Zhao, anyone can partner with this Deputy Commander Zhao, as long as it is not himself.

Guo Bingxun and Gao Yumin did not object, on the one hand, because of the status of the Standing Committee, they had not yet reported, but Zhang Zhenhua, who was present, would not express his position. Not only did he not express his position, but he was afraid that there would be no suitable commander or political commissar who would point to him, and he even shrank his body back.

Under Yang Zhen's insistence and Li Yanping's disguised acquiescence, Yi Jianping's appointment was reluctantly passed. It's just that Yi Jianping, who is still far away in the third quarter, would he feel crying and laughing if he knew that the reason for the twists and turns in his appointment was that his partner had nothing to do with his own half a dime?

After the selection of the military and political chiefs of the two columns was decided, there were no twists and turns in the selection of the commanders and political commissars of the brigades and brigades in the back. Guo Bingxun took out several brigade commanders, chiefs of staff, and the most critical three shadow brigade commanders. and Li Yanping's selection of political work cadres, but there is no big objection to it. On the contrary, the most fierce controversy arose among the commanders of several military divisions, especially the commanders of the first division.

After the troops took the Tongjiang and Fujin areas, the newly liberated Raohe, Huachuan, and Baoqing areas had already decided to prepare for the establishment of the Fourth Army Division. The Yilan and Yidong on the western front are divided into three divisions. This change in the situation also means that the 1st Division has become the only military division among several divisions that does not border the Japanese-occupied area and is completely in the rear.

The jurisdiction of the first sub-district has actually become the rear of the entire military region. Although the importance of status seems to have declined, the actual status has risen because the logistics and military industry of the entire military region are all located within the jurisdiction of one sub-district.

In particular, according to Yang Zhen's line of thought, the preparation for expansion will occupy a very important position in Yang Zhen's overall concept, and in fact it will concentrate the majority of the agricultural population in the base area, as well as all coal mines, forestry, and sideline production, and undertake the production and construction of the entire military region's logistics supply and production base and reserve soldier base, and almost all of them are located within the jurisdiction of the first sub-district. The status of a subdivision has naturally risen to the top, and in fact it can no longer be treated as a subdivision.

According to Yang Zhen's meaning, Liu Changshun was transferred to the commander of any division and the commander of the Production and Construction Corps. It is responsible for the training and production and construction of the reserve soldiers of the entire military region. At the same time, in order to solve the problem that a small part of the Production and Construction Corps is located outside the jurisdiction of the first sub-district, Yang Zhen is also preparing to give Liu Changshun the post of deputy chief of staff at the headquarters.

However, Li Yanping was very opposed to transferring Liu Changshun to work in the sub-district. In his opinion, Liu Chang obeyed the brigade commander of the main brigade and was transferred to the divisional unit.

Under the circumstance that there is still a shortage of qualified senior military officers in the military region, simply putting a qualified person who has gone through the test of war and has matured into such a position in his opinion is a farm leader, and it is also a fee for talent.

After listening to the reason for Li Yanping's opposition, Yang Zhen, who knew that he had misunderstood what he meant, said: "Political commissar, the location of this first division is very important, and this production and construction corps is not as simple as you imagined. ”

"My idea is that this production and construction corps, which is mainly located in Luobei, Suibin, Fujin, Tangyuan, and Heli areas, will not only be built into the main supply and production base of food, cotton, and meat for our troops, but will also be responsible for the training and training of reserve soldiers."

"Until we have conquered all of the Manchurian Sanjiang Province, there are 12 counties under the jurisdiction of Tonghe, Tangyuan, Fangzheng, Luobei, Suibin, Fujin, Tongjiang, Fuyuan, Heli, Foshan, Huachuan, and Yilan, and the province has jurisdiction over one Jiamusi City. It covers an area of more than 90,000 square kilometers. In addition to the areas of Fangzheng and southern Yilan, which are still in the enemy-occupied areas, the population is roughly more than 1.3 million in the base areas. ”

"Together with the dark clouds in the puppet Manchurian Heihe Province that we control, and all of Boli in Dong'an Province, and some areas of Baoqing and Raohe, the total population in the base area has reached more than 1.6 million. Of this 1.6 million people, at least 6 to 70 percent are agricultural. I estimate that without affecting the overall production of agriculture, we can provide us with more than 100,000 reserve soldiers. And this number is only a rough estimate. ”

"Therefore, I plan to move the entire population of Huachuan County, which borders the enemy, the population of Baoqing, Raohe, Yilan, and Boli areas controlled by our army, especially the agricultural population, north to the north of the Songhua River this winter and next spring. It formed a production and construction corps with the agricultural population of Tangyuan, which is now in Luobei and Suibin counties, and the newly liberated Fuyuan, Fujin, and Tongjiang areas. ”

"At this number, the final population of the entire production corps will reach hundreds of thousands. And these hundreds of thousands of people will all be under militarized management. According to the original hometown, each county is organized into a brigade-level corps, and the male population suitable for military service age is used as the benchmark, and is organized into regiment-level detachments, brigades, squadrons, and other formations. ”

"All corps and detachments shall form normal local party committees and governments, which shall be led by the local party committees and governments in peacetime. However, the Armed Forces Work Department was formed by the main force and some active personnel from various sub-divisions as a working department of the Party committee. In peacetime, they are responsible for the military training of school-age men in their respective jurisdictions, and in wartime, they directly serve as commanders at all levels on the spot. ”

"These people are usually engaged in agriculture and all kinds of production and construction, mainly providing grain, cotton, and other necessary means of production and subsistence for the base areas, and conducting military training in their spare time. When necessary, personnel suitable for service can be transferred to peacetime units, and after a short period of training, a large number of troops can be replenished. This is also a way to hide troops from the people. ”

"Political commissar, chief of staff, Lao Gao, to be honest, all the residents in these areas have moved north, and I am also very heartbroken. As the earliest developed agricultural areas in Tri Giang Province, these riverside plains are the main agricultural production areas in the whole Tri Giang Province. More than 60 percent of the cultivated land in Sanjiang Province is concentrated in these counties along the Songhua River. Seventy percent of the population is concentrated in these areas. ”

"There is no need for ready-made cooked land, and with so many people moving north, not to mention the need to reclaim raw land, a large part of the predetermined reclamation area is still an uninhabited wasteland, or even a large swamp, and the difficulty can be imagined. But there is no way to do this. ”

"The northern part of Baoqing, Yilan, and Boli, and the western part of Raohe are located on the front line of what is now the confrontation between our army and the Japanese army. For a long time to come, it is very likely to become the main battlefield of tug-of-war between our army and the Japanese army. If these residents are allowed to stay in the area, even if they plant crops, it will be difficult to harvest in the midst of the war. This year, the fact that the southern part of Yubara, which is the main battlefield between our army and the Japanese army, is almost completely unyielding has proved this point. ”

"In addition, we do not relocate these populations, and once the Japanese army goes north, in order to cut off our troop replenishment, and in order to trap and starve us, these people will also move south, or even slaughter. The Japanese army has always done whatever it takes to achieve its own ends, often resorting to massacres to suppress areas that resist them. ”

"This situation is very common in the Guannai, and it is not uncommon in the guerrilla areas of our Anti-Japanese Federation. At the beginning of Wudaolingzi Iron Mine, Zhang Ting once said to me a sentence that I will never forget. She didn't know what the Japanese army was doing in Nanjing, what she knew was that in order to suppress the support of the masses against the United Nations, the people in the guerrilla areas of the Anti-Japanese Federation were often exterminated by ditch by ditch. ”

"I am afraid it is difficult to count how many families have been killed in the entire anti-union guerrilla zone, and how many villages and towns have been killed. When we were faced with an army of beasts that used slaughter as the main means to suppress the resistance, it was necessary to move these civilians to the safer Jiangbei region in order to avoid the large-scale massacre of these civilians by the Japanese army, which was likely to exist.

"And even if the Japanese army has any scruples about not doing this for the sake of so-called domination, then in the situation of war everywhere, the life of these people in the war zone will be extremely difficult, and even difficult to survive. Rather than let it be slaughtered or left to fend for itself, it is better to move north. ”

"Moving them north is not only responsible for their safety, but also to ensure that we can replenish our troops in a short period of time. According to this line of thinking, the responsibility of this commander of the first division is very heavy, because he has to train not just a few thousand, but tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. ”

Compared with Wang Guangyu and Du Kaishan, Liu Changshun won steadily, but his flexibility was insufficient. The column commander is the commander who is responsible for one aspect of the operation, and the lack of flexibility makes it difficult to be competent. And his steady temperament is still very appropriate for the work of forming and training this general reserve of the whole army. ”

What surprised Li Yanping was not Yang Zhen's evaluation of Liu Changshun, but his idea. Originally, Li Yanping thought that Yang Zhen had rescued people who were not suitable to join the army and their families, and that the formation of this production and construction corps was only responsible for clearing wasteland and farming, supplying food and daily necessities needed by the organs and troops of the military region, and when necessary, he could also form militia units to participate in the war.

The scale of the personnel is mainly the residents of northern Yilan who were forcibly relocated north by Du Kaishan, and the residents of Tangyuan who moved north to Luobei before. There was a thought that Yang Zhen was not only preparing to build on the existing personnel, but even to move all the residents in the border area of the Japanese army to the north. According to this number, plus the original number of people is not as simple as hundreds of thousands, there are millions of people. How much does this involve in such a large-scale migration?

Thinking of this, Li Yanping suddenly remembered that when he resettled the residents who moved north from Yilan and moved the residents of the Tangyuan area north for the sake of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness before the war, he concentrated almost all the troops of the whole army that had no combat mission in a short period of time, concentrated in the northern part of Luobei and Heli, and built a large number of houses in the western area of Suibin. Dozens of times more than what is needed to resettle the population. Although brick houses cannot be built, a considerable number of adobe houses are still built in the Tohoku region.

When the Production and Construction Corps was just beginning to be formed, he also specifically told Peng Dingjie, who was also the commander of the Corps, that in addition to planting short-lived, early-maturing grain on the ripe land that had already been reclaimed, the main task of the Corps this year was to reclaim wasteland and build houses in the Luobei, Suibin, and Heli areas. You can open as many houses as you can, and build as many houses as you can. This number is unlimited.

Even in order to ensure the reclamation of wasteland, nearly two-thirds of the grain imported from Jiangbei was specially transferred as rations. He also joked with him at the beginning that he built so many houses and reclaimed so much wasteland because he was going to find a daughter-in-law for every soldier and was ready to be promoted to be the commander of the group army. Now that he thinks about it, he already had this idea in mind.

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