Chapter 14 4. Drive in at full speed

Zeng Kelin and Belurosov came to Yan'an as uninvited guests. The decision of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to establish the Northeast Bureau and immediately go to Shenyang was also a temporary decision based on sudden circumstances. At this time, Mao Zedong was still negotiating with Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing. The three secretaries of the Central Secretariat in Yan'an, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, and Ren Bishi, immediately reported the relevant situation to Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai in Chongqing after seeing off Peng Zhen and his party, and formally proposed that our party "to develop north and defend south".Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai also called Yan'an on the same day, expressing their full agreement with the decision. On the 19th, Mao Zedong sent another telegram to Yan'an, not only agreeing to the policy of "developing to the north and defending to the south", but also on the basis of Liu Shaoqi and others' proposed that the main force of the New Fourth Army go north to Jiangbei and transfer 100,000 troops to the northeast. A decision was made on the arrangements: Chen Yi and Rao Shushi, the former leaders of the New Fourth Army, went to Shandong to preside over the work in Shandong; Luo Ronghuan and Xiao Hua, the former leaders of the Shandong Liberated Area, went to the Northeast to work with the Northeast Bureau; go northeast.

According to Mao Zedong's decision, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China immediately issued the "Instructions on Current Tasks and Strategic Deployment" on September 19.The instruction said: "The strategic policy of the whole country is to develop to the north and defend to the south. As long as we can control the Northeast and the two provinces of Re and Liao, and have all the liberated areas and the people of the whole country cooperate in the struggle, we can guarantee the victory of the Chinese people." Therefore, the central government decided: "The main force of Shandong and most of the cadres will be quickly dispatched to the east of Hebei and the northeast", "The New Fourth Army will transfer 80,000 troops to Shandong and East Hebei", "establish the Central Bureau of Jireliao, and expand the Jireliao Military Region to Li Fuchun was the secretary and Lin Biao was the commander", "Luo Ronghuan went to work in the Northeast", "Chen Yi and Rao Shushi went to work in Shandong".

Obviously, the central government wants most of the Shandong troops and a part of the New Fourth Army to rush to the northeast. The military order was like a mountain, and all the troops moved at full speed to the northeast. The main force of the troops in the Shandong Liberated Area was developed on the basis of part of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army.In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, in order to open up base areas behind the enemy, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China appointed Xiao Hua, the former political commissar of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division, in September 1938 to form an eastward detachment in Leling in the Hebei-Shandong border area and prepare to enter Shandong. He served as commander and political commissar, and Xu Shiyou served as deputy commander.The troops are mainly composed of the 685th Regiment of the 115th Division, plus the Jinpu Detachment of the 129th Division, as well as the local troops in the Hebei-Shandong Border Region, forming a total of 9 regiments.After the Dongjin detachment was established, it began to march towards Shandong.

In November, Luo Ronghuan, political commissar of the 115th Division, was ordered to lead the headquarters of the 115th Division, the 685th Regiment, and the 686th Regiment into Shandong. Since then, the anti-Japanese armed struggle in Shandong has entered a new stage.Under the leadership of the Shandong Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China established shortly thereafter, the base areas and armed forces continued to develop. In September 1943, a unified Shandong Military Region was established. The division commander has always been Lin Biao, who has not been to Shandong), and Xiao Hua is the director of the Political Department of the Shandong Military Region and the 115th Division.Under the Shandong Military Region, there are 6 military regions and 20 military divisions, which have become one of the main revolutionary bases led by our party.

At this time, according to the unified deployment of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the troops of our Shandong Military Region set off one by one under the command of Luo Ronghuan and drove to the northeast. In the words of the time, it was simply a "big move". Some Shandong troops went to the northeast by sea, and some by land.The first team to play the vanguard was the Northeast Advancement Column led by Wan Yi who was named by the Central Military Commission on September 2. Wan Yi, a native of Jin County, Liaoning, is a Manchu. In 1926, he joined the Northeast Army Sergeant Teaching Team, and in 1930 graduated from the Northeast Lecture Hall. In 1938, he joined the Communist Party of China as the commander of the Northeast Army.

In 1942, he served as the commander of the new 111 Division of the Northeast Army.Soon he led two regiments of the division to revolt in Shandong, and was organized into the Binhai Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, and served as the deputy commander of the Binhai Navy District and the leader of the Binhai Detachment.Because he is from the Northeast, and he was born in the Northeast Army, he is familiar with the people and conditions of the Northeast. Therefore, when the Central Military Commission considered the main cadres going to the Northeast, he was the first batch of cadres. chose him.He led the troops to the Liaodong Peninsula by sea. After the expansion of the Northeast, the Northeast Advance Column was reorganized into the Seventh Column of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, and later reorganized into the First Column and the Five Columns of the Northeast Field Army.

Wan Yi took the lead, and the other ministries set off one after another.From late September to early December, Xiao Hua, Wu Kehua, Yang Guofu, Luo Huasheng, Liang Xingchu, Luo Shunchu, Tian Song and others led a total of more than 60,000 troops (including 6 of the 8 main divisions of the Shandong Military Region) ) went northeast.The Shandong Liberated Area was defended by the Second, Fourth, and Seventh Divisions of the New Fourth Army and the Jiangnan First Column from south to north. The main unit of the New Fourth Army to the northeast was the third division led by Huang Kecheng. At this time, Huang Kecheng was the division commander and political commissar of the Third Division, one of the main forces of the New Fourth Army. Before the central government issued an order to march into the northeast, he had seen the importance of the northeast from the overall perspective. He had taken the initiative to submit a report to the central government on September 14, Suggesting to send a large force to the Northeast to "quickly create a general base to support the war in the customs", he was the first senior general of our army to propose to the Central Committee to march into the Northeast.So when the central government decided to mobilize the troops of the New Fourth Army, it appointed his general and asked him to lead the third division to the northeast.So he, Liu Zhen, deputy division commander, Hong Xuezhi, deputy division commander and chief of staff, and Wu Faxian, director of the political department, led four brigades and three special mission regiments of the third division, with a total of 35,000 people, and set off from Huaiyin, northern Jiangsu on September 28. Starry night and journey, rushed to the northeast.In terms of independent units, the Third Division of the New Fourth Army is the largest team to go to the Northeast.

In addition to the Shandong Military Region and the Third Division of the New Fourth Army, troops transferred from other bases to the Northeast include: The second echelon of the 359th Brigade of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Shanxi-Sui Joint Defense Army led by Liu Zhuanlian and Yan Fusheng (the first echelon of the 359th Brigade has been led by Wang Zhen to go south, and the second echelon has been reorganized into a brigade. Going south, now marching to the northeast), the second teaching brigade led by Huang Yongsheng, one regiment each for the first brigade, and the first security brigade led by Wen Niansheng.

The 31st Regiment of the Jizhong Military Region under the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region led by Shaq. The 21st Regiment of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region led by Deng Keming. In this way, more than 60,000 people from the Shandong Military Region plus 35,000 people from the New Fourth Army, a total of 107,000 main forces of our army, according to the requirements of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, all entered the Northeast in the first ten days of December 1945 at the latest. On the northeast land from Andong (now Dandong) in the south to Mudanjiang in the north.

While mobilizing the army, the central government is very clear that in order to mobilize the masses and open up and build base areas, a large number of cadres are still needed.Therefore, the central government dispatched cadres from Yan'an first, and then dispatched cadres from other base areas.Lin Feng and Tao Zhu took the first batch, and Li Fuchun took the second batch.According to the requirements of the central government, cadres from 100 regiments should be dispatched to various places. On November 1, 1945, Mao Zedong said in a telegram to Peng Zhen: The cadres who have been to the Northeast by the end of October include: Shandong 2,000, Lin Feng 1,900, Jinchaji 500, Taihang and Taiyue 600, Jiluyu 350, Huang Yongsheng 1,500, Wan Yi eighty, a total of six thousand nine hundred and thirty.Zhang Qilong, Ni Zhiliang, Wu Jinnan and other batches are not included, have they all arrived?

By the end of November 1945, the central government had transferred more than 20,000 cadres to the northeast, including 20 members of the Central Committee and alternate members of the Central Committee (accounting for one-third of the total), and 4 members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee (Peng Zhen, Gao Gang, Chen Yun, Zhang Wentian).The mobilization of troops and cadres on such a large scale is unprecedented in the history of the Chinese Communist Party, and so far, it can be said to be unprecedented.