Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

1941 7 Month 3 Day.

Zhou Weihan, who was in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, received an urgent telegram from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, asking Zhou Weihan to attend a meeting at the headquarters in three days.

"The Japanese army will definitely make big moves in the near future. The counties in the Handan area have successively set up garrison teams to train the puppet army. The East Asian Alliance Autonomous Army has also been established in the Daming area. At the same time, the Japanese army has been mobilized frequently. It seems that the little devil can't help it. It’s not good, it’s aimed at us!” Zhou Weihan speculated on the recent situation.

"Old Tan, it will take at least a week for me to go back and forth to the headquarters this time, and I will even be stationed in Tainan for a while, so I need you to preside over the work on the Jiluyu side!" Zhou Weihan said before parting. .

"Don't worry, the base area is stable now. Although the outer fortifications are not ready yet, the army is fully staffed and the morale of the soldiers is high. It is a good time to compete with the Japanese army!" Tan Lin said.

"Yeah!" Zhou Weihan nodded after hearing this. Now that the military region has delegated power to each military sub-division, daily affairs are much less. Tan Lin only needs to sit in the command center and deal with emergencies.

Because he was in a hurry to go to the headquarters for a meeting, Zhou Weihan didn't make too much preparation, and directly led the reconnaissance company northward.

In the evening of the next day, Zhou Weihan and his party arrived in Pingshun.

The main leading cadres of Tainan Division [-] and Division [-] were all concentrated in Pingshun after Zhou Weihan notified in advance.

"What's the situation in the Changzhi area now, is there any change in the little devil?" Zhou Weihan asked.

"This reminds me that something is wrong recently!" Ding Wei said, frowning.

"What's wrong?"

"Since Changzhi was taken back, the Japanese troops in Licheng and Lucheng had no choice but to defend the isolated cities. At the beginning, they frequently tried to break out of the encirclement. Later, they probably realized the reality and calmed down. It took half a year. It's time, a few days ago, the people below reported that the Japanese troops in the two places started to move again!"

"At the same time, the Japanese troops in Handan and Tunliu began to try to smuggle ammunition into the encirclement again, but they were intercepted by our troops from the first division!" Ding Wei suddenly took a breath of air as he spoke: "Hiss, little devil Do you want to make a move on us?"

"It's certain to do it. It's just that it's aimed at Tainan, Jiluyu, or Changzhi. I haven't figured it out. The headquarters guessed that they got relevant information. I'm going to a meeting tomorrow. The regiments are going to be in combat readiness. Be more vigilant!"

"Yes!" Everyone present responded.

In fact, the Enemy Engineering Department reported a piece of information from Jia Gui that the brave people in the temple built a large camp outside Handan City, and according to its scale, there were at least tens of thousands of people.

What puzzled Zhou Weihan was that according to the past, for such an abnormal behavior that would cause misunderstanding between the two parties, Terauchi would definitely greet him in advance, but his attitude at this time was somewhat ambiguous.

After the meeting, everyone dispersed, leaving only Xu Dali to report to Zhou Weihan about Wen Fang's recent situation.

"The detachment leader, Director Wen has been very cooperative recently. In April, in the name of the political training department of the division, we placed a working group in the 280th regiment, and a party group has been established within the 280th regiment!" Xu Dali said.

"Well, very good. Comrade Yang Han's organizational relationship remains in the second division, but remember not to disclose it to the outside world. The second division is limited to you, the regimental leaders and political commissars!" Zhou Weihan instructed.

"Yes!"

The united front work within the [-]th Division can achieve such a level, apart from the efforts of the comrades in the second division, it cannot be separated from the cooperation with Wen Yan.

At the beginning, the Nationalist Government gave the Eighth Route Army a division, in an attempt to draw Zhou Weihan to the National Army. Unexpectedly, the original 280th Regiment of the Central Army was also employed by the Eighth Route Army, and the head of the regiment, Yang Handu, secretly joined the organization.

Zhou Weihan didn't stay at Xu Dali's for dinner, he knew that Wen Qiang must be waiting for him to eat.

Back at the division compound, the lights in Wen Qiang's room were still on. Zhou Weihan opened the door and left, and Wen Qiang was dozing off on his stomach.

"Go to bed early if you're sleepy, there's no need to wait for me?" Zhou Weihan said in a rare gentle tone.

"I just want to wait for you, or you'll be gone at dawn!" Wen Qiang rubbed her sleepy eyes.

Zhou Weihan looked up and down Wen Qiang's Eighth Route Army uniform. Now that Wen Qiang had just joined the Eighth Route Army, in addition to giving lessons to the second division's guard company on weekdays, he also gave lessons to the military police company next door with textbooks compiled by the Eighth Route Army.

"Brother Weihan, why are you staring at me? Is there something dirty on my clothes?"

"No, I just feel that you are very energetic in this military uniform!" Zhou Weihan laughed dryly.

"Just spirit?" Wen Qiang was obviously dissatisfied with what Zhou Weihan said, and couldn't help but coquettishly said.

"It's pretty good-looking too!" Although Zhou Weihan said something perfunctory, Wen Qiang was extremely satisfied, and immediately Zhou Weihan served a bowl of rice.

Zhou Weihan looked at the exquisite food on the table, and he guessed that it was cooked by the cook from the political training office next door.

Early the next morning.

Since the Tainan base area was the base camp with good law and order, Zhou Weihan only asked Dong Jiang to accompany him with a few soldiers.

At this time, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was transferred back to Wangjiayu in Wuxiang County.

On the same day, the participants from the Taiyue and Taibei military regions arrived first, and Zhou Weihan and the Song political commissar from southern Hebei arrived successively.

"Zhou Weihan, I thought I could meet you on Yanwang Mountain. Who would have thought that you arrived in Pingshun yesterday, not to mention the food on the mountain is good!" Song Political Commissar of the Southern Hebei Military Region joked.

"I happened to go to Pingshun for a meeting, no, political commissar Song, why did you come to hold the meeting!" Zhou Weihan asked.

"Hey, don't mention it, old Chen is unlucky, he was injured before, but he was rushed out of the hospital before the injury healed, now he's healed, the wound is infected, he's lying in the hospital now, I'm the only one here! "Song Political Commissar said helplessly.

"That's really unlucky, is he going to the battlefield in person again?" The brigade commander at the side thought the matter was not big enough, so he joined in the fun.

The boss, who kept his head down, saw that all the participants had arrived, and immediately said: "Okay, if you have anything to say, you can talk after the meeting. Now go to the conference room for the meeting!"

In the meeting room, there was no one else besides the boss, the deputy chief of staff, the two division chiefs, and the four chief officers of the second-level military region. Obviously, the level of this meeting was surprisingly high.

The deputy chief of staff was holding the materials compiled from the intelligence reported by the General Intelligence Department, and then distributed them to the four people who had just arrived.

"Zhou Weihan, your guess is correct. The Japanese army has indeed made a big move. Please read this document first!" The deputy chief of staff, the superior leader of the intelligence department of the Eighth Route Army, said first.

"Kwantung Army?" Zhou Weihan exclaimed after reading the materials. He knew that the Japanese troops were mobilized everywhere, but he never expected that the Japanese army would dispatch the Kwantung Army into the customs this time.