From August 23 to 25, 1939, the Politburo meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held its last enlarged meeting to discuss the current situation. Liu Shaoqi put forward his views on the current complicated and changeable situation at the meeting, pointing out: The current situation contains the danger of sudden changes, and we must make necessary preparations and unite and develop the kuomintang benevolent forces. Criticize the Kuomintang diehards; in the Kuomintang areas, it is necessary to re-prepare secret work, preserve some cadres who work openly, and make technical preparations for secret work. Later developments showed that Liu Shaoqi's proposals were used.
In order to strengthen the leadership of the Central Plains Bureau. The CPC Central Committee decided to transfer Xu Haidong to serve as deputy commander of the Jiangbei Headquarters of the New Fourth Army and commander of the four detachments, and went to central China with Liu Shaoqi.
After attending the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and making the necessary preparations, Liu Shaoqi led Xu Haidong and more than 40 other cadres and entourage to depart from Yan'an and then to the Central Plains on September 15.
At that time, Xu Haidong went in the name of inspecting the work of the New Fourth Army, and the Kuomintang authorities were not easy to stop, but they did not agree to Liu Shaoqi's visit to central China. In this way, Liu Shaoqi went under the pseudonym "Hu Fu" and secretly went to the outside world in the name of Xu Haidong's "secretary".
On September 18, the party arrived in Luoyang, where Liu Shaoqi listened to a work report by Liu Zijiu, secretary of the Yuxi Special Committee of the COMMUNIST Party of China and director of the Eighth Route Army's office in Luoyang. Liu Shaoqi pointed out that the task of the party in western Henan is to focus on consolidation, implement the policy of concealing and capable people, laying ambushes for a long time, and accumulating strength, and evacuate cadres and party members who have already revealed their identities to Yan'an or to the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines to work and study. At that time, Wei Lihuang, commander of the theater, expressed his gratitude and told Xu Haidong that because he was going to handle the funeral of his wife and was leaving immediately, he could not personally return to visit him, and specially invited his chief of staff, Lieutenant General Guo Jiyao, to return to worship on his behalf.
The next day, Guo Jiyao came and invited Xu Haidong to the banquet. At that time, Liu Shaoqi was also present, Xu Haidong did not know that Guo Jiqi knew Liu Shaoqi, and after Guo Jiyue saw Liu Shaoqi, he bowed to Liu Shaoqi very respectfully. "I don't know If Mr. Liu is here." He thought for a moment and said, "Tonight's banquet is held at the Contemptible Mansion, please invite Mr. Liu to go with you." ”
After Guo Jiyao left, Xu Haidong was very anxious, afraid that Guo Jiyao would leak out this situation. Liu Shaoqi analyzed that although Guo Jiyao was not very familiar to me, he knew that Mr. Wei Lihuang had a good attitude toward me, and it was estimated that there would be no major problems.
That night, Liu Shaoqi and Xu Haidong went to the banquet, and Guo Jiyao's whole family received them very warmly. It was a family dinner. No one else was invited to accompany him. During the banquet, Liu Shaoqi and Guo Jiyao talked and laughed, and when they talked about how the two parties cooperated and how to jointly resist the war, Guo Jiyue couldn't help but nod his head and agree.
After Liu Shaoqi left Luoyang, he arrived in Ye County on the same day. From Ye County to Qishan Zhugou, it is necessary to go south through Wuyang County and Suiping County, and all along the way are hilly and mountainous. After several days of marching, Liu Shaoqi and his party finally reached Qishan Bamboo Valley on September 21.
At this time, the situation in the Zhugou area was no longer yesterday, and Zhugou had become a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh of the Kuomintang reactionaries. Although Zhugou was the rear of the theater, it was very close to the Pinghan Railway, only sixty or seventy miles, and it was first of all in danger of being attacked by the Japanese and secondly surrounded by the reactionary forces of the Kuomintang. Shi Hai may have been attacked by kuomintang reactionaries. Under the climate of Chiang Kai-shek's passive anti-Japanese and active anti-communism, the diehards around Zhugou always looked at Zhugou.
After analyzing and weighing the weights, Liu Shaoqi and the Central Plains Bureau of the CPC believed that the glorious mission of Zhugou had been completed and decided that the leading organs of the Central Plains Bureau would withdraw from Zhugou. On October 12, Liu Shaoqi sent a telegram to the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He reported on the decisions and opinions of the Central Plains Bureau on the strategic transfer: (1) Most of the staff of Zhugou led by Zhu Lizhi and the armed and teaching teams sent letters, responses, sui, and Tong to the Four Wangshan Mountains at the junction of letters, responses, sui, and Tong, and concentrated on the work of establishing areas behind enemy lines, and the main task was to consolidate the existing troops, create base areas, and raise supplies. (2) The bamboo ditch remaining area is reduced. Mainly handle rear service and transportation. (3) Transferring Liu Zijiu to Zhugou to preside over the work of the secret party in Henan and northwest Hubei. (4) Zheng Weisan had better try to transfer to eastern Hubei and go to the 5th and 6th brigades to preside over the work of the Eyu-Anhui Border Region, but he had not yet obtained the consent of the Anhui side. Bit three is also not in good health, I don't know if I can support it. (5) The local Party Central Committee in Henan - batch of the best Party members to work in the troops and to establish base areas behind enemy lines. (6) People have been sent to take people, radio stations, and instruction letters to the 5th and 6th Brigades.
In late October, Liu Shaoqi led more than 300 people from the main organs of the Central Plains Bureau of the CPC and Xu Haidong, Liu Ruilong, and other cadres to evacuate Zhugou and move behind enemy lines in eastern Anhui.
A few days later, Zhu Lizhi led more than 600 armed troops from the remaining garrison, and the second group withdrew from Zhugou and moved south to Siwangshan on the border of Yu'e to meet Li Xiannian and Chen Shaomin. On November 3, Liu Zijiu traveled from Luoyang to Zhugou to preside over the work of the Henan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, which had resumed, and prepared for the third batch of evacuations from Zhugou.
On November 14, Liu Shaoqi and his party arrived in Woyang, Anhui Province, where Peng Xuefeng, commander of the guerrilla detachment, and Zhang Zhenqin, chief of staff, led more than 40 cadres at and above the section level of the administrative organs to ride horses to suppress Comrade Shaoqi. Peng Xuefeng introduced all the cadres to Liu Shaoqi. Among them were Yue Xia, secretary general, Xiong Mengfei, director of the radio station, and Wu Zhenying, chief of the confidential section, and Liu Shaoqi shook hands with everyone one by one. Everyone accompanied Liu Shaoqi to the Xinxing Group, where the detachment headquarters was stationed.
After arriving at Xinxingji, Peng Xuefeng reported to Liu Shaoqi on the situation of the guerrilla detachment. When the Jiangbei Headquarters of the New Fourth Army was established in mid-May 1939, Peng Xuefeng immediately sent Tan Youlin to report to Commander Ye Ting, who was stationed in Tangchi Jiangbei, Lushan County. After Tan Youlin systematically reported to Commander Ye Ting on the situation in various directions of the guerrilla detachment and the Yuwan-Anhui-Suzhou base area, Commander Ye Ting immediately gave four instructions: First, he affirmed the guerrilla detachment's achievements; second, the strategic position of the Yuwan-Anhui-Suzhou base area was very important, and the guerrilla detachment should further mobilize the masses and arm the masses and establish a consolidated base area; third, the guerrilla units of the new Fourth Army's existing 5 detachments could be changed into 6 detachments; fourth, they told Peng Xuefeng that they should pay attention to the building of the troops, build up local armed forces, and cultivate their own main forces. By gradually regularizing the troops, it is possible to disperse the guerrillas and concentrate on fighting mobile warfare in a timely manner in order to annihilate the enemy in large numbers.
After Tan Youlin returned to the detachment, he made a detailed report to Peng Xuefeng. Peng Xuefeng believed that Commander Ye's instructions were very important. Immediately, he seriously studied and arranged how to carry out these instructions, and sent Cheng Zhiyuan, commander of the special task force regiment, to lead a reinforced company to the Jiangbei headquarters to collect some guns and ammunition. Since then, the guerrilla detachment has established direct contact with the New Fourth Army Headquarters and the Jiangbei Command. In June, the main force of the guerrilla detachment marched into the Huaishang area, north of the Huai River, south of the Fa River, and west of Jinpu Road. The situation in Suzhou, Mengcheng and Huaiyuan areas has been opened up, and new areas have been opened up.
After listening to Peng Xuefeng's report, Liu Shaoqi immediately convened a cadre meeting, conveyed the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth CPC Central Committee, talked about the anti-Japanese situation and the issue of the party's united front and independence and self-determination, stressed the need to struggle in unity, seek unity in struggle, independently develop armed forces, and establish base areas. He refuted Wang Ming's right-leaning mistake of "obeying everything to the united front."
On November 7, Liu Shaoqi attended the guerrilla detachment's meeting to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the October Revolution in the Soviet Union and reviewed the troops, and in his speech at the meeting, he pointed out that our War of Resistance has entered a new stage of stalemate, and the difficulties are even greater. Today, we must persist in the War of Resistance, oppose surrender, uphold unity, oppose separatism, persist in progress, oppose retrogression, prepare forces for counter-offensive.
Liu Shaoqi sometimes talked to cadres and sometimes visited the troops, and Peng Xuefeng, Zhang Zhen, Xiao Wangdong, Wu Zhipu, and others often went to Liu Shaoqi's office to report and ask for instructions on work. Liu Shaoqi affirmed and supported Peng Xuefeng's work style, the management of the army, and various policies and tactics in the anti-Japanese united front, and he believed that Peng Xuefeng had courage and ability, and was an outstanding cadre of the party.
On November 11, Liu Shaoqi reported to the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Zhang Yunyi, and Xiang Ying on the situation of the pro-New Fourth Army troops in the present-day Yuwan Soviet region, believing that Peng Xuefeng's troop base was good. As long as there are cadres, it is entirely possible to expand the Xuefeng Department by 20,000 to 30,000 people within the year.
On the same day, Liu Shaoqi also called the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and put forward suggestions for the development of the Yuwan-Anhui-Suzhou Border Region: -- All armed forces led by the party north of the Huai River and south of the Longhai Railway are unified under the command of Peng Xuefeng. The second is to concentrate efforts on creating the four county base areas of Yongcheng, Xiayi, Xiao county, and Suzhou, strengthen local work, and improve the provincial party committee. The third is to strengthen the regularization of the troops and consolidate the troops. Continue to expand the main force. The fourth is after January and February. The main force and cadres of the provincial party committee dispatched one unit to cross the Jinpu Road to the east to create a base area in northern Jiangsu. In the opinions, it was also proposed to establish secret party and mass work in northern Anhui or in the rear. Prepare for guerrilla warfare and establish small base areas in Qixian, Taikang, Luyi, Zhongzhou, Shangqiu, and other places, so that they can be linked into large base areas in the future.
On this very day, the Kuomintang diehards secretly ordered the reactionary forces in The counties of Qishan, Xinyang, Biyang, and Runan, as well as the guerrilla commander Dai Minquan of the First Theater of Operations in southern Henan, to gather more than 2,000 reactionary armed forces, under the command of Dai Minquan and Xu Weichao, the county magistrate of Cuishan County, and in the name of the 68th Army, to escort the recruits to Nanyang County as cover, and before dawn on this day, secretly entered the east gate of Zhugou and attempted to rush into Zhugou Street in one fell swoop by means of a surprise attack, when the sentry inquired and stopped their advance. The enemy immediately shot and killed the two sentries, as well as a group of soldiers who had not yet gotten up on the gatehouse, and rushed into the street. When the remaining troops found out, they immediately resisted. A fierce street battle with the enemy engaged in a short and fierce battle. Under the command of Wang Guohua, he finally drove all the enemies out of the East Gate. The enemy launched an attack from the four gates at the same time, and Wang Guohua led the commanders and fighters to hold their positions, not giving way to any land, and repelling the enemy's repeated attacks. During the night, troops were transferred in a planned and organized manner.
A total of about 500 people were evacuated from Zhugou, led by Wang Guohua, and drove to the area around Siwangshan in Xinyang County to rest, and later rendezvoused with Li Xiannian's troops.
In the "Zhugou Massacre" (also known as the "Chushan Massacre"), the Kuomintang diehards hunted down and killed more than 200 wounded and sick members of the New Fourth Army and the anti-Japanese masses.
The Zhugou massacre aroused great indignation among the people of the whole country, who denounced and condemned the crimes of the Kuomintang reactionaries one after another. On February 4, 1940, a denunciation conference was held in Yan'an, at which Chairman Mao Zedong spoke and sent a telegram to put forward a "ten-point demand to the Kuomintang.", and the New Fourth Army Headquarters and the Jiangbei Command also sent protests to the Kuomintang's First and Fifth Theater Headquarters respectively.
On November 21, Liu Shaoqi telephoned Zhu Lizhi and the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and put forward the conditions for negotiations on the Zhugou massacre, mainly: severely punishing the murderers, removing the county magistrates of the three counties of Qishan, Xinyang, and Biyang from their posts and investigating them, punishing the Kuomintang army commanders who led the troops to attack Zhugou; compensating the dead and injured and their families: compensating for losses; releasing those arrested: restoring the Zhugou left-behind place of the New Fourth Army, and ensuring the safety of the personnel left behind and the families of the New Fourth Army.
During this period, the Senate of the Yuwan-Anhui Soviet Border Region was established, with Wu Mengpu as the speaker. Soon after, through the convening of a congress of people from all walks of life in the border area, a political organ, the Joint Defense Committee of the Border Region, was established, which administered 4 county governments and 5 offices. The party committees of the border areas also quickly replenished their personnel. Institutions have been improved. Wu Mengpu served as secretary. Liu Ruilong was appointed as secretary of Gao. At the same time, the Yuwan Su guerrilla detachment was officially organized into the 6th detachment of the New Fourth Army, with Peng Xuefeng as commander and political commissar. Some of the communist-controlled anti-Japanese troops operating in neighboring counties were successively reorganized into headquarters under the leadership of detachment 6. In this way, the 6 detachments had 3 main regiments, 1 special task force regiment, 4 headquarters, 3 independent battalions, a total of 17,800 people.
November 23. Liu Shaoqi and Xu Haidong telegraphed to the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, "We have arrived in Woyang, and we have stopped because of the rain. In order to carry out the work of Ludong, Liu Ruilong had to go to Ludong to organize a military and political committee, and the troops of the Eighth Route Army in Ludong had to be under the command of Peng Xuefeng, so it was necessary to have another strong cadre to help Peng Xuefeng. ”
Liu Shaoqi, Xu Haidong, and others continued to march south and east, and Peng Xuefeng sent a special agent battalion escort, and the battalion commander's surname was Cheng. After changing from Woyang to Yingshang, he took a fishing boat and went down the Yingshui River to escort the troops along the two banks of the Yingshui River. The wooden boat arrived at Zhengyang Pass, and Liu Shaoqi and Xu Haidong and their party came ashore, that is, to look for the 4 detachments of the New Fourth Army, because the 4 detachments were often in a state of transfer. The dispatched cadres were not found until a few days later, and Zhang Yunyi, Deng Zihui, and others personally greeted Liu Shaoqi after hearing the report. Liu Shaoqi is very familiar with Zhang and Deng, and everyone meets each other and is extremely affectionate. After that, Liu Shaoqi and the leading organs of the Central Plains Bureau of the CPC Central Committee arrived at the Jiangbei Headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Huangjia Village, Dingyuan Lotus Pond Land, eastern Anhui Province.
After Liu Shaoqi arrived in eastern Anhui, he rebuilt the Central Plains Bureau and acted with the Jiangbei Headquarters. Xu Haidong was appointed deputy commander of Jiangbei and commander of the 4 detachments, and political commissar Dai Jiying.
At the time of the establishment of the Central Plains Bureau, a large part of the territory of central China, as well as major cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing, and Wuhan, and water and land communication lines, had been occupied by the Japanese army. The southern anhui and northern Jiangbei areas where the New Fourth Army was active were also surrounded by heavy Kuomintang troops: Su Zhewan was gu Zhutong, commander-in-chief of the Third Theater of operations of the Nationalist Government, Li Pinxian, commander-in-chief of the 21st Group Army, Han Deloitte, commander-in-chief of the 24th Group Army, and Tang Enbo, commander-in-chief of the 31st Group Army, and Tang Enbo, commander-in-chief of the 31st Group Army. These men, each with hundreds of thousands of troops, took an anti-communist stand and were always looking for an opportunity to surround and annihilate the communist-led anti-Japanese forces. Xiang Ying, the leader of the New Fourth Army, also has a deep right-leaning ideology Wang Ming's "obeying everything to the united front" that dominates his thinking. On December 1, Liu Shaoqi telephoned Zhu Lizhi and the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, saying that after the Zhugou massacre, all our actions were aimed at winning negotiations, gaining political superiority, and not giving excuses to diehards as the main goal. Under this goal. As far as possible, a part of the die-hards' armed forces was seized. Obstruction involves armed action and means of reprisal that are contrary to this principle.
At that time, the 4 detachments were not only facing the "encirclement and suppression" of the Japanese Kou, but also the stubborn Faction Li Pinxian. After Xu Haidong arrived at his post, he organized the main forces of 3 regiments to carry out the battle of the ancient city, drove the enemy out of the hundred miles away, and won a complete victory in the battle. This was the first major battle with the strength of 3 regiments since the establishment of the 4 detachments, driving out the enemy stubbornness, expanding and consolidating the base areas on the east and west sides of the Jinpu Road, and strengthening the armed forces. It aroused the anti-Japanese sentiment of the masses.
On December 19, liu Shaoqi reported to the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee his views on the direction of development in central China: Before and after the fall of Wuhan, our side had lost the opportunity to establish an anti-Japanese base area in eastern Anhui. If there is no major change in the enemy situation and the overall situation of the whole country, at present we can only seek some limited development in eastern Anhui. In the whole of central China, there is hope for great development: (1) in the areas of Hanyang, Jingshan, and Huanggang south Li Xiannian's activities near Hankou, which we have made him develop to 20,000 guns in half a year; (2) in the areas where Peng Xuefeng's activities in eastern Henan still have the possibility of developing 30,000 or 40,000 guns; (3) in northern Jiangsu we do not have regular troops and party organs to carry out activities, and this is the area with the greatest hope for development, which is the direction of our surprise attack, and we should concentrate our greatest forces on developing in this regard. At present, relying on the areas of eastern Henan and northeastern Anhui, Peng Xuefeng and Zhang Aiping to develop into northern Jiangsu is the best.
In mid-December, Gu Shoufu, commander of the 6th Division of the Japanese army invading China, gathered more than 2,000 Japanese puppet troops from Nanjing, Mingguang, Bengbu and other places, gathered in ChuXian County, Shaheji, Quanjiao and other places, and "swept" Zhoujiagang from the east, south and north in three ways. At that time, the Jiangbei Headquarters and the 4 Detachment Headquarters were stationed in the Taipingji area northwest of Zhoujiagang, and the 7th Regiment headquarters was located in Chen Ying Village, which was close to Zhoujiagang. At 11:00 p.m. on The night of December 19, more than a thousand puppet troops on the day of quanjiao set out and entered Damachang through Dongwangji at dawn on the 20th; more than 300 people on the other road passed through Shipei Bridge and Zaoling in the morning of the 21st to attack Zhoujiagang. More than 700 japanese puppet troops stationed in Chu County also came out of the nest in two ways on the morning of the 20th, one way through Chihupu, Guanshandian and Zhulongqiao into Shijiaji; the other way through Guanzhuang into Shijiaji, and after the two roads met, they attacked Zhoujiagang. In order to cooperate with the "sweeping" of the Japanese puppet army in Quanjiao and Chu County against the Zhoujiagang area, on December 21. Chaoyue's Japanese puppet army dispatched close cadres and invaded the town of Furukawa through Hanshan and Chengjia City. Li Benyi, the fifth inspector of the Kuomintang Anhui Province and commander of the 10th guerrilla column stationed in the town, although he had about 5,000 troops, lost the town of Zhanhe without firing a few shots and fled to Shanhouji in Hexian County.
After the Japanese puppet army broke into the town of Furukawa, they burned and plundered everywhere, and the whole town - a sea of fire, combined with the enemy of Zhoujiagang, after invading Andi, that is, cooperated with the actions of the enemy of Zhoujiagang on the north road.
In the face of the enemy's situation, Liu Shaoqi and Zhang Yunyi instructed Xu Haidong: "Avoid the enemy's sharp edge, strike its weak wings, carefully capture the fighters, make full use of the favorable terrain, and give annihilating book strikes in the movement." In order to narrow the scope of 'sweeping', shorten the time of 'sweeping', and reduce the loss of the people. ”
Xu Haidong immediately rushed from the headquarters of the Taipingji detachment in Chuxian County to the headquarters of the 7th Regiment, made operational arrangements, and decided to occupy a position with the 7th and 8th companies on the front line of the Great Shaojia family in the Changshan Ridge northwest of Zhoujiagang to prevent the enemy of Shijiaji from attacking the four headquarters located in Taipingji to the west; the 1st, 2nd battalions and 9th companies of the 7th Regiment set up ambushes in the mountains southwest of Zhoujiagang, occupied favorable terrain, and waited for work to carry out flanking, pursuing, and ambushing the enemy from the south of Zhoujiagang; and the main force of the 9th Regiment built positions in the area of Fuxingji and Yuping Mountain south of Zhoujiagang. Block the enemy of the Dama Factory from advancing north.
At dawn on December 21, the enemy of Damachang, dispatched by Quan Jiao, attempted to attack Zhoujiagang, but was attacked by 1 and 9 consecutive Yangs of the 9th Regiment at Yuping Mountain. The enemy immediately retreated and regrouped, attacking the positions of the 1st and 9th Companies with artillery to cover the continued advance of their brigades. The 3rd Company of the 9th Regiment immediately fought fiercely with the enemy near fuxingji for about 7 hours. The enemy was struck. Yang was on the avenue, with heavy casualties, and did not dare to advance towards Zhoujiagang again.
On the morning of the same day, after the enemy who entered from Chu County to Shijiaji and the enemy of Quanjiao and occupied Zhoujiagang, they began to move in the direction of Fuxingji at 4:30 p.m., and two companies of the 2nd Battalion of the 7th Regiment chased the enemy at the rear and fought while walking. When the enemy vanguard reached Shangen Cao and the follow-up troops left the village of Western Wei. It entered the ambush circle of the 1st Battalion of the 7th Regiment, the predecessor of the 1st Battalion was a heroic unit of the 74th Division of the Eyu-Anhui Red 25th Army led by Xu Haidong in that year, and the backbone of the battle was mostly veteran soldiers of the Red Army. At the moment, the commanders and fighters of the 1st Battalion gave a surprise blow with fierce firepower, and immediately launched a charge, causing the enemy to suffer heavy casualties, and did not dare to advance in front and retreat in the rear, and shrank to the mountain villages such as Shange Cao and Xi He Jia, and held on to the danger. The 1st Battalion of the 7th Regiment took advantage of the night to sneak up on the enemy. On December 22, when this enemy fled south from the West Ho Family to revive the rally. Ambushed by the troops of the 7th Regiment, they were wiped out, and the rest collapsed to the Revival Assembly. That night, the 9th Regiment attacked the enemy of the Revival Set.
Over the past few days, the Japanese puppet armies of various walks of life have been repeatedly attacked, and they have been frustrated one after another, and there is little ammunition left, so they have to start retreating on the morning of the 23rd, and the 7th and 9th regiments immediately followed up and pursued. The 9th Regiment recaptured the town of Furukawa in one fell swoop. The 7th Regiment pursued the enemy until Tan Dun was victorious.
After three days and nights of fierce fighting, the enemy's three-way "sweep" was shattered. The 7th and 9th regiments of the 4 detachments killed and wounded more than 160 enemy prisoners, including Mao Takachiho, the japanese squadron leader, and 1 enemy detachment leader, and also captured a large number of weapons, ammunition, and military supplies. from now on. The enemy who had been defeated in a hurry retreated back into the nest and did not dare to make a fool of himself for half a year.
The victory of Zhoujiagang in the anti-"sweeping" campaign recaptured Zhoujiagang, Fuxingji, Guhe Town, and other places, laying a solid foundation for the creation of the Huainan Anti-Japanese Base Area. However, on January 28, 1940, Xu Haidong vomited blood and fell ill, and Chairman Mao called him to ask him to recuperate.
On December 26, the Central Plains Bureau of the CPC Central Committee sent a telegram to the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee to the Shandong Branch and told Peng Xuefeng and Zhang Aiping that the northeastern Anhui and northern Jiangsu regions in the south of Longhai Road and the east of Jinpu Road are "now approved by the central authorities, and northern Jiangsu and northeastern Anhui are under the management of the Central Plains Bureau and designated as the main direction for the development of the New Fourth Army." Therefore, the troops of the Eighth Route Army and other units led by the Che Party are active in the area. For example, the detachment of Huang Chunpu (i.e., Jiang Hua, who was then the commander and political commissar of the Suwan Column of the Eighth Route Army) was changed to a column, and it must be unified under the command of Comrade Peng Xuefeng. "The party set up a military and political committee of the Suwan Border Region in the region, with Zhang Aiping as secretary and Jin Ming, Huang Chunpu, and other comrades participating, so as to unify the leadership of the party and the troops, the people's movement, and the united front work."