As time approached the end of 36 years, some war-conscious soldiers could see that the war clouds began to spread over the entire country. Compared with the Kuomintang's policy of "to calm the country first, we must fight against foreign countries" and continued to dispatch troops to encircle and suppress the People's Party's army in the northwest region. Deng Chenggong, a militia column in Yinlong Valley, issued an order to prepare for the army to all subordinate militia regiments and militia units of all sizes.

All militia corps and counties allocated all working capital to store combat materials, and the column directly under the arsenal that had begun to manufacture grenades, mines and reloaded bullets on a large scale, increased their horsepower and produced a large number of weapons without stopping the plane for 24 hours, and the column's transportation team immediately transferred the materials to various militia corpses. This invisible war pressure made the atmosphere of the entire rear base much more tense.

Xu Mingyuan, who found that Deng Chenggong's concerns were getting worse day by day, finally couldn't help asking: "Commander, are you going to enter the full war of resistance?"

Deng Chenggong nodded cautiously and said, "Yes, it's not far from the full war, and as the intelligence officer, you should have received some information about this. Although the war has not yet begun, the intelligence personnel close to the Japanese occupied areas can still be clearly discovered that they are already reserving strategic materials and dispatching troops. This situation proves that the Japanese really want to launch a new round of invasion war, and the target is directly aimed at our base.

As China's strategic location, the importance of the North China Plain is self-evident. If they want to launch a full-scale invasion war, North China will definitely be the focus of their attack. To this end, we must be mentally prepared, because compared with the national army, the Japanese are several times better than us in terms of weapons and equipment and combat qualities.

If we cannot give full play to our only battlefield advantages, we may suffer heavy losses once the war begins. Moreover, we must strengthen the publicity activities of the people and make it too serious to say that the Japanese may bring. Let the people not have the mentality of only fighting in the army and not attacking the people, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.

In addition, you allocate some funds to strengthen intelligence collection. If it is not as expected, a major event will happen outside in a few days. This situation of civil wars that have not retreated before the war will come to an end temporarily. Our country, which has suffered from war, should temporarily enter a situation of comprehensive resistance. We must fully seize this opportunity and store our strength to ensure that we have the ability to protect the lives and property of the people in the base area in the future."

Although he did not understand the confidence of Deng Chenggong, Xu Mingyuan asked: "Is this situation you said possible? As far as I know, the current National Party government is still asking the second troops in the northwest and northeast to strengthen the encirclement and suppression of the People's Party troops. With the act of the skin-headed party leader, I am afraid that the People's Party troops will not be eliminated, and this battle will probably be fought."

Deng Chenggong smiled and said, "You are right. With the bald chairman's psychology, he will naturally not let the People's Party go easily. In his opinion, the People's Party has a day when it exists. It's just that you have to be clear about one thing. The two leaders of the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army are very supportive of the War of Resistance.

Now, this kind of Zhan Yun that anyone with a discerning eye can see, do you think they can't see? Let me tell you, I'm afraid that in the next two days, you will see a major turning point in the domestic political situation, and this turning point will also prompt the Japanese to speed up the war. In short, our peaceful days are probably about to end. From now on, we will do our best to fight to protect the country and the people and protect our country. I hope you must be mentally prepared."

Seeing Deng Chenggong's obvious ambush, Xu Mingyuan finally asked for some questions but could not find out the specific news, and could only bury this confusion in his heart. Until two days later, on the 12th, the telecommunications department received a notice that they seemed a bit bold and arrogant. The two generals of the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army actually seized the bald head of the National Party and issued a declaration of joint anti-Japanese resistance. For a moment, senior military and political officials in China were shocked by the news.

With this telegram, Xu Mingyuan's first reaction was that this matter should be what Deng Chenggong called a major event. But what puzzled him was that North China is a distance from the northwest, and their intelligence organization had not developed there. How did his commander who rarely went out recently guess? Could it be that there are really people like prophets in this world?

Xu Mingyuan, who felt more and more incredible the more he thought about it, and when he handed the telegram to Deng Chenggong, he found that Deng Chenggong seemed to have known about it for a long time. He just took a quick look and put it aside and said, "This matter has nothing to do with us, so there is no need to worry too much. But the occurrence of this matter proves that my guess is not wrong. I believe that the matter will gradually become clear next time. This bald boss probably dared not dare to offend all warlords and the people, and continued his so-called nonsense of "rest the country first for resisting foreign countries". What we have to do is to reserve more war preparation materials while everyone is paying attention to this matter.

The last time you mentioned that you can buy a rifle production line through your future father-in-law. I think that although this batch of equipment is something that others have eliminated, pulling it to our base will undoubtedly increase the chance of making guns by yourself. If we can produce guns by ourselves and seize them in wartime, I believe that it is not a problem to expand the scale of recruitment. Taking advantage of the situation now that everyone is waiting and watching the changes, we will take down this batch of equipment as soon as possible. This matter is very important and we must strive to be in place before the Spring Festival. At that time, we can have a comfortable Spring Festival. It is not easy to still want to celebrate the New Year in this way. Do you understand?"

From Deng Chenggong's words, Xu Mingyuan quickly realized the problem and immediately asked: "What do you mean, a full-scale war will break out next year?"

Deng Chenggong nodded and said, "Yes, as long as the domestic warlords reach an agreement on anti-Japanese advice, the Japanese will definitely speed up the plan to launch a war. He will not wait for us to recover before attacking. Compared to our 400 million population, he can't afford to delay an island country.

This also means that the longer the war is fought, the more beneficial it will be to us. As long as we grit our teeth and hold on to the first few years, I believe that the Japanese will get out of our country in shame. And after you pass this time, I hope you can tell your future father-in-law if the Japanese can start a full-scale war. If feasible, let him temporarily release or transfer his business, otherwise the Japanese will arrive and the foundation he has built in his life may be confiscated."

As Lin Meiting often wanders around Xu Mingyuan, although the Lin family looked down on Xu Mingyuan, the only one of the three people in the nearly 30,000 militia columns, although the rank of major general was not recognized by the government, the troops could still be pulled out as long as they gave orders.

Lin's father, who knew the reason why the people did not fight with officials, found that his character and future should be good after several contacts with Xu Mingyuan. In addition, in troubled times, it is better to have a gun than to have money. With Xu Mingyuan, a son-in-law who has more than 30,000 guns, the safety of the Lin family in North China is undoubtedly much more guaranteed. What's more, most of the things managed by the Lin family are closely related to the people. With Xu Mingyuan, the clan, speaking to the political director, the Lin family's business in the area controlled by the militia column was so prosperous, which is also the main reason why the Lin family did not object to the relationship between the two in the end.

As the father-in-law and son-in-law deepened their relationship, Lin's father also used his connections in the ground in North China to buy a lot of strategic materials for the militia column that are rich and difficult to buy. This rifle production line was also the news that Lin's father learned through chats with friends in the business world, and finally decided to ask the militia column if it was interesting. After all, buying this production line is not something that can be done by 10,000 or 20,000 oceans. Even if the Lin family has been in business for so many years, they can only be helpless in the face of this production line with a million oceans.

Xu Mingyuan, who came out of Deng Chenggong's office, was still guessing why Deng Chenggong could predict what happened so far away in advance. If all these things were predicted by him, Xu Mingyuan felt that it was a bit too magical. But if it were not for Deng Chenggong's own prediction, there was only one possibility, that is, Deng Chenggong had another source of intelligence. After following Deng Chenggong for so long, he did not find that Deng Chenggong had also formed another intelligence department. Xu Mingyuan, who thought about it more and more, finally could only throw this idea behind his mind and let the soldiers find Lin Meiting.

Lin Meiting, who already had a hint of military style, said formally when entering the door: "Director, come to me if you have something to do?"

Xu Mingyuan looked at Lin Meiting with a smile and said gentlely: "Meiting, let's put the work at hand! We'll go out later. Last time my aunt said she missed you. This time I happened to receive the commander's order to talk to your father about the purchase of the rifle production line. You can go home with me too! My aunt always cares about your safety."

When Lin Meiting, who heard that she could go home with Xu Mingyuan and hadn't come home for a long time to visit her parents, suddenly jumped up happily. After seeing Xu Mingyuan standing opposite her, she turned around and ran out to pack up her things very quickly.

This sudden reward made Xu Mingyuan look at his lover and laugh and cry. Although the two of them did not make any breakthroughs in private, they did everything they could do in other lovers. But this was the first time kissing in this office. Fortunately, there was no one else in the office except them, otherwise people would be spreading it and they didn’t know what jokes they were going to make.

After simply packing up a few pieces of clothes to change, Xu Mingyuan took Lin Meiting to the Lin family in Shijiazhuang under the escort of six special forces members of the Flying Eagle Special Forces. As one of the four heads of the column, Deng Chenggong specifically stipulated that each person must protect him when he went out. Even Hu Guangzong, who was often stationed in the military camp, also enjoyed this treatment, so that their guards often acted as correspondents. However, after learning about the experience of the special forces members, Hu Guangzong, Liu Guang and others knew that Deng Chenggong happily accepted this regulation for their safety reasons. After all, others had not yet wanted to enjoy this treatment!

Because cars are rare at this time, Deng Chenggong did not equip himself and the other three people with cars for transportation. Now they travel more by horses. At this time, the militia column had formed a cavalry regiment with nearly a thousand people through acquisition and seizure. As the mobile unit of the militia column, he stayed in a mountain grassland near the base for training. Therefore, Xu Mingyuan rode a horse every time he traveled. In this era, no one could easily provoke a team of eight people. What's more, except for the county town, there was no militia team stationed in the rest of the towns and rural areas.

If the National Army garrison from Xingtai to Shijiazhuang could have been able to fight against Deng Chenggong's militia column before, it would be thankful that Deng Chenggong would not attack them now. Who said that the strength of the militia column is far greater than the total number of troops garrisons in North China?
Chapter completed!