Just when the Committee of Former Enemies of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army on the Hunan and Jiangxi borders was making a decision, the Kuomintang and Hunan and Guizhou armies gathered in Hengyang took the lead and received an urgent report from Ganzhou. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Hunan and Guizhou armies, which were facing each other, were shocked to learn that a division of Yang Chisheng's division had been annihilated by the communist troops that had suddenly appeared, and that Xingguo and Ningdu counties had fallen into the hands of the communists.

Under the promise of Bai Chongxi, a Guizhou magnate, that "as long as they obey the leadership of the Wuhan Political Conference, all units of the Hunan Army can still maintain the status quo", the Hunan army generals He Jian, Zhang Yipeng, and Li Pinxian, who were in a dilemma, were forced to bow their heads.

All units of the Hunan army expressed their immediate abandonment of confrontation, obeyed the leadership of the Wuhan political branch, and handed over the defense of Changsha, Yuezhou, and Pingliu to the Seventh Army and the Nineteenth Army led by the Gui generals Xia Wei and Hu Zongduo.

On 20 February, He Jian and 15 other generals of the Hunan Army sent a joint telegram expressing their support for the leadership of the Wuhan Political Branch, obeying the command of the Wuhan Political Branch, and announcing the establishment of the Qingxiang Township Supervision Office in Hunan Province.

The next day, the Hunan and Guizhou armies, which had ended the confrontation, marched separately.

Li Pinxian led the Eighth Army to leave Qidong and stationed in the Hengyang area, and Ye Qi led the newly formed Tenth Army to Xianning by train to station.

He Jian led the 35th Army, which was the most well-equipped and numbered of more than 23,000 officers and men, to Chenzhou to quell the huge and spreading uprising in southern Hunan.

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Since both Xingguo and Ningbo were occupied by communist troops, Yang Chisheng, who was trapped in Ganzhou and begged for help, kept calling Nanchang, Nanjing, Wuhan and Guangzhou for help.

Zhu Shigui, a general of the Yunnan Army who stayed on the line from Nanchang to Jiujiang, said that his troops were limited and he could not help, and the Nanjing government did not even hear from him, and the commander-in-chief of Chiang, who was far away in Xuzhou's Northern Expedition, could not be counted on.

The Cantonese army in the south had just stopped the tragic civil war and was engaged in a deceitful distribution of power and division of territory, and no one cared about Yang Chisheng, who was not on his own territory.

The eyes of all circles at home and abroad have just turned away from the large-scale civil war between the warlords of Guangdong Province and the northern and southern capitals that are about to launch a national war, and to the warlords of the north and the south who are constantly electrifying the world and constantly clamoring for a decisive battle.

It wasn't until Bai Chongxi's telegram came that the frightened Yang Chisheng was comforted.

However, far water could not quench the thirst of the near, and Yang Chisheng, whose strength had been greatly damaged, did not dare to expect He Jian and Zhang Yipeng, who had not yet been settled in civil strife, to lead the Hunan army to support him across provinces.

With only the remaining four regiments of more than 3,800 officers and soldiers in Yang Chisheng's hands, he simply did not have the ability to send troops to collect Fuguo and Ningdu.

The instructors who occupied Xingguo and Ningdu also did not have the ability to advance on the victory!

In the absence of logistics and no reinforcement of troops, this heroic and warlike army was also a lone army, so they could only temporarily stop the pace of conquest, seize the time to transport all kinds of captured materials, and recruit troops and horses in Xingguo and Ningdu counties to replenish the lack of personnel.

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On 25 February, the good news of the occupation of Suichuan by the First Division of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was sent to Ningdu, and Zheng Yi, who had been worried for half a month, finally showed a happy smile and immediately ordered the military and civilians of Xingguo and Ningdu counties to be reported to the two counties, and then urgently summoned political commissar Li Zhao, chief of staff Wang Huchen, and several chief and deputy regiment commanders to hold a meeting.

Facing the smiling brothers, Zheng Yi expressed his opinion: "Suichuan has been defeated, congratulations!" ”

"The biggest gain is not how much food and material supplies the former committee and the first division can be brought by the defeat of Suichuan, but to avoid the heavy encirclement and suppression of the enemy's five divisions in Hunan Province, and while preserving the revolutionary forces, it has also swept away the hidden dangers under the noses of the Jinggangshan base area, expanded the influence of our communist army in the southern Gan region, and brought a huge shock to the enemy in Ganzhou!"

"It can be said that the first division's capture of Suichuan is of great significance and a great strategic victory."

"In this case, can we consider the next step and join forces with the First Division commanded by Commissar Mao to attack Ganzhou as soon as possible?" Li Zhao asked excitedly.

In the expectant eyes of the brothers, Zheng Yi, who had vetoed the fight against Ganzhou several times, finally agreed to Li Zhao's suggestion:

"The time has come, you can fight a dozen ideas in Ganzhou, even if you can't capture Ganzhou, you must take Yudu in the east of Ganzhou, or the rich county town of Wan'an in the north."

"The reason why I called the big guy here is to discuss how to fight next?"

"Let's draw up the battle plan first, and then call the former committee and Commissar Mao to listen to their opinions."

"To tell the truth, at present, in addition to Ganzhou City, which is towering and easy to defend and difficult to attack, several surrounding counties can be beaten, as long as you make up your mind, Ruijin, which is seventy kilometers to the south, can also be defeated!"

"My only concern is not whether we can defeat a certain county seat, but which county is most beneficial to us, and I believe that the former committee and Commissar Mao also think so."

After Li Zhao and his brothers were slightly surprised, they quickly understood what Zheng Yi wanted to express, and the excitement and pride in their hearts gradually faded, and they were replaced by reason and a sense of the big picture.

Zheng Yi was deeply satisfied with the progress of the brothers, and turned to Wang Huchen, who nodded slightly: "Huchen, what do you think?" ”

Wang Huchen threw away the cigarette butt that burned his hand, straightened his waist, and said solemnly: "We are at a very favorable time, at least in the next month, there is not a single Kuomintang army in the entire Jiangxi Province that can pose a threat to our army!" ”

"The only difficulty at the moment is that we are not strong enough, simply put, our troops are insufficient, no matter where we attack next, we need to leave part of our troops to defend Ningdu, otherwise, the revolutionary momentum that has been launched with great difficulty will gradually dissipate!"

"At present, it seems that the newly formed Ningdu County Party Committee and the 2,000-member Red Guards organization still need our strong support, and they still need the army to come forward to train them, educate them, and support them. Only in this way can they develop and grow rapidly. ”

The brothers nodded frequently, and the political commissar Li Zhao was even more deeply touched: "The chief of staff has ...... the point."

"During the period when I was rejuvenating the country, what I felt most deeply was how to establish a revolutionary regime and how to defend the revolutionary regime.

"It is precisely because of this that I did not hesitate to agree with the opinion of the division commander, Commander Li, and Regiment Commander Zhao, and escorted all the more than 500 prisoners of the Yunnan army and the 450 regiments of the Ningdu Security Regiment sent to Xingguo to the mountains north of Xingguo to build roads, cut trees, and reclaim land, and strive to build the city in the reckless mountains into a stable military base within three months."

"I would like to take this opportunity to repeat my attitude: I resolutely support the views of the division commanders and chiefs of staff, and once Ningdu cannot hold on, we must resolutely give up and turn our main energies to rejuvenating the country, which is more conducive to the development of our army."

Zheng Yi was the first to applaud, and the brothers also gave Li Zhao warm applause.

It was not easy for Li Zhao to make this change, so Zheng Yi did not hesitate to personally go on a trip to rejuvenate the country, invited Li Zhao and seven political cadres at or above the battalion level to Ningdu, and compared the favorable time and place, political upsurge, and development situation between Ningdu and Xingguo, and finally let Li Zhao and all the political commissars see the gap between the two places, understand the different strategic roles of the two places, and finally gladly change their original radical propositions.

After the applause stopped, Zheng Yile asked Li Zhao: "Political commissar, once the next military action plan is determined, the two main regiments will leave Ningdu and go to the battlefield, and at most one battalion of troops can be left to garrison Ningdu, and while maintaining the fruits of victory, the Red Guards of up to more than 2,000 people will be strictly trained to cooperate with the newly formed local party organizations to carry out their work." ”

"In this way, the person in charge who stays behind is very crucial......

Li Zhao interrupted Zheng Yi's words angrily: "Okay, I just know what you want to do when you pout your ass, don't you just want me to stay in Ningdu?" No problem, I'll stay! ”

"However, I still have to be distracted from Xingguo, Duan Xuan's officers and soldiers of the three regiments basically did not complete the last two months of training, and the most important thing is that the 1,500 recruits recruited in Xingguo need to be guided and trained by Duan Xuan and dozens of military instructors of the third regiment."

"Therefore, Duan Xuan's three regiments have to stay in Xingguo no matter what."

The brothers listened interestingly and laughed, but no one could see Li Zhao's rapidly growing overall view from Li Zhao's words like Zheng Yi, and experience a strong sense of comradeship. (To be continued.) )