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Looking at Tingzhou City in the night, Comrade Peng pondered deeply, and after a while, he looked sideways at Zheng Yi, who was smiling sincerely: "That's right! The key is to establish a sound system and implement it firmly, I know what to do! ”

"In addition, there is another question that needs to be consulted from you, the comrades in western Fujian strongly demand the formation of an army directly under the leadership of the special commission, and now even the number has been set, called the Red Seventh Army, under the jurisdiction of two main divisions, the Red Fourth Division is merged into it, and after the training of recruits in the large battalion in the west of the city is completed, a recruit division will be formed."

Zheng Yi was a little surprised when he heard this, took out a cigarette and handed it to the surging paper, and after lighting it for the surging paper, he also lit one himself: "The last time Commissar Mao inspected Tingzhou, he brought me the Central Document No. 51 recorded by the Committee of Former Enemies of the Fourth Army, and the "Military Outline" in the document stipulates that the establishment of the Red Army has become a key task at present, and it is not necessary to wait until the insurrection in one province or one country succeeds, as long as a separatist area can be established, the work of building the Red Army should begin. ”

"The revolutionary armed forces established in the secession areas can be officially named the Red Army, abolish the name of the former Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and put forward requirements for the army's political work and the political commissar system, but the document does not give a clear name to the armies in the base areas across the country, so until now, we still bear the name of the instructor of the Nanchang uprising troops."

Comrade Peng nodded: "I also know what you said, at present, the numbers of the revolutionary armies in all provinces across the country are formulated by the provincial party committees, special committees of base areas, or former enemy committees, and there are many duplicate numbers, such as the Red Fourth Army of the Hunan and Jiangxi border areas on Lao Mao's side, as well as the Red Fourth Army of the Hubei-Jiangxi border region, and the Red Fourth Army of the Hunan-Hubei border area, one number is used by three troops, and it is indeed very easy to cause confusion......

"However, before the party's Central Committee and the Central Military Commission do not have a unified number, they can only maintain the status quo, after all, the honor of the 'Iron Army' during the Northern Expedition had too deep an impact on the comrades, and they all want to take over and inherit the name of the 'Iron Army' and make the greatest contribution to the party's cause."

Zheng Yi understood this very well and did not continue this topic: "At present, there are more and more recruits trained in the camp in the west of the city, and dozens or hundreds of them are sent from the surrounding counties almost every day, and there are currently more than 5,000 people!" ”

"The first batch of recruits, totaling 3,000 recruits, have been training for half a month, and these recruits will leave for the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area in the middle of this month, and while training, they will undertake the task of defending the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area."

"Now that Commissar Mao and Commander Zhu are fighting, and the two county towns of Yongxin and Lianhua have been defeated, the next battle will be more intense, and the Fourth Regiment of our instructor has been assigned to the Red Fourth Army under the command of Commissar Mao and Commander Zhu, and the number of troops left in the Jinggangshan base area is getting smaller and smaller."

The surging paper has already learned the details: "I also know about this matter, the comrades in western Fujian are very supportive of the fighting on Commissar Mao's side, and they have said that in the next month, they will strengthen political propaganda and mobilization, increase the intensity of conscription, and at least 20,000 young and strong people will be recruited in 13 counties in western Fujian, and they will be handed over to your instructors for unified training and equipment." ”

When Zheng Yi heard the figure of 20,000, his eyes couldn't help but widen, and he felt deeply difficult for a while: "There is no problem with unified training, but we can't do it with unified equipment, we really don't have such a large amount of money!" ”

"Then lay down Longyan as soon as possible!" Surging laughed.

Zheng Yi waved his hand: "At present, the regiments of our division are still in intense adjustment and training, and the same is true of the Red Fourth Division, at least until the end of the month, we have no ability to attack Longyan." ”

Comrade Peng Peng let out a long sigh: "I can understand, but at this time, we must not chill the hearts of the comrades in western Fujian; if we can, we should first mobilize two regiments and cooperate with the special committee to conquer the three counties of Liancheng, Ninghua, and Qingliu as soon as possible, in addition to expanding the party's influence, this will also be a great boost to the construction of the base areas." ”

Zheng Yi thought for a while: "Okay, let's have a meeting tomorrow morning, and we will set off the day after tomorrow, let's take Liancheng down first." ”

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Liancheng, referred to as "Lotus", also known as Liancheng, is located in the southern section of the Wuyi Mountains in the mountainous area of western Fujian, at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces, adjacent to Yong'an and Silla in the east, Shanghang in the south, Changting in the west, and Qingliu in the north.

Because it is located in the remote mountains, it was built in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and until the 17th year of the Republic of China, the scale is still very small, and the total population of the county is less than 20,000, which is basically the same as the transportation hub in the south and the century-old business town of Xinquan Town.

But Liancheng is an important post station connecting the hinterland of Fujian Province, it is the only way for Tingzhou and Ruijin, Huichang and other places in western Jiangxi to lead to Sanming, Nanping, Jian'ou and Fuzhou in Fujian Province, the strategic location is very important, therefore, Liancheng is stationed with a regiment of troops all the year round, the city wall and the city gate remain intact, although the city is small in scale, the circumference is less than 2.5 kilometers, but the city wall is towering, and the defense facilities are complete.

The head of the security regiment stationed in Liancheng is named Hua Yangqiao, who was born in a strong family of local landlords, and is the leader of the militia in Liancheng, who took refuge in Guo Fengming, a warlord of western Fujian stationed in Tingzhou, a year ago, and won the title of head of the Liancheng security regiment.

After the instructor defeated Guo Fengming and occupied Tingzhou, Guo Fengming did not retreat to Longyan, the territory of his old rival Zhang Guohui, but led the remnants to flee to Fuzhou in eastern Jiangxi through Liancheng, and put them under the command of Yang Shuzhuang, the commander of the Kuomintang Navy and chairman of Fujian Province, which had a huge impact on Huayang Bridge.

In order to keep his family property and current status, the frightened Huayangqiao immediately took refuge with the Longyan warlord Zhang Guohui, and was appointed by Zhang Guohui as the commander of the Third Brigade of the New Fifth Division of the National Revolutionary Army, and sold 500 Yueben 38 rifles and 10 British Lewis machine guns to Huayangqiao at a low price, allowing Huayangqiao to recruit armed forces from the surrounding green forests to expand its troops.

So, in just one month, Huayangqiao pulled up 2,000 men, appointed the five major bandit leaders as colonels, summoned the local rich gentry and landlords, contributed money and efforts, wantonly recruited troops, bought guns and artillery, built fortifications, set up sentry posts, and turned the entire city into an iron bucket array.

However, the instructors of the communist army that occupied Tingzhou did not attack Liancheng for a long time, and even if they sent troops to the two towns of Xinquan and Miaoqian to confront Zhang Guohui's troops, not a single soldier entered the territory of Liancheng, which was close to Chichi.

This abnormal situation made Hua Yangqiao and his chief of staff, Zhou Huanwen, puzzled, and finally under Zhang Guohui's repeated orders, he quietly sent a battalion with a total of more than 300 people to reinforce Xinquan Town, but they stopped when they reached Pengkou Town. The remaining 2,000 men and horses strictly guarded the old lair, and from time to time sent attached green forest heroes, pretending to be merchants or porters, from Nanshan and Xinqiao, to Tingzhou City to listen to the news.

After repeated verification, Hua Yangqiao and Zhou Huanwen discovered that the communist army stationed in Tingzhou did not have the legendary tens of thousands of horses at all, only one regiment sent to fight Xinquan and two regiments stationed in Tingzhou.

In the past month, in addition to conquering the county town of Wuping in the south, this communist army has not continued to attack Longyan, but has retreated nearly 100 miles from the occupied two towns of Xinquan and Miaoqian, and is now assisting the Communist Party in western Fujian to form a new government, vigorously recruiting and training troops, and there is no sign of attacking Liancheng.

Hua Yangqiao gradually let go of his suspense, but he still ordered his officers and soldiers to strictly guard the city and the surrounding five checkpoints, and quietly searched the county for lurking communists.

Who knew that as soon as the order was given, the three regiment commanders who were born in the green forest immediately led their troops out of the city, went to the surrounding towns and villages, wantonly robbed the people's property, and poisoned the people who dared to resist on the charge of "suspected banditry" at every turn.

Hundreds of young people full of hatred rushed to Tingzhou to enlist in the army, hoping to return to Liancheng as soon as possible under the leadership of the Communist Party and take revenge.

The whole city was plunged into panic and chaos because of this.

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