Lin Junxiong didn't understand Xie Pufu's changes before and after, the previous reaction must be true, so how to explain this reaction later? Xie Pufu personally sent Lin Junxiong out, very polite, but felt that Lin Junxiong had become the peak.

In the next two days, the situation was even more inexplicable, first Liu Caiting's invitation several times a day, but after being rejected by Lin Junxiong, he was not angry, and kept sending people to send some gifts. Liu Guangda was even dismissed as the chief of staff of the regiment, and it stands to reason that he would be very resentful of Lin Junxiong, but before leaving, he vigorously begged Lord Lin Junxiong not to remember the villain, which was very sincere, and in the end he almost knelt down for Lin Junxiong.

It wasn't until Zhang Rubi came that Lin Junxiong's doubts were solved.

It turned out that Zhou Hunyuan called Xie Pufu that day and said that he had been severely scolded by the chairman of the committee, and the reason was that news reached Chiang Kai-shek, saying that Zhou Hunyuan was self-righteous when he first took office, did not take Xue Yue in his eyes, and denied Xue Yue's previous merits. Zhou Hunyuan asked Xie Pufu not to offend the people related to Xue Yue, although Xue Yue's encirclement and suppression were not smooth, but he completed another plan of the chairman, and now the military and political affairs of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces are presided over by Xue Yue, including them, the central army.

Although Zhang Rubi did not say what Chiang Kai-shek's other plan was, and perhaps he did not necessarily know, Lin Junxiong, who knew history, knew it.

After the Great War in the Central Plains, the Nationalist Government led by Chiang Kai-shek nominally unified the whole country, but the local warlords still disobeyed the Nationalist Government, so Chiang Kai-shek formulated a plan, under the pretext of encircling and suppressing the Red Army, the Central Army entered the provinces, and continued to reorganize and divide or use the Red Army to eliminate the local army, and finally completely recovered the military and political power of the southwestern provinces to the Nationalist Government.

I don't know if Xue Yue was dissatisfied with Xie Pufu's always putting Lin Junxiong in the irrelevant rear, on the fourth day after Xie Pufu's birthday banquet, the 5th Division was ordered to rush to Lubanchang to build fortifications and arrange the defense line, and the second battalion of the 30th Regiment was transferred to the forward position east of Lubanchang to be responsible for a defense.

On March 4, 1935, in order to unify the operational command, the Central Military Commission set up a former enemy headquarters in Zunyi, with Zhu De as the commander and Mao Zedong as the political commissar. This meant that Mao Zedong was reinstated in his position in the army and regained command of the army. In accordance with Mao Zedong's strategic decision, the General Political Department of the Red Army issued an "Order for Mobilizing All Red Political Workers to Strive for a New Victory," which explained to the commanders and fighters of the whole army the important purpose and significance of eliminating Zhou Hunyuan's troops: "After the disastrous defeat of Wang Jialie and Wu Qiwei, Chiang Kai-shek used Zhou Hunyuan's column to attack us in cooperation with the Guizhou Army (He Zhizhongshi) in an attempt to encircle and destroy us. This is a decisive battle, or our victory, standing firm, destroying the enemy, and reddening Guizhou; Or if we cannot win, not only will we not be able to maintain the victory of Zunyi, but we will be forced to change direction again, and we must destroy Chiang Kai-shek's main force Zhou Hunyuan's column in any case and achieve a greater victory than the battle of Zunyi! "Mao Zedong's decision to fight Zhou Hunyuan's ministry was not only a strategy and tactics set from a high-level strategic decision-making, but also a political battle set from a high-level strategic decision. The next day, Zhu De and Mao Zedong issued the "Deployment of the Former Enemy Headquarters on the Elimination of the Xiao and Xie Divisions (Zhou Hunyuan's Division)," determined to strike at the Kuomintang Central Army troops.

On March 13, the former enemy headquarters decided to attack the enemy in Lubanchang, because the intelligence sent back by Lin Junxiong on the 10th said that "Zhou Hunyuan's division concentrated three divisions to arrive at Lubanchang on the 9th and built fortifications in Lubanchang." The enemy's position and fortifications were strong, and the terrain was unfavorable to the Red Army, so there was no possibility of breaking through Zhou Hunyuan. Consideration should be given to quickly breaking away from the current enemy, controlling Renhuai and Maotai, and crossing westward to attract the two enemies of Yunnan and Sichuan, and seeking maneuver. ”

Mao Zedong believed that the strategic thinking of the Lubanchang campaign should be to mobilize the enemy, lead the enemy by the nose, use a small number of enemies to attract the pursuing enemy troops to the Chishui River in the northwest, and then cross the Wujiang River in the southeast with a large army.

On March 14, the Red Army's former enemy headquarters sent a top-secret telegram deciding to launch an attack on Zhou Hunyuan's department the next day.

On the morning of March 15, more than 1,000 members of the Red First Army attacked the 27th Regiment of the 5th Division from Renhuai Avenue, and the Battle of Lubanchang began. Lin Junxiong took the second battalion to participate in the battle for the first time, many soldiers were nervously watching the artillery fire not far away, and one soldier even heard the sound of gunfire and peed his pants in fright, which made everyone laugh, Lin Junxiong stepped forward to comfort and encourage, and also encouraged others. Looking at the artillery fire not far away, Lin Junxiong prayed in his heart that the Red Army would not fight to the east, there was not only the 5th Division here, but also Wan Yaohuang's 13th Division next to it, and he did not want to be the enemy of the Red Army. The 1st Red Army and the 27th Regiment fought fiercely for several hours, and due to the delay in the movement of the 3rd Red Army, the troops suffered heavy losses and had to retreat into the pine forest slope.

At noon, the Red Third Army launched an attack on the defense line of Xiao Zhiping's 96th Division of Zhou Hunyuan's Department southwest of Lubanchang, when the fortifications of the 96th Division had not yet been completed and were being repaired.

Zhou Hunyuan was frightened, and then changed to Wan Yaohuang's 13th Division defense, and sent a part of the troops to cover the 76th Regiment of the division to continue to repair the fortifications, but unfortunately the 3rd Army Corps did not take advantage of the advantageous position it had occupied to seize the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to attack the enemy, until after dusk the 3rd Army Corps launched a comprehensive attack on the 13th Division of the Zhou enemy, but at this time the enemy had completed the construction of the fortifications, although the 3rd Army Corps repeatedly attacked the positions of the 73rd and 76th regiments of the 13th Division of the Zhou enemy, but they were unsuccessful.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the 1st Red Army fired at the Biaosi position from the pine forest slope with heavy firepower, but the 1st Battalion of the 30th Regiment returned fire fiercely according to the terrain and fortifications, and the Red Army could not attack for a long time and had to stop. About half an hour later, the 1st Red Army again concentrated 5 or 600 men and charged at the risk of death. Xie Pufu ordered the 27th Regiment to attack from the flank, the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 30th Regiment blocked head-on, and the 2nd Battalion of the 30th Regiment to prepare an ambush to block and pursue after the communist forces were repulsed.

Seeing the brave Red Army soldiers who rushed forward and constantly falling, he couldn't help but feel a burst of heartache, and he called Li Mingli to rush to the front when he was in pursuit, and tried to tell the commanders of the Red First Army to stop the attack on the position of the Biaosi Temple and avoid excessive losses.

The Red Army attacked for a while and began to retreat in the direction of Songlinpo and Caishanping, and when it arrived at the ambush of Lin Junxiong's second battalion, it had to order fire under the supervision of deputy regiment commander Qiu Zhuoyun, and the Red First Army continued to retreat after returning fire for a while, Lin Junxiong immediately pursued with the second battalion, watching Li Mingli rush to the front, Lin Junxiong deliberately slowed down the troops, and only organized the troops to return after Li Mingli returned.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, six or seven hundred men of the Red Fifth Army attacked the position of Biaosi again, and the vanguard quickly rushed to 300 meters in front of the position. Lin Junxiong's second battalion was arranged to attack on the flank, and he was very depressed in his heart, didn't he tell him not to attack again, was it to cover the attack of the Red Third Army on the 13th Division? Although Lin Junxiong deliberately exposed his tracks, the Red Fifth Army was still panicked in the face of the flank attack, and Lin Junxiong rushed forward to fight with the Red Army in a white-knuckle battle, and whispered: "Quickly retreat, retreat in the direction of Huairen and Maotai, hurry up." ”

The battle was over, and Lin Junxiong's second battalion of the 30th Regiment also had some casualties, looking at the Red Army soldiers who fell to the ground and died, Lin Junxiong was sad and indignant, why was it only the first and fifth corps to act, and the third corps participated in the all-out attack after dusk. Why did the three army corps not seize the fighter plane to expand the results of the battle before noon that day, and did not immediately report to Lin and Nie that the enemy's fortifications had not been completed, and launched a general attack on the enemy in advance.

From a military point of view, the decision of the Battle of Lubanchang to fight the Zhou Hunyuan Department of the Central Army was correct, but the Red Army suffered heavy casualties and did not fully achieve the preconceived goal, but it also did not affect the success of the four crossings of Chishui. From a political point of view, the impact of the Battle of Lubanchang on the political situation of New China was very far-reaching.

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