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At the meeting, the commander-in-chief made a comprehensive analysis of the political, economic, and military situation in northern Shaanxi in accordance with Zhang Cheng's suggestion, and put forward a proposal to take northern Shaanxi as the center and expand to Qingyang and Yulin.

After a full and enthusiastic discussion, the central leaders unanimously agreed with the views put forward by the commander-in-chief.

In light of the current situation in northern Shaanxi, the meeting decided that the Central Red Army should cooperate with the Red Army in northern Shaanxi to quickly break the military "encirclement and suppression" of the Kuomintang army in the Soviet region of northern Shaanxi.

At the same time, the Red Army will further expand its base areas to the south, north, and west, and establish a base area in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Soviet Region with an area, population, and economic base sufficient to support more than 100,000 Red Army.

In addition, on the basis of the information sent by Zhang Cheng, the central authorities also made a resolution to quickly correct the erroneous movement in the northern Shaanxi Soviet region and released Liu Zhidan and a large number of other comrades.

After receiving Zhang Cheng's report, the central authorities immediately dispatched two comrades, Wang Shoudao and Jia Tuofu, to Wayaobao and ordered the responsible person of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee to "keep people under the knife," and only then did Liu Zhidan and others be rescued.

At 9 o'clock in the morning of the next day, the commander led the Central Red Army to formally join the Red Army in northern Shaanxi in the area of Xiasi Bay.

Then the commander stretched out his hand to greet Xu Haidong, the commander of the famous 25th Army, and the tall man known as Xu Laohu held the commander's hand tightly, so excited that he didn't know what to say for a while. According to his own recollections afterwards: "I finally saw the commander-in-chief. ”

Soon after the two armies met, a celebration meeting was held, and after the meeting, the reorganization of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi was also put on the agenda of the Central Military Commission.

In the end, the commander-in-chief and the Central Military Commission decided to merge the 25th, 26th, and 27th armies into the 15th Red Army Corps, with a strength of more than 7,000 troops and three divisions under its jurisdiction. As for the leadership of the corps, Xu Haidong was the commander of the corps, Cheng Zihua was the political commissar of the corps, and Liu Zhidan was the chief of staff.

After that, the Central Committee and the Military Commission sent a large number of cadres to the 15 th Army Corps, including Zhou Shidi, Wang Shoudao, Song Shilun, Huang Zhen, Wu Xiuquan and other famous generals of our army in later generations, all of whom joined the 15 th Army Corps one after another.

On August 3, in Wuqi Town, Shaanxi Province, in accordance with the decision of the Party Central Committee, the Northwest Revolutionary Military Committee was established, with the commander as the chairman, the deputy commander Zhou, and the general Peng as the vice chairmen, and the Red 15th Army Corps was incorporated into the Red 1st Front Army.

The arrival of the Central Red Army in northern Shaanxi and the victorious rendezvous with the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, and the news reached Nanjing, which made Chang Kaishen extremely uneasy.

Chang Kaishen immediately mobilized the strength of five divisions of the Northeast Army, took the four divisions of Dong Yingbin's division as the west road, dispatched from Qingyang and Heshui, and marched east along the Hulu River through Taibai Town.

He also took a division of Wang Yizhe's department as the east road, first pushed forward from Luochuan, and then advanced west along the Hulu River through Yangquan Town, in an attempt to advance from east to west and encircle and annihilate our army in the area between the Hulu River and the Luohe River.

The next day, the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution held its first operational meeting after the Long March in Xiasiwan, at which it made military arrangements for opposing "encirclement and suppression" in northern Shaanxi, and resolved to annihilate the 109th Division of the 57th Army of the Northeast Army, which was advancing alone, at Zhiluo Town.

The operational plan of the Central Military Commission was to encircle and annihilate the 109th Division by a small column, and the 3rd Army Corps and the 15th Army Corps to prevent the reinforcement of the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army. At the same time, the Red 1st and 5th Army Corps were ordered to take advantage of the weakness to take Qingyang and Heshui, which were empty of troops, and to respond to the battle of the Left Route Army.

The so-called one trick is fresh, and it is eaten all over the world. After receiving the order of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, Zhang Cheng briefly discussed with the members of the party committee of the column, and then decided that the third division would feign defeat and lure the enemy, introduce the encirclement set up by the first division, and then the two divisions would work together to blossom inside and outside, and destroy the 109th division in one fell swoop.

Zhiluo Town, located 45 kilometers west of Fu County, Shaanxi Province, was originally Han Diaoyin County. Zhiluo Town is surrounded by mountains on three sides, an avenue passes through the east and west, the east of the town is a small earthen village of less than 100 households, and the north of the town is the famous gourd river.

At that time, the Kuomintang "Northwest Suppression Headquarters" deployed five divisions to advance from east to west, in an attempt to take advantage of the Red Army's unstable foothold to control the Hulu River and form an east-west blockade line along the Hulu River.

Since this battle had a bearing on whether or not the Red Army could gain a foothold in northern Shaanxi and had a great stake, the commander-in-chief specially rushed to the front line to comfort all the officers and men of the Young Column.

In terms of the deployment of the campaign, the commander-in-chief specially instructed Zhang Cheng to seize the arrogance and arrogance of Niu Yuanfeng, the commander of the enemy's 109th Division, which caused the unit to be relatively prominent and isolated, and in addition to the ideal ambush terrain in Zhiluo Town and the mass conditions favorable to the Red Army, he resolutely annihilated the enemy's 109th Division.

Zhang Cheng and the political commissar also carefully inspected the terrain of the Hulu River, and they all thought that this terrain seemed to be like a big pocket, which was the best place to ambush the enemy, so they quickly arranged troops under the instructions of the commander to lure the enemy into the urn.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of 15 August, under the cover of the Kuomintang Air Force planes, the 109th Division, the vanguard of the enemy, launched an attack on Zhiluo Town in three directions along the Hulu River valley and the mountains in the north and south.

Zhou Weiguo led the third division to resist with half of the troops, and gradually lured the enemy into the preset encirclement of the first division.

At 8 o'clock in the evening of the same day, the officers and men of the 1st Division, who had been waiting for a long time, suddenly launched an attack on the enemy, attacking the north mountain of Zhiluo Town from the north and northwest directions, blocking the enemy's retreat.

The 3rd Division took advantage of the situation to launch a counteroffensive, attacking the Nanshan and southeast areas of Zhiluo Town from the southwest, due south, and southeast, blocking the enemy's eastward escape.

After two hours of fierce fighting, most of the enemy's 109th Division was annihilated, and hundreds of its remnants retreated to the southeast of Zhiluo Town, where they resisted stubbornly, in a vain attempt to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

At this time, the enemy's reinforcements from the east and west had rapidly approached Zhiluo Town, in order to ensure the smooth annihilation of the enemy, Zhang Cheng decided that the 7th Regiment of the 3rd Division would continue to besiege the remnants of the enemy's 119th Division, and the main force of the division headquarters would block the enemy's 117th Division with inferior forces.

Li Yunlong's 1st Division went west to meet the enemy's 106th and 111th Divisions to the east, and after the enemy's two divisions were strongly blocked by the 1st Division, they were shocked by the prestige of Shaozong and feared being annihilated, so they retreated west along the Hulu River in the early morning of the next day.

The remnants of the enemy's 109th Division, which was surrounded by the 7th Regiment in the southeast of Zhiluo Town, were hopeless to be helped, and broke through in the early morning of the next day, but were quickly annihilated by the 7th Regiment, and Niu Yuanfeng, the commander of the 109th Division, was killed.

At this point, the Battle of Naolazhen ended victoriously.

In this battle, our army annihilated one division and one regiment of the enemy, killed more than 3,000 people, captured more than 5,000 enemies, captured countless baggage, and smashed Chang Kaishen's "encirclement and suppression" of the base areas in the Shaanxi-Gansu region.

The victory in the Battle of Zhiluo Town held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's establishment of the base area in northern Shaanxi, and also allowed the Central Red Army to gain a foothold in northern Shaanxi, and the situation was very good.