After the solemn cadre meeting, the participants held a grand dinner, which was organized by the General Supply Department of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Ye Jizhuang, minister of the General Supply Department, also personally led people to buy four big fat pigs and two small fat sheep, and purchased a large number of vegetables.

Since most of the cadres attending the meeting were drunkards, the comrades of the supply department also bought dozens of bottles of Moutai liquor and prepared some local snacks in Zunyi, and the meals of this grand meeting were rare and sumptuous in the history of the Red Army.

As soon as the dinner began, the comrades showed their pride, eating meat and drinking wine in large bowls like Liangshan heroes who gathered together.

Most of the people present are military cadres, and boldness is their true character, and none of them know how to be polite.

The bowl is not enough, and the basin is to make up; If the glass is not enough, blow directly at the wine bottle; There were no tables and chairs, so everyone sat down to eat around the vegetable pot.

Due to the large number of people in the small column, there were twenty or thirty seats, and everyone wanted to find Zhang Cheng, the head of the column, to drink, Zhang Cheng was not ambiguous, and the bowl was dry, but after a dozen glasses in a row, he immediately couldn't resist.

Zhang Cheng hurriedly said: "We are all from the same army, don't learn from Chang Kaishen who only knows how to fight a civil war, we must be unanimous with the outside world, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Zhou Weiguo, you come with me, let's have a drink with the commander." ”

Everyone at the wine table was relatively open, Zhang Cheng took Li Yunlong and the three of them to the commander's table, and introduced the three generals to the leaders.

The commander gave Zhang Cheng a lot of face, and he did all the toasts of Li Yunlong and the three of them, and he was particularly impressed by Ding Wei, and encouraged Ding Wei a few words, which made Ding Wei tremble.

On the side, Li Yunlong and Zhou Weiguo looked at Ding Wei with undisguised envy, jealousy and hatred, and they couldn't wait to replace him.

As the young column took the lead and left the table to toast the head of the central committee, the comrades also left the table with wine glasses or bottles and walked to the table of the head of the central committee.

Seeing this, the commander immediately laughed and scolded Zhang Cheng for having a bad head, tonight I am going to be complained to death by your arrogant sister Yang, Zhang Cheng heard the words and made him laugh with joy.

Subsequently, Zhang Cheng led his three proud generals to toast with Mr. Zhu, Deputy Commander Zhou, Mr. Lin, Mr. Peng, Mr. Nie and other senior leaders.

On this night, all the commanders and fighters of the Red Army swept away the gloom that had been in place since the Long March, and everyone returned home with great joy and joy.

After a night's sleep, Zhang Cheng got up on the second day, and suddenly felt that his skull was fluttering and hurting terribly.

Zhang Cheng couldn't help but scold himself, he was too reckless, and he actually made a ghost to fight with Li Yunlong's wine barrel.

Alas, the past is unbearable!

Zhang Chengchen practiced a lot, sweated profusely, and after taking a hot bath, the hangover was greatly reduced, and after eating two bowls of hot porridge, he had completely regained his consciousness.

When I came to the column headquarters, I found that the political workers, under the leadership of the political commissar, had gone down to the divisions and regiments to convey the spirit of the Zunyi Conference.

Zhang Cheng was bored, so he sat in the command room and stared at the huge map in a daze, thinking about where the commander's next move would point, and how Shaozong should prepare for battle?

The Central Revolutionary Military Commission and the Red Army General Headquarters were busy replenishing the arms and ammunition of the Red Army units today, and as a result of the complete victory in the Zunyi Campaign, the Red Army's guns and ammunition were greatly replenished, and now it has basically achieved one gun per man.

Even food, medicine, and salt, which have always been in short supply, have been harvested.

What was particularly pleasing to the commanders of the legions was that a large number of prisoners actively joined the Red Army under the Red Army's heart-to-heart talk and grievance campaign, and this time the Red Army mobilized more than 6,000 people from more than 10,000 prisoners to join the Red Army.

In terms of automatic firearms, there was a "great leap forward"; due to the capture of a large number of mortars, each combat regiment was equipped with an artillery company, and light and heavy machine guns were also distributed to each regiment, with an average of about 20 or 30 machine guns allocated to each regiment, and the combat effectiveness was greatly improved.

It can be said that after the Zunyi Campaign, the troops of the Central Red Army were now strong and their morale was high, and apart from the lack of aircraft and heavy artillery, other standard weapons were no worse than those of the Central Army of the Kuomintang.

As for Zhang Cheng's Shao Zong, not to mention, the weapons and equipment are still the first in the whole army, and this time the Shao Zong replenished a batch of lost guns and ammunition, and handed over all other captured weapons to the central government, which was once again praised by the heads of various departments.

After the Central Army's Wu Qiwei column was severely attacked by the Red Army, Chang Kaishen hurriedly flew from Hankou to Chongqing on March 2, 1935, intending to personally plan a new siege plan to prevent the Red Army from crossing the Wujiang River eastward.

On 5 March, after discovering that the Red Army had the intention of moving westward, Chang Kaishen studied the tactics of the Fifth Encirclement and Suppression War in an attempt to reproduce the victory of the Fifth Encirclement and Suppression War with the tactics of fortress doctrine and key offensives, compressing the space of the Red Army, and attacking the Sichuan Army from the north and south, in a vain attempt to wipe out the Red Army in Zunyi, Yaxi, and other narrow areas.

In order to realize this strategic plan, Chang Kaishen repeatedly sent telegrams to Xue Yue and Liu Xiang, asking them to carry out the order to recover Zunyi.

Subsequently, Chang Kaishen made a series of offensive deployments:

ordered 3 brigades of the Sichuan Army to attack from Tongzi to the Zunyi area;

The two newly transferred divisions of Shangguan Yunxiang advanced from Chongqing to the Songkan and Xinzhan areas to support the Sichuan army's attack on Zunyi;

The main force of the second column, 3 divisions, advanced to the Renhuai and Lubanchang areas;

The third column advanced to the Dading and Qianxi areas to prevent blockage;

The first part of the fourth column was assembled in Jinsha, Tucheng and other places to prevent our army from developing westward;

The four divisions of the first column were located on the south bank of the Wujiang River and fought in response to other columns.

In addition, Chang Kaishen also ordered the 53rd Division to advance from Zhenyuan to Shihu, and three divisions of the Hunan Army to build forts along the east bank of the Wujiang River to prevent our army from advancing eastward.

As everyone knows, all Chang Kaishen's troop movements fell into the eyes of the Second Bureau of the Red Army Military Commission.

In response to Chang Kaishen's transfer of the ministry, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission took corresponding countermeasures:

The Red Ninth Army was left to pin down the enemy on the line from Tongzi to Zunyi;

The main force of the Central Red Army, the International Column of the Young Communist Party, the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Army Corps of the Red Army, marched westward from the Zunyi area to Lakan and Changganshan to seek and annihilate the second column of the Central Army.

The second column was the old opponent of the young column, Zhou Hunyuan's column, and because two of its divisions had emerged, the main force of the Red Army was in full array and ready to attack him.

But for some reason, Zhou Hunyuan's column suddenly retracted its outstretched head, and the two divisions immediately shrank up and built fortifications and pillboxes in the area of Changgan Mountain.

It turned out that Chang Kaishen had already sensed that the strength of the Red Army was far stronger than all that he had deduced and reconnoitred.

Therefore, he immediately notified all the front-line departments with a special telegram code, and strictly forbade them to attack lightly.

At the same time, Chang Kaishen had already sensed the shortage of troops for encirclement and suppression, and was determined to transfer two more divisions of troops to Guizhou to help.

After some careful consideration, he judged that Chang Kaishen was most likely spying on the Red Army's next move, and if the Red Army made a move too early, it was likely to expose the Red Army's intentions.

Therefore, the commander decided to brake statically. When the enemy made a move to close the encirclement and the encirclement had not yet been closed, he suddenly took action to quickly pass through the cracks of the enemy, so that the enemy's pocket was empty, and he got rid of the situation of being surrounded and suppressed by Chang Kaishen.

The commander-in-chief's idea was unanimously agreed upon.

As a result, the Military Commission issued an order for all units of the Red Army to rest in place and wait for an opportunity to act.