At 3 p.m. on 2 December, all the officers and men of the Young Communist Division arrived at the pre-determined camp, and all of them strictly observed the discipline of the Red Army and did not disturb the local people in the slightest. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Seeing that the local people were simple and the common people were living in harmony with the Red Army, Zhang Cheng discussed with the political commissar and decided to rest here for a day tomorrow and set off again the day after tomorrow.

In the past month, the troops have either marched or fought, and the physical strength of the soldiers of the Young Communist Division and the majority of the troops is under the age of 18 is very overdrawn.

Although a day's rest here delayed catching up with the footsteps of the Central Red Army, it was also a helpless move. In addition, rest and recuperation also have the following functions: first, to restore the physical fitness of the troops; the second is to count the casualties and attrition of the troops; the third is to provide timely treatment to the wounded; the fourth is to wait for the soldiers who have fallen behind, so that they can catch up with the large army; Fifth, it is necessary to supplement the attrition of combat troops; Sixth, it is necessary to strengthen the ideological work and propaganda and agitation work of the soldiers, so that the troops can still maintain firm faith and strong morale in a difficult environment. Seventh, it is necessary to help the local people, help them dig wells and repair canals, and lay a good mass foundation for the Workers' and Peasants' Party to liberate the local areas in the future.

To this end, Zhang Cheng convened the commanders of various departments to hold an enlarged meeting of the division headquarters to sum up the various problems since the Long March and find effective solutions.

At the meeting, the political commissar once again made an important mobilization, and he expounded in detail the great significance of the strategic shift of the Central Red Army, and clearly pointed out that in this Xiangjiang Campaign, although the main force of the Red Army suffered great losses, our heroic Red Army broke through the encirclement and interception of the 500,000-strong army of the Kuomintang reactionaries, crossed the Xiangjiang River victoriously, and broke Chang Kaishen's conspiracy to completely annihilate our Central Red Army on both sides of the Xiangjiang River, which shows that our Red Army is invincible.

In particular, he pointed out that our Young Communist Division not only effectively broke through the joint encirclement and suppression of the Central Army and the Gui Army, but also successfully crossed the Xiang River, and did not suffer major losses, but continued to grow our ranks stronger and stronger through the campaign of heart-to-heart talks and grievances. We are about to go to a new place to open up a new revolutionary base area, and then we will continue to accumulate strength, and eventually we will overthrow Chang Kaishen's reactionary rule, eliminate the Japanese devils, and build an unprecedentedly powerful new China.

The peculiar contagion of the political commissar deeply encouraged everyone present, and the reluctance to give up the suffering of the Soviet area, and the fatigue of the endless march and war for several days were swept away under the encouragement of the political commissar, and all the generals recovered their good mental outlook.

He called on commanders at all levels of the Red Army and every member of the Workers' and Peasants' Party to set an example at this critical moment, to strengthen their faith at all times, to always have confidence in victory, to lead their troops well, and to help each other among comrades and comrades-in-arms to overcome all difficulties on the road of the Long March and to usher in a new great victory.

Finally, Feng Wenbin mentioned the issue of traveling through Gui Province and passing through sensitive areas such as ethnic minorities. He particularly stressed the need for the troops to strictly abide by the workers' and peasants' party's national policy and respect the customs and habits of minority nationalities, and pointed out that our Red Army is both a task force and a propaganda team, and that it implements a policy of propaganda and assistance to the local people.

Moreover, he stressed that every officer and soldier of the Red Army must strictly implement the "Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention," that all violations of discipline should be dealt with sternly, and that the military and political leaders of all departments should convey the national policy and discipline requirements of our Red Army to every Red Army soldier.

Then, Zhang Cheng summed up the specific problems of the troops, and put forward various effective methods for the various problems that arose during the Long March.

Amid warm applause, the enlarged meeting of the division headquarters of the Young Communist Division came to a successful conclusion.

Located in the northeastern part of Gui Province, Resource County is a county inhabited by ethnic minorities with beautiful scenery. As the name suggests, the county is rich in land resources, forest resources, medicinal materials, native products and mineral resources.

And Zhang Cheng is interested in the rich medicinal materials in the resource county. Resources county since ancient times has the "natural medicine storehouse" said, there are many varieties of Chinese herbal medicines, good quality, more than 200 kinds of medicinal plants, among which the bulk of medicinal materials are Eucommia, Phellodendron chinensis, Magnolia officinalis, Gastrodia, Poria cocos, honeysuckle, Tongcao, Yuzhu, Xuan, Qianhu, Huanggui, White Peony, Atractylodes, Yuanhu, Goiteng, Shifu, Shouwu, Ligustrum, Banlan root, gallnut, Platycodon, Huaishan and so on more than 20 kinds, is the base of medicinal materials in Gui Province.

At six o'clock in the morning of the next day, when the sky was bright, Zhang Cheng led the forward troops, stepping on the faint light of dawn, and set off quietly. Winter in the mountainous areas of northeastern Guangxi is not as desolate as in the north, green is still the mainstream of this area, the mountains and forests are verdant, the streams are clear, and even the air is fragrant.

The soldiers walked on the turquoise mountain road, their steps were brisk, and everyone's eyes flashed with eager light, showing the strong desire of the Young Communist Division to fight.

At noon, Zhang Cheng led his troops to Xiumu Village, which was seven or eight miles away from the county seat of the resource. He immediately ordered the troops to strictly seal the news, and then sent Wang Dabiao, the commander of the reconnaissance company, to lead a few soldiers to go to the county town to reconnoiter disguised as local villagers, and the rest of the units were on covert and waiting.

At half past one in the afternoon, Wang Dabiao and the others came back and also arrested a platoon commander of the Longyuan County Security Regiment. Through interrogation, Zhang Cheng soon learned the internal information of the county: there are more than 20,000 residents in the resource county, and the ethnic composition of the residents is relatively complex, mainly the three major ethnic minorities of Miao, Yao, and Zhuang, as well as a small number of Han people. The county seat is located in the border area of Hunan and Guangxi, bordering the passage county of Hunan Province, is a drug distribution base, the street is full of pharmacies, very lively and prosperous, and the economy is relatively developed.

There are two gates in the county seat, the city wall is quite tall, and there is a county security regiment stationed inside, about 1,000 people, and each gate is guarded by a company of the security regiment. Usually the guards were extremely loose, but it was said that the Red Army was coming, and it was necessary to fight the local tyrants and divide the land, and they also wanted to be communists, and the big families in the city were frightened and strengthened their sentry posts.

After the situation was clarified, it was found that there was no strong army in the resource county, which was undoubtedly good news for the Young Communist Division. Therefore, Zhang Cheng immediately decided to fight a quick battle, broke through the city gate head-on with mortars, and took the resource county seat in one fell swoop with lightning speed.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the combat troops of the Young Communist Division had already taken the resource county, there was nothing to say about the battle process, the artillery company of the Young Communist Division only ran twice, and the defenders, who had never seen a big battle, raised the white flag and surrendered, and the troops successfully attacked the west gate, and then a large number of soldiers swarmed up, and it didn't take long for the city to burst out with sporadic gunfire. Within ten minutes, the gunfire had subsided.

Surrounded by a large number of guards, Zhang Cheng calmly entered the resource county all the way. At this time, the Young Communist Division had completely controlled the situation in the resource county. Due to the swift victory of our troops and the ferocity of the attack, the enemy was quickly taken prisoner before he had time to react. As a result, there was not much damage to the interior of the county, and calm quickly returned to the market.