After the Red Army crossed the Yangtze River to the north, it really enabled the Red Army to seize the strategic initiative, throwing the hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops south of the Yangtze River, and getting rid of the situation in which our army had been encircled, suppressed, and intercepted since the Long March. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Relying on his superb military command art, the commander calmly mobilized the posture of both the enemy and us, and the four crossings of Chishui were even more miraculous.

In the later American journalist Harrison Salisbury's "The Long March: The Unheard Story", he described that the Long March was unparalleled, and the four crossings of the Chishui River were "the most glorious and magical chapter in the history of the Long March".

In the same way, the commander also cited it as the most proud stroke of his life.

On the day when the soldiers were resting, the Central Political and Metallurgical Bureau held a brief meeting in a small building to study and decide on the next direction of our army.

At this time, the commander-in-chief was already in mind, and the final destination of the Central Red Army's Long March was very clear under Zhang Cheng's secret prompting.

Zhang Cheng's special combat team members also sent back the news confirming that there was a Red Army in northern Shaanxi, and the commander actually had a clear plan in his heart for going north to northern Shaanxi.

However, the question now is how to convince the other comrades, most of whom are southerners, and it is extremely unrealistic to want to take them to the barren and impoverished northern Shaanxi in one step, and it is difficult to persuade the comrades to obey their will.

Therefore, the commander-in-chief only threw out his first step of thinking, and he analyzed in detail the current situation between the enemy and us, and pointed out that the enemy's strength in the southwestern part of Sichuan is weak, and the vast and densely populated area and rich resources are very convenient for our army to rest and recuperate, and there can be a provisional Soviet government and replenishment of troops and materials.

Everyone agreed with the commander-in-chief's analysis, and southwestern Sichuan was closer to the base area of the Red Fourth Front Army, and as long as they went north, they could join forces with the Fourth Front Army.

An important resolution was also adopted at the meeting, that is, to send Comrade Chen Yun to the Soviet Union on behalf of the Central Committee of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Party to report to the Comintern on the actual situation of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Party, and to strive to win the Comintern's approval of the current leadership of the Central Committee of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Party.

At this time, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Party was far from growing into a full-fledged party, and many of the Central Committee's comrades quickly became central leaders after returning from studying in the Soviet Union.

They were also accustomed to obeying the command of the Comintern, and without the leadership of the Comintern, they felt very hesitant and unsteady.

Moreover, the Zunyi Conference convened by the Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party changed the leadership of the Party Central Committee and deprived the Comintern of its powers as foreign advisers.

Especially in the Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party today, there are actually a large number of cadres who blindly worship and superstitious the Soviet Union under the influence of the Soviet faction.

They always had a distrust of the spirit of the resolutions of the Zunyi Conference, which had been convened without the instructions of the Comintern.

It was only the commander's series of victories that temporarily suppressed these dissenting voices.

Therefore, it is very necessary for the current Party Central Committee to be recognized and supported by the Comintern as soon as possible, otherwise it will easily lead to a split between the two factions.

In addition, the party Central Committee also informed the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps and the Red Fourth Front Army of the news that the Central Red Army had successfully crossed the Yangtze River north, so as to obtain military cooperation and countermeasures from the two armies in the future.

As a matter of fact, today's Red Fourth Front Army is still very obedient to the command of the Party Central Committee.

In March 1935, in order to respond to the Central Red Army's northward crossing of the Yangtze River, and break the "Sichuan-Shaanxi Meeting" plan of the Kuomintang Army, and develop to the border of Sichuan and Gansu, the Red Fourth Front Army decided to concentrate the four armies and launch the Jialing River Campaign under the command of commander-in-chief Xu Xiangqian and political commissar Chen Changhao.

The Jialing River is upstream from the north of the southern county, and the canyon is rapid, and it is difficult to cross.

The west bank area from Guangyuan to the south was defended by 53 regiments of the 28th Army of the Sichuan warlord Deng Xihou and the 29th Army of Tian Songyao; The area on the east coast, except for Langzhong City, was controlled by the Red Army.

On March 28, the Red Fourth Front Army launched a river-crossing operation.

The first echelon quickly crossed the river by combining smuggling and forced crossing, annihilated one part of the enemy, and developed to the enemy's flanks and depth; The 2nd echelon also crossed the river and joined the battle.

By April 3, it captured Langzhong, Jiange, Nanfang, Zhaohua and Jianmen Pass, and annihilated more than 7 enemy regiments.

Subsequently, the Red Fourth Front Army surrounded Guangyuan with the main force of the 31st Army; With the first part of the 30th Army to Qingchuan, Pingwu delayed the south of Huzong to the south; The main force of the front army attacked the Jiangyou and Zitong areas.

On April 10, the Red Army surrounded Jiangyou and captured Zitong.

On the 14th and 15th, the Red Army concentrated 4 divisions in the area south of Jiangyou, defeated the enemy, annihilated 4 regiments of the enemy, and took advantage of the victory to capture Zhongba and Zhangming.

At the same time, the Red 30th Army conquered Qingchuan and Pingwu, and the Red 4th Army captured Beichuan City on the 21st, ending the battle victoriously.

After the Battle of Jialing River, the Red Fourth Front Army controlled the vast Soviet area stretching from the Jialing River in the east, to northern Sichuan in the west, Zitong in the south, and to the Sichuan-Gansu border in the north, spanning 300 miles.

The Red Fourth Front Army grew to 5 armies, 11 divisions, and 33 regiments, together with nearly 100,000 local troops, attracting hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops and creating favorable conditions for cooperating with the Central Red Army in moving north.

On 15 April, the news that the Central Red Army had successfully crossed the Yangtze River and was penetrating deep into the hinterland of Sichuan Province spread like a warm spring breeze throughout the entire Sichuan Province.

The dignitaries and nobles who had already been terrified by the Jialing River Battle of the Red Fourth Front Army were even worse, and their hearts were even more confused, and they felt that they could not live in fear.

A large number of dignitaries, wealthy and heavy businessmen have fled from Shudu, the country of abundance, and the tickets to the magic capital and Hong Kong have climbed to high prices, and Luoyang paper has become expensive for a while.

The whole country was shaken, and Chang Kaishen, who was so anxious that he was in Chongqing, sent three telegrams in succession to strictly order Liu Xiang that he must ensure the safety of Shudu and never allow the Red Army to get his hands on this country of abundance and abundant resources.

On April 17, the Central Red Army divided its troops into three routes and advanced to the southwest of Sichuan.

The young column returned to the main force of the central army, still serving as the heavy task of defending the central column, and went straight to the middle road, along the west bank of the Tuojiang River, and marched in the direction of Leshan and Ya'an.

The Shaozong took Li Yunlong's 1st Division as the vanguard, Zhou Weiguo's 3rd Division served as the rearguard, and Ding Wei's 2nd Division guarded the central column nearby.

The Central Red Army marched 80,000 to 90,000 people toward western Sichuan, but there were no powerful regular troops of the Sichuan Army along the way to intercept them, and some local militia groups saw the Red Army coming from a distance and immediately fled from the wind, making the Red Army's march unprecedentedly smooth.

Such an abnormal phenomenon also surprised Zhang Cheng, and he caught a security regiment commander for interrogation, and then realized that Liu Xiang was afraid that the Central Red Army would attack Shu, and all the regular troops of the Sichuan Army were transferred to the Shudu Plain for defense.

After Zhang Cheng understood, he was relieved, and it would be better if there was no obstruction from the Sichuan army.

In fact, Zhang Cheng didn't want to fight the civil war all the time, and he also wanted to retain more vitality for the all-out war of resistance in the future, especially the Sichuan army, the unit that contributed the most troops in the War of Resistance against Japan, Zhang Cheng still admired it very much in his heart. (To be continued.) )