When the order for the Eastern Expedition reached the Shao Zong, Zhang Cheng and the Party Committee of the column intensively discussed the campaign plan for crossing the river and the Eastern Expedition in accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the commander-in-chief and the Central Revolutionary Military Commission. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the choice of strategic goals and to what extent, Zhang Cheng has his own plans in mind.

According to intelligence, although Yan Laoxi is named the commander of the 100,000 Jin Sui Army, Fu Zuoyi, as the chairman of Suiyuan, has always listened to Yan Laoxi's tunes and did not listen to the announcement, plus the Jin Sui Army also has to garrison Jin and Sui, and its mobile troops are only 50,000, and our army has a slight advantage in terms of strength.

If Zhang Cheng made up his mind to eliminate Yan Laoxi and take Taiyuan, he would still have a great deal of confidence with Shaozong's strength, but Zhang Cheng, as a historical traveler, did not dare to guarantee whether the "Xi'an Incident" would go on as scheduled after greatly changing history.

If Yicheng succeeds in killing and kills Yan Laoxi, it will cause Zhang Hanqing and Yang Hucheng to be jealous and vigilant, and if they support Chang Kaishen instead, it will be worth the loss.

In the end, after everyone's full discussion and study, the party committee of the column decided to fight the battle until Luliang Mountain. As long as we take Luliang Mountain, our army can peep into Taiyuan when it advances, and it can enter the Luliang Mountain area to fight guerrillas.

The most important thing is that in the future, on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, our army can open up a passage to the front line of resistance against Japan in North China, and use Luliang Mountain as an advance base to always threaten the Japanese army that will invade Jin Province in the future and develop an anti-Japanese base behind enemy lines.

After the party committee of the Shaozong submitted the strategic deployment to the Military Commission, it made peace with the commander-in-chief's strategy of capturing Luliangshan, and soon approved the plan of the Shaozong, and agreed that the left and right armies would join Luliangshan to force Yan Laoxi to submit.

At the same time that the Red Army was fighting hard and preparing to die, Yan Laoxi on the east bank of the Yellow River was in a panic.

From the first day when the Central Red Army entered northern Shaanxi, Yan Laoxi remembered his history of anti-work, and expected that the Red Army would sooner or later cross the Yellow River eastward and come to crusade against him.

He ordered the Jin army to tightly seal the Yellow River. Along the Yellow River, which stretches from Hequ and Baode in the north to Yonghe and Daning in the south for nearly a thousand miles, more than 1,000 hidden forts have been built, each bunker is stationed in one or two classes, and more than one platoon is stationed at important ferries.

The bunkers built by the Jin army are very particular, the distance between the bunkers is subject to the firepower that can cross each other, and the total strength of the first line of river defense is as much as four independent brigades, which are under the unified command of Sun Chu, the commander of the Zhengtai Road Protection Army.

Bordering on the east bank of the Yellow River, important towns such as Sanjiao, Mokou, Mengmen, Jundu, Zhongyang, Shilou and other places, the Jin army also stationed heavy troops, forming a second line of defense to block the Red Army's development in depth, and can support all ferries along the river at any time.

In order to make up for the loopholes in the first and second lines of defense, the Jin army relied on the mountain passes in the Luliang Mountains and dispatched two independent brigades to garrison Guanshang Village in Zhongyang County and Shuitou Town in Xi County, forming a third line of defense.

At the same time, Yan Laoxi knew that although the Yellow River was a moat blocking the Red Army's eastward crusade, the defense line was too long to accurately guess where the Red Army would cross the river.

In this way, the Jin army was fortified everywhere, but it was weak everywhere, not only wasting the already small number of troops, but also unable to concentrate forces to strike at the Red Army, and it was simply unable to prevent the Red Army from crossing the Yellow River eastward.

In order to make up for the lack of strength of the main force and deter the local people, Yan Laoxi and his staff thought about it and finally came up with a clever plan.

He formally ordered the whole province to implement the preventive measures of "political defense work" and "people's defense work," and set up more than a dozen local armed forces -- "defense work and defense regiments" -- in each county along the river.

Relying on the terrain, Yan Laoxi divided the local armed forces into six defense areas, and severely suppressed the local people and revolutionaries who sympathized with the anti-Japanese resistance, resulting in the brutal murder of many innocent people and small traders and peddlers who went to Jin Province to visit relatives and friends. In just over a dozen days, more than 100 people were killed in the counties along the river in western Shanxi.

However, Yan Laoxi's perverse actions not only did not frighten the people of Jin Province, who had a long tradition of revolution, but instead aroused the strong desire of the people of Jin Province to hope that the Red Army would cross the Yellow River east to overthrow Yan Laoxi's bloody rule.

Under the leadership and propaganda of the underground organization of the Workers' and Peasants' Party of Jin Province, many people risked their lives to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, transmit intelligence to the Red Army, transport guns and ammunition, and put up slogans and leaflets. Some hot-blooded youths even secretly crossed the Yellow River to join the Red Army.

In addition, Yan Laoxi knew that it was impossible to fortify the Red Army everywhere, so he thought of taking advantage of the dangers of the mountains and rivers in Jin Province to arrange a pocket array, invite you into the urn, lure or drive the Red Army into the pocket array, gather and encircle and annihilate.

According to Yan Laoxi's idea, the Jin army immediately adjusted the summer of the combat department, with Yang Aiyuan, commander of the 34th Army, as the commander-in-chief, and transferred the main force of the Jin army to the mountainous areas around Fenyang, Xiaoyi, and Lingshi, preparing to give the Red Army an urn to catch turtles.

He transferred the main force of the Jin army to the mountainous area, and the defensive strength of the Yellow River crossing was weakened by half, and later our army easily crossed the Yellow River moat.

On February 17, 1936, the commander-in-chief issued the Declaration of the Eastern Crusade, and the Red Army entered a state of imminent war. After receiving a call from the central authorities, Zhang Cheng immediately ordered the whole army to end the training and rush to the crossing of the Yellow River, ready to go.

At 6 o'clock in the evening of 18 February, the Young Column held a pre-war meeting of cadres at and above the regimental level to study the operational arrangements for the Eastern Expedition. After Chief of Staff Zhang Fengming briefed the participating cadres on the enemy situation, the political commissar then emphasized the importance of our army's Eastern Crusade, and finally Zhang Cheng made combat arrangements:

The troops of the young column participating in the battle crossed the river in two routes, the northern route led by the political commissar to the third division from the ferry near Jiaxian County to the east to attract the Jin army's troops, and the southern route led by Zhang Cheng led the first division and the combat troops directly under the column to Suide in the south, forcibly crossed the Yellow River from the ditch, and launched a surprise attack on the Jin army.

In conclusion, Zhang Cheng pointed out: The Eastern Expedition was a battle of great importance, and it was a battle personally commanded by the commander-in-chief. Therefore, we must continue to be brave and tenacious, mobile and flexible in our tactical characteristics, make further meritorious contributions in this Eastern Expedition campaign, defend our army's honor of being invincible and invincible, and give a satisfactory answer to the commander-in-chief and the party Central Committee.

On February 20, the commander-in-chief officially issued an order to cross the river, ordering all river-crossing commandos: "The vanguard is absolutely hidden, and the night is smuggling." With resolute and agile speed, we will take the enemy's fort, cut the wires, and control the forward position and the flank cover position, so as to ensure that the follow-up troops will be in a favorable position to cross the river and fight to aid the enemy. When the smuggling was discovered, it was immediately changed to forced crossing. “

At 7 o'clock that night, the political commissar led the third division to take the lead in rushing to cross the Yellow River from the Jiaxian ferry, because the main force of the Jin army was transferred to the mountains near Luliang to ambush our army, the Jiaxian ferry was unprecedentedly weak, and the political commissar led the third division to eliminate a garrison company and successfully crossed the Yellow River.

When the news came out, the Jin army was transferred to Jiaxian to block the third division, Suide's garrison brigade also rushed to Jiaxian to reinforce, and Zhang Cheng took advantage of the situation to cross the Yellow River from the ditch to the east.