The tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, the civil war is not something that Zhang Cheng can stop if he doesn't want to fight, Chang Kaishen is determined to eliminate the Workers' and Peasants' Party and the Red Army, if Zhang Cheng wants not to be wiped out, he still has to take up arms and continue to fight Chang Kaishen to the end. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the Kuomintang army did not destroy the Red 23rd Division, it also found that the defensive positions of friendly and neighboring troops on the left and right flanks of the Young Communist Division were weak underbelly, so they concentrated their forces to storm the positions on both flanks.

In the face of the repeated attacks of the six divisions of the Central Army of the People's Party, it is a miracle that the Red 21st Division and the Red 23rd Division, friendly and neighboring troops on both sides, have supported it to this day.

Both divisions fell into a situation of running out of ammunition and food, and their positions were broken through several times, and they were snatched back by flesh and blood, and the casualties were extremely heavy in such a cruel war of attrition, even if the Young Communist Division supported a batch of weapons and ammunition in time, I am afraid that it would no longer be able to support it. Once the positions on both sides of the Young Communist Division collapse, the Young Communist Division will also be in a desperate situation.

After analyzing and assessing the current situation, Zhang Cheng and the comrades of the division's party committee unified their thinking, agreed to Zhang Cheng's proposal, and while doing their best to collect grain and grass and baggage, they secretly ordered the whole division to be ready to retreat at any time and be prepared for any danger, so as not to be caught off guard when the incident was imminent. On the one hand, the proposal of the Party Committee of the Young Communist Division was quickly reported to the headquarters of the Red First Army: It was suggested that the troops should take the initiative to abandon the General's Palace, Qiujiakou and other places, and the troops should immediately withdraw from their positions and move to the direction of Jianning in the Central Soviet Region, so as to preserve their vital forces so that they could fight again in the future.

After conscientiously studying the opinions of the Young Communist Division, the General Headquarters deeply felt that the crisis was imminent, so it made a resolute decision: It ordered all units of the Red Army to withdraw from their positions one by one during the night, alternate cover, retreat into the victory pass in an orderly manner, and move in the direction of Jianning, and immediately report the decision of the General Headquarters to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission for instructions.

This decision was soon telegraphed back by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission: it was agreed to withdraw the troops outside the Guanwai to the area west of Jianning, defend Jianning, and ensure that Jianning would not be lost again.

Zhang Cheng later heard that General Political Commissar Zhou and Commander-in-Chief Zhu slapped the table with the leaders of the Soviet faction for the reply of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and the quarrel was extremely fierce, and the two sides refused to give in to each other.

After the Young Communist Division withdrew from its position, it took the initiative to act as a rearguard unit to cover the transfer of the 20th, 21st, and 23rd Red Divisions and local troops. Since the Young Communist Division had already made a name for itself, the Kuomintang army did not dare to act rashly, so it could only follow behind and be cautious.

On 20 May, a total of 15 divisions of Wei Lihuang and Jiang Dingwen were combined into one group, and then they were divided into three armies, and marched side by side, pursuing the Red Army units in turn.

Zhang Cheng originally wanted to take advantage of the enemy's pursuit to seize a few troops who were greedy for merit and rush forward, and quickly fight and destroy them in a mobile war. However, the enemy army learned the lessons of the troops that had been wiped out by our Young Communist Division in the past, and refused to be fooled, and Zhang Cheng's plans fell through one by one.

As a result, Zhang Cheng had no choice but to honestly lead the Young Communist Division to quickly withdraw to the predetermined location, build fortifications and pillboxes, and prepare to fight the enemy on the Eastern Front again.

At this time, Jianning was already in the middle of the attack of the Kuomintang East and North Route Army, and the main forces of the Red Army, such as the Red Third, Red Fifth, and Red Seventh Army Corps, as well as the local troops, had been fighting bloody battles with the Kuomintang North Route Army for several months, and they were almost about to enter a situation where they ran out of ammunition and food, and the supply of troops was extremely difficult, and the people in the Soviet area could not keep up with the consumption of the troops in successive battles. At present, it has retreated to the vicinity of Jianning, and the situation is very critical.

The Kuomintang East Route Advance Army was only 50 miles away from Jianning, and once the Kuomintang and the two major armies joined forces, it would be a great disaster for the Red Army.

The Kuomintang has a total of 30 divisions and more than 300,000 elite troops, with excellent weapons, sufficient food and grass, and has also purchased a large number of planes and heavy artillery from the United States and Germany to help in the war.

The 3rd, 5th, and 7th Army Corps of the Red Army, plus the Young Communist Division, were only 50,000 or 60,000 people, and their weapons and equipment were far inferior to those of the First Army, and there was a shortage of food.

In the spirit of being highly responsible for the Chinese revolution, Mr. Peng made a formal proposal to the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Revolution to analyze the current crisis in which the Red Army is in and demanded that he take the initiative to abandon the Jianning line and withdraw to the hinterland of the Central Soviet Region, so as to attract the enemy to drive straight in, and then use the home advantage to destroy the enemy in the mobile warfare, and vigorously carry out guerrilla warfare to plunge the enemy into the vast sea of people's war.

However, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission replied: categorically rejected the correct opinion of Mr. Peng, resolutely disagreed with the abandonment of Jianning, and called on all officers and men of the Red Army to defend Jianning and every inch of land in the Central Soviet Region with their blood and lives. In the end, he criticized Mr. Peng very harshly, believing that his suggestion was "escapism" in the new situation of the revolutionary war.

Mr. Peng, who was so angry with his criticism, was furious, but he had no choice but to strictly implement the orders of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission.

It was under the completely erroneous military command of the Soviet leaders that the commanders and fighters of the Red Army had to do their utmost to fight a hard, dumb, and attrition battle against the enemy.

In just one week, several important fortifications of the Red Army were successively breached by the Kuomintang army, and tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers were killed or wounded. On May 16, the KMT's East Route Army and North Route Army, with the cooperation of the Air Force, captured Jianning. At the same time, the Southern Route Army, dominated by the Cantonese Army, also occupied the Yunmenling Fortress in early May.

In the end, forced by the situation, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission had to order the withdrawal of most of the main forces of the Red Army, including the Third Army Corps and the Fifth Army Corps, to the hinterland of the Soviet area, leaving the Seventh Army Corps and the International Division of the Young Communist Party to carry out blocking operations in the area north of Gulonggang, and organizing a large number of local troops to block the offensive of the Kuomintang Army.

Suddenly receiving the heavy task of blocking the enemy and covering the retreat of the main force, the Young Communist Division suddenly felt a heavy responsibility, but fortunately, Zhang Cheng had already prepared, so that the Red Fifth Army Corps under the cover of the Young Communist Division could safely withdraw to the hinterland of the Soviet area.

During the whole month of continuous operations, the Young Communist Division destroyed more than 20,000 enemies and suffered nearly 3,000 casualties, including 12 battalion and regimental cadres and one brigade-level cadre.

In late July, the International Division of the Young Communist Party was ordered to fortify the area around Xihuafeng in front of Yiqian in the south of Guangchang. At dawn on August 28, four enemy divisions, under the cover of more than 20 aircraft and 100 artillery pieces, launched an all-out attack on the positions of the Young Communist Division.

In order to block the enemy's southward advance and cover the strategic transfer of the central organs and the Red Army, the main force of the central government, the Central Military Commission ordered the Third Army Corps of the Red Army and the "International Division of the Young Communist Party" to deploy defenses on the Tongjiang and Komatsu lines in the north of Shicheng to block the enemy's advance.