After the Hadapu meeting ended, the commander specially invited Zhang Cheng to his residence for dinner. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAfter dinner, the two talked again with candlelight.

The commander said with a sigh: "After nearly a year of displacement, we are about to settle in northern Shaanxi. Zhang Cheng, you have made great progress in the past two years, I will test you, after arriving in northern Shaanxi, how should we develop the base area? ”

Zhang Cheng already had an idea about this question, and while recalling the development of the base areas in northern Shaanxi in later generations, he analyzed and thought about it in light of the current actual situation, and only replied cautiously for a long time: "Commander, the area around northern Shaanxi belongs to the Loess Plateau, and people have been cultivating this land for thousands of years, and the land has long been overwhelmed, the population is relatively sparse, the economy is not developed, and the environment can be called bad.

However, this barren land is the only hot land that our Red Army can control, and even if the environment is harsh, we still have to vigorously develop northern Shaanxi. Therefore, my opinion is to take northern Shaanxi as the center, expand and radiate in all directions, and launch a limited struggle against the surrounding warlords, asking them for land and food. ”

Then Zhang Cheng pointed to the map on the table and continued: "We can develop to the southwest, the southwest direction of northern Shaanxi is Qingyang, Gannan, this area is rich in resources and densely populated, which can temporarily solve the problem of food and soldiers of our army, and the defense of the Kuomintang is also relatively weak.

In addition, we can also go all the way west and attack Lanzhou in Ningxia, so that our Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo base area can be expanded and our army can gain strategic depth.

At the same time, we can also attack the Yulin area of Shaanxi Province to the north, and the northern part of the Yulin area is Mongolia, which is controlled by the Soviet Union. To the east, the Northeast region controlled by the Japanese devils, and the capture of Yulin was to establish a bridgehead for the future counterattack on the Northeast.

In this way, we will be able to form a triangular Soviet base area with northern Shaanxi as the center and Qingyang and Yulin as strongholds, so that no matter which of our strongholds the enemy attacks, the Red Army in the other two areas can quickly support us, forming a three-in-one defense system.

In addition, I think that Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army and Yang Hucheng's Northwest Army should be used to fight at the same time, especially Zhang Xueliang himself, which is the object we can actively strive for.

Zhang Xueliang inherited Zhang Zuolin's huge family property, but he lost the Northeast because he obeyed Chang Kaishen's order not to resist, and he also formed a grudge with the Japanese to kill his father.

This person is not keen on fighting a civil war, and his intention is to lead the Northeast Army back to the Northeast, we can first beat him up and make him realize that the Red Army is not something he can defeat, and then negotiate with him secretly to support him in leading the Northeast Army back to his hometown in the Northeast, so as to achieve the goal of unanimously resisting Japan with the outside world.

Commander, that's all I have for now, and there are still some things that are a little immature, and I ask you to criticize and correct them a lot. ”

The commander was very happy to hear Zhang Cheng's opinion, and he praised with satisfaction: "The idea is very good! It seems that you have made great progress and have lived up to my expectations of you, your suggestions are very insightful and operational, and I and the Central Committee will carefully consider your opinions. ”

Zhang Cheng came up with some effective methods in later generations and made suggestions to the commander-in-chief, who greatly appreciated them, and the two talked happily until dawn.

On July 15, after resting for more than 10 days, the Red Army continued its march to northern Shaanxi on two routes to Hadapu.

According to the order of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, the Red Army was divided into two armies, the left and the right, and the left army was composed of the Shao Column, the Red Third Army Corps, and the Central Column, passing through Wushan, Tongwei, Guyuan and other areas, crossing Liupan Mountain, and then advancing to the Yan'an area in the northeast.

The Right Route Army, composed of the Red 1st and 5th Army Corps, will pass through Gangu and Qin'an to make a situation of pressing Tianshui and directly approaching Xi'an, and then swing a shot, force the Weihe River, and go straight to Qingyang.

This is also the suggestion that Zhang Cheng made to the commander during the night talk, that is, to occupy and control the Qingyang area, and it is obvious that the commander and the central government agreed with Zhang Cheng's opinion after studying.

However, the central government did not give the task of capturing Qingyang to Shaozong, but to the First Army Corps, which had been actively asking for battle. Since the Central Army of the Kuomintang did not have much strength in the northwest, Chang Kaishen had no choice but to order Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army to be responsible for pursuing and suppressing the Red Army.

Zhang Cheng continued to "replenish blood" for the Central Red Army, and the Red First Army at this time was much stronger than in the original history, with a strength of 20,000 troops. It is not a big problem for them to deal with the Northeast Army, which has no intention of fighting a civil war, and with the help of the Fifth Army Corps of 12,000 people, it will be more stable.

Under the cover of the Right Route Army, the Left Route Army, led by Shao Zong, successfully crossed the Wei River on July 22, and then crossed the last high mountain on the Long March, 116 Pan Mountain.

Zhang Cheng was fortunate to be at the pass on the top of Liupan Mountain, and witnessed the commander being infected by the magnificent scene of the sky high and the clouds on Liupan Mountain in front of him, and the red flag fluttering in the west wind.

The sky is high and the clouds are light, and the geese flying in the south are broken.

If you don't get to the Great Wall, you are not a hero, and you can only travel 20,000 yuan.

On the peak of Liupan Mountain, the red flag is sweeping the west wind, and today the long tassel is in hand, when to tie up the dragon.

When all the officers and men of the Left Route Army heard this, their morale was greatly boosted, and everyone was in high spirits, as if they had given birth to endless strength.

As soon as Shaozong descended Liupan Mountain, he encountered a joint interception by Ma Hongbin's troops and Deng Baoshan's troops, and Zhang Cheng was unrelenting, and immediately commanded the first and third divisions to annihilate all the two regiments of the enemy in the way.

Shaozong was unstoppable, and then defeated a division of the 57th Army in Huanxian and took Huanxian lightly. After waiting for the main force to follow up in Huanxian, it advanced northward again, crossed the border between Gan Province and Shaanxi Province, and finally entered the territory of Shaanxi Province.

At dusk the next day, the team lined up in a neat column, under the curious gaze of the people along the way, clothed in brilliant glow, and marched into a famous town in later generations, Wuqi Town.

Since then, this inconspicuous northwest town has witnessed the end of a period of history that shocked the world with the Red Army, and Wuqi Town will also be recorded in the history of the Chinese Revolution as the end point of this history. At the same time, it also announced the end of the Long March of the First Army.

At ten o'clock in the morning of July 25, 1935, the commander followed the central column to Wuqi Town.

Wu Qizhen is said to have been named after the garrison of Wu Qitun, the general of Wei during the Warring States Period. Today, the Long March of the Central Red Army led by the commander has reached northern Shaanxi, and Wuqi Town has become the foothold of the Long March and will be famous at home and abroad.

At the entrance of the village, under the leadership of Secretary Wu Qizhen, more than 1,000 people temporarily organized by Zhangcheng and the underground party of Shaanxi Province beat gongs, beat drums, danced red ribbons, and twisted Yangge to warmly welcome the arrival of the Central Red Army.

Seeing that the people were clamoring for gongs and drums and welcoming the arrival of the Red Army, all the officers and men of the Red Army were all smiling, and some soldiers even wept with joy, giving them a sense of going home.

The red flags in the sky, the banners and slogans of the trees, the houses, and the familiar door signs of the Soviet government all announced that they had finally returned home after 20,000 miles in a year.

After a while, the vanguard troops who had already received a notice from the Central Red Army to meet Xu Haidong also arrived at Wuqi Town. When the two armies met, everyone warmly hugged each other like relatives, desperately waving red flags, cheering, shouting, and jumping with joy!

Many soldiers had tears in their eyes, hugging their Red Army comrades-in-arms and crying, and even Zhang Cheng, who had always been calm, was moved speechlessly and choked up at that scene.

At two o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the Party Central Committee convened a meeting of all the cadres of the Red Army in Wuqi Town.

When the commander-in-chief, deputy commander Zhou, Zhang Luofu, Bo Gu, Mr. Peng and other leaders bathed and changed their clothes, wore brand-new gray military uniforms, and walked into the venue with a smile on their faces, the audience suddenly burst into continuous warm applause.

The commander-in-chief calmly stepped onto the podium and, in his thick Xiangtan accent, began a great speech that went down in history: "The Long March is the first time in history, the Long March is a manifesto, the Long March is a propaganda team, and the Long March is a seeding machine.

Since Pangu opened the world, the three emperors and five emperors to the present, has there ever been a long march like ours in history? In the middle of the 10 months, dozens of planes in the sky reconnoitred and bombed every day, and hundreds of thousands of troops underground surrounded and intercepted them, encountering untold difficulties and dangers on the road.

But we drove each person's two feet, and drove more than 20,000 miles, crisscrossing eleven provinces. Has there ever been a long march like ours in history? No, never.

The Long March was also a manifesto, which declared to the whole world that the Red Army was a heroic hero, and that the imperialists and their lackeys Chang Kaishen and others were completely useless. The Long March declared the bankruptcy of imperialism and Chang Kaishen's pursuit and interception.

The Long March is also a propaganda team. It declared to some 20,000 people in eleven provinces that only the path of the Red Army was the way to liberate them. If this is not enough, how can the broad masses of the people know so quickly that there is such a great truth as the Red Army in the world?

The Long March is another seeder. It has spread many seeds in eleven provinces, germinating, growing leaves, flowering, bearing fruit, and in the future there will be a harvest.

All in all, the Long March ended with our victory and the enemy's defeat. Who made the Long March victorious? It was the Workers' and Peasants' Party. Without the Workers' and Peasants' Party, such a long march could not have been conceived.

The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Party, its leading organs, its cadres, and its party members are not afraid of any hardships and hardships.

Now that the Central Red Army is again with the Red Army and the people of northern Shaanxi, we must shoulder more arduous tasks, and we must better unite together in the future to jointly complete the Chinese revolution! We will definitely be able to complete the Chinese revolution! ”

The commander's firm and heroic voice floated over Wuqi Town, over the loess slopes, through the northwest land, and echoed in the sky over China!