At this time, the main force of the Central Red Army, which was heading all the way to the west, ruthlessly threw away a large number of "pots and jars" because the column of the Central Military Commission had learned the lessons of the Xiangjiang Campaign, and it was extremely easy to go into battle lightly, and it only took two days to enter the territory of Guizhou Province. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Guizhou Province is notoriously poor and poor, and most of the Red officers and men come from the rich Yangtze River valley, and when they see such barren land for the first time, they cannot help but be dumbfounded and feel greatly lost.

Guizhou Province is located in the "rugged" Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, where the average altitude is more than 1,000 meters, and cliffs and canyons can be seen everywhere, and the spirit is majestic, making people have a thrilling feeling. Since ancient times, there has been a proverb called "the sky has no three sunny days, the earth has no three feet flat, and people have no three cents of silver".

In the thirties of the twentieth century, in addition to the abundance of opium, Guizhou Province was undoubtedly one of the poor provinces in southwestern China. The poorest mountain people in Guizhou Province are called "Ganren", and Mr. Zhu's explanation for this title is: "Everything they have has has been completely drained." ”

The dry men who toiled through the cracks of the stones with primitive wooden ploughs were so poorly clothed that several women in the family had to take turns when they went out, because they often had only one set of clothes and trousers. The cadres were dull-eyed and lacklustre, and their only shelter was a hut built of thatch.

In stark contrast, the warlords and landlords of Guizhou Province were known for their profligacy and extravagance, hoarding large quantities of gold and silver, jewelry, opium, salt, and guns, and living in houses that were tall and ornate like fortified castles, with towering eaves with sharp corners like scimitars pointing into the dim sky.

Their armies were in the midst of internal wars, and their foreign wars were very humiliating. The soldiers were armed with rifles and smoking guns, and were known as "double robbers". These "double robbers" are extremely vicious in dealing with the "cadres" in the territory and do all kinds of evil. However, the ability to fight abroad is very low, and the warlords around Guizhou Province seem to be able to bully it once or twice.

Wang Jialie is a native of Tongzi, who has served as the chairman of Guizhou Province since 1932, and the reason why he can become the king of Guizhou Province is inseparable from Chang Kaishen's support. However, after Wang Jialie monopolized the military and political power of Guizhou Province, he became more and more self-respecting, only indulging in wine, enjoying himself, living in a mediocre life, and ignoring political affairs. His wife Wan Shufen (Tongren) took the opportunity to intervene in military and political affairs, and soon mastered the strength of eight regiments, and traveled back and forth between Nanjing and Guangzhou, moving everywhere, and wantonly arranging for the Wan family and fellow villagers to hold important positions, forming the Tongren lineage.

In this way, the Tongzi faction and the Tongren faction competed for power and profit with each other, and the struggle was very fierce. However, Wang Jialie turned a blind eye, resulting in corrupt officials and corrupt officials abounding, soldiers and bandits were rampant, and taxes were even collected decades later. At that time, the people's lives could be said to be poor. For this reason, the common people also made two couplets to ridicule Wang Jialie's rule:

Wang Gang Everywhere (Wang refers to Wang Jialie)

All Evil Horrors (Ten Thousand Fingers Wan Shufen)

Reason talks about the princes, the wolf princes, the embarrassed princes, the gluttonous princes, and the public plus the public. Where the public heart is, where the justice exists, it is nothing more than using the public to seek private interests;

The General Bureau of League Defense, Dinner, Gambling, and Foreign Tobacco Bureau, set up a bureau in the bureau. Insiders are willing, outsiders are bitter, and the day is over.

The banner reads: Warlord Ten Thousand Taxes.

Liping County is located in the southeast of Guizhou Province, adjacent to Jingzhou and Passage of Hunan Province in the east, Sanjiang and Rong'an of Guizhou Province in the south, Rongjiang River and Congjiang River in the west, Jinping and Jianhe River in the north, and is the bridgehead of Guizhou Province to the east into the two lakes and the south to the two Guangzhou.

The county seat is located on the top of the mountain, looking into the distance, surrounded by mountains, but you can't see a little flat land, it is a typical mountain city. At this time, the Kuomintang troops stationed in Liping County were a security regiment of Wang Jialie of the Guizhou Army, and because they had fought with the Red Sixth Army, they knew the strength of the Red Army. Therefore, when they heard that the Central Red Army was about to arrive in Liping in the near future, they were very self-aware that they thought that they could not hold Liping County, so they abandoned the city with their family wealth and fled to Rongjiang in advance!

Because the Red Sixth Army had passed through Liping County three months earlier and had adopted a correct ethnic policy, the Red Army's image of being disciplined and innocent had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the local people.

Therefore, as soon as the people of all nationalities in the county saw the hasty flight of the local tyrants and gentry and the bureaucratic militias, they all speculated that the Red Army was coming. They immediately rushed to a place five kilometers outside the east gate, beating gongs and drums, and joyfully welcomed the large army troops stationed in Liping County.

On 16 December, the Central Military Commission column arrived at Liping, and the Red Army had not had a chance to rest and recuperate since the Long March. In addition, the county town of Liping, which had just been occupied, seized a large amount of grain, salt, and other war materials that the enemy had no time to take away, and this was undoubtedly a relief in the snow for the Central Red Army, which was almost exhausted, and solved some of the Red Army's logistical problems. Therefore, the Party Central Committee decided to rest for a few days in Liping.

On December 18, the Politburo of the Central Committee held a meeting in Liping. The meeting made a strategic decision to transfer troops to Guizhou Province, and the correct opinion of the commander-in-chief was finally adopted by the Party Central Committee, thus enabling the Red Army to avoid the danger of being encircled and to gain the strategic initiative.

Immediately after the meeting, the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution forwarded this new decision of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and asked the heads of all army corps to convey the decision of the Central Committee to the heads of divisions and echelons. In order to implement the new strategic policy, it was decided to reorganize the troops, abolish the Eighth Army Corps and merge them into the Fifth Army Corps, and merge the First and Second Columns of the Central Military Commission into the Central Military Commission Columns. Liu Bocheng is the commander, Chen Yun is the political commissar, and Ye Jianying is the deputy commander.

On 19 December, the Central Military Commission issued the "Decision on Implementing the Decision of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee on 18 December" in accordance with the resolution of the Liping Conference, that is, the Central Red Army was divided into two columns, left and right, and advanced to the northern Qianbei area with Zunyi as the center.

In just one day, Zhang Cheng received three important documents from his superiors one after another. Zhang Cheng knew that the commander-in-chief had basically won the support of the party and the Red Army, and it could be said that his return to the leading post was just around the corner.

After receiving this good news, Zhang Cheng was naturally smiling, and his chaotic entry did not disrupt the original pace of history. However, although Zhang Cheng was powerless to change the general direction of historical development, he could try his best to reduce the losses of the Red Army to a certain extent and gradually develop and strengthen the strength of the Red Army.

However, Chang Kaishen in Nanjing was very unhappy, and the Central Red Army seemed to have made up its mind to move westward into Guizhou Province and abandon the plan to join forces with the Red Second Front Army in Xiangxi. This made his pocket array in Xiangxi seem to be an ornament, and the trap that had been carefully arranged with great effort fell into the empty space, which really made him depressed.

However, Chang Kaishen had already learned from Dai Li that the International Division of the Young Communist Party had done bad things to him many times, which made him furious and vowed to kill this Red Army unit.

Soon, Chang Kaishen ordered He Jian, commander-in-chief of the "Pursuit and Suppression Army" and warlord of Hunan Province, and Xue Yue, commander-in-chief of the front line of the "Pursuit and Suppression Army", to exterminate the International Division of the Young Communist Party that occupied the passage as soon as possible. Xue Yue personally led four divisions of the Central Army to pounce from the north, attempting to encircle the International Division of the Young Communist Party in the passage area.

He also sternly urged the warlord Bai Chongxi of Gui Province to lead the 15th Army and the 7th Army of the Gui Army to press the International Division of the Young Communist Party from the south. In the east, Chang Kaishen asked Liu Jianxu, commander of the 28th Army, to make meritorious service and lead the 16th and 62nd divisions of the Hunan Army to attack head-on.

The situation of the International Division of the Young Communist Party suddenly became precarious.