On 16 December, comrades of the Second Bureau of the Central Military Commission intercepted information on Chang Kaishen's troop movements, and when they learned that the International Division of the Young Communist Party was in an extremely dangerous situation, they telegraphed the information to the International Division of the Young Communist Party overnight. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhang Cheng considered that the Young Communist Division had basically completed the task assigned by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and that the enemy surrounded on all sides was unprecedentedly strong, so he decided to avoid the enemy's edge and carry out mobile warfare after advancing westward into Guizhou Province, looking for fighters in the movement, and destroying a part of the enemy in order to deter most of the enemy. Therefore, Zhang Cheng ordered the whole division to be transferred to Liping, Guizhou Province before the 21st.

On 19 December, the Central Red Army, which had been rested and reorganized, regained its characteristics of rapid action under the guidance of the new correct line. The soldiers divided into two routes and went straight to the Wujiang River.

Before leaving Liping, the Party Central Committee also sent telegrams to the Red Second and Fourth Front Armies, informing them of the resolutions of the Liping Conference and ordering them to cooperate accordingly. The Central Red Army was invincible, taking more than 10 county towns such as Jianhe, Huangping, Taigong, and Yuqing. The "double robbers" in Guizhou Province were vulnerable and fled in despair.

After three days of rapid marching, the Young Communist Division finally arrived at Liping County, Guizhou Province, at dusk on the 20th. At this time, the main force of the Central Red Army had advanced westward towards the Wujiang River, and the Young Communist Division reported the situation to the Central Committee.

Zhang Cheng immediately discussed with the division's party committee and decided to look for fighters in the Liping area to meet the approaching pursuers, and at the same time ordered the troops to seize the rare opportunity to vigorously carry out military training, temper the tacit understanding between the new recruits and the veterans, and improve their combat effectiveness.

At the same time, Zhang Cheng sent a large number of scouts to reconnoiter everywhere and draw a topographic map of the mountains of the major major roads in Guizhou Province. He also ordered the comrades of the Communications Section to work in two shifts and listen to the enemy's radio stations 24 hours a day to obtain information.

In the following days, the communications department continued to send new enemy information, and after learning that the International Division of the Young Communist Party had moved west into Guizhou Province, the Gui army was overjoyed and moved to the Guizhou-Guizhou border to block the doorstep.

For this reason, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, and Chen Jitang of the two Guangxi provinces also pretended to jointly send a telegram similar to a "letter of request for war" to Chang Kaishen. The content of the telegram was extremely gorgeous, and it was so impassioned that Chang Kaishen almost mistakenly thought that they wanted to emulate Yue Fei of the Southern Song Dynasty to serve the country loyally, throw their heads and blood for the country, and do their best for the party and the country.

However, Chang Kaishen thought, Niang Xipi! At the beginning, the red bandits passed in front of your house, if you really have the heart to serve the party and the state, you should use the strength of the whole army to strangle the red bandits. But these three warlords are good, deliberately leaving a passage to help the red bandits transfer, and now that the red bandits are far away from your family, they come to talk about "swearing to kill the red bandits and doing all the work", which is simply a big joke in the world.

Chang Kaishen also thought of the plan he was about to implement to "drive the tiger and devour the wolf": to force the red bandits into the southwest, and the Central Army took advantage of the situation to follow up, prompting the southwest warlords and the red bandits to lose both, paving the way for the Central Army to enter the southwest.

Then Chang Kaishen had to wonder if the Guizhou and Guangdong armies also wanted to push their forces into the southwest. Thinking of this, Chang Kaishen made a decision in his heart, and replied with a few kind words of "deep admiration" to the telegram sent by Li, Bai, and Chen, but politely rejected the request of the Guizhou and Guangdong armies to enter Guizhou Province.

Of course, this news was extremely beneficial to the Young Communist Division, and the lack of a corner in the encirclement on all sides made the Young Communist Division temporarily relieve the pressure on the south, and the situation was greatly eased.

After Liu Jianxu's division of the Hunan army followed our army and occupied the passage abandoned by the Young Communist Division, he learned that the Young Communist Division had entered Guizhou Province westward, so under the secret instruction of He Jian, under the pretext that the troops were going to rest and replenish, they stopped the pressing pace.

And still persevering in following our army westward into Guizhou Province is the old opponent of the Young Communist Division, Zhou Hunyuan's column, since the Xiangjiang River was heavily damaged by the Young Communist Division, from Zhou Hun Yuan down, all the officers and soldiers have vowed to take revenge and blood hatred. Moreover, Zhou Hunyuan's column was the main force of Chang Kaishen's lineage, and the 5th and 99th Divisions, which were almost annihilated by the Young Communist Division, have now been replenished (the specialty of the Kuomintang reactionaries - La Zhuangding).

Zhou Hunyuan's column swooped down on the Young Communist Division amid the slogan of revenge. This time, they learned the lesson of the defeat at the Xiangjiang River, and instead of implementing the plan of dividing their troops and attacking them, they combined their four divisions to launch a pursuit of the Young Communist Division with the momentum of overwhelming the mountains and seas.

The four divisions of Zhou Hunyuan's column lined up and marched in unison. From left to right are the 13th Division, 99th Division, 5th Division, and 96th Division, along the direction of Hongjiatun and Laolutun directly into Liping County, and it is estimated that the troops will be under Liping City two days later.

The enemy is menacing, and the four divisions with a total of more than 40,000 troops are pushing towards the Young Communist Division, how should this battle be fought? This is a problem that the party committee of the Young Communist Division and the leaders of the brigades urgently need to solve.

Everyone is thinking about it, if the enemy divides the army into two routes, it is certain that my Young Communist Division will eat all the way, but if you want to swallow Zhou Hunyuan's four divisions in one bite, it is obviously unlikely, and once it is stuck by the enemy, it is difficult to guarantee that He Jian and Bai Chongxi behind will not fall into the well, and then the Young Communist Division will be very dangerous.

The enemy lined up in a line with the strength of four divisions, advancing in unison. Less than 10 miles apart, one division was attacked, and the other three divisions were soon able to come in with reinforcements. The enemy's arrangement made many people a little worried. Even Zhang Cheng weighed repeatedly in his heart for a long time, whether to fight or go, and in the end he finally made up his mind - fight!

Seeing that everyone was looking at him expectantly, Zhang Cheng took a deep look at everyone, and said solemnly: "I think everyone is likely to ignore an important issue, that is, so far, our division still uses the number of divisions, which misleads the enemy but also misleads us, Li Yunlong, let me ask you, how strong is your brigade now?" ”

Li Yunlong scratched his head and said a little embarrassed: "Division commander, my brigade has been replenished by captured soldiers, and now the army has 4,600 people. ”

Zhang Cheng smiled: "Yes, the development is okay, what about the other brigades?" ”

At the moment, the other brigades reported the strength of their units one by one: Ding Wei's second brigade had 4,900 people, Zhou Weiguo's third brigade had 4,800 people, Chen Shiqi's fourth brigade had 4,600 people, Chen Zhengxiang's fifth brigade had 4,500 people, Zhang Fengming's concurrently held sixth brigade had 4,400 people, the division directly under the combat unit had 2,500 people, and the new corps had 3,000 people.

After listening to the reports of the commanders of various departments, even Zhang Cheng, who had always been calm, was really taken aback, it turned out that his troops had developed to such a scale.

The members of the division's party committee were also shocked, and Director Feng Wenbin hurriedly asked, "How did you develop here, how can there be so many people?" ”

Ding Wei, who had the largest number of people, said triumphantly: "Our division has won battles one after another, and more and more enemies have been captured, and the captive soldiers have been forced to labor reform by the division commander, not to mention suffering every day, and they are also discriminated against and looked down upon by our Red Army soldiers. On the other hand, those new soldiers who have completed the transformation and follow our division to win battles every day, and their treatment is far better than that of captive soldiers. Just like the division commander said, there is no harm if there is no comparison, and the captive soldiers are very envious of our new soldiers, plus they are far away from home, and they can no longer return to their original troops, so when it comes to expanding the red, they will enthusiastically join the Red Army, and the scale of our division will be expanded like this, hahaha! ”