After the Central Red Army captured Tongdao County in Hunan Province, Chang Kaishen was busy with the deployment of troops, looking forward to the Central Red Army taking the initiative to enter his carefully arranged pocket formation, so that he could realize his plan of "inviting the king into the urn" in Xiangxi, and wipe out the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's henchmen in one fell swoop. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But to his surprise, the Central Red Army did not enter Xiangxi from the northeast to join up with He Long's Red Second Front Army. On the contrary, he suddenly swung his army westward and went straight to Liping in Guizhou Province, which completely disrupted all his military deployments.

Standing in front of a large military map marked with various symbols, Chang Kaishen stared closely at Liping, a mountain city in eastern Qiandong, marked on the map, and secretly wondered where the Central Red Army would go next.

To the south of Liping is the northern part of Gui Province, which is full of lofty mountains and mountains, and Bai Chongxi has deployed a large number of heavy troops to seal it tightly. Chang Kaishen shook his head slightly, and immediately ruled out the possibility of the Central Red Army moving south.

The western part of Liping is the hinterland of Guizhou Province, and it is also the location of Guiyang, the political, economic, and cultural center of Guizhou Province, but Guizhou Province is generally tired and lacking people, and there are many warlords in the surrounding area, and in any respect, Guizhou Province is by no means suitable for the Red Army to settle down and develop, so he quickly denied this possibility.

Northeast of Liping, that is, the base of the Second Front Army in western Hunan Province, Chang Kaishen always believed that the Central Red Army's attack on Liping through the passage was very likely a plan of the Red Army to attack the east and attack the west.

In short, he believed that the Central Red Army's attack on Liping was most likely a false shot, deliberately misleading Chang Kaishen into believing that the Red Army was advancing westward into Guizhou Province, and after he took the initiative to abandon the pocket formation set up in Xiangxi, he would suddenly go north and join forces with the Red Army in Xiangxi and the Red First and Second Front Armies.

Therefore, Chang Kaishen once again reiterated to He Jian, Xue Yue, and others the strategy of waiting for the net in Xiangxi and inviting the king into the urn, and he must not waver, and he must not fall for the Red Army's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain.

Regarding Chang Kaishen's judgment, He Jian's heart was extremely entangled. First of all, of course, he hoped that the Central Red Army would go west to Guizhou Province and never return to Xiangxi to join the Red Second Front Army.

In this way, only Xiangxi has "banditry" on the territory of Hunan Province, which is undoubtedly more favorable to his rule in Hunan Province. However, he was also worried that Chang Kaishen would take this opportunity to order him to go out of Hunan and enter Guizhou to help suppress him, and to transfer his descendants out of Hunan and out of his command, which would gradually be eaten away by Chang Kaishen.

Fortunately, at this time, the Red Second Front Army in Xiangxi helped him a lot, and the Red Second Front Army took the initiative to attack in order to respond to the Central Red Army in Guizhou Province in the west, and now it has troops under the city of Changde and directly threatens Changsha, the central city of Hunan Province.

He Jian was overjoyed, and took the opportunity to repeatedly ask Chang Kaishen to transfer the 15th Division of the Fourth Route Army, Wang Dongyuan, the 16th Division, Zhang Liangji, and the 62nd Division Tao Guang, to Yuanling, Xiangxi, to assemble and arrange an attack on the Red Second Front Army.

In order to prevent Chang Kaishen from taking the opportunity to attack, he also ordered the remaining four divisions of the Hunan Army, the 19th, 63rd, 23rd, and 54th, to be led by Liu Jianxu to follow and pursue the Central Red Army.

Although Chang Kaishen was not good at fighting the Japanese, and the working peasants were not very good, he often had divine help when dealing with local warlords like He Jian.

After arranging to hold the pocket formation in western Xiangxi, Chang Kaishen had to consider the possibility of the Central Red Army withdrawing to Liping, suddenly marching to northern Guizhou and establishing a Soviet base area in the Sichuan-Guizhou area.

At this time, he had been looking forward to it for a long time, and Yang Yongtai proposed to "take the opportunity of chasing and blocking the Central Red Army, take the opportunity to enter the southwest, and completely control most of the southwest, so as to be the rear of the future war of resistance against Japan." The two-pronged strategy involuntarily resurfaced in my mind.

Therefore, Chang Kai insisted on making plans and agreed to He Jian's request, but secretly made up his mind to replace He Jian with Liu Jianxu in Hunan Province, stepped up the wooing of Liu Jianxu, and ordered him to speed up the attack on the Central Red Army.

At the same time, the headquarters of the Young Communist Division of Pingping Township and the personnel of the divisional headquarters were busy making preparations for the passage to the west. However, several leaders of the division's party committee and heads of various departments are holding a meeting of the divisional headquarters to study and make arrangements for the next military action.

The garrison of the Young Communist Division is only a few dozen miles away from the county seat, and it will not be a problem to arrive within a day if you march in a hurry. It's just that the reconnaissance unit has just sent back a report, saying that there is a new situation now, and Liu Jianxu's unit of the Hunan army is now also rushing towards the passage.

Therefore, the key issue of the Young Communist Division now is not how to quickly keep up with the footsteps of the main force of the Red Army, but how to block Liu Jianxu's troops who have caught up.

The crowd began to talk about it, some said that they would take the initiative to attack, and some said that they would defend on the spot, and although everyone had different opinions, they also spoke enthusiastically, and the atmosphere was very warm.

Chief of Staff Zhang Fengming was not present, so Director Feng Wenbin made a report on the enemy situation on his behalf: "The pursuit of the enemy in the south is the 44th Division under the jurisdiction of the 15th Army of the Gui Army, since our army has already entered the territory of Hunan Province, as long as our army does not enter Gui Province again, the 44th Division will not take action against our army, and it can be disregarded." Pursuing from the east was the Hunan Army's Liu Jianxu Division, the vanguard of which was the 19th and 63rd Divisions of the Fourth Route Army, which moved quickly and were now only two days away from the pass.

In addition, Liu Jianxu's Hunan army was particularly brave in the Xiangjiang Campaign, repeatedly breaking through the positions of the 1st Army Corps, the main force of our army, and causing the 1st Army to retreat one after another. Since then, the Hunan army under Liu Jianxu has thought that the main force of the Central Red Army is nothing more than that, so it is particularly arrogant. In particular, Li Jue's 19th Division performed particularly prominently in the Xiangjiang Campaign, breaking through the positions of the Red First Army many times, almost capturing Lin Nie and the two bosses alive, and made great contributions, so his troops were quickly replenished after the war. ”

In this regard, Zhang Cheng said contemptuously: "To deal with this arrogant enemy, my opinion is to take the initiative to attack and replace defense with offense. The Hunan army under Liu Jianxu had never fought against the International Division of our Young Communist Party, and they did not know much about the situation of our division. And our army can be said to know itself and the enemy, just take advantage of Liu Jianxu's arrogance to eat Li Jue's 19th Division, and then turn back to deal with Chen Guangzhong's 63rd Division, after these two divisions are eaten by our army, Liu Jianxu of the Hunan Army will obediently retract. The Gui army will be even more afraid of this, and our army will be able to win enough time to calmly cover the entry of the Central Red Army into Guizhou. ”

"Good! The division commander's opinion is extremely pertinent, and our International Division of the Young Communist Party has not fought any tough battles since its establishment, and Chen Cheng, Jiang Dingwen, Chen Jitang, Bai Chongxi, Li Yunjie, and Zhou Hunyuan, all of whom have made great achievements throughout the country, have all been defeated in the hands of our International Division of the Young Communist Party, and he, Liu Jianxu, will naturally be no exception. If you have no other opinions, I think that the General Staff Office will draw up a combat plan in accordance with the division commander's opinion. The political commissar said decisively.

"Yes!" All the cadres responded to the promise.