After the victory in the Battle of Baoza, Zhang Cheng sent a good news to the commander-in-chief and the Central Military Commission, and soon received a reply from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, in which in addition to commending Shaozong for his victory, he also reported a bad news. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As expected by the commander-in-chief and Zhang Cheng, Zhang Cheng still led the troops southward as he had done in the original history, and Zhang Cheng felt extremely heavy after reading the telegram from the central authorities.

In the end, the Central Red Army and the Fourth Front Army chose to part ways, and the commander-in-chief decided that the Central Red Army would go north alone, while Zhang Guitao led the Fourth Front Army to the south, and put forward the slogan of "Red Transformation of the Whole Sichuan."

In this way, the role of one person is still insignificant, although Zhang Cheng has opened the way for the north, and also produced real evidence of the existence of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, but still cannot change the general direction of the original history.

However, it is gratifying to note that Zhang Cheng's efforts still had a great positive impact on the history of the Central Red Army.

First of all, the Central Red Army is more than ten times stronger than in history, when the Central Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, there were only 6,500 people left, and now the Central Red Army has 90,000 people.

Secondly, several units of the Central Red Army that were wiped out in history were also saved by Zhang Cheng, such as the Young Communist International Division, the Red 34th Division, the Red 18th Regiment and other heroic units, and the Young Communist International Division was developed by Zhang Cheng into a large army with more than 30,000 troops.

This kind of achievement has made Zhang Cheng feel very satisfied and proud.

As for the fate of the Red Fourth Front Army, ask yourself, he even sent the main division, and he did his best to change their fate, from this point of view, Zhang Cheng felt that he had a clear conscience.

In fact, the commander-in-chief's "northward march" in history was victorious, and the Central Red Army developed from 6,500 people to liberate the whole country; There were deep-seated reasons for the crushing defeat of Zhang Guitao's "southward march" and the sharp reduction of the Fourth Front Army from 100,000 to 40,000.

On the surface, the commander-in-chief's "northward march" was not a good strategy, and northern Shaanxi in the northwest was not only poor, but the enemy's strength was also very strong. Zhang Xueliang, Yan Xishan, and Yang Hucheng had a total strength of about 500,000 troops, and these troops were well-trained and well-armed.

On the other hand, Zhang Guitao's "southward trip" to Sichuan Province was a better choice, because the southern Sichuan Province was not only rich, but the enemy's strength was also weak, and the combined strength of the Sichuan army was only two or three hundred thousand, and these troops were poorly trained and their weapons were dilapidated.

Even in the later generations of Zhang Cheng's life, there are still many experts who start from the above appearances and believe that Zhang Guitao's "going south" is correct and the commander's "going north" is wrong.

And the reason why the commander succeeded in "going north" and Zhang Guitao's failure in "going south" was because of "luck". Is it really the result of "luck"? Zhang Cheng completely scoffed at this.

After going north, the Central Red Army unexpectedly learned that there was a base area of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, and strengthened its determination to continue to go north, and finally led the army to join Liu Zhidan in northern Shaanxi. After the meeting, the commander began to consolidate and expand the base area in northern Shaanxi, and he launched attacks on Zhang Xueliang, Yan Xishan, and Yang Hucheng in succession, winning successive battles.

However, the commander launched these attacks not to defeat the other party, but to hurt the other party, so that the other party understood his strength, and after hurting the other party, he sent people to negotiate with the warlord, asking the warlord to give him territory, money and food.

After being beaten, the warlords in the north understood the strength of the Red Army, and although the compensation for the land was painful, it did not hurt the root after all, so Zhang Xueliang, Yan Xishan, and Yang Hucheng all agreed to give the Red Army land and send money and grain.

Chang Kaishen's Central Army soon followed, and although they were close to the Red Army, they could not defeat the Red Army. Fearing that Chang Kaishen would play the trick of "destroying the enemy by false means," the warlords all refused to allow the Central Army to cross the border, and in this way, the Central Red Army lived a leisurely and good life surrounded by hundreds of thousands of warlords' troops.

On the other hand, after the four front armies went south, Zhang Guitao confidently shouted the slogan of "Chihua Quanchuan", and the Red Army's nearly 100,000 troops arrived at Baizhang Pass, where they fought a decisive battle with the 300,000 troops of the Sichuan army.

The warlords of Sichuan Province usually intrigue with each other, but after realizing that the purpose of the Red Fourth Front Army was to seize the whole of Sichuan, the warlords who were worried about the insecurity of their nest united.

In the battle, they fought with all their might for the first time, and fought a decisive battle with the Red Fourth Front Army at Baizhang Pass and defeated the Red Fourth Front Army, forcing the Red Fourth Front Army to withdraw from Sichuan Province.

In the Battle of Baizhang Pass, the defeat of the Red Fourth Front Army was doomed, even if the Red Fourth Front Army could defeat the 300,000 army of the Sichuan Army, Xue Yue's Central Army would immediately enter the battle, and the Red Fourth Front Army would definitely not be able to defeat the Sichuan Army and the Central Army at the same time.

In Zhang Cheng's view, the deep-seated reason is actually very simple, the reason why the commander "went north" successfully was because the strength of the northern enemy was strong, whether it was Zhang Xueliang or Yan Xishan, they all had the strength to refuse the northward advance of the Central Army.

The warlords of Sichuan Province are located in the south, and the power of the Central Army is far greater than the strength of the warlords of Sichuan Province, and Liu Xiang has no ability to prevent the entry of the *** army.

Later, Chang Kaishen kept persuading Yan Xishan, Yang Hucheng, and Zhang Xueliang to allow the Central Army to cross the border to fight the Red Army. However, the warlords preferred to let the Red Army take their territory rather than the Central Army entering the north.

What's even more ridiculous is that in desperation, Chang Kaishen wanted to be tough and forcibly ordered Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng to give up their territory and let the Central Army go in to fight the Red Army, but in the end, he brought a catastrophe to himself, causing the "Xi'an Incident" that reversed the overall situation of Chinese history.

Knowing the inevitable result of the historical "going north" and "going south", even if Zhang Cheng is a traverser, he has to give the commander thirty-two praises, a great man is a great man, his vision is far-reaching, and the pattern is so wide that ordinary people are far from imagining.

Thinking of this, Zhang Cheng strengthened his determination to follow and support the commander-in-chief, and then he took the telegram from the central authorities to convene an enlarged meeting of all the cadres of the Shaozong to preach to the cadres of the whole army the order of the central authorities to go north to northern Shaanxi, and demanded that the cadres of the whole army unify their thinking and resolutely support and implement the central policy of going north.

At the meeting, Zhang Cheng also demanded that the whole army make all preparations for going north as soon as possible. For example, the storage of war materials and the collection of grain and grass and other specific problems require all responsible units to come up with effective methods to solve these practical problems.

One of the most troublesome for Zhang Cheng was the placement of the seriously wounded, although Shaozong won several consecutive battles, but inevitably a large number of wounded.

Among these wounded, only minor injuries are easy to manage, as long as they can walk, but those who have to be carried on stretchers are not easy to handle. At the meeting, many comrades suggested that the seriously wounded and sick should be placed in people's homes on the spot, following the example of Shicheng and Leshan, but Zhang Cheng rejected this proposal after careful consideration.

Because this place is different from Shicheng and Leshan, the people here are basically few people, the Red Army has no mass base here, and the living environment is extremely bad, coupled with the ferocity of those reactionary Tusi, if Zhang Cheng leaves the seriously wounded here and places them, it is tantamount to watching them die, which is absolutely unacceptable to Zhang Cheng.

Moreover, these wounded could easily become the backbone of the army after recovering their health, so Zhang Cheng finally decided to take them all with him, promising them not to abandon or give up, and to take them all to northern Shaanxi.

When the news spread, the seriously injured cheered, and some even shed tears of joy. The morale of the whole army was also greatly invigorated, and they supported Zhang Cheng's leadership even more.