At 10 o'clock in the morning of 30 May, the central leaders who were holding a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee in Shawo received a telegram from Zhang Cheng and Xiao Hua, and the joy of the commander-in-chief and the central leaders could be described as ecstatic, and they found that after the elimination of the 1st Division of the KMT, the situation in the Red Army became unprecedentedly good!

In just one day and one night, Shaozong completely annihilated Hu Zongnan's First Division, which was the army started by Chang Kaishen, and it is not an exaggeration to say that half of his country was laid by the First Division. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The fact that such an ace force was completely annihilated by Shaozong was a powerful deterrent to Chang Kaishen's Central Army and the warlords of Sichuan Province who followed closely after the Red Army.

The greater significance is that the biggest obstacle on the way of the Red Army to the north of northern Shaanxi has been solved. Looking at the north-western land, there were no more powerful troops that could stop the Red Army.

At this time, the central leaders present all had a relaxed feeling of letting the birds fly and the sea is wide and the fish is leaping. For the first time since it was forced to leave the Soviet zone and carry out a strategic shift, the Central Red Army ushered in an unprecedentedly good situation.

In particular, this great victory was at a time when the two polemics and fierce battles were in full swing after the first and fourth front armies had joined forces, and the great victory of the Shaozong was quite a decisive word.

Chang constantly stressed the difficulties of going north and exaggerated the strength of the Kuomintang reactionaries. However, now that the most powerful army of the Kuomintang reactionaries in the north has been wiped out, what excuse can Zhang Guotao have to oppose the northbound line?

On the rostrum, the commander-in-chief was in a very happy mood, and there was a strong self-confidence in pointing at the country and scolding Fang Yu in his gestures: "After the total annihilation of Hu Zongnan's first division, the battlefield situation of our army has been reversed. The most obvious example is that Xue Yue, Liu Xiang, Deng Xihou and other armies that originally followed closely behind the Third and Fifth Army Corps have all stopped, so that our army can calmly move north.

After our army eliminated Hu Zongnan, it formed a huge deterrent to the various armies of the Kuomintang, made the warlords of all walks of life jealous, and also made Chang Kaishen unable to sleep. It is very likely that Chang Kaishen will order Xue Yue to stop the pursuit because he is afraid that Xue Yue's Central Army will repeat the mistakes of the First Division, and will only monitor the northward movement of our army, and will not dare to make any more pursuit moves.

After our army has determined the route to the north, it can advance to northern Shaanxi with great fanfare, establish the Sichuan-Shaanxi-Gansu region, and then move its troops westward or northward to open up the international communication line with the Soviet Union, and with the assistance of the Soviet Union, we can develop our own industry and build our own arsenal.

At that time, we will have the strength to sit down and talk with Chang Kaishen. In today's China, all-out resistance against Japan is the strongest voice of this era, and we can completely put forward the slogan of going north to resist Japan, win over the warlords in the north for our use, and even force Chang Kaishen to stop the civil war with great strength and unite to resist the slogan. ”

Many of the central leaders present at the meeting were very excited after listening to the commander-in-chief's speech, and if all the words spoken by the commander-in-chief could be smoothly realized, the situation of the Red Army would be greatly improved.

More importantly, he can reconnect with the big brother of the Soviet Union, and for many central cadres who have studied in the Soviet Union, this temptation is not ordinary, and even Comrade Bo Gu, who once sang a big game with the commander-in-chief, listened to it at this time, and he was eager for the meeting to immediately form a resolution to go north and march to northern Shaanxi.

After that, Chen Changhao, Wang Jiaxiang, Xu Shuai, and other comrades who spoke at the meeting one after another, all unanimously agreed with the commander-in-chief's opinion. Among them, Xu Shuai expressed his complete agreement with the commander-in-chief's opinion of going north. In view of some discordant controversies within the party, he particularly emphasized: "The central authorities have long decided on the issue of principle, and the strategic policy is, of course, to the north. ”

What is particularly gratifying to the commander-in-chief is that after listening to the commander-in-chief's opinions, Comrade Chen Changhao not only fully supported the strategic principle put forward by the commander-in-chief, but also took a very resolute attitude, advocating a rapid northward advance, gathering the maximum number of troops, and opening up international lines in order to realize the established policy of the central authorities.

The commander-in-chief was very happy after listening to Comrade Chen Changhao's speech. On the one hand, this shows that the so-called southward route is completely an idea invoked up by Zhang Guitao himself, and on the other hand, it also shows that as long as Chen Changhao is out of Zhang Guitao's control, he will also agree with the correct line of the central authorities.

Therefore, what the optimistic commander-in-chief is thinking about at this moment is how to influence the vast number of commanders and fighters of the Red Fourth Front Army through the two comrades Xu Shuai and Chen Changhao. For this reason, the commander-in-chief also specially praised Xu Shuai and Chen Changhao for their speeches, saying that they have a strong sense of the overall situation and deserve to be an outstanding Chinese worker and peasant party member.

In the end, although there was still some resistance and misgivings about the commander-in-chief's strategic policy of uniting Chang Kaishen and the allied warlords to unanimously resist Japan, the comrades unanimously agreed with the commander-in-chief's proposal that the whole army should go north to northern Shaanxi and establish the Sichuan-Shaanxi-Gansu Great Soviet Region.

At the meeting, Zhang Guitao, who felt helpless, was forced by the situation and had to reluctantly vote in favor of the Red Army's northward strategy.

However, Zhang Guitao would never be willing to hand over the Four Front Army, which he had single-handedly pulled, to the Party Central Committee. He stressed that most of the main forces of the Fourth Front Army were still staying in western Sichuan, and if the whole army turned to Songpan, it was likely that it would be too late for the whole army to cross the Songpan prairie and go north.

Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, the central leaders agreed with him out of consideration for uniting the armies of the four fronts, and because they had not seen through Zhang Guitao's conspiracy.

After the conclusion of the Shawo Conference, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission readjusted the troops in accordance with the resolution of the meeting, and the Red Fifth Army Corps was reorganized into the Red Fifth Army, and the Red Ninth Army Corps was reorganized into the Red 32nd Army.

At the same time, at the suggestion of Zhang Guitao's army, the Red Army divided the whole army into two main armies, the left and right.

The Left Route Army consisted of the command and logistics organs of the 1st Army Corps, the 32nd Army, and the 9th, 33rd, 31st, and 4th Front Armies of the 4th Front Army, led by Zhang Guitao and Zhu Laozong, and crossed the Songpan steppe out of Brazil, with the 1st Army Corps, the 32nd Army, and the 88th Division of the 30th Army as the first echelon to set off first, and the rest of the troops as the second echelon.

The Right Route Army was composed of the main forces of the Young Column, the Third Army Corps, the Fifth Army, the Central Column and the Fourth Army and the Thirtieth Army of the Fourth Front Army. The forward troops were the small column, the third army and the fifth army guarded the central column in the center, and the fourth army and the thirtieth army were behind.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party adopted the "Decision on the Present Strategic Principles" drafted by the commander-in-chief. The decision states: "In order to realize the basic decision of the present strategic policy, our main force is required to quickly occupy the Yellow River valley region, with northern Shaanxi as the center, as a powerful pillar and base for the continued development of the Soviet movement in China." ”

Since the commander-in-chief, who had always been as discerning as a torch, estimated that Zhang Guitao was very likely to continue to carry out his southward policy after the division of troops, the resolution also particularly emphasized the great difficulties of going south, and hoped that Zhang Guitao would be able to find his way back.

However, the commander was doomed to be disappointed, and after the division of troops, Zhang Guitao did not implement the resolution of the Central Committee, but led the left army south to the southwest of Sichuan, and Zhu Lao Zong and Liu Shuai had to follow in order to bring the troops back to the center.

Of course, this is a later story, so I won't say it for the time being.