On the morning of 5 April, the Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party and the Central Military Commission held a mass meeting in the large playground of a middle school in Guiyang, attended by more than 30,000 people. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The commander-in-chief, deputy commander-in-chief Zhou, Zhang Luofu and other central leaders delivered enthusiastic speeches at the meeting, preaching the policies and propositions of the Workers' and Peasants' Party and the Red Army.

At the same time, it was announced that the Guizhou Provincial Soviet People's Government would be established in Guiyang.

When the news spread, the vast number of poor people rushed for joy and cheered.

Then, the major legions took the opportunity to increase their propaganda efforts, unfurled the recruitment flag, and expanded their popularity.

As a result, there was a long queue at the registration points for joining the army, and the young people of Guiyang enthusiastically joined the army, claiming to defend the fruits of the victory of the revolution.

At the suggestion of Zhang Cheng before his departure, all units of the central organs vigorously recruited students from various colleges and universities in Guiyang to enrich the backbone of the revolution.

Although Guiyang is a backward Guizhou province, it is also a large provincial capital city with abundant educational resources, and the central government units quickly enrolled nearly 1,000 students, and the results are gratifying.

In addition, the central authorities have specially recruited more than 300 local technical experts, engineers, and production workers in Guiyang who are proficient in ordnance manufacturing, thus laying a good foundation for the establishment of arsenals in the base areas in the future.

At the same time, the teams sent by the Central Red Army Treasury to collect the enemy's assets also returned one by one.

As the capital of Guizhou Province, Guiyang concentrates most of the wealth of Guizhou Province.

The comrades wiped out dozens of warlords, dignitaries, and local tyrants and gentry in a row, and seized more than 4 million silver dollars, more than 300 kilograms of gold, and more than 1,000 pieces of gold, silver, and jewelry.

As for the enemy government banks, vaults, warehouses, and so on that our army confiscated, the total value was more than 5 million, and the comrades of the Central Ministry of Finance smiled with joy when they looked at the mountains of wealth.

On the evening of April 5, Chang Kaishen, who fled to Kunming in a panic, soon received a telegram from Guiyang that was lost, and he was so angry that he scolded: "Niang Xipi! This Guo Siyan is a bastard, and before leaving, he swore that he would live and die with Guiyang, but as soon as he turned his head, he surrendered to the red bandits.

This bastard mistook me! The city of Guiyang is thickly walled, and the garrison of the city is as many as 15,000 people, this bastard didn't even hold it for a day, alas! I regret that I didn't have the beginning, I should have shot him a long time ago! ”

On 6 April, Chang Kaishen learned that the Red Army was about to establish a Soviet People's Government in Guiyang, and he was immediately mixed with mixed feelings, worrying that the Red Bandits had actually set up a Soviet Government in the provincial capital city under his rule, and that if the Red Bandits really wanted to establish a Soviet government, it would be too great a blow to their prestige.

It is good that after the Red Bandits establish the Soviet Government, they will definitely defend Guiyang to the death, and then they will be able to calmly mobilize their troops, adopt barrier tactics, and hang the Vermilion Red Army like the Fifth War against Bandits.

Thinking of this, Chang Kaishen sent a telegram order to Xue Yuelian, the commander-in-chief of the pursuit army, ordering him to step up the mobilization of troops and surround Guiyang.

In this way, Chang Kaishen was still not at ease, and personally issued an order to the commanders of the chasing and suppressing army of all departments: they must be under the city of Guiyang before the dusk of April 11, otherwise, they will delay the major affairs of the party and the state, and they will be severely punished.

At the same time, he successively ordered the Sichuan army and the Yunnan army that had reached the northeast of Guiyang City to keep an eye on the movements of the red bandits, repeatedly launched containment attacks against the red bandits, and dragged the red bandits to death in Guiyang City.

For a time, the battle clouds on the southwest land were curtained, the wolf smoke was billowing, and the chasing armies from all walks of life were marching day and night, heading towards Guiyang.

Inside and outside Guiyang City, guns and cannons roared, and the battle did not stop for a day.

In the Kunming official residence, Chang Kaishen looked at the battle reports of the troops from all walks of life, and saw that the armies from all walks of life were making rapid progress, and they could rush to Guiyang before the 10th, and he was in a very good mood.

He only felt that the Red Army was digging its own grave, and actually took the initiative to enter the dead land of Guiyang, and the extermination of the Zhumao Red Army was just around the corner.

But no matter where there are people who don't have long eyes, there are attendant staff officers who cautiously reminded: "Commission, now that the armies from all walks of life are gathered in Guiyang, and the southern Sichuan region is already very empty, have we fallen for the Red Bandits' plan to secretly cross Chencang, so that the Red Bandits can take the opportunity to cross the Yangtze River?" ”

Chang Kaishen was disappointed when he heard this, he narrowed his eyes and scolded angrily: "Niang Xipi! You don't have long brains either! At present, the 1st and 3rd Army Corps, the main forces of the Red Bandits, are in Guiyang, and preparations are being made to establish a Soviet government and establish a Soviet base area.

Moreover, there are Sichuan army and Yunnan army troops outside the city of Guiyang, and the two sides are fighting day long in the north of the city, and Guiyang is far away from the mountains and rivers in southern Sichuan, and there are various armies along the way to suppress the army. ”

Chang Kaishen reprimanded and reprimanded, and the advice of the attendant staff officer still cast a shadow in his heart, and he felt as if he had missed something.

Just in case, Chang Kaishen still sent an air force reconnaissance plane to closely monitor the Red Army, and at the same time ordered the defenders of the major ferries in southern Sichuan to strengthen the blockade and not allow anyone to cross the river.

Unexpectedly, the defenders of southern Sichuan didn't take Chang Kaishen's strict order seriously at all, they knew that the red bandits were still far away in Guiyang, so why was they in a hurry!

The chairman of the committee is really nervous from being tricked by the red bandits, and if he has that unfounded worrying mind, it is better to give us more weapons and food for the Sichuan army.

The Sichuan defenders threw the telegram sent by Chang Kaishen into the trash, and they still fished for three days, dried their nets for two days, played pai gow in the camp every day, smoked big cigarettes, and drank for fun.

At five o'clock in the afternoon of April 10, when Zhangcheng entered Luzhou City, the southern city of Luzhou was firmly in the hands of the Red Army.

When they arrived at the Luzhou puppet county government building, in addition to Ding Wei who was still leading the second division to pursue and suppress the Sichuan army on the north bank, the commanders of the first and third divisions and the troops directly under the Shaozong gathered together to report to Zhang Cheng on the march and stationing of each department.

Hearing Li Yunlong's report that the Luzhou puppet county magistrate and other bureaucrats, as well as military leaders, big businessmen, and river gang leaders were all captured by our army in one fell swoop, Zhang Cheng laughed out loud.

He immediately ordered the butcher Chen Jinbiao to lead a few people to interrogate those bureaucrats and military leaders, and asked the butchers to dig three feet into the ground, and also to dig up the people's fat and ointment they had absorbed.

As for those big businessmen and the river gang, Zhang Cheng thought for a while, and said to Li Yunlong: "Let those who don't have much public anger go, our army is just passing through this place, and we really don't have time to deal with them, and our army's 80,000-strong army wants to cross the river, and we may still need their help." ”

After the officers of the various departments left, Zhang Cheng pondered that the shipping of Luzhou Port was extremely developed, and there were almost ten ports built in later generations to form the nationally famous Luzhou Port.

In particular, copper, iron and other metal materials, in the future to establish an anti-Japanese base in northern Shaanxi, to make guns and bullets, these metals are scarce resources.

Thinking of it, Zhang Cheng immediately ordered Feng Shaojie, the director of logistics, to gather the bosses of the major commercial houses and buy all the copper and iron materials they left in the warehouse.

In order to leave a line for them to smuggle materials to the Red Army in the future, so that they could do business in northern Shaanxi, Zhang Cheng also specially told Feng Shaojie to trade fairly with them, and not to buy and sell by force. (To be continued.) )