After the three main forces of the Red Army triumphantly joined forces, the Red Second and Fourth Front Armies arrived at the camps divided by the Central Committee and began to enter a period of recuperation, during which the Central Red Army presented cartloads of food, salt, medicine, and military coats to the comrades of the Second and Fourth Front Armies who had gone through hardships. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the victory of the Long March, the Red Second Front Army remained relatively intact, with more than 20,000 people before departure, and now there are more than 15,000 people, and only 5,000 or 6,000 troops have been lost; On the other hand, the Red Fourth Front Army, which had nearly 100,000 troops before going south, has now returned with less than 50,000 troops, and has suffered the heaviest losses.

What made Zhang Cheng extremely happy was that the losses of Ding Wei's second division were not serious, there were 10,000 troops before going south, and there were more than 8,000 people when they returned. When he returned to Yulin, Zhang Cheng looked at Ding Wei's thin and dark face, his eyes couldn't help but be sour, and tears were rolling in his eyes, but Ding Wei had already stopped crying.

After Ding Wei saluted Zhang Cheng, the two hugged each other, and Zhang Cheng kept patting Ding Wei's shoulder and muttering, "It's good to come back, it's good to come back." ”

Then Ding Wei hugged Li Yunlong and Zhou Weiguo together, the three of them always quarreled when they were together, but they hadn't seen each other for more than a year, and the three of them missed each other very much, and they couldn't help crying.

With the return of the Second Division led by Ding Wei to Yulin, the formation of the Shaozong was finally sound, and the Second Division was soon engaged in the expansion and reorganization of the army, and the Second Brigade and the Fifth Brigade were dismantled, based on the two brigades, and expanded into the main division with six combat regiments.

After the expansion, the Young Column had six combat divisions, a cavalry division, and a recruit division, plus the troops directly under the column, with a total strength of 70,000 troops, once again surpassing the Red First Army and becoming the largest unit in the Red Army.

After the three main forces of the Red Army successfully joined forces, the total strength of the Red Army reached as much as 220,000, and such a huge number of troops stationed in the great northwest region made Chang Kaishen, who had just resolved the "Liangguang Incident," extremely jealous, and his desire to eliminate the Red Army became more and more urgent day by day, and he began to continuously transfer troops and dispatch generals, intending to launch the sixth war of encirclement and suppression against the Red Army.

There was no time to enjoy the joy of quelling the "Liangguang Incident," so Chang Kaishen immediately ordered the troops that had gone south to Liangguang to quickly move north and rush to Tongguan, and at the same time ordered Zhang Hanqing, deputy commander-in-chief of the northwest "suppression of bandits" in Xi'an, to lead the Northeast Army to seize the time to dispatch troops and dispatch troops to encircle and suppress the Soviet base areas in the northwest.

In late September, under Chang Kaishen's strict order, Zhang Hanqing was forced to dispatch the Northeast Army to complete the campaign deployment for the encirclement and suppression of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo-Mengda Soviet Region: the Central Army and the Northeast Army, the most powerful heavy army group of the People's Party, attacked from the left and right directions, the Central Army attacked Tianshui for the Left Route Army, and the Northeast Army directly attacked Yan'an, the capital of the Soviet region, for the Right Route Army, and telegraphed Yan Laoxi of Jin Province to cross the Yellow River and attack Yulin westward.

Chang Kaishen sternly demanded that all units should complete the encirclement and suppression in one battle, and that they should eliminate the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's henchmen in one fell swoop in the final decisive battle.

At the same time, a large force of nearly 20 divisions of the elite main force of the Central Army of the Kuomintang was concentrated in the south of Gan Province, and it arrived in the Ganquan area in the eastern part of Gan Province, and together with the 37th Army, it took the lead in launching an attack on Tianshui; The follow-up Third Army and the Twelfth Army are also advancing to the Longnan area.

In the north, the 200,000-strong army of the Northeast Army, together with Tang Enbo and other troops in North China, totaled more than 300,000 troops, pressed towards the Soviet region in northern Shaanxi from all directions.

Originally, Chang Kaishen also wanted to send the Jin Sui army to participate in the encirclement and suppression, but the Suiyuan War of Resistance was about to break out, and Fu Zuoyi of Suiyuan had to defend against the attack of the Japanese army and the separatist forces of the Mongolian Dewang, so he had to give up.

In addition to the troops of local warlords such as the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army, the elite troops of the Central Army alone dispatched 500,000 troops, which was the largest in all previous encirclement and suppression wars.

With Chang Kaishen's order, the entire northwest land suddenly became covered with war clouds, and the air seemed to become solidified, and the Party Central Committee and the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, which wanted to unite all forces to form a unified anti-Japanese situation, had to give up their plans to make peace with Chang Kaishen and devote all their energy to smashing Chang Kaishen's sixth encirclement and suppression war.

However, at the critical moment when the two parties were about to fight, dramatic changes took place within the Kuomintang as expected by the commander-in-chief, and the contradictions between Chang Kaishen and Zhang Hanqing intensified day by day.

On October 22, Chang Kaishen flew from Nanjing to Xi'an and strictly ordered Zhang Hanqing to enter and suppress the Red Army. Zhang Hanqing objected to it in person, and put forward a request to stop the civil war as soon as possible and unanimously resist Japan, but Chang Kaishen refused, and the two quarreled and broke up unhappily.

On October 29, Zhang Hanqing flew to Luoyang to celebrate Chang Kaishen's birthday and persuaded Chang Kaishen to unite with the Workers' and Peasants' Party to resist Japan, but Chang Kaishen sternly refused. Chang Kaishen resolutely rejected Zhang Hanqing's proposal to go north to resist Japan, and forced him to immediately exterminate the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, otherwise his troops would be withdrawn to the southeast.

On November 27, Zhang Hanqing wrote to Chang Kaishen to ask for a war of resistance, but Chang Kaishen refused again.

On December 2, Zhang Hanqing flew to Luoyang to meet Chang Kaishen and demanded the release of the "Seven Gentlemen" of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Association. reported to Chang Kaishen, saying that his subordinates were unstable and difficult to support, and repeatedly asked the chairman of the Standing Committee to go to give a lecture, and Chang Kaishen agreed to go to Xi'an again and stay in Qingchi, China.

On December 4, Chang Kaishen arrived in Xi'an from Luoyang and immediately transferred 500,000 troops of the Central Army to immediately "attack" the Red Army. Zhang Hanqing and Yang Hucheng admonished again, but Chang Kaishen refused. Chang Kaishen said to Zhang Hanqing and Yang Hucheng in person: Either enter the army, or transfer the Northeast Army and the West Route Army to Fujian and Anhui provinces.

On December 7, Zhang Hanqing went to Huaqingchi to meet Chang Kaishen, and repeatedly asked to stop the civil war and unanimously resist Japan, but Chang Kaishen refused.

On December 9, the Workers' and Peasants' Party organized a large-scale mass demonstration to commemorate the first anniversary of the December 9 Movement, and demanded that Chang Kaishen immediately stop the civil war and unite against Japan. The secret agent sent by Chang Kaishen shot and wounded a student, and the crowd was very angry and decided to go to Lintong and directly apply to Chang Kai for a demonstration.

Subsequently, Chang Kaishen forced Zhang Hanqing to immediately send troops to suppress the student movement, and if necessary, he could shoot at the students. After receiving the order, Zhang Hanqing rushed to the parade and tried his best to persuade the students to go back.

Northeastern University students chanted "Chinese don't fight Chinese!" "The Northeast Army will go back to their hometown and recover the lost territory in the Northeast!" and other slogans. Zhang Hanqing told the masses that he would reply to the students' demands with practical actions within a week, and if he couldn't do it, any of you could "put me Zhang Hanqing to death."

The petition students sang the song "On the Songhua River" in front of Huaqing Pond, which touched all the officers and men of the Northeast Army present, and the patriotic mood of the audience was high.

That night, Zhang Hanqing found Chang Kaishen, persuaded Chang Kaishen to resist Japan again, and asked Chang Kaishen to let go of the petitioning students.

But Chang Kaishen said angrily: "There is no way to deal with this group of students except to beat them with machine guns." ”

Zhang Xueliang, who had always been forbearing, was furious when he heard this, and asked rhetorically: "Our machine guns don't shoot the Japanese, but instead shoot our own students?" How can there be such a truth in the whole world! ”

The two parted unhappily again, Zhang Hanqing went back and remembered that he obeyed the orders of the sworn brother, implemented a policy of non-resistance against the Japanese invaders, and gave up the rivers and mountains of the Northeast.

He endured these accusations one by one, but in the face of the incomprehension of his subordinates and the accusations of the countrymen, no one could understand him Zhang Hanqing, which made him extremely painful. The Japanese invaders not only occupied his northeast country, but also killed his father, so the hatred of the country and the family, how can he endure it any longer.

However, Chang Kaishen, as his sworn brother, not only did not let him fight the Japanese invaders to recover the northeast, but repeatedly forced him to "suppress bandits".

Countless heart-wrenching petitions to resist Japan, countless times of miserable rejection and unhappy dispersion, countless threats and oppression of forced orders, Zhang Hanqing gradually felt hopeless about Chang Kaishen, the anger in his heart had nowhere to vent, and the strong homesickness for the Northeast had nowhere to be resolved.

In desperation, a crazy and earth-shattering plan brewed, took root, sprouted, and grew in Zhang Hanqing's heart.