As if to add another stroke of luster to the Red Army's occupation of Huangping, at about two o'clock in the afternoon, the central column that had entered Huangping soon after came with the good news that He Zizhen had successfully given birth to a baby girl.

Hearing the news, he named his daughter Li Ying, which means that the Red Army is a righteous division and should win to commemorate the victory of Huang Ping.

At this time, [***], I am in a good mood. Think about He Jian and Bai Chongxi being firmly targeted by Liu Yimin's Central Guard Division, they didn't dare to come out, and they had to release the Red Army prisoners of war and provide the Red Army with silver dollars, weapons and ammunition; Thinking about it again, from the passage to Liping to Jianhe, and then to today's big victory, I only feel that since the Long March, there has never been such a joy and comfort as today! He called out to squad leader Hu to take out pen and ink, and wrote down the famous work "Three Songs of Sixteen Character Orders" on a piece of rice paper bought from Huang Ping:

Mountain, fast horse whip not under the saddle. Looking back, three feet from the sky.

The mountains, the sea and the rivers are rolling. The galloping is urgent, and the battle of thousands of horses is still in full swing.

The mountain, piercing the blue sky, is not broken. The heavens want to fall, and they depend on it.

After writing, I felt that the gesture was like a dragon and snake, dripping and hearty, and I was very satisfied. I wrote another small note:

Folk song: "There is a skull mountain above, and there is a Babao Mountain below, three feet three from the sky." A man must bow his head, and a horse must be saddled. ”

After thinking about it, he wrote on it again, "The book is given to Comrade Liu Yimin." [***], December 19, 1934, after the Battle of Huangping. ”

After writing it, he handed it over to squad leader Hu for proper keeping, and after meeting with the Central Guard Division, he handed it over to Comrade Liu Yimin. Then he went to the central column to visit his wife and daughter.

Seeing [***] come in, He Zizhen, who had just given birth, turned her face away, and tears kept falling.

[***] hugged the child first, then walked into He Zizhen's bed, leaned over, "Zizhen, Zizhen" called twice, and He Zizhen turned his face.

[***] said softly in his thick Hunan accent: "Zizhen, hard work." ”

He Zizhen choked up and said, "Runzhi, it's not the right time for the child to come. But I don't want to give my child away. I don't know how Maomao is now, whether she is still alive. ”

One sentence touched [***]'s sorrow, thinking about the sacrifice of Yang Kaihui and the three sons who didn't know their whereabouts, and then thinking about the younger brother Mao Zetan who stayed in Ruijin, the youngest son Mao Mao, and the soldiers who fell on the bank of the Xiangjiang River, they were stupid for a while.

Deng Yingchao and Liu Ying, who were in the same central column and lived not far away, saw [***] coming, and also walked in, and after listening to He Zizhen's words, they were very sad. The lesbians cried a lot, and after a while, there was a cry in the kung fu room. Liu Ying said while crying that she was willing to take care of the child with He Zizhen, now that we have won several battles, the conditions are much better, and there are enough mules and horses to ride, and we resolutely do not agree to give the child away again.

Sad, upset, and walked out of the room. When I went out, Xu Teli, Xie Jueya, Lin Boqu, Dong Biwu and others were standing in the courtyard outside the room. [***] stepped forward quickly, and was about to shake hands to say hello, his teacher Xu Teli waved his hand, and then said: "Runzhi, bring it, it can be regarded as leaving a little blood!" Anying, Anqing, Anlong, and Maomao don't know if they can find it, you're also in your 40s, bring it! ”

Xie Juezai said sadly: "I don't know how many people who stayed in the Soviet area can survive, I am really worried about Shuheng and Qiubai." Take the children with you, as long as we play well, we can find a foothold. If you leave the child behind, you will be surrendering the child's fate to the enemy. ”

In this way, Li Ying became the smallest red imp in the Red Army's Long March, instead of being left near the Sword River as in the original history, and finally did not know what to do.

After receiving the news of the loss of Jianhe, Wang Jialie, who was still supervising the battle in Machangping, ordered the Guizhou army on the front line of Machangping to retreat on all fronts and arrange a defensive line around Guiyang at the first time; ordered all the militia groups in Fuquan, Anshun, and Bijie to concentrate in Guiyang, accept the reorganization of the teaching regiments left in Guiyang, and ensure the strength of the defense of Guiyang; He Zhizhong and Bai Huizhang were ordered to lead the main force to speed up the return to the west, and they must go to the north bank of the Wujiang River to avoid encountering the red bandits, and ensure that they return to Guiyang before the red bandits. Then he kept sending telegrams to Chairman Chiang, claiming that if he did not send reinforcements, he could not be responsible for ensuring that Guiyang was not lost.

Madame Wan also gave full play to her diplomatic skills, and on behalf of the women's circles and industrial and commercial circles in Guizhou, sent a report to Madame Chiang, imploring Madame Chiang to remind the chairman of the committee that Guiyang must not sit idly by and watch Guiyang fall into the hands of the red bandits. Then he sent reports to the wives of Liu Xiang, Long Yun, He Jian, Li Zongren, and Bai Chongxi, imploring them to exert their influence and urge the rescue of Guizhou.

In this case, Chiang Kai-shek could not sit still, and on the one hand, he strictly ordered Xue Yue to act quickly and enter Guizhou quickly; On the one hand, he urged Liu Xiang to concentrate the main force in southern Sichuan and reinforce northern Guizhou at any time. I was afraid that Guiyang would lose, so I urgently ordered Yunnan to transfer one or two divisions to reinforce Guiyang as soon as possible; He ordered Tang Enbo and other troops who were far away in Jiangxi to carry out water transportation and vehicle transportation at the same time, and quickly went south to enter Guizhou as Xue Yue's reinforcements. At this time, he didn't care whether He Jian wanted to be a turtle with a shrunken head, let alone the ill-intentioned of being afraid that Li and Bai Gui would enter Guizhou, and at the same time ordering He Jian to guard the border of Hunan and Guizhou, the Gui army to guard the border of Guizhou and Guizhou, and strictly prevent the red bandits from turning around and returning to the south, he did not hesitate to be commensurate with He Jian, Li, and Bai as brothers, and ordered He Jian to let Liu Jianxu lead at least two divisions to pursue with Xue Yue no matter what, and ordered the Seventh Army of the Gui Army to cooperate with the Guangdong Army to go north out of southern Guizhou and deploy defenses to the Duyun line.

For a time, from Jiangxi to Sichuan and Yunnan, on the railway, on the water, and in the mountains and ravines, the wind and clouds changed abruptly, and the atmosphere of an impending war was permeated everywhere.

Xue Yue had already held a military meeting on the afternoon of the 19th, and it had already been arranged, and the plan was to set off on the 20th. After receiving the chairman's new telegram order, he immediately took action, and regardless of whether Liu Jianxu's Hunan army moved or not, he led eight divisions of the Central Army into Xinhuang and prepared to go straight to Guiyang along the Xiangqian Avenue of Yuping, Zhenyuan, and Huangping.

100,000 troops and eight divisions acted together, and the momentum was really not small, which frightened the Miao people, Yao people, Dong people, and Han people along the road to flee into the mountains. The generals of the Central Army sighed that it was really a remote area, backward and ignorant, and they did not even know that the Central Army was here to suppress bandits and save the people, and it seemed that the New Life Movement launched by the chairman of the National People's Congress still needs to be promoted throughout the country as soon as possible.

On the night of the 19th, the 1st Red Division occupied the old state without firing a single shot. On the morning of the 20th, [***] and Zhu De, who had just been stationed in Jiuzhou, received a report from the 1st Red Division, and according to the report of the vanguard company of the 1st Red Regiment, it was found that the Guizhou army on the front line of Machangping had been withdrawn. [***], Zhu De, Zhou Enlai analyzed, it must be the emptiness of Guiyang, and Wang Jialie has returned to Guiyang. In this way, there is no defending enemy in the area south of the Wujiang River and east of Guiyang, and the enemy's strength in the Zunyi area is bound to be weak. If God doesn't take it, so does sin. In addition, it was learned from the radio interception that Chiang Kai-shek had come to Guizhou's aid on a large scale, so he ordered the 2nd Division and the cadre regiment of the 1st Red Army to capture Weng'an, pointing to Wujiang, and the Military Commission column accompanied him; The 1st Army, the 1st Division, the 15th Division and the 3rd Army Corps attacked and occupied Fuquan and Kaiyang by road, creating the illusion of coercing Guiyang, and then turned around and went north to force the Wujiang River; ordered the Red Fifth Army Corps and the Ninth Army Corps to hurry up to the front line of the Wujiang River and cross the river first; The Central Guard Division, which had completed the task of covering the stagnant enemy, was ordered to take immediate action, move north from Jingwu Prefecture, advance along Liping, Jianhe, Shibing, and Yuqing to Wujiang, and catch up with the main force. If the main force of the enemy's central army arrives and blockades the Wujiang River, it will be hidden and waiting south of the Wujiang River to fight in a mobile manner.

When he received the telegram order, Liu Yimin had already led the whole division into Liping.

On the morning of the 19th, when the Red Fifth Division occupied the position on the slope of Huangpingjian Mountain, Zhang Yicheng, chief of staff of the 18th Regiment, was ordered to lead the reconnaissance company to set off. In the evening, Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong led the main force of the Central Guard Division, which had completed the formation and training, bid farewell to Jingwuzhou, and advanced towards Liping with torches.

After a night's march, they reached the front line of the Ma family regiment in Liping. After arranging a cordon, the troops dispersed and camped on the spot. At around 10 o'clock, Liu Jianli woke up Liu Yimin and showed him the telegram from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission.

After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin began to think. Judging from the telegram, the Central Red Army was about to force its way across the Wujiang River, and the great Zunyi Conference was about to be convened soon. But why didn't the Red Army take the opportunity to occupy Guiyang? Now Guiyang must be very empty, Wang Jialie's main force should still be on the way from Tongren to Guiyang, the central army is basically on a parallel line with itself, the Gui army and the Hunan army will not participate in the pursuit for the time being, only after it is determined that their troops leave the passage and march westward, it is estimated that the Gui army and the Hunan army will take action. The Sichuan army is still in southern Sichuan, and even if the Yunnan army is dispatched, it will not be able to rush to Guiyang in a while and a half. Could it be that the central authorities intercepted the enemy's telegram and knew that the enemy situation had changed significantly? There is such a possibility.

Did Wang Jialie concentrate his efforts to defend Guiyang? Should be. However, even if Wang Jialie returned to defense, without his two main divisions, it would be impossible to stop the Red Army with the existing strength in Guiyang. You must know that due to his arrival, the losses of the main force of the Red Army during the Xiangjiang Battle were reduced a lot, and it is said that there are still about 47,000 people after crossing the Xiangjiang River. Even if there were some losses on the way to the passage, there should be more than 40,000 people, and if you add the recruits you sent last time, there should be 45,000 people. Coupled with the expansion of red and replenishment of prisoners from Liping to Jianhe and Huangping all the way, it should be almost 50,000 people, and there is enough food and ammunition. Coupled with the 9,000 men of his own Central Guard Division, it is not a problem to take Guiyang at all.

Yes, the leaders of the Central Military Commission must have considered that if Guiyang was taken, it would cause the enemy to besiege and counterattack on all sides, so that the main force of the Red Army would fall into strategic passivity, and at that time, it would be difficult for the Red Army to control northern Guizhou and march into southern Sichuan, let alone join forces with the four front armies.

If you think about it carefully, I am afraid that there is another consideration, if the attack on Guiyang does not go well, the troops will be stopped under the fortified city, not to mention the casualties, once the main force of the enemy's central army arrives, it will be difficult to advance and retreat.

Besides, even if the Red Army occupied Guiyang, and with the genius of military command and the heroic invincibility of the Red Army soldiers, it defeated the enemy's reinforcements from all walks of life one by one and established a base in Guizhou, which could only be trapped in a corner. It is basically impossible to break through the blockade of Chiang Kai-shek's national axe. How can you talk about going north to resist? You must know that only by joining forces with the Red Army can it win the general recognition of the people of the whole country and achieve rapid development.

Liu Yimin, who is familiar with military history, knows that after the Zunyi Conference, there were two main factors that affected the course of the Long March: First, because the Red Army in northern Shaanxi could not get in touch with the central government, the Central Red Army did not know that there was still a Red Army base in northern Shaanxi, and it was never able to determine the destination of the Long March. Historically, it was not until September 9, 1935, after [***] and Nie Rongzhen occupied Hadapu in Gansu Province, that they learned from the seized newspapers that there was a Red Army base in northern Shaanxi. Second, the Battle of Tucheng after the Zunyi Conference was not fought well, and the Red Army was forced to choose to cross Chishui to the west. In order to get rid of the enemy's encirclement and pursuit, he began to cross the Chishui four times, and then moved to the border of Yunnan and Guizhou, running many more roads, although the enemy was dragged thin, but also dragged the number of people of the Central Red Army, which had suffered large losses, even less. It was not until the Dadu River was successfully crossed that it was considered to be free from the pursuit of the enemy. However, what was waiting for the heroic and combative Central Red Army was the forbidden area of life, the snow-capped mountains and grasslands, and Zhang Guotao's battle to bully others, which was really worse. In the end, the main force of the 86,000 Central Red Army from Yudu arrived in northern Shaanxi with only a few thousand people left.

If you can tell [***], Vice Chairman Zhou, and Commander-in-Chief Zhu that there is a base in northern Shaanxi, wouldn't that be in line with the slogan of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission going north to resist the war? If we could help the main force of the Red Army defeat the Sichuan Army and march directly along Sichuan to northern Shaanxi, wouldn't it be possible to greatly shorten the process of the Long March and save the lives of many Red Army soldiers? If it can really be realized, no matter what the ending is, it will not be in vain.

But how to say it and when to say it need to be carefully grasped.

Obviously, if you make up that you have heard about it before joining the Red Army, it will not only be not very credible, but it will also easily arouse suspicion and cause unnecessary trouble. However, if the information is obtained from the documents and newspapers of the captured enemy, it is clear that there is no problem. At the end of the battles at Xiaoshui and Xikou, no information in this regard was found from the documents carried by Zhang Liangji, Tao Guang and others, indicating that the transportation was indeed inconvenient and information was blocked at that time. It seems that only from the high-ranking officers of the Central Army, they should have documents in this regard, at least clearly. As long as you interrogate it, it is estimated that everything will be fine.

Liu Jianli couldn't have imagined that in just this moment, Liu Yimin's mind was already turning a thousand times, and so many earth-shattering thoughts were born.

Seeing that Liu Yimin was deep in thought, Liu Jianli didn't speak, and stood aside to watch Liu Yimin in a daze. While watching and thinking, I don't know where the division commander learned such a skill, he can make the enemy fearful at a young age, and even the Red Army's sworn enemy like He Jian has to obediently hold millions of silver dollars and so many weapons and ammunition in both hands. If you hadn't experienced it yourself, you wouldn't have believed it, or someone said that I might think it was the storyteller's nonsense. Remembering that when he was trading with the Hunan army in Xikou, Liu Qingchu was finally forced by himself to take out all the silver dollars, Liu Jianli laughed out loud.

The laughter woke Liu Yimin up, and when he looked back, Liu Jianjian's eyes were staring at him, but the smile and his eyes were separated, and he couldn't help laughing because he remembered something ridiculous. Liu Yimin deliberately teased: "Chief of Staff, did you remember your sister-in-law's pretty appearance and couldn't help laughing!" ”

Liu Jianli realized that he was distracted, and hurriedly said: "Master, I am an authentic bachelor, and my daughter-in-law doesn't know which mother-in-law's house she is in!" You hurriedly say, what should we do, whether the originally planned combat operation against Xue Yue's Central Army will be canceled. ”

Liu Yimin shook his head: "No, continue to execute, and when Xue Yue is taught a lesson, we will rush across the Wujiang River and join the main force." ”

Liu Jianli asked again: "Then how do you call back to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission?" ”

Liu Yimin thought for a while and said: "Report to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission and [***] that our division has now entered Liping, and plans to divide the troops into two routes, and the two companies of the baggage battalion will escort the silver dollars and some ammunition obtained from He Jian and Bai Chongxi, and travel all night and night, along the Jianhe River and Huangping straight to the Wujiang River, please leave one battalion of the first or third army to wait in Jiuzhou, and it is best to return to Huangping to meet them." The main force of the division advanced along Liping and Jianhe to Zhenyuan, determined to wait in hiding in Zhenyuan to find and annihilate the Central Army led by Xue Yue. After succeeding, he rushed across the Wujiang River and joined forces with the main force in Zunyi. ”

After Liu Jianli repeated, he raised his legs to leave, and Liu Yimin said again: "Send a report to Zhang Yicheng, after the reconnaissance company enters Zhenyuan, it can be divided into separate roads to conduct covert reconnaissance, don't be limited to the junction of Zhenyuan and Yuping, what if when we arrive, Xue Yue's Central Army has already passed?" The junction between Zhenyuan and Shibing, the junction between Zhenyuan and Shiqian, and the junction between Zhenyuan and Yuqing are all the focus of reconnaissance. The most important thing is to carry out meticulous reconnaissance around the Xiangqian Avenue and find a suitable battlefield. Got it? ”

Liu Jianli agreed and went, and Liu Yimin went back to make up for sleep. There's no way, young people always lack sleep, even if they come through time, they can't avoid vulgarity.

After receiving Liu Yimin's telegram, [***], Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Bogu, Zhang Wentian, and Wang Jiaxiang had a brief meeting, they immediately sent a telegram, instructing the Second Division of the First Army to send two battalions back to Huangping to meet the baggage. Agree with the operational plan of the Central Guard Division, but grasp the opportunity and do what it can. If the attack is successful, it should quickly telegraph to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission and arrange for troops to meet and cross the river. If the attack does not go well, it is necessary to quickly disengage from contact with the enemy, and it is absolutely impossible to let the troops fall into the encirclement of the main force of the enemy's central army, and then cross the river after getting rid of the enemy.

After receiving a reply from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, Liu Jianli did not wake up Liu Yimin immediately, and waited until more than 12 o'clock to wake Liu Yimin up. Liu Yimin read the telegram, thought for a while, and felt that the strength of the two companies of the baggage battalion was too weak, and if there was an accident, it would be over, and he was afraid of 10,000. Therefore, Liu Jianli arranged for the cavalry battalion to bring a radio station to escort the two companies of the baggage battalion to set off immediately, and to ensure that the baggage was safely handed over to the troops of the Second Division. After the task was completed, the cavalry battalion went straight to Zhenyuan along the Huangping and Shi Bingjian roads and joined the main force. The two companies of the baggage battalion moved with the troops of the 2nd Division, and waited for the main force of the division to arrive in Zunyi before returning to the establishment.

Liu Jianli was busy arranging, Liu Yimin couldn't sleep, and saw that most of the soldiers who were sleeping on the hillside wrapped in clothes had woken up and had already begun to gnaw dry food, so Liu Yimin ordered the troops to assemble, set off immediately, and rushed to Liping County to eat and rest again.

The main road, where there was no human figure in sight just now, immediately became lively, and more than 9,000 people and horses of the Central Guard Division of the Red Army went straight to Liping County along the main road. There, they will rest for a while, and then, in the vast darkness of the night, continue their march northwest of Liping.

(To be continued)