The next day, Xiao Hua came to the conference room with a smile, handed a telegram to Zhang Cheng, and said with a smile: "Division commander, the central government has sent a congratulatory telegram, and it has also sent a commendation order." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Zhang Cheng received the telegram, which read: Heroic comrades of the International Division of the Young Communist Party, I am very happy to hear that your unit has made new achievements and won a great victory in annihilating an entire brigade of the enemy, and I hope that the heroic International Division of the Young Communist Party will make persistent efforts to achieve greater victories for the victory of the Chinese revolution. In addition, the Eastern Front was no longer defensible, and after the troops of the International Division of the Young Communist Party had rested, they had to cross the river and return to the Soviet area as soon as possible to deal with the attack of the Kuomintang Army on the central Soviet area. Central Revolutionary Military Commission: Zhu, Zhou.

"Division commander, the Military Commission ordered us to return to the Soviet area as soon as possible to defend the Central Committee, what do you think?" Xiao Hua asked.

"It seems that the situation in the central Soviet area is already very dangerous, and I think it is very likely that the central government will abandon the revolutionary base areas in the Soviet area in the future." Zhang Cheng said heavily.

"Division commander, you are too alarmist, our Central Soviet Region has the support of millions of ordinary people, and the mass base is extremely solid, if we abandon the Central Soviet District, where can we withdraw to?"

Zhang Cheng was silent in a low voice, just handed a report sent by the special operations team, Xiao Hua glanced at it, and in an instant, his eyes turned red, and he slapped the table and scolded: "These beasts, the people of the Soviet District are also Chinese!" How do you endure it? ”

It turned out that the telegram that Zhang Cheng sent to the political commissar was that when the special operations brigade went to the city to buy medicine in the past few days, the guerrillas learned through the guerrillas that the people in the base areas had been massacred by the white dogs.

After a long time, seeing that Xiao Hua's mood had eased a little, Zhang Cheng said: "Political commissar, our Red Army must give an explanation to the people in the Soviet area about this matter. I have already ordered the special operations brigade to be broken into pieces, cooperate with the intelligence of the local guerrillas, and kill all the white dogs who slaughtered the people, so as to stop the killing, and we must vigorously curb the shameful act of the white dogs indiscriminately killing the people. ”

"The division commander has done a good job in this matter, and we must not condone the indiscriminate massacre of the people, but it is a pity that our Red Army itself cannot be protected, and it is really a shame to the people of the Soviet area!" Xiao Hua nodded.

"We can't blame the Red Army, we overestimated the moral bottom line of the white dog, one day, we will fight back and let those butchers pay for their blood debts." Zhang Cheng said fiercely.

For a while, neither of them spoke, so they sat quietly and calmed the anger in their hearts.

After a long time, Xiao Hua raised his voice and said cautiously: "Division commander, the central government requires us to return to the Soviet area, should we leave immediately?" ”

Zhang Cheng shook his head, and instead of answering Xiao Hua, he asked, "Political commissar, this is not busy in advance, let me first ask you how the transformation of the prisoners has been completed?" ”

When it came to the issue of prisoner conversion, Xiao Hua immediately became happy, and he said excitedly: "Division commander, the effect of the grievance meeting you said is really good, in the past, our army captured enemy soldiers, and less than one percent of them voluntarily joined our army, but as soon as our division's grievance meeting opened, the prisoner conversion rate exceeded half, and the next day, when our division defeated the 46 Brigade again, one-third of the soldiers volunteered to join our army, according to incomplete statistics, now there are more than 6,500 captive soldiers who have volunteered to join our army. ”

"Good! Commissar, you see that we have captured so many weapons this time, and so many prisoners have voluntarily joined our army, I think we can carry out a major reorganization of the troops and form a reinforced division. Zhang Cheng said happily.

"Form a reinforced division, division commander, you really have ideas, but I estimate that the troops below will definitely break their heads for the transformed captive soldiers, alas, some of them have a headache, I'll go and call them over first."

"Hmm."

After Xiao Hua left, Zhang Cheng stood up and looked at the map on the wall. Now the situation in the Red Army is becoming more and more dangerous, and Chang Kaishen of the Kuomintang has reached the highest peak in his life in terms of both pre-war preparations and combat deployment, and politically and economically he has adopted a blockade strategy, so that the Red Army is absolutely inferior in terms of war resources. In terms of tactics, Chang Kaishen also changed his previous style of fighting with a long drive and advanced step by step, which made it difficult for the Red Army to give play to the magic weapon of movement warfare and guerrilla warfare, and he was forced to fight a positional war with the Kuomintang and fight for attrition.

As for the Red Army, Chairman Mao was politically marginalized, he also lost his post as General Political Commissar in the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and the army lost its strong leadership, so to speak, self-destructing the Great Wall. Around 1933, the Soviet leaders gradually seized control of the central Soviet districts and implemented a series of excessively leftist social, political, and economic policies, which damaged the relationship between the Workers' and Peasants' Party and the masses to a considerable extent, and to a certain extent affected the Workers' and Peasants' Party's possession and development of the people's political resources. In addition, the Workers' and Peasants' Party lacked experience in the early process of building political power, the administrative system and supervisory mechanism were not perfect, and after the initial idealistic enthusiasm faded, formalism and bureaucracy grew in the political power at all levels, which also affected the political strength of the Workers' and Peasants' Party. These problems have been further exposed and magnified under the special situation of military tension.

The overall strategic situation has been very clear, and although history has undergone slight changes due to its arrival, the overall trend has not changed, and it is inevitable that the Red Army will be forced to go on a long march.

However, with regard to the Red Army's Long March, Zhang Cheng had a pleasing attitude, and although this was unfair to the common people in the Soviet area, it was absolutely favorable to the situation of the Chinese revolution.

Because the strategic situation of the Soviet base areas is very dangerous, and on the side of the couch, it is impossible to allow others to snore, and the headquarters of the Kuomintang is in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the south can be said to be the back garden of the Kuomintang and the area where the KMT's forces are most concentrated and powerful. Once the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, if the Kuomintang could not effectively control the southern region, the Kuomintang would lose the room for strategic manoeuvre, and once Japan invaded Nanjing, the Kuomintang would have no choice but to surrender.

Therefore, the southern region is a place where the Kuomintang is bound to win, and even if the Red Army wins the fifth victory against encirclement and suppression, the Kuomintang will not stop the pace of the civil war, the sixth and seventh anti-encirclement and suppression will certainly come as scheduled, and Chang Kaishen will certainly fight until there is no Red Army in the south.

The Red Army's fifth anti-encirclement war in history forced the base camp of the Chinese revolution to move from the south to the northwest. Tactically, the Red Army was defeated, but strategically, the Red Army could be said to be a great victory.

The Long March was a phoenix nirvana journey of the Red Army, in which the waves washed away the sand, and the Long March preserved and tempered the backbone of the Workers' and Peasants' Party, and created conditions for the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the development of the Chinese revolutionary cause. From the beginning of 1934 to the end of the Long March in 1936, they broke through the encirclement and blockade of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops and sang the triumphant song of strategic shift, which was a heroic epic written by mortals in the history of modern human warfare.

The victory of the Red Army's Long March was the key to turning the Chinese revolution from crisis to safety. In the northwest region, the Central Army of the Kuomintang is beyond the reach of the whip, and the Northeast Army, the Northwest Army, and the Jin Army in the Northwest Region are also vigilant against Chang Kaishen's Central Army and will not do their best to encircle and suppress the Red Army.

Most importantly, the Long March put an end to the rule of the Soviet faction in the Central Committee, established Chairman Mao's leading position in the Red Army and the Party Central Committee, and the ship of the Chinese revolution finally had a helmsman who could steer its course!

Thinking of this, Zhang Cheng gave up the idea of doing his best in the Fifth Anti-Encirclement War, and instead focused on preserving his strength to the greatest extent in such a brutal war and preserving as much vitality as possible for the Chinese revolution.

For the sake of today's plan, no matter how the central authorities use the International Division of the Young Communist Party, the most pressing task at the moment is to seize the time to reorganize and train the troops and improve their combat effectiveness. Otherwise, if you are not careful to be surrounded and suppressed by the enemy, and fall into a situation of isolation and helplessness, then the fun will be great. After all, its own International Division of the Young Communist Party is essentially a reorganized force, and the child soldiers and captive soldiers account for most of the number, and the composition is complicated.

In the previous two battles of the Young Communist Division, they were both ambush battles and tailwind battles, and if they encountered defeats and headwinds, it was predictable that they would be defeated and even crushed. It can be seen when the International Division of the Young Communist Party crossed the Xiangjiang River in history, in order to grab the road, it actually fought with its own friendly Red Eighth Army Corps.

The situation is urgent, and it seems that the plan for the reorganization of the Young Communist Divisions must be completed today, and time waits for no one, and the Central Army of the Kuomintang may attack the base areas in the Soviet area at any time, and the decisive battle is about to come, leaving little time for the troops to reorganize and train.