When Zhang Cheng led the Shaozong to achieve a great victory in Zhiluo Town, the Red First and Fifth Army Corps also came with good news. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Because the Northeast Army evacuated the forces of Qingyang and Heshui in order to rescue the 109th Division in Zhiluo Town, the Red First and Fifth Army Corps took advantage of the weakness under the leadership of Lin Nie, the two bosses, and took two cities in one fell swoop, making the first contribution to the expansion of the base area in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Soviet Region.

When the news reached the central authorities, the commander-in-chief and the central leaders were naturally full of joy.

After the battle of Zhiluozhen, after Zhang Cheng's suggestion, in addition to absorbing some technical arms to join the Red Army, the remaining 5,000 prisoners of the Central Red Army will be released, striving to unite the Northeast Army and let Zhang Xueliang return to the line of stopping the civil war and unanimously resisting Japan.

Of course, before releasing them, Zhang Cheng also organized comrades from the Political Department to persuade and educate 5,000 prisoners.

In addition to patiently preaching to them the ideas and policies of the Workers' and Peasants' Party, he also proposed to them to "stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan" and "resolutely support the Northeast Army to fight back to its hometown!" "Opinions.

In order to influence the prisoners of the Northeast Army, Zhang Cheng also specially organized the actors of the art troupe to arrange a theatrical performance for them, among which the song "On the Songhua River" with the fall of the Northeast as the background touched them very deeply, and many officers and soldiers wept bitterly while listening, and finally caused a chorus of the whole audience, and the voices of lamentation were connected together.

In addition, the songs "My Home is in the Northeast", "Our People in Tunli" and the two-person turn in the Northeast also aroused a strong sense of homesickness among all the officers and men of the Northeast Army, and they thought of their relatives who were still under the iron hooves of the Japanese army.

The comrades of the Political Department took the opportunity to shout slogans "Stop the civil war, unite to resist Japan" and "Go back to your hometown in the Northeast!" "Liberate the Northeast and rescue your loved ones!" The officers and soldiers of the Northeast were deeply affected and shouted one after another, and the scene was very spectacular.

Zhang Cheng saw that the theatrical performance had achieved very good results, and that night he and the political commissar hosted a banquet for more than a dozen captured middle and senior officers of the Northeast Army, during which Zhang Cheng sincerely explained to them the policy of the Red Army, saying that the Red Army absolutely did not take a stand of being an enemy of the Northeast Army, and hoped to coexist peacefully with the Northeast Army and unanimously resist Japan.

Zhang Cheng's sincere words greatly moved several officers, and they all rushed to promise that after returning home, they would persuade Young Marshal Zhang Xueliang more, so that the two armies could stop the civil war as soon as possible and unite to resist Japan.

On the morning of the next day, in accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the commander-in-chief and the central authorities, Zhang Cheng unconditionally released the more than 5,000 officers and men captured by the major commander in order to achieve the goal of an early truce and peaceful coexistence with the Northeast Army.

On the occasion of parting, Zhang Cheng also took two handwritten letters written by the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief Zhou to Zhang Xueliang, a colonel and chief of staff of the Northeast Army, and instructed him to hand them over to Zhang Xueliang himself.

At this time, Zhang Xueliang, who was sitting in Xi'an, was originally full of confidence in personally commanding the operation of encircling and suppressing the Red Army, believing that with the strong military strength of the Northeast Army, the Red Army could be quickly wiped out, and then he could lead the Northeast Army back to his hometown.

However, he never expected that the Red Army would give him a blow to him so quickly, not only was an elite division quickly annihilated, but also took a large area of territory such as Qingyang and Heshui.

Zhang Xueliang held the defeat message in his hand, his hands trembled, he couldn't believe that the powerful Northeast Army would be defeated so badly.

"Impossible! No way! Zhang Xueliang kept repeating these words in his mouth, and he paced back and forth in the office in a fit of rage, still not believing the news of the defeat.

"Deputy Commander-in-Chief, the matter has come to this, you better take care of your body, don't hurt yourself for this defeat. Zhang Cheng of this red bandit can even defeat Xue Yue and Chen Cheng, and it is not impossible to annihilate the 109th Division of the light enemy. ”

Yan Daogang, who had just taken up the post of chief of staff of the Northwest "Suppression of Bandits" General Headquarters, had long been accustomed to the reality that the Kuomintang army was constantly defeated by Zhang Cheng, so he persuaded Zhang Xueliang instead.

"Chief of Staff Yan, tell me what's going on with this Zhang Cheng? Why is he so powerful? Zhang Xueliang asked after calming down.

Speaking of Zhang Cheng, Yan Daogang couldn't help but sigh and said: "This Zhang Cheng is a general who has just emerged from the Red Bandits, and his unit was called the International Division of the Young Communist Party before the Long March. After the Long March, he first undertook the most dangerous task behind the palace, and used the strength of one division to block the Central Army, the Guangdong Army, the Hunan Army, the Gui Army, and the Guizhou Army, a total of more than 100,000 troops.

After the Red Bandits entered Zunyi, the International Division of the Young Communist Party was expanded into a military-level International Column of the Young Communist Party, acting as the pioneer of the Red Bandits, passing all the way through the hurdles, defeating Xue Yue, Liu Xiang, Hu Zongnan and other troops one after another, and our army suffered no less than 100,000 casualties and prisoners.

Zhang Cheng and his troops were called 'Boy Scouts' by our army and various warlords because of their young age, and all the generals of our army who fought against them were invincible. Even Hu Zongnan's 'First Division in the World' was no exception, and was eaten by his troops in one bite. ”

"Oh my God! This force is so strong. Zhang Xueliang was very surprised, he had just returned from quitting smoking abroad, he didn't know much about the Red Army, and he was shocked by Shaozong's achievements.

"Young Marshal, it may not be clear that you have just returned to China, among the main forces of the Central Red Army, the Young Column is not the first-class main force of the Red Army, and above it are the Red First Army and the Red Third Army. The Red Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Party is not easy to mess with! Zhang Xueliang's close adjutant, Lu Zhengchao, reminded in a low voice.

"Yes! Otherwise, the Standing Committee Chairman mobilized a million-strong army, and with the help of planes and artillery, and encircled and intercepted the Red Army from the south to the north over the past few years, but instead of being wiped out, the Red Army became more and more powerful.

Young marshal, in my opinion, this time the Standing Chairman did not have any good intentions in transferring you to the Xi'an front line to 'suppress bandits', saying that if you want to exterminate the Red Army, let us go back to the northeast, but if the Red Army is so easy to exterminate, how can it be our turn!

It's nothing more than seeing that the strength of our Northeast Army is too strong to control, so let our Northeast Army and the Red Army fight to the death, and both will lose, so he can benefit from it! The generals under him persuaded one after another.

"Alright! Alright! You all go out, I want to be quiet. Zhang Xueliang waved his hand to his subordinates irritably and blasted them all away.

After driving out all his subordinates, Zhang Xueliang had lost his previous attitude of looking forward to being bright and high-spirited, and collapsed on the sofa tiredly, and all kinds of chaotic thoughts came to his heart one by one.

Zhang Xueliang couldn't help but think: "Could it be that I was used by the sworn brother again this time, alas, ......, when will this kind of day of sending people under the fence come to an end?" I really want to go back to the Northeast! ”

However, two days later, all the more than 5,000 officers and soldiers released by Shaozong returned, which made Zhang Xueliang ecstatic.

These are all soldiers from the Northeast, the Red Army has been released, and the Red Army has also treated the wounded, which really amazes Zhang Xueliang!

Under the surprise, Zhang Xueliang not only pardoned the crimes of defeat of these officers and soldiers, but also held a banquet to wash away the dust for them.

During the banquet, when several officers saw that Zhang Xueliang's henchmen were all on the table, they opened their hearts and straightened their chests, recounted in detail their battles with the Red Army and their experiences after being captured, and praised the Red Army's policies and stands, which greatly surprised Zhang Xueliang and others.

After the banquet, the colonel's chief of staff, who accepted Zhang Cheng's entrustment, handed over two handwritten letters from the commander and deputy commander Zhou to Zhang Xueliang, who was deeply shocked after browsing, and his desire to strike the war with the Red Army and return to the northeast as soon as possible had begun to take root, sprout, and grow in his heart.