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At the meeting, Feng Wenbin preached the policies and propositions of the Red Army, pointing out that the Red Army is a contingent of the poor and is the master of the country for the common people, and these policies and propositions have won the support of the broad masses of poor people in the locality.

Then Feng Wenbin tried a large number of bureaucrats who had blood debts from the people and did many evils, such as Xian Zhiyuan, the county magistrate of the Xuyong puppet government, Zhou Ruipho, the head of the Sichuan Army, and the head of the security regiment.

Seeing that the Red Army was really in charge of their crimes, the common people enthusiastically exposed their crimes, and finally Feng Wenbin tried them to death on the spot and carried them out immediately.

The verdict was definitely given, and suddenly the people of the whole city thundered with joy, and they all clapped their hands and applauded.

Everywhere the criminals paraded through the streets, the people spat at them one after another, throwing rotten eggs, rotten vegetable leaves, and all kinds of filth, which shows how unpopular these bad elements are.

In the end, the Red Army organized people to confiscate the property of these reactionary bureaucrats and local tyrants and gentry, compensated the people who had forcibly demolished their houses by Xianzhiyuan, and distributed a large amount of land to the landless poor peasants.

Later, when the Central Red Army came to recruit troops, the people of Xuyong enthusiastically participated, and 1,000 young people were admitted to join the Red Army on the spot.

At the beginning of February, the Central Red Army was stationed in the Xuyong and Gulin areas, looking for an opportunity to cross the Yangtze River north to join the Red Fourth Front Army.

However, at this time, under the pretext that the Jialing River is "wide and deep, and heavily defended," Zhang Guitao not only did not lead the Red Fourth Front Army south to attract the Sichuan enemy, but instead attacked southern Shaanxi in the north, so that the Sichuan army had no worries and was able to concentrate all its efforts to block our army's northward advance.

The two columns of the enemy troops in the south, Wu Qiwei and Zhou Hunyuan, and the Wang Jialie division of the Guizhou army, took the opportunity to maneuver from south to north, chasing the Central Red Army, and the four brigades of the Sun Du Division of the Yunnan Army also advanced rapidly to Bijie and Zhenxiong.

The Central Revolutionary Military Commission under the leadership of the commander-in-chief accurately judged the situation and held that "it is impossible to realize the plan to cross the Yangtze River north at present," and instead advanced to the Tashi area, where the enemy forces on the border of Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan provinces had set up air defenses.

On 9 February, the Central Red Army took advantage of a short period of time to complete the reorganization and streamlining of its troops in Tashi, and in addition to the small column, the Central Red Army was organized into 22 regiments, plus a cadre regiment.

After the reorganization, the Central Red Army was successfully slimmed down.

The 1st Red Army Corps was organized into two divisions and 8 regiments, the 3rd Red Army Corps was organized into two divisions and 6 regiments, and the 5th and 9th Red Army Corps were each reorganized into four regiments, and the divisional establishment was abolished.

In addition, the 1st and 3rd Red Army Corps each had an artillery battalion, and the Red 5th and 9th Red Army Corps each had an artillery company.

However, the International Column of the Young Communist Party, as the combat unit with the largest number of troops and the most sophisticated weapons in the Central Red Army, not only did it maintain its strength unchanged and did not reduce its strength, but on the contrary, it replenished 2,000 new troops, enriched the combat force, and reached a state of full strength, and the total number of the whole army rose again to 30,000 people.

During this rare period of recuperation, Shao Zong actively conducted training and carried out political and ideological education for all officers and men on the other hand, so as to establish an unbreakable firm belief.

At the same time, Zhang Cheng considered that the Red Army would cross the river back and forth on both sides of the Chishui River in the future, so he had to take precautions and make preparations in advance.

Therefore, Zhang Cheng secretly ordered the troops to dispatch a search team to collect a large number of boats and planks along the two banks, and then secretly hide them near the major crossings of the Chishui River, so that once the Central Military Commission ordered the troops to cross the river, the young column could build a pontoon bridge one step ahead of others and calmly cross the river.

On 13 February, the KMT military authorities openly announced that they would "fight a dramatic battle" with the Red Army in the Tashi area on 13 and 14 February, asserting that it would be "absolutely impossible for the Red Army to cross the thunder pond" and that "it would be able to fight in one go."

However, the commander-in-chief had already begun to deploy eastward on February 10, and ordered all corps to "quickly break away from the flank attacks of the Sichuan and Yunnan enemies, and decide to move to the Snow Mountain Pass and the area west of it from the 11th of tomorrow, so as to seize the opportunity to cross the river, and prepare to take the Xue Yue Corps and the Guizhou enemy as the main combat objectives."

On 14 February, when Xue Yue rushed to Tashi in a vigorous manner, the Red Army had already advanced eastward, crossed the "Lei Chi", and arrived at Gulin, Yingshan, Moni, Hei Whistle and other places.

The next day, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission issued the "Action Plan for the Second Crossing of the Chishui River," which pointed at the weakest Guizhou army of the enemy: "Our field army takes crossing the Chishui River to the east and destroying the Guizhou enemy's Wang Jialie army as the main combat goal, and has decided to cross the Chishui from Lintan to the Shunjiang site section through Taipingdu, and then advance to the Tongzi area, preparing to destroy the Guizhou enemy who comes to Tucheng from Tongzi, or go directly to Tongzi to attack and destroy it. ”

In order to translate the strategic intentions of the Party Central Committee into the conscious actions of all Red Army commanders and fighters, the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution issued a "Letter to All Red Commanders and Fighters" on February 16, pointing out that "it is our most central task at present to fight a great victory, destroy a large number of enemies, arm ourselves with their guns and bullets, and arm tens of millions of workers, peasants, and toiling masses in Yunnan, Guichuan, and Sichuan."

It is stated that "the Red Army must constantly transfer the area of operation...... and the sole purpose is to achieve victory in the war under favorable conditions".

Later, the famous American writer and journalist Harrison. Salisbury, in The Long March: The Unheard Story, commented on the proclamation: "Although it was an order issued by the Military Council, it reads as if it were written by the Commander-in-Chief of the Workers' and Peasants' Party...... The Red Army suddenly advanced, and suddenly retreated...... Chang Kaishen and his commanders were puzzled. Information on the whereabouts of the Workers' and Peasants' troops often took almost a week for the KMT to arrive. ”

The senior generals of the Kuomintang also saw that the Red Army's Long March had undergone a "major change" in strategy, and they all said that they really could not understand the Red Army's intentions.

At this time, after seven days of continuous rapid marching, the various units of the Central Red Army finally passed through a gap in the heavy encirclement of the Kuomintang army and jumped out of the encirclement.

So far, the Kuomintang army has not yet ascertained the movements and intentions of the Central Red Army, and its various armies are still advancing rapidly towards Zhaxi.

This completely fell into the calculations of the commander-in-chief, and it was not until later that our army crossed the Chishui River again that the enemy suddenly realized.

The re-entry of the Central Red Army into northern Guizhou made Chang Kaishen puzzled.

After some careful analysis, it finally dawned on him that the military operations of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army were mainly based on movement warfare, which was very much like someone's handwriting.

Obviously, the person he feared most in his heart had returned to the core of the leadership of the CPC Central Committee and resumed the heavy responsibility of commanding the Red Army.

After that, Chang Kaishen reminded more than once in the military meeting with Xue Yue: "You must be careful, don't fall into the trap of the bandits." ”

In order to redeem the defeat, Chang Kaishen hurriedly ordered the three brigades of the Sichuan Army to pursue eastward from the vicinity of Tashi, the Guizhou enemy hurriedly dispatched troops from Zunyi and its vicinity to reinforce Loushan Pass and Tongzi, and the 59th and 93rd Divisions of the first column marched from Qianxi and Guiyang to Zunyi, in an attempt to prevent and encircle and annihilate the Red Army in Loushan Pass or the area north of Zunyi.

Chang Kaishen was anxious, but the commander was calm, he decided to take advantage of the fact that most of the pursuing enemy had not yet arrived, quickly break through the blockade of the Guizhou army, occupy Loushan Pass and the area south of it, and then take Zunyi, in order to gain the initiative.