As far as the current situation is concerned, Li Jiansheng has only one way to reorganize the troops and step up combat preparations!

This is because, as early as when the revolutionary base areas in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi led by Li Jiansheng took the initiative to attack the enemy in Chenzhou, the Central Soviet Region was now carrying out the arduous fifth anti-encirclement and suppression.

As a matter of fact, as early as last year, in September 1933, shortly after Li Jiansheng led two special battalions into the Central Soviet Region, the Kuomintang authorities gathered more than 1 million troops and launched an unprecedented large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Central Soviet Region. However, due to the previous four victories of the Central Red Army against encirclement and suppression, the self-confidence of the Red Army from top to bottom was unprecedented; However, the Kuomintang authorities' strategic policy for launching the fifth encirclement and suppression campaign was different, and it did not attract sufficient attention from the central Soviet region in the early stage. It turned out that this time, in the course of "encirclement and suppression," the Kuomintang authorities adopted the operational policy of "three parts military and seven points political" and exerted pressure on the central Soviet region in political, economic, cultural, and other aspects. As for direct operations, the guidance of German experts was solicited and the method of building a large number of pillboxes and fortifications and gradually narrowing the encirclement in order to compress the area of activity of the Red Army. However, in the early days of encirclement and suppression, because the Kuomintang authorities were tightly deployed and moved strictly but slowly, and because the Red Army was still a relatively wide base at that time, it was able to guerrilla and attack, so it did not pay special attention to these Kuomintang troops. In other words, the Kuomintang authorities' method of "boiling frogs in warm water" did not have much impact on the core of the Central Soviet District at the first time. Therefore, everything was normal in the core of the Central Soviet District, but I did not know that this time was the most dangerous.

It was precisely because of this that Li Jiansheng was able to avenge Wang Erzhuo in the Central Soviet Region, and calmly rescued more than 1,600 outstanding commanders, and then brought them to his base area. At present, when Li Jiansheng's troops were reorganized and effectively attacked the enemy in Chenzhou, on the one hand, the Kuomintang authorities' plan to carry out the fourth joint encirclement and suppression of the revolutionary base areas in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi was strangled in the cradle, and on the other hand, Li Jiansheng's troops were further strengthened. However, I have to admit that the current life of the Sino-British Soviet zone is indeed very difficult.

Previously, the Kuomintang authorities fought only on the periphery and did not have a very great influence on the central Soviet districts. However, after more than half a year, when all aspects of the deployment tend to be perfected, this power will be revealed. The Central Red Army was confined to an unprecedented passivity. This is because the scope of the Central Soviet Zone has been greatly squeezed, and the Red Army, which used to be accustomed to guerrilla warfare, cannot guerrilla warfare at this time, and cannot win by attacking! Slowly, it is moving towards a vicious circle. This is because, the more we cannot win the war, the more likely we are to be repelled by the Kuomintang troops, and the more the territory we originally controlled will be occupied by the Kuomintang troops, and this will further lose the spatial initiative of the guerrillas!

Of course, Li Jiansheng did not know these specific examples. Although, on the whole, he is familiar with history, he knows that the day of the Central Red Army will be very difficult at the moment, and it will become more and more difficult, and even in October this year, the Central Red Army was forced to carry out the Long March. But he just couldn't remind him. Besides, he has a lot of things at hand at the moment, how can he still have the energy to take care of the affairs of the base area? Fortunately, he knew the trend of history and knew that the central authorities would eventually turn the corner, but he was still not too worried about the central authorities. So, for now, it's just a matter of concentrating on your own business.

The most urgent task at the moment is to reorganize the army.

The first point was the establishment of the Red Seventeenth Army Corps. That is, the Red Army will be unified in some small base areas around the revolutionary base areas in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi. However, the strength of these Red Army troops was really pitiful, and the local troops in the seven small base areas were only reorganized into a single division, and they were not fully recruited. How can this be organized into a legion? There is no way, Li Jiansheng is already an old sparrow in Dongting Lake now, so he naturally knows how to deal with it. At the moment, he discussed with Huang Su and several others to carry out a new round of reorganization of his troops: the 10th Division of the Red 16th Army Corps and the 9th Division of the Red 18th Army Corps were transferred to the Red 17th Army Corps. The reorganized units of the Red Army in various localities were called the 11th Division, which was also incorporated into the 17th Army Corps of the Red Army. In addition, the four regiments of the machine gun division directly under the regiment led by Liu Limin were scattered, and except for one heavy machine gun battalion, which continued to be incorporated into the front army guard regiment, the remaining three regiments and two battalions were all incorporated into the three regiments of the Red 16th, 17th, and 18th Army. Among them, the Red 16th and Red 18th regiments were each newly incorporated into a machine gun regiment; The Red XVII Army had poor firepower and was organized into one regiment and two battalions. The Red 16th and Red 18th Army Corps were each assigned a heavy fire regiment this time, and their strength was greatly strengthened, so they transferred one battalion from each subordinate division, and a total of two regiments were transferred from the two regiments, and merged with a machine gun regiment that had been previously incorporated into the Red 17th Army to form a brand-new Red 12th Division. In addition to one of the other two machine-gun battalions, which became directly under the Red 17th Army Corps, the other battalion was scattered and incorporated into the Red 9th, Red 10th, and Red 11th divisions as a company.

The second point is to arrange the main backbone of each corps. After Li Jiansheng's careful consideration, it was finally decided that the newly established Red Seventeenth Army would be headed by Zeng Zhongsheng, deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Third Front Army. Zeng Zhongsheng no longer concurrently served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the front army. Personnel were drawn from the units directly under the Red Third Front Army and the Red 16th and 18th Army Corps to form the units directly under the Red 17th Army Corps. Zhao Boping, former director of the Political Department of the 18th Red Army Corps, served as the political commissar of the 17th Red Army Corps. Zhao Boping's post was taken over by his deputy, Gao Xiangdong, a veteran of the Red Army. The chief of staff of the 16 th Army Corps of the Red Army was Li Xiangyang, the founder of the largest base area in southeastern Hunan Province, a veteran Red Army member, and a veteran party member. The leaders of the Red 9th and Red 10th divisions continued to serve as the original leaders. The commander of the Red 11th Division was Su Jianfei, the founder of the second largest block of the seven base areas, a veteran Red Army and a veteran party member, and the political commissar was Li Xiangyang's deputy and veteran party member Yu Saibin. The commander of the 12th Red Division was Yang Zhengqing, the former commander of the 62nd Division of the Red Army from the Central Soviet Region and the former commander of the 62nd Division of the Red Army in southern Jiangnan; The political commissar was Ji Jukui, Li Jiansheng's old subordinate and a member of the Yuanping Shicheng Defense Bureau who was one of the first to join Li Jiansheng's ministry. Ji Jukui's birth was very bad, and later he came to the City Defense Bureau as a soldier, and was inspired by Li Jiansheng after being captured, and grew up quickly. At present, except for the two sacrifices of the first batch of Pingshi's city defense soldiers, the other few are now regiment-level cadres. Among them, Huang Hua is the fastest rising, and now he is the head of the corps, and Ji Jukui is the second, and this time he was proposed by Li Jiansheng to be appointed as the political commissar of the division.

The third point is to supplement the ministries. All regiments and divisions, after the current reorganization, are in a state of non-full strength. Li Jiansheng instructed that in this battle of Chenzhou, a total of more than 12,000 enemies were captured, and all of them were assigned to the above departments. Among them, 12 combat divisions and one artillery division of the three corps were replenished to the standard state in advance, and a total of more than 5,600 prisoners were consumed.

Fourth, the formation of the Guards Division of the Front Army. After these actions, among the more than 12,000 prisoners captured in the Battle of Chenzhou, more than 6,000 remained, as well as newly recruited youths, totaling about 7,800. Li Jiansheng decided to use these sources of troops as the basis for the newly established Guards Division of the Red Third Front Army. The backbone of the three corps was transferred to serve as cadres at all levels of the independent division. Fortunately, after digging up more than 1,600 backbone troops from the Central Soviet Region last time, and the original teaching regiment of the Red Third Front Army also sent a number of backbone cadres, coupled with the fact that Li Jiansheng's department has always practiced the practice of several deputies in one post, the backbone of this new independent division is not serious at present. The division commander is Liu Limin, Li Jiansheng's favorite general and former commander of the machine gun division; The political commissar is still Wang Zhengfei, who is also Li Jiansheng's favorite general. Considering that Liu Limin and Wang Zhengfei's original machine gun division was a first-class firepower division, and now Bala threw them into such a division, for fear that the two of them would feel a little uncomfortable, so he gave this independent division the name of "Guards Division". Fortunately, most of the soldiers in this division are well-trained Kuomintang soldiers, and the other part of the recruits are also young peasants with good physical fitness and strong convictions, and their combat effectiveness is not bad on the whole. Moreover, this division has more than 7,800 people, and it is the only division-level unit under Li Jiansheng's division with a 6-regiment formation. For other divisional units, all combat divisions are 3 regiments; The artillery division is formed as 2 brigades and 4 regiments. However, although the combat division was 3 regiments, each division had about 4,500 combatants, and it was not simply the same number of two divisions as the Guards Division. As for each corps, it has four combat divisions and some corps directly subordinate troops, about 22,500 men.

At this point, the "Chenzhou reorganization" of Li Jiansheng's department came to an end. After this time, the total strength of the Red Third Front Army under Li Jiansheng's command was nearly 80,000, and it had a total of 12 combat divisions under the jurisdiction of the Red 16th, Red 17th, and Red 18th Army Corps, as well as an artillery division and a guards division directly under the Front Army.