Chapter 1 A Discussion of the Cavalry

When Li Jiansheng led his troops to Zunyi, several giants were preparing for a meeting and did not come to greet him; And this time, when Li Jiansheng left, several giants came to see him off, and they were sent outside the gate of Zunyi City. This time, Li Jiansheng's cavalry unit opened everyone's eyes. You must know that the troops led by Li Jiansheng at the moment include 2,000 cavalry of Shao Qianqian's cavalry regiment and a cavalry battalion in the guard regiment, totaling 500 people, with a total of 2,500 cavalry. This kind of momentum, that was the first time it appeared in the eyes of several giants, and they were stunned. Because this is the first time everyone has seen so many cavalry!

Shao Qianqian really has two brushes, how long has it been? But the cavalry he brought out was the same. At this moment, when I saw a group of people sending the legion commander over, I was a little excited. Moreover, there were a few people who sent the regiment commander that he recognized, one was Comrade Zedong, one was Comrade Enlai, and the other was the commander-in-chief, all of whom were his top bosses. You know, when he Shao Qianqian was in the Central Soviet District, he was more or less a regiment leader! At the moment, I saw the commander of the legion saluting several leaders, and when he shouted an order, the entire 2,500 cavalry saluted several leaders together, that kind of momentum was by no means comparable to ordinary infantry, and for a time several leaders were stunned!

Li Jiansheng finished saluting, waved his hand, flew on his horse, and led the troops away. He didn't know that the moment he turned to leave, several great men had talked. Mr. Zhu spoke first: "**Ah, this is a real cavalry!" I wondered, I'm afraid there will be a group! Zhou Weiren smiled and answered: "This little plum always creates miracles." The first engineer unit, the first artillery division, the first sniper battalion, and the first weapons research institute of our Red Army all came from his hands, and at present, the first cavalry unit of our Red Army came from their troops, which is amazing! The words of the two people made ** very happy, glanced at a few people around, and said: "This Li Jiansheng, there is a set of leading troops, I see, this cavalry will be expanded into a division in the next eight years!" After thinking about it, he said, "Or, it's not just a teacher!" ”

Li Jiansheng didn't know that several great men discussed for a long time for his cavalry, and finally confirmed Li Jiansheng's conclusion that he "would lead troops". And the later fact is that Mao Weiren's guess was not wrong, because Li Jiansheng's department then entered Sichuan, collected a lot of Sichuan horses, and then entered Gansu and Ningxia, and the front went straight to the border of Xinjiang, purchased a large number of Qingma, Ningma and Xinjiang horses, and captured a large number of horses from the enemy, and established the first cavalry division of the Red Army, and it was a strengthened type. Later, when Li Jiansheng's department was reorganized into the Northern Field Army, the first cavalry army was established because of the addition of a large number of Mongolian horses! Of course, this is also a later story, so I won't say much about it for the time being.

However, it is said that Li Jiansheng led his troops to leave Zunyi, pass through Banqiao and Tongzi, and go straight to the junction of Guichuan and Sichuan, and because of the contact of radio information, they quickly rushed to the border of Chongqing, which was later a municipality directly under the central government and is still under the jurisdiction of Sichuan, and finally caught up with the main force at the new station. According to the great man's deployment in advance, his Red Seventh Army Corps would enter Sichuan through Songkan and Dashui, so as to attract enemy forces and allow the Red Army of other central offices to enter Sichuan through the direction of Xishui, Chishui, and Hanjiang. Li Jiansheng didn't know if the great man would create another example of crossing the Chishui four times in this era, but insisted on leading the troops forward. He had privately communicated with the chairman that if their troops took Chongqing lightly, once occupied, it would inevitably cause the enemy to shake, and then the main force of the central government would quickly and skillfully fight Chengdu. In this way, the Red Army will be invincible in Sichuan, and it can not only get a great rest, but also get a great replenishment! In this way, you can enter Sichuan and Chongqing, and you can attack Ganshan, anyway, you can create a world of your own!

From this moment on, the Red Seventh Army will no longer take on the task of the rearguard, but will shoulder the heavy responsibility of the Iron Wing Forward, and the original work of the rearguard will be responsible for the Red Eighth Army. Li Jiansheng said firmly that he would resolutely complete the tasks assigned by the chief.

At present, Li Jiansheng is leading his troops to make great strides forward, while reading the telegram sent by the central government through the radio, but it is the "Resolution" adopted at the Zunyi meeting. The Resolution is no different from the historical ones: the content of the Resolution rejects Bogu's report and considers it fundamentally wrong. The "Resolution" enumerates a large number of facts, shows that the Red Army subjectively and objectively has the conditions to smash the fifth "encirclement and suppression" and clearly points out that the main reason for the failure of the anti-"encirclement and suppression" is the "purely military defensive line." In the case where the enemy adopts the strategy and tactics of "protracted warfare and fortress doctrine," our strategy and tactics should be decisive defense (i.e., offensive defense), concentrating superior forces to select the enemy's weak points, confidently destroying part or most of the enemy in the movement, and breaking the enemy individually in order to crush the enemy. However. However, we have replaced the defense of decisive battles with exclusive defense, and the war of movement with positional warfare and fortress warfare, and supported this strategic line of pure defense with the tactical principle of the so-called 'short and sudden assault'." Replacing the operational policy of concentrating forces with the operational policy of dispersing forces runs counter to the basic principle of our army's strategy of lasting strategy and tactically making a quick decision. Abandoning the policy of luring the enemy into the depths and engaging in the practice of "keeping the enemy out of the country" resulted in serious losses and forced the Red Army to withdraw from the base areas in the central Soviet region.

On this matter, Li Jiansheng made deductions when he was a graduate student in history, and the conclusion he came to is the same, so when I read it now, I agree with this point of view.

As for the political problems pointed out in the "Resolution," that is, the "leftist" opportunists put forward that "the centrists are the most dangerous enemy" and did not take advantage of the first contradiction and conflict within the enemy, refused to assist in the Fujian incident, and lost the good opportunity to break the "encirclement and suppression," Li Jiansheng also agreed with it from the bottom of his heart. You must know that Jiang Mou encircled and suppressed the Red Army in the first four times, and every time he failed, there were both external and internal causes! The fourth anti-encirclement campaign failed before and later succeeded because of the factors of the Fujian Incident affecting Jiang someone. If this incident is handled well when the fifth encirclement and suppression is launched, Li Jiansheng believes that it will definitely help to smash the fifth encirclement and suppression!

As for the situation pointed out in the "Resolution" on the issue of strategic change and the implementation of a breakthrough, Li Jiansheng was even more deeply touched! The "Resolution" says that in the strategic shift and the implementation of the breakthrough, the "left" opportunists have also made mistakes of principle. "Desperately fighting the enemy in the Soviet zone and depleting the living forces of the Red Army in large quantities. Exit from the Soviet zone turned into a panicked escape and moving-style operation. There is no explanation among the cadres and the masses about this strategic shift, and the organization of a large rear apparatus makes it difficult to march and fight, turning all the troops into cover". To be honest, Li Jiansheng is most impressed by this problem, because he is well aware of this problem. When he was in the passage, he scolded the central leadership and talked about this problem.

Another point of the "Resolution", which is also the one that Li Jiansheng is most concerned about, is to affirm the correct military line represented by ***. The Red Army was required to quickly complete the transition from positional warfare to mobile warfare, flexibly and flexibly apply strategy and tactics, and struggle for the creation of new base areas. Needless to say, this is the most important and a matter of course. I lamented that this history is still moving forward on the normal track of history, while looking at the annex after the "Resolution".

The first was what Mao Weiren told him before leaving, that is, the central authorities had decided to change the resolution of the Liping Conference to create a Soviet base area with northern Guizhou as the center, and to establish a Soviet base area in the southwest or northwest of Chengdu. The second is the reorganization of the leading body of the Party Central Committee and the election of *** as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee. The supreme military command of Bogu and Li De was abolished, and it was decided that Zhu De and Zhou Enlai, the principal responsible persons of the Central Military Commission, would still command the military. Li Jiansheng was familiar with history, and he immediately found that the historical facts expressed in this annex were slightly different from those in history. In the official history, the final establishment of Mao Weiren's military command was carried out in three steps: in the first period, he did not participate in the military command, but only entered the Standing Committee, which enhanced the right to speak, and Zhou Enlai was the person responsible for the final decision of the military command; In the second period, shortly after the Zunyi Conference, it was decided that *** would be Zhou Enlai's helper in military command; In the third period, that is, not long after, a three-person regiment (also known as the military command group) composed of ***, Zhou Enlai, and Wang Jiaxiang was established, with Zhou Enlai as the commander. In fact, it was not until this time that Mao Weiren's military command was finally established!

Seeing this, Li Jiansheng sighed again, feeling that this would be of great help to the party and the Red Army. In the official history, the evaluation of the Zunyi Conference was very high, and Li Jiansheng clearly remembered these words:

"The Zunyi Conference put an end to the rule of Wang Ming's 'left' opportunist line in the Party Central Committee, established the new correct leadership of the Central Committee represented by the Party, and shifted the Party's line to the track of Marxism-Leninism. ……

"The Zunyi Conference, at the critical juncture of the Chinese revolution, saved the party, the Red Army, and the Chinese revolution, and was a life-and-death turning point in the history of our party. ……

"The Zunyi Conference was the first meeting in China to independently apply the basic tenets of Marxism-Leninism to resolve its own line, principles and policies. It is a sign that China has grown from a young party to a mature party. Since then, the Chinese revolution has embarked on the road of victorious development under the guidance of the correct line represented by the Chinese revolution. ……

And now, judging from the documents at hand, the Zunyi Conference is indeed like these evaluations, and it is really a turning point of life and death. At least, Li Jiansheng, who is familiar with Mao Weiren, believes that with the leadership of Mao Weiren, we will win the battle, so it is not easy to capture? Thinking of this, Li Jiansheng couldn't help but smile knowingly, handed over the telegram to Luo Ronghuan, and then gave the order to let the various departments speed up. Of course, thinking of the war that he might face when he was about to enter Sichuan, Li Jiansheng called Zeng Zhongsheng again, discussed it with him a little, and Zeng Zhongsheng immediately went down to carry it out. In fact, there is only one theme, and the 5 subordinate divisions are moving forward with makeup. Among them, the Red 16th Division, still wearing the uniform of the Red Army, swaggered forward; The Red 17th Division wore the military uniform of the Central Army, the Red 18th Division wore the uniform of the Gui Army, the Red 19th Division wore the uniform of the Hunan Army, and the Red 20th Division wore the uniform of the Guizhou Army.