Chapter Ninety-Three: The Enemy Army Comes Again
Li Jiansheng's teaching is very distinctive, he only talks a little in the classroom, and the rest of the time is to directly pull the troops to the river and teach hand in hand. Li Jiansheng, who didn't understand this bridge, actually just moved the knowledge and technology about building pontoon bridges on the Internet or military books in later generations to the present and told everyone about it; Then let everyone use the existing material infrastructure, pontoon technology, combined with the advanced concept of pontoon bridge, to redesign a fast, strong and durable bridge method that meets the requirements of everyone.
Peng Xu, the newly promoted commander of the engineer regiment, an old Red Army from the Central Soviet Region, who had been doing the work of an engineer, was very surprised to see Li Jiansheng so familiar with it. and the political commissar of the engineering regiment, the old member of the Xiangnan Independent Regiment who had been following Li Jiansheng as the head of the engineering regiment, and the first batch of underground party members to join the army, Wen Chunlin, the former plasterer of Yizhang County, glanced at each other and found the surprise in the other party's eyes. You must know that this kind of professional bridge-building technology is only known by old technicians like them, or professional bridge-building engineers, but I really don't know how this corps commander knows, and he knows more than these professional people! You know, as soon as the connoisseur stretches out his hand, he will know if there is one. They know that the Legion Commander is an expert.
However, this is actually a high opinion of Li Jiansheng, Li Jiansheng can only say it, he has not really built a bridge, and his practical experience is insufficient; But it is better than his new concept, good method, everyone can learn it, and the practicality is strong, which gives everyone a misunderstanding.
That's not all, Li Jiansheng also organized the engineering corps to specialize in skill competitions such as building bridges and opening up mountains and roads, and all kinds of new ideas he obtained on the Internet in later generations were continuously transmitted to everyone through these competitions. With a new concept and professional training, the combat power of the engineer regiment has been doubled! Later, during the Long March, the sappers of the Red Eighteenth Army were able to build the most difficult bridges in the shortest possible time, creating superior conditions for the advance of the large army. When they were praised by the leaders and soldiers, the first thing that came to mind was the legion commander Li Jiansheng. They felt that the kind of study they had in the base area was targeted as a whole, allowing them to be orderly under such difficult conditions! At that time, everyone admired and revered the corps commander! Of course, this is a later story, so I won't say much about it for the time being.
Fortunately for Li Jiansheng, the Kuomintang authorities did not carry out a large-scale "encirclement and suppression" of his Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Guangdong border Soviet areas again in 1932, so that he had enough time to reorganize and train the troops. This, of course, gave Li Jiansheng a great opportunity to relax. In just a few months, by the end of the year, Li Jiansheng's various units had received unprecedented development and training, and their combat effectiveness had increased exponentially. What made Li Jiansheng sigh even more was that the first two anti-encirclement and suppression had made many soldiers of the Red Eighteenth Army have passed the test of blood and fire and have grown into a real warrior. As for the size of the troops, it was still expanding, and by the New Year of 1933, Li Jiansheng's Red Eighteenth Army had reached an unprecedented number of more than 32,000 people, including more than 20,000 people when it was first formed, nearly 8,000 recruits who were captured and converted after two victories in the anti-encirclement and suppression, and more than 2,400 recruits in the first batch of recruits, and then two new batches of recruits totaling about 2,000 people.
Li Jiansheng knew that in the near future, the enemy would come to the door. He did not want his troops to disperse as soon as the cannon sounded like the Red Eighth Army Corps during the Long March of the Central Red Army, so he continued to train his troops and seized all the time to train them.
Of course, as far as he is concerned, the work is also complicated, and in addition to stepping up military training, he also has to assist He Changming in developing the economy of the base area. For these, he is actually not good at it, but fortunately, when he lived in the later period, it was a period of great economic development, and he majored in history and studied a side business, that is, marketing, which is somewhat linked to the economy, so he can often give He Changming some quite constructive suggestions. With his historical vision and marketing major, he often goes straight to the essence of economic problems, so the suggestions he puts forward often make everyone stunned, and they secretly shout "high" before solving and implementing them, and the results are often successful, which in turn increases their trust in Li Jiansheng.
I have to say that many of Li Jiansheng's views from later generations are actually very meaningful for the present. Under his guidance and help, coupled with the full implementation of veterans such as He Changming, the economic development of the base area has been rapid.
But apparently, the Kuomintang authorities do not want to see this. Just after the New Year of 1933, the Soviet region of Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Guangdong ushered in the third joint encirclement and suppression of the enemy. Chairman Chiang mobilized a large army from the north and south to besiege the base areas along the Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Guangdong borders. The commander-in-chief of the army, navy and air force, the Hengyang camp, was set up, and He Jian was also the director of the battalion, responsible for commanding the southern pressure of the troops on the northern front; The commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and air force was set up in Shaoguan, with Chen Jitang concurrently serving as the director of the camp, responsible for commanding the northern expedition of the southern front troops. In the end, the two armies worked together to exterminate this group of red bandits and joined forces with Yu Yizhang. Among them, the troops on the northern front were commanded by He Ting, commander of the 91st Division of the Hunan enemy, as the commander-in-chief of the front, and the troops on the southern front were commanded by Xiang Hanping, commander of the 2nd Army of the Guangdong enemy, as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy. The four divisions of Yu Hanmou, commander of the 1st Army of the Guangdong enemy, were all reorganized and transferred to the southern part of Jiangxi to carry out the fourth joint encirclement and suppression to the central Soviet region.
The information from all sides made Li Jiansheng very depressed. First of all, Mao Weiren, whom he respected, was expelled from the Party Central Committee and only served as chairman of the Central Soviet District Government, and no longer served as the General Political Commissar of the Red Army. Secondly, his old chief, Wang Erzhuo, was seriously ill, but he was still being monitored, but it was caused by the incident of Yuan Chongquan in the past, and he was suspected of having an attempt to "collaborate with the enemy". Because Yuan Chongquan is now a deputy division commander in the Kuomintang army. Third, this time, in addition to concentrating 500,000 troops under the leadership of Chen Cheng, the Kuomintang authorities concentrated about 200,000 troops from the north and south to attack the base areas along the Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Guangdong borders.
Of course, Li Jiansheng can't worry about the Central Red Army now. Because he knew that although it was the beginning of March, Chen Cheng was only mobilizing troops and horses and preparing grain and grass, and if he really made a large-scale invasion of the Central Soviet Area, it would be two months later in May. Moreover, although Mao Weiren did not serve as the general political commissar of the Red Army, the commander-in-chief of the Red Army, Mr. Zhu, and the general political commissar of the New Red Army, Zhou Weiren, still adhered to Mao Weiren's set of guerrilla warfare methods, and finally annihilated three enemy divisions and won a complete victory!
What he needs to consider is how to repel the enemy facing the revolutionary base areas in Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Guangdong! On the one hand, the telegram ordered all units to start assembling and enter a state of first-class combat readiness after a three-day rest; on the one hand, the staff offices, armament offices, and logistics offices were fully prepared, and on the other hand, they continued to strengthen intelligence gathering. Soon, the details of the enemy were placed on Li Jiansheng's desk.