Chapter 11: The Jiangjin Fellowship (3)

Li Jiansheng, Xu Xiangqian, Luo Ronghuan, Chen Changhao and several others commanded more than 180,000 people of the Red Seventh Army and the Red Fourth Front Army under the jurisdiction of the Northwest Military and Political Commission. In less than a month, the entire territory of Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan fell into the hands of the Red Army. Even an important town in eastern Sichuan, such as Chongqing, fell into the hands of the Red Army on May 7, 1935, two days after Mao Weiren commanded the main force of the Red Front Army to completely break away from the heavy encirclement of the Kuomintang troops, under the skillful attack of Xu Xiangqian's troops himself. Li Jiansheng received a telegram invitation from Xu Xiangqian, and that night he led the guard regiment from Zhongxian to Chongqing City.

Zhong County is one of the areas where Li Jiansheng personally led his troops to attack. After the Red Seventh Army and the Red Fourth Side joined forces, several military and political leaders of the former enemy committee were combined and each led a group to attack in all directions. Xu Xiangqian led the main forces of the Red Fourth Front Army, such as Han Xianchu and Wang Shusheng, to attack Chongqing; Chen Changhao led Xu Shiyou's department, Nie Fengzhi's department and other troops to protect the enemy from southern Sichuan, and replaced defense with attack; Luo Ronghuan led the Red 20th Division and the Red 19th Division of the Red Seventh Army to the west, and planned the Red Army to go north; Zeng Zhongsheng led the Red 18th Division and the Red 17th Division of the Red Seventh Army to the east, and responded to the Red Second and Red Sixth Army Corps in Xiangxi; Li Jiansheng personally led the Red 16th Division and the newly established Red 15th Division under the jurisdiction of the Red Seventh Army Corps, and some troops directly under the Army Corps to attack in the northeast direction. According to Li Jiansheng's original intention, his troops mainly opened up the passage for the main force to advance to the northeast in the future. Because in his impression, the last road of the Red Army was to go north to resist Japan, so it was necessary to open this joint in advance. Xu Xiangqian's meaning is to lay down Chongqing, an important town in eastern Sichuan, and consolidate the base area. Although Li Jiansheng knew that the Red Army's later result was indeed to go north to resist Japan, but at present, everyone did not understand too much about going north to resist Japan. After all, for everyone, jumping out of the siege of the Kuomintang troops and exchanging for better living conditions is the first priority, so what Xu Xiangqian said is really reasonable at the moment, so at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the former enemy committee, he agreed with several Standing Committee members to lead their troops and fight on one side.

In Li Jiansheng's impression, Chongqing seems to have never been captured by the Red Army, because it is an important town after all, but thinking about the strength of the Red Army troops he leads at the moment, and then thinking about Xu Shuai, who has always been good at creating miracles, Li Jiansheng subconsciously believes that Xu Xiangqian can capture Chongqing in a relatively short period of time. But despite this, he still didn't expect that he had just taken Zhongxian with his two main divisions, and Xu Xiangqian over there had easily captured Chongqing so quickly. While sending a message of congratulations, he sighed that Xu Xiangqian was Xu Xiangqian, using soldiers like gods, and while looking at the majestic Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, Li Jiansheng accepted Xu Xiangqian's invitation and Mao Weiren's order, and he didn't care about Zhongxian anymore, but led his troops to Chongqing. In his impression, when the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River was built in later generations, most of this Zhongxian County was eventually submerged. His hometown Yizhang moved some Sichuan villagers, but they were all from Zhong County!

Now Chongqing is far less prosperous than later generations, but it is still a very good city. When Li Jiansheng arrived in Chongqing, Luo Ronghuan, Zeng Zhongsheng, Chen Changhao and several others had already arrived, and he, the supreme chief, was the last to arrive. was picked up by a few, talked warmly and affectionately, and went straight to the center of the city together. At this time, Li Jiansheng learned that Mao Weiren had appointed himself mayor of Chongqing and political commissar of the Chongqing Garrison District by telegram, and Xu had appointed him as the former commander of the Chongqing Garrison District. The two of them, together with Luo Ronghuan, Chen Changhao, Zeng Zhongsheng and several others, are jointly responsible for the security and defense of Chongqing and other places. After receiving the telegram order, he discussed with Xu Xiangqian, Luo Ronghuan, Chen Changhao and others for a while, divided their responsibilities and performed their duties, and then returned to their rest residence.

The headquarters of the Sichuan army Pan Wenhua was originally in Chongqing. When Li Jiansheng led the Red Seventh Army to attack north, and Xu Xiangqian led the Red Fourth Front Army to the south, Pan Wenhua's troops suffered the heaviest losses. Those corps were beaten to the point that only a few divisions remained. Later, before and after Li Jiansheng's division and Xu Xiangqian's division, these divisions were forcibly transferred by Chairman Chiang to attack and block the Red First Army. As a result, the remaining two divisions and two other brigades stationed in Chongqing all went into Xu Xiangqian's pocket this time. At present, Xu Xiangqian has set up the office space of the Northwest Military and Political Commission and the Northwest Former Enemy Committee in Pan Wenhua's original headquarters. As for the rest places of Li Jiansheng and others, they are also located in several mansions near the headquarters. These mansions turned out to be the mansions of the division commanders under Pan Wenhua. As soon as these division commanders fled, only these mansions remained, which was convenient for Li Jiansheng, Xu Xiangqian and other Red Army generals. After all, Li Jiansheng, Xu Xiangqian, Luo Ronghuan, and Chen Changhao's current days are more comfortable than Mao Weiren at the Zunyi Conference. At the Zunyi Conference, Mao Weiren, Zhou Weiren, and Mr. Zhu lived together in the Baihuizhang Mansion; But at the moment, Li Jiansheng and a few others can completely do one building per person, because there are quite a lot of mansions. Of course, not everyone occupies a building, Li Jiansheng and a few others only live symbolically, but with the security troops and staff officers of several of them also moving in, it is appropriate. As for Chairman Chiang's camp in Chongqing, it became the meeting place of the Northwest Military and Political Commission and the Northwest Former Enemy Committee.

The place where Li Jiansheng lives is Pan Wenhua's original mansion. It is a small two-story western-style building. Li Jiansheng, who was surprised by the high-rise buildings in later generations, was very indifferent to this, but with him moving in with the special guard Xu Jinsong, as well as Lao Jue, Shen Ying, Shen Pheasant and a few others, they were all new daughters-in-law on the sedan chair - the first time, but after taking a good look, they chose a room to move in. The guards led by Xu Jinsong lived on the first floor, and Shen Ying, Shen Pheasant, and Lao Jue lived on the second floor, next door to Li Jiansheng. Xu Jinsong lives next door to Li Jiansheng. As for the other two squads of the guard platoon, they lived around the building. The entire company of guards and other fighters lived in concentric circles and lived on the periphery. In this way, a protective circle was formed for Li Jiansheng that was loose on the outside and tight on the inside!

After dinner, Li Jiansheng also wanted to take a look outside to see how Chongqing in this era was different from Chongqing in later generations. Lao Jue, Shen Pheasant, and Shen Ying are of course the most happy. As for Xu Jinsong, although he didn't make a sound, he was also very happy when he looked at his excited face. It is no wonder that this was the first time that the Red Army had captured a large city like Chongqing during the Long March. What's more, this place turned out to be where Chiang Kai-shek lived!

Order on the streets. Some of the key points were guarded by soldiers. Li Jiansheng looked at it and nodded, only thinking that Xu Xiangqian was really extremely rigorous in doing things, no matter how big or small, no wonder he was one of the founding fathers of later generations.

The group ate and played, and took a circle to the Liberation Monument in later generations. At this time, there was no Liberation Monument, but this place was already a commercial center, and its prosperity was probably no less than that of the Liberation Monument business circle in later generations. Li Jiansheng looked at it carefully, sighed again in his heart, and then led these people to choose some Sichuan-style snacks and eat them well, and led the team home.