Repelled the enemy's attack, Li Jiansheng breathed a sigh of relief. He had the impression that at the moment the Central Soviet District was also undergoing a renovation. The fourth large-scale anti-encirclement and suppression operation in the Central Soviet Region in history took place next year, that is, between February and March 1933, so for the base area where it was located and the Red Eighteenth Army Corps, there were only two possibilities for the rest of this year: First, the third military operation of encirclement and suppression and anti-encirclement and suppression would take place immediately this year; Second, it is for the Kuomintang troops to take a break and make full preparations for a possible -- this may be the year to be -- the third encirclement and suppression and anti-encirclement and suppression military action.

This answer is actually very easy to analyze, and it can be known by referring to the anti-encirclement and suppression actions in the Central Soviet District. The first, second, and third times in the Central Soviet District, one after the other, with very short intervals in between; But between the third and fourth, and between the fourth and fifth, the time interval is longer. The longest time is almost a year!

For now, I don't know what kind of attitude this enemy will take: will it be done immediately? Or do you want to take a break and prepare for a while?

But no matter which way, for Li Jiansheng at the moment, I am afraid that he still has to step up the training of the army and enrich the economy of the base area! As soon as he thought of this, Li Jiansheng's thoughts became active. Just thinking about it, Huang Su and a few others came in again, and Li Jiansheng smiled and nodded to Huang Su. Huang Su was obviously also very excited, after all, such a big battle is rare. As soon as the two people met, the general opinion was formed: step up the reorganization of the army!

In the afternoon, a meeting of the Party Committee of the Corps was held. Everyone has roughly agreed on the following opinions:

First, it is necessary to step up the training of the troops and consolidate the experiences and lessons of these two victories;

Second, step up expansion. Because of the two successive victories, the mood of the people in the base areas was high, and the land reform was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the people in the base areas were extremely supportive of the Red Army, and some people asked to sign up for the Red Army every day.

Third, with regard to the handling of prisoners, we agreed in principle with the proposal of corps commander Li Jiansheng that the more than 5,800 people captured in the first anti-encirclement and suppression, the remaining 5,000 after the main forces replenished the battle losses, and the 2,600 prisoners captured this time should all be incorporated into the active units.

Fourth, before the expansion of the army, the sniper company directly under the corps selected good marksmanship in advance and upgraded the sniper company to a sniper battalion; The reconnaissance company recruits some veterans and those with special skills and good skills, and upgrades them to reconnaissance battalions; The engineer battalion recruits a part of the engineer battalion and implements the strengthening of the engineer regiment; The baggage battalion recruits a part of the baggage soldiers and implements the strengthening of the baggage regiment; The artillery among the captives was selected by the artillery regiment directly under the regiment, and the artillery battalion regiment was upgraded to an artillery brigade directly under it, with Liu Fugui as the brigade commander and two artillery regiments under its jurisdiction; Among the prisoners who knew how to use heavy machine guns, all of them were assigned to the machine gun regiment directly under the regiment, and some light machine gunners were selected to be assigned to the machine gun regiment, and the machine gun regiment was upgraded to a machine gun brigade. Liu Limin was promoted to brigade commander. It has a two-battalion heavy machine-gun regiment and two two-battalion light machine-gun regiments.

5. The Red Eighteenth Army expanded by two new divisions, namely the Red Seventh Division and the Red Eighth Division.

The 3rd Red Regiment was drawn from the 1st Red Division and renamed the 19th Red Regiment, and the 6th Red Regiment was drawn from the 2nd Red Division and renamed the 20th Red Regiment, which together formed the backbone regiment of the Red Seventh Division, with Luo Kai as the division commander and Lu Tongfan, the backbone from the Central Soviet District, as the political commissar of the division. Lu Tongfan was a deputy division commander of the former Red Third Army, and after being transferred, he served as the deputy commander of the Red First Division, and this time he was promoted to the commander of the new Red Seventh Division. The Red Ninth Regiment was drawn from the Red Third Division and renamed the Red 22nd Regiment, and the Red Twelfth Regiment was drawn from the Red Fourth Division and renamed the Red 23rd Regiment, which together formed the backbone regiment of the Red Eighth Division, with Yang Huwei as the division commander and He Jingsheng as the division's political commissar.

A total of 7,600 prisoners were taken, and more than 6,500 remained, excluding about 1,100 of the above special recruits. After the first anti-encirclement and suppression, all the prisoners have been organized into 16 battalions, these establishments are still preserved, new recruits are replenished, and 2 battalions are newly formed, a total of 18 battalions, according to the organization of three battalions per regiment, a total of 6 standard regiments, and about 200 people remain. These six regiments were renamed the Red Third Regiment, the Red Sixth Regiment, the Red Ninth Regiment, the Red Twelfth Regiment, the Red Twenty-first Regiment, and the Red Twenty-fourth Regiment, and were respectively reorganized into the Red First Division, the Red Second Division, the Red Third Division, the Red Fourth Division, the Red Seventh Division, and the Red Eighth Division. As for the remaining 200 or so, all of them were incorporated into the divisional units directly under the other divisions, and 200 people were transferred from the other divisions to be reorganized into four professional platoons of 50 people, which were respectively assigned to the Red Seventh Division and the Red Eighth Division, which were regarded as the professional units directly under the two divisions, and initially constituted the skeleton of the two divisions' staff officers, spies, teaching, guards, snipers, reconnaissance, communications, cooking, and other units. As for the source of troops, it was supplemented by new recruits, as well as later prisoners of battle.

6. Two successive victories against encirclement and suppression, a total of about five enemy divisions were annihilated, and a lot of captures were made. In addition to the corps headquarters with all kinds of units directly under it, it is already completely capable of arming artillery to regiments, heavy machine guns to battalions, and light machine guns to squads. Fortunately, most of the recruits are soldiers of the original enemy's local warlords and the Central Army, and their quality is relatively high, so there is no need to worry about the use of weapons, but ideological and political work must be strengthened. Therefore, the commanders at all levels should all go to the front line, do a good job of the work of the soldiers, and ensure that the combat strength will be maximized before the third anti-encirclement and suppression that may come!

At the end of the meeting, the leaders of the divisions and units directly under them immediately rushed to their respective units to reorganize the army, train the troops, and do the work. Three days later, the expansion of the ministries was completed. At this point, the 18th Red Army Corps under Li Jiansheng's command had eight divisions under its jurisdiction, as well as an artillery brigade, a machine gun brigade, a reinforced engineer regiment, a reinforced baggage regiment, a special service regiment, a teaching regiment, a guard battalion, a sniper battalion, a reconnaissance battalion, a communications company, a cooking class, a field hospital, a weapons research and development institute, and a clothing factory.

While strengthening the structural building of the armed forces, the military reorganized and trained the armed forces, including military and political retraining, and recruited and expanded the number of troops. The establishment system is still easy to manage, with the assistance of professional institutions at all levels of the corps, and it will soon be on the right track; Military training was not slow, because of the handling of the training department and the training regiment, and because the new units were assigned to each division and assisted by the forces of each division, the work in all aspects was quickly put on the right track. There is no need to worry about recruiting and expanding the red army, because with the support of various military stations and training offices and local governments, more than 2,200 new recruits were recruited in the entire base area in just one week, including the progressive youth in the base area and the youth in the surrounding areas affected by the base area. After consulting Li Jiansheng with instructions from the General Staff Office and the Training Office, two new corps were set up, with Gao Dashan and Li Zheng, the two deputy commanders of the teaching corps, respectively serving as the commanders of the two recruit corps, and Li Shangzheng, a local party member, and Xiong Jie, a veteran political worker from the Central Soviet District, respectively serving as the political commissars of the two recruit corps, mainly to focus on the training of these recruits.