Chapter Seventy-Seven: Troop Expansion
As far as Li Jiansheng is concerned, the immediate work mainly starts from three aspects: establishing local red regimes, building local armed forces, and enriching the main forces.
The first was the establishment of the red regime in Lianzhou, Liannan, and Lianshan. Because of the example of the ru source, this is not difficult to organize. Lianzhou, the establishment of the Soviet Yao Autonomous County, with Xiong Xihui, secretary of the local county party committee, as secretary and first vice chairman of the government, and Ou Jianying, the leader of the Yao compatriots elected by the local Yao villages, as the chairman of the government, and the Yao Mu of each Yao village respectively held different positions in various government agencies. However, the police, city guards, and the county independent battalion remained in the hands of party members in the county. Of course, Comrade Ou Shihui, who is both a party member and a compatriot of the Yao nationality, was directly appointed by Li Jiansheng as the director of the Urban Defense Bureau. There is no autonomous county in Liannan. Wen Hua, the head of the local party organization, was the chairman of the Soviet government. The people of all ethnic groups in the county, mainly members of the Yao nationality, hold various important positions in the government. Wu Hui, a party member and compatriot of the Zhuang nationality, served as secretary and concurrently served as the first vice chairman of the government, and Qiu Keping, a party member and fellow of the Yao nationality, served as the chairman of the government. Other important government posts are held by Zhuang and Yao compatriots respectively.
Second, each of the three counties has set up a 20-member police force and a 200-member urban defense team. Most of the original police officers of the three counties, the city defense soldiers, and the guards of the various courtyards were reorganized into the Red Army units after they were separated and worked. All the new police officers and the new city defense troops were all appointed by the local newly elected people, and Li Jiansheng was transferred from the training camp for training. The two armed forces are primarily responsible for local order and local defence.
Third, vigorously recruit troops in the three counties. In Lianzhou, another Yao battalion was set up as a local independent battalion. In Liannan, a separate battalion was formed. In Lianshan, a local independent battalion was set up with Zhuang brothers as the mainstay. Nearly 200 Yao brothers recruited locally were all incorporated into the second battalion of special agents. This also made the 2nd Spy Battalion the first reinforced battalion of Li Jiansheng's Independent Regiment, with nearly 600 men.
All work was carried out in an orderly manner. It was not until the establishment of the red regimes in these three places and the completion of the recruitment work that Li Jiansheng unified his troops and the troops led by Yang Zhishen to rest. Among them, Yang Zhishen is stationed in Liannan, Li Jiansheng is stationed in Lianzhou, and Yuntian is stationed in Lianshan. At this time, Li Jiansheng learned that Yang Zhishen and Cai Zhong were in Hunan, and after winning Leiyang, they also won Changning. However, because the enemy pressed the territory with heavy troops, he finally took the initiative to abandon Leiyang County, but still controlled most of Leiyang and Changning. In Leiyang and Changning, a total of two main battalions and three local independent battalions were newly formed, and all of them were brought over this time.
When Li Jiansheng heard this, he nodded secretly, and said in his heart, no wonder so many people came this time, plus his own troops, they actually scared away the group of officials and masters in Lianshan. No, Liannan, Lianzhou, and Lianshan, Lianshan collected the least amount of money and grain, less than half of Liannan!
After thinking about it, I had an idea in my mind again. At present, the Leiyang Independent First Battalion, which was directly formed by Leiyang City Defense and Police, as well as some party members and youths, was renamed the 17th Battalion, and the original Leiyang Independent Second Battalion was renamed Leiyang Independent Battalion; The Changning Independent First Battalion, which was formed by the Changning City Defense Army and the police, as well as some party members and youths, was renamed the 18th Battalion, and the original Changning Independent Second Battalion was renamed the Changning Independent Battalion; The Leichang Independent Battalion, which was mainly composed of young people from Changning and Leiyang, plus young people from all over the surrounding areas, was merged into the main force and renamed the 19th Battalion. The original independent battalion directly under the independent regiment brought by Yang Zhishen, formerly known as the Guiyang Independent First Battalion, is now renamed the main force of the 14th battalion of the main force, and the 42nd company and some cadres under its jurisdiction are transferred to form a new 20th battalion skeleton, with the city defense soldiers and police recruited by Lianzhou, as well as some young people as the main source of soldiers, to establish a new main force 20th battalion; With the main force of the fourth battalion brought over by Yang Zhishen, the 11th company and some cadres under its jurisdiction were transferred to form a new skeleton of the 21st battalion, and the city defense soldiers and police recruited by Liannan, as well as some young people, were the main source of soldiers to form a new main force 21st battalion. The 4th and 14th battalions of the main force were transferred to be supplemented by new recruits. Lianshan has already set up a local independent battalion of the Zhuang nationality and a second battalion of Yao reinforced spies that has been incorporated into the main force, so the main battalion will not be established for the time being.
Seeing that the arrangements were over, and remembering Luo Tiebing, he told Fan Chao, who came with him, to ask the messenger to send a telegram to Luo Tiebing in the area of Nanxiong and Dayu, with the battalion formed by the Nanxiong City Defense Army and the police plus some advanced youths and party members as the main force of the 22nd Battalion, and the other two battalions in Nanxiong were named the Nanxiong Independent First Battalion and the Nanxiong Independent Second Battalion respectively. What Li Jiansheng didn't expect was that Luo Tie's troops continued to use flexible tactics, although they gave up after conquering Dayu County, they still collected a large amount of money and food, and recruited about two battalions of recruits, some of which were former Dayu city guards and police. What Li Jiansheng didn't expect was that there were two people, but when Mr. Zhu left the ministry and went to Jinggangshan in 1927, the two wounded soldiers who were scattered, one named Yang Qianjin and the other called Yang Jun, finally took advantage of the geographical conditions to protect their lives, and this time they met their own troops, and they wanted to join anyway. Li Jiansheng sighed very much, agreed, and thought that these two were originally the main forces, and their military quality was good, so he directly asked Luo Tiebing to be appointed as the squad leader, do more work, and after meeting with himself, he would personally teach them, or he could train the teaching team and train them as platoon, company, and battalion commanders. Luo Tiebing responded one by one. After thinking about it, now that he has won a large area of land connected to southern Hunan, northern Guangdong, and southwestern Jiangxi, he should take a break, but I don't know how Zeng Xiangyang contacted the central Soviet area. Thinking about it again, I should have made a big fuss this time, right? I just don't know what the effect of the side response to the Central Soviet District is? Thinking about it again, it is now the end of June 1931, and I am afraid that it is the climax of the third anti-encirclement and suppression in the Central Soviet Region, and it is precisely because of the correct leadership of Mao Weiren in history that victory will be in the near future! ――I just don't know what the situation is now?
Thinking of this, Li Jiansheng summed up his troops again to see if they had the strength to further expand their influence and respond to the central government. After a little tidying up, Li Jiansheng found that his department was very large, including a total of 7 special companies and a total strength of about 3 battalions; 25 main battalions, including two special service battalions and battalions 1 to 22, as well as a training battalion; There are 30 local battalions, including 18 local independent battalions in southern Hunan, 10 local independent battalions in 9 counties in northern Guangdong, and 2 local independent battalions in Dayu in southwest Jiangxi.
As for the weapons, fortunately, Li Jiansheng had the foresight, and the weapons captured by Tan Xiuming, except for the five independent battalions that armed southern Hunan, all the rest were used to arm the troops in northern Guangdong. The main force of the independent regiment led by Li Jiansheng was fully equipped, and a small part of the remaining standard weapons, as well as another part of the weapons that had been replaced by the main force, were allocated to the local independent battalions. In this way, although the weapons and equipment of the main forces are complete, the weapons gap of the local troops is still very large!