CHAPTER XVII
After the two major fronts joined forces, they rested in the same place for a while. Subsequently, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Committee, several military and political leaders of the former enemy committee decided to make the most of the main forces of the two major front armies and go north to join forces with the Red First Army and the Red Fourth Front Army.
At the forefront was the Red 19th Division, Red 20th Division, Cavalry Brigade, and Reconnaissance Brigade of the Red Third Front Army led by Yun Tian as the leading troops; Then there are the main forces, including the Red 18th Division of the Red Third Front Army, the Red 17th Division of the Red Second Front Army, and the forces of the Red Third Front Army, including the Logistics Command, the Recruit Training Command, the Special Service Brigade, the Artillery Brigade, the Engineer Brigade, the Hospital, the Weapons Research Institute, and so on. This unit was under the unified command of Zeng Zhongsheng. On the west side of the main force, the Red 16th Division and the Red 15th Division of the Red Third Front Army led by Peng Zhi guarded the main force of the Chinese Army. Guan Xiangying led the Red 16th Division of the Red Second Front Army and the Red 17th Division of the Red Third Front Army as the rearguard troops. On the east side of the main force, it was the Red 4th, 5th, and 6th Divisions of the Red Second Front Army led by Xiao Ke, which also guarded the main force of the Chinese Army. The main forces of the two front armies, totaling more than 13 people, coordinated the attack and advanced, heading straight to the north!
Less than five days after the army marched north, Shao Qianjin sent a telegram reporting that the cavalry brigade of the Red Third Front Army had joined forces with the Red Ninth Army of the former Red First Front Army and the Red 32nd Army of the current Red Fourth Front Army. The Red Ninth Army is Luo Binghui's troops, which Li Jiansheng has long been familiar with. At present, this unit has Luo Binghui as the commander, He Changgong as the political commissar, Guo Tianmin as the chief of staff, and Huang Huoqing as the director of the political department, and has two regiments under its jurisdiction, with a total of more than 1,000 people. In history, this legion of his was not large because of its size? Lean, suitable for maneuvering, and often performing diversion tasks, he was praised by Mao Weiren as "the expert of the nose of the bull", Zhou Enlai praised it as the "strategic cavalry", and it was also the only unit that participated in the Long March operation of the three main forces of the Red Army. According to historical facts, this unit was sent by the Red First Army as a diversion force, and after the Red First Army joined forces with the Red Fourth Front Army, this unit served as the rear guard of the Left Route Army, but it has been stranded in Songgang? Menggu? Zhuo Keji is on the front line, and has been raising food in the same place? Whole training? To do mass work, he never received an order to go north, and later merged into the Red Fourth Front Army and renamed the Red 32nd Army; Later, it was disbanded by Zhang Guotao under the pretext of disbandment. It was only preserved at the insistence of He Changgong, and later insisted on staying in place until 1936, when He Long led the Red 2nd and Red 6th Army Corps to rush over, and then it was incorporated into the Red Second Front Army.
When Li Jiansheng received this telegram, he was shocked when he saw it. Because he thought that the Red Ninth Army would never happen again, and it would never be renamed the Red Thirty-second Army, but he didn't expect that the trajectory of history deviated slightly, and it returned to the original point, but the time was a year earlier. When the Red First Army crossed Chishui four times, the Red Ninth Army Corps, under the leadership of He Changgong and Luo Binghui, once again jumped out on its own to act as a containment force and attracted the enemy, but it has not been able to break through the enemy's encirclement, and has not received further orders from the central government, so it has to raise food on the spot? Whole training? Do mass work. Later, the Red Fourth Front Army came over, and it was naturally connected and merged into the Red Fourth Front Army, which was later renamed the Red 32nd Army. However, the current Red 32nd Army is no longer a force in history, and after Li Jiansheng's original replenishment and subsequent continuous operations, this army now has nearly 3,000 people, and its weapons have also improved greatly. After being incorporated into the Red Fourth Front Army, its strength was further supplemented and expanded. Later, the main force of the Red Fourth Front Army continued to move north under the leadership of Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao, and the Red 32nd Army of He Changgong and Luo Binghui was left as the rearguard. Unexpectedly, after the Red Third Front Army and the Red Second Front Army joined forces, their strength was greatly strengthened, they moved quickly, and soon followed north. In particular, the leading unit of the Red Army, the cavalry brigade of Shao Qianqian, was the most rapid and quickly caught up. Naturally, he connected with the rearguard unit of the Red 32nd Army. The leading force of the Red 32nd Army has been following Han Xianchu's rear troops of the Red Fourth Front Army. In this way, this Red Army is like a long snake, from the leading troops of the Red Fourth Front Army, to the rear troops, to the Red 32nd Army, to the cavalry brigade of the Red Third Front Army, to the leading main force of the Red Third Front Army, and then to the main force of the Red Third Front Army and the Red Second Front Army, more than 200,000 people are continuous!
After Li Jiansheng finished reading the telegram, he handed it to He Long beside him. After reading it, He Long handed it to Luo Ronghuan. Li Jiansheng glanced at He Long, wanting to see what Big Brother meant. He Long was very simple, took his pipe at the moment, stood up, and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's rush to the front!" ”
After a day and a night of rapid marching, Li Jiansheng and He Long, under the protection of the 1st Special Agent Regiment and the 2nd Guard Regiment, rushed to the station of the 32nd Red Army. Several people from the South China Military and Political Commission made a division of labor for the Red 32nd Army, Li Jiansheng and He Long came to pick up the Red 32nd Army, and Luo Ronghuan and Ren Bishi continued to command the main force to take over the planned action.
Li Jiansheng, He Long and Luo Binghui, He Changgong, Guo Tianmin, Huang Huoqing and a few others met, and they had to shout and ask for warmth. A few people talked for a while, and then rested on the spot.
Li Jiansheng only woke up at 4 p.m. the next day. When I woke up, there were three pairs of beautiful eyes, one pair of Shang Zhiyuan's and the other two pairs of Shen sisters. Looking at the three pairs of beautiful eyes, Li Jiansheng couldn't help but have a headache. Fortunately, Xu Jinsong came in to relieve the siege. It turned out that the leading troops of the Red Third Front Army had already come up. The order of the Central Committee also came down. As in history, the Red Thirty-second Army was incorporated into the Red Second Front. And another telegram also made He Long a little happy. It turned out that after meeting with Li Jiansheng's Red Third Front Army, He Long called back to the Red 18th Division of the Red 6th Army Corps left in Xiangxi to order, asking them to rush over. At this time, Guan Xiangying had already called, saying that they had joined the Red 18th Division! Thinking about the fact that his strength has increased by more than 5,000 people all of a sudden, how can he not make He Long happy?
Several military leaders met and decided to rest the army on the spot, establish a base area, raise grain and grass, train troops, and wait for orders from the central government.
Not to mention that Li Jiansheng and He Long's troops established a base on the spot. Only a few days after the two armies launched their campaign, they received a special telegram from the central authorities. It turned out that, as in the official history, in mid-June, Mao, Zhu and several other great men led the Red Front Army to the Maogong (now Xiaojin) area in the northwest of Sichuan Province, where they joined forces with the Red Fourth Front Army led by Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao. After the meeting, the central authorities decided that the Red First Army and the Red Fourth Front Army would jointly go north to create the Sichuan-Shaanxi-Gansu Region. On the 21st, the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Central Red Army were successively reorganized into the 1st, 3rd, and 5th armies. It turned out that the 9th Army Corps had been reorganized into the 32nd Army, but now it has been reorganized a long time ago and has been incorporated into the Red Second Front.