What Li Jiansheng did not expect was that many years later, he took the initiative to request the revocation of the number of the Red Third Front Army and merge the Red Third Front Army into the Red First Army as a whole, which greatly strengthened the strength of the Red First Army, and he himself only served as the commander of the Red Seventh Army, which was recognized by later historians as one of the examples of the humility of the generals of the Republic. This is related to the fact that during the Agrarian Revolution, Peng Dehuai took the initiative to give up the expansion of the Red Third Front Army and preferred to serve as the commander of the Red Third Army; and during the Liberation War, Su Yusan gave the post of commander and political commissar of the East China Field Army, and would rather serve as the deputy commander, deputy political commissar, acting commander and acting political commissar of the East China Field Army; And after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xu Guangda wrote three times to request that he not be awarded the rank of general, and then took the initiative to ask for demotion, which was called the four major humble events by later historians! Of course, these are all afterthoughts, so I won't say much about them for the time being.

Looking at the documents at hand, Li Jiansheng had mixed feelings. Of course, the current situation is pressing, so he can't think too much about it, and immediately let the special service brigade and the guard regiment be on guard. He also personally issued orders for all divisions to act in accordance with the documents and orders of the central authorities. With his order, the departments of the former Red Third Front Army accepted the reorganization order very happily. That night, an uninvited guest broke into Li Jiansheng's bedroom. Li Jiansheng, who was about to rest, saw that the person who came was none other than Liu Fugui, the commander of his artillery division. When Liu Fugui saw Li Jiansheng, his anger was still extinguished, but he was still a little sad and said: "Commander-in-chief, the artillery division is gone!" ”

Li Jiansheng also knew that he was in a bad mood at the moment, and when he looked at his situation again, he immediately ran a lot of roads, guessing in his heart that he was just afraid that he rushed over overnight after receiving the general order, and he was a little moved, but he only smiled slightly on his face, and said: "Liu Fugui, I am only the commander of the Red Seventh Army now, not the commander-in-chief of the Red Third Front Army!" ”

"Oh, Commander, our artillery division is gone!" Liu Fugui was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, but he still raised his own question: "Alas, I don't know what the corps commander thinks, how to accept the dispersal of artillery divisions to so many troops!" ”

Li Jiansheng stared at Liu Fugui, laughed again, and said, "Liu Fugui, do you feel uncomfortable when you don't have a teacher?" If that is the case, I immediately request that you be transferred to a division as a division commander. ”

When Liu Fugui heard this, he quickly shook his hand and said, "Commander, you still don't know my character?" I just need to be with you to kill the enemy, what division commander is not a division commander, I really don't care. It's just that I see that some of our family businesses that we have worked so hard to work hard for, how can we say that we can divide them? ”

Li Jiansheng saw that Liu Fugui was really as he thought, not caring about the position of division commander, but about these artillery, and he had a bottom in his heart, and smiled at the moment: "Liu Fugui, then let me ask you, do you believe me?" ”

"Huh?" Liu Fugui obviously didn't expect Li Jiansheng to ask like this, and he was stunned. However, after a while, he understood the subtext of Li Jiansheng's words, and said with great joy: "Commander, do you mean that we may develop into an artillery division in the future?" ”

"You have such a vision, take a longer view. How could it develop only into an artillery division? In my opinion, it is also entirely possible to develop into an artillery corps after the hair. The premise is, believe me or not! ”

"Faith! How not to believe it? "Liu Fugui knows Li Jiansheng too well, so saying one is one, saying two is two, and saying that there is. Now that he said this, he must be sure, and his heart immediately rejoiced, and he said loudly: "Believe! Letter! Letter! ”

In the next few days, the Provisional Central Committee held a meeting in the corridor, and Li Jiansheng's department stepped up its reorganization. Commander Lin of the Red First Army, Commander Peng of the Red Third Army, Commander Dong of the Red Fifth Army, and Commander Luo of the Red Ninth Army suddenly received a generous gift from Li Jiansheng transferred by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission. One by one, in their respective units, they sighed that Li Jiansheng would lead the troops, and the ones brought out were all elite soldiers, and they also sighed that Li Jiansheng was so good at getting equipment, what a sophisticated weapon it was, their old troops could not be compared at all! As for the military rations brought by the soldiers, the veterans also sighed: Most of the veterans don't have much food in their hands, but these soldiers who have transferred from the Red Third Front Army are full of grain bags! Especially when Li Jiansheng's artillery battalion came over, he immediately became the treasure of several army commanders, and they were all put in the top priority to take care of!

Several of the corps commanders were overjoyed. First, the establishment of his own team was full and restored, and the establishment was also increased, and the source of soldiers was also increased. Second, I sighed at Li Jiansheng's generosity. After this time, several army commanders had a very good opinion of Li Jiansheng, and they were full of praise every time they talked about it. As for the leaders of these soldiers, because of the orders of the central government, all of them have been transferred back to the Red Seventh Army, and these people don't care. You know, which of these main forces at the moment is not the backbone? The person who can be the head of the regiment is handful. Therefore, as soon as the sources of troops provided by Li Jiansheng came, several regiments completed the establishment and enrichment in a very short period of time.

While these corps commanders were busy reorganizing the army, Li Jiansheng also met with Huang Su and bid farewell to Huang Su. Huang Su returned to the Red Eighth Army with a special service brigade and a guard regiment, and soon joined Zhou Zikun and others. The two units he brought with him were later unified and integrated into the guard regiment of the Red Eighth Army Corps, and then played a key role at critical times, and then became the direct unit of the 389 Brigade, and then returned to the command of Li Jiansheng.

sent Huang Su away, Luo Ronghuan is not in place yet. Zeng Zhongsheng has arrived. Li Jiansheng immediately ordered all units to be integrated on the spot: after the special service brigade was taken away by Huang Su, the remaining three battalions were organized into a special service regiment, with Wu Zheng as the regiment commander and Li Yu as the regiment's political commissar. The guard regiment was originally a brigade-level establishment, but now it has been taken away partially, and it is still a guard regiment, with Li Zhi as the commander. At present, there are only two battalions left in the artillery division, which are reorganized into an artillery battalion, and Liu Fugui, who was the commander of the artillery division, is the commander of the artillery battalion, and Huang Fengke is reappointed as an instructor; At present, there are only two battalions left in the engineer division, which is reorganized into a battalion of 800 people, called the engineer battalion, Peng Xu is still the battalion commander, and Wen Chunlin is the instructor. At present, there are only two battalions of people in the baggage battalion, which has been reorganized into a baggage battalion of 800 people, and Xu Zhengfang and Zeng Xiangyang are no longer concurrently serving as battalion-level leaders. Liu Limin, the former commander of the Guards Division, served as the battalion commander, Wang Zhengfei, the former political commissar of the Guards Division, served as the battalion instructor, and Huang Hua served as the deputy battalion commander.

As for the combat units, Li Jiansheng ordered: The original Red 1st Division and the Red 8th Division were merged and reorganized, according to the overall combat sequence of the Red First Army, the new Red 16th Division, division commander Yang Zhishen, division political commissar Su Zhengfei, division chief of staff Gao Yuan, deputy division commander Yang Huwei, and deputy political commissar He Jingsheng; The Red 2nd Division and the Red 7th Division were originally merged and reorganized, and according to the overall combat sequence of the Red First Army, it was the new Red 17th Division, with division commander Guo Hu, political commissar Li Qin, chief of staff Li Qing, deputy division commander Luo Kai, and deputy political commissar Lu Tongfan; The 3rd Red Division and the 6th Red Division were originally merged and reorganized, and according to the overall operational sequence of the Red First Army, they were the new Red 18th Division, with division commander Lu Keshan, political commissar Guo Zhengjun, chief of staff and deputy division commander Hu Tingquan, and deputy political commissar Cai Zhong; The 4th Red Division and the 5th Red Division were originally merged and reorganized, and according to the overall combat sequence of the Red First Army, they were the new Red 19th Division, with division commander Yan Dong, political commissar Bai Kaishan, and deputy division commander and chief of staff Niu Dali. After the reorganization, the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th divisions each had a standard of more than 9,000 people. Each division consists of two brigades and six regiments. The brigade, that is, the division of Li Jiansheng's department, was originally a division with a standard establishment of 4,500 people.

As for the departments directly under the Red Seventh Army, they are generally the same as before: Xu Zhengfang served as the deputy chief of staff of the regiment's logistics and the political commissar of the logistics baggage equipment department, and Zeng Xiangyang served as the director of the logistics baggage equipment department; Su Sai, the former political commissar of the 5th Red Division, was transferred to the Corps Security Department, replacing Wu Kelie as the director; Sun Wenjie, head of the teaching group, and Qin Jianqiang, political commissar; He Xiaolu, director of the quilt factory; The commander of the reconnaissance battalion was Wu Kelie, the former head of the security department, who returned to his old job; Ren Huayun, commander of the communication battalion, Ou Zhengping, deputy battalion commander, and Fan Chao, battalion instructor; Qiu Xiangping, Secretary of the Party Group and Political Commissar of the Field Hospital. The commander of the cavalry company, Shao, advanced.

Because this is Li Jiansheng's starting unit, it was quickly reorganized. Only an hour after Li Jiansheng's order was issued, the reorganization was completed. As for the division commanders, political commissars, regiment commanders, regimental political commissars, battalion commanders, instructors, company commanders, and instructors who may be demoted, because Li Jiansheng's demotion was in front of them, they all didn't say a word, accepted them without hesitation, and quickly entered their roles. As for the more than 700 backbone cadres of other units who were transferred back from the Red Third Front Army, most of them were personally trained by Li Jiansheng and rescued from the Central Soviet Region, and they were convinced by Li Jiansheng and were unwilling to leave Li Jiansheng's troops. As for the more than 100 veteran Red Army soldiers that Li Jiansheng rescued from the edge of the Xiangjiang River, all of them were also incorporated into combat units to take up practical posts. As a result, a strange situation appeared in the Red Seventh Army: there were not only a large number of regiment-level company commanders, but also many division-level battalion commanders and regiment commanders!

By the time Luo Ronghuan arrived at the corps headquarters of the Red Seventh Army, Li Jiansheng had already completed the reorganization of the headquarters. Seeing that the political commissar was coming, he greeted him warmly, and introduced him to meet with several other generals of the corps. There was another welcome party that night. Subsequently, let Yuntian and a few others accompany Luo Ronghuan to familiarize themselves with the troops directly under him; Then he said goodbye to several old leaders one by one overnight and told him that he would go to the army the next day. Several old leaders also gave encouragement one by one, asking Li Jiansheng to work hard and not to carry a burden. Li Jiansheng responded one by one and thanked them one by one. Early the next morning, the first thing Li Jiansheng did was to meet with Commander Lin and transfer the defense of Passage City to Commander Lin's Red First Legion; The second thing is to take the other leaders of the corps department to pick up Luo Ronghuan, a respected old political worker, and then lead the special service group and guard regiment directly out of the city, join up with his own large army, and go up to the commander of the New Red Seventh Legion!