Chapter 13: The Jiangjin Fellowship (5)

This major event of the Red Army is not only a matter of time, but there are three of them.

The first is that the Red Army led by Mao Weiren, after crossing the Chishui River four times, fought continuously, and had completely jumped out of the siege of the Kuomintang troops, and crisscrossed the western part of Sichuan, and approached Chengdu. When Li Jiansheng first heard the news, he was a little surprised. It is true that the Red Army completely jumped out of the encirclement of the Nationalist troops, but it happened a little later, not now. However, after thinking about it carefully, Li Jiansheng understood it again. Because of their arrival, the losses of the Red Army were much smaller than in history - not even by much, but by a considerable increase in strength. At least, this Red Eighth Army has been revoked in history, but now it is alive and well; As for the Red Fifth Army, it was almost completely wiped out in history, but its current strength is stronger than before the Long March. And the weapons of the various departments of the Red Front Army, because of the supply of Li Jiansheng and the Red Third Front Army, are much better than in history. What's more, Mao Weiren made a comeback ahead of schedule, and this command is also smooth, therefore, in this way, the current strength of the Red Army is much stronger than that of the Red Army in history, and it is logical that this situation will appear now! What's more, because after Li Jiansheng led the Red Seventh Army and the Red Fourth Front Army to join forces, he fought continuously in eastern Sichuan, and the response force to the Red First Army was very huge, so that Mao Weiren had enough strength to act in western Sichuan!

The second is that He Long, Ren Bishi and several others, who were originally fighting in Xiangxi, accepted the orders of the central government and led the Red Second and Red Sixth Army Corps to start the "Western Expedition". When Li Jiansheng heard the news, he was most surprised. Although he knew that the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps in history had indeed launched the Long March this year, that would be a few months later. If I am not mistaken, the two chiefs led their troops to the west, which was in October this year! In Li Jiansheng's memory, as early as last year, that is, in August 1934, Comrades Ren Bishi and Xiao Ke were ordered to lead the Red Sixth Army to leave the Hunan and Jiangxi Soviet Region to break through the westward expedition, and in October of the same year, they arrived at Muhuang in Yinjiang County, eastern Qiandong, to join the Second Army Corps and set up a general headquarters headed by He Long and Ren Bishi. From November of the same year to August 1935, the Xiangxi Offensive was launched to restore and build the revolutionary base areas in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou. The force grew to more than 17,000 people. In October this year, after the Central Red Army's Long March reached northern Shaanxi, the Second and Sixth Army Corps, under the leadership of He Long, Ren Bishi, Xiao Ke and others, broke through the encirclement of the enemy army and began the Long March, and arrived at Xikang Ganzi in June 1936 to join the Fourth Front Army. After the two armies met, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, in early July, the Second and Sixth Army Corps and the 32nd Army (the Ninth Army Corps, which originally belonged to the Red First Army) formed the Second Front Army to fight against Zhang Guotao's anti-party separatism. Then, together with the Fourth Front Army, he went north to resist the Japanese, and in October, he joined forces with the First Front Army in the Huining area of Gansu. After the start of the Anti-Japanese War, the Red Second Front Army was reorganized into the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Therefore, as soon as he heard that it was only May and the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps had started the Long March, Li Jiansheng felt a little surprised. Later, I thought about it, after I arrived in this era, the things that changed were not one or two, and the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps started the Long March five months earlier than in history, maybe it was the result of their own butterfly fan. Thinking of this, Li Jiansheng didn't care too much about it. And that's exactly what happened. It turned out that since Li Jiansheng and Luo Ronghuan's troops met with Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao's troops, they fought continuously in the eastern Sichuan area, which provided great support to He Long and Ren Bishi's troops, which allowed the department to march west in advance if conditions permitted. Somewhat different from the Red First Army's forced westward expedition, the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps' westward expedition was completely active. Moreover, the situation later proved that their westward expedition was particularly effective, and the westward expedition of nearly 20,000 people did not encounter much resistance on the way, and when they arrived in Shaanxi, this number did not decrease significantly.

The third major event was that the central government subsequently called and asked Li Jiansheng and Luo Ronghuan to lead the Red Seventh Army to separate from the Red Fourth Front Army led by Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao. The Red Seventh Army restored the number of the Red Third Front Army and moved to the east of Sichuan; The Red Fourth Front continued to develop northward; The Red Second and Sixth Army Corps were renamed the Red Second Front Army, which started from western Hunan and developed northward along the Sichuan-Hunan border. As soon as these orders came, Li Jiansheng couldn't understand it again. Because he really didn't understand. The first one is that the Red Seventh Army has done a good job, but why do you want to restore the number of the Red Third Front Army? However, despite his doubts, he still carried it out resolutely. The second question is the issue of the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps and the Red Second Front Army. Of course, he knew that the Red Second Army and the Sixth Army Corps would eventually be collectively called the Red Second Front Army. But there are at least two things that are wrong: first, time. In the calendar, the Second and Sixth Army Corps of the Red Army were renamed the Red Second Front Army, but it was in July 1936; Second, it is the number of the troops. Historically, the Red Second Front Army was composed of three troops, namely the Second and Sixth Army Corps, and the Ninth Army Corps, which originally belonged to the Red First Army and was later renamed the Red 32nd Army. Later, I thought about it again, after I arrived in this era, even the life trajectory of people like Zhang Guotao has changed, and it is understandable that such a unit has undergone certain changes, so I don't think much about it now. Of course, a year later, when the Red Second Front Army and the Red Fourth Front Army joined forces, the Red Ninth Army of the Red First Front Army happened to move nearby, and then merged into the Red Second Front Army in accordance with the order of the Central Committee. As a result, this heroic army returned to the trajectory of history, which made Li Jiansheng, who was developing in northern Shaanxi at that time, sigh for a long time, only to feel that no matter how this history develops, the trajectory is still a trajectory, slightly deviated, but the overall direction will not change greatly! He didn't know that all this was a far-sighted plan of Mao Weiren. Originally, he thought that the Red Seventh Army was strong, but it was somewhat unreasonable to deal with the Red Fourth Front Army or the Red Second Front Army in the name of only one legion. Therefore, from the perspective of the overall situation, he made the following decision: to restore the number of the Red Third Front Army and to set up a new Red Second Front Army, so that the Red Army in China will be unified into four front armies, namely the Red First, the Second Red Army, the Third Red Army, and the Fourth Red Army. Of course, all this was beyond Li Jiansheng's imagination. It's just that I feel that I have been able to come to this era and pull out a 100,000-strong Red Third Front Army in so many years, which is very different from the original history; Therefore, if there must be some small changes in history, it can be justified!

Because of the development of the situation, the ongoing activities of the Red Seventh Army Corps and the Red Fourth Front Army of the "large-scale training and competition" naturally came to an end. I have to admit that Li Jiansheng has a very good set of leading troops. His Red Seventh Army was in the limelight in this competition, but it amazed Xu Xiangqian, Chen Changhao, Xu Shiyou and other founding fathers of later generations. The big competition ended ahead of schedule, Li Jiansheng and Luo Ronghuan announced the resumption of the Red Three-Front Army, and had a dinner with Xu Xiangqian, Chen Changhao and several others, and then led their troops on the road.