Chapter 4 Dongfeng Praise

When he walked into the conference room, Cai Zhong, director of the Political Department, happened to face Li Jiansheng, and he was the first to see it. At that time, he, Zeng Zhongsheng, Yuntian, Peng Zhi, Xu Zhengfang, Yuan Guoping, and Liu Qiao were discussing the next step with Luo Ronghuan, and they happened to look up and saw the commander-in-chief Li Jiansheng walking into the venue and immediately stood up. Yun Tian next to him seemed to feel that Cai Zhong next to him was different, and when he saw it, it was the commander-in-chief who came in, and he also subconsciously stood up. This time, several others stood up. As for all the other division and brigade commanders in the conference room, they immediately stopped discussing and all stood up in unison. Luo Ronghuan was thinking about the problem, and at this time he also stood up, seeing that the commanders welcomed Li Jiansheng so much, he sighed secretly, and intuitively felt that Li Jiansheng's prestige was not ordinary. With a thumbs up in his heart, he looked at Li Jiansheng who strode in with a smile, and said, "Is the commander-in-chief rested?" Li Jiansheng saw so many people waiting for him, although he was a little apologetic, but he had dealt with Luo Ronghuan a lot, and he also knew that he was loyal and had the style of an elder, and knew that he cared about himself, so he nodded and smiled, and walked straight to the center of the conference seat and sat down.

Next to him was Luo Ronghuan, the political commissar of the front army. Other leaders, Zeng Zhongsheng, chief of staff of the front army, Cai Zhong, director of the Political Department, Yun Tian, deputy commander-in-chief, Peng Zhi, deputy commander-in-chief, Liu Qiao, deputy political commissar, Xu Zhengfang, deputy chief of staff, and Yuan Guoping, deputy chief of staff, sat in the first row. Red 15th Division Commander Yan Dong, Political Commissar Su Sai, Chief of Staff Yang Huwei, Red 16th Division Commander Yang Zhishen, Political Commissar Su Zhengfei, Chief of Staff Wu Kelie, Red 17th Division Commander Lu Keshan, Political Commissar Guo Zhengjun, Chief of Staff Qian Zhuangming, Red 18th Division Commander Niu Dali, Political Commissar Bai Kaishan, Chief of Staff Luo Kaikai, Red 19th Division Commander Guo Hu, Political Commissar Li Qin, Chief of Staff Li Qing, Red 20th Division Commander Hu Tingquan, Political Commissar Gao Yuan, Chief of Staff Liu Ye, Artillery Brigade Commander Liu Fugui and Political Commissar Liu Limin, Political Commissar Lin Dazhi of the Logistics Command, Cai Zhong, political commissar of the Recruit Training Headquarters, Peng Xu, commander of the Engineer Brigade, Wen Chunlin, political commissar, Xu Kai, commander of the reconnaissance brigade, Mi Ying, political commissar, Wu Zheng, commander of the special service brigade, Wang Zhengfei, political commissar, Fan Feng, head of the sniper regiment directly under him, Yu Xiangyang, commander of the sniper regiment, Xu Kai, commander of the guard brigade, Lu Shulin, political commissar, Shao Qianqian, commander of the cavalry brigade, Wang Huishen, political commissar, Chu Ming, director of the front military hospital, Zhao Boshan, political commissar, Chen Mingshan, director of the Military Research Institute of the front army, Chen Dayong, political commissar, Wang Keyi, director of the security department of the front army, and Shen Pheasant, confidential staff officer, all sat in a room.

The chief of staff of the 16th Red Division was originally concurrently held by Liu Qiao, deputy political commissar of the Front Army, but now Wu Kelie, former commander of the Special Service Brigade, has been promoted. You must know that the Red 15th Division is the first main force of Li Jiansheng's department, and the special service brigade is a strange soldier that Li Jiansheng attaches special importance to, and the promotion of Wu Kelie from the commander of the special service brigade to the chief of staff of the Red 15th Division not only has the intention of strengthening the command force of the Red 15th Division, but also has the idea of strengthening the idea of special operations in the Red 15th Division. Li Jiansheng knew that in the future, his troops would definitely have to fight against the Japanese invaders, and the Japanese army had a very strong ability to fight alone, so he had been consciously strengthening the special operations capability of his troops. Wu Zheng, the former political commissar of the Special Service Brigade, was transferred by Li Jiansheng to the commander of the Special Service Brigade after Wu Kelie left. Wang Zhengfei, a former deputy commander of the Red Third Army Corps, who Li Jiansheng saved on the edge of the Xiangjiang River that year, was appointed by Li Jiansheng as the political commissar of the special service brigade. Wang Zhengfei was one of the 117 backbones rescued by Li Jiansheng on the edge of the Xiangjiang River, and he was also one of the youngest division-level cadres rescued at that time, only 26 years old when he was rescued. Later, by chance, Li Jiansheng found that Wang Zhengfei, who was born in Wugang, Shaoyang, Hunan, was compared with his own birth, and he was also born as a hunter, with good marksmanship and good skills, and he was also born in a practicing family, learning ancestral martial arts, and his martial arts are very good. What makes Li Jiansheng even more important is that Wang Zhengfei's father taught private school, and he was influenced by his father, so he was literate, plus his family training was very good, and his political consciousness was very high. Because of this, Li Jiansheng did not hesitate to directly promote him to the position of political commissar of the special service brigade.

In Li Jiansheng's troops, many backbone cadres and cadres were rescued by Li Jiansheng through various channels. For example, Chief of Staff Zeng Zhongsheng was saved directly from Zhang Guotao by Li Jiansheng by all means. Zeng Zhongsheng later knew that on the night he was rescued by Li Jiansheng, the people sent by Zhang Guotao to arrest him were already on the way. If he hadn't resolutely carried out the orders of Zhou Weiren and Zhu Weiren and acted immediately, he would have been caught by Zhang Guotao's people, and the consequences would be like the official history, "Death before the ambition is paid"! Later, I learned that the joint order of Zhou Weiren and Zhu Weiren was completely promoted by Li Jian. Shao Qianjian, commander of the cavalry brigade, was also rescued by Li Jiansheng in the Central Soviet District, and on the night of his wedding, the "anti-rebellion" personnel went to arrest him half an hour ago. Wang Huishen, the political commissar of the cavalry brigade, was one of the 117 backbones rescued by Li Jiansheng on the edge of the Xiangjiang River, and he turned out to be a deputy division commander of the Red First Army. Chu Ming, the director of the Front Military Hospital, was directly exchanged by Li Jiansheng from the General Hospital of the Red First Army, and his medical skills were excellent. However, political commissar Zhao Boshan was also one of the 117 backbones rescued by Li Jiansheng from the edge of the Xiangjiang River, and turned out to be a division political commissar of the Red Ninth Army Corps. Li Qing, chief of staff of the 19th Red Division, was also one of the 117 backbones, and turned out to be a regimental political commissar of the Red First Army. In Li Jiansheng's department, step by step, he stepped into the division level leader sequence. Lin Dazhi, political commissar of the Logistics Command, was also rescued by Li Jiansheng. Like Shao Qianjian, he was rescued by Li Jian from the guns of the "suppression of rebellion" in the Central Soviet Region. He was luckier than Shao Qianjian. At that time, he had been escorted to the "rebellion" execution ground, and the guns were already aimed at him. At this time, Li Jiansheng led a special operations team to arrive and rescued him from under gunpoint.

Li Jiansheng attached great importance to the repair and development of weapons, and as early as after the Southern Hunan Uprising, he specially invited a group of weapon restoration personnel and blacksmiths to set up a weapons research institute. To be honest, it was very rudimentary. However, after continuous development in the past few years, especially after a group of college students with the right majors joined, the current Weapons Research Institute of the Red Third Front Army is second to none among all the ranks of the Red Army. Director Chen Mingshan and political commissar Chen Dayong were among the 117 backbones that Li Jiansheng rescued from the Xiangjiang River. Chen Mingshan was a battalion commander of the former Red Fifth Army Corps, and Chen Dayong was a deputy battalion commander of the former Red Ninth Army Corps. Although these two young people, among the 117 backbones rescued by Li Jiansheng, their status was not too high at the beginning, and they were only battalion-level cadres, but fortunately, they had flexible brains, were young and willing to learn, and they made rapid progress. Now, the two have built the Martial Arts Research Institute into a powerful reserve force. According to the report they provided to Li Jiansheng, the current Martial Arts Research Institute is no longer as simple as restoring bombs and repairing firearms, but is now capable of producing bullets, small artillery shells, repairing rifles, developing small and medium-sized earthen cannons, producing grenades, and other small weapons. Because of the training of personnel in place over the past few years, "Er Chen" believes that as long as the weapons research institute is given the opportunity to have a production line of bullets, shells, firearms, and cannons, they will be able to immediately produce weapons that fully meet the requirements of the troops, and even develop new weapons. As for Wang Keyi, head of the Security Department of the Front Army, he was also one of the 117 backbones that Li Jiansheng rescued from the edge of the Xiangjiang River that year. Li Jiansheng's original intention was not to attach much importance to the security department, because he felt that the protection of personnel could be done with his powerful guard brigade, while the security department of some Red Army units casually arrested and killed people, which made him very disgusted, but he also attached special importance to the secret bureau, that is, to the internal and external secrets of the front army. Luo Ronghuan, on the other hand, believes that secrecy is mainly just "defense," but in addition to "defense" when foreign enemies come to visit intelligence, it is necessary to take further measures, so it is very important to set up a security department. Under these circumstances, Li Jiansheng set up a security department. Wu Zheng, the former minister, has now been transferred to the commander of the special service brigade, and Wang Keyi, the former battalion commander of the Red Ninth Army, has been transferred by Li Jiansheng. In Li Jiansheng's thoughts, Wang Keyi is not the most suitable candidate to be the Minister of Security, he thinks that the most suitable is the "Three Heroes of Longtan": Li Kenong, Qian Zhuangfei, and Hu Di. chose Wang Keyi, firstly, there were only so many people available at hand at that time, and secondly, in addition to being young, relatively highly educated, and having attended a regular middle school, Wang Keyi also found that Wang Keyi was very good at using his brain, meticulous, calm, and tenacious. Judging from the situation during the period when Wang Keyi arrived in the Ministry of Security, Li Jiansheng felt that he might not have used the wrong person.

In Li Jiansheng's department, there are two more Cai Zhong. One was the director of the Political Department of the Front Army, who came with Li Jiansheng during the uprising in southern Hunan. The other was the political commissar of the Recruit Training Headquarters, who Li Jiansheng asked for from the Central Soviet Region through Zhou Weiren and Zhu Weiren. Nowadays, there is no convenient name within the Red Third Front Army, and they all call the director of the political department of the front director Director Cai or Lao Cai Zhong, although this Cai Zhong is only less than 35. As for Cai Zhong, the political commissar of the recruit training headquarters, everyone calls him Cai Political Commissar, or Da Cai Zhong. At present, in the Red Third Front Army, Yuan Guoping, deputy chief of staff of the front army, concurrently serves as the commander of the recruit training command, and Xu Zhengfang, another deputy chief of staff, concurrently serves as the commander of the logistics command.