Chapter XIV: New Actions

However, it was said that according to Mao Weiren's instructions, Li Jiansheng, Luo Ronghuan, and Zeng Zhongsheng led 100,000 elite soldiers of the Red Third Front Army to move to the eastern Sichuan side to meet the newly established Red Second Front Army under the command of He Long and others.

At that time, the Red Second Front Army was engaged in an extremely arduous battle in Xiangxi. These histories are well known to Li Jiansheng from later generations.

It turned out that as early as October 1934, in order to cope with the breakthrough and transfer of the Central Red Army, the 2nd and 6th Army Corps of the Red Army launched the Xiangxi Offensive at the end of that month to create a base area. And in the following month, it successively conquered the counties of Yongshun, Dayong, Sangzhi, Taoyuan, and Cili, surrounded Changde, and shocked Yueyang and Changsha. During this period, on October 16 alone, in Yongshun's Longjiazhai North 100,000 Ping, three brigades of the Xiangxi warlord Chen Quzhen were defeated, and more than 2,000 people below the chief of staff of his brigade were captured.

If Li Jiansheng is not mistaken, on November 26, 1934, the Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China was established, and at the same time, the Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Revolutionary Committee and the Military Region were established. While developing the Xiangxi Offensive, the 2nd and 6th Army Corps of the Red Army carried out the construction of revolutionary base areas such as the agrarian revolution, the expansion of the Red Army, the establishment of Soviet power and guerrilla units, and had a tremendous impact. This shook Chairman Chiang, who was commanding the encirclement and pursuit of the Central Red Army, and forced him to transfer He Jian, the commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Army front, and his 16th, 19th, and 62nd divisions from the new factory in the passage to Yuanling to attack the Red 2nd and 6th Army Corps. In view of the victory of the Red 2nd and 6th Army Corps and the development of the base areas, Chiang Kai-shek transferred more than 80 regiments from February 1935 to deploy six routes of "encirclement and suppression" in the Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, and Guizhou Soviet areas. At this time, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission telegraphed the 2nd and 6th Army Corps of the Red Army: In order to establish collective leadership in military affairs, it is necessary to organize branches of the Revolutionary Military Committee, with He Long, Ren Bishi, Guan Xiangying, Xia Xi, Xiao Ke, and Wang Zhen as members, and He Long as the chairman. In accordance with the spirit of the Zunyi Conference's instruction that the general policy of opposing "encirclement and suppression" is decisive defense, not mere defense, and that it is a mobile war, not a positional war, He Long, Ren Bishi, and others decided to carry out the anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign. In the following 10 consecutive months, the 2nd and 6th Army Corps of the Red Army fought two whole divisions, one division headquarters, and one brigade of the CCP annihilation party troops in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, and Guizhou, totaling more than 20,000 people. More than 8,000 guns, more than 100 light and heavy machine guns, and more than 20 artillery pieces of various kinds were surrendered, and the revolutionary base areas of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, and Guizhou were established, the strength of the Red Army more than doubled to more than 20,000 people, and the 18th Division and the 11th and 17th regiments were newly established.

Thinking that his own troops were to respond to this heroic army, thinking about the majestic posture of He Laoshuai, and thinking about the difficult environment in which the original Red Second and Red Sixth Army Corps took root, Li Jiansheng was a little impatient. After a little discussion with Luo Ronghuan and Zeng Zhongsheng, he immediately issued a combat order:

1. Division Commander Yang Zhishen, Political Commissar Su Zhengfei, and Chief of Staff Liu Qiao (concurrently) led the 16th Red Division, and Division Commander Guo Hu, Political Commissar Li Qin, and Chief of Staff Li Qing led the 19th Red Division, under the unified command of Deputy Commander-in-Chief Yuntian, to attack and advance from the north to eastern Sichuan and western Hunan;

2. Division Commander Hu Tingquan, Political Commissar Gao Yuan, and Chief of Staff Liu Ye led the 20th Red Division, and Division Commander Niu Dali, Political Commissar Bai Kaishan, and Chief of Staff Luo Kaikai led the Red 18th Division, under the unified command of Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng Zhi, to attack and advance from the South Road to eastern Sichuan and western Xiangxi;

3. Division Commander Lu Keshan, Political Commissar Guo Zhengjun, and Chief of Staff Qian Zhuangming led the 17th Red Division, and Division Commander Yan Dong, Political Commissar Su Sai, and Chief of Staff Yang Huwei led the Red 15th Division, which was personally commanded by Zeng Zhongsheng, Chief of Staff of the Front Army, to attack and advance to eastern Sichuan and western Hunan from the middle road;

4. Liu Fugui commanded the artillery brigade directly under the Front Army, and followed Zeng Zhongsheng to operate in the middle of the road.

5. Xu Zhengfang and Lin Dazhi led the newly established Logistics Command, and Cai Zhong and Liu Limin led the newly established Recruit Training Command to follow Li Jiansheng and Luo Ronghuan.

6. The Engineer Brigade, led by Peng Xu and Wen Chunlin, explored the road first. Xu Kai and Mi Ying led the reconnaissance brigade to accompany the engineer brigade. Fan Feng and Yu Xiangyang led the sniper regiment directly to the front line.

7. The Special Service Brigade was led by Wu Kelie and Wang Zhengfei, and accompanied Li Jiansheng and others. The guard brigade led by Wu Zheng and Lu Shulin accompanied Li Jiansheng. Among them, the first guard regiment was led by Li Zhi and directly guarded the general staff.

Shen Pheasant, who has now been promoted to confidential staff officer, quickly printed out the order and handed it over to Li Jiansheng for review. Shen Pheasant didn't know much about literacy, but after his father Shen Laohan and sister Shen Ying were rescued by Li Jiansheng, the two sisters and his younger brother Shen Bao joined Li Jiansheng's troops. Now, Shen Bao, who is full of martial arts, is already the commander of a regiment and a battalion of the special service brigade; Sister Shen Ying has also become the battalion commander of the Lady Guard Battalion of the Guard Brigade. Today, Li Jiansheng's army has many female soldiers, even many female college students, and female medical guards. These female soldiers are delicate, but they are not very good at guarding. After Li Jiansheng discussed with Luo Ronghuan, he set up such a team to protect these female soldiers. After all, it is somewhat inconvenient to have male soldiers protect these female soldiers. Shen Pheasant didn't know much in the past, but after all, he still knew a few words. In addition, he is quiet, and after joining the army, he loves the influence of Li Jiansheng and has been strengthening his studies. Later, I played well with female college students like Shang Zhiyuan, so I made rapid progress. Now he has been deeply trusted by Li Jiansheng and served as the secretary of the starting point!

Li Jiansheng carefully reviewed it and signed. Shen Pheasant showed it to Luo Ronghuan again. Luo Ronghuan also signed. Shen Pheasant then sent out. Looking at Shen Pheasant's delicate back, Luo Ronghuan smiled at Li Jiansheng. Li Jiansheng couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when he was looked at by the big brother like this, his face turned red, and he quickly turned his face away. Luo Ronghuan smiled and looked at the somewhat embarrassed appearance of this handsome young man who commanded an army of more than 100,000 troops, laughed, took off his glasses and wiped them seriously. When Li Jiansheng heard Luo Ronghuan's smile, he became more and more embarrassed, so he hurriedly diverted his attention. Fortunately, he immediately remembered that the living environment of He Long's troops may not be very good, and there must be a lot of things that need to be supplemented, so he quickly found a topic: "Comrade Rong Huan, I think, Comrade He Long's troops are in a bad fighting environment, and this time the division will be in urgent need of supplementation, so the comrades in the logistics department should make some preparations!" This move was really smart, and it immediately attracted Luo Ronghuan's attention. When Luo Ronghuan heard Li Jiansheng's suggestion, he didn't think about it, and nodded in agreement.

New orders were soon issued. The various functions in logistics are automatically put into the state. The purchase of tung oil and iron utensils, the purchase of tung oil and iron utensils, the purchase of grain, and the purchase of medicines on the market were all procured. Li Jiansheng's Red Seventh Army was stronger than the Red Fourth Front Army in terms of medical treatment, and the strength of this army hospital was only stronger than that of the Red Army General Hospital. In this way, the strength of the military hospital of the Red Seventh Army has grown again -- of course, it has now been renamed the military hospital of the Red Third Front Army. Of course, in Li Jiansheng's thoughts, the newly recruited medical staff are all prepared for the future meeting with the Red Second Front Army!

On May 24, 1935, under the orders of Li Jiansheng and Luo Ronghuan, more than 100,000 troops of the Red Third Front Army, divided into three routes, launched a rapid attack from eastern Sichuan to the enemy in the Sichuan-Hunan border area!