The soldiers are invincible. Soon, in less than a month and a half, Anren, Guidong, Jiahe, and Chenxian all fell into the hands of Li Jiansheng, and all established local Soviet power.

During this period, except for the small battles in Chenxian County, there were no large-scale battles in the county seats. Yuntian and Yang Zhishen both knew that their strength could not withstand large-scale field battles, and they had already experienced the taste of "skillful warfare", so the capture of these county towns did not engage in large-scale offensive warfare, and most of the county towns were occupied by skill, or occupied by night and by fraud, and the tricks emerged in endlessly. Only Chenxian County is different, and the precautions are stricter. But pitifully, when Yang Zhishen's two battalions and Yuntian's two battalions attacked together, the hundreds of county guards composed of local city guards, police, and courtyard guards were beaten down in just one afternoon. A few of the heads were shot in the head as soon as they showed up. Later, Yang and Yun bombarded the city wall of Nachen County with a cannon blast, and the county finally surrendered. The few leaders in the county wanted to abscond with money, but because the entire county was besieged, they couldn't get out, and they were all captured alive. Of course, as before, the revolution in Chenxian County was vigorously launched by killing stubborn enemies, digging deep for grain, collecting enemy funds, and recruiting troops extensively.

At this point, the entire territory of Chenzhou in later generations, except for the piece of land in the urban area of Chenzhou, all other places were under the red regime. Li Jiansheng's financial situation also reached an unprecedented situation: the total amount of silver dollars confiscated from reactionary landlords and squires in various places was as high as 8.9 million yuan; 260 gold bars!

Taking advantage of the fact that the Kuomintang authorities were concentrating their forces to "encircle and suppress" the central Soviet region and had no time to deal with his southern Hunan, Li Jiansheng's troops went out in all directions and successively took Jianghua, Jiangyong, Daoxian, Ningyuan, Xintian, Nanshan, and other "six southern counties" in Yongzhou, which were adjacent to Chenzhou, and all established Soviet power and local armed independent battalions, which were linked with those red regimes in Chenzhou.

At this time, Li Jiansheng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It's December 1930. In just two months, with the help of the local party organization, his troops achieved an unprecedented victory and gained such a large territory. This almost includes the two major areas of Chenzhou and Yongzhou in Hunan in later generations. The total amount of silver dollars harvested by himself, including those harvested before, has reached more than 23 million yuan, and more than 980 small yellow croaker. This made Li Jiansheng, who had always thought that the southern Hunan area was not rich, also secretly speechless. As for the newly recruited armed forces, they are also very impressive. In each county, there are currently two independent county battalions, such as Guiyang; There is one, such as Linwu, Xintian, Nanshan, etc. But all in all, each county has built its own armament. And their main forces are training while attacking, and the effect is very good; Today, taking the Guiyang 1st Independent Battalion and the 2nd Independent Battalion, which were first developed, as examples, there has been a qualitative improvement in both ideological education and military quality. Of course, the situation is different in other places, because the development is lagging behind, and it will take time to retrain.

However, Li Jiansheng was not happy about these, but cared about two points. First, after two months of fighting, its main force has shown that it initially has a relatively good combat capability. Second, I can finally establish a red base on a larger scale! In this way, your troops can finally have a "mother's home"!

After discussion, everyone unanimously agreed to Li Jiansheng's suggestion, and decided to build a unified "southern Hunan revolutionary base area" and establish a "southern Hunan Soviet provisional people's government" with the large piece of land in southern Hunan as the core and the red Soviet power established in each county as the main support.

On January 3, 1931, under the chairmanship of Li Jiansheng, the "Inaugural Conference of the Southern Hunan Revolutionary Base Area and the Provisional People's Government of the Southern Hunan Soviet" was held in Yizhang as scheduled. The chairman of the government is Ho Changming, who no longer serves as a political commissar in the Independent Regiment. It has jurisdiction over 16 county-level soviets. Each county has a separate battalion, with strengths ranging from 340 to 560 troops. The independent battalion was organized by the local Soviet government, and Li Jiansheng sent members from the training camp of the South Hunan Independent Regiment to train for a month. These 16 local independent battalions, all composed of young peasants recruited by the local government, were directly responsible for local order and affairs, and some of the guns were provided by Li Jiansheng's troops, and most of them were solved by themselves.

So far, Li Jiansheng's department, in addition to the 6 battalions of the original independent regiment and 6 special companies of the main force directly under it, has also added the independent battalion directly under the Hunan Independent Regiment adapted from the Guiyang 1st Independent Battalion, a total of 7 battalions and 6 special companies, as well as these 16 local independent battalions. After more than two months of training, the Guiyang No. 1 Independent Battalion has initially met Li Jiansheng's requirements and has been accepted by Li Jiansheng and reorganized into an independent battalion of the main force.

Li Jiansheng reached an agreement with the southern Hunan Soviet government and the county Soviet governments, and these local independent battalions were free to develop and fight freely in the counties in peacetime, but were under the unified command of the independent regiments in the event of a major war. As for Li Jiansheng's main force, it has become stronger and stronger in so many battles, and although there are certain battle losses, fortunately, it has been replenished very quickly from the urban defense bureaus and police stations in various places, and now the full strength of the main force has reached an astonishing 3,100 people, compared with the full strength of more than 2,700 people before the war.

Li Jiansheng originally estimated that according to his own continuous use of troops to attack the territory, and before swallowing the 27th and 33rd regiments of the 14th Brigade of the Jiangxi enemy Zhou Hunyuan's department that had entered Hunan, the Kuomintang authorities would send troops over to "encircle and suppress" because of "great dissatisfaction", but the intelligence showed that because the Kuomintang authorities were now busy carrying out the first encirclement and suppression of the central Soviet region, and they were passive everywhere, they were preparing to launch a new round of encirclement and suppression, and they had no time to take care of him here, but they gave him a good chance to survive. Not only have the troops been tempered, but the base areas have also been expanded and consolidated to an unprecedented extent. A large number of extremely reactionary landlords, squires, local Kuomintang organizations, local reactionary armed forces, bandits, and so on, who were extremely reactionary or had previously been stained with the blood of revolutionary fighters, were all suppressed. The entire Shonan region has completely become the world of the red regime. As for He Changming's original posts of secretary of the party committee and political commissar of the Independent League, since he no longer held concurrently, Li Jiansheng temporarily held the position, while Zhao Boping was promoted to deputy political commissar and continued to serve in his original position, specifically responsible for the relevant daily affairs of the Independent League that He Changming was originally responsible for. The original intelligence system at hand by He Changming was also directly handed over to Li Jiansheng and Zhao Boping.

Time flashed and it was the end of the year. Li Jiansheng knew that the Central Soviet Region had reached the most critical period of the first anti-encirclement and suppression, and it was estimated that it would come to light in the near future. His original intention was to launch constant attacks in order to contain the enemy's forces and relieve the pressure on the central Soviet zone. But unexpectedly, he first ate the enemy's two main regiments, and then successively captured such a large territory, but the enemy still ignored it. It seems that his movements are still small, and he still needs to make some big moves! Although he knew that the first anti-encirclement campaign would be a complete victory under the leadership of Mao Weiren, Li Jiansheng still decided to launch a certain offensive at the end of the year to attract the enemy's attention and relieve the pressure on the central Soviet area.

But where should we go?

Heading east to Jiangxi? The enemy is now heavily armed, and he is going to the enemy's hands, and with his own strength, he will not win, so he will not do it; Continuing north to the heart of Hunan? Now the Hunan enemy He Jianbu is also a large army, and his own strength is not enough, so it is impossible to make a big deal. However, it is impossible for him to attack Changsha, and it is still possible to force Hengyang with a certain situation. As for the development to the south, the enemy forces in Guangdong are not very well prepared at present, but they can take advantage of the chaos to make a big deal and may win a certain victory.

Well, that's it, go north to make a situation, and the main force will go south to make trouble in Guangdong!