The other side of the big battle was none other than Hu Zongnan's First Army!

Hu Zongnan is the number one general under Chairman Chiang. Known as the "five firsts". Because he was the first commander of the Whampoa students in the Kuomintang Army (April 1936); Commander-in-Chief of the First Corps; Commander-in-Chief of the First Army Group; Commander of the first theater of operations; The first to step into the ranks of generals, and the only one to receive a third general star before leaving the mainland. After he was promoted to the commander of the theater of operations, he began to establish his own faction, which was a small faction within the Whampoa system, Hu Zongnan's faction, Tang Enbo's faction, Chen Cheng's civil engineering faction, and Du Yuming's Fifth Army faction were several of the strongest small factions in the Huangpu faction.

Hu Zongnan is now commanding the 1st Army. The 1st Army of the National Revolutionary Army, derived from the Whampoa Military Academy Teaching Corps. On November 20, 1924, the Whampoa Military Academy formed a teaching group with the students of the school, and appointed He Yingqin as the head of the regiment. On December 26, the 2nd Teaching Regiment was established and Wang Bailing was appointed as the head of the regiment. In February 1925, two regiments took part in the Eastern Crusade. On April 13, 1925, it was combined into the 1st Brigade of the Party Army, and the brigade commander He Yingqin. At the end of April, it was expanded into the 1st Division of the National Revolutionary Army, and the division commander He Yingqin. In August, it merged with the 2nd Division (composed of the 4th and 5th Regiments) to form the 1st Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with Chiang Kai-shek as its commander. On the 20th, Xu Chongzhi's Yue Army was incorporated into the 3rd Division, and the division commander Tan Shuqing. On September 20, Chiang Kai-shek led his army to participate in the Second Eastern Crusade. On October 14, Huizhou was conquered. In December, the Guangdong Army Zhang He and Yu Yingyang were reorganized into the 2nd Independent Division (renamed the 14th Division in 1926), and the division commander Feng Tiepei. Later, a new number of instructors was added. The overall strength is above the armies.

In fact, Hu Zongnan was not the commander of the First Army before, but the commander of the First Division, and he had no less dealings with the Red Fourth Front Army. In the battle with the Red Fourth Front, both sides had their own victories and defeats. However, he was deeply impressed by the average weapons of the Red Fourth Front Army and the lack of bullets. Once, he was very contemptuous and let the troops advance lightly, but he was beaten hard by Xu Xiangqian's troops. Fortunately, as the first division, his troops were replenished quickly, so he made up for Xu Dashuai's pain, turned his back and rested for a few days, and it was a temporary new division again. On April 21, 1936, the Executive Yuan appointed Hu Zongnan as the commander of the 1st Army and the commander of the 1st Division, with the goal of attacking the Red Army in northern Shaanxi. As a result, General Peng led the Red Army to meet the attack and defeated Hu Zongnan.

What Li Jiansheng didn't expect was that this Hu Zongnan seemed to be determined to **, no, he was beaten so badly by the Red Army in Northern Shaanxi, this unit seemed to have only repaired a little, and it actually came again, and the whole ghost was still gone. Moreover, this time, when he led his troops to annihilate the "Four Horses", he rushed to fish in troubled waters. Thinking of this, Li Jiansheng chuckled a little, and felt that this Hu Zongnan had some perseverance, he had been entangled with the Red Army, and he felt a little kraft candy. Moreover, his troops exchanged fire with Liu Zhidan's department of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, and in Sichuan time, they cooperated with the Deng Xihou department of the Sichuan army, and after the exchange with the Red Army's Fourth Front Army. Later, the Red First Army marched into Shaanxi, and he exchanged fire with the Red First Army. It seems that if he doesn't hurt him this time, he can't remember. The great man is still right, "It is better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers", this time, he has to leave his army in Ganshan!

By the time Li Jiansheng led his troops back to the front line at night, the main force of the Red Third Front Army had already exchanged fire with the cavalry regiment of the First Brigade of the First Division of the First Army in the south of Hu Zong, and the battlefield commander was Luo Ronghuan, the political commissar of the Red Third Front Army, known as the "Confucian general".

It turned out that Hu Zongnan knew that the Red Army in northern Shaanxi would meet with the Red First Army and the Red Fourth Front Army, and that the main force had been assembled, and that there was a base area, and the strength was afraid that it would be difficult to defend, and that he had also fought, and he had never been able to get a good deal. This time, when I heard that most of the Red Third Front Army was heading to the northwest, there was no base to support it, and the main forces were scattered, some of them went straight after the "Four Horses," and the other part disappeared for a while, so they decided to stride forward and hold the Red Third Front Army on the way back with superior forces, and annihilate them in one fell swoop in order to achieve complete success. Therefore, he let the troops move forward in three echelons. The first echelon is the first brigade of the first division. According to his plan, the 2nd Division, the 3rd Division, and the Artillery Brigade were to be stationed and deployed on the spot, and the 1st Division would directly attack, and after receiving fire, lead the enemy into the field, and then encircle and annihilate them. Of course, Hu Zongnan, who had known about military affairs for a long time, was not so arrogant as to annihilate the entire 100,000 troops of the Red Third Front Army, but he hoped that with the strength of the "Four Horses" and the natural harsh environment in the northwest, coupled with his own First Army, he would definitely be able to inflict heavy losses on the Red Third Front Army. He believed that when he inflicted heavy losses on the Red Third Front Army, those who waited and watched, such as Yan Xishan and Deng Xihou, would also lead their troops to attack, and at that time, what if Li Jiansheng's troops were besieged by the Ma Jiajun, the Central Army, the Sichuan Army, and the Jin Sui Army, and there were 100,000 people? It's not that you have to annihilate him. You must know that the strength of the Northwest Ma Jiajun is first-class, and with him Li Jiansheng, those red bandits, how can he please them?

Therefore, he set up this strategy, taking advantage of the fact that the troops of the three red fronts were divided into two routes, and gathered troops to annihilate them. In particular, he knew that Li Jiansheng personally led the troops to the northwest, so there would be no too powerful commanders for the troops on this side. However, what he never imagined was that his idea was good, but the reality was very painful!

It turned out that Hu Zongnan originally thought that Li Jiansheng's troops must have encountered the Ma family's army, and they were inevitably annihilated by the Ma family's army, and at worst, they were hit hard, you know, this time it was Ma Yuanhai, a veteran of the Ma family's army, who went to war! That old guy is very good at fighting! In this way, if there is no rest, it is impossible to return to the division without a month. By the time the Red Third Front Army returned to the division, he had already eliminated the Red Third Front Army on this side, and then turned back to ambush him. In this way, it is the time for the First Army to make meritorious contributions. But he never imagined that Li Jiansheng's department would destroy the Ma family army in the northwest, and it would be almost bloodless! Especially the Ma Hongbin brothers, it is almost a matter of rumors! As for Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing's department, they were completely wiped out in a short period of time. Li Jiansheng's troops were not only not severely damaged or completely annihilated, but their strength was greatly strengthened. First, it has been fully cavalry; The two men in the northwest fought bravely and were used to being poor, and this time the Red Army recruited troops, but they recruited a lot of good seedlings. When Li Jiansheng's department learned that Hu Zongnan had invaded the Red Third Front Army, he immediately returned to the reinforcements quickly, with a high speed of maneuver and an increase in strength, which Hu Zongnan did not expect in advance.

As for the first-line sky, Hu Zongnan never expected that although Luo Ronghuan was only a political commissar, he was also a good hand at fighting, not to mention that there was a large group of deputy commanders and chief of staff around him, so it was unambiguous to fight his first army.