Li Jiansheng, who was on the border of Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi, learned from three aspects that the Central Red Army had begun to break through.

The first point is that Li Jiansheng deduced from the memory of later generations that the Central Red Army would march westward around October 18. At that time, it was called the Western Expedition, and later it was called the Long March. The second point is transmitted by the underground intelligence system established by He Changming at the beginning and now controlled by him personally. The third point, which was also the fastest, was clearly told to him by telegram to the Central Red Army.

This telegram jointly sent by Zhou Weiren and Mr. Zhu told him to let his troops move eastward to meet the Central Red Army on the westward expedition!

This time, it really made Li Jiansheng incomprehensible. Historically, the reason why the Central Red Army marched westward was, on the one hand, because of Chairman Chiang's iron bucket plan, and on the other hand, because the Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, and Guizhou revolutionary base areas led by He, Ren, and Xiao were in the western part of the Central Soviet Region, and the Central Red Army planned to join forces with them. But looking at this telegram now, it seems that the Central Red Army is not going west to Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, and Guizhou to join the Red Second and Sixth Military Regiments led by Mr. He and several others, but to our base area in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi to join the Red Third Front Army led by itself!

Depend on! It's a big game this time!

Moreover, this is not the same as history!

However, it is not right or wrong at the moment, because the Central Red Army is indeed coming west, and this telegram is clearly signed by Zhu and Erren!

Thinking of this, Li Jiansheng, who was familiar with history, knew how difficult the Central Red Army would encounter this time, and as soon as he received the order, without saying a word, he immediately issued an operational order: The 18th Army Corps of the Red Army and the troops directly under the Front Army should immediately march eastward, open a bloody road, and do everything possible to join forces with the Central Red Army. At present, the three corps at his disposal and the troops directly under the other front army, after the preliminary training, went out to resist the enemy's attack: the Red Sixteenth Army Corps, led by Ji Zhentong, resisted the siege of the Hunan enemy in the southern Hunan area; The Red Seventeenth Army Corps, led by Zeng Zhongsheng and others, resisted the siege of the enemy in Guangxi in northern Guangxi; Under the leadership of Huang Su, the Guards Division, the 1st Artillery Brigade, and the Teaching Brigade directly under the Front Army maneuvered around the enemy in the direction of northern and Guangdong. As for the Red Eighteenth Army Corps, the Second Artillery Brigade, and the Guard Brigade, they were led by Li Jiansheng and moved in the southwestern part of Jiangxi to relieve both the siege of the base area and the pressure of the Central Red Army. The logistics baggage brigade and the engineer brigade, led by Wang Hanying and Xu Zhengfang, made some preparations in the rear.

Li Jiansheng personally defended this side, and the original plan was to deal with the Central Red Army, and the main purpose was only to make some disturbances and attract the enemy's attention. But he really didn't expect that the enemy's strength in this area was the strongest in the four directions!

In fact, the Kuomintang supreme authorities mobilized 1 million troops for the fifth joint encirclement and suppression of the Central Soviet District; During the same period, about 1.2 million people were attacking other base areas. Of course, in the official history, the highest authorities did not dispatch so many people, but in this era, because of Li Jiansheng and because of the strong base areas in Hunan, Guangdong, Guizhou and Jiangxi, there were many more troops. Among these 1.2 million people, Li Jiansheng's base area in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi was besieged by more than 550,000 enemies. It's just that his base area faced one less encirclement and suppression than the Central Soviet Region. The enemy's fifth encirclement and suppression of the central Soviet region was the fourth encirclement and suppression of his base area. Of course, Chairman Chiang sent 550,000 people to surround his base area at one time, and if we add to this the enemy's main forces blocking the southeastern Jiangxi, southeastern Hunan, and northeastern Guangdong -- the enemy's purpose was not to attack his base areas in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi, but to attack the central Soviet region; since he learned that Li Jiansheng had annihilated his troops, Chairman Chiang had already regarded him as a serious trouble and had made up his mind not to allow his base area to be integrated with the central Soviet region, so he had accumulated heavy troops here -- the total strength of these heavy troops reached 400,000!

Fortunately, the main direction of attack of these enemies is the Central Soviet Region and Ruijin, if they are all facing the Hunan Guangdong, Guijiang and Jiangxi base areas, then the pressure on Li Jiansheng's base areas is at least 950,000 people! In fact, as far as Li Jiansheng's department is concerned, the enemies facing him at the moment are mainly from the east and west. More than 550,000 enemies were gathered in the east, including 150,000 besieging Li Jiansheng's troops and 400,000 besieging the central Soviet area, with the aim of preventing his base area from becoming one with the central Soviet area; More than 200,000 enemies were gathered in the west and northwest, mainly to prevent Li Jiansheng's troops from meeting with He Long, Ren Bishi, and Xiao Ke's troops. As for southern Hunan and northern Guangdong, the number of troops is relatively small, with only 100,000 troops each.

Hearing that the Central Red Army was breaking through to the west and to the revolutionary base areas in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi that he had created, Li Jiansheng still concentrated his forces on launching a fierce attack on the enemy in order to meet the Central Red Army, even though he had only one corps, two brigades, and one guard regiment at his disposal, totaling more than 30,000 people.

However, it was said that before the Central Red Army, several high-ranking officials still met their heads and determined the main direction of the westward expedition. At that time, at the suggestion of Zhu, Zhou, and others, it was decided to implement two sets of plans: the first set was to join forces with the Red Third Front Army led by Li Jiansheng in the revolutionary base areas of Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi. This distance is relatively close, but the enemy's heavy troops are also the largest, not to mention the nearly 1 million people directly blocked in it, if you add the two sides can be mobilized in a short period of time, the total number is estimated to be more than 1.5 million, this is very difficult. In the second set of plans, if the Central Red Army and the Red Third Front Army were unfavorable, they would change their course, continue to advance westward, join forces with the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps led by He Long, Ren Bishi, and Xiao Ke, and expand the revolutionary base areas in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, and Guizhou. It is precisely because of this established policy that there is an order signed by Zhu and Er.

History is moving on its original trajectory. On October 21, 1934, the Central Red Army broke through the first blockade line of the Kuomintang troops from the Queen Mother of Gan County to Xintian in Xinfeng County, and traveled westward along the Guangdong-Jiangxi border, the Hunan Guangdong border, and the Hunan and Guizhou borders. At that time, Li Jiansheng led the Red Eighteenth Army Corps and some directly subordinate units of the Front Army to move closer to the Central Red Army on the Hunan and Guangdong borders. However, it is really rare for the enemy to break through. What is somewhat different from history is that in history, Chairman Chiang set up a total of 8 blockade lines to block the Central Red Army from going to Xiangxi; This time, it only intensified, not only did the various units besieging the Central Soviet Region set up 8 blockade lines on the road to prevent the Central Red Army from meeting with the Red Third Front Army under Li Jiansheng; Originally, more than 150,000 people besieging Li Jiansheng's revolutionary base area in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi and also blocking it between the revolutionary base area in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi and the central Soviet region, and set up four additional blockade lines. Together, a total of 12 blockade lines forcibly blocked between the Central Red Army and the Red Front Army under Li Jiansheng's command. And that's in addition to the 1,000,000 troops that have been gathered here from all over the place.

On October 22, the day after the Central Red Army broke through the enemy's first blockade line on October 21, Li Jiansheng's troops launched an all-out attack and broke through the enemy's first blockade line in the opposite direction.

In this battle, Li Jiansheng was not too difficult to fight. In just one or three hours, the enemy was broken through on all fronts. It was a battle, destroying more than 5,000 enemies. The remnants of the enemy retreated. Although Li Jiansheng fought relatively easily, he had a strong uneasiness in his heart: first, this first blockade line, the enemy's strength was not too strong, and the entire blockade line was about 30,000 people; Both were well supplied, and their forces and firepower were slightly stronger than the enemy's, so they were easier to fight. However, despite this, Li Jiansheng's unit still suffered a lot of war losses and attrition. Of course, Li Jiansheng was not worried about the battle losses of his troops, but he believed that the enemy's first blockade line was only to buy time for consolidating and strengthening the next few blockade lines!

The enemy of the future, that powerful, may be unprecedented!