Once this general policy for the siege of the city was set and the troops entered a state of combat readiness, Li Jiansheng, as the commander-in-chief, found that there was another problem: you must know that at present, two army corps are joining forces to attack the city, which is a little inconvenient to command! Two legions back together? It would have been easier to command, but the whole army was too much of a child's play, and the two corps had taken shape by now, and if they were to merge now, all the previous efforts would be in vain!

What to do?

How can we better unify the command of these two legions so as to successfully capture the city of Chenzhou?

That's a real problem!

After pondering for more than two days, Li Jiansheng, who was familiar with history, suddenly remembered the process of the formation of the First and Fourth Front Armies of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in history.

Maybe that's a good way to fix it!

Li Jiansheng, who was a little excited, immediately consulted with Huang Su. When Huang Su heard Li Jiansheng's idea, he stayed there for a long time without making a sound. For no other reason, Li Jiansheng now has a new way to unify the command of the two legions: the establishment of a front army!

Huang Su's first feeling was that this method was good! The second feeling is that this idea is so arrogant!

However, Li Jiansheng also explained his thoughts: because the two front armies of the Red First and Red Fourth Fronts that have been established so far are all established on their own under specific conditions!

As early as August 23, 1930, the First and Third Army Corps of the Red Army met in Yonghe, Liuyang, and immediately formed the First Front Army of the Red Army. At that time, before and after learning of this news, the central authorities did not issue instructions for the formation of the front army. On September 17 of the same year, Mao Weiren's report to the Central Committee clearly stated: After the 1st and 3rd Red Army Corps joined forces, for the sake of commanding the 1st and 3rd Army Corps, the joint meeting of the front committees of the 1st and 3rd Army Corps decided to organize the General Front Committee, with him as secretary, and openly organized the General Headquarters and General Political Department of the First Front Army, with General Manager Zhu as the commander-in-chief, he as the general political commissar, and Yang Yuebin as the director of the General Political Department. On September 20, Mr. Peng also reported to the Central Committee: "Now we have militarily organized the First Front Army of the Red Army with the First Army Corps. In fact, this shows that the Red Front Army was formed by the joint meeting of the front committees of the First and Third Army Corps for the convenience of command in accordance with the military needs of the second attack on Changsha.

As for the Red Fourth Front Army, which was formed on the basis of the Red Army in the Hubei-Henan border area, it was also not planned by the central government in a unified manner, but was established on its own. As was the case when the Red Front Army was founded, the Red Fourth Front Army was also established because of the needs of military command, when the Red Fourth Army and the newly established Red 25th Army jointly attacked Huang'an County, and the Red Fourth Front Army was established to facilitate unified command.

However, although the establishment of the 1st and 4th Front Armies of the Red Army was not planned by the central authorities in a unified manner, after all, it was a fact that at that time, the contact between the central authorities and various localities caused many difficulties due to inconvenient transportation, and the situation in various localities was also changing rapidly.

At present, after Li Jiansheng's research, he found that the situation faced by the Ministry was similar to that faced by the Red First and Red Fourth Front Armies at that time! Of course, when I talk to Huang Su about these things now, I only talk about what should be said, or some established things, such as when the Red Second Front Army was established, which is not said. Of course, as far as the current situation is concerned, only the Red First and Red Fourth Front Armies have been established, and Huang Su also knows this. For example, Ji Zhentong is from the Red Front Army, and Zeng Zhongsheng is from the Red Fourth Front Army.

Although Huang Su didn't know how Li Jiansheng knew so much and remembered so specifically, fortunately, he had seen too much of Li Jiansheng's magical places, so he didn't care too much. Therefore, when I heard his analysis, I felt that there was some truth and some agreement in my heart. However, he still believes that such a major event should be ventilated to the central government. Li Jiansheng nodded.

A very detailed telegram, including the disarmament and development of the army, as well as a detailed strategy for attacking Chenzhou, was quickly sent to the central government via airwaves. Of course, regarding the number of the New Front Army, Li Jiansheng felt that he could take the Red Fifth Front Army, because there was already a Red Fourth Front Army, and the size of his own troops was not so large, so it ranked fifth!

However, the integration of Li Jiansheng's various ministries had already been carried out, but the concept of the Red Fifth Front Army was not clearly proposed. He thought, the current war situation waits for no one, let's do it ourselves first; Later, the central government agreed, and we insisted; The central government clearly vetoed it, let's take the initiative to dissolve it after we defeat Chenzhou!

Fortunately, on the afternoon of the second day after Li Jiansheng reorganized the army, a telegram from the Central Committee came, clearly agreeing that the main force of the Red Army in the revolutionary base areas of Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi, as well as all the Red Army units in some of the smaller revolutionary base areas in the surrounding areas, should be unified into the Red Three Front Army! Agreeing to the proposal of Li Jiansheng and others, Li Jiansheng will be appointed secretary of the party committee and commander-in-chief of the front army, and Huang Su will be appointed deputy secretary of the party committee and political commissar of the front army. Cadres at the army, corps, and division levels in all other sectors agreed in principle to the appointment plan proposed by the two!

This reply almost made Li Jiansheng's eyes burst out!

First, he didn't expect the central government's reply to be so fast. Thinking about it later, it is estimated that it was the support and help of Zhu and Zhou. Second, he knew that the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in history did not have the Red Third Front Army at all!

Li Jiansheng, who is familiar with history, knows that during the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was organized into the First, Second, and Fourth Front Armies, but it was not organized into the Third Front Army. He had explored this reason. He believes that there are at least two reasons: First, the central authorities had planned to expand the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Army Corps of the Red Army into the Front Army in turn, but later because General Manager Peng took the initiative to propose that the 3rd Army Corps and the 1st Army Corps be combined into the Red Front Army, he abandoned the plan of expanding the Red Army into the Red Third Front Army separately, thus causing a shortage. Second, according to the central government's initial unified plan, the larger Red Army units in the country at that time were basically incorporated into the First and Second Front Armies, but this plan was not implemented, and the Hubei-Henan-Anhui region could not wait to open up with western Hunan, Hubei, and northern Hubei, so they first established the Red Fourth Front Army. Later, after learning of this instruction of the central authorities, the region also planned to change its name to the Red Second Front Army, but because of the actual revolutionary reasons, this plan was never put into practice. This also caused the lack of the three aspects of the red line.

Of the three major fronts of the Red Army, only the Second Red Front was formed by order. In October 1934, the Second Army Corps and the Sixth Army Corps met in Muhuang in Yinjiang, Guizhou, and established a general headquarters headed by He Long and Ren Bishi. At the beginning of July 1936, the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps and their general headquarters and the 32nd Army (formerly the Ninth Army of the First Front Army) were ordered to form the Second Front Army during the Long March, with He Long as the commander-in-chief and Ren Bi as the political commissar at the time.

When Li Jiansheng proposed to the Central Committee that his unit should form a front army, he actually proceeded from reality and carried out it with the attitude of trying it out! Didn't think much about it.