Previously, both Li Jiansheng and Huang Su felt that their troops were expanding too quickly, but there was a surprising lack of backbone talents. Fortunately, Li Jiansheng has always adopted the operation mechanism of a certain position, one main position and several deputy positions, but he can barely cope with the past. However, both of them are old talkers, and they know that at the moment various departments can also "cope" with the past, and it is absolutely impossible to say that they are strong, so they are a little worried about the combat effectiveness of the troops. But now, with the addition of more than 1,600 backbones, I am afraid that my own army can breathe a sigh of relief!

Therefore, after determining this employment policy, Li Jiansheng asked the new cadres to hold a meeting after resting for five days, and the old cadres rushed to Yizhang within five days to hold a centralized meeting. The theme is to carry out a new round of army reorganization. In order to ensure that the reorganization and training of all units in the base areas would be completed before the Spring Festival, Li Jiansheng personally drew up a new plan for the reorganization of the army and a plan for the appointment of cadres, and had a detailed discussion with Huang Su before deciding to convene this meeting of new and old cadres and the reorganization of the 18th Army of the Red Army.

If this batch of new cadres is used well, how to make the old cadres get along well with the new cadres, and how to comprehensively enhance the combat effectiveness of the 18th Red Army Corps are what Li Jiansheng urgently needs to solve at present. Therefore, this plan to reorganize the army took a lot of effort on his part. Because how to organize the army this time really made him nervous!

You must know that at present, the Red Eighteenth Army has 12 divisions, including the Red 1st to 10th Red Divisions, artillery divisions and machine gun divisions; The other 4 brigades and 2 regiments directly under the central government, including the engineer brigade, the baggage brigade, the special service brigade and the newly upgraded teaching brigade, as well as the sniper regiment and reconnaissance regiment! The total number of troops has reached an unprecedented 62,000 people! And that's not even counting the strength of the 5 separate regiments of recruits, as well as about 2 regiments of the paramilitary formations that have now been initially developed and are subordinate to the Soviet government!

After thinking about it for three days, he finally sent a ruthless one and came up with a plan for the whole army that he thought was a bit "tough". Sure enough, as he guessed, Huang Su gasped as soon as he heard what Li Jiansheng said about such a whole army, because this Li Jiansheng really dared to think and do. But thinking about the real situation, Huang Su, a man who also dares to think and do, still agrees. As a result, when a large-scale purge was underway in the Central Soviet District, Li Jiansheng's department once again carried out a large-scale reorganization:

First, the new formation of the Red Sixteenth Army Corps. The Red 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, and 10th Divisions under the jurisdiction of the Red Eighteenth Army Corps were drawn. Huang Su served as secretary of the party committee, corps commander, and political commissar of the corps, Ji Zhentong, former commander-in-chief of the Red Fifth Army Corps, served as executive deputy corps commander, Peng Zhi served as the first deputy political commissar of the corps, Wang Hanying served as chief of staff, Zhou Pei served as deputy chief of staff, Xie Hanchang, former director of the Political Department of the Red 20th Army, served as director of the political department of the corps, and Zeng Xiangyang served as director of the logistics department. Liao Chenxing served as the director of the training department, and Xiao Taiming, the former senior commander of the Red 20th Army, served as the director of the security department.

Second, the former Red Eighteenth Army Corps, with Li Jiansheng as secretary of the party committee, corps commander, and corps political commissar, Yun Tian as executive deputy corps commander, Liu Qiao as first deputy political commissar, Zeng Zhongsheng as chief of staff, Wang Bingnan, former political commissar of the Red Twentieth Army, as deputy chief of staff of the corps, Zhao Boping as director of the political department, and Xu Zhengfang as director of the logistics department. Fan Chao served as the director of the Intelligence and Information Department; Jin Wanbang, former member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Soviet and Minister of Military Affairs, served as the director of the training department of the regiment. Wu Kelie is the director of the security department.

Third, all the units directly under the former Red Eighteenth Army Corps, including artillery divisions, machine gun divisions, engineer brigades, baggage brigades, special service brigades, teaching brigades, sniper regiments, reconnaissance regiments, field hospitals, etc., all the troops were divided into half of the Red 16 Army Corps and became the directly subordinate units of the Red 16 Army Corps. The five separate regiments, which had been temporarily formed by recruits and prisoners, were dispersed and incorporated into the units directly under the above two corps. The armament and logistics services of the corps were merged to form the new corps logistics service.

The ministries were quickly rebuilt according to the new plan. Five days later, a new round of reorganization and expansion of Li Jiansheng's ministry was completed.

Of the more than 1,600 people who were brought in from the Central Soviet Region through various means, the remaining 1,600 people were all incorporated into these two corps, except for more than 50 people, including Wang Huai, former secretary of the Southwest Jiangxi Special Committee, who went to the localities to assist He Changming in his work. Because of the addition of these backbone cadres, the basic strength of the 16th Army Corps and the 18th Army Corps of the Red Army was unprecedentedly replenished and consolidated, and with the guarantee of sufficient weapons and materials, its comprehensive strength was for a time the highest among all the Red Army in the country.

All kinds of collisions, all kinds of efforts, all kinds of coordination, all kinds of understandings, played out every day in the days that followed. And this spring of 1934, everyone spent this kind of run-in.

At the end of April 1934, seeing that his troops were on the right track, Li Jiansheng's heart was a little active. What he means is that taking Chenzhou in the near future will not only make a certain material supplement for his troops, especially the field hospital, but also train the troops to attack fortified positions, but also because most of the places in Chenzhou and Yongzhou in later generations have become an important part of their base areas, but this Chenzhou is like a nail, and a fan-shaped area behind it, which cannot be taken down, so that this base area is stubbornly missing! Therefore, considering these three aspects, although the Kuomintang authorities did not trouble him as a stronghold, this time he decided that he would lead his troops to capture Chenzhou!

Two legions assembled in Yizhang.

Confirmed by the meeting of the heads of the Red 16th and 18th Army Corps, everyone unanimously agreed to the proposal to attack Chenzhou in the north. However, this time is different from the previous battle. In the past, Li Jiansheng's department had not fought in large and medium-sized cities, had not fought a tough battle, and had no experience in this area; In the past, all of them were guerrilla warfare and movement warfare. Therefore, the first one in this battle has to change its thinking. When fighting Dao County, it can be regarded as a tough battle, but the county seat is too small, and the city wall is poor, so it is easier to fight; Chenzhou City is not like this, a typical fortress, if it is still fought according to the method of Dadao County, it is very dangerous!

The hostility soon came out. There were two whole divisions and three other local regiments stationed in Chenzhou City; In the fan-shaped area from Chenzhou to Hengyang, there were three other divisions and ten other local regiments. It is precisely because of this huge enemy garrison that this large area has not been taken, and it is a big nail that has caused harm to the base area!

How to fight? Li Jiansheng, Huang Su and a few others discussed it and decided to continue to adopt the method of encircling points to send reinforcements, and to carry out this campaign in two stages: in the first stage, the Red 16th Army Corps penetrated into Chenzhou City and the fan-shaped defense area, surrounded Chenzhou City, focused on attacking the enemy in the fan-shaped defense area, comprehensively cleaned up the periphery and defended the enemy, and strived to annihilate the enemy; In the second stage, the Red Eighteenth Army Corps attacked and the Red Sixteenth Army feinted to attack Chenzhou City.