The next few days were uneventful. According to the results of discussions between Li Jiansheng, Huang Su and others and Mr. Peng, Yang Shangkun, and Deng Ping that night, the Red 18th Regiment was still under the temporary unified command of the Red Third Front Army. The four corps of the Red Third Front Army and the Red Third Army of the Red First Army, a total of five corps, marched forward in order in the form of a long snake formation.

On the way, the 34th Division made contact with the 5th Army Corps, the rest of the International Division of the Young Communist Party also made contact with the 15th Division of the 1st Army Corps, and the rest of the 8th Army Corps also got in touch with the head of the Corps. However, because they heard what Commander Peng of the Third Army released before, these commanders did not say anything, and like Commander Peng, they agreed that these troops would be under the unified command of Li Jiansheng of the Red Third Front Army for the time being. Although he did not meet the commander of the First Army Corps and the commander of the Fifth Army Corps, Li Jiansheng still paid tribute to these two corps commanders very respectfully, and explained the current situation of the two divisions. As soon as they heard that these two divisions might be involved with the remnants of the Red Eighth Army Corps, the treasure of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and knew Li Jiansheng's current identity as the commander-in-chief of the Red Third Front Army, and then heard that this unit was greatly strengthened compared with the previous equipment, the two corps commanders called back very affectionately and directly asked Li Jiansheng to take good care of him. The commander of the Eighth Army also called back, although he didn't say much, but he could see some dissatisfaction between the lines. Li Jiansheng also understood, after all, he was the one who assigned the remaining soldiers of the Eighth Army to other troops! However, Li Jiansheng had his own thoughts in his heart, and he didn't care about these and didn't pay attention to them. However, he still reported the whole process in detail in the form of telegrams to General Manager Zhu Lao, commander-in-chief of the Red Army, Vice Chairman Zhou of the General Political Commissar of the Red Army, and his old leader, Mao Commissar, who is now somewhat idle, to listen to their opinions.

To Li Jiansheng's surprise, Mr. Zhu and Zhou Weiren then made a joint phone call, agreeing to Li Jiansheng's temporary method of dealing with the change, and agreeing that the department would be under the unified command of the Red Third Front Army for the time being. The telegram also welcomed Li Jiansheng's Red Third Front Army and thanked him for saving these troops. However, the content of Chairman Mao's telegram was somewhat different from the intentions of Zhu and Zhou, and while agreeing with Li Jiansheng's change in handling these troops, he suggested that Li Jiansheng should immediately return these troops to the various units. Of course, in the end, Commissar Mao pointed out that if there is another order from the Red Army Headquarters, the order will prevail. After reading these two telegrams, Li Jiansheng guessed that Commissar Mao was thinking about himself, fearing that he would be young and arbitrarily leave a truth for others, and his heart became more and more moved. Of course, with the telegrams from Zhu and Zhou, he also had a bottom in his heart, and remembered that the Red Eighth Army seemed to have been revoked on December 18, and the rest of the troops were merged into the Fifth Army Corps, and he felt that it might be better for these troops to be in charge of his own affairs for the time being, so he decided to act according to the advice of the Red Army Headquarters. Therefore, he immediately called back to the three leaders to express his gratitude.

While dealing with daily affairs, Li Jiansheng led the Red Eighteenth Army to march forward with the large army. After the fierce battle on the Xiangjiang River, the main forces of the Red Army divided into several routes and entered the Xiyan Mountains, where they marched and rested while fighting. Due to the arrival of Li Jiansheng, he saved the remnants of the Red 34th Division, the remnants of the Red 18th Regiment, the International Division of the Young Communist Party, and some of the scattered troops of the Red 8th Army Corps, and the losses of the Red Army in the Xiangjiang Battle were reduced by a part, and the Central Red Army, which had only more than 37,000 people left in history, is still more than 37,000 people at present. However, the Red 15th Army Corps, which was between the Red First Army and the Red Third Front, had a total of 20,000 soldiers, of which about 8,500 belonged to the Red First Army. As a result, the Red Army now numbered about 46,000 men. Together with the Red Third Front Army and the other part of the Red 15th Army Corps, there were more than 80,000 people, and the number of Red Army troops in the entire Long March reached 130,000. As for the Gui Army and the Hunan Army, which were chasing the Red Army, they were relatively more cautious in their actions because they had just suffered the loss of Li Jiansheng. Although the enemy's central army did not suffer a heavy blow, Zhou Hunyuan was also a little afraid of Li Jiansheng and did not dare to follow too closely, but because he was forced by Xue Yue, he had to follow closely behind the Red Army, and together with the Hunan Army and the Gui Army, like a pack of hungry wolves, if he was about to leave, he pressed the Red Army forward.

The units of the Red Army advanced in an orderly manner. The troops, especially the Central Red Army, were also slowly recovering on the march. Li Jiansheng calculated the time and felt that it was time for the Red Army to get out of the mountains. I also thought, according to the historical development, that the first army occupied the passage and began to hold the famous passage meeting. Thinking of this, he felt that there should be a telegram from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission. Therefore, he specifically contacted Fan Chao once, but no. After thinking about it, he guessed that there should still be something, so he asked Fan Chao to pay close attention. In the afternoon, Fan Chao rushed over and handed over a telegram, which was indeed an order from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission: The Central Revolutionary Military Commission ordered the Red Third Army Corps and the Red Ninth Army Corps of the Red First Front Army to be the left front flank, the Red First Army Corps and the Red Fifth Army Corps to be the right front flank, the First Column of the Military Commission, the Second Column of the Military Commission, and the Red Fifteenth Army Corps of the Red Third Front Army to be in the center, the Sixteenth Army Corps of the Red Third Front Army to be the left rear flank, the Red Seventeenth Army Corps to be the right rear flank, and the Red Eighteenth Army Corps to advance to the passage, with the goal of marching into Xiangxi.

The telegram also indicated that the 1st Army Corps, the 2nd Division, and the 5th Army Corps were now marching along the Chengbu Line to the passage, and the 3rd Army Corps was about to enter the passage area in the near future. In view of the serious casualties of the main force of the Red Front Army in the Xiangjiang Campaign, the difficulty in supplying food and ammunition, and the fact that the Red Third Front Army was rich in materials, had won several successive victories, and the backbone troops had sufficient ammunition and high morale, Li Jiansheng of the Red Third Front Army was temporarily ordered to send a unit as the vanguard of the whole army to advance towards the passage, with the goal of occupying the passage county. After completing the task, the defense was organized on the spot, and powerful troops were dispatched to the north and west to reconnoiter and guard, and attention was paid to receiving the 1st Army Corps of the Red Front Army and the column of the Military Commission.

As soon as Li Jiansheng saw this telegram, he guessed that this was the meaning of the two great men Zhu and Zhou, although it was also strange that this was somewhat inconsistent with the original history, but he still didn't say a word, and asked Fan Chao to call back: Resolutely complete the task!

After thinking about it, Li Jiansheng was still determined to say his psychological words, so he dictated a telegram and asked Fan Chao to send it to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission. The telegram made it clear that the Red Front Army would resolutely obey the order and would send troops to occupy the passage at the first opportunity. However, in his capacity as the commander-in-chief of the Red Third Front Army, Li Jiansheng, on behalf of more than 80,000 commanders and fighters of the Red Third Front Army, suggested to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission: The Red Army can no longer march to Xiangxi! In the telegram, Li Jiansheng believed that although the ideal of going to Xiangxi to join the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps was very good, the fact that Chiang Kai-shek had laid pockets on the Red Army's advance to Xiangxi might be larger and more sinister than the pockets laid on the banks of the Xiangjiang River in the past, and this was not good news for the Red Army. In particular, Li Jiansheng also pointed out that according to the information learned by other units, in order to prevent the Central Red Army and the Red Third Front Army from joining forces with the Second and Sixth Army Corps, He Jian's unit of the Hunan Army had already built a large number of pillboxes along the line of western Hunan Province. Don't say that the current Central Red Army is unable to break through, even if it breaks through, it is estimated that the Central Red Army will also be greatly damaged; As for the Red Third Front Army, although it has the strength to break through these bunker groups, this is tantamount to sending tens of thousands of hot-blooded soldiers directly to death. He, Li Jiansheng, was sure that if the Red Third Front Army forcibly acted like this, the result would be the same as today's Red Front Army, and only one stop would remain! Therefore, he believed that the Red Army, including the Red First Army and the Red Third Front Army, absolutely could no longer advance to Xiangxi, and should quickly change its marching route. Finally, Li Jiansheng suggested that the Red Army, after occupying the pass, should move towards the Guizhou border instead.

After reading the content of the telegram, watching Fan Chao go to send the telegram, Li Jiansheng breathed a sigh of relief. After a while, he was still very irritable, and he didn't pay attention to Shang Zhiyuan bringing him a bowl of tea, just pacing back and forth. Finally, after thinking about it, I felt that I was still not at ease, and I didn't see Shang Zhiyuan, who was already waiting for him to drink tea in the room, so he just called Shen Pheasant outside the door and asked her to quickly call Fan Chao over again, there was something important. Shen Pheasant went by himself, but Li Jiansheng was still pacing back and forth, not noticing that Shang Zhiyuan beside him had an extremely unnatural face when he saw him naturally calling Shen Pheasant just now.

Then Fan Chao was sending a telegram, and when he saw Shen Pheasant calling himself, he immediately knew that the commander-in-chief had something important to do, so he hurried over. As soon as Li Jiansheng saw Fan Chao, he asked him to send his suggestions and ideas in the form of special messages to Mao, Zhu, Zhou, and other leaders. Li Jiansheng's meaning was very simple: he had to report these situations to Commissar Mao, Commander-in-Chief Zhu, and Vice Chairman Zhou alone, and we could not force the Red Army to the enemy's gun. When Fan Chao heard this, he put his feet together, reported "resolutely complete the task", and left. Shen Pheasant took a deep look at Li Jiansheng, and also glanced at the teacup in Shang Zhiyuan's hand, intentionally or unintentionally, and then looked at Shang Zhiyuan's somewhat unnatural look, she was also from her daughter's family, she seemed to think of something, her face was slightly red, and her beautiful eyes glanced at Li Jiansheng, who was pacing and thinking about the problem, and fled as if flying.

Li Jiansheng only remembered to think about things, although he felt that something shook in front of him, but he only swept it out of the corner of his eye, and he didn't pay attention to these details at all, just paced back and forth, and carefully confirmed the matter of sending troops to attack and occupy the passage later. As soon as I figured out the details of this dispatch, I suddenly felt a little thirsty, and subconsciously went to pour tea to drink, and when I looked up slightly, I suddenly found that Shang Zhiyuan, the little girl, had arrived in her room at some point. Moreover, this little girl's face is obviously a little unnatural. I don't know what's going on with this little girl, but I don't have time to think about it, I saw that she had tea in her hand, and took it easily, regardless of whether it was hot or not, she drank it dry in one gulp. Seeing that he drank the tea he had brewed, Shang Zhiyuan's somewhat unnatural face just now suddenly became bright, and a pair of bright and beautiful eyes looked at Li Jiansheng once, and he didn't know what he thought, as soon as he took the teacup, he also flew away. Li Jiansheng, who was a little incomprehensible, stayed in the room, and didn't figure out what was going on with this little girl for a long time.

This girl's family, what's the blushing if it's okay? Are you still running so fast? Looking at Shang Zhiyuan's demeanor, and vaguely remembering Shen Pheasant's demeanor just now, Li Jiansheng, a dumb goose, asked secretly in his heart, paced back and forth for two steps, forgot this question again, and still remembered the details of the troop passage.