He had just decided on this, but the correspondent brought a telegram. But it was sent by Ji Zhentong, the commander of the Red Sixteenth Army. It turned out that the Red Sixteenth Army Corps, which was the rear guard of the Red Third Front Army, received the enemy, and the enemy was the Zhou Hunyuan Department of the Central Army.

It's this guy again. Li Jiansheng finished reading the telegram and smiled bitterly. I just feel that this week Hun Yuan is simply endless, and he has been killed by himself several times, but the ghost does not go away, and it comes back again. Looks like he'll have to be taught another lesson. Thinking of this, he immediately ordered Ji Zhentong to alternately cover the retreat of the Red 2nd Division and the Red 4th Division of the Red 16th Army Corps to ensure that the main force crossed the river. Then the whole army of cameras withdrew from the battle; He, the commander-in-chief Li Jiansheng, personally led the Red Eighteenth Army to receive the Red Sixteenth Army across the river. Ji Zhentong quickly called back to ensure the completion of the task.

Li Jiansheng had just finished dealing with it, and the Red Seventeenth Army arrived under the leadership of Huang Su and Zeng Zhongsheng. This time, a few old guys met affectionately. Li Jiansheng was not hypocritical, and asked Huang Su and others to cross the river immediately. Huang Su and Zeng Zhongsheng responded. As a result, the Red 17th Army Corps also followed the example of the Red 18th Army Corps, except for the heavily armed troops and the baggage troops who took the bridge, a considerable part of them directly waded across the river. Six more bridges were built in a row. Later troops were able to quickly pass through 9 pontoon bridges on the Xiang River. By about 8 o'clock in the evening, the four corps of the Red Third Front Army, the units directly under the Front Army, and the logistics system, except for the rear guard Red 16 Army, did not pass through the special service brigade, the guard regiment and the Red 1st Division. Piles of fires have already been lit on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, which are the fires lit by the soldiers in the early stage to bake the clothes of the soldiers who wade across the river in the future.

At about 9 o'clock in the evening, Ji Zhentong led the Red Sixteenth Army to the edge of the Xiangjiang River to meet with Li Jiansheng. Li Jiansheng immediately commanded the Red 6th and Red 8th Divisions to cross the river. Then the Red 2nd Division crossed the river. At this time, because 12 bridges had been erected, the passage of the soldiers was very fast. By about 10 p.m., most of the Red Sixteenth Army had crossed the river.

At this time, Liu Fugui's artillery unit, which had already taken the lead in crossing the river, set up an artillery position on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River and adjusted the firing angle according to Li Jiansheng's request. In the end, Yan Dong, the commander of the 4th Red Division, and Su Sai, the political commissar of the Red 4th Division, immediately withdrew from their positions after once again repelling the pursuing enemy Zhou Hunyuan's troops and quickly rushed to the edge of the Xiangjiang River. Under the cover of the 1st Red Division and the Special Service Brigade, the river was successfully crossed. Zhou Hunyuan's leading troops followed up too quickly, and were first violently blocked by the 1st Red Division, which had been recuperating for a long time, and immediately lost most of the regiment and was forced to withdraw. When they rushed forward, they were attacked by heavy artillery fire on the other side of the river, and another regiment was gone. It turned out that at that time, Li Jiansheng and the Red 1st Division, the Special Service Brigade, and the Guard Regiment had taken advantage of the gap between battles to quickly cross the river through 12 pontoon bridges, and then blew up the 12 pontoon bridges. When Zhou Hunyuan's troops arrived at the Xiangjiang River, they immediately encountered a fierce attack by Liu Fugui's artillery, which had been waiting for a long time. At that time, Liu Fugui received a simple order: all the Red Army had crossed the river. Once a large number of torches are planted on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River, there is no need to ask, and the fire is immediately fired. Liu Fugui's artillery division originally had two brigades and four regiments, and when the Red 15th Army was formed, one regiment was transferred out, and Liu Fugui's artillery division at this time only had three regiments. But the fierce attack of these three artillery regiments was enough for Zhou Hun Yuanbu to drink a pot.

Afterwards, this week, Hun Yuan still couldn't understand that this red bandit was chasing and chasing, why did this power suddenly increase? but crippled a whole division of his own troops? Later, after a careful investigation of the situation, I learned that the front was the Li Jiansheng Department of the Red Third Front Army, and I didn't make a sound for a long time, but just sat in a cold sweat. Because he has gone through many rounds under Li Jiansheng, he has never won a victory, and he didn't expect to be put on the road again by this young man this time! Of course, this is also a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

However, it is said that on the night of December 1, the night when the Red Army's troops on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River were completely annihilated, and the night when the Gui Army, the Hunan Army, and the Central Army were madly wreaking havoc on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River and grabbing the Red Army prisoners, due to the timely arrival of Li Jiansheng's Red Front Army and the successive annihilation of two divisions of the Gui Army, one division of the Hunan Army, and two leading regiments of the Zhou Hunyuan Division of the Central Army, the Gui Army occupying the Jieshou Ferry did not rush to the Fenghuangzui Ferry as quickly as in history, and the main force of the Zhou Hun Yuan Division of the Central Army did not arrive in time. This gave the Red Army a full reorganization of the temporal sector. At that time, Li Jiansheng effectively controlled the ferry and unified the scattered Red Army units on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River. More than 90,000 officers and men of the Red Army jumped into the icy Xiangjiang River and crossed the river arm in arm, either through enough bridges or directly imitating the appearance of the commander-in-chief Li Jiansheng. After more than half an hour, when Liu Jianxu's main force of the Hunan Army and Zhou Hunyuan's main force of the Central Army rushed from the Jieshou Ferry to the Fenghuangzui Ferry of the Xiangjiang River, all they were left with the corpses of the soldiers of the Hunan Army and the Central Army and several Red Army torches on the opposite bank that could be seen like long dragons hidden in the mountains.

Li Jiansheng's reorganization of the troops on the Xiangjiang River was later reported to the Central Committee by Political Commissar Huang Su in the form of a written report. Several great men were very sighed when they learned that Li Jiansheng had dealt with the chaotic stragglers of the 8th Army Corps in such a short period of time, organized the remnants of the International Division of the Young Communist Party, the 18th Red Regiment, and the 34th Red Division, and pulled up the four backbone divisions newly organized by the 15th Red Army. Later, Mao Weiren, who had regained his position, saw this report and became more and more convinced that Li Jiansheng had the style of a general and was a rare general!

As for later generations of military historians, they also said very objectively and fairly when evaluating this reorganization, and held that Li Jiansheng's method of reorganizing and stragglers in the shortest possible time, then crossing the river quickly with the whole army, and finally throwing the enemy on the east bank of the Xiang River is commendable. First of all, Li Jiansheng was not chaotic in the face of danger, and under that circumstance he reorganized the stragglers of the Red Eighth Army. Subsequently, the remnants of more than 1,500 people of the International Division of the Young Communist Party were reorganized, and the backbone of these and other units was fully utilized to unify and reorganize the brand-new Red 15th Division, and the 15th Division was quickly restored to the level of the main force. Second, Li Jiansheng directly incorporated these troops into the Red 15th Army Corps, which made the Red 15th Army Corps unprecedentedly stronger. Although this legion also did not exist for a long time, and was later merged into the Red Fifth Legion, it has to be said that Li Jiansheng's approach at that time was indeed a rare miracle. Thirdly, the engineering capacity of Li Jiansheng's unit was the highest in the whole army, and the fact that it could create so many bridges in that situation provided the prerequisites for the smooth retreat of the whole army. In addition, Li Jiansheng's skillful command, the coordinated operations between various units, and the alternating retreat enabled the whole army to smoothly cross the river in one afternoon, preserving a powerful spark for the revolution. In the end, Li Jiansheng boldly retained 117 principal cadres of the Red Army who had been idle by the wrong line, thus laying a solid foundation for the future development of the Red Third Front Army, especially the Red Eighteenth Army Corps. The foundation of the 125th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which was later developed by the Red Eighteenth Army Corps, and the Northern Field Army, which had a million-strong division in the War of Liberation, was once again consolidated on the edge of the Xiangjiang River!