Li Jiansheng has even estimated that the central government will not agree; Of course, he also thought that if the Central Committee agreed, only the Red Fifth Front Army would be suitable.

The Red 1st and 4th Front Armies already existed, and it was impossible for them to use these two numbers. In the official history, the Red Second Front Army was composed of the Red Second Army Corps and the Red Sixth Army Corps led by He, Ren and others, and they did not dare to occupy it. The Red Three Front Army did not have it in history, and I am afraid that it will not be able to use it. What about the use of the Red Fifth Front? First, it is arranged in order, after the four front armies, it is more or less reasonable; Both, although this is also non-existent in the original history, but it is good that he has created a lot of miracles in this era, and it is not surprising to make a new name!

But unexpectedly, history is still moving on a normal track, or there is a certain number in the dark: Li Jiansheng's department was actually agreed to use the number of the Red Third Front Army, which did not exist in official history!

Lament! Deeply sighed!

However, with the consent of the central government, Li Jiansheng and Huang Su breathed a sigh of relief and put their minds at ease. After an afternoon and an evening of preparations, the next morning, Li Jiansheng officially convened the inaugural meeting of the Red Third Front Army and officially announced the decision on its formation and appointment:

First, the 16th Army Corps of the Red Army, the 18th Army Corps of the Red Army, and the 17th Army Corps of the Red Army, which was to be formed in a centralized manner by various small units of the Red Army in the vicinity, in accordance with the spirit of the documents of the Central Committee, jointly formed the Red Third Front Army. Li Jiansheng served as Secretary of the Party Committee and Commander-in-Chief of the Front Army; Huang Su served as deputy secretary of the Party Committee and general political commissar of the Front Army; Wang Hanying is a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Chief of General Staff of the Front Army; Zeng Zhongsheng is a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and deputy commander-in-chief of the Front Army; Liao Rongkun, former deputy commander of the 25th Red Army, was a member of the Party Committee and director of the Political Department of the Front Army; Xu Zhengfang is a member of the Party Committee and director of the Logistics Department of the Front Army; Liao Chenxing is a member of the Party Committee and director of the Training Department of the Front Army; Fan Chao is a member of the Party Committee of the Front Army and director of the Intelligence and Information Department; Wu Kelie is a member of the Party Committee and director of the Security Department of the Front Army.

Second, all units directly under the 16 th and 18 th Army Corps of the Red Army, including artillery divisions, machine gun divisions, engineer brigades, baggage brigades, special service brigades, teaching brigades, sniper regiments, reconnaissance regiments, field hospitals, and so on, have all been returned to their original structures, unified and integrated, upgraded to units directly under the front army, and their leading posts have returned to the state they were in before their original separation. The resulting vacancies in the directly subordinate units of the two corps shall be resolved by the respective corps, and the front army may transfer a part of the backbone to support it, and restore the five independent regiments that were originally temporarily organized from recruits and prisoners to their original state, so as to fill the vacancies left by the corps after the transfer of troops to form the directly subordinate units. The equipment systems and logistics systems at the front and corps levels should be merged to form a new logistics office at the front and corps levels.

Third, the newly formed Red 16th Army Corps was changed to Ji Zhentong as the commander, Peng Zhi as the political commissar of the corps, Zhou Pei as the chief of staff, Xie Hanchang as the director of the Political Department, and Zeng Xiangyang as the director of the logistics department. Deng Xianzhong, the former first deputy director of the training department of the 18th Red Army Corps and a veteran of the Red Army, served as the director of the training office, and Xiao Taiming served as the director of the security office. Ren Huayun served as the director of the Intelligence and Information Department.

Fourth, the original Red Eighteenth Army Corps was changed to Yuntian as the commander, Liu Qiao as the political commissar, Wang Bingnan as the chief of staff, and Zhao Boping as the director of the Political Department; Huang Hua, the former first deputy director of the logistics department, served as the director of the logistics department. Ou Zhengping 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. This time, Yu Zidan, a veteran Red Army veteran who Li Jiansheng rescued from the guns of the anti-rebel personnel and former deputy director of the Security Department of the 28th Red Army, served as the director of the Security Department.

Fifth, according to the instructions of the central authorities, the Red Army in various nearby areas will be unified into the Red 17 Corps and will be reorganized into the Red Third Front Army. The personnel of the training offices of the two corps were left to be in charge of receiving and registering in preparation for the future renovation work.

I have to say that this back and forth is really a toss. However, this may be a one-and-done thing, but it still makes Li Jiansheng and Huang Su determined to do it. It took a full week for the units to fully reassemblerate. This made Li Jiansheng once again see the shortcomings and deficiencies of his troops, and also saw the importance of this staff office, so he continued to give an order: The staff office of the front army was upgraded to a general staff!

Li Jiansheng may not realize now how much his order today will help him in the future! Later, when fighting against the Japanese army, it was because of the huge staff and preparation ability of this staff that Li Jiansheng was in a state of strategic planning again and again, and won victories again and again! Of course, in the end, Li Jiansheng still realized this, so he summed up his experience and pioneered development. Throughout his life, he has been working hard for the staff work of the army and the construction of the staff department, and has achieved outstanding achievements! Of course, this is a later story, so I won't say much about it for the time being.

After the reorganization of the army was completed, Li Jiansheng sent a telegram to the central authorities on the report on the reorganization of his troops and the results of his appointment, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief. He knew that in doing so, he was ahead of the Central Committee's plan for the National Red Army in August 1934. And he is now a big member of the party, and he has become a senior commander of the dignified front army!

The time of excitement is short-lived. Once the troops were reorganized and rested, Li Jiansheng commanded the two corps and the units directly under the Front Army to assemble in the direction of Chenzhou. The Red 2nd Division and the Red 4th Division under the jurisdiction of the Red 16th Army Corps were ordered to complete the penetration first, forming a semi-encirclement in the north of Chenzhou. After a day and night of fierce fighting, the two local security regiments stationed in Gaoting were completely annihilated, and then they fought with the Red 3rd Division and the Red 5th Division of the Red Eighteenth Army Corps in the north and south, and defeated the other security regiment of the 73rd Division of the Hunan enemy stationed in Pingwei in one fell swoop. More than 3,000 people were captured in the two wars. Yu Ke'an, commander of the 73rd Division, led a group to flee back to Leiyang. At this point, the front line of Hengyang, Leiyang, and Chenzhou has been completely cut off by the Red Army, and Chenzhou has become a lone army. The Red Army had four divisions firmly in control of the main communication arteries connecting Leiyang and Chenzhou. The other units of the Red Third Front Army completed the encirclement of Chenzhou when the Red 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Divisions cleared the enemy on the periphery of Chenzhou. So far, a total of 8 divisions including the 1st, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, artillery, and machine guns have been assembled on the outskirts of Chenzhou, as well as three brigades directly under the engineers, baggage, and special agents.

When attacking Chenzhou City, Li Jiansheng used the method of attacking the fortified positions of the former Generalissimo Lin: a large number of earthworks were carried out. This is also the reason why he insisted that all sappers and baggage troops should come to the battlefield this time. In his opinion, these people are either the most professional, or they are the most powerful and can help. Of course, from the bottom of his heart, Li Jiansheng also wanted to see what the effect of the sappers he had been training and training for many years was. Well, it's a review!