At the same time that the various departments of the Red Third Front Army were strengthening the training and material preparation, the commander-in-chief Li Jiansheng did two more things. First, it is to make talents. Either he himself came forward or asked the chief officials at all levels to come forward and recruit talents in various parts of the base area. Craftsmen who could make gunpowder and guns, skilled women who could weave cloth, men who could read and write, skilled folk doctors, and so on, all came to them one after another to do their work, and then they were assigned to their respective departments in a step-by-step manner. Second, it is to recruit new recruits. According to his own understanding, the Long March under his command was almost ironclad, and it was better to recruit them in advance than to leave these young people to the Kuomintang troops.

It has to be said that the influence of the Soviet District Government headed by He Changming and the Red Third Front Army headed by Li Jiansheng is enormous. In just over a month, by mid-August 1934, Li Jiansheng's various units had recruited a large number of new soldiers. Of course, there are a lot of professionals involved. Li Jiansheng was overjoyed and was assigned to various ministries according to the original plan. As for the new recruits, more than 4,000 people have been recruited throughout the base area. Li Jiansheng was also incorporated into the Guards Division. So far, the total establishment of Liu Limin's guards division has reached 10 regiments. Li Jiansheng asked Liu Limin to mix these recruits and veterans, and then immediately put them into training. He knew that the time given to him was running out of time. Fortunately, because the previous seizures were surprising, the fighters basically managed to have a weapon in their hands.

However, what Li Jiansheng didn't expect the most was that in early August, the businessman Shang Qide actually found him in person. Because he has always been supported by him, Li Jiansheng received him personally. I thought that I had sent food or medicine to my troops again, but later I found out that Shang Qide sent it this time, but it was a big living person! And it's a beautiful big living person!

This beautiful living person is none other than his daughter Shang Zhiyuan!

Of course, this surprised Li Jiansheng!

You know, there are not no college students in his troops, but the number is really small, and all of them are men, and most of them are technicians. Shang Zhiyuan is a well-known female college student! He couldn't figure out how Shang Qide could have such an idea and let his daughter join the Red Army! Because, in his Li Jiansheng's opinion, with the current environment, this businessman should not have such an awareness! Of course, if Shang Zhiyuan really participates, he will certainly welcome it.

After a careful exchange, I realized that it was the actions of my own troops that infected the merchants. Shang Zhiyuan herself asked to join the Red Army. Of course, when consulting his father's opinion, Shang Qide hesitated at first, but later figured it out, not only agreed, but also supported it, which led to today's situation. Li Jiansheng saw that their father and daughter agreed, of course, so he asked Lao Jue and Shen Ying to take Shang Zhiyuan over and make arrangements, and then personally sent Shang Qide away. Looking at Shang Qide's back, Li Jiansheng sighed very much, you must know that it is really a good thing and a big thing for his army to have female college students coming, at least it can prove that the practices of his army are good, and even such a character is here. sighed again, this Shang Qide is really a rare enlightened person, helping his troops like this.

Here, I have to say that Li Jiansheng is a little overbearing, because at this point, he has a little misunderstanding of Shang Qide. In fact, Shang Qide helped Li Jiansheng, on the one hand, of course, he was still grateful, on the other hand, he could indeed make money from Li Jiansheng, and on the third hand, he was indeed more open-minded. However, no matter how enlightened he was, he was not so enlightened as to let his palm pearl join the Red Army troops. It's just that after his daughter put forward his opinion, he was born as a businessman and thought that Li Jiansheng's department did not want money, so "there must be great ambitions", so he agreed. Here, this businessman-born business boss has more or less the meaning of Lü Buwei's "strategic investment" in ancient times! Of course, I don't know if his daughter is of the same mind with him in this regard.

Not long after Shang Zhiyuan joined Li Jiansheng's department, several of Shang Zhiyuan's classmates were also invited by Shang Zhiyuan to actively join Li Jiansheng's department. As for other parts of the base area, some female college students and female middle school students have also joined. As soon as Li Jiansheng heard this, he asked these more than 30 female college students and female middle school students to be reorganized and set up a military and political school of the Red Third Front Army, with these people serving as instructors and responsible for teaching commanders and fighters at all levels of the front army. Of course, the Front Army Art Troupe that Li Jiansheng intends to set up will also be filled by these people.

In fact, these female college students are the fourth batch of female fighters to join Li Jiansheng's department. The first batch is more than 20 Yao sisters such as Lao Jue, and now all of them have become loyal and capable nurses in the field hospital. The second group is the women comrades who have joined the quilt factory. This group of people, most of whom have the technology of weaving and dipping and dyeing, was specially recruited by Li Jiansheng, with a total of more than 160 people. The third batch is the female soldiers recruited by Li Jiansheng's department. These female soldiers were armed, armed with the same weapons as the male fighters, and may participate in combat. There were more than 120 of these female soldiers, most of whom joined the Red Army with their husbands or fathers, and some of them were ordinary peasant women. Li Jiansheng, who came from later generations, had no prejudice, and believed that Mao Weiren "women can hold up half the sky", so he also warmly received him, and was unified into a women's company, which was directly subordinate to the guard regiment. Li Jiansheng's army guard regiment was originally to strengthen the regimental establishment, but this time it recruited some new soldiers, added a machine gun battalion, and this time added a women's company, and the entire brigade-level unit. However, Li Jiansheng is still called the guard regiment.

So far, Li Jiansheng's department has 350 female soldiers, and if you add the wives of other Red Army generals who are also in the army, the total number of female soldiers has reached an astonishing more than 380 people! Of course, the wives of these Red Army generals were all on the logistics front, including the clothing factory, the weapons development institute, and the cooking class.

Not to mention that Li Jiansheng's various departments are stepping up training and material preparations. However, it is said that the days of the Central Soviet District, which developed normally according to the historical trajectory, are really worse day by day: the erroneous leadership of the "left-leaning" line has caused problems in the direction of the entire Soviet District and the Red Army; A large number of outstanding commanders were mistakenly killed in the "suppression of rebellion", and the strength of the Red Army was greatly inferior to before; The "short assault" of the operational command allowed a large number of Red Army soldiers to directly engage in positional warfare with elite enemies with inferior equipment, and suffered heavy casualties; In addition, because of the new tactics adopted by the Kuomintang troops to encircle and suppress, the daily supply of the Soviet area was almost exhausted, including the extreme shortage of strategic materials; The corrupt style of life and the simple and rude methods of doing things among some cadres in the Soviet areas have ruined the overall image of the Red Army and caused some ordinary people to become centrifuged. In this way, after a year-long war, by September 1934, the Red Army had not been able to break the enemy's "encirclement and suppression" after paying heavy casualties.

At this time, a top-secret piece of information concerning the life and death of the Red Army was placed on the desk of Zhou Weiren, the general political commissar of the Red Army.