Hu Weidong's way of reforming Japanese prisoners of war was much more ruthless than that of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in history, and the beheadings of those who did not answer questions, the beheadings of hunger strikes (usually wounded soldiers), the beheadings of those who refused to work, and the beheadings of beating and scolding people, only those with special expertise could open the net, and Mao Zetan, as a political commissar, treated it as if he did not see it, and it was even more difficult for others to say anything

As a result, within a few days, more than half of the Japanese prisoners were reduced, and Hu Weidong did not regret it, anyway, he only needed to have prisoners of war, and it didn't matter how many they were. After the captives, they began to kill, just to select the ones that were easier to transform, otherwise they would have become chicken ribs if they were only a few left and found that they were all thorns. When the Japanese prisoners knew that they were afraid, Hu Weidong implemented the Red Army's traditional policy of "giving preferential treatment to prisoners," and achieved twice the result with half the effort. Later, a considerable number of Japanese prisoners changed their stance under the powerful political offensive, and at least they were able to accept labor reform with peace of mind.

The soldiers have been successfully transformed, and the Japanese jishu personnel in Daye Iron Mine are better to deal with, except for a few who are pulled out to kill chickens and monkeys, the others are honestly working for the Red 15th Army, and several of them are making great contributions to China's industrialization, especially the serious work attitude of Japanese workers (after the rise of otaku culture at the end of the twentieth century, it is completely impossible), Hu Weidong later called on Chinese workers to learn many times

After the loss of Daye Iron Mine, He Yingqin, who was responsible for commanding all the national troops in Hubei Province, was worried that the Red 15th Army would attack the three towns of Wuhan, and actually concentrated 200,000 troops in Wuhan at once. In this case, He Yingqin was obscenely defending with superior forces, and the Red 15th Army really had nothing to do with him.

Hu Weidong's response to this is quite a bit of a conspiracy, he swaggered to let people collect boats to prepare to cross the river, if He Yingqin sent troops to obstruct it, then eliminate it, if not come, Hu Weidong will lead the army to cross the river, with the distance from Wuhan to Daye, and when the marching army basically depends on the national army to arrive at the place of crossing the river, the Red 15th Army has already arrived on the opposite bank, after all, the Yangtze River in this area is much narrower than the downstream

A few days later, He Yingqin still did not make the slightest movement, Hu Weidong, who wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of this traitor, had to regretfully order to cross the river, but he forgot one thing, although He Yingqin had no ability, but his status was high, not only the Hubei Army was controlled by him, but the aviation troops were also dispatched by him

When almost two-thirds of the forces of the 15 th Red Army crossed the Yangtze River, a huge group of dozens of planes flew in from the west, and the large and small ships on the river were suddenly wiped out; if they were bombed on land, they could at least lie down and avoid it, but on board, they could only wait for death in despair, and some soldiers who were unwilling to die in vain raised their machine guns and even rifles to shoot in the air, but it was difficult to inflict substantial damage on the planes of the Nationalist army hovering in the sky. At this time, Hu Weidong, who had already arrived in Jiangbei, had miraculous artillery skills, but because he did not have a large-caliber anti-aircraft gun with enough range, he could only watch his subordinates being slaughtered but could not lend a helping hand at all. ”

Although Hu Weidong was anxious, his mind was still very clear-headed; in recent years, the flight time and ammunition carrying capacity of the planes could not be compared with that of later generations, and it would not be long before they had to return home; if the commanders and fighters of the Red Army on the river and on the south bank moved faster, even if this round of air raids could only be forced, at least they could all cross the Yangtze River before the next flight of these planes, and as long as they were down-to-earth, the threat of the planes would not be so great. His reason prevented the Red 15th Army from suffering greater losses, but when the Nationalist planes arrived again, they found that the Red Army had all crossed the Yangtze River, so they had to go away in a huff, after all, they did not dare to bomb the main force of the Red 15th Army, which was waiting for battle, after all, it was impossible to shoot high, and it was easy to be shot down by machine guns and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns if it flew low, and it was much easier and more pleasant to bomb ships with much larger targets and poor air defense capabilities...,

Even so, the losses of the Red 15th Army in crossing the river exceeded 15,000 men, and most of them were killed. Perhaps the only thing that Hu Weidong is thankful for is that he let non-combatants and heavy equipment such as experts, technicians, and trainees go on board first, and luckily did not suffer any losses

Seeing the shocking number of dead and missing, Hu Weidong wept for the first time since the crossing, but the broken ones were all elite soldiers, and the loss of more than 15,000 people was enough to weaken the combat strength of the Red 15th Army by 30%. Hu Weidong also realized that he was still a long way from a qualified commander of the army, and the most important thing for the commander of a small unit was courage and resourcefulness, while the commander of a large unit needed to be more thoughtful, that is, he must make as few mistakes as possible, and in this regard, Hu Weidong was far from qualified, if it were not for his overwhelming intelligence superiority, the victories he had fought since the beginning of the army were likely to be another result. In the future war against Japan, unexpected encounters and sudden attacks by the enemy are inevitable, and Hu Weidong still has a long way to go if he wants to become the mainstay of the War of Resistance

It was not only Hu Weidong who was still in the growth period, but also the other two leading cadres of the 15 th Red Army; perhaps they had more experience in warfare than Hu Weidong, but that was basically only some experience in guerrilla warfare, and it was urgent to improve the tactical level, especially the awareness of air defense.

Hu Weidong was not a master who would just settle the matter after suffering losses, but considering the current situation of the 15th Red Army, he still decided to lead his troops north first, because it was the former Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area, the hometown of the Red Fourth Front Army and the Red 25th Army, and its geographical name was even more unknown to everyone in later generations -- Dabie Mountain

And He Yingqin, who took advantage, blew the cowhide into the sky in a telegram to Lao Jiang, "Kill 100,000 bandits and float corpses in the river." This kind of words were said, and Lao Jiang was very happy in his heart, and then appointed He Yingqin as the commander-in-chief of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui border region, and was fully responsible for chasing and suppressing the "remnants" of the Red 15th Army and the "remnants" of the Dabie Mountain area. But he couldn't say that he had lied before, so he had to desperately find an excuse to ask Lao Jiang for reinforcements, but Lao Jiang wanted to take this opportunity to wipe out the remnants of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi and Jiangnan, and where was the extra troops to send to He Yingqin? So before he knew it, more than a month had passed, and He Yingqin still stayed in Hankou and sat firmly in Diaoyutai, but did not send a single soldier to pursue the Red Army, while Hu Weidong got the time he needed most