However, the "artillery offensive" tactic, which did not appear until the Soviet-German war in history, appeared on the battlefield in the east in advance, and it was not something that could be withstood by just a few words of encouragement.

However, although the independent division of this battle achieved the brilliant results of 5,672 people in the fourth sub-regiment of the tax police corps, and even Sun Liren was stunned by the shells and became prisoners, the independent division also paid a huge price of more than 3,000 casualties, more than half of which were due to the accidental injury of its own artillery, and the artillery of the independent division also consumed a large number of shells, and the precious mountain artillery shells were only more than 100 rounds. I can't afford to play a second game anymore

What made Hu Weidong even more depressed was that due to the massive use of artillery in this campaign, the enemy's weapons and equipment were seriously damaged, and the amount captured was only a small part of the enemy's equipment.

But it is also this battle that can be regarded as a "loss", so that Hu Weidong, who was still a little carried away by the brilliant victory of the Battle of Yongfeng, calmed down again, this time he was far superior to Sun Liren in terms of troops, firepower, intelligence and other aspects, but only won a disastrous victory, it is obvious that compared with the first-class generals in China in this era, Hu Weidong still has a significant gap. This is also a helpless thing, although he has been in the special forces, but the experience of the large corps combat is very lacking, and perhaps because of the diametrically opposite field of specialization, there are few generals from the special forces who are good at commanding the large corps to fight, and this ability is what Hu Weidong urgently needs now

In addition to making Hu Weidong vigilant and aware of his weaknesses, the first is to verify the effect of the "artillery attack" tactics in actual combat, and secondly, to exercise the infantry and artillery coordination ability of the independent division, and it is not a good thing to surrender the troops, but after the war, Hu Weidong not only did not strictly guard against other surrendered troops, but boldly selected two people to serve as his own guards to show his trust. Immediately subdued the hearts of tens of thousands of national troops in the independent division, which is undoubtedly a greater gain, zuihou, the independent division also captured Sun Liren, the first-class general in China

After winning two games in a row, Hu Weidong didn't have time to report the good news to the central government, so he boldly launched another offensive and took Xingan County, which was empty in defense because of the destruction of Sun Liren's troops. However, the independent division finally attracted the attention of Gu Zhutong, commander-in-chief of the Northern Route Army of the Nationalist Army, who was in charge of the county's defense. Although the independent division is no longer what it used to be, it really has little chance of winning against the 30,000 soldiers of the Central Army, and Hu Weidong knows very well that although Gu Zhutong is not a military genius, he is terrible in his use of troops, and there is basically no hole to exploit, and once it is entangled by its superior forces, the consequences will be unimaginable. However, Gu Zhutong's shortcomings in the use of troops can be exploited, and after figuring out this, Hu Weidong made an unexpected decision -- "crossing the Ganjiang River to the west"

Lian Zhan Lianjie made Hu Weidong's prestige in the army increase day by day, and He Huzi did not understand military affairs, so Hu Weidong, a whimsical Jihua, had no objections. Fortunately, it turned out that Hu Weidong was right, Gu Zhutong really wanted his subordinates to fight steadily, and the army only advanced thirty or forty miles a day, until the main force of the independent division of more than 10,000 people all crossed the Ganjiang River, and they entered the territory of Xingan County, and at this time, almost all the ships sailing in the Ganjiang section of Xingan County were requisitioned by the independent division, and when Gu Zhutong, who was in Nanchang, hurriedly collected enough ships from the downstream to send them to Xingan County for his subordinates to cross the river, it was already a matter of several days...,

At the beginning, the defensive circle arranged by Lao Jiang had begun to withdraw one after another with the westward movement of the Central Red Army, especially the Western Route Army He Jian had returned to Laochao Hunan, so that a large area west of the Ganjiang River was not garrisoned by heavy troops, and the independent division was naturally like a fish in water, and within a few days, it took three counties of Kexinyu, Fenyi and Yichun, and took advantage of the victory to attack Pingxiang County, one of the few major coal-producing counties in the Republic of China.

There is a division of the national army stationed in Pingxiang County, but it is only a division of the second brigade and the fourth regiment, and the phenomenon of empty pay is very serious, and the actual number of soldiers is less than 4,000. In addition, Pingxiang County was one of the areas where the workers' movement was most frequent and fierce during the Republic of China, and the party's mass base in the county was even better than that of many Soviet counties.

Due to the special status of Pingxiang, this news quickly caused a sensation throughout the country, and the Party Central Committee in the Long March was also greatly shaken, and finally began to re-examine the value of Hu Weidong and the independent division, and at this time the position of the great man had been further consolidated, and Hu Weidong's independent division was finally officially reorganized into the "Independent Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army". Since everyone had expected it, and the number of old Red Army soldiers in the independent division was no less than 1,000, accounting for more than half of the grassroots officers, the reorganization went very smoothly.

At the beginning, the great man wanted to give the independent division a corps-level or even a corps-level establishment, because according to Hu Weidong's telegram, they had more than 20,000 regular troops alone, which was already more than many legions of the Red Army. However, both Peng Lin and other generals leading the troops, as well as the leaders of the central authorities, all held that what Hu Weidong said in the telegram had no empirical evidence and was not enough to be accepted, and it was not too late to give a division-level establishment first, and then be promoted to a military-level unit after it was confirmed in the future. At his insistence, Hu Weidong not only served as the division commander, but also served as the political commissar of the independent division (the reason was that He Huzi's legs and feet were inconvenient, and there were no other talents who were competent enough. ), thus gaining a great deal of autonomy, which many Red Army generals at the army level could not envy

At the same time, the party Central Committee also appointed He Huzi as secretary of the special committee of the Fujian-Jiangxi border area, on the one hand, to strengthen the building of the party organization of the independent division, and on the other hand, Hu Weidong could also merge the Red Army guerrillas with whom he had contacts into his own troops. Of course, this is only limited to the other side agreeing to merge, or units of a lower rank than an independent division, otherwise it would be outrageous for a division to merge with a corps