When the good news came, the central authorities were greatly excited, and even the great man sent a telegram hoping that the Red 15 th Army would stay and consolidate and develop the Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Soviet regions (i.e., the original Central Soviet Region), but did not agree with Hu Weidong's proposal to lead his troops to leave the Soviet area and go north. As for the question of resisting Japan, even if it is necessary to cooperate with the Nanjing government to resist Japan, it is much more advantageous to negotiate with the territory in hand.

In his opinion, the combat effectiveness of the 15 th Red Army is to a large extent supported by ammunition, especially artillery shells, and it is always unreliable to rely on capture alone. Hu Weidong did not have much confidence in this, but there were too many "liberation fighters" who had been transformed from the 15 th Red Army, and he had never had time to digest them properly, and in addition, he was generally exhausted after continuous battles, and even a big defeat could lead to the rout of the whole army. Therefore, it is very necessary to find a base area that is sufficient to support the 15 th Red Army and give the Red 15 th Army the opportunity to reorganize, organize, and train.

With the increasing control of Lao Chiang over the south of the Yangtze River, the geographical advantage of the Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Soviet regions in the early 30s no longer existed, but because it was too close to Nanjing, it would be frequently attacked by the White Army, and it was very difficult to develop. Moreover, due to the protracted war and the massacre of the White Army, the population ratio of the Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Soviet regions is now seriously out of balance, and there are almost no young and strong men in the countryside.

It was precisely because of this that Hu Weidong had to control the conscription ratio to a very low 1 percent (Note 1) in order to restore the local economy and reduce the burden on the villagers as soon as possible. However, if the Red 15 th Army continues to stay here for a long time, the Fujian, Jiangxi, and Guangdong Soviet regions will inevitably fall into an unprecedented famine, and according to Hu Weidong's estimates, the current Fujian, Jiangxi, and Guangdong Soviet regions can only support a standing army of 30,000 at most, so the main force of the Red 15 th Army can only leave the road of finding another base area.

Theoretically, it is possible to disarm or turn into a militia, but the more than 100,000 commanders and fighters of the 15 th Red Army have gone through the test of many battles and have gradually become an elite army that has survived a hundred battles. Moreover, most of the members of the 15 th Red Army were "liberation fighters" whose hometowns were all over the country, and it was okay to let them fight, but if they were to stay in the Soviet area to farm, it was estimated that more than half of them would run away in a few days, and even if they were willing to farm, they would generally not be happy to be peasants in this foreign land, right?

Seeing the tragic situation in the Central Soviet Region mentioned in the telegram, the great man who was heartbroken could not help but burst into tears, and he resolutely dispelled his overly optimistic illusion and called back Hu Weidong to support his approach, which contained only four words -- "You are right," which moved Hu Weidong very much; in fact, he had another indescribable reason for doing so, that if he had stayed in the Fujian, Jiangxi, and Guangdong Soviet regions, the Red 15 th Army would have entered the New Fourth Army system after the reorganization of the Anti-Japanese War in the future, and the secretary of the Yangtze River Bureau who led the New Fourth Army in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was Wang Ming, who had returned from the Soviet Union. In comparison, Hu Weidong felt that it would be better to go north as soon as possible and enter the Eighth Route Army system in the future to fight devils with peace of mind

After submitting the report to the central authorities for approval, Hu Weidong first demobilized some officers and men in the army who were not suitable for combat and had a relatively high level of education, and the former were transferred to work in the government of the Soviet Union or stayed in agriculture to work as farmers, while the latter were recruited to one of the three major schools for "advanced studies" according to their personal characteristics and the needs of the troops, totaling more than 20,000 people. After that, Hu Weidong drew more than 5,000 local commanders and fighters from the Soviet area from the troops, plus nearly 20,000 people who had not recovered from their injuries and could not follow the main force to form the Fujian, Jiangxi, and Guangdong Independent Division, with Tan Zhenlin as the division commander and political commissar, Chen Tanqiu as the chairman of the government, and He Huzi, the president of the court who had decided to stay behind a long time ago, should be able to ensure that there will be no more tragedies in the Soviet area in the future. …,

It stands to reason that the main force of the Red 15th Army going north should be able to lure away the large forces of the national army, but since Lao Jiang can insist on "settling the outside must first settle the inside" under the pressure of the Japanese invaders, who can guarantee that he will not come to "suppress the bandits must first cut off the roots"? Therefore, Hu Weidong left Tan Zhenlin, who had the strongest military ability in the army, so that even if the national army attacked the Soviet area, it would not be easy to take it, as long as it persisted until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Soviet area would be saved. As for leaving Chen Tanqiu behind, it is to remember his death in Xinjiang in history, and Hu Weidong hopes to avoid this tragedy

On May 4, 1935, more than 90,000 people of the main force of the Red 15th Army and tens of thousands of young students from the three major schools swore an oath to go north in Chong'an County, Fujian, and used high-power radio to send a report to the whole of China, calling on the major Shili in the country to stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan, which caused a great sensation, and the slogan of the Red Party "anti-Chiang and anti-Japanese" also became "forcing Chiang to resist Japan" earlier than in history, but Lao Chiang still adhered to the proposition of "first securing the inside before fighting outside", and turned a blind eye to the change in the attitude of the Red Party. He also strictly ordered the suppression of the anti-Japanese salvation movement in various places, so as not to interfere with his plan to "suppress bandits."

Long before the Red 15 th Army took the oath of division, the "Northern Fujian Independent Division" that was fighting guerrilla warfare in this area rushed to join the division, and Hu Weidong naturally unceremoniously incorporated it and expanded the "Northern Fujian Independent Division," which had only more than 1,000 people, into a brigade of more than 8,000 people, and the strength of the Red 15 th Army was further enhanced

What surprised Hu Weidong even more was that the arsenal in the Soviet District of Northern Fujian was still there, although this arsenal only had more than 300 cadres and workers, but the conditions of the equipment were not bad, and it was able to produce rifles, submachine guns, grenades, mines and bullets, it must be explained that the bullets were produced rather than reloaded, which was of great significance, and the factory's production capacity was also quite large, and it was able to produce more than 1,000 guns of various kinds every month, more than 10,000 bombs and mines, more than 3,000 grenades, and 150,000 rounds of ammunition

Note 1: That is, 30,000 mobilized soldiers, plus more than 100,000 "liberation fighters", thousands of old Red Army soldiers who have been collected one after another, and 20,000 or 30,000 people who were originally obtained from the expansion of the Red Army before and after the Battle of Western Jiangxi, after the losses of previous battles, the total strength is now about 120,000, and there are more than 20,000 wounded soldiers who may recover and return to the army.