During the departure of the 15th Red Army, the base area in western Henan was not very peaceful, and the 15th Army, which was previously stationed in Shaanxi -- the former bandit armed forces in western Henan, which was generally called the "Zhensong Army," suddenly returned to their hometowns, because most of the officers and men of the "Zhensong Army" were natives of western Henan and were very familiar with the situation in the base areas, and there were even some people who were dissatisfied with the Red Party and the Red Army who secretly communicated with them, and the Zhensong Army itself was not weak, there were 100,000 people in its heyday, and even now there are still 20,000 or 30,000 people, and most of the soldiers have been tempered by war. And because this battle was to recapture his hometown, his morale was high, and he was really the biggest enemy since the establishment of the base area in western Henan.

At this time, the elite soldiers in the western Henan base area were all withdrawn, and there was no general in charge, although there were many troops left, most of them were rookies who had not even completed their training. If it weren't for the fact that the government of the Soviet Union had gradually won the hearts of the people, most of the people in western Henan had sided with the Red Army, and the Red Army had a better weaponry and equipment and a steady supply of ammunition than the enemy army with its back to the Gongxian Arsenal. However, with only the remaining troops and militia in western Henan, at most they could only repel the attack of the Zhensong army, and what really gave it a fatal blow was Fang Yongle, who immediately led the army to kill back to western Henan from Nanyang City, which had just been taken.

The mountain division of the Red 28th Army, which had already emerged under the city of Taiyuan, marched for more than 500 miles in less than a week, and suddenly appeared behind the Zhensong army and immediately launched a fierce attack. Of course, the mountain division's non-inferior forces, more powerful firepower, and the timely counteroffensive of the fraternal units are also factors that cannot be ignored

I have to admit that the officers and soldiers of the Zhensong Army are very brave, but in a state where the formation has been scattered by the dense firepower of the mountain division. No matter how strong the troops were, it was difficult to continue the fight, and the mountain division suffered more than 3,000 casualties (about 10,000 casualties among the troops left behind in western Henan). The price. More than 17,000 Zhensong troops were killed, and Fang Yongle, the commander and political commissar of the mountain division of the Red 28th Army at the age of 20, once again became famous at home

Although he was forced to return to Luoyang before he had time to consolidate after he had just conquered Nanyang, at this time the regularity of the Nanyang area had almost been wiped out, even if the militia of the strange people of the Republic of China Bi Tingfang was entrenched in the Wanxi area, and the strength could not be underestimated, but after the two base areas were connected, the 82nd Division and the 74th Division of the Red 28th Army have obtained a large number of weapons and equipment from the Gongxian Arsenal, and their strength has increased several times. Far from being able to compete with the militia groups of the seven counties. In addition, the news of the Red 15th Army's War of Resistance in North China spread throughout the country. It made Bei Tingfang realize that the Red Army was sincere in resisting Japan. The stubborn reactionary stance was somewhat softened, and when Hu Weidong returned to Luoyang in early July, the Red Army besieging Wanxi had more than 150,000 troops, which made Bei Tingfang feel as heavy pressure as Mount Tai weighed down.

Hu Weidong learned that although Bei Tingfang was brutal and cruel (Note 1), he was honest and upright. In the past seven or eight years, he has achieved remarkable results in running schools, building dams, building power plants, and protecting roads in Wanxi, so he has won the hearts of the people of the seven counties and is determined to win over this person as much as possible. For this reason, he ignored the general opposition of Zhang Hao and others, and took the risk to personally go to Bei Tingfang's hometown Neixiang County to meet this strange person who was quite controversial in history, Bei Tingfang was deeply moved, and learned about some of the current policy changes of the Red Party, Hu Weidong also promised to let him continue to lead the troops. Bei Tingfang finally agreed to accept the peaceful reorganization of the Red Eighth Army, and thus the soldiers of the Red Eighth Army obtained the land of the seven counties in the western part of Nanyang, which were obviously in the forefront of Henan in terms of economy and people's livelihood, and Bie Tingfang also handed over his gun-making factory, which was not very large, but had a relatively complete range of products (capable of producing rifles, light and heavy machine guns, submachine guns, 82mm mortars, and various common shells and guns within 150mm caliber) free of charge, which further strengthened the military production in the western Henan base area. …,

So far, the original base area in western Henan and the base area in Dabie Mountain have been connected, and all of Nanyang and part of Xuchang have been added. The territory was greatly expanded, and the total population of the base area exceeded 12 million, making it the largest base area in the history of the Red Army. Considering that Lao Chiang might solve the Liangguang problem at any time and free up his hands to deal with the Red Army, the newly occupied territory not only had to eliminate the remnants of the enemy, but also had various problems to be solved, such as bandits, just like the original base area in western Henan.

The great man of Yan'an also had a similar idea after learning of this good news, but he pointed out in the telegram that he could not blindly defend, and it was best to attack from time to time to deter and contain the enemy, so that he would not dare to easily invade the base area, and under this premise the base area could be at ease and stabilize the interior, Hu Weidong thought so, and soon asked Fang Yongle to move to southern Henan, posing as a jiashi who wanted to go south to Hubei to drink the Yangtze River, while Gao Jingting led the army eastward to threaten northern Jiangsu, and the various departments in the Jianghuai area were suddenly like a great enemy, More than half of their forces have been drained by Lao Jiang, and now they are forced to concentrate their forces to shrink their defense, even if they still want to invade the base area, they really don't have that Liliang

With the further expansion of the base area, it is no longer appropriate to call it the base area in western Henan, and it may be more appropriate to call it the Central Plains base area. Perhaps it was based on this idea that the Central Committee soon established the Central Plains Bureau, with Zhang Hao as the first secretary, and since then few people have used the old name, but basically called it the "Central Plains Soviet District".

Note 1: Here are two examples: one is that Wanxi was rich in watermelons at that time, and in previous years, due to the large number of melon thieves, melon farmers suffered great losses. One day, his son-in-law was thirsty on the way, so he took a watermelon from a nearby melon field and ate it. Bei Tingfang knew about the matter, and immediately ordered the guards to shoot him. His only daughter was terrified when she saw this, hugged her father, cried and cried, pleaded for her husband, and told her that if her husband was killed, who would her daughter depend on for life? Tingfang pushed her daughter away and said, "Shoot him, I will support you for a lifetime!" "The pawn shot his son-in-law

Another time, Bei Tingfang inspected and found a child sneakily running out with a few ears of corn in a field, Bei Tingfang asked the old farmer next to him and learned that this was not the child's land, and immediately scolded the child: It's like this when you are young, and you are not a thief when you grow up! Then he was shot (your support on this site is my biggest motivation.) )