"Yes, this red bandit seems to be different from any of the previous ones, they like to use their firepower very much, but they can't produce ammunition themselves, they can only capture it from us, as long as they don't give them the opportunity to fight a war of annihilation, so that they can't capture it, their ammunition will inevitably run out quickly, and they will even be forced to storm the heavily defended big cities and lose their troops in vain, which will be much easier to deal with at that time. Moreover, at that time, some of the other directions should have completed the task, so the freed up troops, plus the newly trained during this period, should be no less than 200,000 people, just concentrated to complete the fatal blow to it! Xue Yue, a later anti-Japanese general, was also an anti-Red vanguard, although he was also dissatisfied with Lao Jiang, but he could be regarded as doing his best on this issue.

"Okay, Boling, you deserve to be a party-state cadre!" , Lao Jiang was suddenly in a happy mood. However, as soon as Xue Yue left, Lao Jiang received an urgent report from the southeast region, saying that Zhao Guantao's Eighth Army was almost completely annihilated by the "Gan bandits", and the city of Wenzhou was shocked three times in one night, and the "Gan bandits" were no less famous than the Zhumao Red Army before the fifth encirclement and suppression.

Lao Jiang couldn't sit still anymore, and after thinking about it, he had to let Wei Lihuang, who had always been not very at ease, replace Jiang Dingwen, who was loyal but really incompetent, to command the 100,000 national army in Fujian, and at the same time add four more divisions to his most trusted Chen Cheng, so that the troops under his command reached an astonishing twelve divisions, and the civil engineering department finally rose strongly and became the most powerful faction in the Central Army; In order to balance, Lao Jiang promoted Hu Zongnan, who had always been favored, to the commander of the First Army, and immediately moved to southern Anhui to strengthen the defense of Jiangnan; At the same time, because Liu Zhi tried his best to excuse his defeat, and his previous record was indeed excellent, Lao Jiang still did not completely lose his trust in him, and added 30,000 new soldiers to him, and authorized him to control all the national troops in Zhejiang, so that the number of troops under his jurisdiction was restored to more than 100,000; In addition, considering that the Central Army's descendants could not be allowed to gnaw bones, Lao Jiang promoted Sun Lianzhong (from the Northwest Army System), who led his troops to encircle and suppress the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps in the Western Soviet Region of Hunan and Hubei Province, to the commander-in-chief of the Second Group Army, with three armies under his command, and asked him to rush to Zhejiang as soon as possible to help in the war

In terms of strategy, Lao Jiang proposed the strategy of "defending the north and resisting the east attack" this time, on the one hand, because in addition to Wei Lihuang, the other two theater commanders had been defeated by the Red 15th Army before, which made Lao Jiang unable to completely rest assured; On the other hand, because of the coastal proximity of eastern Fujian, even if the "suppression of bandits" fails, there is no need to worry about the Red Army's counterattack, if they really dare to do so, the navy of the national army will be useful; In addition, Chen Cheng's troops must set aside a part to continue to clear out the remnants of Xiang Chen, which is also a reason that cannot be ignored

At the same time, the 15 th Red Army, which had been unstoppable in the left and right, temporarily stopped in the Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Soviet regions, and this was of course because Hu Weidong wanted to complete the construction of the bullet factory, and even more because the troops had been exhausted to the extreme, both physically and psychologically, after several months of continuous campaigning, and urgently needed a long period of repair. And because Su Yu showed outstanding command skills in the previous battle to annihilate Zhao Guantao's Eighth Army, even Ye Fei was convinced, not to mention others, Hu Weidong was just happy to be the shopkeeper, and threw all the army work to Su Yu on the grounds that he was busy with the arsenal, plus Mao Zetan, who was becoming more and more comfortable in the post of political commissar, Hu Weidong, who had been exhausted for several months, finally had a rare leisure

During the period of repair, the guerrillas in northeastern Jiangxi led by Yang Wenhan and Pei Yueshan and Huang Dao, the supreme leader of the party organization in northern Fujian, led hundreds of guerrillas led by him to defect, further strengthening the liliang of the 15th Red Army. Among them, although Yang Wenhan did not have a high position and did not have many soldiers, he attracted Hu Weidong's attention, because he had read a report "Revealing a Red Army in Zuihou", which was about Yang Wenhan's department, which was active in northeastern Jiangxi before. Historically, because Yang Wenhan had lost contact with the party organization for a long time, and his hatred for the Kuomintang regime was too deep, he resisted the reorganization order of the Party Central Committee after the second KMT-CCP cooperation began, killed five representatives sent by the organization to persuade him, and stubbornly insisted on opposing Chiang, and finally was completely exterminated by the Kuomintang army in 1943. …,

Due to the shortage of cadres in the Red 15th Army, the guerrilla leaders who came with hundreds of people could generally at least be a regiment commander after joining, but Yang Wenhan only became a small battalion commander because of Hu Weidong's prejudices, but he had no complaints and completed many combat missions brilliantly, which made Hu Weidong begin to re-examine this tragic figure in history. Perhaps it was because Yang Wenhan had not lost contact with the organization for a long time at this time, his party spirit was still there, and he was in the big collective of the Red 15th Army, even if there was anything wrong in his thinking, it was easy to correct it, so he was not as hopeless as in history. In the desperate situation of making enemies on all sides, Yang Wenhan was able to lead his guerrillas to hold out until the end of the Anti-Japanese War, which is enough to prove his outstanding military talent. After that, while Hu Weidong did not relax his ideological education, he gave him more and more opportunities to perform in the military, so that he eventually grew into a member of the 15 th Red Army

Since there were not many real recruits in the 15 th Red Army, and because Su Yu was fully responsible, after nearly a month of renovation, reorganization, and training, the combat strength of the 15 th Red Army was further enhanced, and the new establishment was also integrated. During this period, the Nationalist Army basically completed the deployment of troops, and more than 100,000 people from Wei Lihuang's Department took the lead in launching an attack on the Soviet area, while Chen Cheng in Jiangxi and Liu Zhi in Zhejiang also completed the increase in troops, and the total strength of the Nationalist Army encircling and suppressing the Red 15th Army was as high as 400,000

Only then did Hu Weidong realize that although he had raised the Red 15th Army of more than 100,000 people in just a few months, his strength was still not worth mentioning compared to Lao Chiang, who was able to mobilize at least half of China's resources, so the development strategy he had formulated was picked up again.

Before the main force of the Red 15th Army launched its operation, Hu Weidong received the news that Tan Zhenlin's troops who stayed in the Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Soviet regions were frustrated by Wei Lihuang, which was actually expected by Hu Weidong, after all, Wei Lihuang was a genuine famous general in the national army, and although Tan Zhenlin once took the lead in the Red 15th Army, it was only because Hu Weidong really had no one under him at that time, not to mention Su Yubi, even if he was compared with Ye Fei, Tan Zhenlin's military talent was obviously inferior, how could he be Wei Lihuang's opponent? What's more, the Ministry of Defense, both in terms of strength and equipment, is far above the troops left behind in the Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Soviet regions