In addition, the Red 15 th Army also got a lot of talented people in Nanchang, although in order to hurry, this time Hu Weidong rarely did not force people to join the gang, but the hundreds of intellectual youths who volunteered to join him still made him very happy, for this reason he specially asked the Party Central Committee for the underground party members to take credit, in order to further enhance their enthusiasm for work, and the underground party organization soon became another important source of information for the Red 15 th Army in addition to deciphering the enemy's code. To a large extent, this is also due to the fact that Hu Weidong and the 15 th Red Army have further improved their status in the minds of the central leaders.

The Red 15th Army's capture of Nanchang not only gained real and huge benefits, but also had extremely important strategic significance, because they once again conquered the big cities and proved that their previous capture of Hangzhou was not a fluke, thus forcing Lao Jiang to use more troops for the garrison of major cities within the scope of the Red 15th Army's attack, so how many mobile troops could he continue to pursue the Red 15th Army? At this time, Chen Cheng and Sun Lianzhong's troops were suspicious of each other because of factional contradictions, and they refused to rush to the front to gnaw the hard bone of the Red 15th Army, and the Red 15th Army, which easily crossed the Ganjiang River eastward, went all the way west into Hubei almost without hindrance.

Hu Weidong's first target after leading his army into Hubei was the famous Daye Iron Mine, because this largest iron mine in China had actually long been controlled by the Japanese, and all the iron ore produced was sold to Japan, and eventually became guns and ammunition to kill Chinese! Due to the prestige of the Red 15th Army, the hundreds of national troops stationed in Daye thought that they were outnumbered and had no chance of victory, and abandoned the city and fled without firing a shot, but the 600 marines sent by Japan to "protect" Daye Iron Mine resolutely resisted, and after finding that the Red 15th Army was unable to defeat the enemy, they decisively detonated the ammunition depot and destroyed their weapons as much as possible, so that the weapons and ammunition captured by the Red 15th Army in this battle were pitifully small (in fact, it was also because the national army never destroyed weapons and ammunition, and the contrast was too stark). ）。 Fortunately, the Japanese army was too arrogant, and seriously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Red 15th Army at the beginning, and actually thought that their 600 men could block Hu Weidong's 100,000 army, and did not prepare for blasting in advance, which allowed the Red 15th Army to capture most of the machinery and equipment in the mines, and less than a third of them were too bulky to take away or were destroyed by some Japanese overseers and Jishu personnel who were deeply poisoned by militarist ideas.

However, this battle reminded Hu Weidong and the Red 15th Army that perhaps the Japanese army's combat effectiveness may not be stronger than that of several elite units of the Nationalist Army, but if the Red Army engages the Japanese army, even if it wins, it will be difficult to capture many weapons and ammunition, and it is impossible for the soldiers to be replenished by converting prisoners. This undoubtedly means that the Red Army and the Japanese army are basically at a loss, the captured ammunition cannot keep up with their own consumption, and the veterans can only replenish the inexperienced recruits from the rear when they die, so that the Red Army is getting weaker and weaker.

Now Hu Weidong understands why the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army have avoided large-scale battles in history, because large-scale battles must not end in a short period of time, so the devils will naturally have time to destroy weapons and blow up ammunition, and the larger the scale of the battle, the ammunition consumed by themselves will also increase exponentially (the battle of destroying 1 enemy generally only needs a few bullets, and a battle of destroying 1,000 enemies, each devil often needs dozens or even hundreds of rounds, and grenades and shells are also indispensable.) As far as the people's army, which mainly relies on captured ammunition, loses less ammunition than it consumes, it is easy to fall into a vicious circle of "less ammunition -- lower combat effectiveness -- more difficult to capture ammunition." In serious cases, it is possible for the entire army to fall into a desperate situation because of the depletion of ammunition. And small-scale battles are different, take the extreme example of dealing with a lone enemy, a sneak attack devil will hang up directly, naturally it is impossible to destroy the weapon, and even if the squad-scale devil has time to destroy the firearm, but it is unlikely to quickly destroy the guns and bullets carried, and the people's army has the possibility of entering a virtuous circle and developing rapidly. In contrast, the Red Fifteenth Army had a mobile arsenal with the army, and the situation was slightly better, but even if it found a new foothold, the ammunition production was not enough to support the Red Fifteenth Army to often fight too large-scale battles, especially the expendable positional tug-of-war, even if Hu Weidong led the army to capture that final destination in the future, so it was essentially no different from other Red Army...,

Contrary to Hu Weidong's prediction, although the 600 Japanese marines resisted resolutely, they did not reach the point where they all fought hard and none surrendered, and after the war, the Red 15th Army actually captured more than 100 Japanese prisoners (Note 1), although it was still much lower than the "normal" ratio, but compared with the stubbornness of the Japanese army in the record, it was already a lot. Since the all-out war of resistance had not yet broken out at this time, these Japanese troops were subordinate to the navy, and there was no big blood debt on them for the time being, and Hu Weidong was no longer angry, but he still wanted to drag these prisoners out and kill them, because they actually destroyed their weapons and surrendered

But Zuihou Hu Weidong still suppressed his anger, after all, this is the first batch of Japanese officers and soldiers captured by the Red 15th Army, which is of great political significance, and if their thinking can be reformed, this group of Japanese will become a seed and play an unexpected role, in addition, most of these Japanese prisoners of war can speak Japanese, which can greatly speed up the speed of learning Japanese from top to bottom of the Red 15th Army. Due to the development of information in later generations, Hu Weidong had the experience of studying in Japan and had a good understanding of Japanese culture, so he did not follow the Red Army's consistent policy of taking prisoners, but explored a new way, which greatly improved the efficiency of reforming Japanese prisoners. In particular, foreign aid policies are therefore quite different from history

Note 1: Judging from the 32 years of the "128 Song-Shanghai War of Resistance", the fighting will of the Japanese marines is far inferior to that of the permanent divisions of the army, which may be due to the fact that the officers and men of the navy have a higher level of education and are relatively lightly poisoned by militaristic ideology.

Note 2: Historically, Taizu's understanding of foreign countries basically came from written materials such as books and newspapers, and he lacked intuitive understanding, although he relied on his extraordinary judgment to see very accurately in many places, but there were also many misjudgments, and his mistakes in domestic issues were largely caused by his lack of understanding of foreign countries and his lack of accurate understanding of modern society.