Although they did not know where this suddenly appeared force came from, as the saying goes, "the enemy's enemy is a friend," the two leaders immediately ordered the commanders and fighters of the whole division to go down the mountain and destroy the enemy by attacking inside and outside.

Although the Nationalist troops besieging the Red Army guerrillas at the foot of the mountain had a brigade of several thousand men, in order to avoid exposing gaps for the enemy to drill out, their forces were really scattered, and when an enemy army with a whole regiment of strength was killed outside, they were already somewhat unable to resist, and the Red Army guerrillas who rushed down the mountain suddenly became a straw that overwhelmed the camel

"Chairman?" After Hu Weidong saw the young Red Army division commander, he almost blurted out these two words, but he immediately realized that he had made a mistake, not to mention that it was impossible for the great man in the Long March to come here, he was also in his forties at this time, and it was impossible to be as young as the one in front of Hu Weidong.

"I am Mao Zetan, the commander of the Independent Division of the Central Soviet Region, if I hadn't met you this time, more than 200 of us would have to go to see Marx." The young man, who looked haggard but still handsome, smiled and stretched out his hand.

"I didn't expect to accidentally save the chairman's own brother, although the old man will not reward me much for his selflessness, but it will be safer when I am in political movement, right? Moreover, although this division does not even have a battalion of troops, the commanders and fighters of the Red Army who have experienced so much suffering but have not yet betrayed are enough to become the backbone of the troops, and it will be of great help to our independent division to absorb them. Hu Weidong thought to himself, so he immediately reported the good news to the Central Committee and the chairman, and asked the Central Committee to agree to merge the "Independent Division of the Central Soviet Region" into his "Independent Division of the Central Red Army"

Taizu, who learned that his third brother was still alive, was naturally very happy, but his work arrangement of Mao Zetan made Hu Weidong dumbfounded. In the telegram, Taizu said that Mao Zetan was more than brave but not enough strategic, and could only command a force of 10,000 people at most, which was only a brigade in an independent division, and the great man's suggestion was to ask Hu Weidong to directly press his younger brother to the regimental level, so that it would be much easier to arrange other newly joined Red Army cadres in the future, and even Mao Zetan, who was so old, only became a regiment commander, so others naturally did not care about the level of their posts

Hu Weidong looked at the telegram and was speechless for a while, Taizu's relatives are really not good, the dangerous and hard positions are given priority to you, but when you are promoted to the knighthood, you are at the back, and even just to balance the dissatisfaction of others, you will sacrifice your interests at will. But what Taizu said was not unreasonable, in order to prevent Mao Zetan from having a mustard because of this, Hu Weidong showed him the telegram, but Mao Zetan smiled indifferently and was not displeased at all.

"The chairman is pressing you like this, and you have no opinion?" , Hu Weidong couldn't help but gossip and asked.

"I'm used to it", Mao Zetan raised his eyes to the sky, choked up and said, "And I really don't have any talent, the original independent division of more than 3,000 people, now there are so few comrades left"

Hu Weidong hurriedly comforted Mao Zetan and said that it was not that he did a bad job, but because of the blind command from above and the enemy was too strong. As for Hu Weidong's independent division being able to soar into the sky, it is because it took advantage of loopholes at the beginning, and handed in good luck several times in a row, and captured a large number of weapons and ammunition, so that it can have today's great development

Although Taizu asked Hu Weidong to press his younger brother down as much as possible, Hu Weidong was embarrassed to really let Mao Zetan, who had been a division commander and acting military political commissar, go to be an ordinary regiment commander, so he took the assault battalion as the backbone and supplemented the elite soldiers to form a special service group directly under the division headquarters, although this special service group is a regiment-level establishment on the surface, but the total strength is as many as 3,000 people, and the firepower is extremely powerful, not to mention the light machine guns are equipped to the squad level, and more than 1,000 submachine guns are almost all equipped with this unit, not considering artillery. Melee firepower is stronger than even a division of the national army...,

Mao Zetan did not have any opinion on his demotion but seemed very excited, the secret service group was the elite and sharp knife of the whole division, which was exactly what he wanted as a militant. After coming out, he happened to meet his former guard Long Feibao, the two almost never saw each other again, they couldn't help hugging each other and crying, after learning that Mao Mao was safe and sound, Mao Zetan was even more happy, so that some people who didn't know him felt that there was something wrong with this old boy, and he was demoted and happy

Mao Zetan's political commissar Dai Weixia temporarily became the director of the political department of the merged independent division, He Huzi, who had difficulty in his legs, was reappointed secretary of the newly established Fujian-Jiangxi Soviet District party committee and president of the court, and Dai Weixia's wife, Liu Suping, was appointed head of the women's department of the Fujian-Jiangxi Soviet District

Regardless of Dai Weixia's ability, he is definitely much stronger energetically than He Huzi, who is in his sixties, in addition to his own work, even some of the work that should be responsible for the political commissar has also been provoked, because Hu Weidong is really a layman in political and ideological work. And Liu Suping's work ability is also very good, with her in charge of women's work, the field hospital of the independent division is even more decent

Ninghua has the 43rd Division of the National Army, if they stick to the county seat, although the independent division has the advantage of strength, it may not be able to take it quickly, but the commander of the 43rd division, Zou Hong, did not expect the enemy to come so quickly, as a result, the county town with empty troops could not resist the superior strength of the independent division and quickly fell, and a large number of scattered "banditry" troops were also broken by several supplementary brigades of the independent division, and in just three days, the national army lost more than 10,000 people (including local militia groups), and the independent division became more and more powerful, For the first time, the number of troops exceeded the 80,000 mark.

Hu Weidong's ability to command a large corps of combat needs to be improved, but he dared to advance so boldly with the whole army, in the final analysis, thanks to the good mass foundation of the Central Soviet District and county and the excellent grassroots organization ability of the Red Party in this era, which made Hu Weidong basically not have to think about the construction of local political power, after each county town, he left some guns and ammunition for the party organizations and militia in the county, and entrusted them to take care of the seriously wounded who could not keep up with the ranks (these wounded can also guide the training of the militia, It's a win-win. After that, they could march in great strides towards the next goal, and the local party organizations and militia naturally had the ability to purge the remaining reactionary forces in the county and establish a county self-government, thus becoming a solid rear for the independent division