"Lao Mao, this kid is too daring to brag, are we all stupid?" , Mr. Peng shouted angrily after reading Hu Weidong's truthful report, although he had conquered Changsha back then, as long as people with a little common sense could think that it was also a provincial capital, Hangzhou was much more difficult to fight than Changsha, not only the strength of the enemy facing it was not a grade, but also the transportation in Hangzhou was more convenient, and the reinforcements of the national army were naturally faster, which further increased the difficulty of capturing the city, and more importantly, now is not the time for warlords to fight, Lao Jiang can mobilize Liliang compared to He Jian back then, It's not a little bit stronger.

"Lao Peng, don't make the mistake of subjectivism, if the telegrams of the Red 15th Army had no water before, they really had the possibility of taking Hangzhou, 100,000 horses, thousands of machine guns, more than 200 artillery pieces (including mortars), and most of the soldiers are liberated veterans, and their strength is better than ours here (at this time, the Red First and Fourth Front Armies have already joined divisions, with a total strength of more than 100,000. It's much stronger. And even Lao Peng, you think that they can't beat Hangzhou, and Lao Jiang naturally thinks so, there is an opportunity to exploit loopholes", Taizu said with a smile.

"It's not impossible to think about it like this, damn it, if the battle report is true, then this kid is too lucky!" , Mr. Peng couldn't help but laugh and scolded.

According to the telegram of the 15 th Army, the cumulative number of dead and disabled people has exceeded 30,000 since the start of the army, and this is only half a year! And without losing a single battle," Taizu sighed.

In any case, however, the mood of the central leaders has greatly improved, not only because of the good news itself, but also because of the rapid development of the 15 th Red Army, which can somewhat suppress Zhang Guotao's ambition that sprouted from relying on the strength of his troops. Although the Red Front Army had nearly 30,000 troops at this time (Note 1), which was much stronger than in history, it was still significantly inferior to the Red Fourth Front Army, which had more than 80,000 troops and was more equipped, but now that there was a stronger Red 15th Army outside, Zhang Guotao may not have been so bold. The Central Red Army did not have to rush to the north with only part of its troops in order to avoid being poisoned by him, as it did in history, so that the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo base area had a much better foundation than in history.

The only regret is that Zhang Guotao refused to go north with the Central Red Army because he was worried that his brutal rebellion in the past would be liquidated, and tens of thousands of commanders and fighters of the Fourth Front Army were worthless to sacrifice on his erroneous "southward" route. In the meantime, perhaps the coercive force of history played a role, and Zhang Guotao finally set up a separate Central Committee, which ended hastily because of the opposition of the Third International, the struggle of the Party Central Committee, and the reflection of the commanders and fighters of the Four Front Armies after successive setbacks

Even though he was thinking hard about the future of the Red Army and had to resolutely struggle against Zhang Guotao, the great man was still concerned about the Red 15 th Army, which was thousands of miles away, and his suggestion was to ask Hu Weidong to withdraw from Hangzhou as soon as possible; after all, the transportation in the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou area was really convenient, and even if he frantically carried out a sabotage battle, he could only delay the enemy's reinforcements a little, and although the Red 15 th Army was strong and strong, once it fell into the encirclement of the superior forces of the national army, it would never have any good results. However, Hu Weidong coveted the equipment and materials in the city that had not yet been collected, and he couldn't help but rely on it for a few more days in Hangzhou. Fortunately, although he was greedy, he was quite well prepared, and took the lead in emptying the materials in the Haicheng area, so as not to lose too much under the shelling of the enemy's fleet, but the greater contribution was Su Yu, an outstanding military strategist who was famous for his large corps operations, annihilation battles, and especially continuous battles in later generations...,

On June 25, 1935, Su Yu commanded more than 30,000 troops of the Advance Division to set up an ambush north of Hangzhou to annihilate the first batch of national troops in the south. The next day, the advance division again routed a motley division, killing and capturing most of the enemy. The successive defeats on the front line Lao Chiang did not dare to urge the reinforcements on the front line, but ordered them to build fortifications on the spot and wait for follow-up reinforcements until the number of troops exceeded 30,000 before they were allowed to advance south. In this way, Su Yu was really a little difficult to speak, but he was keenly aware of another fighter, Lao Jiang did this, the national army Hangzhou North cluster was safe, but the speed of the south slowed down all of a sudden, and he couldn't catch up with Hangzhou in a few days, so Su Yu boldly left a small number of troops as suspicious soldiers, and he immediately led the advance division south to join the main force of the Red 15th Army, and took over the command of the whole army with the support of Hu Weidong. The spearhead was directed at Liu Zhi, who was anxious to lead the army out of the nest and went north to rescue after learning that Hangzhou was lost

Although Liu Zhi had a fatal weakness, he still understood the reason that he was vulnerable to attack when crossing the river, so he specially asked the Military Commission for the cover of the air force, but he did not expect that Su Yu would ignore the threat of the air force and concentrate 100,000 troops to launch a fierce attack on his men and horses, who had only crossed half of the army. Due to the fall of the Jianqiao Aviation School and the Jianqiao Airport, the Kuomintang Air Force suffered a tremendous blow, and Lao Chiang was now able to send two groups of planes at once to the limit, while the Red 15 th Army was very scattered in the field formation, and the bombers of the National Army could only kill less than 1,000 people when they lost all their bombs, and the fighters because they had to dive to a low altitude in order to effectively kill and injure the enemy, they suddenly became cowering after suffering certain losses under the blow of the Red 15 th Army's anti-aircraft fire, and they were unable to provide much support to Liu Zhi's troops at all

It is worth mentioning that after the 15 th Red Army captured the Jianqiao Aviation School, it captured some 20 mm caliber antiaircraft guns, which greatly enhanced the air defense capability of the troops, and Hu Weidong, a sharpshooter, finally had a place to use when the enemy planes attacked, and basically a few consecutive shots could shoot down a plane, while the rest of the artillery, although Jishu was still far behind, also performed well under Hu Weidong's advanced air defense tactical organization, and shot down seven enemy planes in just 10 minutes, which frightened the pilots of the national army to flee one after another.

Without the cover of the air force, Liu Zhi's corps suddenly became meat on the chopping block, and at this time, he still could not think of a way to deal with the fierce artillery fire of the Red 15th Army and Liu Zhi, who was interspersed with detours, could only watch the subordinates trapped in Jiangbei slaughtered, and when he saw that the troops who urgently crossed the river under his urging were easily defeated by the Red Army, he soon completely lost his fighting spirit, and fled south in embarrassment with the remnants of the troops who had not yet had time to cross the north, which made the national army in Jiangbei lose its spirit. In less than an hour, the Jiangbei Nationalist Army completely stopped resisting, and the Red 15th Army killed and captured nearly 70,000 Nationalist troops at a relatively small cost of less than 8,000 casualties

Note 1: There is no accurate data on the number of troops of the First Front Army when the First and Fourth Front armies met in history, but it can only be determined that there are no less than 10,000 and no more than 30,000. At this time, it is normal to reach more than 20,000 people, after all, the first army has not fought any defeat since the beginning of the four crossings of Chishui, and the effect of these methods is very terrifying in the case of winning all the time.