Heroes of the Resistance Reborn

For now, all Li Jiansheng can do is reorganize his troops and step up preparations for war.

Because, as early as when Li Jiansheng's revolutionary base in the border areas of Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangxi took the initiative to attack the enemies in Chenzhou, the Central Soviet Area was currently engaged in the arduous fifth counter-encirclement and suppression campaign.

In fact, as early as last year, in September 1933, shortly after Li Jiansheng led two spy battalions to officially enter the Central Soviet Area, the Kuomintang authorities gathered more than 1 million troops and launched an unprecedented large-scale siege against the Central Soviet Area. However, Due to the previous victories of the Central Red Army in four counter-encirclement and suppression campaigns, the Red Army had unprecedented self-confidence. However, the Kuomintang authorities had a different strategic policy in launching the fifth campaign of encirclement and suppression, which did not attract enough attention from the Central Soviet Area in the early stages. It turned out that this time, During the "encirclement and suppression" campaign, the Kuomintang authorities adopted a "total war" operational policy of "three-thirds military and seven-cent politics", putting pressure on the Central Soviet Area from all aspects including politics, economy, and culture. As for direct operations, both We invited German experts for guidance, and adopted a step-by-step approach, building a large number of bunkers and fortifications, and gradually narrowing the encirclement to compress the Red Army's activity area. However, in the early stages of the encirclement and suppression, due to the tight deployment of the Kuomintang authorities, the actions were rigorous but slow, while the Red Army Because the base area was still relatively broad at that time and could both swim and attack, they did not take these Kuomintang troops particularly seriously. In other words, the Kuomintang government's method of "boiling a frog in warm water" immediately , did not have much impact on the core of the Central Soviet Area, so everything in the core of the Central Soviet Area was normal, but little did they know that this time it was the most dangerous.

It is precisely because of this that Li Jiansheng was able to avenge Wang Erzhuo in the Central Soviet Area, and calmly rescued more than 1,600 outstanding commanders, and then brought them to his base. Now, when Li Jiansheng's troops were reorganized and effectively maneuvered After attacking the enemy in Chenzhou, on the one hand, it nipped in the cradle the Kuomintang authorities' plan to carry out the fourth joint campaign against the revolutionary base areas in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangxi. On the other hand, it further strengthened Li Jiansheng's troops. However, it has to be admitted that Life in the Sino-British Soviet area is indeed very difficult right now.

In the past, the Kuomintang authorities only fought on the periphery and did not have a great impact on the Central Soviet Area. However, more than half a year later, when the deployment in all aspects was perfected, its power was revealed, and the Central Red Army restricted its entry into unprecedented areas. Passive, because the scope of the Central Soviet Area has been greatly squeezed. The Red Army, which was used to guerrilla warfare, is now unable to swim and cannot win. Slowly, it is moving into a vicious circle, because the more the If you fail to win, you will be more likely to be repulsed by the Kuomintang troops, and the territory you once controlled will be increasingly occupied by the Kuomintang troops, which will further lose the spatial agency of the guerrillas.

Of course, Li Jiansheng did not know these specific examples, although, generally speaking, he was familiar with history and knew that the life of the Central Red Army would be very difficult at the moment, and would become increasingly difficult. Even in October this year, the Central Red Army was He was forced to carry out the Long March, but he just couldn't remind him. Moreover, he had a lot of things at hand at the moment, so how could he still have the energy to take care of the affairs in the base area? Fortunately, he knew the direction of history and knew that the central government would eventually turn the crisis around. Yes, I’m not too worried about the central government, so I’m just concentrating on doing my own thing right now.

The top priority is to reorganize the army.

The first point is to establish the Seventeenth Red Army, that is, to organize small groups of Red Army troops in some small base areas around the revolutionary base areas in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangxi. Reorganized into a division, and it is not a full division, how can it be organized into a legion? There is no way. Li Jiansheng is already an old sparrow in Dongting Lake, so he naturally knows how to deal with it. He immediately discussed with Huang Su and others to organize His own troops underwent a new round of reorganization: the 10th Division of the 16th Red Army Corps and the 9th Division of the 18th Red Army Corps were transferred to the 17th Red Army Corps. The troops reorganized by the local Red Army were called the 11th Division and were also incorporated into the 11th Division. The Seventeenth Red Army Corps, in addition, the four regiments directly under the machine gun division of the regiment led by Liu Limin were broken up. Except for one heavy machine gun battalion that continued to form the front army guard regiment, the remaining three regiments and two battalions were all organized into the Red Tenth Army. Sixth, there are three legions, the Red Seventeenth and the Red Eighteenth. Among them, the Red Sixteenth and Red Eighteenth legions are each newly organized into a machine gun regiment; the Red Seventeenth legion has poor firepower and is organized into a regiment and two battalions. The two legions of the Red Sixteenth and Red Eighteenth were each organized into a heavy firepower regiment this time. Their strength was greatly strengthened, so they transferred a battalion from each of their subordinate divisions. A total of two regiments were transferred from the two armies, which were combined with the previous regiments. A machine gun regiment of the Red 17th Army was merged to form a new Red 12th Division. The other two machine gun battalions, except one became a unit directly under the Red 17th Army, the other battalion was disbanded and organized into the Red 9th in company units. There are three divisions: Red 10 and Red 11.

The second point is to arrange the main backbone of each legion. After careful consideration by Li Jiansheng, it was finally decided that Zeng Zhongsheng, deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Third Front Army, would serve as the commander of the newly established Seventeenth Red Army. Zeng Zhongsheng would no longer serve as deputy commander-in-chief of the front army. From the units directly under the Red Third Front Army and the Red Sixteenth and Red Eighteenth Army Corps, personnel were transferred to form the units directly under the Red Seventeenth Army Corps. Zhao Boping, the former director of the political department of the Red Eighteenth Army Corps, served as the political commissar of the Red Seventeenth Army Corps. Pingyuan Lai's position was taken over by his deputy, the veteran Red Army Gao Xiangdong. The chief of staff of the 16th Red Army was appointed by Li Xiangyang, the founder of the largest base area in southeastern Hunan among those small base areas, the veteran Red Army and veteran party member, Red 9 and Red 10. The leadership of the division will continue to be held by the original leader. The commander of the Red 11th Division will be the founder of the second largest of the seven base areas, the old Red Army and an old party member Su Jianfei. The political commissar will be Li Xiangyang's deputy and an old party member Yu Saibin. The division commander is Yang Zhengqing, a veteran Red Army from the Central Soviet Area and the former commander of the 62nd Division of the Southern Gansu Red Army; the political commissar is Li Jiansheng's old subordinate, Ji Jukui, a former member of the Pingshi City Defense Bureau who was one of the first to join Li Jiansheng's department. Ji Jukui's birth was not very good. , later he joined the city defense bureau as a soldier. After being captured by Li Jiansheng, he was inspired and grew up very quickly. Now, except for the two sacrifices of the first batch of Pingshi city defense soldiers, the others are now regiment-level cadres. Among them, , Huang Hua was promoted the fastest, and is now a corps-level leader. Ji Jukui was the second, and this time Li Jiansheng proposed to be appointed as the division political commissar.

The third point is to supplement the ministries, legions, and divisions that are currently under full strength. Li Jiansheng ordered that in this battle of Chenzhou, a total of more than 12,000 enemy soldiers were captured, and they were all organized into the above ministries. Among them, three of them were The 12 combat divisions and one artillery division of the corps were initially replenished to standard status, and a total of more than 5,600 prisoners were consumed.

The fourth point is to establish the Guards Division of the Front Army. After these actions, among the more than 12,000 prisoners captured in the Chenzhou Battle, there are still more than 6,000 people, as well as newly recruited young people, a total of about 7,800 people. Li Jiansheng decided to use these sources of troops as the basis for new troops. It was established as the Guards Division of the Third Red Front Army, and key forces were drawn from the three legions to serve as cadres at all levels of the independent division. Fortunately, after the last time, more than 1,600 key personnel were poached from the Central Soviet Area, and the original teaching regiment of the Third Red Front Army A group of backbones have also been transferred. In addition, Li Jiansheng's command has always implemented the practice of holding one position with several officers. Now the backbone of the new independent division is not limited. The division commander is Li Jiansheng's favorite general, the former machine gun division commander Liu Limin; The political commissar is still Wang Zhengfei, who is also Li Jiansheng's favorite general. This Guards Division is actually a new soldier division or a model of an independent division. Considering that Liu Limin and Wang Zhengfei's original machine gunnery division was a first-class firepower division, now it's just a matter of time. Throwing them into such a division, I was afraid that they would feel uncomfortable, so I gave this independent division the name "Guards Division". Fortunately, most of the soldiers in this division were well-trained. The soldiers of the Kuomintang troops and another part of the recruits are also young farmers with good physical fitness and strong faith. Their combat effectiveness is generally not bad. Moreover, this division has more than 7,800 people. It is the only division-level unit with 6 regiments organized by Li Jiansheng. Others Of the division-level troops, all combat divisions are organized into 3 regiments; the artillery division is organized into 2 brigades and 4 regiments. However, although the combat divisions have 3 regiments, each division has about 4,500 combat personnel. It is not just two The total number of divisions is the same as that of the Guards Division. As for each corps, it has 4 combat divisions and some troops directly under the corps, about 22,500 people.

At this point, Li Jiansheng's "Chenzhou Reorganization" came to an end. After this round, Li Jiansheng's Red Third Front Army had a total strength of nearly 80,000, and administered a total of 12 combat corps including the Red 16th, Red 17th, and Red 18th legions. division, another artillery division directly under the front army and a guards division,