Rebirth of the Anti-Japanese Heroes

For now, Li Jiansheng can only reorganize his troops and step up his combat readiness.

Because, as early as when the Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangxi border revolutionary base areas led by Li Jiansheng took the initiative to attack the enemy in Chenzhou, the Central Soviet Area was currently undergoing a arduous fifth counter-encirclement and suppression campaign.

In fact, as early as last year, that is, in September 1933, shortly after Li Jiansheng officially entered the Central Soviet Area with two spy battalions, the KMT authorities gathered more than 9 million troops and launched an unprecedented large-scale siege on the Central Soviet Area. However, Due to the previous victories of the Central Red Army's four anti-encirclement campaigns, the Red Army's self-confidence was unprecedented; and the KMT authorities launched the fifth encirclement campaign with a different strategy, which did not attract enough attention from the Central Soviet Area at the beginning. It turned out that this time, In the "encirclement and suppression", the Kuomintang authorities adopted the "total war" operational policy of "three military divisions and seven political divisions", which exerted pressure on the Central Soviet Area from various aspects such as politics, economy and culture. As for direct combat, both German experts were invited to guide, and a step-by-step method was adopted to build a large number of bunkers and fortifications, and gradually narrow the encirclement circle, so as to compress the area of ​​activity of the Red Army. Because the base area at that time was still relatively broad, and they could swim and attack, they did not pay special attention to these Kuomintang troops. That is to say, the method of "boiling frogs in warm water" by the Kuomintang authorities immediately , and did not have much impact on the core part of the Central Soviet Area, so everything in the core part of the Central Soviet Area is normal, but they don't know that this time is 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 1600 outstanding commanders, and then brought them to his base. Now, when Li Jiansheng's troops can be reorganized and effectively maneuvered After attacking the enemy in Chenzhou, on the one hand, the Kuomintang authorities' plan to carry out the fourth joint encirclement and suppression of the Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangxi border revolutionary bases was killed in the cradle; on the other hand, Li Jiansheng's troops were further strengthened. However, we have to admit that, The current life in the Sino-British Soviet Area is indeed very difficult.

In the past, the Kuomintang authorities only fought on the periphery and had little influence on the Central Soviet Area. However, after more than half a year, when the deployment of all aspects tended to be perfected, this power was revealed. The Central Red Army entered an unprecedented Passive, because the scope of the Central Soviet Area has been greatly squeezed, and the Red Army, which was used to guerrilla warfare in the past, can't guerrilla at this time. If you can't win, the more likely you are to be repelled by the Kuomintang troops, the more the territory you originally controlled will be occupied by the Kuomintang troops, which further loses the spatial mobility of the guerrilla.

Of course, Li Jiansheng is not aware of these specific cases. Although, generally speaking, he is familiar with history, he knows that the life of the Central Red Army will be very difficult, and it will become more and more difficult. Even in October this year, the Central Red Army was defeated. The Long March was forced, but he just couldn't remind him. Besides, he has a lot of things at hand right now, so how can he still have the energy to take care of the affairs of other base areas? Fortunately, he knows the direction of history, and knows that the central government will turn the crisis into peace Yes, but I'm still not too worried about the central government, so right now I'm just concentrating on my own business.

The most urgent task is to reorganize the army.

The first point is to set up the Red Seventeenth Army, that is, to unite the small Red Army in some small base areas around the revolutionary base areas in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangxi. However, the strength of these Red Army is really pitiful. Reorganized into a division, and it is not yet a full-staffed division, how can this be organized into a legion? A new round of reorganization of their own troops: the 7th Division of the Red Sixteenth Army and the ninth division of the Red Eighteenth Army were transferred into the Red Seventeenth Army. The Red Seventeenth Army Corps, in addition, the four regiments directly under the machine gun division led by Liu Limin were disbanded. Except for one heavy machine gun battalion which continued to be reorganized into the front army guard regiment, the remaining three regiments and two battalions were incorporated into the Red Ten. Sixth, the Red Seventeenth and Red Eighteenth Legions, among which, the Red Sixteenth and Red 10th Legions were each newly incorporated into a machine gun regiment; Sixteenth, the two regiments of the Red 9th were each incorporated into a heavy firepower regiment this time, and their strength was greatly strengthened. They transferred a battalion from each of the subordinate divisions, and a total of two regiments were drawn from the two regiments. A machine gun regiment of the Seventh Army was merged to form a brand new Red 11th Division. The other two machine gun battalions, except one became a unit directly under the Red Seventeenth Army, and the other battalion was disbanded, and the company was organized into Red 18 and Red 18 respectively. , Red 12 three divisions.

The second point is to arrange the main backbone of each legion. After Li Jiansheng's careful consideration, it was finally decided that the newly established Red Seventeenth Army should be headed by Zeng Zhongsheng, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Third Front Army. Among the units directly under the Red Third Front Army and the Red Sixteenth and Red 18th Legions, personnel were transferred to form the units directly under the Red Seventeenth Army. His post was taken over by his deputy, the old Red Army Gao Xiangdong. The chief of staff of the Sixteenth Red Army was taken by Li Xiangyang, the founder of the largest base in southeast Hunan, an old Red Army, and an old party member. The Red 9th and Red 10th divisions The leadership of the Red 11th Division will continue to be held by the original leader. The commander of the Red 7th Division will be the founder of the second largest base in the 12 bases, the old Red Army, and an old party member Su Jianfei. The political commissar will be Li Xiangyang's deputy and old party member Yu Saibin. The division commander was Yang Zhengqing, an old Red Army veteran from the Central Soviet Area and the former commander of the 62nd Division of the Southern Jiangxi Red Army; the political commissar was Ji Jukui, an old subordinate of Li Jiansheng and the first member of the original Pingshi City Defense Bureau who joined Li Jiansheng's department. Later, he served as a soldier in the City Defense Bureau. After being captured by Li Jiansheng, he was inspired and grew up very quickly. Now, apart from two sacrifices, the first batch of Pingshi city defense soldiers are now regiment-level cadres. Among them, Huang Hua was the fastest promoted, and now they are all regiment-level chiefs, and Ji Jukui is the second. This time, Li Jiansheng proposed to be appointed as the political commissar of the division.

The third point is to supplement the various ministries. After the current reorganization, all the corps and divisions are not at full strength. Li Jiansheng ordered that in this Chenzhou campaign, a total of more than 12000 enemies were captured, and all of them were organized into the above ministries. Among them, let three The 12 combat divisions and one artillery division of the corps were replenished to the standard state in advance, and more than 5600 prisoners were consumed.

The fourth point is to set up the Guards Division of the Front Army. After these actions, among the more than 12000 captives obtained in the Chenzhou Campaign, there are still more than 6000 people, and the newly recruited young people, a total of about 7800 people. Li Jiansheng decided to use these sources as the basis for the new It was established as the Guards Division of the Third Front Army of the Red Army, and the backbone forces were drawn from the three corps to serve as cadres at all levels of the independent division. It also sent a group of backbones, and Li Jiansheng's department has always implemented the practice of one post and several deputy. Now the backbone of the new independent division is not only the heart, but the division commander is Li Jiansheng's favorite general, the former commander of the machine gun division Liu Limin; The political commissar is still Wang Zhengfei, who is also Li Jiansheng's favorite general. This guard division is actually a model of a recruit division or an independent division. Considering that Liu Limin and Wang Zhengfei's original machine gun division was the first-class fire division, the next one is the Throwing them into such a division, I was afraid that the two would feel a little uncomfortable, so I abruptly named this independent division a "Guardian Division". Fortunately, most of the troops in this division are well-trained The soldiers of the Kuomintang troops, and the other part of the recruits are also young farmers with good physical fitness and strong beliefs. Overall, their combat effectiveness is not bad. Moreover, this division has more than 1600 people. In the division-level units of China, all combat divisions are organized into 7800 regiments; the artillery division is organized into 6 brigades and 3 regiments. However, although the combat division has 2 regiments, each division has about 4 combatants, not simply two The total number of divisions is the same as that of the Guards Division. As for each regiment, there are 3 combat divisions and some troops directly under the regiment, about 4500 people.

So far, the "Chenzhou Reorganization" under Li Jiansheng's department has come to an end. After this time, the Red Third Front Army under Li Jiansheng's department has a total strength of nearly 8 troops, and has jurisdiction over the Red Sixteenth, Red Seventeenth, and Red Eighteenth Legions, a total of 12 battles. Division, another Artillery Division directly under the Front Army and a Guards Division,