In recent times, the 26th Army Corps and the 4th Front Army have basically acted in line with the inertia of history, but the combat conditions are much better than those in the same period of history.

First of all, the Second and Sixth Corps of the Red Army. On February 1, 1935, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission issued a telegram to the Second and Sixth Corps of the Red Army: In order to establish a collective military leadership, the branch of the Revolutionary Military Commission should be organized, with He Long, Ren Bishi, Guan Xiangying, Xia Xi, Xiao Ke and Wang Zhen as members, and He Long as chairman.

According to the spirit of the general policy of the Liping Conference on the anti-"encirclement and suppression" policy, decisive defense, rather than simple defense, but mobile warfare, rather than positional warfare, the provincial party committee and military branch decided to withdraw from the basic area of ​​Tawo and Longjiazhai, concentrate the main force on the rear of the enemy side, break the siege and smash the combined attack.

The anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign began with the Xikou battle on February 8, and on April 12, the provincial party committee withdrew from the tower and moved north.

From the 13th to the 15th, the Red Army annihilated the 58th Division of the Chen Yaohan Column and its two brigades in the Chenjiahe and Taozixi area of ​​Sangzhi County. The other five routes retreated one after another, ending the first phase of the anti-"encirclement and suppression".

At the end of April, the Red Sixth Army turned into a strategic counterattack, first went east to Cili, and transferred the Kuomintang army to the east to consolidate and expand the base area and supplement the rest and rectify the Red Army.

The Red Fourth Front Army has also achieved significant results recently.

In March 1935, in order to develop towards the Sichuan and Gansu borders and cooperate with the Central Red Army's combat operations in the Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan border areas, the Fourth Red Army decided to launch the Jialing River Battle.

The 28th Army of Deng Xihou, the 28th Army of the Kuomintang Sichuan Army, and the 29th Army of Tian Songyao, had a total of 52 regiments. They were deployed on the west bank of the Jialing River, about 300 kilometers from Guangyuan to the south, in an attempt to rely on the dangerous terrain of the Jialing River and its west side, and to strangle the Red Army's westward development path.

Xu Xiangqian, commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front Army, and Chen Changhao, political commissar, decided to concentrate the main force of the front army, divide it into the first and second echelons, select weak defenses to implement multiple and focused breakthroughs, and then develop in both wings and in-depth, occupying a large area between the Jialing River and Fu Rivers, so as to achieve a large number of enemies in the movement.

In order to win the victory of the crossing of the river, all units of the Red Fourth Front Army made full preparations and conquered Yilong and Cangxi in mid-March, clearing the obstacles to crossing the river. On the evening of the 28th, the battle began. A unit of the Red Thirty Army secretly crossed the river near Tazishan in the south of Cangxi City. When approaching the other side, they were discovered by the defenders. The assault troops landed on ashore with the support of artillery fire, wiped out a battalion of the defending enemy and captured the beachhead.

At dawn on the 29th, the main force of the Red 310th Army crossed the river and entered the battle one after another, captured the commanding heights of Feihu Mountain, Gaocheng Mountain, Wannian Mountain and other on the west bank, and repelled a brigade of support. At the same time, the Red 31st Army successfully crossed the Yuanxikou north of Cangxi City, and captured the dangerous position of the other side in one fell swoop, defeated a brigade of defending the enemy, and penetrated directly into Jianmen Pass.

One of the Red Nine Army successfully crossed the river at the mouth of Jianxikou, north of Langzhong City, and captured Langzhong on the 31st. After the first echelon occupied the key points of the west bank, it quickly developed an attack on the depths of the defending enemy and both wings.

The second echelon of the Red Fourth Army crossed the river from Cangxi to fight. One of the Red Ninth Army defeated the two brigades of the defending enemy and advanced southward. With the cooperation of the Red Fourth Army, the southern county was captured on April 2.

After the Red 30th Army and another unit of the Red Ninth Army captured Jiange on March 31, the first unit of the Red 30th Army and the Red 31st Army had to attack Jianmen Pass.

On April 2, he arrived at Jianmen Pass and after fierce battles, he wiped out three defending regiments. Then he went on a starry night and captured Zhaohua County, northwest of Jianmen Pass on the third day.

After the Kuomintang army was hit by this, its 29th Army retreated to Shehong, Yanting, Santai, and the 28th Army retreated to Guangyuan and its areas north of the country, and another one was used to defend Zitong, Jiangyou, Zhongba and other places.

Based on this, the head of the Red Fourth Front Army decided to concentrate the main force to annihilate the enemies in Zitong and Jiangyou areas, and wait for an opportunity to develop an offensive towards the Sichuan-Gansu border.

On the tenth day, the main force of the Red Fourth Front Army captured Zitong and surrounded Jiangyou County. The forward was approaching the strategic location Zhongba. Deng Xihou hurriedly led ten regiments to reinforce Jiangyou.

The main force of the Red Fourth Front Army defeated the aided enemy south of Jiangyou from the 14th to the 15th, and conquered Zhongba from the 18th to the 19th, and Zhaoming. At the same time, one part of the Red 30th Army went up the Bailong River, captured Qingchuan on the 10th, and then went north to Motianling to annihilate a battalion in the southern part of Hu Zong, and captured Pingwu on the 14th. One part of the Red Fourth Army captured Beichuan on the 21st. At this point, the battle ended.

The Jialing River Battle lasted 24 days, and the total annihilation of about 10,000 more than 12 regiments of the Kuomintang army were about to be 10,000, conquered eight county towns, and controlled the vast new district that started from the Jialing River in the east, went to Beichuan in the west, Zitong in the south, and reached the north of the Sichuan-Gansu border, creating favorable conditions for the development of the Red Fourth Front Army to the Sichuan-Gansu border, and strategically cooperated with the actions of the Central Red Army.

Of course, compared with the Battle of Zhejiang and Crossing the River Battle of the Red Third Front Army at the same time, the influence was much smaller, and the pressure from the Kuomintang army was also much smaller.

On the night of May 14, Xun Huaizhou and the Chairman had a secret telegram overnight, and finally determined the plan for the Wuhan Battle and Jiujiang Battle.

In view of the current empty defense situation in the Kuomintang’s Hubei region, the Red Third Front Army decided to attack Wuhan with four divisions and more than 90,000 troops.

At the same time, the Seventh Division had more than 20,000 troops set out in advance, heading westward, and heading straight to Yichang, an important Yangtze River town on the junction of Hubei and Sichuan, and controlling Yichang.

Open the road for the main force of the Red Third Front Army to continue to advance westward after conquering Wuhan.

In order to cooperate with the combat operations of the outer line of the Red Third Front Army, Su Yu will lead the inner line of the Red Third Front Army to launch the Jiujiang Battle.

In fact, after completing the battle along the river and voluntarily evacuated Chizhou and Anqing, the inner army of the Red Third Front Army did not return to Shitunxi to rest, but secretly transferred the main force to the control area of ​​the northern and southern Anhui base area in Jingdezhen for reorganization and rest.

After asking for instructions on Xun Huaizhou and **, Su Yu reorganized more than 41,000 enemy troops captured by the battle along the river according to the established plan.

Through the new reorganization movement, more than 32,000 surrendered soldiers were reorganized. In addition to the recruitment of local new soldiers, more than 3,000 people were obtained.

Therefore, the inside corps suddenly had more than 90,000 people to more than 125,000. The 16th Division, the Independent Brigade, the 1st Independent Brigade, the 2nd Independent Brigade, and the two brigade were newly organized.

On May 17, after the inner army completed the reorganization and training plan, Su Yu quickly led the four main divisions and headquarters of the inner army, including the 8th Division, the 9th Division, the 15th Division and the 16th Division, a total of more than 90,000 people, hiking during the day and traveling at night, secretly heading north to advance to Jiujiang City.

Chief of Staff Wang Yunrui led the 10th Division, the 1st Independent Brigade, the 2nd Independent Brigade, and the local troops, a total of more than 50,000 people, preparing to block the reinforcements from the enemy coming to Anqing and Nanchang.

At the same time, the Anhui, Zhejiang and Jiangxi Military Region urgently mobilized to enter the first-level combat readiness, preparing to block the enemies who may attack the Anhui, Zhejiang and Jiangxi bases from other directions.

This was the first major battle under Su Yu's independent command. His own troops were invested to reach 120,000 main troops and more than 30,000 local troops, totaling 150,000.

In addition to Jiujiang City, there are three main divisions and five security regiments with nearly 50,000 people, the fastest reinforcement of the three divisions in Anqing City, with less than 40,000 people.

Because Jiujiang is close to the Yangtze River, this battle requires a focus on preventing the enemy from recruiting troops from the river. Therefore, the launch of the Jiujiang Battle must be fast, accurate and ruthless. It is necessary to catch the enemy off guard.

After controlling Jiujiang, the Yangtze River waterway must be blocked in time, and a main force must be dispatched to attack from east to west, and cooperate with the Hubei strategy of seeking the commander-in-chief.

At the same time, we are preparing to pick up a large number of prisoners and materials seized by the outer legions in Hubei. This is also a plan agreed in advance.

With the cooperation of the Second Special War Team led by Hong Tianqiang, Su Yu officially launched the Jiujiang Battle on the evening of May 20th.

Jiujiang was originally stationed with six Kuomintang divisions, totaling more than 70,000 people. After Su Yu launched the battle along the river, three divisions were divided into two groups, and more than 30,000 people occupied Anqing City.

Therefore, Jiujiang, the main road that guards the throat of the Yangtze River, also has three main divisions of the Kuomintang, plus the forces of several local security regiments.

However, in front of the powerful and highly morale Red Third Front Army, Jiujiang City seemed in danger from the beginning of Su Yu's army launching the battle.

The Jiujiang Battle initiated by Su Yu can be said to have a single move that will affect the whole body.

The Red Army in southern Anhui had just ended the battle along the river for more than ten days, and launched the Battle of Jiujiang again.

It made Chiang Kai-shek feel very helpless.

Now, his main force is scattered around the Anhui-Zhejiang-Jiangxi base areas, and is captured by the powerful deterrence of the Southern Anhui Red Army, and he dare not act rashly.

Because Chiang Kai-shek had already tasted the lesson of being led by the Red Army and attacking aid through the surrounding points, he had eliminated too many of his army.

When Chiang Kai-shek learned that the Red Army had heavily attacked Jiujiang, he felt helpless.

At present, there are twelve divisions in Hubei, six divisions in Nanchang, and three divisions in Anqing. However, the seven divisions in Wuhan are too far from the battlefield. By the time they are transferred to Jiujiang, Jiujiang is probably already broken by the Red Army.

If your troops may be ambushed by the Red Army, then you will lose more than you. Anqing's three divisions were just transferred from Jiujiang. If they were to be transferred to Jiujiang, they would also face the danger of being surrounded by the Red Army and being defeated by the Red Army.

Faced with the current dilemma, Chiang Kai-shek was really embarrassed and had a headache.

In the past two months, local warlords have become increasingly ignorant of their commands, especially the Guangdong Army, the Gui Army, the Sichuan Army, the Jin Army, and other troops. They are almost almost the emperor's resignation, which makes Chiang Kai-shek deeply angry.

But what else is there? The fire is still on the backyard of my own, and the warlords who can count on these thieves will be in the same heart as me.

After receiving a telegram for help from Jiujiang on the night of the 20th, Chiang Kai-shek locked himself in the room alone and fell into deep thought.
Chapter completed!