In September 1935, the Third Field Army also completed the reorganization of the newly surrendered soldiers in the Tianmu Mountain Battle in the southeast region, and added the Third Fifth Army Group..com and, in accordance with the instructions of the Military Commission, the 301st Division of the Third Field Army Independent Division was added.

At this point, the Third Field Army has developed into an extremely powerful field army with five armies, totaling 500,000 regular troops.

Through continuous reorganization, by the end of 1935, the Chinese People's Liberation Army had become a powerful force with four field troops, three direct corpses, one naval unit, one air force unit, and one central security division, totaling more than one.7 million regular troops.

Both the total number of troops and the quality of troops have far exceeded that of Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army at the same time.

Moreover, during this period, the anti-Japanese democratic government and the anti-Japanese coalition government led by our party were established in various places.

All regions have established anti-Japanese democratic governments and anti-Japanese coalition governments in southern Anhui, and have established anti-Japanese democratic governments in core areas controlled by the People's Liberation Army.

Regions such as Yunnan, Guangdong and other countries that have maintained relations with ** have also clearly expressed their willingness to establish an anti-Japanese coalition government.

The entire area controlled by our party and cooperated with us has shown a prosperous and gratifying scene.

A solid foundation was laid for ushering in the upcoming national war of resistance.

In order to implement the policy of establishing a national anti-Japanese united front across the country, the central government first released He Yingqin, a senior Kuomintang general captured in Wuhan and a large number of senior Kuomintang generals, in September 2019, showing his greatest sincerity.

Through him, he conveyed to Chiang Kai-shek that our party and army were willing to establish cooperative relations with Chiang Kai-shek again, put national cause first, cooperate with the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and form a national united front.

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek had already lived in eastern China. In the face of our party and our army's powerful military and political offensive, he had to start negotiating with our party.

To this end, our party specially dispatched a negotiating delegation composed of Zhou Enlai to Nanjing and held many negotiations with the Kuomintang delegation formed by Chiang Kai-shek with Chen Cheng as the head of the delegation and He Yingqin as the deputy head of the delegation.

The two sides held many negotiations in Nanjing and Chongqing, and finally reached the intention of both sides to establish a regime on the actual control area and to jointly form a coalition government.

The coalition government unified the command of anti-Japanese war.

Regarding the actual control areas, Chiang Kai-shek insisted on including the northwest Shaanxi region and the southwest Guangxi region, which had not yet established actual cooperative relations with our party at that time, in Chiang Kai-shek's actual control areas.

Of course, our party will not agree with this condition. However, as our party, how can we get rid of these two regions, as an important link in our army's control of the west?

Therefore, negotiations were in a deadlock since November.

However, because our party is in great sincerity and Chiang Kai-shek is in a mentality of not daring to break up in the end, the negotiations between the two sides are still going round after round.

In late November, after the First Field Army ended a new round of reorganization in Chengdu, under the leadership of Lin Shuai and Nie Rongzhen, it began to secretly move south from Neijiang and Luzhou areas in batches, and the army entered northern Guizhou in mid-December.

In late December, when our party and the Guangxi warlords had negotiated many times but failed to achieve the results, the Central Committee and the Military Commission decided to launch the Guangxi Battle.

The Nan Conscription Regiment was formed by the entire First Field Army and the Second Army as the main force, and the Nan Conscription Operation Front Enemy Committee was established.

The Military Commission appointed Lin Shuai as the secretary of the Front Enemy Committee, Ren Bishi as the deputy secretary, Nie Rongzhen, Xiao Jinguang and Zuo Quan as members. He was responsible for unified command of the Southern Expedition.

At the same time, in addition to the 113th Brigade, which focused on fighting against the desert, the main force of the 11th Division broke away from the First Army since early November and began a long-distance transfer of thousands of miles.

The 11th Division, which had a long march of more than 4,000 miles and had been marching continuously for nearly 50 days, finally arrived at Libo County, the southernmost tip of Guizhou on December 20 and joined the ranks of the Southern Conscription Regiment.

The 14th Division of the First Army, the 14th Division, a marine division specializing in landing and special operations, has grown up after months of careful training in Xunhuaizhou. This time, joining the 14th Division also shoulders a special mission.

For this battle, Zhou Gangshan personally led the special forces team, the Fifth Special Forces Team, the Sixth Special Forces Team, and the Seventh Special Forces Team, were sent to participate in the battle.

Before this, according to the plan of the Military Commission, starting from November, the members of the 4th Special Forces Brigade and the Eighth Special Forces Brigade were divided into multiple squads, with troops divided into multiple routes and sneaking into Guangxi. They were preparing to cooperate in the enemy's rear after the army entered Guangxi.

By December 20, our army had gathered on the border between Guizhou and Guangxi, a powerful armed force of more than 400,000 people, with a total of more than 400,000 people.

In late December, although most parts of the motherland have entered a severe winter, the southwest Guangxi region is relatively warm, and this year is a relatively rare warm winter.

What makes this land of Guangxi even warmer is the upcoming Guangxi Battle.

December 20th is the ultimatum time our party gave to the Guangxi warlords.

Although after mediation by all parties, the Guangxi warlords were reluctant to give up their authority at the last moment and insisted on comprehensive control of Guangxi.

And put forward various harsh demands that our party cannot accept.

At the last moment of the negotiation, the Guangxi Guangxi warlords flatly rejected my greatest sincerity as a release.

And since November, a general mobilization was carried out in Guangxi, a large number of militia armed forces were mobilized, and a large number of militia armed forces were joined by the Guangxi clique in an attempt to prevent our army from entering Guangxi.

By late December, with the secret support of Chiang Kai-shek, Guangxi Guangxi warlords had organized a warlord armed force of up to 400,000 people, posing a great threat to Guizhou and Yunnan, which our party has actually controlled.

On December 22, our army issued a telegram across the country and decided to launch a southern expedition to attack the Guangxi Guangxi warlord group that attempted to split the motherland and pursue actual independence.

On December 24, Lin Shuai commanded the 400,000 troops of the Conscription Group in the South, divided into three groups, left, middle and right, and entered Guangxi, and fought a desperate battle with Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi.

At this time, Xun Huaizhou was accompanying the chairman, in the southwest sand table hall of the Chongqing Military Commission's war room, he repeatedly studied the combat deployment of the warring sides in the high-precision Guangxi area produced by the newly established General Logistics Department.

In fact, the Southern Expedition Action Plan had preliminary exchanges with the Chairman before Xun Huaizhou led the First Army to fight to the northwest in mid-August, and put forward a variety of plans.

As the situation in the southwest became clearer, by mid-September, Xunhuaizhou annihilated the main force of the Northwest Sanma in Guyuan area in one fell swoop. After basically solving the northwest problem, the chairman rushed Xunhuaizhou to return to Chongqing and began to discuss the combat plan on the southern front.

Therefore, when Xun Huaizhou led the army to Deyang area, he was recruited back to Chongqing by the Chairman.

In late October, Xunhuaizhou returned to Chongqing.

In addition to participating in the planning of the economic construction and legal system construction of our party’s actual controlled areas, such as the main work of the planning committee secretary, he was to assist the chairman in planning the Nanxing Operation.

Xun Huaizhou has a deep understanding of the Guangxi warlords. Since 1932, the new Guangxi warlords began to improve migrant organizations in Guangxi and wipe out the progressive forces led by our party.

After several years of operation, the current Guangxi militia organization has been relatively complete, and the people in Guangxi are strong and are especially good at mountain combat.

If the main force of the Guangxi armed forces can be recovered, after the unified and reorganized by our party and our army, its combat capabilities will be greatly strengthened.

Then these soldiers will be able to play a greater role in the future anti-Japanese battlefield.

Moreover, our party and the main force of our army have developed too fast in the past six months and lack experience in major and fierce wars.

Such a force is not a powerful force.

Only by repeatedly baptizing in the war can the troops truly grow.

Therefore, fighting with Guangxi Guangxi warlords and winning the battle is an important means to test and train our army.

At the same time, Guangxi is a southward passage in the southwest region. If the Guangxi region can be opened, our army will have sea outlets such as Beihai and obtain a southward passage.

At the same time, as the core areas controlled by our party, the sooner these areas are operated, the more important it will be to the motherland and Western powers for control over Southeast Asia such as Vietnam, Myanmar, and Laos in the future.

Because of such numerous reasons, Xun Huaizhou agreed in a secret discussion with the Chairman that the Guangxi Guangxi Guizhou should adopt a policy of uncompromising and adhering to principles to negotiate.

It would be better if it agreed to accept the principle of peaceful liberation of our army and to agree to the regularization of its troops by our army. If it could not accept the conditions of our army, it would be better if it would use military means to solve the problem.

To this end, Xunhuaizhou specially recruited two powerful troops, the 111 Brigade and the 112th Brigade of the 11th Division, in advance, and went south from the northwest in advance to the Guizhou battlefield.

In addition, it is recommended that the Chairman mobilize the First Field Army and the Second Army to join the Guangxi War, so that these two troops can be well trained in this battle.

The Second Field Army, Xunhuaizhou, is already planning, and there is another training opportunity waiting for them.

At present, what is more gratifying is that when Zhou Tao and his team were in China, they informed Botao Company of a large number of weapons and equipment procurement preparations.

After Zhou Tao and his friends returned to the United States in September, they immediately used several arms companies they controlled to produce a large amount of weapons and equipment for our party and our army.

At the same time, through Botao Company, a large-scale purchase of weapons and equipment was launched. The earliest batch of weapons and equipment had already started shipping in early October and arrived in Guangzhou in early November.

At this time, our army had reached an agreement with the Chen Jitang army in Guangdong. The Third Army sent heavy troops to Guangzhou and escorted the whole process of the military supplies.

It departs from Guangzhou, passes through Jiangxi, Hubei, and then transports to Sichuan by water. It has now been accepted by the General Logistics Department.

It is expected that by the end of December, this batch of weapons and equipment can begin to arm our main force on a large scale.
Chapter completed!