The 34th Red Division was very lucky, the vanguard troops, with the help of the local people, found a place downstream where the river was wide but the water was not deep, and the large troops, under the correct command of division commander Chen Shuxiang and political commissar Cheng Cuilin, followed closely behind the troops who opened the road and forcibly broke through the enemy's encirclement, thus escaping safely.

And the small part of the broken troops were not so lucky, because the enemy was outnumbered, and they fell into the dilemma of being intercepted by the central army in front and pursued by the Gui army in the rear, and they could not get out for the time being.

Even so, the fate of the Red 34th Division is much more fortunate than the fate of history.

Guo Zhuocheng only learned about the escape of the main force of the Red 34th Division after receiving a telegram from the Red Third Army, and he was happy and regretful at the same time, of course, happy that this heroic army had finally changed its tragic fate, and regretted that he did not have the opportunity to own this iron army.

However, Guo Zhuocheng still made a lot of money, and when the troops led by Zhuang Zongquan and Chen Peng approached the riverside, countless Red Army soldiers appeared one after another, and even formed units such as company and platoon levels were added, and they joined their ranks in excitement and moved to Matouling in an orderly manner according to their orders.

From the time Zhuang Zongquan and Chen Peng set out at noon, soldiers of the Red Army came to Matouling one after another, and these conditions continued into the evening, into the evening, and until noon on the next day, that is, December 2, 1934, until the Kuomintang Central Committee and the Central Army were killed, and Zhuang Zongquan and Chen Peng were forced to withdraw their troops back to Matouling.

According to a rough calculation, Guo Zhuocheng and his team actually contained more than 4,000 Red Army soldiers this time, which greatly improved the proportion of the composition of the troops. The proportion of the Red Army increased rapidly.

Thinking that he had contained so many Red Army soldiers at this time. Thinking that the Red 34th Division escaped safely. Guo Shucheng believes that the battle of Xiangjiang will certainly not be as miserable as it was in history. In the historical Xiangjiang Campaign, the number of Red Army troops dropped sharply from more than 80,000 to 30,000, less than half of the original number.

And more than half of them will survive this time, and if you add the ones he contains, the Red Army's losses will be even less.

Of the more than 4,000 Red officers and men who came to defect, nearly 3,000 were intact, as long as they were given bullets, guns, and food, and let them rest for a while, and let them get rid of their unbearable fatigue. They can go into battle, they are elite troops that no one can defeat.

Even among the more than 1,000 wounded and sick men, about half of the officers and men were not seriously injured, and the reason why they were weak and powerless was mainly because of hunger, fatigue, and because they did not sleep for several days and nights, marched with high intensity, and fought with high intensity, and lost their combat effectiveness. As long as they are given food and time to rest, they will also be alive and well, and at the same time they will become experienced iron warriors.

After listening to Zhuang Zongquan's report on the situation of the Red officers and soldiers in custody, Guo Zhuocheng couldn't help but be overjoyed. I don't feel at ease about the crisis in front of me. He thought to himself: "With this large number of red-soldier officers and soldiers joining, what am I afraid of?" Whether it is your Gui army attacking or your Jiang Jieshi's center-army encirclement. I can beat you all over the ground to find your teeth. ”

Indeed, not long after they had just finished the battle to annihilate the 44th Division of the Gui Army, quite a number of commanders Jian Yì Guo Zhuocheng took advantage of the current chaos of the Gui Army and the confusion of the Central Army to go out and break through the Xiangjiang River to catch up with the main Red Army.

However, Guo Zhuocheng was unmoved, and continued to arrange for the troops to clean up the battlefield and other matters, and then asked Zhuang Zongquan and Chen Peng to lead the troops to the vicinity of the Xiangjiang ferry to contain the separated and besieged Red officers and soldiers.

After batch after batch of Red officers and soldiers came, more commanders persuaded Guo Zhuocheng to act quickly, abandon a heavy and light suit, or leave some lightly injured officers and soldiers to break the rear, but Guo Zhuocheng still did not agree, but instead arranged for everyone to rest and reorganize.

It's not that he doesn't know the truth of the speed of the soldiers, nor does he not know the fleeting truth of the fighter plane, but he knows even more that if he leads this tired army to break through the natural danger of the Xiangjiang River now, he will be frantically pursued by the Gui army, will be desperately blocked by the Hunan army, and will also be attacked by the central army.

Under the enemy's encirclement from all sides, under the enemy's blows from the ground to the air, without resting, without food, and without recuperating from their wounds, the combat effectiveness of the officers and men of the Red Army was absolutely not able to give full play to normal circumstances, not to mention that there were still many prisoners of the Gui army in these troops. These captives who have changed their identities may follow the Red Army wholeheartedly in the case of a favorable battle, and will not care whether they are the Red Army or the Gui Army. But once the battle is lost, once they encounter unprecedented pressure, it is the best result if they do not mutiny and do not turn around to fight the black gun, they will definitely run away and will definitely take the opportunity to surrender.

In that case, Guo Zhuocheng's efforts during this time would be almost in vain, and he would not forgive himself.

Because the Gui army was in a hurry to shrink the defensive line because of its heavy losses, and the central army was too busy intercepting the Red officers and soldiers to make a move on the Matouling side for a while, Guo Zhuocheng and the others spent the night without danger and safely ushered in the morning glow on December 2.

After a night's hard work, the battlefield had already been cleaned up, Zhuang Zongquan and Chen Peng's teams had also returned, and the reorganization of Matouling had basically been completed.

Although he had already written to Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi asking for an exchange of prisoners, Guo Zhuocheng still arranged for his men to break up the prisoners of the 44th Division and integrate them into his own troops.

There were more than 11,000 officers and men under Guo Zhuocheng's subordinate troops, prisoners, and Red officers and soldiers who were taken in one after another, and if we only compare the number of people, the chances are about the same as the number of the Red Army's regiment before the Long March. Now Matouling and Gulingtou are full of Red Army, some are building trenches, some are training, some are healing, and some are sleeping......

Guo Zhuocheng did not discuss the way of the troops with his confused subordinates, nor did he arrange other matters for the troops, because he knew that whether it was Zhuang Zongquan or Chen Peng, they would arrange these things well, although these people were constantly thinking about how the troops would move next in their minds.

He only told them to train and recuperate, so as to restore the body of the officers and soldiers and enhance their sense of mutual identity, but he took Sun Xingguo, Song Jun, and the newly established guard platoon quietly to a mountain peak depression not far from Gulingtou, and instructed Sun Xingguo and Song Jun to impose martial law on this hill and forbid anyone to enter the depression where he was, even Sun Xingguo and Song Jun themselves would not allow them to come in without his greeting.

He also instructed Sun Xingguo that if he had not come out for forty-eight hours, they would go back, obey the command of Zhuang Zongquan and Chen Peng, take the troops out to chase the main Red Army, and then hand over the command and obey the arrangements of General Peng of the Third Red Army.

As for whether the other party will respond to the letter he wrote to Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, and how to deal with it after responding, Guo Zhuocheng did not make too many arrangements, because he knew that Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi would not readily agree, and the purpose of his letter was just to confuse them and make them unable to guess their next plan.

This is another big thing for Guo to do, because he found that the plum blossom on his left palm had turned red, and he had to go to the era of 1991 to make some necessary arrangements, and to report the situation to the supreme leader to gain his support. Now the Red Army is at the most critical moment, and it must be fed back by the time and space of 1991.

As a precaution, worried that he would fail to cross or not be able to come back, Guo Zhuocheng was prepared with both hands.

After confirming that there was no problem, standing in a hidden place in the col, he resolutely pointed his right index finger on the stamen of the pale red plum blossom in the palm of his left palm.

This time he didn't faint, but as soon as it was dark, he came to a strange place, a room with four that looked like computer screens. From left to right, the black border at the top of the screen is marked with the four Chinese characters "一、二、三、四".

The leftmost screen, which is marked with the word "one", and the screen on the far right, marked with the word "four", both show a map, but the map on the left screen "one" shows a much larger area, while the map on the rightmost screen "four" shows only a small area.

The screen on the left side of the center -- the one marked with the word "two" -- shows three regular cuboids, empty inside. The box on the left is labeled "Storage Space in 1991", the box on the right is labeled "Storage Space in 1934", and the box in the middle is labeled "Space for Swapping Objects in Two Space-Time Spaces".

The screen on the right in the center - that is, the screen marked with the word "three" - shows a piece of text that shows "instructions for use and operation" and questions and answers.

After carefully reading the "Instructions for Use and Operation", Guo Zhuocheng knew what the other three screens meant and what they were used for. The "One" screen on the far left shows a world map of this time and space in 1991, on this map, China and the Night Pearl Island have been lit up, indicating that Guo Zhuocheng has the ability to control these lighted places or that his efforts can affect these areas, and he can extract the materials he needs from these places, and he can also put the materials transported from that time and space in 1934 in these places, as long as he has done a good job of secrecy in advance, and the extraction process will not be seen by others.

The "four" screen on the far right shows the world map of this time and space in 1934, but on this map, only the small Matouling and Gulingtou are lit up, which means that he can only control these places at present, and can only extract materials from these places and transport them to the time and space in 1991, or put the materials of that time and space in these places, and also require secrecy and cannot be seen by others.

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