At the same time as the inaugural meeting of the Central Guard Division was held, after a day and a night of rest, having eaten enough, slept enough, replenished weapons and ammunition, and was stimulated by the battles of Xiaoshui and Xikou of the 18th Red Regiment, the main force of the Central Red Army, which was divided into five routes, swept away towards southeast Guizhou like a red whirlwind.

Historically, after the Red Army passed the transfer of troops, it came to Liping. After resting for a few days in Liping, the famous Liping Conference was held to resolve the question of whether to go north to Xiangxi or west to Guizhou. At that time, the Central Red Army, whose strategic thinking was not clear, rested for too long in Liping, leaving the enemy time for deployment. In addition, the enemy's pursuers gathered, and the troops were in a hurry to run for their lives, leaving cover all the way and leaving behind the troops all the way, and the losses continued to increase. Therefore, after the Liping Conference, the Red First Army went out of the Jianhe, and the Red Third Army attacked northward, and after Lao Jinping was blocked by the enemy, it turned to the Jianhe River, and together with the Red First Army, it passed through the Jianhe River to occupy Huangping and Shi Bing, pointing to the Wujiang River.

Due to the appearance of Liu Yimin, the Central Red Army now in Liping is not the same as the Central Red Army that has arrived in Liping in history, in terms of command, morale, equipment, and supplies. This is because the Red Army has solved the problem of strategic thinking in the passage to Guizhou, and it is no longer blindly passively transferred. In addition to the weapons and ammunition surrendered by the 18th Regiment, the heavy weapons lost by the Red Army units in the Battle of Xiangjiang were replenished to a certain extent, and the soldiers' guns were also full of bullets and their bodies were full of grenades. Since the 15th and 7th armies of the Gui army, which were trailing the pursuit, retreated, and the Hunan army that attacked on the flanks also retracted after being hit, Xue Yue's central army was still hesitating in the area of Suining and Jingxian, and the Guizhou army that intercepted in front was not ready to defend, so what was the Red Army polite?

As a result, the 1st and 15th Divisions of the 1st Red Army Corps were on the left, the 3rd Army Corps was on the right, and in the middle were the 2nd Division of the 1st Army Corps, the cadre regiment, the 5th Army Corps, and the 9th Army Corps.

Hearing that the Red Army was going to fight Wang Jialie, Hou Zhidan, and Judah, the masses of all ethnic groups in Liping were overjoyed and led the way for the troops and picked up supplies. Each regiment of the Red Army was assigned several guides.

Under the guidance of the poor people of Liping, the Red Army marched through the lofty mountains and mountains.

At this time, Wang Jialie, chairman of Guizhou Province and commander of the 25th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was in a dilemma.

Wang Jialie word Shaowu, is a native of Xiaoshui Township, Xinzhan District, Tongzi County, Guizhou Province, graduated from high school at the age of 18, because of the poverty of family life, once carried salt between Songkan and Zunyi, known as Wang Da. When he was 19 years old, he went to Zunyi and worked as a private school teacher in Zunyi for a short time. At the age of 21, he joined the army in Guiyang, and a year later entered the Guizhou Army Lecture Hall to study, and successively participated in the "Protectorate War" and the "Protector War" with the Guizhou Army.

At this time, Wang Jialie met the most important person in his life, who was his wife Wan Shufen.

After Wan Shufen was born in a famous family in Tongren, she likes to read military books and is quite literate. When she married Wang Jialie, Wang was just a company commander. Under the command and help of his wife, and Wang Jialie himself was also an intellectual in that era, with a good foundation, Wang Jialie was promoted quickly. It is said that every time Wang Jialie fought, Mrs. Wan accompanied the command in a small sedan chair.

In 1925, the Zhou Xi Cheng Department of the Guizhou Army grew stronger in successive campaigns, forming a Tongzi system with Zhou Xi as the leader and Tongzi as the backbone, and controlled the Guizhou regime. The Guangzhou Nationalist Axe appointed Zhou Xi as chairman of Guizhou Province and commander of the 25th Army, and Wang Jialie was also promoted to division commander.

After Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12" coup d'état in April 1927, Zhou Xi became an additional county to collect taxes and raise more soldiers, and was ordered by Chiang to go out of Hunan to fight for the Communist Party. Unexpectedly, as soon as they gained a foothold in Hunan, Chiang Kai-shek instructed the 43rd Army to seize power in Guizhou, and in 1929, after a battle between the 25th Army and the 43rd Army, Zhou Xicheng, the leader of the Guizhou Army, was shot and killed. Chiang Kai-shek immediately appointed Li, commander of the 43rd Army, as chairman of Guizhou Province.

This annoyed the Tongzi faction, and its core figures gathered in Zunyi to elect Mao Guangxiang as the commander of the 25th Army and drive out the 43rd Army. Since then, the warlord melee period of changing the banner of the king in Guizhou has begun.

First, the Guizhou army won the counteroffensive, and Chiang Kai-shek appointed Mao Guangxiang as the commander of the 25th Army and the chairman of the province. Without waiting for Mao Guangxiang's ass to sit hot, Chiang Kai-shek supported Wang Jialie to drive Mao Guangxiang away and made Wang Jialie the commander of the 25th Army and the provincial chairman. As a result, the elders of the Tongzi faction believed that Wang Jialie had betrayed and openly declared war, causing the commander of another division of the Guizhou army, Yu Guocai, to attack and occupy Guiyang. Chiang Kai-shek received the report that Ju Guocai occupied Guiyang, and regardless of whether Wang Jialie's troops could still defeat the other party, he immediately appointed Ju Guocai as the commander of the 25th Army and the provincial chairman. After Wang Jialie drove away the Jews, Chiang Kai-shek immediately appointed Wang Jialie as the commander of the 25th Army and the provincial chairman. Tongzi was afraid that continuing to fight would endanger his fundamental interests, so he instigated Wang Jialie to negotiate with several other powerful factions, and finally formed a situation in which others nominally obeyed Wang Jialie. Don't say anything else, look at the tired people of Chiang Kai-shek and the Nanjing Nationalist Axe! The proclamation of the appointment of the provincial chairman was sent several times, so that the general public at that time did not know who was the chairman of the Guizhou province appointed by the national government.

Those who are familiar with Wong Ka-lie know that he likes to wear a military uniform with a wide belt and a small pistol hanging from the belt.

Now, dressed in military uniform, Wong Ka-lie is thinking about how to deal with the current situation.

The day before yesterday, that is, on December 13, the day when the Central Red Army occupied Liping, Wang Jialie rushed to Machangping to supervise the battle. He made Ju Guocai the commander-in-chief of Guizhou's suppression of bandits, and let his descendant He Zhizhong serve as the deputy commander-in-chief, deployed the main force of the 25th Army to various counties in eastern Qiandong, and asked Ju Guocai to hand over his six regiments to his command, and let Hou Zhi's burden be deployed along the Wujiang River in Huangping and Shi Bing. The overall defense plan was to prevent the Red Army from entering the hinterland of Guizhou. No, after arriving at the racecourse, Wang Jialie felt a headache.

There are three main reasons for Wang Jialie's headache.

One is that Guizhou is not really unified into his hands. Hou Zhidan, deputy commander of the 25th Army, seized Chishui, Renhuai, Xishui, Suiyang and other counties in northern Guizhou, and the deputy commander of the army, Yu Guocai, entrenched in the eight subordinates of Panjiang in southwest Guizhou, and Jiang Zaizhen, the deputy commander of the army, took refuge in Liu Xiang and entrenched in Qijiang and Dongxi, ready to fight back to northern Guizhou at any time. On the surface, these three people persuaded to obey the command, but in fact they were no different from the Emperor Tu, and the two descendants of He Zhizhong and Bai Huizhang who could command themselves were those who could command. No, let Judah hand over the six regiments to his command, but there was no movement for a long time. It is conceivable that Hou Zhidan's Wujiang defense line is estimated to have not gone all out.

The second is the Red Army, where it is not easy to go, but it has to go to the border of Hunan and Guizhou, and it has also entered Guizhou. What's so good about Guizhou, Jiushan is half water and half fields, there are poor people everywhere, my Lao Wang's troops are supported by tobacco taxes, don't you know that my policy is to ban gambling and smoking? It doesn't matter if you come here, but you've caused trouble for my old king. Because you have attracted Chiang Kai-shek and his Central Army.

The third is Chairman Chiang. Wang Jialie himself felt that he still listened to Chairman Chiang's greetings, and basically Chairman Chiang would beat whoever he asked him to beat, and when he met with the commissioner, the commissioner's attitude was also very good, and he gave money, guns, and artillery. However, Wang Jialie always felt that Chairman Chiang's eyes were like a deep pool, dark and faint, and he couldn't see the bottom at all; the last time as soon as Judah occupied Guiyang, Chairman Chiang urgently issued an announcement appointing the provincial chairman, and didn't that clearly mean that he might abandon and annex himself at any time? As soon as the Red Army entered Guizhou, Chairman Chiang's Central Army would inevitably follow, would he come to fight the Red Army or his own? I'm afraid that three points will hit the Red Army, and seven points will hit myself. After all, Guizhou's strategic location in the center of the six southwestern provinces is very important, and I, Wang Jialie, am the provincial chairman, so how can it be more reassuring for him to have Chairman Jiang's students to do it.

If the Red Army does not come, Chairman Chiang will be embarrassed to directly occupy Guizhou for a while, and he can spare time and troops to slowly clean up those three disobedient guys.

What are you afraid of, what you are afraid of when the Red Army enters Guizhou, and the Red Army will really enter Guizhou. The original plan was to act according to Chairman Chiang's order, to block the Red Army on the Jinping and Liping lines, and to intercept the Red Army's entry into Guizhou. As a result, without waiting for their five regiments to go to Liping, the Red Army had already occupied Liping. Fortunately, he built a bunker on the front line of Lao Jinping, and the outside of the bunker was densely covered with bamboo sticks, hoping to make the Red Army retreat in the face of difficulties and continue to advance towards Xiangxi.

Wait, if the Red Army does not go to Xiangxi, but enters the hinterland of Guizhou, what will they do? It is not possible to fight hard, and their own double-spearmen are probably not the opponents of the Red Army. Besides, fighting hard with the Red Army can only cheapen Lao Jiang and those three disobedient guys. But thinking about it again, wouldn't it be better if the Red Army could use the hands of the Red Army to clean up the three guys of Ju Guocai, Hou Zhidan, and Jiang Zaizhen, and then join forces with the Gui family to block the Central Army east of Guizhou? All in all, in short, everything is based on preserving strength, blocking the Red Army in Qiandong or carrying out a send-off pursuit, don't let the Red Army enter Qianzhong!

Here is Wang Jialie, the king of Guizhou, is thinking left and right, and over there is He Jian, the king of Hunan, who is jumping like thunder.

What made He Jian thunder was the telegram he was holding.

On the afternoon of the 14th, Liu Yimin wrote a letter and asked Li Qing to find someone to send to the head of Shanmuqiao Township. When the head of the township saw that the letter was addressed to Chairman He, he did not dare to slack off, so he immediately rode a mule to Suining and handed it over to the county magistrate, who felt that the matter was important, so he asked for instructions from Shangfeng, and Shangfeng instructed that it was too slow to send the letter to Changsha, and sent the letter directly to the head of Jingxian County, Liu Jianxu. After receiving the letter, Liu Jianxu read it and explained that it would be sent to Chairman He by telegram.

No, on the morning of the 15th, He Jian received this letter by telegram in Changsha.

The letter reads:

"A letter from Liu Yimin, commander of the Central Guard Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, to He Jian, chairman of Hunan Province

Mr. Ho Jian:

Following Chiang Kai-shek, you led your troops to encircle and suppress the Red Army on many occasions, massacring our revolutionary aspirants and innocent people, being extremely vicious, and committing heinous crimes against the Chinese people.

Today, as an army general and provincial chairman, you have 100,000 troops, and instead of thinking about resisting and saving the country, you besieged the main force of the Red Army in the north of our resistance on the Xiangjiang River, slaughtered the soldiers of the resistance, and committed a new and unspeakable evil against the country and the nation. If you don't stop the precipice early, the history books of later generations will definitely criticize you, leaving you stinking for 10,000 years and shameful for your descendants.

12 In the first battle of Xiaoshui, the 16th division of your department was annihilated; In the second battle of Xikou, your 62nd and 63rd divisions were once again annihilated.

I have been entrusted by the General Headquarters of the Red Army to discuss with you the transfer of the captured officers and men of your unit.

1. Eight generals, including Zhang Liangji, commander of the 16th Division, Tao Guang, commander of the 62nd Division, and six brigade commanders (including Li Bojiao, commander of the 63rd Division), were captured in 400,000 yuan in silver, 50 Czech-style light machine guns, 2,000 79 rifles, 100 new shell guns, 1,000 75 mountain artillery shells, 2,000 60 mortar shells, 30,000 grenades, 100,000 heavy machine gun rounds, 200,000 light machine gun rounds, 60,000 rifle rounds, 10,000 pistol rounds, and 200 mules and horses.

2. There were 105 middle- and lower-ranking officers captured by your unit, 600,000 yuan in silver, 60 Czech-style light machine guns, 200 79 rifles, 200 new barge guns, 1,500 75 mountain artillery shells, 3,000 60 mortar shells, 40,000 hand grenades, 100,000 heavy machine gun rounds, 200,000 light machine gun rounds, 100,000 Qijiu bullets, 20,000 pistol rounds, and 300 mules and horses.

3. The 1,300 lightly wounded soldiers captured by your unit shall be exchanged for Red Army soldiers and [***] people held by your unit, and each soldier of your unit shall be exchanged for two Red Army soldiers. One less person, compensation of 500 yuan.

If you are unwilling to comply with the implementation, our department should directly report to Tao Guang, Zhang Liangji and other generals and soldiers, and inform the whole country through the radio, so that you can abandon the notoriety of your subordinates and spread all over the world. At the same time, our department will mobilize Tao Guang, Zhang Liangji and other officers and lightly wounded soldiers to join the Red Army. It is said that Tao Guang and Zhang Liangji both have a high level of military literacy, and the soldiers of your unit are even more well-trained, and the Red Army is in need of such talents when it goes north to resist the war. In the future, after the Red Army defeats the invaders, it will order Tao Guang and Zhang Liangji to lead troops to liberate Hunan and capture you alive in Changsha.

If you agree to exchange, before the 17th of this month, the aforesaid money and goods will be delivered to the mouth of the channel creek, and it will not wait for the time to expire.

If you want to create an ambush effect during the exchange, I don't mind inviting General Liu Jianxu, General Li Jue, and other Hunan officers to my division headquarters, and when the time comes, we can continue to contact them about the exchange.

Don't expect to reveal information to the Central Army, I am deliberately inviting them to be a guest.

Another: Chen Guangzhong, the lieutenant general of the 63rd Division of your unit, took pleasure in slaughtering innocent people and did many evils, and the people and gods were angry, and our unit has killed him. Lessons from the past, Mr. He Jian thought twice.

I heard that the Hunan cuisine made by the chef in Changsha has a unique taste, and I would like to taste it for myself. I had no choice but to go north to resist and say that it was the duty of a soldier, and I had no time to separate. If Mr. He Jian does not agree to this contact, and I will lead my division back to Hunan and walk around Orange Island with General He Long and General Xiao Ke, it is estimated that the Party Central Committee and the Red Army General Headquarters will not hold me accountable for violating military orders. I hope that Mr. He Jian will be fulfilled. I look forward to it!

Liu Yimin, commander of the Central Guard Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army

December 14, 1934

After reading the telegram, He Jian was naturally furious! In He Jian's official residence in Changsha, his angry voice echoed everywhere: "This is pure fucking blackmail, **naked blackmail!" Despicable! Shameless! Isn't the Red Army known as the army of benevolence and righteousness? When did this kind of guy come out. Nameless rats, they deceive me too much! ”

After scolding and roaring, He Jian sat on the chair with his ass, what should I do about this? Tao Guang and Zhang Liangji still have to come back. As long as they can come back unnoticed, and bring more than 100 middle- and lower-level officers and 1,300 soldiers, they can report to Nanjing that the 16th, 62nd, and 63rd divisions have suffered heavy losses, but the backbone troops can break through and quickly transfer troops to form these three divisions.

But the price is too great to let them come back, right? It's okay to say that the money is good, just charge a little more tax. Weapons and ammunition are not a trivial matter, let Chairman Jiang know, why don't you make yourself a gangster? Besides, giving the Red Army so much ammunition doesn't that help the Red Army? Who are they going to fight with so much ammunition, will they come back to fight Lao Tzu again? But on second thought, if his strength can be restored as soon as possible, what can the chairman of the committee do if he knows? If the strength is damaged too much, even if he fights the Red Army every day, the chairman of the committee will also think of a crime to lock himself up. What's more, judging from the situation in the letter, these Red Army troops may really want to go north, at least westward to Guizhou, talk about fighting Hunan, and so on, just to force themselves to comply.

If you don't let them come back, it won't work. When the matter is leaked, will it make his subordinates feel cold, and if Chairman Jiang is drawn into division, I am afraid that he will soon become a loner. In addition, after receiving Liu Jianxu's telegram, the chairman of the committee did not mention the issue of the formation of the three divisions, but only gave 200,000 yuan to compensate the soldiers who died in battle, making it clear that he did not want the establishment of the 16th, 62nd, and 63rd divisions to be restored. It's ridiculous, 200,000 yuan, am I lacking this 200,000 yuan? I want the establishment of my three elite divisions, but the chairman of the committee probably won't give it.

After thinking about it, He Jian felt that he still had to return to Tao Guang, Zhang Liangji and other captives as soon as possible. As for weapons, ammunition and money, you can send people to negotiate with the Red Army, since it is a business, then you have to bargain. The top priority is to be fast. If the Central Army and the spies know about it, this matter will be yellow, not to mention whether Tao Guang, Zhang Liangji and others will come back, it is estimated that the establishment of the three divisions will not even be considered. Thinking of this, He Jian directly ordered the chief of staff: "Give me a call to Huixian!" ”