The Red Army was forced to gather at the junction of Yunnan Weixin, Guizhou Bijie, and Sichuan Xuyong.
On February 5, 1935, the Red Army held a very important meeting, the Jiming Three Provinces Meeting, in a village called Jiming Sansheng in Shuitianzhai.
This meeting can be said to be the continuation and supplement of the Zunyi Conference...
Then, the Red Army fought, marched, and held meetings. From February 5 to February 9, 1935, in Tashi County at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan provinces, they held consecutive meetings in Shuitianzhai, Dahetan, and Tashizhai. ,
The Tashi Conference can also be regarded as the continuation and final completion of the Zunyi Conference. Because when the Zunyi Conference was held, the enemy was pressing hard and the military situation was urgent, so some details and written documents were not implemented in place.
The Tashi Meeting completed all this, so the Tashi Meeting was also an important meeting on the Long March.
In addition, the Tashi Conference also determined the Red Army's new strategic course of action and made the major decision to return to Qianbei and reoccupy Zunyi.
At the same time, the troops were also reorganized.
Don't underestimate this reorganization. This is an important military decision to improve morale.
Since the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Red Army led more than 86,000 Red Army soldiers. Since the forced Long March, after breaking through the enemy's five blockades, especially after the bloody battle on the Xiangjiang River, more than half of the number of soldiers was reduced, leaving only more than 30,000 soldiers. Morale is low and the prospects are low. dim.
At this time, we need to reorganize and downsize. Why is this?
In our impression, the Red Army used to be constantly expanding.
For example, during the Jinggangshan period, when the first Red Army was created, the only team was named the "Fourth Red Army" instead of the "First Red Army", which was a bit bluffing and made people feel The Red Army has four armies, and its strength cannot be underestimated.
And what happened now?
No need to bluff anymore?
Isn’t the Red Army still weak?
Yes, it's not true at all. Although the Red Army is still small and weak, it is different from the past. In the past, it was safe and easy to rely on, but now it is a desperate counterattack, which requires a faster and more capable team.
Therefore, Tashi's reorganization not only "lightly equipped" the army establishment system and "lightly equipped" materially, but more importantly, it also "lightly equipped" the officers and soldiers ideologically, conceptually adapting to the mobile warfare in the great transfer. .
During this reorganization, the entire army, excluding cadre regiments, was organized into a total of 17 regiments. The First Red Army Corps was reduced to 2 divisions and 6 regiments, the Third Red Army Corps was reduced to 4 regiments, and the 5th and 9th Red Army Corps were each reduced to 3 regiments. , the red 100 regiment system is still retained.
In order to strengthen the revolutionary power in southern Sichuan, the Central Revolutionary Committee sent political commissar Xu of the fifth Red Division and Yu political commissar of the Military Commission column cadres to form the southern Sichuan special committee. They led hundreds of people to establish the southern Sichuan guerrilla force of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in Shikan southeast of Tashi. , actively active in the border areas of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, supporting the main Red Army operations.
After the main force of the Red Army was transferred, the southern Sichuan guerrillas continued to fight in the local area.
"I arrived in Tashi in February. The troops were well organized and organized to develop the southern Sichuan guerrillas and expand the Red Army to more than 3,000 people."
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After the Red Army entered the Sichuan-Yunnan border, Xiaojiang also began to readjust its deployment.
Change the Hunan Army to the First Route Army and "encircle and suppress" the Second and Sixth Red Army Corps in western Hunan.
Xue Yue's regiment and the enemy forces from Yunnan and Guizhou provinces formed the Second Route Army. Long Yun was the commander-in-chief and Xue Yue was the former enemy commander-in-chief. They were in charge of 4 columns, with the 4 divisions of Wu Qiwei's department as the first column;
The four divisions of Zhou Hunyuan's department formed the second column;
The 4 brigades of Sun Du's Department of the Yunnan Army formed the third column;
The five divisions of the Guizhou Army's Wang Jiali Department formed the fourth column. Together with the Sichuan Army's Pan Cultural Department, they attempted to encircle and annihilate the Red Army in the areas south of the Yangtze River, west of Xuyong, and east of the Hengjiang River.
On February 7, Long Yun ordered the third column to advance from Zhenxiong and Bijie to Dawanzi south of Tashi;
The main forces of the first and second columns were concentrated in Qianxi and Dading (today's Dafang), and one column advanced towards Xuyong;
The fourth column stayed in Zunyi, Tongzi, Chishui and other areas east of the Chishui River.
The Sichuan Army used a force to defend Xuyong, Gusong, Xingwen, Changning and other places and along the Yangtze River and Hengjiang River to prevent the Red Army from advancing northward;
The main force advanced toward Tashi from Gaoxian, Gongxian, Changning and the areas south of it.
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Xiaojiang ordered the surrounding troops to gather around again in an attempt to eliminate the Red Army in the areas west of Xuyong, east of Hengjiang, and south of the Yangtze River.
Facing the crisis, Zhongge planned to take advantage of the fact that the enemy's attention was focused on southern Sichuan, quickly return to the east, cross Chishui, and attack the relatively empty northern Guizhou to annihilate the enemy on the move.
From crossing the Yangtze River north to establishing a base on the Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan border, and then returning to northern Guizhou, this transformation took only three or four days, which shows how rapidly the situation at that time was changing.
In order to secure victory, we must seek favorable opportunities and areas to eliminate the enemy. Under unfavorable conditions, we should reject risky battles with no certainty of victory.
Therefore, the Red Army must frequently move the combat area, sometimes to the east, sometimes to the west, sometimes on the big road, sometimes on the small road, sometimes on the old road, sometimes on the new road, and the only purpose is to win the battle under favorable conditions.
Regarding the Red Army's erratic movements, Xiaojiang was not clear about the Red Army's specific action route and its next action target, so she could only be led by the nose.
Under this situation, the Red Army suddenly transferred its troops and marched eastward. On February 18, it broke through the weak defense lines of the Guizhou Army from Taipingdu, Erlangtan and other areas, and built a pontoon bridge to cross the Chishui River eastward.
Stationed here are two regiments from the Wang Family of the Qian Army.
As we all know, the Guizhou army is a double-gunned soldier, with a rifle in one hand and a pipe in the other. Their combat effectiveness is very low.
It is precisely because of this that they have become a breakthrough.
After deciding to return to Chishui for the second time in northern Guizhou, Yang Dingguo merged his sniper company with the two assault companies, and then divided them into several groups and spread out in the direction of the Chishui River. The purpose was to find out in which direction the enemy deployment was weak, or in other words The troops stationed in that place are the Guizhou Army.
With a clear target and strong firepower, the two regiments of Wang Jialie's troops were easily defeated.
So after the large troops of the Fourth Red Regiment arrived, they didn't even see the shadow of the enemy, so they could only start building a pontoon bridge across the river.
The Fourth Red Regiment built the pontoon bridge, and the Red 100th Regiment was responsible for guarding the surrounding areas to prevent enemies from coming to destroy the erection of the pontoon bridge.
It was not until the large force of the Red 20 arrived that Yang Dingguo led the Red 100 regiment towards Loushanguan.
He would not miss the first major victory of the Red Army's Long March.
After several battles, there are still 600 soldiers of the Red 100 Regiment.
In order to facilitate command, Yang Dingguo directly divided 100 people into one company and divided it into six companies.
A sniper company, uniformly equipped with Mosin-Nagant rifles equipped with a quadruple scope, gathered the soldiers with the best marksmanship in the entire regiment.
A machine gun company with 100 light machine guns has enough firepower to suppress an enemy several times larger than itself.
Two assault companies are uniformly equipped with MP40 submachine guns.
A grenade company is divided into 10 squads, uniformly equipped with a Mosin-Nagant rifle and three grenade launchers.
The grenade is light, easy to carry, and easy to use. It can effectively draw out enemy fire points. Sometimes it can really work wonders.
The soldiers of the last company are mainly responsible for transporting ammunition and are uniformly equipped with Mosin-Nagant rifles.
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