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Yang Fan also held a week-long mobilization meeting for cadres above the regiment in Changsha.

At the meeting, the instructions of the Military Commission on the march to the southwest were conveyed and implemented, and the mobilization and study of the march in the southwest were carried out.

Yang Fan, as the commander of the legion, came to the meeting in person and made a mobilization report on his march to the southwest.

Yang Fan stood on the podium of the former Changsha Provincial Council Auditorium. His trembling spirit, powerful arm swing and strong and loud voice showed the demeanor of a general.

Comrades! ...The time is ripe for us to march to the southwest!"

After Yang Fan talked about the decision-making of the Military Commission and the great significance of entering the southwest, he took a sip of tea, put his hands to his waist, and asked in a funny voice, "Do you know what Yuan Shikai is most afraid of?"

So, the comrades under the stage talked about it one after another.

Yang Fan paused for a moment, and then waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet. He stretched out his hand, pulled his finger and said, "Yuan Shikai is most afraid that our national revolutionary army will change his life!" At present, our army has liberated Hunan, and now we are going to march to the southwest. Clean up the little fish and shrimp behind us, and we will kill him! Yuan Shikai's life is not long!"

"It changed Yuan Shikai's life!"

"Kone the revolution to the end!"

A burst of joy at the bottom!

Yang Fan said again: "Everyone sees that the brother troops are going north, but we are going south. Many people think that there is no big battle to fight when they go south. You may have some opinions. Let me tell you, it is not easy to walk on the road to participate in the march to the southwest. At that time, we will have to solve the problem of hundreds of thousands of troops. This is also a big battle, a bad battle! At that time, you will eat meat, eat bones, and drink soup. Don't spoil it!"

The war madmen roared again.

Yang Fan continued: "The southwest is the key to our abdomen and back. We must be prepared with practical actions and protect our key points with victory!"

"All the fighters carry forward the spirit of hard work and not afraid of sacrifice, and completely eliminate the reactionaries in the southwest."

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Yuezhou, the 3rd Corps is stationed.

After the battle meeting of Changsha's march to the southwest, Chen Xiaochun, the commander of the 3rd Corps, hurried back to the headquarters of the Corps to convey the spirit of the meeting.

Chen Xiaochun is one of the very young commanders among the regiment-level cadres. In Li Xiang's group, such young senior generals are everywhere, and Li Xiang himself, who holds the power of the five provinces, is even more young.

Since participating in Wuchang in 1911, more than two years of the test of gunfire, the edification of gunfire, and gunfire, and the speed of Dongfeng rocket-like speed have forged this farmer's children from the barren mountainous area of Xiangxi, Hunan into a senior commander of the National Revolutionary Army and a general under the command of Li Xiang.

At this time, the regiment commander who led tens of thousands of troops was only 28 years old.

After returning to the headquarters of the Corps, Chen Xiaochun immediately held a combat meeting with the military commanders and division commanders to convey the instructions of the military commanders and study the specific operational deployment of the Corps.

Chen Xiaochun first introduced the tasks assigned to the regiment by the head of the army, and then he talked about his opinions on carrying out the tasks of his superiors: "In order to complete the tasks assigned to us by the commander, I think we should first organize the troops to enter the assembly area secretly. After completing various preparations, we will cooperate with the 47th Army to suddenly The operation launched an attack, resolutely occupied the Qianjiang River, Xiushan, Youyang, Pengshui and other areas in Sichuan, opened the door to the east of Sichuan and liberated Chongqing. After that, he participated in the battle of the city, gathered and annihilated Chen eunuchs, and eliminated the remnants of Sichuan's enemies. Judging from the above situation, the task undertaken by our corps is both glorious and arduous. According to the geographical conditions, the terrain in eastern Sichuan is dangerous, the roads are rugged, and the rivers are crisscrossed, which is not convenient for the operation of the regiment. Especially in the direction of our attack, there are heavy troops guarded by Huanghu. Therefore, whether our regiment can unexpectedly open the access to Sichuan is related to the process of the whole southwest war situation. At present, the most urgent thing is to do a good job in mobilization, overcome greed and enjoyment, establish the concept of hardships and hardships, and ensure that you will immediately go to the war zone with an order.

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Xiangtan, the station of the 5th Corps.

In the cold of the winter, the enlarged meeting of the Party Committee of the 5th Corps is being held. The topic of the meeting was to convey the southwest operational order of the revolutionary army and study the operational deployment of the regiment.

Yang Kun, the commander of the Corps, is the same young man. He participated in the Wuchang Shouyi in 1911. He successively served as the commander of the company, battalion, regiment and division. In just two years, he was quickly promoted to the commander of the regiment. He was a brave and good general under Li Xiang.

He introduced the tasks entrusted to the regiment by the field army in concise and clear language: "according to the deployment of the leader, our regiment will be secretly gathered in Shaoyang, Hunan Province in October, and then go straight out of Guizhou, capture Guiyang 20 days ago, and cut off the contact between Hu Zongnan and Bai Chongxi Group. After that, we will pass through the main force. Entering Sichuan, cooperate with the 3rd Corps to liberate the whole Sichuan; at the same time, our Corps is also responsible for operating Guizhou.

After the commander introduced the intention of his superiors, the commanders present talked about their views on the mission of entering Guizhou.

The commander of the 16th Army said, "This march to Guizhou, I think the article is mainly on the legs, and the battle is second. From Shangrao to Xiangxi, thousands of miles away is also a secret march, which needs to be carefully planned.

Then, the commander and political commissar of the 17th Army suggested: "In the face of a large amount of local work after entering Guizhou, the army must carry out urban policy among cadres and soldiers. Policies and education of ethnic minorities in the new district, otherwise, we will find it difficult for us to afford the local administrative work in the new district.

In order to ensure the completion of the mission of marching to the southwest, the former committee of the Changsha Legion not only focused on the specific deployment of the marching operations, but also studied the strengthening of ideological and political education of the army, strengthening the logistical support of the army, the work of the new area and the work of ethnic minorities.

The former committee decided that in terms of ideological education, while carrying out marching mobilization, all units will hold a party representative meeting with regiments or divisions as units to effectively solve various ideological problems; in terms of material security, vigorously organize and strengthen the logistics of the march, strengthen the education of the new area grain borrowing policy, and carry out personnel. Healthy exercise.

According to the instructions of the former committee, the troops focused on the education of carrying out the revolution to the end. In addition, they also carried out political education on rural policies, tong war policies, ethnic policies and urban policies in new areas. Turn to the march mobilization, repeatedly explain the significance of the march to the southwest, introduce the favorable conditions and possible difficulties of the march, and organize mass discussion to find a solution to the problem.

At the same time, the troops hold a party representative meeting with the regiment or division or the army as a unit to fully carry forward democracy, carry out criticism and self-criticism, overcome and correct the bad tendencies of some cadres such as pride, lack of overall concept and unorganization and discipline, which greatly improves the class awareness of the army, especially cadres. The policy level has strengthened the confidence and determination of the troops to march into the southwest and build the southwest, and laid a solid ideological foundation for completing the task of marching into the southwest.

At the same time, the troops also carried out tactical training in mountain, river, rice field operations, etc., and held a grand military flag award ceremony with regiments or divisions as units.

With the unified planning of the Central Military Commission and the strong support of the major strategic regions, the personnel of the troops have been supplemented. Artillery, engineers, especially the logistics leading agencies and their transportation units, military stations, health and other departments have been greatly strengthened, and funds, shoes, cotton-padded clothing and other military materials have been distributed to the troops in a timely manner.

In addition, 800 cadres above the county party committee and more than 4,000 district and village cadres were transferred to recruit nearly 10,000 students and young workers in Wuhan, and marched westward with the army to prepare for the needs of opening up local work in the southwest.

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When the main force of the Yangfan Army of Hunan gathered in western Hunan and Hubei, the 60th, 61st and 62nd Armies of the 18th Corps led by Liu Jing and the 7th Army of Hanzhong were also prepared to go south to Sichuan. After education and full preparation, the army was in high spirits and wrote letters to fight one after another, saying that they were determined to fight the First World War to liberate Sichuan.

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Signed by Yang Fan and Tan Renfeng, the Changsha Command issued the Basic Order of Marching to Sichuan and Guizhou.

The command is as follows:

1. The enemy situation is like the headquarters's comprehensive report on the enemy in the southwest.

2. The task of the main force of our army (except the 4 corps) is to attack Guiyang and the southeast of Sichuan. With a large roundabout action, it will first attack the enemies in the Yibin, Huxian and Jiangjin belt and control the north of the above-mentioned areas, so that the enemies of the first mixed brigade of the Sichuan army, Huanghu and Chongqing and other places will be completely isolated from the eastern region of Sichuan, and then gather and annihilate these enemies, or Use political methods to solve it, so as to cooperate with our army in northern Sichuan to solve the whole Sichuan problem one by one.

3. The operational deployment of each unit: (1) The 5th Corps and the attached artillery regiment and an engineering battalion should arrive at the line of Wugang and Xiangtan before the 10th of this month, strive to make up for the cotton-padded clothes in 10 days, and capture Guiyang and Qianxi before the 20th of this month, and then retain the Guiyang area with an army to capture and suppress bandits, maintain traffic and soldiers. The main force of the regiment should attack the enemy from Yibin to Naxi before the 10th of next month and cooperate with the 3rd Corps.

(2) The 3rd Corps, with the 9th Regiment of Special Artillery and an engineering battalion, should reach the first line of Changde and Jiangling before the 10th of this month, strive to make up the cotton-padded clothes in 10 days to half months, and capture Zunyi, Pengshui and Qianjiang before the 20th of this month. After that, it is divided into an army to control Xianfeng, Qianjiang and Pengshui to monitor and contain Fu. In addition to the standby battle, the main force of the regiment should attack the enemy from Huxian to Jiangjin on the 10th of next month and cooperate with the 5 regiments.

(3) After crossing the river and capturing the Yibin to Jiangjin area, we should take the opportunity to capture the line from Fushun to Bishan, and adjust the team situation, effectively investigate and grasp all aspects of the situation, and prepare for the next step.

(4) Take Yuanling, Sinan, Zunyi, Huxian and Rongchang as the dividing line between the two regiments. The line belongs to the 3rd Corps.

(5) The 3rd and 5th Corps shall make more specific deployments according to the above guidelines and the actual situation, and report to the headquarters for reference.

(6) Except for the three heavy artillery regiments and one engineering regiment assigned to each regiment, the rest will be on standby in the garden area before the 3rd of this month.

4. The headquarters is scheduled to move near Changde at the end of this month, and the location will be temporarily determined later. This is a basic order, and then it will be changed according to the situation.

The above combat deployment has been approved by the Military Commission.