On July 1930, the Second Corps of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army joined forces with the Fourth Army of Xiangxi Red Army (later renamed as the Second Army of the Red Army) and the Sixth Army of Hubei Red Army, and joined forces in Hubei Gongan County (now Nanping). He Long served as the commander-in-chief, and Zhou Yiqun served as the secretary of the front committee and political commissar (later Deng Zhongxia). 1931March, the Second Red Army Corps was reduced to the Third Red Army Corps in Zhizheping, Changyang County, Hubei Province. He Long as commander, Deng Zhongxia as political commissar. 1934 in may, the red 3 army entered the eastern part of Guizhou province, opening up the eastern Guizhou Soviet area. The Sixth Corps of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army was jointly organized by the Red First Army 17 Division in Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet Area and the Red First Army 18 Division in Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet Area in June 1933, under the unified command of Xiao Ke, the division commander of 17 Division, and Cai Huiwen, the political commissar. At the beginning of August, 1934, the Red 6 Army Corps set out from suichuan county in the Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet Area and moved to central Hunan. On June 1 1, he entered Zhaiqianwei in Guidong County and formally established the leading body of the Legion, with Xiao Ke as the head and Wang Zhen as the political commissar. In June 5438+10, the Red 6 Army Corps arrived in eastern Guizhou. On the 24th, he joined forces with the Red 3 Army in Huang Mu, Yinjiang County. The Red 3 Army resumed the Red 2 Corps designation, with He Long as the head and political commissar. The 7th and 9th Divisions were renamed the 4th and 6th Divisions. The Red 6 Army Corps is still headed by Xiao Ke, and the political commissar is Wang Zhen. 17 and 18 divisions were reduced to three regiments. At this time, the Red 2 Corps has more than 4,400 people and the Red 6 Corps has more than 3,300 people. Join the dragon, appoint and divide the two soldiers. In order to cooperate with the strategic shift of the Central Red Army, the Red Army Corps and the Red Army Corps launched an offensive in Xiangxi at the end of 10, and successively captured Dayong (now Zhangjiajie), Sangzhi, Taoyuan and other counties, and established the Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Soviet Area centered on Yongshun, Dayong and Sangzhi. 165438+ 10, the Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Provincial Committee was established, and the Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Revolutionary Committee and the Military Region were established simultaneously. He served as secretary of the provincial party Committee and political commissar of the military region, and He Long served as chairman and commander of the Revolutionary Committee. Expanding the troops, the two divisions of the Red 2 Corps were expanded from 4 regiments to 6 regiments with more than 6,500 people. The Red 6 Corps resumed the organizational structure of 17 and 18 divisions, and expanded from three regiments to five regiments with more than 5,200 people. Local armed forces have grown to more than 3,000 people.
After the offensive in Xiangxi, Chiang Kai-shek urgently mobilized more than 80 regiments of Kuomintang troops to launch a "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Soviet area of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou in six ways. On February 1935 and 1 day, according to the telegram of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, the Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Branch of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission was established to command the Red Army Corps and the Red Army Corps in a unified way. He Long, Ren, Xia, Xiao Ke, are members, and He Long is the chairman. From February to August, the Red Army Corps and the Red Army Corps won battles in Chenjiahe, Taozixi, Bao Zhong, Chestnut Garden and Bajiaotuo, and wiped out two divisions, 1 division and 1 brigade of the Kuomintang Army.
In September, the Kuomintang army mobilized the 130 regiment to launch a new "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Soviet area of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou. According to the decision of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou provincial party committees and military commission branches, the Red 6 Army Corps 18 Division stayed in the Soviet area to persist in the struggle (then joined the main force in Dongjiangkou area of Guizhou), and the main force of the Red 2 and Red 6 Army Corps started from Sangzhi area on 1 19 to implement the strategic shift. Before the transfer, the 5th Division and16th Division were formed by local armed forces and incorporated into the Red 2 and Red 6 Legions respectively. At this time, the two legions * * * 17000 people. The Red Army Corps and the Red Army Corps first went south to central Hunan, captured Xinhua, then moved to southern Hunan, entered Guizhou Province in the west, and reached Shiqian area. 1February, 936, it is planned to establish a Soviet area in Guizhou (west) and expand the army by more than 5,000 people. Due to the heavy pursuit of the Kuomintang army, it entered Wumeng Mountain in the west and moved to Yiliang and Kuixiang areas. After that, it crossed the defense line of Dian army between Zhaotong and Weining, went out of Xuanwei in the south and entered the Panjiang area in the north and south. In late March, the Kuomintang army, which got rid of the stern chase, set out from Panxian County, crossed Jinsha River from Shigu and Judian on April 25 ~ 27, and crossed Yulong Snow Mountain into Zhongdian. On June 3rd, the Hongliu Army joined forces with the 32nd Army of the Red Fourth Front Army (formerly the 9th Army of the Red First Army) in Jiawa, south of Physicochemical (now Litang). On June 30th, the Red Second Army Corps joined forces with the 30th Army of the Red Fourth Army in Rongbacha, Ganzi County, Xikang Province (now Sichuan Province). On July 2, the Red Second and Red Sixth Army Corps assembled in Ganzi area and joined forces with the main force of the Red Fourth Army. ?