Southern guerrilla warfare: I led the Red Seventh Army Corps to amassed a million troops.

By the time dawn broke, the 30,000-strong Second Army of the Guangdong Army had finally left the Xiamen battlefield.

They headed north, bypassing Quanzhou, and followed the Red Army's southward route, heading straight for Xianyou County.

The local garrison has withdrawn, and the Party organization has long since gone underground.

Meanwhile, in the local treasury, piles of silver ingots and dollars were stacked up like small mountains.

This is the payment that Su Yu had prepared in advance.

Since they would need some time to travel, Su Yu had ample time to inspect the goods. If the goods did not match the description, he could simply have the local Party committee hide the money.

With this local tyrant gone, Su Yu can finally unleash his full potential and get things done.

Ultimately, although the two sides are allies, they are quite wary of each other.

In order to completely wipe out the two divisions of the Nationalist Army, Su Yu conducted a two-day dragnet search, and the spoils obtained were quite pleasing.

The harvest of over 6000 rifles, more than 100 light and heavy machine guns, and 60 rounds of ammunition would have made the entire army happy for days if it had happened before the Battle of Gutian.

But in Su Yu's eyes now, this was just like eating a piece of meat, satisfying her craving, but leaving her feeling nothing.

In his eyes, this gain was not even comparable to the more than 9000 Kuomintang prisoners of war captured in this battle.

Nearly half of them were soldiers from the former Zhejiang Security Regiment. These men had received excellent military training and possessed considerable tactical skills and discipline.

After absorbing a portion of them, they can serve as the backbone of a main division, or be dispersed and distributed among 3 to 4 main divisions.

If these prisoners could be persuaded to genuinely surrender, it would at least slightly enhance the combat effectiveness of a dozen or so main regiments.

That's right, it's only a small section at most!

Once the overall strength has improved, it has become extremely difficult for the military to achieve rapid development with a single victory, as it did in the past.

Ultimately, the Red Army of the past had many shortcomings.

By addressing a weakness, a company's overall strength can be significantly enhanced.

Now that there are no particularly obvious weaknesses, we can only rely on perseverance to gradually improve our combat effectiveness.

Of course, this conclusion is based on the premise that the victory is a regular one.

This glorious victory in defeating the Second Army of the Guangdong Army and annihilating the newly formed 10th Army of the National Revolutionary Army was certainly extraordinary.

What's most unusual is that Chen Jitang stockpiled 3 million rounds of ammunition, 300 mortar shells, 2000 Mauser G98 rifles, and 200 Czech-made light machine guns produced by the Guangdong Arsenal in the arsenals around Tong'an.

There are also some medicines and small mechanical equipment.

To secure this big deal, Lao Chen even used up a portion of his strategic reserves.

Especially after learning that the Red Army had suffered severe losses of mortar shells in the various battles, they devoted all their efforts to replenish them, almost to the point of selling their hearts and blood.

It can be said that, apart from the ammunition of the front-line troops and the front-line armories, the ammunition depots in other places were basically open to selling, and they could be said to be able to meet almost any demand.

He himself was reluctant to part with those German-made Mauser rifles, only equipping a small number of them to his elite troops.

Of the more than 1 imported units, more than half are still in our hands.

I heard that the Red Army wanted to find a batch of high-precision, high-quality 79mm caliber rifles to equip their veteran elite marksmen.

The thought of the Red Army veterans frantically firing at Kuomintang officers made him grit his teeth and sell a portion of his troops to the Red Army.

Making money is one thing.

But for the Red Army and Chen Jitang at this moment, money became a secondary matter.

Making money is nothing compared to tripping up a bald guy.

With such a rich spoils, the newly established Southern Fujian Military Region will soon have its own independent division.

Su Yu led his troops south and quickly captured Zhangzhou, Zhangpu, Nanjing, Pinghe, Yunxiao and other counties. His army swept across southeastern Fujian, and except for the islands of Xiamen and Kinmen, the rest of the counties surrendered without resistance.

The various units of the Red Army captured counties at a rapid pace and eventually reached the border between Fujian and Guangdong.

Fighting and expanding his army along the way, Su Yu's two divisions each grew to over 1 men.

The Southern Fujian Soviet Area became the only base area that was able to completely drive out the surrounding Kuomintang reactionaries.

The local Party committee immediately mobilized the masses to fight against local tyrants, distribute land, build militia forces, and encourage people to join the army.

The county party committees organized independent regiments by relying on local guerrilla forces.

In the short span of just over ten days since the Red Army marched into southern Fujian, more than a dozen independent regiments have been established there.

The number ranges from four or five hundred to over a thousand, and it is still rising rapidly.

Su Yu transferred some key personnel from the 11th Red Army to stay in the local area to help train the troops, and applied for more military cadres from the Fujian-Zhejiang Soviet Area to come and provide support.

He only realized upon arriving in southeastern Fujian that it was completely different from northeastern Fujian.

The local food, textile, and handicraft industries are highly developed, forming a light industrial cluster centered around Xiamen and Quanzhou.

Ample fiscal revenue, sufficient material resources, and a sizable working class enabled the military to expand at an astonishing pace.

For a time, the southern Fujian region was filled with a vibrant scene of life and everything flourishing.

This trend, along with the Red Army's ranks, continued to spread to the surrounding areas.

It has even spread to the northeastern part of Guangdong!

But Chen Jitang remained indifferent to this. Since he had decided to act, he would naturally play the whole game.

It doesn't make sense that the Red Army swept through southern Fujian but didn't enter Guangdong!

At this time, losing a battle is more useful than winning one!

Anyway, the lost weapons and equipment could be converted into cash, so he didn't lose anything.

Selling off a batch of weapons produced in Guangdong and clearing out the inventory would give us money to order more machines from Germany. Why not?

Moreover, they could use their cries of distress to refuse some troop mobilization orders, thus preventing too many forces from being transferred to the battlefield to encircle and suppress the main force of the Red Army.

Anyway, the one in Nanchang is currently unable to spare any attention. Once he can, Chen Jitang will announce a great victory in northeastern Guangdong, stating that all Red Army forces within the province have been wiped out and that no support from friendly forces is needed.

Old Chen once said: "Fighting the Red Army is a losing proposition. If we lose, the Central Army will come to Guangdong to help suppress the bandits, and then Guangdong will belong to the Central Army."

But even if they won, it wouldn't be enough; they would be severely weakened, and then the Central Army would have to come to Guangdong to "help" pacify the region. The Guangdong army was already exhausted and wounded, unable to resist, and Guangdong would still belong to the Central Army.

Ideally, you should neither win nor lose!

As for how to avoid winning or losing, it's very simple: if you don't fight, there will be no winning or losing.

Anyway, Chen Jitang felt like he had won big!

Su Yu also felt like she had won big!

Huang Ligui, who had just been appointed as the commander of the Southern Fujian Military Region, was overjoyed when he heard about this good news.