In June 1935, the First Red Front Army and the First Red Front Army successfully met in Maogong, Sichuan. However, after this meeting, Zhang Guotao relied on his strong troops and took the initiative to ask the Central Committee for office. The Central Committee also appointed Zhang Guotao as the General Political Commissar of the Red Army from the perspective of unity. However, Zhang Guotao was still obsessed with it and continued to lead the Fourth Red Front Army southward and openly split the Red Army.
Today we are talking about is also a member of the Red Fourth Front Army, and he chose to follow Zhang Guotao to the south, served as deputy chief of staff and chief of staff of the Red Fourth Front Army, and was a senior general of the Red Fourth Front Army. On the way to the Long March , this man also chased Chairman Mao with a gun and spoke rudely to Chairman Mao. He is Lite . So, what story does Li Te have?
Li Te was born in 1902, from Huoqiu, Anhui. In his early years, Li Te followed his father to Hunan and received an education in Changsha. He was calm and had good academic performance. In 1921, Li Te was admitted to the preparatory class of , Tangshan Jiaotong University, and became a senior intellectual in that era. While studying at Tangshan Jiaotong University, Li Te actively participated in the workers' movement, which attracted the attention of the party organization. During that period, the party organization also intentionally absorbed intellectuals. In 1924, Li Te was selected by the organization and sent to study in the Soviet Union.
Li Te's original name is not Li Te, but Tsui Hark-hoon. He is thin and small. During his study in the Soviet Union, his classmates often teased him for his height and called him "Little" and said he was thin. Li Te didn't care and changed his name directly to the homonym of "Little".
In 1930, Li Te returned to China from the Soviet Union and was assigned to the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area soon after. During that period, Li Te did a lot of basic work for the development and growth of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area, especially after the establishment of the Red Fourth Front Army, Li Te served as the deputy chief of staff of the Red Fourth Front Army, and led his troops to participate in the previous anti-"encirclement and suppression" of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area and the development of the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area, and followed the Red Fourth Front Army to participate in the Long March.
After the Red First Front Army met with the Red Fourth Front Army, Li Te was transferred to the Red Army University and served as the Education Director of the Red Army University. During that period, Zhang Guotao openly split the Red Army and insisted on going south after the troops arrived at Aba. Chairman Mao and other leaders of the Central Red Army held a special meeting to analyze Zhang Guotao's behavior. After discussion at the meeting, they unanimously agreed that they should not go south, but continue to go north to fight against Japan.
It should be noted that after the Red First Front Army and the Red Fourth Front Army met, Red Fifth Army and the Red Ninth Army were both transferred to the Red Fourth Front Army. The Red First Army was heading towards Gannan . Only Red Third Army remained with Chairman Mao and other central Red Army leaders. After that, Chairman Mao made a quick decision and led the Red Third Army and the Red Army University to set off overnight and continue northward.
Zhang Guotao soon learned that the Central Red Army went north, but he disagreed with it. However, Chen Changhao, the general political commissar of the Red Fourth Front Army, was dissatisfied with this. He knew that Li Te was the chief of education at the Red Army University, so he sent a telegram to Li Te, asking Li Te to stop the Red Third Army that went north. Li Te also faithfully carried out Chen Changhao's orders and chased the Red Third Army away with a gun. After stopping the Red Third Army, Li Te also spoke rudely to Chairman Mao, saying that Chairman Mao and others "flee north and surrender to imperialism." At the same time, Li Te also called the team "a lackey of the Soviet Union" and "bring the team to the Soviet Union."
Li Te rode his horse to beat the Red Fourth Front Army cadres while saying, "Don't go north with the opportunist people, go south to eat rice." Chairman Mao was right to Li Te, and Li Te didn't say much, but led the cadres who originally belonged to the Red Fourth Front Army to the south, so Chairman Mao was able to continue to lead the team north and successfully arrive in northern Shaanxi. On the other hand, Li Te and his friends suffered huge losses after going south, and later they were forced to go north and did not meet with the Central Red Army until October 1936.
Li Te's fate later was also very miserable. After the failure of Western Route Army, he traveled to Xinjiang and was killed by Wang Ming on the charge of "Trotskyist".
