You should know that at that time, there were only three Red Army in the country, namely the First Red Army ( Central Red Army ), the Second Red Army, and the Fourth Red Army. At that time, the Red Fourth Front Army was brutal baptized by the revolutionary struggle. In terms of number of people, troops, combat effectiveness, and scale of the Soviet area were no less than that of the Central Soviet Area. Even after the Battle of Xiangjiang River, the total number of Red Fourth Front Army was far higher than that of the Red Fourth Front Army.
The reason why the Red Fourth Front Army achieved such outstanding achievements is inseparable from the key figure Chen Changhao. During his study in Sun Yat-sen University in the Soviet Union, Chen Changhao focused on military and political knowledge, and put what he learned into practice after returning to China. He is not only a good at interning in politics, but also has unique insights and extraordinary courage in war.
One of the main founders of the Red Fourth Front Army, Ni Zhiliang is a military general with a hot temper and domineering style. Everyone in the army fears him like a tiger. He is a veritable tiger general .
But there is such a person, and he is always polite whenever he sees Chen Changhao. Once, Ni Zhiliang, who was fighting on the front line, received a call from Chen Changhao. Because the sound was extremely noisy, Ni Zhiliang didn't hear who was calling, so he started to curse.
Chen Changhao immediately rushed into Ni Zhiliang's command post without saying a word and shouted loudly:
"Ni Zhiliang, Ni Zhiliang, you are so brave, even you dare to scold me!" When Ni Zhiliang saw that he was scolding Chen Changhao, he was frightened immediately and quickly shrank his head and admitted his mistake: "Comrade Political Commissar, I was wrong, I was wrong, I didn't know that it was you who called just now."
Chen Changhao not only has a way of governing the army, but also does not carelessly in fighting wars. In 1931, the Fourth Red Army of the Red Army had been unable to capture Huang'an City for a long time. Chen Changhao took the captured "Lenin" plane and threw the bomb and leaflet from high altitude into the Huang'an city, which made the enemy lose their courage. The enemy's psychological defense line collapsed immediately, and our army took Huang'an in one fell swoop.
It is precisely because Chen Changhao has performed extremely well in both political work and military affairs that he has a very prominent position in the Red Fourth Front Army and his military power is unparalleled.
Chen Changhao is rare, but unfortunately he is very close to Zhang Guotao in politics. Unlike Xu Xiangqian who always follows the central government, Chen Changhao basically exists to maintain Zhang's authority. Therefore, in the "grassland division", when Chen Changhao and Xu Xiangqian had already led the right army to Sichuan and Brazil to continue north, Zhang Guotao's secret telegram made his original determination to follow the Red Army headquarters north, and then Chen Changhao led his army south and made irreversible mistakes from then on.
However, Chen Changhao's mistake was far from over. After the defeat in the Western Expedition, Chen Changhao and Xu Xiangqian both begged along the way and escaped. However, after Xu Xiangqian came out of the battlefield, he immediately went straight to Yan'an to "carry the thorns and apologize" while Chen Changhao ran back to his hometown in Wuhan to spend several months with his family before returning to Yan'an.
It was precisely because he committed these two irreversible adverse effects that Chen Changhao, after returning to Yan'an, did not find it difficult to enter the core level of decision-making. At this time, his gastric ulcer became more and more serious, so he had no choice but to ask for treatment in the Soviet Union.
It’s just a coincidence that shortly after he came to the Soviet Union, the Soviet-German War broke out in 1941, and Chen Changhao was urgently evacuated to a small town in the Central Asian Republic of Asia called Kokanga. Due to the loss of shelter and the loss of contact with the organization, Chen Changhao had to go to a quarry in the Soviet Union to make a living by working hard labor. During
, he wrote letters to the country many times, hoping to return to China to participate in the war, but he was like a mud bull entering the sea and no news was heard from him. It was not until , after the founding of in New China, that Chen Changhao did not return to China with the help of , Cai Chang, and at this time, things had changed, which is a pity.
