Author: Wu Zhidongxu
" Chen Yi is a traitor, he must be executed!"
In late October 1937, a meeting against Chen Yi was underway in Ganzishan guerrilla base. Tan Yubao, a political commissar of the Hunan-Jiangxi border guerrillas, said passionately.
Tan Yubao continued, "Comrades, please express your opinions."
Suddenly, there were sounds of killing in the venue:
"Treason, kill!"
"Terror, kill!"
"Terror, kill!"
"You can't be ruthless to the traitors, kill!"
At that time, Chen Yi was tied up by five flowers and tied up on the bamboo pole outside the bamboo shed, and his life was hanging on a thread.
Among the top ten marshals, only Chen Yi insisted on guerrilla warfare in .
Therefore, the life and death disasters that Chen Yi experienced are rare among old coaches.
During the three-year guerrilla war in the south, Chen Yi was in danger five times, and each time was thrilling and in danger.
The most dangerous time was when Chen Yi was ordered to go down the mountain to pick up the comrades sent by his superiors.
At that time, the Southern guerrillas lost contact with their superiors for two years, and were overjoyed when they heard about it.
Who knew that the superiors did not send anyone at all. It was the traffic officer who betrayed and released fake news and colluded with Jiang Jun , intending to kill all the guerrillas in one place.
Chen Yi and another comrade were ordered to go down the mountain to pick up the "representative" of the superiors, and went to a farmer's house to ask for water for drinks on the way.
It is a coincidence that the people are the home of traitors.
His wife accidentally spoke a dialect, which made Chen Yi misunderstand and felt that danger was imminent, so he returned immediately.
On the way back, the enemy has sent a large army up the mountain.
The sentry fired a gun when they found out. Xiang Ying, Yang Shangkui, Chen Pixian and the guards heard the guns and immediately picked up the gun and walked out of the station, and drilled into the thatch.
Chen Yi was lying in the grass on the side of the road, not daring to move.
However, the angry enemy began to burn the mountain, and the raging fire was about to burn to the place where Chen Yi was hiding.
Chen Yi was very lucky. At this time, the sky suddenly became cloudy. After a while, lightning and thunder were roaring, and heavy rain poured out, extinguishing the fire. Chen Yi escaped.
After half a year, Chen Yi was in danger again: the one who wanted to kill him this time was his own comrade.
So, why did the guerrilla political commissar say that Chen Yi is a traitor, and how did he escape this disaster?
As we all know, after the Xi'an Incident, Jiang was forced to stop "encirclement and suppression" and form a united front to fight against Japan. Red Army must accept the adaptation and go to the front line of the anti-Japanese war.
The Red Army in the north are in contact with the headquarters, and there are no obstacles to the adaptation.
It is quite difficult to adapt the armed forces in the south. There were many twists and turns and even dangerous situations during the adaptation process.
After the Red Army started the Long March , guerrillas in southern provinces had been missing from their headquarters for more than two years.
They were blocked on the mountain by Chiang army, and they could not even see the newspapers, and there was no radio station. They knew nothing about what happened outside.
includes the incident where Zhang Yang detained Jiang's family during the Xi'an Incident and cooperated to fight against Japan for the second time, which they had never heard of.
Moreover, in the ten years after the establishment of the Red Army, especially the three years after the guerrillas were in the south, the Red Army was hunted by Chiang Kai-shek's army and formed a bloody hatred.
So, when they heard the news that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began to cooperate, one was unbelievable, and the other was unacceptable.
There are many guerrilla leaders who can't turn their minds. They believe that the Red Army and the Jiang family have irreconcilable hatred. Now they accept the adaptation and "unification of Jiang to fight against Japan" means surrender, which is like Song Jiang from Liangshan, who fell into the trap of the enemy.
Not only did the guerrilla cadres not understand, but the Red Army soldiers even cried when they heard the news.
They said: The five-pointed star and the "twelve-pointed star" (Cheng Jun's cap badge) have fought for ten years. Now they are suddenly going to take off the five-pointed star and replace it with the "blue sky and white sun". What is this not surrender?
Therefore, they do not believe that the organization will make such a decision and firmly refuse to go down the mountain to accept "recruitment".
Chen Yi was tied up, and the guerrilla political commissar claimed that he would be executed, which happened in this context.
In late October 1937, Chen Yi came to Hunan-Jiangxi Border Guerrilla Zone in Jiulong Mountain, Hunan to convey instructions.
At that time, Chen Yi sprained his ankle and couldn't walk, so he sat on a sedan chair and went up the mountain.
The steeper the mountain road, the denser the forests, and the mountain roads are becoming more and more difficult to walk.
was walking when a sudden sound of "Stop!" was like a thunderclap sounding on the flat ground.
Immediately afterwards, a man jumped out of the tree beside the road, holding a gun in his hand, pulled the bolt up, yelling, "Don't move, who are you?"
Chen Yi asked the sedan chairman to fall into the sedan chair, walked out of the sedan chair, and said to the man, "I came from Ji'an , and I have something to do with you leaders up the mountain."
The man asked vigilantly, "Is there a letter of introduction?"
Chen Yi took out the letter of introduction written by the person in charge Xiang Ying from his arms and handed it to the man.
The man didn't read the letter after receiving it because he didn't know the words at all.
He directly took Chen Yi up the mountain and brought him to Duan Huanjing and Liu Peishan, the heads of the guerrilla detachment.
Chen Yi patiently told them about the current situation and the anti-Japanese united front policy.
But after talking for a long time, there was no effect. The two of them said firmly: "We only obey Comrade Tan Yubao's leadership, and no one can say it."
Tan Yubao, a native of Chaling County, Hunan Province, was elected vice chairman and minister of finance of the Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet Union in 1932.
After the Red Army failed in its fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression", the Red Sixth Army fought westward with . He was ordered to stay on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi to continue the struggle.
Tan Yubao
In July 1935, Tan Yubao was elected as the temporary secretary of Hunan and Jiangxi and chairman of the Military and Political Committee and the political commissar of the Hunan and Jiangxi Guerrilla Command.
In an extremely difficult environment, he restored and developed the organizations in the surrounding areas, increasing the guerrillas from 3 brigades to 4 brigades and 1 tutoring team.
Therefore, Tan Yubao has a high prestige, and it is not difficult to understand that the guerrillas only obey his command.
Hearing Duan Huanjing say this, Chen Yi asked them to send himself to Tan Yubao.
Chen Yi felt that Tan Yubao was the head of the guerrilla team and had a high awareness. It would be no problem to explain the policies to him.
Unexpectedly, when he arrived at Tan Yubao, he was treated as a traitor and almost killed.
When the Hunan-Jiangxi Guerrilla Detachment sent someone to send Chen Yi to Ganzishan, where the Hunan-Jiangxi Provisional Provincial Committee was located, everyone agreed that Chen Yi was a "traitor".
Hunan-Jiangxi Provisional Provincial Party Committee Secretary and guerrilla political commissar Tan Yubao held a meeting in a bamboo shed to discuss how to deal with Chen Yi.
Result Most people said that Chen Yi should be executed.
After Chen Yi heard the earth-shaking shouts of killing inside outside the bamboo shed, he shouted loudly: "You can't kill, you can't kill; kill me, you will make a big mistake!"
However, the person in charge of the guerrillas was so excited, how could he listen?
The next morning, the guerrillas held a public trial meeting on a clearing in the woods. The atmosphere at the venue was solemn, and the eyes of most comrades in the provincial party committee and the guerrillas showed deep hostility towards Chen Yi.
Tan Yubao said sternly: "Chen Yi, when you were in Jinggangshan, you gave a report to teach us to be determined in the revolution. Why do you forget the original intention of betraying the revolution now?"
Chen Yi said loudly: " Party Constitution clearly stipulates that subordinates obey superiors, you should take the overall situation into consideration and obey the organization."
Tan Yubao interrupted Chen Yi: "It is precisely because I am a party member that I decided to go to the end of the revolution. I will not cooperate with the Jiang army and the Jiang family. Unlike some people who cannot endure hardships and seek wealth and glory."
Chen Yi said angrily after hearing this: "I can't endure hardships? It's a joke! I, Chen Yi, suffered no less than you, and I have experienced more disasters than anyone else. "
Chen Yi then faced the venue and said affectionately: "Comrades, just last winter, I was besieged by the enemy's 46th Division in the Meishan Guerrilla Base Area. The siege lasted for nearly a month."
"At that time, I was injured and had a fever. I hid in the bushes for more than 20 days. I thought I could not get out this time, so I wrote three poems to keep it under my clothes. "
Then, Chen Yi recited:
"What do you think about being cut off today? There are many difficulties in starting a business.This time, I went to Quantai to recruit old subordinates, and the flags were 100,000 to kill Yan Luo... After that, I worked harder, and good news came as paper money... Today's affairs are made, and freedom flowers are planted everywhere in the world. "
After listening to Chen Yi's poem, the guerrillas' eyes were wet, and the venue was silent.
Tan Yubao was unmoved and broke the silence and said, "It is because of the hardship that you want to betrayal? It's outrageous. I have to shoot you today, otherwise the morale of the army will be shaken by you. "
Chen Yi said angrily: "Tan Yubao, don't use shooting to scare people. I, Chen Yi, would not come out to make a revolution if I am afraid of death. I have seen the Chiang army's tricks for a lot. "
" If you don't believe me, please send someone to Ji'an and go to Yan'an to inquire! "
" If you are still a Communist Party member, you can't shoot me. If you shoot me, it will only make Jiang happy. Unless you are a bandit, you will do this! You shoot, shoot? "
Chen Yi did this and instead calmed down Tan Yubao, his mind began to calm down.
It turned out that the person who shouted "kill" loudly understood Chen Yi's words and no longer responded.
But Tan Yubao was a tried-and-tested party soldier after all, and was afraid of being fooled by the enemy. Although he did not kill Chen Yi, he did not let him go.
Tan Yubao followed Chen Yi's advice and sent a correspondent to the foot of the mountain to fight Listen.
At this time, the New Fourth Army had been officially formed, and Ji'an had a contact office for the New Fourth Army.
Here, the correspondent got the supporting materials that proved that Chen Yi was the representative of the New Fourth Army.
When Tan Yubao got these materials, he woke up as if he was dreaming.
He loosened Chen Yi with his own hands, held the other party's hand and said regretfully: "Comrade Chen Yi, I am too reckless, almost made a big mistake and delayed the big thing. "
Then, he made another amazing move, asking his subordinates to tie him up and ask Chen Yi to deal with it.
Chen Yi quickly stepped forward and loosened his ties, holding Tan Yubao's hand tightly and said, "Comrade Tan Yubao, you are very fighting and highly vigilant, which means you are very responsible, and you should be like this. "
A misunderstanding quickly disappeared, and Tan Yubao and Duan Huanjing quickly took the guerrillas down the mountain to accept the adaptation.
Despite this, it also makes people feel scared. If Tan Yubao is not calm, Chen Yi might have something wrong.
Since the risk is so great, why did Chen Yi take action in person?
It turns out that before this, the organization had sent a liaison officer up the mountain and was executed as a spy for Chiang Kai-shek.
If Tan Yubao wants to believe that he must send a high-ranking, versatile, brave and resourceful comrades.
So, Chen Yi confessed Go up the mountain bravely.
Chen Yi put life and death aside for his career.
Some people may feel that it is a bit exaggerated. The guerrillas will never attack their own people, but they just spend more time talking.
Say this because they don’t understand the situation at that time.
In fact, the road to the southern guerrillas was indeed full of hardships and dangers.
From the autumn of 1937 to the spring of 1938, the superiors went to Mopan Mountain in Yiyang four times and notified the guerrillas there to go down the mountain to accept the adaptation.
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However, the guerrilla leader Yang Wenhan without exception, all treated the visitor as traitors and shot him.
The first two people went to persuade him were not of high level, once a liaison officer, and once a county secretary.
The third time he went to the district party committee secretary Yu Mingxing, who was also shot by Yang Wenhan without saying anything.
The slogans before his death, but did not remind Yang Wenhan to wake up.
The fourth time he went up the mountain was Yang Wenhan's old leader, Guan Ying, secretary of Anhui, Hunan and Jiangxi, and also brought a letter from the New Fourth Army Office in Jiangxi.
At this time, It was already February 1938.
However, Yang Wenhan insisted on his own actions, and did not listen to the other party's defense, and killed Guan Ying and four others as traitors.
It can be seen that Chen Yi went up the mountain to inform Tan Yubao that he did take a great risk and almost lost his life.
Tan Yubao became the secretary of the Hunan-Jiangxi border special committee after going down the mountain, and served as the deputy secretary of the Rehe Provincial Party Committee after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the secretary of the Hunan-Discipline Commission and died of illness in 1980 at the age of 81.
and repeatedly refused to "surrender" and shot comrades several times. In the end, he did not accept the adaptation and was killed by the Chiang army in 1943.
In this sense, Chen Yi saved Tan Yubao.
After that misunderstanding, the relationship between the two has not only not been alienated but has deepened.
When Chen Yi visited Hunan in 1961, he also introduced Tan Yubao to his wife Zhang Qian: "I want to thank Lao Tan, thanks to him not killing me back then."
In early January 1972, Wang Zhen went to the hospital to visit Chen Yi on the hospital bed.
At this time, Chen Yi's life had come to an end, sometimes awake and sometimes unconscious.
The experience of going up the mountain back then was deeply engraved in his mind.
mentions the past, and Chen Yi still remembers it vividly.
He held Wang Zhen's hand and said affectionately: "More than 30 years have passed in a flash. Is Tan Yubao okay? He almost killed me back then, don't let him suffer any grievances..."
A few days later, Chen Yi passed away with the world.
This general who values love and friendship will always live in our hearts.
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