Xiang Ying stood at the foot of Marble Mountain in the autumn of 1934. On the way to the west, the dust rose and fell. The long wave of goodbye made Xiang Ying's arm a little sore. The autumn wind is rustling, and the fallen leaves are bleak. This sad and tragic see-off was heartbreaking.
The main force of the Central Red Army is gone. Bogu, Li De, Zhou Enlai, Luo Fu, Wang Jiaxiang, Mao Zedong, and Zhu De are all gone. Those who stay can't leave. Watching the backs of the last group of expeditioners, Xiang Ying couldn't help tearing his eyes and mixed feelings. Behind him stood a large group of people who remained, and the lingering fog lingered in everyone's hearts. Will the main force of the Red Army come back? Can they come back? They still care about us? A feeling of abandonment permeated the people who remained. Yes, it's not surprising that people feel this way because of the fact that most of the old, weak, sick and disabled cadres and cadres who have made mistakes are left behind.
Xiang Ying looked at the seeing off crowd. He Shuheng, Qu Qiubai, Mao Zetan and his wife He Yi were all there. These people are very prestigious among the masses. He turned on his horse and said to everyone: "Go back, we will have a meeting in two days."
This is Meikeng in Ruijin, Gannan on October 12.
Xiang Ying still remembers that Bogu and Li De talked to him at the beginning of the month. Their overly serious expressions made Xiang Ying vaguely feel something. At that time, Xiang Ying, who was hurriedly appointed as acting vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, had already participated in the preparations for the strategic transfer. As for the specific preparations for the Long March, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China determined that Bogu, Li De, and Zhou Enlai formed a "three-person team" to be responsible for planning. Who to leave, who to stay, and when to leave is a very small secret. Xiang Ying is also unknown.
As early as May, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China analyzed the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" situation at the Secretariat meeting held in Ruijin, and believed that the situation could not be reversed. The Red Army was very difficult to fight inside, and decided to withdraw the main Red Army from the Central Soviet Area. And report this decision to the Communist International. Soon, the Communist International resumed its calls and agreed to the withdrawal of the main Red Army from the Central Soviet Area. After the failure of
's fifth counter-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, the speed of evacuation preparations increased rapidly. Even some necessary propaganda and explanations among cadres are avoided. When Bogu and Li De told Xiang Ying that the Central Committee would let him stay and lead the persistent struggle in the Central Soviet Area, Xiang Ying was taken aback. Z1z
Bogu said: "You have rich experience in the struggle in the Soviet area, and it is most suitable to stay. We are not at ease with others." Z1z
is not only trust, but also seems to be mixed with something else. Can you think that if you trust more, you will let Xiang Ying go with them? This reasoning may not be accurate, but from the fact that Xiang Ying hadn't thought about staying before, Xiang Ying was willing to be with the main force of the Red Army. In such a situation, who is not willing?
Soon, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided: Before the transfer of the main Red Army, the Central Branch of the Communist Party of China was established in Meikeng, Ruijin, consisting of five people including Xiang Ying, Chen Yi, Chen Tanqiu, He Chang, and Qu Qiubai (later added Deng Zihui, Zhang Dingcheng, Tan Zhenlin, Liang Baitai, Mao Zetan, Wang Jinxiang, Li Cailian), Xiang Ying as the secretary; the establishment of the government office of the Chinese Soviet Republic, Chen Yi as the director and Liang Baitai as the deputy director. The Red Army who remained in the Central Soviet Area, together with government agencies, wounded and sick people, had about 30,000 people. The guns and ammunition were very few, and most of them were knives and shuttles.
Xiang Ying doesn't understand that the main force of 80,000 Red Army has not yet defeated the offensive of 500,000 Kuomintang troops. How should such a stall remain? But Xiang Ying, a strong personality and temper, didn't let this idea stay in her heart for long. Firstly, revolutionary enthusiasm and loyalty to the party are all he has. Secondly, the main force of the Red Army is gone, and Xiang Ying is the number one leader of the Soviet area. He believes that he can do a revolutionary cause on his own. Based on these, he felt that staying in the Central Soviet Area was not necessarily a bad thing. When the Central Committee told him the tasks of the sub-bureau, although he found it too difficult or even harsh, he was still full of confidence in the future Central Soviet Area.
The tasks assigned by the Central Committee to the sub-bureaus are: to contain the Kuomintang army, cover the transfer of the central Red Army’s main force, defend the Central Soviet Area and the victory of the Agrarian Revolution, so that the enemies who occupy the Soviet area cannot rule smoothly, and prepare to cooperate with the Red Army’s main counterattack and recovery under favorable conditions. Towns and regions occupied by the Kuomintang army. At the same time, it is also stipulated that the main Red Army and the central organs must be able to break through to Hunan before the news of the main Red Army's breakout and transfer can be publicly announced to the troops, local cadres and the masses. The secret must be strictly kept before this. centralThe triangular area between the four counties of Ruijin, Huichang, Yudu, and Ningdu was designated as the basic guerrilla area and the final position to hold.
Bogu, the young head of the Central Committee, and German Otto Braun, a military adviser sent by the Communist International, had a long conversation with Xiang Ying the night before the evacuation. Bo Gu, who is only 27 years old, and Braun, whose Chinese name is Li De, know very well that whether the central government and the main Red Army can successfully break through the encirclement, it is crucial that Xiang Ying implement their decision in the Soviet area. Therefore, smiles appeared on their faces when they received Xiang Ying's resolute execution guarantee.
History In 1934, Bo Gu, who was very bookish, and Li Delai, who did not know much about China, were chosen as the leaders of the Chinese revolution. Naturally, everything should be done as they said. The main Red Army is gone. The Central Soviet Area suddenly appeared empty. At night, endless darkness descends on Meikeng, and the huge silence makes the occasional cock and dog barking in the village startling.
Xiang Ying sat under the oil lamp, feeling uneasy. His wife Zhang Liang urged him to go to bed several times, but he said he was not sleepy. The night is getting deeper and deeper.
In August’s old camp battle, a wicked bullet from the enemy division Zhou Hunyuan hit Chen Yi’s right hip. The comminuted fracture caused Chen Yi's thigh to bleed and was extremely painful. In this way, he has been lying on the hospital bed. He knew that the central organization and the main Red Army were about to withdraw from the Soviet area, but he didn't know whether he would stay or go with the main force. No central leader has ever talked to him, and he is very upset. Originally, his feet should have been operated on long ago, but Yunshishan National Hospital had no power supply and could not take X-rays, making the operation impossible. Seeing that the medical equipment and medicines in the various departments of the hospital are packed, it is clear that action is about to be taken.
A few days earlier, Deng Yingchao, Kang Keqing, and Cai Chang came to the hospital to see him and told Chen Yi that they were very busy now, mainly cleaning up the files, so that Chen Yi felt relieved. Before he left, Cai Chang also took out a piece of silk cloth, saying it was for his wife Lai Yueming. Cai Chang is their matchmaker. She also told Chen Yi that she had been ordered to inform the Shicheng County Party Committee to ask Lai Yueming, who is the county women's minister, to return to Meikeng Hospital to take care of him. Chen Yi was delighted for a while. Does this mean that he and his wife can go together? When he saw Wang Jiaxiang, who was seriously injured, lying on a stretcher and discharged from the hospital, the joy was gone. The wind is getting tighter. People from the Third Army who had withdrawn from the front line of Xingguo came to see him in the hospital and told him that the troops had been assembled and the defense was handed over to the local troops.
is so anxious, Chen Yi can't lie down anymore. At the urging of Chen Zhengren and Zhou Yili, who were both recuperating, he wrote a letter to Zhou Enlai and asked the guard Zhang Desheng to send it. In the letter, Chen Yi reflected his situation to Zhou Enlai. After receiving the letter, Zhou Enlai immediately went to the National Hospital with the Minister of Health He Cheng.
Recently, Zhou Enlai has been so busy. The preparations before evacuation are numerous and complicated. As soon as he returned to Yunshi Mountain from Yudu's inspection of the erection of the pontoon bridge on the river, Bogu sent him on behalf of the Politburo to convey the central decision to Chen Yi and let him stay as the director of the Chinese Soviet Office. It happened that Chen Yi's guard sent the letter.
Zhou Enlai and He Cheng came to Chen Yi’s ward. Chen Yi was about to get up. Zhou Enlai helped him to lie down. Chen Yi's thighs were red and swollen, and blood constantly leaked through the gauze. Zhou Enlai asked the doctor about the situation and immediately called the Military Commission’s radio station, asking them to send the spare gasoline generator to the National Hospital immediately, and let He Cheng personally organize the medical staff to prepare for the operation.
Zhou Enlai told Chen Yi that the central organs and the main Red Army would withdraw from the Central Soviet Area tomorrow. The central government decided to let him stay. Although Zhou Enlai felt that it was a bit difficult to say this to Chen Yi at this time, he still said it. This was the decision of the Central Committee.
Later, people often speculated that if Chen Yi's leg was not injured, he would go with the central force. History always does not give people a chance to assume. In fact, many people were evacuated on a stretcher. Didn't Chen Yi see Wang Jiaxiang being carried out of the hospital to follow the main force? But whether to leave or stay, Chen Yi was indeed injured at an untimely time. The
gasoline generator has arrived, and the X-ray machine has been reinstalled. The medical staff hurriedly drove under the command of He Cheng. Filming, anesthesia, surgery. One piece of the right leg bone was broken, and many broken bones were inserted into the meat. The operation was performed at night, the lighting was not good, and the broken bones were not taken out in a hurry.
Chen Yi after surgeryIt wasn't until the next afternoon that he came out of his coma. I looked around and asked the guard Zhang Desheng when it was time. Zhang Desheng told him it was two o'clock in the afternoon on October 10. Chen Yi said: "Hurry up and find a stretcher, and take me to see off the central organs and the main Red Army." The station of the Central Military Commission. A large collection of people leaving and seeing off. Chen Yi saw Bogu who was about to mount his horse. Bogu saw Chen Yi coming on a stretcher and apologized to him, saying that he had not been able to visit because of his busy work. He also explained that this evacuation intended to take him away, because Chen Yi had been in Jiangxi for a long time and was famous, so he stayed in charge of the military and helped Xiang Ying work.
Chen Yi held Bogu's hand. Although he had some thoughts in his mind, he still expressed his gratitude to Bogu. Parting is always sincere. Chen Yi felt that he was doing revolution everywhere. The revolution is hard and dangerous wherever it is.
Now, Chen Yi really wants to see Xiang Ying.
On the morning of October 13, Xiang Ying came to the National Hospital.
Chen Yi leaned on the bed and Xiang Ying sat next to him. Xiang Ying asked Chen Yi: "Is the operation going well? Is the wound painful?" Chen Yi shifted his body and said with his teeth, "It's okay." Xiang Ying helped him sit down and said, "Lai Yueming will be back soon. With her care, you will recover faster,"
Next, Xiang Ying conveyed to Chen Yi the central government's deployment to the branch. Chen Yi listened carefully, and took out a notebook from the bedside to record from time to time. After Xiang Ying delivered the message, she asked Chen Yi what he thought. Chen Yi had a very straight-tempered temper. He pondered for a while and said: "I have a view. The failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" is a fact. Chiang Kai-shek will never ignore the Central Soviet Area because of the withdrawal of the main Red Army and let the Soviet regime continue to exist. Chiang Kai-shek used part of his troops to chase and block the main force of the Red Army, and the other part was more than enough to deal with the Central Soviet Area."Z1z
Xiang Ying said: "So the central government requires us to keep secrets and prevent the Kuomintang army from knowing that the main Red Army has withdrawn." Chen Yi said:" If you want to keep the Soviet area the same as before, it is very difficult." Xiang Ying said: "We can expand the Red Army as soon as possible."
Chen Yi said: "No. The 24th Division of the Red Army and the Independent Regiment should immediately be dispersed to the guerrilla areas of the Central Revolutionary Base. Go, as the backbone of guerrilla warfare, this can preserve a group of revolutionary forces.
Xiang Ying thinks Chen Yi seems to be too pessimistic. He said to Chen Yi: "The main Red Army will come back, and we can create new ones in the "triangle area". Division of the new legion, with the main Red Army counterattack. "Chen Yi said: "If you can come back, you don't have to go. "Xiang Ying said: "It's not true, I left to come back. "Z1z
Chen Yi is indeed very worried about the current situation in the Soviet area. He said:" Old comrades like Qu Qiubai, He Shuheng, and Zhou Yili, who are sick and old, as well as some intellectuals and women, are better to let them wear Plainclothes, hurry to the white area to hide, they can't bear to fight guerrillas. "Z1z
Xiang Ying doesn't think so. According to the decision of the Central Committee, the Central Soviet Area still has to maintain its original appearance. Then government agencies have to work as usual, and the agency newspaper "Red China" has to go on. If people are gone, what? That’s okay. But the central government said that the secrets could not be revealed until the main Red Army arrived in Hunan.
Xiang Ying said: "Your ideas are reasonable, but we have to implement the central decision. "Years of battle has made Chen Yi's research and judgment on the situation clearer. He feels the danger of the Central Soviet Area at this moment. As Xiang Ying is now the number one leader of the Soviet Area, he is more inclined to believe in and implement the decisions of the Central Committee. I firmly believe that the main Red Army will not leave them alone and will come back soon.
Xiang Ying said to Chen Yi: "Tomorrow morning, there will be an expanded meeting of the sub-bureau, and I will send someone to carry you to participate. "Just before leaving the hospital, he said to Chen Yi again: "Did you move back to the office? It will be easier to discuss anything. I will let the doctors and nurses check and change your dressing in time. "
came. The Central Red Army broke through the first blockade of Wangmudu, Hanfang, Jinji, Xintian, etc., laid by Chen Jitang, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Route Army in the Central Soviet Area.
22, the Central Military Commission The call decided to establish the Central Revolutionary Base Military Region, and Xiang Ying was appointed as commander and political commissar. Gong Chu, Chief of Staff of the Southern Jiangxi Military Region, was transferred to Chief of Staff, and He Chang, deputy director of the General Political Department of the Military Commission, was appointed Director of the Political Department. The Central Military Region Command Jiangxi, Fujian, Fujian, Jiangxi, Southern Jiangxi, and Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi military districts (within the northern Fujian division) and their directly affiliated independent troops, the 24th Division and the Tenth Army.
Chen Yi's heart sank after seeing this telegram. Dare to say that Bogu told him to let him be in charge of the military just to talk about it. If he is not given a military post, how can he be in charge of the military? Chen Yi is not in the leadership of the Central Military Region.
These days, Xiang Ying is simply too busy to breathe. The withdrawal of the Central Red Army cannot be made public, and all work in the Soviet area must remain as usual. He asked Qu Qiubai, the editor-in-chief of the "Red China" newspaper, to research and run the newspaper, and decided to keep the masthead unchanged or label it as "The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Soviet Central Government Agency". He talked to the manager of the arsenal, to reinstall the dismantled machinery, continue to make bullets and mines, and repair guns. He asked the librarian to open the library normally. He asked the bank president to let the bank continue to issue and exchange Soviet banknotes... and military affairs made him even more anxious. He asked Wang Lizhong, Minister of Health of the Military Region, to take people to Red Army hospitals such as Yudu, Changting, Ningdu, etc., and mobilize all those who can basically be discharged from the hospital, and add them to the 24th Division and several independent regiments.
Seeing Xiang Ying getting thinner, Zhang Liang was very anxious. At the same time, I feel that I can't help him much, so I can only work hard on living care. At this time, Zhang Liang was already pregnant.
On October 26, bad news came: the enemy invaded Ningdu.
This makes everyone very nervous. The Central Branch and the Central Government Office decided to establish Ruixi County. Eight districts were delineated from the original three counties of Xijiang, Ruijin, and Yudu, with Kuantian in Yudu as the center, directly under the management of the branch and government offices.
everything seems to be done in a hurry. Since the establishment of the Central Military Region, Xiang Ying has wanted to fight a few tough battles. First, the Kuomintang army will not doubt that the Central Red Army is no longer in the Soviet area, and secondly, to boost morale. Morale has generally been low since the Central Red Army withdrew from the Soviet area. This is something that worries him very much.
However, not many people stayed to fight. He had to let the Red 24 Division and the independent regiments adopt the squad-top company, the platoon-top battalion, and the company-top regiment, so that all the defenses of the Central Red Army were followed. There are too few people, so the soldiers are allowed to run back and forth in the trenches and patrol the woods to confuse the enemy. If an enemy appears anywhere, it will quickly concentrate its forces to defeat it.
In early November, the 10th Division of the KMT East Route Army, ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to recover Ruijin, went all the way. Xiang Ying received the news and immediately discussed with Chen Yi, He Chang and Gong Chu.
Chen Yi proposed to fight an ambush, and everyone agreed. Xiang Ying asked Gong Chu to immediately redeploy the 70th Regiment of the 24th Division, the 11th Regiment of Independence, the Independence Camp of the Ancient City, and the Independence Camp of Xikou, lie in ambush in the ancient city of Xidalingai and Dongniuling respectively.
On November 6, the enemy entered the Dalingai ambush circle. The commander of the Red Army gave an order: "Hit!" The Red Army soldiers launched a fierce attack on the enemy. Gunshots and grenades rang into one piece. The enemy had not yet figured out what was going on. The ten corpses returned.
A few hours later, the enemy reorganized their forces and attacked again under the cover of artillery fire. The commanders of the 70th Regiment and the Independence 11th Regiment, defying strong enemies, competed with the enemy for three days, repelled dozens of attacks by the enemy, and killed and injured hundreds of enemy troops. Withdraw from the battle on the evening of the 8th. When the enemy entered the road of Ruijin in Dongniuling on the morning of the 9th, the Red Army soldiers had planted a lot of landmines and chopped down trees to block the road, blocking the enemy's passage. The ambush was well fought, and Xiang Ying was very happy. He said to He Chang: "The main Red Army is not there, we can still fight a good battle."
At this time, the Central Red Army passed another good news and passed two blockade lines. Jianghua, ready to cross the Tuojiang River. But the unoptimistic fact happened again. On November 10, Ruijin fell.
Ruijin couldn't stay, Xiang Ying immediately led the Central Branch and the Central Military Region to transfer from Meikeng to Kuantian, Ruixi County, which was just established. Immediately afterwards, Yu Du was occupied by the enemy. Many communists and revolutionary masses who were occupied have been mutilated. The tyrant landlords and gangsters who have made a comeback organized "returning groups", "shoveling groups", and "assassination groups", burying, digging hearts, dismembering, mutilating, etc., the people they caught. The next target of the enemy is Huichang.
Red Army officers and men are gearing up to fight. Xiang Ying felt that this was indeed a good time to inspire the masses in the Soviet area and increase their confidence in the struggle. In the past few days, several counties have been lost in the Soviet area, and the losses have been heavy, and the people have suffered even more.
Xiang Ying ordered the Red 24th Division to ambush at Wantanggang on the west side of Xiefang. The Huichang local armed forces made a frontal guard, and the Fujian Military Region's independent regiment blocked and contained reinforcements on the east bank of the Ruijin River.
On the 22nd, the 3rd Division of the Kuomintang Army East Road, under the leadership of the commander Li Yannian, arrogantly advanced from Ruijin to Huichang. When the ninth travelled to Wantanggang, Red 24 Division Commander Zhou Jianping saw that the fire had arrived and hurriedly ordered the fire. The soldiers of the Red Army launched a swift attack on the enemy, cutting the enemy into several sections, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat in more than ten places. From 9 am to 2 pm, most of the enemy's casualties were killed and injured. There was only power to parry and no fight back. Under the reinforcements of the enemy's 8th Brigade, he threw his helmet and unarmed, and fled in a hurry. This battle wiped out half of the enemy brigade and seized more than a thousand machine guns and rifles. One of the enemy regiment leaders was also killed. The loss of the
Red 24th Division was also quite large, with more than 500 casualties. At the same time, the goal of the main 24th division was exposed, which cast a shadow over this victory.
