Chapter 7 blood spilled junction town

On April 2, 1930, the first, third, and fourth columns of the Fifth Red Army left Yuanzhou, preparing to detour around the Hunan-Jiangxi border and then go north to attack Wanzai and Tonggu in Jiangxi. Unexpectedly, the march passed a road near Lukou Town, Lianhua County. On the mountain road, he suddenly encountered the Kuomintang Zhu Yaohua's brigade who was reinforcing Yuanzhou.The military department ordered our special service brigade to quickly stop the enemy and wait for the follow-up troops to arrive to counterattack.Captain Xie Song and I immediately split up and led the troops to occupy the high ground on both sides of the mountain road and block it.

Relying on their superiority in strength, the enemy frantically rushed to the position of our special service brigade, trying to break through our blocking position, and detoured to our side, so as to attack back and forth, and wiped out our army during the march. The battle was extremely fierce, and the casualties continued to increase. I personally commanded the battle on the front line, shooting at the enemy with my carbine while commanding the machine gun platoon to hold its ground.Ye Changgeng, the leader of the machine gun platoon, fought very tenaciously. He led the comrades in the machine gun platoon to brave the enemy's dense bullets, and repelled several enemy attacks, and the position stood still.Suddenly, I felt as if someone had punched me in the chest, and I quickly covered my chest with my left hand. I looked down and saw blood gushing out from a hole in the jacket pocket on my right chest, and dripping onto the grass along my fingers. There was a buzzing sound in my head, and the foreground was blurred, and I knew that my chest had been wounded.However, the enemy was in front of me, and there were five seriously wounded beside me. My sense of responsibility and rationality made me calm down. Regardless of my personal safety, I kept quiet and commanded the troops to resist the enemy's attack as usual, covering the seriously wounded.

At this critical moment, I suddenly heard shouts of "kill" and gunshots from behind. I hurriedly looked back, and it turned out that the follow-up troops had arrived, and a stone that was pressing on my heart fell to the ground.Only then did I feel pain from the wound, dizziness, and no strength to stand up, but I could still vaguely hear the sound of gunshots fading away. "Meeting on a narrow road, the brave wins." My follow-up troops fought back bravely. The enemy couldn't hold on, left their luggage and fled in a panic. Our army followed and chased for several miles and captured a lot.After the battle, the follow-up troops found me dying and the five seriously wounded beside me, and immediately rescued them.At that time, the medical conditions were very poor, there were few military doctors, and there was no medicine. The nurses could only use cotton and gauze stained with iodine to stuff the wound to disinfect it, and then bandaged the wound. Then they sent migrant workers to carry me to the rear hospital on a stretcher.At this time, my wound hadn't completely stopped bleeding, and with the bumping of the stretcher, some of the blood from the gunshot wound in my lung leaked out along the wound, permeating the gauze bandage; A small blood clot was coughed out from the trachea, and the injury was getting worse.According to what the doctor later told me, although the jolting of the stretcher prevented me from completely stopping the bleeding as soon as possible, and I kept coughing up blood, but at the time when medical conditions made it impossible to perform thoracic surgery, the blood clots accumulated in the lungs were coughed up through the trachea. The lungs prevented excessive chest congestion and caused "pneumothorax", which was convenient for emergency treatment after going to the hospital, and instead saved my life. This is really "a bad thing turned into a good thing".

Our stretcher team, with more than one hundred stretchers, came to Lianhua County after going through tens of miles of bumpy mountain roads. The migrant workers were having lunch in a restaurant on the street. On that day, a group of members of the Kuomintang Lotus Jingwei Regiment rushed into the street.After the migrant workers heard the gunshots, some carried stretchers and ran away, while others left the stretchers and fled around.At this time, the two migrant workers who carried my stretcher had disappeared. I struggled to sit up on the stretcher and called the migrant workers to help. At this critical moment, two ordinary people ran out of the restaurant. I was seriously injured, so I vigilantly lifted me up and helped me into the ramie field behind the shop to hide.The ramie was more than one meter high. I was lying in the ditch, and the enemy could not see it.As soon as the two ordinary people returned to the shop, the enemy had already rushed to the restaurant. I heard a burst of gunfire. I knew that the wounded who had no time to hide had been murdered by the enemy. Lying in the ramie field and hiding for a long time, enduring pain, hunger, thirst and grief, waiting for the night to come, trying to find a way out of danger.

It was finally getting dark, and it started to rain gradually.Because Lianhua County was captured by our Fifth Red Army for a period of time. Although there was no Red Army in the city at that time, the Jingwei Regiment did not dare to stay for a long time for fear of being attacked by our local guerrillas. Call the assembly number and pull the team out of the city.In the ramie field, I heard the sound of the enemy's rallying horn and the sound of footsteps had gone away, so I struggled and staggered out of the ramie field to the street, knocking on the door of an ordinary family. An old man in his fifties came out and answered the door.I said to him: "Old cousin, I am a wounded soldier of the Red Army. I was dispersed by the White Army at noon, and the migrant workers carrying the stretcher were nowhere to be found. Could you please take me to the county Soviet government?"

The old man looked me up and down with a small oil lamp in his hand, and when he saw that I was indeed a wounded soldier of the Red Army, he said softly to me: "The county Soviet has withdrawn to the outside of the city, and it is still about ten miles away from the city." I froze.What if there are still ten miles left?I tentatively asked the old man: "Old man, I am not familiar with the place here, can I trouble you to show me the way?" The old man pondered for a moment, then readily agreed: "Okay, wait for a while, I will take you there." The old man went back to the house and explained a few words to his family, then turned around and went out, closed the door, and led me to the north gate. Walk.On the way, he saw that I was having difficulty walking and that my injury was serious, so he took the initiative to support me.At this time, the rain also stopped. The two of us went out of the north gate and walked for more than ten miles. When we came to the foot of a mountain, the old man stopped and said, "You can walk up this road and the county Soviet is not far away. No more deliveries."

I gratefully held the old man's hand, took out a silver dollar from my pocket and put it in the old man's palm, saying: "Old man, thank you for saving me. I still have a dollar with me. I will give you a glass of wine." The old man put the silver dollar Put it back into my palm again, and said emotionally: "Comrade, I should do what I should do to lead the way for the Red Army. You can keep this money for recuperation." The old man gave way again and again, and after I persuaded him repeatedly, he accepted the silver dollar and went back to Lotus City in the dark.The Soviet government of Lianhua County temporarily placed me in a temporary hospital in the county. This is called a "temporary hospital". In fact, there is no official doctor. Iodine cotton and gauze were "sterilized" again and again, and the muscles turned white from the burn, and turned outward like a child's mouth, oozing blood continuously. It was very distressing, and I immediately went around to pick herbs for me the next morning. apply.After two or three days of treatment, the bleeding finally stopped, and the county government sent me a stretcher team, together with dozens of wounded people who had been taken in in recent days, to the rear hospital in the mountainous area south of Litian, Shuixin County. transfer.During the transfer, the rugged mountain roads of more than 100 miles were all carried by fellow villagers from Jiangxi Province, who carried me through mountains and rivers, washed my wounds, applied medicine, and took care of me to eat, drink, and defecate. Lives are saved.I will never forget the kindness of the revolutionary masses in the old base area of ​​Jiangxi.

While I was recuperating, around June 10, 1930, the Fifth Red Army held an enlarged meeting of the Military Commission in Liu Renba on the border between Daye and Yangxin, Hubei. Teng Daiyuan and He Changgong respectively conveyed the spirit of the two meetings.The Party Central Committee dominated by the Li San line proposed that the general task of the Red Army is to "cooperate with the workers', peasants' and soldiers' riots, and strive for the first victory of the revolutionary riots in one or several provinces until the seizure of power in the whole country", and demanded that the Red Army "concentrate on attacking Traffic arteries, central cities, and the elimination of the main force of the enemy".In order to accomplish the above tasks, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission instructed to formally establish the Third Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and the Party's front committee of the Third Army, with Peng Dehuai as the commander-in-chief and secretary of the front committee.The Fifth and Eighth Armies under the Third Red Army Corps. The Fifth Red Army was reorganized from the first, second, third, and fourth columns of the original Red Fifth Army into two divisions and four regiments. The headquarters of the Third Army Corps and the Fifth Red Army Command The Red Eighth Army was expanded from the fifth column of the original Red Fifth Army into two divisions and four regiments; The red guards in other counties were organized into the Sixteenth Red Army, which is also the formation of the Third Red Army.In fact, the Fifth Red Army had only 8,000 people at that time, about the same number as a division of the Third Regiment. This so-called "expansion" was just a bluff, an empty air, and a waste of cadres, and it could not really improve the combat effectiveness of the troops.After the enlarged meeting of the Military Commission, on July 3, Peng Dehuai led the main force of the Third Red Army to take advantage of the enemy troops in Yuezhou and transferred to defend Wuchang. Food and military supplies, including four 75 field cannons and twelve mountain cannons. Since then, the Red Army has had artillery.

On July 15th, the Red Army returned to Pingjiang to rest and prepare to attack Changsha.On the 22nd, the Hunan warlord He Jian mobilized three brigades, divided them into three echelons, and formed a long snake formation to attack Pingjiang in an attempt to wipe out the Red Army and keep Changsha.Hearing the news, Peng Dehuai led his troops to set up an ambush in Wengjiang Town, 30 miles away from Pingjiang City. Because the enemy did not dare to advance rashly, the Red Army launched a counterattack the next day, defeated the enemy in the Jinjing area, and took advantage of the victory to advance , captured Changsha on the 27th, captured more than 4,000 enemies, captured two mountain cannons, 20 mortars, more than 3,000 guns, and a lot of ammunition and supplies. The brilliant victories of the remaining superior enemy forces.The victory in the capture of Changsha was achieved by Peng Dehuai by taking advantage of the weakness of the "long snake array" in the enemy's offensive deployment, concentrating superior forces to wipe out the enemy one by one, and taking advantage of the victory to attack the city.This victory cannot cover up the mistakes of Li San's line, nor can it save the failure of Li San's line.

On August 6, the enemy counterattacked Changsha with five or six divisions. Because the enemy was outnumbered, the Third Red Army voluntarily withdrew from Changsha to Pingjiang and Changshou Street to rest.The Third Red Army occupied Changsha for 11 days, raised 400,000 silver dollars, and solved the army's clothing, medical and other difficulties. Renewed and armed the local troops with redundant weapons, the troops took on a new look, the military appearance was more rigorous, and the military might was stronger.During this period, the Red Army also confiscated a lot of property from the imperialists and local tyrants and evil gentry and distributed it to the poor, released thousands of political prisoners, and executed a group of counter-revolutionaries. The urban poor and suburban peasants enthusiastically joined the army, and some of the captured soldiers joined the Red Army after being educated. The Red Army was expanded to a total of seven to eight thousand people, and the Red Army's prestige was greatly enhanced.In late July, I heard the victory news one by one in the hospital. I was really excited. I just recovered from my injury and actively asked to return to the army to participate in the battle.At that time, the erroneous leaders of the Lisan line believed that the national revolutionary climax had arrived, and demanded to organize armed uprisings in the central cities and concentrate the national Red Army to attack the central cities. From the central government to the provinces and border regions, the party committees, youth leagues, and trade unions at all levels of leading organizations Merged into action committees at all levels preparing for the uprising.Therefore, when I asked to return to the team, because the army was still in Changsha, the organization required me to first go to the West Road Action Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee to temporarily serve as the captain and political commissar of the cadre brigade, and participate in the attack on Ji'an organized by the West Road Action Committee.

From November 1929 to late August 1930, the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee launched eight attacks on Ji'an City. Each attack mobilized tens of thousands to more than 100,000 local armed forces and the masses to participate. .However, Ji'an is located on the banks of Ganjiang River and Xiaoshui River, surrounded by water on three sides, with Ganjiang River and Xiaoshui River as a natural barrier, and Ji'an is a central city in the Ganjiang River Basin. .In January 1930, Mao Zedong led the Fourth Red Army to cross Wuyi Mountain and enter Jiangxi from Fujian. They arrived in Guangchang in February. "Guangchang Road" is a magnificent sentence of "the order was issued yesterday, and one hundred thousand workers and peasants will go to Ji'an".This mobilization to attack Ji'an may be the seventh or eighth operation.After I reported to the West Road Administrative Committee of Yongxin County at the end of July, the leading comrades of the administrative committee told me that the so-called cadre brigade was mostly composed of wounded and sick people who had just left the hospital and had not yet returned to the team. There were about a hundred people. Some have been dispersed among the masses to do propaganda and mobilization work.They asked our country to concurrently serve as the secretary-general of the operation headquarters, responsible for understanding the mobilization situation of the counties and drafting documents and telegrams. In this attack on Ji'an, the main force of the Red Army was very small. Only three to four hundred people from the third column of the Fifth Red Army were the backbone, and the rest were peasant red guards.Early in the morning on the day when the general offensive was launched, hundreds of thousands of peasant red guards marched from the revolutionary bases in Yongxin, Lianhua, Anfu, and Taihe counties, carrying countless red flags, large and small, carrying spears, knives, shotguns, or stretchers. Attacked Ji'an City, but were blocked by Xiaoshui and the banks of Ganjiang River.The enemy stood firm on the opposite bank and blocked the river with firepower, preventing the 100,000 troops from crossing the river.Although the third column also fought against the enemy on the opposite bank for a while, the firepower was too weak to suppress the enemy's firepower and cover the army to cross the river.Hundreds of thousands of red guards could only shout slogans on the shore, wave flags and shout demonstrations, which were useless.We went on like this for a day, and in the evening, we all dispersed, and I returned to Yongxin with the headquarters. This time, it can also be called "one hundred thousand workers and peasants going to Ji'an". On the surface, it looks vigorous and powerful, but in fact it is like a child's play.Because there is no strong main force of the Red Army as the backbone, and there is no trained peasant armed, it is impossible to win by just waving the flag and shouting.This action left a deep impression on me. I felt both the admirability of the revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses and the naivete and ridiculousness of the subjectivism and adventurism of the Li San line. After I returned to Yongxin County, I heard that the Third Red Army Corps had returned to Liuyang, and it was like an arrow to return, so I invited Peng Ao, the commander of the Third Column of the Fifth Red Army Army who had recovered from his injuries, to explain to the West Road Administrative Committee that we were going back to Hunan. Find the army and ask for a fake visit along the way.After the approval of the executive committee, we left Yongxin and returned to Hunan together.When we arrived in Liuyang County and learned that the army was in Yonghe City, the two of us broke up temporarily. Peng Ao returned to Pingjiang to visit relatives and then transferred to Yonghe City. I also went home to have a look before going to the army.When I passed through Shuangkeng Village, I first went to visit my biological father, biological mother and two elder brothers, and took a rest at my biological father's house.When the villagers knew that I was going back to my hometown, they all came to see me and packed a small hall. My adoptive father also rushed to Shuangkeng to pick me up when he heard the news. He was already in his seventies at that time. Not seeing each other for more than a year, the old man looks much older.When he saw my face, he held my hand and wept.After lunch, I went back to Xikeng home with my adoptive father. On the way, I met cadres from Gaoping District. Everyone was very happy. When I was first transferred from the guerrilla army to work in the Fifth Red Army, because the army was still active in my hometown, I occasionally went back home a few times. Since I was transferred to work in the camp school in August 1929, I have been farther and farther away from home. , I haven’t been back home for more than a year, and now I see the mountains and water in my hometown, and I feel very kind. I have long forgotten the hard work of the journey for a few days.At this time, the pond and the gate in front of my house were full of villagers. They knew that I had arrived in Shuangkeng, and they all waited for me in front of my house to express their welcome.My elderly mother stood in front of the door holding my five-year-old eldest son Qingqi in one hand and my three-year-old second son Xingqi in the other. Beside my mother, they were both happy and sad for my sudden return. They had been standing in front of the door for a long time, and their clothes were wet with tears of excitement.I haven't seen each other for more than a year, and the two sons have grown taller, as if they don't know me anymore, they stared at me in surprise with wide-eyed eyes, I hugged the second son, Xingqi, and kissed his little face , a feeling of guilt for failing to fulfill the responsibilities of the father, husband, and son, prompting two lines of tears to roll down the cheeks.At this time, the surrounding villagers gathered around to say hello, I hurriedly turned around and greeted everyone to come in and sit down, thanking the villagers for their care and care for my family.Soon, the villagers dispersed one after another, and I sat down with my parents, uncle, wife, and children to reunite and talk.Since my family was ransacked three times by the enemy after the "Ma Ri Incident", my father and uncle were imprisoned, and my already poor family became even poorer.Over the past year, with the consolidation and development of the revolutionary base, the family life has improved somewhat, but it is still very difficult.I handed over the only three oceans I had on my body to my father. Seeing that an umbrella at home was dilapidated, I kept the umbrella I used for myself. I only had this little "property" in my body, and I gave it all to my family. , I tried my best. I stayed at home for three days. I went to Gaoping to visit relatives and friends, and then hurried to Yonghe City to find troops. Unexpectedly, leaving home this time would be my forever farewell to my whole family.