Chapter 15 (4) The rain is coming

On the playground of the Ruijin Red Army University, Zhou Enlai was giving a report to the students on the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" war.Those who listened to the report were all officers above the regiment. The battle of Huangpi and Caotaigang in the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" war was the first time that Zhou Enlai and Zhu De created a large-scale ambush and annihilation battle of large corps.According to changes in the enemy's situation, they flexibly used their forces, feinted an attack or pretended to shift the main force to confuse and mobilize the enemy, concentrated the forces of the large corps, chose favorable terrain, and launched a violent attack on one part of the enemy's army by surprise, quickly breaking or destroying one of its wings.In these two battles, nearly three divisions of the Jiang army and more than 28,000 people were wiped out, including Chen Cheng's most elite main force. It was the first battle to wipe out two divisions of the enemy in one battle.In the name of the chairman of the central government, Mao Zedong published an article entitled "New Situation and New Tasks" in "Red China" on July 29, 1933, praising the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" war, saying, "This is an unprecedented war. Great victory!"

Chen Yi, a poet and general who has served as the commander of the Jiangxi Military Region and the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Theater, became very popular in poetry. In the middle of the night, the pine waves move the mountains, and the moonlight shines on the eyebrows. The sons of workers and peasants are used to fighting, and they break the iron fence everywhere." With the victory of the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" war, the Central Red Army rapidly expanded from 60,000 to 100,000.A large number of new weapons seized from the hands of Jiang Jun greatly improved the weapons and equipment of the Red Army. The company was equipped with light machine guns that were rare in the Red Army at that time.The Central Soviet Area is also connected with the Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi Soviet Areas in its northeast.

A staff officer from the war room of the Central Military Commission hurried over and handed Zhou Enlai a note.He looked at the note and frowned tightly.After thinking for a while, he hurriedly finished his report, and rode back to the war room of the Wushilong Village Military Committee with the guards. Li Kenong just came back from Nanchang.Last month, he was sent by Zhou Enlai to sneak into Nanchang secretly to spy on Jiang's army.Now that I have just returned to Hongdu, regardless of the fatigue from the long journey, I am anxious to report to Zhou Enlai the latest information about Jiang Jun's latest developments.

As soon as Zhou Enlai walked into the war room of the Military Commission, he shook hands with Li Kenong and greeted him, then took Li Kenong's hand to another hut, and closed the door.There were only the two of them in the room.He poured Li Kenong a cup of tea and said, "Comrade Kenong, is it going well this time?" "It's not very smooth, but it's still safe and sound." Li Kenong said, "There are more and more people wearing Li, they are everywhere, and they are everywhere!" "Hmph, Lao Jiang relied on this method to gain power! Without the two major cliques of Central Command and Military Command, I'm afraid Lao Jiang won't be able to sit on stage for a few days!"

"Fortunately, the 'brothers' of the Central Command and the Military Command have always seemed to be at odds with each other. They are at odds with each other, fighting openly and secretly, which just gives us an opportunity to take advantage of." "Listen to you, it's a big gain this time?" "It can be said that I brought some goods back from Lao Jiang's backyard, and I'm waiting for you to have a look to see if it's worth it." After the failure of the fourth "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek held an officer training group in Mount Lushan to instill his ideas of "three points in military affairs" and "seven points in politics" to the officers of his direct line, so as to concentrate all his efforts on dealing with the Red Army; German military advisers came and used bunker tactics to surround the Red Army layer by layer.The strategies he formulated were "strategic offensive, tactical defensive" and "step by step, advance steadily, bunker roads, continuous, economic blockade, drip-tight".

Zhou Enlai walked to the map, carefully looked at the situation on the battlefield of the enemy and us, and said to Li Kenong: "Lao Jiang's next 'encirclement and suppression' against us will definitely be much bigger than the fourth one!" Li Kenong said: "There is nothing new about the deployment of their troops." Zhou Enlai: "Strategic offensive, tactical defensive, their commanders are still on Lushan Mountain, listening to Lao Jiang's 'three-point military' and 'seven-point politics'!" Li Kenong said: "I have already arranged that the focus of our next work is to get the specific tactical plan formulated by their Lushan training group."

Zhou Enlai said: "The war is imminent, and our intelligence work must be strengthened. Lao Jiang's intelligence personnel can penetrate into every corner, why can't we?" Li Kenong looked distressed, and said: "General Political Commissar, compared with Lao Jiang, our spy personnel are pitifully few after all!" Zhou Enlai nodded and said: "I have considered this issue a long time ago. Now that you are back, I am going to hold several espionage training courses to train our spies. I will be in charge of this training course, and you will be responsible for the specific work." Let’s do it with Comrade Pan Hannian. To the outside world, we must keep it absolutely secret.”

Li Kenong turned his worries into joy, smiled, and said, "Lao Jiang is running an officer training regiment in Lushan, and you are running a spy training class in Ruijin. I don't know whether it is Principal Jiang or Director Zhou who is smart!" Zhou Enlai stroked the long beard on his chin, pondered for a moment, and said, "It depends on the next game of chess, how we will compete!" After Li Kenong left, Zhou Enlai faced the map alone, his stern eyes swept back and forth between the red and black lines, and fell into deep contemplation.If Chiang Kai-shek, under the planning of the German adviser, adopts bunker tactics against the Soviet area this time, it will pose a great threat to the Red Army.The Red Army had no planes in the sky and no cannons on the ground. Once the Jiang army advanced every kilometer, it would build blockhouses and advance step by step towards the Soviet area.As the frontline coach, Zhou Enlai faced a new problem.

The daylight coming in through the windows faded away, and the room darkened.He lit the kerosene lamp and continued to look at the map while thinking.At some point, when he turned around from the map, he saw Deng Yingchao sitting behind him.He said in surprise: "Chao, when did you come? Why don't I know anything about it!" "Your thoughts are all on the map, why would you think when I will come?" Deng Yingchao scolded. Zhou Enlai apologized, smiled, and said, "I'm sorry, I was distracted." "If I don't come, you may forget to go home!" "I fully accept your criticism and will go home with you now!"

As soon as the two went out, night had fallen.Guard Xiao Guo led the way with a lantern.Along the way, Deng Yingchao found that her husband was very preoccupied and did not talk as much as usual. Reminiscent of the scene where he stood in front of the map for a long time and meditated just now, she thought about it, and she understood a little bit in her heart, knowing that her husband would soon return to the front line up.It seems that his every move, even his inner activities, cannot escape the eyes of his wife.Zhou Enlai stared at his wife with a wry smile, not knowing how to express what was in his heart.

The last time I left Ruijin to go to the front, my wife and mother-in-law were sick.Especially her, suffering from tuberculosis, coughing non-stop all day long, and coughing up blood.It stands to reason that he shouldn't leave their mother and daughter at this time.But in order to lead the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" war, he had to endure the pain, left his seriously ill wife and mother-in-law, and went to the front without hesitation.Now, the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" war has just been won, and their family has just been reunited, and he is going to the front again!At this moment, his mood is very complicated. Since they formed the revolutionary couple six years ago after a six-year relationship, the two have been isolated from their peaceful family life.At that time, it was the first period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Zhou Enlai was the director of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy. Together with the principal Chiang Kai-shek, he led the National Revolutionary Army to crusade against the rebel Chen Jiongming.Deng Yingchao, the women's minister of the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Chen Jieru, Mrs. Jiang's wife, went to the front line to condolences to the soldiers under the hail of bullets.At this time, she was pregnant with her first child. Since both of them were busy with the Eastern Expedition, she did not hesitate to abort the child without consulting her husband. On March 21, 1927, in order to cooperate with the Northern Expedition to attack Shanghai, he commanded Shanghai workers to carry out the third armed uprising, while she experienced a dystocia in Guangzhou, and the fetus died of asphyxiation.This is the second and last child she has lost.When Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12" coup, he almost became Chiang Kai-shek's prisoner when he negotiated the surrender of workers' armed forces at the headquarters of the 2nd Division of the 26th Army of the Chiang Army. At that time, under the cover of medical staff, he made up and escaped from the hospital. In late May of this year, he secretly went to Wuhan to serve as the military minister of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and participate in the central leadership work.She also hurriedly left Shanghai in June, leaving the home where the two of them had just reunited after the disaster, and rushed to Wuhan, where the wind was blowing.At this time in Wuhan, Wang Jingwei, who had always regarded himself as the leftist of the Kuomintang, rebelled, and the revolution was at stake.Also on July 26 of this year, he only said to her, "I'll go to Jiujiang tonight", and left Wuhan with Chen Geng.What are you going to do?stay How long?When will we meet?He didn't say.She didn't ask either.It wasn't until twenty days later that she learned from the newspaper that he led the Nanchang Uprising that shocked the world!From then on, in the turbulent waves, the two men were separated from each other. One fought in the difficult and dangerous journey after the Nanchang Uprising, and the other persisted in the struggle in Wuhan under the shroud of white terror.Jiang and Wang offered a reward for the arrest of the pair of "communist bandit leaders". Their heads rose day by day, and they escaped danger several times and came back to life. When she was about to walk to the door of the house, Deng Yingchao said: "If you need it on the front line, you should go back as soon as possible!" Zhou Enlai hesitated and said, "But you and mother..." Deng Yingchao said: "Our mother and daughter will take good care of each other. You don't have to worry about that. A new war against 'encirclement and suppression' is about to start. You are a front-line commander. If you don't go to the front line, what are you doing in the rear?" Zhou Enlai held his wife's hand tightly and said: "It seems that we can only implement my wife's decision unconditionally!" Deng Yingchao said: "In the army you are the chief political commissar. At home, I am your 'general political commissar'!" As they spoke, the two smiled.