Chapter 44 Grasp the future (6)

Mao seemed to find evidence of revolution in the soil.The extensive experience of the Long March across eleven provinces could replace Moscow's new authority, which Mao endeavored to bring to bear on Chinese realities. At the end of the Long March, Mao was even inspired by the mountains as a symbol of world peace beyond China's own revolution; Now I call Kunlun: not so high, Don't be so snowy. Andre relied on the sky to draw the sword, Cut you into three pieces? A scrap of Europe, A slice of beauty, One part is returned to the East. peace world, The whole world is hot and cold.

Mao was also an explorer. During one battle after another, on the vast land of his country, he saw the temples and mountains that he had learned from books about twenty years ago.He once left South China and went to Beijing, but he did not feel the breath of freedom there.Now, he travels freely and without restraint, and he regards the magnificent mountains and rivers as his birthplace and a melting pot for forging his new revolutionary methods. The truest image of Mao in 1935 should be: a poet with a broad vision; a strategist who studied maps carefully with the shrewdness of a peasant and the eyes of a general; The earnest and earnest guard chats, or the leader who takes a moment to teach the secretary a few new words.

Most of his big moments are in solitude, yet he stands out as a mountain.In his years as China's Moses, he talked with the earth and communicated with the mountains without the intermediary relationship of wife, friend, or adviser. Sichuan was a harder nut, harder to crack than Mao had expected.Chiang Kai-shek hurriedly directed a large-scale counterattack against the Red Army at the scene. He sent a telegram to his officials saying: "This campaign is destined for the party and the country, and the Red Army must be trapped in the south of the Yangtze River." In the usual defensive battle, prepare to deal with the Red Army.

Zhang Guotao gave up the Soviet base in northern Sichuan, and led the Red Army to flee to the deserted Tibet area in pessimism and negativity.This meant that Mao would not be able to get help from Zhang's elite Fourth Front Army in his northward crossing of the Yangtze River, which enabled Chiang to trap Mao's moving troops across the formidable river crossing. During the exhausting and difficult march into Sichuan, the Red Army reached the town of Maotai.This is the world-famous hometown of Chinese spirits.The Communists found themselves in a brewery lined up with a hundred vats, each containing twenty tons of brewed wine.

Young Red Army soldiers never enjoyed it (or any other), and some thought it contained bath water in which they soaked their aching feet! Otto Braun had more experience, and his face Immediately showed a happy smile.Some Red Army soldiers were overwhelmed with so much alcohol.When the Communist troops left, there was not a single drop of "foot-washing water" left. It was only because of Mao Yingming's tactics of attacking east and west that the Red Army broke through Jiang's blockade.Now it seems that the best solution is to go around Yunnan.Mao pretended to attack the provincial capital of Guizhou.Because Chiang's army is there to sit back and relax, waiting for the final victory.Mao said to the troops dispatched to contain the enemy: "As long as the enemy in Yunnan is transferred out, it will be victory."

In April 1935, Mao led his troops into Yunnan. This place in Yunnan is adjacent to Vietnam, and Mao encountered the scorching heat of spring here.The seedlings in the rice fields are lush and green, and the round and flat mountains are surrounded by bright wild flowers and flying butterflies.But he had to endure the scorching blast.Jiang Xiang, a bee chasing flowers, has arrived in Kunming with 100,000 elite troops under his personal command. Mao launched another feint attack on Kunming.This allowed him to cross the Yangtze River. — This section of the Yangtze River is called the Jinsha River, which separates Yunnan from Sichuan.The slopes of the mountains in the area where the Jinsha River passes drop down at a rate of 18 feet per mile, so the torrents of the river rush down through the mountains and rocks.Convinced that he had trapped the Red Army on the desolate banks of the river, Chiang ordered all ferries near the Red Army's route to be burned.

However, Mao's resourcefulness made up for what was lacking in manpower and weapons.When Lin Biao led the troops to attack Kunming, and another army struggled to build a bamboo bridge under Jiang's nose, Mao quickly sent a battalion of troops westward to another ferry.Due to the camouflage and appearance to the enemy, the Communist Party's army can boldly set out to cross the Jinsha River.These stories of peasant uprisings are not inferior to the stories of peasant uprisings in Mao's insatiable classical novels. The advance team, dressed as policemen, Kuomintang scouts, and tax collectors, crossed the swift river in a wooden boat and entered the courtyard of the defenders. They found them playing mahjong with their guns leaning against the wall, and immediately paid them all. off their weapons.Chiang Kai-shek is cunning and resourceful but not flexible enough. He did not expect that the ferry here should also be burned.During the next nine days, six large ferries took the Red Army across the Jinsha River and into Sichuan.

The Red Army entered areas where ethnic minorities live in concentrated communities. In this wild land, people's way of life is also extremely barbaric and ignorant.For them, Mao had to combine principle and flexibility. He insisted that his troops treat the local tribal people with courtesy, even to the looting 㑩㑩 people (a tribe of the Yi people)*, and the Red Army paid silver dollars for every chicken or every tael of grain.This is because Mao always believed that compatriots of ethnic minorities were abused in the old China, and they should be equal members in the future socialist China.

But Mao also stoked tribal strife in order to profit from it.The tactics he used were reminiscent of his treatment of the bandits at Jinggangshan, and they also foreshadowed the balance of power strategy of the PRC's foreign policy in the 1970s. Mao found that 㑩㑩 people were divided into "white 㑩 㑩" and "black 㑩 㑩".The mutual hatred between the two was no less than the mutual hatred between the Red Army and the Kuomintang, which made him lean to the black 㑩 㑩 side.He told them that not all Han people are bad, just like not all 㑩㑩 are bad.He suggested that the Blacks should stand with the Red Army against their common enemy, the "White" Han (Chiang Kai-shek).

Before long, one of Mao's generals made a blood alliance with a local chieftain, kowtowed to the queen of the country, and promised to give her two hundred guns and one thousand silver dollars to mercifully allow the Red Army to pass through her territory. -------------------------- *One of Mao's colleagues (who lost both legs in the Long March) later said to Mrs. Edgar Snow: "These 㑩㑩 are the best confiscators, and finding someone better at it than us, we don't Feel happy."⑨ **The leader of the Yi people, Xiaoyedan, who was allied with General Liu Bocheng by blood, is male. ——Correction Note