Chapter 9 1. Cai Tingkai and Peng Dehuai, if there is no fight, there will be no deal

Just two months after the "decisive battle" between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Chiang Kai-shek's backyard caught fire, and Chen Mingshu, Jiang Guangnai, and Cai Tingkai jointly opposed Chiang, and the Fujian Incident that shocked the whole country broke out. The Nineteenth Route Army worked hard to fight the civil war for Chiang Kai-shek, and it can also be said to be the old enemy of Zhu Mao's Red Army. For the first "encirclement and suppression", Cai Tingkai was one step late.As soon as he entered the Soviet area, Zhang Huizan immediately announced the annihilation of the entire army, and the 19th Route Army fled after hearing the news.

In the second "encirclement and suppression", the 19th Route Army had just finished defending Songhu.The CCP once supported these anti-Japanese soldiers, so it does not want to make it worse.Although Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai went deep into the territory of Ningdu in the Soviet area, the Red Army did not move him. Instead, Wang Jinyu of the Fifth Route Army, Sun Lianzhong of the 26th Route Army, and Zhu Shaoliang of the Sixth Route Army were injured and their bones were broken. In the third "encirclement and suppression", the Red Army was no longer polite.Peng Dehuai, Teng Daiyuan's Third Army, Chen Yi's Jiangxi Military Region, and Cai Tingkai's three divisions fought fiercely for three days and two nights in Xingguo's Xingguo territory. Tens of thousands of troops were killed in a small area.Later, when Cai Tingkai described the bloody battle in his autobiography, he wrote: The Red Army rushed towards me with its most powerful troops and Peng Dehuai's army of officers.Our army was strongly oppressed by it, and the whole line was slightly shaken.Commander Shen Guanghan and the division headquarters of the 60th Division didn't know the situation on the front line, and they were not calm. At this critical moment, they were affected by the rout and retreated more than ten miles in the direction of Xingguo without authorization.Even the staff at the headquarters and my entourage also fled, which was quite chaotic, and the radio also sent out emergency calls.When I saw this scene, I was extremely critical and wanted to commit suicide to die for my country...

The Nineteenth Route Army can indeed fight.In the battle of Gaoxingwei, although the Red Army wiped out 3,000 of them, they also suffered more than 1,000 casualties.In Peng Dehuai's Third Army, only cadres above the platoon level injured 66 people and killed 43 people.Zou Ping, acting commander of the Fourth Division of the Third Army Corps, was killed, and Teng Daiyuan, political commissar of the Third Army Corps, was injured. From then on, the two armies of Peng Dehuai and Cai Tingkai confronted each other, and they were at odds with each other. In July 1933, Peng Dehuai's Eastern Army entered Fujian to fight, and the troops pointed directly at his old enemy Cai Tingkai.Attacking Quanshang, conquering Pengkou, and recovering Liancheng, the Eastern Army was invincible and unstoppable, and it easily ate a regiment and a brigade of Cai Tingkai.The 87th Division of Shounian, the most elite main force of the Cai Department, was beaten into a panic by Li Tianyou and Mao Benhu's 12th Regiment of the Fifth Red Division of the Eastern Army. It ran 90 kilometers all day and night, like a bereaved dog.Commander Ou Shounian said sadly: "This failure is the greatest shame of our army."

In mid-August, the Eastern Army even Keyangkou and Xiayang besieged Jiangle, Shunchang, and Yanping. On August 18, Cai Tingkai's trump card army, known as the "iron army" that has never been defeated, the 366th Regiment of the 61st Division of the 19th Route Army, was defeated by the Li Tianyou Regiment of the Fifth Division of Peng Dehuai's Eastern Army in the Qinshan area. Annihilated in one fell swoop, the regiment's flag and more than 20 light and heavy machine guns all became the spoils of the Red Army... Looking back on the "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army, Cai Tingkai's scalp was numb.After several years of fighting, nothing was caught.

Not only losing soldiers and generals, but also being reviled and resented by the people of the whole country and their subordinates, it can be said that they suffer at both ends, and they are not human inside and out.Lao Jiang kept urging him behind his buttocks, blaming him for not being active in "advancing and suppressing"; in front of him, Peng Dehuai's Eastern Army was ready to fight, and soldiers could not be attacked.Cai Tingkai said: "If you fight, you will be wiped out by the Red Army; if you don't fight, you will not be able to pay the job in front of Chiang Kai-shek, and you will not be able to survive."

Lao Jiang was not benevolent, and the 19th Route Army was not righteous.So, forced to go to Liangshan, Cai Tingkai simply took the third way: unite with the Communist Party and oppose Chiang. It took a lot of trouble for the Nineteenth Route Army to fight against Chiang Kai-shek and the Communist Party. On the evening of August 30, 1933, Huang Qixiang entertained guests at his home in Shanghai.Zhang Bojun, Peng Zexiang, Liu Bochui and Mai Chaoshu were present at the same table.At dinner time, the evening paper arrived, and it was published: The 19th Route Army fought against the Red Army in Fujian and suffered a major defeat; Qu Shounian's division was wiped out in Liancheng; Tan Qixiu's division was defeated in Yanping and withdrew from Shuikou; the Red Army is about to go to Fuzhou .Everyone was shocked when they saw this news, because everyone here has more or less relationship with the 19th Route Army, whether in private or in public, they must try to save the 19th Route Army.Everyone estimated at the time that Jiang Zhongzheng was deliberately destroying the 19th Route Army, and now he is using the Red Army to achieve his goal, and he will definitely not deploy more reinforcements.The Guangdong army was also restrained by the Red Army in southern Jiangxi, and had no troops to transfer.In this way, the Nineteenth Route Army could only sit and wait for death.In the end, Peng Zexiang said: "All kinds of ideas now are difficult to achieve practical results. It is best to negotiate with the person in charge of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai, explaining that the 19th Route Army is an anti-Japanese and anti-Chiang army. It should be said that it is an army that is on the same road as the revolution. The Red Army should not Eliminate it; if the Red Army wiped out the 19th Route Army, it happened to fall into Chiang Kai-shek's plan to kill people with a knife. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is required to transfer the leader of the Red Army to order to stop the attack first, and then discuss the specific conditions. This will definitely be accepted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In addition There is no other way."

Everyone agreed that this was a good idea, but they didn't know whether the 19th Route Army could follow suit, and it was agreed that Huang Qixiang would write a letter to Chen Mingshu in Hong Kong.After Chen received the letter, the letter replied that Mei Gongbin had been sent to Shanghai to meet with the CCP, and they could cooperate nearby.However, after repeated discussions, no positive results were obtained. Cai Tingkai was very anxious.As soon as Chen Mingshu arrived in Fuzhou, he asked scoldingly: "You keep saying that you have got in touch with the Communist Party, and now the Red Army is going eastward with all its strength to destroy our army. Is this cooperation?"

Chen Mingshu was helpless: "If the cooperation is not successful, of course the hostilities will not be stopped!" After spending a lot of thought, Chen Mingshu thought of a person, and that was Chen Gongpei.Chen Mingshu said to Chen: "The Nineteenth Route Army wants to cooperate with the Communist Party, but it has nothing to do with it, and no suitable candidates can be found. You have worked for Zhou Enlai and Zhu De, so you should find a way to contact them." Chen Gongpei came to Fuzhou from Hong Kong and met Cai Tingkai and Jiang Guangnai.Because it was recommended by Chen Mingshu, Jiang and Cai felt that it was reliable.Therefore, it was decided that Chen Gongpei, as a representative of the 19th Route Army, would go to the front to negotiate with Peng Dehuai of the Eastern Army.

This is a matter of great importance, so be very careful.Jiang Guangnai wrote a confidential letter to Peng Dehuai with silk, expressing his willingness to accept the proposition of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Red Army to stop the civil war and jointly resist Japan, and proposed that the two sides first stop the war and send representatives to each other for peace talks. In order to be safe, Cai Tingkai personally drove Chen Gongpei from Fuzhou to the front line of Shuikou in a car, and handed him a code book. Chen Gongpei disguised himself as a farmer in central Fujian, and hid the secret silk letter in his underwear belt.

The Nineteenth Route Army on the Yanping front line supplemented the first brigade commander Situ Fei, under the order of Cai Tingkai, sent Chen Gongpei secretly to the front line. On September 22, Chen Gongpei arrived at the headquarters of the Eastern Army—Wangtai Township, sixty miles southwest of Yanping County. Here, he met Peng Dehuai, commander of the Eastern Army, Teng Daiyuan, political commissar, and Yuan Guoping, director of the Political Department. After Peng Dehuai read the letter of peace talks between Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai, he immediately called Xiang Ying, acting chairman of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the front army, and Zhou Enlai, chief political commissar.

In the early morning of the next day, Peng Dehuai received a telegram from the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China about negotiating with Jiang and Cai: In the morning of the Central Bureau, Peng Dehuai, Teng Daiyuan, Yuan Guoping and Chen Gongpei negotiated. Chen Gongpei said that there are three reasons for coming here: the Communist Party has a joint anti-Japanese statement; the 19th Route Army is willing to join forces with the Red Army to overthrow imperialism and its greatest tool, Chiang Kai-shek; After Peng Dehuai reiterated the three conditions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to resist Japan, he pointed out: the 19th Route Army was right to resist Japan, and it was wrong to enter Fujian to "suppress the Communist Party".Chiang Kai-shek pursued the traitorous policy of "to fight against the outside world, we must first settle down at home", and to resist Japan, we must oppose Chiang.It was Chiang Kai-shek's conspiracy to use the 19th Route Army to "suppress the Communist Party". Both "suppression of the Communist Party" and the elimination of the Nineteenth Route Army were beneficial to Chiang Kai-shek. Chen Gongpei further talked about some guarantees made by Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai, such as "stop attacking the Soviet area", "release the Communists", "cancel the economic blockade", etc., but at the same time demanded that "the Red Army withdraw from Yangkou" and "use Taining, Jiangle, Jian Ning, Qingliu, and Liancheng are the boundaries", "keep the secret of the content of the treaty" and so on. Peng Dehuai, Teng Daiyuan, and Yuan Guoping responded to the various items raised by Chen Gongpei in accordance with the spirit of the Central Bureau's telegram.Peng Dehuai pointed out: "In order to expand the national revolutionary war and implement the repeated declarations of the Soviet central government, the Red Army and the 19th Route Army signed a joint combat agreement on the basis of the negotiations against Japan and Chiang Kai-shek. Japan and all imperialism are out of China." Chen Gongpei saw that Peng Dehuai, Teng Daiyuan, and Yuan Guoping were sincere and reasonable, and had no objection, so he used the Dongfang Army radio station to call Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai, asking for a reply within 48 hours. Peng Dehuai, who was born in the army, was negotiating for the first time.As the supreme commander of the Eastern Army, he held a special luncheon and warmly entertained the Fujian envoys who had been fighting under artillery fire for several years. Peng Dehuai recalled in his "Self-Report": Let's entertain, we just use washbasins to serve vegetables and rice.Washing your face and feet with a washbasin has been followed until the War of Resist America and Aid Korea returned to China, and this traditional practice was changed. We invited him to dinner, and the pork and duck in the big basin were all bought from local tyrants. Later, when the central government heard about this method of hospitality, it was very unhappy, thinking it was too simple, and blamed Peng Dehuai for not paying enough attention to this matter.This point is reflected in Article 3 of the Central Bureau’s instruction telegram to Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, Peng Dehuai, and Teng Daiyuan on the negotiation on September 25: Please pay special attention to not obstructing our active actions because of the negotiation. At the same time, the negotiation should be regarded as a An important political move, not a simple gimmick.In the negotiations, only use the name of the Red Army to command, and pay special attention not to disclose any military secrets of our army in speech and conditions. The attitude of the central government says to "take it seriously", but it is changing quickly, and it is a bit of a change.In the morning, he telegraphed that "it is an important political move, not a simple trick". At 9 o'clock in the evening, in the name of Xiang Ying, he called Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, Peng Dehuai, and Teng Daiyuan, asking Peng to "play a trick": At present, the end of the war in our army Going north on the east front to eliminate Jiang's enemy aid troops in Fujian (the Military Commission has ordered otherwise), we must not have high hopes for Gongpei. Sign an anti-imperialist and anti-Chiang war agreement with them.The soldiers in Xiqin can be retreated first.But be absolutely careful not to expose our army's intentions, but to actually concentrate our forces. Please proceed as appropriate. Peng Dehuai has a straightforward personality, frank and frank, and likes to understand people and not do dark things.The repeated telegrams from the central government made him a little confused.He later heard from Teng Daiyuan that Bogu said that "the third party is worse than the Kuomintang and is more deceptive to the people." Peng Dehuai felt more and more confused. Peng Dehuai wrote in his recollections: Although I disagree with their view of closed-doorism, I feel that I can't come up with any reason. At this time, I had a sense of inferiority, and felt that intellectuals always had other crooked reasons.For example, the last time I called to blame the poor reception, I didn't pay enough attention to it, and now I say that the third party is worse than the Kuomintang.This is not paying enough attention! What harm does it do us if he opposes Chiang Kai-shek and resists Japan?If I had read the book "Analysis of the Classes in Rural China" at that time, I would have criticized them, but I did not have any critical ability of Marxism at that time.Before I joined the party, I had only read one copy of "ABC of Communism" and one copy of "Popular Capital". At that time, I was also a member of the party for the sixth year. Marxism-Leninism had not yet touched the edge. How much I needed a revolutionary theoretical weapon!Is there a passion for revolution? I still have to ask myself. Peng Dehuai wrote a brilliant stroke in the first negotiation. On the 27th, Peng and Teng called Zhu De and Zhou Enlai and transferred them to Xiang Ying, reporting to the 19th Route Army that "under our concessions, it is possible to accept our side's considerable conditions." On the 28th, Peng Dehuai sent someone to escort Chen Gongpei out of the Soviet area to return to the 19th Route Army.Chen Gongpei brought a letter from Peng Dehuai to Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai.Peng Dehuai praised Jiang and Cai's proposition of opposing Jiang and resisting Japan. At the same time, he asked Jiang and Cai to send representatives to Ruijin to formally negotiate with the Central Committee of our party. The Red Army and the Nineteenth Route Army ceased hostilities and began to support each other to a certain extent.