Chapter 37 3. Zhou Enlai's coded telegram: "Changgong, the pigeon you fed has flown"

On October 7, a group of people entered the white area from the red area and drove to Junmenling, the junction of Chibai. The leaders are He Changgong and Pan Hannian. Junmen Ridge, a small town in Huichang County, strangles the southern throat of Huichang. It is known as "Iron Gate Ridge". Yan Yingyu, the brigade commander of the second brigade of Chen Jitang's sole division, had already ordered his confidant, Yan Zhen, the company commander of the brigade's special agent company, to lead his subordinates and four bearers, and two sedan chairs were waiting here. As soon as He Changgong and Pan Hannian came, Company Commander Yan said quietly: "Mr. He, we have heard and seen the Red Army's propaganda about uniting and resisting Japan. We and your army are all descendants of Yan and Huang. I really don't want to see the Chinese attack China. We welcome Mr. He and Mr. Pan to come to talk." He and Mr. Pan got into the sedan chair and were escorted by the spy company.Whenever he was questioned by the sentry, Company Commander Yan would shout loudly: "This is a distinguished guest invited by the commander."

He ordered the sentries to retreat.The bearers trekked all the way, and the two sedan chairs passed the checkpoint smoothly, and were carried to Luotang Town, 40 miles away from Yunmen Ridge, and stopped in front of a brand new two-story small western-style building.He and Pan who came out of the sedan chair were all dressed in suits, sunglasses, straw hats, and looked like rich young masters. Representatives of the Cantonese Army Yang Youmin and Li Zongsheng have long been waiting in front of the house. The two sides meet, shake hands, and exchange greetings. After the ceremony, Pan Hannian handed Yang Youmin a letter written by Zhu De:

The "Pan Jianxing" in the letter is Pan Hannian. A year ago, under the order of Mao Zedong and Luo Fu, Pan Hannian and Wu Liangping secretly negotiated with the 19th Route Army and signed an agreement to jointly fight against Chiang Kai-shek and Japan.Jiang Guangnai and Cai Yankai hoped that the Communist Party would support them.It is a pity that the leader of Wang Ming's "Left" line did not know how to use the internal contradictions of the enemy to win over all possible allies, and he completely obeyed the orders of the advisers of the Communist International.When Chief Military Advisor Manfred.When Stern expressed his opposition, he broke his promise and breached the contract, and missed the opportunity to smash the fifth "encirclement and suppression". After suppressing the Fujian People's Revolutionary Government, Chiang Kai-shek was able to calmly turn his guns and refocus his forces to attack the CCP's base areas. a crisis situation.

learn from past experience.Pan Hannian was silently praying whether this negotiation would be successful: I hope this trip is worthwhile. On the second day, the negotiation was held in a small conference room on the second floor of Xiaoyang Building where He Changgong and Pan Hannian lived. The brigade commander Yan Yingyu knew that the matter was of great importance, so he specially sent Han Zongsheng, chief of staff of the brigade and director of the military law department, to be responsible for the reception and security work.In order to strengthen the security, Brigadier Yan also replaced all the soldiers standing guard with Hakka children who are closest to him.

Negotiations are going on secretly and intensely.Following the instructions of Zhou Enlai and Zhu De, He Changgong and Pan Hannian were calm and courageous, combined firmness of principle with flexibility in strategy, and together with Chen Jitang's representatives, stopped fighting, lifted the blockade, resumed trade, resumed communication, exchanged intelligence and resisted Japan. Jiang and other matters have been discussed repeatedly, and both sides have put forward their own suggestions and conditions. After three days and three nights of negotiations, five agreements were finally reached: 1. Cease fighting on the spot and cancel the hostile situation; 2. Exchange intelligence and report by cable; 3. Lift the blockade; Chen's defense area is set up in the rear, and a hospital is established; 5. If necessary, they can borrow from each other. The Red Army will tell Chen in advance if there is an action, and Chen will withdraw forty miles to let the Red Army pass.The Red Army only used the road to go west, and guaranteed not to enter the hinterland of Guangdong.Red Army personnel entered Chen's defense zone with Chen's passport.

When the negotiations entered into one-by-one confirmation, Zhou Enlai sent a previously agreed telegram to the Cantonese Army Radio through the Red Army Headquarters Radio Station: "Chang Gong, the pigeon you fed has flown." He Changgong was surprised when he read the secret telegram.Because he knew that due to Wang Ming's blind command of "Left" adventurism, the fifth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression" finally failed, and the Red Army would soon make a strategic shift.However, the emotions of heaviness, resentment, and grief cannot be revealed at the negotiating table.

Despite this, the representative of the Guangdong Army still asked sensitively: "Are you going to fly away?" He Changgong responded very quickly, and immediately replied in a calm and tactful tone: "No. It means that the negotiation was successful and the dove of peace has gone to heaven!" Seeing that He Changgong was calm and calm, and his answers sounded reasonable, the representative of the other party stopped talking. He Changgong and Pan Hannian couldn't sit still.As soon as the five items were determined and the goal had been achieved, the negotiations were immediately concluded and hurried to Huichang.

But it was still a step too late.The Central Revolutionary Military Commission has been transferred from Ruijin to Yudu.Zhou Enlai specially sent someone to wait here, and left a note: Comrade Changgong, I am waiting for you all. Therefore, He Changgong and Pan Hannian rushed to Yudu without stopping, and reported the negotiation situation to Zhou Enlai in detail.Zhou Enlai was very happy to learn that the negotiations were successful and five agreements were reached.He held the hands of He Changgong and Pan Hannian very forcefully and said: "This negotiation is very good. It will play a major role in the breakthrough and transfer of our Red Army and the central government. In other words, it will make the central government officially determine the start of the Long March." Time and direction of breakout."

The development of the war situation is just as Zhou Enlai said. In mid-October, the Red Army began to make a strategic shift to the Jiangxi and Guangdong borders, choosing what Chiang Kai-shek thought was the "unfavorable road", which Chiang Kai-shek had never even dreamed of in advance. At the end of September, Chiang Kai-shek was complacent because he believed that the victory of the fifth "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the central base area was within sight, and on October 5 he and Song Meiling traveled from Lushan Mountain to North China and Northwest China with peace of mind, peddling his "to fight against the outside world, we must first secure the inside" counter-revolutionary policy.Unexpectedly, within a week, they received a report from the Nanchang camp that the main force of the Red Army showed signs of breaking through, and that the forward had passed Xinfengjiang's emergency information.

Chiang Kai-shek couldn't sit still anymore, left Song Meiling behind and hurried back to Nanchang, and immediately summoned his staff to study countermeasures.Chiang Kai-shek took it for granted that the direction of action of the Red Army would be from southern Jiangxi to southern Hunan, or after entering southern Hunan, exit the Hubei-Anhui Soviet area and then northward, so he quickly dispatched troops and generals, focusing on Hunan to prevent the Red Army from advancing westward and northward. Unexpectedly, the Red Army had already made an appointment to "excuse the way", but chose Guangdong as a breakthrough.

What Chiang Kai-shek didn't expect was that Chen Jitang, the commander-in-chief of the South Route Army who was ordered to attack and suppress, actually "secretly communicated with each other" and reached one agreement after another with the Red Army, and conveyed each agreement to the senior generals above the frontline major general.At the same time, all ministries were strictly ordered "not to attack unless the enemy attacks us; not to shoot unless the enemy attacks us". As a result, the Red Army successfully broke through the first blockade line arranged by Chiang Kai-shek on October 21 and entered the territory of Nanxiong in northern Guangdong without any effort. Chiang Kai-shek was shocked to learn that the Red Army had broken through the first blockade.Jiang urgently ordered Nanchang to go to the camp and sent a telegram to Chen Jitang of the Cantonese Army and He Jian of the Hunan Army to dispatch troops quickly, and set up a second blockade line between Rucheng, Renhua and Lechang on the border of Hunan and Guangdong to block them.All air teams in Jiangxi and Hunan were ordered to dispatch to coordinate operations in an attempt to intercept the Red Army within the second and third blockade lines and wipe them out. At this time, Chen Jitang ordered Li Hanhun, director of appeasement in the North District and commander of the Shaoguan theater, to lead the Independent Third Division and the Independent Guard Brigade to set up defenses near Renhua, Lechang, and Rucheng. When Li Hanhun gave the task to his subordinates, he said: Commander-in-Chief Chen has reached an agreement with the Communist Party not to invade each other. The Communist Party only makes excuses and does not invade our territory in Guangdong.We promise not to intercept.Passages were designated on the borders of Guangdong, Hunan and Guangdong and Jiangxi as routes for the Red Army to pass through. Li Hanhun solemnly warned the security brigade: Be kind to the front line and serve as the outpost of our army. It is estimated that most of the Red Army will pass through your brigade's defense area.It is easy to fight the Communist Party, but it is not easy to avoid contact at all.Therefore, you must be more careful and must implement the agreement carefully.There is no need to pass on the matter of negotiating with the Communist Party.If the enemy does not shoot at me, I will not shoot; if the enemy does not attack me, I will not attack. This must be enforced as battlefield discipline. After the Independent Third Division and the various units of the Guard Brigade arrived at the Lechang and Renhua lines, the main force was deployed to the south of the Baishun and Ertang lines.Major General Huang Guoliang, deputy brigade commander of the Guard Brigade, also kept some officers who hated the Communist Party in Shaoguan and prevented them from going to the front. After the Red Army entered Guangdong, they conscientiously implemented the negotiation agreement, did not enter the hinterland of Guangdong, and only marched westward along the borders of Guangdong, Hunan, and Jiangxi. On November 8 and 15, they passed the second and third lanes without being stubbornly blocked by the Guangdong army. blockade. Chiang Kai-shek's plan fell through again. Chiang Kai-shek's plans fell through again and again, and his deployment was disrupted again and again. Finally, he realized that Chen Jitang was trying to preserve his strength. The Communist bandits fled to the west, and if they were not intercepted, our National Revolutionary Army would be stained forever. The plan is to concentrate 27 regiments and intercept them between Lanshan, Jiahe, and Linwu to redeem the predecessors. Otherwise, the chairman of the committee Enforce the law." Fearing that it would be difficult to "account" to Jiang in the future, Chen Jitang quickly destroyed all the documents negotiating with the Red Army, and ordered Ye Zhao, Li Hanhun, Li Zhenqiu and other divisions to chase the Red Army into Hunan along Tangcun and Pingshiwei in Lechang. However, at this time the Red Army was far away westward.