Chapter 49 2. On October 10, Chen Yi learned the secret of the "Great Transfer"

After sending Li De away, Xiang Ying immediately went to the Central Hospital to visit Chen Yi, ignoring the sleepiness of the night. Chen Yi was shot and injured in the ischium in the Xingguo Xingguo Xingxu Battle on August 28. He was then the commander-in-chief of the Western Army of the Red Army and the commander of the Jiangxi Military Region.At first Chen Yi thought his injury was insignificant, so he was treated in the front field hospital.Within a few days, his injury suddenly deteriorated, and he could hardly get off the ground. He was carried to Ruijin Meikeng Central General Hospital on a stretcher.The people living there are all senior provincial and military cadres who came down from the front line.

I was transferred to the Central Hospital. Although it was much better than the field hospital, the war environment at that time was very poor. Although the hospital had an X-ray machine, it didn't have a generator, so it still couldn't be operated on.Chen Yi stayed in the Central Hospital for several months, but he was unable to undergo an operation. The shrapnel was in his body, and his injuries did not improve. The Central Hospital is only 200 meters away from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Chen Yi has been hospitalized for so long, and he has never seen the main person in charge of the Central Committee come to visit him.In Bo Gu's eyes, Chen Yi is a man of Mao Zedong's line.

Chen Yi has followed Mao Zedong for a long time. In March 1928, he and Zhu De led the Shonan uprising to Jinggangshan.Zhu Mao joined forces to form the Fourth Red Army, with Zhu De as the commander, Mao Zedong as the party representative, and Chen Yi as the director of the Political Department and the commander of the 12th Division.In the Fourth Red Army, Chen Yi's status was second only to Zhu Mao. In January 1929, he, Mao Zedong, and Zhu De marched to southern Jiangxi and western Fujian to establish a central base area. In the long-term revolutionary war, Chen Yi and Mao Zedong forged a deep revolutionary relationship, and Chen Yi became Mao Zedong's loyal comrade-in-arms and a staunch implementer of Mao Zedong's line.

The main force of the Red Army "transferred", and Bogu and Li De left Chen Yi behind. The excuse was simple, he was injured and he was inconvenient to move.But at the same time, there is another consideration. Xiang Ying's political leadership is somewhat lacking in military affairs. Although Chen Yi was seriously injured, he was good at fighting and had great influence in the Soviet area.If he stays, he has a certain appeal and can also stabilize people's hearts.Bo Gu and Li De also had scruples about Chen Yi: after all, he was not in tune with the central line, and he was worried about entrusting the military command to him.Therefore, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission left and established the Central Military Region to command all the remaining Red Army and local armed forces. Xiang Ying served as commander and political commissar, but Chen Yi failed to take up his post.

On the eve of the "big transfer", Chen Yi was aware of it, because the general hospital also started to move, medical equipment began to be packed and bundled, and the things of the central government not far away were moved in and out, and they were extremely busy. Chen Yi said to the patients: "There may be a big move." Chen Yi officially learned of the "Great Transfer" on October 10, the day the central authorities withdrew from Meikeng and headed for Yudu.Zhou Enlai, vice chairman of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission and general political commissar of the Red Army, came to visit Chen Yi on behalf of the Central Committee and informed him.

Zhou Enlai said to Chen Yi: "The central government has decided that you will persist in the struggle. You have rich experience in struggle, especially the experience in the struggle in Jinggangshan and the experience of several anti-'encirclement and suppression' campaigns in the Soviet area. I believe you will be able to rely on the masses and the leadership of the party. to victory." Zhou Enlai also told Chen Yi the decision of the Central Committee: after the withdrawal of the Central Committee and the Military Commission, the Central Branch and the Central Government Office will be established in the Soviet area.Xiang Ying, secretary of the Central Sub-bureau, and members Qu Qiubai, Chen Yi, Chen Tanqiu, and He Chang.Chen Yi, Director of the Central Government Office, and Liang Baitai, Deputy Director.

After sending Li De away, Xiang Ying hurried to the hospital to see Chen Yi. He knew that Chen Yi was a soldier and wanted to see what Chen Yi thought about the future. Xiang Ying was very enthusiastic about Chen Yi, asked questions, brought water and medicine himself, was very concerned about Chen Yi's condition, and asked the dean to use the best medicine.Xiang Ying said to Chen Yi: "After your illness is cured, we will work hard together." The next day, Chen Yi was taken to the Central Sub-bureau on a stretcher by someone sent by Xiang Ying. However, Xiang Ying did not expect that Chen Yi's estimation of the current situation was far from his.

That night, Xiang Ying had a disagreement with Chen Yi when he conveyed the central government's deployment and discussed future struggles at the central branch meeting. The Red Army remaining in the Central Soviet Area included the 24th Division and the 3rd, 7th, and 11th Independent Regiments; the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Regiments of the Jiangxi Military Region; the 6th Regiment of the Jiangxi Military Region; There are more than 16,000 people in the thirteenth regiment of the division, the Dengxian independent regiment and the independent battalions in various counties. Xiang Ying was keen on fighting with large corps. He advocated "creating new divisions and new corps", and also proposed "preparing to cooperate with the main force of the Red Army to launch a counterattack."In Xiang Ying's plan, in addition to expanding the team and setting up a large stall, he also planned to set up a military school and an arsenal. Everything was the same as in the past, and he hoped to build a big base again.

He is unwilling to distribute capable cadres to localities, and he is unwilling to distribute more decent weapons and equipment to local troops and guerrillas.On the contrary, he advocated reorganizing the local guerrillas into independent regiments, and enriching the wounded and sick who were barely discharged from the hospital into the main force of the Red 24th Division.Xiang Ying said: "We have the main twenty-four divisions, plus the independent regiment, these ten regiments can wipe out one division of the enemy." Xiang Ying hopes to fight a tough battle, a big one.He talked a lot, talked very optimistically, and seemed to see victory not far away.

On the contrary, Chen Yi thought a lot about the difficulties and regarded the situation as more serious. Chen Yi proposed to change the old way of struggle. "In the past, it was a large-scale base area. The Red Army was expanded, food was collected in surprise, arranged from above, slogans were posted, newspapers were published, news was released, large corps fought regularly, and operations were performed on maps; hospital depots were set up, grass and grain were stored; the government spread out Office work, concierge sending and receiving, signing receipts, documents are clearly copied, printed, and distributed in many copies at a time; meetings take one week, ten days, and a person in charge reports three days and three nights. From the perspective of the international situation... All of this is gone, and they must be put away. Everyone takes off their military uniforms, puts on plain clothes, carries their guns, and fights guerrillas, so that the enemy cannot find their targets. The prefectural and county committees are the commanders and guerrilla captains. In twos and threes, Seven or eight, get him hundreds or thousands of guerrillas, and see how you can catch them all? We fight sparrow warfare. There are dozens or hundreds of sparrow groups, and you can destroy one group, but not dozens or several groups. Hundreds."

Chen Yi had no hope for the victory of the field army. He believed that the field army could not stand in southern Hunan, nor in western Hunan, nor in Guizhou, nor in Yunnan, Sichuan, or even further afield. Don't plan to rely on the main force at all. If you can't get in touch, you can only rely on ourselves.The enemy's hundreds of thousands of troops are keeping a close eye on the field army, and it's fine if they don't get wiped out.They control them, we control us. Chen Yi also proposed that the 24th Division and the Independent Regiment be dispersed to various counties as the backbone of guerrilla warfare.Senior party cadres unable to fight guerrillas were transferred out of the soviet areas. What Chen Yi said made Xiang Ying very unhappy, thinking that it was completely "failure emotion".As one of the main instructors in the early stage of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, Xiang Ying was of course afraid that others would say "failure". He blamed Chen Yi and said: "You are in a bad mood, pessimistic and disappointed." Chen Yi was not convinced, and said: "I have never been pessimistic or disappointed about the revolution! Admitting failure is not pessimism and disappointment, but an expression of political strength." Seeing what Chen Yi said, Xiang Ying asked, "Do you want to leave, leave the Central Soviet Area?" "I don't plan to do this now." Chen Yi said, "I just hope that the wound will heal. Anyway, the collapse of the Central Soviet Area will not take a day or two, at least it will take two or three months. My injury is healed, and I can walk. Run, there will be no problem." Chen Yi also said: "I will not leave. I want to stay when the central government has a mission. It can always serve as a call to action. There are more than 10,000 wounded soldiers left in the Central Soviet Area, and I am one of them. If I stay, the wounded will also die." There's nothing to say, I'm a senior commander after all." Obviously, Chen Yi's views have completely changed the "order" mission assigned by the Central Committee to the Central Bureau, and Xiang Ying did not dare to express his opinion rashly. Party discipline is that subordinates obey their superiors.Xiang Ying is a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and the secretary of the Central Branch Bureau, while Chen Yi is only a member of the Central Branch Bureau and the director of the Central Government Office.Xiang Ying has the final say on the decision-making power in the Central Soviet Area. On October 20, 1934, Xiang Ying published an article entitled "Launching an Extensive Mass Guerrilla Warfare to Defend the Central Soviet Area" in the 243rd issue of "Red China", calling on the soldiers and civilians in the Soviet area to "all arm themselves, organize guerrillas, and join guerrilla groups." , develop the most extensive mass guerrilla warfare, and successfully defend our Central Soviet Area". On the second day after the main force of the Central Red Army broke through the Guangdong Army's Xinfeng, Anyuan and Wangmudu blockades, Xiang Ying received an order from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission to formally establish the Central Military Region, with Xiang Ying as the commander and political commissar, and Gong Chu as the staff officer. He Chang served as director of the Political Department. Gong Chu, a native of Heyuan, Guangdong, joined the Communist Party of China in 1926 and participated in the Southern Shonen Uprising and the struggle in Jinggangshan. At the end of 1931, it entered the Central Soviet Area from Shanghai.He successively served as the acting commander of the Seventh Red Army, the division commander of the Second Red Independent Division, the commander of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Military Region, and the chief of staff and commander of the Southern Jiangxi Military Region.Later, in September 1935, he defected to the enemy and led the Kuomintang army to attack the special committee of the Jiangxi-Guangdong border of the Communist Party of China, creating the "Beishan Incident".On the eve of national liberation, he fled the mainland to Hong Kong and other places to engage in anti-communist activities. In his later years, he returned to his hometown in Guangdong from Hong Kong to settle down. As one wished, Chen Yi recovered quickly after the operation.After a few days he was able to walk around on crutches. Chen Yi presided over the meeting of the central government office, and Liang Baitai, deputy director of the office, attended.The heads of provincial party committees and provincial Soviet governments in the Soviet areas were too late to arrive at Yunshi Mountain in Ruijin due to the urgency of the war.Therefore, the only participants were the heads of some departments of the former central government and the main heads of Ruijin and Xijiang counties. Qiu Jingui, chairman of the Soviet government in Ruijin County at the time, recalled: "Comrade Chen Yi said to all of us: Five times of 'encirclement and suppression', the enemy changed his tactics and used tortoise shell tactics against us. We have not broken the enemy's 'encirclement and suppression' now, the main force of the Red Army It is necessary to move, to attack the enemy on the outer line. The large forces have left, but the Soviet area is still there, the party organizations in the provinces, counties, and districts are still there, and the Soviet government is still there. If the enemy wants to attack us, Ruijin will be controlled by the enemy in Fujian. Come and occupy the Soviet area. In the future the Soviet area may or may not exist. If the field army is dispatched, the enemy will mainly deal with the field army, and the pressure on our Soviet area will be less. This may exist in the Soviet area. When the enemy comes, we will conduct guerrilla warfare with the enemy. War. Comrade Chen Yi told us: We still have four military regions in the Soviet area, and we have 14,000 guns, and an independent 24th division. Jiangxi, Fujian, Fujian and Jiangxi provinces have independent regiments. There are independent battalions in each county. We are fully capable of persisting in the struggle against the enemy. Comrade Chen Yi encouraged us comrades who stayed in the Central Soviet Area to fight, to firmly believe that the revolution will surely win and the enemy will definitely be defeated by us. This meeting was held successfully It was very short, only about an hour. The meeting was held in late October. At this time, the field army had already been dispatched, and on the second day of the meeting, the central government office was moved to Longquanjing, Kuantian, Yudu County." Chen Yi had an ominous premonition about the situation. He told Lai Shaoyao, political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Military Industry Bureau of the central government: "Lao Lai, you are still in charge of the Military Industry Bureau, but don't set up factories like in the past. Destroy it. Keep the machine!" Following Chen Yi's instructions, Lai Shaoyao buried many machines in the arsenal, quilt factory, sanitary material factory, and printing factory in the Kuantian area of ​​the capital, and the workers were also evacuated.Chen Yi recalled: "Knowing that the Central Soviet Area was going to be occupied by the enemy, I carried the machine and ran for dozens of miles, dug a hole in the mountain and buried it, and mobilized it without leaking it. I also personally directed the tungsten sand to be buried in the paddy field. Then It was already November, and the rice had been cut, the rice roots were pulled out, and the tungsten sand was wrapped and buried in it. He also told the common people, no matter what, don’t talk about it, this is the property of the revolution.” The Military Industrial Bureau soon disintegrated itself.Lai Shaoyao was transferred from a cadre at the bureau level of the Central Committee to the independent battalion in Ruijin and Huichang as battalion commander and political commissar.In the spring of 1935, this independent battalion was ordered by the Central Bureau to stick to the Tongbo Mountain Area in Ruijin.Lai Shaoyao recalled: "Actually, the situation was already very tense at this time. Ruijin County had already fallen, and Tongbo Mountain was besieged from all sides. According to the actual situation, at this time the independent battalion should break out of the encirclement and go to the enemy's rear to carry out guerrilla warfare. However, we As the commander of the independent battalion, I mechanically carried out the orders of the central sub-bureau. As a result, the independent battalion was quickly defeated by the enemy, and Tongbo Mountain was also lost. I lost contact with the organization and my brother troops. Later, I transferred to Chongyi , and around Shangyou County to search for organizations, but they were not found.” Lai Shaoyao, a native of Rucheng, Hunan Province, participated in the revolution in 1926.Served as Captain of the Peasant Self-Defense Army in Rucheng County, Hunan Province, Secretary of the Hunan-Guangdong-Jiangxi Border Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Chongyi County Party Committee, Captain of the Red Guards of Nankang and Xinfeng, Commander of the 13th Division of the Fourth Red Army, Political Commissar of the Regiment, and Hospital for the Disabled of the Red Army Dean and political commissar, director of the Chinese Soviet General Post and Telecommunications Bureau.During the War of Liberation, he served as the director of the Post and Telecommunications Administration of Rehe Province.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as director of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Finance and Communications, deputy secretary of the Party Group of the Provincial Economic Commission, and vice chairman of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference. Died of illness in Nanchang in 1992.