Chapter 51 4. In a critical moment, a radio wave came from Zunyi

After the meeting of the Central Sub-bureau, only Xiang Ying, Chen Yi, and He Chang remained in the leadership of the Central Sub-bureau. The instruction letter drafted by Chen Yi was too late, and the situation deteriorated too quickly.The provincial party committees under the central sub-bureau have lost contact.The radio station of Fang Zhimin in Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces was out of order, and the radio station of the Northern Fujian Sub-committee was also out of order. Xiang Ying was very depressed. The Central Sub-bureau can only contact the nearby Gannan Provincial Party Committee.

Chen Yi called Zhong Desheng, the person in charge of the Ruijin County Party Committee, and had a long talk with him, saying: "The only way now is to use the big hills to form a small group, disperse ambushes, and go to the masses to seize the leadership of the surrender team. The landlord is back. , you stay here obediently, we don’t move you, give you food, and use the landlords as a cover; if they are restless, arrest them, and resolutely get rid of their nests. You must hide in the mountains, sleep in the mountains, eat and sleep in the open , don’t go down the mountain. Landlords are unreliable, and some who surrender themselves are unreliable. In any case, don’t disengage from the armed forces, and don’t leave the mountains.”

Zhang Dingcheng and Deng Zihui went to western Fujian according to the decision of the Central Sub-bureau meeting.Before leaving, Chen Yi said to them: "Your old base is in western Fujian. You are familiar with the terrain there and have a great influence among the masses. You should try your best to persist in the guerrilla warfare in western Fujian to reduce the pressure on Jiangxi." Zhang Dingcheng and others left early, moved out of Jiangxi before the enemy closed, arrived in western Fujian safely, and persisted in leading the arduous three-year guerrilla war in western Fujian.

The cadres who were sent out also included: Zhong Xunren, secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, was transferred to Fujian and Jiangxi as the provincial Party Secretary, and Ruan Xiaoxian was transferred from the Central Sub-bureau to be the Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee.The Ruixi Special Committee of the Communist Party of China was established, and Lai Changzuo, secretary of the Fujian and Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, was transferred back to be the secretary of the special committee, and the Ruixi Independent Camp was established; Hu Hai, the land minister, was sent back to the Donggu area to serve as the Communist Party's public (slightly) Wan (An) Xing ( State) Special Committee Secretary, Li Heming was sent to Shengli County to take charge; Luo Mengwen, Organization Director of the Gannan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, appointed Secretary Yang Gan, and some military cadres were transferred from the Red 24th Division and the Independent Regiment, and sent to the local armed forces to strengthen leadership .

When the main Red Army was transferred, nearly 10,000 wounded and sick were left in the Central Soviet Area.By the end of 1934, there were still more than 6,000 people who had not been discharged from the hospital.With the enemy's encirclement shrinking, it is dangerous to congregate thousands of wounded.The Central Sub-bureau decided to evacuate all the wounded. After the Long March, the main force of the Red Army, the Health Department of the Central Military Region was established in the Soviet Area.Wang Lizhong served as minister and political commissar, and Zhang Kai served as director of the political department.After liberation, Zhang Kai served as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China.

Zhang Kai wrote in his memories: There were more than 6,000 wounded in this group, most of them were seriously wounded, and a few were lightly wounded.They were distributed in the Red Army hospitals in Yudu, Ruijin, Bosheng (Ningdu), Xijiang, Shicheng, Ninghua, Changting and the later established Ruixi counties in the Central Soviet Area.Later, these hospitals were successively concentrated in Yudu, Ruixi, Ruijin and other counties, so most of the wounded were also concentrated in these places. In November and early December, it was still relatively calm. At the end of December, the enemy began to "clear up" in different areas.

At this time, the situation became tense.We anticipated this situation, and in order to protect the wounded, we decided to disperse all the seriously wounded and sick to the homes of ordinary people to recuperate and hide, while the lightly wounded were mobilized to return to the army. We divide the wounded and sick who are placed in ordinary people's homes into several groups, and each group has medical personnel who also live in ordinary people's homes.At the same time, three months of money, food and some commonly used medicines were distributed to each wounded and sick, and discipline was announced to the wounded and sick.

At that time, Comrade Chen Yi and I went to a hospital to mobilize the wounded and sick.Comrade Chen Yi himself was a wounded person. At this time, his injury was almost healed. He left the hospital and went to the central government office. By the first ten days of January 1935, all the wounded had been scattered to the homes of ordinary people in Yudu, Ruijin, Ruixi, Changting, and Ningdu counties (mainly Yudu and Ruijin counties). Yuan Xuezu, Director of the Political Department of the 24th Division of the Red Army, was also responsible for the resettlement of some wounded and sick. He said in his memoirs: The hospital I was in charge of mobilizing was stationed in the Dragon King Temple in a compound compound. There were four to five hundred Beds, hundreds of wounded are treated and recuperated here.In order to cooperate with the mobilization and evacuation, comrades from the Workers and Peasants Drama Club also came.

Before the show, I communicated the evacuation political mobilization report.In a short while, there were hundreds of opinions from the wounded and sick to the Political Department, written with brushes, pens, and most of them were written with pencils.Some briefly introduced their combat experience, and some wrote on a piece of paper, "Go to the front line immediately and defend the Soviet regime!" Two lines of big characters, with many names and fingerprints on it.Even the seriously wounded lying on the bed said that they would not leave the army even if they died!These many opinions express a common will: fight to the end for the red regime!

However, this divine will contradicts my disabled and unhealthy body, the serious objective situation, and my mission to come to the hospital.I think these wounded and sick are all loyal to the cause of communism, as long as they explain the truth clearly, they can do their jobs well.So, I first approached Deputy Head Zhou and showed him the evacuation list decided by the Political Department. The evacuation list included the hospital director and political commissar, and Deputy Head Zhou was ranked third.I mobilized him to take the lead in obeying the party's decision and to persuade other comrades together.After repeated mobilization, deputy head Zhou thought through.In this way, the wounded and sick in the entire hospital were quickly evacuated to the homes of ordinary people, and some were mobilized back to their own hometowns.

Chen Yi himself was also wounded.Leaning on crutches, he went to the hospital to mobilize, and said to the villagers who came to help transfer the evacuated wounded: "These Red Army soldiers are very young, and they are the precious wealth of the revolution. You carry these comrades back, hide them, cover them, and heal them." Injury, it’s good to be your son or son-in-law. When their injury is healed, there will be one more labor force and one more vengeful.” Most of the wounded were unwilling to disperse, saying that they would go up the mountain with the troops to fight guerrillas even if they were injured.Chen Yi said to them: "The field army is on the march, and the situation in the Central Soviet Area will be very tense in the future. Everyone must be prepared. Whether it's going back home to farm, fight guerrillas, or recuperate at a fellow villager's home, we must survive. , Maybe the field army will come back, the Soviet area will develop, and you will come back.” The Soviet government and the people in the Soviet area did a lot of work on the transfer, evacuation, placement and treatment of the wounded and sick of the Red Army.A document that has been preserved to this day - "A Letter from the Ruixi County Committee to the Townships in All Districts - Regarding the Protection and Placement of the Wounded and Sick" reads: Xiang Ying and his wife Zhang Liang lived in the home of a peasant woman named Xie Zhaodi.The Central Sub-bureau is also located here. Xie Zhaodi recalled it like this: At that time, Xiang Ying lived in the main room on the right side of the lobby of our new house, and a lesbian lived with him. Later we found out that she was Xiang Ying's wife, surnamed Zhang, and everyone called her instructor Zhang at that time.Instructor Zhang can smoke.She has a girl. During the Spring Festival, my family made some Huangyuan rice crackers. On the first day of the new year, I invited Xiang Ying and his wife to eat rice crackers, drink tea, and talk about homework.We were very affectionate.In order to thank, Instructor Zhang gave me a sweater bought in Shanghai and an old jacket, and Comrade Xiang Ying gave a cotton mosquito net and a silk quilt to the home of another landlord, Zhong Zhengyu.Since the hall is where the Central Branch Office works, we are usually not allowed to enter it.On the day of the Spring Festival, we asked to go to the hall to kill animals and respect our ancestors, but we were allowed. Comrade Xiang Ying laughed at us. On the eighth and ninth day of the first lunar month, they left our place and withdrew in the direction of Bai'e Zikeng.When we were leaving, Xiang Ying's wife said to me: "Sister-in-law, this girl is for you to take, and I will send you money later." I said, "Oh, I have a little girl now, and I am afraid that I will take it with you." No." I didn't accept it, and I don't know where the little girl was deposited later. He Shuheng and Mao Zetan lived in the home of a farmer named Xie Daifa.Xie recalled: Comrade He Shuheng was older, almost sixty, with a long beard.Everyone affectionately called him "He Laozi".Comrade Mao Zetan is young, tall, and likes to joke with others.He likes to ride a horse and goes for a ride every afternoon.Once, as soon as he got on the horse, a naughty child slapped the horse's buttocks hard.The horse ran fast, but Mao Zetan didn't fall off. Probably on the day of the Lantern Festival, Mao Zetan brought nearly a hundred people from White Goose to Jingtang.When I was still in White Goose, he sent me a letter, asking us to make lunch when they came back. After Mao Zetan came, he said to me very politely: "Sister-in-law, come and eat some bowls." I gave him Boiled a bowl of dried vegetables and put some peppers. He happily gave me five-cent Red Army notes.When I refused to pick it up, he said, "If you don't want money, I don't want food." I had no choice but to accept the money.After the meal, there were still some dried vegetables left. I said, "This order also has chili peppers. If you like it, take it with you on the road." After lunch, he led the Red Army soldiers towards Xiaomi.They were transferred to Fujian to break through. Jingtang Village is a remote mountain village in the south of the cadres, with only about 30 households.The central sub-bureau moved here, making it more difficult to communicate with the outside world.Xiang Ying, Chen Yi, and He Chang learned about the outside world mostly through radio stations. When he was still in Ruijin, Chen Yi suggested that senior cadres such as Qu Qiubai, He Shuheng, Chen Zhengren (Vice Chairman of Jiangxi Province Su), Zhou Yisu (chief author of "Red China") and some elderly and infirm people in poor health should be transferred to the White House. At that time, Xiang Ying failed to agree.Now, these people have been transferred to Jingtang Village with the Central Sub-bureau, and Chen Yi once again suggested to Xiang Ying that they should be allowed to leave as soon as possible.Xiang Ying thought over and over again, and finally agreed. Along with the transfer of the Central Sub-bureau, there is Xie Ranzhi, who is the Secretary-General of the Central Government.Xiang Ying and Chen Yi decided to let him break out and go to Shanghai to find a party organization. Before leaving, Chen Yi said to Xie Ranzhi: "Go to lay an ambush, stand firm, be prepared to sacrifice, and don't surrender anyway. The revolution is good for you, but it is also bad. You sacrifice yourself. You are the secretary-general of the central government. It’s the secretary-general of our office again, you know the situation.” However, Xie Ranzhi rebelled after being caught by the enemy.He said to the enemy: "Xiang Ying is short-sighted and can't walk at night; Chen Yi is seriously injured and can't get up. You just need to go in quickly, and these two people can be caught." The enemy's plane dropped leaflets: "Your secretary-general has surrendered, and the national army has given him very good treatment. Now Xiang Ying can't walk at night, and Chen Yi is seriously injured. You have to catch Xiang Ying and Chen Yi and reward Dayang Five." Ten thousand." Xiang Ying said angrily: "He should be caught and shot!" Chen Yi advised him: "No. Anyway, if he wants to surrender, he will surrender, and if he wants to rebel, then he will rebel. Leave him alone. Shooting can't kill so many. The Communist Party can't shoot counter-revolutionaries. The shooting is endless, and the counter-revolutionary shooting of the Communist Party is endless. I can run two steps, and he can catch me? Communists are afraid of death, but can they make revolution? Communists have a way as long as they are not afraid of death. Fire yourself!" Xie Ranzhi was reused by Chiang Kai-shek.Later, he became the Minister of Propaganda of the Kuomintang.During the Anti-Japanese War, when the Kuomintang was defeated and retreated to Chongqing, he was the secretary of the Three Youth League.In Chongqing, he held a banquet for the comrades of the Communist Party's Eighth Route Army Office in Chongqing, but none of the purged went.On the eve of liberation, he ran to Taiwan. After the main force of the Red Army was transferred, they were passively beaten along the way, without the slightest respite. The Xiangjiang Battle was even more vital, with 80,000 troops dispatched. After breaking through the blockade, only 30,000 soldiers remained.In such a situation where it is difficult to protect itself, it is natural that there is no time to take into account the problems of the Central Soviet Area. After the Spring Festival in 1935, the Kuomintang army stepped up its "clearance and suppression" of the Red Army in the Central Soviet Area, and the situation worsened.Xiang Ying wanted to change the ordering tasks assigned by the central government to the central sub-bureau, so he asked for instructions and reported to the central government again and again, but no answer was received. Seeing that the Central Committee did not reply, Chen Yi advised Xiang Ying not to send any more telegrams, but to make decisions on his own, but Xiang Ying refused to listen. In the middle of the night after Xiang Ying sent another telegram to the central government on February 5, the chief of the intelligence section of the central military region who had been waiting by the radio station was serious, and suddenly exclaimed: "Signal, the central radio signal!" Neither Xiang Ying nor Chen Yi fell asleep. Hearing the shouts of serious excitement, they rushed into the computer room at the same time. Seriously decode the code word by word: After the Central Secretariat, the Central Committee successively issued instructions to the Central Sub-bureaus. On February 28, the Secretariat of the Central Committee called the Second Red Army and the Sixth Red Army led by Ren Bishi, the Fourth Red Front Army led by Zhang Guotao, and the Central Military Region led by Xiang Ying to formally convey the resolution of the Zunyi Conference.Xiang Ying and Chen Yi, who were far away in the hinterland of the Central Soviet Area, learned that Bo Gu and Li De had stepped down, and that Mao Zedong had returned to the leadership of the Party and the Red Army. The full text of the telegram from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is as follows: The secretariat Xiang Ying called back, expressing support for the resolution of the enlarged meeting of the Zunyi Politburo. However, regarding the wrong "political line" and "military line" defined by the Zunyi Conference regarding the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" war, Chen Yi and Xiang Ying had very different views. Arguments belong to arguments, but at this critical moment, breaking out of the encirclement is imminent, and the two have reached a consensus to immediately break through the encirclement.