Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven Zhang Guotao Establishes a Separate Central Committee

On September 5, 1935, it rained continuously for several days, and the weather was humid and cold, which was disturbing.Chen Bojun, chief of staff of the 9th Red Army stationed at Charlie Temple and serving as the rear guard for the Left Army, received a call from the headquarters, saying that the Kaqu River was flooded and that he had to choose another route to the north, and ordered Chen Bojun to lead his troops closer to Aba.Chen Bojun immediately issued an order, and marched 120 miles to Zhongaba the next day, and joined forces with Commander Sun Yuqing and Political Committee Chen Haisong.

On September 7, Zhang Guotao led the headquarters to Zhongaba, and immediately called the heads of the Fourth Front Army for a meeting.At the meeting, Zhang Guotao conveyed the disputes with the Central Committee and the Right Route Army in the past few days, and made use of the topic to talk about the Central Committee's discrimination and attack on the Fourth Front Army since the rendezvous.These army commanders and political commissars are just young men in their twenties who are well-educated. Some of them became emotional and said a lot of exaggerated things after hearing the general political commissar's words.Chen Bojun sat and listened to these people scolding his superiors and comrades-in-arms, feeling very sad.He wrote in his diary: "I was deeply indignant when I heard these comrades talk about the disputes between the First and Fourth Front Army. Their excessive attitude was fully exposed, and I was very sad. ... It was a night of quiet thinking, and the pain pierced my heart, so that I wept secretly. In my life, there is nothing more sad than this."

The next morning, Chen Bojun couldn't bear it anymore and went straight to Zhang Guotao to express his opinion.Said that he "deeply feels that some comrades' views are incorrect, their positions are not correct, they are fabricated out of nothing, they talk too much, they are suspicious of each other, and the estrangement is getting worse! He neither admits his mistakes frankly, nor resolves all kinds of disputes quickly with a sharp knife. Fake the enemy and use the gap to put yourself in a dangerous situation"!Finally, he asked General Political Commissar Zhang to take effective measures to solve these problems immediately in order to save the crisis and help the revolution.Zhang Guotao patiently listened to Chen Bojun's remonstrance, showing sympathy and sadness, and replied that there were many secrets in the matter, and it was inconvenient to make it public.There are also many disputes in the Political Bureau of the Central Committee that have not been completely resolved, and the headquarters are also inconsistent.To solve the problem completely, it must be corrected from the top down.But it's too far apart now to make it in time.Chen Bojun immediately pointed out that intra-party struggles are intra-party struggles, and the administrative system is an administrative system, which should be separated.Members of the Red Army can express their opinions on the affairs of the Party Central Committee, but before they are resolved, they will never be allowed to make random disturbances, damage the Red Army, and separate and unite!In terms of administrative organization, power must still be exercised according to the organizational system of the Red Army, and subordinates must obey their superiors step by step. Only in this way can problems be solved, and it is also a legitimate method for inner-party struggle.Otherwise, the deepening of disputes and the improvement of unity will cause great losses to the revolution.Zhang Guotao listened to Chen Bojun's impassioned speech, although he had been comforted by the chief's generosity and good words, he was furious in his heart.No one in the Fourth Front Army dared to attack him like this, this Chen Bojun is so bold.After Zhang Guotao sent Chen Bojun away, he called his subordinates and arranged for Chen Bojun to be cleaned up.

Bad luck soon came.Chen Bojun couldn't stand people from the 9th Army scolding the Central Red Army every day, and asked for transfer. He went to Zhang Guotao for two consecutive days, but Zhang refused to see him. On the evening of September 13, Chen Bojun went to the headquarters again, and some leaders of the Fourth Front Army were already waiting for him.Soon a struggle was formed.They asked Chen Bojun one after another, such as the attitude towards the first and third armies going north alone, whether they escaped during the five encirclement campaigns and the Long March in the Central Soviet Area, and the promotion of worker and peasant cadres.Put Chen Bojun completely in the position of struggle.

September 14th was the "Day of Humiliation" that Chen Bojun will never forget.At noon, the superior notified Chen Bojun to transfer him back to the headquarters to make other arrangements.Chen Bojun explained his work and was about to leave, when suddenly a group of messengers came, saying that he was ordered to return things from the 9th Army.Chen handed back the two horses assigned to him by the Ninth Army, but they didn't give up, saying that Chen was not allowed to take anything away, and they were only allowed to go alone.After a burst of looting, Chen Bojun took away all the horses brought by Chen Bojun from the Fifth Army, together with the telescope.Chen Bojun trembled with anger. "Since joining the revolution, this is the first time I have encountered such a thing. If you are talking about a real revolutionary comrade, why did you come here? If you say that you have different political views and need to fight, you must not use such despicable methods!" Chen Bojun went to the headquarters, Reflect these problems strongly to Zhang Guotao.Zhang Guotao pretended to ask Huang Chao to recover the things.It took several days before he was given a skinny mule without a saddle, and the telescope was gone.Chen Bojun was dismissed and became a teacher at the Red Army University.

It was Peng Shaohui, chief of staff of the 30th Army, who suffered the same fate as Chen Bojun.This general, whose right arm was disabled during the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign in the Central Soviet Area, was transferred from the Sixth Army of the First Front Army to the 30th Army of the Fourth Front Army.After receiving the order to go south, he couldn't figure it out, so he wrote a letter to Commander-in-Chief Zhu in Zhuomu Diao, expressing his opinion.But I didn't expect this letter to be sent to Zhang Guotao. Zhang Guotao sent someone to bring Peng Shaohui to talk.As soon as Peng Shaohui entered, he was immediately surrounded by people.A senior cadre of the Fourth Front Army gave Peng Shaohui a big slap in the face when he went up, and asked him sharply, "Why do you oppose going south? Oppose Chairman Zhang?" He drew a gun and pointed it at Peng Shaohui's chest to intimidate him.Zhu De stood up angrily while sitting next to him, went forward and took down his gun, and said to everyone: "It is wrong to beat people. This is a struggle within the party. Comrades should be allowed to speak!" He also said: "How can we talk like this?" Said to Peng Shaohui: "You go back." He motioned for him to leave quickly.Seeing Zhu De's intervention, Zhang Guotao couldn't continue to deal with it, and Peng Shaohui survived.Later, whenever Admiral Peng Shaohui recalled this incident, he would thank Boss Zhu for saving his life.

High-level cadres like Chen Bojun and Peng Shaohui were hit in this way, and the life of the rest of the middle and lower-level cadres was even more difficult.Zhang Guotao believes that the central government has run away by itself, and the responsibility for the split lies with the central government.He thought about it, and it seemed like a good thing.The central government only took away the first and third armies, no more than 10,000 people.Most of the Red Army's troops are under his control, no one can control him now, he is the supreme leader of the Red Army.Therefore, he instilled hatred of the Central Committee in the old subordinates of the Fourth Front Army and incited them to oppose the Central Committee.On the other hand, the cadres of the former front army were discriminated against, and those who disobeyed were dealt with by countermeasures.

In those few days, Zhu De and Liu Bocheng were very worried, and there were arrests and conflicts every day.Hu Di, chief of the reconnaissance section of the General Headquarters, was arrested by Zhang Guotao on the charge of "a detective sent by Tokuda, the Japanese stationed army in Tianjin" because he called Zhang Guotao a "warlord" and "fascist".How could there be such a strange charge?It turned out that Comrade Hu Di was an outstanding underground worker of our party. In the early 1930s, when Zhou Enlai presided over the Shanghai Central Committee, in order to establish the party's intelligence system, he sent Li Kenong, Qian Zhuangfei, and Hu Di to infiltrate the KMT's secret service agencies.Li is in Shanghai, Qian is in Nanjing, and Hu Di is in Tianjin.With these three inside lines, the Communist Party knows every move of the Kuomintang. In April 1931, Gu Shunzhang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was arrested and rebelled in Hankou, and the telegram was intercepted by Qian Zhuangfei.He quickly rushed to Shanghai to inform Zhou Enlai. When Gu Shunzhang took the Kuomintang agents to Shanghai to arrest people, all the places were empty.In that emergency, underground workers made great contributions to protecting the central government.Due to Gu's rebellion, Li, Qian, and Hu left their original posts and transferred to the Central Soviet Area.In the early days of the Long March, Qian Zhuangfei was bombed by planes and left behind during the march, and was killed by a local militia at Xifeng.Li Kenong went north with the Central Committee, and Hu Di followed the headquarters. Now Zhang Guotao labeled this hero a "secret agent" and a "counter-revolutionary". Isn't this confusing right and wrong?Although Liu Bocheng repeatedly negotiated and said that there was no problem with Hu Di, Zhang Guotao just ignored him.In this way, a good comrade who worked for the party through life and death was never captured by the Kuomintang, but was poisoned to death by Zhang Guotao's cronies.

In those few days, Aba was full of tension, and a little incident might cause a disturbance, and even kill someone. On September 11, several soldiers from the reconnaissance section of the Fourth Front Army set fires under the house, and the minister of health, He Cheng, was unbearably smoked upstairs and ran out to lecture others.These soldiers said that He Cheng tied up their instructor and reported to Zhang Guotao.A group of people came at night and asked He Cheng to come out.He Cheng was afraid of misfortune, so he closed the door and refused to go out, so they fired shots outside to threaten him.The next day, Zhang Guotao held a meeting called "Solving He Cheng's Binding Problem", which was actually to put pressure on Zhu De and Liu Bocheng.When Zhu, Liu, and He walked into the venue, the guards arranged by Zhang Guotao picked up their guns and pulled the bolt back and forth.As soon as the fight started, Huang Chao called for beating.The venue was chaotic, not like a meeting, but like a gang fight.Perhaps because He Cheng is a doctor, Zhang Guotao still uses him to avoid imprisonment and further persecution.

On September 15, Zhang Guotao held the "Emergency Activists Meeting of the CPC Chuankang Provincial Committee and Party Members of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" (referred to as the "Aba Meeting" in history) in the main hall of Aba Kirti Monastery.Nearly a thousand party members and cadres from the headquarters of the Fourth Front Army, the 9th Army, the 31st Army, and the 33rd Army attended the meeting. Some cadres from the Fifth Red Army participated in the meeting. The 32nd Army (formerly the Ninth Red Army) was stationed far away, so no one participated.The slogan "Oppose Mao, Zhou, Zhang, and Bo's escape route" was hung on the venue.Due to the mobilization at various levels in advance, the meeting showed a clear anti-central tendency from the very beginning.

Zhang Guotao first made a report on the relationship between the first and fourth armies at the meeting, accusing Mao (Zedong), Zhou (Enlai), Zhang (Wen Tian), and Bo (Gu) of leading the first and third armies to continue northward as "fleeing northward". right opportunist line", and described his southward policy as the correct "offensive line".He threatened to impose "disciplinary sanctions" on "elements that have not changed after struggle and education".After Zhang Guotao finished his speech, under the chairmanship of Secretary-General Huang Chao, leading cadres of the Fourth Front Army made speeches one after another, supporting General Political Commissar Zhang's speech and scolding the Central Committee. People from the Fifth Red Army participated in the meeting, and their thoughts were greatly shaken.At this critical juncture, internal divisions emerged.Dong Zhentang, head of the legion, and Ouyang Yi, head of the security bureau, firmly supported the central government and did not attend the meeting.There were also some cadres who believed that the Central Committee should not have abandoned the Five Army Corps, and felt dissatisfied. Some people also had opinions on the left-leaning opportunist leaders within the Central Committee. Under the special circumstances at that time, they consciously or unconsciously sided with Zhang Guotao.In their speeches, they exaggerated and expanded the "Leftist" mistakes in the Central Soviet Area and the early days of the Long March, and even spread some gossip.The internal defection of the Central Red Army fueled the fire of the Aba meeting, and even aroused opposition to the Central Committee in the Fourth Front Army. The turning of some cadres of the Fifth Army made the situation of Zhu De and Liu Bocheng even more difficult.The spearhead of the struggle is focused on them.Many people yelled at you and me at the venue.Some said: "It is wrong for the Central Committee to go north, it is retreat and flightism!" Some said: "The Central Committee is right-leaning opportunism!" Some people asked Zhu De aggressively: "You agree with the Central Committee, how much left the Red Army, you have to account! "Some asked him to express his opposition to the central government in public.Zhu De sat on the chair without saying a word, with a stern expression on his face.Zhang Guotao said to him: "Commander-in-Chief, can you talk about it. What is your understanding of this issue? Is it going south or going north?" In the face of these yelling and insults, Zhu De was very calm and composed.He knew that these Red Army cadres were provoked by Zhang Guotao.Such a split within the Red Army made him very sad.But he can't blame these subordinates who don't know the truth, he has to persuade them patiently and wait for them to wake up.Zhu De stood up and said to everyone with a pleasant face: The decision of the Central Committee to go north to resist Japan is correct.Now that Japanese imperialism has invaded and occupied the three northeastern provinces of our country, our Red Army should shoulder the responsibility of resisting Japan and saving the nation at this critical moment of national peril.I raised my hand in favor of the Central Committee's resolution, and I cannot backtrack and oppose the Central Committee's resolution.Comrade Mao Zedong and I have been together since we met in Jinggangshan, and I completely trust him.Everyone talks about "Zhu Mao", how can I, Zhu De, oppose Mao Zedong? When Zhu De said this, he turned around and asked Zhang Guotao who was sitting on the side: The spirit of the Zunyi meeting, the central government telegraphed you and the Fourth Front Army, do you know it! Zhang Guotao did not answer Zhu De's question, but still asked Zhu De to state that "Mao and Zhou Xiangbei are running away."Zhu De said solemnly: I repeat again, the decision of the Central Committee to go north to resist Japan is correct.I can never oppose Comrade Mao Zedong, you can split me in half, but you will never cut off the relationship between me and Comrade Mao Zedong. As soon as Zhu De finished speaking, there was a burst of shouting and cursing in the venue.Someone rushed to Zhu De and called Zhu De an "old rightist" and "an old turtle". (At the expanded meeting of the Political Bureau of the Yan'an Central Committee in 1937, Kang Keqing mentioned this matter, but he was still full of anger.) Liu Bocheng couldn't stand it anymore, and said loudly: "Aren't you holding a party meeting? You are not trying a case. How can you treat the general secretary like this? Commander!" Then there was another crowd of scolding: "Good! You call the party meeting a trial!" The spearhead of the struggle turned to Liu Bocheng again.Seeing that they were being unreasonable, Liu Bocheng simply didn't speak.Someone shouted to Zhu De again: "Since you support going north, you can go now!" Zhu De said: "I was sent here by the central government to work. Since you insist on going south, I have no choice but to go with you." Unable to drive Zhu De away, he jumped and scolded: "You agree to go north, but you want to go south with us, you are a double-dealer and a fencer!" Someone shouted: "Don't let him be the commander-in-chief!" Zhang Guotao saw that his subordinates were making a fuss, so he came out to ease the atmosphere.He didn't forget his identity, as long as he encouraged the people below, he didn't need to curse people at the front desk.He is quite satisfied with today's meeting, and he has no scruples. Zhu De and Liu Bocheng came out of the venue with heavy hearts.It is really distressing that such a split occurred in the party and the Red Army, and it was also in the middle of the Long March.Zhu De said to Liu Bocheng: "No matter how hard we fight, we still have to revolutionize with Chairman Mao. Things will always be clear." They did not complain at all about the central government for abandoning them, which showed the noble character of the Communist Party members.Pan Kaiwen, Zhu De's guard, said angrily: "Get some guns and shoot!" Liu Bocheng said: "What do you know, don't make a sound!" Comrades are awakened and cannot adopt any method of fighting, otherwise, it will only bring greater losses to the revolution. The meeting lasted for a whole day and finally passed a resolution.Taking Zhang Guotao's report as the theme, he condemned the central government for "running away from the right", and decided that the Fourth Red Army would go south in a large scale and return to Sichuan to establish a base.At the same time as the "Aba Conference Resolution" was passed, the General Political Department of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army also drew up the "Political Guarantee Plan for the Large-Scale Southward Advance", which was issued to all units at the same time as the "Resolution".Within a few days, different forms of meetings were convened in various troops to communicate and implement Zhang Guotao's report and "Resolution". The Aba meeting was a meeting where Zhang Guotao openly broke with the central government.He fully disclosed the differences within the Central Committee to the Red Army soldiers, and used the simplicity and ignorance of the Red Army soldiers to provoke the Red Army to oppose the Central Committee's political line. This approach is very vicious.Although the central government denounced Zhang Guotao at the Russian World Conference, the scope was limited to members of the Central Committee and military chiefs.Zhang Guotao expanded the scope to the entire army at once, seriously damaging the prestige of the central government. This is obviously to lay the foundation for him to announce the establishment of a separate central government in the future and to create public opinion. At this time, the arduous task Zhu De faced was how to maintain and maintain the unity of the Red Army in a difficult situation, and protect the Fifth and Ninth Army Corps of the Red Army from damage.On the night of the Aba meeting, Liu Bocheng got the news that Zhang Guotao and his army commanders had a night meeting to discuss how to deal with Zhu, Liu and the fifth and ninth armies.It was not until dawn that he decided not to kill Liu Bocheng, and he was placed under house arrest.The Five Army Corps needs to be fundamentally reformed, and Huang Chao should be appointed as the political commissar.The Ninth Army Corps is going to replace a group of cadres. In those days, Zhu De ran around, talking with the cadres and soldiers of the former First Front Army, doing ideological work, guiding them to take into account the overall situation, and when fighting Zhang Guotao, pay attention to the tactics and methods of struggle, avoid unnecessary conflicts within the Red Army, and try to avoid unnecessary conflicts within the Red Army. Do your best to preserve the revolutionary forces. He said to Wu Yunfu, director of the 3rd Bureau (Communications and Liaison Bureau) of the headquarters: "Unfortunately, there is a temporary split in the party." Take the lead as an example, bear hardships first and don’t care about treatment. Splitting is a temporary phenomenon, and in the end they will be united under the correct line of the party.”He also said that in the fight against Zhang Guotao, "don't be impatient, the struggle must be fought, but it is necessary to unite and fight at the same time. Comrade Hu Di was too impatient, so Zhang Guotao framed him to death." The Five Army Corps is the unit that Zhu De pays most attention to.During the Aba meeting, Zhu De exchanged views with the head of Dong Zhentang's army.Dong Zhentang expressed his firm support for the correct line of the central government and his position of fighting against Zhang Guotao, which made Zhu De very pleased.Regarding Zhang Guotao and his cronies' actions to persecute the comrades of the Fifth Army, Zhu De stepped forward to protect the comrades.One morning, Ouyang Yi, the chief of the Security Bureau of the Fifth Army, learned that the headquarters called to say that some people from the Fifth Army were robbing things and preparing to launch a counter-revolutionary rebellion, but they were arrested by the Security Bureau of the Fourth Front Army.Dong Zhentang instructed Ouyang Yi to deal with it.Ouyang Yi first counted the stragglers in each unit, and then went to the fourth front army station to lead them.After arriving there, the imprisoned soldiers of the Fifth Army all claimed that they were backward and did not engage in counter-revolution.A leader of the Fourth Army patted the table and lost his temper, saying: "You are counter-revolutionaries. I saw it with my own eyes. You robbed the common people!" When the matter froze, Ouyang Yi came to the headquarters to report.The chief of the Fourth Front Army arrived first, and as soon as Ouyang Yi entered, the chief pointed to him and said, "He is the chief of the Security Bureau of the Fifth Army Corps." A tall comrade stood up and scolded: "You don't obey the command, I just want to Command you! You are a fake revolution, a counter-revolution!" Then he took out his pistol.At this critical juncture, Zhu De stopped this unreasonable action.Zhang Guotao saw that his subordinates were making a scene, so he sent them out.Because of Zhu De's upholding justice, a crisis was resolved, and Ouyang Yi led the fallen soldiers back to the Fifth Army. Since Zhu De enjoys high prestige in the Red Army, Zhang Guotao has nothing to do with it, so he keeps making small moves behind his back, making it difficult for Zhu De.One night, his men stole Zhu De's horse and killed it.Zhang Guotao had seven horses, but he refused to give Zhu De one.After Dong Zhentang knew about it, he sent someone to send a horse to Zhu De, which solved the problem of Zhu De's marching.Zhu De's wife Kang Keqing insisted on not saying a word at the Aba meeting, which aroused Zhang Guotao's jealousy.On the way to the south, Zhang Guotao separated them under the pretext of transferring Kang Keqing to study.Kang Keqing was so angry that he wanted to leave the team to find the Party Central Committee.Zhu De persuaded her: "No, if you act alone, they will kill with a knife. Now that you are with the soldiers, they will not dare to do it casually." Zhu De thwarted Zhang Guotao's plots with his righteousness and broad mind. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu De recalled this extraordinary experience and said: "We were in a very difficult situation at the time, but what is there to do when encountering difficulties? Let's persevere. We still have the Fifth and Ninth Army Corps and Comrade Liu Bocheng, who opposed Zhang Guotao. He (referring to Zhang Guotao) ——Author's note) In those days, I wanted to ask the subordinates to fight each other, and some of the subordinates wanted to fight. I objected. I said to him: "How do we support it now? If we continue to fight, we will not be able to survive. If we die, we will all die." Kill me.' I threatened him and the fight was stopped." Let's talk about the right army. Since the Central Committee led the first and third armies to go north, Chen Changhao was determined to carry out Zhang Guotao's order to go south. On September 11, he sent messengers on horseback to Fu Zhong and Li Zhuoran on the front line of Baozuo to deliver the "Express Flying Transmission" letter.Fu Zhong opened it and saw that it read: Fu Zhong and Li Zhuoran were also stunned, and hurried back to Brazil that day.Chen Changhao was convening a meeting of the cadres of the Right Route Army. Fu Zhong saw, "Comrade Chen Changhao is in the big temple, and there are many people sitting in the temple. He began to speak. His expression was extremely irritable, and he said that the central government was "leaning to the right" and "fear of death". He left us and ran away. Many ugly words came out of his mouth. People felt more at a loss, lost their minds, and were extremely sad. After Changhao finished speaking, he asked Who has something to say. I said no, and Zhuo Ran also said no. Comrade Qianqian felt very uncomfortable, sighed, and was speechless. It was almost dusk, and Changhao announced his southward movement. .I asked Changhao: "What happened, why did it come to this point?" Changhao said: "Fu Zhong, you don't have to worry, we still have a few troops, we have our own way out.'” A few days later, Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao received an order from Zhang Guotao, ordering the Right Route Army to go south from the Banyou and Baozuo areas, and join the Left Route Army in the Songgang and Dangba areas of Dajinchuan.The military order was like a mountain, and Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao led the Red 30th Army and members of the Red Army University to cross the grassland again.Xu Xiangqian recalled: "The vast and silent prairie, the yellow grass is long, and the cold air is full of the chill atmosphere of late autumn. The traces of marching and camping left by the Red Army when they crossed the grass for the first time are still very clear. Some are made of branches' In the herringbone shed, there were piles of corpses of the Red Army that could not be buried. The soldiers of our army, who were thinly dressed, braved the wind and rain, walked in the mud, endured hunger and cold, and once again struggled with the harsh natural conditions of the grassland. Another group of comrades sacrificed their precious lives. Looking back on the situation in the past few months when the first and fourth armies merged and then divided, and looking forward to the future, it makes people feel mixed feelings, preoccupied, and depressed." On September 17, Xu and Chen led the right army across the grassland and returned to Maoergai.Zhang Guotao was very happy, and issued a resolute order to go south to Yu Tianyun, commander of the 31st Army, and Wang Weizhou, political commissar: At the end of September, Xu Xiangqian, Chen Changhao, Zhang Guotao, Zhu De and others met at Dangba at the northern end of Dajinchuan.Two months after the division of troops at the Shawo meeting, the left and right armies joined forces again.But the center is no longer there.Zhang Guotao seemed smug, but Xu Xiangqian and the others were so preoccupied that they couldn't laugh.The nightmare of separation still haunts the mind. On October 5, Zhang Guotao presided over a meeting of senior cadres in Baisha Lama Temple in Zhuomudiao (now Jiaomuzu Township, Malkang County).Attending the meeting were Zhu De, Zhang Guotao, Xu Xiangqian, Chen Changhao, Liu Bocheng, Wang Shusheng, Zhou Chunquan, Li Zhuoran, Luo Binghui, He Changgong, Yu Tianyun, Zeng Chuanliu, Li Te, Huang Chao, Fang Qiang, the leaders of the Red Army headquarters and various armies. There are forty or fifty cadres above the military level, including Liu Zhijian. The meeting was chaired by Zhang Guotao.Chen Changhao first reported everything that happened in Maoergai, explaining that after the general headquarters moved to the Shujing Temple, he and Xu Xiangqian got along very well with Mao Zedong and other members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.On the day when Mao Zedong and others fled to the north, the actions were sudden, secret, and disregarding of faith, and they also undermined the unity of the party and the Red Army. Zhang Guotao then made a report.He said: The central government failed to crush the enemy's fifth encirclement campaign and implemented a strategic retreat, which was a mistake in the political line, not a purely military line.1. The rendezvous of the Fourth Front Army terminated this retreat, but the Central Committee refused to admit its mistake, and instead accused the Fourth Front Army for no reason.Going south was a strategic counter-offensive to terminate the retreat, but the leaders of the central government were frightened by the enemy's planes and artillery, and lost confidence in the future of the revolution. It is the greatest crime to split the Red Army.He also said: The leaders of the central government are big braggarts and left-leaning empty talkers.They only come to join the revolution when they have to play basketball, go to restaurants, read good news, smoke cigarettes, or be served. (Zhang Guotao said this many times later) Once the revolution is difficult, we must flee pessimistically.In view of this, Zhang Guotao announced that the central government had lost its prestige and lost its qualification to lead the entire party.It is proposed to follow Lenin's method of breaking with the Second International and form a new provisional center, and everyone is asked to express their views. Xu Xiangqian recalled: "The establishment of another central government came so suddenly that people were dumbfounded. Even Chen Changhao, who talked about the central government all the way since he went south, seemed unprepared and did not speak immediately to express his support for Zhang Guotao. The atmosphere at the venue was tense and dull, and no one wanted to start a fight. Zhang Guotao first designated a cadre of the First Army to speak. This comrade had always had opinions on the central leadership during the Long March, and cited some specific examples , The speech was very exciting. The comrades of the Fourth Front Army had never heard of it, and they couldn’t help being in an uproar. Everyone said something, and I said something, and the atmosphere of blaming and blaming the Central Committee reached a climax.” Zhang Guotao was triumphant and asked Zhu De to express his opinion.Although Zhu De's words were calm, they were sincere.He said: In the face of the enemy, we must talk about unity!The Red Army is one family.The Red Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants is a whole under the unified leadership of the Party Central Committee.Everyone knows that our "Zhu Mao" has been together for many years and is famous all over the country and the world.If a "Zhu" like me were to oppose "Mao", I couldn't do it!No matter how big the incident is, it is a problem within the Red Army. Everyone must calm down and find a solution. We cannot ask Chiang Kai-shek to watch our excitement! Zhang Guotao asked Liu Bocheng to express his position again.Liu Bocheng said that the revolutionary situation is quite difficult, meaning to unite and not to split.Still refused to say a word in support of Zhang Guotao, let alone bow to Zhang Guotao.When Zhang Guotao saw that Zhu and Liu had not surrendered, he held a grudge, and it was inconvenient for him to attack in public.After everyone spoke and expressed their views, Zhang Guotao took out a list prepared in advance, and everyone voted to approve the new list of "Central Committee" and "Political Bureau".Zhang Guotao's "central government" came into being in this way.Finally, the meeting passed a resolution. "Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Bo Gu, and Luo Fu should be dismissed from their jobs, members of the Central Committee and party members should be expelled, and they should be ordered to be wanted. Yang Shangkun and Ye Jianying should be dismissed and investigated." This "Central Committee" list prepared by Zhang Guotao took a lot of thought.First of all, he wants to establish an "orthodoxy" that can be recognized by the Communist International, so he puts the Central Committee members elected by the "Sixth National Congress" of the Communist Party of China as high as possible.Due to Zhang Guotao's obscurity and ignorance, many jokes were made in the list.For example, Zhu Agen, the former Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, and Zeng Hongyi, the former Special Commissioner of the Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi Soviet Areas, had been arrested by the Kuomintang before and became traitors.Xia Xi, the former secretary of the Western Hunan and Hubei Central Bureau, was severely criticized by the central government and dismissed in May 1934 because of mass murder in the Honghu Soviet area.Xu Yangang, the former commander of the Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi Military Region, was killed by the enemy in September 1935 after failing to persist in the struggle.Zhang Guotao didn't even know that he selected traitors and martyrs together. The "central government" concocted by Zhang Guotao seems to have taken care of different regions and the Red Army, and has attracted some people in several aspects.However, after analyzing it, it can be seen that his personal likes and dislikes and prejudices are mixed here.In the Central and First Army, Mao, Zhou, Zhang, and Bo needless to say, have been "dismissed" by him.Wang Jiaxiang, Kai Feng, Liu Shaoqi, and Deng Fa, who were members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, were not elected.Neither Liu Bocheng nor Dong Zhentang was elected, and he only had the false name of "member of the Military Commission". After the meeting, Zhu De found Zhang Guotao and told him righteously: "If you want to engage in (the central government), you will engage in yours. I don't agree. I reserve my opinions according to the rules of party members, and do revolutionary work in my own name. I cannot oppose the central government." Zhu De The high prestige of the commander-in-chief in the Red Army made Zhang Guotao helpless.Without Boss Zhu, Zhang Guotao would not be successful.In order to preserve the main force of the Red Army, Zhu De could not openly break with Zhang Guotao and leave the Fourth Front Army alone.Therefore, Zhu De decided to use tactics to deal with Zhang Guotao without losing his principles. Chief of the General Staff Liu Bocheng thoroughly recognized Zhang Guotao's true face.Although he and Commander-in-Chief Zhu are temporarily in the minority, they firmly believe that they are right.Zhang Guotao acted both hard and soft, but he could not shake Zhu and Liu's position at all.In fact, after the Aba meeting, Liu Bocheng was deprived of his position.Zhang Guotao only asked him to teach the traffic team how to fight cavalry and set up sentries. One day, Zhu De quietly told Liu Bocheng: "Some people say that you are a detective sent by Tokuda, the Japanese army stationed in North China."But there is one big thing that has been pressing on his mind: the code for communicating with the Communist International is in his hands, and Zhang Guotao doesn't know about it yet.Liu Bocheng thought: Zhang Guotao's actions, saying that the central government is a "rightist escapeism", who is a "detective", etc., if he gets rid of the code and reports his set to the international, I don't know how much it will cause the Chinese party. Trouble.Zhang Guotao established a separate central government, which made Liu Bocheng determined.The password is an English copy of "Robinson Crusoe", which is in the hands of the staff officer Liu Shaowen.Liu Bocheng asked Liu Shaowen to burn the password.This matter was done very confidentially, and no one knew about it except the two of them.Liu Bocheng recalled: "If Zhang Guotao knew, then we would be finished." Liu Bocheng's decision really saved the Red Army and the Party Central Committee.Because the central government could no longer control Zhang Guotao at that time, the only thing Zhang Guotao feared was the Communist International.When Lin Yuying arrived in northern Shaanxi, he gave instructions to Zhang Guotao in the name of the representative of the Communist International.Unable to communicate with the international community, Zhang Guotao finally accepted Lin Yuying's opinion, abolished his "central government", and went north again to join forces with the first and second front armies.If Zhang Guotao could directly communicate with the international community and get together with Wang Ming in Moscow, the future of the Chinese revolution would be unpredictable.From this point of view, Liu Bocheng has made great contributions to the party. After the Zhuomudiao meeting, Zhang Guotao came to Liu Bocheng for the final "persuasion to surrender".Zhang Guotao said: "Our Central Committee has been established. If you agree, you will be a member of the Military Commission. Otherwise, it will not work." Liu Bocheng said: "I don't agree with this approach." Zhang Guotao said angrily: "You don't want to be the general staff Long?" Liu Bocheng said, "Do whatever you want." Zhang Guotao said, "Then you should make an explanation right away." After Liu Bocheng explained the work, Zhang Guotao asked Liu Bocheng to make an action plan for going south, and it was limited to two hours to complete.Liu Bocheng said that time was too tight, but Zhang Guotao still only gave it two hours.Liu Bocheng knew that he was trying to trick people, so he just completed the plan in two hours.Then, Liu Bocheng left the Red Army headquarters and went to become the principal of the Red Army University. On October 7, Zhang Guotao issued the "Suidan Chongmao Battle Plan" in the name of "Chairman of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission", and the Fourth Front Army and the Fifth and Ninth Army Corps of the original First Front Army began to fight southward.