In late September 1931, a Kuomintang army marched on the rugged mountain road from Ningdu to Guangchang in Jiangxi Province. They were the 73rd Brigade of the 25th Division of the 26th Route Army. A few days ago, the news of the "September 18th" incident came. The Japanese army blew up a section of bridge in the Liutiaogou area of ​​the South Manchurian Railway, but accused the Chinese army of deliberately "destroying".That night, the Japanese Kwantung Army bombarded Beidaying, where the Northeast Army was stationed.Due to Chiang Kai-shek's strict order not to resist, hundreds of thousands of Northeast troops retreated without a fight. As a result, in less than five days, the Japanese army occupied Kyrgyzstan and Liao provinces.The fall of the Northeast aroused the great indignation of the people of the whole country, and soon set off a huge national anti-Japanese and national salvation movement all over the country.At this time, the 26th Route Army was stationed in Ningdu County, Jiangxi Province to "suppress the Communist Party."

This army is not the direct line of Chiang Kai-shek, it was compiled by the former Northwest Army of Feng Yuxiang. As early as the beginning of the Northern Expedition in 1926, Feng Yuxiang led his troops to swear an oath in Wuyuan to participate in the Northern Expedition.At that time, it was the period of cooperation between the country and the Communist Party. In order to transform this army into a real revolutionary army, the Chinese Communist Party sent Liu Bojian, Chen Yannian, Xuan Xiafu, Deng Xiaoping, Fang Zhongru, Liu Zhidan and others to lead hundreds of comrades to the army. Work, Liu Bojian once served as the head of the General Political Department of the Ministry.With the help of the Communist Party, Feng led his troops invincible all the way, stationed across the northwest, and the army quickly grew to more than 400,000 people.

On April 12, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek openly launched a counter-revolutionary incident in Shanghai, and countless Communists and revolutionary masses were brutally killed.On June 19 of the same year, Feng Yuxiang met with Chiang Kai-shek and others in Xuzhou, agreeing to the Qing Communist Party and betraying Sun Yat-sen's three major policies, which turned the situation into a sharp turnaround and accelerated the complete breakdown of the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation and the complete failure of the Great Revolution. Immediately after the meeting, he began to "send the Communist Party members out of the country" in his own army.

In 1930, due to Chiang Kai-shek's repulsion, Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan joined forces to oppose Chiang. The Central Plains War broke out between Jiang, Feng and Yan. After Feng's defeat, the rest of the army was incorporated by Chiang Kai-shek. The 26th Route Army was one of them. 1. Including the 12th Division (commander Gao Shuxun), the 13th Division (commander Dong Zhentang), the 14th Division (commander Ji Zhentong), and the 15th Division (commander Li Songkun) of the former Northwest Army, plus two cavalry brigades, totaling five More than 16,000 people.Jiang gave very harsh conditions for the recruitment of this unit. The whole army was only organized into 2 infantry divisions (each with 3 brigades), and one cavalry division (with 2 brigades).

At the beginning of 1931, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the army to march from the north to Jiangxi in the south to participate in the "suppression of communism" out of the sinister intention of eliminating dissidents and diverting the tiger away from the mountain.At the same time, the army was strictly ordered not to bring heavy mortar regiments, field howitzers and cavalry divisions.Therefore, only two divisions of infantry with a total of more than 27,000 soldiers went south.When the Japanese army occupied the Northeast, the army was stationed in Ningdu. The patriotic officers and soldiers did not want to fight a civil war.Sun Lianzhong, who was the commander-in-chief of the 26th Route Army at the time, saw the grievances hard to escape, and he didn't want to stay in this southern place to compete with the Red Army led by the Communist Party.In the name of all the generals of the 26th Route Army, Chiang Kai-shek was telegraphed, demanding to return to the north, fight Japan, and protect his homeland.At the same time, the 73rd Brigade of the army was ordered to serve as the vanguard of the whole army, and immediately set out to move northward.

In the south in September, the sun was still scorching, and dust was flying everywhere the team passed.Suddenly there was loud gunshots ahead, and the officers and soldiers quickly dispersed to hide on both sides of the mountain road.Soon, a cavalry came galloping from the rear, and the head of a tall officer was Dong Zhentang, the commander of the 73rd Brigade. The battalion commander of the Pioneer Battalion hurried over to report: "It was Zhu Shaoliang's troops stationed in Guangchang who fired at us and sent a message: Without the order of Chairman Jiang, the 26th Route Army is not allowed to evacuate the defense area without authorization, otherwise the consequences will be at your own risk!"

"Go! Tell them that we are leaving for no other purpose, but to go to the north to fight against Japan! As long as they are bloody Chinese soldiers, they should take up arms and fight the devils! Instead of pointing their guns at their own compatriots, Hope they don't get in the way." After finishing speaking, Dong Zhentang got off his horse and came to a high slope. He carefully observed the terrain with a telescope, then grabbed a handful of soil from his feet, let the soil freely fall between his fingers, and asked the staff officers beside him solemnly. : "Do you know why Sanhe soil is strong?" Everyone thought it was new, so they didn't answer.He said: "The solidity of Sanhe soil is due to the combination of white ash, sand and loess, all of which are indispensable. Alas! Why is our China always beaten and invaded? It is because of disunity within China and civil wars..."

Everyone nodded their heads, and then Dong pointed forward and said: "Zhu Shaoliang is our old opponent in the Central Plains War, and also my senior at the Baoding Army Military Academy. This guy is very good at choosing terrain. Look, the people in this area Surrounded by mountains, you have to take this road if you want to cross Guangchang. Look at their position, it is on the mountain pass in front, as long as there is a battalion of people, enough food and ammunition, it will not be a problem to defend for ten days and a half months!" "However, no matter how good the terrain is, it still has its weaknesses. It just takes more time, you see!" Dong Zhentang pointed his hands to the sides, and continued: "I will send two capable teams to detour to his side from both sides of the pass. Give him a surprise attack from the rear, and with the cooperation of my frontal attack troops, it is not impossible to win this pass."

After a while, Commander Huang rushed back to report: "Brigade Commander! They still want us to go back! What should we do? Why did Zhu Shaoliang stop us! It seems that he won't let us go unless we give him a good taste. Brigadier, give the order to fight, beat this bastard, and rush over!" "How unreasonable!" Dong Zhentang frowned, furious, should he fight or not?Right now the troops have already set off, as if the arrows are already on the line - they have to be launched, how can they survive without fighting?The morale of the troops will be greatly frustrated if they can't make it through; what to fight, and how to fight?Do you ask for instructions after typing or ask for instructions first?As long as the two sides act seriously, the consequences will be out of control.Zhu Shaoliang is a direct descendant of Chiang Kai-shek, and there are tens of thousands of troops in Guangchang, who can rush past Huzuiling and Guangchang?Chiang Kai-shek can gather heavy troops at any time on this long road of thousands of kilometers to deal a fatal blow to this suffering army.With the 20,000 troops of the 26th Route Army now, I am afraid that they will never reach the anti-Japanese battlefield in the north.

what to do?Dong Zhentang hesitated anxiously.At this time, the messenger sent a telegram from the commander-in-chief Sun Lianzhong, which read: "Don't cause disputes, return to Ningdu quickly."Dong Zhentang angrily tore up the telegram in his hand, and shouted in pain: "Withdraw!" In this way, the 26th Route Army marched out in a mighty way, and then returned to the station - Ningdu City in a gloomy night. In the morning of the next day, more than 30 translators and radio operators from the entire army gathered in the courtyard of the General Command of the 26th Route Army, located in a small two-story western-style building in the east of the city.A young military officer in his early thirties stood in front of the stage. He was tall, with a wide forehead, delicate features, and a pair of black-rimmed glasses on his high nose bridge. Although he was wearing an old military uniform, his gestures showed the unique simplicity and majesty of a soldier. , he—is Zhao Bosheng, Chief of Staff of the 26th Route Army.

At this moment, holding a few leaflets in his hand, he preached: "The content here can only be received by the radio station, that is to say, only you can make these leaflets. You must be brave in doing things, and it is not the character of our soldiers to be timid. .I ask again, who did it?" Everyone stood below tremblingly, you looked at me, I looked at you, and didn't dare to say anything.After a while, a young soldier came out of the queue, straightened his chest, and said calmly, "Report sir! I did it and it has nothing to do with them." As soon as the words fell, two more followed, saying in unison: "Sir, there are two of us!" Zhao Bosheng came down from the stage, looked at the young people carefully with his hands behind his back, and asked, "Where did you get the news?" "Broadcasts from Soviet Radio Khabarovsk." "Why did you do that?" "The Japanese devils have invaded the three northeastern provinces. Not only are we not resisting the Japanese, but even the news of the three eastern provinces' resistance to the Japanese has been blocked. After we heard the news that General Ma Zhanshan led the troops to fight against the devils, we were very excited and felt that we should let the people know about it. , so we..." "What's the name? Which army?" "My name is Wen Shuyao, and the two of them are Chen Shiwu and Yang Xiaoshi. The three of us are radio operators of the 73rd Brigade of the 25th Division." "Dong Zhentang's troops!" Zhao Bosheng's eyes lit up, a smile of approval appeared on his face, and he immediately returned to a serious expression.When he returned to the stage, he solemnly said: "You know? It's a good thing that you put out these posters to promote the resistance against Japan! Chairman Jiang forbids resistance against Japan, and the Northeast Volunteer Army spontaneously organized well! I still have to go on, I have no money to buy paper and ink, so I gave it to you. But there is one thing, you have to review it for me first.” Then, he mercilessly criticized the Nanjing government of the Kuomintang, saying: "...Who built the high-rise buildings where the important officials of the Nanjing government lived? They were workers! Who planted the food they ate: rice and flour? They are peasants! Right now, the Japanese devils are ruining our compatriots in the Northeast. These high-ranking officials, who eat and live with the common people, keep their eyes open and refuse to beat the Japanese devils..." These words made everyone's nervousness relax, "It turns out that the chief of staff is in the same mood as us, and he also strongly demands the resistance to Japan." Wen Shuyao couldn't restrain his inner joy, and hugged his comrades.Zhao Bosheng looked at the group of lively young people, smiled and waved his hands, "Okay, okay, let's all go back!" Sun Lianzhong was lying on a bamboo rocking chair, clutching his swollen left cheek, deep in thought.Hearing the cheers outside, he couldn't help frowning, he didn't have the time to take care of these "crazy things".Now, the army is in disarray, like a wild horse that has run wild, difficult to control.At the beginning of the year, following a telegram from Chiang Kai-shek, more than 20,000 people from the 26th Route Army went to Jiangxi in the south to "suppress the Communist Party."In more than half a year, they lost nearly ten thousand horses. First, they were raided by the Red Army in Yihuang, knocking out a brigade and losing more than three thousand people; after stationing in Ningdu, some of the soldiers fled; The vast majority of soldiers and officials are unwilling to fight for Chiang Kai-shek to fight the Red Army, so that he himself does not know how to end up like this.What troubled him the most was his old subordinate, Dong Zhentang, commander of the 73rd Brigade, who was brave and good at fighting, and was a rare general.He fully believed that with the 73rd Brigade as the vanguard of the entire army, it would be invincible in the Soviet area led by the Communist Party.But the result disappointed him greatly. Once Dong led his troops into contact with the Red Army, they either flinched or retreated, which made him lose face in front of Chiang Kai-shek.Dong Zhentang is like this, what hope do the other troops have, if they continue to stick to this place, they will not be able to fight or leave, sooner or later the game will be over.Chiang Kai-shek's trick of "fighting poison with poison" is really ruthless. Can I, Sun Lianzhong, bear this responsibility? At this time, the door opened and Zhao Bosheng, the chief of staff of the 26th Route Army, came in. Sun Lianzhong opened his eyes, temporarily stopped his chaotic thoughts, stood up and said, "Enbo (Zhao Bosheng's character), it's good that you are here." , I have something important to discuss!" Zhao Bosheng sat down and sighed: "Boss, this morning we carried out more than a dozen brothers. How can this go on! Most of the soldiers are from Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai. This humid and sweltering south is simply unbearable. At present, the Japanese invaders have invaded our northeast, and the anti-Japanese sentiment among the officers and soldiers is very high. We must find a way to take advantage of this opportunity!" Looking at the chief of staff whom he personally invited from Ji Hongchang, Sun Lianzhong didn't know how to answer for a moment.After a long time, he said: "Enbo! You love soldiers like your children, I understand. Who told us that we are the defeated generals in the hands of others (Chiang Kai-shek), and we were mistreated by others and used as guns! You also know that the miscellaneous army It’s all like this. Today, we only receive 60% of the food and wages, and the ammunition is not replenished, and the medicines sent out are either fake or expired. If it continues like this, I’m in a hurry!” Swallowed a mouthful of tea , Sun Lianzhong frowned and continued: "This time the trip to the north is unsuccessful. Why did the chairman send a telegram, insisting on suppressing the Communist Party first and then resisting Japan? In a word, even if we want to die, we must die in Ningdu. The tone is very tough. Way, can we disobey orders! These days, I have been anxious and angry, and my teeth are sick again. I will go to Shanghai for treatment tomorrow, and I will leave everything here to you!" Zhao Bosheng took off his glasses, wiped them, and said unhurriedly: "Boss, it's such a big mess, I'm afraid I won't be able to clean it up..." Before he finished speaking, Sun Lianzhong interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "Brother Since Mr. Feng (Northwest Army general's honorific name for Feng Yuxiang) left the field, we have become childless babies. It is not easy to get along with tens of thousands of brothers. Look at the current generals in the army, Dong Zhentang, Ji Zhentong , They can fight, but they are too violent to be reused. Although Li Songkun, Wang Enbu and others are obedient, they are extremely mediocre. Only you are capable of writing and martial arts, bending and stretching. I fully trust you and can take on this important task. After I leave, you can let go! I have already arranged it, so you don't have to worry..." Coming out of the headquarters, Zhao Bosheng shook his head and sighed inwardly: "What a cunning old man!" He went to the bank of the Meijiang River, found a piece of grass to sit down, and quietly looked at the towering Cuiwei Peak in the distance. He thought of Liu Bojian, the former director of the Political Department of the Northwest Army. It was still the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Feng Yuxiang invited the Communists to help him run the army, and he was in charge of the political work of each department of the Northwest Army.Liu Bojian is a good friend he admires the most. After getting along with them for a long time, he feels that the Communists seem to have a unique magnetic force that deeply attracts him.At that time, there was a popular saying in the Northwest Army - "Listening to Director Liu's speech can be worth three months' salary."It's a pity that those years were too short. After the "merging of Ning and Han", Feng Yuxiang also began to clean up the party in the army. Liu Bojian, Deng Xiaoping, Wang Yifei, Liu Zhidan and other famous communists were forced to leave the Northwest Army.At that time, he felt very disappointed and at a loss.He was very dissatisfied with Feng Yuxiang's treachery, and often said in front of the soldiers: "I am ready to die every day. Before I die, I have to resolutely fight for the workers, peasants and poor people for one day." Soon, the four major military groups headed by Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Li Zongren began to fight openly and secretly for power, territory, status, and interests, and the contradictions deepened day by day.Finally, on April 1, 1930, the famous Central Plains War broke out.In this warlord melee within the Kuomintang, the two sides invested a total of more than one million troops, which lasted for half a year.Among them, Feng Yuxiang's main force to challenge Chiang, the Northwest Army, was even more mobilized.In the early stage of the war, Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army was beaten and retreated steadily, and even Chiang himself almost became a prisoner of the Northwest Army.But at the end of the war, Zhang Xueliang, who lived in the Northeast, sent a telegram to support Chiang, and issued an order for the Northeast Army to enter the customs.In an instant, hundreds of thousands of Northeast troops entered the pass, which was tantamount to stabbing the Northwest Army in the back. Coupled with Chiang Kai-shek's usual methods of division and disintegration, more than 200,000 Northwest troops began to defect one after another. Failures and setbacks made Zhao Bosheng very disappointed. Whenever this happened, he would think of the words Director Liu Bojian said to Feng Yuxiang before he left: "Since the commander-in-chief has decided to cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek, it shows that we are different. If we disagree, we can only go our separate ways. Since this day has come, please remember one sentence, Commander-in-Chief, one day you will regret dealing with Chiang." Feng Yuxiang, who is now defeated and resigned, only regrets it!It was at that moment that Zhao Bosheng felt the correctness and greatness of the Communist Party. At that time, there was a severe drought in the Northwest, and countless farmers had no livelihood and were displaced.After fighting for half his life, nothing could change, and he was filled with grief and indignation.So he wrote a song "Song of Revolutionary Spirit" to express his determination to save the country by worrying about the country and the people.The lyrics read: On the eve of the war, he sent people to Shanghai to look for Liu Bojian and the Communist Party, but unfortunately they were unable to find them.In April 1931, after the troops were stationed in Ningdu, he went to Shanghai in person, but he still failed to do so.Facing the current situation, more than 20,000 soldiers of the 26th Route Army seemed to be sitting on the crater of a volcano.Going forward is an enemy of the Red Army led by the Communist Party that he does not want to see; retreating is blocked by Chiang Kai-shek's direct troops in Guangchang.It's not enough to stay here. Most of the 26th Route Army are from the north. In this rainy southern mountainous area, the water and soil are not acclimatized, and malaria is prevalent.A heavy sense of responsibility weighed on his heart. Thinking of this, Zhao Bosheng sighed deeply, got up slowly, and walked back to the camp. On the night of that day, two young officers came to the radio station of the general headquarters to listen to news broadcasts as usual. Chief of Staff of the Army Headquarters Pistol Brigade).Walking into the computer room, it was already full of officers from various ministries. Everyone was breathing and exchanging views on the current situation while listening to the news. They were very excited and lively.When it was switched to the news in Tokyo, Japan, it was broadcasting the battle situation of the Japanese Kwantung Army in the three eastern provinces of China, and the noisy room quickly quieted down.In the battle situation, it was mentioned that the Japanese army captured a certain city yesterday and a certain place today, and they spoke arrogantly and arrogantly, and everyone was filled with righteous indignation.Then it was transferred to Nanjing Central Station, but after listening to it, I was very angry. The broadcast said that only a few people in the Japanese army were provoking trouble, not a war, and asked the people to endure and give in, and embrace the principle of non-resistance; Arbitrarily, let the Japanese army withdraw.In the end, there was a speech delivered by Chiang Kai-shek himself, which was still the same set of clichés of "to fight against the outside world, we must first settle down at home" and "resistance should not be taken lightly". Huang Zhongyue was sent by Feng Yuxiang to study at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy in 1926. He had long been dissatisfied with the arrogance of the Japanese invaders on Chinese territory. After the "Jinan Massacre", he interrupted his studies and returned home angrily.With a straightforward personality and strong patriotism, he threw away the cigarette butt and yelled loudly: "Anne, Anne, Anne, what a fart! The Japanese devils have come to our house, and we are still fighting in the den! League of Nations, the devil would believe it! There's a fart!" Then he turned his head and said, "Old Su! Don't listen, let's go!" On the way back, they stopped and walked, and from time to time they used their flashlights to look at the slogans left by the Red Army on the street. "The Communist Party is a party that seeks the interests of workers and peasants!" "The Red Army is an army for the interests of workers and peasants!" "The poor don't beat the poor!" "Soldiers don't fight soldiers!" "Unite the Red Army and go north to resist the Japanese!" ……… I just walked and watched all the way, and when I reached the regiment headquarters, no one went in. The two squatted on the steps of the door, smoking cigarettes silently.After a long time, Huang Zhongyue pointed to a slogan written by the Red Army on the wall across the street and asked Su Jin: "'Ji-Nian-Paris-Le-Comme-Commune!', the Communist Party is very particular about writing slogans! Even the punctuation marks are not missed. "Old Su, what does the Paris Commune mean?" Su Jin is also a graduate of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy. He has read many books about Marxism and Leninism before, and he is more inclined to the views of the Communist Party. , so he replied vaguely: "I don't know too well, probably the Paris Commune uprising related to Marx." Huang Zhongyue may have seen Su Jin's doubts, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stood up and said: "The Communist Party is good at this, they can do whatever they say, and the Kuomintang is a ****! They only sell sheep's tricks and sell dog meat!" A few days later, an unknown number of Red Army guerrillas appeared in the south of Ningdu City and fired a row of guns into the city.After a false alarm, Huang Zhongyue suddenly asked Su Jin: "Old Su, if the Red Army really comes to attack, do you think we can hold it?" "What do you think?" Su Jin didn't answer, but asked him instead. "I see, it may not be able to defend!" Huang Zhongyue shook his head frankly and said. "Then what should we do?" Su Jin asked again. "What do you think?" This time Huang Zhongyue asked Su Jin in turn. "I see, you should go to Brigadier Ji and discuss a solution." Su Jin winked at Huang Zhongyue, and said implicitly: "There is no unparalleled road, if you can't keep it, there is a way you can't keep it!"