Chapter 13 5. The Great Ningdu Uprising

The Ningdu Uprising was victorious, and a new people's army, the Fifth Red Army, was born. It is of great significance in the history of revolution led by the Communist Party of China. (i) It was one of the most influential of the many uprisings led by the Communist Party.The Nanchang Uprising fired the first shot against the Kuomintang reactionaries, but in the end the uprising ended in failure; the Autumn Harvest Uprising did not have many teams left, but it created the important revolutionary concept of "surrounding the city with the countryside" proposed by Comrade Mao Zedong.The Ningdu Uprising was a collective uprising of more than 17,000 members of the former Kuomintang army under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and joined the Red Army.Not only was it the largest in scale and the least costly, but it was also a great uprising that achieved complete victory.

(2) It dealt a heavy blow to Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang government, and greatly shook the morale of the Kuomintang troops who "encircled and suppressed" the Soviet area. (3) It greatly inspired the soldiers and civilians in the Soviet area and the national revolution, and strengthened people's confidence that the Kuomintang will surely lose and the Red Army will surely win. (4) It removed the serious threat to Ruijin, the red capital at that time, and further consolidated the Central Soviet Area. (5) It added a main army of more than 17,000 people with strong combat effectiveness to the Central Red Army, imported a large number of outstanding military command cadres for the Red Army, rapidly expanded the strength of the Red Army, and increased the main Red Army in the Central Soviet Area to nearly 60,000 people.

(6) It brought a large number of excellent weapons and equipment to the Soviet area. Only eight complete radio stations and more than 40 professional and technical personnel were more than all the radio stations of the Red Army in the Soviet area at that time.In addition, a large number of professional medical and nursing talents entered the Soviet Area, which improved the field medical level of the Central Red Army and made outstanding contributions to the health and medical cause of the Soviet Area. (7) It has accumulated successful experience for the CCP to carry out military movement work and transform the entire army and division into an organized uprising army into a real people's army.

The Fifth Red Army, reorganized from the Ningdu uprising troops, made immortal contributions in the struggle to consolidate, develop and defend the Central Soviet Area, in the Red Army's 25,000-mile long march, and in the struggle against Zhang Guotao's separatism. .The outstanding leaders of the Ningdu Uprising, Zhao Bosheng, Dong Zhentang, Ji Zhentong, and tens of thousands of uprising officers and soldiers, successively shed blood on the battlefield for the victory of the Chinese revolution.The few survivors have passed the test of long-term revolutionary struggles, and many of them have become important leaders of party, government, and military organizations at all levels after the founding of the People's Republic of China.One of them was awarded as general, 5 were awarded as lieutenant general, 23 were awarded as major general, and some of them became famous diplomats and artists in our country.

In 1937, Mao Zedong, Xiao Jinguang, and Wang Jiaxiang took a photo with some comrades who participated in the Ningdu Uprising in Yan'an. Mao Zedong wrote an inscription in the photo: "Using the spirit of the Ningdu Uprising against Japanese imperialism, we are invincible." Highly appraised by the Ningdu Uprising.