Chapter 22 9. Bloody Persistence - The Fifth Campaign Against "Encirclement and Suppression"

October 13: The Military Commission of the Central Revolutionary Army issued the "Order on the Use of Alternate Names": the Military Commission is a red star, and all ministries directly under the Military Commission are replaced by the word "red star".The first column of the Military Commission is Hong'an, and the second column is Red Badge.The First Army of the Red Army is Nanchang, the Third Army of the Red Army is Fuzhou, the Fifth Army of the Red Army is Chang'an, the Eighth Army of the Red Army is Jinan, and the Ninth Army of the Red Army is Hankou.It is also stipulated that the above aliases will be implemented from October 15th.

It was day and night, Zhu De called the heads of various ministries: A. It is hereby stipulated that each supplementary regiment is formally assigned to each corps, and the distinction is as follows: 1. The Jiangxi supplementary second regiment and the Yudu supplementary eighth regiment are allocated to the first army regiment.In addition to the Supplementary Second Regiment that has supplemented the First Corps, the First Corps should immediately send personnel to Yudu to receive the supplementary Eighth Corps, and take them to the gathering place of the First Corps on the evening of the 15th.2. Supplement The third and fourth regiments are allocated to the three armies.To supplement the third regiment, it should be ordered to drive from Changsheng to the front of the second concentration area of ​​the third army regiment in the morning of the 16th (Sunday) after the third army regiment; To the vicinity of Buqiangang, follow up with the three armies.3. Supplement The fifth regiment is still assigned to the fifth army regiment, and the fifth army regiment will send personnel to Jiangbeidong to receive it directly.Before the end of the Fifth Army Corps moves, it will continue to receive new soldiers. When the Fifth Army Corps moves, it will move with the rear of the Fifth Army Corps, and special consolidation work will be carried out.4. Yudu added that the Sixth Regiment was assigned to the Eighth Army Regiment, and the Eighth Army Regiment immediately sent personnel to Yudu to receive it, and on the evening of the 15th, it drove to the Shefu area to follow the Eighth Army Regiment.5. At present, Yudu will supplement the first regiment and pull out the Ninth Army Corps. The Ninth Army Corps will immediately send personnel to Yudu to receive it. On the evening of the 15th, Yudu will leave for Huichang.After arriving in Huichang, he followed the Ninth Army.

B. All the supplementary regiments are assigned to the cadres and new soldiers of the regiments, all of which are trained by the regiments and solidly carry out consolidation work.The cadres of the Seventh Supplementary Regiment still have to continue to receive new soldiers, preparing to supplement the 24th Division and the troops directly under the Military Commission.The station of the regiment is designated by Chairman Xiang. C. In case of execution, please report by telegram. On October 17, under the leadership of Dong Zhentang, the Fifth Army Corps defended Xingguo for nearly half a month, and then handed over the position to the Independent Third Regiment who came to take over the defense.On the night of the 18th, the whole army rushed to the Cangqian and Luo'ao areas of Yudu to assemble, and stayed for only one day. After receiving various supplements such as soldiers and supplies, they rushed to the Yudu River to prepare to cross the river.

Standing on the bank of the river, Dong Zhentang was filled with emotion.He was reluctant to leave this red land. Here, he transformed from a Kuomintang general to a staunch proletarian and became a senior general of the Red Army. To defend this red land, he and his comrades fought bloody battles.Now, when will the people in the Soviet area, who are about to leave this hot land and give the greatest support to the revolution, come back? ... Liu Bojian, who had been transferred to the Southern Jiangxi Military Region as the director of the political department, rushed to see him off. Dong Zhentang went up to greet him, and the two close comrades hugged each other tightly.Faced with the siege of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, Dong Zhentang felt very uncomfortable about what it meant to stay in the Soviet area and persist in fighting.

"Director Liu, I really want to be with you and fight side by side!" Liu Bojian said affectionately: "Why don't I want to? The organization decided to keep me and continue to fight. I must obey the organization. This is the party's principle! This time you led the Fifth Army as the guard of the entire army. The burden on your shoulders Not light either!" At this moment, the military situation is very urgent, the enemy's shelling is getting closer and closer, and the soldiers behind are running up to the pontoon bridge, and time is running out. Liu Bojian said calmly: "Old Dong, it's time to go on the road! Take care all the way, and we will meet again when the revolution wins in the future. I wish you a smooth future!"

What else can I say?It's hard to say a thousand words, but Dong Zhentang replied firmly: "Director Liu, after the main force of the Red Army leaves the Soviet area, the struggle will be even more brutal. You have to take care, and we will try to fight back as soon as possible." At this time, many folks in the base area stood by the river and sang the song "Ten Sending off the Red Army": "As soon as the Red Army went down the mountain, the autumn wind and drizzle were lingering, the wild cats in the mountain were screaming, and the leaves of the trees and phoenix trees fell. It’s over, the Red Army! When are the troops, come on and go back to the mountain...” The folks helped the old and the young, stood on the shore, and sang it repeatedly until everyone shed tears, and sang until the Red Army brigade disappeared. In the midst of the mountains on the other side, I still can't bear to leave for a long time.

The main Red Army left, and the arduous and tragic three-year guerrilla war in the base area began.In March 1935, Liu Bojian led his troops to break out of the encirclement, preparing to move to the guerrilla bases on the Guangdong-Jiangxi border.On the way, he was heavily surrounded by the enemy and fought hard all day and night. Cai Huiwen, commander of the military region, and Chen Pixian, secretary of the Communist Party of China, broke out of the encirclement. Ruan Xiaoxian, then secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, was shot and died. The guard Xie Youcai tried his best to carry him on his back while fighting and walking.At this time of life and death, Uncle Liu endured the pain and pushed away the guards and shouted: "Run! Leave me alone, one more person who rushes out will have more revolutionary power!".In this way, in order to cover other comrades to break through, Liu Bojian unfortunately fell into the clutches of the enemy at the junction of Xinfeng and Huichang, Jiangxi.

Liu Bojian was imprisoned in Dayu after being captured. Not only was he repeatedly tortured and physically tortured by the enemy, but he was also taken to the city to parade in the streets many times. Said: "Afraid of death, do not revolutionize, revolution does not fear death, if you want to kill, kill, why bother!" The enemy racked their brains on him, but they couldn't get a single result.Because Liu Bojian once served as the director of the Political Department of the National Army and assisted Feng Yuxiang in the National Revolution, many important members of the Kuomintang Army were once his colleagues.Therefore, the enemy persuaded him helplessly: as long as he goes through the procedure of leaving the party, he can regain his freedom.Liu Bojian rejected their "good intentions", he said: "My belief in communism is unshakable, you don't need to bother anymore!"

The interrogating officer asked him again with sighs and admiration: "You said the Communist Party has a way, why is it so defeated now?" Liu replied: "Victory and defeat are commonplace in military affairs. The ancients said that wild fires are endless, and spring breeze blows Rebirth. As long as the revolutionary flames are not ceased, the fires of the Prairie Prairie will surely ignite all over the sky!" ... In prison, he looked back on his revolutionary life and struggled endlessly for the liberation of workers and peasants.What I have followed is a correct path, and there is nothing to be shaken, so I wrote an eternal swan song - "Walking with Shackles"

This awe-inspiring poem expresses the heroic revolutionary spirit of martyr Liu Bojian when he threw his head and blood. Just before his execution, the enemy still fantasized that he would surrender. Facing the pen and paper handed over to him, Liu Bojian calmly swiped the pen and gave it to his beloved wife Wang Shuzhen (who had died in a battle in western Fujian) Write a suicide note: Don't be sad, I hope you will work hard for the Chinese revolution no matter what, and don't leave the revolutionary front.What's more, I must use all my strength to raise the three children of tiger, leopard, and bear to adults and continue my glorious revolutionary cause.I was buried near Dayu Meiguan. It is almost twelve o'clock, and I am about to go to the killing field. I can't write any more. I would like to extend my last revolutionary salute!

On March 20, 1935, Liu Bojian was killed by the enemy in Dayu County.Fourteen years after the martyr sacrificed, the Chinese revolution achieved complete victory, fulfilling the last words of the martyr before he left. The original Ningdu uprising came, and many comrades were ordered to stay in the central revolutionary base to persist in the struggle, but the ending was very tragic.As mentioned above, among the dozen or so cadres working in the Central Sub-bureau, Xiang Ying felt that these people had worked in the Kuomintang army before and were not safe, and believed that they were "unreliable".He once said to Chen Mengsong, secretary of the Dengxian County Party Committee, and Zhong Jiayao, chairman of the county Soviet: "These people are unreliable, and we must deal with them!" Called to the agency one after another, come in and bundle one by one.That night, without any evidence, they were all killed. Xiang Ying, who mercilessly dealt with the "unreliable" elements, has no doubts about his revolutionary firmness.But to sum up these bloody experiences and lessons, and accurately judge who is "reliable" and who is "unreliable", Xiang Ying himself is at a loss. In January 1941, tragedy struck again.During the Southern Anhui Incident, Xiang Ying, the deputy commander (political commissar) of the New Fourth Army who was out of danger, died in his sleep from a traitor's bullet. The person who killed him was Mr. Liu Houzong, the official entourage and adjutant who had been with him for three years and had always been "incomparably loyal". He thought he was the most "reliable" person. The heroes of the Ningdu Uprising-Yuan Xuezu and Guo Ruyue were assigned to the main force left behind-the Red 24th Division. Yuan served as the acting director of the Political Department of the division, and Guo served as the chief of staff of the 70th Regiment. On March 9, 1935, Yuan Xuezu led the 24th Division and the 70th Regiment with Xiang Ying, Chen Yi, and He Chang to finally break through the encirclement, and was blocked by the enemy's 89th Division in Zhangshan Mountain, Tianmen, Huichang.In order to cover the safe transfer of the chief and comrades-in-arms, Yuan Xuezu led a brigade to stay behind as a cover. The troops fought and left. Most of the soldiers died or were scattered. After breaking out of the siege, Yuan went to Shanghai to look for the party organization, but was unfortunately arrested. With years of experience in fighting behind the enemy lines, the enemy could not find a trace of suspicion on him, so they had to release him without any evidence.After he was released from prison, Yuan Xuezu, under the pseudonym Wu Yin, served as a soldier in the 57th Division of the Kuomintang and continued to engage in the party's underground work. In August 1936, Yuan was arrested and imprisoned as a political suspect. It was not until November 1937 that Yuan was released from prison following the tide of "release of political prisoners across the country".After being released from prison, Yuan Xuezu was eager to return home, looking forward to returning to the embrace of the party as soon as possible. He begged with his friends in distress and traveled through Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces to find the Eighth Route Army office in Xi'an and arrived in Yan'an at the end of the year.Since then, he has withstood a long period of political scrutiny, and it was not until the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party that he rectified the chaos and was rehabilitated. Guo Ruyue's experience was even worse. He was originally the combat staff officer of the Dong Zhentang Brigade of the Northwest Army. senior commander.But later, as if it was God's deliberate tease, he was left in the Soviet area with strong military talents, and was not temporarily appointed as the chief of staff of the 70th regiment until the Red 24th Division was about to break out.After breaking through with the troops, he fought fiercely with the enemy in Zhangshan Mountain of Tianmen. Guo was wounded and scattered, and hid alone in the dense thatch for seven days.Seven days later, he was searched out by the enemy even though he was exhausted from hunger.When the enemy officer interrogated him, Guo Ruyue claimed to be Guo Shoukang, a soldier.Seeing that he couldn't find any tricks, the enemy officer left, so he should have been able to get past it, but he didn't expect God to play tricks on him again.A child glanced at him at the door, then walked away quickly.Not long after, the enemy officer came back with a smile and said to him: "You are not a soldier, you are the chief of staff of the Red Army, that kid knows you!" Three months later, Guo Ruyue was escorted to Nanchang by the enemy and sentenced to fifteen years in prison by the Kuomintang authorities.After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was released and lived in Shanghai and other places. He lost contact with the party and made a living by begging and working.Until the liberation of Shanghai, Guo Ruyue found the old chief with great excitement, Comrade Chen Yi, who was the mayor of Shanghai at the time, and was later introduced by Chen Yi. Returning to his hometown in Gansu, he became a member of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous County Political Consultative Conference in 1978. Among the remaining main Red 24th Division, there is also a deputy head, also a cadre from the Ningdu Uprising, named Cao Shuliang, who once served as the battalion commander of Dong Zhentang's 73rd Brigade.He joined the Communist Party of China shortly after the uprising, and he was very skilled in the military. The southern Hunan guerrillas led by him fought in the mountains and persisted until the second cooperation between the country and the Communist Party.His troops were later incorporated into the New Fourth Army and went to the anti-Japanese battlefield, but he was buried forever in the place where he fought. By the way, Comrade Cao Shuliang was also killed by mistake. Things have to start in August 1937, when the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sent a telegram across the country, calling for the organization of an anti-Japanese national united front, calling on the country and the Communist Party to fight against Japan together, and implement the second cooperation.Soon, the Nationalist Party and the Communist Party reached an agreement. Chiang Kai-shek agreed to reorganize the Red Army guerrillas in 13 regions in eight southern provinces into the new Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army. Xiang Ying and Chen Yi began to actively contact various Red Army guerrillas to go down the mountain .Since the guerrillas in the Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet Area had lost contact with them for a long time, they had to go up the mountain to find them.Who can be sent to convey the instructions of the Party Central Committee?Together, the two decided to let the political commissar of the southern Shonan guerrilla detachment complete this task.The leader of this detachment is Comrade Cao Shuliang. At that time, considering that the political commissar had just recovered from his injury and his mobility was inconvenient, Cao Shuliang took a guard to go there in person... After going through a lot of hardships, the two finally found a guerrilla led by Comrade Tan Yubao in the Jiulong Mountain of Lianhua, but they were mistaken for a traitor by the other party as soon as they met, and they were brutally killed without even a chance to explain.When the bad news came, Cao's subordinates wept bitterly for it.Heroes go through life and death for the revolution, and instead of sacrificing themselves under the butcher's knife of the enemy, they die miserably at the hands of their own people.Comrade Cao Shuliang was wrongly killed, it took a long time to be confirmed, and for unknown reasons, he was not recognized as a revolutionary martyr until 1982, and there was a gap of forty-five years. Chen Yihou graduated from Peking Medical College, and later joined the Northwest Army as a military medical officer of Lu Zhonglin's Department.After the Central Plains War, he was incorporated into the 26th Route Army of the Kuomintang. After the Ningdu Uprising, he served as the director of the Military Medical Department of the Fifth Red Army. In 1932, the Military Medical Office was changed to the Ministry of Health, with Chen Yihou as the Minister.Joined the Communist Party in the same year. In the spring of 1933, Chen Yihou led the health department of the Fifth Red Army Corps to participate in the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" battlefield rescue work, forming a related rescue system from bandage station-field hospital-military station hospital-rear hospital-general hospital , and made a significant contribution to the timely rescue of the wounded.During his tenure as the Minister of Health of the Fifth Red Army Corps, he actively implemented the guidelines of "all for the wounded and sick, all for the health of officers and soldiers" and "prevention first" put forward by the General Health Department of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission. A public health campaign focusing on common diseases such as lower extremity ulcers. In August 1933, Chen Yihou served as the principal of the Red Army Health School.He led the teachers and students of the school to start a business with hard work, compiled and printed lecture materials by himself, collected and manufactured various specimens, models and wall charts by himself, enriched the teaching equipment through various channels, established a library, a model room, and a laboratory successively, and promoted the teaching.On the eve of the Red Army's Long March, the health school trained a total of 686 medical personnel, supplementing the health technical force for the various units of the Red Army. Chen Yihou is sincere and enthusiastic to patients, is serious and responsible for his work, and strives for excellence in medical skills.The Affiliated Hospital of the Health School is the hospital with the highest level of medical technology in the Central Soviet Area.Under the difficult war conditions, Chen Yihou squeezed time to write books such as "Diagnosis and Treatment Manual", "Pharmacology" and "Prescription", and also founded "Red Health Journal". In October 1934, during the Long March of the Central Red Army, in order to manage the more than 8,000 wounded and sick left behind, the Health Department of the Central Soviet Area was established, with Chen Yihou in charge. In the spring of 1935, when Chen Yihou was commanding the transfer of troops, he was bombed by enemy planes and died a heroic death. Luo Zhongyi joined Feng Yuxiang's army as a soldier in 1927, and went to Jiangxi with the 26th Route Army of the Kuomintang in 1931.In December of the same year, he participated in the Ningdu Uprising and was incorporated into the Fifth Corps of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and then went to Ruijin to study at the Red Army School. Joined the Communist Party of China in 1932. Since 1933, he has served as the staff officer and chief of the combat section of the Fujian Military Region Command, and the chief of staff of the Lian (City) Ning (Hua) (Long) Yan Army Division.Participated in the fourth and fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns in the Central Soviet Area. After the Long March of the main force of the Central Red Army in October 1934, Luo Zhongyi stayed in southwestern Fujian and persisted in the extremely difficult three-year guerrilla warfare. Commander. After the outbreak of the National Anti-Japanese War in 1937, Luo Zhongyi served as the chief of staff of the second detachment of the New Fourth Army. In July 1940, after Chen and Su led the main forces of Jiangnan to cross the Yangtze River to the north, Luo Zhongyi served as the commander of the rebuilt Jiangnan Command, stayed in southern Jiangsu to persist in the anti-Japanese guerrilla war behind the enemy lines, and commanded troops to defeat the Japanese and puppet troops' "mopping up" and "clearing the countryside" many times And the attack of the Kuomintang diehard troops. After the Southern Anhui Incident in 1941, Luo Zhongyi led his troops to respond to the troops withdrawn from the north by the New Fourth Army, and made great contributions to preserving the anti-Japanese revolutionary forces. In April, the South Jiangsu New Fourth Army was reorganized into the 6th Division of the New Fourth Army. Luo Zhongyi served as the chief of staff of the 6th Division and the commander of the 16th Brigade. He led his troops to fight in Jurong, Danyang, Wujin, and Lishui.At this time, the Kuomintang stubborn army carried out "advancement and suppression" against the New Fourth Army in southern Jiangsu. In late May 1941, Luo Zhongyi led the 16th Brigade of the New Fourth Army to three battles and three victories in Jinshan, Liyang County. More than 900 recalcitrant soldiers were killed, wounded and captured, and a major victory was achieved.The Golden Mountain victory reversed the critical situation in the Maoshan area after the Southern Anhui Incident. In June, the 16th Brigade returned to Shimao Mountain. In order to cooperate with the anti-"Qingxiang" struggle in the Suchangtai area of ​​East Road, it actively launched an offensive. During July and August, more than 20 Japanese and puppet strongholds were successively removed, and they regained the post-Wannan Incident. All areas occupied by the Japanese and puppet troops. In the early morning of November 28, 1941, the Japanese army concentrated more than 3,000 troops and suddenly attacked the brigade headquarters of the 16th Brigade of the New Fourth Army and Tangma Village, Liyang County, where the Jiangsu-Anhui District Committee of the Communist Party of China was stationed.Luo Zhongyi and Liao Haitao, the political commissar of the brigade, commanded the troops to wage a bloody battle with the Japanese army. They repelled the enemy's 8 charges and wiped out more than 700 people, enabling more than 1,000 people from the brigade headquarters and logistics units to stand out from the encirclement.Luo Zhongyi, Liao Haitao and other more than 270 commanders and fighters died heroically in the bloody battle. They were only 31 years old at the time. They were the leaders with the highest positions who died in the New Fourth Army's battle against Japan. Lu Shouchun was the commander of the first battalion of the 74th Brigade of the 26th Route Army. Before the uprising, he served as the representative of Ji Zhentong, the commander of the 74th Brigade, and went to the Soviet area to contact Liu Bojian for instructions on organizing the uprising.During the uprising in Ningdu, he led his troops to surround the headquarters of the 25th Division and captured the reactionary official Li Songkun, who was the hero of the uprising.He joined the party shortly after joining the Red Army and served as the commander of the 43rd Division of the 15th Army of the Fifth Red Army.Later, he was transferred to the Red Army University of the Military Commission and served as the deputy director of the training department and the captain of the superior cadre brigade. After the long march of the main force of the Central Red Army in October 1934, he was ordered to stay in the Jiangxi base to persist in the struggle. In the spring of 1935, he died in a battle in southern Jiangxi. Wang Yunrui's experience was very tortuous. Before the Ningdu uprising, he joined the underground party organization of the 26th Route Army.After the uprising, Wang Yunrui successively served as the operational staff officer of the 14th Army Command of the Fifth Red Army, and the staff of the Jian, Li, and Thai Garrison Commands. In July 1934, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China ordered the Seventh Army of the Red Army to form an anti-Japanese advance team to march to Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi to carry out containment tasks.In November of the same year, the Red Seventh Army and the Red Tenth Army were jointly organized into the Red Tenth Army, and Wang Yunrui was promoted to the commander of the third division.On the way to the north, the troops were heavily surrounded by the enemy in Huaiyu Mountain, and fought fiercely for many days. After successfully breaking through with Su Yu, he served as the chief of staff of the Red Army's advancing division and moved to southwestern Zhejiang to open up a guerrilla base. In August 1935, he served as the commander of the Southwest Military Division of Zhejiang Province.In September of the same year, the Kuomintang army attacked the base area in southwest Zhejiang. Su Yu led the main force out of the enemy's siege, while Wang Yunrui led a small number of troops to stay in the base area to contain the enemy. , lost contact with the party.After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Yunrui found the Eastward Column of the Eighth Route Army, explained his identity, and returned to the embrace of the party.Later, he successively served as Section Chief of the Second Section of the Headquarters of the Eastward Column of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, Director of the Staff Office of the Southern Hebei Military Region, and Commander of the Second Military Division.During the War of Liberation, he successively served as chief of staff of the Second Column of the Central Plains Field Army, and chief of staff of the Second Field Army and the Third Corps.After the liberation of the whole country, he successively served as chief of staff of the Eastern Sichuan Military Region, chief of staff of the Third Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteers, deputy chief of staff, chief of staff of the Volunteer Army, chief of staff of the Nanjing Military Region, vice president and director of the Academy of Military Sciences, and was awarded the rank of major general in 1955. . He died of illness in Beijing on March 20, 1989. There is also a legendary figure in the Fifth Red Army named Zhou Junming.During the Ningdu Uprising, he served as the battalion commander of the 75th Brigade of the 25th Division as a major and led the entire battalion to participate in the uprising.Unfortunately, things backfired. More than a month later, Zhou Junming and several regiment leaders were announced to leave the army because the officers of the White Army could not be used.So in January 1932, with the personal approval of Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, Zhou Junming returned to his hometown in Queshan, Henan to carry out revolutionary activities.Zhou Junming returned to his hometown and led two peasant riots in Shigunhe.Wanted by the Kuomintang Henan military and political authorities. In July 1933, he joined the Communist Party of China as he wished and led the arduous armed struggle in the Ruque border area. In November 1934, he served as Secretary of the Military Commission of the Henan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. In 1935, he was arrested for betrayal by a traitor and was later rescued by the party organization. In January 1936, the Red Army guerrilla unit in the Hubei-Henan border area was born. Zhou Junming served as the guerrilla leader, and the team once grew to hundreds of people. In April 1937, he went to Yan'an to attend the Party Representative Conference, and then stayed in Yan'an to study.In July of the same year, Zhou Junming was sent to Queshan again by the party organization, and served as the military minister of the Southern Henan Special Committee of the Communist Party of China and the head of the Southern Henan People's Anti-Japanese Independent Group.Later, the troops were incorporated into the New Fourth Army and served as the deputy commander of the fifth detachment of the New Fourth Army and the chief of staff of the second division. In the spring of 1943, he entered the Yan'an Central Party School to study.During the War of Liberation, he successively served as commander of the Huainan Military Region, chief of staff of the Central China Military Region, deputy chief of staff of the East China Military Region and commander of the Logistics Command.After the liberation of the whole country, he successively served as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Water Resources of the State Council, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Forestry, the deputy director of the Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry of Heilongjiang Province, and the vice chairman of the Henan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.