Chapter 35 35. Lu Duan is not confused about big things

After nearly a week of arduous marching, the right-hand army of the Red Army finally walked out of the large grassland known as the death zone.Then, regardless of fatigue, he fought continuously and achieved a great victory. The long-dreamed passage to the north has finally been opened. This is a passage paved with loyalty and blood by the brave commanders and fighters of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army.Under the command of Mao Zedong and Xu Xiangqian, the Right Army of the Red Army captured Baozuo after several days and nights of fierce fighting.But everyone did not expect that although the passage to the north was opened, Zhang Guotao was obstructing it at this time, preventing the Red Army from working together to go north.

Zhang Guotao refused to implement the Party Central Committee's decision to move the left army closer to the right army.When the Left Route Army arrived at the Aba area through the grassland from Zhuo Keji, he stood still and used various excuses to oppose going north.Zhang Guotao, on the bank of the Gaqu River not far from Aba, used the heavy rain as an excuse to refuse to cross the Gaqu River, emphasizing the difficult conditions such as climate, geography, and food. He privately ordered the troops to return to Aba and decided to lead the Red Army south to the Chuankang border. .The situation took a turn for the worse, and Zhang Guotao finally made up his mind and made a decision: instead of agreeing to go north, he should rely on his strength to solve the problem of going south.

The aggrieved Bogu used history as a metaphor for the present: "The Dadu River just avoided being the second Shi Dakai of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Zhang Guotao suddenly became the second Yang Xiuqing of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on the grass." Taking history as evidence, Yang Xiuqing's forced seal of Long Live led to the massacre of Wei Changhui and the departure of Shi Dakai, resulting in the almost instant demise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Eighty years later, in Northwest Sichuan, history seems to repeat the scene of brothers killing each other in the peasant uprising army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Mao Zedong and others advocated going north, but Zhang Guotao strongly opposed it and advocated going south.At that time, he relied on the forces he possessed to try to coerce Mao Zedong and the Party Central Committee to immediately stop the northward movement. Zhang Guotao decided to attack Mao Zedong and the Central Committee first, and use force to resolve the dispute between going north and going south. At noon on September 9, 1935, the former enemy general headquarters held a military meeting. While Chen Changhao was giving a long speech, the translator came in with a new telegram, "Report, a telegram from Political Commissar Chen!" A telegram was sent into the conference room.The telegram was a coded telegram sent by Zhang Guotao. Chen Changhao was supposed to translate the text of the telegram himself, but he was too busy and asked a translator to translate it for him.Seeing that the director of the General Political Department was talking excitedly, the translator handed the telegram to Chief of Staff Ye Jianying.Ye Jianying wanted to hand over the telegram, "Wait a minute, don't you see that I'm busy?" Chen Changhao was talking excitedly, and he didn't want anyone to interrupt his train of thought.Ye Jianying retracted her hand.He glanced at the telegram and immediately realized that this telegram was unusual!The telegram was sent by Zhang Guotao to Chen Changhao and Xu Xiangqian:

After long-term consideration, the time to go northward is not yet ripe, and it is most appropriate to establish a base area on the Sichuan-Kangzhou border. When the revolution comes, we will then develop in the northeast direction. I hope to persuade Mao (Zedong), Zhou (Enlai), and Zhang (Wen Tian) to give up. Mao Ergai plan.If you violate it, go south resolutely and thoroughly carry out the inner-party struggle. After reading the content of the telegram, Ye Jianying's scalp tingled and she was taken aback. The so-called "thoroughly carried out" doesn't mean that Zhang Guotao will threaten to use force in the end?It's not too late, otherwise, something big will happen.With a calm and composed air of casualness, he tucked the telegram into his pocket as usual.After staying for a while, he slipped out on the pretext of going to the bathroom, pulled a horse, and galloped to Mao Zedong's residence 10 miles away.When Mao Zedong read the telegram, his expression became very nervous.But he quickly controlled his emotions, and calmly dealt with them with the unique courage of a great man to control the stormy sea.Mao Zedong took out a very short pencil and a piece of cigarette paper from his pocket, quickly wrote down the content of the telegram, and then said to Ye Jianying: "Go back first, don't let them find out that you are here. Now there are Who knows this telegram?" "They don't know the content of this telegram yet. I will give it to them when I rush back." Ye Jianying said.Mao Zedong told Ye Jianying: "Don't let people know that I have seen this telegram." Ye Jianying returned to the conference room without anyone noticing.Before the meeting was over, Chen Changhao was still speaking. "The telegram from the political commissar." Ye Jianying tactfully forwarded the telegram to Chen Changhao's secretary, so as not to arouse the suspicion of Chen Changhao and others.

At this time, Mao Zedong and others have realized that it is impossible to continue to persuade Zhang Guotao to go north. Doing so will only lead to more serious consequences.That night, Mao Zedong, Zhang Wentian, Wang Jiaxiang, Zhou Enlai, Bo Gu, Peng Dehuai and others held an emergency meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. This was the famous Brazilian meeting in history.In view of Zhang Guotao's dangerous situation of relying on his military strength and attempting to override and endanger the Party Central Committee, in order to continue to implement the Party Central Committee's decision to go north, the Central Committee decided that the Red Army and the Third Army must leave this dangerous area before dawn tonight and rush northward to the Russian border.

The dark night sky was silent, covering a major "escape" action in the history of Mao Zedong's life.It was an extremely long day for him. In 1936, in a cave dwelling in Yan'an, Mao Zedong told the American journalist Edgar?Snow said: "September 10, 1935, was the darkest moment in my life." This day is also a critical moment of life for the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Army: the founding of the party in 1921 and the founding of the army in 1927 The bloody sacrifices of thousands of martyrs and the revolutionary cause built up with hard work are likely to go to waste because of this internal division during the Long March.

Before dawn, Mao Zedong stared closely at the morning star in the east. He wished to prolong the night and let the Central Red Army use the night to escape from danger. Before leaving, Zhang Wentian and Bogu found Ye Jianying and said, "Lao Ye, you have to go, there is danger here." "You go first, I can't go with you yet." Ye Jianying said. "Why? This place has become an extremely dangerous place of right and wrong!" Bo Gu said. "If I leave, I'm afraid everyone won't be able to leave. Besides, the team directly under the Military Commission is still at the former enemy general headquarters. Once I leave, the entire team directly under the Military Commission will not be able to leave. I have to wait for the team directly under the Military Commission to leave. You go first. , I will follow in the future." Ye Jianying shook hands with Zhang Wentian and others to say goodbye, and returned to the headquarters of the former enemy.

How to take away the team directly under the Military Commission?Ye Jianying had a lot of brains, he remembered Zhang Guotao's telegram about going south, and Ye Jianying brought out the team directly under the Military Commission under the pretext of going out to raise food.During the operation, Ye Jianying wittily took away the map of Gansu, which was the only one-hundred-thousandth complete map of Gansu Province seized in the Battle of Baozuo.At that time, there was only one map of Gansu in the whole army. How important the map was to the Red Army marching and fighting in other places!

At dawn, Ye Jianying led the team directly under the Military Commission to catch up with the team of the Central Committee. Mao Zedong was very happy to see Ye Jianying and said: "Comrade Jianying, you are out, good! Good! The situation is urgent now, we can't stay here, we should stay here." Immediately advance to the Russian border and join the first army." Zhang Wentian sighed deeply: "If it wasn't for Ye Jianying today, I'm afraid we would all be prisoners!" At this critical moment, in the struggle against Zhang Guotao, Ye Jianying was wise, courageous, decisive and astute, and made important contributions.Having said that, we might as well mention a few other things he did for Mao Zedong and others before and after the Zunyi Conference.

Ye Jianying, formerly known as Ye Yiwei, was born in 1897 in a small businessman's family in the countryside of Mei County, Guangdong.In his early years, he was admitted to the Yunnan Lecture Hall. He wanted to take the road of joining the army and strengthening the country, so he changed his name to Jianying.After graduation, he followed Sun Yat-sen's revolution.When Chen Jiongming rebelled, he was a battalion commander under Chen Jiongming. He resolutely fired at the rebels himself to cover Sun Yat-sen's escape.During the Great Revolution, Chiang Kai-shek appreciated his talent very much, and he was at least a general and division commander in the Kuomintang army.He could have achieved success, but when he heard the news of Chiang Kai-shek's "April 12" massacre of workers, he resolutely quit his job and left, declaring his opposition to Chiang and joining the Communist Party.Before the August 1st Nanchang Uprising, Wang Jingwei and others attempted to use the opportunity of the meeting to trap and kill Ye Ting and He Long. It was he who detected the news in advance and informed Ye and He that they survived. During the Long March, Ye Jianying helped his comrades out of danger several times. Before and after the Zunyi meeting, the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission went in and out of Zunyi.One day when passing through a small valley, he was suddenly attacked by enemy troops. At that time, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and Zhou Enlai were all in the ambush circle. The enemy soldiers rushed down the mountain shouting to capture "Zhu Mao" alive. The situation was very critical.At this critical moment, Ye Jianying led the communication platoon to rush from behind, quickly occupied the opposite hill, fought down from above, and drove away the enemy.Afterwards, people said that without Deputy Commander Ye this time, our lives would be gone. Another time, in March 1935, a military committee was held in a place near Dagu Xinchang to discuss the establishment of a command group.During the meeting, the plane of the Kuomintang army came suddenly. At that time, he couldn't care about anything, and shouted "Chairman, come with me!" He pulled Mao Zedong and ran to a ravine, and hid in the grass with Mao Zedong until the enemy plane left. Go, get out safely. Regarding Ye Jianying's great achievements in avoiding "infighting" among the Red Army during the Long March, Mao Zedong later mentioned many times that Ye Jianying was praised as "Zhuge was only cautious in his life, and Lu Duan was not confused about major issues."Zhou Enlai also said: "Comrade Jianying reported the secret message to Mao Zedong, so (the central government) escaped danger and made a great contribution. Without Comrade Jianying's contribution, the situation would have been destroyed....Only at the critical moment did it show that he was a comrade Well! An old saying goes: 'The strong wind knows the strength of the grass, and the toughness knows the loyal minister'!"