Chapter 10 Chapter 9 Fire and True Gold

The era that produces great heroes is the era that produces great traitors.There are as many unscrupulous betrayals as there are unswerving loyalty until death.In the ideological confrontation between generals and generals, Wang Yaowu was not the winner.Chen Yi bowed his head to the truth, but never bowed to difficulties.Kong Hechong was not as lucky as Gong Chu, but he was lucky enough to end the pain of devouring his soul early. Today the Chinese Communist Party has 70 million members.New development of a new party member must go through strict procedures and complicated procedures.I apply, and the organization approves it as a development object, and then checks the applicant's usual performance, motivation to join the party, the applicant's understanding of the nature, guiding ideology, program, and line of the party; understanding of the basic conditions, rights, and obligations of party members; and then the superior The organization sends an official letter to transfer the family situation, the branch meeting deliberates, the introducer talks about the basic situation of the introduced person and the training process, the branch meeting discusses, votes by show of hands, forms a resolution and submits it to the superior party committee for approval, and the preparatory period starts from the date the branch meeting passed... …In order to make party organizations at all levels strictly implement the organizational procedures and check them out, the organizational department has compiled one after another instructions for recruiting new party members.

Tan Enjin, deputy dean of education at the National Defense University, talked about it with a lot of emotion: "When I joined the party in Beiping in 1947, I was called to the base of the city wall one night and asked me: 'Aren't we afraid of death?' I said: 'No fear!' The comrade in charge of developing party members said: 'Okay, from now on, you are a member of the Chinese Communist Party!'” That era moved both the listener and the speaker. The answer back then was less complex than it is today.Just: be afraid, or: not be afraid. It's simple, but it's harsh.It is indeed worth ten thousand sentences.

This is a choice at a crossroads, whether to keep your life and blood for yourself or to the party. You only live once.What a life.What better test than the test of life and death? There have been two major shake-ups and rebellions in the ranks of the Communists. One was the "April 12" counter-revolutionary incident in 1927, and the other was the Red Army's Long March in 1934. "April 12" "purge the party", "it is better to kill by mistake than to release by mistake", the corpses of communists are scattered everywhere, and blood flows like rivers.Li Dazhao, Luo Yinong, Zhao Shiyan, Chen Yannian, Li Qihan, Xiao Chunv, Deng Pei, Xiang Jingyu, Xiong Xiong, Xia Minghan, Chen Qiaonian, Zhang Tailei and many other leaders were killed one after another.In the harsh white terror, the organization was broken up, and the party members lost contact with the party organization;

After the Long March of the Central Red Army in 1934, the Communist Party faced such a situation again. Fang Zhimin, chairman of the Military and Political Committee of the Red Tenth Army, Liu Chouxi, head of the Red Tenth Army, Qu Qiubai, the People's Commissar of Education of the Chinese Soviet, and Liu Bojian, director of the Political Department of the Southern Jiangxi Military Region, were captured and shot dead by the enemy.He Shuheng, People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Procuratorate of the Chinese Soviet, He Chang, Director of the Political Department of the Central Military Region, and others died on the battlefield.

People of the same age in New China all remember these three works: Fang Zhimin's, Qu Qiubai's "Excessive Words", and Liu Bojian's "Walking in Shackles", all of which were their reflections on China's destiny behind bars. It is literature, it is also history, and it is full of passion. The Kuomintang’s Nanchang camp has the following records: "As of the end of this month (note: the end of March 1935), the Jiangxi Qing suppression army had successively captured more than 6,000 Red Army soldiers in Yudu and Huichang, more than 2,000 rifles and pistols, and more than 50 machine guns. In Ruijin, more than 3,000 Red Army soldiers were captured. Excavated 8,000 buried rifle bodies, more than 200 machine guns, more than ten cannon bodies, more than ten mortars, more than 30 boxes of books, and more than 200 dans of copper and tin."

Worse than sacrifice is treachery. The first was the rebellion of Kong Hechong, whom Chiang Kai-shek called "the harbinger of the disintegration of the Red Army". Kong Hechong is a native of Pingjiang, Hunan Province. He joined the Hunan Army in 1926. He joined the Party in 1926. He first engaged in the peasant movement, and later organized peasant armed forces.After participating in the Pingjiang Uprising, he served as the captain of the First Column of the Fifth Red Army, the commander of the First Independent Division of the Red Army, and the commander of the Sixteenth Army of the Red Army. Commander of the Sixteenth Army. In 1932, he was criticized by Zhu De for making putschist mistakes, was dismissed from his post, and entered the Red Army University to study. In 1933, he was transferred to work in the Central Mobilization Department. In July 1934, he took advantage of the opportunity to go to other places to inspect work and defected.

After his defection, he provided information on the organization of the CCP, the Red Army and the Soviet regime in the border areas of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, and helped the Kuomintang army formulate a plan to "encircle and suppress" the Red Army and revolutionary base areas. intelligence.He was later appointed "Special Appeals Commissioner". From 1935 to 1937, he organized a plainclothes ranger to attack the Red Army guerrillas. Kong Hechong's mutiny did not herald the disintegration of the Red Army, but it did become the herald of a series of defections and mutinies.

After the Long March of the Central Red Army, Li Desheng, commander of the northern Fujian division, rebelled successively in the Soviet area; Zeng Hongyi, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Commander of the Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Division, rebelled; Before the rebellion, although these traitors had their own ways and appearances, they were often very "left". Kong Hechong was very dissatisfied with letting him go to Hongda University to study. He said that anyone who doesn't know how to fight can survive to the end with a few machine guns. Any formal training and strategy and tactics are all nonsense.

Xiang Xianglin often said to the people around him: "The Central Soviet Area has failed. It is shameful for us to lay an ambush in this mountain. It is better to go out and fight hard. If you kill him, you will count." The headquarters and various departments engage in sand table operations. Every morning, the trumpets are blown to gather for exercises, and the horns are blown to gather for roll call in the evening.This set immediately attracted the attention of the enemy, and they sent heavy troops to wipe them out, causing the troops to move every day.Chen Yi asked him to talk, and he was plausible: "Maybe the main force of the Red Army will fight back tomorrow. We should concentrate our forces and fight the Kuomintang to the death."

The enemy really came, and he didn't fight to the death. People who were very left suddenly became very right in an instant. There are many such cases in the Chinese revolution. Among all the mutinies, the most serious is the mutiny of Gong Chu, Chief of Staff of the Central Military Region. Gong Chu is a native of Lechang, Guangdong. He joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League in Guangzhou in 1924 and became a member of the Communist Party of China in 1925. He is older than Kong Hechong. Gong Chu can also be compared with Peng Pai and Mao Zedong. He was one of the leaders of the Communist Party of China who engaged in the peasant movement first. He went to his hometown Lechang, and in May 1926, he served as the secretary of the Lechang Special Branch of the Communist Youth League.Because Gong Chu entered the Shaoguan branch of the Dian Army's Jiangwu Hall, served as the company commander of the Guangdong Army, and had military work experience, he became the commander of the Lechang County Peasant Self-Defense Force. In February 1927, the Lechang branch of the Communist Party of China was established, and Gong Chu took the position of secretary as a matter of course, becoming a communist with important influence in the area. From the end of 1927 to the beginning of 1928, Zhu De and Chen Yi led the remaining troops of the Nanchang Uprising Army to travel through northern Guangdong to enter Hunan. The first Communist they met was Gong Chu.

Zhu De recalled: "We broke away from the Fan Department and went north from Shaoguan, planning to find a base in southern Hunan. At this time, Gong Chu had already arrived in our army, so he led us to Yangjiazhai in Yizhang County." During the struggle in Jinggangshan, Gong Chu, who had both military and civilian movement experience and military work experience, became a member of the front committee of the Fourth Red Army and a party representative of the 29th Regiment, and his prestige and status were among the few in the Red Army. In June 1928, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee sent a letter to the Military Commission of the Fourth Red Army: "The Front Enemy Committee, the Provincial Party Committee designated the following comrades to organize it: Chairman Mao, Zhu De, Chen Yi, Gong Chu, Qiao Sheng and one comrade from the soldiers, and one comrade from the peasants in southern Hunan. The former secretary of the party committee is held by Chairman Mao, and the standing committee is organized by three people: Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and Gong Chu." This was Gong Chu's status at that time.For a period of time, the letters from the Central Committee and the Hunan Provincial Committee to the Front Committee of the Fourth Red Army were all called "Zhu Maogong". Gong Chu established a deep relationship with Mao Zedong and Zhu De during the Jinggangshan period, and established a deep relationship with Deng Xiaoping during the Baise Uprising. In May 1929, Gong Chu was appointed as a member of the Guangxi Front Committee of the Communist Party of China. In December 1929, he participated in the Baise Uprising in Guangxi.After the uprising, the establishment of the Red Seventh Army was announced, with Zhang Yunyi as the commander, Deng Bin as the political commissar—Deng Xiaoping, and Gong Hecun as the chief of staff—Gong Chu.The Seventh Red Army has three divisions under the jurisdiction of the 19th, 20th, and 21st divisions. The 19th division has the strongest combat effectiveness. Gong Chu is also the division commander, and Deng Xiaoping is also the political commissar.Since Gong Chu came from Jinggangshan, he is familiar with the Red Army's army building experience and political work system, which indeed brought a lot of help to the construction of the Seventh Red Army.Gong Chu's later positions were also shining: after Li Mingrui, he was the commander of the Seventh Red Army, then the commander of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Military Region, the acting chief of staff of the Red Army Headquarters, and the commander of the Southern Jiangxi Military Region.After the Long March, the main force of the Red Army, Chen Yi didn't even have a clear position at first, but Gong Chu served as the chief of staff of the Central Military Region. It is conceivable that the rebellion of such a character would have a serious impact on the forces left behind in the Central Soviet Area after the Long March of the Red Army.Gong Chu's rebellion appeared suddenly. In February 1935, he was ordered to lead part of the Red Army to carry out guerrilla warfare in southern Hunan. In May, he was attacked by the Cantonese army in the Huangmao area of ​​Chenxian County, Hunan Province, and defected to the enemy.Chen Jitang gave him a major general, the "Communist Suppression Guerrilla Commander", and assigned a guard of more than forty people under his command, and asked him to go to the Jiangxi and Guangdong borders to trap Xiang Ying and Chen Yi. Gong Chu concealed his betrayal very cleverly. In mid-October, he disguised his guards as Red Army guerrillas, and fought with a unit of Yu Hanmou of the Guangdong Army in the Longxishi area of ​​Beishan for a while, "defeating" the "enemy", and became famous in Longxishi.He Zizhen's elder brother, He Minxue, the captain of the Beishan Guerrilla Brigade, was originally the section chief of the Central Military Command. Hearing that the old chief, Chief of Staff Gong Chu, had pulled up a guerrilla team, he hurriedly sent someone to contact him. Gong Chu said that he needed to see Xiang Ying and Chen Yi immediately, and take them to southern Hunan to strengthen their leadership.He Changlin, the rear director of the Jiangxi-Guangdong Border Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, and others enthusiastically helped, suggesting that Gong Chu write a letter to Xiang and Chen.After the letter was written, He Changlin also signed it.The secret traffic officer of the special committee quickly delivered the letter to Xiang Ying and Chen Yi. Xiang Ying was very happy after reading the letter.He doesn't know Gong Chul well, but this is the first time he's been in touch with other guerrilla zones, and there's plenty of reason to be excited.Chen Yi was not so optimistic.He knew Gong Chu very well.Gong Chu relied on his seniority and was arrogant during the Jinggangshan struggle. Except for Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai, he was defiant to everyone.Mao Zedong's prestige in the Soviet area is unmatched.During Peng Dehuai's third counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression", Gong Chu was dismissed because he did not carry out his order.Today, how did he become humble and ask Xiang Ying and Chen Yi to "strengthen leadership"? Chen Yi told Xiang Ying that the struggle is cruel and people's hearts are unpredictable, so he should see Gong Chu again after a while. It was this "after a while" that made Gong Chu reveal his original shape.Seeing that the letter left but no one came, he was afraid of nights and dreams, so he decided to act first and wipe out the guerrillas in the Beishan area. It was He Changlin, the rear director of the special committee, who helped to call a meeting of guerrillas and cadres in Longxishi, and He Minxue and other important cadres attended.When they realized that the situation was not good, Gong Chu's ambushes had already surrounded the venue. The chief of staff of the Central Military Region began to tear his face, nakedly persuading his former subordinates to surrender. He Minxue was the first to jump up, and rushed out while raising his gun.He was shot three times, and he just rolled down the mountain and rushed out of the encirclement.Of the rest, only eight or nine people rushed out of the venue with injuries.More than fifty guerrillas and cadres died on the spot.He Changlin, the head of the special committee's rear, is also a soft bone. Seeing that the general situation is not good, he was arrested before he could escape, and immediately rebelled. This was the "Beishan Incident" that suffered the greatest loss and the most serious nature after the troops left by the Long March broke through to the Jiangxi and Guangdong borders. Gong Chu didn't catch Xiang Ying, and Chen Yi was not reconciled.He was familiar with the rules of the Red Army's activities, and arranged for the army to search day and night.He Changlin pointed out all the people who had relations with the guerrillas, and many of them were killed by the enemy. In October 1935, Gong Chu led three divisions of the Kuomintang to launch an attack on the guerrilla area in southern Hunan, causing heavy losses to the guerrilla detachment in Hunan, Guangdong and Jiangxi. Fang Weixia died a heroic sacrifice, and Cai Huiwen was seriously injured and captured.Chen Shan, Secretary of the Hunan, Guangdong and Jiangxi Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, was wounded and captured. It is this "Gong" of "Zhu Maogong", although he has made some contributions in the ranks of the Red Army, once he betrayed the ranks, he actually made a greater "contribution" to the enemy.So people can understand why communists hate traitors the most.People who have survived the "April 12" counter-revolutionary massacre are well aware of the inevitability and great harm of rebellion in times of crisis.Foreseeing the coming of this moment, they consciously or unconsciously used the iron fist that often hurt themselves in the end: eliminating counter-revolutionaries. On May 17, 1934, the 61st issue of the "Struggle" magazine in the Soviet area published Dong Biwu's article: "Expanding the Prosecution Movement Wider": "The flames of the Prosecution Movement have been ignited everywhere...This movement must be in harmony with the Su Counter-revolutionary work is closely linked, and through the system of the Political Security Bureau it is possible to expose counter-revolutionaries lurking in local institutions and those who tolerate counter-revolution.” Five days later, on May 22, Zhang Wentian wrote an editorial for issue 193 of "Red China": "For our class enemies, there is only hatred, no forgiveness!" ": "The more the enemy pushes towards our basic Soviet area, the more tense the revolutionary war on the front line will be, and the more active the activities of the counter-revolutionaries inside the Soviet area will be"; "Red terror should be our answer to these counter-revolutionaries! In the border areas of the war zone, we must immediately take the most rapid action against any counter-revolutionary activities. All landlords, rich peasants, businessmen, capitalists, bosses, and hooligans who engage in counter-revolutionary activities must be arrested immediately, except for a few of the most important elements. Those who are not members of the same party need not be judged or dismissed, they will all be executed on the spot"; "All tolerance and laissez-faire towards counter-revolutionaries, all 'attaching attention to formalities' and 'legal concepts', all hesitation and slowness, in the current class When the enemy fights to the death, they are objectively the assistants and accomplices of the counter-revolution.” Within the Chinese Communist Party, Dong Biwu is known for his generosity, and Zhang Wentian for his calmness.During the extraordinary period of struggle, these personalities were also oppressed by the huge pressure from the outside without a trace. On the eve of the departure of the main Red Army in September 1934, the People's Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic issued a "Letter of Instructions to the Provincial and County Soviets Concerning the Work in Frontier Theaters": "In the context of direct warfare, we must pay special attention to the speed and decisiveness of our work. Every temporary The problem must be solved practically as quickly as possible, without the slightest waiting." If a counter-revolutionary is caught, it should be "solved locally". The chairman of the People's Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic is Zhang Wentian. According to this instruction, the leaders of the Ningdu Uprising Ji Zhentong, Huang Zhongyue and others were secretly executed on the eve of the Long March. The most contradictory and typical character in this regard is Xiang Ying. Xiang Ying was the first to oppose the expansion of the suppression of counter-revolutionaries in the Soviet area. In early 1931, as soon as he arrived in the Soviet Area as the acting secretary of the Central Bureau, he opposed the handling of the Tomita Incident. Regarding the Tomita Incident, Mao Zedong said with certainty in "A Letter of Reply from the General Front Committee": "This time, more than 4,400 AB regiments were cracked in the Red Army, and the AB regiment has set up the commander-in-chief, commander-in-chief, The head of the military division, 5 regular riots, the riot flag has been set up, and if it is not set up to be severely arrested, the Red Army will no longer exist.” Xiang Ying held a different view. On January 16, 1931, the second day after the establishment of the Central Bureau, he issued the "Resolution on the Tomita Incident" in the second circular of the Central Bureau. However, the Tomita Incident is not considered to be a counter-revolutionary riot led by the AB regiment; it is only "objectively" an anti-party counter-revolutionary action.It criticized the mistakes of the anti-AB regiment: "First, it is a line that is not the masses"; "Second, the red terror is not caused by the masses to de-terrorize the reactionaries, but the anti-terrorism caused by the organs to counter-terrorize the masses." Today's party historians say that this is the first document that speaks justice to the Tomita Incident. To say this under the circumstances at the time really required a clear head and considerable courage in the face of complex situations.At that time, regardless of the report and reply letter of the General Front Committee written by Mao Zedong, the resolution of the Central Bureau of the Soviet Area, the announcement of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Committee, or the declarations of Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Huang Gonglue, Zeng Shan, and the letters of Chen Zhengren, they all agreed that The Tomita Incident was a "rebellion co-operated by the liquidation faction of the AB Regiment" and a "counter-revolutionary activity" that was "heinously evil" and "undermined the class decisive battle".Those who held different opinions were all regarded as "AB group", "liquidationists", and "reorganizationists" at that time. Because of Xiang Ying's criticism and resistance to the General Front Committee's arrest of the AB Regiment and its handling of the Tomita Incident, during the three months from the establishment of the Central Bureau in January 1931 to the arrival of the Central Committee's delegation in the Jiangxi Soviet Area in April, the suppression of counter-revolutionaries in southwestern Jiangxi expanded. is suppressed.This is an important historical achievement of Xiang Ying.For this, he was severely criticized by the central delegation, announcing that "Xiang Ying made a complete mistake in resolving the Tomita Incident" and was dismissed from the post of Secretary of the Central Bureau of the Soviet Area. Such a person who kept a clear head on the suppression of counter-revolutionaries also lost his sobriety after the Red Army's Long March, and aggressively expanded the suppression of counter-revolutionaries.Xiang Ying said, landlords, rich peasants, and counter-revolutionaries, if we don’t kill them, they will kill us.Some of the cadres of the Fifth Army Corps who were part of the Ningdu Uprising stayed in the Central Sub-bureau and various units after the Long March of the Red Army.Xiang Ying felt that these people had worked in the Kuomintang army and were not safe.He told 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." How to solve it?Zhong Jiayao later recalled: "Immediately, in the name of a meeting, Xiang Ying sent messengers to inform them one by one of a dozen people from the Fifth Army to come to the meeting. After they came, the messengers who came with them were left downstairs. The Fifth Army After the people went upstairs, Xiang Ying said that they had made a mistake, and then tied them up one by one without any explanation, and killed them that night." The next day, family members of some of the murdered people came to inquire about the whereabouts of their relatives, and the answer was that they were transferred to work elsewhere. Facing extraordinary times, extraordinary measures are needed. But the more extraordinary times are, the more we need to distinguish between friends and foes? Mao Zedong said that revolution is not about treating guests to dinner, making articles, or painting and embroidering;A revolution is an insurrection, a violent act by which one class overthrows another. Mao Zedong also said, who is our enemy?Must be our friend?This question is the first question of the revolution.The basic reason why all the revolutionary struggles in China have achieved little in the past is that they could not unite with real friends to attack real enemies. Both passages are very profound.They are all cited repeatedly by different people at different times, for different purposes, and by different people.When rebelling, the former is often cited, and when rehabilitating, the latter is emphasized.In the cycle of history, it was repeatedly found that so many good people who should not have been wronged were wronged. Xiang Ying, who dealt with the "unreliable" elements mercilessly, had unquestionable revolutionary firmness, so he was able to persist in the three-year guerrilla struggle under extremely difficult conditions until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. But to sum up these bloody experience and lessons, and truly and accurately judge who is "reliable" and who is "unreliable", Xiang Ying has no time. In the Southern Anhui Incident in January 1941, he had already escaped from the siege, but died in his sleep from a traitor's bullet. Mr. Liu Hou, his bodyguard who killed him, was precisely the person he considered the most reliable. This is the tragedy of Xiang Ying, and it is also the tragedy of the means and methods of eliminating counter-revolutionaries in that era. After the main force of the Red Army broke through the Western Expedition, the largest force around the Central Soviet Area was the Red Cross Army. In October 1934, the Xunhuaizhou Red Seventh Army, which was an anti-Japanese advance team going north, arrived at the Northeast Jiangxi base and joined Fang Zhimin's Red Tenth Army. In early November, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission issued an order to form the Red Seventh Army and the Red Tenth Army into the Red Tenth Army. Fang Zhimin was the chairman of the Military and Political Committee, and Liu Chouxi was the head of the army.Jurisdiction over three divisions, the original Seventh Army was organized into the Nineteenth Division, and the original Red Tenth Army was organized into the Twenty and Twenty-first Divisions, with a total of more than 10,000 people in the whole army. This considerable force existed for just over two months from mid-November 1934 to the end of January 1935.Zhu De later summed it up in eight words with heartache: If it is not made up, it will not be broken up, and once it is made up, it will be broken up. After the regiment was formed, it fought against Tanjiaqiao for the first time. The consideration at that time was that the other enemy troops were still far away, and only the first brigade, which followed the enemy to supplement, seemed isolated and prominent.The enemy has a total of three regiments, and the equipment is relatively good.The Red Ten Corps consisted of three divisions, with about the same strength as the enemy, but the terrain was very favorable.From Wuniguan to Tanjiaqiao, there are mountains and forests on both sides, and the terrain is dangerous, which is good for concealment and ambush.At that time, the Red Army was extremely short of ammunition and other materials. Eliminating and replenishing the first brigade could not only obtain personnel and supplies, but also destroy the arrogance of chasing the enemy. Liu Chouxi, the head of the army, decided to fight a battle here, and everyone had no objection. It should be said that this is a battle with positive intentions, and the choice of terrain is not bad, but the choice of combat objects is not very good.The Supplementary First Brigade was reorganized by three supplementary regiments from the Baoding Training Office in the winter of 1933. The brigade commander Wang Yaowu, a native of Tai'an, Shandong, graduated from the third phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and was a mighty member of Jiang's army.The brigade is well equipped, and most of the cadres are graduates of military schools, well-trained; most of the soldiers are from the north, and their combat effectiveness is quite strong. This is a direct-line army of Chiang Kai-shek, and it is completely different from the second-rate army that the word "supplement" gives people. But Liu Chouxi didn't take Wang Yaowu seriously.When he entered the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924, Wang Yaowu was still a boy selling biscuits at the counter of Shanghai Mayushan Candy Company.Liu Chouxi joined the Communist Party of China in 1922, and his experience is quite legendary: he participated in the May 4th Movement, served as Sun Yat-sen's bodyguard, lost his left arm in the battle of Mianhu in the first Eastern Expedition, participated in the Nanchang Uprising, and then went to the Soviet Union , into the Moscow Frunze Military Academy. The qualifications of the first phase of Whampoa, coupled with the academic qualifications of Frunze Military Academy, among the commanders of the Red Army, no one can compare with Liu Chouxi except Zuo Quan.All this filled him with an irrepressible self-confidence.After serving as the commander of the Red Tenth Army and the commander of the 20th Division, it was his urgent request to immediately fight a battle to turn the situation around. But he underestimated the opponent who had sold biscuits back then. Liu Chouxi didn't know that when he went south with the Nanchang Uprising troops, Wang Yaowu, the major battalion commander of the First Army Supplementary Regiment, participated in the interception.When Liu Chouxi served as the commander of the 21st Red Army to participate in the fourth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression", it was also Wang Yaowu who led his troops to defend Yihuang, a strategic area in the Soviet area, for 24 days without being breached by the Red Army. Chiang Kai-shek called it a "miracle".Leading troops and fighting are Wang Yaowu's two specialties.The Seventy-Fourth Army, one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang, later reorganized the Seventy-Fourth Division, was brought out by Wang Yaowu. Liu Chouxi had no idea of ​​the basic situation of Wang Yaowu's supplementary brigade, but Wang Yaowu was not at all confused about Liu Chouxi's Red Cross Army.He said to his three regiment leaders: "The chairman of the Political Committee of the Tenth Corps of the Communist Army is Fang Zhimin, the commander of the regiment is Liu Chouxi, and the deputy commander is Xun Huaizhou. The regiment has three divisions: the commander of the 19th Division By Xunhuaizhou, the commander of the 20th Division Wang Ruchi, and the commander of the 21st Division Hu Tiantao. The regiment commanders and division commanders are very strong-willed and have rich combat experience, especially Xunhuaizhou's combat command ability is the strongest." Wang Yaowu said Two things were wrong: Fang Zhimin was chaired by the Military and Political Committee of the Red Tenth Army, not the "Political Committee"; Liu Chouxi was concurrently the commander of the 20th Division, not Wang Ruchi.Wang Yaowu didn't speak too highly of Liu Chouxi, a senior from Whampoa. On the contrary, he spoke highly of Xun Huaizhou, a native-born general of the Red Army who had never been to a military academy. The Tanjiaqiao ambush was the first battle of the Red Tenth Army, and it was related to whether the army could gain a foothold in southern Anhui.Liu Chouxi used the 20th and 21st divisions to take charge of the frontal attack on the right side of the ambush area; he placed the 19th division on the left side, and after the frontal attack, intercepted the enemy's return. The Nineteenth Division was not placed in the main attacking position.Xun Huaizhou, the former commander of the Seventh Red Army Corps and the current division commander of the Nineteenth Division, and Su Yu, chief of staff of the Tenth Army Corps, disagreed.It is believed that the 19th Division has rich experience in field combat and has a tenacious fighting style; while the 20th and 21st Divisions have only been established for more than a year, lack of field combat experience, and there are problems in being the main attacker. Liu Chouxi is very confident.The 20th Division and the 21st Division are his old troops, and he believes that the combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the 19th Division.He stuck to the original deployment. On December 14, the supplementary brigade set off, with the second regiment as the vanguard, and the rest followed the order of the directly subordinate troops, the third regiment, and the first regiment, and pursued Taiping through Wuniguan and Tanjiaqiao. The Red Cross was very well concealed.When Wang Yaowu's Second Avant-Garde Regiment passed Wuniguan and Tanjiaqiao, some people were chopping firewood, some were farming, and some were walking on the road, as usual.Zhou Zhidao, the head of the front guard, thought that there was nothing suspicious, and did not send troops to search closely, and the troops continued to advance in mighty strength. The chances were good, but the firing was premature.The enemy regiment headquarters had not yet entered the ambush area, and some cadres and soldiers of the 20th and 21st divisions were too nervous and opened fire in advance.The enemy immediately became alert and immediately began to seize the high ground on the roadside, and the entire ambush was forced to advance.Otherwise, after the enemy regiment headquarters enters the ambush range, destroy the command organization first, then the whole battle situation will be very different. Wang Yaowu, Zhou Zhidao and others, who sweated in shock after thinking about it afterwards, were based on this assumption. The 20th and 21st Divisions, lacking experience in field combat, especially lacking experience in fighting tough battles and lacking in mental preparation, continuously charged at the enemy's vanguard regiments in an attempt to crush the enemy in one fell swoop.The offensive was fierce, and several hand-to-hand combats were carried out, and Zhou Zhidao, the head of the enemy's avant-garde regiment, was wounded.However, the movements of the two divisions were inconsistent, and they could not attack even after rushing 4 times.The Nineteenth Division, which was not placed in the main attack position, was unable to get out of the mountain gorge for a while, and the situation quickly changed from an active ambush to a passive one being counterattacked by the enemy.On the one hand, Wang Yaowu ordered the troops not to retreat. On the other hand, he ordered the reinforced battalion and the third battalion of the third regiment to increase the frontal combat of the second regiment. Liu Baoding, the head of the first regiment, sent a unit to occupy Wuniguan and hold it firmly. The Supplementary Brigade was originally a defeated general of the 19th Division commanded by Xunhuaizhou. This time, three divisions of the Red Army ambushed it. The battle for the commanding heights of Wuniguan has become the key to victory or defeat.The Nineteenth Division finally pulled out to launch an attack that was too late.Xun Huaizhou personally led the charge.Wang Yaowu later recalled this battle and said: "Although the Red Army suffered setbacks in all three charges, its fighting spirit was still strong. Its determination to defeat and replenish the first brigade did not waver, and it launched another large-scale charge. This time the Red Army dispatched seven Eight hundred people rushed over in three routes, one directed at the reinforced battalion, and two directed at the first and second battalions of the second regiment, which had suffered heavy casualties. There was a great effort to defeat and replenish the first brigade. critical." Wang Yaowu personally went to the front line to supervise the battle, and ordered all the ministries to concentrate the firepower of mortars and machine guns to shoot violently at the rushing Red Army. The battle was extremely fierce.He recalled: "According to the report of Zhou Zhidao, the head of the second regiment, during the enemy's fourth charge, it was discovered that a dozen people from the Red Army braved the danger of artillery fire to rescue one person, and carried them to the rear. The man who was carried away was probably a high-ranking enemy officer." The one who was rescued was Xun Huaizhou who was seriously injured in the violent impact. People thought that Lin Biao, who was 25 years old as the regiment commander, was the youngest regiment commander in the Red Army.In fact, Xun Huaizhou was not yet 22 years old when he became the commander of the Red Seventh Army in 1933.Xun Huaizhou was a young student from Liuyang, Hunan Province. After participating in the Autumn Harvest Uprising and going to Jinggang Mountains, he, together with Chen Bojun and Wang Liang, was the company commander of three famous young intellectuals in the 31st Regiment of the Fourth Red Army.Among the three, Chen Bojun and Wang Liang were both students of the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy, counting as the sixth batch of Whampoa, but Xun Huaizhou had never been to the military academy.But he has always been a subordinate of Wu Zhonghao, a general of the Fourth Red Army and a fourth-generation student of Whampoa.From this Red Army general who was as famous as Lin Biao, Xun Huaizhou learned a lot and made rapid progress.He became a division commander at the age of 19 and an army commander at the age of 20. In February 1933, during the fourth Huangpi battle against "encirclement and suppression", he led the 21st Red Army to go straight into the enemy and cut off the return route of the 52nd Division of the Jiang Army. Annihilating the enemy created the conditions, won the second-class Red Star Medal, and received a special award from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission. Su Yu recalled: Xun Huaizhou was an excellent young military commander trained and grown up in the revolutionary war; he worked hard and plainly, connected with the masses, fought bravely, and was witty and flexible. Su Yu later became a very accomplished young general in the People's Liberation Army. At that time, he was 5 years older than Xun Huaizhou. Xun Huaizhou was injured 5 times, and Tan Jiaqiao became the last one. Due to his serious injury, he died during the transfer. Fang Zhimin later wrote "A Brief Introduction to My Revolutionary Struggle" in his cell, and commented on Xun Huaizhou: "The commander of the 19th Division, Comrade Xun Huaizhou, died of serious injuries! He is a very good commander in the Red Army , He commanded the Seventh Army. In two years, he fought many famous victories, captured more than 6,000 enemy guns, and handed over dozens of cannons. He is only 24 years old." An excellent general fell on the battlefield of Tanjiaqiao. Wang Yaowu, who was almost wiped out, turned defeat into victory in the battle of Tanjiaqiao and gained a lot.He sent an infantry company to search for Xun Huaizhou's body, caught a person who participated in the burial, and led the way to Maolin, where he dug up Xun Huaizhou's body and took pictures as evidence that Xun Huaizhou was indeed killed.They found that the body was still intact, but the upper body was unclothed, and they realized that the situation of the Red Army was extremely difficult.Wang Yaowu judged: "The clothes worn by the officers and soldiers of the communist army are so shabby that it is difficult to protect their bodies. Because of the scarcity of quilts, when burying the officers and soldiers who died in battle, they took off the clothes of the dead for the living to wear." Wang Yaowu received a reward of 5,000 yuan. The failure of the Tanjiaqiao battle was largely due to improper selection of enemies and improper command.After the failure of the Red Cross Army in Huaiyu Mountain, the gene has been lurking here. Tanjiaqiao lost the battle, and Wannan could not gain a foothold.The Red Cross Army, led by Fang Zhimin and Liu Chouxi, went south and returned to the borders of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi.Liu Chouxi, who was so confident before the Tanjiaqiao battle, became so indecisive again.When they reached the edge of the Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi Soviet areas, the enemy's situation was already very urgent.Su Yu insisted that the troops should not stay and act overnight to break through the enemy's blockade, but Liu Chouxi felt that the troops had just arrived and were very tired, so he could not leave that night.Fang Zhimin was worried that Liu Chouxi was hesitant, so he asked Su Yu to take the lead and leave first, and he stayed and waited for Liu Chouxi to act together. Once you stay, you will be forever. Su Yu led a small number of vanguard troops to act resolutely, and broke through the enemy's blockade that night.The main force of the legion led by Liu Chouxi hesitated in action, and changed direction as soon as he fired a shot in front.Turning around and delaying for a few days, he was surrounded by 14 regiments of the Kuomintang army who were catching up at Huaiyu Mountain.Fang Zhimin could have followed Su Yu to break out, just to wait for Liu Chouxi, but in the end the two were both captured and walked to the execution ground side by side. Huaiyu Mountain on the border of Zhejiang and Jiangxi became the last battlefield of the Red Cross Army.In the freezing weather and lack of clothing and food, the Red Army soldiers shot at the enemy with their guns, but their frozen hands couldn't pull the trigger; they struggled to throw bombs at the surrounding enemies, but they couldn't throw them very far; Wang Yaowu found that the Red Army personnel he had captured, They were all pale and emaciated, their hands and feet were cracked from the cold, and their mouths were foaming a lot because they couldn't drink water. Many of them couldn't eat or drink every day. They were so cold and hungry that they lay on the ground unable to move. The Red Cross was defeated. At the end of January 1935, Fang Zhimin and Liu Chouxi, the main commanders of the army, were captured in Chengjiawan. The Kuomintang then sent them to Nanchang, holding a "celebration meeting" along the way.After arriving in Nanchang, the "Celebration of the Capture of Fang Zhimin" was held in Yuzhang Park in the city. A reporter from the Associated Press reported the scene at that time: Police teams were lined up around Yuzhang Park, and machine guns were mounted on the street... Standing in handcuffs on an armored car, Fang Zhimin's passionate attitude caused the audience to express their infinite admiration, surrounded by a large army of soldiers and horses on guard.After the audience saw Fang Zhimin, no one said a word, and everyone was silent. Even the officers and soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek's general staff expressed their infinite admiration and sympathy for this heroic prisoner... After Fang Zhimin and Liu Chouxi were expelled, Chiang Kai-shek secretly ordered Gu Zhutong, director of the Jiangxi Appeasement Office of the National Party, to try his best to persuade Fang and Liu to "return to sincerity", especially for the graduates of the first phase of Whampoa and the first Eastern Expedition in Mianhu. Liu Chouxi served as the party representative of the third company of the teaching regiment.That was the key battle that laid the life and death of the Kuomintang army.Chiang Kai-shek always remembered Liu Chouxi who was desperate and saw off his left arm due to injury.Without the victory of Mianhu, there would be no Chiang Kai-shek later.He ordered Gu Zhutong to take special care of Liu Chouxi and must try to win him over. Gu Zhutong is the tactical instructor of the military academy and the acting director of the management department. He is both Liu Chouxi's instructor and his boss in Huangpu.但顾祝同怕自己一个人说不动，又借蒋介石任黄埔同学会会长时，刘畴西担任过总务科长，以此为由头联络来更多的黄埔同学做工作。于是从怀玉山到上饶，从上饶到南昌，押解方志敏、刘畴西二人的路上，来劝降之人络绎不绝。仅顾祝同本人就亲自来了三次。 今天回头仔细品味那段历史时，我们可以指责刘畴西在谭家桥战斗前听不进寻淮洲和粟裕的意见刚愎自用，可以叹息刘畴西在怀玉山突围中犹豫不决优柔寡断，但在敌人以友情、以官爵、以监禁、以死亡的利诱和威胁面前，我们只有衷心叹服刘畴西的意志之坚韧不拔。 对蒋介石、顾祝同的劝说和纷纷前来的黄埔同学，他丝毫不为之所动。 刘畴西1922年加入中国共产党，与方志敏一样刚强。方志敏在中，用“田寿”这个名字，记述了刘畴西在狱中的不屈斗争。 1935年8月6日凌晨，方志敏、刘畴西被秘密杀害于南昌。 蒋介石把消灭红十军团归功于俞济时、王耀武，尤其是在第一线大打出手的王耀武。王耀武参加追击红十军团的作战时，赣东北“剿匪”总指挥赵观涛曾对他说过一席话：共军装备虽差，但作战很机动、很顽强；闽北的部队及俞济时的保安团都受到了很大损失，俞济时本人还因此受了处分；你一定不能大意，大意必定遭受挫败。 赵观涛也是蒋介石的嫡系悍将，多次参加对江西苏区的“围剿”。王耀武牢牢记住了赵观涛的叮嘱，同时生出一个挥之不去的念头：一定要面对面见识一下这些装备又差、供应几乎没有的红军将领，凭什么本事令一个又一个国民党骄将如此头痛。 他在谭家桥战斗中打死了红军十九师师长寻淮洲，失去了与这个暗中叹服的红军将领见面的机会，但在怀玉山却捕获了二十一师师长胡天桃。 王耀武立刻利用了这个机会，但第一次见面就让他呆住了。他回忆说：“这位师长的上身穿着三件补了许多补丁的单衣，下身穿两条破烂不堪的裤子，脚上穿着两只不同色的草鞋，背着一个很旧的干粮袋，袋里装着一个破洋磁碗，除此以外，别无他物，与战士没有什么区别。” 时值严冬，天寒地冻。若不是被别的被俘战士指认出来，王耀武绝对不相信面前这个人就是红军师长胡天桃。 他压下震惊，与胡天桃展开如下对话：王：蒋委员长对你们实行宽大及感化教育，只要你们觉悟，一样得到重用。 胡：我认为只有革命，坚决打倒帝国主义、封建主义及军阀，中国才有办法。 王：我们也希望国家好，也反对帝国主义的侵略。你说国民党勾结帝国主义，有什么根据？ 胡：国民党掌握着军队不抗日，却来打内战，还请帝国主义的军官当顾问，这不是勾结帝国主义是什么？ 王：共产主义不适合国情，你们硬要在中国实行，这样必然会失败的。 胡：没有剥削压迫的社会，才是最好的社会，我愿为共产主义牺牲。 王：你知道方志敏现在什么地点？ 胡：不知道。 王：方志敏对未突入封锁线的部队有什么指示？ 胡：不知道。 王：你家在哪里，家里还有什么人？告诉我们，可以保护你的眷属。 胡：我没有家，没有人，不要保护。 胡天桃后来被押解到王耀武的上司俞济时那里，也无多余的话。俞济时说：你是红军的高级人员，不会不知道红十军团的情况。胡答：我不知道，你把我枪毙了吧。 1959年中华人民共和国成立十周年前夕，王耀武被作为首批特赦战犯释放出来，仍然清清楚楚记得25年前与胡天桃那次谈话。 王耀武当年一身戎装，与寒冬中衣衫褴褛、脚穿两只颜色各异的草鞋、干粮袋内只有一个破洋磁碗的红军师长胡天桃谈论国家命运和个人生死。 思想交锋中，王耀武不是胜者。 胡天桃被枪杀了。那场谈话中表现出来的共产党人的意志与决心，却令王耀武想了几十年。 红十军团三个师一万余人，最后冲出包围圈到达闽浙赣苏区的，只有粟裕率领的一个无炮弹的迫击炮连、一个无枪弹的机关枪连和二十一师第五连，以及一些轻伤病员及军团机关工作人员，共400余人。 对丧魄落魂者来说，这是一支残兵。 对前仆后继者来说，这是一堆火种。 以这支突围部队为基础，迅速组成挺进师，粟裕为师长。 新中国著名的音乐家劫夫有一首歌：“像那大江的流水一浪一浪向前进，像那高空的长风一阵一阵吹不断。” 中国工农红军就是这样的队伍。伍中豪牺牲了，带出了寻淮洲；寻淮洲牺牲了，又带出了粟裕。革命的理想、战斗的意志像一支不熄的火炬，从一个人的手中，传到另一个人手中。 1948年9月16日，华东野战军发起济南战役，重兵合围济南城。以济南战役为转折点，人民解放军与国民党军开始了惊天动地的战略决战。 指挥15个纵队共32万大军发起济南战役的，是华东野战军代司令兼代政委、当年从怀玉山冲出去的红十军团参谋长粟裕。 率14个旅共10万守军防守济南城的，是国民党山东省主席兼第二绥靖区司令官、当年追击红十军团的补充第一旅旅长王耀武。 14年前的生死对手再度交锋。济南战役发起时，粟裕一定想到了掩埋在茂林的寻淮洲，被枪杀于南昌的方志敏、刘畴西和慷慨饮弹的胡天桃。 他亲自拟定攻城部队的战斗口号：“打到济南府，活捉王耀武。” 9月24日，济南全城解放。王耀武化装出逃，在寿光县被民兵查获。 “捷报飞来做纸钱。” 那些在天英灵，可能有知？ 坚持南方三年游击斗争最杰出的代表，是陈毅。 中央红军出发前一个半月，陈毅在三军团六师的兴国老营盘前沿阵地被弹片击中，身负重伤，开始采取保守治疗。待发现粉碎性骨折的右胯骨必须动手术时，医疗器械和药品都装箱准备出发长征了。 后来还是三人团中的组织者周恩来干预，取出电台的汽油发电机做电源，重新开箱为陈毅做了手术。他不能参加长征了。周恩来告诉他，中央让他留下来与项英一道坚持根据地斗争，负责军事。 1934年10月22日，转移中的中革军委来电，指示中央军区从22日起正式成立，项英任司令员兼政委，龚楚任参谋长，贺昌任政治部主任。 陈毅没有职务。 叫他负责军事却又不给军事职务，他被晾在了一边。 这才明白周恩来也不能做主。 遵义会议后，毛泽东做了这个主。 1934年2月5日，新中央发来了一封十万火急的电报：项转中央局：政治局及军委讨论了中区的问题，认为：（甲）分局应在中央苏区及其邻近苏区坚持游击战争，而目前的困难是能够克服的，斗争的前途是有利的。对这一基本原则不许可任何动摇。 （乙）要立即改变你们的组织方式与斗争方式，与游击战争的环境相适合，而目前许多庞大的后方机关部队组织及许多老的斗争方式是不适合的。 （丙）成立革命军事委员会中区分会，以项英、陈毅、贺昌及其他二人组织之，项为主席。一切重要的军事问题可经过军委讨论，分局则讨论战略战术的基本方针。先此电达，决议详情续告。 中共中央书记处 就是这封电报和后来收到的“决议详情续告”电报，陈毅感觉到毛泽东很可能回到领导岗位了。这种电文是博古等人写不出来的。 陈毅对毛泽东有太深的了解。 陈毅为人独特，了解人的方式也独特。他是通过分歧完成对毛泽东的认识的。 他历史上两次被推举代替毛泽东为前委书记。 第一次是1928年7月中旬，毛泽东不同意红四军主力按湖南省委的布置去湘南，于是在有湖南省委巡视员杜修经出席的沔渡会议上，陈毅被推选担任前委书记，指挥二十八、二十九团去湘南，毛泽东只能以党代表的名义指挥余下的部队。 去湘南一路连连碰壁。先一鼓作气打下郴州，理发洗澡逛街道，天擦黑敌人一个反击打来，二十九团士兵枪上挑着郴州发的“洋财”，成连成排朝家乡跑，挡都挡不住。一个团最后只剩下团长胡少海、党代表龚楚、团部零星人员和萧克的一个连。若不是副营长萧克在混乱中严令率领的那个连坐下不准动，这连人也将跑散。 碰了壁也不想马上回井冈山。陈毅起草《告湘南人民书》，提出开展土地革命，发展武装力量，仍然把目标定在湘南，还派出二十八团二营和团直机炮连去沙田以及湘粤赣边区先期探路。 结果又是一次打击：探路的二营营长袁崇全率队叛变。 湘南之行先跑散了二十九团，后又反叛了袁崇全，在二十八团党代表何长工主持召开的党员代表大会上，陈毅与朱德一起受到尖锐批评。前委委员、特务营营长宋乔生更直接要求将朱德、陈毅撤职查办。会议最后决定分别给予朱德、陈毅以留党查看三个月的处分。 失败使得陈毅第一次认识到毛泽东的正确。8月24日召开前委扩大会，决定一起回井冈山，取消前委，成立以毛泽东为书记的行动委员会。 第二次是1929年6月22日的红四军七大。这次代表大会上，陈毅被大会选为前委书记，再次取代毛泽东。 大会前，红四军内部因个人领导和党的领导、前委职权和军委职权等问题发生激烈争论。在6月8日召开的白沙会议上，毛泽东表示“我不能担负这种不生不死的责任，请求马上掉换书记，让我离开前委”。 毛泽东提出辞职，前委委员们便决定陈毅代理书记，且决定召开红四军党的七大，把各方的争论意见原文印发各支部，提出了红军早期幼稚口号之一：“同志们努力来争论吧。” 只有林彪一人得知毛泽东提出辞职后，连夜写信给毛泽东，要他留下来继续斗争。 林彪的信令毛泽东激动不已，通宵未眠。 今天再看当时那些异常激烈的争论，应该说在总的路线上大家是一致的。争论的焦点集中在党怎样更好地领导军队，军队怎样更好地建设根据地。 代理书记陈毅日夜工作。在龙岩召开的红四军七大上，他对争论的双方都作了批评和回答，主观上为了维护党内团结，客观便成了折中平衡，即所谓的“调和”。 毛泽东最反对的就是调和。调和之中单纯军事观点、极端民主化没有受到批评。党对军队的绝对领导也未被大会大多数代表接受。毛泽东还被给予了党内严重警告处分。 这即是毛泽东后来说的“陈毅主义”。 不知道自己发明了“陈毅主义”的陈毅，在七大上当选前委书记，第二次取代毛泽东在红四军内的地位。 七大后毛泽东、贺子珍去闽西特委所在地蛟洋，休养兼指导工作。在离开龙岩城时，闽西特委给发给每人30元钞票。随行的江华回忆说：“那时我们一行人真有些灰溜溜的样子。” 灰溜溜的毛泽东却并不放弃自己的意见。陈毅去上海向中央报告工作之前，到蛟洋同毛泽东交换意见，两人在交谈中又争论起来，各执己见，未能统一。 争论都是面对面的，一旦背靠背，陈毅绝对不打小报告。 他到上海最先见到的中共中央领导是政治局常委李立三，便向李立三如实报告了红四军七大情况。 陈毅是一团火，李立三更是一团火。两人同样不打不成交。当年他们一同在法国勤工俭学，又一同被法国当局押送回国。归国的船上大家开玩笑，四川人说湖南人棋术臭，湖南人说四川人的棋也不香。于是四川人举出陈毅，湖南人推出李立三，摆开棋盘大战起来。结果李立三连连失招，棋局愈来愈不妙，在大家哄笑声中他气得脸色发紫，抓起棋盘棋子一把都甩进了海里。 几年不见，两个棋手一个是工农武装割据的领袖之一，另一个已是中共中央的主要领导之一了。按照中央要求，陈毅写了《关于朱德、毛泽东军的历史及其状况的报告》《关于朱、毛红军的党务概况报告》等五个书面材料，公正无私地如实反映了红四军各方面的详情。正是陈毅的这些报告，使周恩来、李立三等中央领导者认识到朱、毛的很多经验都是在中国别开生面的，值得向全国推广。周恩来、李立三、陈毅三人反复讨论，最后在周恩来主持下，由陈毅执笔起草中央“九月来信”，决定“毛同志应仍为前委书记”，从路线高度肯定了毛泽东的领导。 这是一封在中国革命史上占有重要地位的中共中央指示信。陈毅帮助周恩来、李立三等中央领导人认识了红四军，周恩来、李立三也帮助陈毅认识了毛泽东。 这是陈毅一生中认识上的一个重大飞跃。 回到苏区的第一个消息却令他凉了半截。 红四军八大上，一些同志提议毛泽东回来主持工作，彭祜、郭化若还给毛泽东写了信。毛泽东回信说他反对敷衍调和、模棱两可的“陈毅主义”，不打倒“陈毅主义”，他不回来。 这消息对陈毅震动很大。他未料到毛泽东对他的怨恨，超过了最先挑起争论、以反对家长制排挤毛泽东的刘安恭。 在上海时，中央认为他与毛泽东的矛盾已很深，有派他去鄂豫皖或广西左右江工作的意向。陈毅考虑之后回答说：还有一件事没有办好，没有把毛泽东请回来，等办好这件事再考虑工作问题。 现在毛泽东不原谅他，他真是进退两难。 进退两难也是个人进退两难，面对真理，只能有进无退。 陈毅就是从这个时候起，练就了后来照耀其一生的大度与豁达。他表示，毛泽东说的“陈毅主义”是非无产阶级的东西，自己也要和大家一起打倒这个“陈毅主义”。他先向前委传达“九月来信”，再和好几位前委委员谈话，一个一个做工作，最后派专人把中央“九月来信”送去蛟洋给毛泽东看，并附自己一信，请毛泽东尽快回前委工作。 陈毅从来不愿意向困难低头，却愿意向真理低头。 毛泽东心情舒畅地回来了。陈毅诚恳地向毛泽东当面检讨，并转达了李立三代表中共中央对毛泽东的问候。毛泽东说“八大”时因为身体不好，情绪不佳，写了一些伤感情的话。他给中共中央和李立三写信，表示在中央正确指导下，四军党内的团结完全不成问题。信中有这样的话：“陈毅同志已到，中央的意思已完全达到。” 毛泽东真切地感受到了陈毅那颗坦荡的心。后来谈起陈毅今后的工作安排，毛泽东同样真诚地对陈毅说：你哪里也不用去，就在这里。 后来真的成了“哪里也不用去”。86000主力红军长征出发了，陈毅却留下来坚持最困难最危险的根据地斗争。 遵义会议后，陈毅才成为中央苏区军分会委员之一。这一次是毛泽东使他重新上台。 重新上台也是受命于危难。 龚楚的叛变使北山游击队损失严重，陈毅冒着生命危险去处理。他带着两个警卫员昼伏夜行十几天，下瓢泼大雨也行进不停。劳累加淋雨，陈毅伤口复发，身边无医无药，就打来一盆山泉水，自己挤伤口的脓血，还叫警卫员帮忙。警卫员挤一下他的全身就触电一般颤抖，脸色蜡黄，大汗淋漓，实在不忍心再用劲挤。陈毅就叫拿带子把自己的伤腿绑在树干上，自己背靠另一棵树，