Chapter 15 "If they want to go, let them go!"

When the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants left Maoping and went guerrilla along the Jinggang Mountains, Su Xianjun, the former commander of the Third Regiment, and Yu Sadu, the former commander of the division, left the army without saying goodbye. Su Xianjun left after the troops left Maoping and returned to Longshi. Long Town is at the foot of Jinggang Mountain, and there are many vendors coming and going.It is said that when Su Xianjun was visiting the market, he heard from two cigarette dealers from the south that the troops of the Nanchang riots were all wiped out in the Chaoshan area of ​​Guangdong.This news was like a blow to Su Xianjun.Since the Autumn Harvest Uprising, he has been relatively pessimistic, especially opposing Mao Zedong's bringing troops to the middle of the Luo Xiao Mountains.When Sanwan adapted, his "head" was "made up" again, so he became more and more dissatisfied.If it wasn't for the slight hope of going south to join the Nanchang riot troops, he might not have followed the troops for so long.Now, this glimmer of hope has also been shattered, and Su Xianjun feels completely hopeless.

Without anyone's consent, Su Xianjun left the army with three guards.He found a reason for his actions: go to the provincial party committee and report to the central government.It seems that saying this is not an escape. Su Xianjun went to Hankou, found the party organization and handed in a "Report on the Military History of Liupingyue, Hunan". This report is still preserved in the Central Archives as a document about the Autumn Harvest Uprising.Later, Su Xianjun left the party on his own and betrayed Comrade Guo Liang in 1928, which was resented by the revolutionary comrades in Hunan. In 1930, Peng Dehuai led the Red Army to attack Changsha, captured Su Xianjun and shot him to death.Interestingly, the predecessor of the Third Red Army was the Fifth Red Army that fought persistently in the Jinggangshan revolutionary base.

After Su Xianjun left, Yu Sadu followed the troops for a few days.However, when the troops arrived in Shuikou Town and confirmed the defeat of the Nanchang riot troops from the newspapers, he was completely shaken. Prior to this, Yu Sadu had always advocated attacking cities, even if they could not take down large cities, they had to attack small and medium-sized cities. One of the reasons was to follow the example of the Nanchang Uprising troops; One of the reasons is to join forces with the Nanchang Uprising.Now, the Nanchang Uprising troops have suffered another defeat in the Chaoshan area of ​​Guangdong. This not only tells Yu Sadu that it is impossible to go south to join the Nanchang Uprising troops; It won't work.

Yu Sadu was extremely frustrated. He thought, is the only way for the army to go up the mountain to become the "King of the Mountain" as Mao Zedong said?This is what he is most reluctant to do! Yu Sadu decided to leave the army.Of course, he also found a high-sounding reason for himself to do so: to report to the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and the Central Committee. Both ran away because of fear and loss of confidence, but Yu Sadu and Su Xianjun were looking for the same reason, and their behavior was exactly the same. Yu Sadu found Mao Zedong and tentatively talked about his idea of ​​leaving.

"I want to leave for a while and go to the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and the Central Committee to report our current situation." "Hasn't Comrade He Changgong been dispatched for the report?" Mao Zedong replied. Yu Sadu insisted: "I think it is necessary to go to the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and the Central Committee in person to clarify some things. Especially where the Workers' and Peasants Revolutionary Army is currently going, we need to listen to the instructions of the Central Committee." Although Mao Zedong didn't value Yu Sadu very much, because after this period of contact, he already knew him a little bit.

However, he was worried that Yu Sadu, the nominally top military leader, would leave the team immediately after learning the news of the defeat of the Nanchang Uprising troops, which would have an impact on the mood of the troops.Therefore, Mao Zedong still tried his best to persuade him to stay. Yu Sadu insisted on leaving, and couldn't listen to Mao Zedong's words at all. Regardless of whether Mao Zedong agreed or not, Yu Sadu still left. According to Tan Xilin, who once served as the company commander of the secret service company under Yu Sadu's department, and then changed to the platoon leader of the second company of the regiment after the reorganization of Sanwan, he recalled that his platoon was three or four miles away from the Zhu Clan Temple where the army headquarters was located. alert.About the third day after the troops arrived in Shuikou Town, Yu Sadu and others passed by their post and were stopped by the post.

"I'm going to report to the superior, let us go there." Yu Sadu said to the sentinel. "No one can pass without proof of passage." The sentinel insisted on the principle. Yu Sadu had no choice but to lie and say: "We have the permission of Committee Mao." The sentinel didn't listen to him so much, he insisted on not letting them go, and immediately sent someone to report to Commissar Mao. Mao Zedong heard that Yu Sadu still wanted to leave, thought for a while, and said, "If they want to leave, let them go!" This is Mao Zedong.For those who cannot be like-minded, Mao Zedong never forced them.Forty-four years later, in 1971, when Lin Biao, his chosen successor, fled, someone suggested that Lin Biao’s landline should be blocked. Didn’t he also say: “It’s going to rain, my mother is going to marry, let him go!”

Yu Sadu, who broke away from the army, went to Wuhan first, and then to Shanghai, where he sent a report on the Autumn Harvest Riot to the Central Committee.The original text, entitled "Report by Comrade Yu Sadu", has been kept in the archives of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.In this report, Yu Sadu did not forget to justify his desertion at a critical time. He said that he was "sent to Hunan and Jiangxi to make a report and ask for instructions."However, Yu Sadu never returned to the army of the Autumn Harvest Uprising. He also refused the military work assigned by the party, and even actively participated in the activities of the "third party". He even left the party and joined Chiang Kai-shek as an official of the Kuomintang.Later, he was sentenced to death by the Kuomintang for embezzling military pay and selling opium.

The two important military commanders of the Autumn Harvest Uprising finally failed to withstand the test of hard struggle, fled the battle, and failed to go to Jinggangshan with their own team.The two of them left one after another, of course it had some bad influence in the army.However, the timid, vacillating, and those who are afraid of hardship will leave one by one, and those who stay will be stronger, more united, and more combative.