Chapter 27 5. Meeting is also parting, separation before battle becomes eternal farewell

Chen Yi was really in a bad mood, it could even be said to be terrible. On August 28, Chen Yi, the commander of the Jiangxi Military Region and the commander-in-chief of the Western Army of the Red Army, injured his thigh while commanding the battle in the old camp of Xingguo, and was sent to the Red Army Hospital for treatment.One and a half months have passed, but the injury has not improved. Bone fragments are still found in the wound on the thigh of the left leg.As a senior general of the Red Army who understands the overall situation of the war, Chen Yi is very anxious. He knows that the revolution has entered an extraordinary period, and the survival of the red regime may be subverted every day, which will affect the survival of the Red Army and himself.However, at this critical moment, his wounds have not healed for a long time.He asked the hospital to give an X-ray examination, but the doctor gave various excuses: the X-ray machine was out of order; there was no power supply; the battery was too weak...

Outside the house, there were bursts of noise, the sound of passwords, and the sound of bugles.Obviously something happened and the Red Army was taking a new move, but Chen Yi didn't know anything, he was kept in the dark. October 9, 1934, the second day of September in the Year of the Dog (Jiaxu) in the lunar calendar.Chen Yi will never forget this day. On this day, Chen Yi was restless and tossed and turned on the bed.At this time, Vice Chairman Zhou Enlai came to visit him, and Zhou Enlai told him the news that the Red Army was about to march.Chen Yi confirmed his hunch.The Red Army suffered a disastrous defeat and faced a difficult retreat.

Chen Yi was told: The central government decided that Chen Yi would not retreat with the main Red Army, and he would stay and command military operations in the Soviet area... The central government decided that the remaining comrades would be under the leadership of the Central Branch and the Central Military Region.Comrade Xiang Ying served as the secretary and the commander and political commissar of the Central Military Region, and presided over the overall work; Chen Tanqiu served as the head of the organization; Wang Jinxiang served as the director of the Security Bureau; He Chang served as the director of the Political Department of the Central Military Command; deputy director……

"How is your wound?" Zhou Enlai asked about his injury with concern.The reason why Chen Yi stayed was that he was unable to march because of a serious thigh injury. "No, it's still pus and bleeding. There are broken bones in the pus and blood. The injury has not improved at all." Chen Yi was very angry when he talked about the injury, and mentioned the X-ray thing again.Said that he kept asking for an X-ray, but the doctors didn't take it for him. Zhou Enlai immediately went to the relevant departments to negotiate.Everything went smoothly under Zhou Enlai's direct intervention.At this time, the X-ray machines and films were all packed and ready to be evacuated.Under the order of Zhou Enlai, the packaging was reopened. Because there was no power supply, the soldiers were ordered to transport the spare gasoline generator of the radio station to the hospital, and specially took X-ray films for Chen Yi.

After Zhou Enlai left, Bogu also came to the hospital to visit Chen Yi.Ask for opinions on staying. Chen Yizheng was full of anger. He couldn't get angry with Zhou Enlai, but it was different with Bogu.He asked bluntly: "You guys are going to leave, I know if you don't tell me. But why didn't you tell me first?!" Chen Yi was forced to stay, and bad luck awaited everyone who stayed.Chen Yi was not happy in his heart. At this time, Lai Yueming came to Ruijin after a long journey. A guard led me to a room. I opened the bamboo curtain, but I saw a bed in the small room. The linen mosquito net was lifted, and Chen Yi sat on the bed.A bandage hangs from the bed, and one of his gauze-wrapped legs is hung up. One of his legs is resting on a book, and he is seriously reviewing documents.

"Chen Yi, you..." I called out. Chen Yi let out a "huh", raised his head immediately, his two thick eyebrows trembled up and down, his hand trembled, and the tip of the pencil snapped off.He exclaimed in surprise: "Yueming, it's you! You're back, okay! Well, this is not good, you must have traveled at night, you see, the fog has wet your clothes. Take them off quickly and change into dry ones , don’t catch a cold.” I walked a few steps closer and leaned on him, tears rolling down my face.I raised a hand and knocked on his chest weakly: "You lied to me, you lied to me! You have flowers hanging on your body, and you wrote a letter to lie to me that nothing happened, so that I can work with peace of mind. What are you doing without telling me? "His throat groaned, unable to speak, stretched out his palm to caress my back, and after a long time said: "Don't cry, Yueming, the injury is the injury, the lumps and scars are counted. What? Marx doesn’t show affection, and he doesn’t accept me every time. Hey, believe it or not? Okay, listen, my leg was beaten by a white dog by the river in Xingguo Laoyingpan last month. If I tell you, I will definitely You will cry, how can you work well?! Yueming, you work in Shicheng, and I fight in the front line. Husband and wife miss each other, Chen Yi is also human..." "Chen Yi..." I had no choice but to wipe my face Tears on the face, "This is all right, we are finally reunited, we will not leave together. You need someone to take care of you when you are injured, tell the organization, and I will serve you." "Hey, no, no. Let me tell you, you I’m still a kid.” He laughed, wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes, and scratched my slightly upturned nose: “The leg will be fine, no bones are hurt; the doctor dug out the bullet, and it’s very fast. It will be fine soon. It's an emergency, so I have to leave anytime." I stopped crying and looked down at his wound, but he disagreed.I just sat and watched him.He also looked at me.After a while, I breathed a sigh of relief, leaned against him, pulled off a button that was about to fall off, and took out a needle and thread to fasten it, while asking; "Chen Yi, it's been a long time since I haven't seen Brother Li Fuchun and Sister Cai Chang, what are they doing now?" Where did you go?" "The comrades of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee have been transferred from Ningdu. Comrade Cai Chang sent someone to bring you a good thing the day before yesterday. I said, Yueming, this great matchmaker still misses you." I took him A package was delivered, and when I opened it, there was a piece of black silk cloth inside, and a letter from Cai Chang was pressed on it.My eye circles were wet again: "Oh, Miss Cai is a warm-hearted person. Chen Yi, how should we thank her?..." In this way, I stayed by Chen Yi's side for ten days.

During these days, although Chen Yi was injured, he treated me very well.He asked me more than once what I wanted to eat, and then asked the cook to bring it in, forcing me to eat it in person.I noticed something strange about him, so I asked him but he didn't answer.Several heads of the central government came to see him and discuss issues with him, and he took the opportunity to dismiss me. Paper can't contain fire.On the seventh day, I became clear.I never dreamed that when I rushed back to Ruijin from Shicheng and finally met my husband, it was also the time when I separated from him.

He told me that the enemy was getting closer and closer, and the main force of the Red Army was about to retreat far away.Therefore, the organization decided to mobilize a group of family members of the Red Army and some wounded and sick people to stay in the local areas to persist in the revolutionary struggle.As a family member of the Red Army left behind, I am one of them. Before he finished speaking, I hugged him and cried bitterly.Because at that time, news of defeat in the battle came frequently, and the unimaginable ending weighed on the hearts of the revolutionaries like a millstone.At this time, I knew the cruelty of war and what separation meant.

I cry just thinking about it.In the past few days, I passed out from crying several times, and then woke up from the confusion again. Chen Yi also cried, and wept with me.I begged him bitterly, and asked the organization to keep me in the army. I was born a Red Army soldier, and I will die as a Red Army ghost. As I spoke, I knelt down involuntarily. "Get up, Comrade Yueming, get up!" Chen Yi shouted angrily: "No, you can't say anything. You can't follow me, let alone drag down the organization. Comrade Yueming, your hometown is Xingguo, you can use this Go back to your hometown and persist in the revolutionary struggle. This is the decision of the organization. Comrade Yueming, you are a member of the Communist Party, and you must obey the decision of the organization unconditionally. After the Red Army leaves, the reactionaries will definitely wash the Soviet area. You must persevere, in the midst of white terror , to work with the beliefs of the Communists, to spread the revolutionary fire, and to awaken the masses to join the ranks of struggle." "No, no! Chen Yi, my God!" I shouted in despair, and crazily grabbed him by the head of the bed pistol.Chen Yi quickly pressed my hand.

"Chen Yi, even if I go to the end of the revolution, being caught by the reactionaries is a death sentence. Let those beasts rape and humiliate me. It is better to die today and ask for a clean body. Chen Yi, you are so cruel, let me die, let me die sooner." Close your eyes, 'It's all over'." I cried, turned around and plopped down on my knees: "Chen Yi, you shoot! Chen Yi, you shot me with a bang..." "Lai Yueming, listen, you are a party member, you It's my wife, Chen Yi. Do you want party discipline? Is it my wife, Chen Yi? No matter what, you must absolutely obey the organization's arrangements." Chen Yi held the handle of the gun tightly, and the muscles on his forehead twitched: "Guards, come in Pull her up." On the tenth day, I was forced to leave Chen Yi.

The person responsible for sending me to Xingguo was a female cadre, Wan Xiang, head of the Yihuang County Party Committee.It was originally one of the six lesbians selected by the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and transferred with the main force. They retreated to the high platoon in Huichang with the Red Army brigade, and were carried back to Ruijin on a stretcher due to illness. They stayed in Jiubao Hospital for one night. Go to the central office to request assignments. I remember Wan Xiang, with short hair reaching her ears, dressed in a gray military uniform with a cowhide belt around her waist, and she was a spunky lesbian. Chen Yi was worried that no one would send me off, and it happened that Wan Xiang was also from Xingguo, so he ordered Wan Xiang to send me off.Wan Xiang was persistent at first, but finally agreed reluctantly. "Huangmao girl, whether you like it or not, you have to send Lai Yueming to your destination." After parting, Chen Yi handed over four silver dollars to Wan Xiang: "Give this to Lai Yueming, this is my allowance, you can spend it on the way." "Why don't you give it to sister Yueming? Why don't you give it to me, a yellow-haired girl?" Wan Xiang knew Chen Yi in the past, so she bit the bullet and said, "Commander Chen, what does this mean?" Chen Yi answered her with a bitter face: "She No, I don’t even give away my mount.” I, Lai Yueming, will never forget this day in this life until I lie in a coffin—October 20, 1934—the last moment I left Chen Yi. This is what he said: "Remember, live strong! Believe, no matter what, the organization will find you, Yueming, I will also find you, and I will definitely find you."