Chapter 50 Central representatives leave statewide

The Seventh Red Army withdrew from Wugang in two routes, and after three days and three nights broke through the siege, they arrived in Xinning area near Hunan and Guangxi. Some veterans of the Seventh Red Army recalled the scene at that time and said that the Wugang battle failed, the morale of the troops was greatly frustrated, and many people scattered during the retreat.Unexpectedly, as soon as he settled down in Xinning, he fell into the encirclement of the Hunan Army.Although they worked hard to break through and defeated the chasing enemy and the militia, the troops suffered great losses.Facing the siege and interception of the Hunan Army, the Front Committee and Military Committee of the Seventh Red Army decided to retreat to the resource areas in northeast Guangxi.When passing through the "Eighty Mountains" at the junction of Hunan and Guangxi, they were surrounded by heavy troops of the Hunan Army and it was difficult to break through.So the Front Committee and the Military Committee of the Seventh Red Army decided again: to bypass resources, cross the Yuechengling Mountains, and rush to Quanzhou in Guangxi along the north bank of the Xiangjiang River.

On New Year's Day in 1931, the Seventh Red Army entered Quanzhou and camped in Huilongpu that night.After reconnaissance, it was found that there were not many enemies in Quanzhou City and they were unprepared, so the Seventh Red Army captured Quanzhou on the night of January 2. On January 3, the Front Committee and Military Commission of the Seventh Red Army held a meeting in Quanzhou to discuss the future of the Seventh Red Army.The meeting summarized the experience and lessons since starting from Hechi, studied the future action plan of the troops, and focused on The issue of "the development prospect of the Seventh Red Army" has been heatedly debated.

The Seventh Red Army's northward march was originally to implement the order of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to attack Liuzhou and Guilin, so as to finally capture Guangzhou.After more than two months of arduous marching on the borders of Guangxi and Hunan, they moved to battles to break through, and encountered the enemy many times. Coupled with the unfamiliar area and inaccurate intelligence, they failed to capture a town.However, the army had no food and clothing, was hungry and cold, coupled with long-term marches and frequent battles, the number of troops was severely reduced, and many deserted. In just over two months, the number of troops had dropped from more than 7,000 to 3,000 to 4,000.

At this time, the feeling of defeat in the army was very deep, and there was great doubt and wavering about the action policy of the army and the order of the Central Committee to request the Red Seventh Army to attack Liuzhou, Guilin and Guangzhou: Right now, the Hunan Army is eyeing the north, and the Guilin army is in the south. Under such circumstances, what is there to say to attack Liuzhou and Guilin?What else is there to talk about the high-profile "joining teachers in Wuhan and drinking horses in the Yangtze River"? Deng Bin, Zhang Yunyi, Li Mingrui and others advocated immediately abandoning the plan to attack Liuzhou and Guilin. This plan was impossible for the Seventh Red Army to implement and cannot be realized.

Deng Bin said: "The army has lost more than half of its personnel after several hard battles, and it is extremely tired due to the shortage of food and ammunition. If we continue to follow this plan and travel long distances to attack the city, it will be like hitting a stone with an egg!" Zhang Yunyi said: "If things go on like this, it won't be long before the Seventh Red Army will be wiped out! Moreover, the original purpose of attacking Liu and Gui was to open up a road to Guangzhou. Now they have bypassed Guilin and reached Quanzhou. Going through southern Hunan and entering northern Guangdong, there is no need to attack Guilin, and it is a 'stinky move'."

Li Mingrui said: "We have soldiers, food and land, and we can talk about anything, and it's easy to handle. But now we only have three or four thousand people left, and it's impossible to fight back to Youjiang, but we have neither rear nor sources of troops and food like this." Yuan's rushing east and west is by no means a long way. The most urgent thing is to determine our whereabouts." In the face of the harsh reality and the lessons of blood, the faithful executors of the actually outdated "Li San Line" finally lowered their majestic and proud heads!

At the meeting, the committee members saw an unimaginable change in Deng Gang's face.He was smoking one after another, his face was blue and gray, covered with a dark cloud of sorrow; his dry lips trembled slightly, trembling, twisted, full of inexplicable shame and anger; his eye sockets were sunken deeply , eyes full of blood nets scattered a dim red light; he listened to everyone's speech, like a sued person who came to the court for hearing, but didn't say a word. It is conceivable how painful the defeat of the implementation of the central government's orders was to him, a young and energetic representative of the central government.He vaguely realized: This is probably the obstruction and mockery of fate!There are many things in the world, and it seems that they cannot be forced by will, loyalty and passion alone.As a representative of the Central Committee, he came to the Seventh Red Army to use his ingenuity to fulfill the historical mission entrusted to him by the organization. Besides, he hoped to use his blood and appeal to arouse the Seventh Red Army to fight bravely and contribute to the cause of the party. Besides, what more could he ask for?Of course, he hopes for honor, prestige and dignity, as long as he works hard, he can stand on the shoulders of giants and even become a giant.But these are all accompanied by one achievement after another-great achievements can only be achieved if they are obtained!But I didn't expect that the start was unfavorable and I suffered repeated setbacks. This is probably the saying of "bad luck and bad luck"?Of course, the "100 per cent Bolsheviks" do not believe this, but the tragic facts cannot but convince him a little.

He understood that since he set off from Hechi and failed in the siege of Chang'an, the authority of his central representative had begun to be fundamentally shaken.Chen Haoren and Gong Hecun were probably the ones who supported him unconditionally and unreservedly. Although Chen Haoren, the young director of the military political department, became the secretary of the military committee, he was insignificant in the military.Ever since he failed in Wugang, Gong Hecun has started to turn around, and sometimes he always squints his eyes to look at him, and there is a kind of regret in his eyes that is exactly like being cheated.

He wanted to justify himself, and regarded all setbacks as the objective reasons for the accident.But at this time he had a little epiphany: self-righteousness and self-righteousness, this is a common mistake, or a common disease, that is often made by ordinary people. It is not only ordinary people, but also many great figures who are ruined by this mistake or common disease.He kept his mouth tightly shut, and could only listen attentively to everyone's endless speeches, most of which were criticisms or even accusations. He seemed to be a representative attending the meeting, and he seemed to have become a superfluous person.

His mood was in an extremely complicated state, and there was an indescribable sense of frustration, emptiness and depression. "Comrade Deng Gang should be responsible for the losses and setbacks suffered by the Seventh Army!" Gong Hecun's speech was extremely explosive. "Now it seems that our evacuation of the Youjiang base area was a huge mistake! I didn't realize this at the time. I will make a deep self-criticism here, and I propose to resign from the post of Secretary of the Military Commission." Chen Haoren habitually took off his myopia glasses and wiped them. Come and wipe.

The speeches of Li Qian, Xu Zhuo, Yu Hui and other committee members were also full of firepower. Deng Gang smoked one cigarette after another.He couldn't dispel the depression in his chest, nor could he fill the emptiness in his heart.He angrily left the venue with a painful heart, and his blood that seemed to never boil was soaked in the sadness of frustration... The meeting finally made a decision: 1. Give up the task of attacking Liuzhou and Guilin; 2. Quickly change the strategy of hard attack; 3. Change purely military action to mobilize the masses along the way and expand the team; 4. After resting for a while in Quanzhou, the troops left Lianzhou and northern Guangdong via Huhua and Jianghua, and got in touch with Zhu and Mao's Red Army at the border of Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi. The meeting also made a decision: to abolish the Military Commission.Revoke all punishments against Lei Jingtian and restore his party membership. The cold moonlight gave Deng Gang a sense of sadness.Sitting on the desolate and empty battlements, he said to Chen Haoren: "Sometimes, I feel that the moonlight is kind and gentle like a graceful girl, but now, the moonlight is like an old pirate. to the corner of this brick wall, and his eyes gleamed coldly, and in his hand was the sailor's knife blunted in his youth." Chen Haoren heard something, so he said bluntly: "Your metaphor looks elegant, but it makes people feel very cold. I didn't have the slightest malice towards you at the meeting, I was just doing self-criticism." Deng Gang ignored it, and continued to talk about his experience of "Moonlight": "Oh, that sailor's knife! Swimming around under the night, I finally cut open my chest and abdomen, and the indifferent moonlight sandwiched the old city. It suddenly poured into my chest, even though my internal organs were torn apart, what flowed out was bright red blood." Chen Haoren said: "Yes, there is nothing wrong with you coming to the Seventh Army. It's just that as time, place, and conditions change, we obviously won't be successful in implementing the orders of the central government!" "Maybe I shouldn't have come at all." "Perhaps, the decision-making of the central government did make mistakes" Deng Gang glanced at him suspiciously: "Why, you doubt the Central Committee because of this?" Chen Hao's face was full of sorrow: "I'm just thinking about it in private. Two years ago, in the face of Chiang Kai-shek's Qing Party and the massacre, didn't the upper echelons of the central government make a mistake of taking risks? It was quickly corrected." Deng Gang murmured noncommittally, and then sighed deeply: "The mountain is full of mountains and rivers, the road is long, and all communication with the outside world is cut off. The central government does not know the whereabouts of the Seventh Army and everything that happened here." Chen Haoren couldn't help asking in amazement: "You want to leave the Seventh Red Army?" Deng Gang did not answer. In the hazy moonlight, a figure approached from far away, and soon the sound of footsteps climbing the battlements was heard.It's Deng Bin. "Oh, you two are watching the moon here!" Deng Gang remained silent.Chen Haoren was also silent. Deng Bin said bluntly: "Comrade Deng Gang left the venue, embarrassing everyone! Faced with the current predicament, everyone's mood is understandable!" There was a sad and anxious smile on Deng Gang's face, the corners of his mouth twitched, and the grievance and resentment that had faded away flooded his chest again.He stretched out his hand and snapped off a withered vine climbing up the battlements, as if he heard the cracking sound of the fibers in his body.He finally spoke: "I'm going to leave Jeonju tomorrow" Deng Bin hurriedly asked, "Why?" Deng Gang said: "Since the central government sent me to the Seventh Army, and since this is the situation, I have no choice but to return to Shanghai and give an explanation." The drastic feat of leading the Seventh Red Army to accomplish a great feat is nothing but an "empty and sad" dream. "Go or stay, it's up to you." Deng Bin was inconvenient to say anything more. At this time, the night was already very deep, half a waning moon planted the battlements, and the night fog slowly transpired and thickened from the wilderness, gradually blurring the distant mountains, trees, nearby ancient city buildings, brick walls, and the figures of the three people. Engulfing the representatives of the Central Committee, Deng Gang left the Seventh Red Army and left Quanzhou. Soon, Chen Haoren, director of the Political Department, also left the Seventh Red Army and left. According to Deng Xiaoping's recollection: Chen Haoren left quietly after a battle, without telling anyone, and no one knew his whereabouts.After Deng Gang and Chen Haoren left, the command of the Red Seventh Army by the "Lisan Line" came to an end. Deng Xiaoping said: Deng Gang and Chen Hao were responsible for promoting Li San adventurism in the Seventh Red Army and for the repeated defeats of the Seventh Red Army. However, they were not the framers of the wrong line, but the firm promoters.They are responsible for what happened to the Seventh Red Army, but the main responsibility lies with the central government. Deng Gang left the Seventh Army of the Red Army and was on his way to Shanghai. He was left in Guangdong as a member and secretary-general of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. On October 10, 1932, he died in the battle of Danan Mountain at the age of 28. Chen Haoren went to Shanghai to report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and then engaged in the United Front Work of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai, Fuzhou, Hong Kong and other places.After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the director of the Wuhan Office of the New Fourth Army, the colonel counselor of the 70th Army of the Kuomintang Army and the director of the wartime infantry training class, and a member of the National Field Mobilization Committee. On August 13, 1940, he was killed by Kuomintang agents in Chongan, Fujian, at the age of 33. History should be fair.Deng Gang, the representative of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Chen Haoren, the leader of the Seventh Red Army, although they made mistakes in promoting the "Li San Line" in the Seventh Red Army, but looking at their lives, they are still a revolutionary life, and they have contributed to the party and the people. His whole life, and in the end, he gave his young life for the revolution.