Chapter 53 Reunited in Tianhe Town, Li Mingrui and Zhang Yunyi shed tears

The main force of the 58th Regiment of the Seventh Red Army and the troops directly under the command of the army commander Zhang Yunyi, who were blocked by the Cantonese Army on the west bank of Wushui, rushed along the west bank of Wushui to the Baogong Temple and Gouyadong in the northwest, and finally got rid of it. After being chased by the enemy soldiers, they withdrew to the mountains of Nanling. For the convenience of command, Zhang Yunyi organized the army teaching team and the special agent company into the 58th regiment, appointed Huang Zirong (the commander of the first battalion of the 58th regiment) as the head of the regiment, and Li Tianyou (the commander of the special agent company) as the deputy head of the regiment. The actions of the troops have been carefully deployed.

Faced with the dangerous situation of being intercepted by the Hunan Army in the north and pursued by the Guangdong Army in the south, and the difficult living situation, Zhang Yunyi said to everyone: "Comrades, although the enemy cut our army in two at the Lechang River (that is, Wushui), Duan, this can’t scare us! Comrades, you all know the earthworm. It also has a very bold name——Earth Dragon! Even if its body is cut off, it can still give birth to a head. With sharp teeth and sharp claws, it can swim freely in the soil, eat the soil on the top, and drink the spring below!" He said: "Right now, we are like a 'earth dragon', dealing with the enemy in the midst of these lofty mountains, so that the enemy can't figure it out, and can't beat it!"

He said: "Our operational deployment is to do everything possible to cross the Lechang River, advance into southern Jiangxi, and join our 55th regiment as soon as possible! Join the Red Army of Zhu and Mao!" Everyone said: If you want to die together, you must live together; you must not die, and you must live even if you die!Wherever the commander leads, we will charge; wherever the commander points, we will fight! On the night of February 8, Zhang Yunyi led his troops northward for more than 100 miles. With the help of the Lechang underground party and the local people, they crossed Wushui River from Pingshi Ferry at the junction of Guangdong and Hunan, and passed through Hongyan, Yizhang County, Hunan Province. Wuling headed north.

In late February, they crossed the Bamian Mountains, bypassed Zixing and Lanshi, crossed the Minshui River at night, and entered Ling County on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi. On March 9, it was learned that there was only one regiment of troops defending the enemy in Lingxian County, but it was a militia group that had just been assembled (the enemy's regular troops had already gathered in the Central Soviet Area and were about to embark on the second "encirclement and suppression" of the Central Soviet Area).Therefore, Zhang Yunyi made a decisive decision and quickly attacked with a stronger force, capturing the county seat of Lingxian in one fell swoop.

At this time, Tan Jiashu, head of the third regiment of the Independent Division of the Red Army in southeast Hunan, and political commissar Wang Zhen, after learning the news that the Seventh Red Army had entered Ling County, immediately led the troops from Lianhua Town on the border of Jiangxi to greet them. On March 14, the 58th Regiment of the Seventh Red Army joined the Third Regiment of the Independent Division of the Red Army in southeast Hunan at Shiduwei in Ling County.This is the first time I have seen a brother Red Army unit since the Seventh Red Army expedition.Afterwards, the two capable teams fought together to wipe out a regiment of the 19th Division of the Kuomintang and one of the reactionary local armed forces in Chaling and Lianhua, and captured more than 100 officers below the head of the enemy regiment.

At the end of March, according to the instructions of the Central Bureau of the Soviet Area of ​​the Communist Party of China, the Hexi Provisional General Front Committee and General Command of the Communist Party of China were established. Teng Daiyuan served as the secretary of the General Front Committee, and Zhang Yunyi served as the commander-in-chief. The second anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign. On April 1, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized 200,000 troops to launch the second "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Central Soviet Area, and at the same time dispatched three more divisions to carry out "clearance and suppression" in the area west of the Ganjiang River.

On April 4, the enemy's 77th Division aggressively occupied Yongyang Town in Ji'an County and pushed into Yongxin County, attempting to "invade" the central Soviet area of ​​Jinggangshan from Jiulong Mountain.Zhang Yunyi led the Independent Division of Southeast Hunan, the 58th Regiment of the Seventh Red Army, and one regiment of the 20th Red Army to the area north of Yongyang Town, then attacked Yongyang Town, defeated the enemy, and occupied Yongyang Town. At the end of the battle, they discovered a message published in the Kuomintang's "Central Daily" from the military intelligence seized by the enemy division headquarters: "The remnants of the Communist bandit Li Mingrui fled to Suichuan".Upon hearing this news, Zhang Yunyi changed his original plan to develop in the direction of Ji'an, and immediately led his troops south to Suichuan to meet the 55th regiment of the Seventh Red Army.

As soon as Deng Bin bid farewell to the Seventh Red Army and went to Shanghai to report to the Party Central Committee and ask for instructions, Li Mingrui led the 55th Red Regiment to withdraw from Chongyi City according to the original plan and set off for the Xinfeng area.At this time, the two regiments of the 19th Route Army of the Kuomintang and the local militia had attacked from three sides and reached the edge of the city in an attempt to encircle and wipe out the Red Army in one fell swoop.The situation is extremely critical!At that time, the sky was about to break dawn and the fog filled the air. The enemy army who attacked the city shouted and killed and fired into the city.Li Mingrui responded to the battle calmly, skillfully set up the maze, and commanded the troops to fight north and south for a while.When the enemies on both sides approached each other, Li Mingrui immediately used the strategy of "escape the shell of the golden cicada", and under the protection of the dense fog, he led his troops to quickly withdraw from the city.

The besieging enemy army and militia fought each other lively. When they found out that it was their own people who had beaten their own people, the Red 55th Regiment had successfully withdrawn from Chongyi and marched northward.Then cross the Shangyou River and reach Suichuan in the Jinggangshan area. Soon, Li Mingrui led his troops to Yongxin and joined forces with the Red Army led by Peng Dehuai and Teng Daiyuan.Upon hearing the news, Peng Dehuai and Teng Daiyuan rushed to Yongxin to meet with this heroic team that had fought thousands of miles and survived the catastrophe. Peng Dehuai held Li Mingrui's hand tightly, and said excitedly: "Brother Yusheng, I've heard of your name for a long time! It's not easy for you to lead your troops to fight from Guangxi!"

Li Mingrui was even more excited: "Brother Shi Chuan (Peng Dehuai)'s name has been admired for a long time! When the Seventh Red Army set off from Guangxi, there were seven or eight thousand troops, and there were only more than a thousand people left here. It was divided into two by the enemy, so far I don't know where the main force of the 58th Regiment and the troops directly under the army led by Commander Zhang Yunyi are now." Peng Dehuai said: "No matter how many people are left, as long as they come! I'll tell Lao Zhu and Lao Mao, you come to my Third Army!"

Li Mingrui said: "Everything is at your command!" In Yongxin, Li Mingrui led the 55th Regiment of the Red Army to cooperate with brother troops to fight against the enemy, while continuing to inquire about the 58th Regiment of the Seventh Red Army led by Zhang Yunyi. One day in early April, the rain broke and the sky was sunny.The sun is bright and bright, the mountains and rivers are washed like green, and everything is verdant.The Red Fifty-Five Regiment marched from Yongxin County to Tianhe Town (now Ji'an County) with a red flag, and cooperated with a part of the Red Army to capture Anfu.At this time, the Red Army's second anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign was in full swing, and the battle was still raging!The team arrived at the south bank of the Heshui River and was about to cross the pontoon bridge when they suddenly found a team on the other side of the river trying to seize the pontoon bridge and attack the south bank.Li Mingrui then ordered: Seize the favorable terrain and prepare for battle! The team on the other side of the river immediately seized the favorable terrain and prepared to fight. Li Mingrui raised his binoculars to observe the opposite bank, and seemed to have noticed something, so he ordered the trumpeter to blow the bugle to make contact: "Tick-tick-tick-tick--" The bugle also sounded on the other side: "Tick-tick-tick-tick-" We all heard each other!I can hear it—— On the north bank is the 58th Regiment of the Seventh Red Army!The South Bank is the 55th Regiment of the Seventh Red Army! The bugles on both sides of the strait were played louder and louder, and the teams on both sides of the strait boarded the embankment one after another, cheering heartily, jumping and swarming towards the pontoon bridge... Li Mingrui and Zhang Yunyi tightly shook hands, embraced, looked at each other, and shed tears like children. "Brother Sheng, we have had a hard time finding you." "Brother Yusheng, we are too." The 55th and 58th Regiments of the Red Seventh Army, which were dispersed by the enemy, were led by Li Mingrui and Zhang Yunyi respectively. After being dispersed for more than three months, they finally reunited in Tianhe Town, Yongxin County. !The soldiers slapped each other, hugged each other, and rolled into a ball on the soft carpet-like river beach. The laughter was heart-pounding and heart-stirring. Swallows soared briskly, and dragonflies fluttered their wings.Clouds are running in the sky like going to a market.Flocks of sparrows squatted on the branches by the river and chatted. Zhang Yunyi raised his eyes to inspect the happy crowd, and his eyes flicked across faces filled with sorrow and joy. He couldn't help being startled, and suddenly turned around and asked Li Mingrui, "Brother Yusheng, where is Political Commissar Deng?" Li Mingrui hurriedly said, "Oh, Political Commissar Deng returned to Shanghai a month ago to report to the Party Central Committee and ask for instructions on work." Zhang Yunyi breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Hey, you've traveled thousands of miles to Zhu and Mao, why do you still have to go back to Shanghai?" Li Mingrui said: "According to the disclosure by the comrades in charge of the Southern Jiangxi Special Committee, the Shanghai Central Committee held the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee, and a new leader took charge of the work of the Central Committee. Political Commissar Deng considered that he had not had direct contact with the Central Committee for more than a year. , it is very necessary to go back to Shanghai, on the one hand to report to the Central Committee on the situation of the Seventh Army, on the other hand, to get instructions and new spirits from the Central Committee." "He shouldn't have left at this time! You shouldn't have let him go either" "Everyone was reluctant to let him go." "After all, he is a representative sent by the central government, and he should return to the central government to report to him." "Yes, he is a representative of the central government, and he wants to return to the central government for a report." So far, the Seventh Red Army has moved to the five provinces of Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Guangdong, and Jiangxi for more than eight months. It has traveled more than 7,000 miles and fought more than 100 times. When they joined Zhu and Mao's Red Army at their destination, there were still more than 2,000 people left.At this point, the Red Seventh Army joined the first front army sequence of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. On November 15, 1931, at the First National Congress of the Chinese Soviet Republic held in Ruijin, the "Red Capital" of the Central Soviet Area, in order to commend the performance of the Seventh Red Army's heroic battle, Mao Zedong, chairman of the provisional central government, personally "moved thousands of miles" The pennant was awarded to the Red Seventh Army. However, at that time, the more than 2,000 survivors of the Seventh Red Army could never have imagined that three years later, in October 1934, due to the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, the Central Red Army was forced to withdraw from the Central Soviet Area , began the long journey of the 25,000-mile Long March.The starting route of the Central Red Army after breaking through the Xiangjiang River was precisely the borders of Hunan, Guangxi, and Guangdong where the Seventh Red Army moved thousands of miles away three years ago. Undoubtedly, the Seventh Red Army's movement of thousands of miles provided a way to explore for the Central Red Army's great migration. and reference. At that time, Zhou Enlai, vice chairman of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, secretary of the Central Bureau of the Soviet Area, and general political commissar of the Red Army, called the Red Seventh Army's thousands of miles of fighting as "the general rehearsal of the Long March." Forty years later, Mao Zedong said to Deng Xiaoping several times: "The Seventh Red Army can fight!"