Chapter 55 At the victory meeting, Mao Zedong said: The Seventh Red Army should be retained and belong to the Third Army

At the beginning of May 1931, Chiang Kai-shek appointed He Yingqin as the commander-in-chief. He was based in Nanchang and commanded 200,000 heavy troops from Ji'an, Jiangxi to Jianning, Fujian. The revolutionary base areas were aggressively invaded. Under the personal command of Zhu De and Mao Zedong, the Red Army adopted the strategic policy of concentrating superior forces, attacking the weaker enemy first, and annihilating the enemy one by one during the movement. battle object. On May 15, the enemy's Fifth Route Army approached Donggu in the Soviet area in three ways: left, center and right. On the 16th, the Red Army took advantage of the enemy's right-hand army to advance from Futian to Donggu.Then it turned to Tantou and wiped out Master Guo Hua on Wangbu Middle Road.Subsequently, after the Red Army defeated Hao Menglin's division on the left side of Wangbu in Shaxi, Xingye went straight to Zhongcun and wiped out Gao Shuxun's brigade of the 26th Route Army. On the 27th, the Red Army took advantage of the victory to advance to Guangchang and wiped out a regiment of the Sixth Route Army.Then the division went straight to Jianning in Fujian and wiped out a regiment of the enemy.The campaign lasted from May 16 to May 30. In 15 days, the Red Army fought from the banks of the Ganjiang River to the mountains of northwestern Fujian, swept across more than 700 miles, wiped out more than 30,000 enemies, and surrendered more than 20,000 guns. Liliruo played a good game of chess and broke Chiang Kai-shek's second "encirclement and suppression" in one fell swoop.

At the end of the battle, Mao Zedong used the spirit of the sun, the moon, the sky and the earth to penetrate the soul of the poet, as if commanding a battle, writing lyrics with a smooth movement, swaying and whirling, and wrote a song "The Pride of the Fisherman: Anti-Second Great War" "Siege": The clouds on the top of Baiyun Mountain are about to stand, and the voices at the foot of Baiyun Mountain are urgent, and the dead trees and rotten plants work together. The guns are pressing, and the parachutist enters the sky with his own weight. Fifteen days after driving seven hundred miles, the rivers of Gansu were vast and the mountains of Fujian were green, and thousands of troops were swept away like a mat.

Some people weep, how can they sigh for the camp every step of the way! In early April, when the second anti-encirclement and suppression campaign had begun, Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the Red Army, and Mao Zedong, chief political commissar, were honored to receive the 55th and 58th regiments of the Seventh Red Army in Tianhe, Yongxin County. Upon hearing the news of the reunion, Li Mingrui was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Hexi General Headquarters of the First Red Army, and Zhang Yunyi was the chief of staff of the Hexi General Headquarters, directly commanding the Seventh Red Army, the Independent Division of the Red Army in Southeast Hunan, and the Twenty Red Army. The 175th Regiment and other departments cooperated with the Red Front Army in the second battle against "encirclement and suppression".

At this time, it is the time for the fierce battle of the soldiers, and the arrival of the Red Seventh Army is all exciting! Li Mingrui, who missed the battlefield all his life, was particularly excited, and said to Zhang Yunyi: "It's better to be late than to be late, this battle will be fought!" Zhang Yunyi said: "With our 7,000-mile leg skills and more than a hundred battle skills, we can deal with any tricks of old Jiang's tactics!" Li Mingrui seemed to be greatly moved, and said sincerely: "It's just a newcomer, and I haven't met the two handsome masters Zhu and Mao, so I entrust them with important tasks. It's really kindness!"

Zhang Yunyi said: "Brother Yusheng is a famous general in the Northern Expedition, and his glory is still alive. Zhu and Mao Shuaizhu can be said to be 'knowing people and doing good tasks'!" Immediately, Li Mingrui and Zhang Yunyi issued a battle order to the Seventh Red Army and the troops under their jurisdiction: cooperate with the main force, attack and aid the enemy, and prevent the enemy from Hexi from crossing the Ganjiang River to the east! When the main force of the Red Army galloped across the east of the Ganjiang River and won the decisive battle, Li Mingrui and Zhang Yunyi led their troops northward to the Anfu area, successively captured Chaling, Anren, Youxian, Lingxian and other places, wiped out the enemy and the 19th Route Army. Nearly 2,000 people from the Ministry and two house-to-house regiments armed with landlords effectively cooperated with the main force of the Red Front Army to win the second victory against "encirclement and suppression".

In late June, Wang Shoudao, the head of the Hunan-Jiangxi Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, conveyed to the former committee of the Seventh Red Army the instructions of the Central Bureau of the Soviet Area of ​​the Communist Party of China: the Seventh Red Army should cross the Ganjiang River eastward and join the First Red Army in the Central Soviet Area to prepare to fight against Chiang Kai-shek. The third "encirclement and suppression campaign" to be launched. In the first ten days of July, the Seventh Red Army crossed the Ganjiang River, marched day and day, returned to southern Jiangxi, passed through Liangkou and Bailu, and entered the Central Soviet Area.Then, via Xingguo, they arrived at Qiaotou Town, Yudu County, where they joined the Red Front Army on July 22.

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek, who was greatly disgraced by the disastrous defeat of the second "encirclement and suppression" campaign, was mobilizing 300,000 troops to personally serve as the commander-in-chief of the "encirclement and suppression" army, and hired military advisers from Germany, Japan, Britain and other countries to accompany the army in planning and adopt the "encirclement and suppression" strategy. The tactics of "driving straight in" and "dividing into and attacking together" launched the third "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Central Soviet Area on a large scale.Chiang Kai-shek published the "Letter to the All Soldiers", claiming that "to get rid of civil strife and wipe out the red bandits, this is the battle."And vowed: "Fortunately, if this long-cherished wish is fulfilled, I will definitely return to the fields, otherwise, I will give up my life on the battlefield!"

The situation is extremely serious. Determined not to let the Red Army have a chance to take a breather and rest, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized more than 100 aircraft to carry out a large-scale "encirclement and suppression" of the Central Soviet Area with the power of the land and air forces to fight together and suppress the territory with heavy troops. The Red Army on the one hand mobilized urgently, stepping into the unrelenting smoke of gunpowder, and went into battle again. Mao Zedong, on the other hand, was charming and teased lightly: "It is said that at the military meeting held in Nanchang, Chiang Kai-shek scolded He Yingqin's subordinates for being incompetent, so much so that he burst into tears. Well, this time he will personally drive Yuzheng to save face and Swear: If you can’t win this battle, you will risk your life on the battlefield. Hehe, I don’t think he will lose his life lightly, so let him lose face again!”

Mao Zedong, with his familiar commanding art, made a classic example of this battle that can be true or false, light or heavy, elephant-focused, and layer-by-layer.He put forward the strategic policy of "avoiding the main force of the enemy and attacking its weakness", and adopted flexible tactics such as attacking east and west and turning around to annihilate the enemy's vital forces, so that the enemy did not know where the main force of the Red Army was. ——In this way, the Red Army with more than 30,000 troops fought against an enemy army ten times its size for two and a half months, and successively won the battles of Liantang, Liangcun, Huangpi, Laoyingpan, Gaoxingxu, Fangshiling, etc. Great victory, a total of more than 30,000 enemies were wiped out, more than 15,000 guns were handed over, more than 100 cannons of various types, six radio stations, and more than 600 mules and horses.So far, Chiang Kai-shek's third "encirclement and suppression" campaign was broken, thus connecting the two Soviet areas in southern Jiangxi and western Fujian, and further expanding the central revolutionary base area.

On September 15, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, etc. attended and spoke at the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" victory meeting held in Longgangtou Village, Xingguo, and summoned the generals of the Red Front Army. After listening to Li Mingrui, Zhang Yunyi and others' stories about the experience of the Red Seventh Army moving thousands of miles, Mao Zedong sighed: "Seven thousand miles to fight, spanning five provinces and regions, it is amazing! I have heard that Comrade Mingrui was very famous during the Northern Expedition. generals, so the Seventh Red Army can not only run, but also fight."

Li Mingrui said: "My brother realized it too late. When he fought Lao Jiang in Wuhan (referring to the first Jiang-Gui war), he should have pulled the team over. At that time, there were nearly 20,000 troops!" Mao Zedong joked with a smile: "If you came here at that time, you could only be a red 'king of the mountain'. Lao Jiang would not let you and your cousin rule Guangxi!" Li Mingrui said: "That's just Lao Jiang's strategy of 'using the barbarians to control the barbarians'." Mao Zedong said leisurely: "Chiang Kai-shek is indeed a veteran in planning and implementing strategies! One of his tricks is to mobilize the contradictions between the various factions and make them fight each other. Presumably he has a thorough understanding of the two anecdotes. It is very good. One said: The mantis catches the cicada, aiming to benefit, but it does not know that the oriole is pecking at the back. The second said: Zhao Guo is about to attack Yan Guo, Su Dai said to Zhao Huiwang on behalf of Yan Guo, the ministers come now, the past In Yishui, I saw that the clam was exposed, and the snipe pecked at its flesh, and the clam closed and pinched it. The snipe said, "If it doesn't rain today, and it won't rain tomorrow, you will die of the sun." The clam also said: " If you don’t come out today, don’t come out tomorrow, you’ll starve to death.” The two refused to part with each other, and the fisherman caught them together, and said with a smile: Haha, this is exactly what is called “the snipe and the clam fight, and the fisherman wins.” and also!" Everyone listened and laughed happily. Mao Zedong changed the subject and asked Li Mingrui, "How many troops do you have now?" Li Mingrui replied: "More than two thousand people." Mao Zedong pondered for a moment, and said: "It is not easy for two thousand troops to be divided into two by the enemy in Wushui without being eaten by the enemy! Adjustment. The Seventh Army should be retained, enriched and returned to the Third Army!" Speaking of this, Mao Zedong glanced at Peng Dehuai who was sitting next to Zhang Yunyi. Peng Dehuai then grinned at Mao Zedong, turned to Zhang Yunyi and whispered: "How about it, Lao Mao listens to me! I said I want the Seventh Army, and he agreed." At the end of September, the main force of the Red Army arrived in Ruijin for a rest.Zhu De and Mao Zedong signed an order, appointing Li Mingrui as the commander of the Seventh Red Army, Ge Yaoshan as the political commissar, Zhang Yunyi as the chief of staff, Xu Jin as the director of the political department, governing the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, and fifty-eighth regiments. Red Army Command. However, at this moment, Li Mingrui, the commander of the Seventh Red Army, would never have imagined that under the shocking political turmoil blatantly blowing up inside the Red Army, he was in disaster! ! !