Chapter 27 Uprising figure - Ye Ting moved closer to Nanchang

After the Ye Ting Independent Regiment conquered Wuchang, it was expanded into the 24th Division of the Fourth Army. In addition to serving as the division commander, Ye Ting also served as the commander of the Wuhan Garrison. Although the Northern Expedition is still going on, the Wuhan government has become shaken under the threat of internal and external reactionary forces.During the "Five National Congresses" of the party, Ye Ting took on the task of safeguarding the security of the congress, and did his best, and nothing happened. Not long after the "Five National Congresses", Chiang Kai-shek instigated Xia Douyin, the commander of the 14th Division, and Yang Sen, the local warlord, to rebel. Taking advantage of the revolutionary army's northern expedition and Wuhan's emptiness, they attacked Wuhan on May 17.The rebel army hit Zhixing Town, 40 miles away from Wuhan, in an attempt to overturn the precarious ship of the Wuhan government in one fell swoop.Li Pinxian, the commander of the Hankou garrison, was helpless and terrified. He actually wanted to burn down the Wuhan ferry at this critical juncture and abandon the city to escape.

Ye Ting was shocked when he heard the news.He analyzed: The morale of the enemy army is low. They are all captured peasants and will not fight to the death for the warlord. Therefore, although there are many people, they will not have great combat effectiveness.Although our army is small in number, it has the support of more than 300 Communists, and has experience in hundreds of battles, and its morale is high. In contrast, our army will surely defeat the rebels.Therefore, Ye Ting invited Ying to lead an army to crusade.He also told the whole front that if anyone retreats before the battle, he will be executed by shooting. All my officers and soldiers swear to sacrifice for the party.Ye Ting is slightly tall, not fat, but has a good physique. He is always well-dressed, exuding a soldier's solemnity.He lives with his wife and a 3-year-old son in a small house on a remote street in Wuchang.Interestingly, at that time, the Communist Party advocated the overthrow of feudal ethics and the liberation of women, so it was common for men and women to get along in the party ranks.Ye Ting also agrees with this, but he is very careful about his young and beautiful wife, and he will never introduce it to "comrades" easily, and his colleagues jokingly call her "Golden House Cangjiao".Li Zongren once reminded Zhang Fakui worriedly: You have the most Communists in the Fourth Army, and senior generals such as Ye Ting are all well-known Communists. If you do not restrain them, the army will not listen to your command in the future.

Zhang said that Ye Ting and he were small fellows from Beijiang, Guangdong, and they had been together since childhood. It can be said that they were like brothers. Based on his personal relationship with Ye, he believed that Ye Ting would never make things difficult for him. Li Zongren said: "The Communist Party still talks about personal relationships. They only know the orders of the Third International. Stop dreaming." Zhang said: "No, absolutely not." Then he cited the example of "Golden House Cangjiao" to illustrate Ye Ting's "nostalgia" (it is also because of this relationship that in the early stage of deciding to revolt, Ye Ting also hoped to cooperate with Zhang Fakui to fight back to Guangdong. When this assumption could not be implemented, Ye Ting resolutely supported the uprising).

Although Ye Ting was a teacher, his life was so simple that he was poor.Another characteristic of him is that he rarely talks, especially on topics other than military affairs.But politically, it is very strong, and it is often to the point. For example, during the Zhongshan ship incident, Ye Ting said: Chiang Kai-shek is the second Chen Jiongming, and he should not be taken lightly; during the "April 12" coup, he also said: The day of bloodshed may be coming... These predictions have been all One confirmed. Besides, when Xia Douyin heard that Ye Ting's iron army was coming to fight, he was so frightened that his legs went limp.But now that he has rebelled, he must endure it to the death.Ye Ting believes that the most urgent task is to compete with the enemy for time and position.At that time, because the troops were scattered all over Wuhan to serve as security guards, they could not be dispatched at the same time.Ye Ting then ordered the 72nd Regiment to advance quickly into Zhixing Town.After hearing the news, the rebels concentrated their forces to counterattack and surrounded Zhixing Town.Because of the huge disparity between the widow and the number, the Seventy-two Regiment was in a very difficult situation.At a critical time, Ye Ting led the main force to arrive, ordered the 75th Regiment and the Central Independent Division to attack separately, and went to the 72nd Regiment's position in person to command the troops to block the enemy in front of Zhixing Town.Ye Ting's act of taking the lead under the enemy's artillery fire greatly inspired the soldiers. They fought with their lives, and even the wounded got off the stretcher and rushed to the front line.The soldiers used their lives, coupled with proper command, drove the enemy out of Zhihang Town, regained Tingsi Bridge, Hesheng Bridge and other places, and the situation in Wuhan turned from danger to safety.Although Xia Douyin's rebel army was defeated, it was not completely wiped out.Ye Ting commanded the troops to continue the pursuit. He wanted to wipe out the rebels in one go, but he was not allowed by Wang Jingwei and his gang.They ordered Ye Ting to stop attacking, leaving Xia Douyin's remnants still entrenched in southern Hubei.Not long after, Xu Kexiang in Hunan launched the "Ma Ri Incident" and arrested and killed a large number of Communists and revolutionary masses. The corpses piled up like mountains and blood flowed like rivers.Facing the massacre committed by the rebels, Ye Ting was both indignant and worried.He added another sentence: Wang Jingwei is the third Chen Jiongming.

Hit it again.The Changsha "Ma Ri Incident" was the beginning of the reactionary forces of the landlord class and the turning point of the Chinese revolution from a high tide to a low tide.In the confrontation between Ning and Han, Chiang Kai-shek was supported by the imperialists of Britain, the United States, Japan, and France. He had money in his pocket and a gun in his hand. After the blockade of the Wuhan government, people panicked. The "Ma-Day Incident" united old and new warlords and local tyrants and evil gentry in Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi provinces, resulting in a general atmosphere of white terror, and the revolutionary workers' and peasants' organizations were severely damaged.The Wuhan government bowed down to the "Ma-Day Incident", which was tantamount to surrendering to Chiang Kai-shek. Since then, there has been no leftist faction of the Kuomintang, and the KMT-CPC united front has been shaken after the "Ma-Day Incident".

Faced with the dangerous situation of dark clouds overwhelming the city, Ye Ting asked the troops to maintain a high degree of vigilance, and at the same time further strengthen military and political training, and find ways to enrich the revolutionary backbone of the troops.Following Zhou Enlai's instructions, Ye Ting actively took in and received revolutionaries who had fled to Wuhan due to persecution by counter-revolutionary forces in other places, and arranged them into the army as backbones at all levels. For example, Su Yu and Teng Jiuzhong, Communist Party members in Changde, Hunan, were arrested by reactionaries and fled from Hunan to Wuchang.When Ye Ting heard that someone was coming, he always received him warmly and arranged for the teaching team of the 24th Division under his command.In less than half a month, the teaching team recruited more than 1,000 students, almost all of whom were members of the Party and Youth League.The party organization attaches great importance to the teaching team. In addition to political classes, responsible comrades such as Zhou Enlai, Yun Daiying, Ye Ting and others are often invited to give reports.

In order to prevent attacks and siege by reactionary forces, Ye Ting led the 24th Division to move to Hesheng Bridge in June.While paying close attention to the military training of the troops, he also sent some officers and soldiers to nearby villages to conduct propaganda and investigation work among farmers.The nearby peasants knew that the famous Iron Army was stationed here, and they often went to the headquarters to report the situation to Ye Ting and others, accused the landlords and tyrants of persecuting the peasants, and asked Ye Ting to send troops to protect and support their struggle.Some farmers from the Hunan area also came all the way to ask Ye Ting to send troops.Ye Ting also wanted to take the team to fight and think of some ways to protect the interests of the farmers, but Chen Duxiu, who was leaning to the right, always suppressed it.He had a serious discussion with the Soviet military adviser Teslenko, and he believed that it would not be difficult to defeat Xu Kexiang's rebels. "As long as I give an order, I, Ye Ting, can complete this task at any time." The General Counsel, General Galen, asked for permission for Ye Ting to lead his division to send troops to reinforce the peasant team heading to Changsha, but he never received the order to send troops.

Soon, Ye Ting led the troops to move to Daye.Daye is located in the southwest of Huangshi City, close to the Yangtze River.The headquarters is located in a Japanese-funded steel plant that has been closed in Daye.Ye Ting continued to pay close attention to the military training of the troops, and at the same time continued to send some officers and soldiers to do mass work and propagate revolutionary ideas to the masses.The troops are always ready to answer the call of the party. In early July, the Wang Jingwei Group ordered Zhang Fakui to lead his troops to "conquer Chiang in the east".On the one hand, they can use this to divert their attention and cover up their intensified anti-Communist mutiny conspiracy; on the other hand, they can take advantage of this to transfer the revolutionary forces from Ye Ting and other departments under their jurisdiction; own strength and territory.This is the same as Chiang Kai-shek's purpose of ordering Ye Ting to be the vanguard in the Northern Expedition.The difference is that the Communist Party is also brewing a big plan, which needs to gather its own strength to the maximum; therefore, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China also agreed to allow Ye Ting and other troops to participate in the "Conquer Chiang in the East."

In mid-July, Ye Ting's 24th Division, the 25th Division of the Fourth Army, and He Long's newly formed 20th Army were ordered to follow the Second Front Army to "conquer Chiang in the east" and march to Jiujiang, Jiangxi.