Chapter 49 Chen Yi who responded to the uprising

The Wuhan Military Academy mentioned above was formerly the Whampoa Military Academy in Guangzhou.After the Central Committee of the Kuomintang revoked Chiang Kai-shek's post as principal, it was later changed to a committee system consisting of Deng Yanda, Tan Yankai, Gu Mengyu, and Xu Qian from the Kuomintang, and Yun Daiying from the Communist Party. Deng, Tan, and Yun were the standing committee members.The standing committee members of the Kuomintang were unwilling to take care of the actual work of the school, and the school administration was actually in charge of the chief political instructor Hui Daiying.Chen Yi was officially assigned to the military academy by the Central Military Commission in May to serve as party secretary, but his public identity was just a "sesame official": a warrant officer in the school's political department.Chen Yi, who is active by nature, sometimes can't help showing that he doesn't look like a warrant officer.

Tao Xisheng, who was the secretary at the time and later wrote "The Destiny of China" for Chiang Kai-shek, said in front of Chen Yi: "The real leader of the Communist Party is behind the scenes, and I think you are." The aura that influences people is not small: Ye Pu, the organization section chief of the Political Department, is a member of the Kuomintang and specializes in monitoring the Communists. Ye Yong approached Chen Yi and said, "You are famous in Sichuan, how can you be a clerk? You must be a CP!" Seeing his sincerity, Chen Yi admitted that he was a Communist Party and worked on him.Later, Ye Yong joined the Communist Party of China, participated in the Guangzhou Uprising, served as the division commander of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants, and died in the battle.

Wang Jingwei did not want to keep the revolutionary military academy, so on July 25, the general academy was reorganized into the teaching regiment of Zhang Fakui's Second Front Army.The military academy originally had more than 1,700 students and teaching staff, plus 500 people in the teaching camp of the General Political Department.Zhang Fakui also returned the firearms that had been handed over under Chen Duxiu's order.However, the original four artillery companies of the military academy now only have the artillery company based on the fourth company, and the company commander Guo Huaruo is the secretary of the party branch.

Chen Yi wanted to hide in the artillery company.It rained heavily.Chen Yi was barefoot, holding an umbrella in one hand and a shoe in the other, and walked 10 miles to the Nanhu barracks. Guo Huaruo quickly led Chen Yi to his room and asked the orderlies to fetch water, make tea, wash his face and feet. .They were not familiar with each other at first, so Chen Yi took out the organization's introduction letter from his underwear pocket.Guo Huaruo read the letter and couldn't help frowning: "The party secretary is hiding in my company, what if something goes wrong?" Chen Yi said: "It doesn't matter, I understand the situation in your company, and this place is more suitable." Guo Huaruo Say no more.Chen Yi was very happy. He told Guo Huaruo that the troops of Ye Ting and He Long had all arrived in Nanchang area now, and the teaching group would go there soon.

The Party Central Committee has already criticized Chen Duxiu's Right opportunism.Judging by these circumstances, there may be some action over there.In fact, this is only Chen Yi's personal judgment. He did not receive any instructions about the Nanchang Uprising at that time.The Nanchang Uprising itself is also brewing and being debated.Chen Yi also said in 1952 that the Party Central Committee at that time had not yet liquidated Chen Duxiu’s Right opportunism (until the “August 7th Conference”). A firm policy." Chen Yi wanted to go back to Wuchang to take care of the affairs, if Guo Hua wanted to call him a car, Chen Yi refused. "We have 96 horses in a company. You can go back on horseback." "Cars and horses will reveal my identity." Chen Yi still disagreed, holding up his umbrella, carrying his shoes, and got into the wind and rain.But Chen Yi failed to hide in the artillery company.Because Guo Huaruo was immediately ordered to be transferred to the Military Commission and transferred to the Front Enemy Committee, and went to Nanchang first.

Chen Yi changed his location again and hid in the special agent company of the Teaching Regiment Headquarters.The Second Front Army Officers' Teaching Group set off from Wuchang to Jiujiang on the morning of August 2, and the name was still "Conquer Chiang in the East".At noon the day before, Chen Yi specially went to his friend Chen Mengyun to bid farewell. Chen Mengyun and his wife Hu Lanqi both work in the girls' team of the military academy. Now that the girls' team has disbanded, Chen Mengyun is going back to work in Sichuan.Knowing that Chen Yi would come, Hu Lanqi had already prepared food and wine, including Chen Yi's favorite twice-cooked pork, and planned to have a farewell party for him, and invited Fan Yingshi to have a reunion together.

After drinking, the four friends talked too much, and the most talked about was the political situation. "Will Zhang Fakui continue to cooperate with you?" Chen Mengyun was a little worried. "It's possible, we have to fight for it, but not necessarily. Even if Zhang Fakui quits, we will continue." Chen Yi replied. "Can you do it alone?" Fan Yingshi held a wine glass in his hand and looked at Chen Yi's mouth. "If you learn your lesson, you will succeed." "What lesson?" The hot-tempered Hu Lanqi stared at Chen Yi like an awl.

Chen Yi became "nervous" after being stared at.He didn't have any prepared clauses, and while he was thinking about it, he stammered at the beginning: "What lesson? The lesson is that our leaders dare not, oh, don't know how to control the leadership of the Chinese revolution, the revolutionary armed struggle. The command of the Northern Expedition is mainly in the hands of the Kuomintang. We have only a few troops with real power to command, too few. Communist Party members and leftists are mostly party representatives, political department directors, and instructors. People say We are 'dog skin plasters'."

As soon as he hit on the "familiar words", Chen Yi immediately spoke fluently, and he poured out his notes: "The knife is in the hands of others, and the soldiers are in the hands of others. Once they turn against each other, they will lose their heads. 'Send a gift out of the country' is considered the most polite. In the future , or don’t do it, if you want to do it, you must have your own gun!” "To be the modern Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong?" Hu Lanqi's spiritual eyes flickered. "Yes! The former Qing government called Sun Yat-sen a bandit, and now the Kuomintang calls us bandits. Well, I'm going to be this 'bandit'! Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Zicheng can do it successfully, but can the Communist Party with Marxism do it?"

The wine glasses of the friends bumped towards Chen Yi's glass amid laughter, and they all chanted one word: "I wish the general under the name of Marx every success!" At dawn on August 2, the officer training group assembled and set off.It was 15 miles from the Nanhu barracks to the Wuchang River, and it was already daylight when the troops arrived at the piers at Wenchangmen and Pinghumen.The Wuhan Nationalist Government Guard Corps has come to the river ahead of schedule, and it is also a team with many Communist Party members.They also planned to go to Jiujiang under the banner of "conquering Chiang from the east".The guard group has already boarded the ship, just waiting for the teaching group to board the ship and set sail.Half of the river was covered by several large and small passenger ships and hundreds of sailboats.

Unexpectedly, a small incident caused chaos.The firearms of the teaching group are generally worn out, except for the 6 heavy machine guns of the machine gun company, which are relatively new, shining blue in the rising sun.The Chen Jiayou unit of the 13th Army called "Maintenance of Order" at the pier was actually a surveillance unit. At first, they were jealous of these "student soldiers", but now they were stabbed by the heavy machine gun's roasted Lan Ying, and they were so upset that they rushed up and wanted to detain them. .When the incident was reported to Hou Lianliu, the head of the officer teaching regiment, he asked Yang Shusong, the deputy head, to negotiate, and asked Xiao Jin, the head of the spy company, to take a few people to protect him.These people are all members of the Communist Party.Chen Yi, who was hiding in the spy company, went to protest with Yang Shusong when he saw the situation.Now that the Thirteenth Army has made a move, it will never let go easily. This dispute actually delayed the sailing of the ship for nearly two hours.Like a dewdrop falling on the balance; history often changes fate because of a small incident. This incident actually changed the paths of many people. ——The boat of the guard regiment left, and this armed force later participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising; Chen Yi, who set off late, caught up with the Nanchang Uprising team on the way.When they asked for the heavy machine gun back, the large passenger ship of the guard regiment had long since disappeared.The teaching group hurriedly played the flute and set sail.Their boats are not big, the leader is a passenger ship, and the rest are wooden boats and tugboats. Chen Yi and the spy company were both on the regiment headquarters passenger ship. He wanted to hold a party meeting, but there was no room, and there were crowds of people everywhere.In addition, although Hou and Yang were both members of the Communist Party (later transferred to the Kuomintang), the whole regiment did not form a party committee, so the whole regiment could not be called a party-led army.Chen Yi is the main person in charge of the party, has no military power, and lacks reliable connections with higher-level party organizations.He was very anxious. The Central Military Commission did not tell him about the August 1st uprising in advance, but only said that there might be changes in the middle, and he had to be prepared for it.Now dozens of people are crammed into a wooden boat, only some of them have guns, and there are not many bullets. If there is a "robbery" halfway, the entire army must be wiped out on this unprotected river.The boat was moving, but Chen Yi was in a hurry.For nearly a day, they approached Huangshi Harbor. Suddenly, I heard the sound of bugles coming from the south bank of the river.The people on board were attracted by the sound, and they all listened with bated breath.The trumpet is for them, the trumpet of stopping.Chen Yi and Xiao Jin squeezed to the side of the boat, and tried their best to look at the river bank.Gradually, it became clear that it was the large passenger ship of the guard group.A troop of buglers stood on the deck, from where the trumpet sounded.Chen Yi wondered: According to the water operation plan, the guard regiment and the teaching regiment both sailed directly to Jiujiang. Why did they stop here and ask us to stop?What happened on the shore?It's getting late, I can't see clearly, and I can't make contact.Deputy head Yang was also worried. He said to Chen Yi: "The troops on the shore must have trouble stopping. It seems that we have to break through." Chen Yi nodded.The fleet moved forward at full speed, and the large passenger ship of the guard group was passed by.Yellowstone is ahead.Suddenly, shots were fired in the direction of Huangshi Port.This is a warning to stop the ship. The leaders of the teaching group all set up their binoculars to watch the shore.The troops saw that He Jian's soldiers had entered the fortifications and set up their guns towards the river.If there is a fight, the people on board will definitely suffer.The leader of the teaching group had to order to stop the ship, and they went ashore to negotiate.It was only during the negotiation that something happened in Nanchang. A leader of the other party said: "We know that all the troops who disembarked on the ship this time were Communist Party troops, and we were ordered to detain them all." Yang Shusong insisted: "We are leading the officer teaching group of the Second Front Army, and we are going to Jiujiang to return to the construction under the order of Commander-in-Chief Zhang; you should stop all hostile actions and let them go immediately, otherwise if there is a conflict, you will be responsible for everything." "Anyway, your men must disembark." Yang Shusong discussed with Chen Yi.I want to escape by land while the troops are ashore.However, now that the troops have gone through the Hongshan exercise, they are very tired, and there are still sick people dragging them down. When conflicts arise, it is difficult to get rid of the encirclement and pursuit.Everyone insisted not to go ashore. Yang Shusong went to the leader of the other party and said: "We will not go ashore, you can send a telegram to Commander Zhang, and express your strong protest against your actions of obstructing our regiment's actions!" The other party took a step back: "Okay, let's send a telegram to ask. But you can only move around on the boat, and you can't go ashore casually." Where did the guard group go?From the negotiations, Yang Shusong and Chen Yi have already heard that the guard group seems to have abandoned the ship and landed, and He Jian's troops are in pursuit.That night, all the officers and soldiers of the teaching regiment stayed on their respective boats.On the shore, He Jian's troops were under strict guard, and no one was allowed to step ashore.This is hard for the soldiers on the wooden boat.There are many people on the small boat, mosquito bites, no cooking on board, only dry food and river water.In the second half of the night, the wind picked up on the river, which made it a little better. In the early morning of August 3, after negotiations, a small number of buyers were allowed to go ashore.Scouting cadres were arranged among the purchasing personnel dispatched.When I came back, I reported that something serious happened in Nanchang, but the details are unknown.The atmosphere on Yellowstone Street was tense. The guard group did go ashore and disappeared, whereabouts are unknown.It was not until noon that He Jian's troops on the shore sent a message: "Let's go." He also said that Zhang Fakui, the commander-in-chief of the Second Front Army, personally called Tang Shengzhi of the Fourth Army from Jiujiang, saying that the officer teaching group belonged to him. It was a misunderstanding. Continue sailing in the afternoon.Chen Yi notified the various units through the party members on board that they speculated that an armed riot had been staged in Nanchang and they had to respond calmly.Let's talk about the rebel army: the headquarters of the rebel army also received news from Wuchang that there were two regiments supporting the uprising and were preparing to march towards Nanchang, but the details were unknown. On the morning of August 1, when everyone was cheering for victory, Zhou Yiqun, director of the political department of the 20th Army, pulled Wen Qiang, the secretary of the political department, aside and whispered.Zhou Yiqun: "There is an urgent task for you to complete. In the Political Department, it is more appropriate for you to be the only one to complete this task." Wen Qiang hurriedly asked what it was. "A guard regiment stationed in Wuchang revolted. They are heading towards Jianchang to join us in Nanchang. You cross the Ganjiang River in disguise and go towards Jianchang to meet the troops. If you don't find them in Jianchang, hurry back to Nanchang." report the news." After accepting the task, Wen Qiang disguised himself as a student and crossed the Gan River in the fog.As soon as he landed, he was detained by enemy sentries and transferred to the company headquarters.Ask him what he is doing, why did he cross the river alone?Wen Qiang made up a rumor and said: crossing the river is for asylum. The other side of the river has been shooting since midnight. I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m a student. I received a letter from my family saying that my father is critically ill. Father.The enemy who interrogated him took a long time to move, and he was dubious about Wen Qiang's words.So they asked him to stay here for two days, and pretended to entertain him, hoping to hear more news about Jiang from him.Wen Qiang randomly made up something perfunctory. On the morning of the third day, Wen Qiang was released.After being released, I saw their military flag by chance, and realized that it was Zhang Fakui's army.Wen Qiang continued to march in the direction of Jianchang.At a place less than 50 miles away from the South Pollution Railway, he was again caught by the local security forces and detained in an ancient temple for another 3 days.He still used the same set of words when crossing the river to deceive the enemy.He heard from the security forces that a troop coming out of Wuchang had been broken up on the way and was completely defeated.Wen Qiang judged that this was the security group he was looking for, and guessed that they would not be able to come to Jianchang again, so he took a small road back to Nanchang after being released.But Nanchang has changed its flag.