Chapter 61 Chen Yi rushes to the team again

Zhou Enlai, Li Lisan, Zhang Guotao, etc. who were resting in Fuzhou still knew nothing about the central meeting in Wuhan. On the evening of August 7, Chen Yi and Xiao Jin, who were struggling to catch up with the team, finally caught up with the rebel team at Linchuan Ferry.They found out that Zhou Enlai and the staff were stationed in a big house with a shop in the front and a residence in the back.When they entered, gas lamps had been hung in the big house, and staff officers were coming and going.Chen Yi found Zhou Enlai's figure and shouted in surprise: "Enlai, I have caught up with you!" Zhou Enlai came to shake Chen Yi's hand and called Liu Bocheng to come and meet.Liu Bocheng asked people to prepare meals.But what Chen Yi and Xiao Jin are most hungry for is work.In a hurry, Chen Yi accepted a reluctant job.

In a report given by Jiming Temple in Nanjing on June 14, 1952, Chen Yi gave a vivid explanation of this matter, which does not require us to do artistic processing: Let me first talk about the situation when Chen Yi and Xiao Jin left Nanchang: after more than 10 miles out of Nanchang, they arrived at a ferry.I saw that man was very strange, wearing a western-style shirt and suit pants, he didn't look like a boatman, he must be famous.We asked him where He and Ye went. He said they went to Linchuan. We asked if they went to Ji'an. He said he didn't go to Ji'an. I asked, "How do you know?" He said, "I'm a student union. Yes, Ye and He negotiated with the Student Union when they left the city in the morning." We asked, "What are you doing here?" He said, "The city is in chaos, and Zhang Fakui also killed members of the Student Union. I’ll hide here, and I’ll go back after a few days when order is restored.” We asked him if he was the Communist Party, and he hurriedly said, “No, no, no!” After we knew his political background, we asked him for help. Find a place to live, find something to eat, he readily agreed.After the boatman came back, he ordered the boat to be rowed to the middle of the river and leaned against the sandbar. We slept on the boat that night.

The next day, we asked the boatman to take us to Lijiadu on the way to Linchuan.After passing Lijiadu, the road was very chaotic. Many gangsters searched on the road, asking anyone they saw, "If you have a watch, sell it to me!" Some also searched pockets.On the road, we met several officers, who belonged to Cai Tingkai's 10th Division, squatting on the road and eating watermelon. After we inquired, we found out that Cai Tingkai had betrayed him again.Some of the battalion and company cadres of the Tenth Division are Communist Party members.At that time, some people advocated replacing Cai Tingkai and strengthening the leadership of the Tenth Division, but because Ye Ting and Cai were old friends, they hesitated. When they left Nanchang, they only asked him to follow. Jinxian, Cai invited the unstable battalion and company cadres to go out and send them away.These officers came from Jinxian.We asked him what happened, and they said, "Cai Tingkai drove us out." This Tenth Division was later expanded into the Kuomintang's Nineteenth Route Army, but it was finally organized and eaten by Chiang Kai-shek.The Tenth Division could have been a revolutionary army.

The following narratives became more specific and vivid. It seems that Chen Yi has always kept this experience in mind: We rushed to Linchuan, finally caught up with the troops, met with Comrades Zhou Enlai and Liu Bocheng, and reported on the deployment of military students.There is an armed group of bandits in the east of Gansu. The bandit leader's surname is Deng, and he is called Commander Deng.Commander Deng joined Ye and He through Fu Daqing, who later became a translator, and was willing to accept the appointment of Ye and He, on the condition that he would be given hundreds of guns, and we could send someone to lead.At this time, Zhu Peide's team was closely behind us. We considered that when Zhu Peide approached, he could play a somewhat restraining role, so we agreed to him.The party sent me and Comrade Xiao Jin to lead this bandit unit. I was unwilling at first, but Comrade Xiao Jin thought it would be good to have a bandit unit, so he decided to go.So he handed us over to Fu Daqing, who introduced us.Fu put us in a hotel to wait, and said that he would lead us to meet Commander Deng later.Unexpectedly, they waited until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, but they did not see Commander Deng, nor even Fu Daqing, but Zhu Peide's reactionary army arrived.The troops of Yang Ruxuan from the Zhu Department marched into Linchuan, and put martial law on the streets to arrest the Communist Party.

It was very dangerous to wait any longer, so we hurried out of the city, but as soon as we got out of the city, we were caught by sentries, who said we were the Communist Party.Most of the Zhu family are from Yunnan and Guizhou. I said: "You are from Yunnan, I am from Sichuan, and we are from the same hometown. Soldiers, what are you talking about? What about the Communist Party? What happened to you?" I'm from Sichuan, so I even said I'm sorry and told me to go quickly.When he came out, he ran into Fu Daqing, who was rushing out of the city in a hurry. When he saw us, he said, "Commander Deng is nothing. He took the gun away, and he disappeared." We still asked him to take it with us. Looking for it, he said: "I can't find it, or you can go to the mountain to find it yourself." We had no choice, so we followed him, and we begged him to take it. After walking for three or four miles, it was dark, but we kept walking. He entered a door, closed the door, and disappeared.It turned out that this family did not know whether it was his relatives or his family, but he had arrived home.We knocked on the door for a long time and shouted outside, but he ignored him and refused to entertain us.

It is said that this green forest army is a peasant armed force in eastern Jiangxi. More than 500 peasant troops led by Commander Deng Kezhong were later tricked by the Kuomintang Army Yang Ruxuan to Yushazhou on the outskirts of Chongren County and killed them all.His team left, and the clues of Green Forest were broken. Chen Yi and Xiao Jin went on the road again, chasing the rebels again. The rebel army left on the 10th.Something happened before I left.The suburbs of Fuzhou have fertile land and rich products, rich in rice, and every household has fish ponds.When the rebel army arrived in Fuzhou, it was the season for watermelon and taro to be on the market.As soon as the troops arrived, the masses brought taro, watermelon and big fish alive and kicking.Several soldiers in Ye Ting's teaching brigade got diarrhea because they ate too much taro and watermelon.Some can't get out of bed.But the team will start again soon, which makes the captain very anxious.He said: There is no other way, just carry it away!However, most of the soldiers in the teaching brigade came from young students, and they were unable to walk with guns on their backs, and they couldn't move a few steps when carrying the patients on their shoulders.

There was a platoon leader who was very quick-witted and said: Go to Master Ye and ask the logistics department for some horses to carry the sick ones away.Everyone can think of this method, but who dares to open their mouths to Ye Ting?After pushing and pushing, this difficult task fell to Li Yimin, the instructor and branch secretary of the third team.He had no choice but to bite the bullet and report the situation of the patient to Ye Ting.Ye Ting was really angry when he heard this: "What are you doing as a party representative?! You don't know how to take care of the soldiers' health, and each cadre carries a sick case!" Li Yimin stood aside in embarrassment, listening to Ye Ting's criticism.It happened that Chief of Staff Xu Guangying came. Seeing Ye Ting criticizing loudly, he asked Ye Ting about the situation and suggested to Ye Ting: "There are still a few horses in the logistics department. I think I can give them a few horses." A few minutes had passed, and when the chief of staff spoke, he nodded.Upon hearing this, Li Yimin turned around happily and left. "Come back!" Ye Ting stopped him and said, "From today on, your company is not allowed to eat taro or watermelon anywhere. If you find a sick person in the future, your company cadres will be punished. Do you hear me?"

Li Yimin fully agreed, and hurried to the logistics department, pulling five or six horses back to the company.Everyone was jumping with joy, and they all praised the instructor for his ability.Li Yimin taught everyone Ye Ting's vigor in criticizing him, and everyone still couldn't help laughing, saying "It's love if you beat him, no matter how hard you criticize him, it's worth it".Li Yimin couldn't laugh or cry, so he used Ye Ting's words to scare everyone: "You are still happy, the teacher said, from now on, our company will not be allowed to eat taro and watermelon all the way!" No one was "scared".Several people were lovingly combing the horse's mane, patting the horse's buttocks, and said with a smile: "It's worth it if you don't eat it!" After two days of rest in Fuzhou, the team set off again.

Yun Daiying put his broken umbrella on his back and stood beside the queue like a soldier.When Zhang Guotao saw the "broken umbrella", he was annoyed: "Daiying, your umbrella can't stop the rain, what are you doing with your burden!" The soldier gave Yun Daiying a raincoat, but he refused to take it: "The raincoat is too heavy to wear on the body." When it’s hot, my umbrella can’t keep out the rain, but it can keep out the sun, which is much better than a raincoat.” He has been carrying a broken umbrella.The soldiers all like this "bald member". He has no airs, writes well, and is eloquent. Although his voice is always a little hoarse, the jokes that come out of his mouth can make people laugh sweeter than eating watermelon .As soon as he came over, the team came alive.The soldier stopped him and refused to let him go, forcing him to tell jokes.He in turn asked the soldiers to sing to him: "I'll tell you jokes when I've heard enough of my songs."

Yun Daiying's jokes sometimes made Zhou Enlai laugh so hard.Yun Daiying died because of the betrayal of the traitor Gu Shunzhang. Zhou Enlai later lamented him and said that this was the loss of an excellent agitator for our party. Around August 15, Chen Yi and Xiao Jin arrived in Yihuang.The big troops are resting here to make a meal, and they are going to leave after eating. The city of Yihuang County is very small, and it got its name because the two water systems of Yishui and Huangshui flow through the vicinity of the city wall.The color of the earth here is yellow, and the water flowing in the river is also yellow, "This is what is called yellow." Yun Daiying chanted in the tone of Mr. Bagu very funny.But the scenery outside Yihuang City is very beautiful. There is a very beautiful Phoenix Mountain, and there is a Phoenix Temple on Phoenix Mountain.But no one is in the mood to go up the mountain to play.

As soon as the rebel army arrived, the streets were filled with "soldiers".Walking through a section of slabstone street, Chen Yi met with members of the staff group, and soon found Zhou Enlai. When Chen Yi talked about the process of searching for the green forest team, Zhou Enlai also smiled, and said casually: "Forget it, you should go with the big team." "I must have a job." Chen Yi threw away his cigarette butt, and solemnly asked Zhou Enlai. Zhou Enlai thought for a while: "I discussed with Bo Cheng, and I want to send you to the 73rd Regiment of the 25th Division. This is the predecessor of the Ye Ting Independent Regiment. It has a strong combat effectiveness. You should be the regiment instructor." "Okay!" Chen Yi was full of joy, stood up and was about to leave. Zhou Enlai was a little embarrassed: "The job assigned to you is too small, don't think it is small." Chen Yi laughed loudly: "What a small thing. If you ask me to be an instructor, I will do it. As long as I have weapons, I will do it!" "As long as I get armed, I will do it." This sentence expresses the aspirations of many enlightened Communists at that time.They have been suppressed for too long, they have had enough of being unarmed, and they are experiencing the true meaning of revolution from the soles of their feet and the barrel of their guns.Although this is a heroic army, they don't pay much attention to Chen Yi who has just arrived.They treated him like an ordinary political officer who came out of a military academy, saying that he was "selling dog skin and plaster". Su Yu, who fought side by side with Chen Yi for many years later, has a document as evidence: "Comrade Chen Yi once said when recalling this period of history: 'I had no status in the army at that time. It collapsed in early October. Everyone called me a dog skin plaster. In the past in Hanri, it was said that political workers had five skins: leather boots, belts, leather bags, leather whips, and leather gloves. The staff said this: In Hankou and Nanchang, it is the five-skin doctrine. Now he comes to sell dog skin plasters and doesn’t listen to him. After the failure, when he arrived in Dayu (now Dayu), those cadres with real power will leave They all left. Everyone saw that I hadn’t left yet, and thought that I was a good person, so I started to have a say, and people listened to my speech.’ In retrospect, I know and admire Comrade Chen Yi, and it is from the letter It started with Feng and Dayu." The rebels stayed in Yihuang for only one night.On the evening of the arrival, Zhou Enlai called Zhu Qihua and asked him to distribute the "Propaganda Outline of the Agrarian Revolution" in the name of the General Political Department.Zhu Qihua was very embarrassed.In fact, since the August 1st Uprising, committee members have been discussing this outline, even on the road.Because no resolution has been formed, it has not been made public.In Jiujiang, there were already different opinions on the political platform of the Agrarian Revolution. Li Lisan and Yun Daiying advocated that the purpose of the riot should be to put forward the political platform of land confiscation of big landlords, because the main significance of the Nanchang riot was to continue the struggle for land confiscation and carry out the agrarian revolution. Deng Zhongxia and Tan Pingshan opposed the proposal to confiscate the land of the big landlords, saying that they were afraid that it would cause a split in the opposition forces, and the debate was fierce.Because the number of the two parties is the same, there is no way to decide, so we have to report to the central government for approval. After Zhou En came to Jiujiang the next day, he conveyed the opinions of the central government, saying that the main slogan should be the agrarian revolution. During the discussion on the retreat road, the agricultural and industrial committee members pointed out that it was inappropriate to confiscate the land of large landlords with more than 200 mu in the "Regulations on the Liberation of Peasants", or thought that the limit of 200 mu was still too low, and advocated the confiscation of 300 to 500 mu The above land; or advocate the implementation of the land policy that was shelved after the Wuhan decision: "50 mu of fertile land, 100 mu of barren land"; there are even those who do not propose at all. Yun Daiying insisted: "Our August 1st Revolution is to realize the land revolution, so we have decided on the land policy, and we will start to implement it along the way. As long as it can be implemented, it is good to confiscate large landlords with more than 200 mu." After the basic plan was agreed upon, Zhou Enlai and others discussed it with Guangdong farmers in the army along the way. One farmer was very happy and said: "If the big landlords with more than 200 to 300 mu are confiscated, the tillers will still have no land, because in Guangdong 200 There are very few big landlords with more than 1,000 acres, except for some congregations." These words struck Zhou Enlai heavily. Chen Qihua was still in a dilemma: "Confiscate the land of the landlord with more than 200 mu. If he has 300 mu, he only said that he has 190 mu. What should we do?" Zhou Enlai reiterated the meaning of propagating the land revolution, and considered: "Can we just write about confiscating land without adding restrictions on the number of acres?" Chen Qihua reluctantly wrote it and mimeographed it.Because the troops are on the road in a hurry, I haven't had time to post it yet. In Yihuang, the rebel army changed the time of marching and camping: starting at 12 midnight every day, and camping before noon the next day.This change can avoid the scorching sun and reduce the suffering of marching. In the early morning of August 15th, the rebel army who marched at night for the first time was on the road again.Coupled with the continuous lightness of equipment and discipline, the troops progressed much more smoothly.Two days later, they arrived in Guangchang.Here, the Revolutionary Committee held a meeting of cadres above the company level, chaired by He Long, and Yun Daiying, Guo Moruo, Peng Zemin, etc. made speeches. He Long scolded the reactionary party for slandering the uprising army, explaining that the Nanchang uprising and going south to Guangdong were all for the revolution. As soon as the "bald orator" Yun Daiying appeared on the stage, admiring laughter broke out in the venue. When he spoke excitedly, he often forgot that the temples of his glasses were thin strings, which slipped under the bridge of his nose several times: "Commander He said that the enemy called us rebellious, so we want to rebel against Wang Jingwei and Tang Shengzhi. Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, and Feng Yuxiang betrayed Sun Yat-sen , betrayed the Three People's Principles, but they shouted to support Sun Yat-sen, and the slogan of supporting the Three People's Principles was higher than anyone else! What Three People's Principles did they support? It was nationalism that surrendered to imperialism, civil rights that massacred workers and peasants, and starved the livelihood of the common people. Chiang Kai-shek is one people, Wang Jingwei is one people, Feng Yuxiang is one people, it is precisely their three-ism" Also in Guangchang, unfortunately, Zhou Enlai contracted malaria and fell ill.Don't look at the "Chairman Tan" and the "Senior Committee Member" in this team. They have both white hair and long beards.People are afraid to hear the slight cracking of the pillars.It was a feeling of suspense.