"Eight bulls break into the world, and the backhand is determined." This is a proverb circulated in that year, which alludes to a period of history in which Zhu De and Mao Zedong met at Jinggangshan.
"Eight Bulls" is written together as "Zhu"; the reverse character for "hand" is "Mao".
There are many wonderful uses of Chinese characters, and here they are used by good people to make a proverb. Of course, this is one of the superstitions. There are many chinese historical records and social proverbs, and each proverb contains a twisted and fascinating story.
After Chiang Kai-shek betrayed the revolution in 1927, the Communists fought indomitably.
The August 1st Nanchang Uprising, led by comrades Zhou Enlai, He Long, Ye Ting, Zhu De, Liu Bocheng, and other comrades, was the beginning of the communist party's independent leadership of the revolutionary war.
The "Nanchang Uprising" led by Zhou Enlai and others
At that time, there were more than 30,000 people who participated in the Nanchang Uprising, and the strength was relatively strong, because there was no set of correct routes and methods, and later they lost battles in Tangkeng, Sanheba and other places, and the troops were almost exhausted.
Zhu De and Chen Yi led some of the Nanchang uprising troops to the east and west, still in a passive situation.
At the end of October 1927, Zhu Dechen Yi received the news that Mao Zedong led the Autumn Harvest Uprising troops to Jinggangshan, which immediately added a lot of courage and confidence.
They were determined to go to Jinggangshan to find Comrade Mao Zedong. To this end, Zhu De sent a "special envoy", Mao Zeqin, the younger brother of Mao Zedong, who happened to be in Zhu De's army, to contact Jinggangshan.
Mao Zedong also kept an eye on the Nanchang uprising troops, hoping to find Zhu De and Chen Yi and invite them to Jinggangshan to jointly establish a rural revolutionary base area.
The "special envoy" he selected was He Changgong, which also showed the importance he attached to contacting Zhu De's troops. He Changgong once studied abroad, spoke French and Russian, saw the world, and had a flexible mind and was able to speak eloquently.
After several twists and turns, He Changgong finally found Zhu De's troops at the plough shop near Shaoguan.
When Zhu De learned that the person coming was a representative sent by Committee Member Mao, he tightly held He Changgong's hand and said excitedly: "Comrade Mao Zedong is worried about us in his heart, and we miss him very much." You've come just in time. After we learned from the newspapers that he had built a base in Jinggangshan, he wanted to go there. Not long ago, I sent Comrade Mao Zeqin to Jinggangshan to make contact. Please tell Comrade Mao Zedong that we will certainly go to him. ”
In order to strengthen the revolutionary forces, Zhu De and Chen Yi launched a huge Shonan rebellion in Hunan.
The situation soon took a sharp turn for the worse, with the Kuomintang warlords attacking the south, north, and west with the strength of 7 divisions, and the remnants of the Nanchang uprising and the peasant army in hunan counties were in danger.
Topography of Jinggang Mountain
In order to rescue Zhu De, Mao Zedong received the news and immediately divided his troops into two routes into Shonan.
Mao Zedong personally led a group of soldiers and horses to intercept and pursue the enemy, and sent Yuan Wencai to lead the second regiment to meet Zhu De's troops. Under the cover of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army led by Mao Zedong, the troops led by Zhu De and others arrived safely in ninggang city.
One day in late April 1928, another important day in the history of the Chinese revolution, a tall archway was erected in Jinggangshan, the base of the revolution, with a large slogan written all over the wall: "Welcome Commander Zhu!" Celebrate the victory of the Master! ”
On this day, Mao Zedong rushed back from the battlefield and wore a box gun on his body. As soon as he put down his luggage, he walked toward Zhu De's residence and joked to Ah Zhi next to him: "With the shell gun on your back, the division commander will see the commander." ”
Mao Zedong was one of the founders of the Communist Party of China and enjoyed a lofty position within the party. However, because he refused to carry out the mistake of "Left" leaning, took a unique path, established a revolutionary base area at Jinggangshan, and carried out a strategic change of great historical significance, as a result, the Central Committee dismissed him from his post as an alternate member of the Politburo and made him a division commander. So he made fun of himself.
When Zhu De heard that Mao Zedong had arrived, he hurriedly went out with Chen Yi and other comrades to greet him.
He Changgong, who followed Mao Zedong, told Mao Zedong: "Standing in front is Zhu De, and on the left is Comrade Chen Yi."
The Zhumao Red Army will be divided into Jinggangshan
Mao nodded, smiled and waved to them. As he approached, Comrade Zhu De ran a few steps ahead, and Mao Zedong also sped up his steps and held out his hand early. For a moment, two pairs of strong and powerful hands clasped tightly together.
Mao Zedong congratulated Zhu De and said: This time, the enemies of Hunan and Guangdong provinces have not been able to overthrow you completely! Jude said gratefully: We move quickly, and it is all up to your cover.
After talking about military information for a while, Mao Zedong enthusiastically proposed: On the occasion of the "May Fourth" anniversary, we will hold a lively party with the masses to celebrate the victory of the two fraternal units.
The two revolutionary divisions met at the foot of Jinggang Mountain, and the people in the base areas rushed to tell each other, and they all felt rejoicing and encouraging.
Every household cleaned the courtyard like a festival, cleaned up clothes, and wrote on the wall lime water such big slogans as "Down with the Kuomintang reactionaries," "Celebrating the Victory of the Two Revolutionary Forces," and "Long Live the Victory of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolution.", each word was written as big as a basket.
On May 4, the sun was shining, the red flags were lined up, and tens of thousands of soldiers carried large knives, darts, guns, red armbands on their arms, and red belts around their necks, gathered on a large lawn with great energy, and the crowd of joyful people gathered around the week.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, Comrades Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Chen Yi, and others ascended the rostrum made of door panels and bamboo poles, and the applause from the audience was thunderous.
When he Changgong, the emcee of the conference, announced that "the conference has begun, and the firecrackers were released," a string of firecrackers was lit at the same time, and hundreds of trumpeters lined up in front of the rostrum and sounded the military trumpets at the same time.
The trumpet was mighty and majestic, reverberating through the valley for a long time. Comrade Zhu De spoke at the meeting.
He said, "We're going to be a division, we're victorious!" The confluence of the two revolutionary armed forces under the leadership of our Party means a new starting point for the Chinese revolution. The comrades attending today's victory meeting must be very happy.
But the enemy was sad there. So, let the enemies be sad, we can't take care of their emotions, we will completely destroy them in the future!
With this victory meeting, our strength has expanded, and with Jinggangshan as our base area, we can constantly strike at the enemy and constantly develop the revolution. In the future, the whole of China will be ours, the whole world will be ours, and it will be proletarian. ”
Two great men
Mao's speeches still maintained his humorous and humorous style, causing the audience to erupt into laughter from time to time.
He said: "Although we are inferior to the enemy in numbers and equipment, we have Marxism-Leninism and the support of the masses, and we are not afraid of defeating the enemy."
The enemy does not have the ability of Sun Wukong, even if they have the ability of Sun Wukong, they can not escape the palm of the Buddha! We must focus on the enemy's weaknesses and then concentrate our forces on this part.
The ten fingers have the length and length, the lotus flowers have high and low out of the water, the enemy is also strong and weak, and the distribution of troops is difficult to ensure that there is no inconsiderate place. We must seize the enemy's weak point, fight hard, win the battle, and immediately disperse to hide behind the enemy to play "hide-and-seek". In this way we have the initiative and play with the enemy in the palm of our hands. ”
This meeting meeting was also the inaugural meeting of the Red Fourth Army. Mao Zedong and Zhu De merged their two teams into the "Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army", which had 3 divisions and 9 regiments.
The leading members of the army are: Zhu De, the commander of the army; Mao Zedong, the party representative; Chen Yi, director of the Political Department; and Wang Erzhuo, chief of staff. The nickname "Fourth Army" was used in order to bluff and make the enemy think that there was at least "First Army", "Second Army" and "Third Army".
Zhu De and Mao Zedong, one is soft on the outside and soft on the inside, and the other is soft on the inside. Zhu De looked like a mighty soldier, but in fact he was a generous and benevolent elder; Mao Zedong looked like a polite scholar, but he was actually a very powerful military expert.
Zhu De had very rich military experience, had a very good set of tactics, and often took the lead in the battle, and rushed straight forward with a "flower organ"; Mao Zedong had a very high understanding of war, was a military genius, and liked to smoke one cigarette after another to find the best strategic plan, and the more critical the situation, the greater his courage to fight a decisive battle.
Zhu De's partnership with Mao Zedong was a success. At that time, the outside world often mistook "Zhu Mao" for a person. The birth of the Zhumao Red Army shocked the Nanjing government.
Chiang Kai-shek immediately sent a telegram to the three provincial governments of Xiang, Guangdong, and Gansu, saying, "Ke Ri will suppress Zhu Mao." The three provinces received the order, and even if they dared to be sloppy, each of them sent soldiers and horses to the Revolutionary Base Area of Jinggangshan to carry out "meeting and suppression" of the Red Army.
The two concentrated on studying tactics
Mao Zedong formulated the strategy of taking a defensive position against the Xiang army and the Cantonese army and taking an offensive against the Gansu army, and in the offensive against the Gansu enemy, he adopted the tactic of abandoning the county seat, fighting and retreating, luring the enemy to divide the troops, and then killing the horse gun.
Zhu De was a military expert who understood this method of warfare, so he dispatched and stopped, and personally went to the front line to command the battle.
The "two sheep" of the Gansu enemy, namely Yang Ruxuan and Yang Chisheng, became the victims of the zhumao Red Army's initial test of strength, and once the battle of Longyuankou was over, the "two sheep" were devastated. There is a song that sings:
Zhu Mao will be the master of Jinggangshan, Lead the workers and peasants to victory in battle. It doesn't cost the Reds three points, Defeat the two sheep in Jiangxi.
The establishment of the Jinggangshan Hui division and the Red Fourth Army strengthened the revolutionary forces. Chiang Kai-shek's gathering of troops from the three provinces could not shake the foundation of the rural revolutionary base areas.
Mao Zedong and Zhu De joined hands, and they won the battle with a small test, and their prestige became bigger and bigger!