In the winter of 1934, after the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the main red army of the central government was forced to carry out a strategic shift in order to get rid of the encirclement and pursuit of the Kuomintang army, withdraw from the central revolutionary base area, and carry out the Long March, Chen Yi and his party led more than 30,000 Red Army to resist more than 100,000 Kuomintang troops in the Central Soviet area.
However, the number of Kuomintang troops was too large, and the number of the two armies was very different, and they were surrounded in the western part of Fujian, and they did not stop every day. In the spring of the following year, he planned to break through the nine roads, but failed, and the other six roads suffered heavy casualties. Chen Shuai led the 74th Regiment of the Red Army to transfer, and after transferring to the Shangping Mountains, he then divided the 74th Regiment into 4 teams, he led a team, Xiang Ying led a team, He Chang led a team, and Zhou Jianping led a team to continue to complete the task.
But then the situation was not good, just when he and Xiang Ying led the team down the mountain, they accidentally encountered the enemy, the two armies entangled, the 300-man team was separated, and Xiang Ying was no longer there.
He then took the trouble to reorganize the team, but found that there were only about 200 people left.
Fortunately, the next morning Xiang Ying rushed back with his tired body.
After chen shuai was devastated, he planned to find a breakthrough in the weak strength of the Kuomintang army and the good mass base of our army. In order not to be discovered by the enemy and plan, their team can only fight guerrilla warfare with the enemy every day, and circle the enemy in the wild, like a cat and cat. On several occasions on the way, the enemy encountered each other, and the detachment of less than 300 men was once again scattered, this time with heavy casualties, leaving only more than a hundred people.
Unexpectedly, the two teams led by He Chang and Zhou Jianping were also attacked by the enemy, and He Chang also died heroically. This time, Chen Shuai did not hesitate to choose to change the route of the breakthrough, and he decided to go to the second district of Fujian and Gansu.
Although the Kuomintang troops on the fujian-gansu border are somewhat stronger than the troops in western Fujian, and they are not as economically developed as western Fujian, the terrain on the fujian-gansu border is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the geographical area is wide, and the most important thing is that Chen Shuai has worked here before and has met many people, and he believes that this is the last opportunity for our army to break through, and if it is not well seized, it will once again fall into the enemy's encirclement.
Xiang Ying also agreed with his idea.
When all was said and done, Chen Shuai reorganized more than a hundred people again and assigned them to break through in all directions of the Oil Mountain on the edge of Gansu and Guangdong.
Although the team became smaller and the action became more sharp, it still could not break through the enemy's encirclement.
Emperor Tian did not pay his heart, and just when General Chen Yi was racking his brains, he happened to run into Zeng Jicai, the former secretary of the Daiying County PARTY Committee who was also looking for Chen Shuai and his party.
Since Zeng Ji is a local, he is very familiar with this place. In this way, under his guidance, Chen Shuai and others successfully walked through the Taojiang River controlled by the enemy army. After the successful breakthrough, they still got in touch with the party organization of Xinfeng Niuneck District with the help of Zeng Jicai. At the end of the spring, Chen Shuai and his party, who had worked so hard, finally arrived at Youshan and contacted the Gansu-Guangdong Border Special Committee and the Military Sub-district.
Soon after, Cai Huiwen, commander of the Gannan Military Region, also led the team to arrive.
After so many times of wandering, Chen Shuai and others finally settled here with peace of mind! It is really not easy, salute to our brave and resolute revolutionary predecessors!
Chen Shuai also remembered Zeng Jicai's help, without him, the team would not have reached its destination so smoothly!