When we think of the Long March of the Red Army in the last century, most of what comes to our minds is the hardship of climbing snow-capped mountains and crossing meadows. In 2016, a couple bought a horse and prepared to retake the Long March. After more than a year, they finally completed the path taken by the Red Army.
According to their meeting, on this long road, most of them are country roads, which are very difficult to walk. It was very difficult for us ordinary people to complete this road in the era of peace, not to mention the Red Army at that time, they also had the encirclement of the enemy army, the pursuit of soldiers in the rear, and the bombing of aircraft. They not only have to face harsh conditions, but also endure the pain of hunger. The hardships of the Red Army's Long March make it impossible for us to appreciate.
If we want to talk about why the Red Army marched, we have to mention the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, as well as Li De and Bogu. Under their erroneous command, the main force of the Red Army was forced to make a strategic shift and began the arduous long march of twenty-five thousand miles. After the end of the Long March, as the only "foreign adviser" Li De who completed the Long March, how about him?
Li De, formerly known as Otto Braun, was born in 1900 and is a German. During World War I, Li De joined the German Communist Party. In 1932, Li De, a graduate of the Military Academy, worked for the Comintern. Since then, he has begun the process of working in China.
Li De, who had just arrived in Shanghai, was carrying out the work of "sending money to save people", but because the military advisers stationed in China had not come to China for a long time, Li De had to take up this position and began to know the military revolution in China.
After the failure of the Red Army's fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, Li De began the Long March with the Red Army. At the beginning of the Long March, Li De was still a member of the military command, but his command ability once again showed the wrong side without understanding the actual situation of the Red Army. Since then, Li De has lost the power of military command.
In 1935, after the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, Li De taught at the Yan'an Red Army University, leaving China in 1939 and returning to the Soviet Union. During Li De's work in China, he had two wives, the first wife was xiao Yuehua. Xiao Yuehua was a member of the Communist Party, and when Li De first came to the Soviet Union, in order to take care of Li De's life, the superior organization asked Xiao Yuehua to marry Li De and take care of Li De's life.
But the union of the two of them had no emotional basis, and at the end of the Long March, the feelings of the two people finally came to an end. In the process of the Long March, Xiao Yuehua was pregnant with a child, but because of the hardships of the Long March, the child could not be saved. After the founding of new China, Xiao Yuehua worked in the Highway Bureau in Hunan and died in 1983 at the age of 73.
Li De's second wife was Li Lilian, and Li De and she met at a dance party. At the dance, Li Lilian talked to Li De in fluent English, and Li De was also attracted to the beautiful girl, and they eventually came together. It was only shortly after their marriage that Reed returned to the Soviet Union. Originally, Li De wanted to take Li Lilian with him, but under the pressure of the Soviet government, li Lilian was left in China.
After the founding of new China, Li Lilian engaged in work related to women and children, and in 1965, Li Lilian died of illness at the age of 51.