History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
In October 1934, after the main Red Army began the Long March, it left parts of the Red Army and guerrillas in the eight provinces north and south of the Yangtze River. Under the leadership of General Manager Chen, these Red Army officers and men continued to struggle against the Kuomintang reactionaries. During the three-year guerrilla war, the Red Army troops who remained behind adhered to their faith and wrote a history of blood and tears.
When the title was awarded in 1955, 109 of the soldiers who participated in the three years of guerrilla warfare in the south were awarded the rank of founding general. One of them was a marshal, a major general, three admirals, eight lieutenant generals, ninety-six major generals. The founding marshal was Mr. Chen, who was also the commander-in-chief of the Red Army in the eight southern provinces, and he commanded the guerrilla war in the south for three years.
After the withdrawal of the main Red Army, the Kuomintang launched a frenzied attack on the Soviet zone, and the Red Army soldiers could only enter the deep mountains and old forests to fight guerrilla warfare with the enemy. In September 1936, Chiang Kai-shek dispatched the enemy's 46th Division to launch an "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Guerrilla Zone on the Gansu-Guangdong Border where Chen Laozong was located.
The enemy laid out pillboxes layer by layer, narrowed the encirclement, searched and hunted everywhere, and the operational environment in the guerrilla areas became worse and worse. At that time, it was already late autumn, and Mr. Chen was in the Meiling Mountains, waiting for instructions from his superiors. Soon, liu Hai, a correspondent, sent a note asking the comrade to go to Dayu County.
Ignoring his own danger, Mr. Chen went to Dayu County and learned that Liu Hai had defected. The enemy immediately launched an attack on Meiling, and General Manager Chen and the special commissar personnel took advantage of the night to quickly move and negotiate with the enemy in the Meiling Mountains. In order to seek merit, the enemy searched very carefully, and Mr. Chen and others hid in the grass, and could only rely on wild fruits and wild vegetables to fill their hunger.
In the struggle of more than twenty days, Mr. Chen's stomach disease recurred, and the old wounds were faintly painful, but he always maintained an optimistic revolutionary spirit. In this difficult environment, Mr. Chen wrote the poem "Three Chapters of Meiling", which many of us have read. Soon after, the "Xi'an Incident" broke out, Zhang Xueliang "forced Chiang Kai-shek to resist Japan", and the Kuomintang army quickly assembled to the north and no longer searched for the Red Army guerrillas on Meiling.
At first, General Manager Chen thought that this was the enemy's trick and wanted to lure our army into appearing. A few days later, the enemy still did not move, and General Manager Chen sent scouts to reconnoiter and learned the news of the "Xi'an Incident." After the "Xi'an Incident," Chiang Kai-shek recognized the main force of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, but did not recognize the Red Army guerrillas in the eight southern provinces.
The reason is that the guerrillas in the eight southern provinces, close to the heart of Chiang Kai-shek's rule, are a huge threat in Chiang Kai-shek's view. In the following year, Chiang Kai-shek constantly dispatched Kuomintang troops to "clear and suppress" the Red Army guerrillas in the eight southern provinces. However, Mr. Chen led the guerrillas and waged a resolute struggle against the enemy, facing dangers many times.
After the outbreak of the "July 7 Incident" in 1937, Chiang Kai-shek gradually stopped and "cleared and suppressed" the Red Army in the south. After that, in the face of the arrogant Japanese Kou and the formation of the anti-Japanese national united front, Chiang Kai-shek gradually recognized the Red Army guerrillas in the eight southern provinces. In September of the same year, General Manager Chen went down the mountain to negotiate with the Kuomintang authorities and agreed to reorganize the Red Army in the eight southern provinces into the newly organized Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army and go to the anti-Japanese front to fight.
At this time, the Red Army guerrillas of the eight southern provinces were scattered in the mountains of the eight provinces, and because of the blockade of the enemy, there was less contact with each other. Coupled with the appearance of a small number of traitors, the Red Army guerrillas were very wary of outsiders, and for the comrades who came to contact them, they carefully examined the orders before choosing whether the orders were credible.
Therefore, persuading the Red Army guerrillas everywhere to accept the order for reorganization became a big problem. Mr. Chen personally went to the Xianggan border to preside over the reorganization work, and the person in charge of the Xianggan border guerrilla group was Tan Yubao at this time. Tan Yubao was called the "Red Hero" by the people of Kowloon Mountain. It was also because he led the troops and fought fiercely against the landlords near Kowloon Mountain, helping the people to fight for their rights and interests.
After Mr. Chen came to Jiulong Mountain, he showed tan Yubao his intentions and asked him to lead the troops down the mountain to accept the reorganization. When Tan Yubao heard that he wanted to cooperate with Jiang Jun, he immediately thought that Elder Chen was always a lobbyist for Jiang Jun, and tied up Elder Chen and his entourage. Mr. Chen painstakingly explained the policy, and Tan Yubao just didn't believe it, thinking that he was a "traitor."
Tan Yubao took the dry cigarette stick in his hand and knocked on The head of The Elder Chen, who was angry, said angrily, "You have the ability to cut off my head." The Kowloon Mountain guerrillas led by Tan Yubao were so vigilant because they had been traitors before. The Kowloon Hill guerrillas had produced two traitors, and both were once of high status, causing great damage to the Kowloon Hill guerrilla zone.
The first traitor was Chen Hongshi, the former secretary of Xianggan, who, after the withdrawal of the main Red Army, faced the enemy's attack and was not firm in his revolutionary faith. As soon as the enemy came to "clear and suppress," he thought of fleeing, and even shot and drove away the personnel of the organs in order to escape. Later, Chen Hongshi secretly buried the guns and ammunition of the troops, went down the mountain to surrender to the enemy, provided intelligence to the enemy, and caused the guerrillas to suffer huge losses.
The second traitor was Zeng Kaifu, the former deputy commander of the Kowloon Mountain guerrillas, who was Tan Yubao's most trusted subordinate, and the two were as close as brothers. However, under the temptation of the enemy to use the beauty plan, Zeng Kaifu lost his fighting spirit, was lured by the female agent, and went down the mountain to surrender to the enemy.
After these two traitors descended the mountain, they provided the enemy with the organization and military defense of the Kowloon Mountain Red Army, causing huge losses to the Kowloon Mountain Red Army. Since then, Tan Yubao has maintained three doubts about any order and any outsider. As soon as Mr. Chen came, he persuaded him to cooperate with Jiang Jun, and was immediately considered a "traitor" by Tan Yubao.
He had People plug Mr. Chen's mouth and hang him up, and he hung him like this for four days and three nights. Although Tan Yubao had some doubts about Mr. Chen, he still sent someone to Ji'an to investigate. After the investigators arrived in Ji'an, they found that the New Fourth Army had really been established, and they went to the Communications Office of the New Fourth Army to learn about it, and only then did they know about the anti-Japanese national united front.
When the investigators returned to report, Tan Yubao realized that he had wrongly blamed the revolutionary comrades, and quickly asked people to put Mr. Chen down and loosen mr. Chen's ties. Tan Yubao apologized to Mr. Chen and said, "Comrade, I hung you for four days and three nights, and you also hanged me for four days and three nights to atone for your sins." ”
Mr. Chen smiled and said, "Everyone has suffered, you are all good comrades, your vigilance is very high, very good, there is no mistake." That evening, the Red Army guerrillas on the Xianggan border held a meeting, and Tan Yubao made a review and announced the order to reorganize into the New Fourth Army. In this way, after experiencing a personal danger, Mr. Chen led this Red Army team of more than 380 people into the second battalion of the second regiment of the first detachment of the New Fourth Army and went to the anti-Japanese front.