As we all know, the Long March of the Red Army was an important strategic shift in the history of the Red Army. This was an important test for the Red Army and the Chinese Revolution. The successful completion of the Long March by the Red Army is of great strategic significance, and it also means the success of the strategic transfer. It should be known that the smooth conclusion of the Red Army's Long March can be said to have saved the Red Army, saved the Party, and reserved the seeds for the Chinese revolution, and since then, the military history of the Red Army has also opened a new chapter. And the Chinese revolution thus entered the next stage.
Although the Red Army's Long March can be called a great victory, we must also clearly know that the Red Army's Long March was a forced strategic shift, and the "culprit" who caused all this was Li De, who was "famous and famous." Decades ago, Li De served as the supreme military commander of the Red Army, and he did not take into account the actual situation of the Chinese revolution and insisted on directing the Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression of the Red Army, which led to the failure of the Red Army's anti-encirclement and suppression and forced the Red Army to suffer huge losses. It is reported that at that time, Li De's position in the Chinese Red Army was extremely high, but after the victory of the Red Army's Long March, his position gradually wavered, and he was finally forced to return to the Soviet Union. The question, then, is how his two wives in China ended up after Li De returned to the Soviet Union. In fact, all this must start with Li De, who once occupied the supreme military command of the Red Army.
I. The connection between Li De and the Red Army
Li De, a German born in Munich, Germany, whose original name was Otto Braun, joined the Communist Party while attending school in Germany and began his own revolutionary career. Because of the German environment, Li De was captured by the German government shortly after joining the party. After two years in prison, Reed fled to the Soviet Union and successfully entered the Frunze Military Academy, the highest military academy in the Soviet Union.
Although Reed was exiled to the Soviet Union, it did not affect Reed's development in the Soviet Union. On the contrary, Li De's time in the Soviet Union also became his excellent resume. At that time, Li De studied in the Soviet Union for three years, where he met Bogu, the leader of the Comintern, who also became a direct helper for him to enter the military command of the Red Army. It was precisely because of Bogu that Li De became famous and directly became the highest military commander of the Chinese Red Army.
Later, Bogu, as the leader of the Comintern, was responsible for directing the Chinese revolution, while Li De was on a latent mission in Shanghai, and for a fortuitous reason, Bogu and Li De were reunited. At this moment, Bogu saw Li De as if he were seeing his relatives, and he tried his best to keep Li De and single-handedly put Li De in the position of military command of the Red Army, thus Bogu LiDe became the "pawn" of the Red Army of our party.
However, after Bogu co-opted Li De, the Red Army did not develop toward a better place, and Bogu vigorously engaged in the "three-man regiment" and overthrew many outstanding commanders and fighters of our party. Although Bogu and others took the Red Army into their own hands through this operation, these two did not have the ability to lead the Red Army to a better position. Immediately, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized a million Kuomintang troops to launch an attack on the base areas of the Central Red Army, thus launching the fifth encirclement and suppression campaign. In the fifth encirclement and suppression campaign of the Kuomintang, Li Deyi changed the way the Red Army had played before and confronted the elite Kuomintang troops, which directly led to the Red Army losing soldiers and being forced to withdraw from the hard-won base areas. At the same time, the Red Army suffered heavy losses and losses were immeasurable.
However, after the failure of the Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression Campaign of the Red Army, the Party Central Committee held a meeting in Zunyi, known in history as the Zunyi Conference. The meeting mainly corrected the left-leaning mistakes made in the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, and then determined the red army's next strategic transfer plan. Subsequently, the Red Army entered the Long March, which opened a new chapter. Speaking of this, everyone must be very strange, after the Zunyi meeting, where did Li De go? Did he get the punishment he deserved? And what happened to Li De's two wives in China at that time? In fact, after the Zunyi Conference, Li De also deeply understood his mistakes and spent a long period of hard years with the Red Army. It was not until 1939 that Li De returned to the Soviet Union. However, Li De's two Chinese wives could only stay in China and did not follow Li De back.
Xiao Yuehua: A wrong marriage As a Guangdong girl, Xiao Yuehua was born in an extremely poor family. In order to live, her parents sent her to the landlord's house as a child bride. Although her living conditions have improved, Xiao Yuehua's life is not satisfactory, and she is always bullied by other people in the landlord's family. Forced to be helpless, the sixteen-year-old Xiao Yuehua joined the Chinese Communist Youth League and went to Ruijin to participate in the revolution. During the Ruijin Revolution, Xiao Yuehua met Li De, a German from the Soviet Union. At that time, Li De had a very high position in the ranks of the Chinese Red Army, and it was common for people to have a spouse. Therefore, at that time, many people introduced objects to Li De, and Xiao Yuehua was one of them.
Under the mediation and persuasion of many people, Xiao Yuehua and Li De gradually came into contact and entered the palace of marriage. I thought that my friend Li Dehui from the Soviet Union would be a romantic man, but this was not the case after marriage. Li De's violent temper and acute son made Xiao Yuehua suffer a lot, and Xiao Yuehua was also full of opinions on this, and their feelings were also on the verge of ending. Due to the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Red Army was forced to march, and Li De, who lost military command, from time to time made a big attack on Xiao Yuehua. In the end, Xiao Yuehua divorced Li De with her children, and from then on, she had nothing to do with Li De.
It is reported that after the founding of New China, Xiao Yuehua was transferred to Hunan to work and served as the director of the office of the provincial transportation department. When Xiao Yuehua retired in 1960, she was awarded the rank of colonel. It can be said that Xiao Yuehua was not affected by Li De. However, Li Lilian, as Li De's second wife, does not seem to be as lucky as Xiao Yuehua.
Li Lilian: The unfortunate marriage ended in a hurry
Compared with Xiao Yuehua, Li Lilian was more romantic, and she was a star-like figure in yan'an at that time. Not only can she sing, but she can also dance, especially her face that has fallen into the country, which makes many people linger. Even Li De, who came from the Soviet Union, could clearly feel Li Lilian's charm and was deeply affected by it.
Ever since Li De met Li Lilian at the first dance, he couldn't forget the charming woman. After that, Li De launched a powerful offensive against Li Lilian and frantically pursued Li Lilian. Although Li De had lost command of the Red Army, Li De's status was still very high. Gradually, Li Lilian was also touched by Li De's infatuation and chose to live with Li De. Finally, in 1938, Li De and Li Lilian chose to marry and began a happy post-marriage period. LiLian Lilian is fluent in several languages and can communicate with Li De. Compared with the marriage with Xiao Yuehua, Li De is more satisfied with the second marriage. However, Li De's second marriage was not happy, and it could only end in a hurry with Li De's departure.
In 1939, Li De, who was enjoying a good life after marriage, received a telegram from Moscow, and the Soviet side specially summoned Li De back to Moscow. Because Li De's future was uncertain, Li Lilian did not follow, and li De returned to the Soviet Union alone. However, what is unexpected is that Li De and Li Lilian are separated this time, but they are never separated, and from then on, they will never have any chance to see each other. Later, Li Lilian continued to pursue her own artistic career, and at the same time, she also had her own new marriage and family. Unfortunately, in 1965, Li Lilian died of illness. However, that year, Li Lilian was only 51 years old.
epilogue:
Overall, Li De's two wives ended well and were not affected by Li De's problems. They continue to do their own business and move in a better direction. Xiao Yuehua, in particular, never had an impact on his political career because of Li De.
In fact, whatever merits and demerits Li De has done to the Chinese revolution and the Red Army have become a thing of the past. Although we use these things as an after-dinner talk, the facts cannot be changed. Therefore, we must treat historical events correctly and not mix personal preferences and prejudices.