The Long March is a great initiative of mankind, but also an important journey in the history of the Red Army, most of the founding generals of New China participated in the Long March, but there are exceptions, Chen Yi among the marshals did not have the Long March, not that he did not want to go, but there was no way to go.
Near the end of the Long March, Chen Yi was hit by a bullet in the right crotch, and the severe injuries made him unable to withstand the high-intensity march, so he was left to lead the guerrilla war in the south with Xiang Ying, at that time Chen Yi did not expect that such a day would last for three years, let alone that five of them made him almost die!
First, drilling reeds escaped the disaster
After the Long March of the main force of the Red Army, Chen Yi and Xiang Ying led their troops to break through from the Central Soviet District to the Youshan area of Xinfeng County, and established the Red Base Area on the border of Gansu and Guangdong as the center.
In order to ensure that Chen and Xiang could be captured, three blockade lines were set up at each level, and many patrol points were set up by water, land, and rural areas.
At that time, the situation was quite severe, and the Red Army could only rely on drilling into the deep forest to fight guerrillas, and suffered heavy losses. Chen Yi, who was not yet healed, carried a tree stick, dragged his injured leg, and marched every day to find a new place under the escort of guards.
One day Chen Yi and others just happened to meet the nationalist army in the process of moving, the incident happened suddenly, there were many people on both sides of the gun, Chen Yi was inconvenient to walk after all, and hid with the guards in the reeds of the ditch on the side of the road.
Because the nationalist army had a numerical superiority, the Red Army quickly retreated in order to preserve its strength, and the company commander of the nationalist army let people search for the ditch, and no one dared to go, the platoon leader pushed the squad leader, the squad leader pushed the soldiers, and each of them was afraid of death, fortunately.
Finally, the company commander forcibly ordered the platoon leader to search, the ditch was more than two inches deep, the reeds were very dense, it was difficult for people to drill, Chen Yi and the guards were scratched when they came in, so the platoon leader hastily turned over a few times and went back to report.
After that, the company commander also led people to search nearby for most of the day, until it was dark before they gathered and left, but Chen Yi did not dare to take the lead quickly, for fear of the other party's deliberate false retreat, and waited until the second half of the night to drill out of the reeds and quickly moved to a small hillside on the opposite side.
At dawn the next day, the company commander may have gone back to be scolded, and then led people to search near the reeds for an hour or two, only to find a shoe left by Chen Yi, and deliberately shouted out words such as "I saw you" to try to cheat it out, but no one was deceived.
This time, Chen Yi was able to escape the disaster, or thanks to the mutual blame of the soldiers of the Nationalist Army, greed and fear of death.
2. Traitors who lead the enemy to danger of being trapped
Gong Chu, chief of staff of the Central Military Region, led his troops to Shonan in February 1935 to develop a guerrilla zone, but after Gong Chu arrived, he first sneaked back to his hometown on May 2, and then defected to the Kuomintang.
Appointed by the Kuomintang as the commander of the guerrillas against the Communists, on October 13, he led the Kuomintang Cantonese army disguised as a Red Army guerrilla, and first fought with the Yu Han Conspiracy Department of the Guangdong Army for a while, using this posture to find the real Red Army guerrillas.
After meeting with the old chief, He Changlin soon found that something was wrong, this "Red Army" was dressed very new, and it was not speaking a local dialect, Gong Chu saw that the matter was defeated and immediately came hard, He Changlin was not a hard bone, and soon defected.
Gong Chu most wanted to trap Xiang Ying and Chen Yi, so he wrote a letter to the effect that the guerrilla industry in the Shonan region was now developing well, and hoped that Xiang and Chen would come and guide the work. In order to increase credibility, He Changlin also signed it.
Xiang Ying was very happy after seeing the letter, and really wanted to go over, but Chen Yi felt very wrong after reading it, and he said to Xiang Ying: Gong Chu's eyes are higher than the top, he feels that he is senior, no one can look up to you except the chairman, and he is not polite to you and me, how can he suddenly shorten his identity and want to strengthen leadership? Or wait.
This and so on were very correct, but Gong Chu was not willing to wait, so he first found the Beishan guerrillas to attack.
He Minxue trusted Gong Chu very much, and took nearly a hundred people to the meeting, but unexpectedly, he entered the ambush circle of the Kuomintang, and a fierce gun battle broke out between the two sides, more than 60 guerrillas in the north were killed, and more than 30 people were arrested. He Minxue is he Zizhen's older brother, that is, the chairman's brother-in-law.
After the victory of Beishan, Gong Chu still decided to target the central sub-bureau, and on October 20, Gong Chu led his troops to Xiang Ying and Chen Yi's garrison, met the reconnaissance wu Shaohua on the road, and threatened him to lead the way. Because He Changlin was also familiar with this area, Wu Shaohua agreed, but immediately sounded a warning after approaching the camp, so that Xiang Ying and Chen Yi were prepared.
At that time, Gong Chu did not have many people, and when he saw this situation, he temporarily withdrew, and the next day he took a battalion up the mountain, but the Red Army had already shifted, and Chen Yi and others hid in the nearby mountains for three days before escaping from danger.
Third, Meiling was trapped for more than twenty days, composing three heroic chapters
In 1936, after Chiang Kai-shek resolved the "Two Guangdong Incident," he began to encircle and suppress the Red Army guerrilla zone. This time, the commander of the Division, Dai Sixia, was responsible for rounding up the Red Army, and the commander of the division, Dai Sixia, was a fierce character, vigorously engaged in the construction of fortifications at mountain passes, intersections, and ferries, and patrolled every day. Also like the Qin Dynasty, ten households in the nearby area were set as one A, one of which was a total, and ten families sat together. The people of the mountains were all rushed to the town, and those who had to leave the city every day were limited to rations.
In this way, the Red Army's supplies were basically cut off, and Chen Yi was in a desperate situation, he was trapped in a cave deep in the dense forest of Meiling for more than 20 days, fortunately, a nearby woman named Zhang Qianmei risked her life every night to deliver some food for him.
Unfortunately, one day when Zhang Qianmei came down from the mountain, she met the Kuomintang who searched the mountain, and in order not to be discovered, she rolled on the ground and fell to the bottom of the valley several inches high, and one leg was seriously injured, and she could not go again for a few days.
Chen Yi was hungry and thirsty in the cave, and could only quench his thirst by relying on the pitiful few drops of mountain spring in the crevice of the rock, so hungry that he could not stand it and was afraid of being discovered, and he heard footsteps outside several times. At that time, he thought that he was going to die, so he wrote three chapters of Meiling.
This goes to Quantai to recruit the old department, and the flag is 100,000 yan luo! This sentence I personally think is the best and most heroic sentence written in all the poems of Mr. Chen, which makes me somewhat believe that the article is natural and the clever hand is occasionally obtained.
Later, one day, the movement on the mountain was much smaller, Chen Yi was strange when Zhang Qianmei came to deliver food again, and also brought a newspaper, Chen Yi ate while reading, it turned out that it was not the enemy army's kindness to let go, but the Xi'an incident. As a concubine, the Forty-sixth Division was transferred away.
Fourth, the internal line defection fake joint
In April 1937, Chen Hai, who was doing military movement work within the enemy army, defected to the enemy and wrote a letter falsely claiming that the central authorities had come to contact him.
Because he had not been in contact with the central government for a long time, Chen Yi was very happy at that time, so he decided to personally rush to the Dayu City Joint, he took Huang Zhanlong, secretary of the Meishan District Committee of the Communist Party of China, to dayu County, they made an appointment to go to the Chengnan Hotel Joint, Chen Yi temporarily decided to go to Chen Hai's home first to find out the truth.
When the two of them came to the door of Chen Hai's house, Chen Hong's wife, who was looking down to wash her clothes, heard that someone was looking for them, and without looking up, she said, "I went to the regimental headquarters." ”
Chen Yi and Huang Zhanlong both heard "regimental headquarters" as "sugar shops," which were the secret contact points of the CCP at that time, so the two of them went straight to the sugar shops, and when they arrived, they found that there were a few Kuomintang soldiers standing there, so they went to a tea house that was also a secret contact point to drink tea.
The old man who worked in the sugar shop found out their whereabouts, quietly approached Chen Yi, and whispered, "Chen Hai and Huang Yaguang (the owner of the sugar shop) have all defected, so let's go." Then Lao Zeng took the two out of town from the path.
Chen Yi had just walked to the foot of Meishan mountain and found a group of withdrawn Kuomintang soldiers, which Chen Haijiu could not wait for, and when he understood that there had been a change, he took the Kuomintang to round up, and Xiang Ying and the others on the mountain were fortunate to be warned by the guards and also hid.
Chen Yi waited for safety to go up to meet the crowd and hurriedly moved again.
Fifth, he was almost shot as a traitor
For the great cause of national reunification and resistance against Japan, the Communist Party accepted the reorganization of the Kuomintang troops, the main force of the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and the guerrilla forces in the south were later reorganized into the New Fourth Army.
However, the New Fourth Army was to some extent more difficult to organize than the Eighth Route Army, because it was originally a guerrilla attack on its own, and it was difficult to unify, and some radical guerrillas thought that this was a compromise and betrayal of the central authorities, and they sacrificed so many comrades but finally accepted the reorganization, they could not figure it out, so they did some extreme things.
Some of the people Chen Yi sent out to persuade were killed by the guerrillas, such as Guan Ying, the secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, who went to let his old subordinate Yang Wenhan accept the adaptation, but Yang Wenhan thought that Guan Ying was a traitor and killed him.
The situation of the Xianggan border guerrillas was the most stubborn, this was the earliest Soviet area, so their strength was still relatively strong, and they killed Cao Shuliang, the leader of the Shonan guerrilla detachment who had come to persuade them. Chen Yi was anxious when he saw this situation, so he decided to go on his own, and after arriving at the Jiulongshan guerrilla zone on the border of Xianggan, he told Duan Huanjingchen, chief of staff of the guerrilla army, about the stakes.
Duan Huanjing was moved by him, but thinking of the tragic history of the Red Army and the fact that the Kuomintang had deliberately tricked the guerrillas into going down the mountain before, he still thought that Chen Yi was a traitor, and he could not make up his mind to first tie Chen Yi up, and then the news was conveyed to Tan Yubao, the secretary of the provincial party committee.
Tan Yubao arrived the next afternoon, Tan had heard Chen Yi's speech in Jinggangshan, so he knew this chief, but he was also a dead brain, thinking that Chen Yi was a traitor, using Chen Yi's speech at the beginning not to speculate to satirize, and always wanted Chen Yi to confess.
Chen Yi began to explain to him well, asking him to go to Ji'an, Nanchang, and Yan'an to find out the united front, but Tan Yubao still said that he would cut off Chen Yi's head tonight. Chen Yi finally scolded Tan Yubao because his words did not have party spirit, and such an attitude made Tan Yubao not start.
After that, he was locked up for three days, and on the third night, he called a guerrilla speech to let Chen Yi confess, and Chen Yi still had the same attitude.
Seeing Chen Yi like this, Tan Yubao spoke to him alone again, and said bluntly: There is no one else here, you tell the story of the rebellion, I promise not to embarrass you, still maintain your status, you are a rare talent.
Chen Yi was made to cry and laugh at his "deception".
In fact, tan Yubao's caution is also for a reason, they have not been in contact with the main central force for a long time, and in the early months, there were also people who called themselves traffic officers on the mountain, when Tan Yubao was still very warmly received, but as soon as the man left the Kuomintang troops, he came, causing great losses to the guerrillas, so they were very careful and hated this kind of person.
In the next few days, Tan Yubao would chat with Chen Yi and want Chen Yi to confess, but there was no result, and later when he saw that the Kuomintang troops under the mountain had retreated, Tan Yubao doubted whether he had made a mistake, sent a traffic officer to Ji'an to understand the situation, only to find that Chen Yi was a real party representative, and immediately loosened his grip and apologized.
Although this is a misunderstanding, it is also a very dangerous misunderstanding.
I really did not expect that even a senior party cadre like Chen Yi had encountered so many crises, which shows how difficult it was for the CPC to be at the beginning, and it can better reflect the patriotic enthusiasm of our party and completely hang its head on the waist to make a revolution, just to give China a beautiful future!