Chapter Four: The Two-Legged Cavalry of the Central Soviet Zone
Fifth, consecutive battles have been won consecutively
While raising funds, expanding the army, consolidating and expanding the Soviet zone for the Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek was also busy dispatching troops and preparing for the second "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army. In February 1931, he appointed He Yingqin, minister of military affairs, as the director of the "Nanchang Xingying Battalion, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Air Force" to organize the second large-scale "encirclement and suppression" of the Central Soviet Region and the Red Army.
On 4 February, He Yingqin took up the post of director of the Nanchang camp and determined that this "encirclement and suppression" was "based on the main thrust of gathering troops, strictly encircling, and slowing down the advance." First of all, he gathered troops around the Soviet zone, imposed an economic blockade, cut off all material inputs into the Soviet zone, and then adopted the principle of "fighting steadily and steadily, and taking every step as a battalion," advancing in separate ways and making mutual arrangements, with a view to eliminating the Red Army and destroying the Soviet zone.
In late March, Chiang Kai-shek's 26th and 5th Route Army, as well as four regiments of the 52nd and 5th Divisions, from Shandong, Hunan, Jiangsu, and other places arrived in Jiangxi Province, and together with the 6th and 19th Route Army units that remained around the Central Soviet Region after the failure of the first "encirclement and suppression" campaign, a total of 18 divisions, 3 brigades, and 3 air units, amounting to 200,000 people, gathered around the Central Soviet Region and were ready to attack.
In late March 1931, the Red Army cooperated with local armed forces to monitor the Kuomintang army at the northern edge of the Soviet Zone with one force, and the main force moved south from Yongfeng, Le'an, Yihuang, Nanfeng and other areas south of the northern edge of the Soviet Zone to Guangchang, Ningdu, Shicheng and other places in the center of the Central Soviet Zone to carry out preparations and combat training against "encirclement and suppression". Luo Binghui led the Red 12th Army to take Ruijin Dabaidi as the command center and arranged it to raise funds in the Huangshi, Ruijin Dabaidi, Nontian, and Jiubao areas of Ningdu.
Just when the Kuomintang army was under heavy pressure and the organizations at all levels in the Central Soviet Region and the Red Army were nervously making preparations for opposing "encirclement and suppression," a cpc central delegation composed of Ren Bishi, Wang Jiaxiang, and Gu Zuolin sent by the CPC Central Committee after the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth CPC Central Committee arrived in Qingtang, Ningdu County, Su District, in early April. With regard to the policy of opposing "encirclement and suppression," differences arose between the CENTRAL Bureau of the CPC Soviet Union and the central delegation. In order to unify understanding, the Central Bureau of the Soviet Union held several enlarged meetings in mid-April to repeatedly discuss the anti-"encirclement and suppression" policy. Luo Binghui and Tan Zhenlin attended the meeting.
During the discussion, different opinions emerged: one opinion held that in the case of a tight encirclement by 200,000 Kuomintang troops, the strategy of "dividing up troops and retreating from the enemy" should be adopted, and the Red Army should be dispersed outside the Central Soviet Region to fight guerrilla warfare; "one can make the enemy's encirclement fall short, and the other can divert the target and retreat from the enemy." He also held that "only by dividing up troops and retreating from the enemy can we consolidate the existing Soviet area, can we expand the red area, can we expand the Red Army, can we solve the problem of supplies, and can we train cadres." Another view was that the Red Army withdrew from the Central Soviet Zone and moved to Yun, Gui, and Sichuan to establish a new Soviet Zone.
In view of these two opinions on moving to the outer line of the Soviet zone, Mao Zedong held that it is necessary to continue to adopt the policy of enticing the enemy to go deep and lead the enemy troops to the Soviet zone to break through each one. He pointed out: Although the enemy has many military forces, there are also many weaknesses, such as the "encirclement and suppression" of the army, which is pregnant with ghosts, full of contradictions, inconsistent command, inconsistent officers and men, soldiers who are unwilling to fight the Red Army, who have no mass conditions, who are unfamiliar with the terrain, and whose supplies and transportation are very difficult. Although the military strength of the Soviet zone was inferior, the officers and men were united from top to bottom; the masses in the Soviet zone had gained the benefits of the agrarian revolution and suffered the ravages of the enemy, and their mood of struggle was high, and they enthusiastically supported the Red Army; the Red Army could occupy superior terrain and attack the enemy. By making full use of these advantages, the Red Army was able to defeat the strong with the weak and the many with less, and smash the "encirclement and suppression."
After intense discussions, the meeting finally affirmed Mao Zedong's policy of enticing the enemy to go deeper and decided to "resolutely carry out arduous struggle and protracted combat in the Soviet zone to eliminate the enemy." Then, in deciding which enemy line to fight first, there was another debate. Some advocated first attacking Zhu Shaoliang's 6th Route Army, some advocating hitting Cai Tingkai's 19th Route Army first, and Mao Zedong advocating hitting Wang Jinyu's 5th Route Army first.
Mao Zedong's reason was that none of the enemy troops on all sides were of Chiang Kai-shek's lineage, but the 19th, 26th, and 6th route armies were the strongest or strongest, and there was no absolute certainty of absolute victory in fighting any of the first routes; the 43rd, 47th, and 54th divisions of the 5th Route Army arrived from the north, were not accustomed to climbing mountains, were weak and timid, and had low morale; the combat effectiveness of the 28th Division under the command of the route army was not strong, and the first one of them had a greater certainty of annihilating them. Moreover, the 5th Route Army was located in the Taihe, Ji'an, Jishui, and Yongfeng areas, and after attacking the unit, the Red Army could sweep eastward, expand the Soviet zone in the Jianning, Lichuan, and Taining areas at the junction of Fujian and Gansu, and collect funds to facilitate the breaking of the enemy's next "encirclement and suppression." If you fight from east to west, it is limited by the Ganjiang River and there is no room for development; if you finish fighting and then turn east, it will take time to work hard.
Luo Binghui was deeply impressed by Mao Zedong's far-sighted strategic vision of strategically fighting a weak enemy and having to pay attention to the entire campaign plan in the initial battle, and benefited greatly. He listened carefully to Mao Zedong's analysis and firmly expressed his support. Zhu Dehe and most of the military commanders and political commissars present at the meeting supported Mao Zedong's ideas. Finally, the meeting decided to first seek to annihilate the 5th Route Army of Wang Jinyu, a weak enemy dispatched by Tomita.
While discussing and studying and determining the operational policy, in order to fully prepare for the fight against "encirclement and suppression," Luo Binghui, together with Tan Zhenlin, studied and deployed the work of operational command, military training, political mobilization, and supply and supply, and further strengthened the ideological mobilization and combat readiness of the troops. On the one hand, the whole army has set up vigilance, paid attention to changes in the enemy's situation, and tightly sealed news; on the other hand, it has stepped up pre-war training, carried forward military democracy, and specifically studied combat arrangements; at the same time, it has done a good job in the mass work of uniting the army and the people against the enemy.
On April 1, the Kuomintang army began to attack in four ways. However, under the obstruction and harassment of the military and civilians in the Soviet area, the Kuomintang troops of all walks of life moved slowly, and by the 23rd, they began to advance to the lines of Jiangbeidong, Longgangtou, Futian, Shuinan, Yanfang, Zhaobei, Jieshang, Hengshi, and Guangchang.
After the anti-"encirclement and suppression" policy and the direction of counter-offensive operations were determined, Zhu De and Mao Zedong ordered all armies and divisions to concentrate from the Ruijin, Ningdu, and Shicheng areas to the Longgang, Shanggu, Shikeng, and Huilong areas in the central Part of the Soviet Zone on April 19, waiting to annihilate the enemy. Before April 23, the various units of the Front army arrived in the designated areas one after another. Soon, the main force of the Front moved 20 kilometers west to the area around Donggu to assemble covertly. By this time, the 47th and 28th Divisions of Wang Jinyu's army had entered the area of Tomita Pixia (only 20 kilometers away from Donggu) in the west, Guo Huazong's 43rd Division in the north was advancing from Jishui to Shuinan and Baisha (about 35 kilometers north of Donggu), and the 19th Route Army was still in Xingguo County to the south.
Although the Red Army gathered in one place and forced the enemy to live for more than 20 days, although it approached the combat target Wang Jinyu's department, there were enemy troops on three sides, which simply became a "bull's horn", the risk existed at all times, and once the news was leaked, the consequences were unimaginable. What is even more worrying is that despite Chiang Kai-shek's repeated urging, the enemy of Tomita refused to leave his position for some reason (after the war, it was learned that it was because the heavy rain washed down the roads and bridges, the enemy army could not move, and there was a wave of thought in the troops seeking a quick fight).
In accordance with the instructions of the leaders of the front army, Luo Binghui and Tan Zhenlin promptly carried out in-depth ideological mobilization in response to the impatience that appeared in the troops, repeatedly explained the principle that we must let the enemy come to me and not go to the enemy, enhanced the understanding of the vast number of commanders and fighters about forcing the enemy to live and wait for the opportunity to annihilate the enemy, strengthened the idea that concealment can be hidden and can be fought well, and resolutely followed the predetermined intention of counter-offensive operations and patiently waited for the enemy of Tomita to leave the position in a combat readiness posture.
At the same time, in light of the topographical characteristics of the combat area and the fact that the 5th Route Army was a northern unit and was not good at climbing mountains, Luo Binghui organized and led the troops to conduct combat training in the deep valley jungle with mountain attack and shooting techniques as the key content, and further enhanced the troops' ability to assemble, advance, attack, and pursue in the mountains. In order to achieve the suddenness of the battle, he asked the troops to keep the news tightly sealed, leaving the Nationalist army ignorant of the situation of the Red Army.
The army gathered in one place, and the supply of materials was inevitably a little tight. Although the Soviet government and the masses actively supported, they could only ensure that the troops had food to eat. In order to solve the difficulty of lack of vegetables, Luo Binghui sent troops up the mountain to find the bamboo tips that had not yet grown into bamboo shoots, went down to the field to touch the snails, and went to the river to catch fish and eat. Sometimes, at night, you can see the battlefield scenery of "full of lights and snails".
On May 10, the Kuomintang army continued to advance to the central area of the Central Soviet Region. Among them, the 28th Division on the right wing of the 5th Route Army and a brigade of the 47th Division advanced from the Tomita area to the east on the 13th, and on the 15th, they advanced to the line of Qiaotou River and Xuelongkeng; the 43rd Division of the Middle Road advanced from Shuinan to Dayuankeng and Tantou; and the 54th Division of the left wing entered Baifu and Shaxi from Yanfang.
The main force of the Red Army held a heavy standby in the Donggu Mountains for more than 20 days, and finally waited for the perfect opportunity for the right wing of the 5th Route Army to break away from its Tomita position. On May 14, Zhu De and Mao Zedong issued the "Order to Attack Futian and Destroy Wang Jinyu and Gongbingfan Divisions", which gave the Red 12th Army the task of containing the enemy Guo Huazong's 43rd Division and serving as the general reserve of the Front Army.
On the same day, the headquarters of the Red Army also learned that Wang Jinyu and Gongbingfan divisions began to move east the next morning, Wang Jinyu's 47th Division advanced along Guanyin Cliff and Jiuzhiling to the east, and the 28th Division of GongbingFan advanced eastward through Zhongdong. The headquarters immediately tensed up and prepared to adjust the operational deployment. Mao Zedong immediately summoned Luo Binghui, who was stationed near the headquarters, and told him that there was a change in the order, and that the Red 12th Army's original task of containing Guo Huazong's 43rd Division and the General Reserve was revoked, and asked him to cooperate with the Red 4th Army and face the enemy head-on.
The written contract orders of the Red Army were drafted at about 8 p.m. that night, and after mao Zedong personally revised them, in order to keep them secret, they were personally sent by senior cadres to the military and political commanders of the Red 4 Army, the Red 3 Army, and the Red 3 Army.
After the supplementary instructions of the next day were slightly modified, the specifics were: the Red 3rd Army (attached to the 35th Division) was the Left Route Army, which served as a roundabout encirclement task, on the 15th it entered Jiangtoushu to hide, tightly sealed the news, and on the 16th attacked Gupi and Futian; the Red 3rd Army was the Middle Route Army, advancing along the Donggutong Zhongdong Avenue to meet the Gongbing Domain; the Red 4th Army attached the 64th Division and the Red 12th Army as the Right Route Army, with the 4th Army as the 1st Echelon, and the Red 12th Army as the 2nd Echelon, occupying the Jiuzhi Ridge and Guanyin Cliff in two ways and facing the enemy head-on.
At dawn on the 15th, the red army departments were ordered to act as planned. 20 kilometers from Tomita to Donggu, there is a big mountain in the middle, there are only two major roads, one through the Nine Inch Ridge, one through the Guanyin Cliff, both of which are dangerous passes, and are in the middle of the enemy's advance. On the 16th, Luo Binghui and Tan Zhenlin led the Red 12th Army, together with the Red 3rd Army and the Red 4th Army, to surround the enemy 28th Division and a brigade of the 47th Division in the areas of Zhongdong, Jiuzhiling, and Guanyin cliffs. At about l0 a.m., the fighting began. This area is heavily mountainous and ravine, and the Red Army occupies all the geographical advantages. After fierce fighting, annihilate the enemy's large troops.
When the remnants of the enemy who rushed out of the encirclement took the road and fled to Shuinan, Luo Binghui and Tan Zhenlin had already led their troops to wait with a net, and at the sound of an order, they launched a fierce attack on the fleeing enemy. The Red 3rd Army and the Red 35th Army of the Left Route Army, which took on a detour task, captured Gupiwei, annihilated the 28th Division's military station, and entered and occupied Tomita that night.
The Red Army won the first battle, capturing more than 4,100 enemy soldiers and surrendering more than 5,000 guns, creating conditions for future battles. After being captured, Gong Bingfan, commander of the 28th Division of the Kuomintang Army, "falsely claimed to be the secretary of the army" and escaped after receiving a silver dollar for the travel expenses issued by the Red Guards. He later said guiltily in his memoirs: "A division of more than 10,000 people was annihilated at once." ”
After the Battle of Tomita, Luo Binghui led the main force of the Red 12th Army to immediately turn to dayuankeng and Tantou to attack, forcing the Nationalist 43rd Division to flee to Shuinan. At the same time, the main force of the Red Army also pursued from the Tomita area to the south of the water on May 17. The Kuomintang troops who fled to Shuinan, because the bridge erected over the Xiaolong River had been dismantled by the Red Guards, the river was too deep to be waded in vain, so they turned to white sand.
According to Zhang Zongxun, commander of the 36th Division of the Red 12th Army, Guo Huazong's 43rd Division retreated to Baisha in a hurry on the evening of the 18th, and the Red 36th Division, which had been facing it for two days, followed and pursued it overnight, and captured a lot. The division had 1 cooking squad delivering meals and captured 1 enemy mortar company. When describing the situation of the Kuomintang army, the soldier said: It is almost like when fighting the local tycoons, as soon as the Red Army entered the village, the enemy surrendered his gun without resisting.
At the same time, the Red 3rd and Red 4th Armies followed and pursued fiercely, and the Red 3rd Army also went straight into the vicinity of the Baisha River, intercepting the remnants of the 1st Brigade of the 47th Division and the 1st Division of the 43rd Division in Baisha on the 19th, and the enemy remnants fled to Yongfeng. At this time, the Red 12th Army captured Shaxi, the enemy 54th Division fled to Yongfeng, and the 19th Route Army withdrew from Chenggang to Xingguo and then to Ganzhou. In the Battle of Baisha, the Red Army captured more than 1,790 enemy soldiers and surrendered more than 4,000 guns ( straight ) , which can be described as painful. Chairman Mao said happily: "This horn has finally been drilled." ”
In the battles of Tomita and Baisha, the Red 12th Army (including the 64th Division) suffered 228 casualties, lost or damaged 70 weapons, consumed 43,302 rounds of ammunition, and captured a total of 994 enemy officers and men, surrendered 565 guns (guns) and 71,269 rounds of ammunition.
After winning the two battles, the Red Army continued to expand its achievements to the east according to the predetermined plan. On 21 May, the red army's forward troops advanced near Nakamura and made contact with the vanguard of the 81st Brigade of the 27th Division of the 26th Route Army, which was reinforced by the Southern Regiment to Shaxi. On the 22nd, the Red 4th Army and the Red 3rd Army launched an attack on the 81st Brigade and captured Nakamura. Most of the 81st Brigade was annihilated, and the remnants fled back to Le'an. That night, the Red Army pursued to the Southern Regiment, and the 25th Division hastily withdrew to Yihuang. In this battle, the Red 12th Army and the Red 3rd Army led by Luo Binghui were the general reserves.
At this time, the Central Bureau of the Soviet District remained in Longgang. In order to facilitate the command of the Red Army in combat and to lead the local work in the theater, after the Red Army arrived at the Southern Regiment, it formed the Provisional General Former Enemy Committee of the Red Army of the CPC, with Mao Zedong as secretary. Under the command of the General Front Committee, the Red Army marched day and night to the east.
At 20:00 on May 26, Luo Binghui attended the second meeting of the Provisional General Front Committee at Kuzhu (Bao Clan Ancestral Hall). Based on the fact that Mao Bingwen's 8th Division, Xu Kexiang's 24th Division, and Hu Zuyu's 5th Division had already concentrated on Guangchang City and might retreat to Nanfeng, the meeting decided to change the original plan for attacking Nanfeng, first capturing Guangchang City, then chasing after the fleeing enemy, forcing the enemy to abandon Nanfeng, so as to facilitate the Subsequent Raising of Funds by the Red Army. The specific arrangements were: the Red 3rd Army rushed to Nanfeng via Ganzhu to pursue the 8th and 24th Divisions of the Kuomintang Army that had withdrawn north from Guangchang; with the Red 12th Army as the right wing and the Red 4th Army as the left wing, attacked Guangchang City and sought to annihilate the headquarters of the 5th Division of the Kuomintang Army and its 4 regiments that had not yet withdrawn; the Red 3rd Army was the general reserve for the siege.
Mao Zedong also specifically instructed Luo Binghui: "After your 12th Army participated in the capture of Guangchang, we will continue to sweep east, and we have caught the fish tail, and if we do not get stuck, we will run away." Luo Binghui said that he was determined to complete the task.
That night, Luo Binghui led the Red 12th Army to march from Toubei and Xin'an to Guangchang in the rain and rushed to the offensive combat position south of Guangchang. At dawn on the 27th, the Red 12th Army and the Red 4th Army attacked from the north and south and launched a fierce attack on Guangchang City. The 5th Division of the Nationalist defenders resisted stubbornly with fortifications, and the red army that besieged the city, supported by artillery fire, followed by former servants. At about 21:00, the Red Army captured Guangchang City, annihilated the first part of the 5th Division, and the rest of the division fled to Nanfeng, and the division commander Hu Zuyu escaped after being wounded, and died in Nanchang shortly after. The Red Army won the fourth battle.
After the Red Army captured Guangchang, more than 7,000 men of Sun Lianzhong's Liu heding 56th Division hurriedly withdrew from Zhongsha south of the Anyuan flood on the Border of Fujian and Gansu and withdrew to Jianning overnight. At 10 o'clock on May 28, Luo Binghui attended the third meeting of the Provisional General Front Committee in Guangchang. The meeting held that since Mao Bingwen's division had already retreated to Nanfeng on the 26th, and Xu Kexiang's division and Hu Zuyu's division had begun to retreat to Nanfeng on the morning of the 27th, the Red Army had been unable to pursue it, and in terms of strategy and situation, it was necessary to pursue Liu Heding's division and "first he captured Jianning City so that he could raise funds later." Therefore, the Red 3 Corps "should immediately cross the river and advance towards Jianning", and the Red 12 Army followed up with the headquarters behind the Red 3 Army.
At 20:00 on the 30th, Luo Binghui attended the fourth meeting of the Provisional General Front Committee in Lixin. The meeting decided to take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold and capture the city of Jianning in Fujian. Its deployment was: the Red 3rd Army as the siege force, the Red 12th Army (missing the 34th Division) as the siege reserve, the 34th Division to keep the heart and its surrounding areas to raise funds, maintain rear communications, and collect gunpowder needed for siege. On the night of the same day, Luo Binghui led his subordinates and the 36th Division and the Red 3rd Army to secretly march eastward, and arrived at the outskirts of Jianning at dawn on the 31st.
The Red 3rd Army unexpectedly launched a surprise attack on Jianning, quickly capturing the high ground outside the city and immediately attacking the city; Luo Binghui led the red 12th Army troops to attack the city from the northwest direction of Jianning. The Red Army did not have a military map at that time, and it was fighting in a hilly area, observing the horizon not far away, all by listening to the sound of guns and artillery. At about 18:00 on the 31st, Jianning was finally captured.
In this battle, more than 3 regiments of Liu Heding Division were completely annihilated, more than 3,000 enemy were captured, and more than 2,500 guns (tung) were surrendered. Liu Heding himself, guarded by two horses, slipped into a bucket of charms stolen from a peasant's house, floated on the water and escaped. Moreover, the "greatest spoil of war in this battle is to obtain a large number of Western medicines" and "can be used by the all-front army for half a year." This is a treasure for the Red Army, which has been increasingly wounded and sick after two large-scale anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns. The red 12th army directly subordinate unit and the 36th division, only 28 officers and men were killed, 4 weapons were damaged, 6255 rounds of ammunition were consumed, while 320 enemy officers and men were captured, 653 guns (guns) were surrendered, and 55613 rounds of ammunition were lost.
From 16 May to 31, within half a month, the Red Army fought from the banks of the Ganjiang River all the way to the mountainous areas of northwest Fujian, swept through more than 700 miles, fought five consecutive victorious battles, annihilated more than 30,000 enemy personnel, of whom 11,000 were captured, and more than 20,000 weapons of various kinds were captured. Mao Zedong filled in the phrase "Fisherman's Pride and Anti-Second Great 'Encirclement and Suppression'":
The clouds at the head of Baiyun Mountain want to stand, the cry under Baiyun Mountain is urgent, and the dead wood decay plants are working hard together. Gunfired, the flying general threw himself into the air.
On the fifteenth day of the seven-hundred-mile drive, the Ganshui River was vast and the Mountains were blue, sweeping through a thousand armies like a sweep. Some people cry, for the camp step by step!
It is a vivid portrayal of this anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign.
Luo Binghui once recalled: "During the second 'encirclement and suppression' in 1931, I fought with many Kuomintang generals such as Shangguan Yunxiang, Sun Lianzhong, Liu Heding, Fu Zuoyi, and so on. Their front was about 800 miles long, stretching from Ji'an in Jiangxi to Jianning in Fujian. We moved behind enemy lines and broke through all these fronts in a two-week rush. The Red Army advanced on the vast front line, sweeping the entire combat area step by step. I captured about ten thousand rifles, as well as radios, automatic rifles, machine guns, ammunition, and many fine uniforms. ”
After capturing Jianning, Luo Binghui took to the streets to inspect. The streets and alleys of Jianning City are the same as usual, and there is no trace of war artillery fire. Shops are open as usual, people are bustling around, occasionally see a few soldiers wearing gray red army uniforms or red guards wearing black cloth uniforms with red armbands, the townspeople still carry freshly beaten millet and fresh vegetables into the city to sell, Jianning is still a quiet and peaceful mountain city. At this time, Luo Binghui met Wang Tingjun, Xu Jian, Dou Rui and others, all of whom had been captured from the Kuomintang army and had become Red Army military doctors. Luo Binghui invited them to take a walk.
After turning around for a while, Luo Binghui and they came to a small restaurant in the East Gate and went up to the 2nd floor together. 4 Shortlisted for a square table to sit down, Luo Binghui asked for 4 dishes, 1 pot of wine. Although decades have passed, Wang Tingjun still remembers that one of them is plum roast pork and the other is scrambled eggs with fresh bamboo shoots.
After the wine and dishes came up, Wang Tingjun and the 3 people were very restrained and always did not move their chopsticks. While letting the three people eat vegetables and drink, Luo Binghui talked about his experience before and after the Ji'an uprising, comparing the differences between the Kuomintang army and the Red Army.
Luo Binghui was fat, hot upstairs, and beads of sweat were bubbling up his head after drinking wine. He wiped the sweat and continued: "In the agrarian revolution in Jiangxi, the peasants have been given land, they have been given land, and they have sent their sons to become the Red Army, and the Red Army is now stronger." Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek's first and second armed attacks on the Red Army were defeated. The red army soldiers are not a problem, Chiang Kai-shek's weapons are good, but they have all been seized by the Red Army, the Red Army soldiers call Chiang Kai-shek the captain of the transport brigade, the weapons are sophisticated, but people need to use them, so the small warlord Liu Heding's soldiers have many guns, but the result is still given to the Red Army, is this not obvious. Comrades are now medical officers of the Red Army, and it is glorious and promising to go back to work hard and to serve the Red Army. My wife is a nurse at the Red 12 Military Medical Department, and you may all know each other. ”
Wang Tingjun and the three of them all nodded their heads and said, "I know, the people in the Military Medical Department said that it was Commander Luo's wife: fat and short, right?" "That's right! That's right! Luo Binghui replied with a smile.
After eating, the 4 people went downstairs together, Luo Binghui went to the counter to pay the bill, and walked out of the restaurant together to The East Street. Luo Binghui had something to do to return to the military headquarters, so he said goodbye to Wang Tingjun and the three of them. Decades later, Wang Tingjun recalled: "Looking at the great figure of the military commander with a bulging chest and a bulging belly, I was deeply impressed! Sure enough, it was the wind of the general. ”
At 2 l.m. on June 2, 2931, the day after the end of the second anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, Luo Binghui attended the sixth meeting of the Provisional General Front Committee. The meeting decided to take advantage of the new development of factional contradictions within the Kuomintang and the favorable opportunity for the Kuomintang troops around the Central Soviet Region to temporarily be on the defensive and turn to offensive operations.
In early June, according to the deployment, the Red 12th Army carried out work in Jianning and its surrounding areas, mobilized the masses, organized guerrillas and Red Guards, expanded the Red Army, consolidated and expanded the Soviet zone, and created conditions for smashing the new "encirclement and suppression".
Soon after the strategy was launched, the Provisional General Front Committee found that Chiang Kai-shek had shown signs of compromise with the northern warlords and took a defensive position against the warlords of Liangguang, and instead mobilized his troops to prepare to launch a third "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Red Army, so he changed his original plan and no longer pressed into the area north of Nanfeng, which was a greater threat to Chiang Kai-shek and was not easy to establish a Soviet zone, nor did he attack the border areas of Guangdong and Gansu controlled by the warlord forces of the two Guangdong warlords, but instead developed in western Fujian and northwestern Fujian. This is because the first is Chiang Kai-shek's sphere of influence, which will not threaten the interests of the warlords of the two guangdong provinces and is conducive to the warlords of the two guangdong provinces continuing to oppose Chiang Kai-shek; second, the terrain is remote and the threat of the Kuomintang army is relatively small; third, there are mountains and rivers, which are most suitable for creating new battlefields; fourth, there are funds to raise; fifth, there is a large population, which can expand the Red Army.
At 3:00 on June 21, the first enlarged meeting of the Provisional General Front Committee decided that the Red 12th Army would sail to Ninghua and Qingliu. At 20:00 on June 22, the Provisional General Front Committee held its ninth meeting in Kangdu, further endowed the Red 12th Army in Ninghua, Qingliu, Changting and other places, raised 50,000 yuan, and sent people to Changting to sew quilts, buy Western medicines, and perform the task of opening up transportation in western Fujian.
On June 23, Tan Zhenlin and Luo Binghui dispersed their troops to the five counties of Ninghua, Changting, Qingliu, Shicheng, and Liancheng to do the work of mobilizing the masses, and made fundraising a central task. At this time, the Kuomintang army had stepped up preparations to launch another attack on the Soviet zone, and Mao Zedong decided to shorten the dispersed working time of the various armies from 3 months to 1 month.
Under these circumstances, from June 28 to July 1, Mao Zedong successively wrote to the leaders of the Cpc Fujian-Gansu Border Work Committee and the Red 12 Army, pointing out that the red 12 Army work area was inappropriate, and that it should concentrate on the three counties of Ninghua, Changting, and Shicheng to do mass work and fundraising, divide the time limit into fields, and solve the four problems of local armed forces, local provisional political power, and provisional party departments.
He held that the Red 12th Army "does not easily do the work of the three counties in two months," and after the second anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, the Red 12th Army has only done the work of Shicheng County and Ningnan County. If Qingliu and Liancheng were to be added, it would inevitably be "ineffective", "so the Kangdu resolution must be changed", and the 34th Division, which was transferred to Qingliu to raise funds, returned to Ninghua, the 35th Division was in Shicheng, the 36th Division was in Changting, and the direct subordinate units of the army were between the three counties. He also pointed out that doing a good job of mass work is beneficial to fundraising and will never hinder fundraising.
Tan Zhenlin, Luo Binghui, and Tan Zheng "should not be together, each person should be full-time to guide one place, and at the same time must concurrently inspect one or two places", which is conducive to guiding the responsible persons of various divisions, regiments, and companies to carry out their work. Mao Zedong stressed: To truly do a good job in the work of the three counties, "we must use great force for a long time."
Tan Zhenlin received a letter of instruction in a Christ Church in ninghua county, where the military headquarters was stationed. He immediately conveyed this message to Luo Binghui and Tan Zheng, and in strict accordance with the arrangements set forth in Mao Zedong's letter, he concentrated his troops in the three counties of Ninghua, Shicheng, and Changting, shifting the focus of his work to fighting local tycoons, dividing up the land, and helping to establish local armed forces, local provisional governments, and local party organizations.
On July 10, because the Kuomintang army had begun to launch the third "encirclement and suppression" of the Central Soviet Region, the Offensive Operation of the Red Army had to be stopped. During the one-month offensive operation, the Red 12th Army uprooted the earthen fence in the work area, established some township Soviet power, and helped form guard regiments or guard battalions, expanding the political influence of the Communist Party and the Red Army, and raising a large number of supplies and funds. At the same time, the Red 12th Army took advantage of the gap in offensive operations to sum up the combat experience of the second anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, conducted military training, further improved the command ability of commanders and the combat technology level of the troops, and held a meeting to commend advanced model figures with divisions or regiments as units. The strength of the Red 12th Army was also enriched by mobilizing the masses to join the army and replenish the prisoners.
-- This book is a national project compiled by the writing group of the Academy of Military Sciences in accordance with the deployment of the Central Military Commission. Published by the Academy of Military Sciences Press.