At the beginning of June, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to continue its northward march in order to achieve the goal of meeting the 1st and 4th Front armies of the Red Army. Tianquan and Zishi Pass were defended by Yang Sen's Xia Jiong Brigade, and the Red Third Army crossed the Tianquan River and captured Tianquan City under the guidance of the Red Ninth Army. The 1st Red Army captured Lushan. About three brigades of the Sichuan enemy Yang Sen and Liu Wenhui attacked Lushan and Shuanghechang, and Peng Dehuai and Yang Shangkun commanded the 11th and 12th Red Regiments to repel the enemy. The Central Revolutionary Military Commission mobilized the entire army and prepared enough dry rations for seven days to prepare for a rendezvous with the Red Fourth Front Army.
The General Political Department issued the "Directive on Strengthening Political Work After the Convergence of the First and Fourth Front Armies," pointing out that the meeting of the two armies is a great event in history, and that it is necessary to enhance the fighting mood of all commanders and fighters, promote the unity of the two armies after the convergence, learn from each other, exchange combat experience, and prepare grand celebrations and condolence activities. We conveyed the mobilization of the Central Military Commission and the instructions of the General Political Department to the troops in a timely manner, and the commanders and fighters were very excited. The 11th and 12th Red Regiments continued to block the enemy's cover for the northward advance of the main force.
On 11 June, the three brigades of Yang Sen and Liu Wenhui, with the assistance of Deng Xihou's two brigades, captured Lushan. The Red 11th Regiment and the Red 12th Regiment withdrew from the battle and advanced to Jiajin Mountain through Paulownia Hills. Paulownia Gang is a primeval forest area, with high trees and dense forests, and it is difficult for mules and horses to cross the road by cutting down trees to open the way. The mules and horses of the 3rd Red Regiment were basically lost here, and only the horses of Peng Dehuai, Yuan Guoping, and Liu Zhijian were brought over by the leaders of the regiment, and all the mules and horses of the 12th Red Regiment were lost; in addition to me and Commander Deng of the 11th Red Regiment, there was also a horse with machine guns that came with us.
Further ahead is the Jiajin Mountain. Jiajin Mountain is located in the northwest of Baoxing County, although the altitude is more than 4,000 meters, but from the bottom look up towering into the clouds, just as some comrades described, it is like a sharp long sword, straight into the sky. The entire mountain is covered in snow and ice, and when the sun shines, it shines brightly and dazzles. This was the first snowy mountain that the Red Army was going to climb.
It was already summer when they moved from Yunnan to southwest Sichuan, and the Red Army was wearing only single clothes, and it was not estimated that they would have to cross the snow-capped mountains, and it was too late to hastily replenish cotton clothes, so they had to bring some wine and chili peppers to keep out the cold. The climate at the foot of Jiajin Mountain and the summit of Jiajin Mountain is very different, the summit of the mountain is stormy every afternoon, heavy snow falls, the snow does not melt all year round, the weather is unusually cold, and the air is thin, it is difficult to breathe, and it is very difficult to climb up. Before crossing the snow-capped mountains, we mobilized the troops and asked the commanders and fighters to carry forward the spirit of class fraternity so that every comrade-in-arms could safely cross the snow-capped mountains. When crossing the snow-capped mountains, the comrades helped each other, you pulled me, I pulled him, and step by step finally triumphantly crossed the snow-capped mountains and descended to the town of Dawei in Maogong.
After entering Dawei, it is a Tibetan residential area. It is completely different from the Han area, with tall lama temples, two-story flat-topped stone slab buildings, and the dress, clothing, and living life are very different from those of the Han people. After the vanguard of the Red First Army and the Red Fourth Front Army met here, they left for Mao Gong after only a day's rest.
There are three or four hundred households and dozens of large and small shops, and it is a relatively lively town in this area. The lecture hall of the lama temple in the town is very large, which is large enough to accommodate a group. The Red Third Army lived here in several large lama temples. Liu Bocheng, chief of staff of the Central Military Commission, lived in our regiment, and at night he lay on a door panel to tell us jokes, and everyone listened to it and laughed until their stomachs hurt, although they were very tired, they did not feel sleepy at all.
The Ninth and 30th Armies of the Red Fourth Front Army lived in Maogong, and the troops of the First and Fourth Front Armies held social gatherings and basketball games for several days, and presented condolences to each other. Everyone learns from each other and encourages each other, which fully embodies unity and friendship. He Wei, commander of the Ninth Army, and Li Xiannian, political commissar of the 30th Army, invited cadres above the regimental level of the Red Third Army to dinner. They beat a few yaks and made more than a dozen beef dishes to entertain us. This is the first time I have met Comrade Li Xiannian. He Changgong, political commissar of the Ninth Army of the Red Army, also came to visit the Third Army of the Red Army, and we held a meeting to welcome him and invite him to speak. He Changgong used to be a veteran commander of the Red Third Army Corps and a propaganda agitator, and I listened to his speech in Yangxin a few years ago. His speech was very artistic and inspiring, and everyone loved to listen to it.
The first problem that the Red Army encountered in the Tibetan areas was that they were not accustomed to eating.
The main crops in this area are barley and corn, and drinking snow water from the snow-capped mountains causes gastrointestinal upset for many people. Second, due to the persecution of ethnic minorities by the warlords and bureaucrats in the past, the Tibetan people hated the Han people, and the language barrier, the Tibetan masses did not understand the Red Army, and they all fled before we arrived, and we could not buy food even if we had money. In addition, the terrain is treacherous, with perennial snow on the mountains, primeval forests below, crisscrossed by rivers, and no roads. The weather was harsh and unpredictable, and in June the sky was clear and cloudy, and rain, snow and hail fell everywhere. This made it extremely difficult for the Red Army to operate in this area.
After the 1st and 4th Front Armies of the Red Army joined forces, there were serious differences between Zhang Guotao and the Party Central Committee on strategic principles, with the Party Central Committee advocating that the direction of the Red Army's advance should be north and east, while Zhang Guotao advocated going south and west. During the Mao Gong recuperation period, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee held a meeting at Lianghekou, which Zhang Guotao also attended. The meeting discussed and decided that the strategic policy of the Red Army was to attack northward, destroy the enemy in large numbers during the movement, first seize southern Gansu, create the Sichuan-Shaanxi-Gansu base area, and then strive for victory in the northwestern provinces and even in the whole of China. At present, the main forces of the Red Army were first concentrated to destroy and strike at Hu Zongnan's troops, seize the area north of Songpan, and then advance to Gannan.
At the end of June, the Red Third Army continued to advance, climbing over the second big snow mountain - Mengbi Mountain, this time over the snow mountain has experience, everyone drank some chili water, wrapped the upper part of the body tightly with a blanket, and passed smoothly.
At the beginning of July, the Red Third Army passed through Zhuokeji and Shujing Temple, and crossed the third big snow mountain, Matang Liangzi, also known as Changban Mountain, and then arrived at Heishui Temple. At this time, Xu Xiangqian led his troops from the Lixian area along the north bank of the Heishui River to march towards Maoergai. The Military Commission ordered Peng Dehuai and Yang Shangkun to lead the Third Army Corps along the south bank of the Heishui River to Shijielou to meet the Fourth Army and the 31st Army, the main forces of the Red Fourth Front Army led by Xu Xiangqian, to cross the Heishui River. Commander Peng Dehuai led his troops forward, and the Red 11th Regiment served as a guard in the rear, maintaining the traffic from Luhua to Shijielou and raising food. Our regiment was deployed along the Heishui River, with platoons as units, almost more than 100 miles. The surface of the Heishui River is only thirty or forty meters wide, and it can hit stones to the opposite bank, but the waves are turbulent, and the water flow is very fast, like a thousand-foot waterfall, and the sound is like thunder, and it cannot be waded in vain. Along both sides of the river are steep cliffs, and the mountain roads are rugged and narrow, allowing only one person to pass through. The Tibetans here once wiped out a regiment of the Kuomintang army, so there were a lot of guns and ammunition. These Tibetans are quite accurate in marksmanship, they hide on the cliff to shoot cold guns, coupled with the sound of water, they can't hear the gunshots, and if they don't pay attention, they will suffer. We are on guard here, and every few or ten miles we build some blockhouses with stones to defend against their attacks.
When he arrived in Yinian, Commander Peng led our 11th Regiment to successively lead the leaders of the Red Fourth Army and the Red 31st Army and the commander-in-chief Xu Xiangqian. Tang Yanjie, chief of the management section of the Red Third Army, set up a military station in the area of the stone watchtower in Yinian to be responsible for raising grain, and Hong Xuezhi, director of the Political Department of the Fourth Army of the Red Fourth Front Army, was also engaged in grain in this area. At this time, the Red Fourth Front decided to allocate a regiment to the Red Third Army and sent me to negotiate for receiving.
The regiment of the Fourth Army of the Red Army numbered only more than 500 people, most of whom were new recruits from Sichuan, and many of them were infected with the bad habit of smoking opium. Originally, the legion intended to organize them into a direct regiment, and before I went, I decided to divide them into regiments. After I looked at the personnel situation, I felt that it was not easy to divide the group, so it was better to be all assigned to the Red 11th Regiment, and I asked Director Yuan Guoping for instructions, but he did not dare to decide. The next day, I traveled dozens of miles to report to Commander Peng, and he agreed with my idea.
The Red Third Army stayed in the Yinian area for more than 10 days, because the Tibetans had run away, so we had to cut the barley by ourselves and hurry up to prepare dry food to go north. At that time, the troops had no food, and they were not allowed to slaughter the pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep left behind by the Tibetans. Commander Peng said: "As soon as I heard the cries of these livestock, my heart jumped, don't slaughter it, and the troops have nothing to eat, which is really embarrassing." Sometimes Tibetans would run down the mountain at night and shout outside the garrison: "Red Army, when are you leaving? If you don't leave, we will starve to death if we run out of food." Hearing these shouts is even more heart-wrenching. But in desperation, I had to do it against my will. Commander Peng told me that Mao Zedong said: For the sake of the interests of the majority, we must sacrifice the interests of the minority, otherwise the Red Army will starve to death, and only when we are victorious, will we give double compensation to the ethnic minorities.
During this period, my hemorrhoids were cut again, and when I was about to remove the stitches, two soldiers ran down the mountain and reported that a platoon was surrounded by Tibetans on the mountain. I hurriedly took the only guard platoon and reconnaissance platoon around me up the hill to relieve the siege. The mountain was very high and steep, and as soon as I climbed the mountain, the surgical stitches burst out again. As soon as we rushed up the mountain, the Tibetans scattered. During the battle, a Tibetan bullet hit the rock next to me, and a piece of stone jumped on my head and hit me a centimeter deep, and I passed out at that time, leaving a scar to this day.
One night, Commander Peng came to my lodgings and said, "You sleep with yours, I'm going to write here." "What he writes about, mainly to write about the characteristics of ethnic minorities and the strength of the Tibetan masses. The reason is that in the first two days, there was such an incident, the troops were going to enter a Tibetan courtyard with three houses, and all the young people in the houses had run away, leaving only an old man in his seventies or eighties to look at the courtyard, and the walls and doors were very thick, and whoever approached the courtyard would shoot stones on the wall, and he did not understand Chinese, and it was useless for us to shout. The troops could no longer find another house, and they were very anxious, so I said, "Give him a shot." I shot him with a pistol to scare him, but he still didn't move, and Commander Deng knocked him down with a rifle. As a result, the old man climbed down from the wall and opened the door, and he also gave a big thumb to praise the regimental commander for his accurate gun, which he admired. Ethnic minorities like to be strong and despise cowardice, only if your martial arts are higher than him, and your skills are stronger than him, he will obey you and listen to you.
That night, Commander Peng wrote that it didn't end until two o'clock in the morning, and he woke me up to get him something to eat. I got up and got him some batter, beef, and wine. He started talking to me while he was eating. He knew that I was a native of Yangxin, and praised Yangxin for his strong fighting spirit and deep affection for the Red Army, and for his enthusiasm for fighting, carrying stretchers, recuperating wounded soldiers, and comforting the Red Army, and making great contributions to the revolution. When mentioning the experience and lessons of the Red Fifth Army's attack on Yangxin, he said that the common people could not ignore and could not listen to all of what they said, and they encouraged the Red Army to attack Yangxin, deliberately narrowing the enemy's situation, and saying that the enemy's strength defending the city was two regiments as one regiment, and as a result, the Red Army suffered undue casualties when attacking the city. He also told me about the history of the Third Army Corps of the Red Army and the current situation, and was full of confidence in the victory of the revolution. He joked that the revolution has won and the situation has stabilized, and you can all marry wives. He kept talking about Tianming, and his interest was still undiminished. Because Zhang Guotao wanted officials and power, he delayed the implementation of the Central Committee's Songpan campaign plan by the Red Fourth Front Army. The Central Committee convened two consecutive meetings in Heishui Luhua to focus on solving the problem of the organization of the Red Army. The meeting decided that Zhu De, chairman of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, would remain commander-in-chief of the Red Army, and that Zhang Guotao would be appointed general political commissar of the Red Army, and that the troops would be reorganized, and that the first, third, fifth, and ninth corps of the Red First Army would be changed into the First, Third, Fifth, and Thirty-second Armies in turn, and that some cadres would be transferred from the Red First Front Army to work in the Red Fourth Front Army, and that the Red Fourth Front Army would be allocated to some units of the Red First Front Army. The meeting demanded that Zhang Guotao command the Red Fourth Front Army to quickly concentrate in Maoergai.
In late July, the Red Army continued to advance northward, and the Red Third Army (i.e., the Red Third Army) crossed the two snow-capped mountains of Cangde and Dagu and entered Maoergai in Songpan County. After Luhua went north, because the Tibetans ran out, the troops could not get the support of the masses and could only eat fried barley, which was difficult to digest in the stomach. In order to recover their strength, the troops rested for a longer time in Maoergai.
Due to the delay in Heishui Luhua, the Red Army had lost the favorable opportunity for the Battle of Songpan. The southern part of the enemy Huzong has been assembled in the Songpan area, Xue Yue's troops have entered the Wenxian and Pingwu lines, and the Sichuan army has occupied Maogong, Maoxian and other places. In light of the changes in the enemy's situation, the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution formulated a plan for the Xiatao Campaign, and decided that the main force of the Red Army would leave Aba, enter the Xia River valley in the north, and assault the right side of the enemy's main encirclement line, so as to strive to eliminate the enemy's main force in the Tao River valley and create a base area in Gannan.
In early August, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting in Shawo, near Maoergai, to discuss the current political situation and tasks, reiterate that the decision of the Lianghekou Conference was correct, and patiently fight for Zhang Guotao's education.
In order to implement the "Xiatao Campaign Plan," the Central Revolutionary Military Commission decided to mix the Red First and Fourth Front Armies to form the Left and Right Route Army. The Right Route Army was led by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, with Xu Xiangqian as the commander-in-chief, Chen Changhao as the political commissar, Ye Jianying as the chief of staff, and Yang Shangkun as the director of the Political Department. The Right Route Army was led by Commander-in-Chief Zhu De and General Political Commissar Zhang Guotao, with Liu Bocheng as chief of the General Staff and Fu Zhong as director of the General Political Department.
After the Maoergai Conference, the central government's strategic policy of going north to resist Japan was put into action. In mid-August, the Right Route Army, with the 1st Red Army as the vanguard, marched to the vast grassland with the Central Leading Organ, the 1st Military Commission Column, the Red Army University, the former enemy's General Headquarters, the Red Fourth Army, and the Red 30th Army. The Red Third Army served as the rearguard, and Zhou Enlai and Wang Jiaxiang acted with the Red Third Army due to illness. From then on, the Right Route Army embarked on a difficult journey.
The Red Third Army acted in echelons of the 13th, 12th, 11th, and 10th regiments, with the slogan "unite as one, overcome difficulties, cross the grassland, and go north to resist Japan." Just out of Maoergai, the field is still sparsely scattered with a little shrub, and further forward is the boundless Zeguo. It takes about six or seven days to walk out of the grassland from Maoergai to the northeast, stretching for about 500 miles. Our team directly under the 11th Regiment went to a forest and found a dead horse, and they didn't know how the horse died, whether there was an infectious disease, and they ate it when they got it. Sun Yi, the chief of the military education section, fell behind, he walked with us with a stick, he didn't eat mutton, let alone horse meat, at this time he smelled horse meat He also felt extraordinarily fragrant, and ate with relish.
The troops entered the meadow, but saw that the endless field was covered with dense weeds, with clumps of weeds on top, mud pools below, and black sewage everywhere that smelled of rancidity. When a person steps on a meadow, it is like swinging, dangling from one foot to another, and if he is not paying attention or stepping on the air, he will fall into the mire, and the man and the animal will not be able to extricate themselves, and the more they struggle, the deeper they will fall, so that they will not have a roof.
The water in most areas of the grassland contains toxins, which not only make it undrinkable, but also puncture the foot while walking, and the wound is swollen and ulcerated when soaked in water, making it difficult to heal, and some comrades have become crippled as a result. Some comrades were so thirsty that after drinking two mouthfuls of sewage, their stomachs immediately distended, and they fell ill and died. The climate of the grassland is harsh, the weather is changeable every day, the sun is still exposed at noon, sweating, the afternoon is covered by dark clouds, the wind rises suddenly, the heavy rain is pouring for a while, the snowflakes are flying for a while, the temperature drops sharply, and the cold is shivering. In the long meadow, there is no shelter on a sunny day, there is no place to hide from the rain, the body is always sweat-stained and wet, and the clothes emit a musty smell. The troops could not camp and sleep, so when they were sleepy, they sat back to back on the meadow and took a nap, snuggled up to each other to keep warm, and when it rained, they put up their sheets and sat down for the night.
The warriors trekked carefully step by step on this spring-like meadow, and it was very tiring to walk after a day. There is no firewood to cook hot rice, the barley fried noodles are drenched in the rain into hard bumps, lack of oil and salt, it is difficult to swallow, however, in order not to fall behind the next day, everyone insists on swallowing hard in the stomach as if completing a difficult task, and sometimes the tears are held back.
The deeper you go into the meadows, the slower the march, hunger and fatigue attack the people all the time, and many comrades fall down as they walk, never to get up again. A small correspondent at our regimental headquarters was so hungry that he had no strength at all. At first, the comrades helped him go, but he couldn't bear to drag everyone down, so he insisted on walking by himself, but he couldn't walk, so he crawled on the ground. He said: The more I climb, the closer I will be to the goal and one step closer to the victory of the Chinese revolution. I really wanted to take him out of the meadow, but seeing that he couldn't walk, I quickly helped him to the horse, but as soon as I helped him, he fell into my arms and swallowed his breath, and I was very sad. When the 11th Red Regiment crossed the meadow, nearly 200 people were left behind and died due to fatigue, cold and hunger.
The Red Army walked in the meadow for seven days, and finally entered Banyou. On the day I walked out of the meadow, not only did it not rain, but there was also a ray of sunshine, as if we were specially welcoming those lucky enough to break out of the death line. The commanders and fighters of the Red Army stepped onto the solid grassland, and they all rejoiced and smiled.
When the Red 11th Regiment crossed the Banyou River, it carried the stretcher of Vice Chairman Zhou Enlai and also caught up. He was sick with typhoid fever and fell unconscious with a high fever. After discussion, we decided to link the mules and horses of Regiment Leader Deng, put the stretcher on the back of the two horses, and carry it with livestock, and the soldiers connected each other with leggings, forming a human wall on both sides of the horse, protecting the stretcher, and thus escorting Vice Chairman Zhou safely across the river.
The 11th Red Regiment had crossed the river and had already walked more than 70 miles, and Commander Peng Dehuai told me that there were still several hundred people on the other side of the Banyou River who had not come, and ordered me to return with a battalion to pick them up for the river. Just after passing the grassland and returning dozens of miles, it is not easy to deal with so many people who have fallen behind. I walked back with a battalion, and everyone was so tired that they couldn't lift their legs. Walking to the beach, I looked through my binoculars across the river, where there were at least seven or eight hundred people sitting. I'll take the correspondent and scout over to see what is going on. They all sat quietly back to back, motionless, and I looked at them one by one, and they were all out of breath. I watched this tragic scene in silence, tears welling up in my eyes. What good comrades, they crawled out of the meadow step by step, but they did not make it to Banyou, they took away the wounded and hungry, but left the dawn and victory. With a heavy heart, we put them down one by one, on the one hand, to make them walk more comfortably, and on the other hand, to carefully examine them again, so that we could not pull down a comrade who had not yet breathed his last breath. At last I found that a little soldier was still a little angry, and I asked the scout to carry him on his back, but he also died after crossing the river. Due to the time constraints, I did not have time to bury the remains of these many martyrs.
With tears in our eyes, we took off our hats, paid a silent tribute to the martyrs, bowed goodbye, and hurried back to catch up with the main force.
Elder Peng Jun saw us from afar, and anxiously greeted us and asked first, how many people did you bring back? I said sadly, I didn't bring any of them back. After listening to the detailed report, his face turned gloomy, and he said indignantly: This is all Zhang Guotao's sin, he delayed the fighter plane, failed to open Songpan, and forced us to take this road, if we don't take this road, how can so many people be sacrificed.
At the end of August, the Right Route Army arrived in Brazil and the area of Baoza, the 12th and 13th regiments of the 1st and 3rd Red Army had already gone to the front, and the 11th Red Regiment lived in Yalong with the rest of the Red Third Army and the team directly under the Central Committee. The Right Route Army, with the 30th Army and the 1st Division of the 4th Army under the command of Xu Xiangqian, completely annihilated the 49th Division of Hu Zongnan in an attempt to intercept the Red Army, captured Baoza, created favorable conditions for the realization of the strategic policy of the CPC Central Committee to move north, and opened the door to march to Gannan.
The troops of the Right Route Army rested in the upper and lower areas, and the Red Third Army sent Liu Zhijian to the Red 30th Army with the Fire Line Drama Club and the propagandists of various regiments to offer condolences, and Li Bozhao was also invited to teach singing and organize cultural and entertainment activities for the troops of the Red Fourth Front Army.
At one o'clock on the night when the condolence group left, Peng Dehuai, Wang Jiaxiang, and Li Fuchun asked Commander Deng and me to go to the military headquarters, and Peng Dehuai told us with a heavy heart: Zhang Guotao sent a telegram to the General Headquarters of the Right Route Army, asking the troops of the Red Fourth Front Army not to go north with the central government, but also to persuade the Red First and Third Armies to go south together, and the Right Route Army to return to Aba to join the Left Route Army, and if they did not listen, they would surrender their guns, solve the problem by force, and arrest Mao, Zhou, Zhang, and Bo. Chief of Staff Ye Jianying didn't even bring a guard, and rushed from the private seat to the tooth lane overnight to report to the Party Central Committee. After receiving Ye Jianying's report, the Party Central Committee decided to lead the Red First and Third Armies to the north in order to avoid accidents. Commander Peng ordered our Red 11th Regiment to immediately set off and go to the front line of the 20-mile vicinity of the central organ's station, cover the passage of the organs of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission and the teams directly under the Red Third Army, and then follow the Red 10th Regiment after the Red 10th Regiment has also passed.
We immediately notified the troops to assemble urgently, and marched into the designated area to be on alert. The atmosphere was tense and secretive. The army commander demanded that no mobilization be carried out and that it be communicated to the troops after three days. Therefore, the intentions of the superiors were unknown even to the Chief of Staff and the Director of the Political Department.
The team directly under the central organ set off before dawn. When the sun came out, Mao Zedong passed by the guard position we had set up on a hill, called me and the regiment commander over, and asked if there was any movement ahead, and I replied that there was no situation, but that the guard troops had heard a person shouting: "Comrades of the Red First Army, don't go!"
We asked, "What if someone stops us?" Mao Zedong said, "We must do a good job of propaganda work and tell them that we will go first, and you will come later." "
"What if they shoot?" I asked several times for fear that the internal conflict of the Red Army would not be easy to handle.
Mao Zedong said repeatedly: "We must do propaganda and education work. "
The troops marched north for three days, and when they arrived at the Russian border camp, they announced to the troops that Zhang Guotao had not moved his troops at Aba, and once again proposed the policy of going south, rejecting the central government's telegram order to go north. The Left Route Army advanced to the Gaqu River (Baihe), Zhang Guotao rejected Zhu De and Liu Bocheng's leadership of the Left Route Army, and led his troops to return west under the pretext that the Gaqu River was rising and could not be waded in vain, and ordered the Red Fourth Front Army troops in the Right Route Army to hold the central government south to the Aba area. In carrying out propaganda and education among the troops, the Right Route Army emphatically pointed out that the central authorities' policy of going north to resist Japan was correct, that Zhang Guotao wanted to engage in separatism and persist in going south, and that the Red Fourth Front Army and the Left Route Army would eventually return. Leaders at all levels are required to stabilize the mood of the troops and do more work of unity among the comrades of the four front armies.
A task force sent by the Red Fourth Front Army to the headquarters of the Military Commission consisted of dozens of people, and the leader was a lame man. They didn't want to go north, but they also wanted to go south, and Mao Zedong personally wrote a letter to them as a roadway, asking our follow-up troops to let them go. When they passed by the 11th Red Regiment, it was raining lightly, and as they went, they advertised that the comrades of the Red Army should not go...... I was very angry and told them to gather and squat on the side of the road, and then ask them to go when we were all done. I told them that the line of the CPC Central Committee is correct, that it is the wish of the people of the whole country to go north to resist Japan, and that you will return in the future.
Liu Zhijian, Li Bozhao and some members of the drama club were left behind in the Red Fourth Front Army. There were other cadres and units of the Red Front Army assigned to work in the Left Route Army, and none of them were able to go north with us, and some died fighting in the south and fighting in the Western Route Army, and the rest returned to northern Shaanxi with Commander-in-Chief Zhu.
After arriving at the Russian border, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee convened an emergency meeting and adopted the "Erroneous Decision on Comrade Zhang Guotao." The decision pointed out: Zhang Guotao's comrades from the Red Fourth Front Army rallied around the Party Central Committee and waged a resolute struggle against Zhang Guotao's mistakes in order to consolidate the Party and the Red Army.
The 1st and 3rd armies of the Red Army assembled and rested on the Russian border for four days, that is, they advanced along the Bailong River to the Russian Moraine Monastery and the Wangzang Monastery and reached the Hera area. The 1st Red Army captured the dangerous Lazikou and defeated a brigade of the Gansu warlord Lu Dachang. Then the Central Red Army crossed the Minshan Mountains. Minshan is a famous mountain on the border between Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan, up and down the mountain for more than 50 miles, the avant-garde troops were attacked by enemy planes on the mountainside, fortunately there was no loss, down the Minshan Mountain into the big grass beach, the Red Army broke away from the Tibetan inhabited areas.
On 20 September, the vanguard captured Hadapu and entered Gannan. The 1st and 3rd Red Armies rested in Hadapu for a few days, and the 11th Red Regiment was on alert in the direction of Lanzhou 30 miles from Hadapu. At this time, in accordance with the decision of the Russian Circle Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, the Red Army reorganized the units directly under the Central Military Commission and the main forces of the Red Front Army into an anti-Japanese advance detachment, which was called the Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to the outside world, with Peng Dehuai as commander, Mao Zedong as political commissar, Lin Biao as deputy commander, Wang Jiaxiang as director of the Political Department, and Yang Shangkun as deputy director of the Political Department. It has three columns under its jurisdiction: The first column is based on the First Army of the Red Army, with a total of five brigades, and the 13 th Regiment of the Third Army of the Red Army is incorporated into the first column; Lin Biao, commander of the first column, Nie Rongzhen, political commissar, Zuo Quan, chief of staff, and Zhu Rui, director of the Political Department. The second column is organized into three brigades, with column commander Peng Xuefeng, political commissar Li Fuchun, deputy commander Liu Yalou, chief of staff Xiao Jinguang, director of the Political Department Luo Ruiqing, chief of the security sub-bureau Zhang Chunqing, chief of the operations section Yao Zhe, reconnaissance section chief Li Tianyou, communications section chief Xie Song, training section chief Sun Yi, management section chief Tang Yanjie, and deputy section chief Zhou Wenlong. Huang Zhen, captain of the 10th Brigade (formerly the 10th Red Regiment), and Yang Yong, political commissar; Deng Guoqing and me, the captain and political commissar of the 11th Brigade (formerly the 11th Red Regiment), and Wen Niansheng, captain of the 12th Brigade (formerly the 12th Red Regiment), and Su Zhenhua, political commissar. The team directly under the Military Commission was organized into the third column, with commander Ye Jianying and political commissar Deng Fa. The training battalion of the Red Army was incorporated into the third column. Each brigade is basically the original regimental structure, the battalion-level structure has been abolished, each brigade has five infantry companies, one machine gun company, and the regiment's reconnaissance platoon, engineer team, and health team are all concentrated in the column. At that time, there were 1,100 people in the 11th Brigade, and more than 600 people in the 10th and 12th Brigades.
[Wang Ping (October 12, 1907-February 8, 1998), born on October 12, 1907 in Dahudi Village, Sanxikou Town, Yangxin County, Hubei Province, was a proletarian revolutionary and military strategist. Formerly known as Wang Weiyun, he used to be known as Wang Ming, and later changed his name to Wang Ping. In May 1930, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and joined the Communist Party of China in September of the same year. In 1955 he was awarded the rank of general. He is a member of the Second and Third National Defense Commission, a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress, and a member of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. 】
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