When the Central Red Army triumphantly passed through the dangerous Dadu River and marched through Tianquan, Lushan, and Baoxing to northwest Sichuan, the Red Fourth Front sent Li Xiannian, political commissar of the Red Thirty Army, to lead the leading troops to respond to the Central Red Army. The vanguard crossed the Hongqiao Mountain, which was more than 4,000 meters above sea level, and entered Maogong and Dawei, and on June 12, 1935, it met with the forward troops of the Central Red Army at the foot of Jiajin Mountain. When the good news came, the whole army rejoiced.
Memorial site of the Maogong Congregation
In order to greet the Central Red Army, the Red Fourth Front, from the headquarters organs to the grass-roots companies, twisted wool up and down, knitted sweaters, woolen socks, and straw shoes, and donated grain, medicine, and clothing. The various units of the Front Army sent batches of condolences to the Central Red Army Garrison Station to replenish their supplies, the propaganda team went to the garrison to perform condolences, and the laundry team helped wash and sew clothes. The two armies learned from each other and exchanged experiences, presenting an atmosphere of unity and fraternity. Lu Dingyi, director of the Propaganda Department of the General Political Department of the Red Army, wrote the "Rendezvous Song of the Two Main Forces" and quickly sang it throughout the army.
Before the two main forces of the Red Army met the divisions, the Party Central Committee analyzed the domestic situation at that time and determined that after the two fronts met the divisions, they should concentrate their efforts on developing to the east and north, and establish the Sichuan-Shaanxi-Gansu base areas, so as to promote a new upsurge in the national anti-Japanese democratic movement. In order to unify the strategic principles, on June 26, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting at lianghekou in Maogong County and adopted the report on the current strategic principles delivered by Zhou Enlai on behalf of the PARTY Central Committee and the Central Military Commission. Subsequently, the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee made a decision on the "Strategic Guidelines for the Convergence of the First and Fourth Fronts." The decision pointed out: "Concentrate the main force to attack the north, destroy the enemy in the movement war, and first take the southern part of Gansu, in order to create a base area in the Sichuan-Shaanxi-Gansu-Suzhou region." ”
Two Estuary Meetings
After the Lianghekou meeting, the party Central Committee decided to send Li Fuchun, acting director of the General Political Department of the Red Army; Liu Bocheng, chief of the general staff of the Red Army and commander of the Central Column; Lin Boqu, director of the General Supply Department of the Red Army; and Li Weihan, director of the Central Organization Bureau; to form a central condolence group to go to Zagu Brain to offer condolences to the Red Fourth Front, convey the spirit of the Two Rivers Estuary Conference to the vast number of commanders and fighters of the Red Fourth Front, and explain the important significance of the central authorities' strategic principle of concentrating the main force to attack the north. By this time, Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao had already led their armies north. Zhang Guotao came forward to greet the central condolence group.
On July 6, when the condolence group arrived at Zagu Nao, the Red Fourth Front troops unfurled a large banner that read, "Warmly Welcome to the Central Red Army," and the streets were plastered with colorful slogans. The soldiers ran a few miles from the garrison, set off firecrackers, and lined up to welcome the central condolence group.
In Shanghai that year, Li Fuchun and Li Weihan were responsible persons of the Jiangsu Provincial PARTY Committee, Liu Bocheng was a member of the Central Military Commission, and Liu Ruilong held meetings with them to study work, and they were very familiar with each other. After seeing these old comrades leave the central base area, they have experienced 8 months of arduous fighting, wearing patched gray military uniforms, black and thin, but they are full of spirit and full of laughter, especially Minister Lin Boqu, although he is nearly half a hundred years old, his hair is gray, and he is still in good spirits, Liu Ruilong was deeply moved.
Liu Ruilong (file photo)
In a conversation with the responsible comrades of the Central Condolence Group, Liu Ruilong finally solved the mystery in his heart--that late in the night of January 1935, he and Liao Chengzhi heard from foreign telecommunications, thus more accurately understanding some of the zunyi meeting.
The failure of the Fifth Anti-"Encirclement and Suppression" campaign of the Central Red Army and the heavy losses suffered after its withdrawal from the Central Soviet Zone were mainly due to a series of serious mistakes made by Bogu and Li De in military command. At the most critical juncture of the Chinese revolution, the Zunyi Conference, in accordance with the principle of democratic centralism, independently and autonomously resolved the organizational problems of the Party Central Committee, ended the four-year-long rule of Wang Ming's "Left" dogmatism in the Central Committee, and established Mao Zedong's leading position in the Party Central Committee and the Red Army.
During the Zunyi Conference, Chiang Kai-shek made new arrangements and mobilized 400,000 troops in an attempt to annihilate more than 30,000 Red Army troops in the northwestern part of the Wujiang River. In accordance with Mao Zedong's strategic plan, the Red Army decided to abandon Zunyi and advance and detour by surprise in a big stride to get rid of the pursuing enemy. In light of the constant changes in the enemy's situation, Mao Zedong adopted a highly flexible policy of movement warfare, commanded the Red Army to cross the Chishui River four times and cross the Jinsha River skillfully, and the Red Army completely jumped out of the encirclement circle surrounded by hundreds of thousands of enemies and chased and blocked, and won a decisive victory in the strategic transfer!
In those days of getting along with the Central Condolence Group, Liu Ruilong's mood was particularly cheerful, and he was full of hope for the future of the Party and the Red Army.
One day, Liu Bocheng, chief of the general staff of the Red Army, came to the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee and "swung the dragon gate array" with Liu Ruilong. As soon as he entered the house, he was attracted by the large and small butter lumps stacked in the corner. He took three steps and made two steps, picked up a lump of ghee, took a deep breath close to his nose, and said in a loud voice, "Ah, how fragrant!" ”
Liu Ruilong couldn't help but laugh out loud: "This ghee, the taste is very bad, we are all not used to eating, so we have to use it to light the lamp." ”
Liu Bocheng sighed in surprise: "Use it to light a lamp? What a shame! Ghee is a good thing, whether it is stirred with rice dumplings, or smeared on dry food to eat is very fragrant, similar to the butter on the Western table in Shanghai! ”
Speaking, Liu Bocheng rolled up his sleeves and personally taught everyone to refine ghee. As he unwrapped the yak tripe wrapped in ghee, he said, "Ghee is just one less deodorization process." ”
As he spoke, the guards had already lit the wood stove in the house. Liu Bocheng put the ghee lump in a hot pot and crushed it, and after a while, the ghee melted, boiled, and wisps of green smoke appeared. Liu Bocheng immediately ordered: "Withdraw the fire!" When the ghee was slightly cool, Liu Bocheng skillfully used a spoon to remove the oil film with cow hair and impurities on the surface. Liu Ruilong brought a rice bowl and first aid gauze he carried with him. The two of them worked together to filter the steaming ghee into the rice bowl. After the ghee has cooled, the unpleasant smell is gone, and it is almost the same as butter.
Liu Ruilong told Liu Bocheng: "After the troops march westward, how to adapt to life in ethnic minority areas is like fighting a hard battle. Butter rice dumplings, fermented sour horse milk, and half-cooked beef and mutton are all staple foods of the Tibetan people and good things they entertain the Red Army, but we comrades in the interior are very unaccustomed to eating. ”
Liu Bocheng said: "If the Red Army wants to live in the minority areas, it must make a 'revolution' from its living habits and learn to eat these things. ”
"Yes, especially ghee rice dumplings, most comrades are not used to eating, it is difficult to swallow." Commander-in-Chief Xu Qianqian and General Political Commissar Chen Changhao took the lead in eating rice dumplings. At a meeting of military division cadres, Commander Xu entertained everyone with rice dumplings, grabbed a handful of rice dumplings in his mouth and chewed them twice before swallowing them downwards, and also said humorously: "Eat rice dumplings for the revolution!" Whoever doesn't love to eat, who doesn't want to revolutionize to the end! General Political Commissar Chen Changhao's appearance of eating rice dumplings was the most authentic. He stirred the rice and ghee with his hands as he brought it to his mouth and wiped the bowl clean. ”
Liu Bocheng praised: "This example is well done! ”
Hearing that Liu Ruilong participated in the ethnic minority task force, Liu Bocheng was very interested. He also took the case of "blood as an alliance" with Xiao Yedan, the leader of the Yi people's Guji department, and briefed Liu Ruilong on the work experience of the Central Red Army in the Yi areas.
He said: "Sichuan is a province with many ethnic minorities. Most of the places through which the Red Army passed were areas inhabited by ethnic minorities. For a long time, because the Kuomintang bullied and oppressed the minority nationalities, stirred up dissension among ethnic groups, and created hatred, the ethnic problem was extremely serious. To do a good job in the work of the minority nationalities, we must first awaken their consciousness and help them overthrow the rule of the reactionaries and strive for national liberation; with regard to the upper echelons of the minority nationalities, the main thing is to unite them to establish an anti-Chiang Kai-shek united front; we must not take excessive military action against some of them in armed confrontation, and we must try our best to patiently win them over the Kuomintang reactionaries together with us. ”
After the victory of the Long March, Liu Bocheng (front row, second from right) and others took photos in Gansu Zhenyuan.
Liu Bocheng's words solved some of the thorny problems that Liu Ruilong encountered in his work some time ago, and he was deeply educated. When bidding farewell to Liu Bocheng, Liu Ruilong deliberately asked the guards to bring two large lumps of ghee. Liu Bocheng, as if he had captured the spoils of war, happily returned to the camp on a Prancing Horse. [This article is excerpted from "The Wheels Rolling - The Life of Liu Ruilong" (by Zhou Yan), please indicate the source and author when reprinting.] ）]
Biography:
Liu Ruilong (October 1910 – May 25, 1988) was a native of Nantong, Jiangsu Province. In 1926, he joined the Communist Youth League, transferred to the Communist Party in 1927, and served as the secretary of the Nantong Special Party Branch, one of the early founders of the party in the Nantong area. He successively served as secretary of the Nantong Normal Branch, secretary of the Nantong Urban District Cpc Committee, secretary of the Nantong County CPC Committee, secretary of the Tonghai District Special Committee, deputy secretary of the Work Committee of Waixian County of Jiangsu Province, director of propaganda of the Shanghai Fanan District CPC Committee, secretary of the Agricultural Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial CPC Committee and member of the Provincial Military Commission, director of the Propaganda Department of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Provincial CPC Committee, director of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the Red Fourth Front, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Yuwan Soviet District, secretary of the Suwan Military and Political Committee, secretary of the Huaihai Naval Political Committee, first vice chairman of the Suwan Border District Government, political commissar of the Logistics Headquarters of the Central China North Front. The second deputy chief of staff and logistics commander of the East China Field Army, and the logistics commander and political commissar of the Third Field Army. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as secretary general of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, secretary of the Agricultural Committee of the East China Bureau, deputy director of the East China Land Reform Committee, executive vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, deputy secretary of the party group, and director of the Agricultural Committee of the East China Bureau. He was brutally persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. After smashing the "Gang of Four", he successively served as an adviser to the Shanghai Agricultural Bureau, an adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture, a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth CPPCC National Committee, vice minister of agriculture and a member of the party group, a member of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress, the leader of the Steering Group for the Work of The Central Committee for the Work of The Whole Party, the deputy director of the General Editorial Committee of the Encyclopedia of China, the director of the Editorial Committee of the Encyclopedia of China, and a member of the Law Committee of the National People's Congress. In May 1988, during the meeting of the National Agricultural History Society in Guangzhou, he suffered from overwork and heart disease. He died in Guangzhou on May 25.