Since Wang Jiaxiang and Mao Zedong first met, the two have established a deep revolutionary friendship. At the Zunyi meeting, he cast Mao's key vote, and Mao took the initiative to solicit votes for Wang Jiaxiang at the Seventh Party Congress; this was by no means a simple secular political transaction or a vulgar reciprocal reciprocation of gratitude, but a testimony of the deep friendship between revolutionaries.
Mao Zedong and Wang Jiaxiang Wang Jiaxiang and Mao Zedong's first meeting was in the Longgang area in 1931. This is the famous place where the first anti-"encirclement and suppression" battle was won and the enemy division commander Zhang Huizan was captured alive. Wang Jiaxiang, who was only 25 years old at that time, had just returned to China after nearly five years in the Soviet Union, and he was very eager to apply Marxism-Leninism, which he had systematically studied and mastered at Sun Yat-sen University and the Red Professor's College in the Soviet Union, to the practice of the Chinese revolution. Wang Jiaxiang reported to Mao Zedong on his studies in the Soviet Union and the Fourth Plenary Session of the Central Committee, while Mao Zedong gave him a detailed account of the history of the controversy in the Red Army and the issues of controversy at that time, and showed him some documents. This meeting left an unforgettable impression on Wang Jiaxiang. He later recalled that after meeting Mao Zedong several times, he gave me the impression that he was different from the leaders I had met in China and Russia, that he was unique, and that the truth he spoke was as simple and clear as it was so fresh and convincing.
In a conversation with Wang Jiaxiang, who has the temperament of a scholar, Mao Zedong also praised his theoretical skills, and thought that his critical essay on the three opposing lines was well-founded and insightful. During the conversation, Mao Zedong also enthusiastically wrote down a couplet that everyone in the Soviet area could memorize and sent to Wang Jiaxiang: "When the enemy advances, I retreat, the enemy is stationed and we disturb, when the enemy retreats, we advance, when the enemy is tired, we fight, and in guerrilla warfare, we will win the battle; we will advance and retreat in great strides, lure the enemy into depth, concentrate our forces, break through each one, and annihilate the enemy in a mobile warfare." ”
Wang Jiaxiang happily accepted the couplet, and learned that the military and people in the Soviet area relied on Mao Zedong's strategy and tactics to win the enemy and develop themselves. He felt that he had been right to choose to return to China to participate in the frontline of the revolutionary struggle.
The meeting between Wang Jiaxiang and Mao Zedong in the Longgang area is of extraordinary historical significance. Since then, the two revolutionaries have established a lifelong friendship for the development and growth of China's revolutionary cause.
Comrade Mao Zedong has repeatedly talked about Wang Jiaxiang's contribution to the Zunyi Conference. He said: Wang Jiaxiang is "a meritorious person, and he was the first one in dogmatism to stand up for me." "The Zunyi Conference could not have done without Wang Jiaxiang, and Wang Jiaxiang cast a crucial vote at the Zunyi Conference. ”
At the beginning of the Zunyi Conference, there was a fierce confrontation between right and wrong views. At the meeting, Bogu first made a summary report on the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, and he always one-sidedly emphasized that the reason for the defeat was that objectively the enemy was strong and that it was "impossible for us to smash this 'encirclement and suppression.'"
Mao Zedong was the first spokesman to severely criticize the "leftist" mistakes, and he used the facts of the first, second, third, and fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" victories to refute the viewpoint of defending the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign on the objective factor that the enemy was strong and we were weak. Li De and Bogu were asked to step down, and Mao Zedong came out to command the Red Army.
In his capacity as deputy of the Central Military Commission, Wang Jiaxiang, from the angle of arbitration, refuted the defense arguments of the "leftist" leaders who tried to shirk their responsibilities, so that the correct views had the upper hand from the very beginning by an absolute margin of three to one, and overwhelmed the arrogance and arrogance of the "leftist" figures. The results of the final reorganization of the central leading organs at the meeting also reflected the two contents proposed by Wang Jiaxiang: First, the functions and powers of Li De's central military advisers were abolished, and the supreme military command of Li De and Bogu was abolished, so that Li De was "bombarded" down. Second, in the leading body of the Party Central Committee, Mao Zedong entered the Party Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. The party committees divided the labor, and Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai were in charge of the military, thus actually establishing Mao Zedong's leading position in the whole party and the whole army.
After Wang Jiaxiang was together with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping at the Zunyi Conference, Wang Jiaxiang and Zhou Enlai were designated as members of the three-member military group of the Central Committee to assist Mao Zedong in commanding the whole army, and the strategic transfer of the Red Army was victoriously realized. Under the command of the three-person military leading group of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Wang Jiaxiang, the main force of the Central Committee, the Red Army, changed from passive to active, carried out the Battle of the Four Crossings of Chishui, and won the first major victory after the Long March. After that, the whole army skillfully crossed the Jinsha River and threw off the encirclement and interception of the main force of hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops. Forcibly cross the Dadu River, fly over the Luding Bridge, and climb over the Daxue Mountain. A series of practices in turning danger into peace have shown Mao Zedong's superb commanding ability.
At the Seventh Party Congress, an incredible thing happened: Wang Jiaxiang, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, deputy of the Central Military Commission, and director of the General Political Department, suddenly lost the election with less than half of the votes cast by 204 votes, and was not even elected as a member of the Central Committee. Mao Zedong was aware of and aware of this anomaly, and hurriedly came out to do remedial work in person.
On the eve of the closing of the congress, Mao Zedong specially told the delegates that Wang Jiaxiang should be elected as a member of the Central Committee. "I'm here to say a few words on this issue," he said. Comrade Wang Jiaxiang made mistakes, before and after the Fourth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee, he made mistakes in line, and he also made a number of mistakes since then. However, he has merit. The first is that after the Fourth Plenary Session of the Central Committee, Wang Jiaxiang went to the Central Soviet District as a member of the Central Committee, and when some comrades were ostracized and suppressed, he sponsored and trusted Mao Zedong, Zhu De and other comrades and supported their correct ideas. The second is that it has long been opposed to the third "leftist" line, and it was the first to be killed from the small sects of "leftist" dogma, and it played a key role at the critical moment of the Zunyi Conference.
At the Sixth Plenum of the Central Committee, which decided the fate of the Chinese revolution, it was he who brought back the instructions of the Comintern in a timely manner and faithfully conveyed them, and took a clear-cut part in resolving a number of serious problems within the Party. Third, during his work at the Central Committee, he "did a lot of good things" and drafted many important documents for the party.
Mao Zedong asked everyone to print and distribute the letters that Wang Jiaxiang wrote to him at this meeting, believing that these letters were indeed "written by him after thinking about it for a long time." Mao Zedong once again emphasized that Wang Jiaxiang "made mistakes and had shortcomings, but he was meritorious." He is now seriously ill, and his illness was also caused by injuries sustained during the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign. "I think he was able to carry out the line of the congress, and from the past, when the third 'leftist' line was on the rise after the Fourth Plenary Session of Wang Jiaxiang's commemorative stamps, at the Zunyi Conference, and at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Committee, this can also be proved. At the end of his speech, Mao Zedong said: "He was not elected as a formal member of the Central Committee yesterday, so the League made him the first candidate for alternate member of the Central Committee, and hoped that everyone would elect him." ”
After the meeting, Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Li Fuchun, Chen Yun, and other comrades rushed to visit Wang Jiaxiang, first, to visit his illness, and second, to express his comfort to Wang Jiaxiang for this abnormal phenomenon that occurred at the meeting. However, apart from thanking his comrades for their kindness, Wang Jiaxiang not only did not complain, but also did not express any unpleasant emotions. He was indifferent or even indifferent to the sudden decline in his personal standing in the party.