In October 1934, after the Long March of the main force of the Red Army, Chen Yi stayed in the Central Soviet Area to fight guerrilla warfare for three years, experiencing countless hardships and dangers, but why did the enemy not catch Chen Yi for three years, and even saw his trace?
In fact, this is related to Chen Yi's superb guerrilla warfare wisdom.
When fighting guerrilla warfare, Chen Yi's tactics were very clever. He divided the large army into pieces, a group of three or five people, a team of seven or eight people, and his team was capable, agile in action, and superb in concealment.
Chen Yi said: "If you want to hide well, you must pay attention to walking without revealing the target." ”
If a large team is together, walking over, the ground is full of footprints, and the enemy sees the footprints and follows the footprints, and they can find where Chen Yi and the others live. In particular, the Red Army wore rubber-soled shoes, and when the enemy saw it, he knew that it was not worn by ordinary people. For this reason, Chen Yi took the lead, all wore straw sandals, encountered rain, left and retreated; Everyone walks in front, and someone must clean the footprints in the back, or even splash water to eliminate the footprints.
After arriving, Chen Yi and the others did not leave footprints on the road at all.
How is this done? They go exclusively to the ditch. Especially near where they lived, when they walked in the water, the grass was trampled down when they went ashore, and Chen Yi ordered that the grass that had fallen down must be lifted up.
Without footprints, it would naturally be difficult for the enemy to find Chen Yi and them.
Chen Yi said: "It is necessary to hide well, and also pay attention not to smoke, not to cough, and not to speak loudly. ”
However, they must not cook, or they will be beasts that drink blood. You need to make a fire and cook, so how can you hide yourself from the enemy? Chen Yi's method is to deceive the enemy. Sometimes they set fire on the hill opposite their residence, deliberately emitting smoke to expose their target, and then left. Sometimes, they bought dozens of small iron pots for cooking, threw them everywhere, and pretended that the Red Army was cooking and eating. In this way, the enemy was disorganized, and I don't know where the Red Army was.
Hiding and living in the mountains and forests for a long time, the small iron pot was lost. Chen Yi They want to drink a cup of hot tea and eat some cooked rice, what should they do? It is boiled in a tea pot, and the rice is cooked in a bamboo tube – the bamboo tube is filled with rice and thrown into the fire to be burned, so that the rice is cooked and the rice can be eaten hot. However, when making a fire, they must choose a very narrow pit or a place with a dense woods. When you leave the next day, you will definitely eliminate the traces.
It was precisely by relying on this method that Chen Yi led a group of people to fight guerrilla warfare for three years in the deep mountains and dense forests such as Meiling. But the enemy could not find him. Gu Zhutong, the general of the Kuomintang army, thought that Chen Yi and the others had been trapped and starved to death in those mountains, and said with great emotion:
"After three years of hard work, I finally completed it."
Unexpectedly, in the winter of 1937, Chen Yi and the Red Army of the southern guerrilla warfare, which no one thought had ceased to exist, suddenly appeared again, and there were nearly 10,000 people.
From October 1934 to October 1937, the Kuomintang army spent three full years without catching Chen Yi and the Red Army officers and men he led.
The book "The Ten Marshals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army: The Little-Known History of the Ten Commanders of the People's Liberation Army" written by Chen Guanren and published by the CPC History Publishing House describes Chen Yi's superb tactics of guerrilla warfare in the south for three years. The book is the society's annual bestseller, and once ranked first on the best-selling list of China's military bestsellers (pictured).