In 1934, because of the defeat in the battles of Huwan and Lichuan, Xiao Jinguang was tried in the Central Soviet District, and the result was that he was expelled from the party and sentenced to 5 years in prison, and he was not allowed to appeal. They even wanted to kill Xiao Jinguang, but Chairman Mao resolutely opposed it.
His life was saved, his party membership was gone, and Xiao Jinguang was imprisoned. Chairman Mao sent his wife He Zizhen to visit this beloved general, and also gave him a poem of his own composition, "The annual autumn wind is strong, not like spring light, better than spring light, and the frost of the river and the sky is rare."
This song implies Xiao Jinguang's name, with heroic passion, to encourage Xiao Jinguang not to be discouraged, continue to struggle, as long as you walk through the haze, the future is bright. Xiao Jinguang deeply experienced Chairman Mao's good intentions and never became depressed.
After a month of imprisonment, in February 1934, Xiao Jinguang was released and sent to the Red Army University as a teacher. This was Xiao Jinguang's first position after he was sentenced and released. Compared with the political commissar of the Red Fifth Army and the Political Commissar of the Red 11 Army, this position is a bit low.
But Xiao Jinguang understood that he could survive without being killed by BoguLid and others, and that he could be released early, which was the result of Chairman Mao's struggle against the erroneous left line. Only by working hard could he live up to Chairman Mao's protection.
Xiao Jinguang, who had studied in the Soviet Union twice, was a well-educated theorist, and played his specialty as a teacher. He taught everyone political work and tactics lessons, and every day he was very busy, eager to dedicate all his learning to the vast number of Red Army cadets.
His lectures are in-depth and simple, theory is combined with practice, and is well received and loved by the students. Also serving as instructors were The Song Shilun Zhou Shidi and others, both of whom were future founding generals. Everyone worked together and felt solace in each other.
After the defeat of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, the Red Army was forced to embark on the Road of the Long March. To transfer, this was top secret news at the time, most people did not know what was happening, Xiao Jinguang did not know. As notified above, the University of the Red Army was reorganized into a superior cadre, that is, a superior cadre unit.
Under the command of the cadre regiment. Xiao Jinguang was appointed captain of the Shanggan team. This is his second position after his release from prison. In this regard, Xiao Jinguang did not expect at all, he had no party membership, he was still a criminal body, how to lead the cadres?
Xiao Jinguang thus embarked on the road of the Long March. It is gratifying that the head of the cadre regiment is Chen Geng, and Xiao Jinguang and Chen Geng have a very good relationship, and it is really rare to be able to work under his leadership. The cadre regiments were all elites of the Red Army and could easily not go to the battlefield.
Passing through Loushan Pass, Xiao Jinguang felt that this place was dangerous, directly threatened Zunyi, and immediately made a decision, taking the comrades of the upper cadres, and asked Luo Binghui for a company of troops, and took the initiative to defend Loushan Pass. Afterwards, it turned out that Xiao Jinguang was very strategic.
At that time, the Party Central Committee was holding a meeting in Zunyi, and that was the moment that decided the historical fate of the Chinese revolution. By guarding Loushan Pass, the safety of Zunyi City was guaranteed. After Xiao Jinguang completed his task and rushed to Zunyi, Premier Zhou told him that the battle of Loushanguan had been fought well, and that Zunyi had been defended and the Party Central Committee had been defended.
After the Zunyi Conference, Chairman Mao returned to the leading post of the Central Committee, revoked the wrong punishment of Xiao Jinguang, and decided to restore his party membership. The big stone that pressed on Xiao Jinguang's heart was finally removed. During the period when he was expelled from the party, Xiao Jinguang was always actively working and did not feel depressed for a moment. This is the mind of the general.
When he climbed the snowy mountains and was about to cross the meadows, Xiao Jinguang left the Shanggan team and was transferred to the chief of staff of the Red Third Army, which was his third position after being sentenced and released. The commander of the Red Third Army was General Manager Peng, the original chief of staff, Deng Ping, unfortunately died, and Ye Jianying, who succeeded Deng Ping, was transferred away again, and Xiao Jinguang had the honor of coming to Mr. Peng's side as chief of staff.
Many readers and friends may be more concerned about what kind of sparks will be rubbed between the marshal and the general? Mr. Peng loves to criticize people, and when he criticizes people, he does not allow anyone to interfere. Once, Yang Yong did not know what was going on, he was criticized by Mr. Peng, who was very fierce and looked very scary.
Xiao Jinguang was present at the time, and he felt that he could not help but speak, so he intervened to mediate and took Yang Yong away for the sake of it. Mr. Peng didn't even say anything and acquiesced. Probably because Xiao Jinguang had just served in the Red Third Army, Mr. Peng left him a little face.
In September 1935, the Long March of the Red Army reached the Russian border, the Shaanxi-Gansu detachment was established, Peng Dehuai served as the commander, the Red Third Army was renamed the Second Column, the column commander was initially concurrently held by Peng Dehuai, and soon peng Xuefeng took over, Xiao Jinguang was still the chief of staff.
This is his fourth position after his release from prison. It was from this position that Xiao Jinguang arrived in northern Shaanxi. When they arrived in Wuqi Town, the troops confiscated a batch of wool felt cloth, and Xiao Jinguang did it himself, made a dress, and put felt shoes on his feet. The clothes are warm, but a little out of place.
Xiao Jinguang found that Mr. Peng was secretly laughing at him, so he asked why, and Mr. Peng said, you Han people are not like Han people, and barbarians are not like barbarians. After saying that, they both laughed happily together. Soon, the number of the Red Third Army was revoked, the troops were incorporated into the Red First Army, and Xiao Jinguang was reappointed as the military minister of the Shaanxi-Gansu Provincial Party Committee.
This is his fifth position after his release from prison. From the Red Third Army corps to the Shaanxi-Gansu Provincial Party Committee, it was obvious that Xiao Jinguang had left the main force and taken up local work. In the Military Department of the Shaanxi-Gansu Provincial CPC Committee, Xiao Jinguang had just arrived, his life was not familiar, he did not know him alone, and everyone did not know him, only that he was the new person in charge.
Near the end of the Battle of Zhiluo Town, Xiao Jinguang took the only guard company of the Military Department, dozens of people, rushed up, pursued the enemy, their equipment was very poor, the First World War captured a lot of good guns, shotguns for guns, everyone was jubilant, very happy.
At the end of November 1935, Xiao Jinguang was again appointed commander of the Shaanxi-Gansu Military Region. This is his sixth position after his release from prison. Unusually, the Red Army's Long March reached northern Shaanxi and prepared to run northern Shaanxi for a long time, using it as the base camp of the revolution.
Letting Xiao Jinguang serve as commander of the Shaanxi-Gansu Military Region is Chairman Mao's high degree of trust in him. In order to meet the needs of future wars, the Red 29th Army was established, saying that it was 1 army, but in fact, it only had 4 companies under its jurisdiction, with a total of 500 or 600 people. Xiao Jinguang concurrently served as the commander of the army.
This was his seventh position after his release from prison. Xiao Jinguang led this newly formed unit to undertake the task of suppressing bandits, developing the armed forces, creating base areas, consolidating the border areas, and ensuring that the Red Army was able to gain a foothold in northern Shaanxi.
In February 1937, Ye Jianying, former chief of staff of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and Premier Zhou went to Xi'an to participate in peace negotiations, and the post he vacated was taken over by Xiao Jinguang. This is Xiao Jinguang's eighth position after his release from prison. Xiao Jinguang also formally came to work with Chairman Mao and accepted Chairman Mao's eight-year-long teachings and edification. It was the most glorious eight years of his life.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, and one day in August, Chairman Mao summoned Xiao Jinguang and told him that the Central Committee was preparing to hold a meeting in Luochuan, and that you should go to a front station and find a safe place. Chairman Mao particularly stressed that we should not go to the county seat of Luochuan, where it is not safe.
Xiao Jinguang immediately set off, stopping at Fengjia Village near the Luochuan Jiezi River, which is close to the main road, and it is more convenient to come and go, and there are more than ten miles away from the county seat, which is relatively safe. Xiao Jinguang chose this place and found a better temple for Chairman Mao to live in.
(Xiao Jinguang and Tan Zheng in northern Shaanxi)
A private school was borrowed as a meeting place, and several houses of ordinary people were rented for the central leaders to live in. It was here that the Luochuan Conference, which is recorded in the history of the Chinese revolution, was held and the line of the all-out War of Resistance was determined. This is another major historical contribution made by Xiao Jinguang to the Chinese revolution.
There is also a small matter, Bogu, that is, the representative of the left-leaning wrong route who wanted to shoot Xiao Jinguang at the beginning, felt that his house was too bad, and proposed to change with Xiao Jinguang, perhaps he felt that Xiao Jinguang would keep the good for himself, and even suspected that Xiao Jinguang had a personal vendetta and deliberately let him live in a poor house. Bogu was completely wrong, and when he really changed to Xiao Jinguang's house, he found that it was worse here, and it was better not to change it.
At the Luochuan Conference, a small number of comrades proposed that northern Shaanxi was too poor to be the base camp of the revolution, and that it was necessary to send all the troops to the front, and that the Party Central Committee should also follow the troops. Chairman Mao resolutely opposed this practice, pointing out that Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia were the only base areas left over from the ten-year civil war, and that the Party Central Committee must take root here as the base camp of the revolution.
Xiao Jinguang clearly agreed with Chairman Mao's proposal. After the establishment of the Eighth Route Army, Chairman Mao personally nominated Xiao Jinguang to serve as the director of the Rear Guard Office of the Eighth Route Army. This post was a regular establishment of the Eighth Route Army and was personally appointed by Chiang Kai-shek. This is also The ninth position Xiao Jinguang holds after his release from prison. This post is full of Chairman Mao's trust and dependence on him.
At the end of December 1937, for the convenience of command, the Central Military Commission decided to rename the Left Behind Division internally as the Left Behind Corps, with Xiao Jinguang as commander and political commissar. Chairman Mao also humorously said to Xiao Jinguang: Chiang Kai-shek has appointed you as the director of the Eighth Route Army's Left Guard Office, and I will give you a commander.
This is Xiao Jinguang's tenth position after his release from prison. Chairman Mao entrusted Xiao Jinguang with the security of the entire rear area of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia, which was an extreme trust in him. Chairman Mao famously said that when I was in northern Shaanxi, I ate by Xiao Jinguang and by the left-behind corps.
From his sentencing and release in 1934 to 1937, in three years, Xiao Jinguang's posts changed 10 times, and the frequent transfer of jobs was very rare in the history of our party and our army. Multi-post training, multi-party training, first slowly restore honor, and then gradually go to important jobs.
Every step Xiao Jinguang took embodied Chairman Mao's painstaking efforts and was deliberately cultivated by Chairman Mao. And Xiao Jinguang did not fail to live up to Chairman Mao's cultivation, and in every post, he worked diligently, conscientiously performed his duties, fulfilled his tasks brilliantly, and eventually became one of the ten generals of the Republic.