After the New Year of 1972, Marshal **'s physical condition gradually deteriorated. At this time, the ** marshal was always thinking about a person, and when his condition worsened, he held **'s hand and told him: "That fellow of yours almost killed me back then, and now you have to help me take care of him more, don't let him be wronged." ”
* Who is this man in the mouth of the marshal? Why did he kill **? All this is related to the Xi'an incident. After the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to change his proposition that "if you want to fight outside, you must first settle inside" and began to resist Japan.
In this way, our party's army needs to be reorganized by both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
The reorganization was in full swing, and the main forces maintained close contact with the headquarters. However, the reorganization of the Southern Forces was fraught with challenges. Due to the long-term struggle with the Kuomintang army, the southern guerrillas needed to frequently shift positions, and after the start of the Long March, many of the troops lost contact with the headquarters and were blocked in the mountains, knowing nothing about the external situation.
In the course of the Party's revolution, there have been numerous wars, but the conditions for the "three-year guerrilla war in the south" were undoubtedly the most arduous. In 1933, the main force of the Red Army began its westward expedition, and the Kuomintang army immediately encircled and suppressed the guerrillas on the Hunan and Jiangxi borders.
The guerrillas here had to not only cover the Red Army on the Long March, but also deal with the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang army, and they used all their strength to the point that they had to hide in the mountains and cut off contact with the local masses.
Without the support of the local people, the guerrillas soon ran out of food and grass, and in order to maintain their physical strength to continue fighting, they had to dig wild vegetables and eat tree bark.
As a result, the strength of the Red Army ranks was depleted at an accelerated pace in the course of continuous combat and counter-encirclement and suppression.
In the Battle of Hutouling in 1935, Commander Peng Huiming died bravely, and the strength of the Hunan and Jiangxi Military Region was less than 50 people. Tan Yubao, who was the chairman of the Hunan and Jiangxi Provincial Soviets, was deeply saddened, but he was not discouraged by this, but led the remaining 40 or so cadres to successfully evade the Kuomintang's repeated pursuits and re-strengthen the revolutionary ranks.
During this period, the hatred between the southern partisans and the Kuomintang grew deeper. Because of their isolation, they knew nothing about the Xi'an Incident and the changes in the domestic political situation.
When they learned that they would be included in the New Fourth Army and fight devils with the Kuomintang, they could not accept this, believing that this was a rumor spread by the Kuomintang to divide the morale of the military, and they were skeptical of it, not believing that the organization would make such a decision.
1.The revolutionary struggle entered a critical period, the Hunan and Jiangxi border guerrillas grew rapidly, and Xiong Shihui, chairman of the Kuomintang Jiangxi Province, panicked and intensified the suppression of the guerrillas.
This just confirmed the conjecture of the guerrillas represented by Tan Yubao.
2.When news of the KMT-CCP cooperation spread throughout the city, the guerrillas on Jiulong Hill were engaged in fierce battles with more than a dozen reactionary militia groups.
However, what Tan Yubao didn't expect was that the enemy retreated in one day. He immediately convened an emergency meeting and demanded vigilance and adherence to the guiding ideology of the workers' and peasants' armed struggle.
3.The organization hoped to get in touch with the guerrillas on the Hunan and Jiangxi borders as soon as possible, and after repeated discussions, it was decided to send the general ** out of the army, hoping that he could take Tan Yubao and his party down the mountain for reorganization as soon as possible.
Behind this decision, it reflects the organization's great concern and expectation for the guerrillas in Hunan and Jiangxi.
Before ** went up the mountain, the organization had already sent several liaisons, but none of them returned. Why is that? It turned out that Tan Yubao's vigilance was too high, and he mistakenly mistook the liaison members of our party for traitors to the Kuomintang and killed them one by one.
After Xiang Ying learned of this, he immediately sent his beloved general Cao Shuliang to the Hunan and Jiangxi borders to find Tan Baoyu. Cao Shuliang took Xiang Ying's letter of introduction and confidently embarked on a journey to find Tan Yubao.
After many inquiries, he finally went up the mountain, but he strayed into a trap carefully designed by Tan Yubao. When he tried to convey the news that the guerrillas were to be integrated into the New Fourth Army, he was mistaken by the guerrillas for a traitor who had come to persuade him to surrender and was killed.
It wasn't until the guerrillas found Xiang Ying's letter of introduction from Cao Shuliang that they realized their mistake. They immediately remembered that Tan Yubao had stressed the need to be vigilant at the meeting, so they mistakenly thought that this was a trap used by the enemy to confuse the truth.
Although the team members did not report the incident to Tan Yubao, he did not learn the truth until many years later.
After going through twists and turns, the organization decided to send a persuasive person who was not afraid in the face of danger to find Tan Yubao. After receiving the task, ** resolutely went.
In late November 1937, ** and his entourage arrived in Yongxin County and began to try to ask the people of the nearby villages about Tan Yubao's whereabouts. However, due to the education of the partisans, the local population appeared to be very cautious, and the adjutant of **, despite asking for a long time, did not receive any useful information.
After staying here for two days, the villagers were finally moved by the sincerity of ** and told him that Tan Yubao was on Jiulong Mountain at the moment. The mountain road was rough, and ** accidentally sprained my foot while going up the mountain.
He tried to stand up and pat the dirt off his body, but he was startled by the sudden sound. A voice asked, "Who?" What are you doing in the mountains? It was Duan Huanjing, the head of the guerrillas, who spoke, and his eyes widened with anger, and the atmosphere instantly became tense.
However, ** had already expected that the team members might not be friendly, so he didn't get angry, and calmly took out a letter of introduction and said: "I'm **, I'm here to invite your old chief to come down the mountain." ”
Although Duan Huanjing had never seen **, no one in the Red Army knew his name, so his attitude eased. But when he heard "down the mountain", his nerves tensed.
He wasn't sure how to deal with it, so he decided to hand it over to Chairman Tan. **Having heard about Tan Yubao's heroic deeds in his early years, and knowing that he was a loyal, brave and kind person, hearing Duan Huanjing say this, his heart relaxed a little, thinking that someone could administer justice for himself.
But their way of seeing them off was a little "special", and they tied up ** without saying a word. ** Happy in his heart, because he is worried about not knowing how to go up the mountain. Eventually, the misunderstanding was resolved.
Tan Yubao almost fainted when he heard that his subordinates tied up the famous **, but when he saw ** himself, he scolded ** for being a "traitor". It turned out that ** had completed the reorganization of the New Fourth Army when he came to Jiulong Mountain, and he was naturally wearing Kuomintang clothes, and Tan Yubao instantly became angry when he saw the medal on his hat.
He didn't listen to the ** explanation, and directly tied him to a pillar in the courtyard, ready to be sent tomorrow. **Waited left and right, couldn't wait for Tan Yubao to calm down, so he waited for the next day's public trial.
He's a traitor! "Must be executed! The angry shouts in the crowd came and went, and it was not until Tan Yu kept the purple bamboo pipe and slowly walked out of the thatched hut that the crowd gradually quieted down.
I know you, you used to make reports with the same words, emphasizing the need to uphold the party's ideas and the revolution, but now you have turned your back on these! "Tan Yubao preemptively.
I'm not a traitor! I've been sent to inform you of the reorganization. * tried his best to argue, but the voice seemed insignificant in the crowd. "You have not become a traitor, why should you hand over our revolutionary ranks to Chiang Kai-shek for reorganization?
Can what he did to the people of Hunan and Jiangxi in the past be written off? He owes us blood, and with what is he going to pay it back? "* Understand that Tan Yubao got into the horns of the bull because of his obsession, if he continues to entangle, how to complete the task assigned to him by the organization?
So, ** affectionately recounted how he had been encircled and suppressed by the Kuomintang in the past, and how he had a similar experience of reconnecting with the organization. These experiences caused Tan Yubao's heart to waver, but he still didn't plan to let go.
Despite his suspicions, he still wanted to test his determination again, so he said in a tough tone: "Because you have suffered with the ranks of the Red Army, you want to defect, I will kill you today!" ”
Hearing such words, **'s emotions couldn't be suppressed, he didn't expect that it would be so difficult to persuade a Tan Yubao. "If you don't believe me, go down the mountain and see!
What kind of ability is it to only threaten people with guns? Do you think I'm really going to be intimidated? Hearing this, Tan Yubao didn't answer, just turned around and left.
That night, he lay on the bed and tossed and turned, thinking over and over again how he reacted when he was provoked. He has killed many real traitors, and summed up a "truth": only those soft bones who kneel and beg for mercy will easily surrender.
Looking at the unwavering look, he began to wonder if he was wrong. In order to confirm his conjecture, after careful consideration, he finally decided to send someone down the mountain to have a ** race.
A few days later, the team members sent out came back in the dust, and when they saw him, they said, "Oh no, ** is really sent by the organization!" ”
When the guerrillas descended the mountain, they found Zeng Shan, an old friend of Tan Yubao. When Zeng Shan heard that Tan Yubao planned to treat ** as a traitor and execute him, he immediately prepared a half-sack document and a letter of introduction, telling them to return to the mountains as soon as possible to save **, so as not to make serious mistakes.
After Tan Yubao saw these documents, he realized his reckless behavior, so he immediately rescued the ** who was still tied to the pillar. He apologized to ** with red eyes and said, "I'm too impulsive, please tie me up too." ”
However, ** understood the righteousness, not only did not blame him, but praised him with a smile: "Comrade Tan Yubao, your vigilance is very high." The next day, Tan Baoyu made a deep self-reflection at an emergency meeting of the provincial party committee, and the misunderstanding was finally resolved.