The Red Army's Long March What was the fate of the Red Army in Hunan and Jiangxi
In October 1934, the main force of the Red Army began the world-famous 25,000-mile Long March, while the Red Army remaining in the Soviet area was forced to enter a difficult period of guerrilla warfare.
In the **Soviet district, the revolutionary fervor of the past fell into a harsh winter. In this grim period, every revolutionary must be tested by his will to fight in order to continue to uphold the revolution.
The Hunan and Jiangxi border areas are located on the border of Anfu and Lianhua, and are an important base area after the Long March of the main force of the Red Army. In the early days, there were 5,000 armed Red Army troops in the border area, as well as important institutions such as the Hunan and Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, the Hunan and Jiangxi Military and Political Commission, and the Hunan and Jiangxi Border Guerrilla Command.
However, over the next three years of guerrilla warfare, the total number of partisans in the Red Army was reduced by four-fifths, to only about a thousand remaining. So, who died in this difficult war, who defected, and who held out to victory?
Unfortunately, Peng Huiming, commander of the Hunan and Jiangxi Military Region, died in battle, while Chen Hongshi, secretary of the Hunan and Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, betrayed the revolution in the later stages of the war.
After Chen Hongshi defected to the enemy, he was appointed by the Kuomintang as a "pacification member" in the Hunan and Jiangxi border areas, which caused major damage to our party's organization, and many revolutionary comrades were brutally killed.
During the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the deputy director of the Jiangxi Provincial Intelligence Station, the commander-in-chief of the Jiangxi Provincial Guerrilla Command, the commissioner of the Office of the Administrative Inspector of the 10th District of Jiangxi Province, the 10th Security Commander of Jiangxi Province, and the commander of the 2nd Advance Column of the Hunan-Hubei Border Region, and finally died of illness in September 1940.
The betrayer did not get a good end after all. In addition to Chen Hongshi, there was another betrayer, his name was Zeng Kaifu, who was the vice chairman of the Hunan and Jiangxi Military and Political Committee and the commander of the Hunan and Jiangxi border guerrilla command.
This betrayer is a native of Chaling, Hunan, and is a fellow villager with political commissar Tan Yubao. During the Jinggangshan struggle, he participated in the Red Guards. After the Red Sixth Army left the Hunan and Jiangxi borders for the Long March, Zeng Kaifu served as the commander of the Fifth Regiment of the Independent Red Army that stayed on the Hunan and Jiangxi borders.
In June 1935, Chen Hongshi, secretary of the Hunan and Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, defected to the enemy, and Tan Yubao held a meeting in Qipan Mountain, Lianhua County, to form the provisional Hunan and Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and Guerrilla Headquarters.
Zeng Kaifu is good at commanding, can fight, and can stand up at critical moments, but he has a bad habit, that is, being lustful. The traitor Chen Hongshi knew Zeng Kaifu very well, so he set up a "beauty plan" to win him over, and as a result, this undetermined commander defected to the enemy camp.
Zeng Kaifu's betrayal, like Chen Hongshi's betrayal, caused irreparable damage to the Red Army guerrillas, so after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was arrested and executed by the people's regime.
The leader who persevered until the final victory was Tan Yubao, then chairman of the Hunan and Jiangxi Military and Political Committee and political commissar of the Hunan and Jiangxi border guerrilla headquarters.
Tan Yubao, a native of Chaling, Hunan, joined the party in 1927 and served as secretary of the sixth and seventh district party committees of Chaling County and chairman of the Soviet, chairman of the Hunan and Jiangxi Provincial Soviets, and deputy secretary of the Hunan and Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee.
After the Long March, the main force of the Red Army, he led the Red Army guerrillas to persist in guerrilla warfare. In the following three years, although the scope of activities of the Red Army guerrillas gradually narrowed, Comrade Tan Yubao always adhered to his original intention and fought tenaciously against the guerrillas under the siege of the enemy, and finally at the end of 1937, the Red Army guerrillas were reorganized into the 2nd Regiment of the New Fourth Army, and he also became a senator of the New Fourth Army.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Comrade Tan Yubao successively served as the vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial People's Government, the secretary of the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, the head of the supervision team of the Central and South Bureau, and the deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial People's Congress, at the age of 81.