Most of those who remained in the Soviet zone were cronies
In 1935, the Red Army suffered a heavy blow from the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression, and in order to survive and believe, they resolutely embarked on the road of the Long March, which was a journey full of hardships and challenges, and also a great feat in human history, which rewrote the fate of China.
However, not all the Red Army was involved in this great process.
During the Red Army's Long March, some people stayed on the Long March to fight against the Kuomintang army in order to gain precious time for the transfer of large units of the Red Army, and even paid the price of their lives.
What is sad is that most of the 10 leaders who stayed in the Soviet area sacrificed their lives for the revolution, and only one lived to the founding of the People's Republic of China and witnessed the birth of New China. Who are they?
Why were they left behind? What kind of hard years did these left-behind leaders and soldiers go through? The heroic deeds on the Long March were long and left in the Soviet area.
In 1933, shortly after the end of the fourth anti-encirclement and suppression, the Kuomintang army began to encircle and suppress the Red Army and launched the fifth encirclement and suppression war. However, the Red Army won victories in the previous four anti-encirclement and suppression wars, which not only inflicted heavy losses on the Kuomintang army, but also made the Red Army's base areas bigger and bigger.
The fifth anti-encirclement and suppression, why did the Red Army lose? In the Fifth War against Encirclement and Suppression, the Red Army suffered serious losses. This was not because the Kuomintang was strong, but because at that time, the Soviet area was controlled by Li De, Bogu and others, and their decisions led to failure.
They underestimated the situation before the encirclement and suppression, made mistakes in command, and misused tactics. Bogu and Li De denied the tactics of *** and other commanders, criticizing them for being timid and not daring to go head-to-head.
However, the Red Army was far inferior to the enemy in terms of strength and equipment, and was not good at positional warfare, and could not give full play to its advantages in flexibility and mobility in head-to-head confrontations. Such a strategy was undoubtedly using its own shortcomings to counter the enemy's superiority, which ultimately led to the defeat of the Red Army and the necessity of a strategic shift.
In 1934, the main force of the Red Army was forced to transfer and bid farewell to his fellow soldiers. The fighters, although reluctant to leave, had to leave.
But don't forget, there is still 160,000 Red Army soldiers, 30,000 armed forces and 10 ** leaders were left behind to cover the breakthrough of the main forces of the Red Army. At that time, all forces were entrenched, the situation was extremely complicated and severe, and the Kuomintang spared no effort to take out all its belongings to encircle and suppress, mobilizing nearly 500,000 troops, and Chiang Kai-shek himself personally sat in Nanchang to deal with all the affairs of suppressing the Communists.
As soon as the Red Army's Long March began, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the guns to be aimed at the Soviet base areas, because Chiang felt that the Red Army had been stationed there and had been bandits, and that if he did not kill them, he could not cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and then he wantonly plundered and killed the masses; And the Red Army that remained behind still insisted on fighting in the face of the siege of a million-strong army.
In the face of the critical situation, Xiang Ying and **, who stayed behind, received an order and decided to break through the encirclement by separate routes, carry out guerrilla warfare, and disperse operations, in order to better preserve the vital forces.
For the next three years, they began to live like savages. Those who remained were 10 leaders, including Qu Qiubai, Xiang Ying, He Shuheng, He Chang, Chen Tanqiu, Fang Zhimin, Liu Bojian, Mao Zetan and Gu Bai.
Why, then, were they left behind? And who decided on the list? As we all know, the main reason why the Red Army was forced to go on a long march was the improper command of Li Debogu.
Their tactical command was too rigid and they had no actual combat experience. After the arrival of Li De and Bogu, the old leaders of the Soviet district at that time were also excluded from the core decision-making level. In order to further consolidate the **, Li De formed a three-person group of the decision-making center of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, including Li De, Bogu and *** Therefore, who stays and who leaves is decided by them.
The Internet ** shows that although the decisions are ostensibly made by the three-man regiment, in fact Bogu and Li De reject the Red Army generals whose political positions are different from theirs, and thus take over all the decisions of the Red Army.
At that time, *** only carried out the order of the telegram, and had no real power. In the list of the most important generals to stay behind, he only knew the number of people, but he didn't know who they were, so the list was ultimately decided by Li De and Bogu.
So, on what basis did Li De and Bogu decide to stay behind? During the Long March, due to the flexibility and speed of the Red Army, they would face a situation of chasing after them.
To cope with this situation, the Red Army had to be highly mobile. During the initial Long March, Li De and Bogu demanded that all supplies be taken away, including marriage certificate stubs, which led to complaints from the soldiers.
Too much baggage would affect the speed of the march and would not allow the Red Army to give full play to its advantages in flexible combat. In the Battle of Xiangjiang, the Red Army was sharply reduced from 80,000 to 30,000, and suffered heavy losses, partly because it was overloaded and unable to cross the river quickly, resulting in being surrounded by the enemy.
If it had not been for the later arguments, the Red Army would have been surrounded by the enemy many more times. Li De and Bogu have to bear the unshirkable responsibility for these bloody lessons.
During the Long March, there were many dangers. Therefore, at such a special moment, wounded and sick Red Army soldiers could not be transferred with the large army, they needed to be left behind to disperse and recuperate, and conceal their whereabouts, so as not to affect the march of the large army.
* Because he was unable to walk while recuperating in the hospital, he was unable to leave with the army, so he was left behind.
**After being criticized, he was removed from the chairmanship, lost his military powers, and only retained the fictitious post of chairman of the Chinese Soviet Republic, with no real power. Later, the war in Ganzhou did not go well, and he was transferred to the front line as the general political commissar of the Red Army, regaining military command, but after putting forward a number of military decisions, he was vetoed, and the contradictions with the ** bureau became deeper and deeper, and then he was removed from his post.
People close to *** have also been implicated, including He Shuheng, Mao Zetan, etc. Because of their relationship with ***, they were all left in the Soviet area in the end, and they went through nine deaths.
Even *** was on Li Debogu's left-behind list, but the people led by *** fought hard and finally let *** keep up with the team of the Long March. These people who remained in the Soviet zone were relatives and friends with whom they had a deep revolutionary friendship, and their loyalty and courage deserve to be remembered forever.
Figure丨***3) The Battle of Guangchang was an important barrier in the northern part of the Soviet area, and the Kuomintang army was close to the city. However, the commander of the Red Army, Li Debogu, and others misjudged the enemy's situation and insisted on holding on to Guangchang, resulting in more than 5,000 Red Army personnel.
**, and other Red Army generals were deeply saddened by this, and sharply criticized Li Debogu and others. Although *** was finally included in the list of left-behind, *** found Li Debogu and pointed out the important position of *** in the Red Army, so that *** was able to participate in the Long March.
The defeat in the Battle of Guangchang led to heavy losses for the Red Army. It was not until the Zunyi Conference was held in 1935 that Li Debogu was removed from military command and put *** in charge of military command, that the Red Army returned to normalcy and began a new charter.
On the road of the Red Army's Long March, there were many difficult and difficult moments, one of which was the siege of the Kuomintang army at Meiling for 20 days. ** and other warriors could only eat raw food in the mountains, enduring hunger and cold.
They can't make a fire because the fireworks will reveal their location. In bad weather, they can only let the rain get wet, either drying in the sun or covering themselves with their own body heat.
During this difficult time, some fighters even froze to death. Although it was a very difficult time, ** and the other fighters did not give up. They continued to fight persistently, and they were willing to pay any price for the victory of the revolution.
In the face of the dilemma of being in the network and in the face of a shortage of personnel, the soldiers of the Red Army set an example and used their tenacious will and firm conviction to fight against backward equipment and personnel shortages.
They fought desperately and bloodily on the battlefield, and although they were heavy, they were always indomitable. In this difficult period, ** led the Red Army soldiers through the life and death crisis, created the legendary work "Meiling Three Chapters", and became the only surviving leader in the Soviet area.
His spirit lives on and inspires us to fight for the future of our country. Under the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang army, the Red Army soldiers held their positions and persisted in the guerrilla war for three years, and most of them died on the revolutionary road, and their heroic deeds will forever be remembered in our hearts.
After the start of the Long March, Qu Qiubai stayed in Ruijin and fought with the Red Army, and despite suffering from lung disease, he continued to fight until the end. However, they were discovered by the enemy during the transfer and unfortunately fell into the hands of enemy troops.
However, they always adhered to their beliefs, did not bow their heads, did not surrender, did not waver, and were finally executed by the Kuomintang and generously justified. Their spirit will always live in our hearts and inspire us to fight for justice and freedom.
1.Deng Zihui escorted He Shuheng to transfer, accidentally exposed his whereabouts, He Shuheng was old and frail, and knew that it might drag everyone down, so in order not to drag down his comrades, he jumped off the cliff and exchanged his life for the survival of other comrades.
2.He Chang was the youngest, but he had been at the forefront in several breakout battles, leading the soldiers to fight bloodily, in the face of the enemy's relentless pursuit, the comrades-in-arms around him swore to resist and fell one by one, when he heard that the enemy wanted to capture him alive, he chose to rather be a broken jade, not a complete tile, fighting to the last moment, the last bullet was left to himself without hesitation, and he was martyred at the age of 29.
3.Liu Bojian was well aware of the hardships and hardships faced by the leaders of the Soviet area, said goodbye to his friend ***, and comforted him to prepare for hard fighting, but in 1935, he led his troops to break through the siege, because he was wounded, suffered humiliation, and finally died heroically.
The revolutionary martyrs who died bravely: Liu Bojian, Mao Zetan, Fang Zhimin, Gu Bai, Xiang Ying and Chen Tanqiu, although they all died unfortunately for various reasons, their heroic and fearless and firm revolutionary beliefs are always worthy of our memory and admiration.
They have traded their lives for today's peace and prosperity, they are true heroes, and their spirit will always burn in our hearts.
Chen Tanqiu summarized the leaders who stayed in the ** Soviet area, they fell on the eve of dawn and completed the spiritual expedition in a unique way, only ** survived and experienced the founding of New China.
In the founding ceremony, the ** general standing on the tower of Tiananmen Square burst into tears. He knows how many comrades have paid the price of their lives for this moment, he is not standing there alone, he is a representative of countless sacrificed fighters, without their dedication and sacrifice, there would be no birth of New China.
Their firm revolutionary will and courageous spirit of responsibility will always inspire us to move forward. As the next generation, we will inherit the legacy of the martyrs, protect the country's mountains and rivers, and the country and the people!