Due to heavy rains along the way, natural disasters such as river surges and mudslides, as well as several rounds with bandits, Shangguan Yong's arrival was two days later than expected, and Zheng Yi had to change his plan and go to Yudu to meet with the negotiators of the Cantonese army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Unexpectedly, this unexpected turn of events would cause Li Jishen, the commander of the Cantonese army, to be furious and heedlessly reveal to the press that the Communist Party instructor had used the captives to demand ransom.

The impact of this is huge!

Mainstream newspapers in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hong Kong, and Huhai quickly reported on it, and the inside story of the Battle of Licun, which took place soon between the Cantonese and communist armies, was gradually revealed.

In accordance with the latest instructions issued by Li Jishen, the negotiators of the Cantonese army quickly left Yudu and returned to Ganzhou, and it seemed that the Cantonese army had firmly grasped the initiative through public opinion.

The Hong Kong intelligence station quickly telegraphed the news to Zheng Yi.

Zheng Yi, who was very busy, read the telegram, and was also furious, and immediately sent a telegram to Li Lianshan, the commander of the first regiment stationed in Ningdu after evacuating from Sanjiangkou, ordering him to lead a regiment to escort all the Cantonese prisoners to Ruijin, and ordered the five regiments and three battalions stationed in the capital to send all the remaining wounded of the Cantonese army to the outside of Ganxian County.

Chief of Staff Wang Huchen was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly spoke out to dissuade him: "I'm afraid it's not good to do this, right?" In any case, the wounded are innocent, and if the Cantonese army uses this to create public opinion and blacken our army's face from a humanitarian point of view, it is likely to have an extremely bad impact, which will greatly reduce the political score! ”

"Alas...... I didn't know that there would be a huge danger in doing so! ”

Zheng Yi let out a long sigh and said helplessly: "But you know what kind of urine the Kuomintang is, no matter how good we do and how generous we are, the leaders of the Kuomintang government and the army will choose to turn a blind eye, they always have a reason to criticize our army, and they always try their best to slander us Communists by any means!" ”

"From 12 April to the present, the Kuomintang has never stopped massacring Communists, and I will not say anything about it; in the past few months alone, Zhou Wenyong, labor commissar of the Guangzhou Soviet Government and commander-in-chief of the Red Guards; Li Zhilong, who was acting director of the Navy Bureau in the first phase of the Huangpu Military Academy; Ma Jun, secretary of the Beiping City CPC Committee; Xia Minghan, member of the Hubei Provincial CPC Committee; Guo Liang, member of the Central Committee; Luo Yinong, member of the Provisional Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee; Xiang Jingyu, responsible person of the Hubei Provincial CPC Committee, were killed one after another."

"These are only the leading comrades of our party, and I don't know how many other comrades have sacrificed. We can only bury the bodies of our comrades, get up from the pool of blood, and once again take up swords and guns to fight the reactionaries to the end. ”

"Li Jishen, the commander of the Guangdong army who is now attacking us, is also an executioner whose hands are stained with the blood of the Communists, and the Communists in the Whampoa Military Academy let him kill them all overnight, and he spared no effort to hunt down and kill the Communists before and after the Guangzhou Uprising, and thousands of Communists were killed by him in the entire Guangdong Province, and there are dozens of tragedies that we know of alone."

"Tell me, for such a person, why should I give him face? Given him face, can he spare our comrades? No way! Since they are already enemies with each other, why do they have to save the so-called face for each other!? Is it just about having a good name? ”

Wang Huchen shook his head and sighed with emotion: "Speaking of the sacrificed comrades, I suddenly remembered a poem you read to us some time ago: It doesn't matter if you cut off your head, as long as your doctrine is true, kill Xia Minghan and later generations." Comrade Xia Minghan's heroic and fearless faith in the face of the enemy's butcher's knife still makes my blood surge and at the same time full of righteous indignation! ”

Speaking of this, Wang Huchen paused slightly, and then said: "In the past, I always felt that the captured Kuomintang officers and soldiers could still be reformed, but after reading several reports sent by the Fifth Regiment and the Third Battalion, I completely lost my heart to reform the prisoners of the Cantonese Army...... Not to mention the fact that they do not understand each other's language and customs, the serious regional thinking and xenophobic sentiment that prevail among the officers and men of Guangdong are enough to make people pessimistic and hopeless. ”

"The three battalions of the fifth regiment treat them with good food and drink every day, and they also take out valuable special medicine to treat their wounds and diseases, but they still can't make those wounded and sick soldiers of the Cantonese army stop insulting and confronting.

Zheng Yi was deeply touched by this: "All along, Political Commissar Li and other brothers have advised me to reform the prisoners, so that they can improve their ideological consciousness and use them for my use. ”

"After the defeat of Ningdu, hundreds of security regiments were the first batch of transformation objects of our division, and more than 400 of them were successfully transformed and became the brothers of our mentor, but except for the Ningdu security regiment, there is no more chance."

"Since the Nanchang Uprising last year to the present, except for more than half a month of rest time in the Jinggangshan base area, most of the other days have been spent in marching and fighting, and it is not until the first of this month that Tingzhou is defeated, and the whole senior brothers can take a breath."

"Then there is the enemy officers and soldiers we captured, most of them are either from the Guangdong army or the Yunnan army, the Guangdong army does not need to talk about him, the Yunnan army that generally smokes big cigarettes and has to take a breath has no need to reform at all, or recruit innocent poor children from the people."

Wang Huchen nodded frequently: "Our opinions are unanimous, rather than spending a lot of effort and thankless in the end, it is better to recruit new recruits and retrain." ”

"After Commissar Li arrives, let's have a meeting! Taking advantage of this time to make it possible to work out as soon as possible the rules and regulations for the reform of prisoners, as well as how to strengthen the political and ideological work of the army and the establishment and development of the red base area in Tingzhou, we must come up with measures for implementing them as soon as possible, so as to save the brothers from being confused. ”

"It is indeed necessary, the establishment of the Tingzhou revolutionary base is a top priority, wait until I report to the front committee in Ningdu, you better put other things down, take a look at this ...... first"

"This is the newspaper that Shangguan Yong brought back from Putian, Comrade Peng's troops are in danger, I have already told Shangguan Yong that after returning home, we will rush to Shantou and do our best to get in touch with Comrade Peng, if necessary, our army needs to immediately go south to the Hailufeng area to bring Comrade Peng and the remaining troops back."

After Zheng Yi finished speaking, he took out a few newspapers from the drawer and put them in front of Chief of Staff Wang Huchen, and then took out a pen to quickly draft the telegram order.

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As soon as it was dark the next day, the instructor's baggage battalion escorted the convoy to the west, and sent 100 boxes of special medicines, 50 Zeiss binoculars, 50 Colt 1911 pistols, 10,000 pairs of British-made Zhongbang military shoes, 5 Siemens 15-watt radios, and 100 boxes of Nanyang-made raincoats to Ningdu, and handed them over to the front committee of the base area that was about to arrive in Ningdu.

On the afternoon of 8 June, dozens of large and small cargo ships transported more than 540 wounded and sick Cantonese soldiers to the Ganxian wharf.

A battalion of Yang Chisheng's unit stationed in Ganxian County was nervous, watching more than 100 Red Army instructors, officers and men, and boatmen carry wounded soldiers ashore one by one, but none of them dared to go out and ask questions.

It was not until more than 500 wounded and sick soldiers of the Cantonese Army were all carried off the ship, and the officers and men of the Red Army instructors went to the ship, that the commander of the garrison dared to order the city gate to be opened, and personally led a company of brothers to the dock to check what was going on.

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