Chapter 1527: Capture Yueyang
Guo Zhuocheng also personally sent a telegram to the Central Soviet District to order the previously sealed cave to be opened, and all the weapons, ammunition, and military rations that had just been quietly stuffed inside were transported to the front line.
At present, whether it is Xiang Ying, Qu Qiubai, and He Shuheng, including many people who previously regarded the Soviet Union as a sacred treasure and the Soviet Union as the cradle of revolution, the vast majority of them have changed their mentality, and they all agree with the central authorities' proposal of reading autonomy and self-reliance, and they have also begun to follow the orders of their superiors and follow their own path, regarding the Soviet Union as just an ordinary country.
Of course, because of the difference in their inner feelings, they still can't look at the Soviet Union like the United States and Britain, in their opinion, the United States and Britain are rich people who hold power, and all the common people are the objects of oppression and exploitation, and they still have to be the masters after all, while the Soviet Union is the toiling masses as the masters of the country, which is what China should pursue, and China must not let the capitalists, the rich, the landlords and other exploitation classes be the masters of the country in the future.
On the one hand, the reason why they changed so quickly was because of the cruel facts that taught them: completely obeying the Soviet Union and completely under the control of Wang-Ming, who was thousands of miles away, it was impossible for the revolution to win, and they could only accept one defeat after another. Things now show that as long as we follow our own path and decide our own cause, we can succeed in revolution and win victory after victory.
The second reason is because Guo Zhuocheng shocked them by taking the theory of that time and space in 1993, especially emphasizing that practice is the only criterion for testing truth, emphasizing that there is no savior or immortal emperor in the world, all qiē have to rely on themselves, and China's fate can only be in the hands of the Chinese themselves, these theories are iron truths, and they cannot refute them at all. At the same time, Guo Zhuocheng also continued to propagate the mistakes of the Soviet Union, citing one example after another that they did not know, and constantly propagandizing that some Soviet leaders had become corrupt and degenerate after taking up leadership positions, and finally became enemies of the common people.
In Guo Zhuocheng's propaganda, he repeatedly stressed that nothing is done with good intentions, and the result will be good, and we must rely on the legal system and supervision, and we must not blindly follow other people's orders.
The third reason is that the discipline of the party members is very high, and they must carry out the orders of their superiors if they understand them, and they must also carry them out if they do not understand them; since there are facts here, and there are results for everyone to feel, and now the people in the Soviet area are indeed getting better day by day, and the speed of their improvement is far greater than before, and they are naturally easy to understand and accept.
The fastest changes are the grassroots party members and grassroots cadres, who are the most practical and the easiest to associate the policy with the surrounding party, and they have naturally become the supporters, advocates and followers of the new policy.
As for the Soviet Union, they had heard from their superiors before, and they knew that there were a few good big people in the Soviet Union, who were leading the world revolution, and that was the concept. Now those big people at the higher levels do not know the specific situation in China, and if they listen to them completely blindly, the revolution will fail, and we must go our own way. Not to mention that people who are thousands of miles away are likely to command blindly, even when the people around them don't understand the situation, they may also talk nonsense, how can they listen to outsiders casually? At most, I will take the opinions of others as a reference.
The last reason was that the organization removed all those who were stubborn and loyal to the Soviet Union from their leading positions, and did not kill them, beat them, or arrest them in prison, as they had done before, but allowed them to go out to propagandize, agitate, and debate, and allowed these people to propagate the benefits of the Soviet Union.
At the beginning, these people were still full of self-confidence, and they squeezed the higher-level organizations again and again, whether they really let them go to propaganda, and asked those leaders if they had the courage to let them speak and express their opinions. However, when they went out on the streets or in the countryside to propagate the propaganda, none of the townspeople or the peasants in the townships listened to them, and not only did they not win over enough people to believe in their theories, but they themselves became negative teaching materials, and they were ridiculed and scolded by the local people everywhere they went. Sometimes they are chased and beaten by some angry people, and if it weren't for the local political axe to protect them, I don't know what would have happened.
In the eyes of the common people, the theory of the Soviet Union is for the good of the toiling masses, and now the theory of the central government is also for the good of the toiling masses, although we want to liberate all mankind, the central authorities call on us to first emancipate ourselves, first improve our own lives, and first improve the lives of the Chinese people. When we all have money, food and clothing, and then liberate the people of other countries, it will be more realistic. We are all poor now, and now we are all being hunted down by the Kuomintang-Party Central Army, and we are all in danger, why are we talking about such a high profile?
Those people said that Wang Ming was the most real revolutionary, but the common people said that since he was a real revolutionary, then he would return to China to participate in the revolution, and he would fight against Jiang Jieshi's central army on the battlefield. Besides, we lost battles one after another when he was on remote control, and he had a chance to win a battle for us to see......
Even if this is the case in the Central Soviet Region, then the situation in Guizhou-Prefecture and Sichuan-Sichuan is even simpler, because the common people in these places have not been exposed to the education of the past at all, and they do not know anything about the Soviet Union, Wang Ming, or any other theory. They only knew that the Red Army had come and defeated the Central Army, the Guizhou Army, and the Sichuan Army, and that their story was better, and that the Red Army was a good person, so they listened to the Red Army, and they thought that whoever the Red Army said was good, and whoever the Red Army said was not good, that person would definitely be bad.
The only ones who were difficult to change were some theoretical workers brought by He-Long and Guan-Xiangying from the Hunan-Hubei border. These people are resolutely opposed to the Central Committee and the Red Army leaders saying that they parted ways with the Soviet Union and resolutely oppose the Red Army's separation from Wang Ming, but because military leaders such as He Long and Guan Xiangying have long been unaccustomed to the behavior of these people, they have long been dissatisfied with their own people. It is when the central organization department dismisses those people from their posts.
When those who did not repent were gathered in Yiqiē to study, Mr. He and others resolutely supported it, and the other officers and soldiers applauded.
As for the troops from the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Soviet Region, they were more influenced by Wang Ming, Zhang Guotao, and others, and they had won many victories during this period, and their inner feelings were somewhat different from those of other troops. The central authorities had no choice but to devote more energy to their ideological work, and with the consent of Liu Zhidan, Xie Zichang, Xu Xiangqian, and other principal leaders, all political work cadres in the armed forces were transferred from their original posts, and they were allowed to go to the countryside and work in factories and enterprises for a period of time.
Without further ado, let's get down to business.
When the army commanded by Chen Yi and Su Yu attacked from Jiangxi to Hunan in the southeast, the First Army under the command of General Lin attacked Yue-Yang and Chang-De in two directions.
Out of Yichang, that is, out of the Three Gorges, the water potential of the Yangtze River calmed down, and the river surface was much wider, although the Yangtze River at this time was not dredged and renovated, and it was still not as large as it would be a few decades later, but it was enough to navigate nearly 1,000 tons of small ships and hundreds of tons of ships.
As a matter of fact, Guo Zhuocheng had already transported more than 30 river gunboats, patrol boats, and troop carriers from that time and space in 1993 in the Yangtze River near Chongqing, and this time he transported them to the waters near Yichang, and at the same time added more than 20 ships according to General Lin's request.
These more than 50 warships do seem insignificant in the sea, but in the inland rivers and the Yangtze River, they are enough to be described as covering the river, majestic, and murderous. Not to mention the 75 mm caliber guns on the gunboats, which were already a symbol of firepower in this era, even the two heavy machine guns and two anti-aircraft machine guns on the patrol boats were enough to make the troops on the shore tremble. Unless it is a strong fortification, these gunboats and patrol boats can already easily destroy the fortifications and positions of the troops on both sides of the Yangtze River.
General Lin waved the First Army to advance by land and water, and it took only five days to break through the obstacles of various armed forces, and killed under the city of Yue-Yang, and the troops of a division besieged Yue-Yang.
The wooden sailing boats that the defenders had relied on not only did not leave them a way to escape, but were all captured by the Red Army's warships at the first time, and Dongting Lake became their most obstacle.
According to the past proportions, it would have been impossible for a division of the Red Army to besiege Yue-Yang, which was guarded by one division, but now it was more than enough for this division to besiege Yue-Yang, and the Hunan army division trapped in Yue-Yang City was so frightened that it did not dare to move, and constantly asked He Jian, the commander-in-chief of the Hunan Army in Changsha, for help.
The battle to attack Yue-Yang began in the early hours of September 20, 1936.
The battle began with the shelling of the warships cruising in Dongting Lake, because in the face of the defenders on this side of Dongting Lake, there were not many defenders at all, let alone many fortifications, because in their opinion, the Red Army fought very land, but it was not possible at all on the water, and they came from Sichuan and Guizhou, and it was impossible for them to have boats, let alone iron-hulled boats, and at most they just grabbed a few fishing boats.
When a murderous warship appeared in Dongting Lake, they were dumbfounded. They were preparing to escape on the wooden boats and sailboats that were necessary to escape, but they could not think of a way to stop them except to watch them being dragged away by the Red Army one by one. And they did not dare to overhaul the fortifications by the lake, because the guns of the Red Army gunboats were aimed at them.
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