Beginning in September 1933, under the guidance of the ideology of "fighting outside the country must first secure the interior", Chiang Kai-shek mobilized 500,000 troops, adopted a new strategy of fortress doctrine, and launched the fifth encirclement and suppression against the Central Red Army in Jiangxi, and the Red Army hastily responded to the battle. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Fifth Encirclement and Suppression lasted for almost a year, and the base areas of the Central Soviet Region were gradually shrinking, at this time, Wang Ming's left-leaning opportunist line dominated the Red Army.

Wang Ming and others refused to accept the correct suggestions of Mao and Zhu, and adopted positional warfare instead of guerrilla warfare and movement warfare, and replaced people's warfare with so-called "regular" warfare, so that the Central Red Army was completely in a position of being passively beaten.

At the critical time of encircling and suppressing the Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek's secret military conference held in Lushan was mainly to readjust the deployment of troops on the basis of the fifth "encirclement and suppression."

Chiang Kai-shek, under the planning of his German adviser, General Seckert, formulated an "iron bucket plan" to completely annihilate the Central Red Army, and this meeting was to implement this plan.

The meeting was held in an auditorium not far from the polder, and the entire Lushan and Guling Mountains were placed under strict vigilance.

More than 200 participants were provincial chairmen, army commanders, division commanders, and senior staff officers from Jiangxi, Hubei, Henan, Hunan, and Shandong provinces.

Feng Chen, as Xu Enzeng's temporary confidential secretary, participated in the whole meeting.

The meeting was presided over by Chiang Kai-shek himself, and Yang Yongtai, director of the Political Department of the Nanchang Xingying of the Military Commission, and Xiong Shihui, chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Government, were responsible for the arrangement of the meeting.

The meeting lasted for a whole week, and a complete "iron bucket plan" for encircling the Central Red Army was formed.

It was planned that the 1.5 million troops of the Kuomintang would suddenly close and encircle the base areas of the central Soviet region with Ruijin, Yudu, Huichang, and Xingguo as the targets on a certain day at the same time, from all directions.

The entire encirclement radius is 150 kilometers from the red capital Ruijin.

This encirclement is tightly arranged, and there are many numbered grids on the map, and which troops must arrive at the designated position in a certain grid on the map are marked in detail.

Units arriving at designated positions must, in accordance with regulations, immediately lay up barbed wire, reserve gaps, build firepower nets and pillbox groups, and set up grain and grass, ammunition, warehouses, hospitals, wired telephone networks, strapping stations, relay stations, and so on in sections.

The plan determined that once the encirclement was formed, the troops would advance 7 to 8 kilometers a day to the center of Ruijin in accordance with the order, and for every mile of advance, a heavy barbed wire fence would be laid, and a line of pillboxes would be built every 5 kilometers, and the blockhouses would be set up to form an extremely tight blockade network of crossfire.

It is planned to advance 25 kilometers in depth every month, and in six months it will be able to enter the red capital Ruijin, and the red capital Ruijin will be surrounded by 300 heavy barbed wire, 30 heavy pillbox lines, and countless obstacles.

In order to prevent the Red Army from breaking through, the plan also stipulated that the defense between each heavy barbed wire fence should be absolutely guaranteed, and not only should a large number of pillboxes be set up and minefields should be arranged, but 1,000 American-style military ten-wheeled trucks should be mobilized to be distributed to all units at any time.

As a prelude to the "iron bucket plan," before the encirclement is completed, the headquarters will dispatch 12 divisions of mobile troops to entangle with the Red Army, confuse the Red Army, and gain time for encirclement and deployment.

As soon as the encirclement was formed, the 12 divisions immediately retreated, and at the same time cut off all communication arteries except for military needs, cut off all sources of foreign supplies for the Red Army, and blockaded the Soviet zone for information.

Chiang Kai-shek's huge and well-arranged military plan is naturally incomparable with the previous four "encirclement and suppression."

At the end of the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek delivered a closing speech, in which he spoke with great interest and confidence: "Now that the great cause of suppressing the communists has been won, I hope that the responsible persons of all parties will actively implement the decisions of the meeting and complete the battle!" ”

The more than 200 participants present were all gearing up and vigorous, and wanted to completely annihilate the Central Red Army in this iron bucket encirclement and suppression plan.

After Feng Chen learned about the entire "Iron Bucket Plan", he was secretly surprised in his heart, it was related to the fate of the Central Red Army, how could he report this plan to the Central Committee as soon as possible?

But I have lost my upline, and Comrade An Zhida doesn't know where he is, what should I do?

When the meeting was held in Lushan, Feng Chen had been thinking about a problem, how to connect with the organization.

On the day he returned to Shanghai, Feng Chen finally thought of someone, and this person was the writer Shen Xi.

In fact, Feng Chen knew very early that the writer Shen Xi was an underground party member, and after the arrest of the writer Jiang Yi, Feng Chen was even more convinced that Shen Xi was the person in charge of the party organization in Shanghai's cultural circles.

After carefully weighing the pros and cons, Feng Chen decided to take the risk to visit Shen Xi, he wanted to persuade Shen Xi to help him, get in touch with the party organization as soon as possible, and pass the information to the Central Soviet Region in time.

That night, Feng Chen came to Shen Xi's residence and knocked on the door, Shen Xi was obviously surprised when he saw Feng Chen standing outside the door, stared at Feng Chen and asked, "Mr. Feng, why did you come to me?!" ”

"Mr. Shen, you let me in the door." Feng Chen looked at Shen Xi who was blocking the door and replied.

Shen Xi reluctantly let Feng Chen into the living room of the house and sat down on the sofa, poured a cup of tea for Feng Chen, and then sat next to Feng Chen and asked, "Mr. Feng, what is the urgency, come to me at night?" ”

"Mr. Shen, I know that you are a party member, I violated organizational discipline today and came to you rashly, I do have very important information, and I need to contact the superior organization." Feng Chen replied openly and honestly.

"Mr. Feng, why can't I understand what you said? What party members? What parent organization? Please leave my house immediately or I'll call the police! ”

Shen Xi lost his temper with a cold face.

"Mr. Shen, I know that you have always misunderstood me before, but when it comes to organizational discipline, I haven't explained too much to you, the matter is urgent, you must help me."

Feng Chen met Shen Xi's suspicious gaze and sincerely confessed to Shen Xi.

"To tell you the truth, Comrade Shen Xi, I entered the Social Bureau to accept the instructions of the organization and go undercover, my previous upline Zheng Liangcai was secretly killed by Su Chengde not long ago, my direct leader Comrade An Zhida has withdrawn from Shanghai, and now you are the only person who can help me contact the superior organization."

Feng Chen picked up the teacup, looked at Shen Xi fixedly, and said his identity without reservation.

"How can I prove that you are our comrade?" Shen Xi asked hesitantly.

"That time in the Dahua Ballroom, the traitor Gu Shunzhang followed you, you should always know that I covered your retreat." Feng Chen looked at Shen Xi with watery eyes and said.

"Okay, I'll believe you once! What is it that is so desperate for you to contact the parent organization? Shen Xi seemed to believe Feng Chen.

"Chiang Kai-shek convened a secret military meeting in Lushan this time, and I attended the meeting with Xu Enzeng of the Central Investigation Department of the Kuomintang, and at this meeting, Chiang Kai-shek formulated an iron bucket plan to encircle and suppress our Central Red Army, and I need to urgently transmit this information to the Central Soviet District."

"But we don't have a radio station in the hands of the party organization in the cultural circles!"

Shen Xi finally believed Feng Chen and let down his guard.

"That's why I asked you to help me contact the party organization that can pass on the information." Feng Chen said.

"Okay, then I'll try, if it doesn't work, tomorrow at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the two of us will meet at the style café on Xiafei Road." Shen Xi finally agreed to help Feng Chen come forward to contact the organization.

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At 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, Feng Chen came to the "Style Cafe" on Xiafei Road on time, walked into the café, and saw Shen Xi sitting by the window at a glance.

Feng Chen walked over directly and sat down opposite Shen Xi, Shen Xi gestured, and the waiter quickly came over with two cups of coffee and put them on the coffee table.

"I've reported your request to the organization, and at 7 o'clock tonight, you'll be contacted at the Varsha West Restaurant on Xiafei Road." Shen Xi picked up the coffee cup, leaned forward and whispered.

"Varsha West Restaurant?" Feng Chen looked at Shen Xi suspiciously.

"Yes, Varsha West! Tonight, wearing a black trench coat and holding a copy of War and Peace, sit down against the window and put the book on your right hand side on the western dining table. ”

"The joint code is, someone will ask you first, sir, do you like Luo Song soup or duck blood vermicelli? You replied, I like both dishes. ”