In November, the Central Red Army, which left the Jiangxi Soviet District, forcibly crossed the Xiangjiang River in Guangxi, bringing tears to the mountains and rivers!

After the Red Army broke through on the Xiangjiang River, its ranks were sharply reduced from more than 86,000 at the time of departure to more than 34,000. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The frantic siege of the enemy continues, and the pace of the revolution cannot stand!

Forward, where to go?

When the red flag, painted with a sickle and axe, crossed the mountains on the border between Guangxi and Hunan with great difficulty, and came to Tongdao County, Hunan, the historical trend of the Central Red Army changed.

The leadership of the Central Red Army began to seriously ponder the question of where to go.

On the afternoon of December 12, 1934, in Gongcheng Academy in Tongdao County, the cold wind was bone-chilling and the atmosphere was depressing.

In the academy room, around two spliced tables, the top leaders of the Central Red Army sat in turn, and an impromptu emergency meeting was being held on the fate of the Red Army and the future of the Chinese revolution.

The meeting was chaired by Vice Chairman Zhou and mainly discussed the issue of strategic guidelines.

Also attending the meeting were Bogu, Luopu, Mao Weiren, Wang Jiaxiang, Commander-in-Chief Zhu, and Li De, a total of seven people, and Mao Weiren's seats were arranged in the corners of the table.

"When we left Jiangxi, the original plan was to go north into Xiangxi, join up with the Second and Sixth Army Corps, and then rely on this to establish and expand new base areas and turn to a counteroffensive, but in the battle of Xiangjiang, our army suffered heavy losses and was almost in a desperate situation. Let's all share our views. ”

Vice Chairman Zhou, who presided over the meeting, was the first to speak, raising the question of the future strategic shift of the Red Army.

"I think we should continue to go north and join up with the Red Second Army, relying on the base of the Red Second Army, plus the troops of the Red Sixth Army, we can attack the enemy in a wide area." Bogu then spoke.

"I very much agree with Comrade Bogu's opinion that after we join forces with the Second and Sixth Army Corps, we will soon create a large Soviet area at the junction of the three provinces of Hunan, Guizhou, and Sichuan."

Li De took out the pipe in his mouth with his right hand, glanced at the crowd, and echoed Bogu's view of going north.

"I oppose continuing to advance north to join the 2nd and 6th Army Corps, and according to the reconnaissance of the vanguard team, the enemy is heavily surrounded by troops in the direction of the Hunan and Guizhou border leading to the 2nd and 6th Army Corps."

Wang Jiaxiang looked at Mao Weiren, who was sitting in the corner of the table smoking a cigarette and contemplating, picked up the cup in front of him, drank two sips of boiling water, put down the cup heavily, and raised objections.

"You are afraid of the enemy, escapism!" Li De stood up emotionally, pointed at Wang Jiaxiang with a pipe in his right hand and scolded loudly.

"Comrade Li De, please don't get excited, we convened this emergency meeting to let the comrades express their opinions and come up with the best transfer plan."

Vice Chairman Zhou stretched out his hand and pulled Li De's leather coat, and persuaded him in a gentle tone.

"I agree with Comrade Jiaxiang's opinion that we should cancel the plan of going north to join the Second and Sixth Army Corps and advance to Guizhou, where the enemy's strength is weak, instead!"

Mao Weiren threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, stood up, swept his wise and profound gaze over the faces of the participants one by one, and said in his unique Hunan accent.

"Advance to Guizhou?!" Bogu looked at Mao Weiren and asked.

"Right! We should abandon our intention to establish a Soviet zone south of the Yangtze River with the Red Second Army, go west out of Guizhou, and march to Sichuan instead, to join forces with the Red Fourth Front Army. Mao Weiren said his thoughts in a flat tone.

"Why? I still insisted on going north and joining up with the 2nd and 6th Army Corps! Li De pointed at Mao Weiren and asked loudly.

"Why, because, Chiang Kai-shek already has more than 100,000 troops, and has deployed a pocket array in the areas of Chengbu, Suining, Wugang, Zhijiang, Huitong, and Jingzhou north of the passage, and is waiting for our more than 30,000 people to drill inside!" Mao Weiren raised his voice and answered Li De's question.

"I agree with Lao Mao's suggestion, stop going north, go west to Guizhou, change from Guizhou to Sichuan, and go to join the Red Fourth Front Army." Luo Pu put down the pen in his hand, put his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and spoke.

"I also agree with Lao Mao's opinion and divert to the west to Guizhou." Commander-in-Chief Zhu followed up and spoke.

"You are passively avoiding war, this is running away! I disagree! Li De stood up again and said loudly.

"Comrade Li De, in the first battle of the Xiangjiang River, our army suffered heavy losses, and if we continue to fight hard with the enemy, there will be a danger that the whole army will be annihilated, and we must not act rashly."

Vice Chairman Zhou once again persuaded Li De, who was still emotional.

"Report! Call from Shanghai, there is urgent information! ”

At this moment, Li Kenong, deputy director of the Political Security Bureau, hurriedly barged in with a telegram in his hand.

"Oh?! What's the situation? Vice Chairman Zhou stood up and asked.

"Comrade Cuttlefish in Shanghai called, it is a matter of military situation!" Li Kenong said.

"Read!" Vice Chairman Zhou ordered.

"Reliable information, Chiang has obtained the intention of our army to merge with the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps, and has now mobilized 120,000 troops to deploy in the area north of the passage, preparing to annihilate our army in one fell swoop! Cuttlefish. ”

Li Kenong read out the contents of the telegram in a loud voice.

After listening to the content of the message, the participants invariably brushed the ground and looked at Mao Weiren, and this information once again confirmed that Mao's previous suggestion was correct.

"Who is this cuttlefish? We can't just rely on his information, which has yet to be verified, to abandon our original plan of transfer, we must go north, we must join the 2nd and 6th Army Corps! ”

Li De stubbornly insisted.

"Cuttlefish is a comrade of our party lurking inside the enemy, and I believe in the accuracy of this information of Comrade Cuttlefish! I also agree with Lao Mao's suggestion to stop the northward march and move towards Guizhou instead. Vice Chairman Zhou said.

"I reserve my opinion!"

Li De angrily picked up the notebook in front of him and strode out of the conference room.

After Li De withdrew from the meeting, most of the comrades agreed with Mao Weiren's opinion, and the meeting adopted the proposal of moving west to Guizhou.

At half past seven o'clock that night, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission issued a telegram to the commanders of all army corps and columns to march west into Guizhou.

Subsequently, the field army headquarters issued the instructions of the "Deployment of Our Army's Operation into Guizhou": "Our army should quickly break away from the enemy in Guizhou, enter Guizhou in the west, and seek maneuver in order to turn north. ”

At the same time, a telegram was sent to the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps: "Our Western Field Army has entered the Guizhou border in the west, and is seeking maneuver in continuing its westward advance so that it can move northward, and your troops should respond to it." ”

On December 13, the Central Red Army suddenly changed its march route in the territory of the passage and transferred its troops to Guizhou by two routes, leaving hundreds of thousands of pursuing Kuomintang troops in the southwest of Hunan.

Chiang Kai-shek's delusional attempt to annihilate the Central Red Army in Xiangxi was shattered!

……

Feng Chen sent a telegram after sending a telegram at the Varsha West Restaurant, and he felt a sense of relaxation.

Lawrence asked Lu Haifang to send Feng Chen downstairs.

"Mr. Feng, I heard that you are from the Central Special Branch?" When he went downstairs, Lu Haifang suddenly asked.

Feng Chen was shocked, turned his head and looked at this flamboyant Lu Haifang, and thought to himself, how did Lawrence find such a person as a traffic officer? This man is so far from Sonyabi!

"Hehe, Boss Cai once told Mr. Walton that Mr. Feng is a member of Teko." Seeing that Feng Chen ignored him, Lu Haifang smiled awkwardly and continued.

"Oh, Mr. Lu, I have a business relationship with Mr. Walton, I borrowed your radio station, and I also contacted business partners in Wuhan, didn't Mr. Walton tell you?"

Feng Chen began to be wary of this Far East Intelligence Bureau's traffic officer Lu Haifang.

"How did Mr. Lu meet Mr. Walton?" Feng Chen thought for a while and asked.

"Oh, after graduating from Peking Normal School, because I am proficient in English, I met Mr. Walton through a friend's introduction, and I just helped Mr. Walton translate the valuable materials in the newspaper into English." Lu Haiphong replied.

As they spoke, the two had already come to the side of the road, Feng Chen stretched out his hand to stop a rickshaw, and said to Lu Haifang: "Mr. Lu, please tell Mr. Walton that I have the last transaction with him today." ”

Feng Chen had already made up his mind that he would never come to Varsha West Restaurant again.

Maybe it's because after Lawrence took over Sorge's work, the intelligence work has been doing smoothly, and all kinds of people have been absorbed, which is too dangerous!

Relations with Lawrence should be severed as soon as possible!

Feng Chen, who was sitting in the rickshaw, faintly felt an inexplicable danger from Lu Haifang......