In October 1935, the Central Red Army, which had lost in the fifth anti-encirclement campaign, had to withdraw from the Central Soviet Zone and start its strategic transfer from Gannan Yandu, Ruijin and FJ Minxi. The Fifth Army Corps www.biquge.info of the 43rd Red Division was ordered to act as the rear guard to intercept the enemy and cover the main force to break through. The 43rd Division, as the rearguard of the guards, undertook the most difficult and difficult tasks on the Long March. At the end of November, when a company broke through the enemy's three blockade lines and arrived at the edge of the Xiangjiang River, which was heavily defended by the *** army. The 86,000 Red Army, with its huge logistical units and heavily loaded central organs, had traveled less than 40 miles a day, and could not get rid of the enemy's encirclement and interception, and thus fell into the heavy encirclement of the first army. The Eighth Army Corps was defeated, the First Army Corps and the Third Army Corps suffered heavy losses, and the Fifth Army Corps, as the rearguard, finally broke through the Xiang River. However, it was found that the 43rd Division, which was blocking the enemy on the east bank of the Xiang River between GX Jeonju and Hung Yen, had not received an order to break through, and the Supreme Military Council of the Red Army had not sent any troops to meet the 43rd Division across the river. The 43rd Division was in dire straits. Arriving at the headquarters of the Red Army on the north bank of Zishui, the Red Army headquarters of the Youzhuping Containment Unit, under the concern of ****** and Zhu De, made radio contact with the 43rd Division for the last time. The division commander Chen Shuxiang was ordered to break through to the southeast of Xing'an in the Hongshujiao and Xinwei areas, or cross the river from the area of Fenghuangzui. However, at this time, the Xia Wei Division of the enemy Gui Army had occupied the most important ferry crossing on the Hunan JX bank guarded by the Red Third Army on December 2, and the Baishapu ferry held by the First Army on its flank had also been lost. Liu Jianxu's division of the Hunan army had been pursued from Quanzhou, and the Zhou Hunyuan division of the Central Army had also reached Wenshi, north of Xinwei.

The plan of the Red 43rd Division to cross the Xiangjiang River and return to the establishment failed! At the foot of the mountains and forests, with the Xiangjiang River in front and the Guanjiang River in the back, the Red 43rd Division, which had 6,000 troops, seemed to have fallen into a trap, so it had to turn around and kill all the way to the old area of JX. When they arrived in HND County, there were only eighty or ninety people left. They were surrounded by thousands of enemy troops, and by noon they had broken out of the encirclement, and the troops were only a dozen or so. Fighting until dusk, there were four people left: division commander Chen Shuxiang, deputy chief of staff Shi Xin, communications officer, and company commander Gao Chunlin. In the final encounter with the enemy, Chen Shuxiang, who was holding the only machine gun and fought with the enemy, was shot in the abdomen and his intestines dragged to the ground. In the case of no hope of survival, he disregarded his personal safety, strictly ordered Shi Xin and Gao Chunlin to break through the siege, try to cross the river to catch up with the central government, and report to the Red 43rd Division to complete the covering task, as long as there is one person left, the determination to return the formation. Subsequently, the seriously wounded Chen Shuxiang was captured by powerful enemy forces. When he arrived at the Shima Bridge, Chen Shuxiang, who was carried on a stretcher by the enemy, was unwilling to be a prisoner, broke his intestines, and died a heroic death. He was twenty-nine years old.

And after Shi Xin and Gao Chunlin broke through the siege in pain, they went through a lot of difficulties and dangers, and Shi Xin even went on a killing spree, even the axe was cut to the edge, and the military uniforms on their bodies were all stained red with blood, and finally caught up with the troops. They were the only two officers and soldiers of the Red 43rd Division who were returned to the formation.

Huang Shanguo, who was in the central column, deeply felt sorry for Shi Xin after hearing the news of the destruction of the Red 43rd Division, and even shed tears when no one was around. When he heard that Shixin had returned to the establishment after breaking the siege, he burst into tears again, but this time he was happy.

In the next two years, Huang Shanguo never saw Shi Xin again, only knew that he was the chief of operations at the headquarters of the Red 15th Army Corps, and he became a military-level cadre at the age of 27! On January 20, 1937, the Red 15th Army Corps, the main force of the Red Army's Western Expeditionary Army, was surrounded by the enemy's superior forces and annihilated at the high platform of the Hexi Corridor.

And Shi Xin became a survivor again, he single-handedly and double-axed Xu Qianqian, the commander-in-chief of the Western Expeditionary Army, to fight his way out of the encirclement, and the two disguised themselves as sheepherds and traveled thousands of miles from the Hexi Corridor to northern Shaanxi.

Huang Shanguo, who was in Yan'an, was once again deeply worried about Shi Xin after hearing the news of the destruction of the Red 5th Army, but this time he firmly believed that Shi Xin would still come back. Sure enough, he soon heard the news of Shixin's return, but it was also accompanied by some bad gossip. What to say that Shixin is a **** escapist, spreading failed remarks everywhere. Some people simply said that Shi Xin was a mourning star, and whichever army he went to would be wiped out. Therefore, no army would want him, and he became a lonely ghost.

At this time, Huang Shanguo found Shi Xin, and the two talked for a long time. Shi Xin believes that this westward expedition is fundamentally a mistake in the strategic direction, and that it is to blindly collide with the enemy's superior forces without the support of a rear base after dispersing the limited mobile combat forces! Moreover, he also believed that the CMC's remote control of the Red 15 Corps was a typical blind command, and it did not care at all about the actual situation faced by the Red 15 Corps. Even if he is replaced by a stone heart to command, he will not end up in ruin.

What's worse is that Shi Xin peddles his fallacy whenever he meets people. made the people in the base area unable to hide from him.

Of course, Huang Shanguo could not agree with Shi Xin's wrong view, and it took him a lot of effort to persuade Shi Xin to change his wrong view.

At that time, Huang Shanguo's position in the **** Central Social Department was already very high, so he transferred Shi Xin to his own department, and at Shi Xin's request, he was let go to RB to study Western medicine - before that, he was born in a family of traditional Chinese medicine, and learning Western medicine was Shi Xin's wish for many years. By the way, he also examines the tactics, armaments, and strategic guiding ideology of the RB army - this is actually Shixin's self-exile, and it is a manifestation of his unforgiveness for his mistakes. When Shi Xin returned to China after completing his studies, he did not transfer him back to Yan'an at Shi Xin's request, but put him in SH to be a killer - Shi Xin did not want to return to the place that made him sad - countless comrades-in-arms sacrificed him in front of him but had no power to turn the situation around - in his opinion, it was a dead end, a dead end when they set out on the expedition.

This time Shi Xin was not arranged by Huang Shanguo to return to Yan'an, but Xiao Jinguang remembered this old subordinate, brave and resourceful, and outstanding Red Army commander "Shi Maniac". He made a request to the ****** in charge of intelligence work to bring him back to enrich the ranks of commanders of the Eighth Route Army. At that time, veteran Red Army cadres like Shi Xin, who had education and practical combat experience and had participated in the 25,000-mile Long March, were already rare figures in the Eighth Route Army.

The sound of rain outside the window pulled Huang Shanguo's thoughts back from distant Yan'an. He looked at Shi Xin's resolute face, and couldn't believe how a person could endure so many setbacks and pains and still maintain an optimistic personality.

"What an enigma!" Huang Shanguo thought.

The stone heart pen walked the dragon and snake, and finished his work in two hours. Huang Shanguo had to admire his amazing memory and super-fast writing skills. He poured a bowl of water for Shi Xin, and he eagerly picked up the stack of papers and read it.

He read for four hours, and Shi Xin was very patient with him, answering his questions from time to time.