Just as the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Shanghai, a serious xenophobic incident occurred in Nanjing, and British and American warships shelled Nanjing, which set off a new wave of protests in Wuhan.

Zhuang Jihua's door can no longer be closed, Wuhan Huangpu classmates come here in an endless stream to discuss the current situation, Hong Junqi and Du Yuming are worried about Zhongzhong, Du Yuming is very confused, I don't know how the situation will develop, and carefully proposed to go east to find President Jiang, but Hong Junqi is very dissatisfied with the current situation in Wuhan and wants to take away the student corps. Zhuang Jihua persuaded them to go by themselves if they wanted to go, as soon as possible. But Hong Junqi didn't listen.

"The Cadet Corps was formed by us, for the principal, for the Northern Expedition! Not formed for the Communist Party! The principal wants us to take this army with us, and I will never leave it to the Communist Party! Hong Junqi shouted almost with a roar.

"Cultural Revolution, can't the principal reconcile with Wuhan?" Du Yuming was very unwilling and worried: "What about the Northern Expedition?" That's it? ”

Zhuang Jihua sighed, Du Yuming is not the first person to raise this question, there are many people in Huangpu who think like this, and there are also many people who are confused.

"Guangting, Junqi, if you want to go, leave as soon as possible." Zhuang Jihua can only do this: "Junqi, don't want to take away the student corps, you can't take it away." ”

But no one listened to Zhuang Jihua's words, and everyone had a trace of luck in their hearts, hoping that a miracle would appear at the last moment.

In early April, Wang Jingwei returned to Shanghai in anticipation of everyone's expectations, and soon after he and Chen Duxiu jointly issued a Wang Chen manifesto -- "Letter to the Comrades of the Two Parties," reaffirming that they would adhere to the three major policies of uniting with Russia and the United Communists to support peasants and workers, and declaring that they would continue the Northern Expedition and fight imperialism.

Tang Shengzhi and Zhang Fakui expressed their resolute support for Wuhan, and the wavering Zhu Peide also expressed his support for Wuhan, and Tan Yankai, who was in Wuhan, had a huge influence on the Second Army, and a miracle seemed to have appeared.

The drastic change in the situation in China also caused a political struggle in the Comintern and in Moscow, and Trotsky, who had gradually lost ground, pointed out that the more the Chinese revolution developed, the more dangerous the situation facing the Communist Party, and believed that [***] should withdraw from the Kuomintang, keep the surname of the Kuomintang, intensify the arming of the workers and peasants, carry out the agrarian revolution, and prevent the bourgeoisie from betraying the revolution. On the same day that the Wang Chen Manifesto was published, Stalin made a speech in Moscow openly praising Chiang Kai-shek, believing that Chiang Kai-shek was obedient to orders, and advocated making full use of Chiang Kai-shek's anti-imperialist sentiment and then throwing him away.

But Chiang Kai-shek did not give him a chance, and on April 12, the streets of Shanghai burst into gunfire.

More than 300 people were killed, more than 500 were arrested, thousands were missing, Wang Shouhua, the leader of the workers' committee and chairman of the trade union, died, and Zhou Elai and Luo Yinong escaped by chance.

On this day, blood stained the streets of Shanghai; Dyeed the Huangpu River red.

On 15 April, Li Ji of Guangdong rebelled in response to Chiang Kai-shek, and this time more well-known Communists fell at gunpoint, Xiong Xiong, Xiao Chunu, and others died, hundreds of Communist Party members and classmates sympathetic to the Communist Party were shot dead at the Whampoa Military Academy, the Provincial-Hong Kong Strike Committee was shut down, the workers' pickets were forcibly disbanded, and Guangdong was on the Wende Building.

This was followed by Nanjing... Hangzhou Guangxi ......

Countless heads fell to the ground.

Chen Duxiu, Zhou Elai, Lin Zuhan, Guo Moruo and other communists fled to Wuhan one after another.

The gunfire of April 12 shattered all illusions and expectations, and Wuhan reacted quickly, announcing that Chiang Kai-shek would be expelled from the party, removed him from his own position, and offered a reward of 250,000 yuan for the capture of Chiang Kai-shek, and a reward of 100,000 yuan for his killing.

The attack on Chiang Kai-shek in Wuhan brought down the scorching heat, and Chiang Kai-shek's supporters in Wuhan could not help but shudder and secretly flee one after another. Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing also noticed the division of the troops with a headache, and Chen Cheng always wanted to bring the troops to Wuhan to join Deng Yanda, and the first division, known as the tiger ben, was completely chaotic.

Strictly speaking, Chiang Kai-shek did not rely on his basic troops to launch the April 12 coup, Shanghai was mainly Zhou Fengqi's 26th Route Army, and Nanjing was mainly Li Zongren's Seventh Army. The political education of Huangpu has been deeply rooted in the First Army, Xue Yue, who supported Wuhan, has become the shopkeeper and always looks for opportunities to leave, and the officers at all levels are confused in their thinking, and even He Yingqin and Liu Zhi, who are Chiang Kai-shek's hardcore henchmen, are at a loss, He Yingqin was worried about a mutiny, and once wanted to resign and leave, and the junior officers rushed to Nanjing in groups to find Chiang Kai-shek and ask him why he wanted to sabotage the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

Since then, the Kuomintang has been divided and has never been reunited.

"Xiong Xiong, his gang has been sacrificed." Although Li Zhilong was very dissatisfied with Yang Qigang, he was still very sad to hear the news of his sacrifice.

There will be a large number of classmates sacrificed in Zhuang Jihua's expectation, in Niu Xing and Zhangmutou witnessed the sacrifice of so many classmates, he thought that he could withstand such a blow, but when he heard the news, he still felt like a knife. Yang Qigang's voice and smile appeared in his mind, and the past arguments and differences turned into dust.

Zhuang Jihua's face was pale and he muttered to himself: "It's all my fault, I should have told them, I should have told them, I should have told them...., why are you so timid." ”

"Cultural Revolution, it's not your reason." As soon as Li Zhilong opened his mouth to persuade, he was interrupted by Zhuang Jihua.

"Nope! It's me, I should have told them, I'm too cowardly, coward, afraid of death! Zhuang Jihua hammered his chest and burst into tears.

"Cultural Revolution, don't do this, it's none of your business." Li Zhilong hurriedly went to pull him, for fear of breaking the wound.

Song Yunfei and Wu Ziniu, who were outside the door, heard that the situation was wrong and hurriedly entered the door.

"Commander, don't do this, be careful of the wound." Song Yunfei grabbed Zhuang Jihua's hand, but Wu Ziniu glared at Li Zhilong angrily: "What the fuck did you say to the division commander?" Can't you just say it! ”

Li Zhilong let out a long sigh, tears streaming down his eyes. After a while, Zhuang Jihua calmed down, he leaned back in his chair weakly, his eyes blank.

"Division commander, you don't have to blame yourself, it was Chiang Kai-shek who betrayed the revolution, and we can continue the revolution." Song Yunfei persuaded.

"That's right, Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang were all defeated by us, what's so great about Chiang Kai-shek." Wu Ziniu said with a grin.

Zhuang Jihua shook his head: "You don't understand, things won't be so simple." Wang Jingwei will not go eastward. ”

"Won't it?" Song Yunfei was very surprised, but before he could speak, Wu Ziniu asked first, but his eyes looked at Li Zhilong.

"The Cultural Revolution is a show talent who knows the affairs of the world without going out," Li Zhilong smiled bitterly, but admired it sincerely in his heart: "However, it is not that Chairman Wang does not go eastward, and Advisor Bao does not approve, he advocates continuing the Northern Expedition, joining Feng Yuxiang, and striving for Feng Yuxiang to fight against Jiang together." ”

"What kind of medicine does this big-nosed gourd sell, Chiang Kai-shek has not a stable foothold, if he doesn't take the opportunity to defeat him, it won't be easy to fight when he gets a firm foothold." Song Yunfei frowned.

"I don't think I don't want to fight, but I can't." Wu Ziniu defended Borodin: "Old Song, do you know how much rice on the street costs a catty, a piece of ocean, damn, it has risen almost tenfold." I've seen that it's going to rise for a few days, the stores are empty, and the people are grabbing everything and buying what they see. The front-line soldiers are starting to go hungry, and that's it, still fighting, fighting ghosts. ”

"This is an imperialist blockade," Song Yunfei argued, but Wu Ziniu shook his head and said, "I don't see it." Commander, what do you say? ”

"Ziniu has a point, other materials can be counted as an imperialist blockade, but food is definitely not." Zhuang Jihua said lightly: "Since ancient times, Hunan is a famous granary, which should be able to supply Wuhan grain, and there should be no shortage of grain, and the lack of grain should be other reasons." ”

"You guessed right, the local peasant association in Hunan did not allow grain to leave the country, saying that if the grain went abroad, the price of grain in Hunan would rise, and there was really no way to take these people, Tang Shengzhi was short of food on the front line, so he had to write a letter to Mao Zdong and ask him to help get hundreds of thousands of catties of grain, but it was only enough for half a month." Li Zhilong smiled bitterly, after he resumed work, he was exposed to a lot of information that he did not know before, and he learned more about Wuhan's current predicament.

The situation in Wuhan is not bad, but very bad. There is a shortage of materials in the market, inflation is serious, factories are closed, banks are closed, foreign capital is withdrawn, and more than 100,000 unemployed workers are unemployed. Song Ziwen raised funds in Shanghai, but was unanimously rejected by the Shanghai banking community. Wuhan's political axe's capital turnover was not effective, so it had to increase the supply of money, which in turn led to serious inflation.

More importantly, there were many people in the army in Wuhan who supported Chiang Kai-shek and had heavy troops, and He Jian, the commander of the 35th Army, claimed among the troops that the excessive movement of the workers and peasants was the cause of Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal, and demanded that the Kuomintang axe to suppress the workers and peasants and follow the road of Chiang Kai-shek without Chiang Kai-shek.

The internal troubles are not over, and the external troubles are rising again; The British and Americans said that the warship Chen Bing was on the surface of the Yangtze River, and the muzzle of the gun was pointed directly at Wuchang, and the purpose was not asked, as long as Wuhan was on the eastward expedition, they would cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek to attack Wuhan, and the Wuhan political axe had to draw troops back from the front line to strengthen the defense.

All of this seriously affected the decision-making of the Wuhan political axe, and Borodin's proposal to continue the Northern Expedition was quickly passed at the Central Committee, while the proposal of the Communist Party to go east to fight Chiang or go south to recover the Cantonese base areas was rejected.

The passage of this resolution woke up Li Zhilong, who was in a state of excitement, and he remembered the reminder that Zhuang Jihua gave him through Pan Huiqin, as well as his promise to Pan Huiqin, which led to his arrival today.

Yang Qigang's death has hurt Zhuang Jihua very much, and although he has an opinion about Li Zhilong not coming for a long time, Zhuang Jihua is also determined to save him no matter what.

So when Li Zhilong asked him what to do, Zhuang Jihua did not hesitate to give his answer.

"Wang Jingwei is unreliable, he will soon go the path of the principal. Tang Shengzhi's army had been dissatisfied with the Hunan peasant movement for a long time, and sooner or later they would be like the principal. ”

"From the beginning of the struggle to move the capital, it has developed to the point where it has now, to put it bluntly, it is a struggle for power and profit, both sides are singing high-pitched, the essence is a struggle for power, Wuhan advocates the Communist Party does not really support the workers and peasants, and the president's [***] side is not because the development of the workers' and peasants' movement is completely unacceptable."

Zhuang Jihua has now completely seen that although the 4.12 Communist Party has shed the most blood, in fact, this dispute originated from the struggle for power and profit within the Kuomintang, although the Communist Party participated in it, but it was not the main force, the main force was Deng Yanda, Xu Qian, Sun Ke and other Kuomintang members.

Chiang Kai-shek took advantage of the discontent with the workers' and peasants' movement within the army, and successfully used [***] to purge the party and rally the army around him, in fact, in order to crush the opposition within the Kuomintang.

"The essence of politics is hypocrisy, hypocrisy! These bastards," Zhuang Jihua suddenly became excited, and scolded a few words before continuing: "So Wuhan will also divide the Communist Party and clear the party, because they are essentially the same, and they are even more afraid of the workers' and peasants' movement than the principal. Now it's okay, the principal is the opposite, but they are helpless, and they even fantasize about uniting with Wang Jingwei and Tang Shengzhi. It's really a straw, and I want to be a lifebuoy. ”

The three of Li Zhilong were stunned by the random scolding, they didn't expect Zhuang Jihua to scold the Wuhan high-level and the leaders of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

After Zhuang Jihua vented, he picked up the cup and drank a cup of water, and then calmed down before he continued: "Zaitian, your situation is special, you have publicly stated that you will quit [***], [***] will not believe you, nor will I forgive you, you can't go this way; Don't follow Wang Jingwei, following him won't end well; Weigh all kinds of conditions," Zhuang Jihua paused, stared at Li Zhilong and said: "I suggest that you quit politics and stop participating in politics." ”

Li Zhilong was shocked, he didn't expect Zhuang Jihua's suggestion to be like this, he didn't react for a while, and looked at Zhuang Jihua stupidly.

"In addition, you don't want to go back to Guangdong, you have offended too many people in Guangdong before, Chen Ce and Ouyang Chrome want to kill you, you must not fall into their hands. I think you'd better go to Shanghai, or you might as well go to Hong Kong. Zhuang Jihua arranged a way out for Li Zhilong.

"Cultural Revolution, the situation won't be so bad, I think Chairman Wang still insists on revolution." Li Zhilong couldn't help but argue.

"Before the Zhongshan ship, you thought so too, what was the result?" Zhuang Jihua asked sharply, and Li Zhilong was speechless. After a long while, he asked: "There is no Chiang Kai-shek this time, Zhang Fakui and Tang Shengzhi both support him." ”

"Zaitian, I just said so much, if you don't believe me, I can't help it, but at the fastest in three months, at the slowest in half a year, you will see the results, at that time, I hope you can remember my words today, don't go back to Guangdong, and don't fight with the principal alone." Zhuang Jihua said coldly that he didn't want to see a friend die under the party struggle without any resistance, even if he died on the battlefield, it would be better.

"What did you say?" Li Zhilong was shocked too strongly to hear Zhuang Jihua's words.

"Zaitian, I know you hate the principal, what you have done in the past year has made you unable to forgive him, but in Zaitian, you alone can't fight him, and you can't overthrow a regime alone." Zhuang Jihua can't say anything anymore, he estimates that Li Zhilong will not encounter any danger when he purgizes the party in Wuhan, after all, he has publicly declared his withdrawal from the Communist Party, and both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party know that it is really impossible to have Wang Jingwei to protect him.

But after Li Zhilong's problem, Zhuang Jihua knew that Li Zhilong hated Chiang Kai-shek, and he attributed all his suffering to Chiang Kai-shek, and he was worried that Li Zhilong would not be able to figure out what to do.

Before Li Zhilong could speak, the door of the ward was pushed open with a bang, Song Yunfei turned around in the blink of an eye, and the pistol appeared in his hand like a trick, and Wu Ziniu's movements were slowed down by a second.

Several soldiers and men dressed in workers' clothes rushed in from outside the door, and as soon as they entered the door, they saw two guns pointed at them, and they were all stunned for a moment, and after a while they picked up the snatch and aimed it at the people in the room.

"Who are you? What are you doing here? Song Yunfei asked sharply.

"We are the Whampoa Student Corps and the workers' pickets, and we have been ordered to arrest you counter-revolutionaries!" Someone came to say it confidently.

"Fart! Who the fuck are you talking about the counter-revolutionary! Who is the counter-revolutionary? Wu Ziniu was furious.

"Who else but Zhuang Wenge, a counter-revolutionary who has infiltrated the revolutionary ranks?" Smug words came from outside the door.

Li Haoyi was in front, Yu Shandu was behind, and the two came in from outside the door slowly, and the two of them stared at Zhuang Jihua with a cat-and-mouse look.

Zhuang Jihua's mind was spinning nervously, he didn't expect these two people to suddenly appear here.

"On what basis do you say that the division commander is a counter-revolutionary? Revolution or not, it is not up to you to decide. Wu Ziniu didn't take the two of them seriously at all.

"What evidence do you have?" Song Yunfei is more sensible.

"Of course there is." Li Haoyi waved his hand indifferently, and ordered majestically: "Take it away!" ”

(To be continued)