On Zhou Weiren's desk is the latest battle plan -- the "Iron Bucket Plan" -- drawn up by Chairman Chiang, the supreme authority, after profoundly summing up the situation and information in front of him! That is, what he called "adding another fire" to the Central Red Army!

At that time, there were only two high-ranking members of the Red Army who knew the danger of this plan, one was Zhou Weiren, and the other was Li Jiansheng! Li Jiansheng is now the commander-in-chief of a front army, and he is already a high-ranking member of the Red Army!

Knowing the danger of this plan, Li Jiansheng benefited from the fact that he came from later generations and had studied this history. I don't know the details of this battle plan, but I know a rough idea. Even if he didn't know how to fight, he knew the viciousness of this plan. Because if this plan is successful, the Central Committee and the Red Army will face a devastating blow. And the Long March of the Central Red Army was launched precisely because of this intelligence! Of course, he did not know the specific details and specific time of this plan, and could only rely on his own memory and inference.

In his memory, this information benefited from a person named Mo Xiong and a person named Xiang Younian!

Mo Xiong, born in 1891 and died in 1980, was a native of Yingde County, Guangdong. He graduated from the Army Lecture Hall in his early years, and participated in the famous Huanghuagang Uprising, the Protectorate of Yuan, the Crusade against Chen Jiongming and the Northern Expedition. After the end of the Northern Expedition, Mo Xiong was deprived of military power by Chiang Kai-shek with the false title of major general, and his troops were disarmed and dismissed. Mo Xiong, who was extremely dissatisfied, participated in Zhang Fakui's anti-Chiang actions twice.

In 1930, he worked in the Ministry of Finance through Song Ziwen, and when he went to Shanghai, he met Liu Mufo, director of the Political Department of the former Ministry and an underground party member, and met the underground party member Xiang Younian through his introduction, and established contact with the party's senior leaders Zhou Weiren and Li Kenong. In January 1934, Mo Xiong was invited by Xue Yue, commander-in-chief of the 2nd Route Army of the Kuomintang, to Nanchang to help with the work. Before taking office, Mo Xiong rushed back to Shanghai and arranged for more than ten underground party members such as Xiang Younian to serve in the special security headquarters as "subordinates of Paoze". It was during this tenure that Mo Xiong did a great thing concerning the fate of the Chinese revolution.

In September 1934, a military conference was held in Guling, Lushan, and he personally issued the "Iron Bucket Plan" and arranged the deployment of specific implementation plans. The "Iron Bucket Project" is a lot of content, and the documents add up to several kilograms. It contains the general mobilization order of the Kuomintang troops for "suppressing bandits," the battle sequences of each unit, the deployment of troops, the offensive routes, the time limit for operations, the operational charts, and Chairman Chiang's "Code for Suppressing Bandits." Each document is marked "top secret" and numbered, and all officials must sign to receive the document according to the recipient number, and the secrecy measures are very strict. Mo Xiong was not originally qualified to participate, but because of his new position, which is equivalent to a magistrate, he was ordered to attend the meeting. As soon as the military meeting ended, Mo Xiong returned to the special security headquarters with a full set of "Iron Bucket Plan". After repeated thinking, Mo Xiong risked killing and destroying his family to hand over the entire "Iron Bucket Plan" to the underground party liaison and confidential secretary of the Security Command. And just like that, the situation passed into the hands of the Red Army!

After Xiang Younian got the information, he immediately consulted with underground party members Liu Mufo and Lu Zhiying, and decided that Xiang Younian himself was personally responsible for sending the information, because Xiang Younian spoke Hakka at the annual meeting, and it was relatively hidden to pass the checkpoint. Overnight, the three of them used a secret writing potion to secretly write down the enemy's troop deployment, firepower distribution, attack plan, command structure setting, and other key points on the intelligence on four student dictionaries, and traced the battle map on transparent paper. Then, he analyzed the enemy situation along the way, and chose a relatively fast and safe route to the Soviet area: take a car from Nanchang to Ji'an, enter Taihe, and then go straight to Xingguo and Yudu from the mountains to Ruijin. Subsequently, Xiang Younian disguised himself as a teacher and set off. Xiang Younian, formerly known as Xiang Tingchun, was a native of Liancheng County, Fujian, a former member of the "Red Team" of the Central Special Branch, and Bai Xin, the former secretary of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, who had killed and betrayed Peng Pai and others in the past.

What touched Li Jiansheng the most was not how Xiang Younian got the information, but how he sent the information!

It turned out that after Xiang Younian entered the Taihe Mountains with intelligence, he found that the enemy situation was far more serious than expected. Enemy troops were stationed in every village, all roads in and out of the Soviet zone were tightly sealed, and suspicious persons were immediately arrested. Seeing this, Xiang Younian had to sleep in the mountains and forests, and satisfy his hunger with a small amount of dry food and wild fruit springs. After many days of arduous trekking, Xiang Younian became bearded and skinny, and when he arrived in Xingguo, he found that the enemy blockade was tighter, almost every village had a bunker, and there were sentry posts at the intersection of each mountain. Xiang Younian had to go back to the mountains to seek an opportunity. Time waits for no one, the anxious Xiang Younian finally came up with a plan, he was heartbroken, grabbed a stone from the ground and knocked off 4 front teeth in a row. The next day, his cheeks were badly swollen, his face was hideous, his hair was as unkempt as artemisia, and his clothes were already in tatters from thorns. He endured the pain and hid the four secret dictionaries in filthy bags with the rancid food he had begged for, and went up the mountain barefoot. Along the way, the enemy sentries saw him and covered their noses far away to drive him away. Xiang Younian finally got past the enemy's outposts, arrived at Ruijin on October 7, and found the provisional party center at Shazhouba. When Zhou Weiren and Li Kenong received the top-secret information about Xiang Younian, they could hardly recognize that the old man named Huazi standing in front of them was an old subordinate who knew each other, and they were moved beyond words. After listening to Xiang Younian's report, he immediately ordered the Red Army's operational intelligence department to immediately restore the four ciphered dictionaries into text and charts, and seriously analyze and study them.

Like the history that Li Jiansheng is familiar with, when Zhou Weiren, the general political commissar of the Red Army, read this plan overnight, this great man, who has always been gentle and calm, was also drenched in cold sweat!

What kind of bucket plan is this? This whole thing is an extinction plan!

The plan is to gather 1.5 million troops, 270 aircraft, and 200 artillery pieces to "attack in a joint attack" and "encircle with an iron wall": with Ruijin as the target, each unit will carry out a centripetal attack, forming a large encirclement 150 kilometers away from Ruijin. Then, after attacking and advancing 5 kilometers every day, they built pillboxes and fortifications, closely coordinated firepower, and built 30 barbed wire and fire blockade lines around Ruijin, cut off communications, blocked all information and material exchanges of the Red Army, and finally pressed the main force of the Red Army into a narrow area for a decisive battle. In order to prevent the Red Army from breaking through, it was also planned to equip 1,000 military trucks to quickly transport troops to carry out mobile interceptions, with a view to completely annihilating the Red Army in the Central Soviet District within a month. In order to conceal the battle attempt, Chiang Kai-shek used the vanguard of 12 divisions to seize territory around the Soviet area before the encirclement was completed, so as to confuse the Red Army.

Chairman Chiang had great expectations for this "iron bucket plan," and he made a speech with great confidence: "The great cause of suppressing the communists will be accomplished in this campaign!" However, what he didn't expect was that his plan had already fallen into the hands of the underground party for the first time.

As soon as the "Iron Bucket Plan" was circulated by the Provisional Central "Three-Man Regiment," they were shocked and immediately realized that the Central Red Army was in extreme danger and that if decisive measures were not taken, it would soon be encircled by the enemy. At this time, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission received another battle report from the front: the Red Army had been defeated on all fronts, and only five county towns in the entire central Soviet region remained: Ruijin, Yudu, Changting, Ningdu, and Huichang, and the Red Army was in a state of frequent urgency in all directions. The situation shows that the enemy's "iron bucket plan" is being implemented step by step. The responsible person of the Provisional Central Committee deeply felt that the situation was grim and that he must quickly jump out of the enemy's encirclement before the enemy's "iron bucket" was closed, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. Prior to this, the Provisional Central Committee had also realized that it was no longer possible to break the enemy's "encirclement and suppression" on the inner line, and for this reason the Central Revolutionary Military Commission had ordered the Red 7th Army Corps, the Red 6th Army Corps, and the Red 25th Army to march north and west first -- and the Red Army units that were the first to start the Long March -- to prepare for the strategic transfer of the Red Army.

After analyzing the enemy's "iron bucket" plan and the current situation of the enemy and us, the Provisional Central Committee hastily made a decision to issue an action order for strategic transfer in the name of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission. On October 8, the local units of the Red Army were ordered to take over the defense of all fronts, and the main forces were assembled in the areas of Xingguo, Yudu, and Ruijin. On the 11th, the General Headquarters of the Red Army and the units directly under it were organized into the 1st Field Column, with the central organ being the 2nd Field Column, and the Central Sub-Bureau headed by Xiang Ying and Chen Yi was set up to lead the local troops to stay behind and persist in guerrilla warfare.

From October 16th to 18th, the main force of the Central Red Army, 86,000 people, who were urgently assembled in the capital, crossed the Du River from four ferries, and launched a breakthrough campaign on October 21, embarking on the road of the Long March!

(Ladies and gentlemen, these two chapters are passed chapters, and a large number of them are reproduced in the Internet information, so I'm sorry.) But because of the overall needs of this article, it is necessary to carry on and explain it as a whole, and not to forget these people who risked their lives to deliver information, so it has to be. Please forgive me for the explanation. ）