Among the major Soviet areas, the revolutionary masses in the Dabie Mountains suffered the most from the scourge of the Biedong Brigade and the Returning Villages, and even the most conservative estimates had a loss of several million people, and in terms of population proportion, the degree of misery was even greater than that of the Central Soviet District. However, the revolutionary masses here have never stopped resisting, and this is not only due to the strong folk customs in the Dabie Mountains, but also because there is still the only regular Red Army unit in the major Soviet areas in the south -- the Red 28th Army

In history, the 28th Red Army was an extremely special unit, and in the three years of its existence, there was no army commander, and its political commissar Gao Jingting took over the military and political power. Although his reputation was not obvious in later generations, Hu Weidong still knew something about this controversial figure who made outstanding contributions to the history of the Red Army but also committed great mistakes. Gao Jingting has an extremely outstanding ability in both military command and the construction of base areas, and he is also honest and self-controlled, but he has a suspicious temperament and has been influenced by the left-leaning line, and he has vigorously carried out a campaign to suppress rebellion in the troops, killing many good comrades, and the more sinister the situation, the more suspicious Gao Jingting becomes, and the more simple and rude his methods have become, causing huge losses to the troops and the base areas.

Hu Weidong has always been disgusted with the suppression of rebellion, but Gao Jingting is still different from Zhang Guotao, a guy who uses this to seize power for himself, mainly because of the influence of left-leaning ideas and his character flaws. And Gao Jingting is really a rare talent, in troubled times, only talent, in order to deal with devils, Hu Weidong really can't bear to see Gao Jingting repeat the mistakes of history. In addition, Hu Weidong came quite early, and the mistakes made by Gao Jingting at this time were not serious, so Hu Weidong had to help him even more, so as not to harm others and himself in the future.

However, Hu Weidong's "meddling" move almost caused the two armies to merge, because in the period when left-leaning ideology was prevalent, the "wrong line" was an extremely serious problem, and once it was touched, it would be detained at least and executed at the worst, and it might even be associated with a large area; Gao Jingting had a very high prestige among the Red 28th Army, and seeing that it was about to come in a catastrophe, his subordinates spontaneously raised their guns one after another in spite of the huge gap in strength between the two armies, trying to save him. Fortunately, Gao Jingting, who was loyal to the party, immediately spoke out, otherwise once a conflict broke out, the consequences would be unimaginable, and this also taught Hu Weidong a lesson, and he was much more cautious when dealing with such issues in the future.

Although Gao Jingting showed a strong party spirit, he also confirmed through a telegram that Hu Weidong's words were true and that the central authorities had indeed changed their ideological line, and Hu Weidong also repeatedly stressed that the rectification he said was only for the purpose of "punishing the former and punishing the latter, curing the sick and saving people." The purpose is to prevent the recurrence of previous tragedies, not to turn over old accounts for liquidation, but Gao Jingting has always attached importance to the distinction between superior and inferior (a bit like the style of a Soviet general), so that he can publicly review in front of his subordinates, he can't pull down his face, but at this time, Liu Ying, who reflected on the mistakes of the "left" in the past "rectification" and was re-appointed, moved Gao Jingting with his own personal experience and sincerity, "Political Commissar Gao, suppose you were wronged, and you were shot by your own people without even having a chance to defend yourself, How will you feel? ”

Gao Jingting slowly closed his eyes without saying a word, he remembered that he had shot all the cooking class at once because of poisoning, could it be that these people were really accomplices? This is obviously impossible, he is indeed too impulsive and impatient! For a while, Gao Jingting fell into unprecedented remorse, his suspiciousness and impulsiveness had not been pointed out before, but as the supreme leader of the 28th Army, how could he listen to the criticism of his subordinates? The result was wrong again and again

"The reason why the Fourth Front Army was forced to leave Dabie Mountain back then was largely because the expansion of the suppression and rebellion seriously damaged its vitality, and I hope you can stand up and admit your past mistakes, and use this to warn future generations not to make similar mistakes again." , Hu Weidong said earnestly to Gao Jingting. …,

"I see." , Gao Jingting let out a sigh of relief and resolutely ordered the whole army to gather and listen to his review

Gao Jingting thought at first that the commanders and fighters under him would hate and look down on him, but everyone listened and listened, but some people applauded one after another, and many people's eyes were full of tears, they did not blame Gao Jingting, because they had experienced that difficult time together, they knew that in that harsh environment where they could be sacrificed at any time, it was too difficult and difficult to kill a good person without killing a good person by mistake while eliminating traitors and spies. It is inevitable that the suppression and expansion of the rebellion will be expanded, Gao Jingting's fault is not his original intention, and if it were not for him, Dabie Mountain would have been completely occupied by the White Army, and the more than 1,000 people of the Red 28th Army would have died long ago. Therefore, Gao Jingting's behavior of reviewing in public regardless of his face further increased his prestige in the army

After Gao Jingting finished speaking, Hu Weidong briefly explained the root cause of the frequent loss of control of the suppression of rebellion while it was hot, and announced that in the future, like the 15 th Red Army, three major institutions, including a military tribunal, would be set up in the 28 th Red Army to reduce the occurrence of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases as much as possible.

On the other hand, after learning that the Red 15th Army had crossed the Yangtze River and joined forces with the Red 28th Army, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission decided to set up the Red Eighth Army Corps, with Hu Weidong as the commander and Mao Zetan as the political commissar, with Su Yu as the commander and Dai Weixia as the political commissar of the 15th Army, the 28th Army and the 15th Army under its jurisdiction, and Gao Jingting from the political commissar of the 28th Army to the commander of the army, and his original post was assumed by the cautious Zhang Dingcheng. In addition, the Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Anhui Soviet regions are still under his remote control for the time being at Hu Weidong's request, mainly for the sake of the Jishu experts and pilots who are stranded there, if the organizational relationship is separated, it will not be easy for them to be transferred at that time, and it is very likely that their profession will be abandoned because of the laymen of the new leader.

After becoming the commander of the corps, Hu Weidong on the one hand drew more than 5,000 cadres and veterans from the 15 th Red Army to enrich the 28 th Red Army, whose strength was less than one of the main regiments, and on the other hand, after consulting Gao Jingting's opinions and suggestions, he reused some talents in the 28 th Red Army. For example, Fang Yongle, the 20-year-old political commissar of the former 82nd Division (the Red 28th Army is the only division), was flexible and brave and good at fighting, and was appointed by Hu Weidong as the chief of staff of the corps and the head of the special service regiment, and his original post was taken over by Liu Ying, while Mao Zetan, who has now become the first-level leader of the corps, can only give up the delusion of leading the troops to charge; Xu Chengji, the former head and political commissar of the pistol regiment of the 28th Red Army, had no division in special tactics, and Hu Weidong asked him to replace Long Feibao, who had never been able to fully comprehend special tactics, as the captain of the special operations brigade after receiving a month of special tactical training, while Long Feibao went to the newly built regiment headquarters guard regiment as the regiment commander; Lin Weixian, a general who was the commander of the 82nd Division but was demoted to battalion commander due to Gao Jingting's left-leaning mistakes, was reinstated and returned to the post of commander of the 82nd Division