With the failure of the Nanchang Uprising on August 1 and the ensuing Guangzhou Uprising, Ye Ting, who resolutely served as the commander-in-chief of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of the uprising, raised his arms and issued a cry for "armed seizure of power"!

The "August 1st" Nanchang uprising troops under the leadership of Zhou Enlai, Liu Bocheng, Nie Rongzhen, Zhu De, He Long and Ye Ting, fought viciously in Huichang, although they won successive battles, but in the end because the enemy was outnumbered, and the enemy army was by no means a wine bag and rice bag, and Huichang was not a place to stay for a long time, so Ye Ting's troops went east through Fujian, along the Tingjiang River, and quickly entered the territory of Guangdong.

Guangdong has been the base camp of the Kuomintang for many years, and the revolutionary army has gone deep into the territory of Guangdong, which is really a tiger's den and takes risks!

Although the book of war says: "If you do not know the enemy's government, you cannot add it; I don't know the feelings of the enemy, and I can't make an appointment; The general who does not know the enemy, does not go first; Those who do not know the enemy do not show it first. However, in the midst of a staggered war situation, it is difficult for a non-British commander to take a command, assess the situation, and control the overall situation.

The revolutionary army arrived in Changting in early September, and a few days later went south along the Ting River, then occupied Chaozhou and Shantou, and then advanced to Jieyang.

"Retreat!" Ye Ting saw that if he continued to fight, our army would be in danger of being wiped out, and in order to preserve his strength, he decided to withdraw from Jieyang, and his wildly waved arm drew a solid trajectory in the air.

"Commander, we have sacrificed so many people, and we have not yet collected the blood debt from the enemy, why should we withdraw?!" The officers and soldiers who had followed Ye Ting for many years stared at the blood-red eyes and shouted to Ye Ting in confusion.

Ye Ting looked at the officers and soldiers with dirt on their faces and their eyes burning with revenge and anger, and his nose was sour. He felt that these simple officers and soldiers were too cute, they were not only brave in battle, not afraid of sacrifice, and regarded death as home, but also had a clear distinction between love and hate. He tried his best to suppress his emotion, and said loudly: "I, Ye Ting, have put life and death aside since the day I put on the military uniform, especially since the day I became a revolutionary soldier. However, the reason why we do not fight the enemy to the end today is because our lives are a thousand times more precious than the lives of the enemy. Only by preserving our strength will we be able to win the more arduous and cruel wars in the future and win the final victory of the revolution. This is also what Zhuge Liang said in the past, soldiers, from life to death, avoid the real and attack the false, can not fight hard and strike later! ”

Ye Ting's earnest and heartfelt words were like a strong east wind, blowing away the heavy clouds that shrouded the hearts of the officers and soldiers, and said in unison: "Commander, give an order, tell us to withdraw there!" ”

As a result, Ye Ting and He Long led the 24th Division to retreat eastward while fighting, and came to Puning County in early October to join Zhou Enlai and Nie Rongzhen.

At this time, Zhou Enlai suffered from falciparum malaria due to running with the army for days, and his body was very weak, but in order to avoid the complete defeat of the revolutionary army, he urgently convened a meeting of the "front committee".

The meeting was very long.

The length of the meeting illustrated the difficulty of meeting the views of the participants for a while.

The resolution of the meeting ruthlessly confirmed: The Nanchang Uprising, which was of great revolutionary historical significance, lasted more than two months, fought thousands of miles through the confrontation of blood and fire, and was temporarily defeated in Puning County, Guangdong Province under the brutal slaughter of a powerful enemy.

Because of his serious condition, Zhou Enlai first lay on a stretcher and moved to the home of Huang Xiuwen, secretary of the Nantang District Committee of the Communist Party of China, to hide, and then was covered by Nie Rongzhen and others to ** for treatment of the disease.

Ye Ting, a famous general of the Northern Expedition, who had always been in military uniform, had to say goodbye to the officers and soldiers who shared life and death in a scattered evacuation, and sneaked back to his home in Macao.

Zhu De and Chen Yi, who were in western Fujian at the time, led the troops from Ye Ting's Independent Regiment to the 25th Division and then to the Red Fourth Army, and fought in Xinfeng, Dayu, Xiangnan, Guidong, Rucheng and Renhua and Shaoguan in northern Guangdong, and launched the "Nianguan Rebellion" in the five counties of southern Hunan in early 1928, and then went to the Jinggangshan revolutionary base area founded by Mao ** to join forces with the Autumn Harvest Uprising.

He Long, who was unwilling to fail and vowed to "make a comeback", went to Shanghai via **, and then returned to Hunan, re-raised a revolutionary armed force, and opened up a revolutionary base in western Hunan and Hubei.

Wildfires can't be burned, and the spring breeze blows and grows again!

Although the "August 1" Nanchang Uprising failed, it was a high-spirited overture in the revolutionary journey of the proletariat to seize power by armed force, and with the expansion of the main theme, the majestic and surging will become more and more passionate, and the sound will vibrate the world.

Although Guangdong was the stronghold of the Kuomintang, it was also the source of the Communist Party's revolutionary struggle.

In Guangzhou, four months after the Nanchang uprising on 1 August, Zhang Tailei, then alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee, prepared to launch an armed insurrection in Guangzhou and other parts of Guangdong in accordance with the arrangements of the "Central Committee," and convened a meeting of the Standing Committee of the provincial party committee on 7 December and decided to hold an uprising in Guangzhou on 13 December.

Ye Ting, who returned to his home in Macau two months ago, although he reunited with his beloved wife Li Xiuwen and young son Fu Long, and enjoyed the love and family happiness of husband and wife, he felt a heavy block in his throat every day. He felt so tight, and he was so depressed! Because, after all, he is not a "thirty acres of land and a cow, and his wife and children are hot on the kang", nor is he a survivor who is frightened by failure, but a general who gallops across the battlefield and a revolutionary with the ambition to serve the country.

The Great Revolution led by Sun Yat-sen, the pioneer of the democratic revolution, died suddenly, and the "August 1" Nanchang Uprising launched by the Communist Party was strangled by the Kuomintang counter-revolutionary forces. How did the democratic revolution end? Could it be that China, which is full of disasters, is that the warlords are fighting each other, the people are struggling to make a living, and the people are forever living in misery?!

Ye Ting's questioning from the depths of his heart is not so much asking the heavens and the earth as it is severely torturing the conscience that a revolutionary should have and who else is willing to give up his historical mission.

Soon after, Ye Tingtian received a notice from the Guangdong party organization that Guangzhou was about to launch an armed uprising, and asked him to be ready to go to Guangzhou at any time to serve as the commander-in-chief of the workers' and peasants' Red Army of the armed uprising, and to be responsible for directing the uprising.

"When am I going to Guangzhou?" When Ye Ting heard this, a pair of bright eyes flashed like lightning, showing irrepressible joy and eagerness.

"Organizationally speaking, you are a person wanted by Chiang Kai-shek, and you must act with great caution." Someone to explain.

Seeing that the question he asked was not answered accurately, Ye Ting's speed of speech suddenly increased, and his voice also raised a few degrees: "I'm asking me about the specific time of departure?" ”

Seeing Ye Ting's eagerness to immediately plunge into the armed uprising, the visitor couldn't help but smile at him with admiration: "The specific time for you to go to Guangzhou has not yet been determined, and the leader said that in consideration of your personal safety, the departure time should not be too early." ”

Ye Tingjian only knew a general concept of time when he asked again, so he further said: "Go back and tell the leading comrades of the uprising that since I have been appointed commander-in-chief of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, I must understand the overall strategic intentions of the leaders for this uprising as soon as possible, so that I can come up with a command and implementation plan in time. All things are foreseen, and those who are not prepared are wasted. Besides, I am very unfamiliar with the enemy situation in Guangzhou and my feelings, and only by knowing myself and the enemy can I win the battle. ”

The visitor said that Ye Ting's state of mind was clear, and immediately reported his expectations to the leaders of the uprising after returning to Guangzhou.

Ye Ting thanked the person for sending him out of the house, and waved his hand again and again.

It can be seen how much Ye Ting looks forward to participating in the armed uprising of blood and fire as soon as possible.

War is the birthing bed of soldiers.

A soldier who is eager to fight is a competent soldier.

On the afternoon of December 9, the day after the visitor left Macao, Ye Ting was informed that he should rush to Guangzhou tomorrow.

"Xiuwen, hurry up and help me prepare the things I want to bring!" Ye Ting knew that the Guangzhou Uprising was already on the line, and it was about to break out, and time was victory. It is necessary to prepare the things you need to bring in advance, and strive to rush to Guangzhou from Tsim Sha Tsui Station in Kowloon tomorrow morning.

"Got it." Although Li Xiuwen is already the mother of a child, her figure is still quite slender, and her charming face adds a bit of dignified to a mature woman, coupled with a fuller chest than before marriage, and her smile is terrifying. At this moment, she came to Ye Ting in response and handed the Fulong in her arms to Ye Ting, "Long'er, ask your father to hug you, and I'll give your father to pack his bags." ”

Ye Ting hurriedly took Fulong: "Long'er, come, Dad will take you to the yard to play." Ye Ting had a son at the age of thirty, and naturally he was very fond of his eldest son Fulong, and he had been leading troops to fight outside for many years, and he rarely had the opportunity to go back to Macau to help his wife take care of the children, so there was always a sense of guilt for Xiuwen and Fulong in his heart, so as long as he returned home, even if he had a little free time, he would have to hold his son to play, it seemed that this was the only way to compensate for the shortcomings of Xiuwen and Fulong's inability to be both fathers and husbands.

In the early morning of the next day, Ye Ting dressed up in disguise, wearing a silver-gray suit, a milky white top hat, a knee-high wind and rain coat, black and shiny leather shoes, a black leather bag in his right hand, and a pair of brown sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, looking like both a scholar and a businessman. He calmly took a bus to Tsim Sha Tsui Station in Kowloon and took the morning train to Guangzhou.

Ye Ting stepped out of the Guangzhou Railway Station, and Yang Yin, member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee, and Zhou Wenyong, secretary of the Working Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and commander-in-chief of the Workers' Red Guards, led several capable Red Guards to greet him.

They shook hands wordlessly.

They use their gaze as a verbal communication tool. With their attentive and characteristic eyes, the two sides instantly exchanged greetings to each other and the alertness to leave this dangerous zone immediately.

Ye Ting's first place in Guangzhou was the Ye Clan Ancestral Hall in the city. Waiting for Ye Ting at the Ye Family Ancestral Hall are his sisters Ye Xiang and Ye Zhu.

"Brother, why didn't my sister-in-law come?" Ye Xiang and Ye Zhu asked suspiciously when they saw Ye Ting.

"I'm on official business, I'll talk about things at home later, and I'll find clothes that are convenient for me to move around." Although Ye Ting and his two sisters have not seen each other for many days, the uprising is imminent, and there is no time to chat, so he immediately assigned tasks to his two younger sisters.

"Okay." Ye Xiang and Ye Zhu saw that their brother Ye Ting looked serious, and immediately understood that what he said was extraordinary, and immediately turned around and went to the wardrobe in the house to find him a suit suitable for the season in Guangzhou.

Ye Ting was then led to a secret place where the uprising was planned, met Xu Guangying, chief of staff of the rebel army, and immediately inquired about the battle plan of the armed uprising, and promptly grasped the military strength of the enemy and the enemy's main force deployment.

"Can I meet the main leaders of the uprising before the battle begins?" Ye Ting asked Xu Guangying in a deliberative tone.

"It's been arranged, I'll take you there right away." Xu Guangying was not the chief of staff of the insurrectionary troops, and he had made the most thoughtful arrangements for the "appearance" of Ye Ting, who was the commander-in-chief of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

On the second floor of the Yiyi grocery store, Ye Ting not only met Zhang Tailei, one of the leaders of the uprising, but also got acquainted with the main commanders of the uprising troops, including Li Yunpeng, the commander of the teaching regiment, Ye Yong, the commander of the first battalion, Zhao Xijie, the commander of the second battalion, Rao Shoubai, the commander of the third battalion, Liang Bingshu, the head of the guard regiment, Shen Qing, the commander of the Red Guards, and Chen Daozhou, the commander-in-chief of the peasant army in the suburbs.

"Let me introduce to you, this is General Ye Ting, a famous general of the Northern Expedition that we have admired for a long time and who served as the commander-in-chief in the upcoming uprising." Although Xu Guangying tried his best to keep his voice low, his voice was still a little high due to excitement at this special moment on the eve of the uprising.

The commanders of the rebel forces present knew that they could not express their welcome and admiration for Ye Ting with warm applause, but a few people still couldn't help but open their hands suddenly, if Ye Ting hadn't immediately made a gesture not to applaud, maybe the two open palms would have slammed into each other with lightning speed.

"Sit down, everyone, and let's take advantage of the short time before the uprising to study the course of action." Ye Ting was well versed in the rules of soldiers who did not fight unprepared battles, so he first asked everyone to introduce the number of soldiers and the armament of their respective units, and then carefully studied, adjusted, and further determined the targets of attack shouldered by each unit and the coordination and cooperation after the battle began.

The sky above Guangzhou is dark, only a few dim street lamps flickering and swaying in the night wind, as if the whole world is in a dim.

However, it was already past midnight, and Ye Ting's pre-war meeting with the commanders of various units was still going on in a tense atmosphere.

No sooner had the pre-war meeting ended, and it was almost time for the uprising to begin.

"Everyone should be fast and pay attention to safety on the way back to the army, so as to prevent the partition wall from having ears!" Ye Ting admonished.

"Yes!" The commanders, who were already confident, invariably lowered their voices and replied, and the thick voices were like fire, full of inner enthusiasm and tension.

Ye Ting, together with Zhang Tailei, Yun Daiying, and Xu Guangying, who arrived on time, were led by Zeng Ganting, the company commander of the teaching regiment, to the teaching regiment stationed in the Sibiao Battalion.

The training regiment is all young officers, who not only have a strong physique and skills in individual combat, but also have mastered a relatively systematic military academic work, and will become the backbone of all units and outstanding personnel in the future, and the future is immeasurable.

By this time, they were already lined up in the middle of the playground, all in military uniforms, armed with guns, and wearing a distinctive red cloth tie around their necks, holding their heads high, holding their breath, staring ahead, waiting for the arrival of the leader of the uprising.

Ye Ting came to the front of the teaching team, and the shadow of the "Ye Ting Independent Regiment" during the Northern Expedition immediately appeared in front of him. In my heart, the teaching regiment is a sharp knife in this uprising. The role of the sharp knife is to penetrate the enemy with extremely sharp penetration, and open the way to victory for other troops in an all-out attack.

At present, the role of the Teaching Corps in the whole uprising is visible.

Zhang Tailei and Yun Daiying respectively mobilized the teaching group before the war, on the one hand, to clarify the revolutionary significance of the uprising, that is, to defeat the counter-revolutionary forces through the revolutionary armed forces, to establish the workers' and peasants' main forces, and to eliminate the Kuomintang reactionaries, the lackeys of imperialism; On the one hand, it is hoped that the teaching regiment will become the main force of the uprising, bravely kill the enemy, not be afraid of sacrifice, move forward with indomitable spirit, and brilliantly complete the tasks assigned by the party.

Finally, Yun Daiying introduced Ye Ting, the Iron Army of the Northern Expedition in the past and the commander-in-chief of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of today's uprising troops, to the teaching group.

Before Ye Ting's name landed, it was like a strong east wind blowing through the queue, causing a buzz among the young officers.

Ye Ting's name is like thunder for these young officers, and he is a hero who worships him.

Heroes are the noble aspirations of soldiers.

Heroes are the sacred banner in the breasts of soldiers.

Ye Ting took a step forward, and before he could speak, the young officers stood upright in unison, tucked their stomachs and chests, and were high-spirited, as if they were participating in an incomparable ceremony.

It can be seen that the name of the hero is like a hurricane, and it puffs up the brave sail of the soldiers with incomparably strong force.

Ye Ting looked around at the more than 1,000 young officers in front of him with sharp eyes, and his speech was short and powerful, and his sonorous speech was deafening: "In the past, the reason why the workers and peasants were allowed to be oppressed and slaughtered by others was because they did not have their own armed forces and did not have a regime to support themselves. Today, we are the armed forces of the workers and peasants, and we are going to seize power for them, and the task is arduous and the mission is great. I believe that you will remember that you are a soldier of the revolutionary army and will live up to your mission. The combat mission and the target of the attack have been clarified, the planned plan has not changed, and the action is immediately! ”

The "commander-in-chief" gave an order, especially the green flare of the attack sent out by the arm.

In an instant, the rebel troops fought in Guangzhou's Dongxiaochang, Tianzi Wharf, Shahe, Huanghuagang, Yantang, Guanyin Mountain, Long Causeway and other areas.

This is a battle between spirit and flesh.

This is a life-and-death contest between revolution and counter-revolution.

For several days, the thick billowing smoke of gunpowder, the furious roar, the terrible call, the blood-spattered guns, the corpses strewn in the streets and alleys, the bloody butcher's knives, and the tongue of fire that burned the sky red, rolled like a hurricane in Guangzhou, poured like a torrential rain, and was chaotic and miserable.