The lice on Ye Ting's body and the "tears of the horse".

In the early spring of Wuhan, which was called the "red capital" in the 20s of the 19th century, it was warm and cold, and from time to time it was sprinkled with showers of drizzle, which poured on people and could not help but shiver, and sneezed a few times like a cold, so that many pedestrians could not help but curse a few words about this fickle ghost weather.

Since April 27, the atmosphere of tension has been added to the urban area of Wuhan on several occasions, and the Northern Expeditionary Army with guns on their shoulders frequently shuttles through the streets, especially the overly complicated sense of seriousness on the faces of the soldiers, causing ordinary people to guess that something big must be going on in Wuhan or that something big is about to happen.

Because it was supposed to be an eventful time!

People at the center of politics have a special sensitivity to politics.

Indeed, from this day onwards, the Fifth National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Wuhan. The meeting was attended by 80 representatives from Communist Party organizations in various provinces and cities across the country, representing a total of more than 57,900 Communist Party members.

Therefore, this is a very unusual meeting at a very unusual time.

It is said that it is at an extremely unusual moment, because just 15 days ago, Chiang Kai-shek, who had already fought against the Wuhan revolution, attempted to impose a counter-revolutionary dictatorship throughout the country, and had been planning to exclude and eliminate the Communist Party for a long time, raised his bloody butcher's knife and single-handedly created the "April 12" massacre in Shanghai that shocked the world. Workers' infighting", frantically confiscating the weapons of the workers' pickets, wantonly arresting and massacring workers and communists, and brutally suppressing workers' protest marches, completely exposed his counterrevolutionary features. Hundreds of workers and Communist Party members were killed and wounded on the spot, and Wang Shouhua, chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions and a member of the Communist Party, was killed. For a time, Shanghai was bloody and bloody, and the wind roared. The next day, the Shanghai workers staged a general strike, and more than 100,000 workers, students, and citizens gathered in protest. Then, the frenzied Chiang Kai-shek instructed the Kuomintang troops and gangsters to close down the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions and other revolutionary groups, and to arrest and kill a large number of communists and revolutionaries. In just three days, more than 300 people were slaughtered, more than 500 were arrested, and more than 5,000 were missing.

Chiang Kai-shek, commander-in-chief of the Northern Expeditionary Army, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, and chairman of the Military Commission of the Kuomintang, made a special trip to Shanghai, and immediately returned to Guangzhou with Li Jishen, a warlord in Guangxi who had plotted a counterrevolutionary coup d'état, and organized reactionary military and police in various parts of Guangdong with Zuo Yingfen and Qian Dajun, the leading figures of the Kuomintang, to stage a counterrevolutionary coup d'état on 5 April, unscrupulously besieged the Guangdong office of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and the provincial-Hong Kong strike committee, disarmed the Whampoa Military Academy and workers' pickets, and closed off the revolutionary trade unions, peasant associations, students, and women's organizations killed famous Communist Party figures Deng Pei, Xiao Chunu, Xiong Xiong, Li Qihan, Liu Erxiang, and so on. This counter-revolutionary coup brutally slaughtered more than 2 Communists and workers' activists.

At the same time, the Feng warlords echoed Chiang Kai-shek's efforts to arrest and kill Li Dazhao, one of the founders of the party, and proletarian revolutionaries Chen Yannian and Zhao Shiyan in Beijing.

In an instant, the counter-revolutionary white terror created by Chiang Kai-shek spread throughout the country, the heads of millions of communists and revolutionary masses fell to the ground, and the tens of thousands of communists and revolutionary mass organizations that had been painstakingly cultivated for many years were destroyed or destroyed, resulting in the proletarian revolution of the communist revolution in the midst of a great catastrophe and a moment in urgent need of salvation.

It is said that it was an extremely unusual congress because Chen Duxiu, the Communist Party's first ****, stubbornly insisted on his right-leaning opportunist cowardice, compromise, and concessions in the face of Chiang Kai-shek's long-planned counterrevolutionary conspiracy, and even reached the point of insensitivity to the point of indifference. Chen Duxiu, during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, he was admitted to Xiucai, and then crossed the ocean to study at the Tokyo Higher Normal School in Japan, and served as the director of higher education in Anhui Province after the Xinhai Revolution, in the New Culture Movement, he founded the "Youth" magazine, and edited the "New Youth", and also founded the "Weekly Review" at Peking University, served as the dean of liberal arts at Peking University, and was one of the earliest people in China to accept Marxism, and one of the founders of the Communist Party of China. Chen Duxiu is indeed rich in learning and five cars, and he is talented and talented, and he is quick in thinking, good at speaking, and he believes that he has made meritorious contributions to the founding of the party, so he is domineering and domineering, and engages in "one word hall" in the party.

Anyone who is proud is pretentious.

Most pretentious people think they are always great.

Anyone who thinks they are always great is stubborn.

Those who are stubborn are empty-eyed.

Anyone who is empty-eyed is domineering.

All overbearing people are "paternalistic".

Most people in the "patriarchal system" believe that "Lao Tzu should be in charge of the world if he conquers the world", and he is old and mediocre and still engages in "listening to politics through the curtain".

Dafan thinks that "Lao Tzu should rule the world if he conquers the world", and he is still a "soil emperor" in the final analysis.

Most of the people who are "soil emperors" do not talk about democracy.

In the end, all the "soil emperors" who do not pay attention to democracy come from the country and the people, causing endless harm, and all of them are tragic figures.

Chen Duxiu played such a role in the history of the modern Chinese revolution.

Originally, as early as when Chiang Kai-shek created the "Zhongshan Ship Incident", Chen Duxiu caused irreparable losses to the proletarian revolutionary cause of the Communist Party because of his right-leaning opportunist mistakes, and when the Northern Expeditionary Army occupied Wuchang, Chiang Kai-shek had begun to fight with the Kuomintang in Wuhan, especially Chiang Kai-shek wantonly squeezed out the Communist Party members in the National Revolutionary Army and instructed the reactionary elements to shoot Chen Zanxian, chairman of the Ganzhou Federation of Trade Unions and a Communist Party member, and smashed the Communist Party headquarters in Nanchang, Anqing, and Jiujiang. After killing and wounding many Communist Party members, Kuomintang leftists, and outstanding workers and peasants, Chen Duxiu, who was the leader of the Communist Party, still practiced capitulation in his own way, insisted on giving up the leadership of the Communist Party in the National Revolutionary Army, and even went so far as to go to the peak and jointly issue the "Joint Declaration of Wang Jingwei and Chen Duxiu" with the great traitor Wang Jingwei, insisting that Chiang Kai-shek "will never expel friends and destroy trade unions", and tried his best to exonerate Chiang Kai-shek's counterrevolutionary crimes, resulting in the Communist Party and the people being in a state of unguardedness. As a result, Chiang Kai-shek staged the April 12 coup d'état in Shanghai and the bloody massacres in Guangzhou, Beijing and other places, which almost pushed the Communist Party and the revolutionary cause to the brink of death.

At this critical moment, in order to save the revolution, the leaders of the Communist Party such as Qu Qiubai, Mao **, Cai Hesen, Zhang Tailei, and Ren Bishi broke through Chen Duxiu's suppression in every way, and finally convened the Fifth National Congress of the Party in Wuhan aimed at correcting Chen Duxiu's right-leaning opportunist mistakes.

As everyone knows, at the time of this unusual congress, Chiang Kai-shek's counter-revolutionary forces were also about to move!

Wouldn't this conference be even more extraordinary?

In this way, ensuring the smooth convening of the conference is bound to become a top priority. Because if there were a counter-revolutionary incident like that in Shanghai and Guangzhou, wouldn't this congress, which had a bearing on the fate of the revolution, be ruined in one fell swoop?!

So, who is responsible for the security of this unusual convention?

This duke is none other than Ye Ting, the "famous general of the Northern Expedition".

At this time, Ye Ting, who had served as the commander of the 24th Division of the 11th Army, sang the Internationale from the position of standing on the floor opposite the rostrum at the opening ceremony of the conference, or during the nearly half-month meeting, Ye Ting always wore a white shirt and a pair of grass-green breeches, the eye sockets under the thick black eyebrows were somewhat collapsed, a pair of bright eyes were covered with fine bloodshots, the cheekbones were like a hill rising due to the collapse of the cheeks, and the lips and chin were covered with a layer of Hesse stubble, looking old and haggard, tired and worried. Compared with when he attacked Wuchang City seven months ago, Ye Ting seemed to be seven or eight years older. What's even more different is that Ye Ting has always been known for being handsome and chic and paying attention to appearance, whether his dress is an officer's coat or a shirt, he is also upright for a while, his pen is straight, clean, and decent. He believes that the appearance of a soldier not only represents the honor and status of the troops, but also symbolizes the spiritual outlook and combat effectiveness of the troops. A high-spirited unit will undoubtedly have a high fighting spirit, but a unit that is sloppy in peacetime, full of sloppiness, and sloppy in Mali will undoubtedly find it difficult to win a battle.

The meter is majestic.

Style out of combat effectiveness.

But Yang Muzhi of the Central Propaganda Department, who was standing with Ye Ting and watching the scene of the conference, suddenly found that there was a lice on Ye Ting's sleeve, pinched it gently, and stretched it out in front of Ye Ting: "Xiyi, what do you think this is?" ”

Ye Ting opened his palm, motioned for Yang Muzhi to put it on his palm, and saw that it was a fat, fat, hideous-looking lice, pinched it with his index finger and thumb, and twisted it with his hand: "Do you think it looks like Wu Peifu?" Wrench you bad thing! ”

Not long after, Yang Muzhi found a lice on Ye Ting's body, still put it in his palm, and asked implicitly: "Who should be twisted to death?" ”

Ye Ting smiled wisely: "Well, of course you know Luo." ”

"So, we're 'heroes see things the same way'?"

"Because he's so wicked!"

The two of them smiled happily.

The second scourge that Ye Ting and Yang Muzhi refer to is Chiang Kai-shek, the culprit of betraying Sun Yat-sen and recently massacring communists and revolutionaries.

Therefore, in recent months, Ye Ting has been too busy and tired, which can be described as mental anxiety! Since the expansion of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Ye Ting's Independent Regiment has been expanded into the 25th Division of the Fourth Army, but the division commander is Zhu Huiri, the deputy commander, who is only a deputy division commander. The Independent Regiment was directly renamed the 73rd Regiment, with Zhou Shidi, the former chief of staff of the Independent Regiment, as the head of the regiment, Zhou Jishen, the former commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Independent Regiment, as the chief of staff of the regiment, and some other battalion, company, and platoon-level officers of the former Independent Regiment were sent to the 74th and 75th Regiments of the division as the backbone force.

The shelves of the 25th Division are there, but what about the large number of soldiers in the battalions and regiments?

The original Ye Ting Independent Regiment was extremely brave, and that was only after Ye Ting's painstaking and strict training for several years and the possession of a large number of outstanding Communist Party members. Now that the friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is getting worse day by day, Chiang Kai-shek is constantly creating counterrevolutionary conspiracies, and the independent regiment, the only armed force that the Communist Party can control, is scattered. And how can it form combat effectiveness?

Therefore, the Central Military Commission instructed Ye Ting to spare no effort to establish and improve the 25th Division as soon as possible.

With his excellent soldier's observation and insight, Ye Ting knows that the situation is changing rapidly, and time is not waiting for me!

As a high-ranking military cadre with a special status who shoulders the important mission of the Communist Party, Ye Ting can only devote himself to the actual action of forming the 25 th Division.

So Ye Ting went to Hunan and Guangdong day and night to form battalion and company detachments for the 75th Regiment, and gathered together the wounded and sick who had recovered from the officers and men of the former Independent Regiment in Guangzhou, Hunan and other places who had recovered from the Northern Expedition, and formed the first, second and third battalions of the 75th Regiment. The Hunan District Committee of the Communist Party of China sent a number of lower-ranking officers and a considerable number of recruits to Ye Ting, so that the 25th Division was quickly organized according to the organizational structure.

The expansion of the 25 th Division was basically ready, and because Zhu Huiri, who was named the division commander, was obsessed with interacting and socializing with the above all day, Ye Ting was duty-bound to take on the heavy daily military affairs, formulate training guidelines in light of the combat targets and various characteristics of the next step, and began to carry out strict military training and political education, as well as the raising of military supplies. Ye Ting knew that this phenomenon was really abnormal, but it was also the inevitable result of the initial period of a military unit. When everything is gradually on the right track, he, the commander, will be able to strategize.

Soon after, there was the massacre of the Communists and the revolutionary progressive forces by the counterrevolutionary forces in Nanchang, Anqing, Jiujiang, and other places in Jiangxi, followed by the "12 April" massacre in Shanghai, followed by the "15 April" massacre in Guangzhou, and then in some places in Beijing and Hebei...... With the counter-revolutionary forces so rampant, millions of communists and revolutionary progressives dying under the butcher's knife of counter-revolutionary crimes, and the revolution already at a critical juncture of life and death, can Ye Ting not be anxious? Can you not be anxious? Can you not sleep and eat and toil day and night?

Where can he still take care of his own warmth, hunger, saturation and cleanliness?

What does it mean to devote oneself to the revolution, I am afraid that there is no one more than Ye Ting at this moment. Just one week after the conclusion of the Fifth National Congress of the Communist Party of China held in Wuhan, there was an armed rebellion in Wuhan by Xia Douyin, commander of the 14th Independent Division of the National Revolutionary Army?

Xia Douyin was originally the head of the "Hubei Army" under the Hunan warlord Zhao Hengti, and betrayed Zhao Hengti in the early days of the Northern Expedition to follow Tang Shengzhi's speculative revolution. After the "April 12" coup d'état, Chiang Kai-shek, with the support of the invading forces of the United States, Britain and Japan, instigated the warlords of Guizhou, Guizhou and Sichuan and the reactionary officers under the jurisdiction of Wuhan to subvert the people of Wuhan.

At the critical moment, at the suggestion of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Kuomintang issued an order appointing Ye Ting as the commander-in-chief of the counterinsurgency, and led the Northern Expeditionary Army out of Henan Province, the two new regiments that remained in Wuhan, namely the 72nd Regiment of the 24th Division and the 75th Regiment of the 25th Division, united with the Central Independent Division and the 11th Army Training Battalion with Yun Daiying as the party representative, as all the men and horses of the crusade against Xia Douyin.

Ye Ting's use of troops paid great attention to the beginning of the battle. He always put the most elite troops in front and threw a sword at the enemy to win a great victory in order to boost the morale of the whole army. Therefore, he took the 72nd Regiment, which maintained the fighting style of the original Independent Regiment, as the vanguard force, and drove to the front line by train from Xujiapeng Station, approached the town of Zhifang occupied by the enemy in the evening, seized the favorable terrain, and immediately launched an attack to defeat the enemy army.

"Yes!" Ye Ting's old subordinate, Xu Jishen, who is now the commander of the 72nd Regiment, slammed his heels, accepted the order with confidence, and arrived at the place designated by Ye Ting on time.

Who knows, Xia Douyin's troops, who had been prepared for a long time, took advantage of the unstable foothold of the 72nd Regiment and fiercely launched an attack with an enemy force three times larger than ours, in an attempt to annihilate us in one fell swoop.

However, under the witty and decisive command of the regiment commander Xu Jishen, the 72nd Regiment ordered the 3rd Battalion to persist in confronting the enemy, and the other 1st and 2nd Battalions interspersed in a roundabout way, disrupting the enemy's position from both flanks, occupying Zhifang Town, and forming a confrontation with the enemy.

The outcome of the battle achieved Xu Jishen's intended goal. As soon as the 72nd Regiment arrived, it captured the town of Zhifang and the area around the railway station. Although Xia Douyin's two regiments launched several frantic counterattacks against the 72nd Regiment one after another, they were all attacked back head-on by the stubborn officers and men of the 72nd Regiment, and the enemy suffered nearly half of the casualties, and the position of the 72nd Regiment was as solid as a rock and remained unmoving.

At dawn the next day, Ye Ting led the follow-up troops to the position of the 72nd Regiment.

Ye Ting immediately issued an order to the 1st Regiment and the 75th Regiment of the Independent Division and the 11th Army Training Battalion to attack the 72nd Regiment on the left and right flanks and to attack on all fronts, and said sharply: "Be brave, fast, and flexible, and annihilate all the invading enemies, only advance, not retreat, if you hesitate, you will be punished!" ”

At this moment, Ye Ting's majesty, even his former classmate of the Baoding Military Academy, who is now the commander of the First Regiment of the Central Independent Division, felt a great sense of awe-inspiring deterrence of "three days of Shibei, impressive", this invisible deterrence is simply a bit breathless, so that you dare not have the slightest disobedience and trouble.

Will be strong!

However, in Xia Douyin's unit opposite Ye Ting's troops, the commanders of several brigades and regiments were all classmates of Ye Ting's Baoding Military Academy, and the two sides were also a confrontation and contest between classmates of the Baoding Military Academy.

At this time, Ye Ting has the determination to fully defeat his opponent. Because he knew that his old classmates in the past were nothing more than copying the old combat routines learned at the Baoding Military Academy, and he would take a holistic view of the overall situation of the battle, and win the battle with the fierceness and tenacity of the 72nd Regiment in a tough battle and the outstanding surprise soldiers.

As soon as the battle between the two sides began, it really became a stalemate, you come and go, and no one wants to eat the other in one fell swoop.

Ye Ting knows that this is a contest of wills between the enemy and us, a contest of tenacious spirit, and a confrontation of bravery and fearless character. Whichever side fails to hold on first will inevitably lead to the terrible consequences of "a thousand miles of embankment collapsing in an anthill".

At this moment, something unexpected happened to Ye Ting.

When Ye Ting, in order to motivate the officers and men to resolutely resist the fierce attack of the enemy, disregarded his personal safety and braved the rain of bullets to come to the position of the 75th Regiment, it happened that our army was in an unfavorable situation, but the officers and men were not afraid of sacrifice and fought tenaciously, so that the attacking enemy troops never broke through the defensive line. However, one of the soldiers, probably frightened by the arrogance of the enemy and the sacrifice of his comrades, hurried to hide behind a large tree on the inside of the position.

"What's your name?" Ye Ting was the most intolerant coward on the battlefield, and asked like a tiger.

"I, I, I ......" The frightened warrior saw that it was Ye Ting, and his mouth trembled and he couldn't speak.

"When did you join the army?" Ye Ting's words were still rolling like thunder.

"It's just been two months." The frightened warrior replied in fear, his little face yellow with fright, and he looked like an immature child.

"Do you know what the punishment will be for retreating?" Ye Ting saw that he was a recruit who had just joined the army, and a ripple of pity rippled in his heart.

"Know, know, be executed, executed." The recruits were so frightened that they cried.

"You know how you do it? Why don't you look at what time this is, huh? Alas! Ye Ting has long been a father, and the recruit in front of him is not only young, but also not tall, just like a child. According to the death order he had just given to "only advance, not retreat", this recruit should be executed immediately! However, he was still a child, a new soldier, and needless to say, the son of a bitter peasant, whose parents were full of enthusiasm to send him to join the National Revolutionary Army, to serve the motherland, to serve the poor, how could they bear to see him put to death? Ye Ting's heart surged upwards with a wave of heat, and his nose was also sour. A warm voice said: "Forgive him this time, didn't you forgive a recruit for a violation of discipline once in the past?" You forget, it was during the surprise attack on Tingsi Bridge when the troops entered the Zhonghupu railway station, and it happened that an enemy military vehicle drove over, and you ordered "put the train over, no shooting"! As a result, a few recruits who had just joined the army did not understand the seriousness of the order and prohibition, and fired at the train in a panic, which caused the train to stop and a large number of enemy troops to get off the train to fight. When you asked, you learned that it was a few new recruits who had opened fire in violation of the order, and you solemnly pointed out to them the serious consequences of disobeying the order, and since it did not affect the overall combat operations of the troops, you did not give them the punishment they deserved. As the saying goes, there is a car in front and a rut in the back, since there has been a precedent of forgiving recruits before, why can't you open the net this time? Another cold-toned voice said: No, the military order is like a mountain! Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty said in "Saying Yuan and Pointing to Martial Arts": "Soldiers cannot be played, and playing is powerless; Soldiers cannot be abolished, and if they are abolished, they will be summoned. Today's people say: "There is no joke in the army." ”

Although he was a new soldier and a child-like recruit, he was a soldier in the National Revolutionary Army after all, and since he was a soldier, the seriousness with which military orders could not be violated was the same, and the law of military orders was the same for any soldier. Moreover, whether this is on the battlefield, on the battlefield where the enemy and us are fighting to the death, or at the critical moment when the enemy is fiercely attacking and our army is sniping hard, if this kind of cowardly behavior is tolerated or even instigated, it is very likely to lead to the defeat of the entire battle! At that time, the revolution will suffer serious losses, the "red capital" of Wuhan will fall into the hands of the rebels, the reactionary forces throughout the country will be encouraged by this, and the revolutionary movement throughout the country will be greatly affected and affected. If it comes to this point, of course, this cowardly recruit will be guilty, but the real culprit will be you, the commander-in-chief of counterinsurgency who does not abide by the law and does not punish those who violate the law! Is it the first element to decide which is more important than the overall interests of the revolution, or is it merely out of pity for this cowardly recruit? The result of the struggle between the two voices that are repulsive is the victory of masculinity over tenderness.

"Press the army **!" Ye Ting gritted his teeth, waved his hand vigorously, then turned around, a line of tears fell, and said with a sigh in his heart, "Little comrade, for the victory of the revolution, you can only decide like this." ”

The execution of this cowardly recruit on the battlefield really played the role of "killing one and setting an example." Although the enemy's offensive was more fierce, there was not a single one on our front who did not fight hard.

At this time, Ye Ting saw that the enemy's energy had been consumed to the point where there was not much left, and immediately issued an order: "Blow the trumpet of the charge, and the reserves will attack in an all-round way!" ”

Suddenly, the enemy army, which had become the end of the crossbow, was penetrated by the sharp arrows of Ye Ting's ambushed reserves, and immediately collapsed on the whole line, and fled one after another.

"Chase!" Ye Ting gave a new order.

The Northern Expeditionary Army came to beat the water dogs, pursued for half a day and night, chased the defeated Xia Douyin's troops to Hesheng Bridge, and almost completely annihilated.

Ye Ting's troops won a big victory.