1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

Of course, that's because the Commander just "traveled" here this year. Otherwise, Japan would have long since become the Commander's shape! UMP45 rolled her eyes inwardly, but said with a serious expression:

"Are you guys...looking down on the Japanese?"

"Um?"

"Waging the war of aggression against China was not the idea of ​​a small group of Japanese soldiers or politicians, but the common will of the vast majority of the people in the entire Japanese nation. How can it be stopped just by saying so?" This is not UMP45's deliberate nonsense, but a fact that has been proven by later generations.

Some people always think that killing Hirohito or some high-ranking Japanese officials can stop the war of aggression against China;

Not only did many people in later generations think so, but many Chinese and even Communists during this period also thought so;

Is it right to discuss the "Japanese government", "Japanese aristocracy", "Japanese militarism" and "Japanese people" separately? Yes and no.

I am right because, from the perspective of class and united front work, these groups should not be lumped together; that would be detrimental to the revolutionary struggle.

The reason why I say it is wrong is that the complexity and madness of Japan in World War II were beyond the imagination of people at that time. Even many scholars in later generations found it difficult to imagine it.

Claw, calling them "the country of madmen";

When many Japanese left-wing scholars were communicating with the Chinese side on the issue of the war of aggression against China, they often made remarks such as "Japanese militarism is so-and-so, and the Japanese people are so-and-so" when facing Chinese representatives.

To refute bluntly:

"This is wrong! During World War II, almost all Japanese participated in the invasion and are guilty. If these crimes are not thoroughly settled, relations between the two countries will not be able to return to normal."

This behavior made the Chinese representatives, the victims, very embarrassed. They thought to themselves how come these Japanese were more "vindictive" than the Chinese.

The instructor later discussed "Japanese militarism" and "Japanese people" separately, partly for the sake of united front work and partly because he truly believed it. Sure enough, after hearing UMP45's words, Li Desheng frowned:

"Comrade Shiwu, your idea..."

Okay, okay, I'm just reminding Comrade Chen Geng that we shouldn't automatically favor the Japanese, even the poorest, out of class considerations. We must strictly observe their words and actions. "I understand... Then when should I leave?"

"As soon as possible! However, before we set off, we still have to perform a play..."

"Um?"

181 The merits and demerits of the Heroic Spirit cannot be offset

Henan, about 30 kilometers away from Xinji County, Baique Garden.

The sky was gray and there was a sparse drizzle.

It was not a good time to go out, but a group of high-ranking officials from the Red Fourth Front Army and the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area came here collectively, all with solemn expressions, because a new cemetery was about to be built here to bury their fallen comrades.

Xu Jishen, Shu Chuanxian, Xiao Fang, Pan Guifo, Xiong Shouxuan, Zhou Weijiong... the total number is as high as 2568.

(Note: Regarding the death toll, the documents I found said thousands, while others said so many people were captured, but in reality only a small number were killed and the others were expelled. Due to the needs of the novel's plot, I believe the former.) This is the number of corpses dug out some time ago. No one can be sure whether there are any omissions.

Because it is located in the north and the weather is cold, many comrades are still vivid.

Now, it is time to prepare their remains and rebury them.

Li Desheng, dressed neatly, stood at the front, holding a manuscript in his hand and reading in a loud voice:

"Comrade Xu Jishen, former member of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Special Committee and former commander of the First Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army...was wounded over ten times..."

This is a brief biography and final verdict on Comrade Xu Jishen, signed and confirmed by many middle and high-level military officers in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area.

Overall, the reviews were very positive, with emphasis placed on his heroic performance and great contributions in the May Fourth Movement, the Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Feudal Movement, the Northern Expedition, and the establishment of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area. Since Xu Jishen had already been defined as a "martyr wrongly murdered by Zhang Guotao," this was understandable and not surprising.

What's strange is that in this manuscript, Li Desheng not only praised Xu Jishen's achievements, but also bluntly pointed out the mistakes he had made! "...A love of fine wine and beautiful women is the true nature of a hero." Comrade Xu Jishen's erroneous thoughts and remarks need other comrades to be vigilant and reflect... "You must know that according to Chinese tradition, "death is the greatest" and "respecting the memory of the respected" has always been the norm.

"Since the person is gone, let's not mention those trivial matters anymore" is the so-called "truth"; but Li Desheng doesn't think so.

Achievements should be mentioned, mistakes should be mentioned even more!

On the one hand, merit is merit, and mistakes are mistakes. If merit and mistakes are lumped together, what is the difference between the Red Army and a feudal peasant army? As soon as a person dies, he is praised as a flawless, perfect saint. This completely violates the spirit of "seeking truth from facts."

This is his belief, and no one can shake it.

On the other hand, after actually arriving in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area for in-depth research, Li Desheng discovered that the discipline and work style problems of the cadres here were even more serious than what had been reported in the report submitted to the Central Committee and what UMP45 and others had said.

In short, unlike the First Red Army, which had regular troops as its backbone, the Fourth Red Army was essentially a "traditional insurgent army" composed of peasants, bandits, militia, and remnants of landlords. Besides the previously mentioned issues of "the division chief of staff smoking opium in his office" and "members of the division committee seducing and raping women," other crimes uncovered during this period were even more shocking. For example, during Li Desheng's investigation, Fang Ying, the leader of western Anhui, took the initiative to reveal:

"Kuang Jixun and Zeng Zhongsheng ordered the local party branch to arrange a route in Hekou and found six women to share and enjoy, but for various reasons, this was not completed.

"At the enlarged meeting, Comrade Zemin proposed organizing an 'examination of this issue.' Although a lot of materials were collected among the Standing Committee members, Comrade Guo Tao disagreed with this 'making a mountain out of a molehill,' so it was not passed." Comrade Shen Zemin and others confirmed Fang Ying's words, forcing Kuang Jixun and Zeng Zhongsheng (who are still alive) to step forward and make a profound self-criticism to Li Desheng and the party organization.

For example, a considerable number of officers and soldiers of the Fourth Front Red Army treated the Soviet government as a "Red Army guesthouse," not only wantonly molesting female cadres but also raping them multiple times. The suicide note left by He Yulin, a special commissioner of the Central Committee who was also murdered in Baique Garden, revealed:

"Except for a very small number, about three-quarters of the leading Party members in An, Ma, Pi, and Guang had sexual relations with dozens or even hundreds of women, thus fostering the tendency of progressive women to degenerate, corrupt, and become romantic." For example, a considerable portion of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Red Army was formed by the incorporation of militia groups, bandits, and gangs. Their composition was extremely complex, their organizational structure was deeply influenced by gangs, and discipline was even more difficult to improve.

Three senior Party officials, including Xu Ziqing, Xu Qixu, and Dai Kangjun, who have already died, revealed:

"The 13th Division's military discipline is not very good, especially during the battles at Yingshan and Huoshan. They were at their worst, practically acting like bandits..."

For example, Zhou Weijiong, who also died at Baiqueyuan, had instructed his subordinates to openly oppose the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Branch Bureau and slandered the cadres sent by their superiors as "third parties." He also intended to kill these cadres, forcing eight people, including Central Inspector Guo Shuxun, Division Committee Secretary Guo Tianmin, and Division Commander Liu Ying, to flee overnight.

Guo Shuxun revealed:

"When they captured the shopping mall, they fought with each other for loot. Some took the money home, and many even became rich and left the team and gave up the revolution..." For example, those who were purged by violence were themselves very fond of purging counter-revolutionaries and loved using torture to extract confessions from the soldiers and cadres under them.

This was the case with Dai Jiying, one of the founders of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area, who was nearly killed.

In Xu Haidong's words, it was the divisional political commissar Dai Jiying who personally tied up and beat 49 party and league cadres, including the political commissar and chief of staff of the 220th Regiment. When torture failed to extract a confession, he tied them to a bench and tortured them. "They killed them without any confession. When I questioned them, they said, 'You don't understand the purge.' The lack of a confession proves that he is a resolute counter-revolutionary. It's just that he was unwilling to reveal their organization.'" In this chaotic situation, even more chaotic than the purge in the Central Soviet Area, it is fair to say that Zhang Guotao's brutal actions are completely understandable and even meritorious.

One thing Chen Changhao said made Li Desheng's scalp tingle, and he even agreed with Zhang Guotao's murderous behavior:

In the spring of 1931, a severe famine hit the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area, and the Yangtze River flooded, making the situation in the entire Soviet Area extremely critical.

After the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Central Bureau was established, after intense discussion, it was decided to send the Red Fourth Army southward to develop. As a result, after successfully capturing Yingshan on August 1, the Red Fourth Army arbitrarily changed its battle plan. (The branch bureau had decided to attack eastward in the direction of Qianshan and Anqing, but the Red Fourth Army felt that Qishui was more profitable, so it arbitrarily continued to move south.)

(Although the facts proved that more was indeed captured, the action itself was intended to threaten Nanjing, contain the Nationalist army, and help the Central Soviet Area, so it could not be done.) Changing the plan would have been fine, but after the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area sent a letter criticizing them, Zeng Zhongsheng actually wrote back:

This branch's directive is based entirely on one-sided grounds and purely subjective... Ordering the Red Army, which is less than a modern division, to take Anqing and threaten Nanjing is almost Communist exaggeration..."

The saying "a general in the field is not subject to military orders" is true, but why didn't you bring it up when you were making the plan? Why did you arbitrarily change it when you found it advantageous? This is already annoying enough, but Zeng Zhongsheng, who had been criticized, actually convened a meeting of all company-level and above cadres at Jiming River, where he fiercely criticized the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Central Branch. Not only that, he even printed and distributed a reply letter disparaging the Central Branch and documents opposing his superiors to local Party branches and non-Party organizations in western Anhui!

To be honest, it is not true that the Communist Party does not allow subordinates to criticize their superiors;

Historically, Peng Dehuai scolded Li De, Xu Haidong scolded Shen Zemin, Lin Biao criticized Li Desheng in a letter before the Huili Conference, and Li Desheng scolded Wu Hao... As long as it is within the organizational principles, even if the words are a bit harsh, it is not considered a big mistake or even a mistake in the revolutionary ranks;

But Zeng Zhongsheng made the matter look very similar to the "Aba Conference" on September 15, 1935, when Zhang Guotao incited opposition to the Party Central Committee.

In Chen Changhao's words, "This incident led Comrade Zhang Guotao, who was seriously ill at the time, and our Central Bureau to suspect that hostile forces had infiltrated the Red Army, violating the principle of the Party commanding the gun, which in turn triggered the Baiqueyuan Purge... This statement was intended to exonerate Zhang Guotao and some of the Fourth Front Army cadres, including myself, but it cannot be said to be completely unreasonable."

The reasons for the purge of this group of people who were purged and defined as "martyrs" in history have always been very complicated.

In addition to his personal desire for power, Zhang Guotao's anti-counterrevolutionary campaign in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area was also closely related to various complex realities, including the fact that the counter-revolutionary forces were indeed extremely rampant.

As UMP45 had previously stated at a meeting of the Central Soviet Bureau, "Objectively speaking, Zhang Guotao made certain contributions to rectifying the work style in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area, especially the discipline of the Red Fourth Front Army." Therefore, shortly after taking over, Li Desheng decided to continue some of Zhang Guotao's policies and continue to curb the unhealthy tendencies in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area.

Of course, Li Desheng's "killing" is different from Zhang Guotao's "killing". It is mainly about "destroying the heart" and supplemented by "killing people".

Except for a very small number of bastards who were truly guilty of heinous crimes and had to be dealt with (Zhang Guotao also killed some of these people), most people were let off and their past was forgiven;

This is also the reason why the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area and the Red Fourth Front Army did not cause major unrest during this period despite carrying out "anti-counterrevolutionary" activities, "criticism and self-criticism" and "exposure and self-exposure" everywhere.

Li Desheng wanted to use this opportunity to pay tribute to the heroes to further emphasize discipline, further convey his ideas, and to reassure some while also comforting others.

So, as they listened solemnly to Li Desheng's praise and criticism of several key leaders who had died, even involving some cadres in the audience, everyone's expressions remained normal. As the new Chairman Li had said, "No one is perfect; making mistakes is understandable; correcting them and not repeating them is a sign of being a good comrade."

Of course, their honesty is also inseparable from Li Desheng's "absolute military force" support.

If it weren't for UMP45...

Alas?

By the way, where is dance instructor Ma Shi?

At this moment, a figure suddenly rushed out from the grove and raised a gun in the direction of Li Desheng!

182 Chen Kang was beaten into a dog by UMP45

The attacker who suddenly raised his gun caught everyone by surprise.

This included Chen Geng, commander of the 12th Red Army Division, who had been assigned the responsibility for this "security mission," and UMP45, who had been observing from the shadows. While the others were surprised by the assassination itself, these two were surprised for other reasons:

Wait, this isn't the "assassination" we arranged!

I had previously agreed with Li Desheng to create a minor accident at the Baique Garden Memorial Ceremony, which would not injure anyone, and use it to criticize the 12th Red Army Division, which was in charge of security.

Then the division commander Chen Geng "ran away in anger"...

It's crude, but logical, which is enough these days.

However, what the three of them didn't expect was that before the actors they arranged appeared, a new actor suddenly appeared, and he was actually mixed in with the security team!

Of course, being surprised is surprising, but it doesn’t mean that anything unexpected will happen.

The commander's order to UMP45 was to "absolutely guarantee Li Desheng's safety." Unless Li Desheng himself committed suicide, she wouldn't let the situation get out of control.

The reaction speed of the tactical humanoid is even greater than the difference between a high-energy intelligent driver and a human driver. "Bang!"

The man, raising a Mauser pistol to attack Li Desheng, was shot in the wrist and fell to the ground screaming. The surrounding guards froze for a few seconds before rushing forward and pinning him down. Watching the chaos at the scene, UMP45 tossed the "Water Link" in her hand to Chen Xilian, who was standing beside her.

"See? This is medium- and long-range sniping. Practice more. Also, I'll pull a few people out later to train them on important personnel protection techniques..." As she spoke, she leisurely walked towards the attack scene a few hundred meters away.

On the other side, Li Desheng, who was being pounced on by the crowd, shouted angrily: "Get up! Are you trying to crush me to death?"

Until now, he still thought that this was a "fake assassination" planned by UMP45 and Chen Geng.

Although he was reluctant to engage in such a "conspiracy," he agreed because it was UMP45's suggestion, his fellow villager Chen Geng fully supported it, and the fact that the 1st Division commander's sudden departure was indeed a bit strange. However, he didn't expect that the first person to pounce on him before Chen Geng was actually...

"Chairman, are you okay?!"

"Comrade Wen Yucheng..."

This Wen Yucheng is not the later commander of the Beijing Garrison, Lieutenant General Wen Yucheng, but the former member of the Central Committee, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, member of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, and secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League Wen Yucheng (formerly known as Wen Yucheng).

become).

Why do you say once?

Because, due to violations of confidentiality discipline and embezzlement of public funds, this guy received a serious warning in March last year, was removed from his position as secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League in May, and was "exiled" to the Hubei, Henan, and Anhui regions;

In January of this year, he was stripped of his status as a representative of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area Central Committee. Last month, his membership in the Central Military Commission, the Central Committee, and the Politburo of the Communist Party of China was also revoked. If it weren't for his past status, he wouldn't even be eligible to attend this "memorial ceremony."

Because of his own ethics and beliefs, coupled with the influence of the "World Revolutionary Party", Li Desheng naturally had no good feelings towards corrupt officials. However, he did not expect that this person would "save his life". Li Desheng felt a little complicated for a while:

"I'm fine, get up quickly." "Yes... yes..."

Wen Yucheng carefully moved away and quickly called on the others to surround Li Desheng to prevent him from being assassinated again. Li Desheng caught a glimpse of the UMP45 approaching and waved his hand, saying, "No need, let me take a look..."

At this time, Li Desheng saw the "assassin's" right hand that was shot through, and found something wrong. He frowned and asked: "Who are you? Why do you want to assassinate me?"

"You can kill me or chop me up! It's all up to you!"

The young assassin, who looked barely 20, was pinned to the ground, his neck stiff as he roared, "There's a huge scar on my head! Grandpa will be a brave man again in 18 years!"

You've seen too many plays...

Even when facing a real assassin, Li Desheng remained calm and asked calmly: "You want to kill me, there must be a reason, right? Can you explain it to me?" "Don't pretend to be a good person! My brother died here! At your feet!!" "Ah?"

After some communication, Li Desheng was a little amused and helpless when he learned the result.

It turned out that the assassin's brother was ordered by Zhang Guotao to be killed in Baique Garden. When he heard about it, he was furious and wanted to take revenge, so he joined the 12th Division under a false name. Then, he could not tell the difference between "Chairman Zhang" and "Chairman Li". After hearing that the "Chairman" was coming to Baique Garden, he took a pistol that his brother had secretly left behind in a previous battle... In other words, this guy assassinated the wrong person.

"..."

Everyone was speechless and annoyed.

Especially the "director" UMP45 and Chen Geng.

If something really happened to Li Desheng, it would be the biggest blunder in the world. However...

UMP45 and Chen Kang exchanged glances, both quickly realizing this was a prime "performance opportunity." UMP45 immediately spoke up, "Chairman! I think this matter needs further investigation! Did this assassin collaborate with anyone else in the Twelfth Division?"

"..."

This remark was directed at Chen Geng, who was in charge of on-site security. He immediately flew into a rage: "What do you mean? You think I arranged this person?!"

"I didn't say that, but this assassin came from your 12th Division, right?!" UMP45 sneered.

"How could a man who had only joined the Red Army for less than four months be in charge of such an important task?! Isn't it worth investigating further?" This is true, but in the current environment, it is actually a bit "nitpicking".

Because at that time, the Red Army did not have a "diplomatic protection department" at all, at most it only had a "guard company" or something like that;

The White Sparrow Garden memorial site is so large that a few guards cannot protect it, so the security work can only be handed over to the entire 12th Division;

With thousands of people in the complex environment of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area, who could guarantee there weren't a few reactionaries among them? Of course, this didn't mean Chen Geng wasn't responsible, so he immediately assumed a "speechless" attitude and let UMP45 output:

I really don't know what you guys in the 12th Division are doing! You didn't even do a basic political review? You actually let this dangerous person in!"

"..."

Well, this is actually quite "nitpicking".