Because the enemy was so strong and tightly blockaded, the hundreds of regular troops and a group of guerrillas under his leadership lacked food and clothing for a long time, and even more so lacked guns and ammunition, and their combat effectiveness continued to decline, and in the end they were no match for the Central Army.

Later, because he was betrayed by a traitor, he was shot and died heroically in the battle to cover the transfer of his comrades, at the age of twenty-nine.

His sacrifice is really a pity, it can be said that he was forced to death by Wang Ming's people.

Qu Qiubai is a high-ranking official at the central level and one of the leaders of the party, and his sacrifice is even more suffocating. Because he was not treated well by Wang Ming and others, Qu Qiubai repeatedly asked to set off with the main force during the Long March, but was refused, and he could only accompany a unit to fight guerrilla attacks in the local area, and this unit was soon disarmed by the Central Army, and he also became a prisoner of the enemy, and on June 18 this year, he generously took up justice in Fu-Jianchangting, at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.

I didn't expect these two cows to come.

Guo Zhuocheng sighed for a while when he thought of what they had encountered in history, and at the same time felt relieved. For example, the current political commissar Zhang Pingkai, chief of staff Wang Guangdao, and the captain of the second brigade Su Daqing all died in the Xiangjiang Battle in history, and it was his appearance that changed their fate.

However, Guo Zhuocheng still felt a little strange and asked Qu Qiubai: "Comrade Qiubai, aren't you with the Red 24th Division of Comrades Xiang Ying and Chen Yi, how did you get here?" ”

Mao Runtan next to him said on his behalf: "Comrade Qiubai came to contact you on their behalf, and I happened to be looking for you. He and I happened to meet on the mountain road, and we came together. You don't know. Your prestige has spread throughout the Central-Soviet District, and everyone is very happy, and they also want to get weapons, food and grass supplies from you, we are really too poor to open the pot, we can't help it, we can't do it without looking for you. ”

Guo Shucheng nodded and said, "Yes, I understand your situation. It's too hard for you, it's too hard for you. ......, other comrades and other troops have no problem asking for money, food, and weapons, and I will try my best to be satisfied, but you Mao Runtan can't. ”

Mao Runtan was not surprised, thinking that he was joking, so he smiled and asked, "Why is that?" Is it because I, Mao Runtan, didn't achieve results? Don't deserve money, food, and weapons? You don't want to. Even if my surname is Mao, I don't have the ability, but the soldiers under my command are desperate, and I can't starve them. ”

Zhang Pingkai and Wang Guangdao were stunned and looked at Guo Zhuocheng in confusion.

Guo Shucheng patted Mao Runtan's shoulder and said, "I want to wronged you and annex your troops, but I don't know if Master Mao is willing to condescend to come over." ”

Mao Runtan was also stunned at this time. In the previous sentence, he knew that Guo Zhuocheng was joking, and he treated him as a joke. But Guo Zhuocheng's words don't seem to be a joke.

The reason why Zhang Pingkai, Wang Guangdao and others were surprised was because Mao Runtan's level was higher than all of them, even if he was squeezed out by Wang Ming and others, his rank was still that of a division commander. Although the regular army is less than two hundred, it is less than the troops led by the battalion commander.

And Guo Zhuocheng's special task force, although the superiors did not have a clear level. But everyone only needs a little comparison to know: under the command of the Red Third Army Corps, when the number was small in the past, its highest level was the regimental level, but now the highest number of people is the division level, and it cannot always be on an equal footing with the Red Third Army Corps. The main thing is that there has been no formal appointment so far.

Mao Runtan, as a division commander, if he comes to the special task force, he will be the supreme leader, but Guo Zhuocheng said that he wants to "annex" this army, that is, to demote Mao Runtan's level, this is unreasonable, does Guo Zhuocheng want to let Xian himself? This is not in accordance with the rules of the organization, right?

Guo Shucheng naturally will not let Xian, now no matter who wants him to give way, it is impossible, he is fully prepared, not only Chen Peng, Luo Xi, Song Jun, Sheng Guozhen, Liu Xiangyang and others have mastered the heavy troops, no one can command them, and more importantly, he let Sun Xingguo serve as the captain of the gendarmerie and the commander of the guard battalion, directly protect his safety, and completely obey him.

He was not as high-profile as Mao Rundong and other senior leaders of the Red Army, and the people sent by Moscow could take away their leadership with a single note.

He will definitely not suffer that kind of loss, not to mention that those people do not have the ability to fight, the only thing is to turn the door high, force everyone to obey the command of the Soviet Union, and then kill and kill inside, and let the troops fight to the death.

He just wants to get Mao Runtan, the tiger general, and let him obey his command.

Mao Runtan, like General Peng, Chen Shuxiang and other generals, belongs to the fierce general series, dares to fight tough battles, dares to despise difficulties, and he is more knowledgeable and capable than other generals who were temporarily promoted under Guo Zhuocheng. He now lacks such a pivotal general under his command, and it is far from enough to have Chen Peng, Sun Xingguo and others.

There is also a reason why he wants to reuse Mao Runtan, that is, this person has been ostracized because of his opposition to Wang Ming. Guo Zhuocheng believed that he must have had a lot of opinions about Wang Ming and other Soviet factions, and by taking advantage of his point, Guo Zhuocheng would be more able to encourage him to break with the Soviet faction in advance, thus influencing other generals, and even Mao Rundong, so that Mao Rundong would make up his mind to eliminate the strong influence of the Moscow people in the Red Army as soon as possible.

In both public and private, Guo Shucheng believes that it is best to bring Mao Runtan with him, and may be able to establish a good personal relationship with Mao Rundong and other high-level people. Guo Zhuocheng believes that no matter how selfless a person is, it is impossible to completely ignore personal feelings, and it is impossible to completely ignore brotherly feelings.

Guo Zhuocheng smiled and said, "I want you to serve as the deputy captain of our special operations team and the captain of the first brigade. Do you want to do it? ”

Both Mao Runtan and Qu Qiubai were very surprised and puzzled by Guo Shucheng's public and private authority. According to their understanding, even if the special task force has the right to make such appointments, it should be Zhang Pingkai, the political commissar of the unit, because in this era, only the political commissar has the right to appoint and dismiss personnel, let alone apply to the superiors.

Guo Zhuocheng just saw Mao Runtan, and he didn't discuss personnel issues with Zhang Pingkai, Wang Guangdao and others at all, why did he blurt out that he was set in such an important position, do you think this special task force is your Guo Zhuocheng's personal one?

At this time, Zhang Pingkai breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said: "Our special task force has no rank, it is a temporary establishment given by General Peng in the telegram, and with the consent of Chairman Mao, the personnel authority and military command of our unit are temporarily in charge of Comrade Guo Zhuocheng. Comrade Wang Guangdao and I only assisted him in managing and commanding this unit. ”

Mao Runtan and Qu Qiubai all sighed in unison.

Guo Shucheng led Mao Runtan inside, and said as he walked: "Master Mao, don't underestimate our brigade, there are many more people than your independent division. ”

These words made Mao Runtan cry and laugh again, as if he was thinking about the number of people he led.

Zhang Pingkai, Wang Guangdao and the others shook their heads speechlessly, pretending not to hear and inviting Qu Qiubai to go in and rest.

Mao Runtan smiled bitterly: "Captain Guo, the prestige of your special operations team is very famous, and you have wiped out so many central armies, how dare I underestimate it, I am very willing to come over and serve you." ”

He said: "Don't let me be the captain, if you let me be the captain, I am willing." Looking at your military appearance and equipment, my little men and horses are really not enough, the men and horses of one of my divisions say that they are a division, but all the weapons add up to the weapons of one of your companies are not as good, or my dignified division commander will pull down his face and come to you to beg for rice? I'm afraid that if you send other people here, you won't pay attention to them, so I have to come by myself, I guess my face will have a little bit of face. ”

Speaking of this, he said: "But I am personally happy that I want to come over like this, but it violates organizational discipline." When the time comes, it will be a trivial matter for me to be punished, and it will be a great sin for you to be affected. ”

Guo Zhuocheng smiled: "I have already wronged you by letting Master Mao deign to be noble, where will I, Guo Zhuocheng, let you be punished?" Don't worry, as long as you are really willing to come, I will let you lose the position of teacher in a dignified manner, and you will definitely be recognized by your superiors, hehe. ”

Mao Runtan smiled: "Hehe, that's good, I'll follow you with dignity." ”

Back at the headquarters, Guo Zhuocheng ordered Sheng Guozhen: "Connect the high-power radio, I want to contact the Third Army." ”

Sheng Guozhen personally rushed into the communication room to operate the radio station, and it was ready in a few minutes.

Guo Zhuocheng took Qu Qiubai, Mao Runtan, Zhang Pingkai, Wang Guangdao and others into the communication room of the next room.

Guo Zhuocheng dictated next to the radio: "Commander of the Third Army Corps of the Red Army: Following Chairman Mao's military strategic thinking of 'persisting in guerrilla warfare and not fighting positional warfare' and 'concentrating superior forces to fight a war of annihilation,' and giving full play to the heroic and invincible fighting style of our Red Army, it fought one battle after another, and after a sneak attack and seized the county seat of Jianghua County, it adopted the method of luring the enemy into depth to completely annihilate the 96th and 15th Divisions of the enemy's Central Army. After that, our unit adopted the method of radio silence and withdrew from the county seat overnight, hid in the field, and searched for fighters while conducting training.

On January 14, our department was killed from the hiding place, and even Kechongyi, Shangyou, Dayu and other counties. Taking advantage of the panic and hesitation of the army in the center of the city of Jiangxi, our troops concentrated all their efforts on the 15th, completely annihilating the 36th Division, the enemy defending the city, killing more than 1,000 officers and men under the enemy's division commander Song Xilian, and capturing nearly 4,000. The defenders of Ruijin fled in fear, and our troops easily regained the ...... of the central-Soviet area."

At this point in this telegram, Guo Zhuocheng did not continue to report on the situation of his troops, nor did he ask for instructions on the next step, but asked out of nothing: "May I ask Chairman Mao that he has returned to the position of supreme military commander?" ”

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the communication room was shocked and looked at each other.

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