Chapter 9: Behind Enemy Lines (20)

After receiving Liao Lei's telegram, Ye Ting only said: "I'm going to Jiangbei." He threw the telegram in his hand and walked out of the headquarters.

The military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, in Yunling Town, Xuanchengjing County, Anhui Province, two brick and wood buildings and one bungalow, an ancient building combining Chinese and Western styles, is the residence of the Beiyang warlord Zhang Xun. Xiang Ying picked up the telegram on the table, glanced at it, and sighed heavily. The team in Jiangnan is not having a good time, and the team in Jiangbei is not having a good time either! In the eyes of the Kuomintang, under Putian, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not Wang Chen, this land of China belongs to the orthodoxy of the Kuomintang. They can throw large swathes of the country to the Japanese, but they cannot tolerate dissidents taking a place. On June 10, Chiang Kai-shek met with Zhou Enlai and Ye Jianying, and said: The communist army should keep its promises, obey government orders, implement state decrees, and resolve disputes in various places. Comprehensively restrict the anti-Japanese activities of the Chinese communist army. Before Chiang Kai-shek's words fell, Gao Jingting made such a play again, which was really a bit nerve-wracking. No wonder Ye Ting was angry and wanted to go to Jiangbei, he was also in a hurry!

The New Fourth Army had no garrison in the south of the Yangtze River, and all the garrisons were only on loan, and the New Fourth garrison given by the Nationalist Government was far away in North China, within the jurisdiction of the Japanese army. Not to mention how to survive in that area, it is not easy to move from Jiangnan to North China, and it is not easy to pass through the layers of interception by the Japanese puppet army. In the summer of 1938, the first and second detachments of the New Fourth Army successively advanced behind enemy lines in southern Jiangsu and defended a large amount of lost territory, but not an inch of it belonged to itself. Every time the New Fourth Army went deeper, Gu Zhutong of the Third Theater followed closely behind, always keeping the New Fourth Army in a sandwich position between the Kuomintang army and the Japanese puppet army. This kind of day is really not a person! Xiang Ying also threw the telegram in his hand on the ground.

The Anqing problem has reached the point where it must be solved, and this is no longer a small friction in one region, but has escalated into a fierce conflict between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and Gu Zhutong of the Third Theater is ready to do so, and if the friction in the Fifth Theater continues to escalate, he will squeeze the sandwich of the New Fourth Army even narrower in the Third Theater.

The north of the Yangtze River is unstable, the south of the Yangtze River is in crisis, and the New Fourth Army is in danger, Gao Jingting has been fighting in the Dabie Mountains, and has not experienced the difficulty of surviving in this kind of crack, in order to keep the establishment of the New Fourth Army, in order to leave this legitimate armed force, even if he is a little wronged. Ye Ting was anxious, set off quickly with the guard company, and rushed from the mountain road of Huanggong Mountain to the port of Huanggong Mountain for a day and a night, and then crossed the Yangtze River unconsciously, passed through Wuwei Chaohu Lake, and came to the Qinglong Factory in Feidong County.

Deng Zihui, who arrived here in advance, and Dai Jiying, director of the Political Department of the Fourth Detachment, came out of Chujiaweizi to greet him, and when he saw Ye Ting, Deng Zihui shook his head, looking powerless: "I can't call him, he is the overlord here." Dai Jiying, who was standing behind him, also looked embarrassed and bowed his head silently.

Ye Ting was stunned on the spot, not so much! Deng Zihui, deputy director of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army and minister of the Democracy Movement, would have such a statement and emotion, this Gao Jingting is too disrespectful to the leadership and a little arrogant!

Entering the Qinglong Factory, after arranging accommodation, Zhou Junwu, the head of the 8th Regiment in charge of the guards, asked people to find a vat of good glutinous rice sweet wine for Ye Ting to taste. Ye Ting has something in his heart, the delicacies of the mountains and seas are also like chewing wax, he is a vegetarian, and after sending a few sips of stuffy wine to the green vegetables and tofu, he rushed out with a sentence: "Your fourth detachment is so messy with Gao Jingting?" ”

Zhou Mingjun was frightened by Ye Ting's words and stood up and said: "Commander, this is none of our business, for this matter, Director Dai has had a lot of trouble with the head of the Gao detachment, Director Dai asked to develop in the east of the road according to the opinions of the military department, the head of the high team said that there is no foundation in the east of the road, and it is difficult to survive, so it is better to return to Dabie Mountain, and entering Dabie Mountain is like a fish in water." ”

"Nonsense!" Ye Ting put down the cup heavily and scolded: "This brainless Gao Jingting, he doesn't want to think about who the current chairman of Anhui Province is, it is Liao Lei, not Liu Zhenhua back then." He Gao Jingting can play Liu Zhenhua in the palm of his hand, but he has the ability to play Liao Lei in a mess. ”

"Don't talk about Liao Lei, he can't handle it if he is invincible." Deng Zihui on the side interjected.

"Comrade Zihui, what do you say should be done?" Ye Ting asked.

"We must have a face-to-face interview with Comrade Gao Jingting and tell him the current situation, we must focus on the overall situation, and don't be short-sighted and only see such a place as the big palm of Dabie Mountain." When Deng Zihui said this, he shouted distressedly: "I sent a telegram to him three times and twice to ask him to come over, but he just couldn't come, and at first he found some reason, but then he simply ignored it." ”

"Yes! Some truths must be explained clearly face-to-face, and it is better to find a way to let Comrade Jingting come over. Ye Ting said.

"Commander, don't you think this will work." Zhou Mingjun, who was on the side, wiped off the wine spilled in front of Ye Ting, poured it again, and said: "I personally went to Shucheng, and said that the army commander had arrived, and asked the head of the Gao detachment to come over to participate in the military meeting on how to carry out guerrilla operations in the area under the Huainan Railway. ”

"Okay!" Ye Ting thought about it and agreed to Zhou Mingjun's suggestion.

Gao Jingting in Shucheng saw Zhou Mingjun and knew that it was Ye Ting who had arrived at the Qinglong Factory, and asked him to take the teaching brigade adapted from the pistol regiment to attend the meeting, and immediately after the meeting, guerrilla warfare was launched in the area under the Huainan Railway.

Out of respect and trust for the commander, and also knowing the importance of the Huainan Railway, Gao Jingting handed over the military command of Shucheng to the chief of staff Zhan Huayu, and took Li Shi'an's teaching brigade to follow Zhou Mingjun to Qinglong Factory.

He never dreamed that when he arrived at the camp, he didn't see Ye Ting, but he was detained and detained by Huang Xuzhou, director of the adjutant department of the military department, and the entire guard squad was subsequently shot. At this time, Ye Ting was talking to Li Shi'an, the captain of the teaching brigade who came with Gao Jingting, Ye Ting's words were very simple: "Gao Jingting does not carry out the order, he has been locked up, you have to ensure that there are no problems with the troops." ”

Li Shi'an was stunned on the spot and didn't know what to do, only to see Dai Jiying, director of the Political Department of the Fourth Detachment, turn around from behind Ye Ting, and in the name of the leader of the Fourth Detachment, order Li Shi'an to go back and gather the teaching brigade, and also make it clear to the commanders and fighters: Gao Jingting has been imprisoned for disobeying the order, and Commander Ye has crossed the river to deal with Gao's problem.

The next work is to start from the political point of view and fundamentally help Gao Jingting solve ideological problems, first Ye Ting, Deng Zihui, Dai Jiying and Gao Jingting carried out a small range of three helps. Sitting in a bright room in Chu Junzhai Manor, Qinglong Factory, Deng Zihui said to Gao Jingting very sincerely: The New Fourth Army is far away from the central authorities, and it is necessary to maintain the same opinion with the central leader in Wuhan (referring to Wang Ming), and that the New Fourth Army, as a lone army, must always be clear about its strategic position, and must not blindly expand the army, still less recruit troops without authorization, and must not sabotage the united front. Gao Jingting has his own viewpoint on this, and he has proved himself correct with a large number of facts, and he fought alone in the Dabie Mountains and persisted to this day, fighting bigger and bigger, and once he got out of the Dabie Mountains, it was difficult every step of the way, and this was completely a mistake in the guidelines of the New Fourth Army.

In order to help Gao Jingting realize his mistakes, the cadres above the company level in the Qinglong Factory held a meeting. At the meeting, everyone expressed their views and basically unified their thinking. It is unanimously agreed that Dabie Mountain is already yesterday's yellow flower, the scenery is no longer there, and now under the heavy control of the Gui system, it is impossible to go back. A company commander of the Seventh Regiment once fought side by side with Chen Zhengxin on the Qipan Ridge, fully realized the strength of the Gui Army, and shouted: "The Gui Army, three points more ruthless than the Japanese, going to Dabie Mountain, is not to survive, to die, to die, to seek death." ”

During the three years of guerrilla warfare, Gao Jingting developed a patriarchal style of arbitrariness and arbitrariness, a warlord style of beating and scolding his subordinates, and even groundlessly doubted the loyalty of others to the revolution...... New fighters lose their bolts and are shot; If you fall behind on the march, you will be suspected of defecting to the enemy; If the clothing factory does not complete the clothing task in time, the factory director will be hung up and beaten severely.

Faced with the scolding of his subordinates, Gao Jingting became angry and angrily asked Ye Ting: "I don't know what you did in the past, we don't know what you did?" Now fix me. "Where were you when the Soviet area was fighting against encirclement and suppression? "What did you Ye Ting do during the three years of guerrilla warfare? "Refusal to carry out the orders of the New Fourth Army Military Headquarters? Well, why do you want us to give up the Dabie Mountain base that we bought with blood? Ye Ting was red-faced.

Ye Ting, who went to prison at the age of fifteen for supporting the Huanghuagang Uprising, graduated from the Baoding Military Academy at the age of twenty-two and participated in the aid of the Fujian and Guangdong Army. In the same year, he joined the Kuomintang and embarked on the revolutionary road. He led the Northern Expedition of the Iron Army to gain a great reputation, and the Nanchang Uprising and the Guangzhou Uprising became one of the founders of the Communist Army. In 1928, he went to the Soviet Union, but because he was groundlessly accused by Li Lisan and Wang Ming, he quit the Communist Party and joined the "Third Party". After that, he went into exile in Germany, France and other places, made a living translating German articles, and became a vegetarian for five years. In the past five years, it was the five years when the Red Army fought fiercely with the national army in Jinggangshan, Xiangxi, Hubei, Henan, and Anhui, and it was Ye Ting's regret that he did not participate in this storm. But he didn't expect that at this time, in this place, he was counted out by Gao Jingting one by one. In Gao Jingting's words, Ye Ting became a deserter, a coward, and a speculator, scolding every sentence like thunder, and every word pierced his heart.

After decades of crisscrossing the rivers and lakes, he was scolded like this when he was so scolded, Ye Ting couldn't help but be annoyed and angry, and he was in a hurry.

Gao Jingting's rebuke also made the whole meeting escalate and become sour, Dai Jiying very sensitively reversed the direction of the meeting, and turned it into a criticism meeting against Gao Jingting, and he also caught Gao Jingting's stain with a sharp point. When he was the political commissar of the 75th Division of the Red 25th Army, he actively carried out the ultra-"leftist" anti-rebellion policy, and during the three-year guerrilla war in the Dabie Mountains when the Red 28 Army was reorganized, he inherited the anti-rebellion policy, and in the past three years, he carried out three large-scale anti-rebellion campaigns. Fang Yongle, political commissar of the 82nd Red Division, Yu Xiong, commander of the pistol regiment, Xu Chengji, secretary of the special committee of western Anhui, Chen Shouxin, secretary of the Northeast Hubei Provincial Committee, Zhang Jiasheng, secretary of the special committee of southeastern Henan, Zheng Dingguo, secretary of the special committee, and Lin Weixian, commander of the special service battalion, were all persecuted on trumped-up charges, among whom Yu Xiong, Chen Shouxin, Zhang Jiasheng, and Zheng Dingguo were framed to death. Dai Jiying turned the meeting to this aspect, and Gao Jingting knew that he was in big trouble.

Ye Ting is a pure soldier, jealous and hateful, before it was just because Gao Jingting was angry at his disrespect, and he didn't know that Gao Jingting had done so much evil, when he learned that Gao Jingting had so much comrade blood on his hands, his opinion of Gao Jingting changed dramatically. In the voice of the crowd pointed out by Qianfu, he deeply knew that the Gao Jingting in front of him was the biggest obstacle to the development of the New Fourth Army in Jiangbei, and it was also the biggest stumbling block to the national united front.

At the meeting, Deng Zihui asked everyone to go back and discuss how to deal with Gao Jingting, and the opinions discussed by everyone were combined to carry out a serious and serious profound education of Gao Jingting from the surface to the inside, and Dai Jiying reported to the army commander Ye Ting. After discussing with Dai Jiying, Ye Ting finally made a decision and severely dealt with Gao Jingting and executed him.

A telegram flew from the Qinglong Factory to Liao Lei's desk in Lihuang, and when he saw that it was actually a request for instructions to shoot Gao Jingting, Liao Lei was dumbfounded, did not dare to slack off, and immediately forwarded it to the Central Party Department and the Military Commission and reported to the chairman.

On June 24, with Chiang Kai-shek's official letter "requesting that Gao Jingting be sentenced to execution", Ye Ting issued a notice in the name of the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, and the guard squad brought by Ye Ting took Gao Jingting to a ditch in the east of Chulaowei to be executed.

When the news of Gao Jingting's shooting came out, everyone was shocked, and this was the only military commander who was not shot because of defeat since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. He led the fourth detachment to complete a series of operations against Japan and achieved good results, so it was a pity to be shot like this. Liao Lei was stunned and invited Ye Ting, if Brother Xiyi got it, he would see Lihuang and discuss the plan of the Anti-Japanese War. Chiang Kai-shek was overjoyed, and sent a telegram to the New Fourth Army: "Your army commander inspected his subordinates, and the anti-Japanese war detachment was put in order, and it was very gratifying to work hard and prepare." ”

Mo Di was more concerned about the situation of the New Fourth Army after Gao Jingting was shot, as Deng Zihui led the team to enter, Gu Shiduo's team withdrew from Huaining Wangjiang, and soon, the New Fourth Army in Tongcheng Shucheng began to move to the east of the road, and Mo Di knew that in this area, the New Fourth Army would not make trouble for him for the time being.