Red God by Han Xiaorong

Author:Han, Xiaorong
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2014-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Separation

In late September 1930, Deng Gang, the delegate of the CCP Southern Bureau, arrived at Pingma where the headquarters of the Seventh Red Army was based. He had come all the way from Shanghai via Hong Kong, Nanning, and Longzhou, disguising himself as a businessman.101 Deng Gang came with the most recent directives from the CCP Central Committee, which was under the control of Li Lisan and had adopted the so-called Lisan Line as the official policy of the party. The Lisan Line held that another revolutionary climax was in the making and that it was possible for the Communist revolution to succeed in a few provinces before it would succeed in the entire country. It called on the Red Armies to attack large cities. Based on the Lisan Line, the Southern Bureau ordered the Seventh Red Army to attack Liuzhou and Guilin in northern Guangxi, and then build a base area in northern Guangdong before it would take Guangzhou. The purpose was to turn Guangdong into a Communist province and to prevent the Nationalists in Guangdong from moving their troops to the north so that other Red Army units could defeat the Nationalists in central China and create a base area around Wuhan. The CCP Central Committee issued a letter containing severe criticisms of the leaders of the Seventh Red Army, and the Southern Bureau of the CCP continued to view General Li Mingrui as a warlord and argued that the leaders of the Seventh Red Army had made a grave mistake by not only allowing Li to stay with the army, but also admitting him into the CCP and appointing him as the commander-in-chief of the Seventh and Eighth Red Armies. It urged that General Li be expelled from both the party and the army, an order the leaders of the Seventh Red Army chose not to heed. The letter also called for a rapid expansion of the Seventh Red Army.102

According to most sources, the directives of the CCP Central Committee caused a serious debate among the high-ranking leaders of the Right River Revolutionary Base Area. Deng Xiaoping and Zhang Yunyi thought that the Seventh Red Army was not powerful enough to attack and take major cities, but supported the idea of moving the army out of Guangxi. Lei Jingtian argued that the Seventh Red Army should stay in the Right River region, whereas Deng Gang, Chen Haoren, and Gong Chu fully endorsed the order of the Southern Bureau. Gong Chu, who served as the chief of staff of the Seventh Red Army at that time, recollected that he and Li Mingrui actually proposed to move northward to take Guizhou and turn it into a base area. It appears that Wei Baqun did not participate in the discussions. In the end, it was agreed that the Seventh Red Army would move eastward to enforce the order of the Southern Bureau. The leaders decided to keep their decision a secret, believing that to reveal it immediately would cause anxiety

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