Why did the Red Army enter Fujian

On March 1929, 1 1, more than 3,000 people led by Mao Zedong, Zhu De and Chen Yi set off from Ruijin, passed through Mushanling, Niuping, Anziqian and Monopterus albus for the first time, and arrived at Louziba in Changting (Tingzhou) County. 12 Enter Sidu Town, Changting County.

In the early morning of March 13, gongsijun took the initiative to attack the second mixed brigade of Fujian defense forces entrenched in Changting city. The enemy was defeated on all fronts, and brigade commander Guo was killed by Red Army soldiers in a panic. In this campaign, more than 2,000 people were destroyed and more than 500 guns were seized. The number of machine guns was quite good, and there were countless ammunition, 3 mortars and more than 0/00 shells/kloc. Zhai Changling's victory is the biggest victory since the Red Army went to Jinggangshan, and it is also a major victory for the Red Army to enter Fujian for the first time.

After the Red Fourth Army captured Changting, in just 17 days in Changting, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, Zhu De and Chen Yi, it carried out fruitful work.

Publicize the masses widely

On the morning of March 15, the front committee of the Red Fourth Front Army held a mass meeting of 10,000 people in Nanzhai Square on the outskirts of the city. The meeting was chaired by Commander Zhu De, and the representative of Mao Zedong made an inspiring speech at the meeting. At the meeting, Zhu De announced ten counts of Guo's oppression of the people. After the meeting, the Red Army selected the property of Guo He 10 big landlords and gentry to attend the meeting and distributed it to the working people. The Red Army Propaganda Team went to the streets in time to publicize to the masses by posting notices from the headquarters of the Red Fourth Army, writing slogans on the walls and making political reports. Mao Zedong personally drafted the Letter to Businessmen and Intellectuals, expounded the policies of * * * *, and published them in large quantities, widely publicized them, which expanded the political influence of the Red Army.

Conduct investigation and study

Tingzhou, the seat of state, county, road and government since ancient times, is the largest city liberated since the establishment of Gongsijun. In order to find out the local political and economic situation, it is necessary to investigate and study. On the night of his arrival in Tingzhou, Mao Zedong consulted the Tingzhou government records and Changting county records, and found out the economy, politics and customs of Changting through social investigation, and formulated various urban policies accordingly, which severely cracked down on reactionaries and United the broad masses of the people.

The political department of gongsijun resumed

The Political Department of GongSiJun was originally established in Jinggangshan in May 1928, with Chen Yi as the director. 1929 1 when gongsijun broke through the guerrilla war in Gannan from Jinggangshan, the political department stopped working, and Chen Yi was appointed as the director of the army soldiers Committee. /KLOC-After the capture of Changting City in March/April, due to the development of the struggle situation, the Front Committee decided to restore the political department of Gongsijun, with Mao Zedong as the director and Chen Yi as the director in May of the same year.

Establish organizations at all levels in Changting County.

During his stay in Ting, the Gongsi Army fought against local tyrants, raised funds with the masses, and organized the expansion of trade unions and peasant associations, which provided conditions for the establishment of the red regime. With the guidance and help of the front committee of the Red Fourth Front Army and on the basis of the temporary county committee, the Changting County Committee of the Communist Party of China was formally established. Then, 20 secret peasant associations, 5 secret trade unions and general trade unions were formed rapidly. The party organization has developed twice as much as before. At first, the county's political organ was a temporary revolutionary committee appointed by the Military Political Department, and then representatives of workers' and farmers' organizations were convened to formally elect the Changting County Revolutionary Committee.

After the establishment of the Revolutionary Committee of Changting County, it announced the cancellation of all donations, the confiscation of land and property of landlords and gentry, and resolutely eliminated counter-revolutionaries. The establishment of Changting County Revolutionary Committee has far-reaching historical significance. It is the first county-level red political power under the leadership of * * * in the history of western Fujian.

Because gongsijun won the hearts of the people, many young people in Changting asked to join the army. More than 300 people joined the army in half a month. Gongsijun also helped the local government to set up a county red guard with more than 60 people and allocated more than 20 guns to defend the local political power and the victory of the agrarian revolution.

Solved the supply of the red army.

During the Ting period, Gongsijun also paid great attention to raising wages and solving supplies. Gongsijun lost no time in raising money, imposing fines, beating local tyrants and confiscating property. In less than 10 days, the property of more than 10 reactionary gentry was confiscated, fined more than 20,000 yuan, and borrowed 30,000 yuan from businessmen with capital of 1000 yuan. With the improvement of economy, GongSiJun gave everyone 4 yuan pocket money, and all officers and men treated prisoners equally. At the same time, 4,000 sets of military uniforms were made with the captured sewing machine factory, and each Red Army received a set of gray military uniforms decorated with red collars, a military cap decorated with red five stars and a leggings. This is the first time since the founding of GongSiJun unified clothing.

Reorganization of Tingzhou of Hongsi Army

During the period when the Red Fourth Front Army was stationed in Ting in mid-March, the whole army was reorganized according to the decision of Luo Fufeng's meeting. The organizational system of the regiment was changed to a column organizational system and made up of three columns. Each column has two detachments (equivalent to battalion), and each detachment has three brigades (equivalent to company). Zhu De is still the commander, and Mao Zedong, secretary of the front committee, is also the party representative and director of the military political department.

Hold an enlarged meeting of the front Committee

The first enlarged meeting of Changting, the former committee of the Red Fourth Army, was held in Geng Xin Villa, Changting County on March 20th. 1929. The meeting was presided over by Mao Zedong. The meeting made a detailed analysis of the political, military, economic and natural conditions in Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, especially the comparison of party organizations, mass movements, revolutionary armed forces and enemy forces in southern Jiangxi and western Fujian, and made an important decision to establish separate armed separatist zones in more than 20 counties in southern Jiangxi and western Fujian by taking advantage of the melee between warlords of Chiang Kai-shek and Guangxi, which drew a blueprint for the future development of the central revolutionary base areas.

1In mid-March, 929, the guerrilla army of Gannan led by Peng raided Anyuan County and learned that Gongsijun had captured Changting. So Wu Gong decided to leave Anyuan and head for Ruijin, and sent representatives to deliver letters to the front committee of Gongsijun. After learning that Wu Gongjun had arrived in Ruijin, Gongsijun returned to Gannan from Changting on April 1 and joined forces with the Wu Gongjun who had arrived earlier in Ruijin suburb.

On April 1929 and 1 1, the front committee of the Red Fourth Front Army held a joint meeting with the CPC Gannan Special Committee and Luo Shounan sent by the Central Military Commission, and further decided to strive for the establishment of the revolutionary regime in Jiangxi Province within one year, and made specific implementation plans: Peng and Teng decided to lead the Red Fifth Army back to Jinggangshan to restore and develop the Hunan-Jiangxi border Soviet area; The main force of Gongsi Army and Jiangxi Red Army Corps mobilized the masses in DuDu, Xingguo, Ningdu, Ruijin and Ganxian to establish red political power. On May 18 of the same year, the front committee of the Red Fourth Army held an enlarged meeting of the front committee in Yeping, Ruijin. At the meeting, the current situation and action plan of GongSiJun were discussed, and Lin Biao's right-wing pessimism and the mistakes of roving rebels were criticized. According to the requirements of the local party organizations in western Fujian, it was decided that the Gongsi Army would enter Fujian for the second time and made an action plan. On the second day after the meeting, the Red Fourth Front Army left Ruijin and re-entered Fujian. "The red flag jumps over Tingjiang River and goes straight to Shanghang, Longyan."

The Red Fourth Front Army entered Fujian for the first time, which was of great significance to the revolutionary struggle in western Fujian and even Fujian Province at that time. At that time, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China attached great importance to the military action of GongSiJun entering Fujian for the first time, and fully affirmed it. When the Red Fourth Front Army first entered Fujian, it reawakened the consciousness of workers and peasants' struggle in western Fujian, so that the struggle in western Fujian echoed the struggle in rural areas along the border of Hunan, Guangdong and Jiangxi. It reported and assisted the revolutionary struggle in southern Jiangxi, laid the foundation for the establishment of southern Jiangxi, western Fujian and the central revolutionary base areas, and thus wrote a glorious page in the revolutionary history of China.