He Yaobang Yuexi Negotiation

After the Long March of the Red 25th Army, the Hubei, Henan and Anhui base areas entered an arduous three-year guerrilla war period. He Yaobang has served as the military minister of the Northeast Hubei Road Committee, the secretary of the special committees in southeastern Henan and western Anhui, and the commander and political commissar of the Red 82 Division. He is the second person in the whole Hubei, Henan and Anhui base areas after Gao Jingting.

At the beginning of 1937, He Yaobang and the comrades of the secret service in western Anhui braved the cold and heavy snow and walked into the depths of the dense forest in Dagangling in the dark. Xu Wenchu, secretary of the Special Committee, took the newly published Sweeping Newspaper and reported the Xi Incident and Chiang Kai-shek's detention to He Yaobang. Due to years of isolation, he hasn't received instructions from the CPC Central Committee for a long time, and Gao Jingting can't contact him. He Yaobang can't see clearly and can't understand these important events outside the mountain. He Yaobang discussed with Xu Wenchu, a member of the Special Committee, and decided to send Jiang Shutang to Xi 'an, find the Red Army Liaison Office, find the Red 25 Army and listen to the instructions of the Central Committee.

1In July, 937, Gao Jingting arrived in Nantian Village, Yuexi County from Luotian, northeastern Hubei Province, and met with He Yaobang, special secretary of the border region of Hubei, Henan and Anhui, and learned about the spirit of the central anti-Japanese national united front. After careful consideration, they decided to focus on the overall situation of resisting Japan and saving the nation, forget the past and put forward suggestions for armistice negotiations to the supervision office of the Henan-Hubei-Anhui border region.

On July 15, Gao Jingting and He Yaobang sent plainclothes traffic police to Wei to send a letter suggesting truce talks to Yuexi Shexinggang Diaolou. Wei immediately accepted the negotiation proposal. Gao Jingting sent He Yaobang as the representative of the Red Army 18 Army, and held armistice negotiations with Liu, the representative of Wei School, and local representatives appointed by the Kuomintang Anhui Provincial Government.

On July 22nd, representatives of the two sides formally held armistice talks at the Qingtianfan King Ancestral Temple in Yuexi County. After six days of hard negotiations, the two sides reached an agreement. On July 28th, Gao Jingting took the pseudonym of Li Shouyi and attended the signing ceremony in the name of the director of the Political Department of the Red 18 Army. He Yaobang and Liu signed the armistice agreement on our behalf respectively.

During the negotiations, the Red Army proposed that the Red Army should focus on Qiliping, Huang An County, Hubei Province; The Red Army has set up three offices in Hubei, Henan and Anhui provinces (Huang An County, Henan Queshan County and Anhui Li Huang County); Allow freedom of speech, publication, assembly and association; Release political prisoners; The families of Red Army officers and men are regarded as the families of anti-Japanese soldiers. It is stipulated that all national issues and the final determination of the Red Army designation must be submitted to the two Party Central Committees for decision. These conditions were conditionally accepted by the Kuomintang after consultation.

Yuexi armistice negotiation is the earliest local truce negotiation between the Red Army guerrillas and the local authorities of the Kuomintang in eight southern provinces 13. The Red Army and guerrillas in Hubei, Henan and Anhui were later reorganized into the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army. In the process of negotiation, He Yaobang showed both firm principles and necessary flexibility. He was rational, favorable and restrained, and always took the initiative in negotiations, which was highly praised by the CPC Central Committee and Mao Zedong.

Yuexi negotiation initiated national * * local cooperation, which was the concrete implementation of China * * production party in the anti-Japanese national United front of Hubei, Henan and Anhui, and declared the end of the agrarian revolution 10 civil war in Hubei, Henan and Anhui and the beginning of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.