Northwest Years 西北岁月 Episode 6

Liu Zhidan and others did not know that Chen Kemin had already rebelled and surrendered to the enemy, so Cheng Shuangyin went to explore the way and was shot dead by Chen Kemin. Seeing this, Xi Zhongxun led his team to fire back, and ran out of the enemy's encirclement with all his strength. He did not stop and breathe a sigh of relief until there was no more tail behind him. While resting, Xi Zhongxun remembered Liu Zhidan's instructions and had to retreat to the Weibei base area and join Huang Zixiang and Huang Ziwen's team.

However, the situation of the Weibei guerrillas was also very bad. Huang Zixiang was seriously injured. They had to huddle in the tomb passage during the day and could only come out at night to move around a little. The enemy encircled and suppressed frequently, causing heavy casualties to the guerrillas. Huang Ziwen told Xi Zhongxun about the situation. Although he had persisted in Weibei for a long time, it had not developed, so Xi Zhongxun decided that he must find a way to move to the mountains after Huang Zixiang recovered from his injuries.

In early 1933, Meng Jian, Secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, came to Xi Zhongxun and revealed to him the task of organizing the new faction. Since the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army officially reorganized the 26th Army last year, Du Heng served as political commissar, but found that there were people within the army who had unclear political stances and needed comrades with strong work ability and clean backgrounds to do political work.

After careful consideration by the Provincial Party Committee, it was decided to send Xi Zhongxun as Secretary of the Military Committee of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Special Committee, and then recruit a group of comrades with pure composition and firm beliefs to work. Later, Xi Zhongxun was transferred back to Zhaojin and reported to Comrade Jin Like, Secretary of the Special Committee. Jin Like was very happy to see Xi Zhongxun and said that the 26th Army looked like an army, but in fact it was a regiment, and there were only three companies in the regiment. The reason for such a large number was to encourage the people, and to intimidate the people. enemy.

In addition, Jin Like told Xi Zhongxun that Liu Zhidan, Xie Zichang and others had been dismissed from their posts by Du Heng because during the reorganization, Du Heng said that the two were escapists and socialists, so he arranged for them to leave the army and go to Shanghai to study. However, military command was inseparable from Liu Zhidan, and Liu Zhidan was eventually left in the 26th Army.

Xi Zhongxun was very puzzled by this and hurried to see Liu Zhidan and found that he was still busy in the kitchen. Liu Zhidan was very happy to see Xi Zhongxun, and the two hugged each other tightly. Regarding the dismissal, Liu Zhidan reassured Xi Zhongxun that he didn't have to worry about it and that unity came first. Xi Zhongxun saw that Liu Zhidan was so broad-minded and admired him even more. Because the Special Committee was preparing to form a guerrilla general command organization, Xi Zhongxun and Jin Like, at Liu Zhidan's suggestion, went to personally meet with Li Miaozhai, the captain of the Taro Garden guerrillas.

Xi Zhongxun and Jin Like visited Xuejiazhai and invited Li Miaozhai, but Li Miaozhai was worried that Du Heng would not agree. After all, the other party was very resistant to people who were former military officers. Li Miaozhai took the two of them to visit Xuejiazhai and said that with a natural cave like this, with five caves connected to each other, it would not be a problem to hide hundreds of people and supplies. Xi Zhongxun felt deeply that it was easy to defend but difficult to attack. And surprised Li Miaozhai and the others with their homemade grenades.

Although Xi Zhongxun and Jin Like decided to use Xuejia Village as the basis for the development of Red Army guerrillas and base areas, they were strongly criticized and opposed by Du Heng, who said that the revolutionary motives of people like Li Miaozhai were not pure and directly threw Jin Like's plan report on the ground. . Xi Zhongxun took the initiative to persuade Du Heng, but Du Heng still insisted on his own way, so the guerrilla commander was handed over to Huang Ziwen.

Wang Taiji, commander of Yang Hucheng's old cavalry regiment, led the march and insisted on taking a detour for the assault, which aroused dissatisfaction among some people. Now the situation is tense again. The counter-revolutionary armed forces around Zhaojin are coming fiercely. There are a total of six regiments of regular troops and six county militia groups. Faced with this situation, Du Heng is helpless and has to follow Liu Zhidan's suggestion and leave a small number of personnel to contain the enemy. , the large troops jumped out of the encirclement, waiting for an opportunity to annihilate the enemy's effective forces.

Because Du Heng took away the main force of the Red Army and ordered Xi Zhongxun, Jin Like and Huang Ziwen to stay in the garrison base, and left twenty-one people for them, Jin Like was so angry that he complained. At this time, Li Laoshuan called on the young and middle-aged people in the surrounding villages to come to Xi Zhongxun, and even brought Li Erwa over, which moved Xi Zhongxun and others.

There were disagreements within the Kuomintang. Wang Taiji deliberately avoided the main force of the 26th Red Army by passively avoiding the war, but other reactionary armed forces quickly rushed towards Zhaojin. After Chen Kemin's rebellion, he intensified his efforts and led people to search the Red Army troops everywhere. Liu Zhidan, Xi Zhongxun and others combined internal and external forces to once again smash the reactionaries' "encirclement and suppression" campaign.