Crimson Dawn

At the meeting of the Standing Committee, Chen Ke agreed with Zhang Yu's judgment on Britain. Chen Tianhua had rich local work experience, but he felt a little uncertain about the recent changes in the international situation. He asked, "How are the British going to deal with the Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union? Are they at war?"

Although Shang Yuan does not engage in party affairs, he is very sensitive to more specific interests. "The conflict between Britain and the Bolsheviks is not yet the main conflict in Britain. It will only increase after the war in Europe is over." After finishing speaking , Shang Yuan paused for a moment before continuing: "So Comrade Lenin is indeed a very strategic person."

Qi Huishen replied: "After all, he chose the same path that our People's Party took."

When Chen Ke heard this comparison, he almost laughed out loud.It's not that he dared to laugh at Comrade Lenin. Chen Ke knew very well that the People's Party's strategic choice actually copied the path of Comrade Lenin.However, this expression was misunderstood by the comrades. Although Xu Dian didn't care about strategy, after all, he had worked hard with his comrades for more than ten years. The level of being an hindsight Zhuge Liang is naturally more than enough. He also laughed: "Revolution is indeed born among the people. Yes, according to the information we received, the Bolsheviks were able to seize power only by calling for opposition to continued participation in the war. Comrade Lenin wanted to use the period of the imperialist war to complete the domestic revolution. This idea is indeed good. What we were most worried about back then was the empire The situation where the Communist Party of China joined hands to intervene in China has finally avoided this situation by doing everything possible. It is a pity that the Bolsheviks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union prepared too late. If they could prepare for a few years earlier with a purpose, I am afraid that the situation has basically been settled by now. .”

Shang Yuan also sighed: "This can only show that their strategic vision is not enough. But now that I think about it, our journey is really dancing on the tip of the knife. If we rush forward a little bit casually, or slack off a little bit casually, it is impossible to achieve today's success." situation."

"We have avoided the crisis of a joint siege by enemies at home and abroad, but it is very difficult for the Bolsheviks of the Communist Party of China to get such an opportunity. I am afraid that we in China will also become a member of the siege of the Bolsheviks." Zhang Yu's personality is full of keeping pace with the times It is important to summarize the past, but everyone lives in the present, and the arduous present and the rolling future are more important.Now that the British side has expressed its attitude, Zhang Yu believes that determining China's position may be a top priority.

Chen Tianhua didn't want a Marxist political party to be destroyed. Hearing Zhang Yu's murderous intent, he asked: "From a strategic point of view, if we join hands with the Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union, or maintain a friendly neutrality against them, will it trigger the siege of the Allied Powers?" ?”

"It is definitely not us who can deal a fatal blow to the Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union, and our help may not be of much use to them." Zhang Yu cleverly put forward her own ideas and positions.

After hearing Zhang Yu's words, Chen Tianhua straightened up the topic, "Then let me say this, based on our experience, in the early days of the war, when we still couldn't afford to lose, the Beiyang Army who came to encircle and suppress us all used that... ..., ah, Shengong Hutiwan, we are likely to suffer heavy losses. It will be a heavy blow to the revolution. The old army really lacks the will to fight and lacks revolutionary ideals. They are a bunch of paper tigers strategically. But In real battles, these old armies are also effective, not to mention the old armies that have experienced war."

The members of the Politburo Standing Committee now have the confidence to fight against any army that takes medicine, and the medicine developed by Chen Ke was used in the European battlefield after all, and everyone can even use this as a joke.However, once the Bolshevik army of the Soviet Union directly fights the old Russian army, which is not bad in number and equipment, it may suffer considerable losses in the early stage.Take the People's Party as an example. As long as Beiyang and the People's Party had a one-to-one exchange ratio, it would be difficult to determine who would be the winner of China's civil war.

Yougou also lost the mood of being able to make jokes a while ago. Seeing other comrades arguing quite fiercely, she couldn't help shaking her head, "I majored in chemistry. Medicines can not only treat diseases in a targeted manner, I should be very proud that I can even change the mental state of human beings in a targeted manner. But now I also feel very sad."

Zhang Yu replied coldly: "That's the user's problem, not the developer's problem. Chairman Chen knew the usage of this thing before he developed it. Why do we never use it? Opium, morphine, even heroin, are used as medicine It is indeed a very good product. Some people have to use these drugs to find stimulation, is it also the fault of the drugs?"

Hearing that everyone had led the discussion to the ethics of war, Chen Ke quickly interrupted the meaningless discussion, "The Bolsheviks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union will definitely face a fierce war, and there is no need for us to take the lead in expressing our position at this time. If they are willing to By signing a border treaty with us, we have a reason to express our position to the Allied Powers that we do not want to gain excessive benefits. It is all right to support Comrade Lenin secretly.”

"Don't want to obtain excessive benefits?" Chen Tianhua felt very strange about Chen Ke's term.

Chen Ke nodded, "Yes, the so-called wall is pushed down by everyone. If the Bolsheviks can't hold on, all countries will cut off a piece of meat from him, and we can't stay out of it. It is certainly impossible for the British to support us to swallow the Asian part of Russia. , but if we don’t express a peek at our interests that matches our own strength, the British will definitely think that we are abnormal and that there are ghosts behind us. At this time, if we make a statement that matches our strength, it will not attract attention .And this is our last chance to get back the old territories in the north. We just want to restore the Nerchinsk Treaty, which is exactly within the range acceptable to the Entente group. If we make even the slightest more demands, the Entente group We will think that we have to give greater benefits, so the key is timing. Making the right request at the right time is the best way to solve the problem."

Of course, members of the Politburo Standing Committee and members know that this timing is very important. How to choose the timing has always been Chen Ke's job.Comrades want to hear Chen Ke's opinion.

Chen Ke got up and pointed to the map, "At this moment, our best choice is to unify the whole country. A complete China has great value in itself, and it will have the capital to bargain. in the hands of others."

"Hasn't the Military Commission already started marching into the North Road and West Road?" Shang Yuan asked.

"Beilu has wool and animal husbandry business, so the herdsmen are naturally willing to cooperate with us in all aspects. As for Xilu, what I care most about is how to quickly change the local situation." After Chen Ke finished speaking, he pointed to the map On the location of Baidi City in Fengjie, "Among the colorful clouds of Emperor Baidi, thousands of miles of Jiangling will return in one day. The sound of apes on both sides of the strait can't stop, and the light boat has passed the Ten Thousand Mountains. In my opinion, Li Taibai's poems are quite strategic. .”

Fengjie Baidi City is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, about 15 miles east of Fengjie City, hidden in lush green trees, it is the west entrance of the Three Gorges and the gateway to Sichuan.Due to the steep terrain, it has always been a battleground for military strategists throughout the ages.At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Gongsun Shu ruled Shu and built a city on the mountain. Because a well in the city often emits white gas, like a white dragon, he used this to call himself Baidi and named the city Baidi City.After Gongsun Shu's death, the local people built a temple on the mountain to erect a statue of Gongsun Shu, which was called Baidi Temple.Because Gongsunshu was unorthodox and was arbitrarily named, in the seventh year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty (1512), the governor of Sichuan destroyed the statue of Gongsunshu, worshiped the statues of Jiangshen, Tushen and Ma Yuan, and renamed it "Sangong Temple".

In the 12th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1533), the statues of Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were enshrined, named "Justice Temple"; later, statues of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were added, so that there was no Baidi in the Baidi Temple, and the pattern of worshiping Shu Han characters was formed.

A fleet of ten ships from the People's Party arrived at Baidi City on March 1918, 3.Sichuan has always been rich and prosperous, but it is facing a difficult situation in the road to Shu.Although the scenery of the Three Gorges is beautiful, the strange peaks and strange rocks are pleasing to the eyes of tourists who can eat enough, but it is by no means a blessing for boaters, and it can even be said to be a disaster for boaters.In the age of sail power, ships sank in the Three Gorges every year, and the chant of the boat trackers in Sichuan has been echoing on this waterway for thousands of years.

The average tonnage of the upstream fleet is around [-] tons, and the latest steam engines of the People's Party are installed on board. More precisely, the steam engines are produced by the People's Party itself with drawings provided by the United States.Even so, the upstream fleet felt that the horsepower of the steam engine was not enough.

A thousand-ton steel ship is naturally not a light boat, and the speed of the ship cannot reach a thousand miles in a day.However, other ships along the way saw the attitude of this giant steel beast parting the waves and going upstream, and all the sailors stood on the side of their own ships close to the People's Party fleet and watched dumbfounded.

The first in the fleet is naturally the gunboat that opened the way, with a thick muzzle and a towering mast. The lights and semaphore provide guidance to the entire fleet.And there is still a "scientific research ship" in the People's Party fleet, which makes comrades feel puzzled.The ship, which was jointly proposed by the School of Mines and the Naval Academy, is unremarkable on the surface, with many measuring instruments loaded on it.From water speed, water temperature, water depth measurement, and various ore sample collection equipment.Although the size is not particularly large, it is said that the overall cost is much higher than any ship in the fleet.Due to the existence of this scientific research ship, the speed of the entire fleet, which was already not fast enough, was greatly reduced.

Baidi City is actually not that big, and Fengjie is not a big city either.An important reason for the prosperity of this city is that there is a scenery called "Yanyu Huilan".

"That big rock is Yanyudui?" the commander of the fleet asked, pointing forward after ordering the fleet to anchor.

I saw a huge stone pillar standing in the center of the narrow river at the mouth of Qutang Gorge under Baidi City. It was said that the stone pillar was not enough, and it was even called a small island.

The political commissar and the fleet commander stood side by side at the bow of the ship, the river between them was choppy, and the higher position was filled with fog. When I raised my eyes to the sky, the mountain peak was almost completely submerged in the mist. From the higher place on the mountain, I could faintly see The figure of Baidi City.The political commissar couldn't help but recited: "Yanyu is as big as an elephant, so you can't go up Qutang. Yanyu is as big as a cow, so you can't stay in Qutang. Yanyu is as big as a horse, so you can't go down Qutang. Yanyu is as big as a burden, so you can't touch Qutang. Yanyu As big as a turtle, Qutang can't be seen. Yanyu is as big as a turtle, and Qutang can't be sailed by boat."

The commander of the fleet did not have such a good mood. He pointed to Yanyu Duidui and said: "As long as this big rock is still there, no matter how big or small it looks, or what it looks like, ships passing by here will not think about it." Good day. I'm right."

The political commissar also smiled and said, "That's right."

"Isn't our task just to blow it up?" the fleet commander then asked.

"Yes." The political commissar nodded yes.

The commander of the fleet continued to ask: "Before blowing up this big rock, don't you need to take more photos? Chairman Chen actually sent someone to take photos earlier, and those photos were used as information for this operation." coming."

"That's right." The commissar replied.

The fleet commander then turned his head, "Then, political commissar, I have a question. Why did I hear someone associate Feng Shui with this operation before this operation? This is entirely a channel clearing work, which has something to do with Feng Shui What's the matter?"

The political commissar was not overwhelmed by the fleet commander. He smiled and said, "You don't believe in Feng Shui, but some people believe it. If you don't say it, someone does. We are here for work, so hurry up and blow up this Yanli pile. Just looking at the current fuel consumption situation, we may not be able to sail the ship to Chongqing yet."

Many years later, the old people in Fengjie will still talk with relish to the young people who came to Baidi City to talk about how they saw how the People's Party blew up Yanyudui, and the Sichuan opera troupe specially arranged a "Fried Yan "The play of ".There are various versions of the legend that Yanyudui changed the luck of Sichuan after it was broken.

However, the military history records of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army are far less romantic and fantasy.According to military history records, the naval fleet of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army laid steel pillars on the stones by the river and pulled up steel cables.The officers and soldiers of the navy and engineers first went to the Yanyu pile, where they drilled holes with electric drills and nailed steel cables.To complete the job, a powered warship accidentally ran aground, causing a hole in the hull.That is to say, the damage control is effective, so there is no major accident of capsizing and sinking.

The divers dived down with hundreds of catties of steel ingots strapped to their bodies, and carefully measured the size and scale of the Yanyu pile.The blasting experts also inspected the groundwater and formulated a blasting plan after careful calculation.

Starting from March 1918, 3, after three consecutive days of blasting, Yanyudui was finally blown into pieces.The fleet did not stop working after Yanyudui disappeared from the river. They nailed a lot of steel brazing on Yanyudui before the explosion.Divers are using the steel cables of the remnants of Yanyu piles sunk in the river to tie steel cables, use ships to drag the largest remnants of Yanyu piles away from the center of the river, and use explosives to continue blowing up the other remnants into indestructible pieces. Small pieces that affect shipping.

The largest remnant was dragged to the riverside by a hoist, and a stone tablet was erected in front of the remnant, with the inscription "Yanyudui Remnants".

At the beginning, the people in Fengjie were very puzzled by the inexplicable actions of the People's Party, and most of the boats had to stop at Yanyudui to wait for the local navigator.Seeing the large warships of the People's Party and receiving the news that the People's Party blocked the route, the fleet was extremely frightened and did not dare to take the risk of asking for embarrassment and running into bad luck.

When the explosion of Yanyudui began, the people of Fengjie and the captains, sailors, and boatmen of the fleet knelt down.It wasn't that he was afraid in his heart, but that he really knelt down.

Although Yanyudui is the gate of hell, it has always existed for thousands of years, and it is already a sacred thing that everyone on the Yangtze River keeps in their hearts.The People's Party is so simple and rude that it can't find any traces of the explosion in Yanyudui, and it even "hangs the dead body" on Yanyudui.Few Sichuanese can understand the mood at this time.

Even for the navigators who rely on Yanyudui to navigate and eat, this craft is mostly passed down from family, and Yanyudui has cost the lives of their ancestors for several generations.So there is joy in sorrow while kneeling down and crying.But the sailors know that once Yanyudui is gone, sailing will be much more convenient.But looking at the empty and unfamiliar river, they felt extremely lost.When she knelt down and cried loudly, there was sadness in joy.

The fleet of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army completely ignored the reaction of these people, and some ships in the fleet were injured.Moreover, fuel consumption exceeded expectations. After discussion, the fleet decisively turned around and returned.The fleet decided to return to Wuhan to rest and go up the river again. On March 1918, 3, the fleet left Baidi City and went down the river.

By the beginning of April 1918, the news that the People's Party had blown up Yanyudui had spread throughout most of Sichuan.