Early in the morning of March 13, the Red Army took the initiative to entrenched in the city of Changting Fujian Provincial Defense Army Second Mixed Brigade, the enemy retreated in total defeat, the brigade commander Guo Fengming in the woeful escape was killed by the Red Army soldiers. This battle **** annihilated more than 2,000 enemies, captured more than 500 guns, several machine guns, countless ammunition, 3 mortars, more than a hundred rounds of shells. The great victory of Changlingzhai is the biggest victory of the Red Army since the Red Army went down to Jinggangshan, and it is also the first major victory of the Red Army into Fujian.
After the Red Army captured Changting, in the short 17 days in Ting, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Chen Yi, carried out fruitful work.
Widely publicize the masses
On the morning of March 15, the front committee of the Red Army held a mass meeting of 10,000 people in Nanzhai Square on the outskirts of the city. The meeting was presided over by military commander Zhu De, Mao Zedong party representative made an inspiring speech at the meeting. At the meeting, Zhu De announced the ten sins of Guo Fengming in oppressing the people. After the conference, the Red Army picked up the family properties and belongings of Guo Fengming and more than 10 major landlords and gentry and distributed them to the toiling masses present at the conference. The propaganda team of the Red Army promptly took to the streets to publicize the masses by posting the "Bulletin of the Command of the Red Army of the Fourth Army", painting wall slogans and giving political reports. Mao Zedong personally drafted the "Letter to Businessmen and Intellectuals", which clarified the various policies of the ****production party and was issued in large quantities and widely publicized to expand the political influence of the Red Army.
Conducting Research
Tingzhou, which has been the seat of states, counties, roads, and prefectures for generations, is the largest city liberated by the Red Army since its creation. In order to understand the local political and economic situation, it is necessary to carry out research and study. Mao Zedong, on the night he entered Tingzhou, consulted the Tingzhou Prefecture Records and Changting County Records, and through social surveys, mapped out Changting's economy, politics, and folk customs, and accordingly formulated various urban policies, ruthlessly cracked down on reactionary elements, and united the majority of the people.
The political department of the Red Army was restored
The political department of the Red Army was originally set up in May 1928 in Jinggangshan, with Chen Yi as the director, and in January 1929, when the Red Army broke out of Jinggangshan and guerrilla attacked in Gannan, the political department ceased to work, and Chen Yi was reappointed as the director of the army soldiers' committee. after occupying the city of Changting on March 14th, the front committee decided to restore the political department of the Red Army, with Mao Zedong as director, and Mao Zedong as director. Mao Zedong, the director of the Department of Political Affairs of the Red Army, was replaced by Chen Yi in May of the same year.
Establishment of Changting County organizations at all levels
During the Red Army's stay in Changting, the Red Army worked with the masses to fight the landlords, raise money, and organize the expansion of labor unions and farmers' associations, which provided the conditions for the establishment of the red regime. The local party organizations in Changting were guided and assisted by the front committee of the Red Army, and formally set up the China*** Changting County Committee on the basis of the temporary county committee. Then, 20 secret agricultural associations and 5 secret labor unions were quickly formed, and the General Labor Union was also established. The Party's organization developed twice as much as before. The authority of the county began as a provisional revolutionary committee appointed by the military political department, and then called a meeting of representatives of workers and peasants' organizations to formally elect the Changting County Revolutionary Committee.
After the establishment of Changting County Revolutionary Committee, it announced the abolition of all cent donations, the confiscation of land and property of the landlords and gentry, and the resolute purging of counter-revolutionary elements. The establishment of Changting County Revolutionary Committee has a profound historical significance. It is the first county-level red regime under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in western Fujian.
As the Red Army won the hearts of the people, the young people in Changting asked to join the army. In half a month, more than 300 people enlisted in the army. The Red Army also helped to establish a 60-strong county red guard, and allocated more than 20 guns to defend the local regime and the victory of the land revolution.
Solved the Red Army's sustenance
During the period of Ting, the Red Army also grasped the opportunity to raise military pay and solve the sustenance. The Red Army wasted no time in raising funds, fines, fighting the landlords, confiscation of property and other work, less than 10 days to confiscate the property of more than 10 reactionary gentry, fined more than 20,000 yuan, and to the capital of more than 1,000 yuan of businessmen to raise 30,000 yuan of military pay. Because of the economic improvement, the Red Army gave each person 4 yuan pocket money, officers, soldiers and captured soldiers were all treated equally. At the same time with the captured sewing machine factory rushed to make 4,000 sets of military clothing, each Red Army received a set of gray uniforms adorned with a red collar badge, a cap adorned with the red five-star, a pair of binding cloth. This is the first time since the creation of the Red Army unified clothing.
Red Army Tingzhou integration
In mid-March during the Red Army in Ting, according to the decision of the front committee Luo Fufeng meeting, the whole army was integrated. The regiment establishment was changed to a column establishment*** and organized into three columns, each under the jurisdiction of two detachments (equivalent to battalions) and each under the jurisdiction of three brigades (equivalent to companies). Zhu De is still the commander of the army, and Mao Zedong, secretary of the Front Committee, is also the party representative and director of the army political department.
Enlarged meeting of the Front Committee
The first enlarged meeting of the Front Committee of the Red Army was held on March 20, 1929 in Changting County, "Xinjeng Villa". The meeting was chaired by Mao Zedong. The meeting analyzed in detail the political, military and economic situation and natural conditions in Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, especially the Party organization, mass movement, revolutionary armament and the comparison of forces between the enemy and us in the area of Gannan and western Fujian, and made a major decision to take advantage of the favorable timing of the warlords of Chiang-Kwai and Chiang-Kuai factions to set up a separate area of armed rule in more than 20 counties of Gannan and western Fujian, which would provide a good basis for the opening up of the Central Revolutionary Base Areas in the future. The blueprint for the opening up of the Central Revolutionary Base Area was planned.
In mid-March 1929, the Red Five Army, led by Peng Dehuai, attacked Anyuan County and learned that the Red Four Army had captured Changting. So the Fifth Army decided to leave Anyuan and set out for Ruijin, and sent a representative to send a letter to the front committee of the Fourth Red Army to liaise. The Red Army learned that the Red Army had arrived in Ruijin, so on April 1, from Changting back to Gannan, in the suburbs of Ruijin and the Red Army arrived first Red Army.
On April 11, 1929, the front committee of the Red Army held a joint meeting with the Gannan Special Committee of the C*** and Luo Shounan, who was sent by the Military Department of the Central Committee, in Yudu, further deciding to fight for the establishment of the revolutionary regime of the whole province of Jiangxi in one year's time, and making a concrete implementation plan: it was decided that Peng Dehuai and Teng Daiyuan would return to Jinggangshan with the Red Army No. 5, to restore and develop the Soviet area at the edge of Xianggang; the main force of the Red Army No. 4, and the Jiangxi The main force of the Fourth Red Army and the Second Red Army Regiment of Jiangxi Province mobilized the masses in Yudu, Xingguo, Ningdu, Ruijin, Ganxian and other counties to establish the red regime. On May 18 of the same year, the Front Committee of the Red Fourth Army held an enlarged meeting of the Front Committee in Ye Ping, Ruijin, at which it discussed the current situation and the plan of action of the Red Fourth Army, criticized Lin Biao's right-leaning pessimistic ideology and the errors of rogueism, and decided to enter Fujian for the second time and formulated a plan of action in accordance with the request of the local party organizations in western Fujian. The day after the meeting, the Red Army left Ruijin and entered Fujian again, "the red flag jumped over the Ting River, straight down to Longyan Shanghang."
The first entry of the Red Army into Fujian was of great significance to the revolutionary struggle in western Fujian and Fujian Province. At that time, the Central Committee of China was extremely concerned about the Red Army's first military action in Fujian, and fully affirmed it. The first entry of the Red Army into Fujian reawakened the consciousness of the workers and peasants in western Fujian, thus making the struggle in western Fujian echo with that in the rural areas along the borders of Hunan, Guangdong and Gan; it covered and assisted the revolutionary struggle in Gannan, laid the foundation for the creation of the revolutionary bases in Gannan and western Fujian as well as the Central Revolutionary Bases, and thus wrote a glorious page in the history of the Chinese Revolution.