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had as its predecessor the Independent Regiment under Ye Ting.) When the Red
Army began its Long March in 1934, he stayed behind to persist in guerrilla warfare
in the Jiangxi Soviet area and serve as director of the Central Administrative Of-
fice of the Chinese Soviet Republic. He was acting commander of the New Fourth
Army at the time of the Japanese surrender in August 1945. After the outbreak of
the War of Liberation (1946-49), he became commander of the East China Military
Area and later both commander and political commissar of the East China Field
Army. 129, 192, 236, 237
112
Nie Heting (1905-71), a native of Funan in Anhui Province, served as platoon
leader in Ye Ting’s Independent Regiment during the Northern Expeditionary War.
129
113 Xiao Ke (1908- ), a native of Jiahe in Hunan Province, was company
political instructor in February 1927 of the 71st Regiment of Ye Ting’s 24th Division
under the National Revolutionary Army. 129
114
Lu Deming (1905-27), a native of Shuangshipu (now part of Zigong City) in
Yibin County, Sichuan Province, served as company commander and later battalion
commander in Ye Ting’s Independent Regiment during the Northern Expeditionary
War. He became commander of the Guards Regiment of the Wuhan National
Government (also known as the Guards Regiment of the National Revolutionary
Army’s Second Front Army) when it was formed in June 1927. He led his regiment
to participate in the Autumn Harvest Uprising which took place in September 1927
on the Hunan-Jiangxi border, serving as commander-in-chief of the insurrectionary
army. 129
115 The Autumn Harvest Uprising, led by Mao Zedong, was launched in
September 1927 in Xiushui, Pingxiang, Liling, Pingjiang and Liuyang counties on the
Hunan-Jiangxi border. Later the worker-peasant armed forces taking part in the
uprising and the Guards Regiment of the former Wuhan National Government
combined to form the 1st Division of the First Army of the Workers’ and Peasants’
Revolutionary Army. Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, this force fought its
way to the Jinggang Mountains in October, where it established the first rural rev-
olutionary base. 130
116 Chen Duxiu (1879-1942), a native of Huaining County in Anhui Province,
began editing the magazine Youth (later renamed New Youth) in September 1915.
In 1918, together with Li Dazhao, he founded the Weekly Review and advocated the
new culture. He was one of the main leaders of the May 4th new cultural move-
ment. After the May 4th Movement, he accepted and propagated Marxism. He
was one of the main founders of the Chinese Communist Party and served as its
principal leader for the first six years after its founding. In the later period of the
First Revolutionary Civil War, he committed the serious error of Right capitula-
tionism. Afterwards, he lost faith in the future of the revolution and accepted
Trotskyite views. He formed a faction inside the Party, engaged in anti-Party activi-
ties and was consequently expelled in November 1929. Then he was actively
involved in a Trotskyite organization. In October 1932, he was arrested and im-
prisoned by the Kuomintang and released in August 1937. In 1942, he died of
illness in Jiangjin, Sichuan Province. 130, 210
117
At the prompting of Chiang Kai-shek, Xia Douyin, commander of the 14th
Independent Division of the Wuhan National Government, organized an armed
rebellion on May 17, 1927. At that time, the main forces of the National Revolu-
tionary Army had moved north to the battle front in Henan. Xia took advantage of
this opportunity and led his troops towards Wuhan in an attempt to overthrow the