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Wang Jingwei now wants to get in bed

with Chiang Kai-shek

and this is their conspiracy!

We can't trust them!

What happened?

Comrade Li Dazhao

was murdered

by warlords.

Not a single rifle can be surrendered.

If we do, our fate as communists

will be the same as Li Dazhao!

Zedong, it's not the turn

of the Hu'nan representatives to speak!

Can we rely on the Wang Jingwei government?

No, we can't!

And it would be suicide for us

to hand over our guns!

We have only one way to go

and that is armed struggle!

We once criticized Sun Yat-sen

for engaging exclusively in armed campaigns.

But what about us?

We reach for the pen and ignore the rifle.

And in the end we will only usher in a massacre.

Yes.

You are just being an alarmist!

Chen Duxiu,

you and Mr. Li walked out in front of the revolution

and now you want to surrender our arms. Why?

I will do it to protect the working class

and grow the revolutionary forces.

This is just some contrived measure!

How many workers are there in China?

Very few.

Our country is mainly comprised of peasants.

Such a backwards class of people.

Once the land issues are solved

and the peasants are armed,

they become the capital for our revolution

as well as our largest force.

Do you understand any of this?

Right now I don't,

but I will in the future.

Get out!

How dare you distort Marxism?

Who do you think you are?

Zedong!

Mao, get out now!

Get out!

Comrade Wang Shouhua,

today is the 49th day since you

and your 300 comrades died on April 12.

I hereby pledge

that for the realization

of our glorious common ideal

to found a new China,

I, Zhou Enlai, will fight for the rest of my life

and stay devoted

till my heart ceases to beat.

You were elected a member of the Political Bureau

at the 5th CPC National Congress.

The Congress decided to

suspend the Military Department

and organize the Central Military Commission

with you as the general secretary.

Mao Zedong made a good point.

What did he say?

He spoke the truth.

He was in charge

of mobilizing peasants in Guangzhou

and I didn't know

he had such a unique opinion on armed struggles.

He wrote "Report on an Investigation

of the Peasant Movement In Hunan"

and has a deep understanding of China's situation.

We also need to maintain our path

of urban struggles.

Fighting with two fists

is the only way to overwhelm the enemy.

Yingchao,

pack up.

We are going to Wuhan.

Wuhan?

You came to see me as soon as you reached Wuhan.

Do you have an emergency?

I read your speech

and really wanted to speak with you.

We should smokeless

and learn more.

Right now the Party needs to hear your voice.

I have already been driven out

and no one is willing to listen to me anymore.

But I am a communist and I'm willing to listen.

See, am I not here for you already?

Cigarettes are such a wonderful thing.

It would be terrible

to not know how to smoke them.

But once you know how,

they make you feel like an immortal.

They are just like a weapon.

They bring hope in good hands

and disaster in bad.

April 12 was a bloody lesson.

Almost all the armed forces in Shanghai were lost

and I am responsible.

In Sichuan,

He'nan,

Hubei and Guangdong,

they are still purging the communists.

This is because our power is still being weakened.

We should have no more illusions.

If we still want to continue our revolution

we have to create an army

with revolutionary faith.

But now is the low tide of the revolution.

Don't lose heart.

We have millions of troops.

Can't you see them?

From where?

Peasants.

China has four hundred million peasants.

For generations

they have been bullied

by the landlords and the rich

and have suffered a great deal.

They are like dry kindling covering the ground.

All it takes is a spark

and there will be a devouring fire.

Few peasant uprisings have succeeded

throughout history.

You and your comrades who have studied overseas,

praise the example set by the French Revolution

and the method of urban riots.

The working class is the main body

of the revolution.

This is the general view of Marx, right?

I think China is different.

We may lack the experience

but we don't lack the courage to try.

Starting from where?

From zero, of course.

Find people if we have no one,

and buy guns if we have no guns.

I'll go persuade the army.

I'll mobilize the peasants.

Last year in the Zhongshan Incident,

we stood together.

Now we stand together once more.

If what we're experiencing now is a failure,

then we communists...

We will continue to rise again and again.

Too wet.

Feng Yuxiang...

Is he going to lobby for Chiang?

I'm worried they have made a secret agreement.

The trouble is not Feng

but the communists.

Are you concerned they may start a rebellion?

"Cable from the Comintern."

Look at this. This was just intercepted.

You are right.

Ye Jianying,

can you pinpoint the information's source?

Yes.

Wang Jingwei and his men intercepted a cable

from the Comintern giving permission

to Communists to begin an armed struggle.

Chiang slaughters us

and Wang Jingwei wants to join.

Then let's fight!

We can't fight them head on.

We must save our strength.

Those comrades whose identities have been exposed

must leave Wuhan immediately.

Ye Ting,

lead the 11th Army to leave the city

and head east to Jiujiang.

Yes, sir.

Actually,

there is still one person we can win over.

You mean Zhang Fakui?

He only sympathizes with us verbally,

but his heart lies on Wang Jingwei's side.

I was referring to the commander of the 20th Army,

He Long.

General,

you run into a problem?

Your eyes gave it away.

Yeah.

I ran into a few.

There are still two we are facing.

Who are they?

Ye Ting...

His troops have the nickname of

the "Iron Army."

I met him once.

He is a hero.

Miss,

the true hero

is right in front of you.

All right. All right.

Who is the other problem?

He Long...

Unlike us, he didn't graduate from Huangpu.

In western Hu'nan he has built an army

with two kitchen knives.

He began his Northern Expedition alone

and handed the Beiyang army a string of defeats.

Commander He,

in addition to this silver

and the post of Wuhan Garrison Commander,

we also offer what any officer

would want the most.

You can promise Ye Ting's post to He Long,

and let them battle it out like

two animals in a cage.

Then He Long will offer to come work for you.

Two birds with one stone.

Good.

Thanks.

The chips Mr. Chiang has offered

are expensive indeed.

What I advocate the most

is a full arsenal.

Then, please make your decision, Commander He.

I am right here for you to arrest.

I, He Long, may be illiterate.

But regarding which friend is worth having

and which is a scoundrel,

I can tell the difference.

So are we communists.

Maybe not.

Multiple times I offered to join you

but you turned me away.

Who turned you away?

Zhang Guotao!

This man is extremely arrogant

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