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are forming an alliance

and a huge net has now been cast.

Nanchang,

we can't hold any longer.

Then we should quickly sweep the battlefield

and lead our men south,

take the Chaozhou-Shantou region,

and make use of their docks

to gain access to the goods

and arms support from the Comintern.

We fight all the way to Guangzhou,

gather our strength,

and prepare for the second Northern Expedition

to unite the whole China!

Enlai!

Nie Rongzhen, you are such a bad ass!

You have even delivered

to me Wang Jingwei's reserve force!

Your service is commendable!

From now on, the 25th Division is ours

and will fight for us.

My only regret is

I failed to catch the uprising.

Nanchang is only the starting point.

Everything has just begun.

The Comintern considers

Mikhail Borodin

and Chen Duxiu's errors to be serious.

They have brought disastrous consequences

to China's revolutionary situation.

The suspension of Chen's position

as general secretary

is both the decision of the Comintern

and the unanimous request

from China's Party's comrades.

In the absence of Chen,

Comrades Qu Qiubai and Li Weihan will be

in charge of the Central Committee's work.

A tall figure with long hair.

You must be Mao Zedong?

Big head and small figure...

I assume you are...

Deng Xixian. I just changed my name.

I am Deng Xiaoping now.

Clearly you are highly skilled to have escaped

from He'nan's white terror.

It was a narrow escape.

I'll tell you all about it later

and I promise my story will astonish you.

Quick, get in there.

A big quarrel is going on inside.

China is not Turkey.

Since Chiang wants

to be Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in China

we are left with no choice

but to firmly take him down.

To fight against Cheng Kai-shek

we must first solve the problems within the party.

The theme of today's meeting

is to criticize Chen Duxiu's right-wing

capitulation errors,

correct the Party's working direction,

and deal with the current situation

to turn the tide.

We see setbacks as a starting point.

We start over from the very beginning.

Enlai and others lead troops south to Guangzhou

to prepare to rebuild the revolutionary base,

to get rid of those two-faced careerists,

and to launch a new Northern Expedition.

This revolution

is not about the KMT alone.

It is also about communists,

workers, peasants and the masses.

Exactly. A revolution for the masses,

for workers and peasants.

You are not a formal representative.

It is not your place to speak.

The Comintern decision is good

but the people they sent here are problematic.

What either Borodin or Manabendra Nath Roy does

is wishful thinking.

Chen Duxiu's mistake is overestimating the KMT.

Thus the Communist Party

becomes not the host of the revolution

but merely a guest.

This causes us to lose all initiative.

If not for the military campaign

by Enlai and others,

we would not even have

the strength to fight back

when they turn their backs on us.

The April 12th Massacre

taught us a lesson:

political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Great! Well said!

Zedong,Zedong!

You are a party member with seniority

and your organizational skill

can convince the masses.

We all hope you can go to Shanghai.

I'm just a country boy

and I'm not used to the city's tall buildings.

I plan to go back to Hu'nan.

Once the harvest comes,

I will get some guns on the border

of Hu'nan and Jiangxi

and do something big.

Can you even go back?

The enemies in Changsha offer

a handsome reward for your head

and the landlords would happily

watch you be burned alive.

Since the very first day I joined the Party

I have been making every preparation.

Every day people are murdered there.

Even Heaven is shedding tears.

Let it cry. I will do my work.

He who has seen ghosts does not fear darkness,

because he knows well in his heart

that this is darkness before dawn.

I am the Party's General Secretary.

Listen to me and go to Shanghai.

Give it a second thought.

The Central Committee needs you.

Thank you all.

I'm not a communist!

Kaihui,

I think you should take our son

and return to Shaoshan.

No.

Nowhere is safe.

More and more are killed every day.

Do you still remember

at Peking University,

when you carried me on your shoulders

to watch the fireworks?

I do.

It is my dream that someday

I will watch them with you once again.

But once I leave,

we won't know

when we will meet again.

I'll be waiting for you.

If you don't return after half a year,

I will wait a year.

If not after a year,

I will wait ten years.

If not after ten years,

I will wait a lifetime.

Please just don't say anything.

Dad!

Don't look back.

Go!

Dad!

Dad!

Dad!

Dad!

Dad!

Mr. Wang,

in the early morning,

the communists led rebel troops

and launched a fierce attack

on Qian Dajun's troops in Huichang.

The fighting was fierce.

Kill!

At 4p.m.

the rebel troops

occupied Huichang City.

The lower rank officers on both sides

are mostly Huangpu students.

They have the hearts to kill each other?

Charge!

In the end,

they engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

That's preposterous!

What about Qian Dajun?

He broke out,

but lost 5,000 troops.

These troops are under the direct control

of Chiang's 1st Army.

Qian Dajun will not let that go.

When shephards quarrel,

the wolf has a winning game.

Ye Ting and Zhou Yiqun's

3rd Division of the 20th Army

also suffered heavy causalities.

Cai Tingkai's 10th Division

defected on the battlefield

and left the Communist Party.

Cai Tingkai's defection

is a stunning blow to our troops' morale.

Rumors are spreading like wildfire.

Someone said

the ship was sinking.

Jump first and you survive.

Jump later and you die.

Cai Tingkai's such a bastard.

That bastard is gone

and I, Chen Yi, am here.

I started from Wuhan

and I kept running to catch up with you.

Finally,

I caught up with you in Huichang.

Mr. Zhou!

Commander He, what happened?

This is my application for admission to the Party.

Please grant me my wish!

I, He Long,

will follow the Communist Party

till my last breath!

Hurry!

Watch this red devil for me!

If he gets away, you'll be finished!

I'm going to the toilet.

Get going!

Were you rewarded

for my capture?

Rewarded?

The money is not even enough

for the officials to distribute.

How could there be any left

for someone as low as me?

Feel right here.

Down.

Take it out and have a look.

Three for each of you.

No more left.

The red devil escaped!

The red devil escaped!

Don't move!

This guy is really weird.

He doesn't say anything.

All he does is eat.

Please don't talk like that.

You captured me and took me here for no reason.

And I don't have a choice.

A big guy's gotta eat more.

Who are you?

Who are you?

National Revolutionary Army

2nd Army

Regiment Guard Commander

Lu Deming.

You can ask Mr. Luo.

Commander Lu,

this is the Central Commissioner,

Comrade Mao Zedong.

Comrade Mao Zedong!

I'm terribly sorry.

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