Episode 8

Seeing so many wounded people passing by, Cai, Xu, Qu and others felt deeply guilty. If they could decipher the Kuomintang's messages as soon as possible, the Fourth Red Army would not be in such a situation.While Cai Zejuan was feeling guilty for his dereliction of duty, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Military Commission and the General Headquarters of the Fourth Red Army were having a heated debate on whether the Fourth Red Army should disperse the guerrillas or concentrate on breaking out.In the end, the general headquarters unified their opinions and concentrated their forces in the early morning of the next day to break through the Beishan Pass where the enemy's defense was relatively weak. Life and death depended on this move.

Xu Dapeng led the team to temporarily repel the enemy. After Commander Wang received the telegram from the main station, he believed that Commander Xu would make the right choice, so the next step was to prepare for a breakout.Cai Zejuan and the others buried the equipment on the spot, but they didn't know that the Kuomintang troops were chasing them again. So Cai Zejuan got the idea out of the blue and sprinkled silver dollars to lure the enemy and swallowed the code book.

Seeing that the national army was pressing forward step by step, Cai Zejiu was in danger. Fortunately, Wang Zhensheng and Lei Shen arrived in time to repel the enemy.Cai Zejuan felt distressed that the radio station was gone. Wang Zhensheng told Cai Zejuan that things could be intercepted again if they were gone, but if life safety was threatened, there would be no room for maneuver.In the Battle of Manchuang Pass, the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army faced a desperate situation with no retreat, and finally broke through the encirclement at the cost of the lives of more than 2,000 Red Army commanders and fighters.

On the other side, Xue Pinxuan came to Shanghai with her children and saw the place where her husband Cai Zejuan once lived, and she was filled with emotions.Lin Chenhan reminded Xue Pinxuan that the situation in Shanghai was more complicated, and Xue Pinxuan wanted to know whether Cai Zejuan had joined the Communist Party. However, Lin Chenhan did not want his nephew to go to this point, so he comforted Xue Pinxuan not to worry too much and to return to Ningde as soon as possible for comfort. He would be there soon.Move away from Shanghai and stay away from this place of right and wrong.

Although the Battle of Manchuanguan was not successful, Huang Jibi felt that he had completely lost. He was even more curious about why the Communist Party was able to set up a radio station, train talents and design a code in a short period of time. He was full of expectations for such a group of people.Later, the radio station staff braved the heavy rain to walk on the cliff. During the process, someone almost fell. Fortunately, Cai Zejiao caught him in time.Shi Lanqing caught a cold and had a fever due to being exposed to the rain. Cai Zechuo covered her with his quilt to keep warm and told her that it was more important to protect herself at this time.

In mid-December 1932, Cai Zechuan led the Second Taiwan Army to follow the Fourth Red Army on a three-thousand-mile westward expedition and stationed in Shangyuanguan Town, Chenggu County, Shaanxi Province. However, the Kuomintang's pursuers had been left far behind in Guanzhong.At this point, the Fourth Red Army finally got rid of the enemy's pursuit.In mid-February 1933, the Soviet government of Sichuan-Shaanxi Province was formally established, and the Fourth Red Army finally had a new base. However, regarding the enemy's code, Cai Zejue was like a man walking blind, still not seeing a trace of light.

Cai Zejiu and others were encouraged and inspired by the country's meritorious service to decipher the enemy telegrams that Cai Wei failed to decipher, and sent people to collect a large amount of local information.Working day and night, the three of them were finally able to decipher part of the message. At the same time, Zhou Mo also confirmed through Wang Xiaojing that Cai Zejue had made progress in deciphering the Kuomintang code.

Tao Ge reported to Huang Jibi that Sichuan warlords Liu Wenhui, Tian Songyao, Deng Xihou, Liu Xiang and others had accepted the armistice and jointly dealt with the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army who established the Soviet regime in northern Sichuan.Huang Jibi was under great pressure and worked day and night to decipher the Red Army Radio code, but he had no idea.

Wang Ying took the initiative to come to Tao Ge, and when her offer of help was rejected, she told Tao Ge that Huang Jibi had not really reused him.Tao Ge completely ignored it and revealed to Huang Jibi that Wang Ying was a little strange. Huang Jibi thought it was someone sent by Dane, but the top priority was not to pursue this matter, but to continue to crack the code.At the same time, Cai, Xu, and Qu handed over the newly deciphered message to Wang Zhensheng.