In the Southern Anhui Incident in 1941, Ye Ting led his troops to break through the siege and went to negotiate with the Kuomintang encircling army, but unfortunately **, and then was placed under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek for a long time. This famous general of the dignified generation has since bid farewell to the battlefield. People have doubts about this: At that time, the New Fourth Army led by Ye Ting was surrounded by the Kuomintang Grand Army, and it was full of dangers, so why did he take the risk of negotiating with the Kuomintang high-level?What bargaining chips does he have?Actually, no. Is he qualified to negotiate?Apparently not. Negotiation means bargaining with equal strength between the two sides, and Ye Ting at that time was already in prison and slaughtered by others, and going to negotiate was tantamount to throwing himself into a net. Sure enough, Ye Ting never came back. As a realist military strategist, doesn't he understand the truth?Of course he understood, but he couldn't go without his orders. And the person who issued this order was none other than Rao Shushi. During the Southern Anhui Incident in 1941, Ye Ting led the New Fourth Army to break through the siege and tried to negotiate with the Kuomintang besieging army, but was unfortunately captured and subsequently placed under house arrest for a long time under Chiang Kai-shek's imprisonment. This illustrious star has since said goodbye to the battlefield. People have doubts about this: At that time, the New Fourth Army led by Ye Ting was surrounded by the Kuomintang army, and it was in danger, so why did he take the risk of negotiating with the Kuomintang high-level?What bargaining chips does he have?
Actually, no. Is he qualified to negotiate?Apparently not. Negotiation means bargaining with equal strength between the two sides, and Ye Ting at that time was already in prison and slaughtered by others, and going to negotiate was tantamount to throwing himself into a net. Sure enough, Ye Ting never came back. As a realist military strategist, doesn't he understand the truth?Of course he understood, but he couldn't go without his orders. And the person who issued this order was none other than Rao Shushi. Rao Shushi, not tall, but extraordinary work ability, was born in Linchuan, Jiangxi, graduated from Shanghai University, participated in revolutionary activities in his early years, engaged in revolutionary work in Jiangxi Soviet District and Northeast China, and was fortunate to participate in the Seventh Congress of the Communist International. Judging from the revolutionary qualifications, Rao Shushi is also an experienced old revolutionary. In 1940, he left Yan'an and was sent to the New Fourth Army as deputy secretary of the Southeast Branch. The secretary of the sub-bureau is Xiang Ying, who is also the deputy commander of the New Fourth Army, and is a powerful figure. Since Ye Ting is not a party member, in a sense, Xiang Ying is the top leader of the New Fourth Army. When he was in the **Soviet area, Xiang Ying had met Rao Shushi, but he was not too impressed by him. Xiang Ying believed that Rao Shushi had neither commanded troops nor was proficient in warfare, so he arranged for him to engage in local secret work.
Since Rao Shushi had no military rank and was not suitable to live in the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, Xiang Ying arranged for him to live in Dingjiashan, which was five miles away from the military headquarters. Therefore, for quite some time, many people in the New Fourth Army did not know anything about Rao Shushi. It was not until the eve of the outbreak of the Southern Anhui Incident that the Southeast Branch was about to be transferred, and Xiang Ying introduced Rao Shushi's identity to Ye Ting. After learning that Rao Shushi was the deputy secretary of the Southeast Bureau, Ye Ting respected him very much. When the incident broke out, Xiang Ying suddenly disappeared, and Rao Shushi and Ye Ting reported Xiang Ying's departure to ** together. ** Ordered that all military operations should be jointly carried out by Commander Ye Ting and Rao Shushi. Rao Shushi's status was suddenly promoted, even surpassing the status of the army commander Ye Ting. Despite repeated unsuccessful attempts by the troops to break through the encirclement, the enemy seized the opportunity to negotiate and demanded that the New Fourth Army send representatives down the mountain. Ye Ting turned a deaf ear, but Rao Shushi responded positively. He first sent the head of the enemy's Ministry of Industry down the mountain to negotiate, but the other party never returned and was captured. Subsequently, Rao Shushi sent the organization minister and the secretary general to negotiate together, and they suffered the same fate. Obviously, the enemy did not intend to negotiate with the New Fourth Army at all, but tried to trap the high-ranking cadres of the New Fourth Army in order to gain merit and rewards.
If all the high-ranking cadres of the New Fourth Army are captured, the remaining troops will inevitably be leaderless and easy to deal with. Ye Ting saw through the enemy's insidious intentions and advised Rao Shushi not to send people to negotiate again. However, Rao Shushi not only disagreed, but also proposed that Ye Ting personally go down the mountain to negotiate. He thought that the level of the representatives sent to negotiate before was not high enough, and Ye Ting, as the army commander, might be accepted by the enemy. Ye Ting stressed many times that the defeated generals were not qualified to negotiate at all, and negotiations were just bait for the enemy. However, Rao Shushi stubbornly believed that Ye Ting and the Kuomintang's Gu Zhutong were classmates, and he believed that no matter whether he succeeded or not, Gu Zhutong would not harm him, and insisted that Ye Ting go down the mountain. In his capacity as deputy secretary of the Southeast Bureau, he issued an order on behalf of the organization and asked Ye Ting to go. Although Ye Ting was no longer a party member, he firmly obeyed the organization's arrangement, and eventually went to negotiate and became a prisoner. History can't be assumed, but we still have to say that if Ye Ting doesn't negotiate and everyone breaks through separately, maybe he still has a chance to escape, after all, there is already a precedent for a successful breakthrough like Rao Shushi. Why did Rao Shushi insist on asking Ye Ting to negotiate?It was not until after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1955 that Rao Shushi was defined as a careerist, expelled from the party and subjected to scrutiny.
In prison, he wrote down the confession materials, explaining the two purposes of letting Ye Ting go down the mountain: one was to fantasize that by letting Ye Ting negotiate, the enemy would open up a passage so that he could break through and escape;The second is to get rid of Ye Ting with the help of the Kuomintang, so as to clear the way for leading the New Fourth Army in the future. Xiang Ying has fallen, and if Ye Ting is eliminated again, he will be closer and closer to the top leadership position of the military department. Sure enough, Rao Shushi took up the post of director of the Political Department after the reconstruction of the New Fourth Army, and after he left, he took the position of political commissar of the New Fourth Army and became one of the leaders of the New Fourth Army together.