Yang Chengwu is the head of the office group of the Central Military Commission and acting chief of the general staff, and his work ability is admired by many people. But in the middle of the night on March 22, 1968, his fortunes changed dramatically.
That night, because he was unwell, he took sleeping pills and went to bed early. He didn't know that his home had been surrounded by Qiu Huizuo, Li Zuopeng and others with dozens of heavily armed soldiers. They came to bring Yang Chengwu to the Great Hall according to Vice Chairman Lin's order.
They first gathered Yang Chengwu's family in the living room, then broke into his bedroom and woke him up from his dream. Li Zuopeng told him that Vice Chairman Lin wanted him to go to the meeting. Yang Chengwu was very puzzled, it was already early in the morning, what kind of meeting?He asked them what they were doing
Li Zuopeng and Qiu Huizuo are both members of the Central Military Commission's work group, one is the first political commissar of the navy, and the other is director of the General Logistics Department. They also did not expect that they would receive such a task. Li Zuopeng wrote in his memoirs that he was greatly shaken by Yang Chengwu's dismissal.
Yang Chengwu wanted to call ** to verify, but ** had already been cut off. He was angry and asked them what was going onThey don't answer, they just say you'll know when you go. Yang Chengwu felt that things were not good, and questioned them again, asking them to have party spirit and conscience, and not to be a **.
He still remembered that before he went to bed, he heard that Yu Lijin was taken away by Wu Faxian. He didn't understand what was going on. He had no choice but to follow them downstairs and say goodbye to his mother, wife and children.
He was taken to the Fujian Hall of the Great Hall, where twenty or thirty people were already seated, including Li Tianyou, Wang Xinting, Huang Yongsheng, Wu Faxian, Li Zuopeng, Qiu Huizuo, Kang, Jiang, Chen, Yao, and so on. Vice Chairman Lin announced that Yang Chengwu was engaged in mountaineering, factionalism, and seized power with Yu Lijin and Fu Chongbi. Then, someone chimed in, saying that Yang Chengwu was not the chief chief, and Huang Yongsheng was the chief chief, and besieged him.
In this way, Yang Chengwu was sent to Wuchang, Hubei for guardianship. He stayed there for 7 years and did not regain his freedom until 1974.
This is the struggle of that era, overnight, you can be praised by 10,000 people, or you can be trampled by 10,000 people, and without warning.