On January 6, 1941, the Kuomintang created the "Southern Anhui Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries, and more than 9,000 officers and soldiers of the New Fourth Army were ambushed by more than 80,000 Kuomintang troops in the Maolin Mountains of Jing County, southern Anhui.
Just when "Xinhua**" publicly exposed the truth of the incident in southern Anhui, it was actually seized by the news prosecutor, and ** wrote an inscription angrily after learning about it.
"Strange grievances through the ages, a leaf in the south of the Yangtze River, fighting in the same room, why do you need to fry each other?”
Of nearly 10,000 officers and men of our army, only about 2,000 successfully broke through, and most of the rest died heroically, the army commander Ye Ting was detained, and many outstanding generals of our army were killed.
To say that the shameless indecency of the Kuomintang caused this tragedy to occur, the three major traitors who appeared within our army are equally distressing, and what makes people extremely angry is that these three people are all regimental-level cadres of the New Fourth Army.
In those war years, when loyalty and conviction were constantly being severely tested, sticking to principles and bottom lines could not guarantee the success of the revolution, and rebellion would only cause greater tragedy, and "stabbing in the back" was the saddest thing in the revolutionary camp.
As for whether these three traitors chose to sell themselves to seek glory and defect to the Kuomintang, did they finally realize their selfish desires?What happened to them?Let's find out.
Speaking of Zhao Lingbo, among the three major traitors, he is the highest-ranking person, and the impact and consequences of the rebellion are also the most serious, which can be regarded as a great shame in the history of our army.
In the recollections of Lin Zhifu, former head of the Enemy Engineering Department of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army, Zhao Lingbo was an outright opportunist.
"Zhao Lingbo, as far as I know, was originally a ruffian in the ranks of the Sichuan warlords, but was later captured by the Communist Party, joined the Red Army, and mixed into the party. When the New Fourth Army was established, he came to southern Anhui from Yan'an, and at first served as chief of staff in the third detachment, and was later transferred back to the rear by the military department as chief of staff”
From Lin Zhifu's description, it is enough to see that Zhao Lingbo has never had the process of consolidating revolutionary beliefs after becoming a soldier, and he is a typical "soldier oil", and it is not surprising that he can become a traitor.
Before the Southern Anhui Incident, on the eve of the movement of the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army and the troops in southern Anhui, Zhao Lingbo was temporarily appointed deputy commander of the first column.
At that time, Zhao Lingbo was ashamed to declare to the interrogators.
"I have long had the idea of breaking away from the CCP, but I just don't have a chance, what they got is not right at all!In the future, I will do the best work and resolutely serve the party-state!”
At the same time, he also presented the marching road map that the New Fourth Army Staff Office temporarily surveyed and mapped and distributed to the squadrons at the Pancun Conference, and fabricated the so-called "New Fourth Army first provoked trouble with the Kuomintang 40th Division, and planned to attack the Shangguan Yunxiang Headquarters, and after successfully entrenching southern Jiangsu, it would establish a base in the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou triangle region" and so on.
You must know that the biggest victim of such a false accusation is Ye Ting, and this incident is also confirmed by the experience of Mei Wending, an adjutant of the New Fourth Army, who had a brief conversation with Mei Wending who came to visit the prison in Shangrao Concentration Camp.
"You go back and tell them that Zhao Lingbo's confession was forged, and they forced me to write a manifesto, and I will not do it if I die!”
After meeting Zhao Lingbo, Mei Wending also determined that he was willing to sell himself for glory and act as a traitor, eating, drinking and having fun with the Kuomintang adjutants all day in prison, and had not yet been handcuffed.
The sky has eyes, and Zhao Lingbo, who originally thought that he could eat and drink spicy food after the mutiny, could not have imagined that he would eventually fall under the guns of the New Fourth Army.
In the summer of 1941, the Kuomintang units that participated in the "encirclement and suppression" of the New Fourth Army returned to their original defenses one after another, and the 52nd Division was ordered to assign special personnel to set up the "Tongnan Fanjing Appeasement Command" to be responsible for the "appeasement" work after the Southern Anhui Incident.
Don't look at the fact that he has been promoted to an important position in the Kuomintang camp at this time, he is still subject to many restrictions in terms of action, perhaps because he failed to live the life he wants after the mutiny, Zhao Lingbo fled again.
In May 1942, the 2nd Company of the 57th Regiment of the 19th Brigade of the 7th Division of the New Fourth Army was stationed in Huyangchong, and a stranger in civilian clothes was detained and questioned.
Unexpectedly, the instructor of the 2nd Company at that time recognized this person as Zhao Lingbo, only to see that he kept it silent, and then sent someone to escort Zhao Lingbo to the headquarters of the 57th Regiment.
After coming to the regiment headquarters, the regiment commander Liang Jinhua immediately escorted Zhao Lingbo to Dayujiagang, Beixiang County, Wuwei County, where the division headquarters was located, and on the way to escort him, Zhao Lingbo found that his true identity was exposed, and immediately wanted to escape, and the escort soldiers killed him on the spot.
At the subsequent staff work meeting of the 7th Division of the New Fourth Army, Zhao Lingbo was highly evaluated.
"Zhao Lingbo's capture is a great victory for us, better than the guns captured by one or two companies of the enemy!”
Speaking of Zhao Xizhong, born in Chang'an County, Shaanxi Province in 1903, he was a patriotic and enthusiastic young man, who marched on the streets many times when he was a student, and has always been at the forefront of the times to oppose aggression and spread new ideas, and later became a member of our party.
In the autumn of 1929, he defected after being arrested by the Kuomintang army and was immediately released.
In 1931, he came to the First Garrison Brigade of the Yang Hucheng Department as a captain and company commander.
In 1935, while fighting against the Red 25th Army, he was captured again, and then returned to the camp of our army and served as a military instructor.
Our army still recognizes Zhao Xizhong's talent, and the leaders of the New Fourth Army also believe that after the baptism of war in the future, he will also have a deeper understanding of the significance of revolutionary beliefs, and he will definitely become a generation of outstanding generals through careful cultivation.
Just when the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army moved north, he was appointed chief of staff of the first column, and at the time of the incident in southern Anhui, he was also unfortunately captured.
What is extremely humiliating is that Zhao Xizhong leaked a large amount of information about the number of people of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui, equipment, military operations, and the names, places of origin, age, educational backgrounds, and characteristics of many leaders of the New Fourth Army to the Kuomintang in this mutiny.
With such a "letter of surrender", Zhao Xizhong was sent to the Shangrao concentration camp of the Kuomintang army, where he served as a lieutenant colonel military instructor, and his main job was to "reform" the captured personnel of our army.
In May 1942, when the Japanese army entered Shangrao, Zhao Xizhong fled on the way to transfer, and then began to wander around, and was arrested twice by the Japanese army until 1946, when he regained his freedom.
After returning to his hometown, the Kuomintang regarded him as a Communist "bandit" and wanted to arrest him, and in desperation, he fled to Ganmin County, where he did not return until after liberation.
In 1950, Zhao Xizhong changed his face and rejoined the revolutionary ranks, and it was during the internal anti-rebellion movement in 1956 that his past tainted behavior was initially exposed, and after his post was revoked, he supervised labor on the spot.
In August 1968, he finally chose to commit suicide by throwing himself into the Yellow River.
Liu Houzong, who was born in Leiyang, Hunan, has participated in many agricultural activities in his hometown, although his ideology is relatively advanced, but his personal style is not flattering.
In 1938, Liu Hou joined the New Fourth Army, and his previous bad life style was not restrained at all, and he often molested women and bullied the people in the army, and violating military discipline was commonplace for him.
Seeing that he was a little "muddy and couldn't support the wall", the organization had no choice but to arrange for him to serve as Xiang Ying's adjutant at the adjutant office of the New Fourth Army Military Headquarters in Yunling, southern Anhui, mainly managing the work of the breeding class and the carpentry class.
To everyone's surprise, it was such an unambitious adjutant who actually became the ** who brutalized the outstanding generals of our army.
In the early morning of March 13, 1941, Liu Houzong shot and killed Xiang Ying, deputy commander of the New Fourth Army, and Zhou Zikun, deputy chief of staff, in Chikeng Mountain, and then went down the mountain to surrender to the Kuomintang.
I thought that my "feat" could get an official and a half-position in the Kuomintang camp, but I didn't think that the other party also felt extremely disdainful of this kind of petty people who killed the same party, and Liu Houzong was directly imprisoned in the Chongqing Dregs Cave Detention Center.
In 1948, when the Kuomintang was stormy, he was released, even so, Liu Hou still did not dare to return to his hometown, and went all the way to a salt shop in Xinyu County, Jiangxi Province to work as a bookkeeper.
In 1952, Huang Yifan, who was a guard of Zhou Zikun, came to Xinyu County to serve as the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau.
After that, ** sent a telegram after hearing the news, and gave instructions to severely punish Liu Houzong.
In early August 1952, President Liu Hou was executed in Nanchang, Jiangxi.
Nowadays, people often say a joke "If you are not afraid of a god-like opponent, you are afraid of a pig-like teammate", which seems to be a joke, but in fact it has a deep meaning.
Looking back at the journey of our party and our army, there have been countless hard battles and hard battles, and no amount of hardships and obstacles have ever stopped the enthusiasm and determination of the revolutionary soldiers, but the people's hearts have become the most terrible existence.
In today's society, the development of the country still needs countless patriots to stick to their original intentions and forge ahead in various fields, not to mention that in the war-torn era, in the face of the danger of the family and the country, human nature and party spirit are constantly being severely tested, and only those who adhere to justice are worthy of the word "hero".
For the three traitors mentioned above, it is understandable that they chose to defect in order to protect themselves when their lives were in danger, but when their colleagues were in misery, they chose to kill their colleagues' lives, sell military secrets, and shake the morale of the army in exchange for their own selfish interests, which is destined to be an unforgivable crime.
The sky has eyes, these three traitors all ended up in a tragic death, only in this way can we comfort the heroic souls of outstanding generals like Ye Ting, Xiang Ying, and Zhou Zikun.