At the critical moment of the Huaihai Campaign, Zhang Kexia instigated more than 23,000 ** uprisings in the Third Appeasement Zone and joined the People's Liberation Army. Later, there were many literary and artistic works that interpreted this period of history, and also started from him becoming Chiang Kai-shek's "Saber General", thinking that he deceived Chiang Kai-shek and was a successful pretender. In fact, his whereabouts had already been reported to Chiang Kai-shek's highest authorities, and his direct superior, Feng Zhi'an, and he and a few colleagues knew about it.
Zhang Kexia was already suspected of being "pro-communist" on his head during the anti-Japanese war, and Chiang Kai-shek did not move him for the overall situation of cooperation against Japan, for the achievements of the 59th Army in the Anti-Japanese War, and also thanks to the protection of Feng Yuxiang's big tree.
At the beginning of the Liberation War, Chiang Kai-shek appointed him as the deputy commander of the Third Appeasement Zone, which meant to empty him and let Feng Zhi'an discipline himself. At that time, many generals were also treated in this way. For example, Zhao Yunxiang, the commander of the puppet army who rebelled in Yancheng, was also handed over to his former minister Sun Liangcheng for "discipline", and Jiang did not kill them all. At this time, two more things happened, which increased his suspicion of "pro-communism" a lot.
The first thing is that after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he and He Jifeng, Wu Huawen, Sun Liangcheng, Zhang Lanfeng, Hao Pengju, Liu Ruming, Cao Fulin and other generals of the old Northwest Army connected with each other and prepared to form an anti-war alliance headed by Feng Zhi'an to oppose the civil war. Everyone said that as long as Feng Yangzhi does it, we will follow suit. Later, due to disagreement, Feng did not express his position, and the matter fell through. However, the matter had long been exposed, and Chiang Kai-shek was well aware of it.
The second thing is that on the evening of January 4, 1946, the news of the uprising between ** and Hao Pengju was leaked, and Gu Zhutong, the commander of the Third Theater of Operations, decided to take the first step and relieve Hao Pengju of his military power, reorganize Feng Zhi'an's 33rd Group Army into the Third Appeasement Zone, and integrate Hao's troops into the Third Appeasement Zone. On January 7, Zhang rushed to Hao Pengju's residence in Taierzhuang and revealed this information to Hao, which led to the uprising of Hao Pengju's troops. There is no secret in this matter, not to mention, a year later, Hao Pengju rebelled again.
Of course, his activities in the Third Appeasement Zone and the Kuomintang upper-level generals and ** were also discovered, but both Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Zhi'an believed that he had no actual military power in his hands, and did not deliberately pursue it.
There's one more thing in between. In April 1948, when Chiang Kai-shek inspected the Third Appeasement Zone, Li Yixiao, a war observer sent by Chiang Kai-shek to Xuzhou to "suppress the general," had a conversation with Zhang Kexia at the Dutianmiao station. Zhang Kexia avoided the war, and only said that Chiang Kai-shek knew his situation very well, and had sent him money to settle down, and asked him several times to explain that Chiang's relationship with him was not ordinary, and it was Chiang who was wooing him.
But all of this can't hide Li Yixuan's "observation" of him. Li believes that Zhang and General Feng Yuxiang are brothers-in-law, and he is also General Zhang Zizhong's chief of staff, and he has a very deep relationship with the 59th Army, and ordinary officers have a good impression of him, and even Li Jiusi, the most corrupt in the army, admires him very much, and the only people in the army who are jealous of him are a few people such as army commander Liu Zhensan. Li Yixuan reported these situations directly to Jiang in May of that year, and also reminded Jiang to beware of them.
Third, the situation of the troops in the Fourth Pacification Zone is in danger of division.
As for the time when the uprising was launched, Feng Zhi'an should have been aware of it, and he deliberately detained Zhang in Xuzhou in the name of holding a meeting. But he didn't have the courage to kill Zhang, even if Zhang forcibly left Xu, he also acquiesced. And the army commander Liu Zhensan reluctantly chose to go out and went to Shanghai in the name of medical treatment. Before leaving, he handed over the troops to Deputy Army Commander Meng Shaolian, and said: "If the troops have something, you must listen to Deputy Army Commander Meng." "Obviously, he knew something. Of course, Liu's departure also provided favorable conditions for the uprising.
Zhang Kexia's disguise is not clever, and the success of the uprising probably corresponds to the sentence in the film and television works: "It's not that we are cunning, but that we are too incompetent." "Hehe, it seems to be the other way around.
Therefore, it is no accident that he was able to take the opportunity of Liu Zhensan's leave to go to Shanghai to contact the deputy army commander Meng Shaoyuan, the division commanders Cui Zhenlun and Yang Gansan, and lead the army to revolt. History