One day in the winter of 1950, the prime minister introduced the "general" Han Liancheng to the acquaintance of General Feng Baiju, who had been planting the red flag on Hainan Island for 23 years, and invited them to Huairentang to watch the Peking Opera "Three Forks".
This was the first meeting between two legendary generals of our army, and there were also Mr. He and Comrade ** present at that time.
After watching the play, ** specially left them to eat in the West Flower Hall, and during the banquet, ** said to the two generals Han and Feng: "Have you watched the play "Three Forks"? ”
I read it, but I don't understand it. Feng Baiju said.
* said: "Two people who don't know each other have a vicious battle in the dark night, and they only know each other at dawn, how funny! ”
Ashamed, did not complete the task. General Han Liancheng said.
At this time, ** took over the conversation: "This is why I didn't connect you to the line, Han Liancheng secretly helped you in Hainan, but you often attacked him, your misunderstanding has been a long time, you should untie this knot." ”
Feng Baiju explained, "At that time, our radio station was broken and we couldn't report it to **, and I was responsible. ”
** said: "Han Liancheng is a good comrade who has been tested for a long time by our party to penetrate into the enemy, and he is a person with special merits. The responsibility is on me, and I didn't connect you to the line. ”
After that, ** said to ** and Han Liancheng: "Didn't you cooperate well in the Battle of Laiwu?" What if I didn't connect you to the line? ”
He looked at Feng Baiju and Han Liancheng at the same time and said, "Why didn't you get on the line, just say hello to Comrade Liancheng alone?" I'll have a chance to talk about this question later! ”
In these short words, it is a big historical misunderstanding.
Before the founding of New China, the broad masses of people living on Hainan Island, which were in dire straits, constantly set off a wave of anger of resistance during those long months of humiliation, but most of them ended in failure.
Only in the people's armed struggle under the leadership of the Communist Party has it been possible to persist in the 23 Spring and Autumn Red Flags!
However, in the course of 23 years of difficulty, the armed struggle of the people of Hainan Island has also suffered three heavy blows
The first was the "encirclement and suppression" of the Kuomintang during the Agrarian Revolutionary War; the second is the encroachment policy of the "three lights" implemented by Japan during the Pacific War; These three are the "clearance" attacks of the 46th Army of the Kuomintang during the War of Liberation.
However, the author of this article, General Han Liancheng, was precisely the commander of the 46th Army.
It was September 1945, shortly after Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and the 46th Army of the Kuomintang under the command of Han Liancheng was ordered to enter Hainan Island, the pearl of southern Xinjiang.
On the surface, they were going there to accept the surrender of the Japanese army, repatriate the prisoners, and restore order, but in fact, Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Fakui, the "director of the line" in Guangdong, had other wishful thinking.
They want to use this army to attack the independent column of the Qiongya guerrillas, an anti-Japanese people's armed force active on Hainan Island, in an attempt to eliminate the Qiongya Special Committee of the Communist Party of China!
Military orders are like mountains. Han Liancheng immediately led the 46th Army to prepare to cross the sea and fight.
At this time, Han Liancheng, who was in a hurry, received a letter from *** on the Leizhou Peninsula.
The letter said: "Now you can only use your personal influence and the power in your hands to protect the security of the Qiongya Party organization as much as possible without compromising the general plan, and to keep the guerrillas from suffering from losses, or with little loss." ”
The letter also emphasized: "Attention! Proceeding from reality, you can do as much as you can, at your discretion, and everything is conducive to concealment as the highest principle. ”
What a task! Han Liancheng thought to himself: An actor plays two hostile roles in the same scene, neither the director nor the actor himself dares to imagine that he can perform the play seamlessly, so it would be good if he didn't make a big mistake.
However, Han Liancheng still thought hard about how to better realize Comrade ***'s intentions.
According to the domestic situation at that time, he seized the opportunity of Chiang Kai-shek's fake peace and real preparations for war, and as soon as he arrived at Haikou, the capital of Hainan Island, he actively looked for ways to communicate with the Communist organization in Qiongya.
At the same time, he began to use the power in his hands to quickly cut through the mess and did several urgent things to get in touch with the party organization and protect the security of the guerrillas, removing some obstacles.
First of all, Han Liancheng executed the traitor Zhan Songnian and disarmed all his puppet army.
Zheng Jiemin, the head of the military command's spies, once told Han Liancheng that Zhan Songnian was his man, and Chen Cheng agreed to reorganize this unit into an independent brigade, let Zhan serve as the brigade commander, and temporarily incorporate it into the battle sequence of the 46th Army as its guiding force.
However, if this is done, this puppet army unit born and raised in Hainan can exist for a long time, needless to say, it is very unfavorable to Qiong Zong. But to "solve" this force, it is necessary to take a big risk.
Han Liancheng, who was extremely courageous, did not hesitate at all, and resolutely ordered all this unit to be disarmed and put to death the traitor and spy Zhan Songnian, which removed a major scourge for the people of Hainan and a major danger for the Hainan revolution.
Second, Han Liancheng tried to limit the expansion plan of the Hainan security force and police force.
Although Zhang Fakui repeatedly ordered the security team to be expanded into three regiments and equipped with captured Japanese soldiers, Han Liancheng insisted on using all kinds of excuses to resist and refuse, so that the "land snake" did not change, and in the end it was still a leper dog.
Third, they tried to restrain the harmful activities of Cai Jinjun, a special agent of the military command, and Zeng Xingxing, a special agent of the Central Command, against the Qiongya CCP organization and its armed forces.
As soon as Han Liancheng arrived in Haikou, he found that Cai Jinjun, a Kuomintang spy and director of the Haikou Office of Guangdong Province, had taken the lead and robbed the captured personnel of the Communist Qiongya guerrillas from the surrendered Japanese army, as well as a large number of relevant materials!
Han Liancheng, who is very politically astute, immediately realized that this was very dangerous.
Therefore, he immediately summoned Cai Jinjun and, in his capacity as the "commander of the surrender of the Hainan District of the Chinese Army," reprimanded Cai Jinjun for exceeding his authority, and strictly ordered him to hand over all the detainees and all materials to the Haikou garrison commander for handling on the same day.
Cai Jinjun blinked his thief eyebrows and mouse eyes, and he had no choice but to obediently comply.
When releasing the captured personnel of the "Qiong Zong," Han Liancheng selected a county-level cadre to talk to him personally and learn about the situation of the guerrillas.
Cai Jinjun is on the front line.
Then, he personally wrote an open letter to Feng Baiju, secretary of the Qiongya Special Committee of the Communist Party of China and commander of the Qiongya Guerrilla Independent Column, and handed it over to him.
The main content of the letter was that the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had ended and that order must be restored as soon as possible, and that the "Qiong Zong" should send people to discuss matters concerning the reorganization of the guerrilla units.
When sending off the cadre with the letter, Han Liancheng said word by word: "Please don't pay too much attention to the superficial wording of the letter, but consider the actual meaning of sending people." This is Han Liancheng's deliberate hint to the leaders of "Qiong Zong".
After General Feng Baiju received Han Liancheng's open letter requesting talks, the Qiongya Special Committee of the CPC made a serious study and held that it was still necessary to send a representative.
Although participating in the negotiations does not expect any substantive results, the actions taken by participating in the negotiations can express the high political posture of the people's armed forces and their desire for peace. At the same time, it is clear that we must not paralyze ourselves with negotiations, and we must be ready for battle.
Feng Baiju immediately decided to send Comrade Shi Dan, the principal of the Qiongya Anti-Japanese Public School, as a representative to negotiate.
Stan came to Haikou to begin negotiations with the 46th Army. In addition to representatives of both sides, staff officers and secretaries of the 46 th Army also attended the talks, and they took pains to take notes on the spot.
As for Han Liancheng, at this time, he assumed the posture of a military commander at the negotiation meeting, and said in an official tone: Now we must unify military orders and government orders, and your troops will come out to be organized, and so on.
Actually, it's a routine of the show, making it look like an open negotiation so that you can report to your boss.
But behind the scenes, there is another kind of "negotiation".
That night, Han Liancheng took Comrade Stan to his residence in a car for secret talks.
Before their conversation began, in order to prevent someone from suddenly breaking in, Han Liancheng instructed the guards: "If anyone comes to me, say no." ”
Then he sat down and said frankly to Stan: "The public set during the day is acting, and you can report to your boss if you make a appearance." ”
Then he asked: "Do you see any problems after reading my letter to Comrade Feng Baiju?" The whole content of the letter is to punch the uterine cavity, and only the pencil is the truth where it is crossed twice. ”
Then, he confessed to Comrade Shi Dan that he had participated in the Northern Expedition and served as a brigade commander under Feng Yuxiang of the National Revolutionary Army, during which he had worked with many Communist Party members.
Later, Feng Yuxiang was defeated by Chiang Kai-shek, who thought he was young and promising, and left him behind and sent him to Germany for further study.
Han Liancheng made it clear to Stan: "I know the Communist Party, and the Party understands me, and I still maintain close ties with the Party. ”
And said: Chiang Kai-shek ** reactionary, but because of his position, he could not revolt. also pointed out clearly: "I have a connection with the CCP, you can use the radio password to contact him, and ask him who Han Liancheng is." ”
Then, he briefed Stan on the situation at that time, and revealed: "Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Fakui of Guangdong are determined to destroy you, and now they have sent five officers of the rank of major general to Hainan to supervise my attack on you." ”
After explaining the difficult situation, Han Liancheng also put forward his specific suggestion: Your Communist army can use the Wuzhi Mountains to cover up its forces and recuperate, so as to wait for the opportune moment.
If you do not go out of the highway to destroy the roadbed and power lines, you can show that Hainan is calm and calm, which will not attract the attention of the Kuomintang authorities and will make it easier for me to deal with them.
Finally, he said meaningfully: "Qiong Zong should study what kind of actions are beneficial to his survival and development. ”
Female machine gunner of the Qiongya Column.
In the process of secret negotiations, Comrade Shi Dan was quite surprised by Han Liancheng's performance, and without the slightest mental preparation, he could only be half-convinced in his heart, so it was difficult to express his attitude.
In the end, Han Liancheng said to Stan: "In order to facilitate your external contacts and assistance, I can designate certain ports to relax their vigilance for your convenience." ”
Han Liancheng also hoped to take advantage of the opportunity of the patrol to arrange a meeting with Comrade Feng Baiju next to a highway near the base area ......
Of course, during the open negotiations, Comrade Stan refuted it with rhetoric and-for-tat; During the private talks, Comrade Stan did not express his position clearly, did not say anything about it, and only said that he would go back and report to the leaders.
After Han Liancheng sent away Shi Dan, his heart was much more steady. thought that he and "Qiong Zong" were at least breathing.
At this time, the letter appeared in his mind again, and his heart was suddenly warm, this is the party organization, and it is the political trust of comrades in him! You have to find a way to do it a little better, a little better ......
However, Han Liancheng's move doesn't seem to have a very obvious effect.
After Shi Dan returned to the headquarters of the Qiongya Column in Nanfeng City, Lingao County, he reported to Feng Baigou and the Qiong Column Special Committee on the content of the above conversation with Han Liancheng.
As for the personal information provided by Han Liancheng, Feng Baiju and others really didn't dare to believe it easily.
Since the summer of 1941, the radio station sent by the higher-level party was damaged, and it lost radio contact with **, and at this time there was only a small radio station, which could only listen to the telecommunications of ** society.
Therefore, they could not get in touch with **, and they could not verify Han Liancheng's identity.
Under the complicated and changeable circumstances at that time, they all felt that they could not easily believe Han Liancheng's statement, and they could not completely rule out that Han Liancheng was a democratic and progressive person.
After discussion, Feng Baiju suggested that Stan be sent to Haikou to negotiate with Han Liancheng, and put forward some specific questions and demands, such as asking Han Liancheng to set up a radio station, hoping to use practical actions to verify the authenticity and reliability of Han Liancheng's talk.
Feng Baiju once said at the meeting: "Han Liancheng avoided talking about the question of who belonged to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and focused on how they made progress and how strong the combat effectiveness of the 46th Army was. ”
In Feng Baiju's opinion at that time, Han Liancheng's preaching was "a fallacy that deceives others and deceives himself". In fact, it is still hostile.
Due to the guerrillas' activities in all directions, they frequently attacked, which stimulated the nerves of the Kuomintang ruling authorities, and spies, politicians, inside and outside the army, constantly exclaimed: Hainan Island is full of guerrillas! For a while, the atmosphere was quite tense.
Chiang Kai-shek wanted to exterminate the Communist Party on Hainan Island, and he wanted Han Liancheng to try to protect the safety of the Qiongya Party organization so that the guerrillas would not suffer any losses.
One person plays two roles and is in a special environment. At that time, the situation on Hainan Island was particularly complicated, with spies and politicians supervising and shouting, and guerrillas being ...... at any time
At this time, in addition to Chiang Kai-shek and others staring at Haikou, local newspapers also began to accuse Han Liancheng of being ineffective in suppressing bandits, and warlords and politicians in Guangdong also jointly wrote letters to Chiang Kai-shek to complain.
Han Liancheng thought about it again and again, thinking that only by calming down the atmosphere and calming down Hainan could it be possible to restrain the vicious dog of the 46th Army.
Therefore, he boldly took such an action: using propaganda tools to publicize every action of his personal, hoping to use this form to show the society that the situation on Hainan Island is calm.
When he decided to inspect the iron ore mine in Ishiroku, a few days before his departure, he asked the press to announce that there was no danger along the way.
Han Liancheng did this in the hope of hinting at "Qiong Zong" and understanding this delicate relationship, so as to paralyze the enemy.
In January 1946, Han Liancheng took 1 adjutant, 1 doctor and 6 guards to take a special train from Sanya to Shilu to inspect the iron mine.
At that time, Jiang Xiong, commander of the 19th Division stationed in Sanya, reported to Han Liancheng in advance that the guerrillas in this area were frequently active, and that he was very uneasy about the military seat's actions.
Han Liancheng said with a smile: "This is to scare yourself." As he spoke, he boarded the car and left.
Shiroku Iron Ore. However, on the way to Shilu, the train was suddenly ambushed by Qiong Zong, the train overturned, Han Liancheng was crushed under the carriage, and his lumbar spine was also injured, and more than half of the accompanying personnel were killed and injured.
When Jiang Xiong heard that something had happened, he hurriedly sent an armored rapid force to the place of the accident and beat the guerrillas away.
This sensational incident spread quickly to Haikou and Guangzhou, and the atmosphere in Hainan suddenly became even more tense.
Under these circumstances, Comrade Shi Dan came to Haikou to hold a second negotiation with the 46th Army, and Han Liancheng immediately received him.
During the open negotiations, the atmosphere was tense, Han Liancheng was very serious, and said in a threatening tone: "You shouldn't attack me, the 46th Army is much stronger than you, and if you don't obey, you will be wiped out!" ”
As a matter of fact, this ambush was carried out by the guerrillas, and the leaders of the "Qiong Zong" did not know about it beforehand, and afterwards reported the information on foot.
So before Stan came to negotiate and set off, he didn't know about the ambush. Of course, there is no preparation for how to deal with it.
Comrade Stan was originally going to propose to Han Liancheng about the radio station during the current talks, but because of the tense atmosphere, he did not have the opportunity to raise it.
And the radio station that was encountering "Qiong Zong" at that time was lost during the battle and could not get in touch with ***! Of course, Comrade Stan absolutely must not reveal this military secret to Han Liancheng, who did not know whether it was true or false.
In short, many fortuitous factors caused the negotiation to be interrupted! Within a few days, the flames of war broke out on Hainan Island, which caused a great historical misunderstanding.
When Stan returned to the station, Feng Baiju listened to Stan 's report, and in view of the situation of the 46th Army, he thought that Han Liancheng was duplicitous, so he regarded Han Liancheng's suggestion as a conspiracy, and neither went to the appointment alone, nor did he send representatives to negotiate.
In fact, the opportunity to join forces has been lost. Within a few days, the conflict broke out. On January 29, 1946, Han Liancheng commanded two divisions of the 46th Army to attack the edge of the Wuzhishan base area.
However, although the momentum is huge, Han Liancheng only copes with it superficially, and does not want to fight with Qiong Zong, in fact, this is for others to see.
During this period, important Kuomintang members He Yingqin, Song Ziwen, Zhang Fakui and others went to Hainan many times to supervise the war, and asked Han Liancheng to do his best to suppress the bandits. Han Liancheng repeatedly used excuses that he had not found the main target, and only the "bandits" were constantly eliminated.
A few days later, Chiang Kai-shek summoned Han Liancheng to Nanjing to attend a meeting on the reorganization of the whole army, which was actually a meeting to prepare for a full-scale civil war.
Before leaving, Han Liancheng designated Bai Chongxi's nephew and commander of the 188th Division, Hai Jingqiang, as the commander of the army.
After he arrived in Guangzhou, Zhang Fakui mocked Han Liancheng with the Sanya ambush incident: "Our military politician, don't you feel pain when your waist bone was broken by the Communist Party? ”
My political cultivation is not ...... enough"What else can Han Liancheng say!
On the way to Nanjing the next day, Zhang Fakui told Han Liancheng: "After the Nanjing meeting, you should stay and recuperate, and Xu Jingtang, deputy director of the Guangzhou camp, and Gan Lichu, chief of staff, have been transferred to Haikou to assist in the work, and I am afraid that there will be no Communist Party in Hainan in three months." ”
In fact, Zhang Fakui's appetite was very large, and he wanted to take over as the commander of the 46th Army with Gan Lichu, but Chiang Kai-shek did not agree and gave up.
In February 1946, Chiang Kai-shek held a military conference in Nanjing in the name of reorganizing the troops and actively preparing for war.
The sea is strong. During his tenure as commander of the 46th Army, Hai Jingqiang ordered the army to attack on a large scale and carried out a brutal sweep and "three lights" policy on the base area of the Qiongya Column.
For a time, the Qiongya Column was extremely heavy and basically lost all the towns on the plain.
The cruelty of the war is recorded in the pen of Feng Baiju, the commander of the Qiongya Column:
The brutality of the 46th Army's attack on us surpassed the attack of Cai Tingkai in the 17th year and Chen Guanghan in the 21st year, and also exceeded the encroachment war of the Japanese invaders in the 32nd year. ”
At the end of February, Han Liancheng returned to Haikou and immediately convened a military meeting attended by all the generals
The communist headquarters was originally shrunk in the Baisha and Yacha areas, but now we have forced them into the mountains to ......Commander Han, your one-arrow revenge let us get it back for you. ”
After listening to the report, Han Liancheng was greatly surprised, knowing that there was no room for recovery. However, he could not see the continuation of the civil war, so he took advantage of the downsizing of the military conference and put aside the "suppression of bandits" in advance, so as to stop the military offensive and suppression of the Qiongya column.
However, in the eyes of the Qiongya Column, the military action sin of the 46th Army naturally lies with Han Liancheng, and the military action sin of Commander Hai Jingqiang** is also Han Liancheng.
On June 26, 1946, Chiang Kai-shek brazenly tore up the armistice agreement and the resolution of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, mobilized 300,000 troops to besiege the liberated areas of the Central Plains, and the civil war broke out across the country.
Due to the tight battlefield in East China, the 46th Army was soon transferred out of Hainan, and the difficult period of the Hainan Qiongya Column passed.
However, the heavy losses brought to the Qiongya Column by the 46th Army made Feng Baiju have a very good opinion of Han Liancheng. In particular, the sacrifice of many comrades-in-arms and comrades made Feng Baiju resentful of Han Liancheng.
This kind of emotion arose due to misunderstanding until the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
History often has its own inherent contingencies and relevance. The misunderstanding between Han Liancheng and Feng Baiju, although it had an adverse impact on the Qiongya Liberation War in desperation, laid the ambush line for the unprecedented victory of the Laiwu Campaign.
If Han Liancheng's experience in Hainan had exposed his identity, then there would have been no major achievements by Han Liancheng during the Battle of Laiwu.
In other words, if it was not General Han Liancheng who received Hainan back then, but another general who was loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, that period of history is another way of writing, can you still pursue Han Liancheng?
In fact, I saw this matter very clearly, and learned that the Qiongya Column had successfully ambushed Han Liancheng on the outskirts of Baisha County, and drafted a telegram on January 6 to call Feng Baiju in the name of the Military Commission to show his commendation.
The contents of the telegram: Your department should continue this spirit, seek out the enemy's scattered forces and their weak points, concentrate our superior forces, and strive to destroy the enemy in a constant war of movement.
Knowing that it was Han Liancheng who attacked, why did he still encourage Han Liancheng like this without explaining Han Liancheng's relationship with the Communist Party?
Because of the relationship between Han Liancheng and the Communist Party, only high-level officials such as Dong Biwu knew, and from the objective environment at that time, the spies were by Han Liancheng's side, and there could be no negligence.
Regarding this historical misunderstanding, Comrade Xia Yan, a revolutionary of the older generation, wrote in the article "Memories of General Han Liancheng":
Soon after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Comrade ** said to me: "Chiang Kai-shek has transferred Han Liancheng's troops to Hainan Island to fight against Feng Baiju's guerrillas!" Have you corresponded to him? ”
I said, "Yes, I have a contact point with him in Liuzhou." ”
Xia Yan. Comrade Enlai said: "You write a letter to him asking him to continue to fulfill the old gentleman's agreement. ”
According to Comrade Enlai's instructions, I wrote a letter to Han Liancheng ......
Later, he asked someone to bring me a message, saying: "It is not possible to fight without fighting, it is okay to fake a fight, and if you do a dozen, I can deal with it, and then I can send a telegram to the Kuomintang military authorities to give an explanation." ”
After the liberation, Comrade Feng Baiju became the vice governor of Zhejiang Province. Once, I ran into Feng Baiju and asked, "Did Han Liancheng fight with you?" ”
Feng replied: "It's hit, it's really beaten." We ambushed his train and broke his spine. He has always said that he has a relationship with the Chinese Communist Party, but we don't believe it. ”
So I told him about my contact with Han Liancheng. Feng Baiju asked, "Is it true?" ”
I said, "Of course it's true, there's such a thing." ”
Feng said: "At that time, there was a problem with our radio station, and we couldn't get in touch with the Southern Bureau. ”
Comrade Xia Yan's memories have provided precious evidence for this historical misunderstanding.
Regarding this historical misunderstanding, General Han Liancheng said in his reminiscences in his later years: "To this day, I feel regretful that when Comrade Bai Ju was alive, I was not able to sit down with him and have a good talk. ”
But with this symposium hosted by ***, the mystery of the historical misunderstanding between Han Liancheng and his 46th Army in Hainan and Feng Baiju has finally been solved.