1948 was a very memorable year for Fu Zuoyi, and the situation in the whole country changed in this year.
The Communist Party, which had been regarded as a heresy by Chiang Kai-shek, suddenly rose to prominence and liberated a large area of China in just a few years.
The defeat in the Northeast Battlefield has shown that the People's Liberation Army is not what it used to be, and its strength should not be underestimated.
But what makes Fu Zuoyi most embarrassed is that he is about to face the People's Liberation Army, what should he do?
In 1947, Chiang Kai-shek personally met with Fu Zuoyi, personally promoted the establishment of the North China "Suppression Headquarters", and gave Fu Zuoyi the title of commander-in-chief.
In the past, this was indeed a very happy thing, but now the guns of the People's Liberation Army are almost at the doorstep, and he, the commander-in-chief who has been pushed to the front of others, every step is related to his future fate.
After some careful consideration, Fu Zuoyi decided to try to contact the Communist Party.
Fu Zuoyi's subordinates also have many Communist Party members, and there are also many hidden members of our party in the Kuomintang, and they are also waiting to play a role at a critical time.
Hou Jingru is one of them, and he is also a legend with a more bumpy life experience.
At that time, as a rare big city in North China and the capital of the Manchu Empire, Beijing City has a lot of very precious buildings and historical relics, including many valuable objects, and also has very high historical research value.
In addition, the construction of Beijing City during the feudal dynasty period made its historical and cultural heritage incomparable with ordinary cities, and in this case, our party will inevitably take into account the minimization of the damage to Beiping City when formulating its strategy, and it is precisely because of this that Fu Zuoyi has a long period of room and time to maneuver.
However, Fu Zuoyi was not bent on peace talks, he sent people to contact the Communists, and on the other hand, he also sent his henchman Chen Changjie to lead a heavy army to guard Tianjin, intending to use Tianjin as a bargaining chip to win more benefits from the CCP.
On the other side, Fu Zuoyi sent another of his henchmen, Guo Jingyun, to lead the 35th Army of his descendant to defend Zhangjiakou, forming the Pingjin-Zhang defense line that could not only defend the capital but also form an integrated defense line on the periphery.
* The leaders had long seen Fu Zuoyi's intentions, and he was still vacillating whether to fight or peace, so the ** Military Commission formulated a plan to attack Tianjin and Beiping.
It was at this time that Hou Jingru, then the commander of the 17th Corps of the Kuomintang, contributed to the battlefield uprising of the 92nd Army, his descendant troops.
Hou Jingru's identity is more complicated, but under the tense situation of the Pingjin Battle at that time, he still made a very correct choice.
Before taking office as the commander of the 17th Corps of the Kuomintang, Hou Jingru had always been the commander of the 92nd Army, and when the war situation in the Northeast was tense and Pingjin was about to fight a big battle, Chiang Kai-shek noticed that Hou Jingru, a student who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, promoted him to the commander of the corps, but the troops under his command were not all in his own hands.
Among them, Hou Jingru's most direct 92nd Army was stationed in Beiping, but Hou Jingru himself was stationed in the Tanggu area, and Hou Jingru's 95th Division, 87th Army and other troops were Chiang Kai-shek's hardcore and were not very familiar with him, and Hou Jingru could control only an independent 318th Division.
After contacting the CCP personnel, Hou Jingru's situation was reported to *** and immediately remembered this excellent student, he also served as the head of the regiment under ** back then, so Zhou He and the others immediately wrote to Hou Jingru to welcome him back to the team.
So Hou Jingru remotely controlled the 92nd Army in Beijing in Tanggu, allowing them to revolt on the battlefield at the right time, and play a surprise effect.
However, the situation is constantly changing, after the Northeast Field Army entered the customs, the situation in the Pingjin battlefield became even more different, and Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army guarding Zhangjiakou was completely wiped out by the People's Liberation Army in the Xin'an area, cutting off one of Fu Zuoyi's arms.
Similarly, Tianjin, an important town that Fu Zuoyi used as a bargaining chip to negotiate peace with the Communist Party, did not last more than 40 hours under the artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army.
At the same time, the battlefield uprising against the 92nd Army was still in full swing, after all, since Fu Zuoyi took office as commander-in-chief of the North China Suppression, there were still nearly 500,000 combat troops under his command, and if he fought to the death, the outcome of the battle was still unknown.
Fortunately, in the end, Fu Zuoyi chose to accept the reorganization and peacefully liberate Beiping, and the 92nd Army, which had already planned a battlefield uprising, stopped planning a battlefield uprising.
However, Hou Jingru's battlefield uprising plan still played a certain positive role in Fu Zuoyi's decision-making at that time, and if it dragged on any longer, the battlefield uprising would not necessarily be only one unit of the 92nd Army.
When the Beiping Army was reorganized, Fu Zuoyi's chief of staff Li Shijie once said to Zhang Boquan, the commander of the 21st Division of the 92nd Army: "The commander-in-chief knows that you have long been connected with the Communist Party and are preparing for a battlefield uprising. ”
This sentence made Zhang Boquan shudder, he originally thought that he had made a seamless plan, but he didn't expect it to be acting under the noses of others, and after Hou Jingru knew about it in 1952, he also felt a burst of fear.
Why was Hou Jingru so close to the Communists? Because he himself was a communist, and even a core member of the Shanghai workers' movement.
It can be seen in "The Examination of the First Phase of Huangpu Middle School" that Hou Jingru's identity as a member of the Communist Party is a certainty.
Some of the first batch of students of the Whampoa Military Academy joined the party before entering the school, and some joined the Communist Party after entering the school under the influence of communist ideology, and Hou Jingru was a group of people who joined the party after entering the school.
The information clearly reads: "Hou Jingru, a native of Yongcheng, Henan, born in 1902, the third team of the first phase of Huangpu, joined the party at the end of 1925."
With this information, Hou Jingru's identity as a Communist Party member can be determined, so why did Hou Jingru lose contact with the party organization and finally have to return to the party's embrace through a battlefield uprising?
As a top student in the first phase of Huangpu, Hou Jingru naturally followed the team to participate in the two Eastern Crusades and the Northern Expedition of the Huangpu Student Army, and exercised himself in these wars and realized the cruelty of the struggle.
Then the alumni of the Whampoa Military Academy went their separate ways, and Hou Jingru went to Shanghai to organize the workers' pickets under the leadership of the *** and served as an instructor in the workers' pickets.
Because Hou Jingru's military literacy is very high, he is responsible for the training of the workers, teaching them how to use the ** in their hands, how to shoot, how to kill the enemy, how to protect themselves on the battlefield and a series of military skills and common sense.
In the spring of 1927, the armed uprising of workers in Shanghai broke out, Hou Jingru personally led thousands of workers' pickets to capture the Shanghai Police Department, and at the same time attacked the arsenal in Shanghai.
Due to the lack of support from the Northern Expeditionary Army, the workers' pickets fought fiercely for two days and one night under the leadership of Hou Jingru and ***, and finally took the whole of Shanghai and won the victory of the workers' armed uprising.
Soon after the armed uprising of the workers in Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup d'état, armed suppression of the workers' forces, in the face of the encirclement and suppression of the reactionaries, Hou Jingru and *** rose up to resist, but in the end they were outnumbered and could only withdraw from Shanghai, in the process of fighting, Hou Jingru's right arm was injured.
After the defeat of the Great Revolution, the Communists finally realized the importance of armed struggle, so the Communists planned to launch a large-scale armed uprising in Nanchang, and Hou Jingru participated again, this time he led the officer training regiment with higher military literacy, under the command of the 20th Army.
In the battle of Nanchang City, Hou Jingru led his soldiers to take the lead in defeating the main force of the enemy army defending the school field, and then withdrew from Nanchang City with the troops.
After the end of the Nanchang Uprising, Chiang Kai-shek sent his subordinate Qian Dajun to chase closely, and in Huichang, Hou Jingru led his army to fight with Qian Dajun, and was seriously wounded in the battle, and several bullets in his body were bleeding and dying.
So under the arrangement of the organization, Hou Jingru was secretly transported to Hong Kong ** and was injured until about 1930 before returning to Shanghai to work.
In 1931, because of Gu Shunzhang's rebellion, the organization of the CCP's underground party in Shanghai was severely damaged and almost completely wiped out, and Hou Jingru was also arrested and imprisoned, but because he refused to obey, he was finally released ten months later.
After being released, Hou Jingru lost contact with the party organization, although he made many efforts to find the party organization, but to no avail, in desperation, Hou Jingru could only defect to the Huangpu classmates to seek a way to survive.
Hou Jingru, who returned to the Kuomintang army, quickly stood out in the army, because he was Chiang Kai-shek's Whampoa lineage and had outstanding ability, so he was quickly promoted.
At that time, the Japanese invaders invaded China, and the land of China fell into an unprecedented national crisis.
On the battlefield of resistance against Japan, Hou Jingru still performed well, and led his troops to participate in battles such as the Battle of Taierzhuang to promote national prestige.
During the Liberation War, he was transferred to the commander of the 92nd Army and later promoted to the commander of the 17th Corps, and regained contact with our party.
In December 1948, the People's Liberation Army cut off the connection between Tianjin and Tanggu, and after the People's Liberation Army conquered Tianjin, the next target was Tanggu, and at this time the Kuomintang army had received the news that Tianjin had been conquered and was preparing to escape by boat from Tanggu.
Hou Jing had already received instructions from *** at this time, so he fled south by boat with the Tanggu defenders to Shanghai, and after arriving in Shanghai, Hou Jingru had less than 3,000 people left in his hands, so he discussed the matter of the uprising with Liao Yunze, who was the deputy commander of the Eighth Appeasement Zone at the time.
However, due to the poor operation of the matter, it did not succeed in the end, and Chiang Kai-shek was transferred to the remnants of the 17th Corps at the same time to follow Tang Enbo to Huizhou, and in desperation, Hou Jingru could only lead the troops to Huizhou.
In May 1949, Hou Jingru led his 318th Division to retreat to the area of Mawei, Fujian Province, and stationed in the vicinity of Fujian.
But things are so unfortunate, just before the preparations for the uprising are done, the 17th Corps was abolished, Hou Jingru was transferred to the head of the East China Military Teaching Corps, Hou Jingru went to Hong Kong in a fit of anger and re-established contact with the party organization.
In 1949, the Third Field Army of the People's Liberation Army attacked Fujian, and under the arrangement of Hou Jingru, the 318th Division finally realized the battlefield uprising and returned to the people anyway.
Hou Jingru's life was relatively bumpy and thrilling, he participated in the Great Revolution and the workers' armed uprising in his early years, also experienced the White Terror era in Shanghai, was injured and engaged in underground struggles, and also fought bloody battles on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and finally returned to the embrace of the party organization.
It can be said that he has been thinking about the light all his life, and when he was young, he applied for the Huangpu Expedition to participate in the Northern Expedition in order to save the country, and then participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the War of Resistance against Japan, and never forgot his identity as a member of the Communist Party.
In Pingjin, Hou Jingru planned the battlefield uprising of the 92nd Army, and in Fuzhou, Hou Jingru planned the battlefield uprising of the remnants of the 17th Corps, proving that he always put the people in his heart, rather than his own personal fate and future.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Hou Jingru still did not sit idle, under his leadership formally established the Whampoa Alumni Association, a group of "Whampoa classmates" is not only the inheritance of the spirit of Whampoa, but also an important force in the progress of the strait.
Among the high-ranking cadres of our party, there are also quite a few people from Huangpu, and they have the deep friendship forged between their classmates, teachers, and students during the war years, and relying on this is of very positive significance to the progress of cross-strait relations.