In the later stages of the War of Liberation, the situation was very clear, and many traitors to our Party feared every day that after the liberation of the whole of China, they would be severely punished by our Party, and the most serious thing was that they would lose their lives.
Therefore, some people chose to flee with the Kuomintang to Taiwan Province of China, while others chose to find their way back and revolt angrily in order to atone for their crimes.
In 1949, Fang Buzhou, the commander of the Red Army who rebelled, took more than 800 ** to revolt in Siming Mountain in eastern Zhejiang.
So, did he succeed in this move, and did he later win the understanding of our party?
Difficult to place surrenders**
In April 1949, on the eve of the liberation of Nanjing, Fang Buzhou, deputy chief of the appeasement corps of the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense, announced that he would join the People's Liberation Army with more than 800 people.
At this time, the Kuomintang was relatively strong in the south, and after the uprising, their team could not escape from the layers of round-up, so they could only find the PLA team in Simingshan to seek refuge first, and then obey the organizational arrangement.
In the face of the sudden addition, our army was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to place this group of people.
It stands to reason that this is a good thing, and the ranks of the PLA have grown a little, while the strength of the Kuomintang has been weakened.
For the many ** who have surrendered, our party has always been tolerant, why does the Simingshan local organization feel embarrassed by this inconspicuous team of Fang Buzhou?
The People's Liberation Army in Simingshan convened a high-level meeting to discuss how to resolve the matter.
The commissar spoke first:
"I called everyone over today to find a way to deal with Fang Buzhou and others. How do we deal with Simingshan, do you have any good suggestions? ”
"Since our party is welcoming those who revolt in the Kuomintang army, we cannot open our heads and refuse to admit them. Moreover, the Simingshan troops are small, and our strength can be greatly increased after they join. I think we should give them the trust to do it with us. ”Said one of the captains.
"I don't think I can believe it. Let's think about the person in Fang Buzhou, but he has a criminal record. How badly the original 16th Division was killed by him, aren't you afraid that our people in Siming Mountain will suffer the same experience again? ”
Several people have different opinions, but they all have a point.
Finally, the commissar spoke:
"What everyone said makes sense, no matter what Fang Buzhou did, now they are our comrades, and there can be no internal differences. Considering that he did betray the Order, we need to be on guard and not lose our vigilance. It just so happened that the Kuomintang had a stronghold in Yinxi, and we didn't dare to move before, but now that the team has grown, we will solve it as soon as possible, and we just want to see if Fang Buzhou and others really revolted. ”Fang Buzhou and others knew in their hearts the entanglement of our army, and they originally planned to cooperate with the underground staff to capture Chiang Kai-shek alive before declaring an uprising.
If so, with his tremendous contributions, no one on our side will doubt his determination to revolt.
However, Chiang Kai-shek was very cautious that the military commander's spies were pervasive, and their actions were discovered, which exposed Fang Buzhou and others in advance.
Time was tight, and Fang Buzhou could only take a few hundred people close to him to revolt in Siming Mountain.
There are only so few people under the hands of a ** high-level officer, and the Simingshan troops can't be blamed for being suspicious.
A few days later, our army launched an attack on the Kuomintang garrison in Yinxi, and the result was a smooth liberation of these places.
Because Fang Buzhou and others had outstanding performances in this battle, the people of Siming Mountain were completely relieved.
However, the issue of how to deal with Fang Buzhou has still not been resolved, and they have not been arranged to merge into the Simingshan troops, but only temporarily placed there.
Fang Buzhou's old comrade-in-arms Tan Qilong happened to be in charge of eastern Zhejiang, and for various reasons, he found the chief** and expressed his willingness to take over the other party.
* After thinking about it for a while, considering what Fang Buzhou has done over the years, he finally decided to "make credit for the crime and not blame the past" and did not imprison him.
At the same time, ** spoke, he could not be re-admitted to the party, nor could he be reused.
This means that ** is not fully trusting the Ark. For the sake of organization, no risks can be taken.
For this result, Fang Buzhou himself can accept it and understand the practice of **.
As a traitor, our party did not hold him accountable, and it was very good to him.
Betraying the party and inflicting heavy losses on the 16th division of our party
One day in 1931, Chen Shouchang, secretary of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet District, after lingering outside the room for a long time, took a deep breath, and then knocked on the door with nervousness and apprehension.
**I was on official business, and I heard someone coming and said, "Please come in," while continuing with the work in hand.
Chen Shouchang hesitated for a moment and said:
"Chairman, I want to be with you. ”As soon as he heard this, he stopped working and asked him curiously who he wanted.
When he heard Fang Buzhou's name, the chairman was a little reluctant, after all, this person had been with him for several years.
Fang Buzhou, a native of Hubei, was exposed to communist ideology when he was studying in Wuhan.
In 1927, he passed the assessment of the organization and joined our party, and was one of the early members of the Communist Party.
Because of his vigor, courage to try, and active and courageous combat, he has received the attention and reuse of Mr. Zhu and Mr. Zhu, who have always taken him by his side to build a revolutionary base area.
has been together for a long time, so that *** is used to leaving some things to Fang Buzhou to deal with.
But he is not a stingy person, and in order for Fang Buzhou to have a better development, he agreed to Chen Shouchang's request.
In this way, Fang Buzhou left *** to serve beside Chen Shouchang.
Sure enough, Fang Buzhou did not live up to the expectations of *** and Secretary Chen, and successfully defeated the enemy in several anti-"encirclement and suppression" efforts.
In particular, in the encirclement and suppression campaign of the Hunan army on March 9, 1933, in the face of the enemy army with superiority in armament and quantity, he skillfully set up an ambush and won more with less, not only allowing the troops to break through the encirclement, but also causing the enemy to lose more than 1,600 people and capture a large number of armaments and materials.
In the next few battles, he performed remarkably.
Soon, he was appointed by the organization as the commander of the Red 16th Division, expressing recognition of its combat capabilities.
Fang Buzhou is only 34 years old, and it is obvious that if he continues to believe in communism and fight for the revolution, he will definitely make great achievements in the future.
Who knows, but he betrayed our party.
At the beginning of 1937, after the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident, the matter of cooperation between the two parties was already ironclad.
As a result, many members of our party relaxed their vigilance against the Kuomintang, and Fang Buzhou was one of them.
Although on the surface, the Kuomintang stopped its offensive on the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border region and actively promoted the establishment of the anti-Japanese national united front.
In fact, Chiang Kai-shek and others were still watching the changes in the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet region, and they waited for an opportunity to move, intending to wipe out the Red Army in the south.
In January, as always, he was taking the Red 16th Division to fight guerrillas outside, hoping to expand the forces of the Soviet zone.
The journey was going well, but as soon as they entered Damu Mountain, they ran into the Kuomintang's well-trained and well-equipped new 8th Division.
Obviously, the ** comer was not good, and Fang Buzhou hurriedly ordered to hide and prepare for the enemy.
The 16th Division has few people and is also backward, but it can be compared with the new 8th Division, after the firefight, it was heavy, and nearly half of the soldiers were tragically attacked by the enemy.
The failure of this operation was related to Fang Buzhou's misjudgment of the situation between the enemy and the enemy, so he was criticized and punished by the party organization.
Fu Qiutao of the Provincial Party Committee and others held a meeting on the handling of the Battle of Damu Mountain in Fangbuzhou, and finally came up with the following results:
"Comrade Fang Buzhou misjudged the situation and acted recklessly, resulting in heavy losses for the troops. It is hereby announced that he will be dismissed from his post as commander of the 16th Division and given the punishment of being expelled from the party. ”After Fu Qiutao read out the organization's decision, the audience was silent, and the faces of the people present were heavy, realizing how serious this was.
Fang Buzhou was stunned, unable to believe his ears.
He emotionally argued:
"Provincial Party Committee, I didn't mean to, who would have thought that the Kuomintang gang would go back on their word.Seeing this, his comrades-in-arms, who had a good relationship with him, immediately comforted him and said that as long as he behaved well, he would still have a chance to rejoin the party, and the current situation was only temporary.
To everyone's surprise, Fang Buzhou seemed to be stuck in a dead end.
He knew that because of the recent bipartisan cooperation, there were many people in the army who thought the same way as him.
The organization is seriously handling this matter in the hope of reminding everyone to remain vigilant. He couldn't understand why the organization was "going to cut on itself."
He believed that since he joined the army, his work had been smooth sailing, and he had always been saddle up for the communist cause, but he did not expect to be expelled from the party because of a command error.
He can't accept the results, and besides, who can guarantee that he will not lose the battle for the rest of his life, and he has contributed a lot to the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet Region, can't he make credit for his crimes?
The more Fang Buzhou thought about it, the more angry he became, and he was also unwilling.
He was very angry and felt that the organization's punishment was "too heavy and unfair".
Suddenly, a bold idea popped up in his mind, feeling that since our party "couldn't tolerate" him, there were places willing to accept him.
On March 21, 1937, while everyone was not paying attention, Fang Buzhou quietly walked out of the Soviet area with a gun.
True, he was leaving the units of the Red Army in search of a new platform.
Five days later, he came to the Kuomintang army to surrender.
The Kuomintang was very happy about this, because Fang Buzhou had great use value. As the leading top of the Soviet district, he must have known his position well.
If he can tell where the Red Army is, he can help the Kuomintang to fight our party.
Therefore, the Kuomintang reused him and appointed him as the commander of the Eighth Guerrilla Column in southern Hunan, specifically responsible for "encircling and suppressing" the Red Army.
From then on, he became a sharp blade for the Kuomintang against the Red Army.
The former comrades-in-arms have become today's enemies.
Fang Buzhou showed no mercy to his subordinates, and used the information he had to lead people to ambush the Red 16th Division, almost annihilating the entire army.
In addition, Feng Yuyun, the acting commander of the Red 16th Division, Fang Tianbao, director of the Political Department, and others could not withstand his persuasion and also chose to mutiny.
The forces in the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet region were severely hit by Fang Buzhou's defection and had to lie dormant.
Our party is extremely disgusted with this kind of treacherous behavior, and Fang Buzhou has also become the enemy of our party to gnash its teeth.
This led to the scene at the beginning of the article, where the Simingshan troops were indecisive in dealing with the surrender of Fang Buzhou and others.
Not a completely wicked person.
Our party is not soft on traitors, for example, after Gu Shunzhang betrayed the party, he killed this person at all costs.
In the face of Fang Buzhou, our party and ** and others opened up and did not do so, mainly considering the contributions he had made, and his rebellion was excusable to a certain extent.
At that time, Fang Buzhou left the Red Army, not only because he was dissatisfied with the handling of the organization, but also because his wife was arrested by the Kuomintang.
His wife, who was pregnant with Rokka, accidentally revealed her identity during the transfer of the Soviet zone, was shot in the leg and could not escape, and fell into the hands of the enemy.
After the spy knew her identity, he had a poisonous plan - to use her to blackmail Fang Buzhou.
Immediately afterward, the agents wrote to him, saying that if they did not follow their orders, his wife and children would die.
Fang Buzhou wanted to save his family, but happened to be punished, so he chose to join the enemy in order to rescue his wife.
Secondly, after the attack on the Red 16th Division, Fang Buzhou did not attack the Soviet area again, but devoted himself to organizing the work of resisting Japan.
He went to his hometown in southeastern Hubei and led his subordinates to actively resist the Japanese invaders, and rescued the Chinese people under the guns of the Japanese army many times.
Although he is no longer a member of our party, the teachings of the organization over the years are deeply rooted in his bones.
He loves the people and the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.
He still had feelings for the party in his heart, and during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Kuomintang did not want to participate in the actions of our party, and he spurned their behavior in his heart.
When he learned that the underground workers of our party were captured, Fang Buzhou took advantage of his position to bail the party members many times.
However, his actions have long been in the eyes of people with good intentions in the Kuomintang, and on this ground, reporting him is our party's internal response.
In 1943, Fang Buzhou was imprisoned on charges of "arson". This hurdle is five years, during which the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are fighting in depth.
During this time, Fang Buzhou thought a lot about the first half of his life, from joining the party to betraying the party, and found that his behavior was so impulsive.
During his years in the Kuomintang, he developed a deeper understanding of the corruption and hypocrisy of the party, and had no idea of continuing to work for it.
After some consideration, he no longer engaged in politics, but engaged in some small businesses that benefited the country and the people, and started a coal business in his hometown.
The trees want to be quiet and the wind does not stop, Fang Buzhou did not want to go out of the mountain, but he did not expect that someone would take the initiative to find him in 1948.
This person is the captain of the Kuomintang appeasement corps, his fellow countryman Liu Peichu.
He has always had a good impression of Fang Buzhou, and when the Kuomintang was employing people, he took the initiative to invite the other party to follow him.
After Fang Buzhou's resignation, he agreed to Liu Peichu and joined the appeasement corps.
He did not become a minion of the Kuomintang again, but just wanted to use this opportunity to do a big thing.
The Appeasement Corps was Chiang Kai-shek's personal soldiers, responsible for the security of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang high-level, and had close contact with them. As long as you can control the ministry, it can work wonders.
Therefore, Fang Buzhou quietly contacted the underground comrades of our party in Nanjing, saying that he was sincerely repentant and was willing to cooperate with the organization to make internal responses within the Kuomintang.
Although the attempt to capture Chiang Kai-shek alive ended in failure, the party organization still saw that he did have remorse.
After careful consideration by the organization, combined with what Fang Buzhou has done over the years, it was decided to take a lenient approach to him and no longer pursue his betrayal of the party.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Fang Buzhou was arranged by the people of Nanjing to serve as the deputy director of the local Qinglongshan Forest Farm until he retired.
The work here is idle, and the salary he is given can also support him, so that he can live the rest of his life without worrying about food and clothing.
I don't know if Fang Buzhou regretted his original choice in the forest farm because he didn't stick to the bottom line and chose to betray because he didn't stick to the bottom line?