Looking back at the history of China's modern revolution, the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup d'état in 1927 was undoubtedly a major event that affected China's future development. Our Party began to realize the true face of Chiang Kai-shek's reactionaries, and then launched an armed struggle, which opened up a new history of our country after 22 years of arduous war, so we should first introduce Chiang Kai-shek as a figure.
Chiang Kai-shek initially studied in Japan, where he learned about progressive ideas and anti-Qing figures such as Chen Qimei. After the Xinhai Revolution, there was an uprising in Zhejiang, and then he followed Chen Qimei and participated in the assassination of Tao Chengzhang. After Chen Qimei's death, Chiang Kai-shek lost his backers and could only choose to go south to Guangzhou. When Chen Jiongming rebelled, Chiang Kai-shek learned of Sun Yat-sen's plight and quickly participated in the counterinsurgency operation, which paved a wide road for Chiang Kai-shek to be on the **, and he quickly became Sun Yat-sen's cronies.
After experiencing this, Sun Yat-sen decided that it would be difficult to achieve the victory of the revolution with the support of other warlords, and he set his sights on the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union actively supported Sun Yat-sen's revolution and also helped establish the famous Whampoa Military Academy, and Chiang Kai-shek was appointed as the president, so that Chiang Kai-shek began to gradually approach the center of power, and became a strong support for Chiang Kai-shek to obtain the highest power.
In the course of the revolution, Sun Yat-sen was also well aware of the current situation of the Kuomintang's dispersion, and he hoped to promote the development of the Kuomintang through the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Sun Yat-sen's plan won the support of Liao Zhongkai and others, but it was strongly opposed by the rightists of the Kuomintang. Due to the sudden death of Sun Yat-sen, there was a constant struggle within the Kuomintang for supreme power. The subsequent assassination of Liao Zhongkai changed the political map of the KMT.
Now many sources do not show that Chiang Kai-shek was the mastermind behind the scenes, but he became the biggest beneficiary of this incident. Hu Hanmin and Liao Zhongkai disagreed, Liao still made him the biggest suspect, and Hu Hanmin's younger brother also publicly stated that he wanted to get rid of Liao Zhongkai, which increased Hu Hanmin's suspicion of assassinating Liao. Subsequently, the investigation found that the assassination was carried out by Xu Chongzhi's subordinates, and in this case, Hu Hanmin and Xu Chongzhi had to go abroad to avoid danger in order to protect themselves.
As a result, Wang Ching-wei became the supreme leader of the Kuomintang, and Chiang Kai-shek further expanded his influence in the army. At the subsequent Second National Congress of the Kuomintang, he was elected to many important positions. In the Northern Expedition, he served as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition, and with the imminent fall of the Beiyang warlords, more capitalists realized the importance of supporting Chiang Kai-shek as their spokesman, and they provided a lot of support to Chiang Kai-shek. The Western powers also actively supported Chiang Kai-shek. He was able to brazenly launch the "April 12 Counter-Revolutionary Coup" and turn the beautiful Shanghai into a bloody field. Chiang Kai-shek then married Soong Meiling, which not only increased his legitimacy to inherit Sun Yat-sen's cause, but also allowed him to continue to gain the support of the United States and other Western powers.
In the early days of the founding of the Communist Party of China, Chen Duxiu and others focused their work on developing the labor force, and achieved great success, but they were also suppressed by warlords such as Wu Peifu and suffered heavy losses. At this time, the Comintern believed that only by promoting the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party could the development of the revolutionary cause be better promoted, because Sun Yat-sen's ideas of the Three People's Principles and the ideas of the Party had something in common.
The development of the Communist Party aroused strong dissatisfaction from the right wing of the Kuomintang, and after the death of Sun Yat-sen, the contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party continued to increase, and because there was a considerable gap between our party and the Kuomintang in its infancy, the Kuomintang launched the action of "splitting the Communist Party" and caused huge losses to the revolutionary forces. The number of party members plummeted to 10,000.
However, our party was able to sum up lessons and lessons in a timely manner and soberly understand the importance of armed struggle at the 87 th meeting. Starting from the three major uprisings, the importance of opening up rural base areas was explored, and a new course of the Chinese revolution began. In contrast, Chiang Kai-shek, after gaining supreme power in the Kuomintang, was unable to change the situation of division within the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang's infighting was also an important reason for their defeat.
It can be seen from this that the counter-revolutionary coup d'état of April 12 is a great setback for our party's cause, and it has also opened up a new course of the Chinese revolution!