The Sichuan army lied about killing the Red Army general, and Chiang scolded angrily when he learned his name
Chairman of the committee, Tian Songyao is on the Sichuan-Shaanxi side'Banditry'Good news came during the operation, it is said that a general of the Red Army was also killed! " "Oh? This Tian Songyao's combat ability is really not to be underestimated!
I'd like to see which general he killed! "Although Chiang Kai-shek's face immediately overflowed with a smile when he heard the news, his face gradually became gloomy when the secretary handed him the telegram.
The secretary was about to ask, when suddenly, Chiang Kai-shek was furious, slammed the document on the table, and then began to curse loudly. The secretary felt that the atmosphere was not right, and immediately stepped forward to pick up the documents and examine them carefully, and when he saw the name of the Red Army general, he suddenly realized why Chiang Kai-shek was so angry.
Tian Songyao was convinced that he would be rewarded by Chiang Kai-shek, but his self-righteousness put him in a desperate situation. So, who was this Red Army general who made Chiang Kai-shek furious?
What did Tian Songyao do and what kind of punishment will he suffer? It all starts with Tian Songyao's background. Tian Songyao was born in the 14th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (June 19, 1888) in a merchant family in Longquanyi, Jianzhou.
His father ran a Chinese medicine shop, and the family was relatively wealthy. With such a family background, Tian Songyao has lived a carefree life since he was a child, while the children of those poor families are still working hard for a living, and even have to go to the landlord's house to work.
Tian Songyao can study in a private school with peace of mind and receive a good education.
Although Tian Songyao was born in a wealthy family, he deeply felt the pain brought by the feudal and corrupt Qing ** to the vast number of toiling people. He firmly believed that the feudal dynasty must be overthrown in order to achieve fairness and justice.
However, Tian Songyao took a path of losing himself, going farther and farther, and deviating from his original intention. However, he firmly believed that through unremitting efforts, he was admitted to the Baoding Army University and joined the League to participate in the anti-Qing movement.
After graduating, he returned to his hometown of Sichuan, where he played an active role under the leadership of Liu Cunhou and gradually established his own power. In 1915, Yuan Shikai ignored popular opposition to the restoration of the imperial system, which aroused the dissatisfaction of many warlords.
Tian Songyao chose to join the ranks of the "anti-Yuan protector" and fought to defend the democratic republic.
From this moment on, Tian Songyao began his career to flourish. Beiyang ** named him an army general, and Nanjing** Chiang Kai-shek appointed him as the commander of the 29th Army of the National Revolutionary Army.
However, Tian Songyao gradually lost himself in the defense area of northern Sichuan. In addition to fighting with the warlords every day, he looted the people's fat and ointment, making the local people miserable.
Tian Songyao's defense area has jurisdiction over 26 counties, and in order to strengthen the team, he squeezed the people, from the beginning of the two-year tax collection in advance, step by step to increase the tax collection for 50 years in advance, completely contrary to his original intention.
The people hated opium, but Tian Songyao used opium to squeeze the people's hard-earned money. He bought opium seeds and forced them to grow them, and introduced a number of tax policies.
Tian Songyao once had great ambitions, but he lost himself in the face of power and wealth. His actions caused the people to suffer deeply, and also made him deviate from his original intention.
For his own selfish interests, Tian Songyao levied harsh taxes on the people, soldiers and smokers through various means, and this unfair behavior caused the people to boil over and call him "Tian Donggua" behind his back.
Although he has gained unprecedented power by squeezing the people, military and financial resources, his actions have long since lost the support of the people, and if it were not for the troops under his command, the people would have risen up long ago.
Although Tian Songyao ranked second or third among the Sichuan warlords and was known as one of the "Big Four" of the Sichuan Defense Era, his actions earned him a notorious reputation.
The "Battle of Erliu" that broke out in Sichuan in 1932 can be called the pinnacle of warlord melee. There are eight major warlords entrenched in Sichuan, and there is constant friction on weekdays, and finally at this moment, it is about to break out.
Although this year-long war satisfied the selfish desires of the warlords, it also made them realize that only by uniting could they resist the attack of the Red Army. At this time, the domestic situation was tense, and Chiang Kai-shek personally took command and gathered more than 300,000 troops to prepare for the fourth "encirclement and suppression" operation.
Under the leadership of the Red Fourth Front Army, it advanced from southern Shaanxi to northern Sichuan, which coincided with the warlord melee and provided a good opportunity for development. In addition, the contradictions between the Sichuan army and Chiang Kai-shek made it impossible to deploy the main force to Sichuan, and ** seized the opportunity to quickly establish a base in the Sichuan-Shaanxi region, and gradually grew stronger.
This growth panicked Chiang Kai-shek, but since he could not directly control the Sichuan warlords, he could only reach a cooperation agreement with them to jointly "suppress the bandits". On January 27, 1932, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Tian Songyao as the supervisor of the "suppression of bandits" in the Sichuan-Shaanxi border and began to attack the base area of the Red Fourth Front Army led by ***.
Tian Songyao received the letter of appointment, but his heart was full of dissatisfaction and anger, he slammed the letter of appointment on the table, and scolded in his mouth: "Let me be cannon fodder, play with me like a three-year-old child?" ”
His adjutant persuaded him: "This is a good thing, while the Red Army is not firmly on the ground, drive it out, and our defense area will soon be expanded." Tian Songyao sneered: "Do you think the Red Army eats dry rice?
Because of their difficult conditions, they will work so hard. Look at the brothers under him, which one of them did not fight for the sake of military pay? Even if there are many of us, we may not be able to overcome them! ”
After hearing this, the adjutant understood what Tian Songyao meant, and asked, "Then what should we do?" Is it just a bluff? ”
After careful consideration, Tian Songyao resolutely said: "We must fight!" The expansion of the Red Army in northern Sichuan is a threat to us, and we need to eliminate this hidden danger as soon as possible! ”
Tian Songyao, who was known as the "victorious general", immediately appointed Sun Zhen, deputy army commander, as the commander-in-chief of the front, and quickly mobilized about 60,000 people from 38 regiments of the Sichuan Army to launch a three-way column encirclement of the Red Fourth Front Army, in an attempt to besiege and annihilate the Red Fourth Front Army.
After learning of this situation, the commander of the Red Fourth Front Army conducted many deductions and studies, and finally decided to abandon the frontal confrontation and adopt the tactics of "shrinking the position and luring the enemy into depth" to deal with it.
After learning about the situation of the Red Army, Tian Songyao also came up with a strategy, at that time, the Red Army's equipment was backward, and most of it was captured.
Tian Songyao saw an Achilles' heel of the Red Army, and he ordered the troops to destroy the guns in their hands in a desperate situation so as not to be used by the Red Army. On March 18, Tian Songyao ordered an attack, and the three columns launched an offensive at the same time, although the front has been advancing, but the price was extremely heavy, and finally 8,000 people were exchanged for the occupation of the two cities of Bazhong and Nanjiang.
However, the morale of Tian Songyao's soldiers was low, and most of them became soldiers because they were desperate, and they did not want to go to war. What's more, after fighting with the Red Army, they saw the heroism and perseverance of the Red Army soldiers, and were deeply shocked.
When Tian Songyao received the news, he was a little carried away with excitement and didn't realize the pitfall. He said contemptuously: "Everyone has always said that the Red Army is very strong, and I think it is nothing more than that!" ”
The adjutant was concerned about this, reminding him: "Although we have occupied the cities of Bazhong and Nanjiang, the fighting situation is very fierce, the soldiers have lost their fighting spirit, and it may be more difficult to continue fighting." ”
Tian Songyao replied: "It's nothing to lose some soldiers, how can there be immortals in war." But these two cities are the capital for us to show our merits, and if we can win this battle, the chairman will definitely give us more ** equipment. ”
Tian Songyao's words are indeed very reasonable. At the beginning, Chiang Kai-shek was not optimistic about Tian Songyao, after all, even his own ** army had suffered a lot, and he just hoped that Tian Songyao could consume the combat effectiveness of the Red Fourth Front Army.
Chiang Kai-shek had a bad impression of Tian Songyao, who had openly opposed his establishment of power in Nanjing, which made Chiang Kai-shek always have a grudge against Tian Songyao. Therefore, letting Tian Songyao deal with the Red Fourth Front Army was a matter of killing two birds with one stone for Chiang Kai-shek, and he could sit back and enjoy the success, or he could use it to make trouble and ask for guilt.
However, when the good news came, Chiang Kai-shek hesitated, because since the first "encirclement and suppression", almost repeated defeats, and the morale of the army was low, this victory must be well publicized, and Tian Songyao was commended.
Tian Songyao tasted the sweetness, and gradually got a little carried away, and while asking Chiang Kai-shek for merit and reward, he ordered his soldiers to loot the property of the people, and called it "supporting the suppression of bandits."
When the Red Army withdrew, the people of both places fell back into the oppression of the warlords, and their expectations and hopes once again turned to disappointment and bitterness. After more than a month of rest, Tian Songyao's men had recovered from the previous defeat and launched another siege on the Red Army, intent on restricting the Red Army's range of activities.
However, the Red Army did not change their tactics because of this, they still took advantage of the favorable terrain to strike at the enemy, and if they encountered a strong attack, they would choose to retreat, lure the enemy deeper, and create the illusion that the Red Army was not fighting enough, so as to confuse the enemy.
Tian Songyao received a series of good news, and in the joy of repeated victories, he gradually became conceited, forgetting the knowledge and tactics he had learned in the military academy, and failing to see through the traps carefully designed by the Red Army.
On April 29, Tian Songyao received a telegram from the front line, learning that Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 4th Division of the 29th Army of the Left Column, had captured the city again, and also put forward a unique opinion.
After Wang Mingzhang captured Tongjiang City, he learned that the streets in the city were named after the deceased generals by the Red Army, and there was a famous street called "Yun Daiying Street".
He had an epiphany about the reason why the Red Army's combat effectiveness was so tenacious, so he reported the matter to Tian Songyao, and suggested that the Red Army should follow the example of changing the name of the street every time he captured a city, and whoever could show the most heroic side would have a chance to be selected.
Although Tian Songyao was not very interested in changing his name, he showed a strong interest in the name "Yun Daiying".
Tian Songyao had tried to write Chiang Kai-shek a report that would show off his success, and Wang Mingzhang's suggestion made him think of writing the names of the Red Army generals he had killed. He thought this would satisfy Chiang Kai-shek, but it backfired.
Chiang Kai-shek was very happy at first after receiving the good news, but when he saw that the Red Army general who was killed was "Yun Daiying", his face instantly became serious. He immediately put pen to paper for approval.
Tian Songyao was full of expectations for Chairman Chiang's praise, but when he received the telegram, he was surprised to find that he did not mention anything about the commendation, but asked for details about Yun Daiying.
Tian Songyao originally wanted to take credit in this way, but he didn't know anything about the soldier who killed Yun Daiying, so he had to order his subordinates to find out the truth.
Tian Songyao's subordinates are mostly veterans of the battlefield, and when they heard about the above investigation, they immediately sensed that something was wrong and thought that it might not be a good thing. Tian Songyao's subordinates didn't even dare to risk leading the army's salary.
This made Tian Songyao very anxious, because the investigation had been inconclusive, and Chiang Kai-shek had been asking for details. Eventually, Tian Songyao realized that he could not hide the truth and reported the truth to Chiang Kai-shek.
After Chiang Kai-shek learned the truth, although he was very angry in his heart, considering the tension of the war ahead and the need for Tian Songyao's assistance, he could only endure it temporarily. After Tian Songyao learned of the seriousness of the matter, he ordered his subordinates to investigate Yun Daiying's background in detail.
After learning the truth, he was deeply frightened and wanted to make meritorious contributions.
Yun Daiying's wisdom and courage are amazing. Although Chiang Kai-shek had personally ordered him to be killed, Yun Daiying came back from the dead and continued to fight for the communist cause. He was an important figure in the early Communist Party, and also served as a political chief instructor at the Whampoa Military Academy, and had great influence.
On May 6, 1930, when he was carrying out underground work in Shanghai, he strayed into the search cordon of the British patrol due to high myopia. But instead of panicking, he wittily threw the leaflets aside and deliberately clashed with the patrol, injuring himself in the face and making it impossible for the enemy to distinguish the portrait.
After Yun Daiying**, although he was sentenced to 5 years in prison, he still stood by his beliefs. While in prison, he always preached the party's ideology and actively carried out various underground activities.
His **aroused great attention**, and the chief decided to rescue him at all costs. As a result, Zhai Qiubai and others, who led the underground work in Shanghai, began to use various connections to try their best to rescue him.
Originally, it was arranged to rescue Yun Daiying, who was imprisoned, but Gu Shunzhang suddenly betrayed and defected to the enemy, and in order to curry favor with Chiang Kai-shek, he leaked the news of Yun Daiying**.
When Chiang Kai-shek learned of this, he immediately sent someone for interrogation and promised that "if he is converted, he will be reused." However, he underestimated the firm convictions of the Communists. Under coercion and temptation, Yun Daiying always adhered to his beliefs and refused to give in to the enemy.
On April 29, 1931, Chiang Kai-shek personally signed an execution warrant and immediately executed Yun Daiying. Normally, an important figure like Yun Daiying would be sent to Yuhuatai for trial, but Chiang Kai-shek, fearing that this would have a greater repercussion, ordered it to be executed on the spot.
Although the place of execution could not change Yun Daiying's firm will, before his execution, he sang the Internationale and made an impassioned speech, which moved the executioners who carried out the execution.
When the order to execute was given by the person in charge, even the executioner hesitated whether to pull the trigger or not. However, even so, Yun Daiying's heroic deeds did not change his fate, and he died heroically at the age of 36.
Years later, whenever Chiang Kai-shek remembered Yun Daiying's name, he would feel headaches and fear. After learning the ins and outs of this incident, Tian Songyao was anxious because of the catastrophe and tried to make meritorious contributions to save his image in Chiang Kai-shek's heart, but he fell into the trap of the Red Fourth Front Army.
Tian Songyao ordered all his troops to launch a general attack, expecting to receive good news from the front line soon, but after receiving the battle report, he immediately felt disappointed and desperate.
The Red Fourth Army suddenly made an astonishing counterattack in the midst of its successive defeats and retreats, and the counterattack was fierce like a tide. The three cities that had been recovered were lost in an instant, 6000 Red Army troops were captured, and their morale was greatly reduced.
Far from annihilating the Red Fourth Front Army, Tian Songyao's carefully planned three-way encirclement allowed it to take the opportunity to double its base area. Chiang Kai-shek was furious when he heard the news, and immediately removed Tian Songyao from his post and replaced him by Sun Zhen, the deputy commander of the army.
Tian Songyao not only lost his position, but also the troops that he had worked hard for many years were also reorganized, and he eventually became a loner.
After experiencing this battle, Tian Songyao was disheartened and moved to Chengdu with his family, away from the world, until after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek remembered this man who had called for wind and rain in northern Sichuan, and provided him with a position as a general and senator.
At this time, the people were preparing to implement constitutional government, Tian Songyao saw an opportunity to turn over, and he began to secretly contact the old ministry and established the "22 Comrades Association for the Protection of the Country" as the basis for his election as a legislator.
At the same time, he spent a lot of time and effort trying to build connections, and in just a short period of time he got more than 400,000 votes.
Tian Songyao secretly rejoiced in his heart, thinking that the matter was a foregone conclusion. However, a notice from Sichuan Provincial Chairman Zhang Qun shattered his illusions. Legislators who are not nominated by the National*** will be deemed invalid.
This news made Tian Songyao's mood fall from the top of the mountain to the bottom, and he once again chose to retire and stay away from the world. During his retirement, he found a new purpose and devoted himself to education, donating books to schools and libraries.
Tian Songyao originally devoted himself to the revolution with enthusiasm, but unfortunately became a warlord who oppressed the people. However, the frustration of officialdom allowed him to return to his original intention and no longer participate in disputes.
This also saved him from disaster after liberation.