One day in April 1927, at the headquarters of the 1st Division of the Kuomintang, the generals had a fierce dispute over one matter.
I mean to put *** summarily executed! The deputy division commander said.
It's not suitable, I'll talk about it after consulting Senior Xue. Said the chief of staff.
In extraordinary times, there is no need to ask for instructions, first cut and then play. Said the deputy director of the Political Department.
When the generals were fighting for each other, an officer was silent and quietly walked out, he was going to rescue ***
He is the director of the Political Department of the First Division, and he was born in the first phase of Huangpu. At this time, he was only 24 years old, and being able to hold such an important position shows Chiang Kai-shek's trust in him.
The reason why he wants to rescue *** is simply because he cherishes his talent.
His method of rescue was to ask *** to write a statement of leaving the party, fool around, and then release him.
But when he quietly came to the entrance of the 7th Regiment Department where he was detaining, he saw an astonishing scene: the commander of the 1st Regiment was mixing among the soldiers with *** in a Kuomintang uniform, intending to leave.
In April 1927, in Shanghai, dark clouds were pressing down on the city, mountains and rains were coming, and the demons were ready to move.
On March 26, Chiang Kai-shek came here and held secret talks with the Qing gang boss ** Rong, Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin, and decided to establish the "China Communist Advancement Association" with only one purpose, to raise a butcher's knife against the Shanghai workers and Communists.
Before leaving, Chiang Kai-shek left 500,000 yuan and said to the three gangsters: "Do a good job, the country is ours!" ”
At that time, the Northern Expedition was underway, so why did Chiang Kai-shek attack the workers and communists in Shanghai?
On March 21, with the National Revolutionary Army approaching Shanghai, the secretary of the Communist Party of China's **Military Commission*** launched the third workers' armed uprising in Shanghai that shocked the whole country.
Why did it shock the whole country? Because of the magnitude of the uprising, as many as 800,000 workers participated in the strike, and more than 10,000 workers took part in the fighting. After only 28 hours of bloody fighting, the rebels occupied the entire area of Shanghai except for the concession.
The power of the Communists is too great, let it develop, is this worth it? Chiang Kai-shek was frightened and said worriedly to Bai Chongxi, the former commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and Xue Yue, the commander of the First Division.
Bai Chongxi comprehended, patted his chest and said, "Commander-in-chief, rest assured, the mountain people have their own clever plans. ”
The clever plan that Bai Chongxi said was actually a poisonous plan - a preemptive strike.
On the evening of April 11, 1927, Wang Shouhua, the commander of the Shanghai workers' uprising, received an invitation. The one who sent out the invitation was the green gang boss Du Yuesheng. It reads: "Mr. Wang, please come to the house as a guest, brothers have important matters to discuss." ”
can't go, Du Yuesheng and the Shanghai workers are not all the way, this is a Hongmen banquet. Luo Yinong, secretary of the district party committee, persuaded him.
It's not the first time I've dealt with the Qinghong gang hooligans, and they don't dare to do anything to me. Wang Shouhua said contemptuously, "Besides, a good relationship with the Green Gang is conducive to the overall situation of the Northern Expedition, and for the interests of the party and the working class, even if it is a tiger's den in Longtan, I will break through." ”
If you really want to go, bring a platoon over, just in case. Gu Shunzhang, who was the captain of the workers' picket team at the time, said on the side.
That would be insincere, unnecessary, and the sky would not fall. Wang Shouhua said confidently. After speaking, Wang Shouhua put on a suit, got into a rickshaw, and went straight to Du Yuesheng's residence.
I didn't expect to go this time and never come back.
It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek and Bai Chongxi had already secretly ordered Du Yuesheng to get rid of Wang Shouhua. As soon as Wang Shouhua arrived in Dufu, the Qinggang thugs rushed up and knocked him unconscious. After a burst of punches and kicks, Wang Shouhua had passed out.
Seeing this scene, Du Yuesheng hurriedly got up and stopped: "Little ones, stop me; If you beat him to death here and spread the word, who will come to my house as a guest? ”
As soon as these words came out, the thugs immediately understood, and they stuffed Wang Shouhua into a sack, loaded him into a car in the hospital, and then drove away and buried him alive at Fenglin Bridge in western Shanghai.
26-year-old Wang Shouhua dedicated his life to the revolution.
This is just the beginning, and the bigger conspiracy is yet to come.
At the same time that Wang Shouhua received the invitation, ** also received an invitation with murderous intentions. The invitation was sent by Si Lie, commander of the Second Division of the 26th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, inviting him and Gu Shunzhang to go to the headquarters of the Second Division at the Catholic Church on Baoshan Road to discuss important matters.
After reading the invitation, everyone's opinion is the same, that is, there is no good banquet, and you must not go. But *** has the same idea as Wang Shouhua, that is, for the sake of the overall situation of the revolution, he still has to go to the meeting alone.
** and Wang Shouhua, the two heads of the Shanghai picket team, went to the banquet at the same time, ** Rong and Du Yuesheng did it.
In the early morning of April 12, a signal flag was suddenly raised on the ** moored in Gaochang Temple in Shanghai. This was agreed in advance, and the signal of the Green Gang to the workers in Shanghai was to do so.
As soon as the signal flag was raised, hundreds of Qinghong gang thugs and spies quietly dispatched with long and short guns. At the moment, the workers' pickets scattered in the districts were still asleep, and they were at a loss for what to do after being attacked unsuspectingly. In addition, the main leaders were not present, and everyone was leaderless and chaotic.
Zhou Fengqi, commander of the 26th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army (formerly Sun Chuanfang's 3rd Division of the Zhejiang Army) stationed in Shanghai, disarmed the workers' pickets in the name of mediating the workers' conflict, and the workers' pickets disintegrated.
In the next three days, the Kuomintang reactionaries set off a bloody storm in Shanghai, and more than 300 people were killed, more than 500 people were killed, and more than 5,000 people were missing.
After the attack of the Green Gang began, Si Lie, who was pushing and changing glasses with *** and talking and laughing, suddenly dropped the wine glass and said, "Mr. Zhou, my brother is offended!" ”
** Standing up with a slap on the table, he stood upside down, angrily rushed to the crown, and angrily reprimanded: "General Si Lie, I respect your brother's character, so I came here to talk with you from the bottom of my heart, I didn't expect you to be so despicable!" ”
** The "brothers" refer to the elder brother Silie and the younger brother Sili.
Si Li was Chiang Kai-shek's Zhejiang hometown and was highly regarded as the head of the guard regiment of the General Headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army at that time.
He is a third-term student of Whampoa, and he has great respect for ***, and the relationship between the two is very good. Because of this, ** dared to come to the banquet.
Si Li is a righteous young man, and he is very disdainful of such indiscriminate behavior as setting up the "Hongmen Banquet", and he did not know about his brother's conspiracy in advance. Seeing that his brother was taking advantage of him, he was very dissatisfied. Now, seeing his brother giving the order, Si Li shouted and said: "Whoever dares to touch Mr. Zhou's hair, Lao Tzu will kill him!" ”
In this way, Si Lie was embarrassed, and hurriedly said to *** with a smile: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, Mr. Zhou, please calm your anger." ”
Besides, when he went to the banquet, Luo Yinong, another person in charge of the Shanghai workers' picket, waited left and right, and did not see him come back, so he felt that something was wrong.
Knowing that *** was detained, he was anxious, and immediately ordered Huang Junfeng, a worker picket, to contact Zhao Shu, a party representative of the 26th Route Army of the Kuomintang Army, to actively rescue him.
Zhao Shu is also a native of Zhejiang, participated in the Xinhai Revolution, and is a veteran of the Kuomintang. He was a leftist who supported the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and was progressive in his thinking.
Knowing that Si Lie was detaining ***, he hurried to the headquarters of the Second Division, and in the name of the party representatives and elders of the 26th Army, he fiercely reprimanded Si Lie for being "too disagreeable".
Si Lie was speechless, and with the factor of his younger brother, he released ***
This is the end of the matter, ** turn danger into relief, there is no danger. Well, how did he later get detained by the 1st Division?
It turned out that after escaping from danger, he learned that the pickets had suffered a heavy blow and had lost their combat effectiveness, so he had to take a boat on the Huangpu River and prepare to take refuge in the Pudong slum area for a while, and act at the opportunity.
Because Shanghai was already in a state of white terror at that time, the whole city was searching for revolutionaries. ** Came to the ghetto, spent a sleepless night, the revolution suffered heavy losses, how could he sleep?
He thought that when the wind was not tight, he would leave Shanghai to regroup and fight back against Chiang Kai-shek. However, as soon as it was dawn the next day, several wolf-like soldiers rushed in. After a few cross-examinations, they saw the flaws.
** Personable, Yushu in the wind, not at all like a person in the slums. In this way, ** was captured by several soldiers of the 26th Regiment of the 1st Division of the 7th Army and sent to the regimental headquarters.
Report to the head of the regiment, we caught a suspect. ”
Bao Jingzhong, the commander of the 7th Regiment, was in the office, and after hearing this, he naturally raised his head and examined the "key criminals". It didn't matter, he was taken aback. It turned out that Bao Jingzhong was a fourth-term student of Huangpu and was a classmate of **. He was very impressed and full of respect for the then director of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy.
Seeing his mentor**, he struggled to control his emotions, waved to the soldiers, told them all to go out, and then closed the door.
Only then did Bao Jingzhong get up and give up his seat and said, "Director Zhou, you have been wronged." ”
Are you also a Whampoa student? * asked in surprise, after all, there were so many students, he couldn't recognize them all.
Whampoa Phase IV. Bao Jingzhong said, "How did you ......."”
** said seriously: "They did it and undermined the overall situation of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party." ”
Bao Jingzhong was also angry when he heard this, he was also in favor of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and naturally he was unwilling to detain *** Bao Jingzhong called the guards and said, "Take off your military uniform." ”
Commander, what are you? The guard looked blindfolded.
Put it on for this gentleman. Bao Jingzhong said in a hurried tone.
Soon, ** put on the military uniform. Bao Jingzhong planned to let *** blend in with the soldiers of the 7th Regiment, and then leave Pudong with him.
At this time, the news of **'s arrest had already reached the headquarters of the 1st Division. Because the 7th Regiment also had Whampoa students, they had already recognized *** and made a report to the division headquarters.
This led to the scene at the beginning of the article, some of the generals advocated summarious execution, and some said that Xue Yue, who was sick and hospitalized, should be consulted to make a decision.
The then director of the Political Department of the First Division, who was not unconcerned, did not speak, but he was not unconcerned about the matter.
He respects the character of *** and is conquered by his personality charm, such a wealthy and talented person is a pillar of the country, and he must not be killed by this gang.
Therefore, he quietly got up, pretended to go to the toilet and left the division headquarters.
After walking out of the division headquarters, he immediately called the driver and said: "Quick, to the regimental headquarters of the 7th regiment!" ”
He didn't plan to release *** directly at that time, because everyone knew that he needed to risk his life to do so, and he didn't have that consciousness yet.
What he means is to persuade *** to compromise and make a statement of "breaking away from the CCP", so as to fool the past and talk about it. Who knows, as soon as he arrived at the entrance of the seventh regiment, he bumped into a column head-on.
There are two faces in the team who are very familiar, one is Bao Jingzhong, the commander of the 7th regiment, and the other is the *** he is looking for
Bao Jing's center said that it was not good, but the boss saw it, what should I do? You can't shoot at it. Thinking like this, a cold sweat broke out on his spine, and his heart beat wildly.
Thinking about it, Bao Jingzhong is also a Huangpu student, and at this moment, walking side by side with ***, he immediately understood everything. He decided to pretend to be confused and leave quickly.
Director, what are your instructions? Bao Jingzhong pretended to be calm and saluted.
It's okay, I'm just passing through. After saying that, he politely shook hands with the other party, then got into the car and walked away.
Due to the search and arrest in the whole city, there were sentry posts everywhere, and Bao Jingzhong sent *** Deng Yingchao to the Licha Hotel (Pujiang Hotel).
Since the hotel was occupied by celebrities from various countries, or rich people and politicians, the Kuomintang authorities naturally did not dare to come to the door to search for them, so they were safe and worry-free.
In late May 1927, ** left Shanghai and came to Wuhan to preside over **'s military work. For this experience, ** never forget, and has been thinking about the life-saving benefactor Bao Jingzhong.
In June 1950, when he went to Nanjing to inspect the work, he also entrusted the then mayor of Nanjing and Zhang Linzhi, the deputy mayor, to help him investigate Bao Jingzhong's whereabouts.
Why ask in Nanjing?
It turned out that during the Anti-Japanese War, Bao Jingzhong was wounded on the battlefield, and then resigned from the military and settled in Nanjing after the defeat of Japan.
In 1956, when Sukarno of Indonesia visited China and accompanied him to visit Nanjing, Mayor Peng Chong told him: "General Bao Jing has found it." ”
**Very happy, but the state affairs are in the body, and I can't go. After arriving in Beijing, he wrote a letter of greetings and invited the other party to Beijing as a guest.
In 1957, ** came to Nanjing again, this time he made a special trip to Bao Jingzhong's house to visit and express his gratitude.
Before leaving, ** specially told Peng Chong, the mayor of Nanjing, who accompanied him, to take care of Bao Jingzhong's daily life. In the 60s, ** greeted Xu Shiyou, commander of the Nanjing Military Region, and asked him to protect Bao Jingzhong.