One day in March 1949, Nie Rongzhen, who was eating, saw Premier Zhou Enlai hurrying to come, did not know what was happening, but asked him to transfer an army to Xiangshan to carry out the mission, saw Premier Zhou's nervous look, and did not even walk in the door of the house, Nie Rongzhen knew that this was not an ordinary thing, and immediately sent a team of troops to Xiangshan to carry out the mission.
It turned out that although Xiangshan at that time was the seat of a "labor university" to the outside world, it was actually the residence of the Party Central Committee after it was stationed in Beipingcheng, and Chairman Mao lived in the Shuangqing Villa in Xiangshan at that time.
There is news that armed forces are approaching Xiangshan, and their approach threatens the security of the central leadership and must be stopped immediately. So where did this army come from, and why did they rush to Xiangshan? Let's take a look at it today.
After the Party Central Committee entered Peiping City, beijing lived in Xiangshan, but because it was only just liberated at that time, the domestic secret agents and other reactionary forces were not completely eliminated, and in order to protect the safety of the central personnel, it only claimed to be a "labor university" to the outside world.
Chairman Mao was living in the Shuangqing Villa in Xiangshan at that time, and the guards were responsible for the 207th Division and some soldiers of the Central Guard Regiment.
A few days after Chairman Mao arrived at Xiangshan, the people of the guard regiment received news that a platoon of troops had gone in the direction of Chairman Mao's Shuangqing Villa, and the instructor of the guard regiment immediately put down the matter in his hand and rushed to the guard point on the hill with the people, came to the guard point, and saw that Hao Chuanpu, the company commander of the guard regiment, had blocked several scattered soldiers there to inquire.
The instructors found that the gap between the strength of the two sides was a little large, and feared that something was wrong, so they ordered them to be tied up and interrogated, and after interrogation, they probably already knew that these scattered soldiers did not know that Chairman Mao was in Xiangshan at that time, but just wanted to go home to a few scattered soldiers. Because during the body search, only gold bars and silver dollars were found on their bodies, and they did not carry guns.
Originally, it was thought that it was just a few people who had broken into the forbidden area because they did not know, but they did not expect that in the afternoon, they learned that the two battalions of the guard regiment that were left to protect Fu Zuoyi had rushed in the direction of Xiangshan. This news suddenly made Xiangshan nervous.
To understand this unit, we must start with Fu Zuoyi.
Fu Zuoyi, known as the "General of the Cloth", spent his life in simplicity and frugality, and his life was a legendary life, an extraordinary life. He participated in the Xinhai Revolution, the Northern Expedition, and the Central Plains War.
During the period of victory against Japan, he called on the people of the whole country to unite and jointly resist Japan. They also actively learned from each other from the Communists, learned from each other's combat experience, and enriched the anti-Japanese forces through their own efforts.
And his greatest contribution was to promote the peaceful liberation of Peiping.
In November 1948, Peng Zexiang, who had been the secretary of the Central Organization Committee, was entrusted by the first mayor of Peiping to go from Hong Kong to Beiping to do Fu Zuoyi's work, hoping to strive for the peaceful liberation of Peiping.
After Peng Zexiang arrived in Beiping, he immediately conveyed the central authorities' willingness to approve peaceful liberation to Fu Zuoyi, and through Fu Zuoyi's eldest daughter, Fu Dongju, an underground Communist Party member, did his work and launched a campaign on the peaceful liberation of Peiping, and finally won the interview between Fu Zuoyi's representatives and the CPC Central Committee.
With the active efforts of the Communist Party of China and the cooperation of all quarters, Fu Zuoyi finally made up his mind to liberate Peiping peacefully. Since the siege of Peiping, in addition to the active struggle of the Communists, Chiang Kai-shek's side has also used various means to make Fu Zuoyi carry out a breakthrough at all costs with his subordinates.
When Chiang Kai-shek felt that Fu Zuoyi might choose peaceful liberation, Chiang Kai-shek made a final effort in his letter to Fu Zuoyi, saying that "a thousand armies are easy to obtain, but one will be difficult to find", hoping that Fu Zuoyi would be able to break through, but in the end he was pushed away by Fu Zuoyi as "sticking to Beiping".
It was not until January 22, 1949, that Fu Zuoyi began to evacuate Peiping in accordance with the peace agreement, and moved 200,000 Kuomintang troops out of the city to a designated location for peaceful reorganization. On January 31, the people's liberation army of Chinese held an official ceremony to enter the city, and Peiping was peacefully liberated.
After the peaceful liberation of Peiping, Fu Zuoyi left a regiment of troops to protect himself in order to protect himself from Chiang Kai-shek's persecution, and the CPC Central Committee agreed to this request, and Fu Zuoyi made a huge contribution to the peaceful liberation of Peiping, but for Chiang Kai-shek, he hated him to the bone, so someone should protect his safety.
The guard regiment changed into the clothes of the People's Liberation Army, but he completely obeyed Fu Zuoyi's arrangement, and when he learned that the two battalions of Fu Zuoyi's guard regiment ran toward Xiangshan, Tang Yongjian, director of the training department of Nie Rongzhen's platoon 204th Division, led a regiment of people to protect Chairman Mao.
Tang Yongjian arrived at the camp of the guard regiment, only one battalion was still in the barracks, as usual, there was no abnormality, but the soldiers of the other two battalions ran towards Xiangshan.
When they understood the basic situation of this battalion, they knew what was going on, and it turned out that among the three battalions that remained, the battalion commanders of the other two battalions were originally Kuomintang agents, and after they found out that the station of the CPC Central Committee was in Xiangshan, these two battalion commanders constantly instigated the profitable fighters, thinking that this was a great opportunity to make meritorious contributions, so they came here to attack Xiangshan.
When the battalion commander found out, he ordered the soldiers of his battalion not to go out, and the battalion commander, who had no intention of rebellion, agreed after some persuasion that all the comrades in the battalion would surrender their guns for inspection.
After Tang Yongjian found out the specific addresses of several leaders of the guard regiment, he also arrested them that night, and the next day, after Premier Zhou Enlai asked Chairman Mao for instructions, he decided to disarm the guard regiment to avoid future troubles.
The soldiers who went to Xiangshan found that they did not have the strength to fight the 207th Division at all, and finally most of them returned to the barracks, and after four or five days, the remaining parts of the escape were also captured, so that the guard of Xiangshan was lifted.
When Fu Zuoyi learned that his guard regiment had been disarmed the next day, he went to Ye Jianying, the mayor of Beiping City at the time, and made a big fuss, saying that the Communist Party did not pay attention to credit and crossed the river and demolished the bridge! Ye Jianying did not know what had happened, and finally Tang Yongjian and others received Fu Zuoyi's secretary and explained the ins and outs of the matter.
When Fu Zuoyi knew that his guard regiment had almost run into a catastrophe, he was also scared out of a cold sweat, but in the end, because nothing happened, he agreed to disband his guard regiment, leaving only a few of his own cronies, and the rest was handed over to the North China Supplementary Training Corps, which was broken up and regrouped.
The Communist Party of China did not forget Fu Zuoyi's contribution to the peaceful liberation of Peiping, and after the founding of New China, he was appointed minister of water resources and chairman of the Suiyuan Military and Political Committee.