1927 was a very extraordinary year in modern China. Many major historical events took place in this year, and the relations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began to take a major turn. The April 12 Qing Party, the Ma-Ri Incident, the Nanchang Uprising, and the Autumn Harvest Uprising, the two parties moved from cooperation to division, and the Great Revolution was declared a failure. Among them, the worst impact and the craziest massacre of revolutionaries was the "Ma Ri Incident", whose initiator Xu Kexiang could be described as a heinous executioner.
Speaking of this Xu Kexiang, some people are not very familiar with it, but the founding general Chen Geng is very famous, so what is the connection between these two people? Both of them were from Xiangxiang, Hunan Province, Chen Geng was the young master of the landlord's family, and Xu Kexiang, who was 13 years older than Chen Geng, had a poor family and was a servant of the Chen Geng family. Xu Kexiang was also a revolutionary in his early years, studying in Hunan Daowutang, joining the League, and also participating in the Xinhai Revolution, and by 1925, he was already the commander of the independent brigade of the Qian Army, and Xu Kexiang was absorbed by Tang Shengzhi during the Northern Expedition.
In 1927, Xu Kexiang, stationed in Changsha, was the commander of the 33rd Regiment of He Jian's 35th Army, and he was also a member of the Hunan Provincial Government, the mayor of Changsha, and the director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.
On May 1, 1927, at the instigation of He Jian, Xu Kexiang commanded soldiers to attack trade unions, peasant associations and other revolutionary organizations in Hunan Province, hunting down revolutionaries and revolutionary masses. What he did was treacherous, cruel and vicious. He set up the "Qing Party Committee" and the "Party Salvation Committee" and was full of "purge, overthrow, and completely eliminate..."
As Zhang Zuolin did in Beiping, Xu Kexiang sent soldiers armed with live ammunition to raid the Soviet Consulate in Changsha. On the street, on the notice of the "Party Salvation Committee" arresting the key criminals, the names of the responsible persons of the leftists in hunan party, government, workers, and peasants from all walks of life were listed, and Liu Zhi, Guo Liang, and others were all arrested with a reward of 5,000 oceans.
Xu Kexiang killed people without blinking.
His firing squad swept across the city. All young women who had their hair cut short were killed. The woman stripped naked, cut off her breasts, cut off half of her neck with a knife, and fired a rifle at the pussy.
Men were tortured and tortured first, then slashed, severed, and dissected with knives, tortured to death. The bodies of progressive schoolgirls who had been ravaged in broad daylight were unloaded in eight pieces, their heads were thrown onto the male corpses, and the executioners shouted, "You are free in love!" ”
They did not even spare the thirteen- and fourteen-year-old boy regiment, the boy was cut off from his genitals, the girl was shot, and then a wooden board was inserted on the lower body, written with "communist seeds", and then willing to return the body to the child's parents.
Xu Kexiang slaughtered in Changsha for seven or eight days in a row, and 23 counties in Hunan followed suit. The regimental defense team, dressed in black uniforms, drove groups of rope-bound peasants into the mountain pass, scattered, and shot indiscriminately. Some peasants in Liuyang did not know that something had happened in Changsha, and after escaping, they rushed to Changsha to accuse the revolutionary army of the crimes of the squires, and were surrounded by Xu Kexiang's soldiers inside The Xiaowu Gate, shooting and killing more than 130 people at a time, even several women who passed by at that time were also killed.
Some escorted members of the Peasant Self-Defense Force to the grave of the landlord, kicked the members to their knees, and immediately raised the ghost head knife and "whizzed" from behind. Then the bloody head is placed on a vermilion wood plate and sacrificed on the grave...
In less than 20 days, Xu Kexiang, in the name of the "Qing Communists," frantically slaughtered more than 10,000 revolutionaries and progressive people in the Changsha area.
So, what was the fate of such a bloodless executioner, Xu Kexiang's later end?
Although most of the Kuomintang generals had also participated in the infighting between the two parties, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, most of them turned their guns outward and rushed to the anti-Japanese battlefield, and even many became anti-Japanese heroes. However, Xu Kexiang was different.
After the Ma-Ri Incident, Xu Kexiang participated in the warlord melee, and then repeatedly encircled and suppressed the Red Army, in 1933, Xu Kexiang was promoted to the Kuomintang Army Supervision Committee and the commander of the 24th Division, and in 1936 he was promoted to deputy commander of the 37th Army. In 1937, after the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, Xu Kexiang resigned due to illness and took up an idle post as a senator in the Military Senate. He went to Macau in 1949, to Taiwan in 1953, and to the spring of 1964. Xu Kexiang died in Hsinchu, Taiwan.