Li Zhilong, most people know this name, but they don't know what kind of person he really is.
Why do you know Li Zhilong's name, because there was a Zhongshan ship incident in history - one of the protagonists is Li Zhilong.
In fact, Li Zhilong is a very legendary person.
Let's start with one thing!
In February 1925, the Guangdong Revolutionary Government held the First Crusade. At that time, Li Zhilong was the battalion party representative of the Whampoa Military Academy's Student Army Teaching Regiment, and participated in the right wing of the Eastern Crusade Army. He directed the students to sing "Song of Killing Thieves" and "Song of Love for the People" to greatly boost morale.
But he, the party representative, is not just a morale-boosting political worker.
He was also particularly good at fighting.
On February 15, the Eastern Expeditionary Army attacked Tamsui City, and more than 10,000 people from the enemy Chen Jiongming Hong Zhaolin's army frantically counterattacked. Wang Bailing, the leader of the 2nd Regiment of the Teaching Regiment, was frightened to escape, and Chiang Kai-shek was also panicked, and at this critical juncture, Li Zhilong led 500 student troops into the ground formation, and defeated Hong Zhaolin's troops a few hours later.
Chen Jiongming was not convinced, and sent a strong brigade lin hubu to meet the battle again. In mid-March, during a battle, Li Zhilong's partner, the battalion commander Wang Jun, was captured by the enemy during the battle. When Li Zhilong saw this, he immediately commanded the student army to rush into the enemy position, and in the chaotic battle, he actually snatched this Wang Jun back -- Li Zhilong fought more fiercely than the battalion commander, and was even more fierce.
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In fact, Li Zhilong is indeed very powerful.
He was a first-term student in Huangpu and a member of the Communist Party of China — who joined the Party in August 1921 — with seniority?
What is his concept of seniority? He is one of the top 50 members of the Communist Party of China.
In the Whampoa Military Academy, how is he?
As soon as he entered school, he served as an English translator and secretary to Borodin, head of the Soviet advisory group at the military academy. The headmaster, Chiang Kai-shek, was also very fond of him. Once, Chiang Kai-shek invited more than a dozen proud protégés to his home as guests, and Li Zhilong was one of them. During the banquet, Chiang Kai-shek said: "I have three treasures, and whoever finds them will be rewarded." ”
Everyone looked around and took out the "treasure" they had found, and Chiang Kai-shek shook his head vigorously:
"No, it's not."
As a result, Li Zhilong turned out three books from under Chiang Kai-shek's pillow, "Bismarck's Biography", "Quotations of Zeng Hu Zhibing", and "Zeng Wenzheng's Public Book" and presented them, and Chiang Kai-shek immediately nodded and praised Li Zhilong.
At the Whampoa Military Academy, the students of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China each had a society, the Right Wing of the Kuomintang called the Sun Literature Society; the CCP's, called the Young Soldiers' Federation. On the CCP side, who is the president of the Young Soldiers' Federation?
Not the famous Chen Geng and Jiang Xianyun, but Li Zhilong.
At the Whampoa Military Academy, Li Zhilong can be said to be the proud son of the Kuomintang.
However, it did not take long for him to become a thorn in Chiang Kai-shek's eye.
Why?
It was because of a "small thing".
Less than two months after the establishment of the Young Soldiers' Federation, which was president of Li Zhilong, its membership grew to more than 2,000 people. This aroused the envy and sabotage of Dai Jitao, the leader of the right wing of the Kuomintang. In order to criticize Dai Jitaoism, Li Zhilong wrote a cartoon:
Dai Jitao, dressed in a horse's coat robe, wearing a melon skin hat, and carrying a statue of Sun Yat-sen on his back, walked hard toward the Confucius Temple; next to him stood foreigners, warlords, party sticks, and Caidong, all clapping their hands and praising vigorously.
The cartoon was posted inside and outside the military academy and received a strong response.
Chiang Kai-shek was extremely annoyed when he saw it, and from then on he regarded Li Zhilong as a thorn in his eye.
The two fell out.
Since the CCP and the Left faction had the upper hand in the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Chiang Kai-shek could not do anything about Li Zhilong. In October 1925, Li Zhilong was transferred to the post of rear admiral of the Political Department of the Navy of the Guangdong Revolutionary Government, the highest rank among Huangpu graduates, and Hu Zongnan was beyond his reach.
In February 1926, the director of the Navy, Smilov, left his post and returned to the Soviet Union, with Ouyang Lin acting as the director. Ouyang Ge dreamed of becoming the captain of the Zhongshan ship, but as a result, he was forced to abandon his post and escape. In March, the Central Military Commission appointed Li Zhilong as acting director of the Navy Bureau, director of the General Staff Office, and captain of the Zhongshan Warship, and promoted to vice admiral, with full responsibility for the Navy.
Li Zhilong became the only communist in the Guangdong revolutionary government to hold the supreme military command of the troops in one aspect.
This caused Panic in Chiang Kai-shek, so he joined forces with Ouyang Ge to concoct the "Zhongshan Ship Incident", arrest Li Zhilong, and slander the CCP for conspiring to riot. After Being Imprisoned, Li Zhilong said angrily:
"This is a conspiracy of counter-revolutionaries."
In July, on the eve of the Northern Expeditionary Army's departure, Li Zhilong was released, assisted Deng Yanda in propaganda work in the General Political Department of the Northern Expeditionary Army, concurrently served as the director of the new troupe, and led the literary and artistic team to accompany the army to Guangdong, Hunan, and Jiangxi—in this regard, Li Zhilong became a "literary and artistic talent".
So what happened to him later?
One way to say it is:
After the defeat of the Great Revolution in 1927, Li Zhilong sneaked from Wuhan to Shanghai, where he and his wife lived in the Yue family in Guangzhou, used Hong Kong businessmen as a cover to engage in military activities and secretly instigated a naval uprising. After the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising in December, he was forced to take refuge in Japan.
On February 6, 1928, Li Zhilong returned to Guangzhou from Japan via Hong Kong, but was unfortunately discovered by the secret agents and arrested that night. On February 8, Chen Ce, commander of the Kuomintang Navy's 4th Fleet in Guangzhou, sentenced Li Zhilong to death for "instigating a naval rebellion." Li Zhilong was heroic and righteous in Huanghuagang, when he was only 31 years old.
Before the righteousness, he left a suicide note to his wife, which said:
"My revolutionary obligations are now over, don't grieve. I hope you will raise your children to adulthood and inherit my unfinished revolutionary cause. ”
However, there is another way to say:
After Li Zhilong was arrested in the Zhongshan incident, he defected, and he published a newspaper stating his repentance and breaking away from the CCP. After his release from prison, he joined the "reactionary clique" and was later shot in Guangzhou, caused by internal contradictions – so he is still not a revolutionary martyr.
Is this Li Zhilong a hero or a bear?
- It is only up to the readers to comment on themselves.