In 1941, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "Anhui Southern Incident", killing thousands of new Fourth Army officers and soldiers, setting off a new round of "anti-communist" climax, just after the "Anhui Southern Incident", a battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army openly defected to the enemy, and in turn dealt with the Eighth Route Army troops, killing dozens of Eighth Route Army officers, but this rebel general was eventually eliminated by the Eighth Route Army, which can also be regarded as deserved. So, who is this rebellious Eighth Route Battalion Commander? Why did he mutiny?
This person's name is Zhu Xinzhai, he is a Rizhao person in Shandong Province, since he was a local hooligan, he did not learn any techniques, and he was proficient in eating, drinking, and gambling. In 1919, Zhu Xinzhai formed gangs in the local area, and later joined the Great Knife Society, widely collected disciples, and carried out extortion, and the common people were deeply affected. The local government sent troops to encircle and suppress several times, but because Zhu Xinzhai's troops were too strong, they had not been successful, and finally the authorities had no choice but to recruit Zhu Xinzhai and appoint him as the leader of the Huangdun Self-Defense Force.
After that, under the banner of the government, Zhu Xinzhai occupied more than 40 villages around Huangdun and built them into his own independent kingdom, in which Zhu Xinzhai held the power of life and death, robbed the people's women, and exploited the people.
After the "July 7 Incident" in 1937, the Japanese army began to invade China in an all-round way, Zhu Xinzhai took advantage of the chaos to expand his power, and his unit once expanded to more than 300 people, after which, Zhu Xinzhai managed to get the Kuomintang's letter of appointment, and his troops were reorganized into the "Nineteenth General Brigade of the Second Guerrilla Group of the Fifth Theater of the Nationalist Government", however, in the process of expanding his power, Zhu Xinzhai fought with the big bandit Liu Heiqi, and was attacked by Liu Heiqi, suffering heavy losses, and Zhu Xinzhai could only escape and wait for the opportunity.
The Eighth Route Army advanced into Shandong, and Zhu Xinzhai saw this as an opportunity for a comeback, so he took the initiative to defect to the Eighth Route Army, which was organized into the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, which was later changed to an independent battalion, and in this way, Zhu Xinzhai was transformed from a bandit to a battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army. It should be said that if Zhu Xinzhai had since changed from evil to righteousness, he might have been able to mix with a school official in the future, but after all, Zhu Xinzhai was born as a bandit, could not stand the constraints of the Eighth Route Army, and began to plan for rebellion.
In 1941, Zhu Xinzhai waited for an opportunity, this opportunity was the "Anhui Southern Incident", after the outbreak of the "Anhui Southern Incident", the reactionary forces were further active, Zhu Xinzhai took advantage of the situation to openly defect on March 2, when Zhu Xinzhai carried out a sneak attack on the Eighth Route Army, arrested nearly 200 Eighth Route Army fighters and innocent masses, and brutally killed dozens of cadres of the Independence Battalion.
After Zhu Xinzhai defected, he was appointed by the Nationalist side as the colonel of the independent first brigade directly under the Lusu Theater, and continued to engage in "anti-communist" activities. In 1943, Zhu Xinzhai defected to the Japanese and killed innocent people and Eighth Route Army fighters in large numbers. Zhu Xinzhai's evil deeds aroused strong indignation among the broad masses, and the common people petitioned the Eighth Route Army one after another to send troops to destroy Zhu Xinzhai's bandits.
In 1944, the Eighth Route Army dispatched a main force regiment to launch the "Battle of Shigou Cliff", destroying Zhu Xinzhai's old lair in one fell swoop, annihilating more than 500 Japanese puppet troops, capturing Zhu Xinzhai alive, and then deciding where he was in Linyi, Shandong.