In 1945, the Japanese government announced its unconditional surrender, and the fourteen-year-long War of Resistance Against Japan finally came to an end. Originally, at this time, China would usher in a long period of peace, and it could develop the previously backward economy and science and technology well. However, the Kuomintang was not willing to let new China be led by the Communist Party, so it set off a new round of civil war.
However, the Communist Party has long since changed from the past, and after a long war, they are already a disciplined and powerful tiger and wolf division. At first, the Nationalist army was still able to resist the Communist attack, but when the war slowly entered the second half, the morale of the Nationalist army was almost lost. It is not an exaggeration to describe the war situation of the Nationalist army as a gradual defeat and retreat, and when the Communists came, they either withdrew or fought passively.
Under the constant fermentation of this situation, many senior officers of the Kuomintang chose to revolt and defect to the Communists. They saw the war clearly, and the Communist Party was powerful and popular.
If you have good relations with the Communist Party earlier, you will be more at ease in the future. The Communist Party naturally warmly welcomed the joining of these senior generals of the Nationalist Army. Even the positions and treatment were similar to those when they were in the Kuomintang.
However, yang hu, a senior officer of the Kuomintang, who had not been assigned a position by his superiors since he joined the Communist Party, then personally went to the premier to ask for it. The prime minister patiently told Yang Hu the reason for not being assigned to a position, but instead of understanding, he wanted to fornicate with the enemy.
Once an ideal
Yang Hu was born in 1889 in Ningguo County, Anhui Province. After growing up, he was introduced to the Qing Army's Water Division Wuben Academy to study. After that, they studied in several different military schools, exposed themselves to new revolutionary ideas, and vigorously propagated them around them. At the beginning of the twentieth century, because the Qing government was corrupt and incompetent, the revolutionary flames of the people were getting stronger and stronger, so Yang Hu threw himself into it.
When the Qing government's rule collapsed, Yang Hu came to Nanjing to follow Dr. Sun Yat-sen. But soon after, the fruits of the revolution were stolen by Yuan Shikai. After Yang Hu refused Yuan Shikai's bribe, he began to struggle with him.
Yuan Shikai, who claimed to be emperor, angered revolutionaries all over the country by accepting the twenty-one traitorous treaties proposed by Japan, and Sun Yat-sen waved his banner and vowed to remove Yuan Shikai, a traitor, from the position of emperor.
During the period when Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shikai were fighting, Yang Hu was often sent out to complete very important tasks. For example, "eliminate Yuan Shikai's reactionary forces in Shanghai." They needed to snatch the Zhaohe ship and then attack the Shanghai Manufacturing Bureau with its cannons. There is also the "plot against Jiangyin" to make it independent.
Yang Hu's performance in his youth was very eye-catching, not only as a senior general of Sun Yat-sen, but also as a favorite general of his. When Sun Yat-sen was besieged by Ye Ju with cannons at the presidential palace, Yang Hu desperately led people to cover up before escaping.
At this time, his heart was full of yearning for revolution, full of pride and ambition, thinking that he could do a great cause in the future. In these turbulent times, he will have a huge amount of room to play. The Xinhai Revolution, the Second Revolution, the Patriotic Movement, and the Law Protection Movement all had Yang Hu's figure appear, and that figure was clearly visible.
The first anti-communist
After Sun Yat-sen's death, Yang Hu and Chiang Kai-shek became brothers. Later, during the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup, he fully supported Chiang Kai-shek. Yang Hu was once a member of the revolutionary masses, but now he is a member of the revolutionary masses who wield a sword.
On March 21, 1927, after more than 30 hours of fighting, the Workers of Shanghai led by the Communists finally defeated the troops of the Beiyang warlords and subsequently took control of the entire city of Shanghai.
On March 26, Chiang Kai-shek entered Shanghai with "goodwill", vigorously publicizing the role and significance of the uprising of the CCP leadership and the Shanghai workers, and also presented them with a banner. But Chiang Kai-shek's group of wolves in sheep's clothing mixed into the flock, plotting how to surround and eat these sheep.
On April 12, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the siege of the revolutionary forces in Shanghai. The workers' pickets were confiscated without resistance, and those who resisted were killed because of the disparity in strength between the two sides, and those who were lucky were only injured, and those who were unlucky were directly killed.
Ten days later, a layer of blood seemed to be floating over the entire mountain and sea, and more than 300 revolutionary masses were directly killed, and as many as 5,000 people were unaccounted for.
Yang Hu led hundreds of people to massacre the Communists and the revolutionary masses, and he did not feel any guilt in his heart. And among all the officers who suppressed the revolutionary forces, Yang Hu made the greatest "contribution."
The brothers gradually turned their backs
After the "April 12 Counter-Revolutionary Coup" until the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Yang Hu stayed in Shanghai. He has served as the commander of the security department and the director of the security department in Shanghai.
These positions and his relationship with Chiang Kai-shek have left him in Shanghai with almost one hand, black and white. On the surface, there is an official position of the Kuomintang, and behind the scenes, he is still the boss of Shanghai. Not only in the army, but also in the three religions and nine streams of Shanghai have a constant relationship with him.
During this time, Yang Hu enjoyed the benefits of power, and his heart was more completely decayed by desire, which also sowed the seeds for his second anti-communism.
Yang Hu, who had a lot of power in his hands, even wanted to compete with Chiang Kai-shek for power, but at that time Chiang Kai-shek had already begun to establish his own dynasty. For Chiang Kai-shek, Yang Hu is a kind of tiger that "entrenches" in Shanghai, although the claws are sharp, but there is no way to solve it, but it is just a little troublesome.
Later, the military power in Yang Hu's hands was hollowed out by Chiang Kai-shek, and he only held a fictitious position. At this time, Yang Hu had completely wanted to deviate from Chiang Kai-shek. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Nationalist government moved to Chongqing, and Yang Hu followed.
Here, Yang Hu met Premier Zhou. After many exchanges with Premier Zhou, he was impressed by his intelligence and strategy, and felt guilty about the actions made in the previous "April 12 counter-revolutionary coup". Then Premier Zhou exhorted Yang Hu to try to rebel.
Uprising to join the Communists
Later, during the Liberation War, Yang Hu used his own strength to save many important Communist Party members and the masses of the people, which was also a good thing with no small opinion. For Mr. Yang, that's his means of showing his attitude to the Communist Party.
Yang Hu rescued prominent democrats and saved them from Chiang Kai-shek's persecution. And when Chiang Kai-shek asked him to withdraw to Taiwan, he sternly refused. This kind of behavior made Chiang Kai-shek very angry, and ordered a reward for the arrest of Yang Hu. But under the careful protection of the Communist Party, Yang Hu did not have any accidents. On the day of the official founding of New China, Yang Hu was also invited to the viewing platform to participate in the founding ceremony.
Second anti-communism
After liberation, the Communists treated Yang Hu not much worse than other Kuomintang rebel generals. Basically, in addition to official positions, there is no shortage of others, and nothing can be done comfortably for the rest of your life. But how could Yang Hu be satisfied, the greed that he had cultivated before was not so easy to disappear.
After failing to "ask for" the post, Yang Hu gradually became dissatisfied with the people's government. He often spread rumors in society, and later even hitched a ride on the line of Taiwan spies, once again embarking on the anti-communist road.
In 1958, he wrote a letter to Chiang Kai-shek to take out as a secret trustee. But Yang Hu did not know that he had long been secretly monitored, and his every move was watched by the Communist Party. The letter became the last straw that crushed the camel, and the Communist Party completely lost confidence in him.
After the court trial, Yang Hu was sentenced to death with a two-year suspension of execution. In view of Yang Hu's advanced age and illness, from a humanitarian point of view, the court allowed Yang Hu to execute outside of prison. In March 1966, Yang Hu died at the age of 79 at Beijing Fuxing Hospital.
brief summary:
People like Yang Hu are not uncommon in today's society. Desire is our best motivation, and it will also be the fuse that destroys us. Reasonable control of desire is one thing that people must learn, otherwise it will only make us slaves to desire.
Like many people who have lost their homes because of gambling, as well as high-ranking officials who have embezzled and accepted huge amounts of bribes, they have not resisted their desires, so they have stepped into the bottomless abyss step by step. I hope that readers will be able to take this article as a warning and control their desires.