The Southern Anhui Incident occurred on January 6, 1941, when more than 9,000 troops directly under the New Fourth Army began to move north to the Maolin area of Jing County, Anhui Province, under the leadership of Ye Ting and Xiang Ying, they were suddenly attacked by about 80,000 people from 7 divisions of the Kuomintang. After 7 days and nights of fierce fighting, the New Fourth Army finally ran out of food because of the enemy's outnumbered and outnumbered. Except for Fu Qiutao, who led more than 2,000 people to disperse the breakthrough, a small number of them were captured, and most of them died heroically. Ye Ting, commander of the New Fourth Army, was captured, deputy commander Xiang Ying and chief of staff Zhou Zikun were killed after breaking through, and Yuan Guoping, director of the Political Department, was killed.
In this incident in southern Anhui province, which was in the same room and strangely wronged in Jiangnan, he also participated in the siege of the New Fourth Army. He was Chen Shizhang, deputy commander of the 40th Division of the 25th Army of the Nationalist Army at that time. Later, it was precisely because he participated in this incident that in the later liberation war, I was afraid that our party would send him to the guillotine as the executioner of the New Fourth Army, did not dare to revolt or even surrender, and repeatedly chose to flee, but the result?
This Chen Shizhang, a native of Zhao County, Hebei Province, graduated from the fifth political training class of the Whampoa Military Academy, and later participated in the officer research class, the officer training regiment, the higher education class, the central training regiment, the tactical research class, the general school research class, and the party and government training class.
To tell the truth, this "certificate general" Chen Shizhang, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, was unequivocal, especially in the Battle of Wuhan, when he led his troops to hold their positions in Gaolong Chen Village, and they began to block the Japanese army for three days and nights from July 22, and successfully repelled the Japanese army. After the war, his division was named "Zhongyong" Division, chen himself received commendations, and his position was also promoted, successively serving as the brigade commander of the 118th Brigade of the 40th Division, the deputy division commander of the 40th Division of the 25th Army, and the commander of the division.
In the later stages of the Liberation War, Chen Shizhang had been promoted to the commander of the 25th Army of the Kuomintang 7th Corps.
In November 1948, our army launched the Huaihai Campaign, the 7th Corps was completely destroyed at Nianzhuang, the commander Huang Baitao was killed, and the 25th Army could not be spared. At this time, Chen Shizhang, because of his worries about participating in the anhui incident, did not dare to revolt and did not dare to surrender, and was even more afraid of being a prisoner of our army. So he decided to disguise himself as an old peasant and run away. Because Chen Shizhang's appearance and personality were particularly like a peasant, he was not discovered by the inspectors of our army and successfully fled back to the Kuomintang area.
Chen Shizhang, who had successfully escaped to the Reunification Region, was still appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the 25th Army, and asked him to reorganize the 25th Army in Fujian. After he rebuilt the 25th Army, in the Battle of Fuzhou in August 1949, he was once again defeated by our army, and Chen Shizhang once again chose to flee. He first fled to Xiamen and tried to find a way to find a boat to go to Taiwan, but what he did not expect was that Xiamen was suddenly lost again, and there was no way out, and in the end he still fell into the hands of our army.
In the first few years of being reformed as a war criminal, Chen Shizhang was so scared. He was worried that one day he would be criticized for fighting, then tried and then shot. In fact, his worries were superfluous, he was only obeying the orders of his superiors during the Anhui Incident, he was not the mastermind, and it was not his turn to shoot him. Only later did he put his mind at ease and feel at ease.
On March 19, 1975, chen Shizhang, who was 73 years old at the time, received an amnesty. After the amnesty, he offered to go to Taiwan to reunite with his wife and children, but the party-state that had made him loyal for decades refused to allow him to enter the country, and he had to stay in Hong Kong. Soon he learned that his sons and daughters had emigrated to the United States, and finally arrived in the United States to meet. In 1992, Chen Shizhang died at the age of 90.
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