When it comes to the "Anhui Southern Incident", many people will immediately think of Ye Ting and Xiang Ying. These two were very important leaders, and they did not expect that after the "Anhui Southern Incident", Xiang Ying was killed and Ye Ting was captured, resulting in serious losses to our army. Ye Ting graduated from the Eight Classics Officer School, joined the Kuomintang in the early days, and underwent professional training, so he looked like a leader at a glance, and his usual dress was also very exquisite. But Xiang Ying is very simple, usually dressed very casually, eating like ordinary people, often eating wild vegetables.
Ye Ting was very mature in his thinking and hoped to move north immediately to prevent him from being encircled and suppressed by Chiang Kai-shek. But Xiang Ying did not think so, and felt that Chiang Kai-shek could not openly oppose our party. It was precisely because of the disagreement between Xiang Ying and Ye Ting that the evacuation was delayed, and eventually there was the Anhui Southern Incident. More than 9,000 people of the New Fourth Army went north and were attacked by more than 80,000 Kuomintang troops, and while they were outnumbered, they were running out of ammunition and food. In this way, most of the New Fourth Army was killed, leaving more than 4,200 people captured, of which more than 3,000 soldiers, more than 600 officers, too many prisoners, the Nationalist army did not dare to kill indiscriminately, so it could only be included in its own ranks, but some of the officers with relatively high positions were still killed, only the soldiers who obeyed the Kuomintang survived and were absorbed by Gu Zhutong's troops.
Some of the New Fourth Army soldiers who had been incorporated into the Nationalist Army eventually escaped and returned to the ranks of the New Fourth Army. Some people could not find the team after escaping, and eventually returned to their hometown and became ordinary people. Here I would like to mention the three traitors in the Anhui Southern Incident.
One was Zhao Lingbo, the deputy commander of the first column, who completely defected after being captured, and often led the Kuomintang army to carry out a cleansing and suppression of our army, which aroused the hatred of our soldiers, and later in a battle, he was killed by our army' design.
Another was Zhao Xizhong, who, after being captured, in order to gain Gu Zhutong's attention, told him all about the number and weapons of the New Fourth Army, and also wrote out the list of senior officers of the New Fourth Army and handed it to Gu Zhutong, which made Gu Zhutong very happy, so he gave him a very high official position, but the end was very tragic, and later chose to jump into the river and commit suicide.
The last traitor was Liu Houzong, who shot and killed Xiang Ying and his chief of staff, Zhou Zikun, and gave all the weapons and belongings of the New Fourth Army to the Kuomintang, and since then has done a lot of things to harm our army. In 1952, Liu Houzong was arrested by public security officers and shot.
The Southern Anhui Incident was a surprise attack on our army by the Kuomintang diehards, and this period was the stalemate stage of the War of Resistance, which aroused the dissatisfaction of people from all walks of life with Chiang Kai-shek, and finally Chiang Kai-shek was forced to restrain his behavior under pressure, but the losses caused by the New Fourth Army were extremely huge.