As everyone knows, the Kuomintang army has "five ace armies," including the New 1st Army, the 5th Army, the New 6th Army, the 18th Army, and the 74th Army.
In fact, at that time, there was still a unit, whether it was the quality of soldiers or weapons and equipment, which were not under these "five ace armies", and even more so, that is, the Tax Police Corps.
As the name suggests, the Taxation Police Corps is a police force responsible for taxation, which is theoretically incomparable with the regular ace army, but this Taxation Police Corps is a unit founded by Song Ziwen himself, and Song Ziwen's status must be known to everyone, Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law, the official to the minister of finance, as long as he wants to do it, there is nothing that cannot be done.
Therefore, with the strong support of Song Ziwen, the strength of the Tax Police Corps is very strong, and the weapons and equipment can be called the first in The country, after all, it is subordinate to the Ministry of Finance, not bad money!
So, who will command this tax police corps? Naturally, he is also a powerful figure, such as the first commander-in-chief was Wen Yingxing, and the second commander-in-chief was Wang Geng (Lu Xiaoman's first husband), both of whom were graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
So, who is the third commander-in-chief? It is this very special person to be introduced today: Mo Xiong.
Let's first look at a historical fragment -
In September 1934, at the Kuomintang Lushan Military Conference, Chiang Kai-shek's German military advisers formulated an "iron barrel plan" specifically for dealing with the Red Army, in an attempt to completely encircle and suppress the Red Army by means of advancing step by step and building fortifications layer by layer.
However, before Chiang Kai-shek could put it into action, the plan fell into the hands of the Red Army early, which decisively began the Long March, thus preserving the seeds of the Chinese revolution.
So the question arises: How can a highly classified plan like this leak out? Even Chiang Kai-shek was inexplicable.
This high-ranking person behind the scenes was Mo Xiong, who was then the commander of the "suppression of the communists" in the fourth district of De'an ganbei in Jiangxi.
Mo Xiong, a native of Yingde County, Guangdong Province, joined the Chinese League at the age of 16, and successively participated in the Huanghuagang Uprising, the Wuchang Uprising, and the Northern Expedition War.
However, what really made him famous was that when Chen Jiongming launched a mutiny in June 1922 to force Sun Yat-sen's presidential palace, Mo Xiong resolutely sided with Sun Yat-sen and made great contributions to expelling Chen Jiongming and consolidating the revolutionary power in Guangzhou, and was deeply used by Sun Yat-sen from then on.
It was also at this time that Mo Xiong and Chiang Kai-shek became acquainted. At first, Mo Xiong still admired this young man who was dignified and respectful at all times, but after the attack on Liao Zhongkai, Chiang Kai-shek seized the command of the Cantonese army by means of a strategy of moving the tiger away from the mountain, and completely emptied Xu Chongzhi, Mo Xiong, and a number of Other Elders of the Cantonese Army, so that Mo Xiong and Chiang Kai-shek's Liang Zi was concluded.
Of course, these contradictions alone are not enough for Mo Xiong to give up his family's life to deliver intelligence to the Red Army, and another reason is that Mo Xiong believes that the socialism advocated by our party and Sun Yat-sen's proposition are actually the same thing, and to help our party is to strive for the realization of Mr. Zhongshan's last wish!
Coincidentally, at that time, Chiang Kai-shek was busy with the suppression of the Communists, and seeing that the manpower was becoming more and more insufficient, Mo Xiong was activated again, and he was allowed to recruit his own personnel to form a "suppression of the Communists" team.
This naturally gave Mo Xiong great convenience, and he specially ran to Shanghai to contact the underground party organization in Shanghai, and they sent a group of backbone cadres to assist him. In this way, an interesting scene appeared: in the headquarters of a "suppression of the Communists," all of them were the backbone of our Party!
In Moxiong's jurisdiction, on the surface, the fighting seems to be fierce, but in fact? The Red Army stationed there was living a leisurely life, and Chiang Kai-shek, who was unaware of it in the dark, was very pleased and invited Mo Xiong to attend the Lushan Military Conference. The highly classified "Iron Barrel Project" was stolen by Mo Xiong at this time.
However, after all, the Kuomintang agents did not eat dry food, and Mo Xiong's connection with the underground party members was soon detected and escorted to the Nanjing Military Justice Department.
Fortunately, at the critical juncture when Mo Xiong's life was hanging by the line, the anti-Chiang movement set off by Chen Jitang broke out in the Liangguang area. At this time, some people suggested that Mo Xiong had spent time in the Cantonese army in his early years, and asking him to lobby Chen Jitang might have an unexpected effect. At this time, Old Jiang only wanted to calm down the incident as soon as possible, and when he agreed, in this way, Mo Xiong luckily escaped the disaster.
Since it was difficult to escape, there was naturally no reason to go back, in order to avoid being tracked down, Mo Xiong lived in seclusion.
It was not until after the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that Mo Xiong, out of the great national righteousness, went out of the mountains again and served as the governor of Nanxiong County, Guangdong Province, the commissioner of Shaoguan, and the commander of security, and continued to secretly cooperate with the people of our party to discuss the great cause of resisting Japan.
After the founding of New China, at the personal invitation of Ye Shuai, Mo Xiong served as deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Counselor's Office and vice chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and died of illness in 1980 at the age of 89.