On August 1, 1927, under the leadership of Zhou Enlai, He Long, Ye Ting and others, the Communist Party of China fired the first shots of armed resistance against the Kuomintang reactionaries in Nanchang.
After the uprising, the former committee of the rebel army, in accordance with the original plan, commanded the rebel army to withdraw from Nanchang in batches, along the Fuhe River, planned to enter Guangdong Province through Ruijin and Xunwu, first capture the Dongjiang area, develop revolutionary forces, and win foreign aid, and then capture Guangzhou.
It was at this critical moment that a "traitor" appeared in the rebel troops, and this person was Cai Tingkai, the commander of the 10th Division.
Cai Tingkai is a native of Luoding, Guangdong, born in 1892, when he was a teenager, because of his family's poverty, Cai Tingkai only studied private school for three years, after which he studied tailoring with his father to increase the family's income.
The grind of life, coupled with the turmoil of society, Cai Tingkai understands that tailoring is not the road he has to take in his life.
In 1910, the new army came to Luoding, Cai Tingkai immediately chose to join the army, when he joined the army, he did not directly have the idea of "revolution", at that time, the most occupied in his thoughts was to find a way out of life, for this reason, he was forced to leave after a short time after he joined the army 4 times.
After 1918, Cai Tingkai's military career officially began, he joined the Zhaojun Chen Mingshu as a platoon leader, and later the Zhaojun army disintegrated, Chen Mingshu changed to the Lin Hu Department of the Defending Army, and Cai Tingkai was elected to study in the Army Lecture Hall of the Second Army of the Protectorate for one year.
After that, Cai Tingkai was transferred to the Cantonese Army and joined the Kuomintang, successively serving as battalion commander, regiment commander, division commander and other positions.
In July 1927, Cai Tingkai's troops came under the management of Ye Ting, who at that time participated in the uprising with his troops in order to strengthen the ranks of the Nanchang Uprising, and when the rebel troops arrived in Xianxian County, Cai Tingkai led his troops to break away from the rebel army and expelled the Communists working in the division.
Cai Tingkai became a "traitor" to the Nanchang uprising, and his behavior completely affected the morale and strength of the rebel army, after that, the rebel army went south, all the way failed, many people broke away from the team, the original uprising of 20,000 people, and when the troops did not arrive in Fuzhou, there were more than 13,000 people left.
The Nanchang Uprising ultimately failed, which also became a historical regret.
Cai Tingkai led his troops to defect to Chiang Kai-shek, and later, he "encircled and suppressed" the Qiongya Red Army in Hainan, and when the Central Plains War broke out in 1930, Cai Tingkai made contributions to Chiang Kai-shek, and after the war, his troops were expanded into the 19th Route Army and stationed in Shanghai.
After the "918 Incident" in 1931, the Japanese imperialists invaded China by an inch, and in January 1932, Japanese troops arrived in Shanghai and prepared to capture Shanghai.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek believed that "the outside must first be inside", and he ordered the Military and Political Department He Yingqin to send a telegram to the 19th Route Army, asking them to withdraw from the defensive zone, and Cai Tingkai refused this request.
Cai Tingkai said: "The stations are all chinese territory... There is no reason to retreat", Cai Tingkai refused He Yingqin's order, and at the same time he ordered the 19th Route Army to prepare to meet the enemy.
When Chiang Kai-shek saw that He Yingqin was not able to do so, he sent Zhang Jingjiang, an elder of the Kuomintang, to persuade Cai Tingkai to withdraw his troops, and Cai Tingkai said coldly: "Shanghai is China's territory, and the 19th Route Army is a Chinese army, and it has the right to garrison Shanghai,...... In case the Japanese army dared to attack, our army had the responsibility to defend the territory and decided to face the attack head-on. ......”
At that time, there were more than 30,000 people in the 19th Route Army in Shanghai, and there were more than 80,000 Japanese troops, not only that, the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army were far better than those of the 19th Route Army, but Cai Tingkai insisted on refusing to retreat and insisted on resisting Japan in Shanghai.
The reason why Cai Tingkai did this, in fact, from today's point of view, is also very simple, he is a patriotic military general.
The disparity in strength was enormous, but this did not affect the determination of the 19th Route Army to resist Japan from top to bottom; the Japanese army attacked wildly, and the 19th Route Army insisted on resisting; they finally held Shanghai for more than a month at the cost of one-fourth of the troops.
After the people of the whole country admired the 19th Route Army, the whole country set off an anti-Japanese upsurge, and Cai Tingkai also became a "national hero" of the anti-Japanese resistance.
Soon, the 19th Route Army was transferred to Fujian to "encircle and suppress" the Red Army, where Cai Tingkai reached an agreement with the Red Army, and in 1933, Cai Tingkai and Li Jishen and others launched the "Fujian Incident", due to Chiang Kai-shek's suppression, 2 months later, the Fujian Incident failed.
Cai Tingkai was forced to surrender his military powers and then traveled abroad.
In foreign countries, everywhere Cai Tingkai went, he would be warmly welcomed by the local Chinese and overseas Chinese, and Cai Tingkai also lived up to the expectations of the people, repeatedly publicizing the idea of resisting Japan and saving the country to everyone, and some people once threatened Cai Tingkai not to attack the government, Cai Tingkai said: "If speech is not free, why should we hold a meeting", he repeatedly attacked the Kuomintang Nanjing government's policy of non-resistance, cai Tingkai's speech, so that many Overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese were deeply affected, donating money and materials to the country for anti-Japanese resistance.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Cai Tingkai successively served as deputy commander-in-chief of the 16th Group Army and commander-in-chief of the 26th Group Army, and he participated in the command of the Battle of Kunlun Pass, etc. Soon, the 93rd Division, which was originally under the jurisdiction of Cai Tingkai, was ordered to transfer Wuming back to the establishment, Cai Tingkai had no soldiers under his command, and became an empty commander, he had to submit his resignation, and Chiang Kai-shek gave him the post of general counselor.
In 1946, Cai Tingkai met with Zhou Enlai in The New Village of Meiyuan in Nanjing, listened to the leadership and ideas of the Communist Party of China, saw Cai Tingkai, who was accustomed to the decadent rule of the Kuomintang, and did not hesitate to believe that only the Chinese Communist Party could save China.
Subsequently, together with Li Jishen, Li Zhangda, Zhang Wen and others, he established the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy, with Li Jishen as the chairman and him actually in charge.
In 1949, as the chief representative of the Association for the Promotion of Democracy, Cai Tingkai came to Beijing at the invitation of the Communist Party of China and participated in the meeting of the New Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and he was elected as a standing committee member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Cai Tingkai successively served as vice chairman of the National Defense Commission of the People's Republic of China and deputy director of the National Sports Commission.
In 1964, at the Fourth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Cai Tingkai was elected vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and this year he became vice-state at the age of 72.
In 1968, Cai died at the age of 76.