Feng Qinzai, a native of Wanrong County, Shanxi Province, is also a big freak.
Born in April 1890 in An ordinary farming family in Vang Vieng County, he often participated in field labor and developed a diligent and simple style.
However, he has been grumpy since childhood and has a great temper. Once, he didn't know what was going on, but in a fit of rage, he plucked out the eyeballs of the Buddha statue in the village's great temple. At this moment, the whole family panicked and threw him out of the house.
After he left home, he had nowhere to go, so he had to become a soldier who ate food.
In the military, he was stubborn, rough-mannered, and did not like to use his brains, and often had quarrels with colleagues. Later, relying on Yang Hucheng's promotion, he gradually went from company commander to division commander.
After the September 18 Incident in 1931, Feng Qinya, then the commander of the division, went to Nanjing to attend a meeting, and Chiang Kai-shek asked him to send troops to "suppress the Communists".
"It's a shame to fight down!"
Jiang was puzzled, and he said bluntly: "The Japanese have occupied our northeast, and you will not fight the Japanese instead of fighting the Japanese, but instead the people of Gansu." ”
Chiang Kai-shek felt harsh, but he did not have a seizure.
On the morning of December 12, 1936, Feng Qinzha suddenly received an urgent telegram from Yang Hucheng:
"The coup d'état in Xi'an, the soldiers advised Chiang Kai-shek, the united communists resisted Japan, and Hopkins conspired to plot this move."
Yang Hucheng ordered him to immediately lead his troops into Tongguan to prevent the central army from entering the pass.
However, Feng Qinya refused Yang Hucheng's order, but instead told the Nanjing side:
"One is not to be a communist, the second is not to support Xiao Zhang (Zhang Xueliang), and the third is not to fight against the Central Army."
As a result, he was appointed by Kong Xiangxi as the commander of the rebel army Weibei and prepared to use force against Yang Hucheng.
After the Xi'an Incident, Feng Bu was expanded into the Twenty-seventh Route Army, and he was promoted to commander-in-chief, thus breaking away from Yang Hucheng's Northwest Army system.
However, he followed Lao Jiang and did not have a good result.
In the spring of 1938, Feng Qinzha (as the commander of the army) led his troops to the south of Jin to fight guerrilla warfare, defeated the Japanese Xiaolin Regiment, and restored a county town- which was considered to be a recovery of lost land, but unexpectedly, in November, Chongqing ordered him to dismiss the headquarters and transfer to the 14th Army as deputy commander-in-chief. Feng Qinzha lost the right to command the old department and lost his temper with Wei Lihuang, deputy commander of the theater and commander-in-chief of the Fourteenth Army:
"Now that the War of Resistance needs to recruit men, why do you want to dismiss my people?" As you said, you bastard, the government said, the government asshole. I'm not going to do it, please send someone to take over. ”
After that, as the acting commander-in-chief of the 13th Army and the commander of the 98th Army, he led his troops into southeastern Jin and cooperated with the Eighth Route Army to carry out guerrilla warfare. During this period, he was very close to the generals of the Eighth Route Army, and the officers and soldiers often had a good relationship with each other. He also invited Peng Dehuai to the troops to explain guerrilla tactics.
He had close relations with the Eighth Route Army, but unexpectedly caused Chiang Kai-shek's dissatisfaction, and he was transferred to the First Theater as deputy commander-in-chief, stationed in Luoyang.
Feng Qinzhao was promoted to a high official and lost his military power, so he played cards every day and spent time in card nine.
In February 1940, he went to Chongqing to see Jiang and said: "I have nothing to do in the cave, so I have to play cards every day and ask to lead the troops back to Shanxi." ”
Chiang Kai-shek said, "Very good, very good. You should read more. What do you think of me, let me talk about it in detail. ”
Feng Qinzha said with dissatisfaction: "The old saying goes, 'The king who uses the teacher, the overlord who uses the friend, and the one who uses the subordinate dies.'" Then he said, "I am willing to be a common man, but there is no place to be a stable people, so I have to play mahjong and mix until I die."
Jiang laughed: "Study it, give you 5 troops, and fight back to Shanxi."
5 corps, more than the commander of a group army!
Feng Qinya held out hope and waited in Chongqing for a whole year, not waiting for a soldier.
At the end of 1948, Peiping was surrounded by the People's Liberation Army. Feng Qinzha was then the deputy commander-in-chief of the "Suppression General" in North China. Chiang Kai-shek sent a plane to pick up key personnel and head south. Many people advised Feng Qinya to leave: "You opposed the CCP during the Xi'an Incident, go quickly, and don't wait to be a prisoner." ”
He replied: "It is not good to go to Taiwan, and it is dangerous. Stay and watch, the Communists don't kill prisoners anyway. ”
This statement shows that Feng Qinya can see things clearly and is not confused.
After that, he also made a special trip to Yulin, Shaanxi Province, to bring Deng Baoshan, who had a very good personal relationship, to Beiping, and Deng weifu was the plenipotentiary representative of the CCP negotiations. In the end, Fu Zuoyi reached an agreement on the peaceful liberation of Peiping — it can be said that Feng Qinzha was also one of the heroes of the liberation of Peiping.
After the founding of New China, the Chinese Communists repeatedly solicited his opinions and asked him to arrange work for him, but Feng Qinzha refused, saying:
"The government has issued me a liberation certificate and a citizen card, and I am seeking benevolence and being satisfied. I absolutely do not seek to be an official, but I am willing to be a common man. ”
Deng Baoshan, Nan Hanchen (an important member of the CCP), and others, who had good relations with him, mobilized again and again, but he still did not comply, saying:
"You just shot me and didn't act as an official." I want to learn from Lord Fu Qing. The common people are the masters of the country, and the officials are the slaves of the people, and I want to be the masters, not the slaves. This theory is also very fashionable.
However, who was Lord Fu Qing he wanted to learn? The Ming and Song dynasties and the early Qing dynasty, after the death of the Ming Dynasty, lived in a cave and refused to be able to become officials, and even refused to be officials by death, so as to use Ming Zhi.
Feng Qinya naturally did not live in a cave, so he raised chickens at his home in Beijing - another way to live in a "cave".
He studied with Fu Qing for five or six years, and only after patient advice from many people did he finally come out of the mountains and hold some insignificant positions in Beijing.
In January 1963, he died of illness at his home in Xi'an at the age of 74.
General Deng Baoshan said: "Feng Qinya made great contributions in the peaceful liberation of Peiping. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he fought together with the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army to resist Japan and fight against the enemy, which was sincere. Some people say that he is a strange man, but in fact he is also an upright patriot. ”