At 15:00 on the afternoon of October 1, 1949, Chairman Mao and other founding leaders held a grand founding ceremony in Tiananmen Square, announcing to the world the news of the establishment of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China.
Since then, the land of Shenzhou has opened up a new era in Chinese history, completely ending the humiliating history of China's oppression and enslavement since the British launched the Opium War in 1840, and the people have become the masters of the country, and the whole country has cheered.
However, there is a man who is not happy, and he is Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman Mao's old rival.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was recuperating at the Chen Jitang Mansion at No. 32 Meihua Village, Dongshan, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, and he had announced his resignation as early as January 21, 1949, and the Nationalist Government had been handed over to Li Zongren to take care of it, but Chiang Kai-shek was still behind the scenes in control of the supreme command of the Nationalist army and the kuomintang party affairs, and Li Zongren was actually only acting as a transitional role in the defeat of the Nationalist government.
When Chiang Kai-shek heard Chairman Mao on the radio shouting the strongest voice of the founding of New China, his heart was very restless, because from this moment on, the Rule of the Kuomintang regime in China, which he had held for 22 years, had completely ended.
Unwillingly, Chiang Kai-shek began to encircle and suppress the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army led by our Party when he established the National Government in Nanjing in 1927, and was still fighting against the People's Liberation Army led by our Party when the Nanjing Presidential Palace was occupied by the People's Liberation Army in 1949.
Except for the 8-year period of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party established an anti-Japanese national united front, and the people's army and the nationalist army were in a state of semi-struggle and semi-cooperation. In essence, the two armies have been fighting for 14 years, and what makes Chiang Kai-shek wonder is that our army is getting stronger and stronger, while the Nationalist army, which was originally in an advantageous position, is getting weaker and weaker.
However, as soon as the founding ceremony was held, it meant that China's political situation had been decided and Chiang Kai-shek was no longer able to return to heaven.
In the face of this defeat, Chiang Kai-shek may have already thought of it, and even had the dangerous idea of "I can't get by and make you feel bad."
On the eve of the founding ceremony, Chiang Kai-shek received information from Chairman Mao and other party Central Committees that the founding ceremony would be held at the Tiananmen Tower, and out of grief and indignation, specially summoned General Zhou Zhirou, commander of the Nationalist Air Force, to discuss the plan for sending military planes to bomb the venue at the founding ceremony.
However, on October 1, Chiang Kai-shek hesitated again. At that time, Admiral Zhou Zhirou repeatedly called Chiang Kai-shek whether he would carry out the bombing mission as planned, but the reply was "wait another time."
When Zhou Zhirou asked for Chiang Kai-shek's last order, he suddenly received an order to "cancel the mission", Zhou Zhirou thought that Chiang Kai-shek did not believe that the Nationalist Air Force could complete the task, for this reason, Zhou Zhirou also specifically explained that the preparations were very sufficient, but Chiang Kai-shek still ordered Zhou Zhirou to cancel the task of bombing the founding ceremony held in Tiananmen Square.
In the end, the founding ceremony in Tiananmen Square went smoothly until the end, and there was no danger. However, the PLA has long been prepared for this, and when the PLA Air Force fighter jets paraded on the same day, they were all paraded with live ammunition, just to deal with the possible sabotage operations of the Nationalist army.
But then again, Chiang Kai-shek is obviously very sad and indignant, and with his narrow mind, he should take revenge, so why did he "be soft-hearted" at a critical moment? In fact, there are three factors:
First: Bombing Tiananmen, a Chinese landmark, will become a sinner for the whole nation;
Tiananmen Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty has been built, as the Ming and Qing Dynasties Imperial Palace, its architecture has long become a Chinese historical and cultural treasure, but also a nationally renowned landmark, its interior has a large number of valuable cultural relics, once Chiang Kai-shek ordered the bombing of the founding ceremony, then the Tiananmen Palace Building will definitely suffer.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was no longer his "enemy", but the cultural wealth of the entire Chinese and the dignity of the entire Chinese nation, which is easily reminiscent of the national humiliation of the Anglo-French coalition army burning the Yuanmingyuan in 1860.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek will certainly be spurned by all the sons and daughters of Yan Huang, attract the accusations of the entire Chinese nation, and become a sinner of the Chinese nation for eternity. Completely impossible.
Second: Disrupting the founding ceremony will be severely countered by the People's Liberation Army;
The bombing of the founding ceremony meant that Chiang Kai-shek would oppose the people's power, and not only would the people of the whole country not agree, but Chairman Mao and the Million People's Liberation Army would not agree.
The PLAAf fighters under display with live ammunition will not only go all out to eliminate the sabotage-ridden Fighter Planes of the Nationalist Army, but also the PLA throughout the country will certainly intensify its efforts to encircle and suppress the opposition forces of the Nationalist Forces hiding in various parts of the mainland, and also give the people and the newborn motherland a safe and tranquil environment.
In addition, the key members of the Kuomintang opposition headed by Chiang Kai-shek will inevitably enter the blacklist arrested by the People's Liberation Army, accept the people's trial, and even punish the culprits who disturbed the founding ceremony at all costs.
Third: the national army has been basically wiped out, and international allies have changed their minds;
Even if Chiang Kai-shek bombed the founding ceremony, it would not help, after all, almost all of his main army was wiped out by the People's Liberation Army, or surrendered to the uprising, and the bombing could only be a temporary outrage, but could not change the entire war situation.
The Liaoshen Campaign, the Pingjin Campaign, and the Huaihai Campaign initiated by the People's Liberation Army destroyed most of the main forces of the Nationalist army. Subsequently, the national army, navy, and air force successively revolted and turned to the side of the people.
Shortly after the liberation of Peiping, on February 25, 1949, the cruiser "Chongqing", the largest warship of the Kuomintang Navy, declared an uprising at Wusongkou in Shanghai and was incorporated into the Formation of the People's Liberation Army, dealing a heavy blow to the Kuomintang Yangtze River Defense Line; not long after the Launch of the Battle of the Crossing River, on April 27, under the leadership of Lin Zun, commander of the Second Fleet of the Kuomintang Navy, more than 1,200 officers and men of 25 ships revolted...
In addition to the Navy, the army units included General Ai Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government Chen Mingren and Cheng Qian, Vice Admiral Dong Qiwu, Chairman of the Suiyuan Provincial Government, Commander of the Xinjiang Garrison Tao Zhiyue, and Chairman of the Xinjiang Provincial Government Bao Erhan all telegraphed the uprising on the eve of the founding ceremony.
Chiang Kai-shek basically lost his dominance in the mainland provinces.
The same is true internationally, before the founding ceremony, the United States, which had given economic and military support to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government, also changed its mind. Even if Song Meiling came to the United States in person, she could not move the White House, and she was not even willing to receive Song Meiling.
The White House only gave Chiang Kai-shek verbal support, other material support gradually stagnated as Chiang Kai-shek's general trend has gone, without the support of international allies, how can he maintain military superiority over the Platon Army with only his little residual strength?
Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek's cancellation of the plan to bomb Tiananmen Square at a critical moment is also his wise move, and once he makes a wrong decision, he will definitely be hated for life.