In November 1948, the Kuomintang troops stationed in the northeast were defeated in the Liaoshen Campaign, and more than 470,000 people were completely annihilated. Under the tight tide of the war, Chiang Kai-shek had the idea of assassinating Li Zongren. Mao Renfeng received the notice and urgently summoned Shen Drunk to Ning to stand by. Everything is ready, just waiting for Chiang Kai-shek's order.
If you are born yu, why is it born bright?
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek's past was like smoke, and one scene after another came to mind.
In August 1926, Li Zongren, commander of the Seventh Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was ordered to the office of The Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek. The business was brief, and the discussion was quickly completed, and Chiang Kai-shek wanted to pull Li Zongren to gossip. Chiang Kai-shek asked kindly, "How old are you this year?" ”
"Thirty-seven years old."
"I'm four years older than you, let's worship."
Li Zongren couldn't believe his ears, and the commander-in-chief of the hall took the initiative to marry Jinlan with his military commander, and anyone felt incredible. Chiang Kai-shek did not give him a chance to resign, took out from the drawer a blue score written on red paper, and forced it into Li Zongren's pocket. Li Zongren cried and laughed, so he had to follow Chiang Kai-shek's wishes and change stickers with him.
In fact, the "love and kill" of the two is like a TV series, the plot is ups and downs, and the performance cannot be finished.
Li Zongren was born in the summer of 1891 in Guilin, Guangxi Province. Due to his family's poverty in his early years, Li Zongren only read primary school for a few years before coming out as an apprentice in a textile factory. Soon, he wanted to join the army and applied for the Army Academy. In 1916, Li Zongren joined the Gui Army, successively serving as a platoon leader, company commander, and gang commander of the Protectorate Army, and participated in the Guangdong-Guangdong War.
Li Zongren had great leadership skills, and at a young age, he knew how to cultivate his own concubine troops. In 1921, he enlisted more than a dozen companies to occupy Yulin together. During this period, it wantonly recruited troops and horses, expanded its armaments, and gradually expanded its power to seven counties in Guangxi.
When his wings were not yet strong, Li Zongren found a big backer for himself. In October 1923, through Li Jishen's introduction, Li Zongren joined the Chinese Nationalist Party led by Sun Yat-sen. Backed by the big tree of the Kuomintang, in 1925, Li Zongren easily defeated Shen Hongying, unified Guangxi, and became the leader of the new Gui warlords within the Kuomintang.
After Chiang Kai-shek launched the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup, Chiang Kai-shek and Li shook hands and said happily, and the "change of stickers and righteousness" occurred during this "honeymoon period." Li Zongren, while fighting with Chiang Kai-shek and The Snake, secretly strengthened the strength of the Gui clan.
Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi
The time for warm affection was always short, and Li Zongren, who was not willing to be subordinate, did not approve of Chiang Kai-shek's poor military and brutal greed. Taking advantage of Wang Jingwei's waves in Wuhan, he, together with Bai Chongxi and He Yingqin, forced Chiang Kai-shek to pass the palace, which was his first attempt to replace Chiang Kai-shek and also laid the foundation for the future breakup between the two brothers.
In order to gain the support of the Gui clan, on August 15, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek reluctantly telegraphed li Zongren as deputy commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army. Unfortunately, the financial support of the chaebols in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has always been only for Chiang Kai-shek. Without a strong economic backing, Li Zongren had more than enough and was short of strength, and only a few months later, in early 1928, Chiang Kai-shek took the opportunity to return.
Since then, there have been constant disputes between Li Zongren and Chiang Kai-shek. Li Zongren held the Gui army in his hands and was strong; Chiang Kai-shek loved and hated him, relying on his army to support the war situation, and it was difficult to tolerate him from time to time "high merit and shock the lord.". Against this background, Li Zongren, while holding important Kuomintang posts such as members of the Central Military Commission and commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army, occasionally made a little "small temper" with Chiang Kai-shek.
In March 1929, Li Zongren participated in the Jiang-Gui War.
In April 1930, Li Zongren supported Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang in fighting Chiang Kai-shek.
In May 1931, Li Zongren united with the Guangdong department
Chen Jitang
Raise the anti-Chiang kai-shek banner.
Li Zongren and Chen Jitang
After all, Chiang Kai-shek is always scheming, and he sees tricks and tricks, and enwei and implements them. This situation continued until the outbreak of the War of Resistance. In the face of the Japanese invading army, Li Zongren was worthy of the bloodiness of the Chinese soldiers. In 1938, during the Battle of Xuzhou, Li Zongren personally commanded a comprehensive victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang, earning enough money and face for Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army. Because of the constraints of the overall situation of the War of Resistance, Li Zongren and Chiang Kai-shek maintained the longest period of peaceful coexistence since they met, and were able to continue into the period of civil war.
In 1948, the People's Liberation Army army approached, and the Kuomintang army was at the end of the road. In order to divert the public's attention, highlight the "democratic" political ecology in China, and block the mouths of Americans, the First National Assembly in Nanjing held its first national election on May 20, through the planning of Chiang Kai-shek.
With the support of Stuart Redden, Li Zongren, a hero of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, was elected "Vice President of the Republic of China" with a majority of the votes.
Chiang Kai-shek, who originally wanted Sun Ke to be the "vice president," had a cold face on the spot, and did not even finish listening to the speech, and then left the scene early. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek had no place to send a fire in his stomach, and watched as his brother with a different surname climbed to a high position of a head of state who was almost equal to himself. The intention to kill Li Zongren continued to rise in Chiang Kai-shek's heart.
In the winter of 1948, as the civil war drew to a close, the Americans began to see Chiang Kai-shek as an outcast. Unwilling to give up their interests in China and the need to support another powerful politician in China, Mr. Li began to enter their field of vision.
In a report to General Marshall, then Secretary of State, U.S. Ambassador to China Stuart Layden noted that liberals or reformists were desperate for Chiang Kai-shek and that "they gathered around Li Zongren." To save the situation, "Lee And his supporters either, just or, might do it." ”
Lee Jong-jen and Stuart Layden
The attitude of the Americans made Chiang Kai-shek sit on a needle and weigh it again and again, thinking that killing Li Zongren would make the American plan fail and make the Gui clan leaderless, so that he could finally profit. Therefore, at his personal instruction, Shen Drunk began to prepare for the assassination of Li Zongren.
Shen Drunk was a seasoned military command agent, in order to prevent Li Zongren from suddenly leaving Ning, he first bought a wooden house in front of Jiangnan Railway Station, and sent agents disguised as smokers to monitor day and night. He also rented a façade on the necessary road of the Guanghuamen Outer Airport, opened a small shop, arranged personnel to monitor, and arranged eyeliner in a small hotel on the side of the road from Tangshan to Hangzhou. After blocking Li Zongren's escape routes, he sent his cronies to open a tavern opposite the gate of Li Zongren's house, intending to befriend Li Zongren's guards and retinues so that they could inquire about the news at any time.
Li Zongren was kept in the dark and had no idea, he just felt that when he went between his apartment and his office every day, there were many strangers around him, and he naively thought that the Nationalist government had strengthened the security of his vice president. In fact, in the corner where he was not paying attention, the two sharpshooters Qin Jingchuan and Wang Hanwen, who were drunk and looking for him, had already unconsciously stepped on the dot several times.
Intoxicated
Chiang Kai-shek made it clear that if you do something outside Nanjing, you don't have to wait for his orders; if you do in Nanjing, you must wait for his final decision.
Shen Drunken later recalled that during the time he was waiting for the assassination order, he and Qin and Wang slept with pistols and clothes every night, and the gun contained a special warhead soaked in severe poison. Not only that, Mao Renfeng also specially ordered a fighter plane of the Air Force to be on standby at any time, planning to shoot down Li Zongren directly while he was traveling by plane and create an "air disaster."
The final escape for Li Zongren was the total defeat of the Kuomintang in the Battle of Huaihai in January 1949. Chiang Kai-shek lost absolute superiority and had to announce his resignation again, and Li Zongren took the "presidential" duties. He planned that he would retreat behind the scenes and let Li Zongren come forward to negotiate peace with the CHINESE Communists and seek the political purpose of "ruling across the river." He suppressed his murderous intentions against Li Zongren. On January 20, Mao Renfeng informed Shen drunk that the assassination plan of Li Zongren was canceled.
At this point, this "brotherly dispute" between the Kuomintang bigwigs came to an hasty end and was annihilated in the dust of history.