In April 1949, when the Battle of Taiyuan ended, the People's Liberation Army captured a large number of Kuomintang prisoners, and our army was anxiously looking for a man named Dai Bingnan among the prisoners.
At the same time, the public security bureaus in Taiyuan City also issued instructions to arrest Dai Bingnan, but after checking the list of prisoners, they did not find Dai Bingnan's name.
However, although Dai Bingnan was not found, he accidentally found the name of Li Shijie, the groom he had been implicated in, and everyone thought that dai Bingnan's whereabouts might be known from him, so the public security personnel immediately took Li Shijie away for interrogation.
Dai Bingnan
Li Shijie felt very panicked at first and did not dare to tell the truth.
In order to make him speak, the public security interrogators conducted a correctional education for him, promising that if he was willing to tell the whereabouts of Dai Bingnan, he could make meritorious contributions to dai and make up for his mistakes. After some ideological struggle, he finally confessed the whereabouts of Dai Bingnan.
It turned out that on the eve of the liberation of Taiyuan, seeing that the People's Liberation Army was now approaching the city, Dai Bingnan knew very well that he had completely finished playing, he knew that he had committed a major crime, and if he was caught by the People's Liberation Army, he would not be spared.
Therefore, in order to save his life, he tried everything to hide it, and did not hesitate to use all kinds of connections to buy merchants and people...
Moreover, in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Dai Bingnan also deliberately let people spread rumors that he was killed by the shells of the People's Liberation Army in the front-line battle, and then arranged for his wife to hold a fake funeral, using "fake death" to confuse the People's Liberation Army and make it relax its vigilance so as to escape the disaster.
But Xu Xiangqian did not believe that he would die so easily, so he still ordered that Dai Bingnan must be found. And later, after being found, the People's Liberation Army, which had always treated the prisoners preferentially, actually executed them after a public trial?
So why did Xu Xiangqian give a death order to arrest Dai Bingnan? What crime did he commit? And what is the identity? In fact, all this is related to a military commander named Huang Qiaosong in the National Army, and he is also the protagonist of the story in our article.
1. Join the military
Huang Qiaosong, whose original name was Huang Dequan, was born in 1901 in Weishi County, Henan Province.
Due to the poverty of his family since childhood, his father could only do long-term work for rich families to make a living, and when he was a child, Huang Qiaosong was also very sensible, and when he had time, he would go to the streets and alleys to subsidize the family by selling small businesses such as twist flowers.
And although the family is not rich, but the father is still very bright, insisting on letting him go to school to learn knowledge, Huang Qiaosong knows that his learning opportunities are not easy to come by, so he is extremely diligent in school, and his academic performance has always been among the best, so he successfully entered junior high school.
At that time, junior high school was also regarded as the ideological frontier of the struggle of intellectuals, and while he studied hard and studied, he was also encouraged by the ideas of some intellectuals in the school, and since then the idea of defending the family and defending the country has been born.
In 1922, when there was a drought, Henan, as a major grain export province, basically died of drought in the field, and the local people were even more bitter and mournful.
Seeing the suffering of the people, he decisively interrupted his studies and chose to join the army, after all, this was the most direct and effective way to save the people from fire and water at that time.
He chose to apply for Feng Yuxiang's cadet corps at that time, but at first he did not succeed in the army, but encountered some minor setbacks, after all, there were height requirements for soldiers at that time, and his height was not enough.
Although he knew that he was not tall enough, and cleverly put a stone brick under his feet, he still failed to pass the pass.
A basin of cold water was poured with hot blood, and Huang Qiao Song was very lost.
Feng Yuxiang
After walking out of the gate, he hugged a large tree and cried bitterly, and at this time, the invigilator who passed by happened to be attracted to this young man, and after asking the reason, the invigilator thought that such an ambitious young man should not be buried, so he admitted him out of the box.
Huang Qiaosong cherished this opportunity very much, so he performed extremely heroically in the army, plus he was quite "inky", so he has always been highly valued by the leaders of the unit, and later when he selected the company commander of the guard for Feng Yuxiang, he was not surprised to be selected, and soon after he was promoted to battalion commander.
When Feng Yuxiang was in the northwest, he had always been close to the Communist Party.
At this time, as Feng Yuxiang's personal guard, he could be said to be Feng Yuxiang's confidant, and Huang Qiaosong would naturally have some contact with the Communists, in fact, at this time he already had a good feeling for the Communists, because the Communists' views and cognition of the true meaning of the revolution were very admirable to him!
In 1930, the Central Plains War broke out between Jiang and Feng and Yan, and Huang Qiaosong participated in the war with Feng Yuxiang.
This huge war lasted for half a year, and finally ended with the Northeast Army joining the war to support Chiang Kai-shek, and Feng Yuxiang was defeated. After Feng Yuxiang's general situation had gone, the remnants he left behind were all incorporated into the 26th Route Army by Chiang Kai-shek.
Huang Qiaosong has since become a member of the National Army.
2. Resist Japan
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Huang Qiaosong at this time had already become the brigade commander of the 79th Brigade of the 27th Division of the 26th Route Army with his personal ability and experience, and he received orders from his superiors to go to the North China Front to resist the Japanese army.
In the face of the menacing Japanese army, Huang Qiaosong knew that only by fighting to the death could there be a glimmer of life.
However, the disparity between the enemy and us was too great, and he knew better that this trip was mostly fierce and auspicious, so before leaving, he personally wrote a farewell letter to his wife Wang Yifang, which said: "Fight with Rikou to the death, he will not die, I will die, and the last moment is today!" ”
It was precisely by virtue of this determination and courage that he made many achievements in the front line, and in 1938 he was promoted to the commander of the 27th Division because of his military achievements.
After the Japanese army occupied Nanjing in 1938, and then invaded Xuzhou on a large scale, Huang Qiaosong followed Sun Lianzhong, the former leader of the Northwest Army, to Taierzhuang in the northeast of Xuzhou to resist, which was also the most glorious battle in Huang Qiaosong's military career.
At that time, after Huang Qiaosong returned to the division headquarters immediately after the meeting, he summoned the backbone of the division headquarters to talk and stressed to them that the campaign was related to the fate of the country and the safety of the nation, and asked everyone to guard Taierzhuang with the conviction that they would die.
Ten days after the official start of the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Nationalist casualties were extremely heavy, but in order to reinforce the defenders in the city, Huang Qiaosong still ordered the 3rd Battalion of the 158th Regiment to lead two companies, namely the Seventh and Eighth Companies, into the city to provide support.
After the troops entered the streets and alleys of the city, they engaged in close hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army, and the two armies were almost fighting house by house, and finally after 3 days and 3 nights of fighting, the Nationalist army held its position - but the more than 130 officers and men who entered the city were now only 57 left.
After suffering a heavy loss, the Japanese army was very angry, and once again gathered heavy troops to capture the position in the northwest corner of Taierzhuang, and in order to regain this key forward position, Huang Qiaosong asked the remaining 57 officers and men of the reinforcements to take the initiative to form a death squad to annihilate the enemy in the northwest corner.
When the chief defense officer of Taierzhuang Saw this righteous act, he was deeply touched and wanted to take out the ocean to reward the daredevils, but everyone shouted in unison: "We don't even want our lives, what do we want the ocean to do?" ”
The desperate fight of the death squads made the Japanese army helpless for a time, so they had to flee in a daze, while the Nationalists recaptured the positions in the northwest corner in one fell swoop, of course, they also paid an extremely heavy price, because there were only 13 left in the death squads.
And after the death squad achieved major results,
Huang Qiaosong also selected more than 200 elite soldiers from the army and formed a new death squad.
Let them bring gasoline barrels filled with firecrackers into the city and drive out the enemy.
In fact, this was also a helpless move, because Huang Qiaosong's troops had already run out of ammunition after a long period of fighting, and if they wanted to win, they could only take a risk like this.
But fortunately, the enemy did not react, after hearing the sound of firecrackers burning, they thought it was machine guns, frightened to flee everywhere, they could not believe that this group of soldiers was not in the hands of machine guns, because it seemed that no one dared to rush to the front line without taking weapons.
But Huang Qiaosong's troops did it,
His soldiers gave almost everything they had to carry out the task given to them by Huang Qiaosong.
With the support of Huang Qiaosong's troops, the Nationalist army not only held on, but also restored a large area of the original position.
Later, reinforcements arrived and ambushed behind the Japanese army, and the Nationalist army joined forces with the outside world and launched a full-line counterattack, and finally won the victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang. And the reason why this battle was able to write a glorious history in the history of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Huang Qiaosong and his troops can definitely be regarded as first-class merits.
After the fame of the Battle of Taierzhuang soared, he also participated in such large-scale battles as the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Henan Interception, and the Battle of Nanyang, among which the Nanyang Defensive Battle was also the last fierce battle during his War of Resistance Against Japan.
At that time, the Japanese army mobilized 70,000 troops and attacked Nanyang in separate ways.
At this time, Huang Qiaosong had been transferred to the commander of the 143rd Division of the 68th Army, and was ordered to guard Nanyang. Before this battle, Huang Qiao Song also prepared a coffin and personally wrote "Huang Qiao Song Coffin" on it, which shows his determination to resist the war!
He commanded the battle during the day, personally visited the position at night, and after seven days and seven nights of fierce fighting, repelled four large-scale attacks of the enemy and annihilated more than 3,000 enemy people.
III. Uprising
Huang Qiaosong participated in the Anti-Japanese War for eight years, almost every major battle has his figure, and basically every battle he is his head pinned to the waistband of the pants to fight, the only thought in his heart is to sweep away the insults, but also the people of the whole country a peaceful and prosperous world.
This was also his original intention of joining the army at that time.
He originally thought that after the surrender of Japan, the people could finally live in peace and contentment, but who expected Chiang Kai-shek to deliberately provoke a civil war. Huang Qiaosong had always been opposed to the civil war, and he was very sympathetic to the suffering of the people in the war.
He believed that these could have been avoided, so war weariness grew stronger. Therefore, shortly after the start of the civil war, he took a long vacation to return to Henan and did not ask about the world.
However, after living in idle life for more than a year, he was forcibly recalled to the army by Chiang Kai-shek, and became the commander of the reorganized 30th Division under Hu Zongnan, which was later changed to the 30th Army.
In July 1948, the War of Liberation had entered its most critical year. Faced with the overwhelming offensive of the People's Liberation Army, Hu Zongnan ordered Huang Qiaosong to reinforce Taiyuan. Huang Qiaosong was naturally extremely reluctant, and in order to avoid sending troops, he kept saying that he was sick and delaying time.
At this time, Hu Zongnan saw that Huang Qiaosong had no intention of leaving, but he did not want his concubine troops to go to muddy waters, so he sent people to urge him many times, and even asked his old superiors Sun Lianzhong, Lu Chongyi and others to go to persuade him.
Hu Zongnan
However, when he came to Taiyuan, he found that the national army at this time was already embattled, and this mess could not be cleaned up by himself, and he knew that if he continued to fight, perhaps this group of brothers who followed his birth and death could only go to death together, so his heart was extremely bitter.
At this moment, Gao Shuxun, a former colleague of the Northwest Army, brought him a secret letter and advised him to "make a decision at the moment and raise the banner of uprising."
- Huang Qiaosong had a good feeling for the Communist Party as early as when he was an errand boy under Feng Yuxiang, and now the Kuomintang reactionaries are bent on going their own way, treating the people and soldiers as grass, which further confirms his determination to abandon the dark and surrender to the light and revolt before the battle.
Therefore, at the end of October 1948, Huang Qiaosong sent the secret report of the uprising to Wang Zhenyu, the leader of the PLA spy team, and others to the PLA, and Xu Xiangqian, the commander of the Taiyuan front, was overjoyed after receiving the determination of the Huang Qiaosong uprising, and personally wrote back to discuss matters related to the uprising.
The reply said: "But the time is urgent, for more careful planning, it is not too late." ”
But just as the uprising was being prepared, the uprising was unfortunately exposed...
At that time, after the matter of the uprising was determined, Huang Qiaosong immediately found Dai Bingnan, the commander of the 27th Division, to negotiate, and in Huang Qiaosong's view, this person was his confidant and could be trusted.
After all, for Huang Qiaosong, Dai Bingnan is a brother who has followed him for 16 years, and he has also single-handedly promoted him from battalion commander to the position of division commander, it can be said that he can have today, relying on himself, and he has always shown great loyalty and has never had any objection to himself.
At first, when Huang Qiaosong told Dai Bingnan of his plan to lead an uprising, Dai Bingnan, although he was somewhat opposed, did not make any radical moves. However, he didn't seem to have much thought on his lips, but behind his back, he reported to Yan Xishan in a negative way, and told Huang Qiaosong all about the plot of the uprising.
He believed that it was unlikely that the Communists would liberate Taiyuan at the moment, because Yan Xishan still had a large army in his hands. And if he fails to follow the uprising, the status and resources that he has struggled for so many years will be completely exhausted, and even his life may not be saved.
On the contrary, if you have done a good job in informing, you will definitely get the reward above. So after weighing the pros and cons, he reported Huang Qiao Song, and at this time he seemed to have forgotten that Huang Qiao Song was the brother he had entrusted to life and death!
Yan Xishan was shocked to hear the news that Huang Qiaosong was going to revolt, and he immediately planned to trap Huang Qiaosong in the name of convening a military conference. However, because the uprising was imminent, Huang Qiaosong was very resistant to this meeting, so he did not go the first time, and did not go the second time.
But the last time Yan Xishan actually sent a car to pick him up personally, Huang Qiao had no choice but to agree to come down, but he didn't expect that he had just gotten off the car, and he was pressed down by a group of guards, and then tied up...
At this time, Huang Qiaosong already understood that he had been betrayed!
Fourth, the ending
Later, the guards found Xu Xiangqian and Gao Shuxun's letters of persuasion from Huang Qiaosong's body, and arrested Wang Zhenyu, the leader of the PLA spy team, jin fu, a liaison cadre of the PLA, and others.
After that, Huang Qiaosong and his party were escorted to Nanjing for trial.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was very angry at Huang Qiaosong's uprising, and he ordered the relevant departments to deal with it seriously, and eventually Huang Qiaosong was shot and killed in Nanjing Prison, and the Communists Wang Zhenyu and Jin Fu who plotted with him were also brutally killed by the Kuomintang reactionaries.
And before they took the righteousness, they still chanted: Long live Chairman Mao Zedong!
Jinfu
Huang Qiaosong's sacrifice is the eternal pain of the People's Liberation Army, and it is also a thorn buried in the heart of Commander Xu Qianqian, so after the liberation of Taiyuan, he will make up his mind to concentrate all the manpower and material resources that can be mobilized to capture Dai Bingnan, because he wants to avenge Huang Qiaosong!
Even if Dai Bingnan wanted the golden cicada to get out of his shell in a fake way, he still did not escape the eyes of Xu Xiangqian and the Public Security Bureau.
After capturing Mafu Li Shijie, according to his account, Dai Bingnan had been hiding in his relative's home, and the address was in the second courtyard of Yinyang Lane of Kaihua Temple in Taiyuan City.
At that time, there were not many households in Yinyang Lane, only two or three households, and it was a dead end, so the public security personnel quickly sent people to find this place under the leadership of the deputy director. And Dai Bingnan seemed to have anticipated such a day, and actually hid behind a closet in the house for eight or nine days.
At that time, after the public security personnel came to his relative's house, they first glanced at the room and did not have the figure of Dai Bingnan, but they still firmly believed that Dai Bingnan must be hiding here, so the public security personnel did not immediately search at first, but gave Dai Bingnan's relatives an opportunity to take the initiative to confess.
Xu Xiangqian
When Dai Bingnan's relatives responded with a panicked look, Dai Bingnan, who was hiding in the closet, seemed to have known that the public security personnel were about to come in to search for him, and he knew that it was useless to hide it now.
So he simply walked out from behind the cupboard, only to see that he was wrapped in a white towel, wearing a black cloth coat, full of beard, extremely pale, very embarrassed, and then hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "I am guilty, I am guilty..."
The police took the photo and identified him as Dai Bingnan, who had absconded, so they handcuffed him and then detained him and took him away.
In May 1949, the Prosecutor's Office of the Special Court of the Taiyuan Municipal Military Control Commission tried Dai Bingnan in public, and at the time of the trial, he confessed to his crimes of making a fortune for promotion, betraying his old friend Huang Qiaosong, and sabotaging the Taiyuan Uprising plan.
Subsequently, the Special Court sentenced Dai Bingnan to death in accordance with the law, followed by an immediate execution. At that time, if it were not for his temporary betrayal, the famous anti-Japanese general Huang Qiaosong would not have sacrificed at all, and the Battle of Taiyuan would not have been so difficult at all, nor would there have been so many senseless sacrifices.
The crimes he committed were too great, so the Pla.E., which had always treated the captives favorably, did not spare him.
In fact, after betraying Huang Qiaosong, Dai Bingnan did receive a reward from the Kuomintang, when Yan Xishan not only rewarded him with 30,000 yuan in cash at a time, but also promoted him to be the commander of the 30th Army, and then Yan Xishan's cronies even introduced him to a beautiful woman to get married.
In short, Dai Bingnan can once be said to be proud of the spring breeze, fame and fortune,
But the glory and wealth he has gained is only a flash in the pan after all, and he must finally pay the price for his sins, be spurned by the people, and be left behind for eternity.