As we all know, in 1941, there was a tragic anhui incident. Nearly 10,000 people died, more than 1,000 people disappeared, more than 4,000 were captured, and only more than 2,000 stood out. Xiang Ying, deputy commander of the New Fourth Army, was killed, and Commander Ye Ting was detained and held by the Kuomintang reactionaries until 1946. Later, Ye Ting just got out of prison and was killed in a plane crash.
In this incident, there were three high-ranking generals and traitors above the regimental level. They lost faith in the revolution and hoped that the rebellion would be exchanged for glory and wealth, but as a result, their rebellion not only failed to exchange for wealth, but also peace, and the final result was that all of them did not die well.
The first is Zhao Lingbo. At that time, the New Fourth Army was divided into three columns, and Zhao Lingbo served as the deputy commander of the first column. After being captured in the Southern Anhui Incident, he defected to the enemy.
This person first joined the Sichuan Army of the National Revolutionary Army and was nominally under the administration of the Kuomintang. Later, he was captured by the Red Army during the battle to encircle and suppress the Red Army, and in order to save his life, Zhao Lingbo quickly submitted to the Red Army. After that, he contributed all the information he had about the Sichuan Army to our army. Later, he joined the Communist Party and later became a general in the Red Army and the New Fourth Army.
After Zhao Lingbo defected to the enemy, he became a small leader of the Kuomintang against our party. After our spies grasped the situation, they immediately reported it to the organization, and the organization immediately launched an action plan to capture Zhao Lingbo alive.
Because Zhao Lingbo was closely guarded by the enemy, he himself rarely went out, so it was difficult for us to arrest him. In May 1942, Zhao Lingbo boldly disguised himself and infiltrated the local armed garrison of the New Fourth Army in Fanchang, Anhui Province, preparing to obtain intelligence from our side.
After Zhao Lingbo entered our garrison, he lied that he was a soldier captured in the Anhui Incident, and now he has just escaped and returned to look for the organization. Unfortunately, Zhao Lingbo put on makeup so much that he couldn't even recognize himself, but he was recognized on the spot by an instructor in the army at that time. Stepping on the iron shoes is nowhere to be found, it takes no effort at all, and I am worried that I can't catch it, but I have sent it to the door.
In order to paralyze Zhao Lingbo, Li Wuben of the regimental headquarters led a team to "escort" Zhao Lingbo to the headquarters of the Seventh Division, and Li Wuben neither broke nor tied up. When they reached a place halfway closer to the Nationalist stronghold, Zhao Lingbo, who had already noticed the abnormality, immediately rushed in the direction of the Nationalist Army. Li Wuben and the others got up and chased after them, and shouted, "Zhao Lingbo don't run, if you run again, he will kill you!" Zhao Lingbo pleaded while running: "Li Wuben, I have no hatred with you in recent days, so why force me like this, you let me have a way to live!" "After saying that, continue to run wildly. Li Wuben saw that Zhao Lingbo was about to escape, and raised his gun to kill him.
The Kuomintang has always attached little importance to traitors, and they will only assign some very dangerous tasks to the traitors, and even if these people die, they will not be sorry.
The second traitor was zhao Xizhong, who was capricious and had a lot of experience.
In the early days, Zhao Xizhong defected to the relatives of the commander of the National Revolutionary Army, and later entered the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and joined the Kuomintang in 1926. In 1927, he came to Hubei with Chairman Mao to fight against local tycoons and inferior gentry, and joined the Communist Party in the same year.
In 1929, Zhao Xizhong was arrested by the Kuomintang reactionaries, and during his imprisonment he was tortured and never betrayed the enemy, at this time his revolutionary belief was still relatively firm. A year later, Zhao Xizhong and another fellow inmate designed to get the keys from a group of husbands, and they opened the prison door and escaped from the prison.
Zhao Xizhong, who escaped to heaven, did not return to the organization, but came to Yang Hucheng's team and became a company commander of a machine gun company.
In July 1935, when Zhao Xizhong led a company to encircle and suppress the Red Army, a temporary uprising caused Yang Hucheng's first police brigade to suffer from the enemy and eventually destroyed the entire army. Zhao Xizhong then returned to the Red Army as a military instructor in the 25th Army.
At the time of the Anhui Incident on January 7, 1941, Zhao Xizhong was already in a high position, the chief of staff of the first column, and the same level as Zhao Lingbo mentioned earlier. After being captured, Zhao Xizhong did not strengthen his conviction this time, and he gave all the information of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui, including the number of people, equipment, deployment, and the names of the chiefs. Zhao Xizhong's rebellion caused great losses to our army, which was also the main reason why he did not end well later.
In April 1942, when the Japanese army was raging, Zhao Xizhong, as a prisoner, used his skills to escape. Zhao Xizhong stole the back door of the camp in the middle of the night when everyone was asleep and ran out.
But unfortunately, Zhao Xizhong, who had just run out, immediately encountered the Japanese army, and because he did not have a "good citizen certificate", he was arrested by the Japanese army. After working for the Japanese army for half a year, Zhao Xizhong was released.
Probably feeling that he was not the material of the revolution, Zhao Xizhong did not continue the revolution after escaping from the palm of the Japanese, but came to Zhejiang to start a small business. I don't know what Zhao Xizhong did, but when he was doing small business, he was sentenced to death by the Japanese army for "seriously endangering social order". Later, the Japanese did not carry out the death penalty, but held him until the end of the war and surrender.
After his release from prison, Zhao Xizhong went into hiding and lived in small business. After liberation, he entered the revolutionary ranks again through the introduction of Zhao Boping, then secretary of the Xi'an Municipal CPC Committee. Later, Zhao Xizhong successively served as the deputy manager and secretary of the Northwest Xinhua Company in Lanzhou, Gansu.
In 1956, a repression campaign was carried out in various places, and the fact that Zhao Xizhong had betrayed the enemy in the 1941 Anhui Incident was gradually exposed, and his post was completely revoked.
During the special period, Zhao Xizhong's problems became more and more serious, and he was repeatedly censored and criticized. In 1968, Zhao Xizhong completely lost hope in the future and jumped into the Yellow River himself.
The third is Liu Houzong. This person was morally corrupt and misbehaving, and in the early days of his participation in the revolution, he often took advantage of the people's homes and flirted with the women of the good family. The organization is well aware of its virtue, so it has not arranged important posts for it, so Liu Houzong complains about the organization.
After the Anhui Incident, Xiang Ying, deputy commander and political commissar, Zhou Zikun, deputy chief of staff, and Huang Cheng, a guard, met Liu Houzong in the process of breaking through. At this time, Xiang Ying did not know Liu Houzong, but after hearing that he was a comrade, he took him with him. Then they came to a cave called Bee Cave.
The cave is small and can only accommodate four people to rest. Xiang Ying, Zhou Zikun, and Huang Cheng rested in the cave and allowed Liu Houzong to live together. In the early hours of the morning, Liu Hou saw that everyone was asleep, so he pulled out his gun and shot at Xiang Ying without hesitation. Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun were sacrificed on the spot. Although the guard Huang Cheng was shot three times in a coma, he finally escaped death, and it is precisely because of this that the fact that Liu Houzong's defection was confirmed.
Liu Houzong thought that everyone had died, so he stole all their belongings and then went down to the mountain to defect to the Kuomintang.
Liu Houzong first found a local baochang, and without saying a word, he first confiscated the property that Liu Houzong had just collected from Xiang Ying and others, and then drove Liu Houzong out. This bao chang did not believe what Liu Houzong said at all.
Liu Houzong ran to a company of the Kuomintang Military and Political Department, and the company commander did not believe the fact that Liu Houzong had killed Xiang Ying and others. Liu Houzong had no choice, so he changed his name, pretended to be a spy, and came to Yuping Township to ask the Kuomintang township officials to send him to the theater headquarters. Township officials did not send him to the headquarters, but escorted him to the county government.
In order to confirm what Liu Houzong said, the county magistrate sent people to follow him to the bee cave to check, and as a result, the remains of Xiang Ying and other martyrs had been transferred, and Liu Houzong did not find them. In addition, when our party branch heard that the traitor Liu Hou was coming, it immediately sent someone to arrest him. Liu Houzong fled as soon as they found out.
After returning home, Liu Houzong was judged to be lying by the Kuomintang, so he was imprisoned. It was not until 1948 that the Kuomintang released him, and before his release, he was given a sum of money.
Liu Houzong came to Xinyu County, Jiangxi Province, and worked as a manager of accounts in a salt shop. In 1952, when the deputy director of the Xinyu County Public Security Bureau of New China was routinely checking household registration, he stumbled upon mr. Liu Houzong who was very familiar with the accounting room of the salt shop, much like Liu Houzong he had seen when he was serving as a guard for Deputy Chief of Staff Zhou Zikun.
Liu Hou's accent, combined with his fragmentary response, made the deputy director more suspicious of his identity, so he was arrested. Later, it was confirmed that this person was indeed Liu Houzong, the murderer of Xiang Ying Zhou Zikun.
When Chen Yi heard about this, he was indignant and instructed the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee to shoot this person as soon as possible. In August 1952, Liu Houzong was shot in Nanchang.
Among these three traitors, Zhao Lingbo and Liu Hou committed a terrible crime that was extremely unforgivable. As for Zhao Xizhong, we can see from his revolutionary career that he still has feelings for communism, but he will not hesitate to betray the organization for his own future, which is a great harm to the revolutionary cause in any case, and it has also caused irreparable harm to his own revolutionary beliefs.