What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
At the time of the Nanchang Uprising, Cai Tingkai was already the commander of the Kuomintang division, and when General Ye Ting found Cai Tingkai, Cai Tingkai maintained a neutral attitude. However, Ye Ting entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, handing over the entire left wing to him, equivalent to a quarter of the rebel army's troops, and as a result, Cai Tingkai secretly retreated halfway through the uprising. After that, Cai Tingkai led the army to lead the rebellion, fled to Fujian, and defected to Chiang Kai-shek.
But Cai Tingkai is, after all, an old-fashioned officer and a member of the Kuomintang, and his political views are at odds with those of the Communist Party; Coupled with the haste of the war, there was no deeper thinking or even organizational work to follow up, so Cai Tingkai quickly led his troops to escape from the rebel army, and the result was not abrupt.
On January 28, 1932, the Japanese army brazenly attacked Shanghai, and Cai Tingkai and Jiang Guangnai jointly telegraphed the whole country: "The ground is inching and grass, and we cannot give up." At that time, the Nineteenth Route Army and the subsequent reinforcement of the Fifth Army were only more than 40,000 people, almost all of which were light weapons, and in the face of the surging attack of more than 80,000 Japanese troops and aircraft artillery tanks, they were not afraid at all, and fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army for 33 days, forcing the Japanese army to change commanders one after another, with more than 10,000 casualties.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, Chiang Kai-shek, who was quite afraid of his former suspicions, kept appointing some posts without military power to Cai Tingkai, and he finally had no choice but to disarm and return to the field. On the eve of the founding of New China, Cai Tingkai, as a democrat, was invited to Beiping to attend the first session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. After that, Cai Tingkai became the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and became a vice-state official.