During the Anhui Incident, three generals of the New Fourth Army defected to the Kuomintang.
On January 16, 1941, 10 days had passed since the outbreak of the Anhui Incident. During this time, deputy commander Xiang Ying and his guards have been constantly moving and hiding.
When they came to dakangwang village in Jing County, they were confronted by a single New Fourth Army, and the deputy commander Xiang Ying did not know this person, nor did his guards. This lonely New Fourth Army claimed to be from the New Fourth Army's adjutant's office, and his name was Liu Houzong.
▲ Xiang Ying
Since he was his own comrade, Xiang Ying said: Well, you can go with us! An unexpected encounter, a rescue, a sentence, but it ended the life of General Xiang Ying.
In addition to Liu Houzong, which other generals betrayed the New Fourth Army after the Anhui Incident? What is their ultimate outcome? Today, let's talk about the "end of the traitors" of the New Fourth Army.
On March 12, 1941, Xiang Ying and a group of people came to the Chikeng Mountain Bee Cave, which was very small and could only accommodate 4 people. So Xiang Ying asked deputy chief of staff Zhou Zikun and his guards Huang Cheng and Liu Houzong to live with him in the cave, and the other guards all lived in a grass hut halfway up the mountain.
▲ Liu Houzong
However, what no one expected was that in the early morning of the second day, Liu Houzong actually took up a gun and killed Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun on the spot and fired three shots at the guard Huang Cheng.
As a result, Huang Cheng did not sacrifice and became the only survivor in the honey cave of Chikeng Mountain, and then Liu Houzong took the weapons of Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun and others, as well as the silver dollars, gold watches, fountain pens, etc. he carried with him, and went down the mountain to defect to the Kuomintang.
Logically, Liu Houzong betrayed the New Fourth Army and shot and killed deputy commander Xiang Ying and chief of staff Zhou Zikun, and the Kuomintang should have given him a high-ranking official Houlu! But the truth disappointed him.
After killing Xiang Ying and the others, Liu Houzong hurried down the mountain to the river across taiping county, found the local baochang, and said that he personally killed Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun and others, but the baochang did not believe it and took away the weapons and belongings on his body.
▲ Bao Chang (film and television stills)
There was no way, Liu Houzong ran back to Maolin Town, Jing County, to find a unit of the Kuomintang Military and Political Department, but the company commander of this unit did not believe him. This made Liu Houzong feel desperate, so he prepared to go to the Third Theater Headquarters to report the situation to senior Kuomintang officials.
In Jingde County, Liu Houzong met the county magistrate Li Xiekun, who did not dare to rush to send a special work action team and Liu Houzong to check the situation.
But when they came to the honey cave again, they found that only some candles, combs and other things were left in the cave, and the remains of Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun and the injured Huang Cheng had been transferred.
In this way, Liu Houzong's claim could not be confirmed, so he was sent to the Anhui Southern Administrative Office, and then escorted to Chongqing, where he was directly detained in the Slag Zaidong of the Military Command Bureau.
▲ Slag Zai Cave
This pass was 5 years, until 1948, the liberation of Chongqing was imminent, taking into account Liu Houzong's situation, the Nationalist government gave him a sum of money, and released him.
So what is the final outcome of Liu Houzong? Frankly, this is a historical mystery. Some people say that Liu Houzong hid in a salt shop, but was recognized by Huang Cheng's son and arrested him.
Chen Yi, who was already the mayor of Shanghai at the time, heard that the murderers of Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun had been arrested, and directly ordered that the traitors be severely punished, so in early August 1952, Liu Houzong was executed in Nanchang, Jiangxi.
▲ Chen Yi
There is another theory of the fate of the traitors: during the Chongqing Liberation War, Liu Houzong followed the Kuomintang to break the army, and when he fled on the Sichuan-Chongqing Highway, he died in the rebel army!
As for which of these two statements is true and which is false? No one can judge, but presumably he will not have a good ending.
In the Southern Anhui Incident, in addition to Liu Houzong, two other high-ranking generals betrayed the revolution. If Liu Houzong is just an aide-de-camp, then the person introduced next is a high-powered person.
When the Jiangbei Headquarters of the New Fourth Army was established, a man named Zhao Lingbo served as the chief of staff of the New Fourth Army Headquarters, and in January 1941, when the New Fourth Army headquarters was withdrawn, Zhao Lingbo served as the deputy commander of the First Column.
▲ Zhao Lingbo
Considering that Zhao Lingbo had a large amount of top-secret intelligence, the Kuomintang arranged for Zhao Lingbo to serve as a deputy commissioner, specializing in planning and suppression activities, and Zhao Lingbo's rebellion also brought huge losses to our army.
Later, in May 1942, after Zhao Lingbo disguised himself, he sneaked into the local armed garrison of the New Fourth Army in Anhui. He said that he was a soldier of the New Fourth Army who had been captured in the Anhui Incident and had just escaped from the Kuomintang prison.
However, just a few days after Zhao Lingbo entered the army, he was recognized by Dong Nancai, the instructor of the 2nd Company of the 57th Regiment, and the troops immediately arrested him, but just as the New Fourth Army was escorting Zhao Lingbo to the Northern Jiangsu Military Headquarters for trial, Zhao Lingbo suddenly ran wildly towards the Kuomintang Huangluohe stronghold.
▲ Kuomintang garrison
The escort team immediately began to pursue, and shouted loudly: Zhao Lingbo! Run again and shoot! Seeing that Zhao Lingbo was getting closer and closer to the Kuomintang stronghold, the escort team had no choice but to shoot and kill Zhao Lingbo on the spot.
The traitor introduced next is also a high-powered person, who once served as the director of the training department of the Teaching Corps of the New Fourth Army And the chief of staff of the First Column, and his name was Zhao Xizhong.
After the outbreak of the Anhui Incident, Zhao Xizhong was captured by the Kuomintang. Initially in prison, Zhao Xizhong's performance was still admirable, and in the face of various punishments, Zhao Xizhong was able to grit his teeth.
▲ Zhao Xizhong
However, he did not persist, and finally chose to defect, after which Zhao Xizhong was escorted to the Shangguan Yunxiang Headquarters to confess a large amount of top-secret information. Including the age, name, place of origin, facial features of many leaders of the New Fourth Army, and so on.
It was precisely for this reason that Zhao Xizhong quickly became a guest of honor in the Kuomintang Third Theater and was also appointed as a military instructor in the concentration camp. This work is somewhat special, mainly responsible for the correctional work of the captured personnel.
It is nothing more than saying to the captives by example: As long as you are honest and be a traitor like me, you can enjoy the high-ranking officials. So what happened to this traitor?
In April 1942, the special training class of the Shangrao concentration camp began to retreat, taking advantage of the opportunity, and Zhao Xizhong secretly ran out. A year later, he came to Yiwu and started a small business.
▲ Shangrao Concentration Camp Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Hall
He was soon arrested by the Japanese, and although he was not convicted, he was held until The Japanese unconditionally surrendered zhao Xizhong before he was released from prison.
After the founding of New China, he also became the deputy manager of the Northwest Xinhua Company in Lanzhou, Gansu Province.
Finally, in 1956, Zhao Xizhong's rebellion was exposed, his position was removed, and he was allowed to supervise labor on the spot. On July 17, 1968, he committed suicide by throwing himself into the Yellow River in Lanzhou.
After watching the ending of these three traitors, it is not difficult for everyone to find that their endings are very miserable and have been punished as they deserve. Just as the so-called is not to report, the time has not yet come, good and evil will eventually be repaid, only to fight for early and late.