In 1934, Chiang Kai-shek gathered a million troops and once again planned the "encirclement and suppression" operation against the Red Army. In order to preserve the revolutionary flames, the Party Central Committee decided to avoid the enemy's sharp edge and carry out a strategic shift, and the Red Army began the twenty-five thousand mile long march.
Naturally, Chiang Kai-shek did not want our party's strategy to shift. Seeing this, he issued an order to Liu Xiang's Sichuan army and asked it to immediately send elite troops to intercept the red army that was moving.
After careful consideration, Liu Xiang decided to let Guo Xunqi lead the Sichuan army to "encircle and suppress" the Red Army. What is strange is that the day before leaving, Liu Xiang suddenly and secretly called Guo Xunqi to the front and told him in a serious tone: To give the Red Army a way to live is to leave a way for yourself to live.
Is it true that Liu Xiang saw something extraordinary and saw at a glance that our party would be the final victor in this war?
Liu Xiang is also a brave and resourceful general, he was born in a martial arts family, most of the elders are good men who stand up to the sky, under the influence of the eyes, Liu Xiang also has a dream of defending the family and defending the country.
When he was a teenager, Liu Xiang originally wanted to serve the country through the way of the imperial examination, but the timing was not coincidental, and before he was ready, the Qing Dynasty cancelled the imperial examination, and Liu Xiang, who was still not dead, had to save the country.
After some time, Liu Xiang embarked on the road to ya'an examination, and then successfully became a student of the Sichuan Army Training Institute. Because of his hard work, after graduation, he was successfully escorted to the Sichuan Army Lecture Hall for further study.
In the past few years, through continuous learning and accumulation, as well as fighting to kill the enemy on the battlefield, Liu Xiang's name began to shine. Finally, with his brilliant achievements, he sat on the throne of the commander of the Sichuan Army step by step. Under his leadership, the Sichuan army began to make a name for itself throughout the country, and some warlord troops heard their names before the war and even fled directly.
This situation made Chiang Kai-shek, who was very suspicious, very dissatisfied, and it can be seen from his consistent style that Chiang Kai-shek has always only hoped that his subordinate troops will become bigger and stronger, and once the rest of the forces have a strong trend, he will be deeply plunged into panic, afraid that they will threaten him.
Therefore, during the period when the Sichuan army was gradually growing, Chiang Kai-shek was always seeking ways to reduce its strength, but the Sichuan army was also nominally a Kuomintang army, and he could not persecute us in an open and just manner as he did against our party.
However, this action of "encircling and suppressing" the Red Army gave Chiang Kai-shek the opportunity to weaken the Sichuan Army in a bright light and let them fight with the Red Army, so that they could not only achieve the goal of weakening the Sichuan Army, but also cause his "confidants" the Red Army to suffer losses.
After Liu Xiang received Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, he immediately understood Chiang Kai-shek's true intentions. As a commander-in-chief, how could he be willing to be at the mercy of Chiang Kai-shek? After thinking about it, he had a decision, and in this way, the scene of instructing Guo Xunqi to fight ideas appeared.
In 1935, Chiang Kai-shek asked the Sichuan Army to send three divisions of troops into Qian to "encircle and suppress" the Red Army, and after Liu Xiang received the news, he immediately assigned Liao Ze to lead his troops into Qian to "encircle and suppress" the Red Army. However, Chiang Kai-shek was still dissatisfied, and soon ordered Liu Xiang to send two more divisions of troops into Qian to participate in the battle to "encircle and suppress" the Red Army. Liu Xiang, who was not good at directly refusing, thought of his subordinate Guo Xunqi and decided to let him lead his troops into Qian.
Because he was worried that Guo Xunqi would act recklessly and lose his troops in vain, Liu Xiang also specially asked him to come to Chongqing and explain the battle plan in person.
After Guo Xunqi arrived at the military headquarters on Zuoying Street, Liu Xiang called him to his office and closed the door to talk secretly. During the conversation, Liu Xiang said in a serious tone: "Yizhi, you have been leading troops to fight on the front line, and you have sufficient military experience, I can trust it, but politically, I can't put my mind at ease, so I specially asked you to come back to talk in detail and inform you of the plan." First of all, I want to test you, our Sichuan army is invincible, what do we rely on? ”
Guo Xunqi replied without hesitation: "The gun and the team are united." ”
Liu Xiang nodded, and then said: "Although these two are the capital we rely on for survival, but at present our capital is still very small, we must know how to judge the hour and size up the situation, I clearly tell you that the Sichuan Army is still there, it is based on the contradictions and conflicts between Chiang Kai-shek and the Communist Party, once the Communist Party disappears, it is our turn to suffer next... To give the Red Army a way to live is to give itself a way to live. ”
Speaking of excitement, Liu Xiang couldn't help but stand up and continue to analyze the situation for Guo Xunqi while pacing: "The next action of the Red Army is nothing more than two possibilities: first, cross the Yangtze River, and join the Red Army from tongjiang and bazhong to the south in the rich area of sichuan, recuperate, and strengthen the team; the second may be to pass through the Sichuan border and continue north by road."
In these two cases, the former is a great threat to our survival, and if this is the case, I will have to fight the Red Army to the death with my life. However, this will certainly make Chiang Kai-shek reap the benefits of the fisherman, and I think Zhu Mao is a son of the Liang family and will not choose this two-defeat plan. Nowadays, the call for "redwashing the whole river" is very high, and I have to make relevant preparations. If the second option is chosen, it will not cause me much harm, you just have to bluff behind the Red Army, don't go forward to block it. ”
Guo Xunqi was an understanding man, and immediately took Liu Xiang's words to heart, and strictly followed his instructions in the subsequent battles.
In January 1935, Guo Xunqi was ordered to arrive in Wenshui, Guizhou, and followed the Red Army to Liangcun. In the Xishui area, he received news from his superiors that the main force of the Red Army was approaching Chishui and that it was necessary to carry out operations as soon as possible.
At dawn on January 28, 1935, Peng Dehuai and Dong Zhentang of the Fifth Red Army decided to fight with the Sichuan army troops at Tucheng Qingbanpo. The battle continued until around 10 o'clock, and the enemy still had no tendency to collapse.
With the passage of time, the Encirclement Network of the Red Army gradually encountered a crisis, the central leaders smelled the dangerous atmosphere, and Commander-in-Chief Zhu De personally went to the battlefield and invested the last troops, and the Chen Geng cadre regiment once again gained a firm foothold. In the evening, Lin Biao learned the news and came to support, and the stale battle situation was solved. Subsequently, the Red Army troops disappeared into the fog like ghosts.
On January 30, 1935, Guo Xunqi led a team into Tucheng County, and after the Red Army troops had given up on continuing to attack Sichuan, he immediately led his troops back to the other side of the Chishui River and stopped the pursuit in the name of repairing the troops.
After Pan Wenhua received the news and accused him of inaction, he did not hesitate to follow the Red Army and maintained a distance of one day from the Red Army. Crossing the high mountains and crossing the dangerous land, once he found that the Red Army was heading towards Sichuan, he led the team closer, and away from the Sichuan range, he retreated, and thus escorted the Red Army all the way to the yunnan border before returning to the garrison.
After the mission was over, Guo Xunqi consciously and satisfactorily fulfilled the mission assigned by his superiors, and he happily returned to the army. Chiang Kai-shek and the others failed to achieve their goals and pounded the desk in an angry manner in the office, while Liu Xiang thought that Guo Xunqi's previous actions were very well conducted, and despite Chiang Kai-shek's strong opposition, he insisted on promoting him to the commander of the model division.
However, what Liu Xiang did not know was that Guo Xunqi had already shown favor to the Red Army.
In 1912, at the age of 17, Guo Xunqi joined the Sichuan Army's Western Expedition and followed his troops into Tibet.
From entry to departure, Guo Xunqi stayed in Tibet for three years. During the Sichuan army stationed in Tibet, Guo Xunqi always used his spare time to visit the local Tibetans and experience the local customs and customs, and the long-term relationship also made him have a strong affection for Tibet.
In an interview with reporters, Guo Xunqi once said affectionately: "Tibet has rich mineral resources and is an untapped treasure land, and when I retire from the army, I must be an entrepreneur and develop the local treasures." At that time, there was such a forward-looking consciousness, which was enough to see the avant-garde nature of Guo Xunqi's thought.
Because of this, Guo Xunqi can also understand the revolutionary ideas and propositions of the Communist Party, and will not be resistant like other diehards.
After Guo Xunqi returned to his hometown, he joined the Sichuan Army commanded by Pan Wenhua, and with xiao yong and good fighting skills, he was promoted all the way, first as a company commander, then as a regimental commander, and finally became Pan Wenhua's right and left arm.
In 1921, due to the changing situation in Sichuan, Pan Wenhua led a team to Liu Xiang and was appointed commander of the Fourth Division. Guo Xunqi's status also rose with it, and he was promoted to brigade commander. During the garrison in Wanxian County, through the introduction of the Sichuan general Chen Mengxi, Guo Xunqi became acquainted with his younger brother, Chen Yi.
At that time, Marshal Chen Yi was still an obscure person, but with an inexplicable tacit understanding, the two became close friends at first sight. Chen Yi had just returned to the motherland from abroad and was trying to develop a party organization branch in Sichuan, and during the conversation between the two, Guo Xunqi was influenced by him and his thinking began to change slightly.
In August 1925, Guo Xunqi was also invited to participate in the activities of the Lotus Pond Party Department. During the event, he met Comrade Yang Min (àn), an outstanding party member. At that time, Comrades Yang Mingong and Liu Bocheng were planning an armed uprising among the Sichuan army troops, and Guo Xunqi often participated in the patriotic activities they organized. Guo Xunqi's move also made Liu Xiang suspicious of Guo Xunqi's position.
In September 1926, Liu Xiang, who no longer trusted Guo Xunqi, decided to take action, and he openly promoted Guo Xunqi to deputy division commander, but in fact took the opportunity to take away the military power in his hands.
Later, when our party launched the Lushun Uprising, although Guo Xunqi did not have military power, he had been actively responding to the call of the party organization and providing help to the people within his ability. After the failure of the uprising, the situation of our Party in Sichuan became extremely difficult.
On March 31, 1927, during the meeting of our Party, Liu Xiang led his soldiers into the meeting place and brutally slaughtered the revolutionary volunteers. Most of the participants were teachers and students with no power to react, and before they could react, they were brutally killed by the reactionaries. This is the Trinity Massacre.
After the massacre, Liu Xiang still did not give up the persecution of communists and continued to search for communists throughout the city. Chen Yi and Yang Mingong and others were on the arrest list. Friends have difficulties, how can Guo Xunqi stand by and watch? He secretly hid Chen Yi in his home, and when the Sichuan army came to search, he pretended that Chen Yi was his cousin and saved this general who was vital to our party. After that, Marshal Chen Yi said gratefully before leaving: "Your kindness, he will repay you one day!" ”
Chen Yi successfully escaped, but Yang Mingong was not so lucky. At the time of the massacre, Guo Xunqi found Yang Mingong and advised him to avoid the limelight and wait for the situation to improve before coming out to continue his activities. Considering that the upcoming revolutionary activities in Wuhan still needed him to participate, Yang Minggong politely refused Guo Xunqi's kindness and soon boarded a ship bound for Wuhan.
Anticipating this, the reactionaries had already laid a net on the steamship, and Yang Mingong was arrested as soon as he appeared. In the face of the villain's threats and inducements, Yang Ming shouted in awe: "Even if you cut off my head, you will not be able to shake my revolutionary faith. Subsequently, the enraged enemy escorted Yang Mingong to Futuguan for secret execution.
Before the execution, Yang Mingong did not panic, and in the face of the enemy in front of him, he raised his arms and shouted "Down with imperialism" and calmly went to death. Guo Xunqi, who heard the news, was surprised and frustrated, frustrated that he could not save Yang Mingong, and surprised by Yang Mingong's loyalty to the Communist Party and his tenacious qualities. Later, as a large number of Communists left Sichuan, Guo Xunqi also broke off contact with our party.
In 1931, Guo Xunqi was reinstated as the commander of the Second Independent Brigade of the 21st Army of the Sichuan Army, and led his troops to Hubei to participate in the "encirclement and suppression" of the Honghu Revolutionary Base Area. From then on, Guo Xunqi began to fight with the Red Army.
Will this old friend of the Red Army still have an intersection with our army? What kind of things will he do?
In 1937, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party decided to fight against the Japanese and Kosovo. Guo Xunqi's model division was reorganized into the 144th Division, and Guo Xunqi served as the commander of the 144th Division and led his troops to the front line to resist the Japanese.
On November 25, 1937, Guo Xunqi encountered the Japanese Sixth Division in the area of Jiapu and Jincun on the west bank of Taihu Lake. As soon as they met, the two armies began a fierce battle. The blood-colored struggle continued until the 27th, when Guo Xunqi's unit surrounded hundreds of Japanese devils in a shaling ravine. Seeing the dying and struggling Japanese devils, Guo Xunqi cried out in pain, and he shouted excitedly: Today we must catch a few Japanese devils and go back to see. After saying this, he led several soldiers to rush into the Japanese command post.
During Guo Xunqi's charge, Japanese machine guns have been strafing at everyone, under the sniper of ferocious fire, Guo Xunqi's thigh is injured, even if he has been bleeding, he has not panicked in the slightest, still at the forefront of the charge. The brave momentum shook in all directions, and the warriors all became enthusiastic and charged with him. It was not until the 28th that he was ordered to move the defensive line into friendly hands that Guo Xunqi agreed to be admitted to the hospital, when his wounds were already infected with suppuration.
In the spring of 1938, Guo Xunqi was discharged from the hospital from his wounds and promoted to the commander of the Fifty Army. Guo Moruo personally came to send it and gave a poem:
"There is no need to worry about the broken mountains and rivers, and the recovery of Erjing depends on my generation." This trip to Jiangnan scenery is good, and the encounter should be in Yangzhou. ”
After Guo Xunqi arrived at the garrison point, he found that this side was only 50 kilometers away from Yunling, where the New Fourth Army headquarters was located. Remembering his past feelings, Chen Yi, the leader of a detachment of the New Fourth Army, often brought Yuan Guoping, director of the Political Department, to visit him.
The two often spend three or four days together. During this time, Chen Yi would talk to him about the domestic situation and the situation of the War of Resistance, and also said that after the New Fourth Army entered the enemy's rear to fight, it needed to pass through his defense zone, hoping that he could assist in the battle. After receiving the news, he quickly informed the troops in Nanling and Fanchang to give the New Fourth Army a green light and allow our troops to pass smoothly.
During his tenure as commander, the relationship between the Fifty Army and the New Fourth Army grew closer:
In April 1938, Guo Xunqi led a team to attack the Japanese 116th Division stationed in Wuhu, and sent a letter to the New Fourth Army asking for cooperation. After the battle, as a thank you, he took out 30,000 rounds of ammunition and 1,000 sets of military uniforms at a time to give to the New Fourth Army;
He and the New Fourth Army assisted each other and blew up the Japanese supply route;
He invited Zhao Lingbo, chief of staff of the three detachments, to the Fifty Army to explain guerrilla tactics to the generals, and after receiving Chiang Kai-shek's secret telegram from the communists, he also selflessly shared it with the soldiers of the New Fourth Army, reminding everyone to make preparations early;
After learning that Zhang Yunyi, deputy commander of the New Fourth Army, planned to go north, he also personally led troops to send them to ensure the safety of the New Fourth Army.
In mid-February 1939, The American correspondent in China, Smedley, accompanied by Xia Yuqun, a general of the New Fourth Army, went to the Fifty Army to interview Guo Xunqi. On the same day, the American reporter talked with Guo Xunqi for a long time, and Guo Xunqi has always frankly described his ideas and ambitions for the war. The Smedley Anthology mentions: "That night is unforgettable, and we have a long conversation together, not like a Chinese and a foreigner, not like a soldier and a common man, but like a conversation between two friends in pursuit of a better life." Once again, I felt that China had the most intelligent, brave, and knowledgeable patriotic generals in the world. ”
After some time, Smedley ended the interview and personally wrote a letter to thank the Fifty Army, and Wu Baoji came to take pictures of the soldiers of the Fifty Army, one of which was a full-body photo of Guo Xunqi, and the following was marked "Commander Guo Xunqi of the Sichuan Army." However, Guo Xunqi's friendly behavior towards the New Fourth Army made Chiang Kai-shek very dissatisfied.
In December 1939, Chiang Kai-shek found a ridiculous excuse to dismiss Guo Xunqi from his post and investigate.
After being investigated, Guo Xunqi said sadly: "I fought bravely on the front line to defend the country, and now I have fallen into such a situation, is it not your proposal to jointly resist Japan?" Could it be that beating japanese devils is also a wrong move? The National Government is completely helpless! ”
After receiving the news, Smedley was not worth it for him, saying: "Commander Guo suffered unfair treatment because he was too progressive, and like many young officers, he tried his best to prevent the 50th Army from shifting its guns from the Japanese to the head of the New Fourth Army on the battlefield." ”
Soon after, the "Anhui Southern Incident" occurred that shocked both home and abroad, and Guo Xunqi understood Chiang Kai-shek's true intention to remove him. It can be said that if Guo Xunqi was still serving in the army at that time, there was a high probability that this incident would not have happened.
However, there is no if in the world, after losing his military power, Guo Xunqi was sent to the Army University to study, and after graduation, he was arranged to hold an idle position in the army. It was not until 1948 that military power was regained. Of course, Chiang Kai-shek's sudden use of him was not a conscience discovery, but wanted him to assist Kang Ze to rush to the front line to fight the People's Liberation Army.
Kang Ze had been working as a secret agent before, and he knew nothing about the military, but he had an advantage, that is, he was a member of Chiang Kai-shek's concubine army and was deeply trusted by Chiang Kai-shek. As mentioned above, Chiang Kai-shek is a person who only trusts his own concubines, and the rest of the people will not be reused no matter how strong their abilities are, and even if the qualifications of the subordinates of the concubines are mediocre, they can be entrusted with heavy responsibilities, such as Kang Ze.
Chiang Kai-shek also understood that Kang Ze was a layman, so he decided to arrange a powerful subordinate for him, and that person was Guo Xunqi. At first, Guo Xunqi did not want to go. However, at that time, his situation could not allow him not to agree, plus after agreeing, he could contact the previous troops in an open and honest manner. As a result, Guo Xunqi still took up his post.
However, at that time, their opponent was Marshal Liu Bocheng, and if Kang Ze could listen to Guo Xunqi's advice, his troops might have survived for a while, but he was an arrogant and arrogant man, and as a result, he only fought for 14 days, and all of his troops were annihilated or captured by the People's Liberation Army. Guo Xunqi began to meet his old friends in a different image.
Guo Xunqi was still very nervous at first, but the People's Liberation Army did not embarrass him. Soon, Liu Bocheng and Chen Yi sent a message to the troops: Guo Xunqi is our old friend, please give him the highest standard of treatment.
In August 1948, Liu Bocheng arranged for someone to send him to the Political Department of the Central Plains Military Region. Here, several people reunite.
On this day, everyone talked about the past, and finally, Guo Xunqi made a request to the two marshals to join the party, saying that he would voluntarily return to Sichuan and engage in the sichuan army's counter-rebellion work. The two agreed to his application to join the party and sent Li Genpei to assist.
Unfortunately, on his way back, he was suddenly intercepted by Wang Lingyun's troops in the Thirteenth Appeasement District and was later captured. Some days later, he was escorted to Nanjing and imprisoned in the Central Hospital. It was only after Chiang Kai-shek left the field that the Kuomintang released him. Through these events, Guo Xunqi was completely dead to the Kuomintang reactionaries, and he immediately returned to Sichuan, moving around in the old department and persuading the people to revolt.
The words of the old boss are still very effective, before the People's Liberation Army conquered Sichuan, Guo Xunqi had already plotted against Dong Songheng, commander of the Kuomintang 16th Corps, and Chen Hua, deputy commander of the 90th Army, and formed a Sichuan People's Defense Army, with Guo Xunqi as commander. Before the People's Liberation Army arrived in Chengdu, Guo Xunqi had already sent people to sign a "peace treaty" with the Chengdu defenders, which made great contributions to the peaceful liberation of Chengdu by our party.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guo Xunqi successively served as a member of the West Sichuan Bureau, deputy director of the Sichuan Provincial Sports Committee, and deputy to the Sichuan Provincial People's Congress, and has been doing his best to contribute to the development of new China. It may be that the war years left too many scars on him, and on December 28, 1959, Guo Xunqi died of illness. Since then, the life of a generation of generals has come to an end.