In 1937, when the war of aggression against China broke out in full swing, the Kuomintang and the Communists cooperated again, and the anti-Japanese national united front was formed, it was at this time that Wang Ming, who had been in the Soviet Union for many years, returned to China as a "minister of Chincha", this time, Wang Ming no longer moved to the "left" but to the "right".
After returning to China, Wang Ming soon obtained the post of secretary of the Central Yangtze River Bureau in an attempt to compete with Yan'an in Wuhan, and this time, Wang Ming advocated that "everything passes through the united front," "everything obeys the united front," and "everything obeys the command of Chairman Jiang." ”。
Soon after taking office, Wang Ming held an important meeting in Hankou, and when he talked about the whereabouts of the Red Army in Dabie Mountain, Wang Ming waved a big hand: "Dabie Mountain cannot leave a single soldier or a pawn!" ”。
As soon as this remark came out, it immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of a comrade, who was Gao Jingting, commander of the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army, who angrily said: "Isn't that handing over the Dabie Mountain base area to the Kuomintang?" ”。
"Too arrogant, you are destroying the united front!" Wang Ming was furious.
Gao Jingting added: "The Kuomintang's 170,000 troops did not succeed in occupying Dabie Mountain, but now you want to give it to them. ”。
In the end, the meeting was not happy, and this also laid the groundwork for Gao Jingting's tragic fate.
From peasant to general
Gao Jingting, a native of Guangshan, Henan, was born in a poor local peasant family, his mother died early, his father pulled gao Jingting brothers 6 years to grow up, and also shrunk his clothes and diet to let Gao Jingting study private school for 6 years, but unfortunately because of the family's poverty, Gao Jingting's father was unable to let Gao Jingting go to a higher school.
When Gao Jingting was 16 years old, he began to follow his father to work in the fields, and during the agricultural leisure season, the father and son killed pigs to make a living, and they were busy for a year, which was able to solve the problem of food and clothing.
Soon, the time came to 1926, at this time, the peasant movement on the border of Eyu and Anhui had been vigorously launched, and under the influence of this, Gao Jingting also joined the peasant association and embarked on the revolutionary road.
In 1927, the jute uprising broke out, and Gao Jingting, who was deeply encouraged, began to organize revolutionary activities in his hometown, but unfortunately, the East Window Incident occurred, the local reactionary forces were subjected to revolutionary leaflets and other items in his home, Gao Jingting had no choice but to flee, while his father, wife and his wife's 3 brothers were beaten to death, and his son's whereabouts are unknown.
In 1928, when the peasant revolt in eastern Henan broke out, Gao Jingting once again threw himself into it, because of his outstanding performance, Gao Jingting became a party member, and in 1931, he became the chairman of the Eyu-Anhui Su District Government and concurrently served as the secretary of the Guangshan County Party Committee.
During his term of office, Gao Jingting successively formed revolutionary detachments such as the Guangshan Independent Regiment, the Red Guard Division, and the Guerrilla Division, making great contributions to the growth of the base areas.
In November 1934, during the Long March of the Red Army in Hubei and Anhui, Gao Jingting served as the secretary of the Northwest Anhui Provincial Committee and stayed behind to continue the revolution.
After the departure of the large troops of Eyuwan, the Red Army left in the local area of less than 2,000 people, and it was divided and surrounded in several small Soviet areas.
At this time, in order to completely eliminate the remaining Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek gathered the 25th Army, the 11th Army and the 2 corps of the Northeast Army, numbering up to 170,000 people, to carry out a brutal liquidation and suppression of Eyuwan.
In the face of an enemy hundreds of times larger than his own, Gao Jingting did not retreat, seized the time to reorganize the army, and in December 1934, reorganized the scattered guerrillas into the 218th Regiment of the Red 82nd Division, with more than 900 people, and began to counterattack.
Under the command of Gao Jingting, this contingent of less than 1,000 people interspersed back and forth in the Dabie Mountains, unexpectedly giving the enemy several heavy blows, which greatly encouraged the determination of the Remaining Red Army to resist.
Under the leadership of Gao Jingting and others, the number of the 218 regiment increased without decreasing, and by February 1935, the number reached 1500 people, and it was at this time that Gao Jingting rebuilt the 28th Army.
Because of the good mass base, during the three-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the 28th Army not only did not perish, but on the contrary established and developed new base areas in the areas of Shucheng, Tongcheng, Qianshan, and Huoshan, pinned down a large number of enemy troops, and became a banner for the base areas to persist in fighting.
The defeat in encircling and suppressing Eyuwan also made Chiang Kai-shek jump like thunder, and he successively changed the three commanders-in-chief Liu Zhenhua, Liang Guanying, and Wei Lihuang, but they failed to eliminate Gao Jingting's troops, and in desperation, they actually opened 100,000 oceans to reward Gao Jingting's head.
For the three years that Gao Jingting stayed in Eyuwan, both the chairman and the Zhou Gong gave a very high evaluation.
After the formation of the national united front, Gao Jingting deeply expressed his support and actively cooperated, but he always stressed one point: "We must not lose the fine traditions of the Red Army because of cooperation, and we must maintain the class fraternity and red army style of the past." ”。
In October 1938, the 28th Army was reorganized into the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, and Gao Jingting served as the commander of this detachment.
In the following days, Gao Jingting commanded the troops and fought more than 90 battles with the Japanese puppet army, of which 4 battles with more than a thousand enemy troops and killed more than 2,300 enemy troops, dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese puppet army and greatly encouraging the local people to resist Japan.
However, this famous anti-Japanese general did not fall under the enemy's gun, but was mistakenly killed by his own people.
Death of Gao Jingting
Being able to lead the Red Army that remained in Eyuwan to continue to grow after the departure of the large troops had to say that Gao Jingting's leadership ability was indeed outstanding.
However, at that time, Eyuwan was, after all, in a special period, in the face of the enemy army and white terror that came to clear and suppress, and it was in the case of losing contact with the central authorities, Gao Jingting wanted to unite scattered forces to continue guerrilla warfare, and it was inevitable that he would use some extraordinary means, such as the expansion of "suppression", some comrades were very wronged, and 3 years of monopolizing military and political power also allowed Gao Jingting to develop some arbitrary style.
Of course, these problems can be corrected, and what really "killed" Gao Jingting was his unwillingness to give up Dabie Mountain.
After the formation of the unified anti-Japanese resistance, Wang Ming sat in Wuhan, and he repeatedly stressed that "everything obeys the command of the chairman of the committee", while Gao Jingting became a person who undermined the united front.
Gao Jingting, who was unwilling to give up dabie Mountain, continued to recruit troops and buy horses after the "united front" and strengthen the strength of the New Fourth Army, and these morales were all that the Kuomintang army did not want to see, and constantly put pressure on the newly established New Fourth Army.
Under pressure, in September 1939, Gao Jingting led a team to leave Shucheng and advance in the direction of Hefei, but soon, Gao Jingting returned due to illness.
Gao Jingting's passive response made the head of the New Fourth Army very annoyed, and in order to urge Gao Jingting to withdraw from Anhui as soon as possible, Ye Ting directly ordered: "It is necessary to dispatch for two weeks." ”。
At this time, it was already more sensitive, and as a result, the regimental commanders Yang Kezhi and Cao Yufu, who were trained by Gao Jingting, after attacking the Han traitor group, took all the captured money and property for themselves and defected to the national army...
This move made Gao Jingting a huge suspicion, and on June 4, 1939, Gao Jingting went to the Qinglong Factory in Hefei and was disarmed and detained.
On June 20, 1939, Xiang Ying, deputy commander and political commissar of the New Fourth Army, sent two telegrams to the Nationalist Army and Yan'an, "Planning to shoot Gao Jingting."
Soon, this telegram was transferred to the hands of Chiang Kai-shek, who after reading it, was smiling and smiling, Gao Jingting, who had not been wiped out by the 170,000 troops in those years, was now going to be shot and killed, and how could he not be happy if he could get rid of a big problem in his heart?
So he immediately replied, "Please put Gao Jingting on gun execution!" ”。
Ye Ting, Xiang Ying, and others who received Chiang Kai-shek's telegram did not wait for a reply from the Central Committee and on June 24, 1939, escorted Gao Jingting to the execution ground.
Above the execution ground, Gao Jingting was awe-inspiring in his righteousness: "Please transfer Shi Yuqing (Gao Jingting's wife), send the children to the people to raise, I am a soldier loyal to the workers' and peasants' revolution!" ”。
At the time of his sacrifice, Gao Jingting was only 32 years old, and this famous red army general who was rewarded by the Kuomintang with 100,000 oceans did not die at the hands of the enemy, but died at the muzzle of his comrades' guns...
Shortly after Gao Jingting was killed, Yan'an called and asked Gao Jingting to study in Yan'an, but unfortunately, it is easy to kill people and it is difficult to survive, and this loss cannot be recovered.
After Gao Jingting's death
After Gao Jingting was wrongly killed, his wife was arrested and imprisoned, and in prison gave birth to 1 daughter Gao Fengying, while the four detachments were divided into several units, however, over the years, Gao Jingting's prestige was extremely high, and after his death, more than 2,000 fighters broke away from the ranks.
When the news reached Yan'an, the chairman was very angry, and sent a telegram to question Ye Ting and others: "We let Gao Jingting return to Yan'an, why did you kill him?" ”。
In November of the same year, Zhou Gong and Liu Shaoqi arrived at the headquarters of the New Fourth Army and questioned the relevant personnel: "What is so bad about recruiting revolutionary soldiers and buying revolutionary horses?" Why should we cede the base areas we have opened up to the Kuomintang? ”。
In 1943, when someone involved in the killing of Gao Jingting arrived in Yan'an, the chairman again asked: "Why did you shoot Gao Jingting?" ”。
This shows how much the chairman is heartbroken by the death of this famous general.
At another point, Gao Jingting had a wife and daughter, and when his daughter Gao Fengying grew up, she always tried to find ways to get justice for her father.
In November 1975, with the help of Gao Jingting's old comrades-in-arms and old subordinates, Gao Fengying's letter was placed on the chairman's desk: "...... My father was a revolutionary, not a counter-revolutionary. Why were they killed when it was a revolution?...... I hope to know this conclusion as soon as possible to relieve the political pressure on my mother and daughter. ”。
After the chairman saw this, he immediately asked Wang Dongxing to investigate the matter, and after Wang Dongxing reported the situation to the chairman, the chairman gave instructions: "I intend that this case was not handled properly..."
In 1977, Gao Jingting was finally rehabilitated, and at this time, he had been dead for 37 years...