On the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, after a long war of resistance against Japanese aggression and a war of liberation, our Party finally won victory and established a new China. However, the process of revolution is particularly difficult, and there must be different political positions among the various parties.
Of course, no one could predict the future ruling party, so in the course of the development of the revolution, many generals changed from the Kuomintang camp to the Communist Party.
Chiang Kai-shek's selfishness and self-centeredness in advance made many soldiers in the party more and more chilled. The Kuomintang did not really struggle for the sake of the people, and Chiang Kai-shek did not have the mind to worry about the world.
Therefore, many Kuomintang soldiers, after being disappointed in Chiang Kai-shek many times, decided to abandon Chiang Kai-shek and join the Communist Party of China. Breaking away from the Kuomintang and joining the Communist Party, the Nanchang uprising "fled from the battlefield", but was called a famous anti-Japanese general by the Chinese people, what is the superiority of Cai Tingkai?
First, born into poverty
Cai Tingkai was born in Guangdong in 1892, his parents were farmers, the family was poor, and his parents worked very hard to make a living for three meals a day.
Even if life at home is difficult, parents still want their children to read and write, hoping that he will have a career, so their parents send Cai Tingkai to the library to study.
At the age of nine, the death of his mother devastated the difficult family, and the father, a rough cropper, had to work and take care of the children.
In his early teens, in order to help his father share the burden, Cai Tingkai and his sister farmed the land while learning tailoring skills with his father.
Perhaps because of the harsh living conditions since childhood, Cai Tingkai has suffered the hardships of life and can better understand the hardships of the toiling masses. He wanted to save the people, to save China, and to drive away the oppression of the landlords and the old money.
As he grew older, Cai Tingkai reached the age when he should marry his daughter-in-law, so under the leadership of the elders, Cai Tingkai successfully married his wife.
After marrying his wife, Cai Tingkai had discussed joining the army with his wife, but because the two were newly married and had no eyes on the battlefield, it was likely that they would never return.
On the pretext of going out to measure clothes for customers, Cai Tingkai joined the army and signed up for the army. Helplessly, the family could not stubbornly resist him, and in the end they could only go by him.
2. Participation in the uprising
With his own ability, Cai Tingkai became the commander of the Tenth Division of the National Revolutionary Army. It coincided with Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei fighting endlessly every day for the power in their hands.
Signaled by Wang Jingwei, Zhang Fakui ordered Cai Tingkai to hand over the men and horses in his hand to Ye Ting to arrange the overall battle together.
What Cai Tingkai did not expect was that Ye Ting had already planned with Zhou Enlai and others to launch the Nanchang Uprising.
It happened that Cai Tingkai's troops were incorporated into the rebel army by Ye Ting and participated in this plan, but due to the fact that the brother troops were not familiar with each other, Cai Tingkai's division had a small friction with the rebel army, which was not very pleasant.
After returning to Nanchang, Cai Tingkai personally wrote a letter to apologize to the brother troops and returned the materials stolen by his subordinates during the conflict between the two sides to the brother troops.
Ye Ting still trusted him more, gladly accepted Cai Tingkai's apology, and continued to involve him in the uprising, continuing to serve as the commander of the Tenth Division and the deputy commander of the Eleventh Army.
However, after the Nanchang Uprising, Ye Ting and others decided to lead the troops south, and arranged for Cai Tingkai's Tenth Division to explore the way first.
Who knew that Ye Ting trusted him very much,
However, Cai Tingkai was already biased in favor of Chiang Kai-shek, and led more than 5,000 people from the Tenth Division to Chiang Kai-shek and disposed of the cadres who did not cooperate with his work.
3. Famous anti-Japanese generals
This incident had a great impact on the entire rebel army, Cai Tingkai took away a quarter of the people, which made many weak-willed fighters also want to leave.
As a result, the rebel army was severely damaged, and in the process of going south, the number of personnel was decreasing day by day, and there were almost no left after reaching the destination.
Chiang Kai-shek welcomed Cai Tingkai very much, and also promoted him to the rank of commander of the Nineteenth Route Army, and Cai Tingkai led troops to shanghai.
In the September 18 Incident, the Japanese army wantonly slaughtered the Chinese people, and directly and contemptuously told Cai Tingkai to seize the time to lead the Nineteenth Route Army to retreat out of Shanghai.
In the face of the provocation of the Japanese army, the Nineteenth Route Army was very angry and vowed to coexist and die with Shanghai, and Cai Tingkai led the Nineteenth Route Army to counterattack fiercely.
The actions of the Nineteenth Route Army inspired the people, and the masses all participated in the anti-Japanese movement, and Cai Tingkai was also known as the anti-Japanese hero in everyone's mouth.
However, in the process of Chiang Kai-shek's persecution of CCP members, Cai Tingkai also joined in, and Chiang Kai-shek used the Nineteenth Route Army as bait in an attempt to lure more CCP members to persecute them.
After discovering Chiang Kai-shek's intentions, Cai Tingkai and Chiang Kai-shek completely broke up, and he no longer served the Kuomintang.
Traveled extensively through the mountains and rivers, traveled every inch of land, preached patriotism, and attacked the ugly features of the Nanjing government and the machinations and tricks of Chiang Kai-shek against the Communists.
epilogue:
Cai Tingkai's life was full of ups and downs, he was poor in childhood but had great ambitions, although he mistakenly chose the political camp because of his different political positions.
However, after premier Zhou's enlightenment, Cai Tingkai joined our party and became a vice-state-level leading cadre after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Throughout his life, Cai Tingkai thought of the people, worked diligently for revolutionary work, always had kindness in his heart, and did not want to kill innocent people.
The revolutionary cause was undoubtedly difficult, although the political position cai Tingkai chose at the beginning was the Kuomintang.
However, he still had a firm patriotic heart and a revolutionary heart, and like countless revolutionary predecessors, he fought to the end for the cause of the nation and the livelihood of the people.