In 1948, when the War of Liberation entered a critical period, Chairman Mao personally came to the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region for inspection. At this time, Nie Rongzhen, commander of the North China Military Region, was making pre-war preparations and arrangements for the Liaoshen Campaign. After conducting some inspections, Chairman Mao ordered someone to transfer the archives of various senior commanders and generals of the North China Military Region to check them. When Chairman Mao saw Huang Shoufa's file, he was furious and immediately sent a telegram to Nie Rongzhen, the content of which was very brief and only seven words: "Immediate execution of Huang Shoufa"! Who is Huang Shoufa? Why did Chairman Mao become so angry and order an immediate execution? What crime did he commit?
Huang Shoufa is a native of Liancheng County, Fujian Province. He was born in 1911 to a poor family in Liancheng. Like all the children of the poor people at that time, they had to work for the landlord's family from an early age to earn a meager income. The young Huang Shoufa gave the landlord cattle and worked as a mason. The difficult life has caused Huang Shoufa to have the seeds of rebellion since he was a child, and he longs for one day to end such an exploited life. In 1929, Chiang Kai-shek of the Kuomintang mobilized six brigades of troops to begin encircling and suppressing the Jinggangshan revolutionary base area. In order to smash Chiang Kai-shek's encirclement and suppression plan, Chairman Mao and others decided to transfer the main force of the Red Fourth Army to the outside line to develop revolutionary base areas, increase the ranks, and carry out a favorable blow to the Kuomintang troops that came to encircle and suppress them. After the meeting, Chairman Mao and Zhu De led the main forces of the Red Fourth Army to open up new revolutionary base areas in Gannan and Changting and Yongding in western Fujian. The arrival of the Red Army contingent led by Chairman Mao and Zhu De gave Huang Shoufa hope. At that time, many young people like Huang Shoufa joined the ranks of the Red Army. Among them were Huang Shoufa, Yang Chengwu and Luo Yuanfa. Huang Shoufa was not immediately assigned to the Red Army, but became a member of the Red Guards, and a year later, because of his outstanding performance, he was assigned to the Third Army led by Peng Dehuai. Yang Chengwu, who joined the army with him, became a member of the Red First Army under the leadership of Lin Biao and Nie Rongzhen. Luo Yuanfa became a member of Luo Binghui's Ninth Army. Although they had different starting points and belonged to different legions, in the subsequent revolutionary career, the three were magically brought together.
Huang Shoufa and the three of them were quickly promoted in their respective armies due to their outstanding performance in battle. Especially after the end of the 25,000-mile Long March, all three were promoted to division-level cadres, and coincidentally, all three were in the Red First Division. At that time, Yang Chengwu served as the political commissar of the Red First Division, and was later promoted to the position of division commander. Huang Shoufa served as chief of staff, and Luo Yuanfa served as director of the political department. In 1937, with the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Red First Division was reorganized into the Independent Regiment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. But the three men had different ranks in the military. Yang Chengwu was appointed head of the Independent Regiment, Luo Yuanfa served as the director of the Political Training Office, and Huang Shoufa was appointed as the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the Independent Regiment. Although they are divided into different levels of positions, the cooperation of the three people in the battle is very tacit.
In September 1937, Lin Biao, who was the commander of the 115th Division, decided to cooperate with friendly forces in the area of Pingxingguan to annihilate the Japanese Miura detachment attacked by Lingqiu in one fell swoop. Yang Chengwu, commander of the Independent Regiment of the 115th Division, led the first and second battalions of the Independent Regiment and the third battalion of Huang Shoufa to the town of Zhai and concealed an ambush in the waist station area to block the Japanese troops who came to reinforce. On the morning of September 24, when Yang Chengwu led Huang Shoufa and others to the designated combat site, they encountered a Japanese army that came to reinforcements head-on. When Yang Chengwu saw the Japanese troops wearing yellow military uniforms and steel helmets, he gave an order to shoot at the Japanese troops. The Japanese were caught off guard and turned around in a hurry and ran. After repelling this small group of Japanese troops, Yang Chengwu immediately made battle arrangements, the first battalion was responsible for frontal blockade, the 2nd battalion marched to the town of Sanshan, northeast of Lingqiu, and cut off the road to Lingqiu before the enemy arrived, blocking the Japanese troops who might pass through here to reinforce, and Huang Shoufa led the soldiers of the third battalion to be responsible for ambushing in the area of Baiyang Fort and Anjia.
The Japanese, who had been repulsed by the Independent Regiment, quickly made contact with their superiors, and the Japanese sent a squadron of Motoyama to reinforce and attack the Chinese troops around the waist station. Yang Chengwu led the strength of the three battalions of the Independent Regiment to engage in a fierce battle with the Japanese army, and the Japanese army, which could not distinguish between the virtual and real Japanese troops of our army, suffered losses in the battle. They took the opportunity to occupy Stagecoach Ridge and wait for reinforcements. Stagecoach Ridge was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the soldiers of the Independent Regiment were difficult to capture for a while. The two sides have formed a confrontation here. The next day, Japanese reinforcements arrived, and under the arrangement and deployment of the regimental commander Yang Chengwu, the three battalions led by Huang Shoufa and the other two battalions cooperated with each other to repel the enemy and won the battle of Pingxingguan. The first victory of the Independent Regiment! After the victory of Pingxingguan, the independent regiment's team grew rapidly, and the independent regiment, which originally had only 1,700 people, developed into a team of more than 7,000 people in a short period of time. The superiors decided to reorganize the independent regiment into the First Military Subdistrict of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region and the Independent First Division of the Eighth Route Army. The teams of the former Independent Regiment were reorganized into three regiments. Yang Chengwu served as the commander of the First Division, Huang Shoufa served as the commander of the Second Regiment of the Independent First Division, and Luo Yuanfa served as the political commissar of the First Regiment. Half a month later, the superiors readjusted the First Division. Huang Shoufa, who had the concept of the overall situation, took the initiative to give up the post of commander of the second regiment, with Wang Tiancun from Yan Xishan's troops as the leader of the second regiment, and Huang Shoufa became the deputy regimental commander of the second regiment. In March 1939, Huang Shoufa was appointed chief of staff of the First Military Sub-district under the recommendation of division commander Yang Chengwu.
In October 1939, the first sub-district of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region held a training and review meeting in Yi County, Hebei Province, and all the regiments under the first sub-district formed a representative team to participate; Yang Chengwu, as the commander of the independent division of the first sub-district, also came to the military region for a meeting; Luo Yuanfa also left the first sub-district because he wanted to do a happy event, and the only important commander who remained in the first sub-district was Huang Shoufa, chief of staff. At this time, the Japanese troops stationed in Zhangjiakou suddenly gathered the strength of two brigades and began to carry out a retaliatory sweep of the Jin-Cha-Ji First Military Sub-district. After receiving the information, Huang Shoufa made a combat deployment and repelled the enemy's sweep.
However, within a few days, the Japanese army, which was not willing to lose, immediately made a comeback, this time they dispatched the 2nd Brigade of the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade, and the commander of the 2nd Brigade was staying in Abe Norihide, who was known as the famous Japanese general Nobuhide. This time, Abe Norihide led a total of more than 1,500 troops to attack in the direction of Yansu Cliff and Yinfang. Yang Chengwu and Huang Shoufa decided after research and were killed
Six regiments, including the 1st, 3rd, and 25th Regiments, were thrown into battle, and they first used a small number of troops as bait to move Abe Norihide to the areas favorable to our army, and then annihilated them in one fell swoop. On November 5, under the command of Yang Chengwu and Huang Shoufa, the 3rd and 1st guerrilla detachments lured the enemy deep into Si gezhuang and other places. Abe Norihide came to Si Gezhuang and pounced, and in anger began to burn and loot all the way, and on the 6th, the angry and demoralized Abe Norihide entered the ambush circle set by Huang Shoufa in the Loess Ridge area. There is a canyon near Loess Ridge, which is the best place to ambush. At this time, Abe Norihide reacted that he could face the danger of being annihilated at any time. So Abe Norihide tried to take a detour back to Genjo, but Huang Shoufa, who had been waiting here for a long time, would make Abe Norihide retreat. The two armies fought fiercely here.
The 1st and 25th Regiments of the Independent First Division, which were ambushed here, shot at the enemy from the front, while the 3rd and 2nd Regiments encircled the enemy from the south, north and west. After a fierce battle, Abe Norihide took refuge with his remnants in the highlands northeast of Shangzhuangzi. Abe Norihide installed the headquarters in the home of a resident on Zhuangzi. Seeing that the Japanese army was hiding in Zhuangzi and did not come out, Huang Shoufa sent the first regiment to secretly go around to check, and the leader of the first regiment just happened to find a group of Japanese officers meeting in the house during reconnaissance, but the leader of the regiment did not know that it was Abe Norihide sitting inside. Maybe it was Abe Norihide's death, but he sat in the room but opened the door after the disaster. The leader of the regiment saw this scene and did not say anything at once, he ordered someone to transfer all the mortar shells of an artillery company to load, and the targets were all concentrated in the hut where Abe Norihide was located. At the order of the regimental commander, the shells went straight to Abe Norihide to shoot, and with the sound of the shells bombarding, Abe Norihide cried out for his life. It was not until a few days later, when the Party Central Committee of Yan'an sent a congratulatory message to Yang Chengwu, that Huang Shoufa and Yang Chengwu learned that Abe Norihide had been shot and killed.
Huang Shoufa also became famous for the Battle of Loess Ridge, and his combat command ability was also recognized by the leaders of the Party Central Committee. Even Sun Yi, a famous general of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, said to Huang Shoufa, "You are very good at fighting, and you can report directly to Commander Nie Rongzhen in future battles, and you don't need to ask me for instructions again." After that, Huang Shoufa became nie Rongzhen's right-hand man. In the subsequent Battle of Yangeya, Huang Shoufa, who could fight and could fight, successfully attacked hundreds of Japanese cars and more than ten tanks with only 3 companies of troops. And won a great victory in the battle, capturing a large amount of loot for the army. At this time, Huang Shoufa was still a good cadre who struggled hard and shared the hardships of the soldiers, although he had an impatient personality and some temper, but the military merits he established made people ignore these small shortcomings in him.
In 1942, because of his outstanding military achievements, Nie Rongzhen appointed Huang Shoufa as the commander of the Pingxi Eleventh Military Subdistrict, and Xiao Wenjiu as deputy political commissar to assist Huang Shoufa in his work. Perhaps it was that huang Shoufa, who was not very comfortable with Yang Chengwu's old partner, and who had a straightforward and somewhat extreme personality, did not handle well his relationship with other commanders of the military sub-district, especially with Deputy Political Commissar Xiao Wenjiu, and there was an irreconcilable contradiction. In an argument, Huang Shoufa actually punched Xiao Wenjiu in the face. Huang Shoufa was also removed from his post, and under the intercession of his old partner Yang Chengwu, he returned to Yang Chengwu's command.
In 1944, Huang Shoufa was appointed deputy chief of staff of the Jizhong Military Region. If there is no accident, Huang Shoufa will also be awarded the rank of general after the founding of the country. However, the next thing completely ruined the fate of Huang Shoufa's life. Huang Shoufa had a married wife named He Yin, who was born in Tianjin and was originally the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Tianjin. His father was very famous in the Tianjin area. Born into a rich family, He Yin should have lived a life of worry-free and rich food and clothing. However, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, He Yin embarked on the revolutionary road together with many aspiring young people at that time. He Yin joined the Eighth Route Army. Because of his education and education, He Yin learned radio telegraph technology under the arrangement of the organization, and after completing his studies, he was sent to the Jizhong Military Region to become a telegraph operator.
In 1939, when Huang Shoufa, who was already 28 years old, was still alone, colleagues around him began to enthusiastically connect him to meet He Yin. Under the mediation of outsiders, He Yin and Huang Shoufa slowly developed feelings and finally entered the palace of marriage. As a result, the two have become a model couple that everyone envies.
Because Huang Shoufa held a higher position in the army, the army assigned Huang Shoufa and his wife a separate courtyard to live in. However, with Huang Shoufa's continuous promotion in the military, he also began to become more arrogant, and he began to despise He Yin in his life. After He Yin gave birth to her daughter, because she was busy at work, she asked a young nanny to help with the child. As a result, the good times did not last long, and He Yin, who was pregnant again, found that an improper relationship between her husband Huang Shoufa and her nanny had occurred. He Yin was angry and had an argument with Huang Shoufa, and warned Huang Shoufa to break off his relationship with the nanny, otherwise he would expose Huang Shoufa's life style to his superiors. However, at this time, Huang Shoufa was in love with the nanny, and Huang Shoufa, who had lost his mind, not only did not restrain himself, but twice wanted to instruct his guards to kill He Yin. The guards did not follow Huang Shoufa's orders. Fearing that the scandal would be revealed, Huang Shoufa took matters into his own hands and shot and killed He Yin and the child in her womb at home. After killing his wife, Huang Shoufa also disguised the crime scene as the illusion of his wife's suicide. However, under the investigation of the Military Sub-district Security Department, Huang Shoufa's crimes were eventually exposed.
However, at this time, the civil war had already broken out, and it was precisely the time to employ people, and Nie Rongzhen considered that Huang Shoufa was an old revolutionary and had established countless battle achievements, so he thought of letting Huang Shoufa go to the battlefield to make meritorious deeds. Therefore, Huang Shoufa's wife murder case was shelved. It was not until June 1948 that Chairman Mao himself came
In the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, Huang Shoufa's wife murder case was only discovered. Chairman Mao was extremely indignant, and Chairman Mao said that Huang Shoufa's killing of his wife and the resulting death of one corpse and two lives was an act of extermination of humanity, and it was even more an embodiment of the old warlord ideology, and that the unforgivable crime must be severely punished, and the whole army should be informed to set an example. So Chairman Mao ordered a telegram to Nie Rongzhen, ordering that Huang Shoufa be executed. Chairman Mao's order made the whole PLA army begin to wake up to itself and corrected the atmosphere of the whole army. The Son of Heaven has committed the same crime as the common people, so even if the old revolutionary, even if he has made military merits, cannot be a reason for harming heaven and harming reason.