In 2009, CCTV Eight broadcast a TV series called "Jiangyin Fortress", which told the story of Tang Binglin and Tang Binglin, an underground member of our party
The story of Yu and others fighting with the Stronghold Nationalists, this TV series achieved good ratings at the time, and the audience also praised it, because there was indeed such a story in history.
In 1991, in the fourth issue of biographical literature published by Baodao, it was written that "Jiangyin Fortress was destroyed by Tang Jiaban", which shows how hard the lost Jiangyin Fortress hit them.
The terrain is dangerous
Jiangyin Fortress is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the title of "there is a gateway to the river and the sea", since ancient times is a military stronghold, from the history books, during the Southern Song Dynasty, Xin Abandoned Disease once defended the enemy here, to the Battle of the River Crossing, Chiang Kai-shek attached great importance to the Jiangyin Fortress, deployed more than 7,000 people, there are more than 70 long-range fortress guns, equipped with 36 cannons of cannons, such a large scale of artillery groups, coupled with the construction of trenches, bunkers, formed a strong defense system, Tang Enbo also boasted: "Jiangyin Fortress is an iron defense line. ”
However, it was such a "defensive line of iron strikes" that when the millions of male divisions of our army were about to cross the river, the Jiangyin Fortress, which was like an iron barrel operated by Chiang Kai-shek, actually hit the artillery fire on his own people's position and fought a oolong war, which made Chiang Kai-shek very angry and immediately asked Mao Renfeng to thoroughly investigate the matter. This has to start with the previous Commander of Jiangyin Fortress.
Jiangyin Yangtze River surface
Two commanders of Jiangyin Fortress
The original commander was Kong Qinggui, Kong Qinggui was born in 1894, after the victory of the War of Resistance, he was already more than 50 years old, because he was old and was also reported for corruption, Kong Qinggui made a lot of money, in order to protect himself, he chose to take the initiative to abdicate and resigned. Since the Jiangyin Fortress was very important, Chiang Kai-shek was not at ease, so he asked the Ministry of National Defense to select five people and choose one of them.
Chiang Kai-shek believes that jiangyin fortress is a military powerhouse, but some people think it is a good place to fill their own pockets and fill their own money bags, such as Kong Qinggui, the fortress is equipped with checkpoints, and the Jiangyin fortress is the main road for north-south transportation. As soon as the news that the Ministry of National Defense wanted to select 5 people came out, Hu Zongnan sponsored one, and Kong Qinggui also recommended the "own people" of the Jiangyin Fortress to serve as the commander of the fortress, so that they could cool off under the big tree.
Dai Rongguang
Dai Rongguang was the director of the Military Engineering Department of the Army Headquarters at this time, but he was also on the recommended list, because he and Gu Zhutong were related, Gu Zhutong recommended him, but at this time, Dai Rongguang could only rank fifth in the recommended list, according to the old Chiang Kai-shek's selection habits, Dai Rongguang could not have held the position of major general of Jiangyin Fortress, but in the end Dai Rongguang did become the commander.
Dai Rongguang wanted to take this position, but he could only use some small actions, he sent a generous gift to buy the military bureau chief Yu Ji who submitted the list, and also used money to buy his subordinates, which made Yu Jishi send his recommendation list in the first place. And Chiang Kai-shek was very satisfied when he saw Dai Rongguang, because he was from the sixth stage of the Whampoa Military Academy, he was young, coupled with Dai Rongguang's deliberate dress when they met, he knew that Chiang Kai-shek did not like others to wear gold and silver, and he went to his gold teeth, Chiang Kai-shek saw him and was very satisfied with him.
But there are still many things that Dai Rongguang does not know, the money he sent generous gifts was given to him by his compatriot Tang Bingyu, Tang Bingyu's second brother Tang Junzhao and Dai Rongguang were middle school classmates, and the two families had known each other for a long time. He had great trust in Tang Bingyu's family, and at this time, Tang Bingyu and his fourth brother Tang Binglin were both Kuomintang people, working in Jiangyin Fortress, Dai Rongguang was of course very relieved to accept the money, and used this money to become the commander of Jiangyin Fortress. But the money that Tang Bingyu and Tang Binglin gave to Dai Rongguang was not just to let Dai Rongguang "promote himself", which Dai Rongguang did not know.
Tang Bingyu and Tang Binglin
The efforts of our Party personnel
At first, Tang Binglin listened to Chiang Kai-shek's instigation and applied for the tenth term of the Whampoa Military Academy.
When Tang Binglin was studying at the military academy, his father died, and his father's last words were that he must resist Japan and save the country. This sentence gave the five members of the Tang family a great enlightenment.
Tang Binglin in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression saw the corruption of the Kuomintang, and after the Anhui Incident, Tang Binglin's second brother Tang Junzhao found Tang Binglin, who was already a member of our Party at this time, and after his persuasion, Tang Binglin and Tang Bingyu, who was already a member of our Party, lurked in the Kuomintang together to continue secret work, and by 1947,
The organization has seen the importance of the Jiangyin Fortress,
After Tang Binglin and Tang Bingyu went to work at the Jiangyin Fortress, the organization instructed them to try to "elevate commander Kong Qinggui." After Kong Qinggui lost his official position, the two set their sights on Dai Rongguang's body in order to work.
After Dai Rongguang became commander, he could be said to be full of vigor and possess such a powerful unit, but what he did not know was that our party personnel had already developed more than 10 personnel in Jiangyin Fortress, and these more than ten officers were in charge of various units in Jiangyin Fortress, and Tang Bingyu often sent information to our army.
Tang Bingyu and Tang Binglin initially wanted to plot against Dai Rongguang, because the two families still had personal relations after all, but after a long period of observation, they believed that Dai Rongguang could not develop, he was very loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, and the success of the rebellion was very low, so he changed his approach to Dai Rongguang. Instead, he sent money for him to help Dai Rongguang "dashing", and after Dai Rongguang got the money, he handed over the matter of Jiangyin Fortress to the "Tang Family Class" to deal with, and he went out to squander it. This allowed the "Tang Family Class" to further empty Dai Rongguang and transfer many members of our Party to the Jiangyin Fortress, which was completely controlled by our Party before the uprising.
The site of the former Kuomintang Jiangyin Fortress Forward Artillery Position
Achieve a battlefield uprising
When the PLA army began to cross the river, Dai Rongguang sat in command, and at the beginning of our army's crossing of the river, Dai Rongguang ordered Tang Binglin to open fire, and in order not to make Dai Rongguang suspicious, Tang Binglin fired shells that were shells without fuses, which made some soldiers of our army also scratch their heads, and later wrote in his memoirs.
Only to see the shell fall into the water, but not explode.
Former Kuomintang Jiangyin Fortress Fort Forward Command Post
In the evening, the 145th Division under Chiang Kai-shek's Twenty-first Army was attacked by our artillery, and they immediately called Tang Binglin, commander of the fortress corps, and asked for artillery support. On the one hand, Tang Binglin said that he would immediately support, on the other hand, he shortened the range of his men, and the shells hit the positions of the 145th Division, fighting an "oolong battle".
Dai Rongguang then felt that something was wrong, but at this time, the Jiangyin Fortress had been controlled by the organization, and Tang Bingyu rushed into Dai Rongguang's command post with his soldiers, and Dai Rongguang saw that nothing could be violated, and he chose to surrender in frustration.
Tang Binglin then commanded the battery to aim its guns at the Twenty-first Army and open fire, realizing the battlefield uprising, and our army successfully crossed the river on the eastern front.