introduction
On the road of revolution there will be all kinds of dangers, some of which are in the light and some in the dark. Confronting the enemy head-on on the battlefield is a danger in the open, easy to guard against, and dangerous in the dark, which has always been inadvertent, making it difficult for people to guard against, such as the anhui incident.
Chiang Kai-shek has always hated our party and our army, and since the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, he has regarded our party as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, and has not hesitated to launch the "April 12 Massacre" and wantonly slaughter our party personnel. Our Party was forced to choose armed self-defense, and The elder Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly encircled and suppressed our army's base areas, regarding our army as the number one enemy.
On December 12, 1936, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng launched a "military advice" against Chiang Kai-shek, asking him to stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan. Forced by his own situation, the old Chiang chose to submit and agreed to unanimously resist Japan, laying the foundation for the second Kuomintang-Communist cooperation.
In accordance with the requirements of cooperation between the two sides, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, with three main divisions. The Red Army guerrillas in 13 areas of the south were reorganized into the New Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, the New Fourth Army, led by Ye Ting. In order to show our determination to resist Japan, our side rushed to the anti-Japanese front and engaged the Japanese army, which was in sharp contrast to the main force of the Nationalist army.
As the overall strength of the New Fourth Army grew stronger and stronger, the Kuomintang reactionaries mobilized their crooked minds and resolved to eliminate our army. To this end, the reactionaries created friction in various ways and framed our army, and ordered the New Fourth Army to march all over the north of the Yellow River within a month.
In order to resist the Japanese situation, the New Fourth Army, with the permission of its superiors, agreed to make concessions, and the troops would go to the north of the Yangtze River to fight. However, chiang kai-shek had long planned to eliminate the New Fourth Army, and secretly ordered Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater, to mobilize heavy troops and set up an ambush in the southern Anhui region to secretly attack the soldiers of the New Fourth Army who were marching.
Because the enemy had long been prepared, it had deployed several times more troops than the New Fourth Army and was equipped with excellent weapons. Unfortunately, these weapons could not be used to fight the Japanese, and old Chiang Kai-shek used them to shoot at the anti-Japanese troops, which was really a national sinner. The New Fourth Army fought fiercely with the enemy for seven days, with heavy casualties, most of the more than 9,000 people were killed, only 2,000 protruded from the siege, a small number were captured, disappeared, and some surrendered to the enemy.
What made the New Fourth Army even worse was that after being attacked by the enemy, three cadres surrendered to the enemy and gave a lot of information. Because of the defective behavior of these three cadres, the New Fourth Army suffered greater losses, and they could not be forgiven. Who are these three traitors to the New Fourth Army cadres? What losses were inflicted on the New Fourth Army, and what was the fate?
Liu Houzong killed Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun
Liu Hou was always a native of Leiyang, Hunan, born into poverty, joined the Red Guards in his early years, served as the political commissar of the third brigade of the Red Guerrilla Brigade in Shonan Province, and achieved good results. Liu Hou was ideologically backward, it was difficult for him to get along with the comrades sent by the central authorities, and he also met with many criticisms in terms of his style of life.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, after Liu Houzong's guerrilla unit was reorganized into a special agent battalion of the New Fourth Army, his bad habits did not change, and he often flirted with women in the local area and infringed on the interests of the masses.
Months of education did not change Liu Houzong, and in the spring of 1939, he left Yan'an for the New Fourth Army to ask for a job assignment. Because the cadre department of the New Fourth Army understood Liu Houzong's weekday habits, he served as an adjutant in the military department. For such an assignment, Liu Houzong was very dissatisfied, he believed that he had deep qualifications and should enjoy a higher official position, so he held a grudge in his heart, and his work style and thinking were worse than ever.
After the Anhui Incident, the New Fourth Army dispersed to break through, and on January 16, 1941, on the evening of the same day, Xiang Ying met Liu Houzong by chance on the way to the breakthrough. At that time, Xiang Ying did not know Liu Houzong, and after learning about the people in his military adjutant's office, he agreed to march together to break through.
After two months of concealment and transfer, Liu Houzong followed Xiang Ying and his party to a place called bee cave to rest their feet. The entrance to the cave is very small, and only four people can live, Xiang Ying, Zhou Zikun, Huang Cheng, and Liu Houzong. Xiang Ying's guards and several others lived halfway up the mountain to take charge of the vigilance work.
In the early morning of March 13, Liu Houzong brutally shot and killed Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun, fired several more shots at Huang Chenglian, snatched valuable items from them such as gold, fountain pens, and watches, and then walked down the hill, intending to defect to the Kuomintang.
After defecting to the Kuomintang, Liu Houzong did not enjoy any treatment, but was imprisoned in prison for further examination. It was not until 1948 that Liu Houzong was released by the Kuomintang and given a sum of money to return to his hometown. This traitor of the New Fourth Army who killed Xiang Ying and others was quickly captured by our army. After trial, Liu Houzong was executed in Jiangxi in early August 1952.
Zhao Xizhong - confessed the secrets of the New Fourth Army
Zhao Xizhong graduated from the Huangpu Fourth Period, and in his early years was an advanced and educated youth, who accepted communist ideas and embarked on the road of revolution. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhao Xizhong was first a teacher at the University of the Red Army, and in early 1938 he was transferred to the New Fourth Army, serving as the chief of staff of the First Column when the New Fourth Army moved north.
During the Anhui Incident, Zhao Xizhong was unfortunately captured during the breakthrough, and he did not resist the pressure of the enemy and chose to give in. Under the coercion of the enemy, Zhao Xizhong chose to cooperate and confessed important secrets such as the number of the New Fourth Army, weapons and equipment, and marching routes.
Because of his cooperative attitude, Zhao Xizhong was not killed and became a "guest of honor" in the Kuomintang Third Theater, and the enemy relaxed his vigilance against him. Zhao Xizhong thought that he had little use value, seized an opportunity, took advantage of the night, escaped from the Kuomintang military camp, and wandered around.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when Zhao Xizhong was arrested by the Japanese army in the enemy-occupied area because he did not have a "good citizen certificate" and was about to be shot, the Japanese army announced that it had surrendered unconditionally, and Zhao Xizhong was able to recover a life. After gaining his freedom, Zhao Xizhong returned to his hometown to start a business, because he was suspected of being a "communist bandit" by the secret agents of the military command, and he could only live in anonymity.
After the liberation of the whole country, Zhao Xizhong rejoined the Communist Party after being introduced by others and worked in the agricultural tool manufacturing plant. During the national "purge" in 1956, Zhao Xizhong's identity as a traitor to the New Fourth Army was exposed, and his superiors revoked his position in the agricultural tool factory, allowing him to work at the grass-roots level and was supervised.
During the special period, Zhao Xizhong was forced to commit suicide because he refused to frame other comrades, and he threw himself into the Yellow River on July 17, 1968 and died. Zhao Xizhong has a disgraceful side of rebellion, and he also resolutely does not frame revolutionary comrades, and he maintains his last integrity in his old age, which is worthy of recognition.
Zhao Lingbo - a traitor to Fengyuan left and right
Zhao Lingbo is a native of Sichuan and joined the Sichuan Army in his early years. During the Period of the Red Army's anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, Zhao Lingbo joined the Red Army after being captured in a battle with the Red Army. Zhao Lingbo is brave in battle, also very brainy, very thoughtful in doing things, and likes to please leaders.
After joining the Red Army, Zhao Lingbo served as the political commissar of the regiment, participated in the Long March, and walked all the way through the hardships, which should have tempered his revolutionary will, but judging from what happened later, Zhao Lingbo was still the same person, liked to be left and right, and did not have a firm stand.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhao Lingbo first served as the deputy regimental commander of the 687th Regiment of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division, and later accepted orders from his superiors to work in the New Fourth Army, serving as the chief of staff of the 3rd Detachment of the New Fourth Army. With the continuous expansion of the scale of the New Fourth Army and the establishment of the Jiangbei Command, Zhao Lingbo served as the chief of the general staff office of the headquarters.
During the Anhui Incident, Zhao Lingbo was captured, and before the enemy could force a confession, he confessed his identity and the secrets of the army. The Kuomintang saw Zhao Lingbo's attitude and decided to use him to deal with our army. After the establishment of the Appeasement Command, Zhao Lingbo became an anti-communist deputy commissioner, planning a plan for liquidation and suppression, and frequently asking for trouble for our army.
When the superiors learned that Zhao Lingbo had defected and was enemy of our army, they attached great importance to this information, and the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army, while reporting to the military headquarters, ordered reconnaissance staff officer Li Wuben to lead the scouts and fighters to find a way to capture Zhao Lingbo alive.
Zhao Lingbo was also bold, and in May 1942, he infiltrated the New Fourth Army garrison in disguise, posing as a new Fourth Army soldier who had been captured in the Anhui Southern Incident, and wanted to rejoin the army after being released. The grassroots fighters did not know Zhao Lingbo and believed his words. Unexpectedly, Zhao Lingbo's identity was recognized by a company instructor, who first stabilized Zhao Lingbo in order to avoid striking grass and snakes, and then reported to his superiors.
After the superiors learned of the intelligence, they ordered the reconnaissance staff officer Li Wuben to escort Zhao Lingbo to the Northern Jiangsu Military Headquarters for trial in the name of armed escort. In order to avoid being suspected by Zhao Lingbo, the entire escort process did not bind him, and both sides pretended not to know each other.
Zhao Lingbo was also an old rapist, and he may have sensed something, and when he escorted him to rest on the side of the road near Shijianbu, an accident occurred. Zhao Lingbo ignored the persuasion of our army and desperately ran to the stronghold of the Nationalist army, and the soldiers on the side persuaded him to return, but to no avail.
After Li Wuben learned of the situation, he immediately took action and led several people to chase Zhao Lingbo. Seeing that he was about to be caught up, Zhao Lingbo shouted: "Li Wuben, I have no vendetta with you today, no complaints in the past, why force me like this, you let me have a way to live!" ”
Li Wuben responded: Zhao Lingbo, you don't run, and if you don't stop, I will shoot you. After repeated warnings were fruitless, Li Wuben decisively shot and killed Zhao Lingbo, who resisted arrest, and the traitor was killed on the spot, which was considered to be deserved.
epilogue
Throughout the ages, most traitors have not had a good end, and among the three traitors of the New Fourth Army, Zhao Lingbo and Liu Hou have always died for the rest of their lives.
Zhao Xizhong's situation is rather special, he is a traitor to the New Fourth Army, and he also maintained his integrity during the special period, because he did not want to frame the revolutionary comrades and committed suicide.
The rebellion of Zhao Lingbo and Liu Houzong made the New Fourth Army, which had already suffered heavy losses, worse, and they were destined to become sinners of history.
Since we want to carry out the revolution, we must be loyal to our own beliefs, and we must not betray the army or our comrades-in-arms; otherwise, it will be a void after all, and nothing will be accomplished, and it will also involve the army and comrades-in-arms, so that more innocent people will die.
References: Demystifying the end of the three heavyweight CCP traitors in the "Anhui Southern Incident"
Why do eight old revolutionaries remember him together, the story of his father Li Wuben
Zhao Lingbo - a vain attempt to persuade Ye Ting to surrender