After the end of the War of Liberation, although the Kuomintang was defeated and retreated to Taiwan, it still had undead ambitions and wanted to make a comeback, and wantonly engaged in espionage activities on the mainland to undermine the unity of our army from within. At that time, many generals of our army were lured by these agents to defect to Taiwan with various interests, and one of the highest-ranking generals was personally received by Chiang Kai-shek. Who is he? What about the final end?
This traitor was Zhang Qingrong, a native of Qingyuan County, Baoding, Hebei. Although Zhang Qingrong's family is ordinary, his parents are very fond of him, trying their best to give him the best, and reading and practicing martial arts have not left him behind. Zhang Qingrong, who grew up in such a doting, although he was both literate and martial, had a somewhat extravagant personality and coveted enjoyment, which also laid the fuse for his later defection to Taiwan. However, the good times were short-lived, the Japanese army invaded China, wars were frequent, and social order was chaotic. In such an environment, the life of Zhang Qingrong's family is becoming more and more difficult, Zhang Qingrong is a teenager, and he maintains his own literary and martial arts integrity, so he has the ambition to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and repay the country. It just so happened that some of Zhang Qingrong's good friends who usually played also had this intention, and several people hit it off, joined the Eighth Route Army together, and officially began the military journey.
Zhang Qingrong joined our army relatively late, in 1938. At this time, the War of Resistance Against Japan had already broken out, and many soldiers in the army were veterans and experienced. Zhang Qingrong, a new recruit who had just come out of the donkey, could only do miscellaneous work at the beginning, and truly became "a brick of the revolution, where it needs to be moved." This made Zhang Qingrong, who has been the best among his peers since he was a child, feel a little bit of a gap in his heart. However, Zhang Qingrong was not convinced, and he joined the Eighth Route Army with the idea of going to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Therefore, when Zhang Qingrong did military training, he was more serious than anyone else, and he usually had free time, and he would also privately consult some veterans. In this way, Zhang Qingrong's military qualities in all aspects are getting better and better, plus he himself can write and fight. Therefore, on the battlefield, Zhang Qingrong always went forward, heroically killing the enemy, and the military strategy ability was also very good, organizing several small surprise battles against the Japanese army, and achieved victory. Soon, Zhang Qingrong was constantly promoted because of his repeated military achievements, and by 1945, when the War of Resistance Against Japan was victorious, he was already a deputy battalion commander.
During the Liberation War, Zhang Qingrongyi was active in the front-line battlefield, never forgetting the original ambition to kill the enemy on the battlefield, and because of his outstanding performance, Zhang Qingrong was promoted to battalion commander. After the founding of New China, Zhang Qingrong was appointed as the commander of the artillery division. Soon after, the Korean War broke out,
Due to the participation of the "United Nations army", the war situation has escalated. If North Korea is occupied and the "United Nations Army" continues to march north, it will threaten the security of our borders. So Our Volunteer Army began to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
Jang Ching-young went to the Korean battlefield in 1952 as the commander of the artillery division. In several confrontations with the "United Nations army", the artillery unit led by Zhang Qingrong helped our army to successfully break through several times, so in 1954, Zhang Qingrong was appointed as the deputy commander of the artillery division.
In 1955, the Chinese People's Liberation Army officially began to implement the rank system, according to talent, seniority and military merit, successively to the generals to award the corresponding ranks, Zhang Qingrong although the time to join the revolution is not long, but because of the Anti-Japanese War, the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea have outstanding performance, so they were also awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel.
In fact, if Zhang Qingrong continues to work diligently
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If you continue to work at the post, the future should be bright. However, after Zhang Qingrong was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel, he returned to his hometown once, and this time he returned to his hometown.
Former villagers and partners have come to compliment Zhang Qingrong, making him a little fluttery, and his desire for power is getting bigger and bigger. But in peacetime, promotion is certainly not as fast as in wartime, and it needs to be taken step by step. In fact, at this time, Zhang Qingrong did not have the idea of defecting, but only drilled more drilling power, and even disregarded his own work. What officially gave Zhang Qingrong the idea of defecting to Taiwan was in 1957, when Zhang Qingrong was transferred to the deputy commander of the 63rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division of the Fuzhou Military Region.
After taking up his post in Fuzhou, because of the needs of his work, Zhang Qingrong often came into contact with news from the Taiwan side, including some ulterior motives that Kuomintang agents intended to reveal to Zhang Qingrong. These news made Zhang Qingrong's whole heart fly to Taiwan. What's going on here? As we said earlier, because of the doting of his parents, Zhang Qingrong's personality is more luxurious and covetous
。 Because during the war, the environment was relatively simple, everyone was the same, coupled with the restrictions of the war, Zhang Qingrong could not take care of so much. But now it is different, Zhang Qingrong thinks that he is also a high-ranking official, and he should also enjoy it. However, our party pays attention to the arduous and simple style of work, and Zhang Qingrong still failed to achieve his wishes.
Now Zhang Qingrong suddenly found that the life of the Kuomintang in Taiwan on the other side of the strait was much more moist than he had imagined. Without contrast, there is no harm, and Zhang Qingrong suddenly feels that he can't stand his current life. Then, as a defeated general, why did the Kuomintang, which retreated to Taiwan, live better than the mainland at that time?
In fact, as early as August 1948, when the Liberation War entered a white-hot period. Chiang Kai-shek was thinking about his own retreat, the defeat of the Kuomintang army was so obvious, Chiang Kai-shek was not stupid, and naturally he would make second-hand preparations. On the one hand, he ordered the Kuomintang army to make a final struggle, and on the other hand, he quietly discussed with some of his henchmen where the Kuomintang should retreat. In the end, Chiang Kai-shek chose Taiwan, which has a vast territory and rich products. Not only is Taiwan's sea wide and high, which can block the pursuit of our army, but also has the industrial base left by the Japanese, which is conducive to the comeback of the Kuomintang.
But if you want to make a comeback, you need huge capital. So from this time on, Chiang Kai-shek ordered people to secretly transport the gold from the treasury of the National Government to Taiwan, in 6 batches, a total of about 4.26 million taels of gold were transported from the mainland, and it is said that after the departure of the Nationalist Government, the gold in all the banks in Shanghai was added together, leaving only 6180 taels. After the Kuomintang defeated Taiwan, this huge amount of gold became the capital that revived Taiwan from the ruins of war after the defeat of the Kuomintang. And so far this gold has not been fully used up, and it is existing
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At that time, the mainland and Taiwan were simply a heaven and an underground, and after many years of war baptism, coupled with the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea that broke out shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China, New China was really in ruins, manpower and material resources were extremely scarce, and the overall standard of living was relatively backward. In addition, in order to increase the temptation, the Kuomintang agents at that time intended to expand the propaganda of the extravagant life of the Kuomintang generals in Taiwan. This made Zhang Qingrong deeply realize that no matter how high he was, in the environment of New China at that time, he could not enjoy anything, let alone that he was only a lieutenant colonel.
Therefore, Zhang Qingrong took advantage of his position to hook up with a Kuomintang agent. With his help, on December 17, 1957, Zhang Qingrong escaped to Kinmen in a fishing boat, and soon got in touch with the Nationalist defenders defending Kinmen, successfully defecting all the way to Taiwan. This is the first senior general of our party since the founding of New China eight years ago, who defected to Taiwan. However, Zhang Qingrong is not worthy of the six big characters of "senior general of our party", and can only be called "traitor".
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to show his attention and to tempt more people in our army to defect to Taiwan, specially received Zhang Qingrong personally. He also promoted Zhang Qingrong to colonel, continued to do his old job, and appointed deputy chief of staff of the Air Force Anti-Aircraft Artillery Command.
But a traitor is always a kind of person that all camps cannot tolerate and everyone shouts and fights. No country will be at ease with a traitor, after all, you don't know if one day he will choose the back plate again because of other interests. Therefore, although Chiang Kai-shek wanted to undermine the unity of our army in order to facilitate the counter-offensive theory, he was not at ease about reusing Zhang Qingrong. So after rewarding Zhang Qingrong with 500 taels of gold, he also arranged for a female agent to marry him and monitor his every move. But Zhang Qingrong did not know, but also smugly married a beautiful woman, and changed his name to "Zhang Chunsheng, meaning to start a new life."
Just like that, Zhang Qingrong began the hedonistic life he wanted. However, after a long time, Zhang Qingrong also found that he had no real power, and in order to gain Chiang Kai-shek's trust, Zhang Qingrong actively cooperated with Chiang Kai-shek's work and slandered our party. At that time, some of the people and soldiers who accompanied the Kuomintang to Taiwan had already seen through what Chiang Kai-shek had drawn for them a big cake that could be seen and could not be eaten, and the strength of the Kuomintang in Taiwan could not resist the Platon Army on the mainland at all, and the counterattack was far away. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek invited Zhang Qingrong to various units and units to give speeches, poured dirty water on our party, slandered our party's tyranny, and repeatedly stressed how bad the life of the people on the mainland is.
Although our party is very saddened by Zhang Qingrong's defection, it is beyond the reach of the whip. It was not until 1958 that our party found a Kuomintang agent in Guangzhou. He was then minister of public security
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After knowing this, he specifically instructed him not to arrest him for the time being, but instead used the hands of this secret agent to send to Chiang Kai-shek the information that he was pretending to surrender to the enemy and that the CCP was undercover. Chiang Kai-shek already distrusted Zhang Qingrong, and in addition, Zhang Qingrong not only had no use value, but also because his ambitions were getting bigger and bigger, he went around calling for an early "counterattack on the mainland" and made the hearts of the people who Chiang Kai-shek had so hard to appease them float up again. So, in October 1958, after a month of torture in prison, Zhang Qingrong was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to be executed, ending his life widely spurned by the world.