Chiang Kai-shek secretly killed Li Zongren, and everything was ready for orders, so why did Chiang Kai-shek temporarily change his mind? At the beginning, Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren became good brothers for their own interests during the Northern Expedition, but the brotherhood and righteousness that they made out of personal interests could not last at all, and within the domestic party, we all knew that both of them were only maintaining a superficial brotherly feeling, but in fact, the two had already been "at odds with each other in face and heart", and the two often competed with each other in the dark.
And the brotherly interests of the two people befriended because of their personal interests, but also because of their personal interests fell apart, the contradiction between Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren was openly intensified in 1948, at the end of March of that year, the Kuomintang held the first National Congress of the Republic of China, the main content of the congress was election, the first vice president was The President of the Republic of China, and to begin to implement the Constitution of the Republic of China, in this election, Chiang Kai-shek was elected as president with a high vote without suspense, and the vice presidential candidate Sun Ke, who he particularly cared for, was "Guishi" The warlord-backed Li Zongren defeated.
This result greatly annoyed Chiang Kai-shek, he originally wanted Sun Ke to be vice president as his puppet, but he did not expect to be kicked by Li Zongren, Chiang Kai-shek was immediately furious, and at the same time, from the end of 1948 to the beginning of 1949, after the three major battles of Liaoshen, Pingjin, and Huaihai, Chiang Kai-shek's army was almost completely destroyed, and Chiang Kai-shek's prestige also dropped sharply within the Kuomintang. And Li Zongren did not miss this good opportunity to fall into the well, he commanded his army to enter the bank of the Yangtze River, which has the intention of replacing Chiang Kai-shek and sitting on the real power of the president.
Chiang Kai-shek thought that He could not bear Li Zongren's political ambitions that were bluntly displayed, but at this time Chiang Kai-shek was in a weak position, and in some respects he even had to rely on Li Zongren, so it was naturally not cost-effective to openly fight with Li Zongren on the surface, and Chiang Kai-shek flashed a sinister and vicious idea in his mind, sending people to secretly kill Li Zongren. Not to mention the assassination of the vice president, chiang kai-shek found his confidant, Mao Renfeng, the director of the Secret Bureau.
Mao Renfeng was also surprised to hear that Li Zhongren had been assassinated, and soon calmed down, after all, Chiang Kai-shek was still a real power figure in the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek asked Mao Renfeng, thinking who could complete this assassination operation, Mao Renfeng thought about recommending Ye Xiangzhi, director of the Operations Division, to Chiang Kai-shek.
Since there was a recommended candidate, Chiang Kai-shek asked about Ye Xiangzhi's specific origins, and learned from Mao Renfeng's words that Ye Xiangzhi was born a literati who could not even use a pistol, and Chiang Kai-shek suddenly felt that Ye Xiangzhi was not suitable for this assassination mission, and the perfect candidate in Chiang Kai-shek's mind was a veteran who killed decisively, so Mao Renfeng rethinked again, and at this time a candidate appeared in Chiang Kai-shek's mind, his beloved general Dai Kasa's confidant general, Mao Renfeng immediately realized that the young major general Chiang Kai-shek said was Shen Ying.
So in front of Chiang Kai-shek, he gave a lot of praise, saying that this person was indeed a very suitable good hand for this operation, so the candidate for assassination was thus determined, and it was naturally too late to solve Chiang Kai-shek's henchmen's serious problems, Mao Renfeng immediately took a telegram to let Shen Ying rush to Nanjing, and after meeting Mao Renfeng briefly told Shen Ying that the general content of this assassination work, even if the experience was as old as Shen Ying, he could not help but break out in a cold sweat, according to Shen Drunk's memoirs, Chiang Kai-shek's attitude when he received Shen Ying was very kind. He also cordially inquired about Shen Ying's work and family situation, and Chiang Kai-shek also gave special mention of the case of Jing Ke's assassination of the King of Qin to encourage Shen Ying, jing Ke stabbed Qin and died in failure, which undoubtedly implied that Shen Ying would complete this assassination mission even if he sacrificed himself, and then the next day he set up a special action group, a total of four members, led by Mao Renfeng, the specific tasks were mainly divided into two categories, monitoring Li Zongren's living quarters and looking for opportunities to carry out assassination, after a week, Mao Renfeng gave Shen Anthal. Two first-class killers within the military command were sent as assistants, and these two masters were Qin Jingchuan and Wang Hanwen.
After several weeks of careful observation. The assassination team developed several elaborate plans. to ensure that the action is foolproof. The first plan was to shoot Li Zongren directly while he was in the car. Because Li Zongren's living environment at that time, the car was very slow to get in and out of the corner. The Panel believes that shooting Li Zongren from both sides is very certain. To this end, an old book stall was opened next to his residence. To ensure that the operation is foolproof, the second and third plans are follow-up plans, worried that Li Zongren will leave Nanjing by plane or train, so the action team, next to the road to the airport and the railway station, set up small grocery stores and cigarette stalls to prevent Li Zongren from escaping.
Finally, a tavern was also opened next to the highway to monitor Bai Chongxi, and at the same time, it was also taken into account that if Li Zongren escaped by car and did not succeed in assassination at the door of his home, he would find another opportunity on the highway, in order to ensure success, Mao Renfeng also specially equipped the action group, two cars with the highest speed, under the careful arrangement of the assassination team, Li Zongren's vicinity has quietly woven a heavenly net, just wait for Chiang Kai-shek's order to let Li Zongren die in Huangquan, after the arrangement is completed, Mao Renfeng went to Chiang Kai-shek to ask when to start, At the same time, he also told Shen Yong every day to pay close attention and be ready to assassinate Li Zongren at any time, but at this time Chiang Kai-shek hesitated, because after the defeat of the Huaihai Campaign, Chiang Kai-shek's elite was completely annihilated, and Li Zongren still had a part of the Gui clan's armed forces, and if Li Zongren was suddenly assassinated at this time, then Chiang Kai-shek would probably have a good end.
The matter settled on January 20, Chiang Kai-shek decided after thinking about giving up the assassination of Li Zongren and disbanding Shen Zhen's group, and later When Mao Renfeng and Shen Ying met, they told him that Chiang Kai-shek also regretted that he did not assassinate Li Zongren at this time, leaving a trouble, but history did not assume, if the assassination occurred, I am afraid it would be another situation.
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