On June 15, 1922, Ye Ting, commander of the first battalion of the Guangzhou Presidential Palace Guard Regiment, and Xue Yue, commander of the third battalion, received orders from the regimental commander Chen Keyu to immediately strengthen their vigilance and prepare to resist a possible attack by Chen Jiongming's rebels.
General Ye Ting
Chen Jiongming was originally a general trusted by Sun Yat-sen. In 1917, Sun Yat-sen entrusted more than 8,000 guards in 20 battalions to his command, and successively appointed him to important posts such as minister of military affairs, minister of internal affairs, and governor of Guangdong Province.
But Chen Jiongming had shamefully betrayed!
The Yuexiu Building behind the already heavily guarded Presidential Palace is the residence of President Sun Yat-sen and his wife Soong Ching-ling.
There is also a small garden in the backyard of the house. Every day after dinner, Sun Yat-sen would invite Soong Ching Ling to the garden for a walk and a conversation. But after dinner today, Sun Yat-sen went for a walk alone in the small garden. Song Qingling endured the discomfort of pregnancy, took a coat, and also came to the small garden.
Sun Yat-sen walked silently in the garden with his hands behind his back, and when he turned around and saw his wife coming, he greeted him. Song Qingling put on his coat and asked affectionately, "Sir, your heart is very heavy today!"
Sun Yat-sen was a little uneasy: "Yes, all I heard today from morning to night was the news that Chen Jiongming was going to rebel." ”
Song Qingling said worriedly: "We have too few troops in Guangzhou, and I am afraid it will be difficult to cope with." ”
Young Song Qingling
Suddenly, there was a rush of gunfire outside.
The sound of gunfire rang out one after another, and at the same time, the sound of military trumpets and cannons was heard.
Sun Yat-sen immediately said to his aide-de-camp Ma Xiang and Huang Huilong: "You two immediately escorted your wife out of the back door and went to the dock to find Commander Chen Ce of the Jianghai Defense Command, and asked him to arrange for you to take refuge on the warship for a while." ”
Hearing this, Song Qingling came out of the room and said, "You will immediately protect the Grand President transfer, leave me alone!"
Adjutant Ma and Adjutant Huang drew their pistols at the same time and said, "We protect the president and his wife from going together!"
Song Qingling listened to the general direction of the gunshots and noises and said: "No, the rebels are encircling, presumably ambushes have been laid out on various streets and passages, if I go with the president, the target is too big, but it is not safe." You protect the President first, I stay here to burn important documents, and I can quickly confuse the rebels, which will help you retreat safely. ”
Under the arrangement of Soong Ching-ling, Sun Yat-sen was forcibly carried away from the Yuexiu Building by the guards.
Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling
At the back door, he happened to meet Ye Tingzheng commanding the soldiers of the guard regiment who were reinforcing the fortifications and carrying ammunition, and Ye Ting saw President Sun Da, who had changed his clothes, and hurriedly greeted him, saying: "Great President, I will escort you to retreat!"
Sun Yat-sen tightly held Ye Ting's hand and said, "No, it is better to go with fewer people." Commander Ye, please tell Commander Chen Keyu that Mrs. Song Qingling has not yet left, and I hope that you will see the opportunity to act and protect your wife well, and I will immediately go to the warship and direct the counter-rebellion. After dawn, if there are three consecutive guns on the warship, it means that I have boarded the warship. ”
"Yes!" Ye Ting gave a military salute to President Sun Da and watched them out the back door.
By this time the rebels had already attacked the Presidential Palace.
The rebels swarmed, and Ye Ting stood in the fortifications made of debris and sandbags under The Yuexiu Building, shouting at the soldiers: "Light and heavy weapons, fire together!" Fight!"
“...... Click, click, click..." Tongues of fire flew towards the enemy group, and the rebels cried that the father and mother were in a mess, and the horizontal seven vertical eight fell into one piece. A rebel officer also shouted, "Machine guns, old mother's, machine guns are all going to Yuexiu downstairs to beat me hard!"
A rain of bullets poured down on Ye Ting's position, and several soldiers were unfortunately shot and fell to the ground in blood, Ye Ting, in a fit of rage, picked up a light machine gun and swept several shuttles at the enemy group under the mountain. The other rebels were dead and wounded, and the rest were also in a hurry to find a hidden object to hide, and did not dare to reach out.
Ye Ting commanded the soldiers to rush to repair the fortifications and carry ammunition. At this time, he saw that several wounded soldiers were still holding their positions, and quickly said to them: "You should quickly retreat and bandage the wounds." ”
Ye Ting was a pioneer in everything he did, and trained the soldiers very strictly, but he took very good care of everyone in life, and his subordinates were willing to follow him to the death to fight to the end, and the injured people all said: "No, battalion commander, we will not go down, we will follow you to the death to defend President Sun Da!"
Ye Ting was very touched to hear the soldiers' words, so he squatted down, tore off several pieces of cloth on his clothes, and personally bandaged the wounded.
Amid the roar of the cannons, the rebels began a new offensive.
The main attack on the presidential palace was Chen Jiongming's Second Division of the Guangdong Army, and the division commander Hong Zhaolin was now in his command post staring wide-eyed, looking at the groups of soldiers who had collapsed and the dense corpses that had fallen on the street in front of the presidential palace. He couldn't help but jump up, angrily slapped and scolded his subordinate officers, and after taking a breath, he grabbed the telephone microphone and reported to Ye Ju, the general headquarters of the ZhengXian Ancestral Hall on Baiyun Mountain: "Sun Cannon's presidential palace is very fierce, and it is impossible to rush in!"
Ye Ju's angry scolding immediately came from the phone: "Rice bucket! Your second division will only eat, so many people who have died have not yet worked, and there is a face to report to me! I will immediately dispatch another battalion of mountain artillery to concentrate on the fire, and you will quickly mobilize a few more battalions and prepare to charge again. Tell you that Commander-in-Chief Chen just sent a telegram from Huizhou ordering 'Sun Cannon can't be mentioned alive, and he will die too'!
"Yes! Got it!"
Soon, the rebel cannons began to bombard again.
Chen Jiongming
The rebels occupying the tea room opposite the Yuexiu Building were energized again, and an officer shouted wildly: "Brothers, Sun Cannon is surrounded in the Yuexiu Building, and all our cannons are firing." Commander Hong ordered us to beat up fiercely, kill those who killed Sun Cannon, reward 100,000 in the ocean, and those who captured Sun Cannon alive, reward 200,000 in the ocean, and raise the officer to the third rank. Brethren, rush! ”
With a "boom", a section of the wall collapsed.
Ye Ting hurriedly ordered, "Plug it up!"
With that, he personally grabbed a sandbag, jumped out of the bunker, and ran to the gap.
When Ye Ting commanded his soldiers to plug the gap in the wall, the rebels charged again, and the bullets rained down on the sides of the position.
Ye Ting calmly commanded the soldiers to counterattack, mobilizing several machine guns to fire against the rebel fire points.
"Click, click, click...", the enemy's machine gun shot at a machine gunner next to Ye Ting, and he fell down without a single sound.
Ye Ting was extremely angry, his eyes were spitting fire, his lips were tightly closed, and he took the machine gun in the hands of the fallen soldier and swept toward the enemy troops in the tea room of Yuexiu Building, mutating several machine guns of the rebels.
The soldiers saw that Commander Ye was fearless, heroically killing the enemy, morale was doubled, and the wounded also went into battle, firing at the rebels, suppressing the charging rebels again.
Chen Keyu, the head of Sun Yat-sen's guard regiment
But the two battalions of the Guard Regiment guarding the Presidential Palace were outnumbered by several times the onslaught of rebels. Soon, the final moment arrived.
Ye Ting was determined to cover Lady Sun's breakthrough.
Wearing a bamboo hat and Sun Yat-sen's raincoat, Song Qingling ran toward the small door on the side with the support of the two lieutenants who had changed their costumes, Ma and Huang, and the second sister of the inner attendant was behind, and Ye Ting led more than thirty elite soldiers to escort him.
The rebels, who had just been beaten back, began to rush into the gates of the presidential palace with a roar.
In order to attract the attention of the rebels and reduce the pressure on Mrs. Sun and her party to break through, the regimental commander Chen Keyu organized all the light and heavy firearms of the guard regiment, blocked the attack for a while, and then concentrated his fire on the enemy outside the gate of the presidential palace to launch a counter-charge, and sure enough, the enemy was deceived, thinking that Sun Yat-sen was going to break through from here, and hurriedly mobilized a large number of troops to counterattack from the gate.
At this time, Song Qingling and his party came to the side door, and the battalion commander Ye Ting, who was walking in front, waved his hands to the back, signaling them to hide on both sides of the side door first, while he himself carried a light machine gun and loaded enough bullets, and the soldiers of the guard were also ready to charge.
A soldier went over to open the door, and as soon as the small iron door opened, Ye Ting rushed out first, aiming his machine gun at the dozens of rebels under the arcade building on the opposite street, "DaDa Da" was a shuttle sweep, and those enemies still couldn't figure out where the guns were coming from, and they had already rolled to Yan Wangye. Those who were not killed were suddenly in a mess, some lying on the ground and did not dare to look up, and some screamed and retreated into the house.
Ye Ting saw this opportunity and ordered, "Rush!"
Sun Yat-sen Soong Ching Ling and officers of the Guard Corps Chen Keyu, Ye Ting, Zhang Fakui, Xue Yue and others
Dozens of soldiers of the guard regiment immediately rushed out of the door, And Second Lieutenant Ma and Huang rushed out with Madame Sun in their arms, and Ye Ting and several soldiers broke off.
When the enemy understood what was going on, he hurriedly blocked the street in front of him with intensive fire. But by this time, Song Qingling and his party had already turned into another alley.
Out of the alley, Song Qingling and his party came to a T-shaped intersection, and suddenly saw a group of rebels coming towards them, it was too late to dodge, and the situation was extremely critical.
Ye Ting saw the situation and immediately made a decision, saying to The Second Adjutant Ma and Huang, "I will lead the soldiers to attack the rebels from the front, and you will take advantage of the chaos of the two sides to plunge straight into the small street on the left." After saying this, he led the soldiers to pounce on the rebels and shouted: "Fight! "
Dozens of tongues of fire spewed straight at the rebels, knocking down dozens of enemies in front of them at once. The rebel ranks were in disarray.
Ma Xiang and Huang Huilong saw this and immediately took Madame Sun and strode to the small street on the left.
The rebels quickly counterattacked with a large number of people, firing with ferocious fire while shouting and shouting to charge.
Ye Tingmi said to the soldiers around him, "Wait until they get closer and shoot one more." ”
Watched as the rebels rushed up in a dense formation.
"Fight!" Ye Ting shouted, and the machine gun in his hand roared. The soldiers' machine guns and rifles also opened fire, and the rebels immediately fell into a large area.
Statue of General Ye Ting
Everyone was fighting vigorously, and a soldier quietly said to Ye Ting, "Report to the battalion commander, I have run out of bullets, what should I do?"
Ye Ting was shocked, looked at a wooden box dragged next to the soldier, and said, "Isn't that a bullet?"
"Battalion commander, how did you forget that it was the military salary that Commander Chen asked us to bring out?" The machine gun in Ye Ting's hand only had a dozen rounds left, and some of the guns in the soldiers' hands only had three or two bullets, and some of them had all been shot out. Everyone looked anxiously at the battalion commander.
The rebels suddenly found that the other side's firepower was significantly weakened, and their courage was also greater, and they quickly rushed to a place more than 20 meters away.
Ye Ting's heart was burning, but now he couldn't take care of so much, only to hear him shout: "Fight!" With a flick of the trigger, the last dozen or so bullets in the machine gun all flew out of the chamber.
When the rebel overseer saw that the other side's gunshots were really silent, he swung his pistol again and shouted at the retreating soldiers: "Brothers, they have no bullets, haha, the opportunity is coming, rush up, grab The Sun Cannon, Commander-in-Chief Chen is greatly rewarded, hurry, brothers, our opportunity to get rich is coming!"
Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching Ling took a group photo with the officers and men of the Yongfeng ship
Sure enough, the rebels turned their heads around and rushed over, and Ye was in a hurry, pushing the wooden box containing the military salary, and shouting: "Explosives!" He threw himself into the pile of oncoming rebels.
When the rebels heard the word "explosives", they saw a wooden box flying in, and they fell to the ground in a panic.
Only to hear a "whoosh" sound, the shining silver dollar splashed around, rolling on the ground.
The rebels found that the silver dollars in front of them were white flowers, and for a moment, their eyes were round and they could not move.
A nimble rebel reacted, hurriedly dropped his gun, jumped up to grab the silver dollar, and the rest of the people jumped up to grab the silver dollar, and the team was suddenly chaotic.
When the rebel officers woke up and went down to pursue, they found that Ye Ting and his team had already run to the streets and alleys.
General Ye Ting, his wife Li Xiuwen and his children