During the War of Liberation, Chiang Kai-shek's second in command wanted to surrender, so why did New China resolutely refuse to accept it?
People familiar with history know that the CCP's attitude toward insurrectionary generals has always been that they will accept them as long as they contribute to peaceful liberation. However, this principle has become an obstacle to He Yingqin. However, this matter cannot be blamed on the CCP, and it is true that He Yingqin has gone too far. And what nailed him to the column of historical shame was three things.
The first thing is to firmly crack down on the CCP. In April 1927, when Chiang Kai-shek and his ilk were determined to carry out a counter-revolutionary coup, He Yingqin responded positively. On April 2, He Yingqin even held a so-called "suppression of the Communists" conference, resolutely stating that he would take sides with Chiang Kai-shek and actively attack the CCP. Subsequently, Chiang Kai-shek launched the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup in Shanghai, killing a large number of CCP members and patriotic revolutionaries, causing panic among the people in Shanghai Beach. Immediately afterward, He Yingqin cooperated with Chiang Kai-shek and launched a large-scale massacre in the Zhejiang region, causing the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions to be blood red. But this was enough, and He Yingqin, who was active in the counter-revolutionary coup, was even more favored by Chiang Kai-shek. Subsequently, Chiang Kai-shek launched a large-scale encirclement and suppression operation, in which He Yingqin led the way, and actively participated in the first, second, and fourth encirclement and suppression operations. In addition, He Yingqin also participated in the Anhui Southern Incident, which almost disbanded the formation of the New Fourth Army.
The second thing is to try to destroy the general environment of cooperative anti-Japanese resistance. On December 12, 1936, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng joined hands to hold Chiang Kai-shek and forced Him to abandon the civil war and jointly resist Japan on this premise. When the news of Chiang Kai-shek's detention spread, the Kuomintang was also instantly divided into two groups of people, one group of people with a relatively wavering attitude, believing that agreeing to cooperate in the war to resist Japan and peacefully rescue Chiang Kai-shek was the most important thing, while the other group of people had a tough attitude, believing that at this time they could not be soft and must be fought, and He Yingqin was the primary figure in supporting the war. At the same time, He Yingqin announced to the outside world that his troops would wash Chang'an in blood and rescue Chiang Kai-shek. The day after the Xi'an Incident, He Yingqin directly drove his troops into Shaanxi and allowed his troops to carry out a large-scale bombing of many important Stations in Shaanxi, such as Sanyuan and Weinan. In such a bombardment, as many as a hundred ordinary people in Shaanxi died innocently. In order to deal with the troops of He Yingqin and others, the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army also set up passes along the Shaanxi line and were ready for battle at any time.
It can be said that He Yingqin's approach is completely unfavorable to peace talks, and there is even a feeling of roasting Chiang Kai-shek on the fire. It is not difficult to imagine that if Song Meiling at that time was not able to turn the tide and exchange the opportunity for peace talks, then He Yingqin was likely to expand the war and lead to the failure of the Kuomintang-Communist cooperation against Japan.
And this third thing is that He Yingqin is pro-Japanese. In the late Qing Dynasty, He Yingqin went to Japan twice to study and successfully graduated from the Japanese non-commissioned officer school. He Yingqin, who has long been immersed in Japanese culture, although he has the idea of revolutionary progress, he still cannot jump out of the shackles of Japanese culture, and always believes that Japan's culture and science and technology are advanced, and after the September 18 Incident, He Yingqin does not feel that China should rebel against Japan.
In addition, in May 1933, He Yingqin also reached the so-called He Mei Agreement with the Japanese. Although this agreement was not an informal treaty of mourning rights and humiliating the country, the faceless stipulations proposed by the Japanese Kou were almost all recognized by the Chiang Kai-shek authorities represented by He Yingqin. This unsigned but recognized agreement reduced Hebei to the food of the Japanese Kou, and the economy, culture, military and politics of Hebei were all under the control of the Japanese Kou, which also led to the further loss of China's sovereignty and provided a precedent for the Japanese Kou to launch a full-scale war of aggression.
After understanding these contents, it is not difficult for us to find that He Yingqin, as a person, is stubborn and decadent, and his attitude toward Japan's invasion of China is vague. As an advanced figure in the Chinese revolution, he should have stood up to speak for his country at a time of national peril, but He Yingqin had a pro-Japanese fetish and always showed an arrogant attitude toward the inside and a promise to the outside world. What's more, when He Yingqin surrendered, the war of liberation was already about to be completely won, and this timing also made his behavior speculative. Therefore, it is only natural not to accept his surrender. #中国近代史 #
