On April 20, 1949, the Kuomintang authorities formally rejected the Internal Peace Agreement drafted with the CCP, and the Platon immediately launched the long-awaited campaign to cross the river. The dangerous Kuomintang authorities still stubbornly resisted with illusions, and in addition to the Yangtze River defense line, which they thought was impregnable, they also had a veritable trump card in their hands, the Naval Fleet of the Iron Division.
Just when Chiang Kai-shek thought that he could use the steel division to severely damage the PLA on the waters of the Yangtze River, on April 23, the Second Fleet of the elite Navy of the Nationalist Army suddenly announced its separation from the Nationalist government and surrendered to the PLA in the Nanjing waters of the Yangtze River.
This news was nothing less than a thunderbolt on a sunny day for Chiang Kai-shek, who painstakingly managed the ace fleet that he had painstakingly managed for many years and spent a lot of money to build, and all of them were sent to the Communists without firing a single shot.
Jiang Ren was still urging his chest on the way to escape, and he did not understand why the troops who were regarded as his confidants would turn against him, and who was behind the ghost? Chiang Kai-shek was anxious to cut his corpse into ten thousand pieces.
The revolt of the Second Fleet was crucial to the entire campaign of river crossing, which was well organized and powerful. Once it comes into play, it can completely rampage through the Yangtze River, which is a huge threat to the Platon Army that crosses the river in wooden boats.
But no one expected that behind the scenes, the second fleet uprising was led by an unknown "little man". This man was an insider buried by Zhou Enlai in the depths of the Kuomintang Navy more than twenty years ago, and even Li Kenong did not know of his existence.
This person almost single-handedly completed the counter-action, and his energy was beyond people's imagination, and even Zhou Enlai sighed.
This mysterious figure was Guo Shousheng, then the president of the Magazine of the Chinese Navy. This figure, who is so ordinary in the Navy that he can hardly be seen, does have a legendary fate with the Chinese Navy.
Guo Shousheng, a native of Minhou, Fujian, was born in 1900 in a family that was not wealthy, and because of his large number of children, his father passed him on to his younger brother.
Later, due to family difficulties, Guo Shousheng was fostered to the home of another relative, Huang Zhanyun.
And it was Huang Zhanyun who planted a seed of naval dreams in Guo Shousheng's young heart. Huang Zhanyun was a man with strong patriotic feelings, and his father-in-law was a famous general of the Beiyang Marine Division, and the Dingyuan ship was carrying Liu Butou.
The Beiyang Marine Division was completely destroyed in the First Sino-Japanese War, which also became a scar in Huang Zhanyun's heart that could never be erased. Guo Shousheng grew up listening to the story of the Beiyang Admiralty since he can remember, and he was determined to become a naval admiral in the future and let China have a powerful navy again.
The power of the seed is infinite, and it is precisely because of the seed of this dream that the young Guo Shousheng worked very hard and his academic performance was very good.
In 1916, the Beiyang Government Admiralty opened enrollment in the Fujian area, and Guo Shousheng resolutely signed up for the examination and was successfully admitted to the Yantai Naval School with the first place.
Guo Shousheng saw the dawn of realizing his dream and began his naval military career.
The young Guo Shousheng bid farewell to his family and went north alone to study in Yantai, which in his eyes was a place full of hope. But the harsh reality still gave him a big blow.
Although the Beiyang government at that time attached great importance to the construction of the navy, it was very corrupt internally and extremely rejected new ideas. Yantai Naval School is built on a very remote seashore, where life is extremely boring, although he has learned a lot of naval expertise, but the oppressive and closed atmosphere makes Guo Shousheng very confused.
However, among his classmates were many progressive elements from all over the country, Guo Shousheng had a cheerful personality, liked to make friends very much, and was extremely interested in new things, especially revolutionary ideas coming from abroad.
Soon he became an active member of the progressive mind, and the seeds of revolution took root in his heart.
When the May Fourth Movement broke out in 1919, Guo Shousheng was affected, and he also actively organized students to carry out patriotic activities in the naval school, and his performance was very positive, and after the founding of the CCP, he received the attention of ccp members.
Guo Shousheng agreed with the CCP's ideas and revolutionary ideas very much, and longed for it, and soon joined the Communist Youth League. Guo Shousheng had a revolutionary heart and strong ability to move, and he also secretly founded a revolutionary organization "New Naval Society" at the Yantai Naval School.
This new naval society had an important influence in China's modern navy, and many important generals in the Kuomintang navy were later members of this organization, and many of them were close to it.
Soon after, under the introduction of Yun Daiying and Wang Hebo, Guo Shousheng joined the Communist Party of China, became an early member of our party, and established the first CCP group in the Yantai area.
After the outbreak of the Northern Expedition, Guo Shousheng moved the New Naval Society to Shanghai in order to prompt the Navy to take over the Northern Expeditionary Army. Guo Shousheng, who performed prominently, was suspicious of the Beiyang government, but fortunately he got the news and left the fleet early and hid.
In 1926, Guo Shousheng launched patriotic officers and soldiers in the navy to cooperate with the Shanghai workers' armed uprising launched by the CCP, and after two failures, finally seized the success of the uprising in March 1927.
At that time, Guo Shousheng, as an important revolutionary leader within the navy, planned and directed the uprising with Zhou Enlai, and the two formed a profound friendship in a short period of time, and Zhou Enlai was very optimistic about Guo Shousheng, believing that this person had a firm revolutionary will and was a comrade worthy of absolute trust.
Less than a month after the success of the Shanghai workers' armed uprising, Chiang Kai-shek, fearing that the CCP would develop its own armed forces, immediately tore off his disguise mask and launched the infamous "April 12 Counter-Revolutionary Coup."
In this coup d'état, a large number of revolutionary volunteers and the masses were killed, the work of our Party was forced to go underground, the revolutionary situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and Shanghai was shrouded in a white terror.
The navy that was absorbed by the Kuomintang was not spared, and in order to retain the revolutionary fire in the navy, Guo Shousheng relocated the new naval society to Wuhan. But then Wang Jingwei also rebelled in Wuhan, and Guo Shousheng was forced to disband the New Navy.
Just when he was deeply confused and confused, Zhou Enlai sent Wang Ruofei to find Guo Shousheng. Wang Ruofei told Guo Shousheng that Zhou Enlai hoped that he would sneak into the Kuomintang navy to contribute to the party in the future.
Guo Shousheng trusted Zhou Enlai and the party organization very much, and he obeyed the organizational arrangements and was determined to hide in the navy, but he did not expect that this hiding would last for 22 years.
It was precisely because of his fiery patriotic heart and trust in the party that he persevered under many difficulties.
After some time, Guo Shousheng returned to Fuzhou and returned to the navy through connections. The Fujian people have made great contributions to the development of the Chinese Navy, and the Fujian Department within the Kuomintang Navy has a large number of personnel and very close relations.
It is precisely because of these local feelings that Although Guo Shousheng is suspected of being a communist, he has always been safe and sound within the Navy, but he has not been able to obtain important positions. Later, he became the president of the magazine "China Navy".
Although he was idle, Guo Shousheng was not idle, he was the founder and core leader of the New Naval Society, and his connections in the Kuomintang Navy were very extensive, and many patriotic officers and soldiers admired him very much. Many important generals in the Kuomintang navy were his closest friends.
In January 1949, the Battle of Pingjin ended, Chiang Kai-shek's troops were wiped out, and there was no major war north of the Yangtze River. Zhou Enlai was then vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, acting chief of the general staff, and at this time he began to consider solving the problem south of the Yangtze River.
The first obstacle before him was the Yangtze River defense line, and many generals at military analysis meetings mentioned that the Kuomintang navy was a thorny issue.
Our army has no warships and can only rely on wooden boats to cross the river; although the offensive front is very long, there are only a few important breakthrough points, and if the enemy's warships assist in defending in these places, it will cause great trauma to our army's crossing of the river. In particular, this Second Fleet, which is well-organized and well-equipped, and well-trained in naval officers and men, once it rushes out, it is estimated that we will not be able to stop it no matter what.
The Navy's Second Fleet? Zhou Enlai now remembered Guo Shousheng, who was lurking inside the navy, and it was time to wake him up. He informed Li Kenong that Wu Kejian would send someone to contact Guo Shousheng and ask him to try to rebel against the Second Fleet.
After Li Kenong learned about Guo Shousheng's situation, he still had some concerns. Can the president of such a magazine rebel against a fleet? I haven't been in contact with the organization for more than twenty years, is this person still reliable?
In this regard, Zhou Enlai showed a confident smile: Guo Shousheng is a trustworthy comrade, and he will definitely not be sentenced to revolution. I believe in his ability!
One night in February, a businessman named Lin Hengyuan visited Guo Shousheng's house, which was commonplace for such visitors, so he invited him to his study to talk.
The two sat still, and after Lin Hengyuan confirmed that there were only two of them, he solemnly said a word to Guo Shousheng: "Comrade Zhou Enlai told you to return to the team!" ”
Hearing these words, Guo Shousheng stood up at once, his eyes were full of tears, and then he held Lin Hengyuan's hand tightly, and the tears could not help but flow down.
That's right, this is the person sent by the organization to wake him up, because no one would have thought that there was only one person who could wake him up, and that was Zhou Enlai!
After Guo Shousheng's mood had stabilized slightly, Lin Hengyuan conveyed Zhou Enlai's orders to him: try to rebel against the Second Fleet and help the People's Liberation Army cross the Yangtze River.
After Guo Shousheng received the order, he immediately promised to complete the task!
In the eyes of others, this is an extremely difficult task, and the time is particularly tight, but in Guo Shousheng's eyes, this is a task he has been looking forward to for more than twenty years, and he will give his full strength to it.
For more than 20 years, Guo Shousheng has been looking forward to returning to the team all the time. For so many years, he has always paid attention to the development of the party through various channels, such as the Nanchang Uprising, the anti-encirclement and suppression, the 25,000-mile Long March, the War of Resistance Behind enemy lines, the Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communists, and now he is striving for peaceful nation-building.
He saw very clearly and thought very clearly that only the Communist Party of China could save China, that the Kuomintang had become utterly corrupt, and that now their posture of seeking peace was all false, and that sooner or later this battle would be fought.
Therefore, he will do everything in his power to help the People's Liberation Army cross the Yangtze River and liberate all of China.
The Second Fleet is the most elite fleet in the National Army, equipped with imported new warships, excellent performance, strong firepower, and all officers and men are well-trained elite generals. Chiang Kai-shek put a lot of effort into this fleet, and many of the generals were regarded by him as his confidants, and they were also the main force of surface defense in Nanjing.
However, Guo Shousheng was confident about plotting against the Second Fleet, because he had already paid attention to this force and began to infiltrate many years ago.
The reason why Guo Shousheng had full confidence was because he had a very close friend internally, the commander of the Second Fleet, Lin Zun.
Lin Zun and Guo Shousheng were close friends at the Yantai Naval Academy and had maintained close ties for many years. For Lin Zun's heart, Guo Shousheng knows it very well.
Lin Zun was one of the few top elites in the Chinese navy, and he was also a general with a sincere patriotic heart, and although Chiang Kai-shek held him in high esteem, he was not a foolish and loyal man.
Lin Zun had repeatedly expressed to Guo Shousheng his disgust for corruption within the Kuomintang, and what had been a good country was now miasma by the Kuomintang. On the other hand, look at the Communist Party, who is poor and white, but is bent on serving the people and the country, so that those of them who are dressed in stars are ashamed in their hearts.
Especially after the outbreak of the civil war, Lin Zun repeatedly complained privately that fighting with his own people was still consuming China's national defense strength.
Guo Shousheng decided to win Lin Zun down first, so he came to Zhenjiang, the garrison of the Second Fleet, and directly found Lin Zun, and the two chatted freely for a long time on the flagship "Hui'an Ship", because of the fear that the partition wall had ears, Guo Shousheng did not reveal his true purpose to him. But this time he saw that Lin Zun had lost confidence in the Kuomintang government.
So Guo Shousheng invited Lin Zun to go with him to Zhenjiang Jinshan to visit and relax a few days later, although it was already the eve of the great war, Lin Zun was really depressed in his heart, so he agreed.
A few days later, the two walked together in the beauty of the Golden Mountain, enjoying the beautiful scenery while talking freely. Seeing that the time was ripe, Guo Shousheng revealed his heart to Lin Zun.
Guo Shousheng directly told Lin Zun: I am a member of the Communist Party, and I am entrusted by Zhou Enlai to hope that you will abandon the dark and turn to the light and lead the uprising!
Hearing this, Lin Zun was stunned, and the close friend he had been friends with for decades turned out to be the Communist Party. Immediately he was overjoyed, he was in a state of distress and depression, and was not the way out for him and his brothers to revolt? And to gain the trust of the CPC Central Committee and Zhou Enlai, Lin Zun was also honored.
Lin Zun was slightly agitated, saying that he had completely lost confidence in Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, and if he could lead the uprising, it would be very good. However, the Interior of the Second Fleet is not monolithic, and it is extremely difficult and risky to successfully revolt.
Guo Shousheng saw that Lin Zun was still a little hesitant, so he solemnly told him: Time is running out, and the opportunity must not be lost!
Lin Zun pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth and immediately decided, one does not do two, at this time do not move more when, a word "dry"!
After the two agreed, they each went back to prepare. Guo Shousheng immediately reported to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, requesting that all hibernating personnel in the Second Fleet be awakened to cooperate with the uprising.
After Lin Zun returned to the ship, he immediately gathered his henchmen and men, informed them that he had made contact with the CPC Central Committee, and decided to lead his troops to surrender, hoping that the brothers would abandon the dark and surrender together. Lin Zun's men immediately all said that they had been looking forward to this day for a long time.
Subsequently, the preparations for the uprising were carried out in the Second Fleet, and for those diehards, Lin Zun and Guo Shousheng deployed in advance to control them all before the uprising, and all the warships and weapons were also in their own hands.
On April 21, the Battle of the Crossing River was officially launched, and a million male divisions launched an attack on the opposite bank of the river for thousands of miles, and the Yangtze River defense line painstakingly managed by the Kuomintang was breached in an instant.
On 23 April, the Kuomintang General Headquarters, seeing that the general situation had turned, sent a telegram ordering the Second Fleet to immediately go to Shanghai to deploy a defense to ensure the withdrawal of the remnants of the Nationalist army to Taiwan.
What they did not expect was that Lin Zun announced on the same day that all the officers and men of the Second Fleet and the fleet would abandon the dark and surrender to the People's Liberation Army.
The Second Fleet of the Nationalist Army, with all 25 ships, more than 1,200 officers and men, and all weapons and equipment, broke away from the National Government and declared an uprising.
The cooperation of the Second Fleet greatly guaranteed the rapid victory of the Battle of the Crossing River. On the day of the Second Fleet uprising, the People's Liberation Army invaded Nanjing, and the red flag of victory was planted over the presidential palace!
Later, Zhou Enlai personally received the rebel officers and men of the Second Fleet, including the old friend Guo Shousheng, who had been absent for more than twenty years, and the two embraced and cried, and the excitement was indescribable.
After that, Guo Shousheng entered the people's navy, retired in 1963, and died of illness in 1967 at the age of 67, completing a glorious and legendary life!
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