Chiang Kai-shek came from a large country, but he was also able to analyze from the reality of his repeated defeats and retreats in the face of the Communist Party that he had surrounded himself with lurkers arranged by the Communist Party. However, when his confidant stood in front of him and accused another confidant of being a "spy", Chiang Kai-shek chose to ignore it together, confidently believing that the two powerful subordinates were only jealous of each other.
When the tide was over, and the hidden underground staff were all unveiled and stood again under the sunshine of new China, Chiang Kai-shek realized that the wrong and ridiculous clown was himself.
Why did two high-ranking officials around Chiang Kai-shek, who were deeply favored, accuse each other of being spies of the Communist Party? This issue takes you through a bizarre and hilarious story that took place within the National Government during the Liberation War, and everyone is welcome to actively speak in the comments section or press and hold a long thumbs up to express support
Jiang bald head
During the Battle of Huaihai in 1948, the Kuomintang was repeatedly defeated on the front-line battlefield, and the top-secret military plan that had been deployed the night before was soon learned by the People's Liberation Army, leading to the defeat of the Nationalist army. All the top Kuomintang officials, including Chiang Kai-shek, were aware of the presence of Communist spies within themselves, but none of them could figure out who that person really was.
Originally, Chiang Kai-shek deployed 800,000 people on the Huaihai battlefield, there were not a few troops equipped with advanced American equipment and mechanization, and the famous Huang Baitao, Qiu Qingquan, and Li Mi corps of the Kuomintang all took up the battlefield.
The number of people involved in the high-level meeting on the deployment of national defense operations was limited, and Chiang Kai-shek's confidants quickly locked in a target of suspicion- Liu Fei, director of the First Department of National Defense Operations. Born in the Gui clan, Liu Fei went to study at the Japanese Army University after the defeat of the Great Revolution, and as soon as he returned to China, he served as a senior staff officer of the Kuomintang Fifth Army, and was called "China's three and a half military experts" by Japan because of his rich knowledge of military theory.
Liu Fei
Liu Fei worked in the position of chief of staff for 11 years, basically responsible for the preliminary formulation of all of Chiang Kai-shek's military combat plans, and was deeply trusted and relied upon by Chiang Kai-shek. Liu Fei also has a nickname called "Domineering Vice Chief", which can also reflect his pivotal position in the National Government.
Because of Chiang Kai-shek's consistent trust, all those who came to file a complaint were blocked by him. Liu Fei, who is on the cusp of the storm, has also developed a lot of sense of crisis himself, and he decided to find a scapegoat and continue to hide the identity of his lurker.
Guo Rugui, who had always been at odds with the Kuomintang officers because of his frugal and incorruptible style of life, soon became the target of his "false accusations." In fact, Du Yuming had also reported to Chiang Kai-shek that Guo Rugui had great suspicions of communism, because Guo Rugui's life was too simple, he did not drink alcohol or gamble, his daily diet was light, his hobbies were ordinary, and he was too similar to the style and habits of the Communist Party.
Guo Rujie
However, Du Yuming's accusations changed in Chiang Kai-shek's view, and he was accusing the Nationalist government of all corrupt and degenerate sacks of wine and rice. Chiang Kai-shek was furious and angrily rebuked Du Yuming: "Revolutionary soldiers, are they bound to eat in fine clothes?" Du Yuming left sadly, and after that, no matter how dissatisfied he was, he did not dare to say it again.
Within two months of joining the Kuomintang army in 1937, Guo Rugui saved the scattered Nationalist soldiers in a time of crisis, and led the 8,000 men of the Forty-second Brigade to fight bitterly for seven days and seven nights, and finally only about 2,000 people were left, but they held their positions and made Guo Rugui famous.
Later, Guo Rugui was valued by chen cheng, the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and was appointed chief of staff of the Fifty-fourth Army, and repeatedly showed his unique plan for military command, which made Chiang Kai-shek feel that he had found a treasure. After the outbreak of the War of Liberation, Chiang Kai-shek renamed the original National Defense Commission to the Ministry of National Defense, and appointed a number of his most trusted subordinates as directors of the War Department, and Liu Fei and Guo Rujie became the directors of the First and Third War Departments, respectively.
The War Office of the Ministry of Defense
Therefore, when Liu Fei used Du Yuming's reasons to report Guo Rujie, Chiang Kai-shek did not take it seriously, but only waved his hand to show that he knew, and did not take Liu Fei's words seriously at all.
Liu Fei's complaint was soon learned by Guo Rujie, and the two people who had originally looked down on each other were now competing. In addition, Guo Rugui thought that he had missed a flaw somewhere, so Liu Fei grabbed his own pigtails, decided to strike later, and also went to Chiang Kai-shek to accuse Liu Fei of opposing Chiang Kai-shek's suspicions of opposing Chiang Kai-shek.
Liu Fei did make some anti-Chiang remarks in public, but he was extremely greedy for enjoyment. In Guo Rugui's view, Liu Fei was a real Kuomintang officer, and his anti-Chiang remarks were only meant to be innovative and eye-catching, but he himself was greasy.
Bai Chongxi also said that Liu Fei's speech is left and enjoyment is right, he is dissatisfied with the status quo, but his life is not strict. This comment coincided with Guo Rugui's view, in fact, few people within the Kuomintang suspected that Liu Fei was a member of the Communist Party.
Bai Chongxi
The two exposed and reported each other one after the other, which made Chiang Kai-shek's head bigger. Chiang Kai-shek, two powerful subordinates who were also deeply trusted by him, did not doubt their loyalty, and only thought that Liu Fei and Guo Rujie were just fighting for the wind and fighting each other's small reports, after all, this was commonplace within the Nationalist government.
In order to appease the emotions of the two people, Chiang Kai-shek rarely said softly: "What you said is right, I was wrong, but the infighting at the top level of the state government can easily lead to instability in the military, and we should not mention this matter again in the future." Only then did the two people who were fighting for blushing and thick necks stop.
The words and evidence of Liu Fei and Guo Rujie's accusations against each other are naturally forgeries, but they coincidentally verify the same fact: both are real underground parties, real "communists." It's just that Liu Fei belongs to the Huaye Enemy Ministry, and Guo Rugui's immediate boss is Dong Biwu, the elder of our party.
Elder Dong
Due to the strict secrecy nature of the underground work, Liu and Guo have always maintained a single line of contact with their own liaison officers, and the two sides do not know each other's identities, which also makes this scene. Fortunately, Chiang Kai-shek did not believe the words of any of them, and covered their true identities in reverse, and this blind confidence also made Chiang Kai-shek suffer the consequences of his own.
However, the liangzi between Liu Fei and Guo Rugui had already been formed, and the two of them were not accustomed to the two of them tripping each other up in subsequent military operations, and Liu Fei suffered losses at the hands of Guo Rugui several times, which also made the party organization aware of the open struggle between them.
Guo Rugui's contact, Ren Lianru, quickly told him in the correspondence not to act rashly and to find out the situation before speaking. A few days later, Ren Lianru contacted Guo Rujie again, asking him to have a good relationship with Liu Fei and not be used by people with hearts.
Guo Rugui and Ren Lianru
Ren Lianru's two messages were vague and unclear, but Guo Rujie was sensitive to the deep meaning behind it, and felt that the organization was hinting at himself. He carefully recalled some of the events that Liu Fei had done before, and slowly felt that those seemingly coincidental failures had become intentional.
For example, Liu Fei's "lack of combat experience", which has always been criticized by people, Liu Fei arbitrarily changed the combat plan at the senior staff military operation meeting, resulting in the annihilation of the District Shounian Corps and the reorganized 75th Division and the reorganized 72nd Division in the Suiqi Campaign by our army. On the eve of the Battle of Huaihai, Chiang Kai-shek's preferred commander-in-chief was not Liu Zhi, but Bai Chongxi and Du Yuming.
It was only when Bai Chongxi, with the participation of Guo Rugui, refused Chiang Kai-shek's appointment, and Du Yuming had already been transferred to the northeast to command the battle, that Liu Zhi, one of the Five Tiger Generals who was heavily regarded by Chiang Kai-shek and the commander-in-chief of Xuzhou, had a chance to ascend to the throne. However, Liu Zhi, nicknamed "General long-legged", ran wildly during the Japanese army's capture of the Pinghan Railway, and the 300,000-strong army lost to more than 60,000 people of the Central Plains Liberation Army in the Battle of Dingtao, which was a straw bag within the Kuomintang officers.
Liu Zhi, one of the Five Tiger Generals
However, a major reason why Liu Zhi was able to become the commander-in-chief of the Huaihai Campaign was liu fei's encouragement. Thinking of these things, Guo Rugui realized that the "greasy" Liu Fei was most likely a comrade with his own united front, and what happened later further verified his guess.
After the Battle of Huaihai, Chiang Kai-shek's defeat was decided, and even the United States, which had always supported him, issued a commentary through the Associated Press, declaring that if the Communists wanted to attack Hecheng in the future, they would attack Hecheng, and there would be no more obstacles. Chiang Kai-shek had nowhere to vent his depression in his chest, and he could only be incapable and angry in the office every day, and his suspicions were getting worse and worse.
Guo Rugui obviously felt that Chiang Kai-shek had a crisis of trust in him, and proposed to Ren Lianru to return to Yan'an. Ren Lianru said that he could only provide greater assistance to the PLA by staying within the Kuomintang at the moment, and suggested that he go to the southwest to command one or two armies and wait for the opportunity to respond to the PLA's combat operations.
Guo Rugui directly proposed his ideas to the defense staff officer Gu Zhutong, and was assigned to the 72nd Army as a commander, leading the wounded soldiers withdrawn from the Huaihai Campaign to garrison Sichuan. Before leaving, Gu Zhutong also told Guo Rugui that Liu Fei had slandered him in front of Chiang Kai-shek, saying that guo Rugui would just be able to lead the troops below to gain insight and experience, so as not to humiliate the president later.
Guo Rugui frowned on his face, but secretly happy in his heart, Liu Fei's "slander" made Chiang Kai-shek, who had doubts in his heart, feel at ease to hand over military power to him, and Guo Rugui also confirmed that Liu Fei was his own person.
When the People's Liberation Army entered Sichuan from western Hunan Province, Guo Rugui had already installed two divisions of his own men in Sichuan, and directly in accordance with the plan agreed with Ren Lianru, announced that he would lead an uprising, destroying Chiang Kai-shek's last line of defense to defend the southwest rear, and making Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Taiwan, angrily scold "Niang Xipi" in anger.
Guo Rugui Uprising Book
In fact, Guo Rugui joined the Communist Party when he was in military school in 1928, but because of the failure of the Great Revolution, he went to Japan to study, and gradually lost contact with the organization after returning, until he became the director of the Department of Operations of the Ministry of National Defense in 1946, and only then did he re-see his classmate Ren Yiyi, re-pass the test of the organization, and become an underground force lurking in the depths of the enemy camp, and Ren Yiyou's cousin Ren Lianru was responsible for contacting him.
In the early days of the founding of New China, Guo Rugui only had the treatment of an uprising general, and he revealed in detail in his memoirs the deeds of himself as a lurker to deliver news to the organization, and Guo Rugui's early exploits were gradually revealed, and he returned to the party organization in the early 1980s.
Liu Fei, on the other hand, stayed in Nanjing after Li Zongren became acting president, refused Li Zongren's appointment as the chief of staff in the presidential palace, and took the initiative to participate in negotiations with the Communist Party, and went to Beiping with Huang Shaohu to meet Chairman Mao. After half a month, the kuomintang and the communists finally negotiated a general result, but Li Zongren refused to sign it, leaving Liu Fei and the members of the delegation to waste their efforts.
Li Zongren
Angered, Liu Fei and the deputies stayed directly in Beiping and did not return to the Nanjing government. After the liberation of Nanjing, Liu Fei secretly went to Guangzhou to persuade Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi not to defect to Chiang Kai-shek, and Li Zongren finally nodded in agreement. Later, Liu Fei went to Hong Kong to plan the peaceful uprising in Hunan, and went to Beijing to attend the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference during the preparation of the founding ceremony.
In addition to Guo Rugui and Liu Fei, what Chiang Kai-shek did not know was that he specially approved The Huangpu confidant Han Liancheng and the spoiled stenographer Shen Anna, who were loyal and stoic, were loyal and firm underground party members, and Shen Anna was also known as "the person who held Chiang Kai-shek's pulse". In the Telecommunications Bureau of the Presidential Office and the Ministry of National Defense in Nanjing, only two staff members are not members of our party.
Salute to the underground party members who have gone deep behind enemy lines
Chiang Kai-shek always stood on the opposite side of the people, and eventually ended up with the fate of a lonely man who left Taiwan. The tortuous experience that Guo Rugui and Liu Fei accused each other in front of him and beat him up straight, but were always ignored by Chiang Kai-shek, has now become an old anecdote that happened to him.