On the evening of July 17, 1949, Xi'an Xijing Guest House.
Hu Gongmian rushed to Xi'an with Zhou Enlai's handwritten letter to discuss with Peng Dehuai about instigating Hu Zongnan's uprising again.
A native of Yongjia County, Zhejiang Province, Hu Gongmian joined the Communist Party of China as early as October 1921, and then Sun Yat-sen asked him to join the Kuomintang, and with the consent of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he joined the Kuomintang on September 2, 1923. After attending the First National Congress of the Kuomintang, he was sent to Zhejiang to recruit the first batch of Huangpu students, Hu Zongnan, who was recruited by him to enter the Huangpu Military Academy. Therefore, Hu Zongnan was indebted to Hu Gongmian. "A teacher for a day, a father for life." Later, they participated in the Northern Expedition Together, and Hu Zongnan was the commander of the second battalion of the second regiment, and the regimental commander was Hu Gongmian. After the Northern Expeditionary Army arrived in Zhuzhou, Chiang Kai-shek selected Hu Gongmian to serve as the head of the adjutant division of the Headquarters of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Army, and Hu Gongmian strongly recommended Hu Zongnan to succeed him as the head of the regiment. Hu Zongnan was directly promoted from battalion commander to regimental commander - so Hu Zongnan often said: "Mr. Gongguan is kind to me." ”
Later, Chiang Kai-shek transferred Hu Gongmian to be the director of the General Political Department of the former enemy, in charge of all the administration of Zhejiang, but he asked Chiang for sick leave. Jiang also sent him to Chen Duxiu to talk to Chen Duxiu about the dispute between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, but he still resigned on the grounds of illness. Chiang Kai-shek regarded Hu Gongguan as "an enemy who has penetrated into the heart." ”
At the time of the "April 12" massacre, the first of the most wanted armies was Xuan Zhonghua, and the second was Hu Gongmian – after which he established the southern Zhejiang guerrilla group and became the commander of the 13th Army of the Red Army in 1930. The following year, he went to Hangzhou and Nanjing to instigate a mutiny among some Huangpu officers and was arrested, and was bailed out by Shao Lizi, then chairman of Shaanxi Province, and taken to Xi'an. In the spring of 1937, all circles strongly condemned the one-party dictatorship, and Chiang sent him to be the commissioner of Pingliang in Gansu, and at the same time sent people to monitor and restrain him. In 1941, Hu Gongmian resigned and moved to Xi'an to live. Hu Zongnan knew he was a communist, but he did not harm him and secretly protected him. In 1945 he moved back to Shanghai and has been doing united front work ever since.
Hu Gongmian went to Xi'an three times to instigate The Hu Zongnan Uprising——
The first time was in the spring of 1948, when Hu Gongmian made a special trip to Xi'an in the name of moving, talked with Hu Zongnan many times through the night, and proposed three uprising plans: first, northwest China, north China (Li Wen was stationed in Beiping), and northeast China (Fan Hanjie was in Shenyang) simultaneously uprising. Hu Gongmian joined forces with Li Wen and Fan Hanjie; second, the northwest and Tao Zhiyue of Xinjiang joined forces to revolt and kill the Majia army in Ningxia and Qinghai; third, Hu Zongnan himself directly commanded the uprising in the northwest. Hu Zongnan chose the final plan and asked Hu Gongmian to go to Yan'an to invite the Communists to his side to help direct the uprising and handle the aftermath.
The second time was half a month later, when Hu Gongmian returned to Xi'an from Yan'an, Hu Zongnan repented again, saying: "If I do this, I will scold huangpu classmates to death." Hu Gongmian said: "This is an act of justice to relieve the people from hanging upside down..." Hu Gongmian's hot heart ran into a cold ice cube, and when he returned to his residence, he actually crashed into a tree, half of his face was swollen like a steamed bun, and his mouth could not be opened when eating...
The third time I came to Xi'an was in March this year. As soon as he saw Hu Zongnan, he split his head and said, "It's time to shed tears when you see the coffin, you only have to rebel and surrender now, there is no other way!" A spark suddenly appeared in Hu Zongnan's originally dull pupils: Judging from the national situation, the communist army has won, the national army has lost, and you can help me to build a car. Just when the central deputies and Hu Zongnan had made an alliance under the city, Chiang Kai-shek called an hour and a half from Xikou, and on the same day Ye Xia Zhai arrived suddenly, Hu Zongnan suddenly changed, Hu Gongmian asked him to talk again, hu Zongnan said with tears in his heart: "At this point, I am guilty of fighting, and it is even more a crime not to fight!" I'll give you a certificate, collect military pay on my behalf, and fly back to Shanghai..."
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Now, Peng Dehuai, who rarely smokes, lit a cigarette, looked into Hu Gongmian's wise eyes, and asked, "Do you still feel hopeful about Hu Zongnan?" ”
Hu Gongmian sighed for a moment and said, "You have done your best to be kind and righteous to Hu Zongnan, and in Beiping, Vice Chairman Zhou was also very angry when he told me about it, and Chen Li's life and death are unknown." But I'm a very stubborn person..."
Peng Dehuai looked at him in horror: "You don't have a heart to die until you reach the Yellow River?" ”
Hu Gongmian nodded, "Hu Zongnan still has hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands, which can be evil seeds or fuyuan." I think I'd rather touch the nail again than lose my chance. ”
"Now is the right time." Peng Dehuai said, "Just like a seriously injured sick person who will obediently follow the doctor's treatment, Hu Zongnan should listen to the advice of his benefactor." ”
"Do your best, make a last effort. Even if he can't win it, he can make him shrink and not hit Ichino's hind tendon. "What kind of assistant do you want?"
"Vice Chairman Zhou said there was a Zhang Xin..."
"Zhang Xin is in the hospital." Peng Dehuai said, "I will give you another person." This time the fight can be effective, outstanding results! ”
Peng Dehuai knew that when Hu Gongmian left Beiping, Mao Zedong had already held discussions with Zhou Enlai on the issue of plotting against Hu Zongnan. Through talking with Hu Gongmian, Hu Gongmian was quite confident. However, Peng Dehuai did not have a sense of ease, on the contrary, his heart was full of resentment and contradictions.
Just now Yan Yu wanted to come back from the hospital and said that Zhang Xin's illness was basically cured. It can replace Hu Gongmian in carrying out the task.
Peng Dehuai once again picked up the letter written by Zhou Enlai and read it, and fell into deep thought. On 15 July, Chiang Kai-shek declared at a press conference in Guangzhou that the Kuomintang had sworn to fight the Communists to the end in a bloody battle with all its might, causing an uproar in all circles, and Mao Zedong concluded that Chiang Kai-shek was going to jump naked in front of the stage to take command, informed the field armies and demanded that all battlefields seize the march and annihilate the enemy even more fiercely and fiercely. At the time when Chiang Kai-shek jumped from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, it is difficult to say whether there will be any practical results in persuading Hu Zongnan to submit to the people, let alone what should be said, Wei Honghe has said everything.
Peng Dehuai thought again about Zhang Xin's safety. Hu Zongnan generally does not poison his former friend, but what about Zhang Xin?
Zhang Xin, a native of Pujiang, Zhejiang, graduated from the third phase of the Huangpu Military Academy, and has the sole possession of three of Hu Zongnan's "Huang, Zhejiang, Lu, and One" employment standards. In 1932, Hu Zongnan had a "life-saving grace" for Zhang Xin. Since then, the two have been "as close as brothers and sisters".
...... At that time, Hu Zongnan was the commander of the First Division, and Zhang Xin was the battalion commander of the Independent Brigade of the First Division. Zhang Xin's immediate superior, Zhou Shimian, commander of the Independent Brigade, withheld military salaries and stole military supplies, causing officers and men to be full of resentment and ridicule. Zhou Shimian summoned all the officers and men of the regiment to give a lecture and indignantly asked the battalion company commander: If you have an opinion on the regimental headquarters, don't talk nonsense below, is there? Who dares to speak up? To put it bluntly, it is tantamount to pulling out a tiger's teeth -- the officers and men looked around in a daze and lowered their heads...
In the silence, Zhang Xinhu stood up and replied, "Yes! Zhou Shimian scolded, "What?" ”
Zhang Xin replied loudly: "The regimental headquarters withheld military salaries and sold soldiers' shorts." Zhou Shimian was furious and scolded, "Bastard! Zhang Xin was also furious, and raised his fist to punch hard, and all the battalion company commanders were stunned, and the soldiers sitting on the ground stood up and shouted, "Well fought!" "That's right!"
Zhou Shimian was furious and went to Hu Zongnan to file a complaint.
Zhang Xin knew that he had run into a catastrophe, but he pretended to be a tough guy, so he hardened to the end and never ran away. Immediately, Hu Zongnan escorted him to the division headquarters and was confined to the headquarters alone. In the evening, Hu Shouqian, a staff officer of the division headquarters, took Hu Zongnan's order in his hand and went to the confinement room to read to Zhang Xin: "When all the officers and men were assembled, Zhang Xin deliberately insulted his direct subordinate commanders, acted arbitrarily and lawlessly, and set an unprecedented precedent for the National Revolutionary Army. Zhang Xin asked anxiously, "What is it?" Removed? Or shot? Hu was stunned, and finally said: "Anyway, you understand it yourself." In fact, the following four words were: "Shoot and shoot", he did not read it, and left. Zhang Xin calmed down for a moment, thinking that although his behavior was reckless, he had done nothing wrong and was not afraid of death, so he asked Hu Zongnan's aide-de-camp for a pen and paper, and wrote, "Die without complaint, please bury it in the martyr's tomb after death." Turning to Hu Zongnan, Hu yelled upstairs: "Damn guy! In the middle of the night, the confinement room plus the double post -—— because the deputy division commander Peng Jinzhi, the brigade commander Ding Delong and even Zhou Shimian tried their best to guarantee that Zhang Xin was brave and good at fighting, and it was a pity to kill him.
Zhang Xin was not killed, and in order to repay the favor of not killing, Zhang Xin had to serve Hu even more.
After the exoneration, Hu Zongnan saw Zhang Xin and complained: "If you have courage and no strategy, you will not become a great instrument!" ”
After that, Hu Zongnan asked Zhang Xin to go to the Ninety-second Division, and Zhang Xin pleaded with tears: "I don't want to leave Mr. Hu." ”
"You go first, and I'll pick you up and come back to me..."
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Xin was promoted to regimental commander, and after being wounded in the Battle of Taierzhuang and recovering from his wounds, Hu Zongnan sent someone to take him back to Xi'an and promote him to brigade commander.
When Hu Zongnan invaded Yan'an, Zhang Xin was captured at the Battle of Qingjian. He was later assigned to the Ichino Liaison Department. At the beginning of June, when Wei Honghe went to Hanzhong, Peng Dehuai asked him to accompany him, he was very happy, just when he got on the car, he suddenly fainted and was sent to the hospital for rescue... Today, Hu Gongmian has been ordered by the central government to do Hu Zongnan's work again, and Mr. Hu is sixty-one years old, and it is not suitable for long-distance bumps. He could only write a letter and send it to Hanzhong by Zhang Xin.