In the early morning of December 17, 1957, Zhang Qingrong, then deputy commander of the 63rd Anti-aircraft Artillery Division of the Fuzhou Military Region, took advantage of the slack of guards to secretly take a fishing boat to Kinmen, and then defected to Baodao, becoming the highest-ranking general in the history of our army who defected to the enemy camp.
After Zhang Qingrong's successful defection, he was warmly welcomed by the enemy army, and Jiang Qingrong not only personally set up a banquet to entertain him and also gave him a high-ranking official Houlu, so that he could enjoy extremely favorable living conditions, but what was unexpected was that Zhang Qingrong was suddenly shot by Jiang someone only a year after defecting to Baodao.
Zhang Qingrong, a native of Baoding, Hebei, joined the revolution in 1938 and started as a grassroots soldier in the ranks of the Eighth Route Army, because he bravely killed the enemy in battle many times, by the time of the Liberation War, Zhang Qingrong had achieved the post of battalion commander, and in 1952 Zhang Qingrong followed the troops to resist the United States and aid Korea, and went to a distant foreign country to resist the US army.
Because of his outstanding performance in the Revolutionary War and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Zhang Qingrong was promoted to deputy division commander and awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel, as a middle-level commander and fighter who experienced the baptism of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he served as a deputy division commander at a young age, which can be said to have a bright future.
In 1957, Zhang Qingrong was transferred to the Fuzhou Military Region as the deputy commander of the 63rd Anti-aircraft Artillery Division, according to the geographical and political environment at that time, the Fuzhou Military Region can be said to be in the forefront of the war, and was sent to key areas to serve in key positions, which shows the organization's trust and training for him.
However, with the end of the war and social stability, Zhang Qingrong's thinking gradually changed, relaxed his requirements for himself, and often fantasized about being able to live a life of drunken gold, so he took advantage of his position many times at work to eavesdrop on the propaganda broadcast of the enemy, and Zhang Qingrong gradually lost himself for the money offensive on the other side.
He believed that the treasure island was better developed than the mainland, and he would definitely get good treatment by defecting to the past in his own capacity, so he began to plan a plan to escape to the treasure island, and actively contacted the enemy spies to discuss the escape route.
On December 17, 1957, after many plots, Zhang Qingrong, taking advantage of the slack of our patrol soldiers, secretly fled to Kinmen on a fishing boat, and then transferred to Baodao.
After that, in order to stabilize Zhang Qingrong, Jiang appointed him as the colonel and deputy chief of staff of the antiaircraft artillery headquarters and paid a bonus of 50,000 yuan; at the same time, he also let the news media report on Zhang Qingrong's defection deeds and the superior living conditions after his defection, and waged a psychological and propaganda war against our army.
The top officials of the People's Liberation Army were very shocked after Zhang Qingrong's defection, and in order to reduce the impact, they once blocked the news and kept it strictly secret, and strengthened the education and rectification of various units and the management and supervision of all senior officers, and strictly prevented the recurrence of such incidents.
Because it was a secret arrest, Jiang Ren, who was far away on Baodao, had no way of knowing, so Luo Ruiqing sent a telegram to Jiang someone in the name of a spy, saying that Zhang Qingrong was a fake surrender, and he was just going to Baodao as a spy in the name of surrender, so that the PLA could provide powerful intelligence in the future attack.
At this time, Zhang Qingrong gradually fluttered because of Jiang's courtesy, not only lived a life of drunken gold, but also publicly stated the road to peace many times, advocating the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to build China, Luo Ruiqing's anti-treachery scheme and Zhang Qingrong's fluttering, so that Jiang someone's trust in him weakened day by day, and finally he was arrested by the Intelligence Bureau at the end of 1958 and executed, less than a year after he defected to Baodao.