Foreword: The dry revolution has never been smooth sailing, Marshal He Long has experienced countless risks in his life, among which in 1927, before He Long's second northern expedition, a serious incident occurred in which his subordinate soldiers "made a noise" and directly shot and killed He Long.
In 1927, many major events occurred in China: Chiang Kai-shek launched the 4.12 revolutionary incident, Wang Jingwei qing communists, Ninghan diversion, the Second Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army, the Communist Party held the Nanchang Uprising, the Autumn Harvest Uprising and the Guangzhou Uprising.
He Long was right in the eye of the great whirlpool of this era.
The Beiyang warlord Wu Peifu saw that Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei were busy with the qing communists, and dispatched 100,000 troops south along the Jinghan Road in an attempt to seize Wuhan and extinguish the National Revolution.
At this time, Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to put aside their grievances and jointly announce the Northern Expedition, and they would first attack the greater common enemy Wu Peifu.
During the Northern Expedition, He Long's troops were called "steel troops", which was very cattle, right?
He Long, commander of the Independent 15th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, was ordered to assemble in Wuhan to await the Northern Expedition, but at this time his subordinates had a "disturbance" incident.
The "disturbance" incident was very serious, first broke out in the first regiment of the independent 15th Division, which was the most capable of fighting; other regiments also had riots of varying degrees. Chen Cexun, commander of the machine gun battalion, Chen Youqing, commander of the pistol battalion, and Liu Jinxing, commander of the infantry battalion, dragged away more than 300 hundred people and fled back to sangzhi county, their hometown in western Hunan Province.
At that time, it was natural for soldiers to eat grain, and most of the soldiers were to eat grain and receive salaries to support their families, so without pay, soldiers were prone to instability.
He Long's independent 15th Division escaped a total of almost 900 hundred people in the riot incident, close to 1/10 of the total strength of the division, and many key officers were involved, which made He Long very wounded.
Second, Tang Shengzhi thought that He Long sympathized with the Communist Party, so he secretly withheld He Long's "salary and weapons"; some people secretly borrowed their strength to try to kill He Long.
By the beginning of the Northern Expedition, the independent 15th Division had not been officially paid for 9 months, and the dissatisfaction of officers and soldiers was increasing.
So as soon as someone instigated it, the disturbance occurred quickly.
The first regiment was the basic unit that He Long started, so He Long received a report that someone was making trouble below, and he was very angry.
The enraged He Long immediately led the pistol team to the first regiment, and he gathered the first regiment together and said to everyone: "Don't think that I He Long has no number in his heart, someone is stirring up trouble in a mess, when I don't know?" ”
Marshal He Long
He Long named the 3 company commanders and 1 deputy battalion commander who were causing trouble, and asked the pistol team to tie them up.
When he was tied to the commander of the 4th Company, he shouted and shouted, inciting the officers and men in the queue.
Someone in the queue suddenly fired a shot at He Long, who was standing on the stage, and although He Long was not injured, this shot still knocked He Long's hat away.
Third, Chen Tunan, the black hand behind him, appeared; Zhou Yiqun took a decisive shot, arrested and shot the main personnel of the incident, and stabilized the troops.
He Long appointed a large number of Communists in the army, including Zhou Yiqun, so neither Chiang Kai-shek nor Wang Jingwei believed in or feared He Long in their hearts, and they all beat and pulled At He Long.
After the end of the First Northern Expedition, the other units were expanded, and the division commander became the commander.
However, He Long's troops were not only not expanded, but Wang Jingwei cut 7 regiments from more than 20,000 people in 12 regiments, and only 11,000 troops were retained.
He Long's office
The soldiers who dared to shoot at He Long, including Chen Cexun, Chen Youqing, and other battalion commanders who dragged people to drag their guns to escape, behind these people there was a big black hand, and the black hand was He Long's high counselor and teacher Chen Tunan!
Chiang Kai-shek had originally sent Li Zhonggong to Wuhan to find He Long and wanted to bribe him. The condition was that He Long agreed to surrender to Chiang Kai-shek, expand He Long's division into an army, make He Long the commander of the army and commander of the Wuhan garrison, and also hand over the Hanyang Arsenal to He Long, and send He Long a generous honorarium.
This is also a mature routine for Chiang Kai-shek to bribe various warlords.
However, He Long arrested the lobbyist Li Zhonggong and handed it over to Wang Jingwei (Wang Jingwei later released Li Zhonggong).
Chiang Kai-shek saw that he could not succeed in bribing He Long, so he turned around and bribed He Long's teacher, Chen Tunan, and decided to get rid of He Long.
Chen Tunan was He Long's teacher, so why did he betray He Long? The reason is that Chen Tunan believes that the Communist Party cannot become a climate, and he wants to be prosperous and rich, and he wants to find another way out for himself, so he uses He Long as a stepping stone and a name.
Zhou Yiqun quickly reported the matter to the CPC Central Committee in Wuhan, and at the same time instructed Wu Defeng, director of the Wuhan Municipal Public Security Bureau (a member of the Communist Party), to send police to arrest Chen Tunan and others who were trying to escape at the Mainland Hotel in Dazhimen, Wuhan.
Chen Tunan
The brigade commander Liu Xie resisted arrest and was killed on the spot, and Chen Tunan, Chen Shuyuan, Bai Wenzhong, and others were shot dead as quickly as possible after interrogation.
Fourth, He Long also "created" a "mutiny" incident of soldiers, solved the problem of grain and firearms, and put the development of the troops on the right track.
Although He Long solved the problem of the stability of the troops, he still did not solve the fundamental problem of the troops' "troubles."
He Long personally approached Wang Jingwei and Tang Shengzhi and demanded that he be paid the arrears of military pay. But both Wang Jingwei and Tang Shengzhi adopted a perfunctory attitude towards He Long.
He Long was very annoyed and thought that the soldiers would "make trouble", wouldn't I? I'm here to make a fuss and see what the people above you do!"
He Long arranged for two ships to be loaded with barrels of kerosene, filled with firecrackers, and violently fired firecrackers near Jianghanguan in Wuhan, pretending to be soldiers for a "mutiny."
Wuhan Guan building
On the other hand, Zhou Yiqun asked soldiers in civilian clothes to spread the gossip that the soldiers of the 15th Division and other units were mutinous in the three towns of Wuhan.
Wang Jingwei received the news that independence 15 was going to mutiny, and this moment was not lightly frightened: If He Long's troops mutinied, don't say that the Northern Expedition eliminated Wu Peifu, Wuhan may be lost immediately!
Wang Jingwei immediately sent people to find He Long, who was pretending to be ill, and paid back the arrears of salary and ordnance and other materials in full.
Ye Ting, then commander of the Wuhan garrison (a communist), was "ordered" to come to comfort He Long's upcoming army, and they looked at each other and smiled, tacitly acknowledging He Long's "trouble." Of course, together they launched the great Nanchang Uprising.
Conclusion: He Long's first group of disturbances was originally a bad thing. However, under the operation of He Long and Zhou Yiqun, bad things became good things, one was to purify the team, and the other was to replenish the grain and ordnance, which strengthened the combat effectiveness of the troops of the Fifteenth Division, so that He Long's troops became famous in the Second Northern Expedition, became a well-known "steel army", and expanded into the 20th Army, becoming the main force of the Nanchang Uprising.