"The commander of the 382nd Brigade has been rebelled, I am afraid that it is not credible, so I order you to get rid of it!"
Gu Dingxin, the commander of the 382nd Brigade, looked at the order that had just arrived from the division headquarters in his hand, his mind was full of black lines, and he had nothing to say.
"What a king and a tiger, if you want to kill me, and send me the warrant directly? I think this is because you are exhausted!"
The brigade commander who received the letter, Gu Dingxin, belonged to the 382nd Brigade of the Kuomintang Army, and the recipient of this warrant was the commander of the 38th Brigade. The division commander originally wanted the 38th Brigade to start as soon as possible and directly kill Gu Dingxin's brigade headquarters, but who knew that the herald could not distinguish the troop establishment at all, so he actually sent the letter directly to the assassination target.
The one who did such a thing was a big "freak" general in the national army - Wang Jinzai.
Even among the Kuomintang officers with different personalities, Wang Jinzai can be regarded as the number one general with a strange personality. But why did a division commander go so far as to kill his own brigade commander? How would this brigade commander deal with him after learning the news? The outcome far exceeded everyone's expectations.
The unreasonable "King of Ezhong" is a ruthless person
During the troubled years, there were many ruthless people in Shaanxi Province, and Wang Jinzai was one of them. His family's village is near Weinan City, where the land often fails, and there are wolf plagues everywhere. The famine was so severe that it was impossible to tell whether wolves were hungrier or people were hungrier.
It is said that when Wang Jinzai was a child, a wolf ran into the village and bit the villagers' livestock, but he was caught in the leg by the trap in the village. Seeing that there were more and more people around, the wolf was also anxious, and kept grinning at people, saliva and blood falling down the roots of his teeth, so it was not terrifying. The surrounding villagers were all suppressed, for fear that they would be bitten if they stepped forward to fight the wolf.
Who knows, Wang Jinzai, who was young at the time, carried a hoe and hacked the toothy wolf to death. When the people around him were still shocked, Wang Jinzai cut off a wolf leg and stuffed it into his mouth, but he vomited after two bites.
"It's a *** day, it's really unpalatable!"
Before the villagers could react, Wang Jinzai's grandfather came out of the house, pulled his ears and dragged him home, thinking that he was embarrassed outside.
Yang Hucheng
With such a strong character, he naturally couldn't study well when he grew up, and halfway through his studies, he ran to join the Yasukuni Army, and then transferred to Yang Hucheng's troops, and stayed in the lecture hall for a period of time halfway. It just so happened that there were not many literate people in the army at that time, and Wang Jinzai, who knew a little bit of words, was also the tallest among the short men and became a "cultural person". Coupled with his ruthlessness in taking the lead in battle, many big bosses like him and want to follow him to win battles, which makes Wang Jinzai's military rank also climb higher and higher.
Wang Jinzai was soon noticed by Yang Hucheng and regarded him as a confidant.
In February 1929, during the suppression of bandits in Juxian County, several of Wang Jinzai's subordinates went to rob the post office in the city. Although the looters were court-martialed on the spot, Wang Jinzai was also removed from his post as a prefect and was not reactivated until later in the war with Chiang's army. Since then, Wang Jinzai has learned a lesson and has made a qualitative leap in strict management of the army.
Later, Wang Jinzai was promoted to brigade commander, and according to Yang Hucheng's instructions, Wang Jinzai's troops began to have contact with the Red Army, not only transporting supplies for the Red Army, but also helping the Red Army traffic station to set up a radio station. The two armies ceased fighting each other, and relations were warm.
In addition to being Yang Hucheng's order, there was another reason for such courtesy to the Red Army - to resist Japan.
The lone anti-Japanese army, the thorn in the side of the Japanese and Chiang Kai-shek
Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng
Since he was a child, Wang Jinzai regarded the Japanese invaders who invaded China as enemies, and the Red Army was a force that fought devils, so Wang Jinzai returned the courtesy. But for Chiang Kai-shek, who adhered to the principle of "the outside must first be at home", he did not have so many good tempers. In 1936, Chiang Kai-shek was captured alive by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, known as the Xi'an Incident.
Wang Jinzai was in charge of imprisoning Chiang Kai-shek's entourage of senior officials at that time, Chen Cheng and Wei Lihuang were among them, and he repeatedly put forward opinions to Yang Hucheng to kill Chiang Kai-shek directly, but the Xi'an incident was resolved peacefully after all. Chiang Kai-shek not only left with all his beards, but also took Zhang Xueliang with him.
Chiang Kai-shek was very vindictive, lost Zhang Xueliang, and the Northeast Army ended up being scattered and absorbed into the ranks of Chiang's army. It is conceivable that Yang Hucheng's fate will not be much better, Feng Qinya and Wang Jinzai will take away half of the Northwest Army. Feng Qinzai directly surrendered to Chiang's army, while Wang Jinzai did not look down on Chiang Kai-shek at all, but he was suffering from the need for supplies, so he still nominally joined the Central Army.
Wang Jinzai's troops were later changed to the 128th Division, which managed and governed the city of Kaifeng, under the unified command of Liu Zhi. Chiang Kai-shek wanted Wang Jinzai's troops to be defeated by the Japanese army, which required him to stand on the front line so that he could be attrition with the Japanese army.
In the subsequent Battle of Xuzhou, because of Han Fuyu's concession, the Japanese army had the advantage, and the Kuomintang routed troops everywhere, half of which were like soldiers and three parts of bandits. The devil will be crushed at the touch of a button, but as soon as he enters the city, he will begin to fish and flesh the people to claim the king and hegemony. When Wang Jinzai heard that Kaifeng City was disturbed by the rout, he immediately led the team to kill them back, tied the rout soldiers who made trouble one by one to the pillars of the square, and let the people watch them being stabbed to death with bayonets one by one.
Wang Jinzai's move made him famous among the people, and there is a saying that "ask in the Jianghan Plain, who doesn't know Wang Laohu." ”
Because of Wang Jinzai's iron-blooded rule of the army, his division no longer had to worry about the problem of soldiers, and the common people were willing to join his team.
As for the Japanese army, Wang Jinzai was not so merciful. Once, the 128th Division captured 6 Japanese prisoners, and his subordinates wanted to ask the division commander what to do. As a result, Wang Jinzai directly ordered these Japanese soldiers to be tied to the barracks for the recruits to practice bayonets.
Since then, the 128th Division has had a consensus outside, "when encountering the Japanese army, it will never leave a living mouth."
Chiang Kai-shek's killer move
Wang Jinzai made great achievements, and in the Jianghan Plain, his 128th Division and the New Fourth Army became the main force of the anti-Japanese resistance, which was very popular with the people. But Wang Jinzai ignored Liu Zhi and Chiang Kai-shek's orders, which made Chiang Kai-shek very annoyed, so he began to withhold the food and salary handed over to the 128th Division openly and secretly, intending to force him to comply.
Who knows, Wang Jinzai saw that the military salary and supplies were getting less and less, and he didn't bother to pull with Jiang Jun at all, so he directly took his subordinates and threw the blue sky and white sun chapter on his head, and since then he has become a de facto independent anti-Japanese armed force. Although their establishment is still in the Central Army, it is almost equivalent to defecting from the National Army.
However, we should still say that Wang Jinya has meritorious service in resisting Japan, but he is a warlord after all, and many places are inevitably warlord Xi. For example, from the end of 1939 to the beginning of 1940, Chiang Kai-shek repaid the military salary of the 128th Division, and entrusted someone to appease him. After several months of communication on our party's side, Wang Jinzai finally put aside his prejudices and agreed to continue to unite against Japan.
But Wang Jinzai's every move was thoroughly watched by the eyeliner sent by Chiang Kai-shek. originally thought that Wang Jinzai would eat soft and not hard, but who expected him to be soft and hard now. Seeing that the 128th Division and the New Fourth Army were getting closer and closer, Chiang Kai-shek could no longer sit still, and he was determined to get rid of this untamable wild horse.
Thus, an assassination plan began.
After the secret reconciliation of the spies, Chen Cheng contacted Gu Dingxin, the commander of the 382nd Brigade under the 128th Division.
Gu Dingxin was born in poverty, and he has fought many battles with Wang Jinzai, and has also been appreciated and promoted by Wang Jinzai. On the one hand, if he could successfully assassinate Wang Jinzai, he would be able to gain Chiang Kai-shek's trust and reuse, and even take over Wang Jinzai's position and become the overlord of one side; on the other hand, if the assassination failed, with Wang Jinzai's style, he would definitely die a miserable death.
The national army was full of people, and Gu Dingxin quickly figured out Chiang Kai-shek's plan. If Gu Dingxin really attacked Wang Jinzai according to Chiang Kai-shek's requirements, the most benefited would be Chiang Kai-shek himself. Even Yang Hucheng was arrested and imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek, and he Gu Dingxin did not have the confidence to support the army to protect himself. When the time comes, without the umbrella of Wang Jinzai, Chiang Kai-shek wants to engage him, but it is not a hand-holder.
And this plan is insidious, even if Gu Dingxin does not intend to betray Wang Jinzai, the letters and recordings between the spy and Gu Dingxin are estimated to have a backup, as long as Chiang Kai-shek hands over this evidence to Wang Jinzai, he Gu Dingxin may also be in danger of losing his life, and this plan can also make the 128th Division civil strife by the way, so that the strength will be damaged, and Wang Jinzai will be absorbed by Chiang Kai-shek at that time.
But how shrewd Gu Dingxin was, he did not choose the two paths given by Chiang Kai-shek, but revealed Chiang Kai-shek's assassination plan to Wang Jinzai to show his loyalty.
But what he didn't expect was that Wang Jinzai was still suspicious of him when he received this evidence. Wang Jinzai believes that if it weren't for Gu Dingxin's dissent, why were the three brigade commanders selected by Chiang Kai-shek as the target of rebellion?
After pondering for a long time, Wang Jinzai believed that Gu Dingxin's move was deliberately courting him to numb his nerves, and he would do it after he had the opportunity.
After Wang Jinzai decided that Gu Dingxin was not credible, he decided to strike first, and he issued a warrant to let Pan Shangwu, the commander of the 38th Brigade, assassinate Gu Dingxin to prevent him from posing a threat to himself.
The oolong made by the herald
Let's take a look, the 38th Brigade and the 382nd Brigade, the two units are only one 2 words, if the soldiers are asked to dictate on the spot, it is likely to be ambiguous. The little herald who was responsible for conveying Wang Jinzai's warrant asked everywhere about the location of the 38th Brigade Headquarters, but who knew that he was led to the 382nd Brigade Headquarters and sent Wang Jinzai's assassination order to Gu Ding Novice. This brings us to the opening scene.
Gu Dingxin was a little dumbfounded when he saw Wang Jinzai's assassination order, he was in a desperate situation, if it wasn't for the wrong news sent by this herald, he would probably die. Gu Dingxin immediately found Pan Shangwu, the commander of the 38th Brigade, and showed him the warrant on the spot, saying that Wang Jinzai was in a daze and intended to pull the 38th Brigade to defect together.
Pan Shangwu saw that he was going to the Hongmen banquet this time, and he didn't dare not bow his head, so he had to agree verbally first, and after he went back, he told Wang Jinzai.
And if you don't die, Gu Dingxin is planning to take refuge in the Japanese invaders!
When Wang Jinzai learned of Pan Shangwu's news, he immediately led his troops to the front of Gu Dingxin's camp to call for battle. Seeing that there was no way out, Gu Dingxin originally wanted to pull people to join the Japanese army, but who knew that there were not many men who were willing to be slaves of the country, and in the end there were only a few hundred people who were willing to follow Gu Dingxin, and they took advantage of the chaos to break through and became the sweets of the Japanese army.
The Japanese army had long wanted to clean up Wang Jinzai's troops, and with Gu Dingxin's help, the Japanese army was like a tiger with wings, and immediately formulated a battle plan to annihilate Wang Jinzai.
Hold in the enemy camp
Among the puppet army, there are also many Chiang Kai-shek specially inserted, the national army sent people, and the Japanese army sent food and bullet guns to jointly deal with the communist army, which was almost a tacit consensus between the Japanese army and the national army.
Therefore, the Japanese army's plan to encircle and suppress Wang Jinzai was immediately learned by Chongqing, but Chiang Kai-shek was happy to see Wang Jinzai's downfall, and had no intention of arranging reinforcements for him at all.
In the face of such a net, relying only on one division, no matter how capable Wang Jinzai is, he can only admit it.
After Wang Jinzai was captured by the Japanese army, instead of being abused, he was well raised by the Japanese army, and from time to time he was photographed and published in newspapers to break the will of the Chinese people to resist the war. even used Wang Jinzai's name to form a puppet army unit that has always been named, and the external propaganda said that Wang Jinzai had become a traitor. The national army has always thought that Wang Jinzai was dead, and in order to make this scene of borrowing a knife to kill people, he was posthumously awarded the second-class general of the army and awarded a medal of blue sky and white sun.
In reality, Wang Jinzai was raised by the Japanese for a few years, and in the past few years, no matter what means the Japanese army used, he was resolutely not a traitor, and he survived until Japan surrendered.
When the Japanese army heard the Japanese surrender announcement on the radio, the barracks were in chaos, and no one cared about the Chinese who had been imprisoned for two years. Wang Jinzai found an opportunity and escaped by himself.
After coming out, Wang Jinzai knew that he had somehow become a second-class general of the army, and in order to avoid the eyes of the Kuomintang, he silently lived in seclusion.
However, after receiving the surrender of the Japanese army, Hu Zongnan also learned the news that Wang Jinzai was still alive from the Japanese army, and immediately began a large-scale search and arrest, and planned to bring him to Chiang Kai-shek to ask for merit.
On the day of the escort to the plane, the weather was not very good, and a unique whirlwind of sand and dust blew in the northwest. Wang Jinzai took advantage of the time to go to the toilet and escaped over the wall again.
At this time, Wang Jinzai has nowhere to stay at all, and the only way he can think of to save his life is Yan'an. So, Wang Jinzai sent a letter to Yan'an, he knew that he was now the commander of the light pole, and he did not have a dime of military power. The tone of this old man, who was upright and arrogant, was almost pleading. And Chairman Mao received the letter and agreed to take him in. Considering Wang Jinzai's influence among the people, he was appointed commander of the Shaanxi People's Self-Defense Force column. After joining the party in 48, he also served as the deputy commander of the Weinan Military Region.
Now let's talk about General Wang Jinzai's past, although it is generally a mixed bag, but the people generally have a good opinion of him, and his first wife commented that he is "a very good bad person". Although Wang Jinzai has committed a lot of foolish things, and has also killed many compatriots of our party in cold blood, his contribution to the resistance against Japan is obviously greater, and every citizen he saved will not forget this obedient general, perhaps this is the most important thing.
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