Tao Zhu asked, "Things of the Year"
Among the brilliant founding generals of the People's Republic of China, Lin Biao, Nie Rongzhen, Luo Ronghuan, Xu Haidong, Huang Kecheng, Yang Yong, Yang Dezhi, and Liang Xingchu were ...... 3 marshals, 2 generals, and more than 400 generals once came from the same legendary division, the 1st - 155th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
The predecessor of the division was the Red First Army in the Jinggangshan period, which was recognized as the strongest division of the Eighth Route Army. During the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, there were 263 bloody battles, more than 510,000 enemies were annihilated, and the three armies were bravely crowned, which shocked the world.
During the Liberation War, the 270,000 elite soldiers developed from the foundation of the original 115th Division were sent to the northeast and became the backbone of the Siye Iron Army in the future. Speaking of Siye, Lin Biao, who is usually not easy to reveal his feelings, once said: They are all old troops of my I115 Division.
Chen Guang, who was the acting commander of the Red First Army and the acting commander of the 115th Division after Lin Biao withdrew from the stage of the Anti-Japanese War in March 938, made great contributions to the development and growth of the 115th Division, but after the liberation, there was a trace, and it was also deliberately avoided in the pen of historians.
As a party history worker, the author has revealed the brilliant and bumpy life of this legendary warrior who has been wronged and aggrieved for more than 30 years through various verifications and interviews.
[The first commander of the International Division of the Young Communist Party]
Chen Guang, formerly known as Chen Shichun, is a native of Yizhang, Hunan. He was born in 1905 into a poor peasant family. At the age of 10, he entered school for a short period of 3 years in private school, and at the age of 14, he gave up school to work as a farmer.
In 1926, the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Hunan. Chen Guang's hometown, Yizhang County, established a peasant association, and he became a member of the peasant association. At the end of the following year, he was introduced by local underground party members Chen Dongri and Chen Jun to join the Communist Party of China. At the beginning of January 1928, Zhu De and Chen Yi led the remnants of the "eight" Nanchang Uprising to Yizhang with more than 1,000 people.
General Xiao Ke, one of the main leaders of the former Red Second Front Army, who had led his troops to fight blood, commented after liberation: "Chen Guang's donation of 12 rifles at that time was a remarkable thing. At that time, the Red Guards had very few weapons, mostly some big knives and pikes, and earthen guns, and it was not easy to have these dozen rifles, which was of great significance to the success of the Yizhang uprising."
After the success of the Southern Hunan Uprising, Chen Guang followed Zhu De and Chen Yi to Jinggangshan and was incorporated into the 1st Battalion of the 29th Regiment of the 3rd Independent Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army as a company commander.
In February 1930, Chiang Kai-shek launched the first "encirclement and suppression" of the Central Soviet Region Chen Guang was already the deputy head of a detachment of the First Column of the Red Fourth Army (the leader of the column was Lin Biao). In the anti-encirclement and independence battle in the central Soviet region, the three columns of the Red Fourth Army, with the cooperation of the second column of the Red Sixth Army, first annihilated a brigade of the enemy's vanguard in the vicinity of Tomita. It is especially worth mentioning that in this battle, Lin Biao's command post was besieged by the enemy who broke through. At this critical juncture, Chen Guang led his detachment to desperately break into the front line and rescued Lin Biao safely, but he hung up in the battle. Afterwards, when Lin Biao, who was not good at talking, visited Chen Guang in the ambulance, he repeatedly expressed his gratitude and took the initiative to ask for credit for him.
In June of that year, Chen Guang's Red Fourth Army, the Red Sixth Army, and the Red Seventh Army formed the Red First Army, and in a battle in Hu Yaobang's hometown of Wenjia City, Chen Guang, who had been promoted to battalion commander, was wounded for the third time. The enemy's bullet went through his right knee, stuck in the crack of the bone, and the blood flowed profusely. The comrades carried him onto a stretcher, from which he struggled to roll off and climb back to his position until he routed the enemy. In October, the Red Fourth Army was reorganized, with Lin Biao as commander and Luo Ronghuan as political commissar. Because of his bravery in battle, Chen Guang was promoted to commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 10th Division of the army.
As a result, Chen Guang, who was stubborn and upright and irritable, and the two leaders began to cooperate with the gathering of grievances.
From May to September of the following year, the Kuomintang launched the second and third "encirclement and suppression" During the operation, Chen Guang was promoted to chief of staff of the 10 th Division and led the division to accomplish its combat mission brilliantly. In November, the First Congress of the Chinese Soviets was held in Ruijin, and Chen Guang was awarded the Red Star Medal of the Second Class. At the end of the year, he was transferred to the commander of the 12th Division of the Red Fourth Army.
In August 1933, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized a million-strong army and launched a brutal fifth "encirclement and suppression" against the central Soviet region using pillbox tactics. In order to expand its popularity, the Party Central Committee set up the "Young Communist International Division", which became famous in the future. At that time, more than 70 percent of the members of the division were members, and the average age was only 18. In order to train these "red imps" into staunch and qualified soldiers, the Central Military Commission repeatedly selected the candidates for division commanders and political commissars, and finally decided to appoint Chen Guang, who had good tactical literacy, high political awareness, strong command ability, and combat bravery, as the division commander, and Xiao Hua, a 17-year-old youth minister of the General Political Department, as the division commander. :
Under the leadership of Chen Guang and Xiao Hua, the "International Division of the Young Communist Party" annihilated more than 500 enemies in the first battle of Fujian and captured a large number of guns and ammunition. For this reason, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, and other leading comrades sent a special telegram to commend the division, praising them as "the first test of the iron fist." Three months later, Chen Guang was transferred to the commander of the Second Red Division. Although he had only been in the International Division of the Young Communist Party for three months, as General Xiao Hua later commented: "Chen Guang worked hard to train this young unit, laid a good foundation, and played an important role."
[Acting Commander of the Red First Legion]
Due to the influence of Wang Ming's "left-leaning" adventurism, the fifth "anti-encirclement and suppression" in the Central Soviet Region failed, and the Red Army was forced to make a strategic shift. On the night of October 14, 1934, Chen Guang led the Second Red Division to cross the Duhe River and embark on the Long March.
At the beginning of the "Long March", Chen Guang led the Second Red Division to take on the task of breaking through the avant-garde, covering the column of the Military Commission and the follow-up troops After bloody battles, they finally came to Guizhou. After the "Liping Conference," the Red Army moved to Zunyi, and the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Red Division was selected as the avant-garde. Chen Guang was personally ordered by the head of the Central Military Commission to lead the four regiments with Geng Xu as the regiment commander and Yang Chengwu as the political commissar to rush across the Wujiang River. Subsequently, he turned back to the division headquarters and commanded the Sixth Regiment and the Fourth Regiment to capture Zunyi, seize Loushan Pass, and occupy Songba respectively.
At this meeting, Mao Zedong was reasserted as a leader. Subsequently, Chen Guang led the 22nd Red Division to participate in the four crossings of Chishui and smoothly marched into western Sichuan. When they arrived at the Anshunchang crossing of the Dadu River, the Central Red Army was faced with a dilemma in the face of hundreds of thousands of swarming enemy troops. At that time, it was the rainy season in May, and the water flow at the Anshunchang ferry was turbulent and the riverbed was wide, and the engineering units were unable to erect a pontoon bridge. Only by seizing the Luding Bridge can we ensure that the troops can complete the crossing of the Dadu River and avoid the fate of Shi Dakai's entire army being wiped out here. Once again, the heavy responsibility fell on Chen Guang's shoulders. He led the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Red Division to run 120 kilometers in one day, creating a miracle that is still talked about in military history -- flying to capture the Luding Bridge and opening the way for the Red Army to go north.
After walking out of the grassland, the 2nd Red Division took the lead in entering the territory of Gannan. Another famous natural hazard blocked the Red Army's way.
This pass is sandwiched between the mountains, like a narrow opening between the two peaks, and the knife is cut with an axe. There are cliffs on both sides, and a rushing river below, with only a wooden bridge in between, which is the only way to enter and exit Lazikou. Lin Biao, Nie Rongzhen, and other regiment commanders carefully observed the terrain together with Chen Guang and decided to have Chen Guang and Yang Chengwu, political commissar of the Fourth Regiment, command. After a night of fierce fighting, Lazikou was finally conquered.
In 1944, when he was studying at the Central Party School in Yan'an, the party group made the following comments on Chen Guang's exploits: "In the Long March, Chen Guang made great contributions to the Central Red Army's northward march and overcoming danger. ”
On November 19, after the Red Army entered Wuqi in northern Shaanxi, Chen Guang was reappointed as the commander of the Red Fourth Division, and Peng Xuefeng was the political commissar. In the "Zhiluo Battle", he led the Fourth Division, with the cooperation of friendly and neighboring troops, to serve as the main attack mission, and finally conquered Zhiluo Town, completely annihilated the enemy's 10th and 9th Divisions, and captured more than 5,000 people under the division commander Niu Yuanfeng.
After the "Xi'an Incident", Chen Guang replaced Lin Biao, who had been transferred to the president of the Red Army University, and became the acting commander of the Red First Army, until half a year later, the Red First Army was reorganized into the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. ・
[Succeeded Lin Biao as the acting commander of the 11th 5th Division]
In August 1937, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army. Zhu De and Peng Dehuai were respectively appointed as chief and deputy commanders-in-chief, and had three divisions under their jurisdiction, namely the 115th, 120th, and 129th, and the 115th Division was the strongest, with more than 15,000 men, and was formed by the combination of the 1st Red Army Corps and the 15th Red Army Corps.
At the beginning of the establishment of the 115th Division, the division commander was Lin Biao, the deputy division commander Nie Rongzhen (actually the role of political commissar), and the director of the Political Training Office Luo Ronghuan. It has two brigades, 343 and 344. Xu Haidong served as the commander of the 344th Brigade, and Chen Guang served as the commander of the 343rd Brigade.
In September, the 115th Division was victorious, creating a miracle in the history of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Lin Biao concentrated the forces of the division, set up an ambush at Pingxingguan in Shanxi, and annihilated more than 1,000 people of the 21st Brigade of the Itagaki Division, thus winning the first major victory since the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. A month later, Chen Guang and his old partner Xiao Hua led the 343rd Brigade to set up an ambush in Guangyang again, killing and wounding more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers and achieving a great victory in Guangyang.
There are often many fortuitous factors that change the overture of history. In March of the following year, Lin Biao was accidentally injured by the Jin army during a morning exercise on horseback in the early morning, and his life was in danger, and he was immediately taken back to Yan'an and transferred to the Soviet Union for treatment. At the suggestion of the Central Military Commission, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army appointed Chen Guang as the acting commander of the 1 1 5 Division.
Soon, the 115th Division was divided. Nie Rongzhen led some of his men to Wutai Mountain to establish the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area, and Chen Guang and political commissar Luo Ronghuan led the main force eastward into Shandong. Soon after entering the land of Qilu, they commanded Yang Yong to defeat Fanba and establish the prestige of the Eighth Route Army. Then, in one go, it went straight to the west of Mount Tai and established anti-Japanese regimes at all levels, effectively deterring the Japanese army in the middle section of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway.
At the beginning of May, the supreme commander of the Japanese army stationed in Shandong, Otaka Kamizo, personally entangled more than 8,000 men and horses, divided the troops into nine routes, and swept towards the Taixi area under the cover of aircraft, tanks, and artillery, waiting for an opportunity to find the main force of the 115th Division for a decisive battle.
At this time, more than 3,000 people led by Chen Guang, including the division, the 686th regiment, the Jinpu detachment, and the Luxi District Party Committee, were immediately surrounded by the enemy on all sides. In fact, as early as the beginning of the Japanese army's moves, Chen Guang had a premonition that the Japanese army would carry out a large-scale sweep of the 115th Division. However, Luo Ronghuan was not at home when he went to the Dongwen detachment to inspect the work, although he was somewhat conscious, he did not expect that the Japanese army would have such a large-scale siege of the Nine Roads.
At dawn on 11 May, the Japanese launched an attack on all fronts under the cover of heavy artillery fire, and dispatched planes to bomb and strafe. The Lufang Village where the headquarters of the 115th Division was located collapsed and the ground shook.
This was the most passive and dangerous situation that Chen Guang encountered during the fighting years, and he ordered all units to "do whatever it takes, hold their positions, and break through at night!" "The defenders on all fronts also fought bravely and tenaciously against the enemy, repelling the enemy's onslaught again and again.
At the height of the fierce battle, Chen Guang went to the 686th Regiment in front to supervise the battle, and the officers and men of the regiment were greatly encouraged, held their positions, and repelled nine frantic attacks by the enemy in a row. The division's special service battalion and Jinpu detachment, which were holding on to the Phoenix Mountain position east of Lufang Village, also crushed five enemy attacks.
When the battle was raging, the Japanese army almost attacked the 115th Division, and Chen Guang immediately ordered a company of the special service battalion, a cavalry company directly under the division, and the Jinpu detachment under the command of the division command to quickly counterattack, bravely engage in white-knuckle combat with the enemy, and finally repelled the enemy and held the position. The security of the divisional organs was safeguarded.
The fierce and brutal battle lasted a whole day, killing and wounding more than 1,300 people under the commander of the enemy wing, Ueshuda Daisa. At dusk, the enemy stopped attacking and attempted to attack again the next morning. As soon as night fell, Chen Guang summoned Wang Bingzhang, chief of staff of the division's headquarters, and others to study and determine the route, timing, and specific arrangements for breaking through that night. After 10 o'clock in the evening, taking advantage of the enemy's weakness of not daring to fight at night, after mobilizing and urgently burying heavy supplies, he stealthily broke out of the encirclement in two directions to the southeast and southwest through the gap in the enemy's position. At dawn on the 12th, it arrived safely in the area of Wuyan Village east of Dongping.
At dawn on 12 May, the 115th Division crossed the Wen River, jumped out of Lufang Village, and joined up with political commissar Luo Ronghuan at Wuyan Village, east of Dongping. This is the famous "Lufang Breakout" in the history of the Anti-Japanese War, and it is also a major foreshadowing of Chen Guang's injustice in the future.
The 115th Division suffered more than 300 casualties in this battle, and lost some mules, horses, and baggage, thus exposing some problems in the troops. Some cadres complained a lot about this, and some even accused Chen Guang of "making mistakes in command, suffering some losses, and not being able to explain to the central authorities."
When Chen Guang heard these discussions, his mood can be imagined, and then with Luo Ronghuan's encouragement, his mood was stabilized. Two months later, Chen Guang used the only 300 or 400 men in his hands to surround the Japanese army's Changtian Brigade and won a great victory. The day after the war, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army issued an order to commend it, saying that it was a "beautiful war of annihilation".
Chen Guang's prestige spread in Shandong. He and political commissar Luo Ronghuan worked closely together and united sincerely, so that as soon as the Shandong military and civilians mentioned the 1 15th Division, they called one person "Chen Luo".
In the following years, Chen Guang and Luo Ronghuan worked together in the anti-Japanese base area in Shandong, smashed the sweep of the Japanese army, and won the victory of famous battles such as Jiazishan, Liangshan, and Yani] City, and at the beginning of less than a brigade entered Shandong, and by the end of the Anti-Japanese War, it had grown to more than 100,000 people. Chen Guang made an indelible contribution, so much so that at the headquarters of the Japanese army, the relevant departments specially wrote a pamphlet entitled "Chen Guang's Operational Studies" for their collection and guidance of the operation.
In 1945, Chen Guang attended the "Seventh National Congress" of the Communist Party of China in Yan'an and became a member of the Delegate Qualification Committee. Straightforward by nature, he put forward some different views on the selection of deputies to the Seventh National Congress, which is not an exaggeration in terms of reasonableness. Unexpectedly, this move caused an uproar, and some people directly wrote to Mao Zedong on the grounds that "Chen Guang wanted to boycott the party congress," accusing him of "anti-party behavior." This also became another crime that Chen Guang was wronged later.
After all, Mao Zedong knew this company commander when he met in Jinggangshan. After investigation, he immediately replied to Chen Guang, saying, "I understand your opinion. Some of the opinions are right. The route you are executing in Shandong is right. The Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China should be a united congress and a victorious congress, and I believe that you will be able to devote yourself to making this congress a success. "Opinions can be exchanged after the meeting." Chen Guang received the letter, relieved, and treasured the letter in his personal pocket.
After the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong really fulfilled his promise and specially invited Chen Guang and his wife Shi Ruichu to come to his home as guests and had a cordial conversation with them. Mao Zedong spoke highly of Chen Guang's contributions since he joined the revolution, and gave many instructions and instructions for his future work.
After a comprehensive assessment, the Yan'an review group at that time made the following comments in Chen Guang's "Historical Summary": "Chen Guang is one of the few military talents in our army, and he has always been loyal and upright, and has the fine quality of humbly studying for the party and the class and keeping in touch with the masses. "During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chen Guang led the 115th Division to fight in North China, entered Shandong in 1939, and created famous battles such as the Liangshan Annihilation Battle and the Lufang Breakout, which made our party and our army famous far and wide, opened up the situation in Lusu, and established base areas. ”
[The so-called "withholding radio" incident]
In August 1945, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Northeast became the focus of attention of both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. According to the decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Lin Biao, Chen Yun, Peng Zhen and other more than 100,000 cadres rushed to the northeast day and night, and Luo Ronghuan and Huang Kecheng led the Shandong Eighth Route Army and the Suzhou-Anhui New Fourth Army to advance at the same time.
Chen Guang originally returned to Shandong, but due to the change in the situation, he also rushed to the northeast with Lin Biao. In October, after Chen Guang joined up with Luo Ronghuan and the old troops, the Northeast Bureau of the Communist Party of China decided to set up a second line of defense in the area of Montenegro and Beizhen, and handed it over to Chen Guang for command. Out of strategic needs, Luo Ronghuan immediately handed over a radio station and confidential personnel brought from Shandong to Chen Guang for use. :
About two months later, Lin Biao led the command post of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army to retreat to Fuxin. At this time, the Kuomintang troops had already occupied the area of Jinzhou and Goubangzi, and a vicious battle was about to break out, and in a hurry, Lin Biao learned that Chen Guang had a high-power radio station, and hurriedly called Chen Guang and asked the radio station and confidential personnel to rush to Fuxin. Chen Guang considered that without a radio station, he would not be able to communicate and command, and besides, Lin Biao's department already had two high-power Japanese-made radio stations, so he immediately called back in the hope that the radio stations would not be transferred. Lin Biao called twice to continue urging the transfer, and sternly reprimanded Chen Guang for withholding the radio station and obstructing his command of the operation. Seeing this, Chen Guang hurriedly dispatched radio stations and confidential personnel to prepare to send them to Lin Biao. Unexpectedly, the enemy in Jinzhou invaded Chen Guang's troops on a large scale, and when he retreated in a hurry, Chen Guang had no choice but to take the radio station and confidential personnel with him. The station could not be turned in.
Subsequently, Lin Biao, who was introverted and subtle, repeatedly accused Chen Guang in public of "unreasonably occupying the radio station and disobeying orders".
In the northeast for several years, under the control of Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan, Chen Guang participated in the command of the attacks on Changchun, Rafa, Xinzhan and other battles. He served as the commander of the Sixth Column of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army and the commander of the Songjiang Military Region, led his troops to participate in the Three Jiangnan Campaigns, and participated in the command of Jiaojialing, Chengziyu, Dehui and other battles. At the beginning of 1949, Chen Guang served as deputy chief of staff of the Fourth Field Army. When Lin Biao was stationed in Beiping in March, he criticized Chen Guang by name again without the consent of the Northeast Bureau, let alone Luo Ronghuan's approval, at a meeting to prevent pride in his achievements.
[Went south with the army, and Guangzhou was wronged]
Due to the delicate relationship between the two, the conflict between Chen and Lin reached a white heat.
In May 1949, Chen Guang arrived in Wuhan with the headquarters of the Fourth Field Army. In January of the following year, he was appointed deputy commander of the Guangdong Military Region and commander of the Guangzhou Garrison Region. On New Year's Day, Chen Guang left his wife and children and went to Guangzhou to take office.
Regarding Chen Guangxin's last appointment, his wife Shi Ruichu told the author: "Chen Guang has been depressed for a while since he was named and criticized at the meeting in Beijing to prevent the pride of his achievements. When I arrived in Wuhan, my mood improved. After receiving his new appointment, he happily went to Guangzhou to take up his post. However, there is a lack of proper understanding and necessary ideological preparation for the arduousness and complexity of the new environment and new tasks."
After Chen Guang took office, under the leadership of Ye Jianying, then first secretary of the South China Branch and commander and political commissar of the Guangdong Military Region, he was responsible for suppressing bandits, maintaining public order, and stabilizing market prices. Guangzhou is close to Hong Kong, Macao and overseas, and is the southern outpost of New China. Like many comrades-in-arms who fought in the rain of bullets, Chen Guang encountered a new topic in life and lacked experience in urban management and construction. At that time, the central authorities clearly stipulated that there was a set of strict procedures and a high degree of discipline in conducting intelligence work in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. At the same time, proceeding from local interests, he violated cadre policies and some regulations in his hometown of Yizhang by recruiting the children of martyrs and young intellectuals to Guangzhou and running a training class.
After discovering these mistakes in the organization, Ye Jianying personally came forward to talk to him and persuaded him to recognize and correct his mistakes. However, due to personality reasons, coupled with some untruths and exaggerations in the organization, Chen Guang developed serious antagonistic feelings. According to his wife, Shi Ruichu, "Chen Guang did not behave calmly when he talked to him organizationally. As soon as he heard that the mistakes were false and exaggerated, his emotions immediately fluctuated. Originally, when Ye Shuai talked to him, the two shook hands and greeted each other, and the atmosphere was harmonious, but later, the two quarreled, and even slapped the table, and the conversation had to break up unhappily. Later, at the organizational life meeting of the party committee of the Guangdong Military Region, everyone continued to criticize his mistakes, and as a result, Chen Guang lost his temper again because of the above-mentioned reasons. Ye Shuai said at that time, 'Chen Guang, you are a senior party cadre and an old comrade, so you must talk about some organizational principles. Chen Guang said, "I just can't accept unprincipled criticism." Neither side budged. ”
In view of Chen Guang's mistake and his attitude of resistance, the Central South Military Region reported to the Central Committee and expelled him from the party.
On July 23, 1950, Chen Guang was dealt with more severely. Early that morning, Li Zuopeng, former chief of the operations section of the 115th Division, Chen Guang's old subordinate, and then chief of staff of the Guangdong Military Region, invited him to visit Lychee Lake in Guangzhou. Chen Guang was very happy. The two were boating in the lake and had a picnic, which was quite enjoyable. But when he returned in the afternoon, Chen Guang was taken aback to see that his residence was heavily guarded, and the old cooks who had followed him for many years looked at him with tears in his eyes, and all around him stood soldiers he did not know. The guards all withdrew, raided the residence, and in the room on the second floor, Li Zuopeng looked at him embarrassedly, and then bowed to the head of the security department. The minister of security then issued a telegram from his superiors, announcing that he had been dismissed from his post as deputy commander of the Guangdong Military Region and commander of the Guangzhou garrison, and immediately put him under house arrest.
In view of Chen Guang's strong personality and the fact that he is a veteran comrade with outstanding military achievements, the telegram stresses that the Guangdong Military Region will try its best to achieve non-proliferation, and that the Guangdong Military Region party committee will arrange for the specific implementation of the measures of first removing and replacing the guards and then placing him under house arrest on the spot. The Guangdong Military Region convened a standing committee of the party committee overnight (Chen Guang was not notified to attend), presided over by Ye Shuai, and drew up several sets of plans, but none of them were approved; in the end, Li Zuopeng volunteered to propose a method of inviting Chen Guangyou to send someone to raid his residence. Objectively speaking, Li Zuo and Peng put forward this suggestion, firstly, based on years of comradeship-in-arms, hoping that before the old comrades-in-arms were put into the "other book", they could be happy and reminisce about the past; The second is to carry out the instructions of the higher authorities to try not to proliferate as much as possible. As Chief of Staff, this is his job.
After Chen Guang was placed under house arrest, Wang Dashu, the security officer who guarded Chen Guang at the time, recalled: "I took a guard squad to take care of him. Chen Guang was very emotional when he heard his opinion on how to deal with him on the second floor. Since the executors are all his old subordinates, it is difficult to give any explanation. In the first few days, he ate very little and often lost his temper. I was in a low position and was only in charge of guarding, so I said to him, "Chief, we don't know about your problem, and the leader has sent us here with three tasks: one is to protect your safety, the second is to take care of your life, and the third is to restrict your freedom and not go down to the second floor. If you have any opinions, you can report them to the organization, but you can't lose your temper and skip meals, which will affect your health.
Chen Guang shook his head again and again, two lines of tears hung on his cheeks, and in his anger, he took out a letter written to him by Mao Zedong in 1945, which he treasured in his underwear pocket, and said angrily: "Someone has framed me, Chairman Mao understands me, trust me, I want to see Chairman Mao J finished speaking, and handed the letter to Wang Dashu."
After reading the letter, Wang Dashu sighed and persuaded: "Chief, don't worry, things will be clarified, you can report the situation to Chairman Mao!"
Chen Guang nodded, and his mood stabilized slightly.
As for the handling of Chen Guang's issue, the final decision rests with the central authorities. At that time, the central authorities relied on the reports and opinions of the Central South Military Region, the South China Sub-Bureau, and the Guangdong Military Region. In the early days of liberation, everything was in the initial stage, and it was impossible to have a set of strict and complete supervision and discipline inspection systems as it is today, and the handling of party cadres basically followed the methods of the war years, which would inevitably be rash and careless; at the same time, due to personality reasons, Chen Guang had some grudges with some comrades, especially some of the generals and generals in charge of the army, and after making mistakes, Chen Guang had serious antagonism and resistance with the organization. Naturally, various factors are intertwined, and this treatment is not surprising.
[Died in Wuhan, 3. After more than a few years, he was finally rehabilitated]
In October of this year, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea began. For unknown reasons, Chen Guang, escorted by Wang Dashu and other hairpin guards, was transferred to Wuhan and placed under house arrest in a small two-story building in the Central South Military Region.
During this period, many old units of the Central and Southern Military Region visited him in various ways, and Chen Guang was reduced from a former meritorious hero to a prisoner of Chu today.
For his mistakes, it is clearly exaggerated. Although the Central South Bureau and the Central South Military Region at that time successively sent Su Jing, Liu Xingyuan, and Liang Biye to talk to him and persuade him to recognize his mistakes, Chen Guang held that the main mistakes such as "the breakthrough of the Lufang in those years, the examination and approval of the deputies to the Seventh National Congress, the unwarranted suppression of radio stations, the opening of training classes for Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan intelligence work, and the unauthorized recruitment of Yizhang's children" were quite different from the facts and were handled extremely unfairly.
And so it dragged on.
On June 7, 1954, Chen Guang died unjustly in that two-story building at the age of 49. Previously, he had already shown signs of mental illness. However, the cause of his death has not yet been declassified. Everything is dust, but right and wrong are waiting for posterity to say.
A year after Chen Guang's death, his wife Shi Ruichu took his two sons to change their mother's surname and quietly lived in seclusion in Beijing. Now, the two sons are successful in their studies, and they are reluctant to mention their father's tragedy.
More than 30 years later, on the occasion of commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Long March, more than 10 veteran comrades, including Marshal Luo Ronghuan's wife Lin Yueqin, jointly wrote to Chen Yun, hoping to re-handle Chen Guang's issue fairly. In 1987, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Military Commission for Discipline Inspection, and the General Political Department formed a joint investigation group, which, after careful and meticulous examination, realistically determined that the mistakes he made at the beginning of liberation were purely internal contradictions among the people, and that he had been framed and attacked by Lin Biao, resulting in a long period of illegal imprisonment and mishandling.
In April 1988, with the approval of the Central Committee of the CPC Central Committee, the "anti-party" conclusion imposed on Chen Guangtou was revoked and his party membership and reputation were restored. At this time, it has been 34 years since Chen Guangmeng's unjust death.