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Editor丨Bohn History
Introduction:
In 1932, the Red Fourth Front Army, under the leadership of Xu Shuai, successfully opened up the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area in northern Sichuan, but it was also unanimously opposed by Chiang Kai-shek and the Sichuan warlords.
Lao Jiang appointed Tian Songyao as the supervisor of the Sichuan-Shaanxi border to suppress bandits, and commanded 60,000 troops to destroy our Red Fourth Front Army.
At the beginning of the battle, the Sichuan army also easily occupied the two county towns of Bazhong and Nanjiang, which also made Tian Songyao very happy, and constantly sent good news to Chiang Kai-shek to prove his merits.
At first, Chiang Kai-shek was also very happy to see his good news, until he saw the name of a killed Red Army general in the good news, but he directly scolded, what is going on?
The three-way army encircled and suppressed the Red Army, and Tian Songyao's good news was frequently reported
Chiang Kai-shek was also very angry when he heard the news that the Red Fourth Front Army had come to northern Sichuan, but because there were many warlords in Sichuan and there were often scuffles, Chiang Kai-shek had the heart to clean up the situation, but he could not penetrate or splash water.
Therefore, he took advantage of this opportunity to also plan to use the power of the Red Army to carry out a wave of reshuffling of the Sichuan warlords, and if he could destroy the Red Army again, it would be the best of both worlds.
So he also set his sights on the Sichuan warlord Tian Songyao, after all, his strength can be ranked among the Sichuan warlords, and the eastern Sichuan region is Tian Songyao's territory.
For this reason, Lao Chiang specially appointed him as the supervisor of the Sichuan-Shaanxi border to suppress bandits, and under his jurisdiction there were 8 divisions and 13 brigades, totaling 60,000 people, and launched an attack on the Red Army on the left, right, and middle routes. [1]
In order to stimulate Tian Songyao's desire to attack, Lao Jiang also specially allocated 200,000 oceans and 1 million rounds of ammunition for him, and praised him.
Tian Songyao, who was supported by Lao Jiang, was more confident, and led his 60,000 troops to attack our army, Xu Shuai and others learned that the opponent's 60,000 people were coming, so they decided to lure the enemy deep and intercept layer by layer.
As a result, Tian Songyao's troops "recaptured" two of the three county towns occupied by the Red Army at that time, and the good news was also frequently transmitted to Lao Chiang, which made the chairman smile happily.
When the secretary once again sent the good news to Lao Jiang and informed Tian Songyao that he had killed a Red Army general, he couldn't wait to open the good news and wanted to see who had killed him.
But when he saw the name, Lao Jiang's previous good mood also turned into anger, and he even scolded Tian Songyao, and ordered Tian Songyao to carefully investigate whether he really killed the Red Army general.
And the reason for Chiang Kai-shek's anger is actually not surprising, because the killed Red Army general had been killed by himself two years earlier, how did he appear in the small county town of Sichuan? [2]
So who is this Red Army general?
Why did the name appear in a small county town in Sichuan, and why did Chiang Kai-shek remember it so deeply?
The Red Army generals who were "killed" turned out to be the four murderers of Whampoa?
And the Red Army general who made Chiang Kai-shek angry was named Yun Daiying, who was born in a civil servant family in Wuhan, because his parents were intellectuals, so he was quick to learn and had very good grades since he was a child. [3]
When he was a child, he completed four years of homework in only one year, because there was no local middle school, he was admitted to Central China Normal University with his own self-study, and the average score was as high as 88.6 points, and a "Theory of Deontology" at the age of 19 caused a lot of sensation.
At this time, he had already begun to think about the way to save the country, and in the face of the dark and decaying old China at that time, his heart was full of pain and sadness, but he also realized that only young people could take action to save China.
In particular, after coming into contact with Marxist thought, he also found the direction of struggle, and actively participated in various revolutionary activities during his university years, and began to create periodicals to propagate revolutionary ideas.
At that time, his monthly salary had reached 100 yuan, but he used all his savings to establish Liqun Publishing House, and a series of trendy ideas and sharp words emerged from his pen, becoming the spiritual guide of countless young people.
In 1920, under the guidance of Mr. Chen Duxiu, he also translated Kautsky's Class Struggle, which was also praised by Chairman Mao as one of the three books that established his revolutionary beliefs. [4]
The feud between Yun Daiying and Chiang Kai-shek dates back to 1924, when Yun Daiying entered the Whampoa Military Academy as a representative of the Chinese Communist Party as a political instructor, and every time he gave a lecture, he would attract a collective onlooker from all the teachers and students of the school.
This also attracted the attention of Chiang Kai-shek, then the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, who greatly admired this patriotic young man who was only 29 years old and tried in every possible way to draw him into his camp.
was ruthlessly rejected by Yun Daiying, and the embarrassed and angry Chiang Kai-shek began to resent Yun Daiying, and even called him the four murderers of Whampoa.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup, Yun Daiying and Premier Zhou and others prepared for the Nanchang Uprising, and later led the Guangzhou Uprising, and since then has become a figure in Chiang Kai-shek's heart.
In April 1930, Yun Daiying went to Shanghai to participate in revolutionary activities, but unfortunately was arrested by the Kuomintang.
But Gu Shunzhang's defection exposed his identity and was twisted to Chiang Kai-shek, who also hated him so decisively ordered him to be shot.
On April 29, 1931, this early leader of our party died generously while singing the "Internationale" at the age of 36. [5]
Tian Songyao soon asked his subordinates to investigate Yun Daiying's situation, and after investigation, he learned that they did not know the Red Army general at all, but only heard from the people of Bazhong that the Red Army would name the streets after the sacrificed generals.
And they saw that the name of Yun Daiying was relatively rare, so they regarded this person as the Red Army general they had killed, hoping to mix some money from Chiang Kai-shek, but they didn't expect to hit the muzzle.
In the face of the stupid operation of his subordinates, Tian Songyao did not dare to tell Chiang Kai-shek the truth immediately, but hoped to tell the truth after winning the battle.
But at this time, the Red Fourth Front Army had achieved the goal of consuming the Sichuan army, so under Xu Shuai's order, the Red Army officers and soldiers launched a counterattack against the Sichuan army like tigers in the mountains.
It took only half a month to defeat the 60,000 army led by Tian Songyao, and then doubled the area of the base area and completely gained a firm foothold in the eastern Sichuan region.
Tian Songyao's ineffective combat made Lao Jiang very angry, so in 1935 he found fault and removed his military power and let him stay at home.
Epilogue:
It is worth mentioning that Tian Songyao's performance during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was still very good, and he actively supported the Sichuan army to go out of Sichuan to resist Japan.
When Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan in 1949, he also chose to stay and become a member of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and actively contributed to the development of Sichuan. #长文创作激励计划#
Resources:
the historical anti-"three-way siege"; WANG Jinbo. Party History, 2013.12
Yun Daiying: A leader loved by Chinese youth; Xinhua News Agency.2021-05-11
A well-deserved role model for youth! This senior, all the people in China have praised him!; Central China Normal University.2022-01-20
Yun Daiying: "May my phosphorus emit more heat and light"; LIN Shanshan. People's Liberation Army Daily, 2024-02-22
A well-deserved role model for youth! This senior, all the people in China have praised him!; Central China Normal University.2022-01-20