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In March 1940, Sheng Zijin, the ace agent of the military command, was captured by our army, and when Chen Yi learned the news that our army was preparing to severely punish Sheng Zijin, he was shocked, he knew that he must not do this, he told the troops that he would personally set up a banquet to entertain Sheng Zijin and send him away, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
So who is Sheng Zijin? Why did Chen Yi set up a banquet to send him away?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" >, the military command ace agent Sheng Zijin</h1>
Sheng Zijin was born in 1906, formerly known as Sheng Yu, a native of Baiqiao Hougang, Anhui Province and County, who was educated from an early age and was later admitted to the sixth phase of the Huangpu Military Academy, and was a classmate and friend of Dai Kasa, the head of the military command's secret service.
Sheng Yu loved to watch "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" since he was a child, he especially liked the character of Zhou Yu of the Three Kingdoms, often praised himself as the character of Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu was a gongjin, so he changed his name to Sheng Zijin, because of his oily face, he was called "pink face King Kong".
As Dai Kasa gradually gained power in the Kuomintang army, Sheng Zijin also rose to prominence, and when he was the county magistrate of Lu'an County, he cooperated with the anti-Japanese guerrillas led by the Chinese Communists to drive the Japanese army away from Lu'an City, thus making a great name.
In order to monitor the Kuomintang Gui army behind enemy lines in Anhui, Dai Kasa installed a female agent Yang Wenwei into the Gui army, Yang Wenwei was young and beautiful, and soon attracted the attention of Sheng Zijin, and the two fell in love and married.
According to the rules of the military command, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, military commanders were not allowed to marry, but Sheng Zijin was both Dai Kasa's classmate and friend, as well as the ace agent of the military command, and Dai Kasa was very important to him, not only agreeing to their marriage, but also personally participating in their wedding.
Their wedding took place in Wuhan in 1938, and Dai Kasa praised Sheng Zijin at the wedding, publicly praising Sheng Zijin as his good subordinate. Dai Kasa gave Yang Wenwei a radio station to keep in touch with directly.
Because Yang Wenwei and Sheng Zijin were both military commanders, Li Pinxian of the Gui clan in Anhui knew this very well and guarded against the couple everywhere.
In order to gain a firm foothold in northeast Anhui, Sheng Zijin established two detachments by relying on the strength of the CCP, and after Zhang Aiping came to northeast Anhui, he borrowed Zhang Aiping's strength to strengthen himself.
At this time, the Gui general Li Pinxian had been appointed chairman of the Anhui provincial government, and when he saw that Sheng Zijin was growing in strength, he said that he cooperated with the CCP and ordered Sheng Zijin to go to the provincial government to explain the "problems" with the CCP.
The military command was originally a sworn enemy of the local powerful faction, and Sheng Zijin knew that once he stepped into the gate of the Anhui provincial government, it was like a sheep entering the mouth of a tiger, and Li Pinxian could use the excuse of "communism" to get rid of himself.
Of course, Sheng Zijin did not dare or go forward, and When Li Pinxian saw that Sheng Zijin refused to obey, he appointed his confidant Ma Xinting to replace Sheng Zijin as the "Fifth Guerrilla Commander of the Fifth Theater."
Sheng Zijin had the support of Dai Kasa, he refused to hand over military power, he let out the words: "Lao Tzu laid the territory, with what?"
Li Pinxian was also not a fuel-saving lamp, and in January 1940, Li Pinxian ordered Ma Xinting to lead a battalion into northeastern Anhui to forcibly take over Sheng Zijin's post.
Sheng Zijin did not see well, and hurriedly asked zhang Aiping of the New Fourth Army for help, Zhang Aiping proposed a method of "aiding Sheng and fighting horses", and Sheng Zijin decided to unite with the New Fourth Army first.
With the help of Zhang Aiping, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army near northeastern Anhui all came and annihilated one of Ma Xinting's battalions in Dabaiweizi.
This angered Li Pinxian, and he immediately ordered the arrest of the "traitor" Sheng Zijin for the crime of "colluding with the traitors to resist the national army".
Sheng Zijin is essentially a military commander, his alliance with the New Fourth Army is only temporary, his personal ambitions are very large, he just wants to use the ccp's strength against Li Pinxian, he said to the troops: The CCP, do not want money, do not want beautiful women, do not want status, why bother to follow them?
Sheng Zijin asked Dai For help, and Dai Asked him to surrender to Li Mingyang, the guerrilla commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Lusu-Anhui Border Region in northern Jiangsu. If Sheng Zijin left normally, it would be reasonable, but he took the three CCP cadres who had come to comfort him as hostages and fled northeast Anhui with a threat.
When Sheng Zijin ran to Jiangbei, the Jiangbei Headquarters of the New Fourth Army received the news and captured Sheng Zijin and his gang in one fell swoop.
The CCP favored Sheng Zijin, but Sheng Zijin took revenge, and he was also an ace agent of the Kuomintang, so the troops demanded that Sheng Zijin be shot.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="84" > Second, gifting Sheng Zijin is the need of the struggle strategy</h1>
It should be said that it is also very reasonable for the troops to demand the shooting of Sheng Zijin, but why did Chen Yi resolutely disagree with this? Because from the perspective of military strategy, gifting Sheng Zijin is the need of the struggle strategy.
Chen Yi had a very profound analysis of the situation of struggle in northern Jiangsu in 1939, saying:
In today's northern Jiangsu, the Japanese Kou is the boss, Han Deloitte is the second oldest, the two Li are the third oldest, and the name of our New Fourth Army is actually the fourth oldest. However, if we persist in the War of Resistance and win the support of the people, we will certainly be able to become the third oldest first, and then the second oldest, and finally drive the Japanese out of northern Jiangsu and driven off the eastern sea.
When many cadres first heard these words, they only felt vivid and powerful, very bold, and inspiring. With the development of the struggle and the improvement of the level, many cadres understood this passage in a simple and in-depth manner, and expressed the strategic intention of the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu.
Although the strategic intention of the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu is very clear, it is not easy to realize this strategic intention, because the strength is very different, and the strength of the eldest, second, and third is much larger than that of the fourth elder.
The Japanese were the strongest in northern Jiangsu, occupying major towns and major transportation routes. As long as the Japanese army "swept through", the Rok army and the Li army rushed back.
The second eldest is Han Deloitte, his strength is quite large, he, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Lusu Theater, is independent as the king, the commander-in-chief of the Lusu Theater is Yu Xuezhong, Yu Xuezhong belongs to the Northeast Army system, the headquarters of the Sulu Theater is located in Shandong, and Yu Xuezhong's jurisdiction is mainly in Shandong.
In northern Jiangsu is Han Deloitte, Han Deloitte and Yu Xuezhong are independent, Yu Xuezhong is basically non-binding on Han Deloitte, Han Deloitte was born on October 8, 1892, the character Chu Zhen, Jiangsu Siyang County Yanghe Town people,
In 1909, Han Deloitte was selected by the county to be admitted to the fourth phase of the Jiangsu Army Primary School in Nanjing, and at the Army Primary School, he met Gu Zhutong of Lianshui, a neighboring county in Jiangsu, and the two had a very close relationship and became brothers.
With the help of Gu Zhutong, Han Deqin became a confidant of Chiang Kai-shek, serving as the commander of the 52nd Division, the main force of the Kuomintang Army, and as the director of the General Office of the Kuomintang Central Military Commission. In May 1938, he acted as chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Government. In February 1939, he was appointed Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Rusu Theater.
Han Deloitte has a deputy headquarters of the Lusu Theater in dongtai county in northern Jiangsu, which is directly under the command of the third theater, and the commander of the third theater is Gu Zhutong, and at the same time Han Deloitte is also the commander-in-chief of the 24th Group Army of the Nationalist Army, the chairman of Jiangsu Province, and the commander of the security of Jiangsu Province.
Han Deqin also set up the Jiangsu Provincial Government in Xinghua County, and the county chiefs of all counties in northern Jiangsu were assigned by him, and the standing brigades of each county were of course under his command. He was also a member of the Kuomintang Central Committee. Therefore, Han Deloitte is a grasp of the party, government, military and civilian in northern Jiangsu. Han Deloitte was one of the representatives of the Kuomintang military dictatorship, and his main forces were 1 army, 1 independent brigade and 10 security brigades, namely:
Lieutenant General Li Shouwei was the 89th Army, and there was also a well-equipped Independent Sixth Brigade with Lieutenant General Onda as the brigade commander. In addition to this, there are ten security brigades,
Han Deloitte's total strength is more than 50,000 people, and it is said that there are more than 70,000 people, of which the 89th Army and the independent 6th Brigade, which are more than 20,000 people with combat effectiveness, add up.
Because Han Deloitte is the chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Government, he is referred to as "Provincial Han" by all parties. Regardless of his name and strength, he can be called the second oldest. It was he who, on behalf of the Kuomintang diehards, manipulated the leadership of the "anti-Japanese" in northern Jiangsu.
The third is the "two Li", that is, Li Mingyang, the commander-in-chief of the Sulu-Anhui guerrilla, and Li Changjiang, the deputy commander-in-chief, whose general headquarters is located in Taizhou, and the "Two Lis" have nine columns of troops. The total strength of the two Li forces is said to be 30,000, but in fact there are more than 20,000 people.
And the New Fourth Army? Guan Wenwei's troops had only crossed the river, but there were only seven or eight hundred people. Later, Tao Yong took the second battalion of the old fourth regiment and Ye Fei took the old sixth regiment to northern Jiangsu, and merged with the management department into the Suwan detachment and the new fourth army advancing column, with a total of only about 4,000 people. Not only that, but the weapons and equipment of the New Fourth Army are also the worst.
If the New Fourth Army had gained a foothold in northern Jiangsu and developed and grown, Chen Yi had seriously analyzed the situation and decided to adopt the strategic principle of "destroying the enemy, uniting with Li, and opposing stubbornness."
"Destroy the enemy, unite with Li, and oppose stubbornness." It is the fourth elder and the third elder who unite to constantly strengthen themselves in the anti-Japanese guerrilla war, overthrow the second elder in the anti-friction, and finally eliminate the boss. This was Chen Yi's policy of seizing the leadership of the Anti-Japanese Struggle and expelling the Japanese from northern Jiangsu after careful investigation and study.
To destroy the enemy is to resolutely strike at the Japanese army; although the New Fourth Army has a small number of troops, it resolutely attacks the Japanese Kou, and the Suwan detachment and the advancing column all extend to Yangzhou, Tianchang, and other Japanese strongholds to carry out guerrilla warfare as soon as they reach northern Jiangsu. The New Fourth Army's resolute resistance to Japan won the support of the people.
Lian Li refers to the joint Li Mingyang and Li Changjiang, chen Yi analysis believes that Han Deloitte and the "two Li" contradictions are very deep, which creates conditions for us to unite Li.
Although Li Mingyang and Han Deloitte are both Kuomintang and have subordinate relations, the contradictions are very deep. Li Mingyang was a member of the Old League, the chief righteous figure of the Hukou Uprising during the Xinhai Revolution, and his qualifications were even older than Chiang Kai-shek.
Li Mingyang was born in 1891, although he was old and qualified, he was not a figure in Chiang Kai-shek's employment system, so his official fortunes were not good, and with the help of the Gui clan, he obtained the official position of commander-in-chief of the Sulu-Anhui guerrilla army, and was still subordinate to Han Deqin.
Han Deloitte was both stubborn and greedy, and as soon as he became chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Government, he snatched Li Mingyang and Li Changjiang's former positions as chief and deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Security Department and gave it to himself and Li Shouwei.
The head of the security department has great power, and Han Deloitte directly controlled the various security brigades through this means, and he caught a lot of oil and water through the security brigade, which made the "two Li" angry and itchy, but there was nothing he could do.
Han Deqin had close ties with Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater, and he monopolized the salaries, weapons, and ammunition issued by the Third Theater, and withheld a large amount of deductions that should have been issued to the "two Li."
Not only that, Han Deloitte also secretly sent people to infiltrate the troops of the "two Li" in order to divide and control the troops of the two Li. The "two Li" knew it well, so they took great precautions against Han Deloitte.
Therefore, after Chen Yi arrived in Jiangbei, he quickly met with the two Li and obtained the support of the "two Li", which provided conditions for the New Fourth Army to develop and grow in Jiangbei.
However, there are also contradictions between the New Fourth Army and the "two Li", because the "Two Li" are warlords and also exploit and plunder the people's wealth, and Li Changjiang is even more banditry. Their contradiction with Han Deloitte is mainly to fight for power and profit. Anyone, whether the CCP or the Kuomintang, threatens their fundamental interests, and they will turn against them ruthlessly.
When Han Deloitte saw this situation, he constantly stirred up contradictions between the "two Lees" and the New Fourth Army. If the New Fourth Army detains or even executes Sheng Zijin, it is bound to aggravate the contradiction between the New Fourth Army and the "Two Li" and push the "Two Li" to the opposite side of the New Fourth Army, which is contrary to the strategic intention of the New Fourth Army.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="85" > Third, gifting Sheng Zijin can enable our army to withdraw troops to support the defense of half the tower</h1>
When our army captured Sheng Zijin, the New Fourth Army was engaged in a defensive battle for the half-tower, and this battle had a bearing on whether the Fifth Detachment of the New Fourth Army could gain a foothold in the "Two Huai" areas.
In the autumn of 1939, the Fifth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, with Luo Binghui as commander, Guo Shushen as political commissar, Zhou Junming as deputy commander, Fang Yi as director, and Zhao Qimin as chief of staff, came to Lai'an and opened up the anti-Japanese guerrilla base area in the east of Jinpu Road in Huainan, centered on the half-tower, and initially opened up the situation of the War of Resistance behind enemy lines in the east of Ludong.
At the end of 1939, the reactionaries headed by Chiang Kai-shek, under the guidance of the policy of "foreign countries must first be at home," passively resisted Japan and actively opposed communism. Attacking the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region with the southern part of Huzong and the Taihang base area in Shanxi with Yan Xishan's troops set off the first anti-communist upsurge.
After Chiang Kai-shek's defeat in the North China Battlefield, he pointed the finger at central China. In the spring of 1940, Chiang Kai-shek secretly commanded the Anhui Li Pinxian Department and the Jiangsu Han Deloitte Department, preparing to attack the 4th and 5th detachments of the New Fourth Army in the eastern Anhui region, and attacking from east to west in an attempt to eliminate them individually.
On March 21, 1940, Han Deqin, chairman of the Kuomintang Jiangsu Provincial Government and deputy commander-in-chief of the Lusu Theater, mobilized eight regiments and launched a large-scale siege on March 21 at Banta, the seat of the Fifth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, and its vicinity.
Under the command of Deng Zihui, director of the Political Department of the Jiangbei Headquarters of the New Fourth Army, Guo Shushen, political commissar of the Fifth Detachment, and others, the 5th Detachment of the New Fourth Army rose up to fight back and launched an anti-friction battle centered on the defense of the half-tower. This is the famous Half Tower Defense Battle.
There are only about 1 regiment of the New Fourth Army troops left in the Bantaji area, and there are many new soldiers and poor weapons and equipment, while Han Deloitte's troops are numerous and well-armed, and the situation is unfavorable to our side.
If the New Fourth Army does not invest new forces to support the 5th Detachment in the Half Tower area, the Half Tower area will be lost, which is both militaryly and politically unfavorable.
Chen Yi decided to let Ye Fei, deputy commander of the New Fourth Army's Advancing Column, lead two battalions and two special service battalions of the first and second regiments of the advancing column, starting from Wuqiao in central Suzhou, crossing the canal in the west, crossing the Tian (Chang) Yang (Prefecture) Highway, day and night, and aiding half a tower.
At this time, our army captured Sheng Zijin, and Han Deqin took advantage of this incident to stir up dissension and demanded that the "two Li" send troops to attack the advancing column.
If the "Two Li" dispatched troops to attack the New Fourth Army's advancing column, then Ye Fei would not be able to lead the troops to reinforce the Half Pagoda Set. Under the superiority of the "two Li" troops, the advancing column of the New Fourth Army will also be in a dangerous situation.
Fourth, Chen Yi gifted Sheng Zijin, the ace agent of the military command
After Chen Yi received the news that our army had arrested and wanted to execute Sheng Zijin, the ace agent of the military command, he resolutely stopped it, and although the execution of Sheng Zijin could be done quickly, it would put the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu in a dangerous situation.
When Chen Yi learned of these circumstances, he immediately wrote a secret letter and sent a representative to liang Li, in which Chen Yi said that he promised to release Sheng Zijin and return the gun. Explaining the advance of the column is not intended to divide its forces. He also advised the two Li not to be provoked by Han Deloitte and to advance into the column.
On the other hand, Chen Yi personally set up a banquet to entertain Sheng Zijin and sent him away.
The "two Li" received Chen Yi's secret letter, and seeing that Chen Yi had sent Sheng Zijin, he declared to the New Fourth Army that he would not be used by the province of Han, so that Ye Fei could lead his troops to reinforce the half tower with confidence.
The New Fourth Army eventually retreated the recalcitrant army to the north of the Huai River, and after 20 days of hard fighting, the defense of the Half Tower finally won the final victory.
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The great man once said:
"If there is a majority of contradictions in any process, one of them must be the primary, playing the role of leadership and decision-making, and the others are in a secondary and subordinate position."
Chen Yi profoundly grasped the essence of this thinking, grasped the key point of contradictions, successfully resolved the contradiction between the New Fourth Army and the "two Li," enabled our army to win the battle of the Half-Tower, and created a new situation for the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu. Afterwards, everyone said that Chen Yi was too clever. He also admired Chen Yi's art of struggle even more.
After the Surrender of the Japanese invaders, Sheng Zijin jointly established the "Sino-American Cotton Company" in Shanghai with Chennault, the captain of the 15th Aviation Brigade of the United States, with Sheng Zijin as the general manager.
In 1948, the Military Tribunal of the Ministry of National Defense of the Nationalist Government sentenced Sheng Zijin to 6 months in prison for "colluding with Japanese smuggling" and was granted to execution outside of prison for illness.
On April 27, 1951, Sheng Zijin was arrested and imprisoned by the Shanghai Municipal State Security Bureau for counter-revolutionary crimes, and died of illness on December 9, 1954.
Objectively speaking, although Sheng Zijin coerced the staff of the New Fourth Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he did not cause major losses, and he contributed a lot in the process of creating the anti-Japanese base area in northeast Anhui, which can be regarded as a contribution to the anti-Japanese resistance, so in 2001, the organization restored Sheng Zijin's reputation and rehabilitated him.
Tianxuan is the author's pen name, who has studied history and philosophy and is welcome to pay attention to it.