On February 4, 1947, Wei Guoqing, commander of the Second Column of Huaye, received an order: "Annihilate Hao (Hao Pengju)'s troops with a rapid advance, create a threat to Haizhou, attract the enemy to move north, and then divide and encircle, and annihilate each!" ”。
After receiving the order, Wei Guoqing quickly conveyed the order to his subordinates, although the task was arduous, but the second column was rubbing his fists up and down, and the morale was high, for no other reason than him, this was a battle of revenge.
At that time, Wei Guoqing only knew that there was a Hao department near Baitabu, and the specific situation was not clear, not even the specific location of Hao Pengju's three divisions, but Wei Guoqing knew that Hao Pengju was equally unclear about the situation of his troops, so he decided to win a surprise victory, ordered the troops to search and advance, and took advantage of Hao Pengju's lack of preparation to annihilate them in one fell swoop.
On the evening of February 6, Wei Guoqing encountered Hao Pengju's troops in Xiaobuzi Village, and immediately launched a fierce battle, the unprepared Hao Pengju was caught off guard, and could only hastily order the troops to meet the enemy, and by the afternoon of February 7, Hao Pengju's troops had been broken one by one, helpless, Hao Pengju could only order a full-line retreat, and Wei Guoqing followed in pursuit with two columns.
At dusk on February 7, the battle ended, and more than 5,000 of Hao Pengju's troops were annihilated, and even Hao Pengju himself was captured alive and brought to the commander of the East China Field Army.
Seeing Hao Pengju, Chen Yi was furious, scolded Hao Pengju, and wrote a poem "Show Hao Pengju": "Teach Er to be a man, teach Er not to be a dog, and now he will be captured in Seoul, and he still teaches himself to divide people and dogs." ”。
What exactly did this Hao Pengju do to lose his conscience? Why did it make Chen Yi so angry? For no other reason, Hao Pengju not only turned against him, but also killed a figure that Chen Yi greatly respected, Zhu Kejing.
Zhu Kejing, a native of Liling, Hunan, was born in a cold and miserable background, entered a private school at the age of 8, was admitted to the county middle school at the age of 14, and began to contact the new school, in 1918, after graduating from Changsha Middle School, the 23-year-old Zhu Kejing entered Peking University to study, where Zhu Kejing came into contact with revolutionary ideas and became a party member in 1922.
In 1923, Zhu Kejing was ordered to study at the Oriental University in Moscow, and after returning to China in 1925, he entered the Third Army of the Guangzhou Revolutionary Army, serving as a party representative and director of the political department, and participating in the Northern Expedition.
In April 1927, before and after the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup, Zhu Kejing served as the secretary general of the Jiangxi provincial government, and using this position, Zhu Kejing made Zhu De the director of the Nanchang Public Security Bureau, and Fang Zhimin presided over the party department in Jiangxi Province.
After April 12, Zhu Kejing's Third Army became the object of Chiang Kai-shek's struggle, and at that time, both Zhu Kejing and his superior, Zhu Peide, chairman of the Jiangxi government, obeyed the orders of the Wuhan government and scorned Chiang Kai-shek's actions.
However, not long after, Wang Jingwei in Wuhan also began to counter-revolution, at this time, Zhu Peide wavered, succumbed under Chiang Kai-shek's high-ranking official Houlu, played the trick of "giving gifts to the communists", and persuaded Zhu Kejing to defect to "Commander-in-Chief Chiang", but Zhu Kejing refused: "I will not surrender, you must consider the consequences against the water!" ”。
Zhu Peide was speechless in a word.
In order to quickly report this situation to the organization, Zhu Kejing disguised himself as a cargo man, detoured through Hunan, and came to Wuhan, which made the comrades deeply moved.
While planning the Nanchang Uprising, Zhu Kejing, who was familiar with the situation, secretly came to Wuchang to instigate the uprising of the old part of the Third Army, and on August 1, the Nanchang Uprising was held vigorously.
After the uprising, Zhu Kejing served as the party representative of the Ninth Army, but unfortunately, in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, the rebel army was surrounded by heavy kuomintang troops, and after Zhu Kejing broke through, he was alone and lost contact with the party organization.
After the Chaoshan breakthrough, Zhu Kejing sneaked into Guangzhou to look for an organization, but at that time, Guangzhou, after the "April 15" counter-revolutionary coup, was also a white terror, how easy was it to find an organization?
For safety, after Zhu Kejing found his wife, he dragged his family to Beiping, temporarily lived in his mother-in-law's house, and later rented a vineyard in Zhongguancun, growing vegetables and raising rabbits for a living.
In 1932, under the introduction of a friend, Zhu Kejing changed his name and surname, came to Guilin to teach, and in 1934, Zhu Kejing's whereabouts were learned by Bai Chongxi, who knew that he had left the organization and personally visited him, wanting Zhu Kejing to serve himself.
At this time, although Zhu Kejing had been out of contact with the organization for 5 or 6 years, his revolutionary determination had never wavered, and he did not want to be with Bai Chongxi, and he began to flee again, and after several turns, he came to Changsha.
At this time, Zhu Kejing was already penniless, and in order to make a living, he sold his third son in pain, and then went to Jiangxi with his wife to join his uncle.
Zhu Kejing's wife's uncle, named Wen Qun, was the director of the Jiangxi Finance Department at that time, and also ran the rural cooperation undertaking in the four provinces of Henan, Hubei, Gansu, and Fujian, and with the help of his uncle, Zhu Kejing became a special commissioner of the Nanyang Office of the Henan Provincial Rural Cooperation Committee, and began to devote himself to agriculture, helping the people to buy cattle, agricultural tools, and build water conservancy projects.
In 1937, the war of aggression against China broke out in an all-round way, the Kuomintang and the Communists cooperated again, the Red Army in the north was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, rushing to the Jin-Cha-Ji battlefield, and the Red Army in the south was reorganized into the New Fourth Army. ”。
Therefore, he entrusted his wife and children to his friends and set out for Wuchang himself.
When Xiong Shihui, chairman of Jiangxi Province, learned of this, he immediately invited Zhu Kejing to his home, and Xu Houlu, a high-ranking official, hoped that Zhu Kejing could serve himself, and even in order to retain Zhu Kejing, he was willing to give him the post of secretary general.
But Zhu Kejing refused, saying only: "I am willing to suffer with the soldiers in the New Fourth Army!" ", said no and left without looking back.
Looking fast, Zhu Kejing arrived at the New Fourth Army, and Zhu Kejing's arrival made the old comrades who participated in the Wuchang uprising together both happy and embarrassed; what was happy was that Zhu Kejing lived well, and what was difficult was that Zhu Kejing was extremely senior, but after the Nanchang uprising, he left the organization for more than 10 years.
When he learned of the comrades' difficulties, Zhu Kejing said: "No matter what work I am assigned, as long as it is beneficial to the revolution!" As a result, the 43-year-old Zhu Kejing became the head of the field service regiment, leading patriotic youth in charge of drama, painting, singing, communications, pro-democracy movement and other matters.
In less than a year, Zhu Kejing led the field service group to travel all over Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Gansu, traveling more than 20,000 kilometers, making great contributions to the organization's anti-Japanese propaganda.
Because Zhu Kejing was active and the work was handled in an orderly manner, the organization soon entrusted him with a heavy responsibility - as the liaison director of the New Fourth Army, responsible for the united front work.
Li Mingyang, Li Changjiang brothers in Taizhou, Han Zishi, a literary hero in northern Jiangsu, and so on, were all won over by Zhu Kejing.
After the Anhui Incident, Zhu Kejing served as the commissioner of the Third Sub-district Special Office, and became a partner with Ye Fei to jointly build the political power in Taizhou, Taixing, Ruxi, Jingjiang and other places, and in 1944, he also served as the director of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Administrative Offices, which can be described as bowing down to the construction and consolidation of the revolutionary base areas.
After the Liberation War began, Zhu Kejing re-served as the head of the United Front Work Department, using his influence during the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to win over anti-Chiang Kai-shek forces.
As a result, Hao Pengju, who was a classmate of the Soviet Union with Zhu Kejing, became the primary object of struggle.
Hao Pengju was originally Feng Yuxiang's aide-de-camp, and in 1925 he was sent to the Soviet Union to study artillery command, but before he could learn it, Hao Pengju returned to China, because of this, Feng Yuxiang did not like him, and Hao Pengju has not been reused.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Hao Pengju defected to Hu Zongnan and served as a staff officer, and originally had the opportunity to climb up, but Hao Pengju lived an improper life and had a relationship with the wife of a regimental commander, which provoked Chiang Kai-shek to be angry and personally ordered him to be detained.
After escaping from prison, Hao Pengju defected to Wang Jingwei and successively served as the chief of education of the "Central Army General Training Corps", the governor of "Huaihai Province", and the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Front.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Hao Pengju's troops were absorbed by the Kuomintang and became the newly organized Sixth Route Army, with Hao Pengju serving as commander-in-chief.
Because they had been imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek and were still demoted, this miscellaneous army was not in a good position, and before the war of liberation began, the Kuomintang constantly ordered them to attack the New Fourth Army.
In Hao Pengju's view, they are Chiang Kai-shek's cannon fodder.
Therefore, when Zhu Kejing went to Hao Pengju to do united front work, Hao Pengju immediately announced that he would "withdraw from the civil war."
In June 1946, Chiang Kai-shek launched a large-scale attack on the Liberated Areas, and in the face of the menacing Nationalist army, Hao Pengju instigated, and under the review of the situation, he made contact with Chen Cheng, chief of the Kuomintang General Staff, and when the Nationalist army occupied Zhangjiakou and attacked the Shandong Liberated Area in two ways, Hao Pengju began to plot rebellion.
In the New Year of 1947, Chen Yi invited Hao Pengju to the Shandong Military Region, and Zheng Zhong said to Hao Pengju: "Only by relying on the people can there be a way out!" Hao Pengju was frightened.
Although Hao Pengju already had signs of rebellion, Zhu Kejing resolutely followed Hao Pengju to his army to do united front work, and he said to Chen Yi: "If you don't go into the tiger's den to get a tiger, if you can win a minute, you must fight for a minute." ”。
What Chen Yi and Zhu Kejing did not expect was that not long after Zhu Kejing arrived in Hao Pengju's army, Hao Pengju used the pretext of inviting Zhu Kejing to attend a military meeting and arrested Zhu Kejing.
After capturing Zhu Kejing, Hao Pengju sent him to the Kuomintang overnight as his surrender.
Zhu Kejing served as secretary general of Jiangxi Province as early as the Northern Expedition, and later, he occupied an extremely important position in the New Fourth Army; after his arrest, the reactionaries went so far as to create rumors that Zhu Kejing had been captured on the battlefield, and that in order to make Zhu Kejing "report to the repentance," the reactionaries could be said to have exhausted all means.
Zhu Kejing's former classmate He Zhihan and others took turns to persuade him to surrender, and even Chiang Kai-shek personally went out on horseback three times, mouthing an "old comrade Zhu" one by one, and promising a high-ranking official Houlu, but Zhu Kejing never wavered.
He said to Chiang Kai-shek: "I have two lives, one is a physical life and the other is a political life... I would rather sacrifice my physical life than my political life. ”。
Seeing that Zhu Kejing could not be persuaded to surrender, in October 1947, the reactionaries brutally killed him at the age of 52.
When the news of Zhu Kejing's arrest reached the Liberated Areas, Chen Yi was so angry that he began to prepare for the annihilation of Hao Pengju, so there was the beginning of the article, Wei Guoqing led his troops to attack Hao Bu.
Although he was heartbroken by Zhu Kejing's encounter, Zhu Kejing at that time was not killed, and Chen Yi only scolded Hao Pengju and did not kill him.
Unfortunately, Hao Pengju this person, really do not know what to do, in May 1947, Chiang Kai-shek launched a large-scale attack on the Liberated Areas, Lunan organs were transferred, Hao Pengju was also escorted along, the road was bombed by the Nationalist army, seeing the opportunity, Hao Pengju immediately fled, and finally, was shot and killed by the People's Liberation Army, dying at the age of 44.