In 1945, long Yun was forced to fly to Chongqing, and as soon as he saw Chiang Kai-shek, he accused himself, "I ask myself that I have nothing to be sorry for you, for the country, and for the localities." It would have been very common to reorganize a local government and change posts, but it would have been excessive to use such extraordinary means. Chiang Kai-shek replied embarrassedly: "My instructions are not like this, this is Du Yuming's mistake, and he must be punished!" Then, in front of Long Yun, he removed Du Yuming from his post.
Chiang Kai-shek and Long Yun
It was a period of peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Communists. Long Yun said privately, Chiang Kai-shek can't even tolerate me, can he still tolerate the CCP? The facts quickly confirmed Long Yun's expectations. On October 10, 1945, the Kuomintang and the Communists signed the Double Tenth Agreement in Chongqing to avoid civil war and establish a democratic regime. But this agreement was soon torn up by Chiang Kai-shek, and a full-scale civil war broke out.
This is No. 156 Central Road in Nanjing, and after the Nationalist government returned to Nanjing, Long Yun was arranged by Chiang Kai-shek to live here. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek's surveillance of him became tighter. The agents built a house across from his mansion, ostensibly selling refreshments and cold drinks, and hanging up signs of "repairing cars," which were actually meant to be followed by Long Yun when he was out.
Long Yun lost his freedom, and the Dian army he created could no longer control his own destiny. Although his old subordinate Lu Han took over the post of chairman of Yunnan Province, he was an empty chairman who was arranged by Chiang Kai-shek even the guards of the provincial government. The Dian army in Vietnam, after accepting the surrender of the Japanese army, was immediately transferred by Chiang Kai-shek to the battlefield of the Northeast Civil War.
In 1948, when the defeat of the Kuomintang was decided and Chiang Kai-shek began to prepare for the retreat to Taiwan, Long Yun heard the news that Chiang Kai-shek was going to hold himself hostage to Taiwan, determined to escape from the tiger's mouth, and immediately began to save himself.
At 9:00 a.m. on December 8, 1948, Long Yun quietly left the Dragon Mansion in a jeep. At this time, the spies monitoring Long Yun stayed across from his house for more than two years, and found nothing unusual, so they relaxed their vigilance and allowed Long Yun to escape smoothly.
Ten minutes later, after meeting with the reception personnel, Long Yun changed into a car of the civil aviation system and changed into a leather coat of civil aviation and went straight to the airport, boarded the plane to Guangzhou, and after a short stop in Guangzhou, Long Yun came to Hong Kong by boat that night. And this time, it was Chennault, the founder of the "Flying Tigers" who had always been friends with him, who arranged for Long Yun to escape from Nanjing.
A few days later, Chiang Kai-shek learned that Long Yun had fled. Enraged, he shot several agents who were monitoring Long Yun. He also asked the Central News Agency to send a message saying that "President Jiang approved Acting Director Long Yun to go to Hong Kong to recuperate" in order to protect his face. Shortly after Long Yun arrived in Hong Kong, the three major battles were declared over, and the defeat of the Kuomintang was decided.
In April 1949, Long Yun held a press conference in Hong Kong to openly support the Liberation War, and Chiang Kai-shek trembled with anger. But Long Yun had completely ignored his "old superior", and he not only sent someone to send a letter to Kunming, but even sent his wife Gu Yingqiu back to Kunming to instigate an uprising.
On the afternoon of December 9, 1949, Long Yun's old subordinate Lu Han finally completed the preparations for the uprising. At 10 o'clock that night, Lu Han officially announced the uprising at Mount Wuhua in Kunming, and Yunnan was thrown back into the embrace of the people, and Chiang Kai-shek completely lost the entire continent. At two o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, Chiang Kai-shek rushed to Chengdu Phoenix Mountain Airport, took a plane to leave the mainland and flew to Taiwan.
Yunnan Uprising
On January 3, 1950, Long Yun left Hong Kong and came to Beijing, the capital of New China. After that, Long Yun successively served as a member of the Central People's Government and vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, and on June 27, 1962, Long Yun died in Beijing due to acute myocardial infarction at the age of 78.
Zhu De and Long Yun
On November 19, 1984, at the 100th anniversary of Long Yun's birth, Xi Zhongxun, then member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, commented: "Mr. Long Yun is a well-known democrat and patriotic general, he has a history of cooperation with the CPC for many years, he is a sincere friend of our party, and his life is the life of a glorious patriot."
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