In 1949, the Liberation War entered the final stage, and Fu Zuoyi, the king of Peiping with 500,000 troops, chose to revolt and surrender to the Communist army, which saved the historical capital of Beiping from the baptism of war, which was rumored to be a momentary talk, and Fu Zuoyi's uprising accelerated the demise of the Chiang family dynasty and dealt a heavy blow to the Kuomintang reactionaries and the US imperialism that supported them. However, after Fu Zuoyi led the troops to revolt, Peiping was not completely peaceful, but was filled with a large number of Kuomintang agents, spies, and other personnel, which brought threats to the lives of important leaders of our party.
Fu Zuoyi
Soon after fu zuoyi's uprising in 1949, there was a defection of soldiers from two battalions under his command, and they even wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of our party leaders in Peiping to wipe out our party leaders, which caused another dispute over fu Zuoyi's uprising, and some people even thought that Fu Zuoyi deliberately pretended to surrender and looked for opportunities to cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek's clique, but is this the case? What exactly did these defectors do at that time, and what punishment were they punished?
In the War of Liberation, our army changed from being inferior at the beginning to having an advantage over the Kuomintang army, and it was from the three major battles that we took the turning point. Towards the end of the Liaoshen Campaign, the Central Plains Field Army and the East China Field Army launched the Huaihai Campaign against the Kuomintang in the Xuzhou area. Chiang Kai-shek asked Fu Zuoyi to reinforce other troops, but fu Zuoyi refused for military reasons, Fu Zuoyi attached great importance to his own territory, and if he had the opportunity, he might leave Chiang Kai-shek to claim the title of king in the Peiping generation area. If he had even finished fighting his own troops, he would not have enough strength to fight chiang kai-shek, so he could not really fight for chiang kai-shek. However, our army considered Fu Zuoyi's military strength and decided to remove this thorn.
Chiang Kai-shek
In 1948, the Pingjin Campaign was launched, with the intention of directly eliminating the Fu Zuoyi clique. Fu Zuoyi's strength was half a million, but the number of our two field armies had reached more than one million, but Chairman Mao felt that the ancient city of Beiping should not disappear into the flames of war, and he felt that the first way was to persuade Fu Zuoyi to revolt, and if he did not agree, we would talk about the war. However, Fu Zuoyi was really tough at the beginning, and our army was forced to eat Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army first, and our army first attacked Tianjin, and it took only three days to capture Commander Chen Changjie alive.
Chen Changjie
Fu Zuoyi's troops suffered huge losses, and at the same time, the combat strength of our army also frightened Fu Zuoyi, because he initially declared to the outside world that the Communist army could not take Tianjin for a few months. At this time, Fu Zuoyi's daughter also came to his military camp to do ideological work for him. Fu Zuoyi's daughter is an underground member of our party, who joined the Communist Party organization very early, and of course she did her best to persuade her father to surrender, after all, only with a bright party can there be a future. After several thoughts, Fu Zuoyi finally chose to revolt and peacefully liberated Beiping City.
However, Fu Zuoyi is obviously not a monolith inside, and not many people are like him, thinking of national righteousness and protecting the ancient capital of Beiping. Even his senior generals debated the matter. The vast majority of the generals agreed with Fu Zuoyi and chose to defect to the Communists, but two people openly opposed it, one of them was Li Wen, the commander of the Fourth Corps, and the other was Shi Jue, the commander of the Ninth Corps. The two men clamored for loyalty to the party-state, but in action they openly opposed Fu Zuoyi's proposal. In the hands of the two of them, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops, which may mutiny at any time. Fu Zuoyi took the lead and took control of the two before surrendering, and fu Zuoyi arrested the officers who followed them.
But these two men were very tenacious and unwilling to accept the reorganization and captivity of our Party. Fu Zuoyi remembered his old feelings and sent the two to Nanjing by special plane. In fact, from here we can also see that Fu Zuoyi and his subordinates are not in line with each other, and even the senior generals dare to directly jump out against him, not to mention some generals who dare not speak to him at this time, they only verbally agree with the instructions of their superiors, and in fact have their own hearts in their hearts.
This is also the reason why Fu Zuoyi put forward his own demands after announcing the peaceful liberation of Peiping and surrendering to our army; he considered that his original old department was not very united in the hearts of the people, and the remnants of the Kuomintang in Peiping, spies, and spies were staring at him in the shadows, which made him put forward a request for our party to retain a regiment responsible for his life safety. The Central Committee, taking into account Fu Zuoyi's contribution and his indeed existing security situation, agreed to his request. Although Fu Zuoyi's guard regiment changed into the costume of the People's Liberation Army, it still accepted his dispatches.
After the peaceful liberation of Peiping in 1949, Chairman Mao and some central leaders entered Beiping City, and their temporary office location for the founding of the country was chosen in Xiangshan, and at that time, considering the safety issues, many leaders advised Chairman Mao to go to Zhongnanhai to live and work, but Chairman Mao considered that although the Zhongnanhai area was indeed beautiful, it was like living in a deep mansion compound, which was far less convenient than the command and political office in the Xiangshan area. Chairman Mao decided to settle in the Xiangshan Shuangqing Villa first.
Fragrant Hills Shuangqing Villa
Although the CCP Central Committee's secrecy work is doing well, after all, many government decrees are issued from here every day, and some things are not necessarily sealed walls and will be leaked out in various ways. Many people began to speculate that the current office of the CPC Central Committee is located in the Xiangshan area, and the main leaders of the CENTRAL Committee also work here every day. These news attracted the attention of the remnants of the Kuomintang agents in Peiping.
At that time, because Peiping had only been liberated, the composition of personnel in this area was very complicated, Fu Zuoyi's department had just surrendered, and it was not very clear how many speculators there were and how many people who were really toward our party were not very clear, and Li Kenong, who was the leader of intelligence work, was very worried about the safety of the CPC Central Committee. On the one hand, he sent people to make the Central Guard pay attention to safety during this time, and on the other hand, he stepped up his ideological work on these personnel and inserted them into his own eyeliner in order to prevent possible assassinations.
In early April 1949, the chief of staff, regimental commander, and deputy regimental commander of Fu Zuoyi's guard regiment were not in the barracks, and at this time the two opportunistic battalion commanders of his guard regiment thought that the time was ripe, and they seduced the soldiers under them: "Brothers, the reason why General Fu Zuoyi chose peace was because the situation at that time was forced, we have been waiting for the opportunity to resist, and now the time has come, Mao Zedong and others will be working in Xiangshan, we will kill Mao Zedong, and Chairman Jiang will be able to protect our prosperity and glory for the rest of our lives." The two battalion commanders were followed by veterans, and when they heard that it was profitable, they immediately responded to the words of the two battalion commanders and put Li Kenong's cadres in the guard regiment under house arrest before carrying out their plan to capture Xiangshan.
Chairman Mao
At this time, Li Kenong's eyeliner arranged in this area played a great role, and he pretended to go out to buy vegetables at noon, and successfully conveyed the news of the mutiny. The CCP office in Xiangshan quickly blew the rallying cry, and Wang Dongxing, director of the security department, immediately gathered personnel and acted quickly. Our army electrified, sent reinforcements, and together surrounded the troublemaking barracks. Occupying the commanding heights outside the camp, our army began to shout at the rebel battalion: "Brothers of the Guard Regiment, you have been surrounded by the People's Liberation Army, General Fu Zuoyi is facing the people, you must not be easily instigated by opportunists, otherwise you are sinners of the state and the nation." "At this time, the rebel battalion was in disarray, some of them planned to go out and fight with our army, some suggested surrendering immediately, and finally after several hours of confrontation, these people all laid down their weapons. In fact, these people only want to be prosperous and rich, and there are almost no people who want to fight with our army. It was only at the instigation of the two battalion commanders that they tried to gain benefits that they were used as guns, and after being surrounded, they were naturally reluctant to fight hard. A total of two battalions of Fu Zuoyi's guard regiment were involved in the rebellion, but one battalion was not involved, so this battalion was sent to the Shijiazhuang Infantry School, and later they were reused by the national team.
Li Kenong
Fu Zuoyi only learned the news the next day, he was so frightened and sweaty, his heart was very uneasy, he was anxious to go to Xiangshan to ask Chairman Mao for his guilt, but Chairman Mao did not blame Fu Zuoyi when he learned of this matter, because he knew that Fu Zuoyi himself had no knowledge of this matter, and not all of Fu Zuoyi's men were involved in the rebellion. After learning of Chairman Mao's attitude, Fu Zuoyi's hanging heart finally let go.
Later, Fu Zuoyi only chose 35 people as his personal guards, and never set up his own guard regiment again, because he also knew that with so many people in the guard regiment, if Chiang Kai-shek infiltrated secret agents, spies, etc. in the guard regiment, causing unpredictable losses, he would not be able to account to our party again, so it was better to take back this demand he had asked, in fact, this guard regiment was just a consolation in his heart, and staying around might be a time bomb.
Later, there were rumors that Fu Zuoyi still wanted to collude with Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan and wanted to launch a rebellion against our party, but Fu Zuoyi proved his loyalty with his actual actions, and the Kuomintang officers who surrendered to our army could make a career, and as long as he cherished the motherland and was willing to dedicate himself, the motherland would not fail him for his efforts.