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He was a good-looking professional soldier who betrayed his superiors several times in his life and was known as a smiling tiger. During the Liberation War, he was the fifth Kuomintang war criminal announced by Xinhua News Agency. He later fled to Taiwan and died at the age of 98. This person was He Yingqin, a kuomintang first-class army general.
He Yingqin, born in 1890, is a native of Xingyi, Guizhou. He Yingqin's grandfather was originally a Qing Dynasty officer, and after coming to Guizhou with the army, he settled in Xingyi, and since then he has made a living from business, and his family is rich, and he is a well-known local rich family. He Yingqin entered a private school from an early age. In 1908, he was admitted to the Wuchang Army No. 3 Middle School. The following year, he went to Japan to study and entered the Zhenwu School in Japan, which was one level lower than Chiang Kai-shek. During his study abroad, he joined the League.
After He Yingqin joined the revolution, he was kind and cruel to people, betrayed his superiors several times, and was called a smiling tiger.
First, betray Liu Xianshi
In 1916, Liu Xianshi, the overseer of Guizhou, founded the Guizhou Lecture Hall and urgently needed military talents. Under the sponsorship of his nephew Wang Wenhua, He Yingqin was hired as an instructor of the Tangwu Hall and the commander of the student battalion. He Yingqin was sleek and very pleasing to his superiors, so he married Wang Wenhua's sister and became Liu Xianshi's niece and son-in-law. However, after He Yingqin's discovery, he actually joined forces with other Guizhou military generals to launch a mutiny and drive out Liu Xianshi, and the two formed a vendetta from then on.
In 1921, Wang Wenhua, the overseer of Guizhou, was assassinated in Shanghai, and He Yingqin, who had lost his patron, defected to Gu Pinzhen of the Dian Army. Liu Xianshi hated He Yingqin for betraying himself and bribed the killer to assassinate He Yingqin. He Yingqin was shot several times in the body, and it was difficult not to die.
Second, twice betrayed Chiang Kai-shek
In 1924, the Guangdong revolutionary government established the Whampoa Military Academy, with Chiang Kai-shek as its principal. He Yingqin voted as a classmate and became a senior instructor at the military academy. Later, Chiang Kai-shek took Huangpusheng as the backbone and established the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with himself as the commander of the army, and He Yingqin as the commander of the First Division. During the Northern Expedition in 1926, Chiang Kai-shek was promoted to commander-in-chief of the Northern Expeditionary Army and appointed He Yingqin as the commander of the First Army. Chiang Kai-shek used He Yingqin so much, naturally hoping that He Yingqin could have one heart with himself. However, he did not expect that in the power struggle in 1927, Chiang Kai-shek was exhausted in the face of the siege of Wang Jingwei, Li Zongren, Feng Yuxiang and others, and He Yingqin stabbed Jiang in the back. Chiang Kai-shek was unable to clap his hands alone, so he had to announce his resignation. This was the first time that He Yingqin had betrayed Chiang Kai-shek.
On December 12, 1936, the Xi'an Incident broke out. Chiang Kai-shek was detained by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, and his life and death are unknown. Kong Xiangxi, Song Ziwen, Song Meiling, and others hoped for a peaceful solution, but He Yingqin, who held military power, did not do so and was determined to send troops to attack Zhang Yang and the two men. The nominal rescue was forced, but in fact, it was intended to make Zhang Yang kill Chiang Kai-shek through force of oppression. Without Chiang Kai-shek's edicts, the Nationalist government had no one to stop He Yingqin's military campaign. Later, it was Kuomintang elder Jiang Fangzhen who persuaded Zhang Xueliang to let Jiang Dingwen return to Nanjing with Chiang Kai-shek's handwriting, so as to stop He Yingqin's treacherous plan, otherwise, the Xi'an Incident would not have been resolved peacefully. This was the second time That He Yingqin had betrayed Chiang Kai-shek.
Third, scare to death Liu Xiang, chairman of Sichuan Province
In January 1938, Han Fuqu, the chairman of Shandong Province, fled without a fight because he abandoned the natural danger of the Yellow River, allowing the Japanese army to occupy Jinan without a single shot, and with Chiang Kai-shek's approval, Han Fuqu was sentenced to death by a military court. But Han Fuqu's killing was not only an escape without a fight, but more importantly, he tried to collude with Liu Xiang, the chairman of Sichuan Province, to carry out a mutiny. After Han Fuqu was shot, Chiang Kai-shek decided to liquidate Liu Xiang and let He Yingqin probe the wind. At this time, Liu Xiang fell ill and was hospitalized in Wuhan.
He Yingqin, the sinister guy, saw Liu Xiang lying on the hospital bed and said, "Han Fuqu was shot, do you know?" ”
Liu Xiang pretended to be confused and said he didn't know.
"Han Fuqu is going to pull the troops to Henan, and the chairman of the committee will shoot him when he finds out!"
He Yingqin said it lightly, but Liu Xiang knew that the agreement he and Han Fuqu had made in Henan was carried out in secret, and since Chiang Kai-shek already knew about it and shot Han Fuqu, he would certainly not spare himself. After He Yingqin left, Liu Xiang was angry and anxious, vomiting blood incessantly, and soon he died. Therefore, in the Kuomintang, there is a saying that "shooting Han Fuqu and scaring Liu Fucheng (Liu Xiang's character)" was said. The person who scared Liu Xiang to death was He Yingqin.
Fourth, sell out the interests of the country in exchange for the Japanese army to help the Kuomintang fight a civil war
On August 15, 1945, the Emperor of Japan announced his unconditional surrender. The Nationalist government appointed He Yingqin as a demoted officer in the Chinese theater and responsible for accepting the surrender of the Japanese army in Nanjing.
Why let He Yingqin be surrendered? Because He Yingqin had a very good personal relationship with the Commander of the Japanese Army in North China, Okamura Ningji, he was demoted first to appease the senior generals of the Japanese army, and the other was to let the Japanese army help the Kuomintang fight a civil war.
Sure enough, after the Surrender of the Japanese Army, except for a very small number of officers who committed the most heinous crimes were arrested and tried by the Nationalist government, the rest were either sent back to China or hired as military advisers to the Kuomintang army, numbering tens of thousands.
It is said that Okamura Ningji asked to leave 500,000 Japanese troops to help the Kuomintang fight the civil war, but Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that international public opinion would not be good for him and did not dare to accept it. During the Liberation War, these Japanese officers who "voluntarily" remained in the Kuomintang army as advisers were quite a few prisoners by the PLA, and most of them were punished as they deserved.
At the end of 1948, seeing that the defeat of the Kuomintang was inevitable, Chief Executive He Yingqin resigned decisively and ran to Hong Kong. He later fled to Taiwan. Snubbed by Chiang Kai-shek, he only hung up a fictitious pension as the director of the Strategic Advisory Committee of the Presidential Office. He Yingqin died in Taipei in 1987 at the age of 98.