On the eve of the founding of New China, a mutiny from Xiangshan, Beijing made the spine of senior leaders chill.
In April 1949, Premier Zhou's office answered a call from a mysterious figure. After hearing the call, he immediately called Marshal Nie Rongzhen on the other end. Before Marshal Nie Rongzhen could ask him the questions, Premier Zhou said seriously and anxiously: "Arrang the troops to Xiangshan, Beijing to protect Chairman Mao and carry out the mission." Marshal Nie Rongzhen hung up the phone without asking more questions.
Nie Rongzhen
A few minutes later, Premier Zhou called another phone number, it turned out to be Marson Nie Rongzhen told him that he had sent guard troops , and the situation in Xiangshan was always listening to reports. Premier Zhou only let out a long sigh after hearing his words. Marshal Nie Rongzhen was very surprised. He didn't know why Premier Zhou, a humble gentleman who had always been calm, was so impatient. Until Premier Zhou whispered to him: "There is a mutiny in Xiangshan, Beijing."
Hearing this, Nie Rongzhen on the other end of the phone hung up again hurriedly. He continued to give Xiangshan an order again, that is, "Send additional personnel to protect the Labor University" . The reason why the two leaders were so anxious is that the mutiny that occurred in Xiangshan was not a trivial matter, because Chairman Mao was working in Xiangshan. Although that place was called the University of Labor, the target of their mutiny was Chairman Mao’s residence in Xiangshan.
Shuangqing Villa
Therefore, it is not advisable to send additional staff immediately. This mutiny came too strange. Why did they know Chairman Mao’s residence and why could they launch a mutiny so quickly?
Beiping Hidden dangers under peace in the city
Chairman Mao lives in Xiangshan, Beijing is something that the public does not know, and only a very small number of senior leaders know his specific address.
Because it was the early stage of the founding of New China, everything was in trouble. Although Chiang Kai-shek was leading his defeated general to collect his treasures to Taiwan, there were many Kuomintang spies and officers and soldiers who remained in the mainland. even he deliberately kept the remaining stragglers and yelling soldiers in the mainland as his internal support in Taiwan, and planned to counterattack the mainland in the future.
So, at that time, the PLA soldiers had already conducted rounds of investigations in Beijing, and even posted notices in every household: "If you can report the Kuomintang spies and the officers and soldiers who fled, they will be rewarded to varying degrees."
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In just one month, there were as many as thousands of spies and officers and soldiers who were reported or voluntarily issued . They were all arranged by Jiang Jiang in Beijing city when he was leaving, and of course, he was also arranged by Jiang Jiang by Fu Zuoyi.
After listening to the report of the PLA soldiers, Nie Rongzhen felt a little chilled behind his back because Chiang Kai-shek was a man who was scheming. Not only did he put people in our party, he even did not let him go Fu Zuoyi . You should know that Fu Zuoyi was Chiang Kai-shek's capable general. He once made great contributions to the Kuomintang. He was also a hero of the anti-Japanese war and a loyal minister of the Kuomintang. Chiang Kai-shek treated Fu Zuoyi like this on the eve of his escape. It was really not what the monarch did.
According to the People's Liberation Army soldiers who were investigating spies below, there were people stationed by Chiang Kai-shek around him, and this mutiny was caused by the officers and soldiers around Fu Zuoyi.
Fu Zuoyi
It turns out that this mutiny began with the original Pingjin Battle . In November 1948, the new security guard, Zhangjiakou and Tianjin were successively captured by the People's Liberation Army, and Peiping gradually became the treasure of the People's Liberation Army soldiers. The famous general Fu Zuoyi of Peking was guarding Peking.
He is Chiang Kai-shek's left and right hand and a veteran of the Kuomintang. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Fu Zuoyi, as an anti-Japanese general, made great contributions to the cause of the Chinese nation, and was also considered a hero. Now there is a different position. Our party naturally strives for it and tries to fight for it. It is not the style of the People's Liberation Army, so doing Fu Zuoyi's ideological work was put on the agenda.
negotiated with Fu Zuoyi in attacking Beiping. Within this year, he actually started three rounds of negotiations with our party. The negotiations on are OK, but such a long time of negotiation may be detrimental to the overall development.
Fu Zuoyi
Therefore, our party's agent king Li Kenong found Fu Zuoyi's relatives and asked them to plead for Fu Zuoyi. In addition, Fu Zuoyi's relatives were also there in the People's Liberation Army. Li Kenong and other leaders sent them to Fu Zuoyi's side, hoping to persuade him with kind words and try not to struggle without any unnecessary struggle.
With everyone's efforts, in late January 1949, our party and Fu Zuoyi reached a highly consistent negotiation. At the end of January, Peiping was finally liberated peacefully.
Chairman Mao believes that The peaceful liberation of Peking is not only the contribution of the People's Liberation Army soldiers, but also the contribution of Fu Zuoyi. You must know that if he ordered the army to defend to the death, then it would take some time for our army to capture Peiping. In this way, the peaceful liberation of Beijing not only protected the people in the city of Peking, but also protected those valuable architectural relics.
Beiping Jiefang
Therefore, Chairman Mao believed that Fu Zuoyi was a person who had great righteousness, a country and a nation in his heart, so the Party Central Committee also gave him a tolerant and generous attitude towards his handling. Fu Zuoyi himself is also very clear that it is the wisest choice to surrender to the CCP this time, and he himself admires Chairman Mao very much, so he put forward a request, that is, that is, Comrade Ye Jianying can convey his wishes and let himself meet Chairman Mao.
Chairman Mao not only readily agreed to Fu Zuoyi's meeting request, but also agreed to Fu Zuoyi's other requirements. First of all, gave him three reinforcement battalions to protect his security . Logically speaking, after Fu Zuoyi surrendered, under the full protection of the People's Liberation Army soldiers, there should be no threat of life and property.
Fu Zuoyi
But Fu Zuoyi was very worried. He thought Chiang Kai-shek would not let him go, and there were so many spies in the city of Peking that had definitely not been found, so he couldn't believe all the PLA soldiers. After hearing about his concerns, the Party Central Committee did not blame him much, but agreed to his request and gave him two reinforcement battalions. But unexpectedly, the kindness of the leaders of the Party Central Committee became a disaster for the Xiangshan mutiny.
In February 1949, Fu Zuoyi and others boarded the plane to Xibaipo under the protection of the People's Liberation Army, with the purpose of discussing with Chairman Mao about the takeover of Peking. After the two of them met, Chairman Mao and Fu Zuoyi returned to Xiangshan, Beijing.
Chairman Mao
The sudden ice change was launched
1 On March 25, 2019, Chairman Mao and other central leaders arrived safely in Peiping and lived in Xiangshan villa. Fu Zuoyi also lived in Peiping with many leaders at that time. When everything was calm, there was a hidden danger of mutiny under the peaceful Beiping City .
At that time, the leaders assigned three reinforcement battalions to Fu Zuoyi. Although they were all wearing PLA clothes, , many of the people inside were Fu Zuoyi's confidants, that is, the former Kuomintang officers and soldiers , and their direct commander was Fu Zuoyi, and their job was to protect the safety of the superiors.
Fu Zuoyi, Chiang Kai-shek, Wei Lihuang
But what Fu Zuoyi didn't expect was that he believed that these three reinforcement battalions were his confidants. In fact, the mermaids and dragons in it were mixed, confusing many Chiang Kai-shek's spies.
Before leaving, Chiang Kai-shek arranged many young officers around Fu Zuoyi, with the purpose of monitoring Fu Zuoyi's actions. Especially when Fu Zuoyi was negotiating the liberation of Peking, Chiang Kai-shek was very angry. He thought Fu Zuoyi had betrayed him, so he sent several spies to Fu Zuoyi to monitor his actions.
If Fu Zuoyi did something to harm the "party-state" one day, then these spies would "solve" him for Chiang Kai-shek. Later, our party and Fu Zuoyi had a very close contact, and these spies did not find the opportunity to start. But when they found some abnormal movements in Xiangshan, Beijing, some of the people in these camps could not sit still.
Fu Zuoyi
Chairman Mao never explained where his office address is, but many ordinary people know that Some "high officials" came to Beijing and lived in the Labor University. Indeed, the University of Labor was a trick arranged by Chairman Mao and Li Kenong. Li Kenong was responsible for Chairman Mao’s security work at the time. He had always paid great attention to the safety issues around Chairman Mao, and Fu Zuoyi’s three reinforcement battalions were also the key monitoring.
They were all the officers and soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek, so there was no mistake in defending Chairman Mao. So there are also People's Liberation Army soldiers in these three battalions.
People's Liberation Army
When Fu Zuoyi was ignorant, the two battalion commanders in these guard regiments had quietly begun to think about mutiny, because they were originally Chiang Kai-shek's people. After Fu Zuoyi surrendered, Chiang Kai-shek once sent spies to contact them, and assassinate the leaders of the Communist Party of China when necessary, and attack Fu Zuoyi , so they began to move. And Chiang Kai-shek also promised that if they complete the task safely, Taiwan would have a large reward waiting for them.
Therefore, the battalion commanders of the two battalions were a little moved. One morning, they gathered the soldiers of the two battalions and expressed their thoughts. They bewitched a large number of members of the guard regiment on the grounds that the PLA soldiers were not treated well. But coincidentally, among the people they bewitched, there were also People's Liberation Army soldiers arranged by Li Kenong to enter.
People's Liberation Army
A member of the guard regiment who was cooking in the kitchen at that time was Li Kenong's subordinates. He immediately reported the abnormal movements in the guard regiment to Li Kenong. Li Kenong was shocked when he heard this and immediately gave Premier Zhou a call, which Premier Zhou arranged for Marshal Nie Rongzhen. Marshal Nie Rongzhen was shocked when he heard about it. He immediately called the officers who were doing security work. sent two large trucks of soldiers to the residence of Chairman Mao in Xiangshan, Beijing overnight.
When Marshal Nie Rongzhen sent the soldiers to Chairman Mao's office, Zhou Enlai issued two regulations to him. The first was to not allow the mutiny to happen, and the second was to avoid handling the accident in a bloody manner.
Premier Zhou
The peaceful mutiny
Just as Nie Rongzhen's soldiers surrounded the officers and soldiers of the two guard regiments layer by layer, Nie Rongzhen rushed to the scene and ordered all soldiers to put down their weapons. He did not irritate these mutiny soldiers, because many people inside the guard regiment took the initiative to put down their weapons: "Brothers, Chiang Kai-shek's surrender has run to Taiwan. If we still work hard for him now, it would be a life. Brothers, we all have wives, children, we can't make big mistakes. The comrades of the People's Liberation Army have not fired their guns, but we have to figure it out." The shouts of several members of the guard regiment were very effective for those mutiny soldiers, and they gradually put down their weapons. In fact, these soldiers who called out were the party representatives of Li Kenong's troops in this army. They were the PLA soldiers with good roots. With their encouragement and comfort, the soldiers in the guard battalion gradually put down their weapons.
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At this time, Tang Yongjian, who was in charge of security, said to the soldiers: "Brothers, Chiang Kai-shek has all gone to Taiwan, and General Fu Zuoyi has surrendered. Don't be used by others anymore, and don't resist unnecessary. Have you ever treated you badly after you surrender? Didn't you kill you? As long as you put down your weapons in this matter, we will not blame you."
With Tang Yongjian's shout, the remaining people who still want to resist stubbornly gradually shook their minds. The weapons at hand were thrown to the ground one by one, and the soldiers also breathed a sigh of relief. You should know that these people have to deal with Chairman Mao in Xiangshan. If this matter is not handled well, the overall situation will inevitably be hindered. The matter on
has been handled, but there is one thing that has not been handled, that is, the attitude of General Fu Zuoyi. In fact, he had no idea about this mutiny . Just as he was drinking tea in the house, he only heard that the soldiers in the guard battalion who defended his safety were disarmed by the People's Liberation Army. After listening to the soldiers' report, Fu Zuoyi was furious and immediately called Ye Jianying and asked him to explain the matter to himself.
Ye Jianying
But Ye Jianying was only responsible for the affairs of connecting with Fu Zuoyi in Peking, and he had no idea that such a thing had happened, so Ye Jianying asked Nie Rongzhen to report the matter to Fu Zuoyi.
Facing what Fu Zuoyi said: "You Communist Party does not speak of trust, and you will destroy the bridge across the river" , Marshal Nie Rongzhen was not angry, but instead told the old general everything he had experienced. After knowing the whole story of everything, Fu Zuoyi felt a little embarrassed. He apologized to General Nie Rongzhen repeatedly and wrote an apology letter to Chairman Mao in person, hoping that he could forgive his subordinates for making such chaos.
Although General Fu Zuoyi's attitude was touching, Chairman Mao's safety was not a trivial matter. Finally, after negotiation, General Nie Rongzhen agreed that he would pick out another thirty or fifty people to protect his safety, and the others must be disarmed by the People's Liberation Army soldiers.
Nie Rongzhen
After listening to the CCP’s arrangements, Fu Zuoyi also felt it was reasonable. After all, the people on their side had to launch a mutiny first, so He personally selected 35 security personnel, and the rest were left to the PLA soldiers to manage. In fact, this mutiny is not big or small. If it is a little more critical, Chairman Mao’s safety may be really threatened. Fortunately, Marshal Nie Rongzhen and Tang Yongjian handled this matter peacefully without causing a disaster, and it was considered as a surprise.
Li Kenong
In this process, Li Kenong also contributed indelible achievements as the king of agents. If he had not done a good job in Agent , he would have probably not received the news about this matter so quickly. Later, Fu Zuoyi praised our party: "The talents are on your side, and we will definitely lose."
