At the end of the War of Liberation, Chiang Kai-shek ran to the isolated island to live in a decisive situation. But he was unwilling to fail, so he gave Mao Renfeng an order during the retreat, asking him to arrange a large number of spies and counter-revolutionaries to lurk in, ready to carry out destruction at any time. After the founding of New China, everything was in trouble, and the focus of work also shifted to economic development, relaxing the vigilance of the lurking counter-revolutionaries. This group of people took the opportunity to cause trouble, creating assassinations and sabotage activities. Huang Zuyan, who was then the director of the Political Department of the Shandong Military Region, was attacked by counter-revolutionaries at this time and became the highest general who was assassinated after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Huang Zuyan is from Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province. He participated in the revolution very early, experienced the Agrarian Revolutionary War, Long March , the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation War, and made many military achievements. After the founding of New China, he served as the director of the Political Department of the Shandong Military Region, responsible for the political work of the Military Region, and was deeply trusted by the commander of the Military Region Xu Shiyou. On March 13, 1951, the Shandong Military Region Cultural Work Symposium was held in the Municipal Government Auditorium. Originally, Xu Shiyou was going to speak, but because of the temporary incident, he did not attend.
In this way, Huang Zuyan became the highest-ranking person among the members of the congregation and the target of counter-revolutionaries. After the symposium, it was a literary evening party. Huang Zuyan was in poor health at that time. He originally planned not to watch the performance, but everyone repeatedly tried to keep it. He was embarrassed to disappoint everyone's fun, so he stayed and sat in the first row to watch the performance. When the third show was performed, Wang Jumin, a counter-revolutionary sitting in the fourth row, quietly came to the front row, drew out his pistol, and shot Huang Zuyan in the head.
Seeing that it hit Huang Zuyan's key point, Wang Jumin shot at the other leaders sitting in the front row, but failed to hit him due to panic. At this time, everyone had already reacted and rushed towards Wang Jumin. The evil man knew he could not escape, so he raised his gun and committed suicide. Everyone hurriedly sent Huang Zuyan to the hospital, but because of his serious injuries, he was unable to rescue him. Huang Zuyan died in the hands of the counter-revolutionaries at the age of 43. The Shandong Military Region soon reported the news, and Chairman Mao was both shocked and heartbroken when he learned about it.
What shocked was that the counter-revolutionaries were so rampant that they dared to commit crimes in full view of the public. What is heartbreaking is that Huang Zuyan, a senior cadre with both military and political advantages, died in the hands of counter-revolutionaries. Huang Zuyan was from Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province and participated in the revolution very early. In early 1929, Chairman Mao led the main force of the Red 4th Army to Gannan . Huang Zuyan was the secretary of the Gannan Central County Party Committee and the political commissar of the guerrilla brigade. Here he met Chairman Mao for the first time. Chairman Mao introduced him to the experience of the Jinggangshan struggle and analyzed the prospects of the revolution, and Huang Zuyan benefited a lot.
Later, Huang Zuyan was transferred to work in the Central Soviet Area and served as secretary for Chairman Mao for a period of time. After the Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi, he once again served as secretary to Chairman Mao. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Huang Zuyan entered the work of the New Fourth Army. When he set off, Chairman Mao personally saw him off and made an appointment to meet again after the victory of the revolution. Unexpectedly, when he received news from him again, Huang Zuyan had been killed by counter-revolutionaries. Through this incident, Chairman Mao realized that there must be many counter-revolutionaries like Wang Jumin. In order to prevent the similar tragedy, , he made three important instructions in just one month.
First, on March 18, Chairman Mao personally drafted a notice to send it to the entire army, reminding all major military regions to be vigilant and strictly prevent the revenge of counter-revolutionaries. Then he wrote a comment on the report of Shandong Branch , reminding the army that a few counter-revolutionaries might have been infiltrated and that they should never think that peace is fine. Not long afterwards, he again instructed: "Counter-revolutionaries like Wang Jumin have shown many evil manifestations very early. If there are people like this in the whole party and the army, they must pay attention to dealing with it in a timely manner."
made important instructions three times in a row in just one month, which shows how Chairman Mao attaches great importance to this matter.Soon, the great "anti-anti-anti-anti-revolutionary" movement began across the country, and many lurking spies and counter-revolutionaries were punished as they deserved, and Chiang Kai-shek's conspiracy to use these people to sabotage was shattered. In 1952, when Chairman Mao visited Jinan, he personally came to Huang Zuyan's tomb to pay homage and expressed his regret for this beloved general.
