At 3 a.m. on December 13, 1940, the moon sets down the mountain and the earth is pitch black.
That is, at this time when people sleep well, a small-scale battle occurred in Shaoshan Village on the east side of Mangdang Mountain.
The initiator of the battle was dozens of Eighth Route Army cadres who were detained in a stone chamber in Shaoshan. The reason why they were detained in this place as prisoners was entirely because Liu Ziren, the former commander of the 17th Regiment of the 6th Brigade and the county magistrate of Xiayi County, led a regiment to a sudden rebellion.
was also caught off guard. Many Eighth Route Army cadres who had experienced many battles were detained by traitors before they could react. Liu Ziren's confidant and the commander of the 17th Regiment Guard Company Zhu Shihua first brought people to detain the political commissar Cai Yong and deputy regiment commander Zhou Dacan, and then used the name of meetings to arrest comrades Wang Jingmin, the political commissar of Xiaoxian Independent Regiment.
Taking advantage of the inattention of the guards, dozens of detained comrades talked about this mutation in the stone chamber where they were detained, and then they realized the fact that Liu Ziren had rebelled. In fact, the superior leadership had already noticed Liu Ziren's rebellion, but before he could deal with it, such a bad thing happened.
Considering their dangerous situation, Cai Yong and Zhou Dacan actively contacted dozens of cadres and soldiers detained and decided to take advantage of the situation where the guards were not tightly maintained and wait for an opportunity to break through the siege.
Until late at night on December 12, there were still cadres who were deceived by Liu Ziren to attend meetings under different names and were detained. In order to paralyze the guards, a group of people pretended to lie on the wheat grass in the house to take a nap, while discussing ways to break through. Considering that there were two machine guns, , outside the door, aimed at the door, Cai Yong and Zhou Dacan, the temporary leadership team of the breakthrough team, decided to have the detained company commander Han Meifang and company commander of the ninth company Yang Youhe, who was in charge of the company, seized the machine gun outside the door first, and then everyone rushed to break through.
The entire breakthrough process was very smooth. At about 3 a.m. that night, the guard squad leader who was in charge of the guard brought several soldiers to count the number of people. He was jumped up and held down by Yan Zhongping. Because there was no weapon, the old comrade who participated in the revolution in 1926 actually bit off a finger of the guard squad leader.
At the same time, Yang Youhe took the lead in seizing an enemy machine gun, and swept down more than a dozen rebel soldiers with his hand. Dozens of Eighth Route Army cadres who were sleeping in the room rushed out.
After a fierce battle for a while, most of the cadres and soldiers locked in the stone chamber of Shaoshan Village broke through the siege, but many people fell in a pool of blood and died heroically. Chen Yingrong, the battalion commander of the Third Battalion, led his troops to break through and broke off the siege and was shot and killed by Liu Ziren's confidant platoon leader Ji Chaofeng.
Although most of the detained cadres and soldiers broke through the siege, it is still an incalculable loss for Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu anti-Japanese base .
Geng, Wu and Liu defection incident
In August 1940, according to the order of the party organization, Geng Yunzhai was promoted from the commander of the Xiaoxian Anti-Enemy Column to the commander of the Henan-Anhui-Su Border Region Security Command.
Unexpectedly, Geng Yunzhai was not satisfied with this appointment. After a while, he actually had the idea of leading his troops to surrender to the enemy.
To be honest, Geng Yunzhai was not from an old Red Army cadre. Although he joined the Communist Party of China during the Great Revolution, this person was born as a landlord and had more than 400 acres of land in his family. He was dissatisfied with the policies of our party itself. In addition, Chiang Kai-shek later launched the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup, Geng Yunzhai took the opportunity to leave the party and returned to his hometown, Xiao County, Anhui.
Geng Yunzhai has read books, but to some extent, it is not unreasonable. He is just conservative and continues the habits of the old era in his bones. After the Xi'an Incident , Geng Yunzhai was dismissed for making anti-Cheng remarks.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Geng Yunzhai formed a team in his hometown to participate in the Anti-Japanese War and led the armed struggle of the people in the Xiaoxian area. The local party organizations considered that they would establish the Anti-Japanese National United Front, , so they re-accepted Geng Yunzhai as a member of the Communist Party of China.
In late June 1938, Geng Yunzhai's troops were adapted into the 15th brigade of the Second Corps of the Huxi People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Team. Later, after meeting with the 16th and 17th brigades in Xiaoxian, they continued to lead the anti-Japanese struggle in the local area. After the troops were upgraded to the main force, Geng Yunzhai took over as the captain of the Second Corps of the Huxi People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Team and cooperated with the New Fourth Army to open up the Henan-Anhui-Sui base area south of the Longhai Railway.
Picture "Geng Wu Liu Incident"
Although Geng Yunzhai has great enthusiasm for fighting Japan and saving the country, it cannot be denied that many of his remaining old habits ended up harming him.
Geng Yunzhai was the commander of the second corps of the Huxi People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Corps, and was ordered to lead his troops to cooperate with the Suluyu Detachment, but he often did not obey orders. Geng Yunzhai regarded his troops as his own private property and was only willing to lead his troops to operate in his hometown Xiaoxian, but was unwilling to leave.
In September 1938, Geng Yunzhai led his troops to Huxi to engage in activities. During the period of "Huxi Sutuo", Geng Yunzhai led his troops back to Xiaoxian without authorization for his own considerations. He also said several times that the Suluyu Detachment was not good to him
Considering the special circumstances, the organization also showed considerable tolerance to Geng Yunzhai, and because he still had influence in Xiaoxian, he re-appointed him.
At the end of 1939, the Sixth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, , adapted the Xiaoxian Guerrilla Detachment and the Suxian Independent Regiment into the Third Corps. Geng Yunzhai was appointed as the captain of the Third Corps. In March 1940, Geng Yunzhai was transferred to the commander of the Xiaoxian Anti-Enemy Corps.
Geng Yunzhai was also very happy at first, but later he changed his face.
Geng Yunzhai has a strong rural concept and is often dissatisfied with the dispatch. What's more important is that he regards the troops as his own private property. When the organization transferred his troops into regular troops for practical needs, Geng Yunzhai believed that this was waiting for an opportunity to seize his military power in disguise.
In August 1940, the New Fourth Army adapted the two regiments under the Third Corps into the Secret Service Regiment of the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army.
Although Geng Yunzhai was nominally promoted to the commander of the Henan-Anhui-Suzhou Border Region Security Command, Geng Yunzhai only left a guard battalion and cavalry team of about 400 people.
Geng Yunzhai's dissatisfaction was rising day by day. By the end of December 1940, he actually led a guard company from Wuyang County to Xiaoxian without asking for instructions. Because he had done this in the past, he thought he would be safe this time, but unexpectedly, a person appeared directly changed Geng Yunzhai's fate later.
It is not only one person who has the same idea as Geng Yunzhai, but a group of people.
After Geng Yunzhai returned to Xiao County, he met Wu Xinrong, the former deputy brigade commander of the Sixth Brigade of the New Fourth Army and commander of the 18th Regiment, who was also dissatisfied with the mobilization of the party organization.
Wu Xinrong was also a landlord and had a friendship with Geng Yunzhai as a teacher and student. He had a close relationship. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Wu Xinrong also actively led the guerrillas to fight against the war in the local area. However, he and Geng Yunzhai had the same problem, which was that he had a strong local concept and regarded the troops as his own private property and did not allow outsiders to intervene.
In the autumn of 1940, Tan Youlin, the commander of the 6th Brigade of the New Fourth Army, was elected as the party representative and went to Yan'an to participate in the "Seventh National Congress" of the Party. After Tan Youlin left, Wu Xinrong originally thought that he must be the candidate for the brigade commander. Unexpectedly, the superior party organization directly appointed Rao Zijian, a cadre from the Red Army, to serve as the brigade commander of the 6th Brigade.
plus the Japanese and puppet troops increased their storm of the base area, and the troops were dispersed. The brigade commander, deputy brigade commander, and chief of staff each brought a battalion activity. Wu Xinrong's dissatisfaction was getting higher and higher, and he even complained later:
"Don't call me the deputy brigade commander, nor do I call me the regiment commander, I am a battalion commander."
Picture | Cavalry Regiment of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army
Wu Xinrong was dissatisfied, and also imitated Geng Yunzhai and brought this battalion back to Xiaoxian for activities.
After Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong met, they started chatting and they all felt like they were in the same sympathy and felt like a close friend.
Although both of them were not very satisfied with the organization's mobilization, they did not think of rebellion at this time.
Invisible enemies
Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong privately led their troops to the Xiaoxian area, which seriously violated the discipline of the party organization.
In December 1940, Zhou Ji, Minister of the Organization Department of the Henan-Anhui-Suzhou Border Region, reported to Peng Xuefeng, Secretary of the Party, Government and Military Committee. After asking for permission from the central government, Peng Xuefeng decided to send someone to persuade the two. If the two did not listen to the advice, they would send Liu Ziren, the leader of the 17th Regiment, to arrest him.
was actually this decision, and it turned out to be a bad thing later.
Liu Ziren has very similar origins to Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong. Not only was he from landlords, but more importantly, he had served as a soldier in the Northwest Army and worked as a brigade commander. Later, after the Northwest Army was disbanded, he returned to his hometown Yongcheng, Henan and served as the deputy commander of the Security Corps.
In November 1938, after Yongcheng was occupied by the Japanese invaders, Liu Ziren led his troops to join the anti-Japanese guerrillas organized by Lu Yuting.
Although Lu Yuting came from a scholarly family, he was both chivalrous and loyal. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he organized anti-Japanese guerrillas in his hometown and worked closely with the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. After in-depth understanding, Lu Yuting led his troops to join the New Fourth Army and joined the party gloriously. Unfortunately, Lu Yuting later died on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War.
pic|Lu Yuting
Liu Ziren was once very respected when he was in Lu Yuting's headquarters. Liu Ziren did show a very positive image at the beginning, not only deceived Lu Yuting, but also deceived the party organization. After Lu Yuting's death, the party organization reduced the Lu Yuting anti-Japanese guerrillas to the 17th Regiment of the 12th Brigade of the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army, and appointed Liu Ziren as the commander of the 17th Regiment and the county magistrate of Xiayi County.
But in fact, since Lu Yuting's sacrifice, Liu Ziren's mentality has undergone earth-shaking changes, or he was originally a fake face in front of others. After no one suppressed him, Liu Ziren completely exposed his nature. He began to cultivate the power of trustworthy people and expand his personal power. He regarded the appointment arrangements of the party organizations in the team as robbing power.
On December 10, when Wu Zhipu, secretary of the Border Region Party Committee, went to Xiao County to persuade Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong, considering that they had heavy troops, they decided to invite the two to Chenlou, the commander of the 17th Regiment, to have dinner in the name of Liu Ziren, the commander of the 17th Regiment, and persuade the two at the banquet.
Liu Ziren patted his chest and vowed to complete the task. However, when writing the invitation, he quietly informed Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong:
"This is a Hongmen Banquet, you cannot come."
On December 11, when Li Zhongdao, the cadre in charge of persuasion, went to persuade Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong, he accidentally found Wu Xinrong's subordinates squatting at the door to wipe the gun, while Liu Ziren, Wu Xinrong and Geng Yunzhai walked out of the room with a smile on his face.
pic | Lu Yuting Martyrs' Tomb
As soon as we met, Wu Xinrong pointed at Li Zhongdao's nose and scolded:
"What's my crime? You have to hold the Hongmen Banquet, you want to detain me, and you have to kill me."
Li Zhongdao quickly got to know him and Persuading Wu Xinrong:
"No such thing, don't be provoked by villains."
But Wu Xinrong ignored it and insisted on ordering people to detain Li Zhongdao. Fortunately, the Civil Affairs Section Chief Xu Xilian and Secretary Feng Yunzhai tried his best to persuade him. Wu Xinrong agreed to the agreement that Li Zhongdao would come for the interview on December 12.
Until this time, Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong showed no sign of rebellion. But Liu Ziren could no longer wait at this time.
Late at night on December 11, Liu Ziren returned to Zhangzhuang, northeast of Mangdang Mountain and secretly held a meeting of cadres above the platoon. Wu Xinrong was also instigated by Liu Ziren to arrange plans to arrest foreign cadres and made the same arrangement on the same day.
Strictly speaking, the 17th Regiment under Liu Ziren's army was formerly the Lu Yuting Anti-Japanese Guerrillas. Their political conditions are still very good. Many of the cadres are old Red Army soldiers. Unfortunately, because they were not expected in advance that Liu Ziren dared to openly lead his troops to defect, so they were caught off guard after the incident.
pic | Peng Xuefeng
Political commissar Cai Yong was caught off guard and was disarmed by Zhu Shihua, a trusted guard of guard company commander sent by Liu Ziren. Cai Yong immediately resisted, but his fists could not match four hands and was quickly defeated. Deputy Head Zhou Dacan and He Qiguang, the Organization Department of Lunan Prefectural Committee who were both in the same place, were also arrested.
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Shihua arrested all more than 60 company-level cadres who were assigned to work in the 17th Regiment in the name of notifying the meeting.
At the same time, in Xiao County, Wu Xinrong also arrested more than ten cadres and soldiers who worked in the 18th Regiment.
Although the accident had occurred, as the Party Secretary of the Border Region, Wu Zhipu and Li Zhongdao decided to go to the appointment to persuade Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong to turn back. At that time, Wu Zhipu did not know that the real cause of the accident was Liu Ziren.
After meeting, there was no conflict between the two sides. Wu Xinrong cried in tears about the "Hongmen Banquet". Wu Zhipu repeatedly promised that this was a rumor, and he stood on the standpoint of national justice and persuaded the two to turn back.
But in the gap between negotiations, Liu Ziren repeatedly sent people to win over and persuade Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong to "take affairs" with them. Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong were hesitant. They wanted to take Wu Zhipu and Li Zhongdao to see Liu Ziren and clarify the misunderstanding in person.
But they didn't know that Liu Ziren had made up his mind to rebel. Just when Wu Zhipu left the Dongdao Village to report the situation to the district committee, Liu Ziren had already sent people to kill Wu Zhipu and Li Zhongdao. Fortunately, Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong hesitated, and the matter was not done. Afterwards, Liu Ziren sent someone to chase him, but did not catch up.
Cai Yong and other cadres who were detained were transferred by Liu Ziren. Until the early morning of December 13, Cai Yongcai led his troops to break through the siege. Seven cadres in the breakout died at Liu Ziren's gun.
After Liu Ziren led his troops to meet Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong, the three of them joined more than 2,000 troops and surrendered to Tang Enbo .
pic | Wu Zhipu
Geng Yunzhai was appointed as the major general commander of the first column of the Kuomintang Sulu, Henan and Anhui border region guerrilla advancement, Liu Ziren served as deputy commander and commander of the second detachment, and Wu Xinrong served as commander of the third detachment.
The rebellion of the three people has brought great losses to the border area.
Geng, Wu and Liu ending
Geng, Wu and Liu, among the three Geng, Wu and Liu, Liu Ziren is determined to betrayal, while Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong are strictly just being bullied.
However, although Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong were involuntarily, after their rebellion, they committed particularly serious crimes against the base area. Especially in February and March 1941, the three of them joined forces to the Independent Brigade of Xiao County, causing heavy losses to our army and many cadres died. Liu Ziren even led his troops to attack the county town several times, which brought extremely bad effects.
The endings of the three people were different later.
Although Geng Yunzhai's official position was the highest, he was quickly undermined by Wu Xinrong and Liu Ziren in the army. The so-called position of commander of major general is actually just a false position, and Geng Yunzhai can only do nothing every day. So later, even the position of commander was taken away by Liu Ziren, so Geng Yunzhai had to stay at home and sighed every day.
Wu Xinrong is very capable. In fact, if he could overcome his shortcomings, he could become a general who stands alone. When he was elected as the commander of the 6th Brigade of the New Fourth Army, Wu Xinrong was indeed a suitable candidate. However, because he was too selfish and considering the complex political environment of the border area, Rao Zijian, who had a stronger party spirit and principle, was appointed as the commander of the 6th Brigade.
Although Wu Xinrong chose to rebel, he did not choose to be granted titles with Geng Yunzhai and Liu Ziren. He did not wear the Kuomintang military uniform on weekdays and rejected the cadres sent by the Kuomintang. Therefore, Peng Xuefeng, Zhang Zhen and Wu Zhipu still believed that he was just being bullied and there was still a possibility of fighting for it.And constantly write letters to him through the middleman.
pic |Tang Enbo
Wu Xinrong also felt regretful and expressed his desire to return to the army at the right time.
But his abnormality aroused Tang Enbo's alertness.
In the spring of 1942, Wu Xinrong was invited to attend a banquet in Xiaoxian County. He died suddenly shortly after returning. There are rumors that Tang Enbo was worried about Wu Xinrong and specially sent someone to poison him, but this statement has no practical basis.
After Liu Ziren's rebellion, his status in the Kuomintang army once rose. In addition to being grateful, Liu Ziren worked hard to attack the base. Under the powerful attack of the New Fourth Army, Liu Ziren was desperate and anxious as a dog that lost his family. He even surrendered to the Japanese and puppet troops. It can be seen that this person has no bottom line. The so-called pursuit is just for profit.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the puppet army where Liu Ziren was located was incorporated by the Kuomintang authorities, and he became the division commander again.
Unfortunately, after a few years of showing off his power, Liu Ziren was defeated again as the People's Liberation Army launched an anti-communist campaign.
Picture | Partial leaders of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army took a photo
In December 1949, Liu Ziren participated in the uprising in Sichuan.
Because of the limited information in the war years, Liu Ziren actually concealed the fact that he had rebelled in the past after the uprising, and transformed himself into a rebellious general. Later, he was sent to the advanced research class of Southwest Military and Political University to study.
Liu Ziren was secretly happy and thought he had escaped, but he never expected that the net of heaven would be vast and unobstructed.
In early 1950, Wang Wei, head of the Political Education Department of Southwest Military and Political University, unexpectedly learned from the information that a person's life experience is very similar to his old boss and old leader Liu Ziren during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Wang Wei immediately handed over the student. Although it was many years later, when we met, Wang Wei immediately recognized him as the traitor Liu Ziren.
"Captain Liu, why don't you know me anymore? I am your judicial chief Wang Wei. Don't act anymore. Even if you turn into ashes, I know you."
Liu Ziren's face was ashes and was executed soon after.
As for Geng Yunzhai, as the security commander of the Eighth Route Army Henan-Anhui-Suzhou Border Region , he should have had a bright future, but he was forced to rebel because of the difficulty of changing his old habits. However, he was not valued afterwards. After being undermined by Liu Ziren, Geng Yunzhai was also discouraged.
During the War of Liberation, Geng Yunzhai fled from Tang Enbo's troops and returned to the liberated area. He was forgiven by our party and returned to his hometown to farm.
1951, Geng Yunzhai was found for his crimes that year and was imprisoned by the local government. Fortunately, after the investigation was clear, Geng Yunzhai was released and returned home. The rest of his life was to farm. Died from illness in 1962.
Perhaps for Geng Yunzhai, the most correct thing he did in his life was to send all his children to the revolutionary ranks in the war years. After experiencing the test of the war years, all his children later became talents, which was also a comfort for Geng Yunzhai.
