But at this time, the "Hebei Civilian Army Commander-in-Chief" Zhang Yinwu , who had retreated far away to Shanxi, tried to annex the troops and began to operate secretly. He contacted his old subordinates within the civilian army, and took advantage of the civilian army's dissatisfaction with leaving the hometown, and began to brew a long-planned conspiracy.
1. The private operations of the regiments of the civil army
At that time, the headquarters and political department of the civil army, as well as the special service camp and the second regiment had left Boye and moved to the merchant Lin area in Xian County to develop. The other group and the third group did not transfer together, but went to the north of the Qinghe to clear the Lianzhuang meeting. Shortly after that, the second regiment commander Zhang Wenxiang disobeyed the military order and took the second regiment back to Boye County in private.
For the second group suddenly fail to listen to the command. The Civilian Army Command at that time felt very sudden about this situation. In the absence of the truth, in order to find out the whole story, the commander of the Civil Army, Zhang Zhonghan, and the director of the Political Department, Qi Jianqiu, also returned to Boye and began to investigate the incident. After learning about , we were very shocked - Zhang Yinwu, who was far away in Shanxi at that time, contacted the second regiment commander Zhang Wenxiang and the third regiment commander Li Xiafei through his confidant. These two regiment commanders have always been concerned about Zhang Yinwu, and the nature of the old soldiers is very bad. In the previous stage, they had to show progress due to the situation, but after the situation eased in the spring of 1938, they secretly established a connection with Zhang Yinwu, attempting to usurp the leadership of the civilian army.
At that time, Zhang Yinwu urgently needed to expand his strength. His attempt was to completely break away from the relationship with our party, eliminate the progressive factors within the civilian army, and take the entire army into his hands, becoming a tool for his private counterattack and seizing territory. So he tried every means to contact the Zhang faction within the Boye Minjun. These people attempted to completely split the civilian army by constantly creating rumors and cracking down on progressive forces. And their attempt was finally revealed today!
2. Civilian Military Special Service Battalion Incident
After the situation was investigated clearly, the Civilian Military Command naturally could not tolerate this and immediately prepared to deal with the person in charge. But of course these people would not sit still and wait for death, so just as Zhang Zhonghan and Qi Jianqiu learned about the situation, it was difficult for Zhang Wenxiang to lead the Second Group to publicly develop!
He suddenly returned to Xian County with the Second Regiment, and then shouted the slogan "Boye's people, Boye's guns, return to Boye to fight against the war", publicly boycotting the development of the civilian army in Xian County, and even pulling the troops away! What's more, they launched a sudden attack on May 10, and suddenly surrounded the secret battalion with the advantage of military strength. Then, while they were not prepared, they actually wanted to disarm the secret battalion as a whole!
The incident started hastily, and the commanders and soldiers of the special agent battalion had no time to react. The battalion commander Liu Mingqin escaped and finally ran to Hejian to find Comrade Sun Zhiyuan. Instructor Duan Yuqi was hospitalized due to illness at the time. Xiao Zexi, who was staying in the camp, was very vigilant. After the gunfire sounded, he immediately led people to organize a breakthrough. Surrounded by the enemy with absolute advantage, they tore a hole and fought and retreated, and finally broke through the siege!
After passing Ziyahe , I found that there was about a platoon of personnel, including several political cadres who stayed in the political department to work, as well as Comrade Dong Zhaorui, a deputy instructor, and more than a dozen soldiers. They gathered together on the same day, went to Anping Imperial City through Raoyang County, and reported the incident process to the organization at the location of the two ministries of the People's Volunteer Army.
3. The process of calming the civilian army incident
. After the second regiment commander Zhang Wenxiang resolved the special agent battalion, he disbanded all the disarmed special agent battalion personnel on the same day and divided them into the battalion company of the second regiment, intending to annex the special agent battalion and expand its strength and return to Boye County. On the way back to Boye County, most of the party members in the special agent camp managed to leave the Second Regiment.
And Zhang Wenxiang returned to Chengwei Town and was not finished. He also sent people to the home of the spy battalion commander Liu Mingqin, kidnapped his father (an old Communist Party member) to Boye and detained him. At the same time, Zhang Wenxiang also sent people to Xiao Zexi's house to ask for people, guns and horses. At that time, the Zhang faction was very rampant. They threatened to attack the comrades in the political department. The situation at that time was once tense!
In this case, it is obvious that the political department is already difficult to exist. At this time, Qi Jianqiu discussed and decided with Zhang Zhonghan that for the sake of the overall situation of the united front, military conflicts should be avoided, but Qi Jianqiu and organization section chief Wang Lifeng first went to the People's Self-Defense Army to ask for instructions from the leaders of Hebei-China ?
After hearing Qi and Wang's report, Commander Lu Zhengcao was very angry. He immediately called Zhang Ziyuan, deputy commander of the civil army. Zhang Ziyuan was very loyal to the party and had the strongest civil army first regiment in his hand. He spoke out and Zhang Wenxiang, the second regiment commander, dared not ignore him. It was not until this time that Zhang Wenxiang put Liu Mingqin's father back home, and the people who went to Xiao Zexi's house were also called back to the second regiment. The civil war between the civilian army was finally stopped.
4. The split Boye Minjun
During the quellation of the incident, the leaders of Hebei Central also considered whether some leaders in the Minjun were not obeying the orders, should they take measures immediately. However, considering the complex relationships in this, and the national united front policy has to be taken care of, if a man in his own country has a force conflict, the enemy will be even more joked, so he did not do that in the end, but chose to resolve the issue peacefully.
After this, the party members within the Boye Minjun gradually withdrew, and the personnel from the Political Department of the Minjun also went to the Political Department of the People's Self-Defense Army to report, and then reassigned work. At that time, the Hebei Central Military Region and the military sub-district were under establishment. So by the end of June 1938, all the party members of the former Boye Min Army re-employed in the Hebei Central Military Region. Among them, Liu Mingqin served as the special commissioner of the 7th Regiment of the People's Self-Defense Army, and later was renamed the commander of the Third Battalion of the 7th Regiment. In early August, Xiao Zexi was assigned to the Political Department of the Second Military Sub-district of the Hebei Central Military Region as the head of the organization section. In early October, Cheng Huaren was assigned to the Political Department of the Second Military Sub-district as the head of the Civil Affairs Section. Wang Lifeng was transferred to the instructor of the 30th Brigade of the Fourth Division and was later promoted to the director of the political department of the brigade. Comrades Cheng Xiangwen, Dong Zhaorui and others stayed in the Organization Department of the Military Region and served as organizational officers.
After that, Comrade Qi Jianqiu also left the Boye Minjun. Before that, Zhang Wenxiang took his second regiment to the north of the Daqing River and also left Boye. In May, these regiments, led by Deputy Commander Zhang Ziyuan, went to the Xiongxian area to expand their strength.
So, what is said, "Boye's civilian army cannot leave Boye" and "Boye's people Boye's guns returned to Boye's war of resistance" are actually just excuses for Zhang Wenxiang and others to exclude party members and create divisions.
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"Materials of the Anti-Japanese Struggle in Hebei"
"Meng Qingshan in Baiyangdian"
"General without title Zhang Zhonghan"
"Some historical situations of the civil army" Xiao Zexi
"Wang Changjiang's military career information collection"
"My memories of Wang Ping"
