History is all the same

Devante 2022-04-23 07:02:53

Just like the process of reorganizing the guerrillas from the eight southern provinces into the New Fourth Army during the second Kuomintang-Communist cooperation, soldiers who could not change their minds were finally betrayed by politicians. The
Red Army Tan Yubao Department in Hunan and Jiangxi once suspected that Chen Yi, who went to promote the spirit of the Central Committee, "betrayed the revolution" ", he was tied up for interrogation and almost executed. After investigation, it was confirmed that Chen Yi was indeed sent by the Party Central Committee. It was only after Chen Yi's patient persuasion and education that he changed his attitude and went down the mountain to adapt.
The Yang Wenhan guerrillas in the Zhanggong Mountain area in northeastern Jiangxi not only refused to go down the mountain, but also killed Guan Ying, the former secretary of the Anhui, Zhejiang and Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Li Chunsheng, the county party secretary, who went to convey the instructions of their superiors as traitors. The troops were annihilated by the Kuomintang, and I was killed by the Kuomintang.
Another Liu Weisi guerrilla in northeastern Jiangxi also refused to be reorganized. In the end, like Yang Wenhan, the army was destroyed by the Kuomintang, and he was killed by the Kuomintang.
There were also a few plainclothes teams in the Red Twenty-Eighth Army in the Yun-Henan-Anhui Border Region who refused to go down the mountain to be reorganized, and were eventually eliminated by the Kuomintang army.
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Of course, there are also people who are too paralyzed to the right.
On July 2, 1937, He Ming, the former acting secretary of the Fujian-Guangdong border special committee of the Communist Party of China, led the Fujian-Guangdong border Red Army guerrillas to accept the Kuomintang's 157th division in Xiaoxi, and the unit was renamed Fujian The Guangdong Border Security Independent Brigade consists of 5 companies and 1 shell gun platoon. He Ming and Lu Sheng served as the chief and deputy captains. Shortly after the troops were ordered, He Ming lost his vigilance due to right-leaning paralysis. On the morning of July 16, He Yu led nearly all the commanders and fighters of the Independent Brigade to focus on the Zhangpu County playground according to the notice of the 157th Division's "call for pay and training", and all of them were disarmed. The Zhangpu incident shocked the whole country. After several months of solemn representations and protests by the CCP, the Kuomintang returned some of the guns.
In September of the same year, the Red Army guerrillas on the border of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi also accepted the deputy commander and the chief of military supplies sent by the Kuomintang during the negotiations.
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