Chapter 7 7. The inside story of the surprise attack on Xiangshan by Kuomintang agents

Since the Party Central Committee and Mao Zedong lived in Xiangshan, there have been no accidents here. The original fear that enemy planes might sneak attack did not happen. When the central government first arrived in Xiangshan, it was kept absolutely secret, and it was called Labor University to the outside world. Later, the common people found out that the school was heavily guarded, and most of the people who came in and out took cars, so they gradually guessed. Those KMT secret agents and Fu Zuoyi's stragglers also had a keen sense of smell. After they learned that the Central Committee and Mao Zedong lived in Xiangshan, they clamored to break in and kill the head of the Central Committee.

Of course, Li Kenong was aware of these situations. While mobilizing limited troops to strengthen the defense work on the outskirts of Xiangshan, he also did ideological work for the soldiers, educating them not to take it lightly. Many of the team at that time were adapted by Fu Zuoyi's old department, and the composition was very complicated. He privately said to the key members: "You should be more careful, and pay close attention to those uprising or recruiting personnel who are not firm in their positions." One month later, the "Xiangshan incident" happened. That's what happened.It was a beautiful spring morning, and the security forces stationed in Xiangshan suddenly received information that some remnants of the Kuomintang were going to attack Xiangshan.

People suddenly became tense. A few months ago, when Fu Zuoyi accepted the uprising peace talks, he made a request to retain a guard group.With the approval of Zhou Enlai, he agreed to his request.This regiment was stationed near Cuiwei Road. It was very chaotic at the time, and many of its officers still had reactionary ideas. Due to the power of the PLA, they did not act rashly for a while. But on this day, when they learned that the Party Central Committee, Mao Zedong and other important people lived in Xiangshan, and the security force was not very strong, they moved the idea of ​​​​attacking Xiangshan.

The soldiers were practicing in the battalion yard. Two battalion commanders muttered for a while when they found out that the regiment commander was not there. A short and fat battalion commander gathered the troops, stood on a high platform, and said frantically: "Brothers! Our Commander Fu was forced by the Communist Party to go to Liangshan to accept the peace talks. The incident happened helplessly. The peace is fake, and he intended to wait for an opportunity to fight back. Now the opportunity has come. According to investigations, the Central Headquarters of the Communist Party and Mao Zedong live in Xiangshan. There are not many guards there, we will fight to Xiangshan now."

The soldiers began to discuss, and the tall battalion commander waved the gun in his hand again and shouted: "Brothers! If you have the guts, follow me, go to Xiangshan, destroy the Communist Party headquarters, kill Zhu and Mao, and take their heads to Nanjing to receive rewards. The opportunity to make a fortune is here..." Soldiers started rioting. The two battalion commanders and some company commanders were planning to attack Xiangshan. Everyone pulled to the playground, watching a bloody incident was about to happen.At this time, Li Kenong received a report from the plainclothes team members that the situation was extremely critical.

He immediately picked up the phone and told Zhou Enlai the situation, and at the same time told the person in charge of the Xiangshan security force. Xiangshan's troops moved.Zhou Enlai was deeply aware of the seriousness of the situation. Xiangshan's troops could only be defended and could not be mobilized at will. What should we do?Zhou Enlai walked back and forth indoors, and then called Nie Rongzhen, acting chief of the General Staff of the Military Commission: "Is it Comrade Rong Zhen?" Nie Rongzhen took the microphone and answered, "It's me, I'm Nie Rongzhen."

"It is reported that Fu Zuoyi's guard regiment currently stationed on Cuiwei Road has mutinied and is plotting to attack the Xiangshan Central Station. I order you to mobilize troops immediately and stop it quickly." Nie Rongzhen replied: "Please rest assured that the central government, I will resolutely complete the task!" Putting down the phone, Nie Rongzhen, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, broke out in a cold sweat. He felt that this incident was too sudden and unexpected.He asked his staff to bring a map of Peking, drew a circle on Cuiwei Road with a pencil, and then directly gave the task to the 208th Division of the Peking Guard, ordering them to rush there to surround the regiment.

Half an hour later, the 208th Division was fully armed and drove to Cuiwei Road. Tang Yongjian, Director of Operations and Training of the North China Military Region Command, is the person in charge of carrying out the mission.He ordered the troops to disperse, and after surrounding the regiment layer by layer, he said to everyone: "Don't shoot first, we want to avoid bloodshed as much as possible, let's do some propaganda work first." Fu Zuoyi's old troops surrounded inside were panicked. Tang Yongjian held up a microphone and shouted: "Brothers of the guard group, you are already surrounded. General Fu is sincere and sincere in abandoning the dark side and turning to the bright side. Our Communist Party did not threaten him. Please don't Listen to the instigation of the reactionary officers, put down your weapons quickly, we guarantee your safety, otherwise you will be the sinners of the people, and we will not be polite!"

The soldiers were shaken when they heard the call.Originally, these soldiers lacked confidence in attacking Xiangshan, so many people put down their weapons and walked out. A bloody incident was finally averted, and the People's Liberation Army quickly moved in and surrendered their weapons. At this time, Xiangshan was still in a state of high tension. Later, when they learned that the matter had been resolved peacefully, a stone hanging in their hearts finally fell to the ground. Although the situation has calmed down, the guards in charge of defending the head of the central government did not relax their vigilance, and several heavy sentry posts did not withdraw.

In the early morning of the next day, Mao Zedong got up, and while walking in the courtyard, he smiled and said to the guards: "You have worked hard, for me, you have not slept all night, you should be laid off and rest!" "It is our duty to protect the chairman." A guard said, holding a steel gun tightly. Mao Zedong turned around and greeted Yan Changlin again: "Please implement it, let these soldiers rest, don't make them so nervous!" Under Yan Changlin's arrangement, the guards who had been busy all night left...