Chapter 16 Chapter 4 1949 Shanghai, National Capital Transformation

Ding Gongliang recalled that during the Danyang training camp, in addition to learning the speeches of Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi at the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the "Code of Discipline for Entering the City", "Study Outline for Taking Over the Work of the City" and "Urban Policy", the general front committee and military cadres discussed the most That's how Shanghai plays. "The most common way of fighting is to siege first and then attack to cut off the supply of the army. But this way, the 5 million people in Shanghai will not be able to bear it, so we have been studying whether we can innovate in the way of fighting. The siege is not good, and the attack is not good. Heavy weapons It is definitely unusable. The southern part of Shanghai is the weakest place, and it is easiest to invade from there, but it is also easy to destroy the city. After discussion and discussion, Boss Chen has the idea of ​​"fighting mice in a porcelain shop". Famous saying." Ding Gongliang said, "In the end, everyone thought, since the 'porcelain' will be broken no matter what when entering the city, is it possible to transfer Tang Enbo's army to fight outside the city?"

"Tang Enbo 'borrowed' stones from his father several times to build and strengthen the blockhouse," Zhao Guotong recalled.Zhao's father is Zhao Zukang, the director of the Shanghai Public Works Bureau before liberation and the acting mayor on the eve of liberation. Ding Gongliang said: "Because the defense conditions of the city itself are not good, the fortifications in Shanghai have always been extremely strong. Since 'August 13' and 'January 28', the Germans and Japanese have built dense buildings here. Bunkers and bunkers. Chiang Kai-shek asked Tang Enbo to make full use of and strengthen them."

But later, when Ding Gongliang's troops invaded Shanghai, they discovered a strange phenomenon. "In some bunkers, white flags were stretched out, but we went there with our guns in hand and waited for a long time, but no one came out of the bunkers." Ding Gongliang recalled, "We went to the back of the bunkers and found that the doors of these bunkers were all closed. The outside was locked. A squad of Kuomintang soldiers guarded the inside, and they were actually sent to death.” Those worthless defenses have actually shown that Chiang Kai-shek has given up Shanghai from the military.But from another perspective, the competition for Shanghai has just begun.Ding Gongliang said, "The construction of these fortifications is actually entirely to buy time for the Kuomintang to retreat and transport Shanghai's gold reserves to Taiwan."

The Battle of Songhu started in mid-May, and the battle was carried out in full accordance with the plan decided in advance by the General Front Committee. "Wusongkou is the retreat route of the Kuomintang troops and the export of supplies. Chiang Kai-shek will definitely not let us occupy it. If we attack Wusongkou from both sides of Baoshan and Gaoqiao, Tang Enbo will definitely mobilize his troops to meet it. In this way, the main battlefield will be It will be led to the suburbs, and there is no need to open fire in the city." Ding Gongliang recalled that the fortifications built by the Kuomintang City Defense Command were basically useless.

Meanwhile, Shanghai bankers and businessmen were negotiating with Communist emissaries.During the Sino-Japanese War, Shanghai's banking circles, especially Zhou Shaomin's Huangcheng Bank, privately provided money and medical facilities to General Chen Yi and the New Fourth Army.Bankers hope that the city will not be damaged by the war.At the same time, they also sent gold bars and U.S. dollars to Tang Enbo, and asked him to promise not to fight stubbornly in Shanghai. Tang Enbo transported away the second batch of gold before retreating from Shanghai.The first batch of gold was shipped away as early as February 20, which included 1.14 million taels of gold, 24.43 million U.S. dollars, 11 million Hong Kong dollars, 960,000 taels of silver and 369 taels of gold seized by Chiang Ching-kuo during his "tiger hunting" in Shanghai. Ten thousand silver dollars. In February, Chiang Kai-shek sent orders from his secluded hometown, ordering Yu Hongjun, president of the Bank of China, to ship 500,000 ounces of gold to Taipei.

But there is a big bonus waiting for the Communist Party.This is due to a little-known defector-Wu Shaosun.He is a member of the "CC" faction, an official of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, and served as a consultant to the Ministry of Communications of the People's Government after the founding of the People's Republic of China.Ding Gongliang said, "During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wu Shaosun worked underground in Shanghai and was a senior spy of the Kuomintang. It was also his task to understand the situation of the underworld in Shanghai. For this reason, he joined the 'Green Gang'. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek appointed him Deputy Mayor. When we entered Shanghai, it was Wu Shaosu who gave us all the files of local business tycoons, underworld leaders and Kuomintang intelligence agents, so that Chen Yi could arrest all the hostile elements in time."