Chapter 34 Section 1

On April 15, 1949, Xikou.Chiang Kai-shek waited anxiously early in the morning for Huang Shaohong, the special envoy of Nanjing, the No. 3 figure in the Guangxi Group, and the representative of the KMT-CPC peace talks.At this time, the showdown between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was imminent. The CCP delegation proposed the final amendment and pointed out that April 20 would be the deadline for signing.The People's Liberation Army immediately crossed the river. When the Nanjing representative received the CCP's final amendment, he did not dare to make a decision, so he immediately sent Huang Shaohong to fly back to Nanjing to return to his command. Li Zongren saw the terms, but did not dare to make a decision, so he sent Huang Shaohong to Xikou again, and asked Chiang Kai-shek to make a decision.

After Chiang Kai-shek looked at it carefully, he was suddenly out of breath.He threw the terms of the peace talks aside, got up and cursed angrily: "Wen Bai is incompetent, loses power and humiliates the country." Wen Bai refers to Zhang Zhizhong, the chief negotiator of the Kuomintang, known as "General Peace".At this time, he was leading the Kuomintang peace negotiation delegation to detain Beiping, waiting for the reply from Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren. However, Chiang Kai-shek was unwilling to accept the terms of the peace talks.Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and others from the Guangxi family also immediately regarded the agreement proposed by the CCP as "the conqueror's disposal of the conquered", "even more than the surrender of the enemy country".

The Nanjing government refused to sign the "Domestic Peace Agreement" proposed by the CCP, and only waited to meet the People's Liberation Army and cross the river. In the early morning of April 21, 1949, the People's Liberation Army divided into two groups and crossed the Yangtze River in only 20 minutes. The impregnable Yangtze River defense line that Chiang Kai-shek painstakingly planned collapsed overnight. Zhang Zhizhong, who was stranded in Peiping, suddenly fell into the dilemma of going to the poor and falling into the underworld.They packed their bags with mixed feelings. The Nanjing government has already telegraphed to Peiping that a special plane to welcome them will fly from Shanghai to Peiping in the near future to transfer them back to the south.Where to go, Zhang Zhizhong and the others didn't know much about it. Nanjing had been liberated, and Li Zongren abandoned the presidential throne and flew straight back to Guilin.Chiang Kai-shek was eager to try, ready to bet a big bet on Shanghai's city defense and make a desperate fight.The members of the peace talks delegation have been regarded by Chiang Kai-shek as the generation of "losing power and humiliating the country", and they have already gritted their teeth with open hatred.

Zhang Zhizhong graduated from Baoding Military Academy in his early years and followed Chiang Kai-shek as an instructor in Whampoa.Compared with other Kuomintang generals, Zhang Zhizhong understands both military affairs and politics. He has been building bridges between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. However, this moment, that moment.Will Chiang Kai-shek of the Kuomintang accept him when he returns to the South this time?If Nanjing falls, Shanghai will not be safe. Returning to the south, it can only be used as the burial object of Chiang Kai-shek, and go to stay on the isolated island of Taiwan.Just as Zhang Zhizhong was feeling depressed and lost, Premier Zhou Enlai came to their residence, and he asked with concern: "Mr. Wen Bai, what are your plans?"

Zhang Zhizhong smiled wryly, and replied: "The Messenger of Peace didn't win peace, so what can we do? We have to go back to the south to return!" Zhou Enlai folded his arms and shook his head, sincerely persuading him, "More than ten years ago, we were sorry to a friend surnamed Zhang. Today, we can no longer be sorry to a friend. With Chiang Kai-shek's usual behavior, you will not treat you kindly when you go back. Yes. On behalf of the Communist Party, Chairman Mao and the people, I invite you to stay in Beiping and join us in building a new China.” Zhang Zhizhong and others were greatly moved by the Communist Party's efforts to win and retain them.After careful negotiation and calm consideration, they and their party decided to stay in Peiping and never return to the south.

Staying in Beiping by himself, Zhang Zhizhong felt a little relieved.However, another outstanding problem lay before our eyes, especially Zhang Zhizhong, in order to set an example for the peace talks, he left his family members in Nanjing, but the news is unknown. Chiang Kai-shek didn't know that Zhang Zhizhong and his party were determined to stay in Peiping.While scolding Zhang Zhizhong, he was still preparing to send a plane to meet him. What he thought was that after all, Zhang Zhizhong had followed him for decades and had always been in the frontier, so he would definitely not run away with the Communist Party.

It should be said that sending Zhang Zhizhong's family members to Peking for reunion was mainly due to Chiang Kai-shek, which was not as suspenseful as someone wrote later.However, there was a time lag between the two sides in handling this matter. If Chiang Kai-shek knew that Zhang Zhizhong was determined to stay in Peiping, with his style of conduct, he would definitely hold him hostage. On April 21, the day when the peace talks broke down, Chiang Kai-shek personally arranged for his second son, Jiang Weiguo, to go to Nanjing to pick up Zhang Zhizhong's wife and children. In the afternoon of the same day, Mrs. Zhang and her children arrived in Shanghai by plane. Jiang Weiguo's wife Shi Jingyi personally picked them up and sent them to the home of Zhang's eldest son.Chiang Kai-shek's intentions at this time are obvious. One is to care, and the other is to use Zhang's family to urge Zhang Zhizhong to return to the south.

Zhang Zhizhong has many acquaintances and old stories among the inner circle of the Kuomintang, and he is very popular.Three days later, an old friend informed the Zhang family to pack their luggage immediately, and there was a plane to take them to Peiping.At this time, Mrs. Zhang had the bottom line. Through the information of the underground party of the Communist Party of China, Zhang Zhizhong stayed in Beiping and asked them to prepare for the reunion. In the early morning of April 24, Mrs. Zhang took her children to tidy up and went to the airport.Coincidentally, the Minister of Transportation of the Kuomintang was also present, and he immediately asked Mrs. Zhang where she was going.Mrs. Zhang was very alert, and immediately replied casually, going to Lanzhou.Zhang Zhizhong's public position is the military and political chief of the Northwest of the Kuomintang.The Minister of Transportation did not doubt that he was there, and he was concerned and persuaded: "There is no plane to Lanzhou today, and a plane has been sent to Beiping to pick up the peace delegation. Mr. Zhang is coming back soon, you go back and wait."

Mrs. Zhang pretended to be stunned at first, then grateful, and immediately took her children to say goodbye, and walked out of the waiting room calmly.A Kuomintang officer who had led the way ran over with relief and immediately led them to the tarmac.The plane that specially greeted Zhang Zhizhong and his party had started its engine at this time, causing a huge noise.Mrs. Zhang and her party hurriedly boarded the plane, and the plane took off as soon as they sat down.Two hours later, the plane landed in Peiping. After Zhang Zhizhong was reunited with his family, he couldn't hold back his tears, and finally let go of his hanging heart.

The special plane that greeted the envoy naturally returned without success. Xikou Feifeng Mountain.The dusk of sunset can always draw out some melancholy in people.Chiang Kai-shek just returned from Hangzhou yesterday, and he asked Li Zongren and others to hold an emergency meeting there.Li Zongren originally planned to send someone to Peking for peace talks again, but he didn't want Chiang Kai-shek to say: "No, there is no need to talk anymore. In the past, the Communist Party agreed to peace talks because they did not deploy well in the military. Now they have crossed the river and there is no room for negotiation." .”