Chapter 52 Section 11

After his uncle learned about it, he persuaded him: "Li He's poem says, 'Please go to Lingyan Pavilion temporarily, if you are a scholar with thousands of households'. If you want to get ahead, you have to endure hardships. It is difficult to be in the pen and ink for a long time. It's a big deal. You should join the army." After all, he had received a formal and good education. Dong Qiwu rushed to Shaanxi in 1924 and joined the Zhensong Army of the Shaanxi warlord Liu Zhenhua as a short-term platoon leader. Later, he joined Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army and participated in the Northern Expedition. In 1927, after the victory of the Northern Expedition, the four new warlords Chiang Kai-shek, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, and Li Zongren gathered in Biyun Temple, Xishan, Beijing, to worship in front of Sun Yat-sen's coffin.Subsequently, they held a so-called reorganization meeting with their own plans to cut down a large number of troops.

Dong Qiwu, who was finally promoted to lieutenant colonel, was dismissed because he belonged to a miscellaneous unit.Not long after, he turned to Fu Zuoyi, the commander of the Tianjin Garrison, and wrote a sincere self-recommendation letter. After reading it, Fu Zuoyi greatly appreciated it. Captain Staff.Others have a strong sense of "official standard", despise low positions and low positions, and leave one after another.Only Dong Qiwu, who is tough and self-aware, stayed. Since then, he has formed an indissoluble bond with his coach Fu Zuoyi. In 1931, Dong Qiwu was appreciated by Fu Zuoyi for his talents of loyalty, dedication, and decisiveness. In just 7 years, he was promoted from a captain to a direct line teacher of Fu's department.

After the "September 18th" Incident, Dong Qiwu, who understands righteousness, sent a blood letter to the coach Fu Zuoyi, resolutely demanding to lead his troops to fight against Japan. In 1933, he led his troops to participate in the Northwest Army's Great Wall War of Resistance against the Northwest Army. He led a brigade to stop the Japanese army in Huairou County, east of Beiping, in a bloody battle for 15 hours and repelled more than 10 enemy attacks.When the battle was critical, he was always at the forefront, and he didn't even care that his hat was blown off. A year later, the Suiyuan Anti-Japanese War began, and the first battle was called the Battle of Honggeer.Dong Qiwu used the tactics of "black tiger digging out his heart" to destroy the headquarters of the Japanese army in one fell swoop and shoot down an enemy plane.When the news came out, the whole country was excited.At that time, Mao Zedong, who had just settled in northern Shaanxi, was overjoyed when he heard the news. He sent Nan Hanchen, a red agent of the Communist Party of China, to express his condolences with his own congratulatory letter and a silk banner embroidered with "For the country to resist insults". .

Later, he led his troops to participate in the famous "Battle of Xinkou".On the front line, his right arm was injured by a Japanese artillery shell. In order not to affect the morale of the army, he simply bandaged it and still did not go out of the line of fire.Since then, he used flexible and mobile guerrilla tactics in the Hetao area to deal with the Japanese army and won many victories.After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Dong Qiwu was promoted to the commander of the 35th Army of the Kuomintang, an old army founded by Fu Zuoyi, and was ordered to fight against the Yang Luogeng Corps of the People's Liberation Army.However, facing the status quo that the utterly corrupt Kuomintang group is gone, he became increasingly disappointed with Chiang Kai-shek's regime.After Chen Bing of the Communist Party in North China adopted the tactics of encircling Beiping and several other isolated strongholds such as Xinbaoan, Tanggu, Zhangjiakou and other places without fighting, Dong Qiwu reflected on his years of military experience and knew that he could not do anything, so he had many times with his old boss Fu Zuoyi Conspiring to find another way.

On January 21, 1949, Peking declared the peaceful liberation.The next day, Dong Qiwu secretly flew from Baotou to Beiping, and stayed at Nanyuan Airport until late at night, before he entered Zhongnanhai at night without anyone noticing it, and had a secret talk with Fu Zuoyi. Fu Zuoyi, who was in a complicated mood, looked at his loyal old subordinate with mixed feelings for a while.Dong Qiwu swore: "I will walk as you go." The friendship of Robe Ze made Fu Zuoyi burst into tears at Huairen Hall.Afterwards, Fu Zuoyi, who had made up his mind, went to the northwest slope to meet with Mao Zedong. When talking about Dong Qiwu and the troops under his jurisdiction, Mao Zedong, who was far-sighted, said on the spot: "Use the 'Suiyuan method' to solve the problem. First draw an armistice agreement line, so that Dong Qiwu can take it easy." Take his time doing his inner work. On the other hand send a liaison team to revolt when he sees fit."

The CCP’s move in this way is obviously more flexible and lenient than the method adopted by the peaceful uprising in Beiping.One is that Suiyuan is remote and connected to the northwest, and rashly using troops is time-consuming and labor-intensive. It may not be possible to drive the fish into the deep, and let its 100,000 army join the Northwest Five Horses; the other is to set an example for those powerful factions of the Kuomintang, which can shorten the process of the liberation war . Chiang Kai-shek didn't know the truth about his master.Although he learned from clues and military intelligence reports that Dong Qiwu might revolt under the influence of Fu Zuoyi, he still had some illusions about Dong Qiwu's stay on the sidelines for several months and his refusal to publicly express his stance.

Therefore, after Yan Xishan reminded him, he prepared to take Dong Qiwu out with all his heart. One was to cut off his connection with Fu Zuoyi, and the other was to set a model for the Kuomintang. After Dong Qiwu left the army, he sent another person to take over the 100,000 army. , Connected with the Northwest Five Horses, it is enough to restrain North China and Inner Mongolia. On April 16, the special plane sent by Chiang Kai-shek flew to Baotou as scheduled. Dong Qiwu had already received a special telegram from Fu Zuoyi at this time: "False and submissive, you have to deal with yourself." The telegram is quite interesting. The first sentence tells Dong Qiwu to ignore Chiang Kai-shek's tricks, and the following sentence lets him handle it by himself.It seems inconsistent, but in fact the intention is obvious. I, Fu Zuoyi, will not force you, but you should not be fooled by Chiang Kai-shek either.

Of course Dong Qiwu would not be fooled by that.After the plane arrived in Baotou, he immediately refused to the special envoy who greeted him: "Thank you for the kindness of the president. It is easy for me to leave alone, but what about the subordinates who have followed me for many years? Besides, it is inconvenient for the troops to control me when I leave. Isn't it against being used by others?" Seeing that the persuasion was ineffective, the visitor had to return disconcerted.It seems to be a kind of induction between heaven and man. When the plane was flying back, it crashed near Lanzhou.

When the news came out, Dong Qiwu rejoiced secretly. He said to his confidants: "This is God's will. The sky will not kill me, the sky will not kill me. Even God supports me in walking the road of peace!" Chiang Kai-shek, who lives in Xikou, first heard it, and he was very superstitious. He couldn't help shaking his head and sighing: "Dong Qiwu didn't want to get on the plane. It seems that he has decided to vote for the Communist Party. God is helping him. It's about discipline and law, like him. Dissidents like Fu Zuoyi, even if they are picked up, can only harm the party and the country."

"President!" Mao Renfeng confessed without losing the opportunity, "As the saying goes, escape is not a disaster, but a disaster cannot be escaped. He Dong Qiwu escaped this air crash, but he cannot escape the net of our military commanders."