Chapter 65 Section 1

Like a domino effect, after Fu Zuoyi's peaceful uprising in Beiping, some Kuomintang military and political groups that had been on the sidelines approached the Communist Party one after another, preparing to break with the Chiang Kai-shek group. In May 1949, the People's Liberation Army went straight from North China and the Central Plains to the Jianghan Plain, and fought against the Bai Chongxi Military Group of the Guangxi Clan, known as the "Little Zhuge", in Huguang. "Subduing others without fighting is the best policy."Through the hard work of the Communist Party, Hunan, which has always been integrated with two lakes, decided to hold an independent uprising to ensure the safety of Sanxiang.

At that time, the military and political power in Hunan was in the hands of Cheng Qian and Chen Mingren.Cheng Qian is a veteran of the Kuomintang, and he has had deep conflicts with Chiang Kai-shek since the beginning of the Northern Expedition.What they faced was the defeat of the Kuomintang on the battlefield of the civil war.In his judgment, the failure of the Kuomintang is inevitable.He secretly directed some celebrities to make public speeches and publish pamphlets, denouncing Chiang Kai-shek, who had been resigned, for going against the grain and digging his own grave.The CCP quickly discovered Cheng Qian's actions, and under Mao Zedong's personal interrogation, they quickly sent comrades from the underground party to contact him and carried out arduous and meticulous work of fighting for him.

Cheng Qian himself readily agreed.Then, Tang Shengzhi, another veteran of the Kuomintang, came forward to publicly push Changsha to carry out a peaceful uprising. Of course, Chiang Kai-shek could not take it lightly. He said angrily: "Hunan is the hometown of Mao Zedong, the leader of the Communist bandit. Cheng Songmin (Qian) is an opportunist. Can he not answer? The problem now is not that he should answer, but Cheng Songmin made up his own mind and prepared to defect and surrender to the Communist Party." Mao Renfeng saw that Chiang Kai-shek was already angry about the Hunan incident, so of course he would not let go of this good opportunity to flatter his master.It turned out that Xia Song, the station chief of the Changsha Station of the Military Command and a veteran spy, reported an important piece of information that Cheng Qian and Chen Mingren had decided to join forces, and they also dug corners inside the Military Command.Zhou Weilong, director of the Kuomintang Transportation Bureau and commander of the Songhu Railway, actually conspired with them and transferred several traffic police teams under his command to Hunan.What is particularly daring is that Zhou Weilong actually transferred the three corps protecting Chiang Kai-shek near Fenghua, Zhejiang to Hunan.

Reliable information proves that Hunan will definitely become the second place in Peking, and Cheng Qian and others actually instigated Zhou Weilong, a military commander. Chiang Kai-shek didn't listen, but he couldn't help being furious when he heard it: "The Communist Party's united front has been unified in your Mao Renfeng's home. How do you work?!" When Mao Renfeng heard this, of course he didn't dare to complain, he sighed and replied: "Dereliction of duty." "Dereliction of duty? Dereliction of duty!" Chiang Kai-shek slapped the table, "How many times have you, Mao Renfeng, been dereliction of duty? People like Cheng Qian and Tang Shengzhi have long been on the list. Why can't we prevent problems before they happen?"

"President," Mao Renfeng collected words of defense from his stomach, "Cheng Qian and Tang Shengzhi are on that list. But they are also a double-edged sword, killing themselves and hurting others. If there is no conclusive evidence to prove They defected to the enemy, and our military command cannot list them as the targets of the first echelon of sanctions, at most it can only be a warning." When Chiang Kai-shek heard this, he calmed down his anger a little.After all, Cheng Qian and Tang Shengzhi are veterans of the Kuomintang, and they are also powerful officials in the frontier. He has always known that these two people are at odds with him, so he put them on the second echelon of the assassination list. The list of conclusions.Right now, these two people have decided to surrender to the enemy, it seems that they must be quickly classified from the second echelon to the first echelon, and punished as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Chiang Kai-shek murmured irrelevantly: "It's not too late to make up for it." Mao Renfeng already understood eight or nine points in his heart, and patted his chest to promise that Hunan would never become the second Beiping. Afterwards, when he returned to Shanghai from Xikou, he immediately sent someone to arrange: "Immediately punish Cheng Qian and Chen Mingren. Send capable comrades to infiltrate into Hunan, and prepare to punish Zhang Yanfo, Cheng Xingling, Tang Shengming, Liu Renjue, who rebelled with Cheng Qian and others. Liu Renkui and others. If you can’t kill all of them, then at least one or two must be killed. Otherwise, our family (military commander) will not be able to explain to the president.”

According to this arrangement, Cheng Qian and Chen Mingren were listed as the first echelon, and Cheng Xingling, a veteran of Hunan Province, Zhang Yanfo, Tang Shengming, Liu Renjue, Liu Renkui and others with military backgrounds were urgently added to the assassination list. After the arrangement was completed, Mao Renfeng personally sat in Shanghai to hunt and kill Zhou Weilong, a veteran military spy and director of the Traffic Police Bureau who was about to sneak up with Cheng. Mao Renfeng understood that Chiang Kai-shek had officially issued a kill order for these people in Hunan. To fight against the outside world, we must first settle down inside.He decided to take Zhou Weilong first.

At 7:00 pm on April 6, 1949, an American-made plane landed at Shanghai Hongkou Airport like a visitor from outside the sky. A Kuomintang colonel opened the cabin and looked around the airport anxiously.Suddenly, with a "swish", a bright flashlight swept over not far away, and one person ran up quickly.The colonel stepped off the plane to meet the panting visitor, and asked anxiously, "Where's Zhou Weilong?" The visitor looked around, lowered his voice and replied anxiously: "He is ready and intends to leave Shanghai at 5 o'clock in the morning and rush to Hengyang."

At 5 o'clock in the morning, Zhou Weilong, director of the Kuomintang Traffic Police Bureau and commander of the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, indeed drove to the airport in a car. He was going to take a special plane from Shanghai to Hengyang City, Hunan Province, and planned to stage an uprising with the Hunan side. "Hurry up!" Anxious Zhou Weilong kept urging the driver in the morning fog, "Hurry up!" "Commander," the adjutant reported in a low voice, "There are two unidentified jeeps behind us, and they have followed us for a while." Zhou Weilong was stunned for a moment and asked, "How many bullets do you have?"

"Thirty rounds, two guns," replied the adjutant anxiously. "My pistol has 40 rounds of ammunition. Let's see who we met today, who is not afraid of death and hits the muzzle of our gun!" Zhou Weilong said, pushing the bullets into the chamber and turning on the trigger. Suddenly, the two jeeps at the back blared deafening horns at the same time, and the adjutant was about to say something when the driver caught a glimpse of the two jeeps behind him aggressively outflanking them from the reversing mirror. He turned his head and reported in a panic: "Zhou Commander, the car behind wants to overtake! Look at that posture, it is not an ordinary person, is it coming towards us?"