In January 1941, the Kuomintang forced the New Fourth Army south of the Yellow River to go north of the Yellow River, but more than 9,000 people in the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army marched to the Maolin area of Jing County, southern Anhui, and encountered a surprise attack by more than 80,000 people from 7 divisions of the Kuomintang, except for more than 2,000 people to break through the New Fourth Army, most of them died heroically, the army commander Ye Ting was detained during negotiations with the Kuomintang, Deputy Army Commander Xiang Ying, Director of the Political Department Yuan Guoping, and Deputy Chief of Staff Zhou Zikun unfortunately died, and the New Fourth Army suffered heavy losses, known as the Southern Anhui Incident in history.
In the Southern Anhui Incident, three important figures rebelled one after another, causing huge losses to the New Fourth Army, so what was the end of these three traitors?
NO1 traitor: Mr. Liu Hou
In 1928, when Zhu De launched a riot in southern Hunan, Liu Hou served as the captain of the Jiangtouwei Red Guards, led the peasant army to fight against the Kuomintang, and performed very bravely, and was verbally praised by Zhu De.
Later, Liu Houzong did not follow Zhu De to Jinggangshan, but stayed in the countryside to mobilize the masses to fight against local tyrants, and formed a southern Hunan guerrilla force with fellow villager Xie Zhufeng (after liberation, Xie Zhufeng served as secretary of the Hengyang Prefectural Party Committee and director of the Hunan Provincial Department of Civil Affairs), with Liu as the captain and Xie as the political commissar.
But Liu Hou's vanity is strong, jealousy and jealousy of the shortcomings began to be exposed, the deputy captain Li Yulin is all-round, quite popular, Liu Hou is worried that Li Yulin will threaten his position, so he secretly assassinated Li Yulin, almost no one knows about this matter, until 1979, the truth is revealed!
In 1937, after the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Xiangnan guerrillas were reorganized into the New Fourth Army, Liu Hou led his troops from Leiyang to Wuhan, and the Xiangnan guerrillas were incorporated into the third regiment and the second battalion headed by Fu Qiutao of the Jiangnan Command, but Liu Houzong only served as the deputy commander of the special service battalion, and later served as Xiang Ying's adjutant.
Liu Hou was extremely dissatisfied with this arrangement, he thought that he could only be a battalion commander at least, powerful and powerful, but he only became an adjutant, and he was very dissatisfied, so he began to not seek progress, had a negative attitude, and lived by Xiang Ying's side!
During the Southern Anhui Incident, Xiang Ying led the army to break through the siege, and in the end there were only more than 50 people left, lurking in a bee hole in the dense forest.
As the deputy commander of the special battalion and the adjutant Liu Houzong, he met Xiang Ying during the breakthrough process, so he followed Xiang Ying and others to join the army, but after the outbreak of the Southern Anhui Incident, Liu Houzong followed the New Fourth Army to flee everywhere, starving, his revolutionary will began to waver, and he became pessimistic about the future and fate of the revolution, so he had the idea of betraying the revolution and surrendering to the Kuomintang.
Late at night on March 14, Liu Hou shot Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun, who were resting in the bee cave, and wounded the guard Huang Cheng, and then robbed the three of them of their money and belongings, and went down the mountain to defect to the Kuomintang.
President Liu Hou believed that he would be reused by the Kuomintang if he killed Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun, two senior generals of the New Fourth Army, but the Kuomintang did not take President Liu Hou seriously and snubbed President Liu Hou for a long time.
In 1942, Mr. Liu Hou came to Chongqing and served as the deputy head of the Lieutenant Colonel of the Third Intelligence Group under Dai Li.
In 1946, feeling that the future was hopeless within the Kuomintang, President Liu Houzeng asked Xu Enzeng of the Central Committee to go home, and Xu Enzeng gave a fee to President Liu Houzeng and agreed to return to his hometown.
But Liu Hou didn't want to go back to his hometown Leiyang, so he took a boat to Jiujiang, Jiangxi, spent a lot of wine, and finally spent all the money, so he could only send people under the fence, work for others, and live in a daze.
Soon after, the People's Liberation Army began to cross the Yangtze River and swept across the entire south of the Yangtze River.
When he was in Jiujiang, he knew Chen Cixing, a fellow salt merchant, so he concealed his identity and ran to the Xinyu Chen Cixing Salt Shop, where he became his bookkeeper and was reused by Chen Cixing.
After the liberation of Xinyu, when Chen Cixing declared to the People's Liberation Army, he said that Liu Houzong was his housekeeper, and Liu Houzong's true identity was concealed.
But evil is rewarded, and traitors must be punished as they deserve!
In 1952, the Xinyu City Public Security Bureau carried out a full population verification, and Huang Yifan, deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, who had just come down from the army, went to Chen Cixing Salt Shop to conduct a verification, and found that Mr. Liu Hou was very familiar with Mr. Liu Hou, and after careful interrogation, it was found that Mr. Liu Hou was very problematic.
Huang Yifan recalled soon that this bookkeeper was very similar to Mr. Liu Hou, it turned out that Huang Yifan used to be Zhou Zikun's guard back then, and he had seen Mr. Liu Hou.
So, Huang Yifan immediately reported to the director, and the director immediately ordered Liu Houzong to be arrested!
At this point, the traitor Liu Hou, who killed Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun, was finally arrested!
After hearing the news, Tan Zhenlin, the first deputy political commissar of the East China Military Region at that time, personally telephoned Chen Zhengren, secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, and demanded that President Liu Hou be executed as soon as possible.
In August, President Liu Hou was executed, and the most shameful traitor in the history of the New Fourth Army finally got the punishment he deserved!
killed two high-level generals of the New Fourth Army in a row, and Liu Hou always died innocently!
NO2 traitor: Zhao Lingbo
Zhao Lingbo, a native of Luxian County, Sichuan Province, joined the Sichuan Army in his early years, and after being captured by the Red Army, he joined the Red Army.
After joining the Red Army, Zhao Lingbo performed exceptionally well, and soon won the trust and reuse of the Red Army, serving as the political commissar of the 25th Army Management Office of the Red Army and the 223rd Regiment of the 25th Army of the Red Army.
Later, Zhao Lingbo also participated in the struggle against "encirclement and suppression" and the Long March in Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Henan, and Shaanxi Soviet regions.
After the Red Army was reorganized, Zhao Lingbo first served as the deputy commander of the 687th Regiment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and later was transferred to the New Fourth Army as the chief of staff, the deputy commander of the first column, and a high-ranking general of the New Fourth Army.
During the Southern Anhui Incident, the northbound troops of the New Fourth Army were surrounded by the Kuomintang, and Zhao Lingbo saw that the situation was very unfavorable to the New Fourth Army, so he had the idea of surrendering to the enemy.
Zhao Lingbo was very shameless, he deliberately let the first column retreat and shrink the defense and wait for reinforcements, but in fact he wanted to wait for the Kuomintang army to come to encircle and annihilate, and exchange the lives of his comrades for his own capital to surrender to the enemy.
Xiong Yingtang (founding major general), the head of the special service regiment, resolutely opposed it, and informed the commander of the column, Fu Qiutao (founding general), that Zhao Lingbo's conspiracy was discovered, but by Zhao Lingbo's toss, the New Fourth Army suffered very heavy losses.
Zhao Lingbo was then captured by the Kuomintang as he wished, and after almost no torture, Zhao Lingbo voluntarily chose to surrender to the Kuomintang and was sent to the Shangrao concentration camp.
In the Shangrao concentration camp, Zhao Lingbo also came forward to persuade Ye Ting to surrender, but Ye Ting sternly refused!
Because Zhao Lingbo was a high-level general in the New Fourth Army and had a lot of information about the New Fourth Army, his surrender had a very great impact on the New Fourth Army.
However, Zhao Lingbo seemed to want to ask for merit and reward in front of the Kuomintang, and actually spontaneously petitioned to return to the New Fourth Army for undercover.
In May 1942, Zhao Lingbo falsely claimed that he had escaped from a Kuomintang concentration camp to look for troops, and he followed the Kuomintang troops to the New Fourth Army garrison in Fanchang County, Anhui Province, in an attempt to investigate the military situation, and was recognized by Dong Nancai, the political instructor of the second company of the 57th Regiment of the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army, and captured him and escorted him to the regimental headquarters of Wuwei County of the New Fourth Army.
But during the escort, Zhao Lingbo suddenly chose to flee and was shot dead on the spot by Li Wuben, the reconnaissance staff officer of the Seventh Division, the highest-ranking traitor in the history of the New Fourth Army, who was arrogant for less than a year, and was punished!
NO3 traitor: Zhao Xizhong
Compared with Liu Houzong and Zhao Lingbo, Zhao Xizhong's popularity is much lower!
Zhao Xizhong, a native of Chang'an, Shaanxi, grew up in a poor family, and later joined the Huangpu Military Academy and was a cadet of the fourth phase of Huangpu.
Zhao Xizhong was influenced by both the Communist Party and the Kuomintang at the Whampoa Military Academy, and although he initially joined the Kuomintang, he eventually joined the Communist Party.
Subsequently, Zhao Xizhong successively served as a military instructor at the Infantry School of the Red Army University, the director of the training department of the New Fourth Army Teaching Corps, and the chief of staff of the first column of the New Fourth Army.
But the occurrence of the Southern Anhui Incident completely changed the fate of Zhao Xizhong, and in the Southern Anhui Incident, Zhao Xizhong was unfortunately arrested in the process of breaking through!
At the critical moment, Zhao Xizhong failed to adhere to the principles of the revolution and was not firm-willed, so in order to survive, he chose to surrender to the Kuomintang and confessed all the information he had about the New Fourth Army to the Kuomintang.
The Kuomintang treated Zhao Xizhong more favorably than Liu Houzong and Zhao Lingbo, treated Zhao Xizhong as a guest, and arranged Zhao Xizhong to be an instructor in the Shangrao concentration camp, hoping that he could reform the prisoners of war of the New Fourth Army.
But Zhao Xizhongbo's personal qualities are much better than Liu Houzong and Zhao Lingbo, and he is very guilty and regretful about surrendering to the Kuomintang, and he is unwilling to face his former comrades-in-arms again, so he doesn't want to be an instructor.
Of course, the Kuomintang will not let Zhao Xizhong go easily, put him under house arrest in prison, and will not be allowed to leave!
When the Japanese army attacked Jiangxi, the Kuomintang transferred the prison personnel, and Zhao Xizhong took advantage of the chaos to escape from the control of the Kuomintang and went to Jinhua, Zhejiang, where he was caught by the Japanese army and became a hard laborer, and then fled to Yiwu and was captured by the Japanese army again.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhao Xizhong wandered again in Sichuan to make a living by doing business until the liberation of the country.
After the liberation, Zhao Xizhong returned to his hometown to live, and under the introduction of his fellow villager Zhao Boping, he once again devoted himself to the revolution and served as the deputy manager of the Northwest Xinhua Company in Lanzhou, Gansu.
But his identity as a traitor back then was soon discovered, and Zhao Xizhong was removed from his post.
Zhao Xizhong has actually always regretted and felt guilty about the surrender of the Kuomintang that year, so he also accepted the government's punishment for him!
During the Cultural Revolution, the Yang Yufu incident broke out, and the counter-revolutionary group forced Yu Lijin's comrade-in-arms Zhao Xizhong to report Yu Lijin in order to persecute Yu Lijin, the political commissar of the Air Force (founding lieutenant general), but Zhao Xizhong's conscience found in his later years that he was unwilling to frame his comrades-in-arms, and would rather die at the critical moment, facing the persecution of the counter-revolutionary group, and finally threw himself into the Yellow River and died!