<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > preface</h1>
Since June 21, 1949, when Chairman Mao formally proposed "resolving the Taiwan issue by force," General Su Yu has been making preparations. Su Yu initially gathered 500,000 troops, considering that Chiang Kai-shek forcibly recruited troops in Taiwan and there were many remnants of the Kuomintang troops who went to Taiwan from Southeast Asia and other places, So Su Yu added another 150,000 troops, and by the eve of preparing to solve the Taiwan issue in 1950, Su Yu had already displayed 650,000 troops in the southeast coastal area, which was inevitable for the recovery of Taiwan.
At the same time, because the United States and other Western countries have set their sights on the European region, coupled with the dissatisfaction of the United States with Chiang Kai-shek, it has repeatedly stated that "the United States and its allies respect China's exercise of sovereignty over the island." Therefore, 1950 can be said to be the best period for resolving the Taiwan issue.
At this time, however, several events disrupted the pace of the liberation of Taiwan. One of the events is the well-known Korean War, so apart from this incident, what else has affected our Party's settlement of the Taiwan issue?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="27" > the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the recovery matters are postponed</h1>
In 1950, our army was already waiting in the southeast coastal area, and it can be said that everything is ready to solve the Taiwan issue, and only the East Wind is owed. However, Dongfeng did not wait, but was pit by "teammates".
On June 25, North Korea unilaterally launched a war of reunification. Before the war began, North Korea's combat capabilities were very strong, and at one point it crushed south Korean troops near Busan, and as long as the North Korean army worked harder, it could unify the Korean Peninsula. But before the North Korean army could continue to attack, the United States obstructed it and sent troops to Korea.
On the evening of June 25, Truman held an emergency dinner meeting at the Blair Building to discuss the situation in North Korea. Acheson first suggested that the president order the navy and air force to interfere in the internal affairs of Korea and expand the Korean War, and Acheson's opinion was supported by Truman and representatives of the military and congress. So with the assistance of the United States, South Korea launched a counterattack, and the North Korean army was suppressed. Kim Il Sung had to go to the Soviet Union, which had just expressed its willingness to support the Korean People's Army, but the Soviet Union kicked the ball to China on the grounds that "it was inconvenient for the Soviet side to intervene directly".
This has forced our army to think about whether to continue to resolve the Taiwan issue or to retreat to help the DPRK first. Because in addition to the pressure given by the Soviet Union, the most important reason is that the DPRK borders china, and if the DPRK cannot hold on, then the US military is bound to enter the northeast from the DPRK and then surround our country and threaten the security of our territory.
After receiving Kim Il Sung's distress telegram, Chairman Mao's room was filled with smoke every day, and the staff had to go to help the chairman change the ashtray for two or three hours. The Chairman had known for a long time that there would be a war in Korea, because in May 1950 Kim Il consulted China and the Soviet Union on the issue of the reunification of Korea. At that time, the Chinese side said that the recent international situation was still unfavorable, and the DPRK did not need to take action. The Soviet Union agreed with this view, but where did the Chinese side want to get it, the Soviet Union privately agreed to Kim Il Sung's idea of unifying the Korean Peninsula. It was with soviet support that Kim Il Sung felt that the victory was in his hands and sent troops on June 25.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > old Zheng renegade and the recovery plan ran aground</h1>
Just as Chairman Mao was pondering, a grief-stricken news came from Taiwan, which indirectly affected the shelving of the plan to resolve the Taiwan issue. At that time, Li Kenong, who was in charge of the intelligence department of the People's Liberation Army, suddenly received a telegram from the reconnaissance department, which had only four words on it: Old Zheng Renegade! After Li Kenong read it, his face turned miserable, and he said sadly: "We lost a hidden war and lost thousands of comrades-in-arms!" ”
This "old Zheng" refers to Taiwan's underground party leader Cai Xiaoqian. He was born in Huatan Township, Changhua County, Taiwan. Cai Xiaoqian joined the Taiwan Cultural Association in his early years, so he leaned left. Later, he came to the mainland and entered Shanghai University, during which time he was influenced by Qu Qiubai, Ren Bishi and others, joined the Shanghai Taiwan Youth Association, and actively engaged in revolutionary causes.
In 1928, the Communist Party of Taiwan was founded in Shanghai, and Cai Xiaoqian became one of the five members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Taiwan, and at the same time one of the three permanent members. Cai Xiaoqian's frequent revolutionary activities attracted the attention of the Japanese, and in order to escape the pursuit of the Japanese army, he fled to Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, and through Zhangzhou came to the Chinese Soviet Republic in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, and joined the Communist Party of China. After that, Cai Xiaoqian, under the pseudonym Cai Qian, worked in the Jiangxi Su District. After the failure of the fifth "anti-encirclement and suppression" operation, the Central Red Army decided to march to preserve the strength of the Red Army. Cai Xiaoqian also accompanied the Red Army on a 25,000-mile long march into Yan'an, and was the only Taiwanese to participate in the Long March. After the outbreak of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Cai Xiaoqian was transferred to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to work, serving as the director of the Field Political Department and the minister of the Enemy Works Department of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters.
It can be seen from this that Cai Xiaoqian was an old revolutionary, but he later defected, and all this must start from his return to Taiwan. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the central authorities set up the "Taiwan Provincial Working Committee" in Yan'an, with Cai Xiaoqian as the secretary of the Working Committee and responsible for the work of the "Taiwan Work Committee." In 1946, Cai Xiaoqian was ordered to return to Taiwan and secretly develop an underground revolution. After Cai Xiaoqian arrived in Taiwan, he worked with Chen Zemin, Hong Xiqiao, Zhang Zhizhong, and others to improve the party organization, carry out activities such as contacting potential Taiwan Communist Party figures and left-wing activists, and in January 1947, in accordance with the instructions of the CPC Central Committee, launched a large-scale anti-AMERICAN demonstration against the rape of female students by the US military in Peiping, which caused quite a stir in Taiwan. By May 1948, the number of full-time party members in Taiwan had grown to 285, and by April 1949, the number of full members of taiwan's underground party organizations had increased to more than 1,300, and the number of people responding was more than 50,000. After Cai Xiaoqian's influence in Taiwan became larger and larger, he gradually lost his heart, and his life gradually became corrupt, obsessed with the lights and wine. He often hangs out with some wealthy people in Taiwan, and even intentionally or unintentionally reveals his true identity to these people.
In the spring of 1949, the Taiwan Working Committee received the opinions of the Central Committee and issued a work policy to the underground parties at all levels: "Party organizations at all levels must mobilize every party member and activist, and under the general slogan of 'everything to cooperate with the PLA in combat', immediately transfer to the wartime system and establish the necessary wartime institutions." Soon after, the Taiwan Working Committee founded guangming pao to carry out an anti-American and anti-Chiang Kai-shek study wave.
Soon, Guangming Bao and revolutionary slogans appeared all over the island of Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek urgently convened the Yangmingshan conference, and a few days later, secret service agents found that one of the people who published the Guangming Bao was Zhong Haodong, the principal of Keelung Middle School, and he also had another identity- the secretary of the Keelung Working Committee of the CPC. At 3:00 a.m. on August 14, the Secret Service entered the residence of the principal of Keelung Middle School and arrested Zhong Haodong.
Zhong Haodong endured three days and three nights of severe torture, but still did not give in. Interrogating him day and night made Zhong Haodong feel a little confused, which led him to ask Gu Zhengwen, who interrogated him, during one interrogation: "How is Old Zheng?" As soon as he finished asking, Zhong Haodong knew that he had said the wrong thing. Although Zhong Haodong has not said who "Old Zheng" is later, Gu Zhengwen has already guessed that "Old Zheng" should be a person of high status in the underground party of the CCP.
So Gu Zhengwen reported this news to Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered Gu Zhengwen and others to immediately arrest "Old Zheng". In the following days, Gu Zhengwen and others arrested "Old Zheng" through various means, and by questioning those rich businessmen, Gu Zhengwen finally knew that "Old Zheng" was Cai Xiaoqian. Two months later, Gu Zhengwen grasped some of Cai Xiaoqian's connections during the "old Taiwan Communist Party" and finally learned that Cai Xiaoqian had hidden in the chiayi countryside. So Gu Zhengwen led some agents to the countryside of Chiayi. In order to prevent wearing military uniforms from being too conspicuous and shocking snakes, Gu Zhengwen and others specially changed into peasant clothes. However, as soon as the spies arrived at their destination, they arrested Cai Xiaoqian effortlessly, and it turned out that Cai Xiaoqian was accustomed to a luxurious life and wore a suit in the countryside, so he was caught in an instant.
After Cai Xiaoqian was arrested, the Kuomintang was both soft and hard. Within a few days, Cai Xiaoqian rebelled, and he was described as "the most useless and aspiring of the 'Four Great Kongs of the Taiwan Communist Party'." After Cai Xiaoqian's defection, within a week he revealed the names of all the underground parties, resulting in the destruction of the underground party organizations in Taiwan, the arrest and imprisonment of more than 1,800 people, including those who had been providing taiwan defense deployments for our army, and the killing of Wu Shi, vice admiral of the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense.
Wu Shi's contribution to our Party is very great, and he has provided intelligence to our Party on many occasions. It includes the Strategic Defense Map of the Taiwan Theater; the Zhoushan Islands and the Large and Small Kinmen "Map of Troop Strength and Firearms Equipment for Frontline Positions in Coastal Defense"; the current data of the Taiwan Strait and the Taiwan Sea Area; the analysis of the geographical data of various strategic landing points on Taiwan Island; the deployment and distribution of the naval base fleet; the types of aircraft groups and aircraft units of the Air Force Airfield. When Chairman Mao learned that wu shi had provided this information, he immediately said to the staff: "We must give him a credit!" And wrote a poem praising Wu Shi's spirit.
It is precisely because there are underground party members like Wu Shi in Taiwan that our army has a full grasp of resolving the Taiwan issue. Chairman Mao once said: "In order to prepare for the seizure of Taiwan in the winter of 1949 or the summer of 1950, if we can get the internal support of a large number of Kuomintang troops on the island, the time for the liberation of Taiwan is likely to be advanced." "However, Cai Xiaoqian's betrayal destroyed our party's deployment and directly affected the transmission of relevant intelligence." If there is no accurate intelligence transmission, then according to the situation on the island at that time, plus the United States intervened in the Korean Civil War, it sent a seventh warship to the Taiwan Strait. Therefore, if our army still wants to resolve the Taiwan issue, it will be difficult to grasp the war situation.
Therefore, when the news of the "old Zheng apostatism" reached the central authorities, the central authorities could only suspend their plan to resolve the Taiwan issue. Turning to the possibility of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Chairman Mao soon made a great policy decision to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and this war also allowed China to truly base itself on the forest of the world's nations.
As for the Taiwan issue, we can only find another opportunity to solve it. Cai Xiaoqian, a traitor, naturally joined the Kuomintang after he defected, serving as the deputy director of the Taiwan Security Department major general's Senate, and in October 1982, Cai Xiaoqian died of illness in Taiwan.