Yu Zhidao accidentally bumped into Zuo Shaoqing and was about to become violent. Of course, it had something to do with Hou Lianhai.【】
But to make this matter clear, we must first explain the strange political situation that was constantly changing during December 1948, as well as the several extraordinary political forces that were fighting secretly.
The first force is, of course, the Kuomintang government represented by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek. The unfavorable battlefield situation has put the Kuomintang on the eve of internal transformation. Chairman Chiang has been under tremendous pressure from all sides, asking him to make advance and retreat decisions.
His every move is closely watched by all parties, especially within the army. Senior generals are carefully observing to decide their actions.
The second force, of course, is the front. It has already captured the Northeast in November. At this time, it has completed the strategic encirclement on the Pingjin and Zhangjiakou front lines. Fu Zuoyi's army of more than 500,000 has no way to retreat. The top brass has noticed that something may happen within the Kuomintang.
Due to the huge changes, their special focus was on the Huaihai battlefield. As a test, the senior officials decided to launch an attack in Huai'an, Huaiyin and Haizhou areas in northern Jiangsu, and completely annihilated Huang Baitao's 7th Corps, which was known in history as "Little
"Huaihai". Whether and how to fight the next battle, senior officials are paying close attention to the movements of Bai Chongxi, the commander-in-chief of China's "Suppression General".
The third force is the U.S. government represented by Mr. Situ, the U.S. Ambassador to China. The U.S. State Department was anxious about the unfavorable situation on the battlefield and secretly ordered Ambassador Situ to change the leadership of the government as soon as possible to save the situation. Mr. Situ
They had many secret talks with Chairman Chiang, but no results were achieved despite their interests. Later, based on the suggestion of US Intelligence Agency senior agent Metz, they turned their attention to the little Hou Lianhai.
The fourth force was the quiet "Gui Clan". Bai Chongxi was sitting in Wuhan at this time and controlled an army of 400,000. Whether this army entered the Huaihe area would determine the success or failure of the Battle of Xubeng. Early November
, Bai Chongxi ordered the 12th Corps to enter the Taihe and Fuyang areas, and set up preparations to advance eastward. However, Vice President Li and Bai Chongxi had had many secret meetings and were not prepared to actually put the troops into the Xubang battlefield. For this reason
, it has something to do with little Hou Lianhai.
In early December, the news that Hou Lianhai was assassinated by Zuo Shaoqing, a female agent from the Secrecy Bureau, was published in major newspapers, which temporarily aroused the anger of some senior generals within the army. Bai Chongxi took the opportunity to refuse to send troops to the Xu Bang battlefield. The senior officials took this opportunity to launch a "
In the Battle of the Great Huaihai, 600,000 troops were used to defeat 800,000 troops.
The little Hou Lianhai actually disrupted Chairman Chiang's grand chess game.
On December 24, Bai Chongxi sent a "Hai Jing Telegram" from Hankou, asking He Yingqin, Zhang Qun, Zhang Zhi and others to forward it to Chairman Chiang Kai-shek. The telegram stated that "people's hearts, morale, and material resources can no longer fight" and advocated
and sought peace and forced Chairman Chiang to step down. On December 29, the Hubei Provincial Senate sent a telegram advocating political settlement of state affairs. On the 30th, Bai Chongxi forwarded the telegram to Zhang Qun and submitted it to Chairman Chiang.
This is the "Hai Quan Dian". The purpose is still to force Chairman Chiang to resign.
This was the strange situation during December 1948.
Zuo Shaoqing, driven by an unquenchable anger in his heart, had a fierce confrontation with Yu Zhidao, Chief of Staff of the Joint Logistics Headquarters, which involved Hou Lianhai. It was in this strange environment.
In the evening of that day, Zuo Shaoqing got off work. She left the north gate of Hong Gong Temple and hailed a rickshaw to go home. But when the rickshaw turned around the street, there was a car parked in front. An officer and a soldier stood in front of the car.
Next to the car.
Zuo Shaoqing's vigilance has become a habit. When she saw the car and the officer on the roadside, she already realized that there might be a problem. She took out the pistol from her pocket and inserted it into her back waist. She pulled out the gun from her back waist and fired.
Taking out a gun from your pocket is faster. Not long ago, she killed Huang Fenglin with the gun she pulled out from her waist.
When the officer saw Zuo Shaoqing's rickshaw, he stepped to the street, raised his hand to salute her from a distance, and extended his hand to signal the rickshaw driver to stop. How dare the driver pull the rickshaw to disobey the officer's order, stopped the rickshaw in a hurry, and turned around to Zuo Shaoqing
.
The officer walked to the car, saluted again, and said respectfully: "I'm sorry, young team leader, our commander has invited you."
Zuo Shaoqing recognized this officer as soon as she saw him. In the guest house of the arsenal in the south of the city, it was this officer who pointed his pistol at her. She also guessed that the officer who invited her must be Yu Zhidao. But she
Still asked: "Who is your commander?" and took the opportunity to give myself some time to think.
The officer smiled and said: "Young team leader, you have seen him. He is the Chief of Staff of the Joint Logistics Headquarters."
Zuo Shaoqing estimated that he was Yu Zhidao's adjutant or staff officer, and wanted to put a damper on his prestige, so he asked, "Have your pistol been returned to you?"
The officer was indeed a little embarrassed, and said with a wry smile: "No one returned it, so I had to take another one. Young leader, I will not point my gun at you again. If you suffer a loss once, you must have a longer memory."
"What's your surname?" Zuo Shaoqing asked.
"Minggui, my surname is Yang, Yang Zhi. However, I am not Yang Zhi, who sells knives in the Water Margin. I don't have his skills."
Zuo Shaoqing smiled. She got off the rickshaw, paid the fare, and turned around and asked, "Where are you going?"
Yang Zhi smiled and said, "You'll know when we get there."
Zuo Shaoqing thought for a while and realized that she had nothing to be afraid of. When the officer opened the car door, she got in.
The car drove for a long time and finally drove into a courtyard that resembled a military institution. Facing it was a gray three-story building with guards standing straight outside the door guarding it.
Yang Zhi led her directly into the building. But he did not lead her upstairs. Instead, he bypassed the stairs and walked underground from the back stairs.
Exiting the stairs, they entered a long, wide and clean underground corridor.
Zuo Shaoqing judged that this place was not like a basement like a warehouse, but more likely an underground headquarters. She glanced behind her and saw that no one else was following her except Yang Zhi beside her. She guessed that the situation might not be the same.
It wasn't too bad. She was prepared to wait and see.
Yang Zhi walked to a double door, opened it, and respectfully invited her in.
As soon as Zuo Shaoqing entered the door, he couldn't help but be a little surprised. This was a huge basement. There was a long table in the room, with thirty or forty people sitting on both sides. There was a huge map hanging on the wall. This might indeed be the underground headquarters.
In the deepest part of the basement, there is a huge desk. Sitting behind the desk is none other than Yu Zhidao.
What Zuo Shaoqing noticed was that there were three fully armed guards standing on both sides of the desk, facing each other. She now knew her situation clearly. She was probably facing a situation like the Hongmen Banquet.
Yang Zhi stretched out his hand, "Young team leader, please."
Zuo Shaoqing had no choice but to walk forward. But when she got to the desk, she realized that there were no chairs prepared for guests on the opposite side of the desk. She couldn't help but sullen, showing a malicious sneer, and stared at Yu Zhidao sitting behind the desk.
You bastard, play such a little trick on me!
Zuo Shaoqing did not walk towards the desk, but walked to one side. She walked around the desk and walked directly to Yu Zhidao. She pressed her hands on the edge of the table behind her, and with a little force, he was already sitting down.
He got on the desk and stared at Yu Zhidao condescendingly.
Yu Zhidao stared at Zuo Shaoqing with the same sneer.
A guard next to him shouted, "How dare you! How dare you sit on the table, get down!"
Zuo Shaoqing ignored him and just said, "Get out of here!"
The guard roared, and all six guards drew their guns and pointed them at Zuo Shaoqing.
The leading guard yelled again, "How dare you! Get off!"
Zuo Shaoqing still stared at Yu Zhidao and said in a cold tone: "Sir Yu, you call one, two, three now, and then one, whoever shoots first! Call now! One!"
Yu Zhidao gritted his teeth and stared at Zuo Shaoqing, and he shouted, "One!"
Zuo Shaoqing still stared at him and shouted: "Two!"
Yu Zhidao hesitated for a second, "Two!"
Zuo Shaoqing smiled, "Okay, Sir Yu, I'll come down."
She held the edge of the table with both hands and jumped down. But in the action of holding the table, she played a little trick that was not easy to detect. Her strength to hold the table was concentrated on her left hand, while her right hand only used the knuckle of her index finger to hold it up.
On the table, her thumbs and fingers had already lifted the hem of her dress and stretched it out to her lower back. When her feet landed on the ground, her right hand had already pulled out the pistol from her lower back. She turned around slightly and was already standing next to Yu Zhidao.
Next to him, the muzzle of a gun was pressed hard against his neck.
She said: "Sir Yu, call now, three!"
At this time, how could Yu Zhidao dare to shout three again? He didn't know whether Zuo Shaoqing would die, but at least one bullet from the gun in her hand would hit his neck.
He waved his hands to both sides, "Put it down, put it down!"
The guards had no choice but to put their guns in their holsters and still stare.
Yu Zhidao turned around and said: "Young team leader, they have all been put away. Please put them down too."
But Zuo Shaoqing didn't want to put down the gun. The hostility in her heart was making her furious. She shouted to Yang Zhi, who was standing not far away and only dared to put his hand on the holster and didn't dare to take it out: "
Adjutant Yang, go and check their guns. Whose gun has the safety on and whose gun has no cap in it? Go and check!"
Yang Zhi was impressed by Zhidao's expression, so he went to check the guns of the six guards. It turned out that three guns had no caps, and two guns had no safety on.
Yang Zhi turned around and said: "Young team leader, only squad leader Qin's gun is pressed against the gun and the safety is turned on."
As soon as he finished speaking, the gun in Zuo Shaoqing's hand went off. The leader, squad leader Qin, fell to the ground.
The other guards hurriedly pulled out their guns. Zuo Shaoqing fired twice more, and the two guards beside squad leader Qin also fell to the ground. She quickly turned to the other side of Yu Zhidao, with the gun in her hand still pressed against his neck. She
Now with only one side under attack and Yu Zhidao under control, she completely took the initiative.
She said: "Sir Yu, it's you or me who counts now!"
The remaining three guards had just put their heads up, opened the safety, and pointed their guns at Zuo Shaoqing. But how dare they shoot. This woman's gun was pressed against the officer's neck.
Yang Zhi was completely panicked and stopped in front of the three guards, "Put it away, put it away quickly! Young team leader, don't do this. You three, go, go quickly!"
The three guards were so annoyed that they had no choice but to retreat to the far wall and stand there, glaring at Zuo Shaoqing fiercely.
