Chapter Seventy-Two: The Breakdown of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party
Zhang Ming's time is not only affected by Hubei because of the relationship with Xinmin Daily.
Liu Xiang, who heard that Zhang Ming had divided his troops and was quite intended, actually took the initiative to withdraw his troops from Zigui. Liu Xiang has been doing business with Yichang, and he is very clear about Zhang Ming's reality and reality. What's more, this unit has been mourning all the time. "The mourning soldiers will win, and they will not be invincible."
In Hunan, Tang Shengzhi asked all the officers and men of his army to be ordained as Buddhists, and the troops wore the badge of "Great Compassion to Save People and Save the World." He said that Zhang Ming sacrificed his life for his beliefs, and my generation should follow suit.
The counterattack that Zhang Chun feared did not happen because of Zhang Ming's death. After the Third Division took Changyang, even the surrounding bandits went down the mountain to disarm and accept resettlement.
In order to ease the mood of the 3rd Division, many soldiers of the 3rd Division were transferred to the 7th Division and let them train new recruits. Some cadres have also been transferred to other units. But despite this. This group of cadres of the 3rd Division is still the most silent group of people, the most stern to the soldiers, and the most brave in battle, all their lives.
On January 1, 1926, the Kuomintang held its second national congress in Guangzhou. The conference adhered to Sun Yat-sen's three major policies, but did not resolve internal disputes, and some rightists still entered the inner circle, after all, the army was under their control. Li Dazhao and Chen Qingtong refused to attend the meeting, but a group of party members such as Zhang Guotao, Lin Boqu, Wu Yuzhang, and Xia Xi attended the meeting and served as government officials. Borodin, a Soviet adviser to the Nationalist Government, exerted great influence.
But it has also caused a greater backlash from the right. It was also the fundamental inducement for the later Xishan Conference and the Qing Party. At the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek said that the "Three People's Principles" are the only doctrines in China.
Beijing. Under the pressure of Zhang Zuolin and Wu Peifu, the Kuomintang that lost Sun Yat-sen also fell into strife and did not put forward a plan for how to manage the country. Feng Yuxiang was helpless. I had to announce my departure.
Wang Jingwei, Tan Yanhong, Song Ziwen, and Gan Naiguang accompanied by Bai Chongxi to Wuzhou to discuss the reunification of the two regions and the Northern Expedition with representatives of Li Zongren, Huang Shaohong, Tang Shengzhi of the Hunan Army, and Peng Hanzhang of the Guizhou Army. Tang Shengzhi's representative, Ye Qi, met Chiang Kai-shek in Guangzhou.
Zhao Hengti, who was sandwiched between Zhang Chun and Tang Shengzhi, was frightened, and invited Tang Shengzhi to Changsha to attend the Dharma in the name of welcoming the White Lama to Changsha to host the Golden Bright Festival, preparing to get rid of Tang Shengzhi. Tang Shengzhi then proclaimed in Hengshan that he was "anti-British and drove Zhao", concentrated his troops on Changsha, and restricted Hunan Governor Zhao Hengxi to leave Changsha within 24 hours, and Zhao Hengti knew that he was invincible. It was announced that Tang Shengzhi was the director of internal affairs and the director of military affairs, and that he was "in poor health." In accordance with the provisions of the provincial constitution, the post of governor left behind by Tang Shengzhi, director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was to be deputized by Tang Shengzhi, director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Tang Shengzhi telegraphed and invited He Yaozu, commander of the First Hunan Division, Liu Jin, commander of the Second Division, and Ye Kaixin, commander of the Third Division, to Changsha to discuss the aftermath. Tang Shengzhi ordered the detention of Liu Ji at a military meeting. Ye Kaixin was dismissed from his post, Xiao Rulin (Secretary General of the Second Division), Zhang Xiongyu (Chief of Staff of the Third Division), and Liu Chongwei (Brigade Commander of the Third Division) were shot, and He Jian, commander of the Cavalry Brigade of the Fourth Division, was sent to attack Ye Kaixin's department and entered Yuezhou, Ye Kaixin asked Sun Chuanfang for help and retreated to Jiangxi.
As a result, the Kuomintang formed an alliance with Li Zongren and Tang Shengzhi. Zhang Guotao went to Wuhan as a representative of Wang Jingwei. Discuss the joint Northern Expedition of the Alliance of the Two Lakes and the Two Lakes.
However, the plan of the Northern Expedition is interesting, not to fight Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi. Instead, let the Northern Expeditionary Army enter Hubei, and the People's Army in Hubei went to fight Wu Peifu.
Gu Ming directly refused.
"Is he going to go on the Northern Expedition, or is he going to take over Hubei?"
Zhang Guotao also knew that this was impossible, as the chairman of the Central Executive Committee, it was impossible not to even see this, and he only came to take a formality and give an explanation to the Kuomintang Central Committee.
In February, the right wing of the Kuomintang held a meeting of the Provisional Executive Committee in front of Sun Yat-sen's tomb in Biyun Temple in Xishan, Beijing, and conspired to purge the party by negotiating the construction of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing. The Xishan Conference faction was still formed. It's just that because the right is weak, it is not made public. Zhang Chun received the information from the action team and secretly passed the information to Zhang Guotao, asking him to make emergency preparations.
Although Zhang Guotao believed that there was such a thing, he did not think that the Xishan Conference faction could succeed, because after all, the CCP and the leftists had absolute dominance in the Central Committee of the Kuomintang. However, he still held an executive committee in secret to report on the situation. Evacuation in case of emergency was arranged.
In March, Chiang Kai-shek took advantage of the "Zhongshan ship" incident to arrest Li Zhilong and seize the Zhongshan ship. Siege of the Provincial-Hong Kong Strike Committee, confiscation of workers' arms, detention of leftist party representatives and political workers in the Second Division of the First Army, declaration of martial law in the whole city of Guangzhou, siege of the residence of the Soviet Advisory Corps.
Some of the party members who had already been exposed quit the First Army, Chiang Kai-shek gained military power in the First Army, and three Soviet advisers who opposed Chiang Kai-shek were dismissed and returned home.
Zhang Guotao used his withdrawal from the Kuomintang Central Committee as a threat to demand the release of Li Zilong. Soong Ching-ling did not want the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to break down, and he also put pressure on Chiang Kai-shek.
Li Zhilong took a group of party members of the former First Army of the Revolutionary Army to Wuhan.
Xu Zhenpeng was overjoyed, because there was finally a naval talent to take over his work. Li Zhilong suggested that Hubei's navy was weak, so it was better to build a naval engineering academy first, and train naval talents while studying shipbuilding.
The military department agreed to this proposal. The address was chosen next to the Wuhan shipyard. Xu Zhenpeng is the acting president, Li Zhilong is the vice president, Li Zhilong has great respect for Xu Zhenpeng, an old-timer, and he needs time to adapt to the naval research system that Xu Zhenpeng has established, so he implores Xu Zhenpeng to take it for a while.
In March, Zhang Zuolin attacked Tianjin, with the help of Japanese warships, and was driven out of Dagu by Feng Yuxiang with artillery fire. Japan and the Nationalist Army broke the "Xinchou Treaty" and issued an ultimatum to the government of the Beiyang warlord Duan Qirui on the 16th with the envoys of Britain, the United States, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain.
The CCP organized the Beijing Federation of Trade Unions and the Students' Federation to protest at Tiananmen Square against the intrusion of Japanese warships into Dagukou and the shelling of the Nationalist Army, and denounced the crimes of Britain, the United States, and Japan and other eight countries in unreasonable ultimatum against China. proposed a telegram to unanimously oppose the Eight-Nation Ultimatum, expel the Ministers of the Eight-Nation, and abolish all unequal treaties; The withdrawal of foreign warships and the telegram of the Nationalist Army to fight against imperialist aggression.
The Presidential Guard opened fire without Duan Qirui's knowledge. The March 18 tragedy occurred.
Lu Zhonglin took the opportunity to initiate a mutiny to get rid of Duan Qirui, and Duan Qirui retreated to Tianjin, thinking that someone had framed him and made his life have an unwarranted stain. From then on, eat fasting and chant Buddha. Lu Zhonglin released Cao Kun.
Feng Yuxiang had no choice but to lead his army out of Beijing and held on to Nankou. In April, Zhang Zuolin entered Beijing from Tianjin with the direct coalition army.
Wu Peifu did not go, he thought that winning in such a way was not glory, but shame.
On April 3, Chiang Kai-shek submitted to the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang a proposal to "request the rectification of the party and the army to be on time for the Northern Expedition." It is believed that after Feng Yuxiang withdrew from Beijing, the direct line and the Feng family will inevitably point the finger at Liangguang. We should strive for Sun Chuanfang's neutrality, unite with the two lakes to defeat Wu Peifu, and respond to Feng Yuxiang, or we can directly smash Huanglong, take Beijing, and realize the great cause of reunification. However, at the same time, it was proposed to use the whole party to purge the army and implement the essence of purging the party.
On 18 April, the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang telegraphed to the Hubei Autonomous Government that, in view of the essence of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Hubei Autonomous Government should be more subordinate to the leadership of the Central Government than the Hubei Nationalist Government, and that the armed forces under it should be placed under the leadership of the Military Committee of the National Revolutionary Army.
Gu Ming replied: The Hubei Autonomous Government respects the will of Mr. Sun Yat-sen, but since the death of Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the Kuomintang has continued to exclude the Communist Party, and the assassination of Mr. Liao Zhongkai has not been resolved, and the culprit is at large, as is the case of Chen Qing. The Zhongshan ship case, framing Li Zhilong, and the fact that he was in a row are clearly revealed. The Kuomintang regards our party as if it were nothing, and our party, based on the general interests of the nation, endures humiliation and bears heavy burdens, and maintains cooperation between the two parties. To our party has no place to stand, and it must not be followed.
In May, Chiang Kai-shek put forward the "Bill on Sorting Out Party Affairs" at the Second Plenary Session of the Second Central Committee of the Kuomintang, in which the Hubei Autonomous Government's disobedience to the orders of the Central Committee became a major crime.
In order to counterbalance Borodin in Soviet Russia, Chiang Kai-shek personally greeted the chairman of the British Labour Party, Meng Rum.
Borodin went to Wuhan to meet Zhang Chun.
Zhang Chun went back to the fairy directly. Li Dazhao and Gu Ming met with Borodin. Rejected the request for a compromise with the Canton government. He believes that the cooperation between the KMT and the CCP should be equal cooperation, and that the CCP has tens of thousands of party members, not a small party that can be bullied casually. If the KMT insists on purging the party, the CCP can withdraw from cooperation.
Hubei remains neutral and will not delay the Northern Expedition, but if anyone pays attention to Hubei, the People's Army will resolutely crack down.
In June, negotiations broke down. Zhang Guotao announced that the CCP had withdrawn from the KMT-CCP cooperation, and led the CCP delegation back to the Shanghai Concession despite the retention of Soong Ching-ling and other leftists. However, some party members who did not reveal their identities continued to stay in Guangzhou and the revolutionary army. (To be continued......)