Chapter 125: The 412 Counter-Revolution Breaks Out

On April 12, 27, Li Tie stood in front of the windowsill of the office on the fourth floor of Huaxing Foreign Bank as usual. Through the bright sunshine, Li Tie was closely observing the changes on the other side of the road.

It was only more than half a month since the revolutionary army entered Shanghai at the end of March. Shanghai has undergone tremendous changes.

Gone are the days of peace and quiet, and since the arrival of the revolutionary army in Shanghai, the Shanghai workers' armed forces have clashes with local gangs almost every day, and the revolutionary army has repeatedly dispatched troops to settle disputes between the two sides.

A number of newspapers began to criticize the Shanghai workers' armed forces in public opinion, saying that they had made meritorious contributions to the peaceful liberation of Shanghai, and that they were proud of their achievements. There have been a number of firefights with local gangs.

At the same time, during these days, some people wearing workers' picket armbands smashed shops and even harassed foreign consulates.

Although these riots did not cause much loss of life and property, they did cause dissatisfaction among a considerable part of Shanghai citizens.

The workers' pickets, which used to be loved by everyone, are no longer loved by the citizens of Shanghai. When these things happened, the real workers' pickets also came forward to clarify them. But the people couldn't tell who was true and who was false. Moreover, these newspapers fanned the flames, pointing out that the workers' armed forces were illegal and should be disarmed, and that Shanghai's security should be maintained by regular soldiers of the revolutionary army.

More and more Shanghai citizens have agreed with the newspaper's argument that the workers should work well in the factories, and that it is okay for you to organize any armed forces. Or do these workers want to make themselves kings? In any case, public opinion is becoming more and more unfavorable to the Shanghai workers' armed forces.

And at the zero hour of April 12, the historical counter-revolution broke out as scheduled. As in the previous history, the three tycoons sent hundreds of gangsters dressed in workers' picket clothes and began to make trouble and attack the headquarters of the workers' forces in Shanghai.

While the two sides were fighting fiercely, the revolutionary army arrived as scheduled and disarmed both sides on the pretext of preventing the internal struggle of the workers' pickets, and the real workers' pickets did not receive orders from their superiors to resist, so they had to let the National Revolutionary Army disarm.

After most of the workers' armed weapons had been surrendered, the revolutionary army finally showed its true colors, began to shoot and kill a large number of the workers' armed forces who refused to surrender, and arrested progressives and workers' representatives overnight.

And according to the roster that had been prepared for a long time, he began to arrest progressives in factories, schools, and government departments who were usually active or showed communist ideas.

In just one week, the National Revolutionary Army killed more than 500 armed workers, captured more than 500 prisoners, and imprisoned as many as 5,000 progressives. Just one Shanghai prison has detained more than 6,000 so-called ** elements.

The outbreak of the April 12 counter-revolution marked the failure of the first KMT-CCP cooperation. According to the original history, the more than 5,000 people who were arrested would have been secretly executed.

Not only that, but in the following week, major cities across the country erupted in arrests of pro-CCP people. In just one week, there are as many as 5,000 pro-communist people who have disappeared.

Li Tie stood in front of the window, looking at the police car whizzing in front of him, the terrifying scene he saw on TV in his previous life is now happening in front of his memory.

I saw that several students in student uniforms were taken away by the police who jumped out of the police car. Since the end of March, the National Revolutionary Army has been stationed in Shanghai without firing a single shot. It seems that the arrests have not stopped every day.

It is said that the leader of the first and second divisions this time was none other than Bai Chongxi, who was famous in later generations. I heard that as soon as he came to Shanghai, he established the Shanghai Garrison Command and requisitioned the Tilanqiao Prison in the public concession of the former Ministry of Industry.

This prison has always been controlled by foreign powers, and now it has been given to the revolutionary army so easily, it seems that the two sides must have reached some ulterior agreement.

I saw that several vendors on the side of the road were beaten violently by the military police of the garrison headquarters because they could not dodge. Li Tie couldn't help but shake his head, they were all from poor people, so why bother with these compatriots who were also from poor people.

Because of the turmoil in Shanghai these days, their own business has also been greatly affected, although because they have a good face in Shanghai, the three tycoons have not reached out to their employees.

But Li Tie knows that he has always been tolerant of his employees, and it is impossible to say that there are no ** elements among his employees. I just don't know how long I'll be able to maintain them.

Li Tie returned to his desk and called the heads of his various companies in Shanghai, telling them to go out less these days and pay more attention to the words and deeds of the employees below. Don't let employees gather together.

In addition, if an employee is captured by someone from the garrison command, try to rescue him as much as possible. If you can spend money to redeem people, you can redeem people, and if you can trust the relationship, you can't save it. All of them reported to Li Tie, and he was responsible for finding a way.

I have to say that it is no wonder that the employees of Huaxing Company are so hard-working, just because Li Tie dares to stand up for the employees in such a white terror situation, it is known that Li Tie is still a good man who dares to act at a young age.

Li Tie sat at his desk, listening to the sad siren of the police car outside the window again, and couldn't help but be discouraged, although he had already notified the VIPs in many ways. But with little success. It seems that without shedding a little blood, this lesson will not be profound.

Li Tie called Wang Qi into the office and asked him to appease the Huaxing guards. At this critical moment, everyone must remain calm and restrained, and without his orders, they are not allowed to casually clash with the people of the three tycoons. If this was in the past, he would still be willing to help his teammates when they saw injustice.

Li Tie called the thousand-tailed scorpion again and told her not to go out recently, so stay in the club. Although their Axe Gang is famous, but this time their opponent is the National Revolutionary Army, if there is really a conflict with the Revolutionary Army, the little Axe Gang cannot be the opponent of others.

On the phone, the thousand-tailed scorpion first laughed at Li Tie's timidity, but the thousand-tailed scorpion was still very happy to hear Li Tie's sincere concern. So despite the hard words of the thousand-tailed scorpion, in the end she still promised to learn female popularity in the club these days. In the future, it is better for her to marry into Li Tie's family, so that her in-laws will not laugh at her, and she will not know anything.

In this way, Li Tie has been living in Huaxing for seven days, and during these seven days, Li Tie's body and mind have suffered greatly, because although he has been smooth sailing in Shanghai, when a greater crisis comes, he realizes his insignificance.

The stationing of the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Revolutionary Army in Shanghai alone made their so-called gang brothers uneasy. You must know that the current revolutionary army claims to have 27 armies and more than 60 divisions. Not to mention the Kuomintang army, which claimed to have hundreds of armies and hundreds of divisions a few years later.

It seems that the decision to arrange for the three rats to break into the revolutionary army in advance a while ago was still right. Now that the big game of chess of the Republic of China has begun. Li Tie, who doesn't want to be a chess piece, can only try to increase his strength and strive to be a chess player.

The time finally came on April 18, the day when Chiang Kai-shek announced the establishment of a new Nationalist government in Nanking to contend with the so-called Kuomintang leftist Nationalist government led by Wang Ching-wei in Wuhan.

All of a sudden, there were four governments in China at the same time, namely the Wuhan Nationalist Government, the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and the Shenyang Government headed by the Beijing Government and Zhang Zuolin.

As for the other warlords, large and small, although they did not claim to have formed a government, they were in fact divided into one side and went their own way. Seeing that the Northern Expedition has just succeeded for the most part, it is in danger of dying again.

Like a few days ago, on the 18th, Li Tie was listening to reports from all sides in the foreign bank. In the past few days, various companies in Huaxing have not been very quiet. Many unidentified militants have begun to wander around the vicinity of Huaxing Foreign Bank.

Even in Huaxing Pharmaceutical Factory and Hospital, the military police patrolling in front of the gate are becoming more and more frequent. Li Tie always had an ominous premonition, but fortunately, their Huaxing Escort Team was also well-known in Shanghai. Although the number is small, it is well equipped. Plus, there's the Axe Gang to help. However, it did not give people with bad intentions a chance to take advantage of it.

Just now, Wang Qi just delivered today's newspaper. A number of revolutionary army newspapers publicized the brilliant results of this counter-revolutionary action.

What captures thousands of people, kills thousands of people, and successfully educates tens of thousands of people anyway. It seems that for a while, there is no ** existence in the whole of Shanghai. From now on, under the leadership of the revolutionary army, the broad masses of the people will certainly live a good life of stability, prosperity, and strength.

Li Tie snorted secretly. It's no wonder that every time I fought with the Japanese in the future, I said that I had won the battle even though I had been defeated. Obviously, he only killed a small victory of dozens of people, but he was stunned to blow it into a big victory that killed hundreds or even thousands.

It turned out that at this time, these newspapers were so irresponsible and nonsense. Although there are some ** elements and progressives in Shanghai, there are by no means as many as tens of millions of people as stated in the newspapers.

Although there must be a large number of false catches and filling, as soon as the data arrives at the newspapers, in order to pursue the purpose of attracting attention, these newspapers must have been enlarged. This kind of thing is not only a custom that has existed in China since ancient times, but even in the era when the Internet was so developed in later generations, it was also exaggerated.

Looking at the detailed data in the newspapers, despite the exaggerated elements, for the National Revolutionary Army, the April 12 operation was still very successful.

After all, the leading workers' armed forces have been disarmed, a large number of progressives and sympathizers have also been arrested, and more importantly, this **operation has indeed arrested many high-level people. Therefore, in any sense of the word, this counter-revolutionary action was a success.

However, because of Li Tie's arrival, the actual effect is not as great as the original history. Because when they were arresting progressives, they accidentally arrested Xu Meiqi of Huaxing Pharmaceutical Factory.

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