The Death of "Assassination King" Wang Yaqiao

I don't know if you still remember the article "Tokyo Rose" that fascinated the American army in World War II.

In that article, I want to express a meaning: under the background of great times, many little people actually have no way to control their own destiny.

The person I want to talk about today has both similarities and differences with "Tokyo Rose" Husu.

Similarly, he is also a small individual in a big era.

The difference is that he has been fighting for his own destiny, even the national luck of the country where he lives.

His name is Wang Yaqiao.

Shen Zui, the backbone of the Kuomintang Central Committee, once said:

"Everyone is afraid of the devil, but the devil is afraid of Wang Yaqiao."

Wang Yaqiao,1February 1989 1889 was born in Modian Township, Hefei City, Anhui Province.

It is hard to imagine that future generations will add the title of "assassination of the king" to Wang Yaqiao-as a person born in the Qing Dynasty, he took part in the imperial examination and ranked in the top ten.

Wang Yaqiao was born in a poor family, and his grandfather and father both cultivated fields for landlords. Being bullied by various officials and landlords from an early age made Wang Yaqiao have a rebellious spirit from an early age. At the same time, he is particularly able to understand the suffering of the poor.

19 1 1 year, a great event happened in China: the Revolution of 1911 overthrew the Qing Dynasty.

This year, Wang Yaqiao was 22 years old. He did something that seemed earth-shattering at that time-he gathered a group of fellow villagers, announced the establishment of the "Hefei Revolutionary Army" in Hefei, abolished all officials of the Qing court, established a "military government" and declared independence!

Wang Yaqiao thought he was following Dr. Sun Yat-sen's ideas, but Mr. Sun did not put him in charge of Hefei, but sent a man named Sun Pinyi from the League to take over Hefei.

After Sun Pinyi arrived in Hefei, he also set up a military government and declared independence. As a result, the two "military governments" clashed: Wang Yaqiao advocated immediately cracking down on local tyrants and evil gentry and opening warehouses to help the people, while Sun Pinyi advocated temporarily not moving the interests of this class.

The two "military governments" quarreled like this. As a result, the "Sun government" attacked the "Wang government" first, and all the backbones around him were shot. He survived by himself, because he went to the countryside to close the team.

This incident had a great impact on Wang Yaqiao's life, which not only reflected his political views, but also forced him to start his first escape in his life.

From 19 1 1 year to 192 1 year, Wang Yaqiao has never been stable.

From Hefei to Anqing, from Nanjing to Shanghai, Wang Yaqiao set up societies, organized troops, did many things, made many friends and offended many people.

Among them, three things are worth mentioning.

The first thing is that during 19 13 years in Shanghai, Wang Yaqiao met Professor Jing Meijiu, who advocated "anarchism", and then participated in the "Anarchism Research Group". This experience has a great influence on Wang Yaqiao, who has the spirit of independent resistance, and basically shaped his three views in the future: any government official, warlord head of state, as long as you are strong, I will destroy you! (Wang Yaqiao strongly advised Sun Yat-sen to "bomb the presidential palace in Beiping and kill Duan" because he didn't like Duan's dictatorship. )

The second thing is that in 192 1 year, Wang Yaqiao returned to Shanghai (also because he offended someone and was hunted down) and took over the "Shanghai-Anhui Travel Association" from his friends.

On one occasion, an Anhui worker was owed wages by the capitalist. Instead of begging, he was beaten.

When Wang Yaqiao knew this, he immediately sent someone to the blacksmith's shop to build 100 axes, and led 100 big men with sharp axes to rush directly to the door of every capital house. Capitalists are busy apologizing and paying wages.

From then on, Wang Yaqiao became famous in Shanghai, and his gang was called "The Axes".

The third thing is that around 1923, Wang Yaqiao was ordered by warlord Lu Yongxiang to recruit troops in Huzhou. During this period, Wang Yaqiao and a man named Dai Li became sworn brothers with Jin Lan.

This man will decide Wang Yaqiao's future life and death.

Wang Yaqiao's "axe gang", at that time in Shanghai cattle to what extent?

1932, for various reasons, Wang Yaqiao obtained the right to use the ship "Jiang 'an" from Shanghai Maritime Bureau. However, former Jiang 'an manager Zhang Yanling refused to deliver the ship.

Why did Zhang Yanling have so much courage to fight Wang Yaqiao? Because Zhang Yanling is Zhang Xiaolin's nephew.

Who's Zhang Xiaolin? Together with Du Fu, Du Fu and Du Fu, they were called the three hooligans in Shanghai at that time. (See: Head and Tail of Rogue Tycoon)

What should Wang Yaqiao do in the face of such a powerful opponent? Without saying anything, he sent someone to blow a big hole in the wall of Zhang Xiaolin's backyard at night.

Zhang Xiaolin suddenly got scared. So I found another tycoon-Du Yuesheng. Because he is also a disciple of Du.

How did Du do it? Without hesitation, he ordered Zhang Yanling to give Jiang An to Wang Yaqiao. It is said that he is still reluctant, and Du cursed: "If you don't hand over this boat today, don't step out of my threshold!"

As for another tycoon, Huang, he had already warned his disciples and subordinates: "Don't provoke, this man is not deadly."

In fact, Wang Yaqiao, the three hooligans in Shanghai, didn't even pay attention to Zhang Xueliang, the "Northeast rumbled" at that time.

193 1 After the September 18th Incident, Zhang Xueliang came to Shanghai to recuperate with his family and subordinates. (See "Four Faces Before and After the September 18th Incident". ) At that time, Zhang Xueliang's reputation of "not resisting generals" was far away, and many people in China hated it. After arriving in Shanghai, Du directly took Zhang Xueliang to stay at home just in case.

On the beach, who dares to touch Du Yu's protection?

Wang Yaqiao Dale.

Not long after Zhang Xueliang stayed in Du Fu, a bomb with a defused fuse was placed in front of Du Fu's house. At this time, Du received three conditions from him and asked him to hand them over to Zhang Xueliang:

1, or go back to the northeast immediately, reorganize the military forces, and do or die with the Japanese.

If you refuse to fight, please go back to the northeast and commit suicide to thank the world.

3. Refuse to accept death, donate all property, buy arms and support the anti-Japanese volunteers outside the customs.

Wang Yaqiao asked Zhang Xueliang to meet at least one of the three conditions, otherwise the second bomb would be a bomb with a fuse.

Open the Northeast Jong, 300,000 leaders of the Northeast Army, gather together, and go abroad for inspection under Du's persuasion.

If Wang Yaqiao was just the boss of the underworld, he wouldn't be so famous.

What made Wang Yaqiao famous was his assassination. Besides, none of the people he assassinated were ordinary people.

The famous first assassination was directed at Xu, the police chief of Songhu. At that time, Wang Yaqiao took refuge in the warlord Lu Yongxiang. For the benefit of various warlords, Xu had to be killed.

1923, 165438+ 10, 10 On this day, Xu was shot and killed in front of the bathroom opposite the "big world" in Shanghai. Wang Yaqiao, director of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau with 7,000 police officers, said "kill".

If Xu was assassinated and was still "following orders", then the next assassination was all his own idea.

Throughout the assassination target after Wang Yaqiao, there are only two main lines, one is anti-Chiang and the other is anti-Japanese.

Let's put aside "anti-Chiang" and talk about "anti-Japanese".

The most famous assassination in Wang Yaqiao took place in 1932.

1932 1 1 The Sino-Japanese War broke out in Songhu on August 28th. In the face of Japan's aggression in Shanghai, the 19th Route Army of Shanghai Kuomintang rose up and rebelled. After the rise of Du Like, Wang Yaqiao, as the leader of the gang, gathered 3,000 gang members to help the regular army fight in Taicang.

The "November 28th Incident" ended in the victory of the Japanese army. In April, Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru went to Shanghai and decided to hold a "Victory Celebration of Sino-Japanese Battle of Songhu" in Hongkou Park on the "Forever Summer Festival" (the birthday of the Japanese Emperor).

It is a great shame for the people of China to hold a congress of aggressors to celebrate their victory in other countries. At that time, Chen, vice president of the Executive Yuan and commander-in-chief of the Beijing-Shanghai police force, sought someone to discuss countermeasures in Shanghai to see if the "celebration party" could be destroyed.

However, due to time constraints, the Japanese were particularly strict, and only Japanese and Koreans were allowed to enter the venue that day, making it extremely difficult to complete the task.

But it's hard for Wang Yaqiao.

Wang Yaqiao contacted An Changhao, a revolutionary exiled by North Korea, and An Changhao found Yin, a 24-year-old Korean youth. Yin, who can speak fluent Japanese, successfully mixed into Hongkou Park on April 29th with a thermos with a time bomb and a lunch box with grenades.

On that day, the time bomb exploded on time. Yin was afraid of not having enough strength, so he threw another Grenade. "1128 Incident" General Masaaki Shirakawa, commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, died of his injuries, and Shigemitsu Mamoru lost a leg.

This famous assassination made many people sit up and take notice of Wang Yaqiao, including Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek actually noticed Wang Yaqiao very early.

Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Yaqiao followed Sun Yat-sen in those days, so it is natural that their ideas are the same. However, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12th" counter-revolutionary coup in 1927, killing * * elements and the left wing of the Kuomintang, which made Wang Yaqiao have a different idea-Wang Yaqiao agreed with the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and overthrew the warlords in the Northern Expedition.

After April 12th, Chiang Kai-shek established the National Government with Nanjing as its capital. It turns out that Wang Yaqiao is the commander-in-chief of Jin-Pu railway protection. So, at the ceremony in the capital, Wang Yaqiao, who spoke on behalf of the workers, openly opposed Chiang Kai-shek's policy and asked everyone not to forget the last wish of the Prime Minister and unite all forces to carry out the Northern Expedition to the end. Finally, he led the crowd to shout slogans: "Down with warlords! Stop the slaughter! "

This angered Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek then ordered Wen Jiangang, director of Nanjing Police Department, to arrest Wang Yaqiao. However, both Chiang Kai-shek and Wen Jiangang underestimated Wang Yaqiao, the captain of the detective team of Nanjing Police Department. When Zhang Xiang led a team to surround Wang Yaqiao's residence, he found that Wang Yaqiao and his men were armed to the teeth. As a result, all the members of the investigation team were disarmed, and the weapons were returned only after Wang Yaqiao left.

From then on, Wang Yaqiao began to actively oppose Chiang. And his opposition is by no means limited to verbal protests.

1928, Wang Yaqiao sent someone to assassinate Zhang Qiu Bai, chairman of the State Construction Committee and director of the Anhui Provincial Construction Department. 1930, he sent someone to assassinate Zhao Tieqiao, general manager of China Merchants, and Zhao Tieqiao informed Chiang Kai-shek.

But neither of them attracted the attention of Chiang Kai-shek, or Chiang Kai-shek didn't know that Wang Yaqiao was behind the scenes.

In 193 1 year, Wang Yaqiao made two major events.

First of all, after careful planning, he sent someone to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek directly in Lushan, but he missed because of the shooting in the killer's rebellion (known as "Lushan stabbed Chiang Kai-shek" in history). Later, he arranged for someone to assassinate Finance Minister Song Ziwen at the railway station. But the murderer mistook the wrong person, and Tang Tuo, the secretary of the Song Dynasty, became a scapegoat (known as "the North Station stabbed the Song Dynasty" in history).

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But because of the good secrecy, Chiang Kai-shek didn't even know it was Wang Yaqiao. After Wang Yaqiao planned to bomb Hongkou Park, Chiang Kai-shek still wanted to make peace with Wang Yaqiao.

At that time, Chiang Kai-shek sent someone to Wang Yaqiao to send 40,000 yuan, and he was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General. However, Wang Yaqiao refused, and replied airily: "Jiang Guangtou's support for a million-strong army is not anti-Japanese, and we ordinary people are also anti-Japanese, so we don't need to thank them."

1932, Englishman Litton led an international investigation team to investigate the Japanese occupation of northeast China. The results of the survey were obviously biased in favor of the Japanese. Wang Yaqiao was furious and decided to send someone to assassinate Litton. However, the plan to assassinate Litton finally failed, and the person sent to assassinate him was arrested. Finally, Wang Yaqiao was behind the assassination of Chiang Kai-shek and Song Ziwen.

So, Chiang Kai-shek was surprised and angry. Calm down, he decided to give Wang Yaqiao one last chance.

1933, Chiang Kai-shek contacted Wang Yaqiao through Wang Yaqiao's brothers Dai Li, Hu Zongnan and Hu Bao in Huzhou.

Wang Yaqiao put forward the conditions of reconciliation with Chiang Kai-shek:

One, to Nanjing, Suzhou, Shanghai and other places, because I was arrested, will be released.

Second, there are many people who eat with me. To dissolve them, you need to pay 1 ten thousand yuan.

It is said that Chiang Kai-shek agreed to this condition, but he also put forward a condition: to shoot any one of the "anti-Chiang factions" in the southwest at that time, whether Hu, Li, Chen, Li Zongren or Chen, as a sign of sincerity.

Wang Yaqiao flew into a rage after hearing this, thinking that Chiang Kai-shek was cheating him, and flatly refused. So, Jiang and Wang lost their last chance to make up.

Time is up 1933.

Chiang Kai-shek's reward for arrest has reached an astonishing 6.5438+million yuan-two years later, Chiang Kai-shek offered a reward of 6.5438+million yuan to the leaders of the Communist Party of China: Zhu De and Xu, 60,000 yuan to Peng and Lin Biao, and 50,000 yuan to Zhou Enlai and Bo Gu.

In other words, the remuneration of seven people, including Mao Zedong, adds up to only half that of Wang Yaqiao.

But the more so, the more Wang Yaqiao won't stop.

It was Wang Yaqiao, who took refuge in Hongkong at that time, who planned this sensational assassination. And Wang Jingwei.

In fact, what Wang Yaqiao wants to kill is only "No.2 object" and "No.1 object", and this No.2 object is exactly Chiang Kai-shek who just left the meeting.

Before Chiang Kai-shek's shock subsided, Tang Youren, the second minister of the Kuomintang Foreign Ministry, was assassinated by Wang Yaqiao for presiding over the Sino-Japanese negotiations in Shanghai.

Chiang Kai-shek was completely angered. He found Dai Li, the sworn brother and spy chief, and said a word to him:

Catch Wang Yaqiao at all costs, or your head will be cut off!

1936, after several failed arrests, Dai Li, who was almost desperate, finally got a chance.

At that time, Wang Yaqiao had no foothold in Hongkong, so he went to Wuzhou, Guangxi. Dai Li, who lost the clue, finally came up with a way:

Wang Yaqiao always treats his subordinates with courage, so he starts with his subordinates.

Dai Li sent someone from Hong Kong to take Yu, a subordinate of Joe, to Nanjing, but I didn't expect Yu to reveal his whereabouts. But Dai Li found another breakthrough: Yu's wife Yu.

After Dai Li gave 654.38 million yuan and promised to release the rest after catching it, I gave up my whereabouts.

So I went to Wuzhou and found it. The reason she gave was that Yu was arrested, and their mother and son had nowhere to live in Hong Kong, so they had to ask if they could find her a place to live in Wuzhou, Guangxi. I believe that people will be arranged in the residence immediately.

1936101On October 20th, The Assassination of the King came to an end.

That night, I came to Yu's home alone, because he promised to let Yu's servant bring a note to Yu in prison.

Just entering the door, the spy who has been hiding behind the door sprinkled a handful of lime on Wang Yaqiao's face, and then 10 gathered several spies to prepare to capture Wang Yaqiao alive.

However, Wang Yaqiao is not an idle person after all. After leaving the crowd, he took out a pistol. When the spies saw this, they decided to kill Wang Yaqiao. Wang Yaqiao was shot five times and stabbed three times, and died on the spot. To shut him up, the spy killed Yu.

A generation of "assassinating the king" finally died of the assassination of spies.

It is worth mentioning that this day is less than two months from193665438+February 12. 12 12, Zhang Xueliang, who was scared by Wang Yaqiao and fled Shanghai, kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek in Xi 'an.

Wang Yaqiao's long-awaited anti-Japanese national united front was finally formally formed shortly after his death.

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After thinking for a long time, it's still hard to describe Wang Yaqiao.

He is neither a politician nor a strategist, and has never held a decent political and economic rank. However, in the black age of China, he always supervised government officials internally and retaliated externally.

It's just that his actions are not by mouth, not by pen, but by guns and bombs.

According to the materials that Scouts later reported to Chiang Kai-shek, just before being assassinated, Wang Yaqiao had contacted Yan 'an and was going to * * *.

When Zhou Enlai mentioned Wang Yaqiao's death, he said to people with great sadness, "If we had brought Mr. Wang Yaqiao to Yan 'an earlier, what a contribution we would have made to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the cause of liberation! "

But personally, I feel that Wang Yaqiao's character may not last long.

Not because of anything else, but for Wang Yaqiao, the national justice and the concept of right and wrong are naturally very clear, but he is used to being alone.

Showing personal strength to the country and politics is the key for Wang Yaqiao to win applause, but it is also the reason for his tragic ending.