The true biography of Yaqiao, the first chivalrous king of the Republic of China

Chapter 76 Tang Youren Becomes a Ghost Under the Gun
Sun Fengming and Cui Zhengyao died heroically; He Poguang, Zhang Yuhua, Li Huaicheng and others were arrested; Downstairs, Wang Yaqiao was furious when he was bribed by the Hong Kong police and thrown into prison by the military command. He called Wang Yaying, Zheng Baozhen, Yu Yanong, Xu Zhiyuan, Zhang Xianting, Cai Daohe and other key members to hold a secret meeting in his new apartment at No. 9 Chenghe Road to discuss countermeasures.Wang Yaqiao proposed to fight a tooth for a tooth and blood for blood, and organize several more action groups to kill the "grass head Jiang" or Dai Li.Everyone was silent at first, but later they all believed that whether it is "Caotou Jiang" or Dai Li, they are now a hundred times more vigilant, and they are opening a big net to invite you into the urn.

"This is also dangerous, and that is also dangerous. Could it be that I can only hide in Tibet and be a grandson?" Wang Yaqiao asked with his eyes staring like copper bells.

"Brothers here, I want to ask, who of you will go back to Shanghai with me to stir up the Huangpu River and make those fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs unsafe?" Wang Yaqiao asked again, panting heavily.

Everyone, you look at me and I look at you, but no one answers.

Wang Yaqiao got angry and seemed to feel better.Seeing that his cronies were still silent, he pulled over a chair, sat on it, lit a cigarette, and took a deep breath, only half of the cigarette was left.

Wang Yaying stood up, poured tea for everyone, sighed, and sat down silently.

Yu Yanong is two years older than Wang Yaqiao, and is the oldest and most experienced person present.Seeing that no one spoke, the air in the room seemed to be congealed, and he was very depressed, so he said: "What Lao Jiu said is not unreasonable. To deal with a ferocious enemy, we must face each other tit for tat and use violence to control violence. If you give in too much, It is tantamount to showing weakness, and the enemy will scratch their noses and slap their face, shameless...Of course, we are fighting alone, and we are facing a powerful state machine, so we can't act recklessly like Liu Bei's revenge and throw ourselves into the trap."

"Yes, counterattack is necessary. The question is what method to adopt and what target to target." Zheng Baozhen echoed.

Seeing that her husband's face softened, Wang Yaying said, "Ever since we caught up with Ninth Brother, we can say that we have never left ourselves any way out. Whether it goes well or fails, we have no complaints or regrets. We should Select the assassination target as soon as possible, not only to show our existence, but also to confuse Dai Li's sight, and to cover Hua Kezhi and other fleeing brothers. After all, we are in Hong Kong, whether it is "Grass Head Jiang" or Dai Li, they are beyond their reach .”

Seeing everyone expressing their opinions one after another, not only supporting his counterattack idea, but also subtly advising himself not to be impatient and blind, Wang Yaqiao's mood gradually calmed down, and reason regained the upper hand.So, he asked everyone to discuss and see how to move the next move.

Soon, Xu Zhiyuan was ordered to go to Shanghai. He found Xiao Peiwei in Junyili, Baylor Road (now Xingye Road, Jing’an District) in the French Concession, gave him a photo of Chen Mingshu and Tang Youren, and pointed to Tang Youren. It is cheap, and it creates troubles in North China, trying to separate North China, which, like Northeast China, has become a base for Japan to invade China. "Caotou Jiang" not only did not fight hard, but also instructed the signing of the "Hemei Agreement" with Japan, according to the Japanese He demanded that the Chairman of Hebei Province, Yu Xuezhong, be removed, the Chairman of Chahar Province, Song Zheyuan, be dismissed, the Kuomintang Ministry of Hebei Province be abolished, and the Central Army stationed in Hebei, Pingjin, and Hebei be transferred to the south. .North China is lost, the Chinese nation is at stake, and it is only a matter of time before Japan fully invades China. Tang Youren, the vice minister of foreign affairs, played a very bad role in it. You host, within a month, send him to heaven!" Before leaving, Xu Zhiyuan left Tang Youren's address in Shanghai and a stack of activity funds.

Xiao Peiwei, from Xingren, Guizhou. During the "January [-]th" incident, he served as the company commander of the supplementary regiment of the [-]th Route Army.After receiving the order, he immediately dressed up as a pedestrian and walked around the Tang mansion several times, thinking about ways to get close to Tang Youren.

The Tang Mansion is located at No. 3, Lane 235, Gancun, Ganshi East Road, in the French Concession. It is a four-story villa with a garage on the first floor and a concrete staircase leading directly to the second floor.People in the Tang family live above the second floor, and they have to walk up and down the stairs to and fro.

After walking around a few times, Xiao Peiwei discovered that there was a single building for rent next to the Tang mansion. He laughed dumbfounded, and came to inspiration.

The next day, he rented the single building, decorated it accordingly, bought a complete set of furniture, and installed a telephone, showing the image of a rich boy.After packing up, he organized his subordinates Qiu Jiyu, Chen Youguang (pseudonym Yang Yousheng), Liu Zhennan and others to discuss. Everyone believed that the photo provided by Wang Yaqiao was a group photo of several people, while Tang Youren's image was small and his appearance was blurred. One is to get a large portrait of Tang Youren, and the other is to find out the rules of his activities.Therefore, Xiao Peiwei instructed the soldiers to divide into two groups, all the way to the major photo studios in Shanghai and Nanjing, to search for the portraits of Tang Youren in the windows (in those days, the major photo studios hung the portraits of senior government officials and celebrities in the windows for display. soliciting business); all the way through the secret lookout hole, from the people who enter and exit the Tang Mansion.

After some secret collection, the action team gained a lot.At that time, Tang Youren seemed to feel that he had committed a lot of crimes and was overwhelmed mentally, so he repeatedly proposed to resign from the post of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.Chiang Kai-shek failed to persuade him to stay, so he was transferred to the Ministry of Communications as the executive deputy minister and concurrently as the consultant of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was still sent to negotiate with Japan.Tang Youren is Chiang Kai-shek's celebrity and Wang Jingwei's confidant. He is very popular and suave. His wife Ouyang Lizheng is also from Hunan. She is the younger sister of the famous dramatist Ouyang Yuqian.Tang Youren is not willing to be lonely, and has an ambiguous relationship with Huang Biyun, a talented woman from Hunan. When returning to Shanghai from Nanjing every week for the weekend, he often takes advantage of the "time difference" to have trysts with Huang Biyun... The phone number of Tang's mansion is also obtained.The only shortcoming is that Tang Youren's portrait photo was not obtained.Among the men who entered and exited the Tang mansion, although there was no final confirmation, Xiao Peiwei already felt that they were close to each other.

The execution time ordered by Wang Yaqiao is approaching, Xiao Peiwei knows his uncompromising temper, and decides to take action against Tang Youren.

In his later years, Chen Youguang described the assassination process as follows in his reminiscence article:

On the morning of December 1935, 12, it was discovered that Tang had arrived at his apartment in Shanghai and went out by car at around 24:3 p.m. phone call to confirm that the person who just went out by car was indeed Tang himself, and learned from the phone that he was going to Wang's mansion. The members of the "anti-rape group" immediately prepared according to the plan, and quickly rented a car with a black license plate (black is a private car, white is a taxi) for action.As for how to act, the retreat route after the action and the protection of the safety of the operating personnel, etc., are all carried out according to the predetermined plan.

At around 4:[-] p.m., members of the "anti-rape group" carried weapons and went to the intersection of Ganshi Road and West Edhams Road (because there are often armed police here, not far from Tang's apartment), and were ready to shoot the police to death if necessary, so as to ensure the safety of the operation personnel. safety.

As for the route that the operatives pass by, there are not many pedestrians at ordinary times, so it is relatively safe.It can also be connected from the site to the vicinity of Albert Bugaoli, and then get on the waiting car, drive to the British Concession, get off at the Nanjing Road Continental Shopping Center, enter through the front door, exit through the back door, and walk to the Dadong Hotel attached to Yongan Company The prepared room is concentrated.

As expected, at around 6:[-] p.m., Tang returned from Wang's house on Ansi Road to his apartment on Ganshi Road.At this time, members Liu Zhennan and Qiu Jiyu, who were hiding in the car room next door to Tang's apartment (this room was rented by the "anti-traitor group" with a lot of money to deal with Tang Youren), saw that Tang got out of the car and hadn't reached the stone steps at the back door of the apartment. Then he shot Tang to death.

After the assassination of Tang, all members of the "anti-rape group" quickly moved to Guangzhou, which is relatively safe.

That night, the Central News Agency immediately issued a telegram, reporting on the Tang assassination incident:

Tang Youren returned to his apartment at [-]:[-] p.m. on the [-]th, and was shot dead by mobs at the back door.

At 25 o'clock in the morning on the [-]th, Tang went out to visit Youyou, and returned to the apartment for lunch at [-] o'clock. , and two men in black overcoats, sniped at Tang. They fired a total of more than ten shots, and three of them hit vital points. One shot went in from the right rib and exited through the left armpit; Injected, left crotch armpit pierced.Tang fell to the ground in response, and the mob saw that the plan had been completed, so they separated and fled.

When Tang was shot, he was wearing a gray suit and a light yellow overcoat. He bled profusely and the blood seeped through his clothes.

Later, at the Spring River Hotel in Shanghai, Xiao Peiwei met Zhu Dagang, Wang Yaqiao's trafficman. When chatting, he also vividly described the whole process of assassinating Tang Youren.

(End of this chapter)