General He Long

In July 1927, He Long, leading the army in the Northern Expedition, defeated Zhang Zuolin's forces in Henan, achieving a great victory in Linyi. Wang Jingwei, the chairman of the Wuhan Nationalist Government, secretly colluded with Chiang Kai-shek and forced He Long to return to Wuhan. To win the loyalty of the military, he appointed He Long as the commander of the 20th Army of the National Revolutionary Army. Soon after, Wang Jingwei orchestrated a mutiny within the 20th Army led by Tong Huaicai. Despite the warnings from Bai Ying, a reporter for the 'Guomindang Daily,' He Long recklessly charged into the gunfire, managing to quell the mutiny. He learned from the soldiers that Wang Jingwei had secretly released a Japanese named Yamada, who was stained with the blood of the Chinese people. He rushed to the dock, intercepted a cargo ship, and cleverly captured Yamada, who was hiding in a pile of coal. Wang Jingwei then instructed wealthy gentlemen in Wuhan to bribe He Long. At 'Hongyun Tower,' He Long, in front of them, threw all the priceless jewelry into the lake, frightening the gentry. While Wang Jingwei shouted for an 'Eastern Expedition against Chiang,' he secretly confiscated weapons from the workers and arrested and massacred the peasant and worker masses. He Long sternly condemned Wang Jingwei's counter-revolutionary actions to his face. Wang Jingwei, at a loss for words, used a ruse to divert He Long's troops for the Eastern Expedition. He Long played along, organizing a tofu banquet to divert the leaders of the Hunan and Hubei provincial committee of the Communist Party. In the banquet hall, He Long ordered the confiscation...