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Li Tiandao recalled the past events of military control and the leftist support movement during the Cultural Revolution, saying that under the personal leadership and command of Chairman Mao, the army played a strong guiding role in the Cultural Revolution.

At that time, the masses in various units split into two factions, and they became increasingly antagonistic, and the struggle gradually escalated. Under such circumstances, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council, and the Central Military Commission had no choice but to make a "decision on the resolute support of the revolutionary leftist masses by the People's Liberation Army" on January 23, 1967.

The "Decision" stated: "Chairman Mao recently instructed that the People's Liberation Army should support the broad masses of the leftists. In the future, any real revolutionaries who seek military support and assistance should meet their requirements. The so-called 'non-intervention' is false. It has already intervened. The question is not whether to intervene or not to intervene, but which side to stand on. The People’s Liberation Army should actively support the revolutionary left.”

Soon, Liu Zhijian, deputy director of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army and member of the Central Cultural Revolution, was overthrown.

Xiao Hua was said to be a "pig intestine that can't be lifted up", and he was also knocked down.

The situation took a turn for the worse. Officials from the three major ministries of the Nanjing Military Area Command set up "combat teams" one after another, demanding that the head of the military area and the office manager come out to clarify the reasons for "non-intervention". Different views emerged.

Many cadres in the military region are unwilling to be royalists, and they are passionate, saying that they must defend the Party Central Committee, Chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao’s revolutionary line, intervene in the "Cultural Revolution", and support the local and military revolutionary leftists.

However, there are also some comrades who hold different opinions. They insist that the troops should not be chaotic. notify.

During this period, all the media in the country were promoting Mao Zedong's "Investigation Report on the Hunan Peasant Movement", encouraging people to become "rebels" and "anti-trend warriors." To defend the "proletarian headquarters" headed by Chairman Mao. Wherever the party points it, we will fight there.

It is completely understandable that the broad masses of the people, Communist Party members, and Party cadres, out of loyalty to the Party, love and support for Comrade Mao Zedong, responded to the call of the Party Central Committee, and actively and enthusiastically participated in this "inexplicable" movement of. It is also normal to have different opinions and perceptions in sports.

Li Tiandao had a friend who used to work in the logistics department of the Nanjing Military Region. He told Li Tiandao:

On January 26, 1967, some comrades from the Ordnance Department of the Logistics Department of the Nanjing Military Region joined forces with the Logistics Command, the Political Department, the Transportation Department, the Oil Department, and the Material Department, and decided to hold a mass meeting on their own to criticize the so-called "bourgeois reactionary line" and demand Head of Logistics clarifies the issue. The meeting was presided over by Wang Jiaen of the Ordnance Department, and the logistics chiefs invited to the venue included Political Commissar Guo Jinlin and Vice Minister Zhong Xianwen.

The conference was held in the square in front of the office building of the logistics department. The crowd was dense, the atmosphere was warm, and the momentum was very loud. Slogans such as "Down with Liu Dengtao" came and went one after another. The family members of the cadres also participated.

At the meeting, the masses asked Political Commissar Guo Jinlin and Vice Minister Zhong Xianwen to answer the questions raised by the masses. The two chiefs did not meet the demands of the masses, nor expressed their support for the convening of the meeting, which aroused the indignation and dissatisfaction of the participants.

Amid the uproar, some people demanded that the two heads of state, Guo Zhong, wear high hats and asked them to kneel down. At the request of the crowd in the audience, Wang Jiaen ordered the chief to kneel down and immediately stood up to accept criticism from the crowd. The heads of all business departments were ordered to attend the meeting and stand on both sides to accompany the fight.

The crowd at the meeting demanded that the heads of the meeting wear high hats and parade through the streets. Zhou Naixin from the Ministry of Transport came out to smooth things over and persuaded the crowd to visit the office building instead. Vice Minister Zhong Xianwen was forced to visit the office building.

Comrades from the Political Department of the Nanjing Military Region Command also held similar meetings on January 25 and 27, 1967. This is how the spontaneous "Cultural Revolution" of the leadership of the Nanjing Military Region began.

During this period, Xu Shiyou, the commander of the Nanjing Military Region, and Du Ping, the political commissar, both held meetings in Beijing. The two main comrades in charge of the military region kept making phone calls in Beijing, asking the government officials not to make noise, but to obey orders, and not to carry out the "Cultural Revolution" without authorization. Otherwise, discipline is enforced. This request is correct and should be implemented. However, under the circumstances at the time, dissuasion was ineffective.

Xu Shiyou was very annoyed when he learned that the post-administrative office held a meeting to criticize the head of state, put on a high hat, kneel down, and tour the building. With a feeling of suppressing rebellion, he called Deputy Commander Wang Bicheng, who was in charge of the work at home, to "execute discipline" and arrest people on a large scale against the key elements of the rebellion.

However, the three military chiefs, Wang Bicheng, Bao Xianzhi, and Lin Weixian, did not implement Xu Shiyou's wrong orders, and insisted on persuading and educating those who rebelled. Political Commissar Du Ping also disagreed with Commander Xu Shiyou's drastic measures.

At that time, other large military regions such as Fuzhou, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shenyang, and Beijing also launched a spontaneous "cultural revolution."

Under the persuasion of Wang, Lin, Bao, and the head of the logistics department of the Nanjing Military Region and its directly affiliated teams, the combat teams of the Nanjing Military Region’s logistics department stopped their activities, and soon the big-character posters stopped writing. Normal order was restored. However, military academies stationed in Ningxia, literary and art groups, and rebels from the People’s Liberation Army Academy of Art who went south from Beijing to “ignite” are connected together, driving propaganda vehicles into the institutions every day, using tweeters to continuously broadcast inflammatory news and Mao Zedong Quotations song. The interference and destruction of these external factors played a very bad role in the impact on the organs of the Nanjing Military Region.

Li Tiandao's friends said to Li Tiandao: In fact, chaos has begun within the Chinese army.