Jailed and Martyred For His Beliefs (1929)
- In 1929, Peng Pai was betrayed by Bai Xin (白鑫), a meeting secretary and subordinate of Peng. This led to Peng Pai, Yang Yin (杨殷) and three other CCP leaders being arrested by the KMT government when attending a meeting in Shanghai on August 24. Peng Pai firmly refused to surrender or renounce his beliefs, even under torture, during his imprisonment. Zhou Enlai, leading the Central Special Task Units (CSTU) of the CCP, organized an action attempting to rescue Peng Pai but this failed. On August 30, Peng Pai was secretly killed at Longhua, Shanghai by the KMT government on the orders of Chiang Kai-shek. On November 11, per Zhou Enlai’s order, Chen Geng (陈赓) and Gu Shunzhang (顾顺章) directed the CSTU with its Red Squad to kill Peng's betrayer, Bai Xin, outside of his hidden shelter in Shanghai.
In memory of Peng Pai and Yang Yin, the CCP named its military academy the “Peng-Yang Military Academy of the Red Army”.
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