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In early January 1950, several top-secret intelligence reports were presented to Chairman Mao's desk. One of them, the Contingency Plan for the Organization of National Guerrilla Forces after the Fall of the Mainland, attracted the special attention of the Chairman, who asked the source of this information. When he heard about the comrades of our Party's hidden front, code-named "Secret Envoy No. 1" from the Kuomintang of the Taiwan authorities, he not only earnestly exhorted: "We must give them a credit!" And he gladly wrote the only poem in his life praising the heroes of the Hidden Front:
The waves beat the isolated island, and the blue waves reflect the dawn.
The tiger's den hides loyal souls, and the dawn ushers in early.
No wonder the chairman was very emotional. You know, this information looks like a thin piece of paper, but its weight is no less than 100,000 male soldiers!
This shows how important the work of the hidden front is! How precious are comrades engaged in the work of the hidden front! On the one hand, they have been dancing with wolves for a long time, not only facing the disaster of killing themselves at any time, but on the other hand, because of their hidden identities and the lack of witnesses, it is likely that one day although they have sacrificed for the country, it is difficult to be recognized; or because of the nature of their work, they cannot be publicly publicized and commended, even if they are heroic, they cannot be publicly publicized and commended like the heroes who charge with real knives and guns. Therefore, only those who truly believe firmly and do not care about fame and fortune can adhere to the party's underground work without complaint or regret.
So, who is this remarkable "Secret Envoy One" and how did he obtain top secrets at the strategic level from within the enemy? Let us remember the protagonist of this realistic version of "Latent" - Wu Shi!
【Wu Shi who was heroic in his youth】
I. Have the ambition to save the country and cultivate the "twelve able people"
Wu Shi (吴石), courtesy name Yu Xuan, was born in August 1895 in Luozhou Township, Minhou County, Fujian Province (now Wucuo Village, Luozhou Town, Cangshan District, Fuzhou City) on a poor scholarly family. As a teenager, he studied at the Restoration Fuzhou Kaizhi Academy and Rongcheng Gezhi Academy.
In 1911, the wave of the Xinhai Revolution made the young Wu Shi, who had the ambition to serve the country, surging with emotion, and at the age of 17, he resolutely threw himself into the pen and joined the Northern Expedition student army in Fujian with his hometown friend Wu Zhongxi, and threw himself into the Xinhai Revolution.
During his military career, Wu Shi, who was determined to become an outstanding military scientist and aspired to serve the country militarily, was admitted to the Wuchang Preparatory Officer School in 1915 and successfully admitted to the third phase of the Baoding Army Officer School, where he studied for four years, and Zhang Zhizhong and Bai Chongxi were alumni. Due to his academic excellence, whether it is the year-end examination or the graduation examination, he always ranks first in the school, so he has become a "scholar" level celebrity.
At that time, the War Department assigned graduates according to provincial nationality, and Wu Shi was unwilling to serve Li Houji, an Anhui warlord who controlled the Fujian region at that time, so he lived idly at home for several months, and later decided to devote himself to the revolutionary struggle led by Fang Shengtao, Zhang Zhen and others to expel the warlords.
In 1929, Wu Shi, who had already become the head of the Kuomintang Fujian Provincial Military Staff Office, was very worried when he saw that Japanese militarism was becoming increasingly rampant. It was decided to study in Japan despite the fact that he was about to turn 36 years old in order to gain a deeper understanding of the Japanese army and return from school to serve the country and the nation.
This idea was praised by fang Shengtao, the then chairman of the province, and the provincial government funded him to travel east to Japan to study military affairs. Wu Shi studied at the Japanese Artillery School and the Japanese Army University. Due to his hard work, solid training, and extraordinary talent, he ranked first in the school in both graduations, thus becoming a legend in the military circles of China and Japan.
The ambitious Wu Shi not only had outstanding military level, but also had outstanding talent, extensive knowledge, and proficiency, and was praised by the people of the time as the "Twelve Talents", namely: Noh, Noh Wu, Noh Poetry, Noh Words, Noh Book, Can Draw, Can English, Can Japanese, Can Ride, Can Shoot, Can Drive, Can Swim.
During his study abroad, in addition to focusing on his studies, Wu Shi also used his leisure time to collect information on the Japanese side extensively, immersed himself in research and collation, and when he returned to China, he actually brought back 65 large boxes of materials and luggage, which not only laid the foundation for becoming a "Japan Pass" recognized by the domestic military circles, but also made good preparations for the subsequent War of Resistance Against Japan.
Second, we should display our "Japanese general" talents and serve in the great cause of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
After returning to China in 1934, he initially served as the director of the Second Department of the General Staff Headquarters of the Military Commission of the National Government, and also served as an instructor at the Kuomintang Army Officers University, focusing on military theoretical research, guidance and military strategic planning, writing a number of military works, and cultivating a large number of military talents. Many of his students later became senior Kuomintang generals.
Due to his outstanding talents, he was promoted to major general in 1936. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wu Shi, as a recognized "Japanese master" and a senior military talent, played an important role in strategic planning. More than ten volumes of reference materials, such as "Judgment of Japanese Operations" and "Compilation of Japanese Troop Strength", which he led and compiled, basically and correctly predicted a series of actual deployments of the Japanese army, which convinced many generals of the Nationalist army who were not satisfied at first and regarded as a guideline.
Before and after the Battle of Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek summoned Wu Shi from time to time to discuss strategic priorities and greatly appreciated Wu Shi's military ability. In the later major battles of Changsha, Xianggui, Guinan, Kunlunguan, and Guiliu, Wu Shi's planning and guidance often yielded results.
In the meantime, Wu Shi also got a rare opportunity to walk from behind the scenes to the front desk. It was the Battle of Guinan from the end of 1939 to the beginning of 1940, and Wu Shi played an excellent role in planning and coordination, but due to the ineffective combat and cooperation of many chief officers, the Kuomintang army lost one after another and lost Nanning, which greatly angered Chiang Kai-shek, demoted, dismissed, and investigated a number of senior generals.
Later, in the battle to retake Kunlun Pass, Wu Shi did not leave the map during the day, did not leave the phone at night, did not sleep, commanded Ruoding, achieved a great victory at Kunlun Pass, greatly boosted morale, and was deeply affirmed by his colleagues. Taking this opportunity, when Zhang Fakui's Fourth Theater Commander's Headquarters was moved from Shaoguan to Liuzhou, Guangxi at the end of 1940, wu Shi was appointed as the chief of staff of the Fourth Theater under the recommendation of his old classmate Bai Chongxi.
After that, Wu Shi personally deployed the Battle of Guiliu and the Sino-Vietnamese border defense battle, dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese army. He also commanded the troops directly under the commander of the theater to attack the Japanese army moving south and the Japanese army invading the Sino-Vietnamese border from Vietnam to the north, consolidating the southwest border defense and guarding the security of the rear of the Nationalist government.
At the end of 1942, while stationed in Guangxi, Wu Shi received a telegram from the Zhenbian County government sent by confidential personnel one day, saying that he had caught a Vietnamese suspected of being a Japanese spy and was preparing to be executed on the spot. Wu Shi ordered the dispatch, and after understanding, it turned out to be ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Viet Cong. Wu Shi believed that the anti-Japanese resistance did not distinguish between national parties, treated Ho Chi Minh with courtesy, let him stay in Liuzhou, and also came forward to promote the formation of a national alliance association in Liuzhou by various Vietnamese parties, assisted in holding training classes for military and political cadres, and recruited a large number of Vietnamese young people to study in Liuzhou.
Third, see through the essence of decay and be determined to abandon the dark and cast light
Wu Shi worked within the Kuomintang for many years and initially had great hopes for the Kuomintang, especially during the Xinhai Revolution. However, as Chiang Kai-shek intensified a series of dictatorial and reactionary rulings, such as disregarding the people's lives and deaths, "foreign countries must first be at home," and vigorously engaging in nepotism, he felt that serving the Kuomintang rule was tantamount to fighting for the Chiang family dynasty, and was getting farther and farther away from his ideals and beliefs of being determined to save the country and the people, and even ran counter to it.
One
Wu Shi was honest in performing official duties and was clean and self-righteous, but in the Kuomintang military and political circles, everything he saw and heard was nothing but drunkenness, drunkenness, and corruption. In the face of the danger of the country's survival, the shortage of food and ammunition for the frontline soldiers, and the hunger and cold of the people in Li, the big officials and small officials in the rear are tending to make a big fortune and are arrogant and lavish, and all sectors of society have denounced it as "the front is tight, the rear is tight"! In particular, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang's various receptionists took the opportunity to fish for gold, houses, tickets, cars, and women, and staged a "five-son Dengke" style of taking advantage of the fire and looting; in addition, Chiang Kai-shek brazenly tore up the achievements of the peace talks, violated the will of the people of peaceful nation-building, and launched a civil war with treachery. All this made Wu Shi, who was worried about the country and the people, so anxious that he indignantly lamented that "it is unreasonable for the Kuomintang not to die!"!
Second
Chiang Kai-shek was keen on nepotism, and wherever he was involved in the concubine lineage, he would rise straight up, and all non-concubines would either stand on the sidelines or even if they were enabled, they would be both wary and suppressive. Among the senior Kuomintang generals, such incompetent people as Liu Zhi were loyal to Chiang Kai-shek personally by virtue of their concubines and bottomless filial piety, and even if they were repeatedly defeated in battles, they were still able to defeat and rise again and again. It not only caused a large number of unnecessary sacrifices of officers and men at the front, but also seriously weakened morale and undermined unity. As a result, many outstanding military talents who have both strategy and courage to dedicate themselves have always been ambitious and difficult to reward. Even if a talent like Wu Shi is at best a high-ranking staff member, although he has the ability to strategize, he has no opportunity to repay the battlefield.
If we say that Wu Shi's feelings have not been painful because he has been in the organ of the General Staff Headquarters for a long time, the impact of personally seeing and hearing on the front line after he became the chief of staff of the Fourth Theater of Operations has been even stronger.
It was 1944, and the Kuomintang army was defeated in the face of the Japanese army's large-scale attack on Xianggui. At the time of crisis, Wu Shi repeatedly sent telegrams to ask for reinforcements, but unexpectedly, in the face of such a dangerous situation, Chiang Kai-shek still played the despicable trick of using the japanese army's strength to eliminate the Communist Party and weaken the non-concubine forces, and never gave real support, in a vain attempt to eat the Gui army that was fighting bloody battles on the front line by the hand of the Japanese army, even if it would lose its division and lose its land. In addition, because the Central Army, which only listened to Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, often contradicted each other in its actions with the Gui army, the front-line troops were at a loss, many good fighters were wasted, and a large number of military strength was consumed by infighting.
All of this eventually led to a total rout and was unmanageable. At that time, the weather was extremely cold, and thousands of people dragged their children and daughters, called out to their fathers and mothers, and were displaced on the Guiqian Highway, bombed by enemy planes, and then chased by Japanese soldiers, and a large number of refugees died on the way to escape.
Seeing all this, Wu Shi became even more deeply suspicious of the "party-state" to which he was loyal, and he indignantly said to his family, "I will never do it again!" Indignant, he resigned as chief of staff of the Fourth Theater.
Third
Wu Shi was greatly dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's practice of "passively resisting the war and actively opposing communism" in the current situation of foreign enemies and the country's peril, and felt that Chiang Kai-shek had completely betrayed Dr. Sun Yat-sen's idea of "serving the public good under the whole world" of preferring not to be the provisional president and to put the interests of the country and the nation first. At the same time, through their own observation and understanding, they have gradually realized that only the Communist Party always thinks about problems and handles things from the perspective of the fate of the country and the nation and the people living and working in peace and contentment.
During the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists in the War of Resistance, Wu Shi had some contacts with the Communists, and his good feelings were formed from this. In August 1938, during the Battle of Wuhan, Wu Shi presided over the "Field Intelligence Staff Training Class", and specially invited Zhou Enlai and Ye Jianying to talk about guerrilla warfare, and he also studied Chairman Mao's "On Protracted War" and thought that they were all remarkable.
【Wu Shi's former residence, located in Luozhou Town, Cangshan District, Fuzhou】
Therefore, according to Wu Shi's eldest son Wu Shaocheng, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, his father began to listen to the radio broadcasts in the Liberated Areas and asked himself to help record them in college. At that time, his family lived in a house assigned by the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense, and next door was the family of Mao Renfeng, the head of the military command. But the father did not deliberately hide his "pro-communist" behavior, and his behavior was frank.
The final catalyst for the complete change of Wu Shi's political tendencies was due to Wu Shi's compatriot, his friend Wu Zhongxi, and another confidant. Wu Zhongxi secretly joined the Communist Party on the eve of the Lugou Bridge Incident and has been engaged in underground intelligence work within the Kuomintang. He Sui was also a senior official in the Kuomintang, and at the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was the director of the first theater of staff of the first theater where Cheng Qian served as commander; although he was not a communist, his whole family worked for the Communist Party, and three of his five children were communists.
Because Wu Shi himself was ideologically progressive, upright, and had a strong sense of national responsibility, under the influence of his two good friends, he naturally strengthened his determination to part ways with the Kuomintang reactionaries. In April 1947, Wu Shi was introduced through He Sui, and Liu Xiao, secretary of the East China Bureau of the CPC, and others met at the Jin jiang hotel in Shanghai, and officially joined the Communist Party, and were completely embarking on the road of abandoning the dark and casting light on the road of selfless work for the just cause of the party and the people.
Fourth, based on the hidden front, we should dream of a new China
Since the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wu Shi has served as the director of the Office of the Minister of Military Affairs of the Nationalist Government as a lieutenant general. In January 1946, after Wu Shi's hometown friend Wu Zhongxi was transferred to the Military Senate of the National Government in Nanjing, in order to obtain a real position in the Ministry of National Defense to be more conducive to intelligence work, Wu Zhongxi asked Wu Shi for help with his friend's friendship.
At that time, Wu Shi had already felt that Wu Zhongxi was working for the Communist Party, but still actively helped. After mediation, by September, Wu Zhongxi was appointed chief supervisor of the Kuomintang Vice-Admiral Supervision Bureau of the National Defense Commission. With the help of this post, military intelligence can be obtained through inspections in various localities and units.
The following year, with Wu Shi secretly joining the Communist Party, with the help of his position and qualifications, as well as his teacher-student friendship with many senior Kuomintang generals, he became a heavyweight lurking in our Party within the enemy and provided our Party with a lot of extremely important military intelligence.
On the eve of the Battle of Huaihai in June 1948, Wu Zhongxi won the opportunity to go to the "Xuzhou Suppression General Headquarters" to perform official duties, the real purpose of which was to obtain information on the core troop deployment, firepower allocation, date and route of action of the Kuomintang Xuzhou Battle.
Before the trip, in order to help Wu Zhongxi successfully complete this task, Wu Shi handed Wu Zhongxi a handwritten letter, which he wrote to his student, Li Shuzheng, chief of staff of the "Xuzhou Suppression General Headquarters", hoping that the other party would pay proper attention to Wu Zhongxi's work.
Coincidentally, when Wu Zhongxi arrived in Xuzhou, it happened that Du Yuming, deputy commander-in-chief of the "Xuzhou Suppression Command," went to the front to inspect, and Li Shuzheng received him with full authority. Because of Wu Shi's handwriting, Li Shuzheng tried his best to provide convenience in everything. Wu Zhongxi was successfully invited to enter the confidential room of the headquarters and waited for the opportunity to use the camera to take down the battle map. The map details the deployment of the troops of the Kuomintang and the Communists on the entire front from Haizhou in the east to Shangqiu in the west.
Later, under false pretense, he returned to Nanjing for medical treatment, and Li Shuzheng gladly approved it on behalf of Liu Zhi. As soon as he left Xuzhou, Wu Zhongxi immediately rushed to Shanghai to make a detailed report to Pan Hannian, the person in charge. Wu Zhongxi later recalled: "The completion of this mission would not have been so smooth if it were not for Li Shuzheng's care for his teacher-student relationship with Wu Shi. ”
In January 1949, with the comprehensive victory of the three major battles, the People's Liberation Army rushed straight to Nanjing, and the chaotic Chiang Kai-shek clique was like ants on a hot pot.
At that time, around the issue of transferring 500 boxes of military secret archives kept by the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense, National Defense Minister Bai Chongxi and Chief of General Staff Chen Cheng advocated direct shipment to Taiwan. Wu Shi, then director of the History and Political Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense, suggested that Fuzhou be temporarily moved, on the grounds that it would be convenient to transfer there to Taiwan and to be re-transported back to Nanjing when the situation improved. In fact, the reason why Wu Shi made such a suggestion was because he knew in advance that he would be transferred to Fuzhou and could try to leave this batch of confidential files. Since this solution seemed to be the best of both worlds, it was adopted.
In May, Wu Shi was transferred to the post of lieutenant general of the Fuzhou Appeasement Office. Under wu shi's skillful operation, after more than 500 boxes of secret archives transported to Fuzhou were carefully screened, only more than 100 boxes of irrelevant reference materials and military books were used as top-secret archives, and the rest of the top-secret archives were transferred to the Library of the Fujian Provincial Research Institute, where his friend Huang Juemin was the president, to hide.
After the liberation of Fuzhou on August 17, 1949, Huang Juemin handed over a total of 298 boxes, eight categories, and more than 6,800 volumes of top-secret military archives to the headquarters of the 10 Corps of the People's Liberation Army. These top-secret archives still have extremely high historical value.
In the later period of the Liberation War, within one or two years, the Kuomintang's core information such as the "Map of The Deployment of Troops for the Defense of the Yangtze River," the "National Armament Deployment Map," the "Military Deployment of Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou," and the "National Combat Deployment After the Fall of Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou" were handed over to our party's underground organizations in a timely manner, thus making special contributions to the liberation of Nanjing, Shanghai, Fuzhou, and other important cities.
In particular, the map of the deployment of the Kuomintang troops' Defense forces on the Yangtze River provided by him was even more detailed than the regiment. According to Zhang Zhen, then chief of staff of the Third Field Army, this information provided by Wu Shi pointed out the main direction of the PLA's attack on crossing the river, which was of great help to the operation, reduced the combat casualties of our army, and accelerated the process of victory throughout the country.
There was also a small episode in which his single-line contact Xie Xiaoxuan sent a notice that he needed to re-verify the number and station of a Kuomintang army. When he learned that this instruction came from Chairman Mao Zedong, he was very happy that his work could share Chairman Mao's worries.
Fifth, shoulder the "Secret Envoy No. 1" and go to Taiwan to help reunification
On August 14, 1949, Lin Wei, director of Chiang Kai-shek's attendant office, was ordered to send a telegram to Wu Shi to Taiwan with his family on the same day. Before leaving, Wu Shi managed to meet for the last time with Wu Zhongxi, who was then the leader of the East China Bureau of the Communist Party of China. According to Elder Wu's memoirs:
"He told me that the mission of the Fujian Appeasement Office has ended, and he is about to go to Taiwan to serve as the deputy general of the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense. I asked him to consider whether he was sure to go to Taiwan, and if he did not go, he could also stay and go to the Liberated Areas. He insisted,
Because his determination has been made too late, too little has been done for the people. Now that there is still an opportunity, personal risk is nothing
。 He also said that in order to eliminate the suspicions of the Taiwan side, he would go to Taiwan with his wife Wang Bikui and his two young sons and daughters, leaving only his eldest son Wu Shaocheng and eldest daughter Wu Lancheng on the mainland. ”
To this end, the East China Bureau of the CPC decided to let him continue to work under the code name of "Secret Envoy No. 1" and arranged for Wu Zhongxi's old colleague, Former Lieutenant General of the Fourth Theater, deputy chief of staff, and underground party member Chen Baocang to go to Taiwan with Wu Shi's assistant.
After Chiang Kai-shek's defeat in Taiwan, he summed up many lessons from his failure, but he did not realize that the most fundamental reason for his failure was that he was the enemy of the people and could not be ruled by the people's reactionary rule. One of the things that made him most angry was the failure of the intelligence work, which led to a frenzied retaliatory white terror campaign against the Communist underground in Taiwan.
Because Taiwan is surrounded by the sea on all sides and has a small area and has no room for maneuver, the underground organization of our party has been seriously damaged, so that Wu Shi has not been able to transmit intelligence for a long time. For this reason, Wu Shi was so anxious that he went to Hong Kong twice to try to contact the organization, but both returned disappointed.
Due to the lack of understanding of the enemy situation, coupled with insufficient shipping capacity and hasty preparations for war, the two battles launched at the end of October and November 1949 against Kinmen Island and Zhoushan Islands were defeated and suffered heavy losses.
The lessons of these two times have further shown that in order to liberate Taiwan, it is necessary to understand the enemy's situation and intelligence work is indispensable. Therefore, it is urgent to send a comrade to Taiwan to establish contact with Wu Shi. In addition to having a wealth of underground work experience, the most important thing for this candidate is to have a reasonable reason to go to Taiwan so as not to arouse suspicion from the Taiwan side.
Who can take on such a heavy responsibility? After extensive investigation, the East China Bureau of the Communist Party of China concluded that Zhu Feng (who had long been engaged in underground work in the party's name under Zhu Chenzhi) was the number one ideal candidate. She was loyal, alert, mature, and her eldest daughter and son-in-law worked for the Kuomintang in Taiwan. Having such social relations, which are easy to conceal, is undoubtedly extremely advantageous.
However, what made the organization hesitate was that Zhu Feng had been born and died in the heart of the enemy for more than ten years, the husband and wife were separated, and after the founding of New China, she thought that she could completely relax, and she was preparing to return from Hong Kong to Shanghai to reunite with her relatives. At this moment, it is really unbearable to let her take this risk. However, since there was really no better candidate, he had to seek his own opinion.
When Comrade Zhu Feng learned of a new task, although she was unexpected, she did not hesitate in the slightest, expressed her resolute obedience to the needs of the work, and immediately wrote a secret farewell letter to her husband in the tone of calling herself a brother:
"The brother will go out to do business, and he will stay for a few months, and the sister does not have to worry about it, nor does she have to talk to others." If my sister needs to go elsewhere, please don't delay for me. At this time, personal affairs should not be put in the heart for the time being, more important should be done, after a few months, the brother will meet with the sister in a more pleasant mood, and the sister will wait for a more pleasant meeting..."
Later generations lamented this: What a great spirit of sacrificing oneself for righteousness! What a sincere couple of deep affection! When Zhu Feng arrived at Keelung Wharf in Taiwan on a liner from Hong Kong on November 27, her daughter and son-in-law were already waiting there. The warm embrace of mother and daughter on the dock also made the vigilant military and police agents around them relax their vigilance nerves.
According to the organization's arrangement, this time to Taiwan, she only contacted two people in a single line, and returned after completing the task. These two people are Wu Shi and Cai Xiaoqian, secretary of our party's Taiwan Working Committee under the pseudonym "Lao Zheng."
After arriving in Taiwan, Zhu Chenzhi immediately contacted "Old Zheng" to contact him. A week later, in early December, Wu Shi met with Zhu Feng and handed over the information in his hand to Zhu Chen for the first time. In the following forty days or so, the two men met six or seven times, and Wu Shi successively provided a number of microfilms of top-secret military intelligence, including the "Strategic Defense Map of the Taiwan Theater," the "Map of The Strength and Firepower of the Frontline Positions of Coastal Defense" in the Zhoushan Islands and Kinmen Island, the data on the currents of the Taiwan Sea, the geographical data of the strategic landing sites on Taiwan Island, and the distribution of the deployment of Taiwan's naval and air forces. This information was quickly sent back to the mainland by Zhu Chenzhi through Hong Kong through relations. This leads to chairman Mao's cheerful poem, as mentioned at the beginning, praising all the comrades on the hidden front, such as "Secret Envoy No. 1."
【Statue on General Wu Shi Memorial Square】
For more than 40 thrilling days, with the cooperation of Wu Shi, after Zhu Feng successfully completed the tasks assigned by the organization, according to the instructions of the organization's requirements for "quick return", he asked his daughter to order a return ticket to Hong Kong, and also entrusted a business friend to carry a note with only a few words to his relatives in Shanghai: "Feng will return to Li within a month (Zhu Feng's little name guifeng when he was a child). January 14, 1950. At the same time, she also sent a letter to her hometown friends in Shanghai, saying that she would return home within the month: "I hope to tell the little girl and Xiaomei that I have not seen Mi Yin for many years, and I can increase my happiness and comfort!" "It is conceivable how urgent the feeling of reunion between relatives has been separated for many years because of the revolutionary struggle.
However, underground work is such a rapid change. Just as Zhu Feng was immersed in the joy of the imminent triumph and the reunion of his relatives, something unfortunate happened. Chen Zemin, a member of the CPC Taiwan Work Committee, was arrested and betrayed and confessed to cai Xiaoqian, the person in charge. On January 29, 1950, Cai Xiaoqian was arrested, but unfortunately, the top leader of Taiwan's underground party who had participated in the 25,000-mile Long March was defeated only a week later, and the secrets of our party were put together, and the party organization was devastated.
Sixth, adhere to the bold and loyal soul, and sprinkle the isolated island with blood
Although Cai Xiaoqian was not sure of Wu Shi's hidden identity, he may have heard about it from other sources, and his notebook with the words "Wu Vice Chief" had been searched by Kuomintang agents. Although due to the lack of temporary evidence, Wu Shi did not dare to arrest him immediately, but he has been listed as a suspect and secretly carried out a peripheral investigation.
Wu Shi did not know his situation, but only knew that there was a high-level defection in the underground organization of the Communist Party of Taiwan, and immediately sent his close associate Colonel Nie Xi (who was also a communist) to inform Zhu Feng to leave quickly. But cunning enemies have closed all of Taiwan's sea and air passages to the outside world, and only one Keelung-Ding naval route to Zhoushan is still in operation, but the most recent flight will not be available until February 4.
At the critical juncture, Wu Shi risked being exposed and resolutely issued a "special pass" for Zhu Feng. On February 4, escorted by Wu Shi's aide-de-camp Colonel Nie Xi, he arrived in Dinghai, Zhoushan, on a military plane to treat his illness, hoping to find fishing boats or merchant ships there and head to the mainland.
In Zhoushan, Zhu Feng stayed at the home of an old classmate who worked in the hospital and spent two weeks. However, Zhoushan was too small, and the enemy search was too tight, and he was finally arrested on February 28.
At first, the enemy originally thought that a female figure like Zhu Feng would be as vulnerable as Cai Xiaoqian, so he also formulated an offensive plan of "preferential treatment in life, comfort in conversation, and gentleness in contact", in a vain attempt to achieve the purpose of "reformation" with false compassion.
Zhu Feng knew that in the hands of the Kuomintang reactionaries, who were notorious for their bloody rule, inhuman torture and death were the only result except for surrender and defection. The day after being captured, Zhu Feng took advantage of the guards' lack of preparation, secretly cut out two or two gold lock pieces and gold bracelets hidden in the clothes sandwich, crushed them with his teeth, and swallowed them with water four times. The pain of swallowing gold People can imagine that when Zhu Feng was found by the guards the next day, he was already in pain and fell into a coma.
The enemy sent Zhu Feng to the hospital for treatment, and so many gold fragments were stirred in Zhu Feng's stomach for two days before being forcibly discharged by the doctor with laxatives. Major General Gu Zhengwen of the Kuomintang Secrecy Bureau, who heard the case, said in his later book "The Case of the Wu Shi and Other Rebellions" that "this kind of discipline and spirit of safeguarding important work and sacrificing one's own life is indeed preferable to the law, and he admired his "strong party spirit and excellent learning ability."
【Martyr Zhu Feng with his young son and nephew】
After Zhu Feng was rescued, the enemy continued to carry out coercion and inducement. At first, it was emotional, and the agents arranged for Zhu Feng's daughter and son-in-law to come together to advise her, but she told her daughter and son-in-law that she was a Communist Party member, and although she loved her daughter, for a true Communist, she would rather sacrifice her life than change her faith.
Just two days after Zhu Feng's arrest, on March 1, 1950, General Wu Shi was arrested at his home. At the same time, Wu Shi's colonel aide-de-camp Nie Xi, who was also appointed lieutenant general of the Fourth Military Station of the Joint Logistics Headquarters, Chen Baocang, was also arrested. This is the "Secret Envoy No. 1" case that shook the two sides of the taiwan strait, also known as the "Wu Shi Case."
After being arrested, Wu Shi and three others were also severely tortured, and Wu Shi was beaten to the point that he lost his light forever. But he was always determined and would rather die than yield.
[General Chen Baocang's demeanor before his execution]
【Martyr Nie Xi who died generously】
He knew in his heart that he had no hope of getting out of the kuomintang's deep prison. Although his body was bruised, he still insisted on reading books lying down, and intermittently wrote a suicide note of more than 2,000 words, reviewing his life in detail.
One of the poems in prison shows that he had no remorse for the revolution:
"Providence is vast and unseen, and the world is even more difficult to know." Ordinary life is hard work and loyalty, and it is too sad to end like this. Fifty-seven years in a dream, fame and dedication are empty. With the heart of the general, Izumi sent a messenger to me. ”
[Martyr Zhu Feng and Martyr Wu Shi (the calm signatories on the right)]
On June 10, 1950, more than three months after the arrest of Wu Shi, Zhu Feng and others, Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary clique decided to kill the killer. At 4:30 p.m., Kuomintang gendarmes executed Wu Shi, Zhu Feng, Nie Xi, and Chen Baocang at the Taipei Machang Town Execution Ground. Before leaving, they looked calm and fearless. After calmly signing the painting, Wu Shi looked in the direction of the ancestral mainland and said, "Mainland Taiwan is all family. This is the blood of the people. In a few decades, I will return to my hometown. ”
【Statues of the Four Martyrs in the "Wu Shi Case"】
After Wu Shi's death, his wife Wang Bikui was also sentenced to 9 years in prison. During the arrest of Wu Shi and his wife, Kuomintang agents also took great pains to take stock of the personal property of the then deputy chief of staff of the "Ministry of National Defense.", and the result was greatly disappointed, only one gold bar was found and weighed four or two. The agent in charge of the search could not help but sigh: Such a large official, it is not worth it!
The words of this agent fully confirmed the truth of "Yan Que An Zhi Hong Hu Zhi Ya", how could he understand that the ambitions were different, how could the realm be the same? It is conceivable that if a person is greedy for money and pleasure, how can he be willing to give his life for faith and for the people!
With the inauguration of Wu Shi and four others, the sensational "Secret Envoy No. 1 Case" seems to have come to an end. In fact, this is only a microcosm of Chiang Kai-shek's "white terror" politics in Taiwan.
At that time, the Taiwan Provincial Police General Command was in a position of power and assumed the vanguard role of carrying out the "White Terror." Chiang Kai-shek firmly controlled this institution in his own hands, the first chief chen cheng was a concubine of his own lineage, and the successors Huang Jie and Chen Daqing were also of the Huangpu clan, and the biggest feature was that they were only following Chiang Kai-shek.
Although these people have been defeated repeatedly on the battlefield, they have played a mighty role in Taiwan, and the viciousness of their methods is appalling. In 1949, Chen Cheng ordered the arrest of National Taiwan University and Taiwan Normal University, arresting more than 100 students with "pro-communist" tendencies, seven of whom were convicted of "bandit spies" and immediately shot.
Under the "white terror" at that time, as long as it was tied to the "red hat", it was basically difficult to escape death, even if there was a trace of suspicion on the body, it was nine deaths. For a time, with the help of the demonic wind of the "white terror," there were numerous unjust prisons, such as venting private revenge, announcing private vendettas, opposing the party and cutting down different things, and falling into the well. The people of Taiwan are all in danger of themselves, and they are afraid of fear all the time, lest they be accused by others of being "pro-Communist" elements if they are not careful. Under the white terror, the Communists and patriots suffered even more heavy losses, almost to the point of extinction. The traitor Cai Xiaoqian alone gave a list of more than 400 party members and more than 1,800 intelligence officers of our party in Taiwan, and a large number of benevolent and righteous people died heroically, and some did not even leave their names.
Before the White Terror began, there were more than 1,500 members of our Party in The Taiwan region, and after the "Great Purge," 1,100 people were executed immediately, and the rest were like kites with broken lines, and there was no news. Not only that, but as many as 140,000 "pro-Communist" people have been implicated, many of whom are ordinary people who have been innocently wronged. There were 29,407 people who were directly arrested, more than 4,400 people were publicly executed, and many were executed secretly, the number of which cannot be finally confirmed, and perhaps only Taiwan's Baba town execution site can know the exact number. "It is better to kill a thousand by mistake than to spare one person" reached the point of outrage at that time.
The vast number of underground intelligence personnel endured humiliation and obscurity for the complete liberation of the motherland, until they paid for their precious lives. The noble qualities of their willingness to be unsung heroes for the sake of lofty ideals will surely be engraved on the monuments of history forever. And the accumulated blood debts committed by the Kuomintang reactionaries headed by Chiang Kai-shek to the people will surely be left in the foreground for eternity.
【Ceremony for the Return of the Remains of Martyr Zhu Feng from Taiwan to the Mainland】
The people will not forget those who have contributed to the people. In 1973, in recognition of General Wu Shi's special contributions to the birth of New China and the great cause of the reunification of the motherland, General Wu Shi was posthumously recognized as a revolutionary martyr with the personal interrogation of Premier Zhou Enlai and the support of Chairman Mao Zedong.
On December 20, 1975, premier Zhou Enlai was still thinking about his critical illness: Our party will not forget its old friends in Taiwan. In particular, General Zhang Xueliang, who was still alive at the time, was mentioned, and the other was General Wu Shi, who had already died.
In 2000, the children of General Wu Shi returned the remains of him and his wife Wang Bikui to the mainland and buried them outside Beijing
Futian Cemetery
Finally, the martyr's last wish before his execution was realized, "After a few decades, I will return to my hometown.". Its inscription is composed of the former secretary-general of the State Council, who has long been in charge of national security work
Luo Qingchang
It was personally examined and approved, and written by Zheng Baosheng, the former secretary of General Wu Shi.
【Beijing Xishan Unknown Soldier Memorial Square】
In order to commemorate the many unsung heroes who died in Taiwan, the Unsung Heroes Memorial Square was specially built in Xishan, Beijing. The huge stone wall of the square is engraved with a poem by Chairman Mao Zedong highly praising the heroes who sacrificed their lives and forgot their lives for the people and the nation on the hidden front:
"The waves shoot the isolated island, the blue waves reflect the dawn, the tiger's den hides the loyal soul, and the dawn ushers in the early"
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Let us all look forward to the early reunification of the great country and to comfort these revolutionaries that the dream that they chased with their lives will eventually become a reality!