War is a major event of life and death for a region, a country and even a nation, and in the book "Sun Tzu's Art of War" by the Chinese military expert Sun Wu more than 2,000 years ago, it was once said: The place where soldiers die and live, the way of survival, and must not be unaware. It can be seen from this that war is the most important thing for every country and nation.
War is also the most complex group action in the world. The sheer number of participants, the complexity of the preparations, the magnitude of the casualties, and the severity of the results made every country cautious. In the history of China, there are countless discussions of war. Each era has a relevant classic that speaks of how to win the war from all angles.
In the writings of Western militarists, it is described that the goddess of war is shy, and you must use all your means and wisdom to get her smile. In China's 5,000-year history, war is also a topic of national concern. How to win the war is also the subject of a lifetime of research by Chinese military scientists and famous generals since ancient times.
China's Sun Tzu once said in the Art of War: Know thyself and know the other, and never lose a hundred battles. This is an important account of how to win the war. It has also been told more than 2,000 years ago that intelligence is the key to victory in war.
In the history of war in the world, intelligence warfare is an important part of the accompanying war. In the fierce battle between the two countries and the two armies, how to accurately understand the situation of the other side's army, military plans, major generals, and other information, so that our side can make combat plans based on this information, has always been the key weight in the sorting out of the war.
In China, there are records of intelligence gathering and espionage personnel in the war from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and there are countless intelligence warfare stories in China's military history. In the Battle of Changping between the Qin Dynasty and the State of Zhao, it was the Qin Dynasty that concealed the fact that Bai Qi led the troops, and then used the method of espionage and rumor-mongering to deceive the Zhao State into changing generals, so that Zhao Kuo, who was talking on paper, served as the commander, which besieged and finally killed the 400,000 troops of the Zhao State in one fell swoop, defeating the Zhao State in one fell swoop.
In the Pearl Harbor attack during World War II, Japan took the temporary change of the code of combat telegraphs, making the intelligence services of the US military blind. Taking advantage of the time when the US military was fully committed to deciphering the code of Japan's new operational telegrams, it quickly formulated the operational deployment of the air attack on Pearl Harbor, and suddenly attacked without the US military noticing, and finally successfully damaged the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor of the US Army at a very small cost.
Such espionage and intelligence wars are numerous in the history of Chinese and foreign wars, and these stories make us talk about them, but from the stories, we can also see how valuable intelligence is to a war. Especially when two countries and two groups are engaged in a protracted war, the importance of intelligence is even more prominent, and effective intelligence can always allow us to always be in the dominant position of information, and through the use of intelligence, we can gain an advantage in the balance of war.
In the protracted confrontation between the two parties of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, the intelligence war and espionage war between the two parties have never subsided, and the Kuomintang authorities have successively set up military and central intelligence departments to deal with the war. Our party's intelligence agencies and underground organizations have also been growing stronger and playing an important role under the leadership of Comrades Li Kenong and Ye Jianying.
In the Kuomintang-Communist War, in the end our Party won a decisive victory, and behind this victory, the superiority of intelligence warfare and the underground workers of our Party were of great merit, and although they were in a battlefield without smoke of gunfire, the dangers of this battlefield and the requirements for wisdom and courage were not inferior to those of the frontal battlefield.
Today we would like to introduce you to a Communist Party member who is active in the intelligence battlefield, who has been lurking within the Kuomintang for more than 10 years and has become the most trusted staff officer of the kuomintang senior generals Chen Cheng and Gu Zhutong.
After Joining the Communist Party in his early years, Comrade Nie Yuehan was appointed by our party as an important intelligence officer and lurked within the Kuomintang because of his good family background and his father's deep contacts within the Kuomintang. Comrade Nie Yuehan, living up to his trust, used his excellent military planning skills within the Kuomintang to gradually be discovered by the kuomintang top brass and promoted all the way.
In the early days of the Liberation War, Comrade Nie Yuehan was already a senior combat staff officer of the Operations Department of the National Government in Nanjing, and was appreciated by General Chen Cheng as his staff aide-de-camp. This was a difficult position to reach, and this position meant that he had access to all the military strategic deployment information of the Kuomintang at the highest level. Comrade Nie Yuehan also lived up to his trust and passed on many core Secrets and Military Intelligence of the Kuomintang to our Party.
In 1947, General Chen Cheng inspected the northeast defense and formulated the "Military Manual" for the defense operation in the northeast, and after learning of this news, Comrade Nie Yuehan obtained the right to know the manual from Chen Cheng in the name of the need to refine the operational deployment, and helped General Chen Cheng to refine the military strategy in the manual at the specific tactical level. Chen Cheng was very satisfied with the plan and asked Nie Yuehan to report directly to Chiang Kai-shek on the specific deployment plan at the Kuomintang core meeting.
Conclusion: Where did General Chen Cheng know that after Nie Yuehan got the manual, he copied a copy of the information that night and passed it to the Central Military Commission in Xibaipo, and the Central Military Commission quickly formulated a targeted combat plan based on the information in the manual, and informed Nie Yuehan of the plan, and Nie Yuehan formulated a combat deployment based on our army's combat plan for the Kuomintang Northeast Theater to die.
Comrade Nie Yuehan contributed a wealth of intelligence in the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Nie Yuehan worked as a district police officer in Beijing, and then because of the Pan Hannian incident, he served a sentence of more than 20 years, and finally died at the age of 101. No matter what the situation is, Comrade Nie Yuehan is the best intelligence fighter in our army.