Although the CCP also had underground party members to search for intelligence, the Kuomintang agents were even more ferocious, and during the revolutionary war, persecution of CCP members, soldiers, and revolutionaries was not uncommon. Therefore, in many film and television dramas, the portrayal of Kuomintang agents is a major point of view, and the audience grits their teeth.
The spies in history are indeed hateful, and the CCP is racking its brains to arrest the Kuomintang spies. On the eve of the Liberation War, Peiping was about to be liberated, but tens of thousands of Kuomintang agents were hiding in Beiping, and they did not just collect intelligence, but also engaged in assassination, surveillance, persecution and other activities, which made the people of Beiping panic.
Even though the Kuomintang repeatedly lost and retreated on the frontal battlefield, it has been deploying control at the level of secret agents, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack. Therefore, in order to eliminate this huge hidden danger in Beiping, the CCP has set up a public security bureau in Beiping, and their goal is very clear: to eliminate secret agents.
Among them, the story of the arrest of Tong Ronggong, the personal guard of Dai Kasa, is a classic, and without letting go of any clues, it is clear that Tong Ronggong is in a grocery store thousands of miles away!
Kuomintang agent Tong Ronggong
Tong Ronggong has used many pseudonyms when he walks the rivers and lakes, such as: Wang Ziming, Zhang Chenghua, Zhang Long hair and so on. He is a native of Beijing, with an old mother, wife, three sons and three daughters, all living in Beijing, and the family runs a grocery store. In 1933, Tong Ronggong joined the military command and received professional training, becoming a secret agent of the military command beiping war and Tianjin station.
He was agile, eloquent, and able to be calm and decisive in times of crisis, plus a mouth that could be patted on the back, and soon became a figure appreciated by the Kuomintang top brass, and was later favored by Hu Zongnan as the leader of his secret service.
At that time, Dai Kasa, who was serving as the director of the Military Command Bureau, saw that he was a piece of material, so he pulled Tong Ronggong under his command, made him his personal guard, and became the leader of the guard group.
As an agent of the military command operation, Tong Ronggong was trained to have a deep hatred for the Communist Party and revolutionaries. From 1936 to the liberation of Peiping, he participated in and killed more than 100 progressives, and in 1938, he received a secret order from Chiang Kai-shek to assassinate General Xuanxia's father. It can be said that Tong Ronggong is an unforgivable spy who does not share the hatred of the people.
At the end of 1948, Peiping was surrounded by PLA regiments and was about to be liberated. At a meeting of the Kuomintang Peiping Garrison Headquarters in Beiping City, some people suggested surrendering to the Communist Party, and Tong Ronggong was very angry when he heard this, and shot and intimidated everyone present on the spot, which showed that he also hated the Communist Party to the bone.
Therefore, when Peiping was about to be liberated, in order to eliminate the Kuomintang agents who were still hiding in Beiping City, the CCP formally established the Beiping Public Security Bureau on December 17, 1948.
Tong Ronggong was one of the spies who wanted to be arrested in particular, but Tong Ronggong, who knew about this matter, had already escaped from the city when Peiping was liberated, and Feng Jiping, director of the investigation department of the Public Security Bureau, said that he must go all out to arrest Tong Ronggong, otherwise there would be endless troubles in the future.
Suo Shiheng sent a message to Suo Shiheng during interrogation
Tong Ronggong was meticulous in his thoughts, and it was easy to arrest him, so the Beiping public security began to look for clues from his life. Although he is not in Beiping, his family still lives in a grocery store in Beiping. The investigators therefore deduced that he would definitely return to Peiping to visit his family while continuing to conduct espionage operations in the city.
So Feng Jiping, the director of the investigation department, chose the entry point at the grocery store and sent someone to monitor the movement of the grocery store. Fortunately, there was finally a clue, someone, a man carrying a snack box, walked into the grocery store, but came out with a bottle of wine in his hand.
Soon the man was arrested by the police, and after some interrogation, he learned that he was just a spy, and he was ordered by his superior, Suo Shiheng, to send living expenses to Tong Ronggong's family.
Following the clues, it was found that this Suo Shiheng was unusual and very cunning, and he was Tong Ronggong's right-hand man. Two or three days later, Suo Shiheng did not get any news of the man, and he knew that he had been arrested. After careful consideration, the Public Security Bureau decided to arrest Suo Shiheng, and the process of arresting him was unusually smooth, but there was a mistake in the interrogation process.
In the interrogation room, Suo Shiheng pretended to be an innocent victim and said that he was a helpless choice to be a spy, and if he did not do Tong Ronggong, he would retaliate against him and his family. He also pretended to be kind and offered to assist the police in arresting Tong Ronggong, but the scouts listened to him and allowed him to call and ask Him to return to Beijing.
But on the phone, Suo Shiheng said something that the investigators could not understand, and by the time the investigators reacted and hung up the phone, it was too late, and Tong Ronggong had already obtained the intelligence.
"Silly Big Sister" slipped through the cracks
After the failure of this operation, the Beijing public security began to get more clues about Tong Ronggong's whereabouts from the agents who had been arrested, but the clues were still chaotic, at this time, Tong Ronggong's grocery store had a movement, and his family took a car to Tianjin with the assistance of someone, and under the surveillance of investigators day and night, they quietly moved away and disappeared.
There was only mrs. Tong left in Beijing, who was placed in the home of Tong Ronggong's cousin Tong Haoru, and under repeated interrogation by the investigators, the two did not say where Tong Ronggong was.
Therefore, the director of the investigation department asked his subordinates to find the personnel who were close to Tong Haoru, and found that Tong Haoru had a "stupid big sister" under her, she was a rag, but in fact it was Tong Haoru's subordinates who assisted Tong Haoru in doing a lot of things.
This "silly big sister" is actually not stupid at all, she contacted Tong Ronggong through Tong Haorulai, specifically writing a letter to Tong Haoru with a potion, and then forwarded to Shenyang by Tong Haoru, the specific address of the letter is a grocery store in Shenyang, and the recipient writes Wang Ziming.
Through this clue, the director of the investigation department immediately sent four investigators to the grocery store in Tianjin, and among the four investigators was Wang Qi, the head of the investigation section.
After arriving in Shenyang, Wang Qi and others quickly found this Wang Ji grocery store, and in order to avoid catching the wrong person, Wang Qi repeatedly compared the looks of Wang Ziming and Tong Ronggong. Although the two looked different, but the eyes were exactly the same, after comparison, Wang Qi believed that this person was Tong Ronggong and immediately arrested him.
brief summary:
Tong Ronggong was secretly escorted to Beiping for detention, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was tried and sentenced to death and immediately executed. Tong Ronggong's sinful life ended in this way. In order to arrest him, the Beiping public security spent a full two years, but the kung fu paid off, with clues, it was able to locate Tong Ronggong thousands of miles away, this arrest story is indeed a classic!