introduction
In 1951, a major general of the Nationalist army was about to be shot, in the face of countless mass criticisms, he remained silent, did not resist, when his life was hanging by a line, Marshal Ye Jianying got this news, the frightened Ye Shuai immediately ordered the gun to stay behind, which saved him from the execution ground. So the question is, who is he, in order to make Ye Shuai stunned, today let me approach the CCP's underground excellent intelligence officer - Mo Xiong.
Mo Xiong
As we all know, the hidden battlefield can be said to be a battlefield without smoke of gunfire, but it is also full of life and death battles, not only to always be on the lookout for the enemy's unpredictable "way of playing cards", but also to face all kinds of conspiracies and tricks that appear inside, and if you are not careful, you may pay the price of your life. Our Party has a very large number of excellent informants on the hidden front, but most of them died in the war years, and only a few have survived to victory by virtue of their rich experience in the struggle against the enemy. And the intelligence officer Mo Xiong we are going to talk about today, he is like that
The "Sixth Brother of Military Unification" played by Liu Yunlong in the TV series "Kite"
In the same way, within the Kuomintang's party army, it is called "Big Brother Mo". He has passed on a lot of important information to our party under the eyes of the enemy, which is legendary, and now let's look at his legendary experience.
The revolutionary road of "Big Brother Mo"
In 1891, Mo Xiong was born in Yingde, Guangdong Province, to a poor family, and his ancestors left their hometown at the beginning of Guangxu and moved to Huanhu to earn a living, weaving muddy water as a profession. At the age of 9, Mo Xiong entered a private school to study, only studied for less than 3 years, then went out to work as an apprentice, once worked as a brother-in-law at the Stone Room Sacred Spirit Institute in Guangzhou, and often went to the Long Causeway area to listen to the anti-Qing propaganda of the revolutionaries in his free time.
In 1907, at the age of 16, Mo Xiong joined the Chinese League as he wished. In 1909, he was ordered to join the Guangdong New Army, actively carrying out the work of plotting rebellion, and was always ready to respond to the armed uprising of the revolutionary party.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen
After the defeat of the Xinhai Revolution, the Northern Expeditionary Army in Guangzhou was in danger of disbanding, and warlords from all walks of life began to support themselves and disperse to the north and south of China's great river. At this time, although Mo Xiong still had the desire to serve the country, but the country's luck was not good, and the new Republic of China was crumbling in the wind and rain.
In July 1917, Sun Yat-sen traveled south from Shanghai to Guangdong and served as Grand Marshal of the Republic of China Government. Subsequently, during his pursuit of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Mo Xiong also made many military achievements in the Cantonese army. Later, during his stay in Fujian, he justly handled the religious disputes in the local area for many years, which won the praise of the local people. In August 1920, after Mo Xiong was ordered to return to Guangzhou, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 4th Independent Brigade of the Guangdong Army.
In June 1922, after Mo Xiong was appointed commander of the Wuzhou garrison, after learning the news that Chen Juming had launched a mutiny against Dr. Sun Yat-sen, he actively contacted the Yang Ximin department of the Dian Army stationed in Guizhou and the Liu Zhenhuan department of the Gui Army, and accepted Sun Yat-sen's secret orders to form the Western Route Army. After Mo Xiong led his troops to the right bank of the West River, they crushed the rebels, and Chen Juming also escaped from the city of Guangzhou and retreated to the area around the East River. The victory in this battle also laid the foundation for Dr. Sun Yat-sen's third establishment of a revolutionary regime in Guangzhou.
Chen Yanming
Because mo xiong had participated in the Huanghuagang uprising, the patriotic war, and the war against Chen Juming, he showed heroism and made many military achievements, so he was promoted by the Grand Marshal's Office to be the brigade commander of the second independent brigade of the second division of the Guangdong Army, and Mo Xiong was only 31 years old at this time.
After the end of the Northern Expedition, Chiang Kai-shek stripped Mo Xiong of his military powers, and Mo Xiong went to Macau alone. In 1927, Mo Xiong defected to Zhang Fakui and served as a major general under him, stationed in Guangzhou. In March 1930, Mo Xiong followed Zhang Fakui to launch an anti-Chiang kai-shek campaign, and after this failed campaign, Zhang Fakui went into the wilderness, and Mo Xiong was also idle at home.
The CCP's dark chess pieces at Chiang Kai-shek's side
In 1930, Mo Xiong, who was idly living in Shanghai, happened to meet his former former subordinate Liu Dumb Buddha, who was another member of the Communist Party of China. Later, under the introduction of Liu Dumb Buddha, Mo Xiong became acquainted with Xiang Henian, Yan Xichun and other CCP members, and established contacts with Premier Zhou, Li Kenong, and the CPC Central Committee. After a period of contact with ccp members, he developed a yearning for our party, and immediately Mo Xiong expressed his hope to join the Communist Party. Li Kenong, who was in charge of Shanghai Teco at the time, replied to Mo Xiong like this:
Mr. Mo is an old predecessor of the revolution and a loyal believer of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and the organization believes that Mr. Mo is still advisable to suspend his participation in the Communist Party, which is also to make your work more convenient.
Mo Xiong deeply understood Li Kenong's reply, and took Li Kenong's words as his promise to the party, and since then he has secretly provided a lot of important intelligence to the underground party on many occasions.
Premier Zhou
In 1932, after the outbreak of the Songhu War of Resistance, Mo Xiong, then the commander-in-chief of the Taxation Police Corps, commanded his troops to jointly fight against the Japanese army with the 19th Route Army. After the armistice in Shanghai, Mo Xiong led his troops to Haizhou, which is a famous Huai salt producing area, and it is precisely because of such a name that the salt lords here have been plagued for many years, wreaking havoc on salt taxes, committing many evils, and having great power. Therefore, Mo Xiong wanted to suppress the salt owl here, and after obtaining Chiang Kai-shek's consent, he sent troops to carry out a cleansing and suppression of the salt owl, and under this offensive, a large number of salt owls, bandits, and relevant officials were asked to be beheaded. Since then, the tax revenue has increased a lot, and Mo Xiong has also been rewarded, and the people have rejoiced and erected a monument to praise. Soon after, Chiang Kai-shek once again seized Mo Xiong's military power, leaving Mo Xiong idle at home again.
In January 1934, Mo Xiong received an invitation from Xue Yue, then commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Second Route Army, to rush to Nanchang to work, and then at the recommendation of Yang Yongtai, who was then Chiang Kai-shek's attendant secretary general and his former friend, he became the commissioner and security commander of the Kuomintang's Ganbei Fourth Bureau. Before Going to the Ganbei Four-Branch Bureau to take office, Mo Xiong made a special trip back to Shanghai, held secret negotiations with the underground party of the Communist Party of China, and decided to arrange more than ten underground party members such as Xiang And nian to hold important posts at his side. As a result, Xiang Younian, as Mo Xiong's former "subordinate of the robe ze", was joined by Mo Xiong in the Fourth Administrative Special Office of Ganbei. Later, through Yang Yongtai, Mo Xiong also installed several underground intelligence personnel of our party in Chiang Kai-shek's Camp in Nanchang.
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Next, in order to cooperate with Mo Xiong's "suppression of the Communists" and achieve the goal of confusing Chiang Kai-shek. The Red Army guerrillas and the Soviet government specially reduced a lot of guerrilla activities in the De'an area, and sometimes pretended to be defeated, in order to create some "record of suppressing the communists" for Mo Xiong. In this regard, the top level of the Kuomintang believed it to be true, and once issued a commendation to the De'an Special District to which Mo Xiong belonged, saying that it was the first in the province to suppress the Gonggong, and awarded the De'an area as a "model district." When Chiang Kai-shek heard this, he was overjoyed and passed on commendation orders to Mo Xiong one after another. Mo Xiong also won Chiang Kai-shek's trust again by virtue of such a record of "suppressing common merits."
A letter of intelligence, a masterpiece of immortality
In 1934, Chiang Kai-shek held the fifth top-secret meeting of the Red Army in the "encirclement and suppression" of the Soviet Zone in Lushan, and Mo Xiong was also specially invited by Chiang Kai-shek to attend this top-secret meeting because of his outstanding achievements in the "suppression of the Communists" operation and the cancellation of his grudge with Chiang Kai-shek.
At the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek planned to devote himself to one battle, and decided to mobilize 1.5 million troops, 200 artillery, 270 aircraft, and 1,000 trucks to "wipe out" Ruijin's Central Red Army in one fell swoop with the new tactics of attacking in part and encircling the iron wall. This is the famous "iron barrel encirclement and suppression". After listening to this plan, Mo Xiong felt that this "encirclement and suppression" plan was huge in scale and very thorough, and if this plan could be implemented, the situation of the Red Army would be unimaginable.
Therefore, after attending the meeting, Mo Xiong rushed back to the De'an Headquarters overnight, and when he arrived at the headquarters, it was already very late, and Mo Xiong could not care less about eating, so he immediately ordered someone to call Liu Dumb Buddha, Xiang Younian, etc. to his office, and took out the "Iron Barrel Plan" from the briefcase to discuss with them, and finally because Xiang and Nian spoke Hakka at the annual meeting and were familiar with the local terrain and transportation routes, they decided that Xiang Younian would personally be responsible for sending out the intelligence.
On October 7, xiang Andian finally arrived in Ruijin after a difficult journey, and met Premier Zhou and Li Kenong at Shazhouba, and gave the top-secret information to them, Premier Zhou and Li Kenong could hardly recognize that the skinny old man Hanako standing in front of him and smelly smell was an old subordinate who had once known each other.
Front row right three Ye Jianying Marshal right two Mo Xiong
It was precisely because of this information that the Red Army was able to withdraw safely before it was completely surrounded by the Kuomintang troops.
In 1949, on the eve of liberation, the Kuomintang reactionaries began to kill Communists and progressives in a frenzied manner. At this time, Mo Xiong was also suspected of being a communist, and Li Jilan, who was then the head of the military command's secret service, ordered the arrest and shooting of Mo Xiong. After receiving this news, Mo Xiong managed to abscond to Hong Kong.
The party and the people will not forget the heroes
In October 1949, Guangzhou was liberated. Ye Jianying was sent to Guangzhou by the central authorities to carry out work, and when he was leaving, Chairman Mao had told Ye Shuai that he must find Mo Xiong and arrange his work for him. After Ye Shuai learned that Mo Xiong had fled to Hong Kong, he wrote to Mo Xiong and sent someone to Hong Kong to take Mo Xiong back to Guangzhou to participate in the work.
Marshal Ye Jianying
In 1951, when Mo Xiong's hometown was reformed in Yingde, the farmers there did not know Mo Xiong's true identity. Therefore, the situation of Mo Xiong's former security commander was reported to the land reform organization, and then the land reform organization reported to the provincial party committee, demanding that Mo Xiong be taken back to Yingde for criticism, and the general office of the South China Branch even said that it would execute Mo Xiong. However, at this critical moment when his life was hanging in the balance, Mo Xiong was silent, and he did not say anything about the important contribution he had made to the revolution. Fortunately, someone reported this situation to Ye Shuai in time. After learning this news, Ye Shuai was also very surprised, and immediately sent a telegram to Tao Zhu, who was then director of the Political Department of the Central and Southern Military Region:
Mo Xiong is a hero of our party and quickly released
。 It was also Ye Shuai's urgent telegram that saved Mo Xiong's life.
On February 12, 1980, Mo Xiong died of illness in Guangzhou at the age of 89. After Mo Xiong's death, the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, the Provincial Government, the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Provincial People's Congress jointly held a solemn memorial service for him.