In the history of our army's red agents, Guo Rugui was a very important figure, because his position was that of lieutenant general of the Operations Department of the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense, and the Kuomintang Operations Department was a very important department within the National Government, and its main duty was to be responsible for planning and preparing plans for major combat campaigns.
During the Northern Expedition in 1926, Guo Rugui was interested in Marxism, and later came into contact with the Communists, who were deeply influenced and wanted to join the party, but because his cousin was the Sichuan warlord Guo Rudong, the matter was delayed, and even so, Guo Rugui was also doing underground work everywhere, and in 1928, with the approval of the party organization, Guo Rugui officially joined the Communist Party of China.
In 1930, Guo Rudong sent Guo Ruzhi to Japan to study, at this time, Guo Rugui lost contact with the party organization, returned from further study in Japan, Guo Rugui threw himself into Chen Cheng's command, and gradually grew into one of Chen Cheng's "Thirteen Taibao".
Guo Rugui was a staff officer who impressed Chen Cheng and even Chiang Kai-shek in the Nanjing Defense War and the Wuhan Defense War, so on the eve of the Third Battle of Changsha, he had been promoted to commander of the Provisional Fifth Division.
On the eve of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Guo Rugui witnessed the decay within the Kuomintang, and he decided to reconnect with the Communists until April 1945, when Guo Rugui met Dong Biwu, and under Dong Biwu's special instructions, Guo Rugui was ordered to lurk in the Kuomintang and become a red agent.
Chen Cheng attached great importance to Guo Ruzhi and sponsored him to be the director of the Operations Department of the Ministry of National Defense, a position that was too important for the Kuomintang, because the director of the department was directly involved in directing the operation, and he could also make suggestions to Chiang Kai-shek at any time to change the battle plan.
During the Liberation War, Guo Rugui passed on many important military intelligence to our party organization, and on the eve of the Huaihai Campaign, a clear-eyed person saw Guo Rugui's abnormality, and this person was Du Yuming.
The reason why Du Yuming suspected Guo Rugui was very simple, it was actually that Guo Rugui was too incorruptible, it turned out that when Du Yuming went to Guo Rugui's home and found that the sofa in his home was actually patched, Du Yuming thought that he was already clean enough, and Guo Rugui, as the director of the department of real power of lieutenant generals, was actually more incorruptible than him, and he naturally became suspicious.
Before the Battle of Huaihai, the battle plan proposed by Guo Rugui made Du Yuming very angry, and after the defeat of the Kuomintang after the war, Guo Rugui also realized that his identity might be exposed, so he proposed his resignation to Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek did not approve, but instead appointed Guo Rujie as the commander of the 72nd Army.
In this way, Guo Rugui was ordered to go to the Yibin area of Sichuan to recruit troops, and when the People's Liberation Army was preparing to enter western Hunan Province, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Guo Rugui as the commander of the Twenty-second Corps, and he asked Guo Rugui to fight the People's Liberation Army near Chengdu.
Guo Rugui directly led the 72nd Army uprising in Yibin in 1949, which made Chiang Kai-shek very shocked.
Du Yuming was captured in the Battle of Huaihai, and because of his good performance, he became one of the first members to be pardoned in 1959, and his thinking was reformed, but Du Yuming's heart always had a doubt that could not be solved, and he wanted to know whether Guo Rujie was an undercover communist party in the end.
Until 1981, before Du Yuming died, he still had such a doubt in his heart, when Guo Rujie went to visit him, Du Yuming did not want to leave a regret for himself, so he asked Guo Rugui: "Are you undercover in the end?" ”
Guo Rugui smiled and said nothing, and after a while, he did not directly indicate the answer, but said: "We just have different political views." ”
In 1997, Guo Rujie died in a car accident at the age of 90.
The party organization gave him a high evaluation: "His life was a thrilling, tortuous, rich and profound life".