Born in 1905 in Dalian, Liaoning Province, Xia Wenyun is an authentic northeasterner. When he was young, Xia Wenyun studied at the Lushun Academy, with excellent academic performance, and was sent to imperial university in Japan for further study, and a few years later he successfully obtained a master's degree.
For such talents, Japan tried its best to attract them, and promised him scholarships and high-paying positions, and also arranged Japanese lovers for him.
According to the average person's thinking, it is necessary to sit still and say nothing to the Sugar-Coated Shells of the Japanese! But Xia Wenyun did not refuse, and all accepted!
In 1931, after the September 18 Incident, Japan prepared for an all-out war of aggression against China, and found a group of pro-Japanese Chinese who were proficient in translation and entered the army as an interpreter, and Xia Wenyun was also among them. At first, the Japanese were wary of these Chinese translators, fearing that they would pass on information to China. Sure enough, their fears were accurate, and in just a few months, they caught a lot of translators trying to pass on intelligence to China.
Xia Wenyun was different. He not only took the initiative to obey the arrangements of the Japanese army, but also never inquired into any information that he should not know, and worked step by step, like a good Dog's leg face in Japan. The Japanese also reassured him, gave him a high salary, and arranged a beautiful Japanese wife for him. This made the Chinese around him hate him to the point of gritting their teeth!
Because, they have never seen how shameless traitors are.
The Japanese praised Xia Wenyun and finally sent him to the interpreter of the Japanese North China Front Headquarters.
And this is Xia Wenyun's real intention.
It turned out that all Xia Wenyun did was acting, whether it was to be a dog's leg for the Japanese, or to betray his compatriots, in order to gain the trust of the Japanese army, to be continuously promoted in the Japanese army, and to be eligible for access to truly confidential military intelligence.
In fact, as early as 1931, before Xia Wenyun joined the ranks of Japanese translators, he secretly met with Li Zongren. Li Zongren personally gave him the order: sneak into the Japanese high-level to obtain intelligence, and before that, under any circumstances, he must not reveal his identity.
Xia Wenyun worked at the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front and transmitted a lot of classified information to China.
In 1936, Xia Wenyun received information that the Japanese army would launch a full-scale invasion of China in mid-1937.
Sure enough, the July 7 Incident broke out the following year.
Subsequently, he obtained the battle plan of the Japanese Battle of Xuzhou, the japanese troops at the Battle of Wuhan, and the distribution map of the Japanese army in the western Anhui and southern Henan regions.
During the famous Battle of Taierzhuang, Xia Wenyun secretly sent Japanese intelligence to Li Zongren: the Japanese Itagaki Division marched south to prepare to attack Li Zongren's troops at Taierzhuang. Li Zongren was about to disperse his forces, and at the moment of the thousand guns, he received information from Xia Wenyun: The Japanese army moved south and did not move north--a total of eight characters. As a result, Li Zongren quickly dispatched Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army to the north, and as a result, several large armies converged to annihilate more than 20,000 Japanese troops in one fell swoop in the Battle of Taierzhuang.
After the great victory of Taierzhuang, Xia Wenyun was sent by the Japanese army to Shanxi to serve as the director of the construction department of the puppet provincial government. During his time in Shanxi, he repeatedly supported the guerrilla forces behind enemy lines and provided them with a large amount of materials.
Xia Wenyun is such a patriotic hero. However, after the victory of the War of Resistance, he did not mention anything about his contribution. Many years later, many people still regard him as a big traitor.
It was not until his later years that Li Zongren published the record of Xia Wenyun's deeds in his memoirs. After the relevant departments of New China learned of such a hero behind enemy lines, they sent people to Dalian and other places to investigate Xia Wenyun's personal resume in detail, and finally proved that these things were true. Now, Xia Wenyun's heroic deeds are also recorded in the "Dalian Character History".