In May 1949, the People's Liberation Army (Chen Yi and Su Yu's Sanye) advanced into Shanghai, which was heavily defended by the Kuomintang, and the Shanghai Campaign was officially launched, and after a 16-day battle,
This large-scale urban offensive ended in a great victory for the People's Liberation Army.
After the successful liberation of Shanghai, the first thing our army has to do is to take over Shanghai's economy and begin to carry out all-round social rectification.
Therefore, it is particularly important to hand over the work with the Kuomintang surrender officials.
So on May 27, the day of the complete liberation of Shanghai, the representative of the People's Liberation Army Military Control Commission (later a new one
Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Finance
Director) Gu Zhun and others received the former director of the Shanghai Municipal Finance Bureau and chairman of the bank,
This person was not only a Kuomintang major general, but also Chen Cheng's confidant.
However, at that time, at the time of the handover meeting, this Kuomintang major general actually asked to talk to Gu Zhun privately alone, and Gu Zhun was very surprised at first, but he thought that if he refused, it would appear that the Communists were insincere and ungrandly, so he agreed to it.
Soon after, the Kuomintang major general took Gu Zhun into the bureau chief's office, then carefully closed the door and told Gu Zhun a piece of information that almost made his jaw drop, that is:
He is an underground member of the Ccp and a veteran member of the party since 1924 (25 years ago).
In fact, it is no wonder that Gu Zhun was surprised, because in the current situation at that time, it was difficult for an individual to believe that a 53-year-old Kuomintang major general with gray hair was a comrade who was 11 years older than himself.
In order to confirm whether what this person said was true, Gu Zhun trembled and picked up the phone, dialed the new vice mayor Pan Hannian's phone, and after the above confirmation, Gu Zhun learned:
This person was a red agent of our party who had been lurking in the Kuomintang for 21 years
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His name was Wang Weiheng.
Gu Zhun
After knowing the ins and outs, Gu Zhun excitedly shook Wang Weiheng's hand and kept repeating:
That's great! That's great! ”
Because at this time he was so excited that he could not think of any words to use to welcome the return of his comrades.
However, because the situation was unstable at that time, even if Shanghai was liberated and he himself returned, his identity still needed to be kept secret for the time being.
Therefore, after the two secretly held a meeting and walked out of the office together, the handover ceremony was still carried out according to the original plan, so everyone did not know that the meeting of the KmT finance bureau chief to the People's Liberation Army had long become a drama of the return of the red agents.
After the process was completed, Gu Zhun did not ink, and quickly sent a special car to send Wang Weiheng to see Pan Hannian, and then Wang Weiheng personally handed over to Pan Hannian the military intelligence he had brought back from Taiwan and some recent information he had in Shanghai.
In August 1949, after the situation in Shanghai stabilized, Wang Weiheng officially became the director of the Shanghai Municipal Lands Bureau, at which time his original identity as a secret agent was officially revealed.
about
Wang Weiheng
In this case, 21 years of lurking is not easy, and if we want to know in detail what he has experienced over the years, we have to start from scratch.
In 1896, Wang Weiheng was born into a landlord family in Zhuji County, Zhejiang Province.
Although he fell in the middle of the family road in his childhood, after all, the skinny camel was bigger than Ma, and the family was still quite solid, and he could afford to study, so he was also able to receive a continuous education, which was very rare in the context of the times.
Things are rare and expensive, people are the same, at that time there were fewer people reading, and people who read books were naturally more "golden".
So at that time, with his own little knowledge, it was not difficult for him to find a job that could support his family.
In fact, he did, and at the age of 21 he became a teacher at a primary school in his hometown of Zhuji County.
But a person like him who has received new ideas and new education, in that chaotic world, at that age, it is really difficult to calm down and teach. Because new young people like him often have a very strong desire to learn, they all want to continue to learn something more "profound" and then help the country out of the predicament.
Therefore, after only one year of teaching, he went to the Shanghai French Translation School to receive the ideas of restoration.
After that, he threw himself into the pen and went to the Beijing Quartermaster Officer School for a two-year study.
In 1921, the year the Communist Party was founded, he graduated from the Quartermaster Officers' School in Beijing, when he was only 25 years old.
As a rare cultural person in the army at that time, he was highly valued by the above, and soon he was assigned to work in the Zhejiang Zhejiang Army, and also served as a quartermaster at the battalion and regimental levels here.
Zhang Qiuren
Later, during his time in Ningbo, Zhejiang, Wang Weiheng met the communist Zhang Qiuren at work by chance, and because the two were fellow villagers and had similar personalities, they met and hated each other late, and soon became friends, and there were often letters.
Zhang Qiuren saw that Wang Weiheng, like him, had the same ideals and ambitions, so he would always instill the revolutionary ideas of the Communist Party in Wang Weiheng, and Wang Weiheng also agreed with the concept that communism could save China.
In 1924, Wang Weiheng officially joined the Communist Party at the recommendation of Zhang Qiuren, and became one of the first four party members in Ningbo.
During the first period of Kuomintang-Communist cooperation, in order to reflect the sincerity of our party, many people in our party entered the Kuomintang system to work, typical of which were such big coffees as Zhou Enlai, and Wang Weiheng was no exception.
In 1926, the Zhejiang army was defeated by the Beiyang warlords in response to the call of the National Government in Guangzhou, and in order to hide his true identity, Wang Weiheng simply withdrew from the Zhejiang army and returned to his hometown of Zhuji to temporarily lurk, waiting for a new opportunity.
The following year, in January 1927, Wang Received a new order from the organization, namely:
While rectifying the Kuomintang's party affairs, the Communist Party organizations were secretly developed.
At a time when the revolutionary forces of the Communist Party were developing more and more rapidly, in just a few months, Chiang Kai-shek raised a butcher's knife against the Communists under the influence of interests, and the CCP members began to be purged on a large scale, and wang Weiheng's Zhejiang region was not spared.
white terror
However, the CCP underground organization did not sit still at that time, in order to resist the white terror of the Kuomintang, the organization transferred Wang Weiheng as the organization director of the ZHUJI County Committee of the CPC, carried out underground work as a primary school teacher, and looked for appropriate opportunities to launch an armed insurrection.
However, due to some accidents in the preparation process, which led to the exposure of party organization personnel, the Zhuji County Party Committee could only temporarily terminate the riot and let the participants quickly flee to avoid being arrested.
After the failure of the riot plan, in order to better hide themselves,
Zhuji County Party Committee
The secretary, including Wang Weiheng himself, agreed that the Kuomintang should be infiltrated at this time.
After all, the most dangerous place is often the safest place, and this can also make him a "cold chess" for our party to ambush within the Kuomintang, and perhaps help at some point in the future.
After the incubation plan was finalized, Wang Weiheng came to Nanjing in September 1928 and found chen liang, an old acquaintance of his time at the quartermaster's school, who was then the manager of the Kuomintang Central Military Academy.
Chen Liang
As a good friend, Chen Liang has always admired Wang Weiheng's disposition.
So after learning that he had come to defect, he immediately arranged for him
Studied at the Institute of The Quartermaster Department of the Kuomintang
This study can be understood as "gilded", because after the end, he directly became the major quartermaster.
Later, on chen Liang's recommendation, he became a quartermaster under Hu Zongnan, a close associate of Chiang Kai-shek.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he accompanied Hu Zongnan to the war
Henan and Shanxi, the establishment of military logistics supply bases, can also be regarded as gradually gaining a firm foothold within the Kuomintang.
But who would have thought that due to the serious damage to the party organization, although Wang Weiheng had successfully lurked, no one had come to contact him, but he was still waiting for the organization's call.
While doing his own job, he would also use his position to secretly help the organization, and many underground party members at that time had received his rescue or cover.
It was not until the tenth year of breaking into the Kuomintang, that is, in August 1938, that he finally waited for the people of the organization -
At that time, the head of the CCP's espionage organ found Wang Weiheng and established contact with him again.
After that, Wang Weiheng sent intelligence to the above, which can also be regarded as a more convenient way.
Chiang Kai-shek
In 1943, after the Japanese army had entered a relatively tired stage on the battlefield, the Kuomintang reactionaries headed by Chiang Kai-shek analyzed the international situation and held that:
Japan's defeat is only a matter of time, and it is a foregone conclusion, but now that the Communist Party has slowly grown, if it is not cracked down at this time, it will be even more difficult in the future.
Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Hu Zongnan to launch a secret military attack on the Communist-controlled Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area in order to suppress the development of the Communist Party.
Since this was a relatively large-scale military operation, Wang Weiheng, who was then the director of the Kuomintang Northwest Quartermaster Bureau, naturally needed to do some weapons and ammunition transfers for the army, as well as logistical work such as army transportation and supplies.
It was also during this transfer that he discovered that Hu Zongnan's army was trying to deal with the sinister intentions of the underground hands, so he immediately looked for an opportunity to go to Chongqing to get in touch with the communist Qian Zhiguang and let him go to see Zhou Enlai.
When Qian Zhiguang heard the news, he was also quite shocked, and quickly arranged a vehicle, and the two secretly went to the Communist Party office in Chongqing, where Wang Weiheng successfully met Zhou Enlai and others, and gave them a detailed report on what he knew.
Not only that, Wang Weiheng also incidentally handed over the Kuomintang troops' deployment maps, troop allocations, equipment settings, and other information on the Kuomintang troops in the northwestern provinces, and only after all the reports were completed did he leave in a hurry.
Hu Zongnan
It was precisely with the internal intelligence sent by Wang Weiheng that the Eighth Route Army made a targeted military response.
After Chiang Kai-shek saw that the Eighth Route Army had made military moves, he also knew that the Eighth Route Army had already made preparations for prevention, and if he insisted on sending troops at this time, he would not only be unable to take advantage militarily, but also suppress public opinion.
Therefore, in order to avoid eating "dumb losses", he had no choice but to temporarily shelve the plan to sneak attack the Eighth Route Army, and Wang Weiheng was also equivalent to invisibly helping our party avoid a major military crisis.
During the Liberation War, Wang Weiheng
Transferred to the Kuomintang Central Committee, as deputy commander of the Nanjing Joint Logistics Headquarters and deputy director of the Manager's Office,
At this time, his role was even greater, and he would often use his position to pass on the Kuomintang army movement, weapons and ammunition allocation, and army transportation and supply information to the party organization.
For example, at the time of the famous Battle of Dabie Mountain, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Bai Chongxi to lead an army of 200,000 to surround and suppress Liu Deng's army, and when Wang Weiheng learned of it, he quickly sent Bai Chongxi's army number, marching route, and even battle plan to our party, so that our party had enough time to make preparations.
For example, some time before the Liaoshen Campaign began, Wang Weiheng
He also took the opportunity of going to Hebei and northeast China to investigate the allocation of military supplies, and continued to collect military intelligence for our party, and he even obtained very specific and detailed information on the names of the commanders of the Kuomintang troops in Hebei and the northeast, the number of soldiers, and the deployment of garrisons.
In June 1948, although the three major battles had not yet officially begun, Chiang Kai-shek had a premonition that he was slowly occupying a disadvantage.
In order to avoid the final defeat in the competition with the People's Liberation Army, he began to plan a retreat for himself. At that time, at his behest, Chen Cheng transferred Wang Weiheng, a "heavy quartermaster," to Taiwan as deputy commander of The Tenth Supply Region and director of the Supply Bureau.
Like Chen Liang and Hu Zongnan, Chen Cheng was also very optimistic about Wang Weiheng, believing that with him in Taiwan, logistics and supplies could be fully guaranteed.
In fact
After receiving this transfer order, Wang Weiheng had every reason to refuse, because at this time, the signs of the defeat of the Nationalist army had already appeared, and he had no need to take any more risks. But after Wang Weiheng thought about it, he finally went to Taiwan to appoint him.
Because he knew that the party organization still needed him, after all, Taiwan's military movements were also extremely important to the People's Liberation Army, so he resolutely went to Taiwan and was ready to make sacrifices for the cause of liberation at any time.
And it was in Wang Weiheng
During the year of working in Taiwan, the whole mainland underwent earth-shaking changes, and the Kuomintang army was completely defeated under the offensive of the People's Liberation Army, especially after the three major battles, the elite of the Kuomintang army was almost wiped out.
Against this background, Wang Weiheng received a letter from the organization.
The letter was ostensibly a poem, but Wang Weiheng knew very well that the poem was actually an extremely important piece of information, meaning that he would quickly leave Taiwan and return to Shanghai to welcome liberation.
Temporary
Seeing this news, Wang Weiheng's heart was naturally very excited, but the excitement was more than worry, because Chen Cheng attached great importance to him.
In fact, it is of course beneficial to be valued by high-ranking Kuomintang officials in peacetime, but it is not a good thing now, because at this time the Kuomintang has no hope in the mainland, and Chen Cheng is not willing to watch his close assistant return to the mainland to "take risks." To some extent, this drags down Wang Weiheng.
Fortunately, just when Wang Weiheng could not find a reasonable reason to return to the mainland, a sudden situation occurred in Taiwan Province --
That is to say, the supply bureau is going to be dissolved due to changes in the situation, which means that Taiwan does not need him as the director of the supply bureau for the time being.
So he seized the opportunity to call Chen Cheng to say goodbye, and then successfully returned to the mainland in April 1949, came to Shanghai, ready to accept the next instructions of the organization.
When Wang Weiheng came to Shanghai, on the side of the Kuomintang, at this time his "Bole" Chen Liang was already the acting mayor of Shanghai, and he was very happy to see Wang Weiheng, and recommended him to be the director of the Shanghai Municipal Finance Bureau.
The official position of the director of the Shanghai Municipal Finance Bureau is not small, and Wang Weiheng does not want to waste the convenience brought by this position.
Therefore, at that time, before the organization had formally issued an order, he could not help but start to make some preparations for liberation, such as the inventory of the archives of the Finance Bureau, the warehouse, and some compositions to protect the municipal construction.
Of course, I personally think he has done the best thing to prevent a large number of funds from Shanghai from continuing to flow out.
After all, Shanghai, as one of the most prosperous cities in china at that time, could not be dragged down by the economy. Ensuring that enough funds remained to better help rebuild Shanghai after the war.
However, it is worth noting here that in addition to his economic contribution, Wang Weiheng has also provided a considerable boost to the liberation of Shanghai. In a way, the People's Liberation Army was able to liberate the whole territory of Shanghai in 16 days, and he was credited.
At that time, it was Tang Enbo who was in charge of the defense operation in Shanghai, and when he faced the offensive of the People's Liberation Army, he confidently declared to the outside world that he had no problem holding Shanghai for 6 months.
Although his "self-confidence" is a little too blind, in fact, as long as he is given sufficient subsidies, it will certainly increase the resistance of the PLA.
But before the Battle of Shanghai began, when Tang Enbo personally approached The Acting Mayor of Shanghai, Chen Liang, and asked him to allocate funds to strengthen the fortifications of the cement bunkers on the four outskirts of Shanghai, Wang Weiheng suddenly stepped forward to stop it, and he said a meaningful word to his long-time friend, that is
"Don't be a martyr on the side where the defeat has been decided!"
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All along, Chen Liang has been more obedient to the advice of his friend Wang Weiheng, not to mention that now that the People's Liberation Army soldiers are in the city, Wang Weiheng's suggestion is also for his sake, so in the end he refused to fund Tang Enbo on the grounds of "financial emptiness".
If Wang Weiheng had not stepped forward to stop Chen Liang at that time, perhaps Chen Liang would have really continued to allocate funds to Tang Enbo to defend against the People's Liberation Army, and the cost of the People's Liberation Army to liberate Shanghai at this time may be even higher.
In the War of Liberation, the reason why our army was able to continuously defeat the strong with the weak and finally win victories was inseparable from our party's strategizing, and the bloody struggle of the soldiers was of course inseparable, but comrades like Wang Weiheng, who have always insisted on transmitting intelligence on the secret front, are indispensable.
After reading wang Weiheng's story above, some of us may stereotype that a large part of the reason why Wang Weiheng was able to gain a firm foothold in the Kuomintang and gradually rise up was because of the help of acquaintances.
But when we look at the problem, we can't just look at the surface, but also need to see deeper factors.
Why was he able to get Chen Liang's recommendation, as well as the trust of Hu Zongnan and Chen Cheng? Naturally, it is because his character is trustworthy, upright, and incorruptible.
And such a person is often born to manage military supplies and logistics.
Because he would not embezzle military salaries or collude with others, although the Kuomintang bureaucracy was dark, there were still some people who would yearn for the light, and some of them still admired Wang Weiheng.
They admired Wang Weiheng, as the leader of the Kuomintang's military quartermaster circles, for being able to keep oil and salt from advancing, and no matter how big the "wrist" was, he would not give face to the boldness.
It is also because of their support,
Only in this way can it have a certain position in the Kuomintang military quartermaster circles, and although it has been suppressed by "people with hearts" several times, it has always been able to be active in the front line of the Kuomintang and provide important information for the organization.