"This letter, you will read it again when I die!"
In the 1980s, when a Shaanxi peasant woman was dying, her husband and eight children gathered around the hospital bed and listened to her finish the sentence with the last bit of strength in her life.
After her husband had finished taking care of her body, he endured great grief and opened the letter she had left behind with a trembling majesty.
Just after reading a few lines, her husband's face immediately darkened, and he silently re-folded the letter and locked it in the cupboard at the head of the bed.
The letter described things that left him tossing and turning all night and unable to sleep.
Early the next morning, he and his children arrived early at the local public security bureau.
After the police read the letter, it was difficult to decide for a while, so they had to report the matter to the local government.
Later, after investigation by the local authorities, the contents of the letter were made public, along with the identity of the deceased peasant woman.
It turned out that this peasant woman was not an idle person, but a well-known beautiful agent of the Kuomintang military command- Zhang Chunlian.
The news immediately caused an uproar in the local area, and everyone was curious:
Why would such a beautiful and beautiful agent in the extravagant and wise marry an honest farmer? What are some of the hidden secrets?
First, the natural beauty is favored by Mao Renfeng
When Zhang Chunlian was born, it was a chaotic era in which various warlords rose up in unison and fought against each other during the Republic of China.
At that time, the people's livelihood was withering and mourning was everywhere, and the land of China was already full of holes.
(Displacement of the people during the Republic of China)
Born in that era, especially in the poor peasant family at that time, she was destined to run for her livelihood from an early age, fleeing and displacing herself in order to escape the chaos of war.
Zhang Chunlian was still too young to understand the cruel fact that war can make people lose their lives.
All she knew was that the war had left her from an ad hoc life, eating and sleeping. During the escape, she witnessed with her own eyes the tragic scene of the people being hungry and the wild hungry.
Such an encounter made her determined: to save the country from danger, to save the people from water and fire, and to make up her mind to free all people from suffering and live a peaceful and happy life.
However, her ability is too weak to even control her own destiny.
At the age of 13, she was sold by her cruel parents to a local landlord and made a maid.
At that time, this was nothing new, for the sake of the family's livelihood, in order not to let the whole family starve to death, parents can only do so.
(Landlord's wife in the Republic of China period)
In this landlord's house, the man was moody. Zhang Chunlian was a little careless, which would cause the other party to beat her severely, and the days could be said to be hot and dark.
Zhang Chunlian has been silently enduring all this. While working, she took the opportunity to explore the terrain near the landlord's house and planned the escape route.
Finally, one night, while the landlord's family was asleep, she climbed over the wall. After escaping, she regained her freedom.
After escaping, in order to fill her stomach, she worked in a restaurant to serve tea and pour water.
During her time at work, she realized that to change the status quo, she had to have knowledge.
She began to read and learn knowledge outside of work.
At that time, the land of China, the vigorous Northern Expedition War was in full swing.
Her early experiences made her even more resentful of social injustice and the oppression of reactionary warlords. She carried a passion for serving the country and was determined to devote herself to the national revolution in full swing.
After hard work, she was later admitted to the National Government Police Officers' School run by the National Government.
(National Government Police)
During her time at the school, in addition to studying cultural knowledge and military theory, Zhang Chunlian also actively understood the advanced ideas of saving the country and saving the country and the people.
Because she had to run for a living from an early age, she was more mature than girls her age.
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At the age of eighteen, he was already generous and beautiful.
Although young, he has mastered the skills of communicating with people of various identities.
This determined the fate of the rest of her life.
Mao Renfeng once commented: "She was born a perfect agent. ”
She once stood out among her peers who applied for the exam together because of her clever mind and high IQ when she interviewed for the police academy.
Later, Mao Renfeng, who was the leader of the military command, went to the police academy to look for seedlings, and at a glance, he fell in love with Zhang Chunlian, who had a good face.
(Mao Renfeng)
Mao Renfeng had always been lustful and had a crooked mind for her.
Driven by vanity, Zhang Chunlian committed herself to Mao Renfeng.
At the same time, Zhang Chunlian did not slack off in her studies because of the existence of Mao Renfeng. Instead, she worked harder to learn intelligence technology, dreaming of one day becoming a brilliant agent.
Second, Chiang Kai-shek intervened to counter the establishment of military unification
In fact, as early as before the Sino-Japanese War at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Japan selected and trained a large number of spies from home.
They were sent on secret missions to China, sending confidential information to Japan.
Japan has sent a large number of highly trained spies to infiltrate all parts of China.
Many of them went around collecting all kinds of intelligence under the guise of traveling and expeditions.
(Interior view of the "Mantetsu" Investigation Department)
In particular, on the eve of the "September 18 Incident", the Japanese militarists stepped up espionage and intelligence work in China, especially in the northeast region, and the Japanese Kwantung Army established a special intelligence department.
In addition, the Japanese government has also set up a special "Mantetsu" investigation department in northeast China to conduct detailed investigations of the topography and mineral resources of the northeast region and to install a large number of espionage activities.
After a few years, the Japanese Kwantung Army basically grasped the political, economic, military, social, and other aspects of the entire northeast territory.
(Former site of the "Mantetsu" Investigation Department)
During the ensuing all-out invasion of China, Japan woven a huge network of espionage reports throughout China and established relatively complete espionage agencies.
These spies infiltrated our anti-Japanese base areas and chiang kai-shek's Nationalist government, did everything in their power to steal intelligence, and waited for opportunities to assassinate the top level of the CPC and the leaders of the anti-Japanese armed forces.
All Japanese spies were professionally trained, so they not only mastered espionage work such as intelligence gathering, but also took fascist ideas deeply rooted in their hearts.
In addition to spying on the CCP and the Nationalist government, there were other "missions", such as destroying the anti-war alliance of the Japanese in China, spreading reactionary remarks, and inciting and deceiving the Chinese people.
(Japanese Anti-War Alliance in China)
Chiang Kai-shek had always been adept at conspiracy and trickery, and in April 1937 he merged the "Lixing Society" and other Kuomintang secret service agencies under Dai Kasa's charge into the "Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government."
The main function of this institution is to train spies in the national army. According to a detailed plan drawn up in advance, they successfully penetrated the Japanese army.
A year later, Chiang Kai-shek reorganized the investigation and statistics bureau of the former Military Commission of the Nationalist Government. In August of that year, the "military unification" was officially established.
(Dai Kasa rare photo)
In the short period of three years since then, the "military command" has organized at least 150 assassination operations in Shanghai, and the targets of the eradication are mainly traitors and traitors and party and government personnel who collude with the Japanese Kou.
The most famous of these was the assassination of Wang Jingwei, the number one traitor at the time.
In February 1939, Chiang Kai-shek sent Gu Zhengding to Hanoi, Vietnam, to persuade Wang Jingwei bitterly, hoping that he would stop from the cliff and turn back to the shore, but was refused.
After that, Chiang Kai-shek became murderous and sent Chen Gongshu, the "first killer of military unification," to carry out the assassination mission.
Although the repeated attacks have failed, it has also caused a serious psychological shadow for Wang Jingwei.
Third, The right-hand man under Dai Kasa
After graduation, Zhang Chunlian, who was deeply appreciated by Mao Renfeng, got her wish and entered the "military unification" of one of the two major secret service agencies of the Kuomintang at that time.
From this time on, she received dai's attention.
After entering the military command, Zhang Chunlian spent all her thoughts on training every day, conscientiously studied various special agent skills, and made up for the shortcomings in the police academy.
Soon, her business level surpassed that of her contemporaries.
Dai Kasa had heard before that Zhang Chunlian was not only beautiful in appearance, but also proficient in various secret agent skills.
At a dinner party inside the military command, Dai Kasa finally met Zhang Chunlian, who had been "admired for a long time", and fell in love at first sight.
In order not to offend Dai Kasa, Mao Renfeng had to endure the pain of cutting love and "sent" Zhang Chunlian to Dai Kasa.
After that, Under the protection of this military leader, Zhang Chunlian was more smooth and smooth, and rose step by step.
(Stills of the female agent of the military command)
Later, Zhang Chunlian was ordered by Dai Kasa to infiltrate the Japanese General Staff.
With her extraordinary courage and superb professional ability, she stole a large amount of classified information for the Kuomintang authorities.
One of the most important feats was to crack the intelligence of Japan's planned attack on Pearl Harbor in the United States in advance.
This made her famous and became a trump card in the military command.
Having said that, it was precisely because of the help of many underground intelligence officers and agents like her, who were risking their work on the hidden front, that the pace of the all-out victory in the war of resistance was accelerated.
With the joint efforts of the Chinese military and civilians, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression won the final victory, and Japan announced its unconditional surrender on August 15, 1945.
However, after the suffering of the war, the Chinese people did not see the peace they had hoped for.
Chiang Kai-shek openly tore up the Double Tenth Agreement and launched a civil war, plunging the Chinese military and people into a brutal war again.
(Chongqing Negotiations)
Zhang Chunlian had been suffering on the secret front before and was also eager for peace. She was extremely disappointed by the Kuomintang authorities' desperate attempt to provoke a civil war against the will of the people.
She gradually lost confidence in the Nationalist government and the Chiang Kai-shek authorities.
On the one hand, zhang Chunlian was caught in a dilemma between the Nationalist government, which attached great importance to herself and the Nationalist government that gave it to its high-ranking official Houlu, and on the other hand, the Chinese people who had been devastated by war and longed for peace.
In the end, as a Chinese with a conscience, Zhang Chunlian was unwilling to turn the gun on his compatriots and chose the national righteousness.
At the beginning of the victory of the War of Resistance, according to Dai Kasa's orders, she lurked in the ranks of the People's Liberation Army.
(Dai Kasa)
However, she never revealed any secret information about the Communist Party, and each time she provided some irrelevant information to the connector to deal with the matter.
Once, when military command agents captured several key MEMBERS of the People's Liberation Army, Dai Kasa assigned Zhang Chunlian to interrogate them.
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She took advantage of her position and position to hide from Dai Kasa and quietly let go of those PLA officers, and also destroyed many of the confidential documents of our army that they carried.
However, the suspicious Dai Kasa has always been wary of her and has placed a lot of eyeliner around her.
This matter could not be concealed from Dai Kasa.
(Zhang Chunlian in her youth)
At that time, Dai Kasa was on a business trip. He flew overnight, but unexpectedly encountered an air crash on the way back to the headquarters of the Nanjing Military Command and died in a crash.
This allowed Zhang Chunlian to escape the disaster.
After Dai Kasa's death, Mao Renfeng, who had been his deputy, finally survived and took over as the head of the Military Command.
And Mao Renfeng didn't know Zhang Chunlian's previous events.
(Scene of the Kuomintang's collapse in Taiwan)
Fourth, become a peasant woman in anonymity
In 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation Army broke through Chiang Kai-shek's meticulously arranged Yangtze River defense line.
In a situation where the defeat had been decided, Chiang Kai-shek hastily led the remnants to retreat to the island of Taiwan on the other side of the strait.
(Battle of the River Crossing)
However, Chiang Kai-shek was still fantasizing at this time: one day he would be able to "make a comeback" and fight back again.
Before retreating, he ordered Mao Renfeng to carefully select a number of highly skilled agents of the military command to continue to lurk on the mainland and collect intelligence.
Mao Renfeng summoned Zhang Chunlian to his side and coaxed her to stay on the mainland and lurk in the countryside of Shaanxi.
He also promised that when the Kuomintang army returned from killing in the future, he would recall her back to a high-ranking position.
This task seemed very difficult to Mao Renfeng, and Zhang Chunlian happily agreed.
For Her part, Ms. Zhang didn't want to go to Taiwan at all, and she didn't want to follow the Kuomintang anymore.
Subsequently, Zhang Chunlian came to a rural area in Shaanxi Province alone and made up a story of wandering around in poverty since childhood to hide her eyes and ears.
In order to hide her identity, she has since stopped using her real name "Zhang Chunlian".
(Zhang Chunlian, who is already a peasant woman)
Mao Renfeng, on the other hand, went to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek and served as the director of the Secrecy Bureau.
At first, Mao Renfeng would send someone to contact Zhang Chunlian every once in a while according to the prior agreement and collect the information she had obtained.
With the passage of time, Chiang Kai-shek realized that there was little hope of counterattacking the mainland, and it was simply delusional.
Mao Renfeng also gradually lost power after Chiang Ching-kuo reorganized the Secrecy Bureau, and did not contact Zhang Chunlian again, and ended up depressed in 1956.
(Suppression of counter-revolution in the early liberation period)
After the founding of New China, the Cpc Central Committee immediately launched a nationwide campaign to suppress counter-revolution, aiming to eliminate the remnants of the Kuomintang and eliminate spies.
At this time, Zhang Chunlian was in a state of panic all day and lived in extreme anxiety.
She believes that her previously fabricated identity as a fleeing widow could be easily exposed, and the safest way was to find a way to integrate into the village.
Therefore, in addition to participating in the labor, she took the opportunity to meet an honest farmer in the village.
Under her all-out gesture, this humble farmer moved his heart and agreed to live with her.
After marriage, she lived a stable life, no longer worrying about her past all day, working in the field every day, washing and cooking, and taking care of her husband and children.
Although the life is poor, it is very fulfilling.
(Zhang Chunlian when she was young)
She buried her thrilling experience deep in her heart, slowly adapted to the ordinary life of sunrise and sunset, and accepted her role as a mountain farmer.
However, she has never forgotten her past and identity, she has wanted to confess her past to her husband countless times, but she wants to stop talking, because she is afraid that her husband will not accept it, and she is also worried that it will affect her children.
After all, she hid everything in her heart and did not say it herself.
It wasn't until the 1980s that she fell seriously ill, knew that her time was running out, and quietly got up one night to write a suicide note after her husband and children were asleep.
In this suicide note, she confessed her special experience frankly.
After writing this letter, the boulder that had been pressing against her chest for many years was gone in an instant.
She finally unloaded her heavy psychological baggage and let out a long breath.
After Zhang Chunlian died, her husband opened the will according to her original instructions.
He read word by word from beginning to end.
(Zhang Chunlian's later years)
Only then did he understand that his wife, who had been with him for decades, was not a fleeing widow, as she said, but a Kuomintang military agent.
The contents of the letter made the honest husband shudder, and he did not know what to do for a while.
He tossed and turned that night and couldn't sleep, and early the next morning, he went to the local public security bureau with his children to report the crime.
When the police of the Public Security Bureau learned of this incident, they deeply felt that the stakes were high and immediately notified the local government.
The government attached great importance to this matter and set up a special investigation team to begin a detailed investigation into Zhang Chunlian's identity.
After the investigation, they confirmed that the content mentioned in Zhang Chunlian's will was basically true.
Although she was once a Kuomintang agent, she intercepted important information of the Japanese army many times during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, released many important figures of our army during the War of Liberation, and destroyed the confidential documents of our Party carried by them, which contributed to both the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation.
Therefore, the local government not only did not pursue her status as a military command agent, but praised her national righteousness and agility and bravery.
Although Zhang Chunlian's life was full of twists and turns and ups and downs, she always had the ideal of serving the country and the great righteousness of the nation in mind.
Even in the Kuomintang camp, she still maintained her good nature.
Born poor and not willing to degenerate, in the dark and alone on the outside, in the face of one major choice after another, always on the side of the people.
Her deeds should always be remembered and admired by the people.
EDIT: Giggles
Editor-in-Charge: Thalia