In 1947, the Kuomintang was defeated in the Fourth Battle of Liaodong, and the Kuomintang 13th Army, which participated in the operation as the main force, was severely damaged, and other Nationalist troops also fled.
This campaign can be said to have turned the tide of the entire Northeast Theater, and it didn't just mean it
Du Yuming
The strategy of "attacking the north from the south, first from the south and then the north" was a complete failure, which also allowed the previously arrogant Kuomintang army to shift from an all-out offensive to a comprehensive defense.
Learned the news of the defeat of the nationalist army
Chiang Kai-shek
Angry and jumping to his feet, he slapped the table and asked Du Yuming, who was in charge of the command, to scold him.
Pictured| Chiang Kai-shek
Du Yuming swallowed his anger and waited for Old Jiang to finish his anger and went back to carefully examine the order issued by the headquarters, and found an inexplicable false order:
"Urgent electricity, Commander Shi: After your military vehicle was transported to Qingyuan, you marched quickly to Sanyuanpu in Xinbin, quickly entered the position, launched a strong attack, and occupied the commanding heights of Lanshan Mountain.
Du Yuming immediately realized that it was it that made the main force of the 13th Army completely fall into the trap set by the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army in advance, and he squeezed the piece of paper and said sharply: "Go and check, who did it?" ”
The Kuomintang officers who received the order immediately launched an investigation, and the results of the investigation were quickly presented to Du Yuming's desk: this order was the operational staff officer of the commander's department
Zhao Wei
Drafted.
Who is this Zhao Wei?
Pictured| Zhao Wei
On the 24th day of the ninth lunar month in 1919, Zhao Wei was born in an ordinary family in Wen'an County, Hebei Province, and due to the difficult family's family situation, he went out to apprentice people at a very young age.
Apprentices in the old society are actually going to other people's shops to do chores, working for more than ten hours a day is the norm, encountering harsh shopkeepers, not only can not eat enough to wear and warm, but also have to be beaten, but in order to eat mixed food, Zhao Wei can only endure in silence.
At the beginning of October 1939, the turning point finally came, and Zhao Wei was successfully admitted to the infantry section of the 16th Phase 12th General Corps of the Whampoa Military Academy Guilin Branch.
We all know that Chiang Kai-shek has a status as the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, he has always favored the students of the Whampoa Military Academy, and he is more willing to trust the Whampoa students than those miscellaneous military generals. Even if you haven't attended an officer's school
Han Liancheng
Before using him again, Old Jiang also issued a special order to give him the identity of "Huangpu Sheng".
Therefore, in the Kuomintang military faction, the Huangpu clan headed by Chiang Kai-shek was also known as the "Concubine Clan". As the chief principal of the Whampoa branch schools in various places, Chiang Kai-shek often visited the branches to attract students from the military academies. In the late autumn of 1939, chiang kai-shek, while presiding over the second military conference in Nanyue, inspected the Guilin branch school by the way, and Zhao Wei, who was the standard-bearer at that time, met Chiang Kai-shek.
Pictured| Whampoa Military Academy
In the autumn of 1940, Zhao Wei, a recent graduate, thought that he would fight the Japanese as a soldier to defend his country, but the reality was like a basin of cold water that poured him through.
He was assigned to the Independent Regiment of the 13th Army.
This independent regiment was actually just a supplementary regiment, not a front-line unit on the frontal battlefield, Zhao Wei had been idle here for more than half a year, and finally could not sit still, he was eager to dedicate his share of strength to the Chinese people, rather than sitting in the rear like a waste, watching with his eyes.
He was not the only one in the independent regiment who held this kind of idea, and Zhao Wei and the platoon commander of the three companies at that time decided to break away from the 13th Army and go to Shaanxi to join the chief of the student corps of the Guilin branch of the Huangpu Military Academy.
The captain reprimanded them fiercely when he learned of the situation, told the two men not to pick and choose, and then directly bombarded them back.
Zhao Wei had to return to the location of the commander's headquarters of the Fifth Theater of Operations at Laohekou, Henan, and by this time he had no job because he had separated from the 13th Army. After thinking about it, Zhao Wei decided to try his luck with the 30th Army of Chifeng City in the Northwest Army System, because people were recruiting there, and he might be able to be a platoon leader in the past.
At this time, someone persuaded him, and neither of them thought at the time that it was this persuasion that actually allowed Zhao Wei to find a correct path, and also added a lot of color to his future military career.
This person was Zhao Wei's friend at the Whampoa Military Academy, who was then a staff officer of the Fifth Commander of the Kuomintang
Zhu Jianguo
。
After Zhu Jianguo understood the difficult situation of his old classmates now, he said directly: "Don't worry about it first, stay with me, I will find you a good job." ”
In this way, Zhao Wei temporarily stayed in Zhu Jianguo's home. During this time, he was bored and went to read the books in Zhu Jianguo's family, including various propaganda pamphlets printed by the CCP, and even some
Esquire
Popular Philosophy,
Mao Zedong
Articles such as "On Coalition Government".
Figure | "On coalition government" by Mao Zedong
Why does a Kuomintang officer have these articles in his family? Originally, Zhu Jianguo belonged to the Appeasement Group, which was initially established to suppress the Communist Party. However, at that time, it was precisely the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and it was the common desire of the masses of the people of all classes in society to unanimously go abroad and expel foreign enemies, and the appeasement group did not dare to make a stumbling block for the Communist Party as before.
However, the group will still engage in small actions in private, such as confiscating these pamphlets used by the CCP for propaganda, so as to weaken the influence of the Communist Party in the hearts of ordinary people. But what the Kuomintang did not expect was that this kind of move finally made the "family members" begin to question the ideas and behavior of the Kuomintang, and even the balance in their hearts gradually tilted in the direction of the Communist Party.
Zhu Jianguo is one of these people.
In the process of reading, he gradually accepted progressive ideas and began to think about whether what the Kuomintang had done was right or wrong, and if he followed this path, could he really save China today?
Now when we understand the history of the past, we can appreciate one thing, that is, the Communist Party of China has a great charm, which guides the direction for millions of Chinese people, expels the haze of the old society, and revitalizes the land that was dead under the rule of old ideas.
The same is true of Zhu Jianguo and Zhao Wei in the dark ages, who sink their hearts to read those words, and at the same time are infected by the ideas conveyed by the words, want to change their past wrong positions, and want to really do something practical for the Chinese people.
Pictured| Zhu Jianguo
However, Zhao Wei did not dare to disclose his thoughts for security reasons, so he accepted the work recommended by his friends and successively served as the captain and deputy commander of the Fifth War Differential Movement and the combat staff officer of the major of the Twenty-eighth Group Army.
After the surrender of the Japanese army in 1945, the Kuomintang sought to seize the fruits of victory, and in order to take over the northeast, a military command organization was specially established, its name was the Northeast Security Command, and its commander was Du Yuming. Zhao Wei was also transferred to the headquarters as an operational staff officer for his outstanding performance in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
At this time, Zhao Wei could be said to be "in cao ying's heart in Han": he knew that the main task of the Northeast Security Command was to fight against the Communist forces, and he also knew that only the Communist Party could save China. So he has been looking for opportunities to "abandon the dark and cast the light".
The opportunity soon came. Zhao Wei was passing through Tianjin on his way to the northeast and happened to meet Zhu Jianguo, who was already an operational staff officer of the Kuomintang's 11th Theater Commander's Department.
When Zhu Jianguo saw him this time, he did not hide his identity as before, but spoke bluntly: "Zhao Wei, we are old classmates, so I will not turn a corner with you, I think that only by doing things for the Communist Party can we realize the revolutionary ideal." Now that Chiang Kai-shek has torn up the negotiated agreement and is bent on provoking a civil war, I believe you have your own judgment ability. ”
Pictured| Japan surrendered
Originally, Zhu Jianguo had already joined the Communist Party, and now he is already a backbone member of our party's hidden front. At this time, when he said such a thing without knowing what Zhao Wei really thought in his heart, it could be said that he risked his life.
But Zhao Wei did not live up to his trust, he said:
I have read many books of the Communist Party, and Chiang Kai-shek has long since lost the hearts and minds of the people.
”
In March 1946, Zhao Wei went to Beiping under the introduction of Zhu Jianguo, and at No. 89 Shima Street in Beiping, he met a middle-aged man.
This man looks ordinary, dressed in an ordinary way, and it is estimated that it is difficult to find him in the pile of people. But his identity was enough to shock the Kuomintang, and he was the leader of the CCP's hidden front
Li Kenong
One of the generals under his command
Wang Shijian
Out of caution, Wang Shijian and Zhao Wei had a total of three conversations. Zhao Wei came up with his own ideas: He wanted to join the Communist Party and, if he could, he wanted to be allowed to go to Yan'an, which was the cradle of the Red Revolution.
Picture | red Yan'an paper cut
Wang Shijian was silent for a while and told him: "There is a war going on in Yan'an now, and even if you have been in the past, you will at most become a battalion commander, but if you learn from Zhu Jianguo and continue to stay inside the Kuomintang army to engage in intelligence work, you can do some practical work for the revolutionary work." ”
Unable to go to Yan'an as a revolutionary, Zhao Wei was a little disappointed in his heart, but he knew that Wang Shijian's judgment was correct, and That Huang Pusheng's identity was his best umbrella, after all, who would suspect Chiang Kai-shek's "concubine" officers? What's more, even if someone is suspicious, but there is no ironclad evidence, who dares to easily do something to him?
Zhao Wei thought about it for a while and agreed to continue to stay within the Nationalist army to collect intelligence for our party.
Wang Shijian then truthfully reported the contents of the conversation between the two to Li Kenong, who also formally approved Zhao Wei to become an "underground intelligence officer of the CCP" after inspection, working for our party on the hidden front under the code name "902."
As soon as Zhao Wei became an intelligence officer, he went directly to the Northeast Security Headquarters to report. Fortunately, in the operations section where he worked, the two section chiefs were Whampoa alumni, which made Zhao Wei's underground work more smooth.
Pictured| Li Kenong
Zhao Wei's main job in the secret room of the Northeast Security Command was to compile a list of troop strength and a list of commanders of the Northeast Kuomintang Army, in addition to which he was also responsible for marking the Northeast Combat Situation Map of the Office of the Chief of Staff of the Northeast Security Command.
These are all top-secret information that is enough to affect the outcome of the war!
Zhao Wei did not make any moves at the very beginning, but honestly completed the work assigned by the Kuomintang, so that the Kuomintang insiders were very relieved about him, but every time he looked at the blue flag representing the Kuomintang army on the northeast combat situation map, he always wanted to find an opportunity to make those blue flags turn red.
In March 1947, a suitable opportunity came.
Wang Shijian sent underground party members
Yuan Ze
Came to Shenyang and successfully contacted Zhao Wei. At that time, the Shenyang Municipal Public Security Bureau was under the control of the Kuomintang, and the Kuomintang police were going door to door to check their hukou and check for "suspicious elements." In order to ensure Yuan Ze's safety, Zhao Wei directly took people to his dormitory.
The most dangerous place is the safest place, how could the Kuomintang police have imagined that the members of the underground Party of the Ccp would go directly into the dormitory of the Northeast Security Command with a big wave, and almost complete the transmission of intelligence under their eyes!
Picture | Wang Shijian
This was also the first time that Zhao Wei had passed on intelligence, and he described to Yuan Ze in his dormitory the detailed battle plan of the fourth attack of the Kuomintang army in Liaodong, and in order to ensure the accuracy of the information transmission, he even risked drawing a schematic diagram with a small piece of paper and handing it to Yuan Ze.
Originally, Zhao Wei also wanted to provide the latest military strength table of the National Army, but the size of this thing was too large, it was easy to attract the attention of others, and it was really inconvenient to take it in and out.
After Zhao Wei thought about it, he consulted with Yuan Ze on whether he could ask the underground party organization to set up a secret radio station with one-line contact for him. The strength table of the Northeast Kuomintang Army needs to be compiled once a month according to the actual situation, and if there is a secret radio station to ensure that our Party troops can get this latest information in a timely manner, it will be of great help to the Democratic Coalition Army fighting on the frontal battlefield.
Wang Shijian, who received the news, approved of the idea, and a month later,
Shen Bingquan
and
Lv Shulan
The couple accepted the organization's assignment and set up a secret radio station not far from Zhao Wei's office, after which Zhao Wei would secretly bring them a military allocation table every month, and they would forward this important information to the Central Intelligence Department as quickly as possible.
Information about the Fourth Battle of Liaodong was continuously provided to the Northeast Democratic Coalition Through this secret radio station, and Zhao Wei's great role was beyond doubt.
Pictured| the badge of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army
Speaking of this, I am afraid that some people have already guessed that the aforementioned order to change the situation in the Northeast Is probably not just drafted by Zhao Wei, but also a fake order drawn up by his "fox fake tiger wei".
This is indeed the case, but Zhao Wei's order was not deliberately planned for a long time, but was issued by chance.
At that time, the Nationalist 13th Army received orders from Du Yuming and transferred the 89th and 54th Divisions to Shenyang, and Zhao Wei, after learning of this, decided to find out when the two divisions would depart. Whampoa's identity once again facilitated him, and he easily boarded the train of the 13th Army Headquarters in the name of visiting his old classmate who was a staff officer of the headquarters.
On the train, Zhao Wei and his old classmates talked happily, and he was thinking about whether to spy on some intelligence from the side, and the change happened at this time.
Commander of the 13th Army
Stone Awakening
Finding Zhao Wei, a person with raw eyes, he stood up and shouted angrily: "Who are you?" Who allowed you to get in the car? Zhao Wei quickly stood up, saluted him and replied: "Report to the commander, I am a staff officer of the commander's headquarters, and I came to the car to visit my classmates who have not been seen for a long time." As soon as Shi Jue heard this, his anger was even greater, and he directly knocked Zhao Wei off the car.
This kind of ruthless and rude behavior, not to mention Zhao Wei's embarrassment, even the classmate who was a staff officer of the 13th Army felt that his face was dull. Zhao Wei swallowed his anger for a while, and after he returned to the general staff office of the headquarters, he drafted an order, which was the one that Du Yuming found after the failure of the fourth attack on Liaodong.
Zhao Wei knew that the Democratic Coalition Army had already arranged a pocket array at the foot of Lanshan Mountain at that time, so he used the order to send the 13th Army into the "pocket", one was to send a big gift to my Democratic Coalition Army, and the other was to give a breath for himself.
Perhaps it was fate that the Kuomintang's qi should be desperate, so Zhao Wei kicked at the Kuomintang's ass at this time, and this foot happened to be a coincidence, and it was kicked into the fire.
The fat meat sent to the mouth did not have a reason not to eat, and the South Manchurian troops of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army firmly seized this opportunity, severely damaged the 13th Army trapped in the pocket formation, and took advantage of the victory to pursue, beat the remnants of the Nationalist army, and successfully gained a foothold in the northeast.
Du Yuming, who had lost the battle and was scolded by old Jiang again, faced the false order afterwards, but frowned tightly, and there was no way to directly dispose of Zhao Wei.
Because he only knew that Zhao Wei was the person who wrote the order, but he didn't know who the person who came up with the idea was. At that time, after Zhao Wei drafted the order, he asked the chief of the operations section, the chief of staff and the chief of staff to sign it together, and the whole order review process was completely in line with the code of conduct.
Pictured| Du Yuming
Du Yuming thought about tracking down who had given the order, but the Operations Department was full of Huangpu students, and everyone could not know that this person would definitely be difficult to escape blame, in order to take care of the former old classmates, everyone covered up and beat each other sloppily, and finally this matter was only approved by Du Yuming."
The reference should be reprimanded
"It's a hasty ending.
And Zhao Wei not only did not expose his identity, but also did not even scold.
From mid-May 1947, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army launched a summer offensive under the leadership of Lin Biao. In the Siping Campaign, Zhao Wei promptly transmitted important information such as the mobilization and deployment of the Nationalist army to our party troops.
On June 14, the Democratic Coalition Army launched a general offensive against Siping, and after half a month of continuous fighting, our army annihilated more than 10,000 enemy troops, killed the deputy chief of staff of the enemy's 71st Army, and captured more than 6,000 enemy troops.
The summer offensive of the Democratic Coalition Army gave the Nationalist army a huge blow, forcing the Nationalist army to change from a comprehensive defense to a key defense, and the Democratic Coalition Army firmly controlled the initiative of the northeast battlefield through this campaign, and the entire northeast war situation underwent a fundamental change.
The CIA commended Zhao Wei for his outstanding performance in the summer offensive, affirming his merits in delivering intelligence of great strategic value in a timely manner on many occasions.
Pictured| Siping Battle Memorial Hall
In this way, Zhao Wei, who was very mixed up in the Northeast Security Command, transmitted one confidential document after another of the Operations Section through the secret radio station of Shen Bingquan and his wife.
But on September 27, 1947, Zhao Wei, who had gone to the Shen family as usual to deliver information, noticed something was wrong.
The curtains of the window facing the Shen family are different from the past, ordinary people may not care about the changes in the curtains at all, but in Zhao Wei's eyes, this is a warning signal, Shen Bingquan is using the curtains to tell him that the secret radio has been exposed, let him never come in!
Zhao Wei immediately pretended to pass by by accident and walked past the Shen family's door without turning his head. His expression was very calm, his heart was actually panicked, and within two days, he found an opportunity to contact Shen Bingquan, who lived with Shen Bingquan and worked in the Kuomintang Liaoning Finance Department
Yao Yi
Yao Yi told him bad news: Shen Bingquan had been captured, and the Kuomintang agents had found a hand-drawn military map.
As soon as Zhao Wei heard the military map, he couldn't sit still at that time, he said: "Oops, that picture was drawn by me, do I want to leave?" Yao Yi thought for a long time and said slowly: "I don't leave, you better not go, if we go directly, they will think that we are thieves, and the situation will only be worse." ”
Zhao Wei remembered Wang Shijian's advice when he first became an underground worker:
Your position is very important, and you must not leave your post unless you are a last resort.
But the decision not to leave" was a great risk, and if Shen Bingquan had not carried the severe torture of the enemy in prison and confessed everything he knew, Zhao Wei would definitely not be able to escape the disaster.
Zhao Wei and Yao Yi sat face to face, he thought about countless ways of his own ending, and finally chose to stay.
Isn't Zhao Wei afraid of his own accidents? Of course, he was afraid, after separating from Yao Yi, Zhao Wei went to the photo studio to take a photo of himself, if something really happened to him, this photo could still be used as a souvenir for relatives and friends.
But he has decided to entrust his life to the Party organization and his comrades in prison, and he believes in the integrity of all revolutionaries, and he believes that comrades who share his ideals will never betray themselves.
Shen Bingquan did not live up to Zhao Wei's trust, and after nine days, he was still safe and sound.
Pictured | the elderly Zhao Wei
Zhao Wei was finally relieved, he wanted to go to Beiping to find Wang Shijian to report on the destruction of the secret radio station in Shenyang, and it just so happened that Du Yuming took over as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Security
Temporary
Asking him to go to Beiping to meet Chiang Kai-shek, Zhao Wei was overjoyed and quickly got on the plane to Beiping.
Zhao Wei, who came to Beiping, heard another bad news: Zhu Jianguo's identity as a member of the Communist Party had been exposed, and he had been arrested!
Shen Bingquan and Zhu Jianguo had one accident after another, which made Zhao Wei feel dangerous after being confused, and he wanted to escape, but he was worried that his hasty action would cause more trouble for the organization, so he returned to Shenyang again.
Zhao Wei, who returned to Shenyang, did not immediately go back to work on leave, but hid in the home of one of his classmates. He made up his mind that he would never leave his post as long as he had not been exposed, so he called his home and the Operations Section of the General Staff Office to test the reaction of the receivers.
As soon as chief Lu heard his voice, he immediately asked him eagerly why he had not returned to work, and repeatedly asked him where he was, saying that he would drive to pick him up now.
Zhao Wei suddenly felt bad, he pretended not to know to provide some false information to Chief Lu, and then took a tricycle straight to the Hunhe Bridge. However, the Hunhe Bridge was guarded by Kuomintang soldiers, so Zhao Wei had to find a place with lush grass on the riverbank, swim across the Hunhe River, and then walk along the main road in the direction of the Liberated Area.
Picture | the current Hunhe Bridge
On October 16, After several days and nights on the run, Zhao Wei finally encountered the People's Liberation Army's swimming sentry, when the soles of his feet were full of worn blood bubbles, the flesh and socks were glued together and suppurated, and the clothes on his body were full of mud.
But the PLA soldiers still recognized the clothes on his body that were nationalist officers, so they immediately set up their guns and ordered him to stand where he was.
Zhao Wei laughed happily, even though he was being pointed at several guns, but this was the most reassuring moment after he became an intelligence worker. He raised his hands to show that he did not have any weapons on his body, and said to these little warriors and Yan Yue, "Take me to your company headquarters." ”
In this way, Zhao Wei was sent up one level after another, all the way to the headquarters of the Liaoning Military Region. He faced the commander of the military district and finally revealed his true identity:"
I am an intelligence officer, codenamed '902'.
A simple sentence foreshadows the end of his thrilling lurking career. On this day, Zhao Wei waited for a long time, and he finally left the enemy's lair and stood under the red banner of the Communist Party in a bright light.
Later, Zhao Wei worked in the intelligence organs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and retired in 1981 from a post at the level of the Ministry of State Security.
After leaving his retirement, Zhao Wei did not stop his work, but worked tirelessly to give patriotic speeches across the country. Someone asked Elder Zhao why he didn't stay at home and enjoy his old age after he got old, but instead suffered and worried about these things?
The old man just smiled and was still enthusiastic about publicity and education, and those teenagers who listened carefully to the speech had already given the answer.
The revolutionary spirit does not die, and the red culture lives on!