On a hot summer night in August 1946, Chen Rongsheng, deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Baoding Appeasement Office, was lying in bed and sleeping soundly, when a man suddenly broke into his bedroom and held a gun against his temple.
Chen Rongsheng woke up when he was on the throne, and he fixed his eyes on it, and the person in front of him was Xie Shiyan, director of the operations department of the Baoding Appeasement Office and major general of the Nationalist Army. The two men were colleagues for many years, and Chen Rongsheng reluctantly calmed himself down and asked Xie Shiyan: "I said Brother Xie, what are you going to do?" I didn't offend you, did I? ”
A busy night
Xie Shiyan was not in the mood to argue with Chen Rongsheng, and he said bluntly to Chen Rongsheng: "I now have a top-secret intelligence about the battle plan to attack Zhangjiakou, and I hope you will help me send this information to Ye Jianying, and you will either help now, or we will die together!" ”
Listening to Xie Shiyan's words, Chen Rongsheng did not express it, he was afraid and helplessly said to Xie Shiyan: "Dude, don't make jokes, I am a democrat, that Ye Jianying is a member of the Communist Party, where do I go to find him, you don't want to harm me!" But this is just Chen Rongsheng testing Xie Shiyan, because Chen Rongsheng's real identity is indeed an underground party member.
Xie Shiyan ignored Chen Rongsheng's defense, he directly threw a piece of intelligence into Chen Rongsheng's hands and said to him: "The battle plan in this intelligence will be executed within ten days, you can not believe me, but if so, it is not only you and me, Brother Chen, we have worked together for many years, will I test you with such an important matter?" ”
Seeing this top-secret information, Chen Rongsheng was shocked in his heart, indeed, it did not look like a fake. If the information brought by Xie Shiyan is true, then it is at stake for the lives of thousands of comrades in Zhangjiakou, and Chen Rongsheng decided to believe Xie Shiyan.
Chen Rongsheng, who had made a good decision, got out of bed in his clothes and made a phone call to the liaison officer Xu Bing, and the two men took advantage of the night to meet and send this top-secret information to Ye Jianying, because of Xie Shiyan's ventilated message, the superior decided to let the PLA soldiers stationed in Zhangjiakou immediately withdraw, and a bloody battle was avoided.
However, since Xie Shiyan was a major general in the Nationalist Army, why did he help our party pass on information, and how did he know that Chen Rongsheng was an underground party?
Patriotic generals
Everything should start from the beginning, Xie Shiyan was born in a big family in Hunan, the Xie family was fierce, he had been in the army for generations, and when xie Shiyan's generation came, the country was in turmoil, and it was precisely when he should stand up and defend his family and defend the country, Xie Shiyan was obliged to apply for the military academy, and after graduation, he entered the national army.
Xie Shiyan had good command and made many military achievements, so he was promoted all the way and became a regimental commander. At that time, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, Xie Shiyan watched the country fall, but a number of high-ranking officials of the government were vying for power and profit, had no intention of resisting Japan, and were deeply disappointed in their hearts. Xie Shiyan himself had no interest in getting rich from promotion, and only wanted to defend his family and defend the country, and when the Japanese attacked Zhejiang, Xie Shiyan took a regiment of troops to meet a brigade of the Japanese army, won a great victory, annihilated thousands of enemy troops, and became famous for a while.
Since then, Xie Shiyan led his own troops to fight in various places, until 1945, when the Japanese Kou finally surrendered, Xie Shiyan saw the mountains and rivers returning, and his heart was relieved, but the old Chiang Kai-shek's intention to fight a civil war had long been Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone knew that Xie Shiyan was deeply dissatisfied with this.
At this time, Xie Shiyan's life was not good, because after the victory of the War of Resistance, the generals in various places took the opportunity to plunder the people's wealth, and Xie Shiyan, who was an upright man, looked down on this kind of bullying and oppressing of the people very much, so he repeatedly intervened to stop it, causing some people to be jealous, and these people jointly filed a complaint, and finally Lao Jiang did not distinguish between black and white, and in order to calm the controversy, he actually removed Xie Shiyan from his official post.
But after all, Xie Shiyan's ability was outstanding, and after old Jiang snubbed him for a few months, he still revived him and put him in charge of drawing up a battle plan for attacking Zhangjiakou, but at this time, Xie Shiyan no longer had any confidence in the Nationalist government, and he wanted to abandon the dark and turn to our party. However, although at this time Xie Shiyan was able to meet some Communists who had come to negotiate with Lao Jiang, these people had long been monitored by secret agents and could not get the opportunity to communicate with them alone, and Xie Shiyan's only chance was to find those underground parties whose identities were secret and hand over the news.
Heroes are immortal
Xie Shiyan had long heard of the toughness of our party's underground work, and without thinking about it, he knew that there must be a lot of undercover agents lurking inside the government, and the problem was that Xie Shiyan did not know who the undercover was, he thought left and right, and suddenly thought of a person, this person was his colleague Chen Rongsheng.
To say that Chen Rongsheng is a person, he seems to be a clumsy disciple who is not very contentious. He came from a rich family, his father was the president of the bank, and he was very spoiled for his young son. Chen Rongsheng went to the United States to study when he was young, but he did not seem to learn anything, nor did he find any job, and finally relied on the face of his old father to find a decent job in the Appeasement Office, he was very lazy on weekdays, eight days out of ten days on leave, after work was not to go to the casino, or to drink, the typical playboy.
However, Xie Shiyan knew that Chen Rongsheng was definitely not as shallow as it seemed on the surface. Chen Rongsheng and Xie Shiyan had a good relationship, and when Xie Shiyan was idle and bored, Chen Rongsheng recommended to him the works of some progressive writers, and even Chairman Mao's books, but Chen Rongsheng was a very miscellaneous person, and with these books, it seemed that he could not explain anything.
However, Xie Shiyan was vaguely sure in his heart that Chen Rongsheng was the person he was looking for, and he decided to gamble, so he took advantage of the night to break into Chen Rongsheng's room, fortunately, his judgment was not wrong, Chen Rongsheng did not dishonor his mission, and handed over this information to his superiors, and Xie Shiyan also became an underground party member after this incident.
This thrilling night went through smoothly, and Xie Shiyan saved many lives. However, it is regrettable that this patriotic general could not see the founding of New China, and a year before the founding of New China, Xie Shiyan and other underground parties were betrayed by traitors, and the enemy brutally killed Xie Shiyan in prison, and a generation of heroes died at the hands of Xiao Xiao.
Heroes have been buried in the underground, today's Guotai Min'an is the best consolation for them, nearly a hundred years have passed, but some people, some things, still shine in the long river of history. Before Xie Shiyan became righteous, he wrote a poem: "No one has died since ancient times, and when the boy is frustrated." How many heads and how much blood, continue to become a democratic free poem. "It was his life's faith, and he lived up to his faith.