When it comes to female spies, the first thing that probably everyone will think of is beauty, because there is a sentence that is particularly well said:
Glamorous red makeup, originally a murderous blade;
Under the pomegranate skirt, several more handsome skeletons.
But during World War II, Japan felt a bit the opposite, and there was an ugly spy, she was Tomoko Uchiyama, don't look at her ugly, but with three stunts for Japan to build a miracle.
First, what are the three stunts of Tomoko Uchiyama?
1. Language
Tomoko Uchiyama's grandfather traveled the world and learned some foreign languages, especially dialects from all over southern China. He often told his granddaughter about the customs and customs of various countries, and taught her to speak some simple foreign languages. Tomoko Uchiyama admired her grandfather very much, and when she was in college, she did not hesitate to take several foreign languages with his encouragement. She is proficient in 8 languages, namely English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, in addition, she is also proficient in dialects around China, such as Cantonese, Hokkien, Hunan, Sichuanese, etc., I have to say that she is a language genius.
Second, unlock
Tomoko Uchiyama was born into a family of locksmiths, a family that has been in the lock repair business for nearly two hundred years, and she is the eighth generation of this technology. She was the only daughter in the family, and her father, Daisuke Uchiyama, passed on this skill to her.
During her spy career, she was able to easily open the top safes in Britain, the United States, Russia, France and other countries.
3. Makeup
Tomoko Uchiyama learned her masquerade technique from her mother, who was originally a costumer for a troupe. After the troupe collapsed, she married the locksmith Uchaiyama Daisuke. She passed on her masquerade skills to this only daughter.
At that time, Tomoko Uchiyama's makeup technology was already first-class. After putting on makeup, she couldn't even see the veteran spy.
A photo of Tomoko Uchiyama was circulated on the Internet
First, how does the Ugly Woman of the Orient become a top spy?
After the outbreak of World War II, when the Royal Spy Service asked the University of Tokyo for foreign language talents, the school recommended Tomoko Uchiyama.
This recommendation was not tight, and during the interview, Tomoko Uchiyama's performance simply beat several interviewers who were veteran spies.
On August 6, 1939, Tomoko Uchiyama came to the Royal Spy Agency, and her appearance immediately attracted attention.
She was short in stature, her forehead bulging, a dull flattened face covered with knots and freckles, her nose flattened, her eyes cloudy and dull, half open and half closed, her lips were thick, her mouth was so wide that when she opened her mouth to speak, a few yellow teeth were revealed without concealment.
Female spies should be beautiful women, this concept has long been imprinted in everyone's heart, suddenly appeared such an ugly woman, naturally not favored by everyone.
During the interview, seeing her appearance, even the chief examiner began to have disgust, and the examiners present at that time were all "China Pass", "British Pass", "Russian Pass", when they knew that she was a language genius, they asked her questions in Chinese, English, and Russian respectively.
Unexpectedly, she not only answered fluently, but also pointed out the grammatical errors of the examiners separately, and said that their language was too Japanese and not suitable for spying.
As soon as this remark came out, all the examiners were shocked, and they could not believe that a girl with an unassuming appearance could master so many languages perfectly.
In fact, these examiners do not know that during college, when others are in love, she is immersed in studying 8 Chinese and studying the economy, military, and politics of these countries.
When the examiners informed her that she had been accepted by the Royal Spy Service and was tasked with monitoring the telegram codes of various countries, this news made her a little unhappy, because she wanted to do not do such a simple job as a telegraph monitor.
Uchiyama's words made the examiner begin to be unhappy, because the Royal Spy Bureau was not a great honor to be admitted, and it was already a great honor to be admitted, and she was still here to pick and choose.
An examiner said directly with a sarcastic look on her face
She wants to rely on beauty to obtain intelligence, which is simply whimsical.
Japanese beauty spy Yoshiko Kawashima
This sentence also completely angered Uchido Michiko, who walked up to the examiner without saying a word and directly slapped the examiner, a move that shocked all the examiners present.
Then she righteously told the examiner that she was ugly, but it was not her fault, and she said,
What other good those beautiful women have besides pulling men into the water!
The examiner, still with a contemptuous eye, asked her to show what skills she had besides language.
Uchiko immediately said that she wanted to show her unlocking skills, and at that time, the British safe was basically unbreakable in the world.
In order to study this kind of safe, the General Staff department spent millions of yen to buy one from Britain, but Japan's first-class safe experts studied it for three months and still could not open it.
What I didn't expect was that
It took Uchiyama to open it in just 10 minutes.
This move also completely shocked all the examiners present, who apologized to Tomoko Uchiyama for his inappropriate remarks just now, sincerely hoping that he would be able to serve Japan.
Because her appearance has never been respected by others, this is also the first time that she can get such respect at this time, and Uchida Tomoko also shed tears excitedly, but as the tears flow down her cheeks, the examiners were surprised to find that she had put on makeup, and with the tears washed away the fat powder on her face.
Tomoko Uchiyama revealed her true colors, and it turned out that she was not so ugly.
Tomoko Uchiyama's series of operations perfectly demonstrated her three skills and completely conquered the examiners present.
Tomoko Uchiyama successfully entered the Spy Bureau, and after entering the Spy Bureau, her skills were displayed to the fullest, and she effortlessly opened all the safes in the United States, Russia, and France, and the documents of various countries marked with special secrets soon reached the hands of Japanese officials.
Since then, Tomoko Uchiyama has been greatly famous, not only receiving the reputation of "One Flower of Great Japan", but also receiving the Medal of Honor personally issued by the Emperor of Japan.
Second, super makeup technique, infiltrate the New Fourth Army
Tomoko Uchiyama secretly infiltrated China in May 1941, first to Shanghai and then to Chongqing with refugees.
At that time, kenji Doihara, the head of the Japanese secret service, wanted to get the exact number of arms sold by the United States to Chiang Kai-shek, but the agents he sent failed, because the secret documents were placed in the secret room of the presidential palace, which was not only heavily guarded, but also stored in a safe made by the tall and stupid British, and ordinary spies could not open them.
At this time, Kenji Toihara thought of Tomoko Uchiyama, who was pregnant with extraordinary skills.
Tomoko Uchiyama made up as a cleaner in her 40s
Every day, she swept the floor in obscurity in front of the heavily guarded presidential palace gate, but could only look inside. No matter whether it was windy or rainy, she showed up there on time every day to sweep the floor and was never late. For days, almost no one noticed her presence, and the doorman of the presidential palace even used her as a sweeping machine that could not speak. No one could have imagined,
She turned out to be a female spy sent from Japan, Tomoko Uchiyama.
On October 7, 1941, the mission began, and It took Only 14 minutes for Tomoko Uchiyama, with the help of three traitors in the Presidential Palace, to open the door of the heavily guarded Presidential Palace Secret Room, and for the safes in the secret room where the confidential documents were stored, she also opened it in only 20 minutes, and this time was simply difficult for the male spies.
They took the documents out, took pictures, and quickly put them back, and for the Japanese spies before, such a difficult task was easily completed by Tomoko Uchiyama.
This incident finally shocked US President Roosevelt, who asked Chiang Kai-shek why he leaked secrets. Chiang Kai-shek was also particularly shocked and angry, the Japanese spy actually stole the top secret documents under his eyes, and he ordered Dai Kasa to find out the truth in three days, but at this time, Uchiyama Tomoko had already fled Chongqing.
Photo of the National Government of Chongqing
At that time, after the Kuomintang government moved the capital to Chongqing, it was basically difficult to find a nationalist army unit that could resist in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, especially in the vast land occupied by Japan with Nanjing as the center.
In this region, although there is no resistance from the Nationalist army, there is a unit that has been insisting on fighting, and has caused great trouble to Japan and caused Japan a great headache, that is, the New Fourth Army led by the Communist Party of China.
The New Fourth Army, which operates in this area, is flexible in combat, sometimes fragmented, dispersing to villages to attack small groups of enemy forces, cutting off power supplies, and destroying transportation and Japanese communications facilities. Sometimes it was divided into pieces, in response to the "sweeping" of the Japanese army, and every time it beat the Japanese army to the ground.
At that time, the Japanese military headquarters in Shanghai mainly concentrated its forces on the frontal battlefield in central China, and there was no way to send large troops to deal with the guerrillas of the New Fourth Army, so they had to ask Kenji Doihara to send spies to obtain the garrison intelligence of the New Fourth Army and then prepare to attack.
However, many of the spies sent by Japan were discovered and ultimately failed.
Kenji Toihara
One day in March 1942, the second company of a certain unit of the New Fourth Army that had just ambushed the Japanese army was resting in a certain village, and the company commander suddenly received a report from a sentry saying,
At the head of the village, an old woman was found fainting
。
The company commander quickly walked over with a few soldiers, and when he saw the old woman, he found that the old woman had gray hair, a wrinkled face, her clothes were torn, and there was a broken basket on the left hand side, and there was a broken earth bowl in the basket, and a stick on the right side, lying on the ground, breathing weakly and dying.
The company commander and several soldiers quickly helped the old woman to the residence and informed her, and the company hygienist, through inspection, found that the old woman was not seriously ill, but had not eaten for about five or six days.
The health center found a bowl of boiling water, added some sugar and salt to feed the old woman's mouth, and after a while, it turned an egg into an egg soup and fed it to the old woman.
After a while, the old woman slowly woke up. When the old woman saw that there were people with guns next to her, she immediately cried out and said that he had finally found his relatives.
I know by asking,
The old woman's surname is Zhu, 67 years old, and her family lives in Dawangzhuang, 50 miles away from here
。 Half a month ago, the Japanese devils washed the village in blood, her wife and two sons were killed by the Japanese, the daughter-in-law was raped and hanged herself, and the house was burned down by the devils, leaving only the old woman alone. Originally, she didn't want to live, but she wanted to find the New Fourth Army to avenge her.
The old woman lived in this way, and slowly his body recovered, she did not idle, either to help the soldiers wash clothes, or to help the soldiers cook, appearing particularly industrious.
However, the company instructor was still suspicious of her, because they did not verify what the old woman said, and if the old woman was a spy, it would be very bad.
Therefore, he asked a squad leader to quietly go to Dawangzhuang to investigate. The squad leader quickly returned to report that half a month ago, Dawangzhuang had indeed been burned and looted by the Japanese, and that an old woman surnamed Zhu had indeed escaped.
However, at about 10 p.m. on the 5th, gunfire suddenly broke out behind the village, and the company commander and instructor quickly got up from bed. The outpost squad leader admonished,
More than 300 devils and puppet troops surrounded the village.
The whole company quickly assembled, and in order to preserve its strength, it was decided not to be tough and disperse the breakout.
At this time, the encirclement of the Japanese army is getting smaller and smaller, in the process of breaking through, the company commander was seriously injured, the instructor was killed, many soldiers were also shot and killed, and only more than 30 people were left to break through.
Who leaked the specific location of the troops?
That's right, the old lady.
And she is Tomoko Uchiyama
She stole secret information from the presidential palace and returned to Shanghai. Kenji Toihara, worried that no one would be able to blend into the guerrillas, asked her to come out. With her superb masquerade skills, she disguised herself as Mrs. Zhu and killed the real Mrs. Zhu. After starving herself for a few days, she gained the sympathy of the warriors by pretending.
She seemed to be very enthusiastic about washing clothes and cooking for the soldiers, but in fact she used the laundry to cook, and she knew the number of the company clearly. She had wanted to follow the company and break into the upper echelons of the New Fourth Army, but she did not expect that the Song instructors had some doubts about her, so she dismissed her ambition to go to the headquarters of the New Fourth Army, used a miniature transmitter to report the situation of the company to Kenji Toihara, and then quietly left on the night of the Japanese sneak attack.
3. Assassination of Chiang Kai-shek
After Tomoko Uchiyama infiltrated the New Fourth Army to complete the mission, her abilities were once again recognized by the Japanese side, and she also had a new mission.
In February 1942, the Japanese sent a secret telegram instructing Tomoko Uchiyama
Assassinate Chiang Kai-shek at the right time to cause panic within the Kuomintang.
In March 1942, Tomoko Uchiyama came to Chongqing again as a noble Chinese-American in her 60s.
At that time, the assassination plan was basically unknown except for a few secret service leaders such as Kenji Doihara.
After the connector, Tomoko Uchiyama quickly stayed at the Wudu Hotel in Chongqing, where she met with three wang puppet agents who were already lurking in the presidential palace:
A repairman, an internal security guard, a quartermaster.
When the repairman came in, Tomoko Uchiyama did not say a word, first took out 30,000 oceans, and now he entered Chiang Kai-shek's room within 20 days on the pretext of repairing electric lights, took the opportunity to do it, and said that he would give him 70,000 oceans after the event was completed.
The repairman did not have any chance to get close to Chiang Kai-shek in the presidential palace, and when he finished assassinating Chiang Kai-shek, he could not come out alive, but when he saw the ocean of white flowers in front of him, he still agreed, because he would take the money first
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Tomoko Uchiyama met with the internal security personnel of the Presidential Palace, who had very good marksmanship and was known as "a hundred steps through Yang" in the Internal Security Department of the Presidential Palace.
When Uchiyama Saw Him, she did not give him money directly, but showed him Wang Jingwei's handwriting.
He was once an internal security guard under Wang Jingwei and was loyal to Wang Jingwei. After Wang Jingwei established a puppet regime in Nanjing, he installed him at Chiang Kai-shek's side.
Seeing the oracle, he said he would do it. Later, Tomoko Uchiyama also gave him 30,000 oceans as a fund for the event.
In fact, he was just an ordinary security guard at the Presidential Palace, and he had no chance to get close to Chiang Kai-shek. Tomoko Uchiyama asked him to take advantage of Chiang Kai-shek's appearance at a major event to shoot him from a distance. But he knew that there had been no major activities in the recent period, so let's get the money first.
At 3 p.m., the quartermaster arrived.
The quartermaster is a man who is greedy for money and has no ability, but he is good at sneaking around and patting horses to please his superiors. Don't look at his virtue, he is a double agent of Wang Fei and the military command, but he has no achievements, just who gives money to whom.
Tomoko Uchiyama also knew this man's abilities, so she did not expect him, but still gave him 10,000 oceans and asked him to report chiang kai-shek's whereabouts at all times.
However, just as Tomoko Uchiyama was acting according to her plan, at 7 p.m. that night, the military commanders suddenly rushed into the Kirito Hotel to search, but Uchiyama Tomoko had already left.
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Who leaked the secret?
The leaker was none other than the three men, and after receiving the money, he thought that the task could not be completed at all, so he called the military commander and revealed the incident of Tomoko Uchiyama at the hotel to the military commander, saying that his actions were related to a big government figure.
The military command acted quickly, but it was still a step too late, and Tomoko Uchiyama had already left the hotel, and then disguised herself and returned to Shanghai.
Subsequently, because chiang kai-shek was particularly angry at the theft of the secret room of the presidential palace last time, dai kasa personally deployed and took advantage of this opportunity to sweep away Wang Fei and the Japanese secret service organization.
4. The ending of Tomoko Uchiyama
After this incident, Tomoko Uchiyama's boss thought she could not play a big role in China and recalled her to Japan.
In 1945, Japan surrendered, and Tomoko Uchiyama lived in extreme poverty.
In the winter of 1948, she was already suffering from severe tuberculosis, and she fell on the way to the hospital for examination, and this fall never got up again, this ugly woman who had once been pregnant with extraordinary skills and made great achievements for Japan, just threw her body into the wilderness and died without a place to bury.
Note: For the rich article with pictures, the pictures are from the network