In October 1947, when the Liberation War had reached a critical period, there was a Kuomintang major in military uniform in Jiguan Mountain in the northeast, walking by the river with great swagger. Across the river was the defensive zone of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, so he hadn't taken a few steps when he was spotted by patrolling. Unexpectedly, there was a Kuomintang major who came to the PLA's defense zone without people or weapons, and the soldiers who captured him were quite surprised, but they still decided to send him to the reform center first.
But the major seemed calm and did not panic at all when he was caught. Only to see him smile and say to several PLA soldiers, "Go and tell the chief, just say that I am 902, and the chief will definitely see me!" The fighters who arrested him didn't know what exactly this "902" meant, and one of the fighters asked suspiciously, "What are you, how can our chief let you, the Kuomintang, see you casually?" The major said firmly, "You tell the chief that I am 902, and the CIA can find out my identity." After several PEOPLE's Liberation Army members listened, they looked at each other, and even the central authorities moved out, and it seems that there is really an inside story.
Zhao Wei
They decided to hand him over to the company commander first. But after meeting the company commander, the Kuomintang major still insisted on seeing the top commander, repeating words like "I am 902." The company commander had no choice but to report the matter layer by layer, and finally the headquarters of the Liaodong Military Region also knew about it. At that time, it was Chen Yun who was serving as the political commissar of the military region, and when he heard about this, he actually asked his subordinates to quickly send this strange major to his headquarters. After the two met, they chatted very familiarly about home, as if they had known each other for many years. Who is this Kuomintang major? Why did even Chen Yun know?
It turned out that this PLA major was called Zhao Wei, and his experience was legendary. Zhao Wei was born in 1919 to a poor family in Hebei. Because of his poor family's situation, he went out to run around at a very young age, witnessed the brutality of the Japanese army, and also inspired his determination to resist Japan and save the country, so he was admitted to the sixteenth session of the Whampoa Military Academy and decided to join the army to serve the country. Since his supplementary regiment did not have the opportunity to go to the battlefield, it was completely contrary to Zhao Wei's desire to join the army, which disappointed him. After staying for a while, Zhao Wei really couldn't stand the dull atmosphere, discussed with his classmates, and simply sneaked to Shaanxi and joined the captain of their student years, but was reprimanded for leaving the team without authorization.
Helpless, Zhao Wei could only return to the original unit, but by this time he had already lost his job. In the end, he went to the Fifth Headquarters in Henan and found Zhu Jianguo, who was then a staff officer of the Appeasement Department of the Fifth Headquarters, and they had also known each other for many years. Zhao Wei had originally planned to go to the Northwest Army, but was persuaded by Zhu Jianguo to introduce him to his own appeasement department, which was a department specializing in dealing with the Communist Party. Although the Kuomintang was nominally cooperating with the Kuomintang at this time, it was wary of the Communists everywhere, and there were many captured propaganda materials here to introduce the ideas of the Communist Party. In his spare time at work, Zhu Jianguo often approached Zhao Wei to chat about the situation, including these relevant Communist Party books. After more contact, Zhao Wei was gradually impressed by these theories and accepted them from his heart.
Chen yun
Later, he learned that this was all deliberately arranged by Zhu Jianguo. Zhu Jianguo accepted the Communist Party earlier than Zhao Wei, and he saw Zhao Wei's ability, so in this way, he wanted Zhao Wei to also have a deep understanding of the communist party's ideas. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhu Jianguo was transferred to Shenyang by the Kuomintang, and he specially met with Zhu Jianguo before taking office. At this time, Zhu Jianguo had joined the Communist Party, but his apparent identity was still a Staff Officer of the Kuomintang. Zhu Jianguo confessed his identity to him and asked, "Are you willing to help us pass on information?" Zhao Wei smiled and said, "I have been waiting for this day for a long time." ”
In Beijing in 1946, through the introduction of Zhu Jianguo, he met the underground party member "Shi Jian". Zhao Wei recalled that the general under Li Kenong did not look special, dressed like a businessman, and was of medium stature. Zhao Wei told Shi Jian that he wanted to go to Yan'an, but Shi Jian advised him to stay and engage in intelligence work, and after a long conversation, Zhao Wei accepted Shi Jian's suggestion. After the two met several times, Shi Jian explained the specific work in detail and warned Zhao Wei: Identity must be kept strictly confidential, and no one can tell, including his own family.
Once, when the two of them met in the Xuanwumen bathhouse, Shi Jian took off his clothes when he took off his clothes, and Zhao Wei saw that his body was covered with scars and asked, "How did these injuries come about?" Shi Jian said: "Before, when I was working as a spy in Shanghai, I was arrested by the Kuomintang, and they tortured me in order to let me betray my intelligence. Then Shi Jian told one by one that this scar was burned by a soldering iron, and this scar was whipped..... Zhao Wei was very shocked, and he secretly swore that if he was arrested in the future, he would be as unyielding as Shi Jian. After several meetings, Shi Jian reported Zhao Wei's situation to Li Kenong, and although Zhao Wei did not join the party, Li Kenong approved the code name "902" for him, and Zhao Wei officially became a Communist Party intelligence officer.
In 1947, Zhao Wei had been promoted to a staff officer of the Kuomintang, and every day Zhao Wei had to mark the latest situation of the Kuomintang garrison on the map, and he was also responsible for compiling a garrison table every month, which he printed and distributed to the troops at and above the division level of the commander's department.
In March 1947, yuan ze, an underground party member, came to Shenyang and contacted Zhao Wei. At the first meeting, Zhao Wei provided news of great importance: a detailed operational plan for the Fourth Kuomintang attack on Liaodong. This was the first time Zhao Wei had passed on intelligence, and he drew a detailed schematic map for Yuan Ze and wrote down the combat deployment in clear text. Later, Zhao Wei recalled this mission and said with some trepidation: "At that time, I had no experience, and I would not use ciphertext, so I passed on such obvious information, in case it was discovered, Yuan Ze and I could not run." "This time the intelligence was smoothly delivered to the organization and provided an important role.
Zhao Wei's greatest credit for his time as an underground party was a "false order." At that time, Du Yuming ordered the Kuomintang 13th Army to be transferred to Shenyang to prepare to fight the People's Liberation Army at Linjiang. Zhao Wei wanted to find out the specific deployment after he knew it, so he visited his old friend and boarded the car of the 13th Army Headquarters. At the beginning, Zhao Wei chatted with his old classmates, and before he could say a few words, Shi Jue, the commander of the 13th Army, suddenly stood up and scolded Zhao Wei: "What are you?" Who let you get in the car? Zhao Wei saluted him and respectfully replied that he was a staff officer of the headquarters and came to visit his old classmates. But Shi Jue still screamed, "You give me down!" Zhao Wei and his old classmates were very embarrassed, but in view of the fact that the other party was a military commander, plus Zhao Wei did not want to be exposed, he hurriedly got out of the car. Fortunately, Zhao Wei figured out the specific action time, and it was not in vain.
Li Kenong
After Zhao Wei returned to the general staff, he immediately wrote a false order and ordered Commander Shi Jue to speed up the march and attack the commanding heights of Lanshan Mountain. In fact, Zhao Wei already knew that the People's Liberation Army had already laid out its position in Lanshan, waiting for the Kuomintang to catch turtles in the urn. Because Zhao Wei was usually responsible for the drafting of various telegram orders, coupled with the large number of battlefield orders and chaotic management, when he took the fake order to find his immediate superior to sign, his leader did not ask much and signed it directly. In this way, this fake order, which was fabricated by Zhao Wei, unexpectedly passed the examination and approval of the Kuomintang at all levels and became a real order.
Shi Jue led the 13th Army to follow the orders, and after entering the Lanshan position, it was indeed swept away by the People's Liberation Army and suffered heavy losses. Many years later, Shi Jue also bitterly criticized Du Yuming's blind command in his memoirs, and forcibly ordered the three-way column to be changed to a two-way column to attack, and the 13th Army was too late to rest, and it was ordered to attack just after reaching the front line, and the reinforcements were not timely, resulting in the two divisions being completely annihilated and more than 8,000 people captured. The 13th Army led by Shi Jue was the main force of the Nationalist army, and Zhao Wei's false order led to a reversal of the situation in the entire Northeast Battlefield. This defeat completely wiped out Du Yuming's strategy of "attacking the north from the south, first from the south and then to the north," and he had to change from the original offensive side to the defensive side. After this battle, the Kuomintang was no longer able to launch an offensive, but our army's combat strength continued to grow and grasped the initiative in the northeast battlefield.
After the defeat in this battle, Chiang Kai-shek severely criticized Du Yuming, and Du Yuming was scolded for no reason, and angrily went back to find out who gave the order, and found Zhao Wei's head. However, because the telegram had the signatures of leaders at all levels, even the chief of staff, Zhao Wei bit to death and said that the telegram had passed the examination and approval and was completely compliant, and he was only responsible for sending it, and the matter was finally over.
Zhao Wei in his youth
But Zhao Wei did not let down his guard, and after a while, he went to the secret contact point as usual, but when he arrived at the door, he found that the curtains were all tightly closed. Zhao Wei was shocked, this was the meaning of the accident, he immediately turned back, risking to find another lurking underground party to inquire about the situation. It turned out that an underground party named Shen Bingquan was arrested, and a military map drawn by Zhao Wei was also found. Zhao Wei was taken aback, which meant that he could be exposed at any time, and Zhao Wei decided to go to Beiping to inquire about it, only to learn that Zhu Jianguo, who had introduced himself to the underground party, had been arrested, and that more than a dozen intelligence officers had also been arrested.
Zhao Wei hurried to find Wang Xiao, the contact person that Shi Jian had told him in an emergency. After explaining his intentions, Wang Xiao sighed and said, "Something big has happened in Beiping, and the underground organization has been destroyed." Zhao Wei was shocked, and they agreed to meet the next day for detailed talks, but when Zhao Wei arrived at Wang Xiao's house the next day, he found that there were several sneaky people walking around outside, and he felt bad and quickly left. What Zhao Wei did not know was that a "radio case" occurred in Beiping that even Chiang Kai-shek was alarmed, and the station chief of the Beiping secret intelligence station was captured and surrendered, confessing to the intelligence stations in many parts of the country, suffering heavy losses, and even Shi Jian was arrested. But because Zhao Wei did not know that the situation was so serious, he was worried about his work in Shenyang, or he stepped on the train back to Shenyang.
But Zhao Wei still maintained a high degree of vigilance, he returned to Shenyang after the first call to the unit, did not expect that the section chief who answered the phone heard that it was him, the tone became very excited, and even urged him: "You have returned to Shenyang? Hurry back to work! Zhao Wei cautiously resigned: "I have been sitting in the car for several days and nights, and my body is a little uncomfortable, so I will take a break at my fiancée's place." After hanging up the phone, he went to the city of Shenyang and found a public telephone to dial his fiancée's home, but he did not expect that it was the section chief who answered the phone. It seems that something must be wrong, Zhao Wei quickly said that he went to the hospital, and then immediately went to his wife's unit, but she had already returned home from work and did not see the above.
Zhao Wei thought about it for a long time, thinking that he had been exposed and had to get out of here. He walked all the way to the outside of the city, and on the way he encountered two Kuomintang soldiers interrogating him, Zhao Wei straightened out his military uniform and calmly replied: "I am a staff officer of the 52nd Army, to check the terrain." The two Nationalist soldiers immediately returned the salute and found a boat to take him across the river. Crossing the river is the Liberated Area, Zhao Wei smoothly returned to the organization, until the founding of New China, also worked in the intelligence department, retired in 1981.