Li Zongren, who had been drifting outside for sixteen years, finally returned to the motherland and met many senior Kuomintang generals, including Shen Drunk. Shen Drunk had a secret buried in his heart for seventeen years, and after seeing Li Zongren, he couldn't help but tell him that seventeen years ago, Chiang Kai-shek arranged an assassination against Li Zongren. When Shen Drunk revealed the details of the assassination in detail, Li Zongren called out for luck!
This article reviews how the assassination was arranged at that time, and together take a look at the Kuomintang's professional-level and absolutely perfect assassination plan.
Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren have always been in harmony with each other, wary of each other, secretly competing, and Chiang Kai-shek's several wild scenes are related to Li Zongren, and it can be said that they have long been a thorn in the flesh of the eye.
Chiang Kai-shek, Li Zongren
In March 1948, Chiang Kai-shek convened the First National Assembly of the Kuomintang. Chiang Kai-shek set up a vice president position for his confidant Sun Ke, so that he could retreat into the background at the right time and still control the overall situation.
Unexpectedly, Li Zongren seized this opportunity to participate in the election of vice president. After mobilizing all the forces, he did everything in his power, and finally defeated Sun Ke by a slight advantage and was elected vice president.
Chiang Kai-shek stole the chicken and did not become a rotten rice, ate a dumb loss, a wave of anger nestled in his heart, and gave Li Zongren a fierce account. Li Zongren did not care whether old Jiang was happy or unhappy, and happily became vice president.
With the deepening of the War of Liberation, the Kuomintang soldiers were defeated. Between 1948 and 1949, Chiang Kai-shek's million elite divisions, after the three major battles of Liaoshen, Pingjin, and Huaihai, lost all their money.
Chiang Kai-shek's prestige was greatly damaged, and the Kuomintang complained bitterly about Chiang Kai-shek. At this time, Li Zongren, as vice president, took advantage of the fire and robbery, and quickly dispatched his own Gui army, which was not broken, and quickly assembled near Nanjing. Ordered the Gui general Bai Chongxi to deploy along the Yangtze River.
This intention is very obvious, that is, to tell Chiang Kai-shek - you can't do it, let me come! The president also let me do it!
Chiang Kai-shek's position was deeply threatened, and he was annoyed by this, but he was powerless to suppress Li Zongren. What to do? As soon as his heart was fierce, Chiang Kai-shek's housekeeping skills were unleashed--he did not do anything twice, simply physically destroyed Li Zongren, and never had any trouble!
Chiang Kai-shek (second from left) and Li Zongren (third from left)
After Chiang Kai-shek made up his mind, he immediately summoned Mao Renfeng, director of the Secrecy Bureau, and told him bluntly -- if he wanted to secretly get rid of Li Zongren, who would do it?
Mao Renfeng was familiar with Chiang Kai-shek's methods and was not surprised that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to assassinate anyone.
To assassinate Li Zongren, we must find a safe point. Mao Renfeng thought for a moment and replied, "I intend to arrange for the director of the Operations Division."
Ye Xiangzhi
, personally responsible for this operation. ”
After Chiang Kai-shek listened to Mao Renfeng's answer, he was half silent and closed his eyes in meditation. After a while, he suddenly asked, "Ye Xiangzhi, what did you do before?" Are you sure he can accomplish this task? ”
Mao Renfeng was not very satisfied with Chiang Kai-shek, and his heart was a little uneasy, so he carefully replied: "Ye Xiangzhi used to work as a secretary in the secretary office of the Chongqing Military Command Bureau, and only later did he engage in operational work. Although he was halfway home, he was involved in several secret operations of the Secret Service, all of which were successful. This man is flexible and extraordinary. I think he is up to the task, please rest assured that the principal! ”
Chiang Kai-shek listened, waved his hand one after another, and said: "It is not good, the literati are from a background, and they can only use the pen pole." Let him kill people with knives, I'm afraid not! For such a major action mission, you must find a veteran who has been engaged in action work for a long time and has a wealth of experience to preside over, so as not to make a mistake! ”
Mao Renfeng listened and bowed his head in thought.
Mao Ren Feng
Chiang Kai-shek suddenly remembered a man and said to Mao Renfeng, "That... After the last incident with Dai Kasa, the young major general who took the initiative to ask for help and went to the front line of the Communist District alone to find the whereabouts of Dai Kasa? Where are you now? ”
Mao Renfeng understood what Old Jiang was saying
Intoxicated
Then he replied, "Headmaster, are you talking about drunkenness?" He is now in Yunnan, but he is a good actor, and I will immediately inform him to come to Nanjing! ”
Chiang Kai-shek nodded and said, "You must hurry up and handle this kind of thing and solve it as soon as possible." Remember, keep it highly confidential! ”
After Mao Renfeng led the order to retreat, he immediately sent a telegram to recall Shen Drunk from Yunnan to Nanjing.
Drunk, who did not know what the situation was, he hurried to Nanjing, and saw Mao Renfeng in the guest house of the Secrecy Bureau.
Shen Drunk asked Mao Renfeng what task he had, and Mao Renfeng just said, "Clean up, I will immediately lead you to see the principal." ”
Shen Drunkenly looked at Mao Renfeng's mysterious appearance and had a premonition that it would be a special operation, otherwise Chiang Kai-shek would not have personally arranged it.
Shen Drunk's curiosity increased greatly, and he grabbed Mao Renfeng and asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”
Mao Renfeng lowered his voice and said, "In this operation, the principal personally designated you to be responsible for presiding over this operation, and the content is to kill the headmaster's sworn enemy!" ”
"Nemesis? who? Chiang Kai-shek's nemesis was really quite a few, and Shen Drunken continued to ask questions.
Mao Renfeng said in his ear, "Li Zongren! ”
It was like a thunderclap, and Shen Was suddenly pale and frightened—Heavens! The president wants to kill the vice president!
That night, Mao Renfeng and Shen Drunk rode together to Chiang Kai-shek's official residence. Chiang Kai-shek received Mao and Shen, and when he saw Shen Drunk, a smile appeared on his face, and he was very affectionate and had a casual conversation with Shen Drunk, with a very kind attitude. Shen Drunkenness went up and down in his heart, waiting for Chiang Kai-shek to break the window paper.
After chatting for a while, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly said: "Director Mao told you that you did not have a mission to Nanjing this time?" ”
Shen Drunken replied, "I already know." ”
Chiang Kai-shek said: "In this operation, it has been decided that you will preside over this operation. On the one hand, I trust you very much. On the other hand, this is a matter of the overall situation, and I have no choice but to do so. You know, sooner or later we can always defeat the Communist Party. Internal disturbances are more difficult to deal with than the Communist Party. So I can only take this approach, so as to unify internally and unite externally! ”
Shen Drunk only nodded his head, but the more he heard Chiang Kai-shek say, the more excited he became: "Why does the Communist Party always win battles?" This is because they have only one enemy. And what about us? But there are two, three or even more enemies! ”
Chiang Kai-shek slowed down his tone and said to Shen Drunk: "This action is a major matter related to the security of the party and the state, so we absolutely must not leak the slightest wind, you must quickly make arrangements, make all preparations, and wait for me to issue the final order!" ”
Then Chiang Kai-shek gave high praise and praise to Shen Drunk's previous work, and encouraged Shen Drunk with assassination allusions in Chinese history, such as the story of Jing Ke's assassination of the King of Qin.
Li Zongren (first from left) Chiang Kai-shek (second from left)
Shen Was intoxicated and knew that this was to let himself learn Jing Ke and take out the courage of a strong man to go away and never recover.
Finally, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Mao Renfeng next to him: "Shen Drunk is our most loyal and brave good comrade, and if he has difficulties in his work and life, you must try your best to help solve them." A thousand armies are easy to obtain, and good will be hard to find! ”
After listening to it drunk, he said very movingly: "Report to the President, I will never fail to live up to your expectations, and I will certainly do my best to complete this mission!" Even if you sacrifice your life, you will not hesitate! ”
Before parting, Chiang Kai-shek shook Shen's drunken hand with great pleasure and said, "I am waiting for your good news!" ”
The next day, Mao Renfeng and Shen Drunk rushed to the Secrecy Bureau and found the director of the bureau's office
Pan Qiwu
and the Chief of the Operations Service
Secretly, it was decided to set up a special operations group. The specific work was divided into two parts: one part was to monitor Li Zongren and prevent him from leaving Nanjing. Some of them take on assassination missions, make all the preparations, and as soon as they receive the order, they immediately attack.
Mao Renfeng also specially instructed that in terms of manpower and material resources, priority should be given to meeting this operation.
Mao Renfeng (first from left) Chiang Ching-kuo (center) Hu Zongnan (first from right)
The Task Force quickly began planning and deployment. Mao Renfeng was also selected
Qin Jingchuan
、
Wang Hanwen
As a drunken assistant, he was specifically responsible for carrying out the assassination.
These two men were first-class killers in the military command, Qin Jingchuan's marksmanship was accurate, and he was calm and calm in the face of trouble. Wang Hanwen is a habitual criminal from the northeast, who kills people and crosses the goods, has a fierce heart, and can shoot birds in the air with his hands. And the leader of the team, Shen Drunk, himself, is also a famous sharpshooter in the military command. Three sharpshooters, hitting one Li Zongren, is also enough.
After some careful observation, Shen Drunk set the location of the assassination in a bend not far from Li Zongren's residence, and the car drove here at a very slow speed, which was conducive to ambush. Moreover, it is possible to shoot on both sides.
In order to facilitate the surveillance and observation of Li Zongren's whereabouts, Shen Drunk also ordered the military commander to visit the agents who graduated from the Li Secret Service Training Class
Wu Dehou
Near the ambush point, an old book stall was set up, and several people stayed in front of the book stall every day, staring at Li Zongren's movements. Moreover, the old book stall also secretly hid a Thomson machine gun and several bombs.
Shen Drunk, Qin Jingchuan, and Wang Hanwen each prepared two pistols, and injected severe poison into the bullets, no matter where they shot at the person, they could see blood sealing their throats and whimpering for their lives.
Li Zongren
From this, we can see that the Kuomintang really has a set of assassinations, and all these arrangements are not leaky, and any place can put Li Zongren to death.
In order to prevent Li Zongren from suddenly leaving Nanjing by plane, the Special Operations Group sent people to open a small grocery store as a cover for surveillance outside the Guanghua Gate, on a small street leading to the airport. A telephone was also specially installed, and once it was found that Li Zongren had gone to the airport, it was immediately reported that Mao Renfeng had informed the two fighter planes that were ready at any time to follow, and li Zongren's plane would directly shoot down as long as it left the skies over Nanjing, and then pretended to be a plane crash to cover people's eyes.
In order to prevent Li Zongren from escaping by train, the special operations group also bought a wooden house near the railway station and monitored Li Zongren in the name of selling tobacco, alcohol and snacks. As soon as Li Zongren was ready to leave by train, he immediately blocked the attack.
Of course, Li Zongren may also leave Nanjing by car. In order to be foolproof, the action group spared no expense and opened a small hotel on the nearby highway to monitor Li Zongren's whereabouts. Once it was discovered that Li Zongren had attempted to flee by car, he used two high-speed cars allocated by Mao Renfeng to the action group to chase him and block the attack halfway through.
Mao Renfeng also considered that most of the Gui army was massed in the Anhui area, and if Li Zongren left Nanjing without Chiang Kai-shek, he would definitely go to mobilize troops. Therefore, outside the city of Nanjing, the assassination could be carried out without waiting for Chiang Kai-shek's orders. But to do so in the city of Nanjing, we must wait for Chiang Kai-shek to make a final decision. In Chiang Kai-shek's words, if Li Zongren does not quit, he will seek his own death.
In mid-January 1949, the Special Operations Team made some intense preparations to assassinate Li Zongren, and the arrangement was seamless, and Li Zongren could not escape by inserting his wings.
For some time after that, Mao Renfeng went to see Chiang Kai-shek every day and repeatedly told Shen drunk that he should stay by the telephone and not leave. As soon as an order is received, it must be carried out immediately day and night. If Li Zongren did not go out, he would break into Li Zongren's house and shoot him.
To this end, Mao Renfeng also called two agents at the Nanjing Electric Light Company to assist in the operation, so that they would take the opportunity of overhauling the transformer, stand on the transformer, use a machine gun from outside the wall to shoot at Li Zongren's bedroom, restaurant, and other places, and be ready to climb the wall and enter the hospital to kill people.
At the same time, the Special Operations Group also dispatched a few veteran assassins to make double arrangements, and after preparing to kill Li Zongren, several backbone cadres of the Gui clan in Nanjing were eliminated together, cutting the grass and removing the roots, so as to avoid trouble.
A large culling net was draped over Li Zongren's head, and Li Zongren was completely unaware, and he and Chiang Kai-shek often met and talked happily.
Shen Drunk only waited for Mao Renfeng's phone call, and the assassination of Li Zongren could be said to be foolproof.
Mao Renfeng also only waited for Chiang Kai-shek's order.
But at this time, Chiang Kai-shek hesitated. He wondered, is it to retire temporarily, let Li Zongren act as president, wait for American assistance, or Zhang Qun will go to Japan to recruit mercenaries? Or simply kill Li Zongren and continue to rely on the Yangtze River natural danger to drag it down?
On January 20, 1949, Mao Renfeng finally called, but it was not an assassination order, but a summoning of Shen drunk.
Shen Drunken rushed over to meet him, and Mao Renfeng told him with a gloomy face that due to the development of the war form, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to get military assistance from the United States, decided to retire from the wilderness and have Li Zongren act as president. The assassination was eventually annulled.
Chiang Kai-shek
Seventeen years later, when Li Zongren learned from Shen Drunk that Chiang Kai-shek had arranged the various details of the assassination, he couldn't help but take a breath of cool air.
Li Zongren recalled that at that time, Chiang Kai-shek often entertained the couple and even prepared to give them his "Meiling" special plane for them to use. At that time, Li Zongren was very touched and thought that Chiang Kai-shek really cared for him enough.
Fortunately, Li Zongren did not have a hot head and took over the "Mei Ling". If Li Zongren and his wife Guo Dejie were happy at that time and went out to play on the "Meiling" plane, they would definitely be destroyed and killed. This is really a circle in the hall of Yama! Li Zongren had a new understanding of Chiang Kai-shek's insidiousness and viciousness.