In 1994, in the ward of Montenegro, Liaoning Province, a ninety-year-old woman, while talking with relatives and friends, revealed an astonishing secret: it turned out that she was the one who made the Japanese army, the National Government, and the puppet government grit her teeth fifty years ago, and that she had let the Japanese army, the puppet government, and the Kuomintang secret service organize heavy bounties, and the initiator of the largest arms theft case in the Republic of China, the first female agent of the Republic of China, Gao Chongde.
No one expected that the gentle and gentle old lady in her daily life would have such a legendary period. But why is such a heroic figure here? Is what she said true or false? In this issue, you will reveal the different red female agent - Gao Chongde.
A chivalrous, determined to serve the country - do not love red clothes and love arms
In 1904, in the mountain village of Heishan County, Liaoning Province, a little girl named Gao Chongde ushered in the first rays of her life, her birth was worse than the original poor family, and soon after, her father died when she was eight years old, leaving only her mother and young brother in the family, so Gao Chongde lived very poorly since childhood. But even if he was tired and bitter, his mother did not give up raising Gao Chongde and his brother, and under the influence of his mother, Gao Chongde developed a strong and stubborn character from an early age.
When he was a child, Gao Chongde listened to commentaries outside the doors of tea houses and restaurants in his free time, and especially loved to listen to martial arts stories. I admire the characters in the book with a proud body, often dance guns and sticks, and do not love female red love armed.
In the era of advocating women from three to four virtues and learning embroidery needlework, Gao Chongde was slightly different, like a boy who liked to dance with knives and guns, and later Gao Chongde's style of behavior carried a chivalrous atmosphere, which also laid the seeds for her later relationship with the Communist Party.
As an adult, Gao Chongde chose to join the revolution and was determined to expel the Wokou and resist Japan to save the country. After strengthening this aspiration to serve the country, Gao Chongde resolutely walked out of the house and embarked on a new journey.
Full of enthusiasm, surrender to the army and serve the country - iron bone tenderness
However, the cruelty of reality was far from what she could have expected, when the Kuomintang aimed its spearhead at our party, and for the Japanese Kou, the Nationalist government adopted a policy of forbearance, which made Gao Chongde, full of lofty ambitions, unable to serve the country, and after some consideration, she chose to go to the forefront of the anti-Japanese resistance, the Northeast Army, and went around and entered Zhang Xueliang's army.
Site of the Northeast Army in September 18
In the military, Gao Chongde devoted himself more seriously to daily training, and with the good habit of hard training and diligence in combat, Gao Chongde practiced a good martial art. At the same time, she also met a person in the army, Lu Zhengcao.
At that time, Lü Zhengcaojun was the chief of staff of the Lieutenant Colonel of the 16th Independent Brigade of the Northeast Army. Like Gao Chongde, Lü Zhengcao joined the army with a strong ambition to kill the enemy and serve the country. Lü Zhengcao witnessed the burning and looting of his hometown by the Japanese army since he was a child, and his heart was full of hatred for the invaders. He changed his name to Zhengcao and was also determined to become a soldier and practice his skills to fight against the Japanese invaders.
At the age of seventeen, Lü Zhengcao entered Zhang Xueliang's army under the introduction of relatives and became a soldier. In 1923, under the intentional cultivation of Zhang Xueliang, Lü Zhengcao was admitted to the Northeast Lecture Martial Arts Hall to learn military knowledge, and in the process, Lü Zhengcao worked hard and mastered the foreign language skill of English.
In the army, Gao Chongde was very fond of Lü Zhengcao, and the two were more like-minded and temperamental, and soon married under the arrangement of the organization. After marriage, Gao Chongde often went to the shooting range with Lu Zhengcao to practice guns, and over time, she practiced a good marksmanship. At that time, many male soldiers in the army were not as good as Gao Chongde in marksmanship, and she and Lu Zhengcao also became sharpshooters in the army. After marriage, the victory of the two can be described as very happy.
At the beginning of the War of Resistance, she became a female general - vowing to die and not to be a slave to the country
But this happy life did not last long, and in 1931, Lü Zhengcao was promoted to colonel of the 647th Regiment of the 116th Division of the 53rd Army of the Northeast Army, becoming a senior general with military power. Soon after the 918 Incident, as revolutionary fighters, the couple gave up the happy life they had just established and both threw themselves into the War of Resistance. In 1932, after Lu Zhengcao came into contact with communists in the Northeast Army, he slowly began to accept the Communist Party's anti-Japanese ideas.
After the outbreak of all-out war, under the order of the Kuomintang authorities not to resist, the Northeast Army led by Zhang Xueliang withdrew in an all-round way to the south, and out of the need to preserve his strength, Zhang Xueliang, who was himself unwilling to clash with the Japanese, immediately accepted the retreat order, led his army to the south, all the way through Rehe to Hebei, and set up camp in Shanxi and Shaanxi as planned.
However, what he did not expect was that it was this wrong decision that not only brought himself a senseless disaster, but also caused the disintegration of the Northeast Army, because the officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army were all natives of the Northeast region, and they joined the army in order to have food and pay to take care of their families, and at this moment, the Japanese Kwantung Army entered the Northeast, and his hometown was about to fall, but he fled with the commander, which had little impact on the senior generals, but it was a curse for the low-level non-commissioned officers and soldiers.
As a result, a group of officers of the Northeast Army led the army to break away from the large troops, and resolutely returned to the northeast to carry out anti-Japanese operations in violation of the order to go south, and the Communist Party was also actively preparing to go north to resist Japan, which coincided with the needs of the soldiers of the Northeast Army, and at this time, Lü Zhengcao was already a secret member of the Communist Party of China, so under the instructions of the party, Lü Zhengcao led his troops to Hebei to resist the Japanese.
At that time, the northeast was occupied by ghosts, and the northeast army and their fathers and fellow villagers were forced to flee to Kannai, and they could not return home. Family hatred and hatred for the country drove Gao Chongde to actively participate in the ranks of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement; at that time, the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement was an action that involved the whole body, and different groups of people had different paths to serve the country, including positional warfare confrontation on the frontal battlefield, guerrilla warfare harassment on the battlefield behind the enemy lines, and the support of the people under the united front, and at the same time publicizing the anti-Japanese national salvation and winning more people to devote themselves to the great action of resisting Japan and saving the country was also extremely important, and the women represented by Gao Chongde were naturally the main force of propaganda, posting slogans and scattering leaflets. Street speeches called on people not to be slaves to the country and to fight back to their hometowns.
Because Lü Zhengcao openly led the troops to resist the Japanese and violated the order to withdraw to the south, he was regarded by the Nationalist government as a traitor to the enemy.
Gao Chongde was also imprisoned by the Nationalist government because he was Lü Zhengcao's wife, and during his detention, Gao Chongde repeatedly explained to General Wan Fulin, commander of the 53rd Army of the Northeast Army, the fact that her husband resisted the enemy and did not surrender to the enemy.
After some maneuvering by General Wan, Gao Chongde was released after a month of detention.
At that time, Gao Chongde was also eager to really go to the battlefield, and in order to let her husband have no worries, she took the initiative to ask Miao to lead the families of the officers of Lü Zhengcao's troops to retreat south.
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During the retreat, Gao Chongde met many wounded and scattered soldiers of the Northeast Army, and she sold all her gold and silver jewelry, took in the scattered troops, and used her identity to form an armed transport team.
At that time, it was a violation of discipline to recruit military soldiers privately, and as a woman, Gao Chongde could have such an idea and implement it, which could not be said to be brave and strategic.
Although it was impossible to charge the front line with the soldiers at the front, Gao Chongde's revolutionary enthusiasm did not diminish in the slightest. She led many women's armies to join the propaganda work of the patriotic War of Resistance. Many people were infected by her propaganda, and more and more people joined the anti-war groups.
Gao Chongde took advantage of her husband Lü Zhengcao's influence in the army to set up a northeast rescue group behind the back of the Nationalist government to rescue the wounded who had nowhere to go. At the same time, in order to help and shelter some scattered soldiers, she also set up a left-behind office in Xinxiang, Henan.
Gao Chongde's behavior has been strongly supported by many people, and more and more people have joined the rescue group she founded. Although she is a daughter, her pride and courage are not at all lost to the boys who are fighting on the front line.
Among the salvation groups established by Gao Chongde, there was a comrade surnamed Wang, who was impressed by Gao Chongde's patriotic ideas and often exchanged the mainstream ideas of the War of Resistance with Gao Chongde, and the two men's ideas of the War of Resistance coincided.
After the exchange, Comrade Wang told Gao Chongde that he hoped to develop her into a Communist Party member. In 1937, after a long period of contact, Comrade Wang Xing believed that Gao Chongde had the qualifications to become a Communist Party member, so he introduced her to an important leader of the Ccp, Lin Boqu.
The sharpshooter incarnates as a super female agent - the first female bandit of the Republic of China
The Limber Canal was at that time
The chairman of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government, he has long heard of Gao Chongde and very much recognizes Gao Chongde's performance and achievements after entering the customs. The first time he saw Gao Chongde, he felt that the woman in front of him was different from ordinary women, and her body flowed with the heroism of a revolutionary fighter, and he also had a special appreciation for Gao Chongde.
Gao Chongde, who learned of Lin Boqu's identity, was also very excited, so he immediately told Lin Boqu that he was going to the front line of the War of Resistance to kill the enemy and contribute to the organization, hoping that Lin Boqu could help himself.
Originally, Gao Chongde thought that he could go to the front line and kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions. But after Lin Boqu learned of Gao Chongde's idea, after some consideration, he told her that there was a task that was more difficult than killing the enemy on the front line to be entrusted to her--through her special status in the Northeast Army, she could find a way to smuggle out some ammunition for the Eighth Route Army.
Although the popularity of the Eighth Route Army at that time was high, it was still a "millet plus rifle", and the arms force was very scarce.
Chiang Kai-shek did not pay and ammunition to the Eighth Route Army, which lacked weapons and equipment, and many soldiers could not even get a kitchen knife.
Gao Chongde, who understood the great righteousness, immediately accepted the task, and she decided that this team that dared to fight was the main force that truly saved the country, and her task was of great significance to the Eighth Route Army's War of Resistance.
In the end, Lin Boqu repeatedly told her not to reveal her identity, and Gao Chongde was directly led by Lin Boqu. Gao Chongde understood the importance of his spy status and the danger of his mission, but he did not fear to carry the banner of smuggling arms.
After Gao Chongde accepted the mission and returned, Gao began to plot with his subordinates on how to escape the heavy defenses and transport the general fire out of the sight of the Nationalist government, and they discussed many methods, but in the end they felt that it was safer to rely on human transportation.
The task is very dangerous, the slightest carelessness may be a life, and even affect the family, under such a task, Gao Chongde withstood great pressure and danger, from the northeast military warehouse weapons and ammunition smuggled to the Eighth Route Army. Gao Chongde stole from the arsenal several times, and she did not have any tools when transporting them.
The munitions equipment is very heavy, the road is very long, hundreds to thousands of miles, and manpower is still needed to carry it on the way, and the enemy's aircraft are still circling in the air, and the slightest carelessness will be discovered.
With the title of Lady Lü Zhengcao, it provided convenience for Gao Chongde to smuggle armaments. Later, in order to further consolidate her legal identity, Gao Chongde contacted Cheng Qian, then commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang First Theater, through Commander Wan Fulin of the Northeast Army, and gave Lü Zhengcao's 691 regiment a new legal party name of "Independent Guerrilla In the First Theater". He also served as The Commander of the Detachment and Gao Chongde as the Chief of the Remaining Division of the Detachment. This legal status provided another layer of "protective umbrella" for her mission, and she also continuously provided stable arms support to the Eighth Route Army. This made the Japanese soldiers on the battlefield uncomfortable, obviously the intelligence showed that the Eighth Route Army had run out of food, but the gunfire continued to continue, and for a while the Japanese soldiers were defeated and retreated.
At that time, even the Kuomintang intelligence department was surprised, did the Eighth Route Army build its own military factory in a place they did not know? Where did all these sudden bullets on the front line come from? They did not think at all that these guns and ammunition were all sent by Gao Chongde himself through several blockade lines, evaded the enemy's aircraft bombardment, and did not use any means of transportation to send them to the front line of the Eighth Route Army's War of Resistance.
Before it was discovered, Gao Chongde had been carefully transporting arms and materials, and after discovering that the arms were stolen, the Kuomintang secret service quickly launched an investigation and found that there were arms stolen from the entire Northeast Arsenal, and under detailed investigation, they found that every time the arms equipment was smuggled was the same group of people, and this group was premeditated, and it was even possible to lurk in the Kuomintang. Therefore, the Nationalist government has purged and rectified up and down, but it still has not caught the thief who stole arms.
After investigating the case, Dai Kasa of the Military Command Bureau sent an urgent telegram to Chiang Kai-shek- a large number of arms stolen and quickly named the case: the theft of the largest arms depot in the Republic of China.
The newspapers of Japan, Wang Jingwei, and Chiang Kai-shek were overwhelmingly shocked, expressed great anger, and offered a heavy reward to find the thief.
When he first delivered arms, Gao Chongde's weight was still 120 kilograms, and when he returned from the mission, he only had more than 80 kilograms left. The long period of windy meals and camping made her look very haggard. Her body had become very weak, and her sideburns had turned white, but she still stuck to her post.
One day in 1939, Gao Chongde passed by the Taihang Mountains in southeastern Jin, and Commander Liu personally came to her and invited her to dinner, which flattered Gao Chongde. At the dinner table, Commander Liu told her bluntly that the current War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression had reached a critical period, and the army needed to fight a hard battle and help get mortars, while the Eighth Route Army only had artillery racks and no shells. She said bluntly, "If you want a grenade, you can get as many as you want." But mortar shells are not easy to deal with, and second, they are unlucky, and the two are pointed, and they are not easy to hold and cannot be hugged. But seeing Commander Liu's eager eyes and thinking of the war on the front line, Gao Chongde gritted his teeth and agreed.
But at that time, mortars, as an important military material, were not something that Gao Chongde could get casually. After many inquiries, she finally found a batch of mortars. In the words of his comrades-in-arms, that mission was to pin his head to the waistband of his pants and completely disregard his life and death. After completing the task, everyone almost peeled a layer of skin, some were seriously ill, and some lost their lives.
In the end, he finally transported the mortar shells to the Eighth Route Army on time and with great difficulty. However, it was also this action that completely exposed her to the gaze of the Kuomintang secret service, and after reconnaissance, Gao Chongde finally attracted the attention of the enemy and the Nationalist army, hating them so much that they were itching their teeth and wanted to get rid of them quickly.
Unfortunately, he was arrested and anonymized for 50 years
However, because of Gao Chongde's special position in the Northeast Army and the special period, the Kuomintang secret service did not rush to arrest Gao Chongde. Instead, he was secretly spying on Gao Chongde. Gao Chongde was not afraid, and had been circling and fighting with the enemy in the dark.
In the autumn of 1940, a regiment of the Kuomintang quietly surrounded Gao Chongde's garrison, and Gao Chongde was unfortunately seriously wounded and captured. Thanks to the activities of Wan Fulin, Cheng Qian and others, Gao Chongde was able to get out of prison and heal his injuries.
After being captured by the Kuomintang, Gao Chongde was severely tortured, and the Eighth Route Army received her dying from the Shaanxi office and sent a team to escort her to Yan'an through a secret passage. He relapsed in bed at the Eighth Route Army Hospital in Yan'an and was once in critical condition.
After Commander-in-Chief Zhu learned of this news, he personally issued an important instruction, saying that he must cure Gao Chongde's illness, and Gao Chongde was a great hero of the Eighth Route Army. As a super spy working behind enemy lines, Gao Chongde brilliantly completed the tasks entrusted to her by the organization, and the name of Gao Chongde, the "arms thief", spread throughout the Northeast Army and the Eighth Route Army.
Gao Chongde's injuries in Yan'an were brought under control, but after the operation, there was no more news of her. Gao Chongde, who was called "the first female bandit in the Central Plains" by the enemy, suddenly disappeared.
During his secret recuperation in Yan'an, Gao Chongde gloriously joined the Chinese Communist Party, and from the "super female spy" of the Northeast Army to an ordinary female soldier of the Eighth Route Army, Gao Chongde never mentioned the past again.
After recovering from her wounds, she worked in the rear in Yan'an, first of all because her identity had been exposed, and the Japanese and Nationalist government troops were pursuing her, and she was in a very dangerous situation. Secondly, at that time, the Eighth Route Army no longer needed Gao Chongde to smuggle arms, because at this time the Eighth Route Army slowly gained its own armaments.
Although Gao Chongde no longer needed to smuggle arms, the wounds left by those years were permanently engraved on her body. Although she worked at the headquarters again, in wet weather, her old diseases would occur, like dozens of needles pricking her bones.
In 1953, Gao Chongde was hospitalized again due to illness, and after this discharge, she could no longer continue to return to organizational work, and was arranged to recuperate in a dry rest house, and when she reappeared in the public eye, it was fifty years later, so there was the opening scene.