During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in addition to the fierce battles on the frontal battlefield, intelligence warfare and espionage warfare were also in full swing on the hidden front behind the enemy lines. The agents of China and Japan came and went, constantly fighting each other, and fighting inextricably. On the Japanese and pseudo-Japanese side, the notorious secret service organs include No. 76, the special high school, the bamboo organ, and so on; on the Kuomintang side, the most famous are of course the two secret service organizations of the military command and the central unification; and the Communist Party actually has its own secret service organization: the Central Special Branch!
In the hidden battlefield where there is no smoke but is extremely cruel, and the fierce and cunning Japanese soldiers are fighting, the agents are "working with their heads", and if they are not careful, they will lose their lives. Among these agents, there was a very good man named Pan Hannian, who lurked behind enemy lines and sent a lot of valuable information to our party, but he was unharmed and was able to complete the task well every time!
Pan Hannian joined the revolution very early and joined the party at the age of 20. He once served in important positions such as propaganda minister in the Central Soviet Region, and went to work in the Soviet Union, and was a very experienced old revolutionary! When Zhang Xueliang launched the "Xi'an Incident," there was a mess within the Kuomintang, and there was a constant discussion about whether to fight or not. As a liaison officer of our party, Pan Hannian communicated with each other everywhere in Shanghai and Nanjing, and made no small contribution to the peaceful settlement of the "Xi'an Incident"!
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, Pan Hannian was mainly responsible for intelligence work against the Japanese army in Shanghai and Hong Kong, and he was one of the leaders of the Shanghai underground party at that time. It was precisely because of his excellent work that the Communists reduced a lot of losses in the war against Japan. Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, Pan Hannian had also accurately predicted the movement of the Japanese army and sent this important strategic information to the Party Central Committee.
The Japanese army's "liquidation and suppression" of the New Fourth Army has repeatedly failed, which has aroused the attention and suspicion of the Japanese secret service agencies. Suspecting that their intelligence had been leaked, they dispatched a large number of military police and spies to search the city of Shanghai for radio stations that were distributing newspapers. The Japanese and pseudo agents divided the Shanghai division and arranged for people to patrol the streets non-stop every day, trying to find the Chinese agent who was lurking behind the scenes.
In the long-term work of publishing newspapers, Pan Hannian has also encountered dangers. Once, the radio direction finder of the Japanese and pseudo agents captured a radio signal near a medicinal material shop in western Huxi, and this radio station was set up by Pan Hannian, and many of the information sent to the central government was sent through this radio. If it is investigated, then the loss is great!
Pan Hannian is worthy of being a veteran agent who has experienced hundreds of battles, he was working in the medicinal material shop that day, and he was cautious by nature, and from time to time he took out a telescope to observe the environment around the street. When he saw a Japanese jeep with an antenna cruising around, he realized that something was wrong, and immediately asked the transmitter to stop the report, hid the radio in the crack in the wall that had been arranged in advance, and then pasted wallpaper on the outside and blocked it with a toaster.
When they had just figured it out, the Japanese searched here, and they rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, but they found nothing. Pan Hannian was very calm and calm, and he watched the Japanese troops while baking bread. Finding that the Japanese army in the lead would say a few words Chinese, Pan Hannian took out the freshly baked bread for him to eat, and said: "The imperial army try it, this is freshly baked French bread, fragrant and sweet, if you want to eat, although come, I will bake it for you at any time!" ”
The Japanese officer heard the words, looked at the bread, looked at Pan Hannian again, and really picked up a piece and ate it. When the other Japanese soldiers saw it, they also rushed up and picked up the bread and feasted on it. After eating a mouthful, these Japanese did not search again, but just took the rest of the bread, and Pan Hannian and others were shocked and scared out of a cold sweat!
The next day, the Japanese officer came to the door again, but this time, he did not come to search, but simply to eat bread. During the conversation, Pan Hannian learned that this Japanese officer liked to eat bread very much before he came to China, but in the army, it was difficult to eat bread. Seeing the opportunity, Pan Hannian baked a lot of bread and let him eat enough at a time. Since then, this Japanese officer has often come to eat bread, and pan Hannian's secret stronghold has never been searched by the enemy again!
Such a battle of wits and courage with the Japanese hypocrites is just a very common small thing in Pan Hannian's secret agent career. He lurked for many years and made many contributions. He once established an underground communication line from Shanghai to northern Jiangsu and Huainan; he also risked his life to escort Li Jishen, Ma Yinchu, Guo Moruo and other progressive democrats to the Liberated Areas while in Hong Kong; he also planned the "Two Airlines Uprising", leading the insurgents to fly 12 civil aviation planes to the Liberated Areas... And so on!
However, it was such a person who made great contributions to the people and the country, but within a few years after the founding of New China, he suffered unfair treatment and was unjustly imprisoned for nearly twenty years! During this period, his wife Dong Hui, who was also implicated in prison, stayed with Pan Hannian and did not abandon him until Pan Hannian died of illness in 1977! Two years later, Dong Hui also died of illness due to suffering. In August 1982, the central government officially rehabilitated Mr. and Mrs. Pan Hannian!