Before the outbreak of the War of Liberation, the Nationalist army had an absolute superiority in both strength and weapons and equipment, so old Chiang Kai-shek was full of confidence and boasted that he could win the war in just one year. But the course of the Liberation War was much to his surprise, and in just over three years, he was defeated and had to run to the island to take shelter.
The reason for this situation is that in addition to the people's hearts and minds and the heroic command of our army, it is also that many of the senior generals of the nationalist army are undercover of ours, and they have transmitted a lot of important information and made important contributions to our army's victory in the war.
For example, the sabre general Han Liancheng, who was once called "the longest and most dangerous co-spy who hid around the old president" by Chiang Ching-kuo, made great contributions to the Battle of Laiwu and sent Li Xianzhou's 60,000 elites into the encirclement of our army, and Gu Zhutong's carefully planned Battle of Lunan went bankrupt.
Another example is Liao Yunzhou, who had been lurking in the nationalist army for more than 20 years, and in the Battle of Shuangduiji, Huang Wei found himself surrounded by Nakano, and immediately ordered four main divisions to advance in unison and break through to the southwest. Liao Yunzhou took the initiative to apply for a front and revolted before the battle, destroying Huang Wei's breakthrough plan in one fell swoop, and the 12th Corps was eventually completely destroyed, and Huang Wei was defeated and captured.
Of course, there are many such examples, among which the undercover who has the greatest impact on the battle situation is None other than Guo Rujie. Guo Rugui joined our party as early as 1928, and then lurked in the Nationalist army for more than 20 years, and was deeply loved by the old Chiang Kai-shek with his seniority in the Huangpu 5th Phase and Lu University, and during the Liberation War, he was already the director of the Operations Department of the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense.
After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Guo Rujie used his special status to send a lot of top-secret information to our party. The Nationalist army often fell into passivity on the battlefield, and Guo Rugui's contribution was indispensable. So no one in the Nationalist Army ever doubted Guo Rujie's true identity?
In fact, there was one person who had doubts about Guo Rujie as early as 1948, and this person was Du Yuming. Among the senior generals of the Nationalist army, Du Yuming's military ability was still quite prominent, and he thus became the right hand man of the old Chiang Kai-shek, who commanded the Liaoshen Campaign and the Huaihai Campaign during the Liberation War. Although the nationalist forces lost in these two decisive battles, Du Yuming's performance still had many praiseworthy places.
In addition to his outstanding military ability, Du Yuming also has a set of skills in understanding people. In the spring of 1948, he told Gu Zhutong, then chief of staff, that Guo Rugui was undercover and that he must not be made the director of the War Office. Gu Zhutong asked him what evidence he had, and Du Yuming replied: "Guo Rugui is in a high position, but he is very simple, and the sofas at home have been patched several times. ”
At that time, among the senior generals of the Nationalist Army, greed for money was the norm, and those who became division commanders, military commanders and commanders were all rich and well-deserved, and we will give you an example. After the Battle of Menglianggu, Li Tianxia was questioned by Lao Jiang for failing to rescue Zhang Lingfu in time and wanted to shoot him. After Li Tianxia was escorted to Nanjing, she used dozens of gold bars to dot up and down, and finally she was safe.
Li Tianxia was only the commander of an integrated division, and he was greedy for so much money, those who were much larger than his official position could be imagined. Therefore, when Du Yuming saw that the sofa in Guo Rugui's home had been patched several times, he was very surprised and concluded that he and himself were not the same person.
But this was only Du Yuming's intuition, and since there was no evidence to hand, he could only communicate his suspicions to Gu Zhutong, and advised him not to let Guo Rujie become the director of the War Department. Gu Zhutong thought that the reasons given by Du Yuming were too far-fetched, so he did not adopt his suggestion, and said to him: "Don't be suspicious of gods and ghosts, Guo Rugui is very loyal and the business is doing very well." ”
Du Yuming saw that Gu Zhutong had spoken to this point, and he knew that it would be useless to talk too much, so there was no more dispute. Soon after the Battle of Huaihai broke out, Guo Rujie sent out the deployment and battle plan of the Nationalist army through the internal line, making an important contribution to the victory of our army in this great decisive battle.
When Du Yu was seriously ill tomorrow night, Guo Rugui went to visit, and Du Yuming took his hand and asked, "Are you a communist?" At that time, Guo Rujie's identity had not yet been fully disclosed, so he did not answer positively, but said: "Guangting, you and I just have different political views." "This has actually acknowledged his undercover identity from the side."