Intoxicated
In 1949, outside the Desheng Gate of Beijing, the public security department officially took over the "Beiping Model Prison" and renamed it the "Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center".
The management office brought together Kuomintang people, top combat generals, and Class-A war criminals whose hands were stained with the blood of countless Communist party leaders.
Those who can be admitted to this prison are by no means of the good kind, otherwise the public security departments would not have to, at their own expense, to concentrate the main war criminals of the National Army in the detention.
However, for those generals with high popularity, great influence, and high rank in the military, it is difficult to change their thinking and pattern.
In the early days, Zhou Yanghao, Xu Yuanju, and Shen Drun, who were the "three musketeers" of the Kuomintang military command, were also enough for the public security department to drink a pot.
Gongdelin War Criminals' House
Mo look at the names of the three people, often linked together in the military, in fact, the relationship between the three people is sometimes "close" and sometimes "dark tide".
First of all, Zhou Yanghao and Xu Yuanju have a good friendship, and both of them belong to the cold-faced killers who "don't talk much" and "kill people invisibly" in the military.
When Shen Was drunk when he was young, he was known as "Little Zhuge Ge" in the army, and he was a talent cultivated by Dai Kasa, the head of the military command.
He was outwardly Sven, humble and courteous, and in addition to advising the secret service, he also wrote well.
In addition, he was clean and self-righteous, treated his wife and children well, and never got tainted with the vices of tobacco and alcohol.
Every time, when there was friction between Zhou Yanghao and Xu Yuanju, it was also necessary for subordinate Shen Drunk to mediate the relationship.
And Shen Drunk was also very disgusted in the face of the "open struggle and secret struggle" between the two of them, but he couldn't stand them working together, and he couldn't help but take care of his face.
Xu Yuanju
In this way, the personalities of these three people are completely different, and they are also destined to behave differently in the Gongdelin war criminals.
It was 1954, and the public security department, in accordance with the usual practice, was to carry out a staged ideological reform and interrogation of prisoners in the Gongdelin War Criminals Center.
This move is nothing more than to learn more from their mouths about what our party figures have done during their tenure of office.
The first is to "rate" their performance, and the second is to collect more real historical materials for the revolutionary deeds of our Party.
When the management of the war criminals' center meets shen drunk, the war criminals can often see the scene of their "talking and laughing".
Although the distance between their conversations was only separated by an iron fence, it was enough to make Zhou Yanghao, Xu Yuanju and others behind them blush.
Zhou Yanghao
When the interrogators asked questions to Zhou Yanghao, they deliberately introduced them into the room, and the mysterious and solemn atmosphere has always stimulated the nerves of everyone.
At this time, Shen Wasune calmly leaned against the wall and sat next to Song Xilian without saying a word.
He stared dead at the door of the interrogation room, thinking about something like no one around, until the iron door of the interrogation room was kicked open with a "bang".
Shen Drunken was suddenly awakened from his contemplation, only to see Zhou Yanghao furious, staring viciously at Shen Drunk with his bloodshot eyes.
Before Shen Drunk could speak, Zhou Yanghao immediately picked up the bench under his feet and smashed it straight in the direction of Shen Drunk.
Fortunately, Song Xilian next to him reacted quickly, and he stopped the bench that flew over with his arm, which avoided the drunken "blood and light disaster".
Song Xilian
"Good you are drunk, dare to wear small shoes for me, even if I can't get out of this prison in my life, I will pull you along with my back."
Zhou Yanghao said that he was going to go forward and tear up with Shen Drunk, and Shen Drunk was not a master who was afraid of people, and he was also fed up with the "sneering" of Zhou Yanghao and others.
So he stood up, rolled up his sleeves and was about to fight with Zhou Yanghao, but this scene was stopped by the "prisoners" around him.
"Fighting here, what good will it do you to everyone, when the time comes, give you a note, you don't want to go out in this life." 」
When Song Xilian said, Shen Drunken suddenly put away his fists, and no longer paid attention to the group of people facing Zhou Yanghao.
At this time, the room was so quiet that only the sound of their rapid breathing could be heard, as if to use this solemn silence to make all the people in this room "suffocate".
In his later years, Song Xilian
But what exactly did Shen Drunk "confess" to the interrogators? Makes Zhou Yanghao crazy and wants to end up drunk?
It turned out that after a long period of ideological transformation and study, Shen Drunk had a new "explanation" for the various crimes he had committed before.
But in addition to those unsightly criminal facts, Shen Drunk also confessed some crimes against his former "colleagues" in passing.
One of them is Zhou Yanghao, although Zhou Yanghao never denies his name as a "murderous maniac".
However, for the assassination of the famous general Yang Hucheng, Zhou Yanghao never honestly explained to the organization.
It was August 1949, the People's Liberation Army quickly liberated Nanjing, and the Nationalist government was defeated.
However, Chiang Kai-shek always refused to look directly at the root cause of his failure, and then pointed the spearhead of his anger directly at those patriotic generals who had forced Chiang Kai-shek to resist Japan.
The film and television drama shows Shen Drunk and Zhou Yanghao
Yang Hucheng was the first target of Chiang Kai-shek's "execution," but he had considerable influence in the military and even the whole country.
To publicly "straighten out the law, it is inevitable that it will arouse the indignation of the people and then put oneself on the insult of "maiming Zhongliang."
Thinking about it, Chiang Kai-shek consulted with his subordinate Mao Renfeng to secretly take Yang Hucheng, Song Zhongzhen and others to Chongqing and assassinate them at an opportunity.
Zhou Yanghao was the main executor who took over the assassination mission, and zhou Yanghao stayed in Guiyang that day, pretending to accompany Yang Hucheng's family around.
During the tour, Zhou Yanghao sent a false message to Yang Hucheng, saying that Chiang Kai-shek was expecting General Yang Hucheng to go to Chongqing to discuss the issue of northwest operations.
General Yang Hucheng
At first, General Yang Hucheng was half-convinced and did not promise Zhou Yanghao, but he could not resist Zhou Yanghao's oath of personality guarantee.
So on September 5, 1949, Yang Hucheng took his daughter, Song Zhongzhen and his son, and followed Zhou Yanghao's motorcade to Chongqing.
When the convoy drove in the direction of the Dai Mansion, Zhou Yanghao directly handed over the convoy to the enemy special agent Yang Jinxing.
Thus, a bloody and brutal "massacre" quietly unfolded in the night, but this was not the most heinous operation.
These cruel executioners actually extended their sharp knives to Yang Hucheng's 6-year-old daughter and Song Zhongzhen's son "Little Radish Head".
It can be seen that Zhou Yanghao is such a ruthless killer that even two children who do not understand the world will not let go.
Film and television dramas show Yang Hucheng being killed
In response to the Chiang government's "policy of retaliation," Zhou Yanghao, along with his men in the Military Command Office, shot and executed dozens of detained revolutionary volunteers in Chongqing.
Subsequently, Zhou Yanghao buried the assassinated revolutionary volunteers in a mountain pit in the wild and embarked on the road of escape.
When Lu Han envolted, Chongqing's route to Taiwan was interrupted.
And if you want to fly to Taiwan, you must get a ticket from Shen Drunk in Yunnan, but Shen Drunk is also a wavering person.
He saw that Luhan controlled the airport in real time and openly defected to the Communist Party, so he joined Luhan's camp together with a posture of non-resistance.
In this way, Lu Han naturally arrested Zhou Yanghao and Xu Yuanju, and after the People's Liberation Army occupied Chongqing, Lu Han and Shen Drunk were also arrested by our army.
Luján
Originally, shen drunk and Zhou Yanghao both thought that their sins were deep and that if they fell into the hands of our army, they would inevitably be condemned to death.
Therefore, this group of them did not seriously reform themselves earlier, until Shen Drunk used his exquisite means to seduce the inmates to take the initiative to confess their "sins."
He was then recognized by our army, so he made up his mind to "wash his heart and change his face," but Zhou Yanghao did not think so.
Therefore, Zhou Yanghao's road to transformation was very difficult, and he did not obey discipline or accept any ideological reform.
And he did not eat a mouthful of food all day, and in the form of self-torture, he resisted our army, not seeking a light sentence, but only seeking to die where he deserved it.
It did not happen that our army had its own set of ways to deal with the officials of the National Government, and it was up to you to make a fuss or not to accept ideological reform.
Our army will never put the hat of "death penalty" on your head, so that Zhou Yanghao and others have gradually become accustomed to the reformed life in prison.
War criminals undergo ideological reform
They began to slowly accept the idea that they would not be "executed", and then they were willing to sit down and confess their past and strive for a commutation of their sentences.
Although Zhou Yanghao's personality is violent and he belongs to the characters with ordinary transformation effect in prison, he does not want to be "added to the crime".
Now, in order to escape from himself, Shen Drunken confessed his crime unsuccessfully, and poured a layer of oil on Zhou Yanghao's head.
It is no wonder that Zhou Yanghao, picking up the bench, is going to fight with Shen Drunk, remembering the "Zhengrong years" in the past in the army, Zhou Yanghao has always felt indignant about Shen Drunk's "betrayal".
But when it comes to Shen Drunk's "betrayal", he also has his own words, and there are also relevant explanations in his self-memoirs.
Drunk in his later years
"For Zhou Yanghao and Xu Yuanju, the reason why I didn't give them a ticket is because I know that they are deeply sinful and that I will be doomed to let them go."
In addition, Shen Drunk also mentioned in his memoirs that Zhou Yanghao and Xu Yuanju broke with themselves because of this matter, even to the point of not sharing the heavens.
However, when Shen Drunk and his party were transferred to the Beijing Gongdelin War Criminals Center, he and Zhou Yanghao and others happened to be arranged in the same room.
Isn't this the case with a "narrow road for wrongdoers"? But Shen Drunk is a person who is very good at winning people's hearts.
He knew that he was "ashamed" of Zhou Yanghao and Xu Yuanju, so in his life, he added clothes and food to them everywhere in an attempt to resolve his "grievances".
Photographs of the lives of war criminals
However, Zhou Yanghao did not appreciate it, not only when there were many people, he was publicly humiliated and drunk, but also passed on this "good story" to other inmates behind his back.
This makes the situation of Shen Drunk seem very embarrassing, in Gong Delin, the image of Shen Drunk is a person who betrays his "comrade-in-arms" and "sells the Lord for glory".
Originally, Zhou Yanghao's discussion behind his back was already enough to get drunk and drink a pot, but he didn't think that this time he would directly do it with it.
In this way, Shen Drunk was no longer willing to deliberately "seek peace", but more sincerely wrote everything in the past during the military unification period and handed it over to the organization on the material.
If Shen Drunk is a person who "knows the times" and is good at "folding branches and clinging to it", then Zhou Yanghao is a person who does not know how to be flexible and breaks the jar.
Amnesty Conference for War Criminals
So that in 1960, Shen Drunk received the second batch of pardons from the Party Central Committee, and Zhou Yanghao could only grit his teeth and watch Shen Drunk leave.
This is enough to prove the importance of a person's "knowledge of current affairs", and after his release from prison, Shen Drunk was arranged by the Party Central Committee to work in the Historical Museum.
The main task is to recall and record, the history of the bipartisan war, and the unknown intelligence of the enemy's special forces.
In this way, Shen Drunk can be regarded as making a difference, to say that during his tenure, his merits are average, but it can be said that he wrote information to expose the crimes of others, Shen Drunk has his own world.
From "My Secret Agent Career" to "My Thirty Years" to "The Dai Kasa I Know", Shen Drunk knows everything.
Like a journalist who has crossed over, lurking in the corner of the Central Command Department, he is immersed in recording all the secrets and operations that are not known to the people.
Amnesty for war criminals
At that time in Gongdelin, Zhou Yanghao was still fighting against reality, and his heart was always full of hostility to transformation and resentment towards drunkenness.
He began to alienate his prison friends and rarely spoke to people, and he began to immerse himself in poetry and books, preparing himself for his next war of words.
He refused to confess to the crimes he had committed, nor did he admit the evidence of his convictions, and he always believed that he was "acting on orders" for the crime.
In this way, Zhou Yanghao missed out on a batch of amnesty quotas, and was also labeled "diehard" by the organization.
But the more his superiors were dissatisfied with his performance, the more Conceited Zhou Yanghao became. He began to reject group activities and began to deliberately evade censorship by the organization.
He began to give up on himself, no longer doing anything beneficial for his release from prison, but only wanted to be in prison, with his pride, and mix a day is a day.
War criminals are released from prison
Until the years ruthlessly urged him to grow old, Zhou Yanghao could no longer toss a flower in prison, and finally got the last batch of amnesty places.
It was 1975, the early morning air in Beijing was exceptionally fresh, and Zhou Yanghao and others were carrying luggage bags and wearing green flannel jackets, and were walking out of the door in an orderly manner.
Nearly thirty years of prison life had smoothed out Zhou Yanghao's restless personality, and he began to look around in confusion.
At present, the city of Beijing has become a completely different form, with crowds of people on the streets and bicycles clanging.
Men, women and children laughed, some buying vegetables, some just walking home, some picking up children from school, and some playing chess next to the street.
Zhou Yanghao walked on the street, mentally like a confused old man who did not know how to return, perhaps this land could not accommodate him anymore.
In his later years, Zhou Yanghao
Therefore, the Party Central Committee has humanely proposed that those who do not want to stay on the mainland can receive funds and go to Taiwan and Hong Kong on their own.
Zhou Yanghao readily agreed, and he began to board the ferry to Hong Kong and apply for entry permits.
Just when he was full of expectations, Chiang Kai-shek would see him again, how touched this veteran general who would rather die than yield to the CCP would be.
Unexpectedly, he received a refusal of entry instructions from Taiwan, and after his heart was broken, Zhou Yanghao had to transfer to the United States and join his relatives.
In contrast, shen drunk at that time, after ten years of catastrophe, was certified by the relevant departments and became a signatory of the "Luhan Electrification Uprising" order.
In turn, he added a "rebellious general" color to his later life, when he was proud of the spring breeze, family and beauty, and became a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Drunk with his wife and daughter
Logically, the drunken life is more dashing than Zhou Yanghao's, at least he can sincerely transform for the sake of justice.
It is also possible to make a wise choice for the correctness of historical development, so that after the reform and opening up, it can still enjoy a place in the state organs.
At that time, although Zhou Yanghao had already gone to the United States and was far away from the motherland, at that time he was already deeply aware of the tolerance and greatness of the Communists.
He was also deeply aware of the stupidity of the choice of the former camp, especially after the Taiwan side refused to enter the country, Zhou Yanghao's feelings became more and more intense.
But it was too late, and Zhou Yanghao, who could have stayed in the mainland of the motherland to live with peace of mind, failed to seize the historical opportunity of sincere transformation.
So much so that a lot of time was wasted in prison, and then missed, a critical period of service for the country.
Reunited with his children
As the old saying goes, "Character determines destiny, temperament determines pattern", and how many great things a person can do or make wise choices in a person is established.
Only by not being ambiguous in big things and not thinking about small things can we get out of the tip of the bull's horn that bothers us and then get a new life.
As transparent as Shen Drunk, he can adapt to the timing of historical development and plan a way out for survival with perseverance.
Or like Zhou Yanghao, stubborn, sticking to oneself, preferring to die unyieldingly, he can also do the battle of trapped beasts in the face of adversity.