By the end of 1942, the New Fourth Army had recovered from the catastrophe of the "Anhui Southern Incident", but Su Yu, commander of the 1st Division, still did not dare to take it lightly. Because the Wang puppet government, which did not want to see the rise of the New Fourth Army, was planning to launch a new round of liquidation and suppression of the troops of the New Fourth Army in central Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu. In order to deal with the incoming enemy, the generals of the 1st Division met several times in secret to discuss the strategy of dealing with the enemy.
After a meeting, Su Yu was already a little tired, and a small warrior handed him a box of cigarettes. Su Yu took it in his hand, and he planned to take the cigarette box and take out a few sips. Suddenly, several dense lines of small characters appeared in his eyes, and the movement of his hands also stopped.
After reading the contents of the cigarette box, Su Yu's calm self-sustainment at the meeting just now was completely empty. With an imperceptible gloom on his face, he turned nervous, and immediately reorganized the leaders of the meeting and issued an urgent order to them: "Quickly let the whole army assemble and turn off all radio stations!" ”
Su Yu has always shown himself with calmness and self-confidence, and this reaction makes everyone instantly realize that something big has happened. What people did not expect was that this box of cigarettes was actually sent by a pseudo-military lieutenant general.
So, what did this pseudo-army lieutenant general write on the cigarette case? What exactly did he come from, what kind of relationship did he have with the New Fourth Army, and why did he risk sending a letter? If you want to unravel the mystery, you must start from a conspiracy of Wang Jingwei.
The Japanese and the pseudo-clearance were suppressed, fortunately with intelligence
In November 1942, after careful reconstruction, the New Fourth Army not only recovered its vitality, but even surpassed its combat effectiveness than before. This was intolerable to the Wang Jingwei clique and the Japanese military headquarters in northern Jiangsu. In order to curry favor with the Japanese and further distribute grain and grass from the Japanese, Wang Jingwei plotted to launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the New Fourth Army in central And northern Jiangsu, code-named "Operation Qingxiang". Although Wang Jingwei had already opened up his position, he was jealous of Su Yu's prestige.
In order to make the New Fourth Army fall into a situation where the new Fourth Army is leaderless and self-defeating, Wang Jingwei intends to design a plan to wipe out Su Yu and a number of senior generals of the 1st Division of the New Fourth Army.
Just after Su Yu had just finished the meeting to deploy the plan of the "anti-sweeping struggle", he took a box of cigarettes. So, there is the opening scene. All members of the 1st Division changed their original travel plans, and in order to prevent the enemy from tracking with the direction finder, the radio stations of the whole army were turned off at the same time.
For the next half a month, the troops did not make any major operations. Because Su Yu was convinced, there was an internal ghost in the army.
According to the information on the cigarette packs, the puppet government has learned of the new Fourth Army's combat plans in the Nankan area and is well aware of its troop deployment. The puppet army strength of 4 companies plus 2 divisions was already in Nankan, waiting to ambush the New Fourth Army.
The meeting on the deployment of the "anti-Qingxiang struggle" was a top-secret meeting of the Soviet Central Military Region, and the people who could attend the meeting were people with a certain status in the military. However, the content of the meeting was accurately transmitted to the ears of Nobuo Kobayashi and Wang Jingwei, the supreme commanders of the Japanese army in Nantong. Even the course of action of the generals of the New Fourth Army appeared exactly on Kobayashi's desk.
Su Yu did not dare to imagine that if it were not for this cigarette box, the New Fourth Army, which had just recovered from serious injuries, would once again fall into what kind of danger it would fall into. Fortunately, Su Yu had a clear mind, courage and strategy, and after a strict layout, this ghost who leaked our army's combat plan was severely punished.
Wang Jingwei and the Japanese army's "clearance operation" also flew into the air.
So, who was this lieutenant general of the Wang puppet government who saved the New Fourth Army from being destroyed, and why did he risk delivering a letter?
This puppet general was named Shiyaf. His real identity is that of a Communist Agent under Wang Jingwei's eyes.
After attending a meeting of the top brass of the Japanese puppet army on the "clearance plan," Shi Yafu felt anxious. On the grounds that Nankan was not conducive to the operation of the New Fourth Army and that the intelligence might be wrong, he tried to stop the plan of the Japanese puppet army, and on the other hand, he ordered his assistants to hurry up and send the information to the hands of Su Yu, commander of the New Fourth Army.
Wisdom and courage are complete, and they break into the enemy camp
Shiyaf's name means "The GreatEr Husband of Asia". As the name suggests, he has always been a big husband who stands tall in the sky. In 1933, Shi Yafu served as the director of the Organization Department of the Nantong County CPC Committee and led the Nantong workers' strike movement several times. During one operation, Shi Yafu was arrested by the Kuomintang authorities for betrayal by traitors and subsequently transferred to Nanjing Tiger Bridge Prison. At Tiger Bridge Prison, Shi Yafu was locked up with Chen Duxiu, Peng Shu and others. Prison life not only did not make these Communists bow their heads, but on the contrary ignited their revolutionary enthusiasm even more.
In 1937, Japanese planes blew down the walls of Tiger Bridge Prison, and Shiyaf and others escaped in the chaos. After his release from prison, Shi Yafu witnessed the national disaster and returned to his hometown of Nantong without stopping, gathering workers who had participated in the general strike and dozens of Communist Party members who, like themselves, had lost contact with the party organization, to form the "Anti-Japanese Soil Guard Regiment". Without guns, they capture enemy guns, and without ammunition, they sneak into enemy ammunition depots. Relying on such accumulation, the "Anti-Japanese Soil Guard Regiment" gradually grew stronger. Shiyaf led this team to fight against the Japanese, and gradually made a name for himself in the local area. Their reputation finally reached the ears of the Party organization.
Shi Yafu, who had reconnected with the party organization, received a major task: to infiltrate the Wang Jingwei government and provide accurate information for the elimination of the traitor regime and the War of Resistance Against Japan. For this task, Schyaf readily agreed. At the same time, he already had the next line of action in his mind: using his influence to get a number of puppet troops, borrowing Wang Jingwei's identity to expand his own team. His plan was approved by the party organization.
In June 1941, the city of Nantong was plastered with notices, although the contents were different, but the payment was always "Shi Yafu, commander of the Seventh Division of the Appeasement Army". In fact, the so-called "Appeasement Seventh Division" was nothing more than a miscellaneous army of two or three hundred people, the purpose of which was to lure Wang Jingwei into the bait.
Because at that time, Wang Jingwei was recruiting soldiers everywhere in order to get more chips in the bargaining with the Japanese. As Shi Yafu expected, the news of the Seventh Division reached Nanjing, and Wang Jingwei was really moved. He ordered his confidant Yan Diannan to go to Nantong to prepare to recruit Shi Yafu.
As soon as Yan Diannan arrived in Nantong, he could not wait to ask Shi Yafu for the roster of the Seventh Division. The Shiyaf soldiers came to block and reacted quickly. On the one hand, he instructed his subordinates to throw in yandiannan's favor, take him to wolf mountain, play mahjong, visit brothels, and wait for him to eat and have fun, while sending someone to Shanghai to buy a telephone book and a copy of "Hundred Family Names", and then found a few happy and mournful account books, and copied them randomly. Overnight, a Seventh Division of more than 8,000 people was born.
A week later, Yan Diannan took Shi Yafu back to Nanjing to reinstate Wang Jingwei. Wang Jingwei and the Japanese adviser Qingqi Qingyin Nakasa jointly evaluated Shi Yafu. It is said that Wang Jingwei presided over the assessment, in fact, the key meaning is what Qingqi Qingyin said. In front of a Japanese Nakasa, Wang Jingwei was so low-voiced, which made Shi Yafu feel very angry. However, he knew the heavy burden on his shoulders and would not act with determination.
Because he was well prepared and good at seeing opportunities, Shi Yafu successfully passed the examination. The next day, Wang Jingwei sent Yan Diannan to send the lieutenant general's letter of appointment, military uniform, and collar badge to Shi Yafu's residence. Shiyaf's plan to penetrate the enemy's interior made a good start.
Espionage career, full of dangers
Unexpectedly, Shi Yafu, who had just returned to Nantong, was targeted by the commander of the Japanese mixed brigade. This is an old and cunning man, who knows very well that the Japanese sabre cannot rule China, so he often makes a little "Huairou policy" from time to time, and vigorously promotes the Japanese government's policy of "enveloping the puppet army and long-term puppetization" in Nantong. Schyaf was invited to the brigade commander's residence. As soon as they met, the major general, surnamed Nanpu, said to Shi Yafu in a broken Chinese: "Your Excellency, your communist party is great. This one-sided sentence made Shi Yafu a little flustered. In order to hide his panic, he slowly pulled out a cigarette, lit it, and then spat out a mouthful of smoke through the smoke. Shiyaf stared at Nanpu's face and refuted it without hurrying. In the end, with the blessing of calm and wisdom, Shiyaf survived the temptation safely.
In 1942, Shi Yafu rushed from Nantong to Nanjing to participate in the rotational training corps of general officers organized by the puppet central government. During the training, Shi Yafu became acquainted with most of the leaders of Wang Jingwei's 72 divisions. What is even more valuable is that Shi Yafu gained the trust of Wang Jingwei's son, Who is also the director of the Qingxiang Administration Bureau of the Wang puppet government, Wang Manyun. Shi Yafu was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and loved to study the art of war, and Wang Jingwei favored the young lieutenant general. Every holiday, Wang Jingwei would invite Shi Yafu to visit the Wang Mansion. This has opened up many paths for future latent work.
Shi Yafu, who won Wang Jingwei's trust, became the spokesman of the Wang puppet government in the Nantong area. Almost every meeting of the Nantong puppet army and the Japanese army was attended by Shi Yafu.
After entering Rugao City, Shi Yafu received a battle plan and asked him to lead two regiments to cooperate with the brigade to launch an attack on the Tao Yong department of the New Fourth Army. Shiyaf glanced at his watch, and with only two hours left before the attack, it was impossible to send the intelligence out. So he ordered the troops preparing to return to detour to Stone Harbor to DigGang.
The sentry, however, resolutely refused to borrow the road, and the two sides became deadlocked. Seeing that Schyaf did not budge in the slightest, the sentry shot and killed the translator. Shiyaf did not stop here, ordered the troops to stop here and cook rice, and righteously asked the sentry to let the commander Yamamoto come out and personally apologize. In the end, although Yamamoto came forward, he refused to admit his mistake, and the two quarreled all the way to Nantong.
And this is exactly what Schyaf wanted.
When Kobayashi learned of this, he was very angry. But in the face of Shiyaf's continued pretense arguments, he could only compromise: "You say two words, the sentry agrees, then is he still a qualified sentry?" These two things are not right, okay? Shiyaf, who had reached his destination, stopped arguing, but Nobuo Kobayashi could only sigh with his head down.
Shi Yafu repeatedly opened up a way for the New Fourth Army, and eventually aroused the suspicion of Nobuo Kobayashi. In 1943, Nobuo Kobayashi began to reorganize the officers above the platoon level, and in 1944, his claws reached The yavle's head, and he was demoted to the rank of commander of the 135th Regiment.
After Shi Yaf knew that he had been exposed, he sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Soviet Military Region to report the situation. The next day, Deputy Commander Ye Fei came to the contact point to meet with Shi Yaf. Ye Fei tightly held Shi Yafu's hand and said, "Comrade Yafu, your work has been done very well, and now that the situation has deteriorated, the organization has ordered you to launch an uprising on the 11th of this month to end the lurking work." ”
Shiyaf, who had been in the enemy camp for 4 years, was full of excitement: "I completely obey the decision of the organization, please rest assured that the uprising will begin on time." ”
Later, due to unexpected circumstances, Shiyaf, with the approval of the organization, advanced the uprising to the 5th. The mighty rebel troops, under the support of the New Fourth Army's Ruxi Independent Regiment, smoothly returned to the base area. According to Ye Fei's recollection, under the influence of Shi Yafu, between January and February alone, there were more than 2,000 puppet troops anyway. And this is why Shiyaf returned to the New Fourth Army in the form of an uprising, rather than directly returning to the army.
In August 2005, in a nursing home in Jiangsu Province, Shi Yafu told visitors about his legendary years of ups and downs. Years later, this 90-year-old man is still hard to hide his excitement. On November 13, 2010, Shi Yafu died of illness in Nanjing at the age of 96.
The smoke of the flames has dissipated, and most of the old people who have come from the vigorous revolution have passed away. However, the traces of their coming will never be dispersed, and their exploits will last forever.