In May 1947, inside the Central Military Prison in Nanjing, military agents were torturing Qiu Shiyi, a newly captured Communist agent.
"Say, what is the purpose of coming to Zhenjiang this time?" If you dare to hide it, you know what will happen! ”
For this flawless agent who had always been "lurking", the military command agent hated him to the bone and was eager to peel his skin and cramp him, but because there was no clue, he was unable to catch him until he arrested Yao Maoliang, a communist traffic officer.
Under the torture, Yao Maoliang confessed everything, which eventually led to Qiu Shiyi's unfortunate arrest without any defense.
What is more serious is that the intelligence hidden in Qiu Shiyi's body has also been found, and the information recorded on it is all important latent personnel who have infiltrated the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense, and once discovered, it will inevitably cause irreparable consequences.
With this in mind, Qiu Shiyi was in a hurry and turned his target to Yao Maoliang, who was locked up with him, and prepared to plot against him and bring the intelligence back to the organization.
So how exactly did Qiu Shiyi plot the rebels? Was it successful in the end? How did he end up?
Young and ambitious, he joined the New Fourth Army
Qiu Shiyi was born in 1923, when he was studying at Yangzhou Civilian Middle School, he met Jiang Shangqing, an enlightenment teacher on the road of revolution.
Jiang Shangqing was a communist who was working as a Chinese teacher at the school.
In Qiu Shiyi's eyes, there was an unusual enthusiasm in this Chinese language teacher, and he seemed to have some far-reaching ideals and was willing to fight for it for the rest of his life.
In Jiang Shangqing's view, Qiu Shiyi is also like a pile of lush bushes, just waiting for a Spark, it can become a brilliant firework.
"Only the Communist Party can save China." Jiang Shangqing said to Qiu Shiyi.
Jiang Shangqing
This sentence was deeply burned into Qiu Shiyi's heart and became a beacon of his life, and since then, he has developed a great interest in communist activities, and the path of life has since had a direction.
Three years later, Qiu Shiyi found an enrollment poster for the Guerrillas of the New Fourth Army in the city of Yangzhou.
He immediately ran home and told his uncle Xu Gongmei: "I want to join the New Fourth Army and contribute to China's future!" ”
Xu Gongmei hesitated because he himself was a high-ranking Kuomintang official and did not agree with the Communist Party's policies.
He asked Qiu Shiyi, "Why the New Fourth Army?" ”
"The New Fourth Army is an army that truly contributes to the people, and I want to be a member of it."
Xu Gongmei fell into contemplation, indeed, he had been an official in the Kuomintang for decades, and he was tired of the deceitfulness and self-deception and the forgetting of righteousness, and perhaps this young man was right.
Xu Gongmei patted Qiu Shiyi's shoulder and said, "I support you, but you must ensure that after you go, you must not forget your duty." Since you want to fight for the country, then fight to the end, don't do the work of villains. ”
Qiu Shiyi listened and nodded vigorously.
Xu Gongmei
After that, Qiu Shiyi entered the second detachment of the Advancing Column, and when his superiors saw that he was literate, they put him in the rear to take up a teaching position, responsible for the ideological work of the masses and soldiers.
As soon as they entered the team, their comrades immediately noticed this "quiet guy", who looked very shy, very disciplined, and hardly took the initiative to speak.
But soon the comrades-in-arms found that Qiu Shiyi had a witty heart under his calm appearance, he was not only flexible, meticulous, but also had a good personality, and was very considerate of everyone, and soon after, the comrades-in-arms became one with him.
One day, when a concert was to be held in the army, comrades who could play instruments needed to be selected to perform on stage, and Qiu Shiyi immediately raised his hand and said that he could play.
The squad leader asked, "Xiao Qiu, what instrument will you play?" ”
Qiu Shiyi replied with a smile: "I can blow and play and sing." ”
The squad leader immediately gave Qiu Shiyi and other instruments, and Qiu Shiyi took the instrument and played a piece of music without hurry, and his comrades-in-arms applauded him one after another.
Since then, Qiu Shiyi has had an extra title, called "Little Brother of Yangzhou".
Statue of Qiu Shiyi
I thought that such a day would go on forever, but one day, the leader Jiang Weiqing suddenly called Qiu Shiyi into the room and asked him: "There is a task that can make greater contributions to the party, but it is quite dangerous, and it may be infamous, do you want to do it?" ”
Qiu Shiyi replied emphatically: "As long as it is beneficial to the party and the country, I can do anything!" ”
Jiang Weiqing said: "This task is to make you a 'traitor.' ”
Qiu Shiyi was stunned for a moment, and then quickly smiled: "You are a patriotic and good person, you will certainly not ask me to do bad things, as long as it is the work you command, I will do it no matter what." ”
Jiang Weiqing patted him on the shoulder and said in a serious tone, "Well, from now on, you will infiltrate the Wang Jingwei government and act as a spy, if one day you encounter danger, don't hesitate, I will allow you to evacuate immediately." ”
In order to hide the eyes and ears of the people, the team created the news of "Qiu Shiyi's defection", and the comrades-in-arms were all sorry, while Qiu Shiyi himself followed the spy department to Shanghai.
Jiang Weiqing
Break into the fake and become a secret agent
Three years later, Qiu Shiyi moved to Nanjing again, he assumed the pseudonym Qiu Shihui, was admitted to the training class directly under the Wang Pseudo Political Training Department, and half a year later, he was transferred to Taizhou Wang Pseudo 25th Division as a lieutenant intelligence staff officer, commanding intelligence work in yangzhou.
During this period, Qiu Shiyi collected local intelligence and tried to send it back into our army; on the other hand, he waited for an opportunity to develop new revolutionary comrades and help them penetrate into the enemy's interior.
At the beginning of 1945, Qiu Shiyi won the favor of Sun Liangcheng, who was the governor of the pseudo-appeasement office, because he was sharp and did not leak, and Sun Liangcheng often praised Qiu Shiyi in front of everyone, saying that he was a young talent and that he would have great achievements in the future.
The improvement of Qiu Shiyi's official position gave him more opportunities to contact top-secret information, and he spied harder on the enemy's situation, and then carefully let the intelligence officers pass it back to our army.
At this time, Sun Liangcheng could not have dreamed that this loyal young man would give him a heavy blow.
On April 9 of the same year, Sun Liangcheng sent Qiu Shiyi to participate in a joint meeting between Japan and The Japanese as a lieutenant colonel's combat staff officer. Qiu Shiyi learned of a major piece of information during the meeting, and the Japanese army will conduct a major battle against the anti-Japanese team!
It turned out that the frequent actions of the anti-Japanese troops in the central Soviet Union in recent days had brought great trouble to the operations of the Japanese army, and in order to divide the base area strength of our army step by step, the Japanese army adjusted the original deployment.
They will carry out an operation, part of which is to order the second regiment of secret agents of the pseudo-Northern Jiangsu Appeasement Office, stationed outside Baoying City, to be transferred to the Zhouzhuang area south of Xinghua.
The operation involved a large number of people, a total of more than 2,000 people, and the meeting detailed planning of the time of transfer, the route of travel, and the equipment to be carried.
When Qiu Shiyi heard these news, he was calm on the surface, but in private, he used his extraordinary memory and carved all the data into his brain.
As soon as he returned home, Qiu Shiyi immediately contacted the intelligence officer Han Yi and told him everything. When Han Yi heard this news, he was shocked.
"The stakes are high, it's too dangerous to write down, and you have to remember them all." Qiu Shiyi said solemnly.
Qiu Shiyi shook Han Yi's hand and repeated the data to him repeatedly until he could memorize it skillfully, and then let him leave.
At dawn, Han Yi got up and went to Xujiazhuang, disguised as a businessman, passing through multiple enemy outposts, and finally, arriving at the secret operations center of Tingzizhuang and informing the brigade commander of this confidential information. After receiving the information, the New Fourth Army decided to carry out a plan to ambush the Japanese puppet army in the area of the three stacks.
At the end of April, Ma Youming led more than 2,000 Japanese puppet troops, divided into land and water routes, and passed through the Three Duo River as promised.
The contingent of the puppet army marched majestically in the riverside area, and they did not expect that at this time they had already penetrated into the "pocket array" deployed by our army.
After a fierce battle, our side killed a total of 240 Japanese troops, more than 600 puppet troops, and captured a total of 965 Japanese puppet troops.
Bow down and die unyieldingly
In the two years since, the puppet army's attacks on the Liberated Areas have failed again and again, and many people at that time wondered if the Communist Party had opened its eyes.
In fact, this is the credit of Qiu Shiyi, who repeatedly transmitted intelligence back to the organization and foiled the enemy's plot.
The sensitive enemy gradually realized that there might be spies within the group, and they checked one by one, and they also suspected Qiu Shiyi during the period, but he was deeply trusted by his superiors, and he really had no control, so there was no way to convict.
Until one day, because of the betrayal of one of Qiu Shiyi's subordinates, they locked up Qiu Shiyi's suspicions and decided to arrest him. And Qiu Shiyi did not expect that danger was quietly descending on him.
On the night of May 15, Qiu Shiyi stepped onto a train passing through Zhenjiang Station with a suitcase containing intelligence, and two agents followed him, preparing to arrest him.
After stepping into the carriage, Qiu Shiyi immediately found that there were two ill-looking people following him, and he quietly accelerated his pace, trying to get rid of the following.
Republic of China train
Not long ago, he received the task of organizing the need to send confidential information with the names of intelligence personnel written on it to Yao Maoliang, a political traffic officer.
And the confidential document was rolled up by him and stuffed into the toothpaste tube in the suitcase.
He squeezed the suitcase tightly, sweating in his hands.
What to do, how to destroy?
He had wanted to use his suitcase as cover to hide this information.
Unexpectedly, it was precisely because it was placed in a suitcase that the difficulty of destruction was increased.
Suddenly, Qiu Shiyi saw the door opening and closing between the carriages and had an idea.
Carrying his suitcase, he quickly ran to the door, then opened the suitcase and threw the toothpaste cartridge containing the intelligence out the window.
At this time, the door was opened, and Qiu Shiyi was greeted by the ruthless iron palms of the two agents.
They did not listen to the words and arbitrarily arrested Qiu Shiyi in prison.
Execution Chamber
At this time, Qiu Shiyi was very confused, his identity was obviously perfectly disguised, where did he leak the secret?
Until the evening, a man walked past him with his head bowed, and Qiu Shiyi recognized it at a glance, it was his comrade, Yao Maoliang.
It turned out that a few days ago, Wang's puppet agents caught Tian Xuefu and found Yao Maoliang through him, and Yao Maoliang could not bear the punishment and recruited himself.
In this way, Qiu Shiyi spent a night in prison, and the enemy wanted to get more information from his mouth, so he used a series of torture devices such as tiger chairs and soldering irons, and Qiu Shiyi endured the pain and did not reveal half a word.
Early the next morning, the prison officer placed an object in front of Qiu Shiyi, who was immediately frightened and pale.
It turned out that the agents searched Qiu Shiyi's body, but did not find useful information, and they sent people to search along the railway, and finally found the information hidden in the toothpaste tube.
At this time, Qiu Shiyi's brain is running rapidly, what to do? The note with the name of our spy personnel has fallen into the hands of the enemy, and many spy personnel, including Xu Zhifang, are in danger.
Xu Zhifang
Qiu Shiyi found that the enemy did not seem to be looking for Xu Zhifang immediately, but was ready to use Yao Maoliang to catch big fish with a long line, which in turn would be the communist army. They planned that Yao Maoliang would return with false information to lure the Communists into the trap, and then they would take the opportunity to send troops and annihilate them.
But the enemy also knows that if Yao Maoliang is allowed to go back directly, it may arouse the suspicion of our army. So what to do?
In the end, they prepared to plot against Qiu Shiyi and asked him to write a secret letter to Yao Maoliang so that he could return to the organization in a justifiable way.
This counter-offensive activity was mainly carried out by Yao Maoliang against Qiu Shiyi. When Qiu Shiyi learned of the enemy's plan to rebel, he already had an idea in his heart, and he found that although Yao Maoliang had betrayed, his heart was very bitter about the betrayal, and Qiu Shiyi planned to reverse the rebellion and pull Yao Maoliang back to the organization.
Qiu Shiyi pretended to accept the enemy's rebellion, and he knew in his heart that he must fight for an opportunity to communicate with Yao Maoliang face-to-face.
When writing the secret letter, Yao Maoliang sat opposite Qiu Shiyi, and Qiu Shiyi seized the gap between the spies going out and whispered to Yao Maoliang: "It is not too late to get lost and return." ”
When Yao Maoliang heard this, his emotions were close to collapse, and he said: "I'm sorry, chief, I have done too much, and I can't return to the organization." ”
Qiu Shiyi comforted: "I don't blame you, those punishments are not something that ordinary people can bear." If you are willing to return to the organization, I will help you testify in the letter, rest assured, the organization will accept you.
After Xu Maoliang listened, he nodded vigorously.
A day later, he returned to the organization with Qiu Shiyi's intelligence and explained everything to the chief.
When the chief heard the news of Qiu Shiyi's arrest, he was very sorry, and they only punished Yao Maoliang for the sake of Yao Maoliang's lost way.
A few days later, the enemy found that xu Maoliang could not be contacted, and only then did he realize that he had been deceived.
Annoyed and angry, they followed the list, arrested all the spies in prison, and began to torture them like crazy, and what made the enemy even more angry was that no one gave in.
After a round of torture, Qiu Shiyi, who was covered in scales, collapsed in the corner of the prison, and even so, the corners of his mouth still showed a triumphant smile.
This time, he made the right bet, although he suffered imprisonment for betrayal, he was still the victor, because he used his own schemes to avoid the puppet army from getting more information from the traitors, and also disrupted a series of follow-up plans they had made around Yao Maoliang.
On the eve of the liberation of Nanjing, the high-ranking officials in the city fled, and they buried Qiu Shiyi and others alive in the Song Park Execution Ground, and the soldiers died.
After Qiu Shiyi's death, his identity remained a mystery for a long time, and many people thought that he had become a deserter and then went to the Wang puppet government as an official, so they were very contemptuous of him.
It was not until 1985, when a fellow prisoner of Qiu Shiyi inadvertently revealed his information, saying that Qiu Shiyi had been an intelligence officer in the Wang pseudo-organization for a long time, and that after being arrested, he preferred to die and did not reveal half a sentence of information to the enemy.
In 1994, the government officially recognized Qiu Shiyi as a martyr.