On September 13, 1999, Liang Huan, who lives in Haizhu District, Guangzhou, was attracted by the front-page news of Yangcheng Evening News. The news was titled "Eight Days of Searching to Find the Little Hero of the Year", and the 78-year-old man read the news, his hands trembled with excitement, and with tears in his eyes, he said to himself: "Is it true that the secret I have strictly guarded for 47 years has been made public?" If that's the case, then my identity can finally be made public! ”
The "little hero" mentioned in the newspaper is named Zhang Rongji. On the eve of the National Day in 1954, he was in the second grade of primary school, and on the way to school, he accidentally found a strange "cigarette box" and handed it to the police in time. After appraisal, this was a fierce bomb placed by the secret agents, and the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau successfully cracked the "first major case in the early liberation period" and arrested 25 agents in one go.
And this bomb was brought to Guangzhou by Liang Huan (a total of 6). So why was he so excited to see the newspaper, and what was the secret that he had kept for 47 years? If you're interested, read on.
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Liang Huan's story has to start from 1949.
In the early days of Guangzhou's liberation, the activities of secret agents were still very rampant, and every year on the eve of the National Day, they were eager to carry out the so-called "South China Action" in a vain attempt to sabotage on the days when the people were celebrating. According to the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, between 1954 and 1964, Guangzhou alone captured 363 US and Chiang Kai-shek agents, seized 72 time bombs, 85 arsonists, and a large number of sabotage equipment.
At that time, Shenzhen was only a small fishing village with a population of less than 5,000, but because it was separated from Hong Kong by a river, it became the main channel for the enemy to infiltrate Guangzhou. Between the two places, there is a Less than 100-meter Luohu Bridge, connecting The Lo Wu Railway Station and the New Territories Railway Station, and a group of workers have been carrying transit goods on the bridge for many years, and Liang Huan is one of them.
On October 19, 1949, Shenzhen was liberated, and the 30th Regiment of the 10th Public Security Division of the People's Liberation Army was stationed at the border of Shenzhen. At that time, the 30th Regiment had a reconnaissance staff officer named Xu Zhan, who was responsible for the reconnaissance of the enemy situation on both sides of the Shenzhen River. In carrying out his mission, he valued the intelligence provided by the locals and deliberately developed "special intelligence" (undercover) among farmers, fishermen and porters. Soon, Liang Huan entered his sight.
Liang Huan was only in his twenties and was a worker at a porter's company in Shenzhen, Bao'an County. Before liberation, he was bullied because his family was poor, and because of the compulsion of life, his brother was also sold to others. After liberation, he truly felt the warmth of new China, and his heart also actively moved closer to the party.
Through secret investigation and many contacts, Xu Zhan believes that Liang Huan is loyal and reliable, witty and brave, and has super adaptability, which is very suitable for developing into a "special intelligence" personnel. After a period of investigation and probation, Liang Huan officially became a "special intelligence" personnel of the reconnaissance unit of the 30 regiment, and his main task was to investigate suspicious objects during the porting operations in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and wait for an opportunity to penetrate into the enemy's interior.
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In 1953, a man named Zhang Fuzhi caught the attention of Liang Huan, who worked in a casino and was always haunted and acted strangely. Liang Huan's intuition told him that the man was probably a latent agent of the Kuomintang, and he reported the situation to Xu Zhan. Through various intelligence, Xu Zhan confirmed that this person was the director of the Hong Kong secret service station. Therefore, he gave Liang Huan the task of finding an opportunity to contact Zhang Fuzhi, gain trust and penetrate the enemy.
However, how to approach the other party without arousing the suspicion of the other party? Coincidentally, Zhang Fuzhi was also looking for a "secret agent", and Liang Huansui contacted him on the pretext of smuggling cameras. Liang Huan's adaptability impressed Zhang Fuzhi and won his initial trust.
However, for the sake of safety, Zhang Fuzhi took him to Hong Kong for further investigation by US CIA intelligence personnel. The Americans came to the conclusion that Liang Huan was loyal and capable. In this way, Liang Huan successfully broke into the enemy special organization after many tests and became Zhang Fuzhi's traffic liaison officer, mainly responsible for the transmission of intelligence between him and the Guangzhou secret agent Chen Ermei (female).
According to Elder Liang's recollection, when he contacted Kuomintang agents, there was a secret joint on Wende Road, and if there was a brick on the wall, it meant that there was "intelligence"; if he "agreed to meet", he put another brick next to it. Every time he got the information, he always tried to contact Xu Zhan, send the information to the 30 regiment for inspection and get instructions, and then do the next step.
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Zhang Fuzhi and other Kuomintang agents had always dreamed of creating an "earth-shattering explosion" in Guangzhou, and the most prosperous locations in Guangzhou at that time— the Guangzhou Railway Station, the Palace of Culture, the Public Security Bureau, the Xinhua Theater, the Power Plant, and the Baiyun Airport—were their targets. When Liang Huan learned of this huge plot of the enemy, he immediately handed the information to the 30 regiments, which in turn reported it to the Central South Public Security Headquarters. Thus, a web of round-up agents unfolded.
On the eve of the National Day in 1954, Zhang Fuzhi decided to use liang huan to use the transit as a cover to secretly transport six American-made TNT explosives and incendiary bombs in two times, three each time. In order to hide his eyes and ears, the enemy even frantically asked Liang Huan to escort the bomb in with his wife and son under the age of one.
After the bomb was smuggled in, Liang Huan, in accordance with the prior agreement, handed over 6 bombs to Liu Yanchang, a reconnaissance staff officer of the 30th Regiment, in a toilet near the Luohu Bridge, and then handed them over to the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau for technical disposal. After treatment, the six bombs eliminated the function of explosion and combustion, and under the close supervision of public security personnel, Liang Huan went to Guangzhou to join the enemy elements.
Liang Huan arrived in Guangzhou, and under the arrangement of the secret agent Chen Ermei, stayed in a hotel. Not long after, agents lurking in Guangzhou appeared one after another and came to the hotel to collect the bomb, but they were all caught by the public security personnel. Immediately afterward, the police followed the vine and finally netted the 25-person enemy gang.
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After this major case was cracked, Ye Jianying personally went to the celebration meeting to congratulate him, and Xu Zhan was also awarded the "second-level reconnaissance model" by the Central and Southern Military Region for his meritorious service. However, Liang Huan, who was the most credited, did not become a hero, but was charged with "counter-revolution", and his name appeared in the verdict of the Guangzhou Intermediate Court.
Many people see here, they must be unfair to Liang Huanming, people risk their lives to collect intelligence, and have made great contributions to protectIng Guangzhou, but in the end it is useless, how can people still carry the black pot! In fact, this is also a helpless move. Because the struggle between the enemy and us was sharp and complicated at that time, in order to protect the safety of Liang Huan and his family and avoid their retaliatory assassination by the enemy, the relevant departments had to take such measures.
Soon, Liang Huan's family secretly moved from Shenzhen to Guangzhou to settle down under the arrangement of the relevant departments, and he himself was arranged to work in the Guangzhou Eryun Company. His original name was "Liang Chu", which was changed to "Liang Huan" at this time.
Of course, in addition to security considerations, the relevant departments have another layer of considerations. Since the head of the secret service, Zhang Fuzhi, is still at large, there may still be fish in the net in this case, so the public declaration of Liang Huan as a "counter-revolutionary" and "secret agent" is to hope that when there is a need, he will once again be "baited".
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At first, Liang Huan felt extremely aggrieved, and he resolutely refused to accept the hat of "counter-revolution". The leaders had no choice but to do work for him, saying that this was the need of the party and the people and that it was also a "state secret." Therefore, Liang Huan, who was simple and kind in nature and had incomparably deep feelings for the party and the people, calmly accepted his "crime."
At this time, Liang Huan's public identity was an employee of the Second Transport Company, but his file relationship was in the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, and he was still a "special intelligence" officer. If the colleagues around you know that this man who does not look amazing in front of him is actually a secret agent, he does not know how to feel!
During this period, the uncle of a colleague of Leung Hwan suddenly returned from Hong Kong, and the police judged that the police believed that this person was most likely a spy based on the information they had. So Liang Huan went out again, first to establish a good relationship with this colleague, and then to approach his uncle. After a period of contact, the "uncle" revealed the fox's tail – indeed a spy.
With his status as a "counter-revolutionary agent", Liang Huan quickly gained the trust of this person, often contacting and passing on intelligence for him. Just when this agent was gathering a lot of intelligence and preparing to escape, the public security organs sent soldiers from heaven to capture him and his gang in one fell swoop.
In the summer of 1956, Liang Huan once again infiltrated the secret service and gained the trust of the enemy. One day, Liang Huan went to the dock with the enemy to pick up the new agent, but he did not expect to encounter two fellow villagers on the road, and the unsuspecting fellow shouted out Liang Huan's original name with a mouth, and he was exposed. Since then, Liang Huan has never done special intelligence work again.
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As we said above, Liang Huan's public identity is that of an employee of the Second Luck Company, and he needs to go to work on time every day. However, because he had to perform "special intelligence" tasks, he often could not work normally, and in the face of the misunderstanding of the leadership, he could only swallow his anger in order to keep it secret. Because he was arranged by his superiors, the leader could not expel Liang Huan, but he thought of a way to punish him, not only arranging the most bitter and tiring work for him, but also transferring him to Nanshi (located in Haizhu District, Guangzhou) to work.
At that time, the location of Nanshi was relatively remote, the bus had not yet been opened, and Liang Huan had to walk at least an hour and a half to work every day. Later, he had no choice but to quit his job and work as a porter everywhere, which was 21 years.
Chen Fan (female) of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, who has been in charge of single-line contact with Liang Huan, is very worried about the situation of this "special intelligence" person. With her help, Liang Huan was placed to work at the Dongshan Foundry until his retirement.
Over the years, Xu Zhan has also been concerned about Liang Huan, and the two have always maintained contact. Whenever Liang Huan encountered difficulties, Xu Zhan always did his best to help. In Xu Zhan's view, the confidentiality treatment of that year was really unfair to Liang Huan, and he also felt that he had robbed him of his merits, and his heart had not been too willing to go.
In 1980, when the state began to redress unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, Xu Zhan found Liang Huan and said, "After so many years, you should stand up and speak for your unfair treatment, and I am willing to testify for you!" However, Liang Huan refused, saying: "I would rather bring this secret into the coffin without waiting for the instructions of my superiors."
In fact, it was not that his superiors forgot him, but Chen Fan, who had a one-line contact with him, lost his language ability and memory due to old age and illness. Coupled with the fact that so many years have passed, personnel changes, institutional changes, and his "special situation" relationship has been transferred somewhere, which has led to his case always being difficult to correct.
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In the blink of an eye, 19 years passed, until Liang Huan saw the report in the newspaper. He carefully read the full text and affirmed one thing: the bomb that Zhang Rongji found was brought by himself from Shenzhen. In fact, the bomb would be fine even if it could not be found, because it had already been disposed of and would not explode.
After reading the report, Liang Huan had a thought in his mind, "Is it possible that the secret I strictly guard has been decrypted?" Similarly, the report also touched the "witnesses" of that year, Xu Zhan, Liu Yanchang and the comrades of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau found Liang Huan and advised: "It is time, we are willing to testify for you!" ”
At this time, Liang Huan finally made up his mind to appeal. Liang Huan asked his son to write a complaint for him, telling for the first time about the extraordinary experience of that year, and the son stared at him with wide eyes and half disbelief, because he had never heard his father say anything about it for decades. In his eyes, his father was an ordinary thin old man, how could he be hooked up with a hero. After confirming that what his father said was not nonsense, the son could not help but shed tears.
For 47 years, Liang Huan spent 47 years wearing the hats of "counter-revolutionary" and "secret agent", and ordinary people can hardly imagine what price he paid for this. Over the years, Liang Huan's job has changed several times, but no matter which position he is in, he is a porter. It was already difficult to support his 6 children with a meager income, and there was no money left for him to drink a little wine, and it was even more extravagant to buy a house.
The economic embarrassment is still tolerable, but the political injustice makes the elderly often cry. Because of his identity problems, only the eldest son joined the party in the early years, and the remaining children were all affected by the problems of joining the party, joining the army, and working. Fortunately, his complaint attracted the attention of the relevant leaders of Guangzhou City, and the Municipal Intermediate Court also carefully reviewed the case.
In March 2002, after more than two years of investigation, the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court finally determined that Liang Huan's complaint was true, revoked the 1955 judgment against him, and restored the reputation of the elderly. Justice and innocence, after 47 years of delay, were finally returned to this old hero who had made outstanding achievements. (At the end of the article, the classic spy war film "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel" filmed in 1957, the prototype of the protagonist of the movie is Liang Huan, because the old man is too secretive, the network can not find photos, so the text uses stills, please understand the readers. ）