On April 1, 2009, the Republic of China-themed spy drama "Latent", directed by Jiang Wei and Fu Wei, and starring Sun Honglei, Yao Chen, Zu Feng and Shen Aojun, was simultaneously premiered on Oriental Satellite TV, Beijing Satellite TV and Heilongjiang Satellite TV.
This TV series with a tight plot and suspense, once broadcast, attracted unanimous praise from audiences across the country.
In the film, Yu Zecheng's wit and bravery have a profound impact on people, and whenever they are dealing with the enemies around them, everyone sweats deeply for them.
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It is also the storyline of this film and television drama that makes it so attractive.
However, compared with the story created by the script in the film and television drama, what really happened in history is more "thrilling".
The roar over Seongnam Village
Speaking of Chairman Mao, he must be the greatest figure in the hearts of the Chinese people.
Once, for more than two hundred years, the land of China was plagued by Western colonialists, Japanese militarism, and various warlords.
At this time, Chairman Mao came out of nowhere, led our Party and the People's Liberation Army, liberated the whole of China, built a new China, and enabled the people to live a good life without worries about food and clothing.
In history, great people always have the same "characteristic", that is, they can "turn danger into disaster" at key moments.
Chairman Mao
Chairman Mao was no exception.
In the decades of struggle and maneuvering with the enemy, Chairman Mao has repeatedly relied on clever schemes and unpredictable strategies and tactics to successfully escape the enemy's attacks and make it difficult for their plots to succeed.
However, if we want to talk about the most dangerous attack that Chairman Mao has suffered over the years, it is the "Bombardment of Chengnanzhuang" in 1948.
In March 1948, when the War of Liberation was already in full swing, under the leadership of the Central Committee, the People's Liberation Army blossomed everywhere in the battlefields of the whole country, achieved amazing results, and beat the enemy to the ground, leaving only one step away from the liberation of the whole country.
Seeing that the whole of China was about to be liberated by the Chinese Communists, the Kuomintang was furious and sent a large army to Shaanxi to prepare to encircle the central organs.
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Against this background, Chairman Mao and his entourage carried out a strategic shift, shifting the revolutionary base area from northern Shaanxi to the Xibaipo area of Hebei.
Chairman Mao also settled down in Nanzhuang, the county seat of Fucheng County.
The central base areas have just been transferred, and the work at hand is very complicated, so in the ten days after arriving in Chengnanzhuang, Chairman Mao had very little time to rest, and every day he had to go all night and all night to give instructions on documents from various places.
In addition, due to his perennial busyness, he had long suffered from severe insomnia, and Chairman Mao needed sleeping pills to assist him in sleep every time he rested, so after Chairman Mao fell asleep, the guards rarely came to disturb him.
On May 18, 1948, when Chairman Mao, as usual, had been busy all night and finally completed the instructions for the documents sent the day before, a trace of tiredness also climbed to the top of his eyes.
Chairman Mao
Looking up at the view outside the window, the distant horizon had risen a trace of fish belly white.
"Purple Qi is coming, it's a good time."
Chairman Mao stood up from the front of the table, then stepped out of the door and walked in the courtyard, pacing back and forth.
Li Yinqiao, who followed behind him, knew that this was Chairman Mao's habit of morning exercise, and every morning, the chairman would always take a walk in the courtyard after a busy night to stretch his body and breathe in the fresh air.
After ten minutes, Chairman Mao stopped, turned around and called, "Yinqiao, I'll go and rest." ”
Hearing this, Li Yinqiao hurriedly took out two sleeping pills from his pocket that had been wrapped long ago, then prepared hot water, gave them to Chairman Mao, and after Chairman Mao lay down and rested, sorted out the documents in the room, then closed the curtains and closed the door, standing outside the door quietly waiting.
Li Yinqiao and Chairman Mao
A moment after Chairman Mao rested, the door next to him was opened again, and it turned out that Nie Rongzhen lived next door.
"I went out to inspect the military situation and reported to me in time what the situation was."
Nie Rongzhen told Li Yinqiao before going out, and after receiving a positive reply, he took two guards to inspect the surroundings of the village.
Looking at the rising sun, listening to the birdsong above the eaves, and thinking of the frequent good news from the front, Li Yinqiao's face gradually floated a smile.
"It seems that the days of liberating all of China will not be long off."
Just as Li Yinqiao was thinking like this, suddenly, several harsh roars interrupted his thoughts.
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Li Yinqiao looked up and saw several fighter planes flying towards here quickly in the distance.
Before Li Yinqiao could react, the sirens of Chengnanzhuang began to sound.
His heart clucked a little, you know, Chengnanzhuang is no better than Yan'an, Chairman Mao has only been here for a long time, the entire air defense facilities have not yet had time to be arranged, if it is really the enemy to attack, it will fall into an extremely passive situation.
At this time, the entire guard platoon heard the noise and rushed to the chairman's house.
Looking at the chairman's door, Li Yinqiao was just about to push it open, and a little hesitation arose in his heart.
You know, due to the long working hours, the quality of the chairman's sleep is not good, and after falling asleep, if you bother him hastily, it is inevitable to lose your temper.
Chairman Mao
Everyone you look at me and I look at you, and for a moment I don't dare to push open the door easily.
If the enemy planes were just passing by, who would go to ask Chairman Mao for his guilt?
Unparalleled boldness
Just when everyone was undecided, they suddenly found that three planes had reached the sky over Seongnamzhuang and were talking about reconnaissance on their heads.
"Oops, this is the enemy's reconnaissance plane in determining the location!" They're about to bomb! ”
An experienced veteran of the guard platoon looked at the enemy plane above his head and said.
Chairman Mao and Nie Rongzhen
Before the words could be heard, Nie Rongzhen rushed in with someone in a hurry, pushed Chairman Mao's bedroom door open without saying a word, and then stepped forward to help Chairman Mao and said anxiously: "Chairman, we must quickly cover you to the air raid shelter!" The enemy is coming to bomb! ”
After falling asleep and being woken up, Chairman Mao did not lose his temper.
Hearing Nie Rongzhen's words, there was no wave on his face, but instead he said calmly, "Bring me the cigarette." ”
Hearing Chairman Mao's words, Nie Rongzhen hurriedly said, "It's too late!" We have to hurry up! ”
"Panic what, is it difficult for the enemy to have dropped the bomb?"
Chairman Mao asked in reverse to Nie Rongzhen.
Chairman Mao
"It's too late to throw the bomb, I have to take responsibility to the center!"
After saying this, Nie Rongzhen ordered the guards to go forward and carry Chairman Mao and quickly evacuate from the courtyard.
Therefore, Li Yinqiao and others could not care whether Chairman Mao was angry or not, so they rushed forward to carry Chairman Mao to the stretcher he had brought and hurriedly ran outside the courtyard.
However, the crowd had just stepped out of the door, "boom" twice, several bombs exploded not far away, and for a moment, the dust flew and the house next to it instantly turned into ruins.
Seeing this scene, everyone stepped up their pace and ran quickly towards the door.
Just as he was about to rush out, a bomb fell from the sky with a "sigh", landing less than ten meters away from Chairman Mao's side, smashing a large pit on the ground.
Chairman Mao
Everyone was frightened by this scene and broke into a cold sweat, afraid that the bomb would detonate in the next second.
However, at this very moment, Chairman Mao was still calm and relaxed, and even carefully examined the bomb that was close at hand.
"It seems that this enemy arsenal is slipping its head."
At this extremely critical moment, Chairman Mao was able to use such humorous words to relax everyone.
But it also reminds the stunned crowd to continue to take the steps of transfer.
After the successful transfer of Chairman Mao, he originally wanted to transfer the Chairman to the air raid shelter, but Chairman Mao carefully looked at the course of action of the enemy aircraft and the scope of its circling.
Chairman Mao
Soon he understood that the enemy's goal was very precise, that is, the courtyard where he lived, as long as he left the courtyard, there was nothing to worry about.
"Don't be afraid, but the enemy just throws down a few iron lumps."
Knowing that he was the enemy's greatest target, he remained calm at this extremely dangerous moment and opposed everyone's persuasion, and Chairman Mao's boldness attracted the admiration of everyone and made everyone really relax.
When the enemy plane flew away, everyone made an inventory of the damage caused by the enemy.
Apart from the fact that a horse and a pig from his hometown were killed, no casualties were found. But Chairman Mao's former residence had been razed to the ground by five shells.
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At this time, the matter was already very clear, and there must be "traitors" inside who revealed Chairman Mao's whereabouts to the enemy!
The true identity of the traitor
After that, the central authorities conducted an internal review, but never found any clues to the traitor.
It wasn't until October 1949, a week after the founding of New China, that the traitor finally showed his feet.
At that time, the person assigned by Nie Rongzhen to be responsible for solving the "Chengnanzhuang bombing case" was Minister Ye Yungao.
Minister Ye Yungao
One night after the founding ceremony, a top-secret archive of the Kuomintang obtained from Baoding came from his subordinates, which contained the following passage: "Since Liu Congwen joined the work, he has worked hard and is quite responsible, and hereby applies for promotion to lieutenant treatment for formal employment." ”
"Liu Congwen? Who is this man? ”
Ye Yungao hurriedly ordered a thorough investigation of this person in the archives of the whole country, especially the namesake who were active in the Hebei region around May 1948, and then summarized all the intelligence collected to him.
A month later, the good news came.
According to the all-night investigation by the staff of the organs, it was found that on May 18, 1948, the day of the bombing of Chengnanzhuang, there was indeed a cook named "Liu Congwen" in our army.
Stills: Liu Congwen
Moreover, he was also often in charge of the chairman's daily catering, so he was fully equipped to reveal chairman Mao's whereabouts to the enemy.
Upon learning of this, Ye Yungao immediately ordered Liu Congwen to be arrested and interrogated overnight.
In the end, Liu Congwen honestly explained how he became a traitor and betrayed Chairman Mao's whereabouts to the enemy.
This Liu Congwen is also a veteran of our army, and in 1939, he joined the Eighth Route Army with several fellow villagers.
Because he cooked well, he became a cook in our army.
Later, the Central Committee transferred him to be the director of the Xiaozao Department of the Headquarters of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region.
Chairman Mao (first from left)
On April 13, 1948, Chairman Mao and his party arrived in Xibaipo, Hebei Province, forming a new center leading the national liberation war.
It was Liu Congwen who was responsible for the food of the comrades of the central organs.
Because he often went out to buy ingredients, Liu Congwen had the opportunity to contact Kuomintang agents.
On a trip to the county seat to buy something, Liu Congwen met a fellow villager in his hometown, Meng Jiande, who was also ostensibly a cadre of our army, but his real identity was actually a Kuomintang agent.
During the conversation, Meng Jiande learned that Liu Congwen was working next to Chairman Mao and knew that this was a good opportunity for him to "rise to the rank of official and get rich.", so he secretly promised Liu Congwen many benefits, and went to plot against him as a spy of the Kuomintang and installed him at Chairman Mao's side.
Chairman Mao
Later, the head of the secret service, Mao Renfeng, learned of this news and twice sent Liu Congwen to assassinate Chairman Mao with poison and pistols, but due to the strict precautions of the comrades of the central organs, his plot did not succeed.
Therefore, under some planning, the Kuomintang planned this "bombardment of Chengnanzhuang".
The Kuomintang, which thought it was foolproof, could not have imagined that this time Chairman Mao would successfully escape the disaster, and the following year, he led the People's Liberation Army to expel them all from the mainland and completely liberate all of China.
On September 28, 1950, the Military Justice Department of the Political Department of the North China Military Region rendered a judgment against Liu Congwen and Meng Jiande:
"As a cadre of the People's Liberation Army, he went so far as to defect to the enemy, accept secret service tasks, act as an internal traitor, engage in counter-revolutionary activities, use his kinship to steal our strategic military intelligence, report to the enemy the actions of our people's leaders and military and political leaders, and repeatedly instruct enemy planes to bomb, causing serious losses to the people's lives and property. Liu Congwen and Meng Jiande were sentenced to death in accordance with law. ”
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In the afternoon of the same day, Liu Congwen and Meng Jiande were executed at the execution ground.
Before dying, Liu Congwen also said with great excitement that all this was done by Meng Jiande instructed himself, and he just had to do it as a last resort, and there was no bit of the friendship between the two of them.
But no matter what he said, the evidence of his guilt was in front of his eyes, and it was difficult to dispel it with words.
With the sound of two gunshots, the two enemy agents finally got their due ending.
Chairman Mao at work
Later, after the founding of New China, the remnants of the Kuomintang organized many assassination attempts to misbehave the high-level leaders of the Central Committee.
However, under the close protection of our army, these beam-jumping clowns never succeeded, but slowly appeared in their original form under the sun and became the pests hated by the people.