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On March 18, 1946, just after dawn, Mao Renfeng, secretary of the Kuomintang Military Command, hurried to Chiang Kai-shek's official residence.
The thick fog in the morning made him hang water droplets in his hair, and after seeing Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Renfeng, who had always been steady, was so nervous that he could not speak, and it was difficult to open his mouth before saying: "The plane the boss is riding on has disappeared!" The Aviation Commission is still looking for it..."
Mao Ren Feng
The "boss" in Mao Renfeng's mouth is Dai Kasa, the leader of the military command. Hearing this news, Chiang Kai-shek immediately picked up the phone to contact the Aviation Commission, but after checking with the Aviation Commission, it was indeed as Mao Renfeng said, Dai Kasa was missing!
Dai Kasa was Chiang Kai-shek's right and left arm, the "eye" of Chiang Kai-shek's control over the entire Kuomintang, and if Dai Kasa died, then his eyes would be equivalent to losing one.
Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Mao Renfeng to immediately send a general-level cadre, take the radio and the doctor to the plane to find, and if he found the plane on which Dai Kasa was traveling, report it immediately. If the plane can't land, the skydiving will have to go down and find it!
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However, at this time, there were rumors that this was Dai Kasa's golden cicada shelling plan, and it was his "fraudulent death". So what is the truth? Where did Dai Kasa go?
Vanishing aircraft number 222
On March 16, 1946, Dai Kasa, then director of the Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Kuomintang Military Commission, traveled to Tianjin on a business trip, accompanied by Gong Xianfang, director of the Personnel Department of the Military Statistics Bureau, and others.
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After arriving in Tianjin, Dai Kasa heard the news that Du Yuming, the commander of the Northeast Security Guard, was hospitalized, and rushed to Beiping to visit him, and then flew to Qingdao by special plane.
The aircraft he was flying on was the US-aided DC-47 222 military transport aircraft, which had good performance, could fly around the clock, and was equipped with perfect navigation equipment, which was world-class. Therefore, although there was some abnormal weather when the plane arrived in Qingdao, Dai Kasa did not care.
After summoning local officials in Qingdao, at 11:30 a.m. the next morning, Dai Kasa arrived at Qingdao Cangkou Airport. At this time, Qingdao was in a thick fog, and there was still light rain in the fog, and the visibility was very low, which was dangerous to take off in this case. Therefore, the officials who came to see him off advised Dai Kasa to rest for a few days and leave another day.
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However, his itinerary has been arranged for a long time, and it is not easy to change between haste and time.
When he left Qingdao this time, first, he had to go to Shanghai to meet with the big star lover Butterfly and deal with the emotional affairs; then he would also have talks with his old friend Du Yuesheng, the boss of the Green Gang; second, he would go to Nanjing to find He Yingqin, who was about to visit the United States, and when He Yingqin went abroad to investigate, he would promptly urge the United States to provide military assistance and help him ascend to the position of commander of the navy.
Finally, Dai Kasa had to rush back to Chongqing before the 18th. Therefore, the itinerary is very tight and you can't delay the time here.
In addition, the airport staff reported: "The weather in Shanghai is bad and may not be able to land, and the weather in Nanjing is still good and can land normally." Therefore, Dai Kasa, who was particularly confident in the US military aircraft, did not pay attention to this weather anomaly, and got on the plane without any worries.
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He thought that if Shanghai could not land, then turn around and fly directly to Nanjing, put aside his personal feelings in advance, and put state affairs first. So he asked the crew to fill the plane with fuel in case it couldn't land at Shanghai Airport and have enough fuel to fly to Nanjing.
And as the crew reported, Shanghai was indeed cloudy, thunderous and lightning. After the plane flew over Shanghai, it could not land due to heavy rain, so the plane had to fly west to Nanjing.
But the weather conditions are changeable, when he set off from Qingdao, Nanjing is still clear, and when the plane flies over Nanjing, Nanjing has already followed the thunderstorm, and the clouds are thick, the visibility in the air is extremely poor, even the American military transport aircraft may not be able to hold up.
In this case, the No. 222 transport plane on which Dai Kasa was taking requested a landing at Nanjing Airport, but Nanjing Airport repeatedly refused to do so without success, and had to allow the plane to land.
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At 1:06 p.m. on March 17, the Nanjing side called back to land, and the No. 222 transport plane said it had received, which was the last time Nanjing Airport contacted the No. 222 transport plane.
However, what people did not expect was that the No. 222 military transport plane, which could have landed in the afternoon, disappeared and was no longer reported.
At this time, the Shanghai office and the military command personnel who were scheduled to pick up the plane in Shanghai were still waiting at the airport, and they did not know that the plane had flown to Nanjing and then disappeared.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, both Nanjing and Shanghai sent telegrams to ask Chongqing whether Dai Kasa had turned to another place, but Mao Renfeng, who remained at the Chongqing Military Command Headquarters, had not received any news of Dai Kasa and had no idea of the plane's disappearance.
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While contacting the airfield through which Dai Kasa passed, the Shanghai side asked the US fighter to look for the route that the No. 222 transport plane flew through, but until the next day, there was no news.
Mao Renfeng did not sleep all night, and after reporting to Chiang Kai-shek the next morning, the whole Kuomintang was alarmed. In particular, the military command headquarters is tantamount to putting a bombshell into it.
For many years, Dai Kasa has covered the sky with one hand in the military command, and many people have been pulled up by him, and the slogan of "the group is the family, and the comrades are like brothers and sisters" has made many people in the military command willing to fight for him.
Now that Dai Kasa is missing and suspected of being in an air crash, those who have always looked at Dai Kasa feel that the sky has fallen. Suddenly, morale within the military command was low.
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At the same moment, around the missing No. 222 transport plane, the US Air Force, the Kuomintang Aviation Commission, and the military commanders all went out in unison to look for the traces of the aircraft, but the No. 222 transport plane was like a human evaporation, and it could not be found.
So, where did Transport 222 go?
The death of the leader of the military command
In fact, the reason why the Kuomintang was looking for Dai Kasa with such fanfare was not simply because it was afraid of his death.
The living are always more terrible than the dead, and this is what Chiang Kai-shek is really afraid of. Over the years, Dai Kasa has single-handedly covered the sky within the military command, and the military command has almost become his own military command. Although Dai Kasa was still listening to himself, he did not want to see the military command being controlled by others.
Chiang Kai-shek
Compared with Dai Kasa's air crash and death, Chiang Kai-shek was more worried about Dai Kasa's defection. In the unlikely event that the plane landed in a Communist-controlled area and Dai Kasa defected to the Communists, Dai Kasa, who possessed a large number of Kuomintang secrets, would become the biggest traitor in the history of the Kuomintang.
Therefore, in fact, after Chiang Kai-shek learned of Dai Kasa's disappearance, he asked Mao Renfeng to send people to the Gongqu to look for him, fearing that the plane would land in the Gongzhan, and that Dai Kasa would defect to the Communist Party after being caught, or that Dai Kasa would simply take the initiative to defect.
It is better to say that it is to find out, rather than to confirm that he is not dead, and to bring him back before he is dead.
Therefore, after Mao Renfeng returned to the headquarters of the Military Command, he immediately announced Chiang Kai-shek's order. Shen Drunk, director of the General Affairs Office with the rank of major general, took the initiative to stand up and expressed his willingness to go to Director Dai.
Drunk
Before leaving, Chiang Kai-shek handed Shen a "Warrant from the Chairman of the Military Commission of the National Government," which read: "No one is allowed to harm Dai Kasa, and all military and political organs and local governments shall be responsible for properly escorting Dai Kasa out of the country if they find him."
Dai Kasa is the director of the Military Command Bureau, so who in the Guotong District would dare to hurt Dai Kasa? Obviously, this was written by Chiang Kai-shek to the Communist Party in the Liberated Areas.
But before Shen drunk and the others set off, the clue to the plane was found.
On the evening of March 19, Liu Qirui, director of the Nanjing office, contacted Chongqing to say that a crashed military plane was found on the outskirts of Nanjing, which was suspected to be Dai Kasa's No. 222 transport plane.
Liu Qirui
Mao Renfeng immediately instructed Nanjing to look for it, and Liu Qirui knew that the stakes were high, so he personally drove to the mountains near Nanjing to find the plane. But the ground near Nanjing, which had just rained, was muddy, the mountain road was even more impassable, and many places had to get off the cart to pass, so when a group of people were full of muddy water, cold and tired to come to Nanjing Jiangning Banqiao Town, almost everyone did not have the strength to find it again.
At this time, Liu Qirui learned from the local office that the plane crashed into the nearby Dai Mountain and exploded on the spot. Staff also pulled out a pistol and a stamp found at the scene of the explosion.
Adjutant Dai Kasa, who was traveling with Liu Qirui, saw the pistol and cried on the spot: "This is the boss's pistol!" ”
And that seal belonged to Gong Xianfang, who was walking with Dai Kasa.
Dai Kasa (Middle)
Seeing these two things, the fate of the missing plane and Dai Kasa has finally been determined. Several people stood up and climbed to Daishan overnight, and finally saw a piece of plane wreckage halfway up Daishan.
Later, the crowd found a shrunken "black carbon stick" in the ravine, and judging from the gold teeth and clothing fragments that remained on the "stick", this was the body of Dai Kasa.
Dai Kasa's hands were stained with countless blood throughout his life, and countless people wanted to assassinate him, according to statistics, he had encountered more than 180 assassinations in his life, but each time he was able to overcome the danger and successfully escape. Because of his perennial haunting and uncertain whereabouts, he was once named one of the most mysterious figures in China's modern history by the American magazine "Colliers".
But what no one expected was that such a person who was known as "the most difficult person to assassinate in the Republic of China" actually died in an air disaster, which is not ironic.
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After hearing the news of Dai Kasa's death, Chiang Kai-shek was not only grieving, but also finally relieved. As long as Dai Kasa does not fall into the hands of the Communist Party, then everything is fine. Dai Kasa's death, although he was missing one "eye", but also guaranteed the clarity of the other "eye", from then on, he no longer had to worry about someone alone in charge of the military and threatened his position.
After Dai's death, Chiang Kai-shek also sent him a plaque to express his recognition of his past work.
At this point, Dai Kasa's death seems to have been settled, after all, even the corpse capital has been found, what else is uncertain? However, some people have raised doubts, saying that just a few gold teeth and clothing fragments cannot prove that the charred black "black carbon rod" is Dai Kasa, who may not be on the plane at all, and the air crash is just "fraudulent death".
Dai Kasa funeral
Why would anyone raise such a question? Dai Kasa is not on the plane, is it not possible to go somewhere else?
Thinking of the contents of Chiang Kai-shek's warrant after Dai Kasa's disappearance, people can't help but think a little bit.
The truth of "cheating death"
In fact, if we look at the relationship between Dai Kasa before his death and before Chiang Kai-shek, Dai Kasa does have the possibility of fraudulent death.
First of all, before his death, Dai Kasa personally said to Shen Drun: "I will not die at the hands of the Communist Party in the future, and I will also die at the hands of the chairman of the committee." "Because the Military Command Bureau is a secret service organ of the Kuomintang and involves too many secrets, it can be said that it is the weakness of the Kuomintang, and Dai Kasa, as the director of the Military Command Bureau, has a large number of secrets, and once it is leaked, it will lead to disaster."
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Chiang Kai-shek must rely on military command to control the Kuomintang and understand enemy intelligence, but he must also guard against military unity, especially Dai Kasa, who is firmly in the hands of the general. Therefore, even if the enemy can spare him, in the end Chiang Kai-shek will certainly not let him go.
Secondly, before the accident of Dai Kasa's plane, he was on a business trip to Beiping, and he once explained to the Kuomintang general Zheng Jiemin the "family foundation" of the military unification, and explained to Zheng Jiemin everything inside and outside the general unification. However, at that time, Zheng Jiemin was not an internal member of the military command, so he said that the internal affairs of the military command could be handled by Dai Kasa, and he did not want to understand.
But Dai Kasa said: "Whether you want to understand it or not, you must grasp the situation of military command." Zheng Jiemin felt that the situation was different, because at this time, Dai Kasa seemed to be explaining the aftermath. Under Zheng Jiemin's questioning, Dai Kasa said that he planned to go abroad to investigate, and then the military commander handed it over to him, so he explained these things to him.
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Having done a good job in the post of director of the Military Command Bureau, why did Dai Kasa go abroad to investigate? At this time, Shanghai's lover had already broken up with him, and it was unlikely that he would elope with money.
On the US side, he already intends to urge He Yingqin to let the United States give assistance to the navy as soon as possible, so as to push himself to the post of commander of the Shanghai Army, which is completely a look of preparation for a big show. Why are you suddenly ready to go abroad? What he calls "going abroad to investigate" is completely unwarranted.
In addition, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Military Command Bureau developed extremely rapidly, and by the time of Dai Kasa's death, military command had become a behemoth within the Kuomintang, which really made Chiang Kai-shek feel threatened. Therefore, before Dai Kasa's accident, Chiang Kai-shek was already planning to reorganize the military unification, in order to separate the huge military unification organization and weaken Dai Kasa's strength.
Zheng Jiemin
From this point of view, Dai Kasa's situation at that time was already very dangerous, and if he wanted to "go abroad to investigate" and explain to Zheng Jiemin the "family foundation" of military unification, was he implying something? If Dai Kasa found any clues, then it was not impossible to perform the "Golden Cicada Shelling" tactic at this time to retreat bravely.
Therefore, some people suspected that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to kill Dai Kasa, and Dai Kasa knew the situation in advance and arranged for a stand-in to replace himself at the airport.
But in fact, this suspicion is simply untenable.
Dai Kasa's position at that time did make Chiang Kai-shek feel threatened, and it also made Chiang Kai-shek move the idea of weakening him, but it was not at all to the point of killing him.
Chiang Kai-shek
During the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng "advised" Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek was nothing more than a house arrest and a dispatch to the country for inspection, and He Yingqin even really had the idea of defecting, but Chiang Kai-shek knew about it and did not do anything to him. Even if Kuomintang general Wei Lihuang really had a "general communist," Chiang Kai-shek did not want to kill him.
Dai Kasa was only a position that made Chiang Kai-shek feel threatened, but in fact Dai Kasa was still very obedient under Chiang Kai-shek's hands. In addition, on the eve of the start of the war between the Kuomintang and the Communists, Chiang Kai-shek first needed the intelligence support of the Military Command Bureau, and secondly, he needed Dai Kasa to contact the United States to provide international military assistance.
Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek's claim that he wanted to assassinate Dai Kasa is not true at all, and then the so-called "golden cicada out of the shell" to deceive him is even more nonsense.
Drunk
According to the memoirs of Shen Drunk's later years, we can probably glimpse what happened to Dai Kasa's transport plane No. 222. Shen Drun said that the pilot of the plane Dai Kasa was temporarily replaced, and a Beiping pilot named Feng Junzhong wanted to take the opportunity of Dai Kasa to go to Shanghai to sell foreign exchange, so he bribed other personnel to change shifts.
However, Feng Junzhong's flight skills are too poor, and he was born in the Guangdong Air Force and his performance in training has been hovering in the passing line, flying ordinary aircraft is OK, and he can only barely fly the advanced transport aircraft produced in the United States.
If it is normal weather, Feng Junzhong should be able to safely send Dai Kasa to Shanghai or Nanjing, but it is a pity that it has encountered wind and rain weather, which undoubtedly increases the driving difficulty.
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When flying to Nanjing, the clouds over Nanjing were deep, and Feng Junzhong dropped too fast when piloting the plane, causing the plane to crash into the ground, and after rubbing against a tree on the ground, Feng Junzhong raised the joystick to try to pull the plane up, but in the extremely low visibility, the plane just looked up and was stuck halfway up the mountainside, which eventually led to the tragedy of the destruction of the aircraft.
Dai Kasa, as the "king of secret agents", experienced more than 180 times without dying and actually died in an air crash, many people could not accept this result, so there were many doubts about the cause of Dai Kasa's death. In addition to suspecting Chiang Kai-shek's assassination, there are also theories of Ma Hansan's assassination, American bombs, and so on, but these suspicions, like Chiang Kai-shek's assassination theory, are completely untenable.
Judging from the scene of the air crash, the gold teeth on the body, the falling personal pistol and the fragments of clothes are enough to prove that the "king of secret agents" did die in the air crash, and the source was just a pilot who wanted to go to Shanghai to sell foreign exchange.
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Regarding Dai Kasa's death, Premier Zhou once commented: "With Dai Kasa's death, the revolution of the Communist Party of China can be successful ten years ahead of schedule." The reason is that although Dai Kasa made contributions to the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and sent people to assassinate Zhang Jingyao, Gao Yuebao and other traitors, his hands were also stained with the blood of communists and he was a sinner who hindered the development of the revolution.
Therefore, Dai Kasa's death was deserved, and dying in the air crash may have been a mercy from heaven to him.