After the founding of New China, Du Yuming did not catch evidence of Guo Rujue, which also became his lifelong heartache. In 1981, before Du Yuming died, he had to call Guo Rujie to his hospital bed and ask: Are you a Communist Party or not? This question surprised Guo Rujie, he really didn't know how to answer, and finally just smiled and answered: Guangting, we still disagree.
Du Yuming said that Guo Rujie was an internal ghost
In fact, history has given Du Yuming a reply, and one of these two has been reformed and released in Gongdelin, and one is already the president of the Nanjing Military Academy, and the truth is self-evident. Although the information provided by Guo Rugui during the civil war played a great role in the final victory of our army and can be called an outstanding contribution to the founding of the country, due to some reasons in terms of national security, Guo Rugui did not immediately restore his status as a party member after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
It was not until 1979 that he was approved to regain his party membership. Prior to this, his identity had always been kept secret from everyone, and according to Guo Rugui's recollections in his later years, his several "mutual reports" with Du Yuming were the most thrilling moments in his Kuomintang hidden career. So, why did Du Yuming have to bite Guo Rujie to death and not let go?
According to him, the reason why he found out that Guo Rujie was suspected of being undercover was not to find any ironclad evidence, but an intuition. According to him, he once went to Guo Rujie's house as a guest, and this high-ranking general, who was deeply respected, was so frugal that he patched it on the sofa!
Guo Rujue's three no-acts of "not being greedy, not corrupt, and not marrying an aunt and wife" have instead become an alternative behavior within the Kuomintang. During this period, Lao Jiang also wanted to learn from Chairman Mao and publicize the clean and honest atmosphere of the generals, and before he could set an example by Guo Rujieshu, he was retorted by Du Yuming with a book "Guo Rujie is poor and not like the Kuomintang", and the angry old Jiang directly scolded Du Yuming: You are ridiculous!
Right one Guo Rujie
But Du Yuming just said it with one mouth, and could not come up with actual evidence, even Chiang Kai-shek was difficult to persuade, so how can he talk about letting Chiang Kai-shek use this as an excuse to rectify Guo Rujue? At that time, Guo Rujie had already held a lot of power in the ranks of the Kuomintang and won over many people. The cost of sinking was too great, and Chiang Kai-shek, who was besieged on all sides during the Huaihai Campaign, if he went to investigate Guo Rujie for no reason, it would also make the entire Kuomintang top brass panic.
Du Yuming's suspicion made the old Jiang greatly annoyed, and during the Huaihai Campaign, Du Yuming suffered setbacks, and he suspected that there were spies at the top of the Kuomintang, and after layers of investigation, it was found that Guo Rujie, director of the Ministry of National Defense, was extremely suspicious. But Lao Jiang never wanted to believe that his henchmen would betray him. It was precisely because of this difference that in the Huaihai Campaign in 1948, our army annihilated 550,000 Kuomintang reactionaries at the cost of 100,000 people.
Lao Jiang: Do you see me like a spy?
Years later, Du Yuming recalled in his article "The Beginning and End of the Huaihai Campaign": Chiang Kai-shek and Gu Zhutong were completely at the mercy of Guo Rujie, which caused this bad situation. During the Battle of Xu Beng, after Du Yuming arrived on the battlefield with his army, he formulated three battle plans of "upper, middle, and lower" based on the terrain, and also sent this plan to Chiang Kai-shek by telegram, hoping that he would agree to his plan.
The plan, which was expected to be questioned, was accepted without any obstacles, and at this time, Du Yuming did not know that his battle plan would be disrupted, which would directly lead to his capture. There is no other reason, but Chiang Kai-shek listened to Guo Rugui's suggestion and mixed the three countermeasures of "upper, middle, and lower", which has no logic.
And Guo Rujie is precisely a great agent of our party, who broke into the heart organ of the Kuomintang and provided our army with countless important military intelligence. In fact, Guo Rujie started out as a graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy and was a serious academic school. It is the "Huangpu origin" that the old Jiang has been proud of. But in fact, Guo Rujie accepted some Marxist ideas in the process of studying before entering the army, so he has a certain liking for socialism.
However, in the second year of his admission to the Whampoa Military Academy, Chiang Kai-shek launched the 412 counter-revolutionary coup, plunging the land of China into white terror. It was this situation that made Guo Rujie more determined to revolutionize. On December 12, 1936, the Xi'an Incident broke out, and Chiang Kai-shek was forced to cooperate with our army to resist Japan in unison, and Guo Rujie believed that the opportunity had come.
Guo Rujie rides a bicycle to work
He was recommended to Chen Cheng's 14th Division as chief of staff. Years of hard study finally came into play, and Guo Rujie began to shine on the battlefield, just because of Guo Rugui's excellent record and orthodox background, it became the reason why the old Jiang never believed that Guo Rujie was a spy. However, Lao Jiang stepped on the pit here more than once.
Du Yuming was suspicious of the high-level
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Premier Zhou once commented on Guo Rujue: "Although he did not personally visit the battlefield, he made great contributions to the war against Japan and the war of liberation, and he is a hero of the people." General Li Kenong, one of the founding generals of the "Three Masters of Longtan," also said: "Guo Rujie's role alone is comparable to that of a legion."
In 1948, Du Yuming's 300,000-strong army was completely annihilated in Chen Guanzhuang in the Huaihai Campaign, and it can be said that if Chiang Kai-shek had not temporarily changed his order and had to turn around to save Huang Wei's corps, Du Yuming was likely to withdraw from Xuzhou smoothly, and this battle would not have been lost. It was with such regret that Du Yuming had to find out who exactly made Chiang Kai-shek give this order. Afterwards, he also heard about this person as he wished, he was Guo Rujie, who had been suspected by Du Yuming of being the Communist Party before.
As a result, Lao Jiang again pushed the tide to make great revisions to the plan, increased the number of troops, and finally succeeded in sending all of his hundreds of thousands of troops into Su Yu's encirclement, so that our army won a complete victory in one battle. By this time, Chiang Kai-shek had retreated to the island of Taiwan, and he pinned all his confidence in Guo Rugui's army as the capital of the Kuomintang's victory.
On December 11, 1949, in order to stop Chiang Kai-shek's plan, Guo Rujie ventured to the southwest and used the trust of Chiang Kai-shek and others to form an army. When the People's Liberation Army was about to enter Sichuan, Guo Rugui, in his capacity as commander of the Kuomintang 22nd Corps, led his troops to revolt in Yibin, Sichuan, directly shattering Chiang Kai-shek's dream of counterattacking the mainland.
Guo Rugui made special contributions to the victory and liberation of our army, and his espionage experience within the Kuomintang also amazed the world, and Guo Rujie was even known as the largest red spy in history. After the publication of Guo Rujue's "Memoirs of Guo Rujue" written in his later years, it caused an uproar in Taiwan.