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Preface:
People who have watched the TV series "Lurking" are all impressed by Yu Zecheng's ability in the play.
In the play, Yu Zecheng, as a secret member of the CCP, actually holds an important position within the dangerous Kuomintang military system, and at the same time can obtain first-hand information and report it to the organization.
It's amazing how easy it is to move without leaving a trace.
In reality, what our party's underground workers have experienced is far more complicated and tortuous than what the TV series plays.
The person I want to talk about today is Guo Rugui, an important agent of our party lurking within the Kuomintang.
His road to joining the party was a bumpy and tortuous one, and he served as the director of the Ministry of Defense Operations during the Kuomintang's incubation period, risking many hardships and dangers to obtain a lot of important intelligence for the PLA, which can be said to be indispensable.
What are the wonderful past experiences in Guo Rugui's tortuous life?
1. After joining the party, he lost contact with the organization and accidentally became the backbone of the Kuomintang
In 1907, Guo Rugui was born in a scholarly family in Sichuan.
When he was 12 years old, his father moved him to Chengdu, where he attended primary and middle school.
In May of that year, the May Fourth Patriotic Movement, which shocked China and abroad, broke out in Beijing, ushering in a grand and far-reaching new trend of thought in old China.
Through this ideological emancipation movement, Guo Rugui, under the influence of his teacher Hu Zilin, began to have initial contact with Marxist thought.
In 1925, Guo Rugui graduated from high school and entered the most prestigious military cradle at that time, the Whampoa Military Academy.
At that time, he had a friend by his side, Yuan Jingming, who was a secret Communist Party member.
After graduating early, Guo Rugui returned to Sichuan. At that time, his cousin Guo Rudong was serving as the deputy commander of the Sichuan-Hubei border defense department.
Here, Guo Rugui gave speeches everywhere, angrily denouncing Chiang Kai-shek's despicable actions and political ambitions, and advocating new ideas about ways to save the country.
In 1928, Guo Rugui again approached Yuan Jingming, a contemporary friend of the Whampoa Military Academy, to tell him about his vision of joining the party.
Subsequently, under the introduction of Yuan Jingming, he officially joined the Communist Party of China and became a member of the Communist Party.
After joining the party, Guo Rugui contributed to the construction of party organizations in Sichuan and made certain contributions.
Around 1929, the Sichuan region fell into warlord chaos, and the party organization was seriously damaged, and Guo Rugui completely lost contact with the party organization, which made him extremely frustrated for a time.
For safety, Guo Rugui, who had completely lost contact with the party organization, listened to his cousin's advice and went to study at the Japanese non-commissioned officer school alone.
During his time at the Japanese Non-Commissioned Officer School, he learned a lot of modern military knowledge.
But who expected that Japan launched the 918 Incident in 1931, and this naked act of aggression made all the students studying abroad, including Guo Rugui, indignant!
At the end of the year, Guo Rugui returned to China angrily.
After returning to China, he also tried several times to contact the local party organization, but unfortunately to no avail. Seeing this, he was eager to resist Japan and save the country, and went to the Chinese Army University for further study.
On December 12, 1936, with the sudden outbreak of the Xi'an Incident, the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was realized.
For this reason, Guo Rugui felt extremely excited, seeing that the opportunity to resist Japan and save the country came, he did not want to wait for a moment.
After the strong recommendation of the school, Guo Rugui came to the 14th Division of the Kuomintang Chen Cheng Department and served as the chief of staff.
With his outstanding achievements in the anti-Japanese battlefield and Chen Cheng's trust, Guo Rugui can be described as rising and rising step by step in the Kuomintang.
For a time, he served as director of the Kuomintang National Defense Department's Department of Operations, director of the Military Affairs Administration, and vice president of the National Defense Research Institute, and was in charge of the establishment and equipment of the Kuomintang army.
2. Secretly Join the Party Again Serve as a hidden agent of the CPC
As his position in the KMT continued to consolidate and rise, Guo Rugui also gained more opportunities to contact senior KMT officials.
Since 1944, he has been invited to wine banquets several times. At the grand banquets, Guo Rugui saw the extravagance and decay of Kuomintang officials.
Only officers above the regimental level use silver tableware when holding birthday banquets, and the drinks and dishes are of the highest standard.
Not to mention drinking parties for high-ranking officials, ivory chopsticks, golden dishes and fine wines abound.
Officials wearing suits and ties, playing heartily under the lights and wine, hide a greedy and evil heart under their elegant exterior.
And while officials are enjoying this life of drunken gold fans, there are still countless ordinary people in China who cannot wear cotton clothes and eat!
Thinking of this, Guo Rugui was angry in her heart.
He saw the political atmosphere of the Kuomintang full of greed and was suddenly disappointed.
In contrast, looking at the integrity of the Communist Party and its upright attitude towards the people, the answer to the question of "who is the hope of saving China" has long been clear in his mind.
It was during this period that Guo Rugui began to have the idea of returning to the Communist Party.
One day in 1945, Guo Rugui went to the Military Affairs Department to perform official duties, and on the way he met a classmate of his time at the Whampoa Military Academy.
This person's name is Ren Yiyou, and Guo Rugui knew that he was a member of the Communist Party when he was in the military academy, and this reunion made Guo Rugui feel that he had his own providence.
He hurried over to say hello to Ren Yiyou, and the old friend reunited, and both of them were very excited.
He then took Mr. Ren to a slightly more remote place and expressed to him his desire to rejoin the Communist Party.
But Ren was on guard, flatly denying his identity, and emphasizing:
"What does it matter to me, do you still think that I haven't squatted enough in prison."
His answer disappointed Guo Rugui, but just as the two were about to say goodbye, Ren Yiyou said another meaningful sentence:
"My cousin Ren Lianru, you know him, right? It seems to be over here now. If you can find him, please help me with a sentence. ”
After that, Ren Yiyou left without looking back.
As soon as these words came out, Guo Rugui immediately understood the meaning: Ren Lianru is the intermediary of the party organization!
He immediately found Ren Lianru and told him about the crimes of the Kuomintang, expressing his determination to return to the Communist Party!
Ren Lianru was moved by his words and reported his situation to Dong Biwu.
Dong Biwu was naturally delighted when he learned that Guo Rugui, an important member of the Kuomintang, wanted to surrender.
To this end, Dong Biwu met with Guo Rugui many times and observed his actions in private to determine his sincerity.
During Guo Rugui's organizational inspection, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly tore up the "Double Tenth Agreement," and the Liberation War officially broke out.
Finally, after careful investigation, Guo Rugui secretly joined the Communist Party.
This time, Dong Biwu gave him the task: to continue to maintain his position within the Kuomintang, serve as a CCP agent lurking inside the Kuomintang, and provide valuable war reports for our party and our army.
At this point, Guo Rugui's career as a CCP agent has officially begun!
III. Difficult and Dangerous Work in Special Agents Important information has been provided on many occasions
During the Liberation War, Guo Rugui obtained important intelligence for the PLA many times by virtue of his important post as director of the Operations Department of the Ministry of National Defense.
Among them, the three most thrilling and significant contributions are the Battle of Menglianggu, the Battle of Huaihai and the Battle of Crossing the River.
Before the Battle of Menglianggu, Guo Rugui encountered danger in the process of transmitting intelligence.
In May 1947, he suddenly received a phone call from Chiang Kai-shek's office, which said that Chiang Kai-shek had personally invited several people to attend a dinner at his official residence at 8:30 that night.
Guo Rugui was keenly aware that Chiang Kai-shek's sudden invitation must have made some major military arrangements.
That evening, Guo Rugui arrived outside Chiang Kai-shek's official residence on time, along with Chen Cheng, Liu Fei, Hou Teng, and other important members and generals of the Kuomintang.
At the table, Chiang Kai-shek spoke straight to the point about the urgency of the war in Shandong and asked everyone to discuss countermeasures.
After some time, Chiang Kai-shek and others determined the specific operational arrangements for the Menglianggu campaign.
After the banquet, Guo Rugui returned home and locked the door, and then with his excellent memory, he copied the entire battle plan.
When everything was in order, he contacted the party organization and asked to send someone to get the information. But it didn't take long for Guo Rugui to receive news from the Kuomintang:
"Caught an underground party agent!"
Guo Rugui knew that this arrested person must have been sent by the party organization to obtain intelligence, and if he recruited, his identity would inevitably be exposed!
But not long after, news came from the Kuomintang:
"The arrested underground party swore not to open its mouth, did not obtain favorable information, and has been dealt with."
After hearing the news, Guo Rugui was extremely sad in his heart, he did not want to see such sacrifices, but he had to accept the fact that "the revolution must have sacrifices".
While grieving, he risked being discovered and took advantage of the darkness to hand over the information to another comrade sent by the party organization.
In the end, with Guo Rugui's important intelligence, our army made military arrangements in advance, faced the battle head-on, and achieved a complete victory.
Before the Battle of Huaihai, Guo Rugui provided an important piece of information, but almost exposed his identity!
In October 1948, He Yingqin convened a meeting of the Ministry of National Defense and proposed to concentrate troops in Xuzhou, Bengbu and other places to fight a decisive battle with the PLA.
At the meeting, Guo Rugui was asked to take notes, draw up a standardized combat plan, and send it to Chiang Kai-shek for approval.
After obtaining the specific battle plan, Guo Rugui thought that the scale was too large and the situation was very serious, so he decided to urgently report the intelligence to the PLA first.
This enabled our Party to know the Kuomintang's military plans in the Xuzhou area before Chiang Kai-shek.
Subsequently, in the first battle in Xuzhou, the PLA won a complete victory; In the following skirmishes, our army was also a prophet of uncertain movements of the Kuomintang troops, and won successive victories.
This situation attracted the attention of Du Yuming, the "general commander-in-chief" of Xuzhou, who found that as long as it was Guo Rugui's combat plan, the PLA would fall like a divine soldier in his actual battle.
It was for this reason that Du Yuming began to suspect that Guo Rugui was a "spy" for the CCP and launched a series of investigations against him.
And Du Yuming's doubt, Guo Rugui also gradually felt, but he did nothing, calm and calm, did not show any abnormality.
In the end, Du Yuming did not find out a reason, and Guo Rugui could be regarded as a disaster.
After learning of the plan for the battle of crossing the river, Guo Rugui received the task of "providing military intelligence".
When "a million heroes crossed the river" and the direction of attack went straight to Beijing, the Kuomintang side sent a signal of "peace talks," hoping to "rule the river" by means of peace talks.
But in fact, this is all a conspiracy created by Chiang Kai-shek.
On the surface, the Kuomintang side sincerely discussed peace, but in essence it had already laid out a series of plans for river defense and cross-river counteroffensives, and waited for the "cooling-off period" for the two sides to negotiate, and launched a large-scale counteroffensive.
Such a despicable means could not escape Guo Rugui's ears. He immediately decided to provide the PLA Department with the conspiracy of the Kuomintang side and the military strategy related to the Jiangsu defense measures.
After secret communication, our party sent Wang Baozhen, a member of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, to come to the intelligence.
But unexpectedly, just when Wang Baozhen got the information and wanted to quickly hand it over to our party, his whereabouts were discovered by Kuomintang agents.
Kuomintang agents immediately went to arrest him, and in a hurry, Wang Baozhen handed over the core information to another underground party member who was traveling with him, and then resolutely chose to dedicate himself, and was unfortunately arrested.
In prison, Wang Baozhen was righteous and Ling Ran, and he was not afraid of torture at all, nor did he expose Guo Rugui for half a point.
The important information provided by Guo Rugui was successfully sent to the PLA Department after going through all kinds of dangers, providing a solid intelligence guarantee for the overall victory of the battle of crossing the river.
Since the Liberation War, Guo Rugui has always insisted on the export of important intelligence.
It can be said that he made great contributions to the final victory of the People's Liberation Army in the Liberation War.
In the last period of the Kuomintang's survival, Guo Rugui, after doing the ideological work of all the officers and men of the Kuomintang 72nd Army, revolted in Yibin on December 11, 1949!
At this point, Guo Rugui's four-year-long underground party career came to an end, and he also ushered in his own final victory in the true sense.
4. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he lived in seclusion and wrote many works in his later years
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to her previous work relationship, Guo Rugui still maintained the false identity of "non-party member cadre".
His many past experiences in the Kuomintang have also made him questioned. But he has always been silent, immersed in hard work, and silently contributed to the construction of new China.
In 1980, Guo Rugui wrote a letter to the Organization Department of the Central Committee, fully describing his entire history during the war period and expressing his desire to formally join the party.
Not long after, the Central Organization Department sent a notice through the party committee of the Chongqing Garrison: "Comrade Guo Rugui is hereby allowed to join the party." ”
For Guo Rugui, this is the third time in his life that he has joined the party.
This last long-cherished wish was fulfilled, so that the heart that he had always been hanging in the air could finally fall.
In his later years, his life was extremely simple and simple.
He refused to organize his allotted accommodation, refused all benefits and subsidies, and lived in an old brick house and lived in peace.
During this period, Ye Jianying specifically approached him, hoping that he could serve as the editor-in-chief and complete a history book about China's military.
Guo Rugui was very interested in this, so she readily agreed.
Since then, he has devoted all his energies to the compilation of this "Military History of China".
Although she didn't have much money in hand, Guo Rugui still sought relevant experts and workers, and traveled almost all over the country in a few years.
Later, Guo Rugui's health deteriorated, but he was unwilling to stop the work on the "Military History of China", so it was collected nationwide.
Many domestic scholars and military experts submitted papers after learning about his situation and refused to charge fees.
Finally, after ten years of compilation, the "Military History of China" was finally completed.
After this, Guo Rugui did not want to be idle, and decided to write a documentary book about the Anti-Japanese War.
But as we said earlier, Guo Rugui lives a simple life and does not have much money in his hands. To receive and publish a book on your own is simply a fantasy.
In desperation, Guo Rugui dragged his sick body and went to Beijing to find Zhang Zhen, then vice chairman of the Central Military Commission.
After the meeting, Guo Rugui put forward straight to the point: ask for funds.
Subsequently, perhaps worried that Zhang Zhen did not understand the specific situation, Guo Rugui talked endlessly about the importance of the "documentary history book of the Anti-Japanese War" and the many problems encountered now.
Just as Guo Rugui was halfway through speaking, Zhang Zhen interrupted him and said to him with a smile: "Don't say it, I support you!" ”
Subsequently, Guo Rugui was granted 20,000 yuan on the spot.
Guo Rugui is grateful for this. He immediately threw himself into new compilation work, and eventually a "Record of Frontal Battlefield Operations in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China" was published.
At the same time, the "Memoirs of Guo Rugui" independently written and created by him was also officially completed.
In this period of his later years, Guo Rugui made outstanding contributions to Chinese military science and history.
End:
On October 23, 1997, Guo Rugui unfortunately suffered a serious car accident and died at the age of 90.
At his memorial service, the Central Military Commission highly affirmed him and praised his life through hardships and twists and turns.
He also absolutely affirmed Guo Rugui's great contributions to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the cause of people's liberation as a general and an underground worker.