Let's make a little joke. The real identity of Wu Station Commander is actually the commander of the column of our Northeast Field Army, who led his troops to participate in the Liberation of Jinzhou Campaign. The stationmaster's wife was also helpless, and once participated in the battle of the bandits in western Hunan under the pseudonym "Tian Xiugu" and showed great bravery.
Ha ha! The joke is over and the point is getting back to business.
In fact. I became interested in the detailed identity of Wu because of a sentence from the stationmaster's wife.
Right! It is this sentence "There is still Yu Le wake up, just your classmate." This seemingly casual small talk between the couple reveals an important message - Wu Jingzhong and Yu Lexing are classmates. As for what period of classmates, and what kind of background Wu Jingzhong can be reflected, let's first look at Yu Le's awakening.
Yu Lexing, the elder of the military command, can be regarded as a "strange man of the Republic of China". Yu Lexing was born in an ordinary peasant family in Liling, Hunan Province, and was eager to learn when he was young. In 1919, Yu Lexing, Li Fuchun and others went to France on a work-study trip, and after arriving in France, they studied mechanics and chemistry and joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in Europe. In 1925, Yu was sent by the CCP to the Soviet Union to study political defense. After returning to China in 1926, Yu Lexing participated in the Northern Expedition as a political instructor of the Ye Ting Independent Regiment, and participated in the August 1st Nanchang Uprising with the troops in 1927. Even in the middle of the uprising, he also saved the life of the future marshal Lin Biao.
After the Nanchang uprising was broken up in Guangdong, Yu Le, who had left the party, woke up in Shanghai and founded the first comprehensive automobile school in Chinese history. Subsequently, Yu Lexing joined the "Special Branch of the Revival Society", the predecessor of the military command. After becoming the backbone of the military command, Yu Lexing also used the knowledge of machinery, chemistry, engineering, secret agents, and political defense learned from France and the Soviet Union to train the secret agents of the military command, and successively presided over the teaching and training of the Hangzhou class, the Qingpu class, and the Linli class.
Following Yu Lexing's experience, it can be roughly speculated that Wu Jingzhong and Yu Lexing's classmates were likely to be in France or the Soviet Union. Based on Wu Jingzhong's status as a veteran agent, his relationship with Yu Lexing's classmates is most likely during his study of secret agents and political defense in the Soviet Union. In short, that is to say, Wu Jingzhong was also a member of the CCP in the early days. It can also be speculated that Wu's defection/rebellion should also have occurred after the defeat of the Great Revolution and joined the Kuomintang and military unification.
Of course, this is not a useless interpretation, but to interpret Wu's seemingly irrational attitude towards Yu Zecheng.
Although Yu Zecheng has been in the military command for many years, he has received dual agent training from the military command and the CCP. But in the end, it is the foundation of the "in-house" origin, which still leads to his inability to achieve "hundreds of secrets", and he has revealed flaws more than once during his incubation in Tianjin. Especially in the "tape incident" calculated by Li Ya, the script and live performance prepared by Yu Zecheng and his wife in advance were too perfect and smooth, but they were too unreal, too abnormal and too unnatural. Moreover, there have been so many things in Tianjin Station in just two or three years, and Yu Zecheng has been involved in it almost every time but he can always pick himself up. With Wu Jingzhong's veteran agent's meticulous mind, keen sense of smell and huge intelligence network, it is strange that there are no traces or even real evidence.
So why did Wu Jingzhong connive at Yu Zecheng and even secretly protect him? This should be related to Wu's identity as a traitor to the CCP. It is precisely because Wu was once a member of the CCP that he can see the Kuomintang and its regime more soberly and more clearly. He was not generally disappointed with the Kuomintang, but with utter disappointment. Therefore, Wu Jingzhong no longer fought for the party-state, but desperately for himself - desperately scavenging for money and accumulating capital for his own food and clothing after retirement.
As Wu Jingzhong's former CCP identity, it is not difficult to suspect and discover Yu Zecheng's identity. But it is also more because of Wu's identity that he wants to keep Yu Zecheng, and to keep Yu Zecheng, the CCP undercover who can give him the "gold medal of death-free gold" at this critical moment. At the same time, it is even more necessary to keep Yu Zecheng as a "cash cow".
All in all, Wu's identity led to his attitude of "riding the wall", but indirectly fulfilled Yu Zecheng.