Since the special agents of the military command failed to hit the assassination in Hanoi, Dai Li was unwilling, and always listed the assassination of Wang as the number one person on the assassination list of the military commander, and devoted great human, financial, and material resources to the assassination activities in order to fulfill his greatest wish, so that he could speak in front of Chiang Kai-shek.
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In May 1939, Dai Li heard that Wang Jingwei and his party had arrived in Shanghai and merged with the Chinese traitor agent organization led by the former special agents of the Central Unified Dynasty, Ding Mo Estate and Li Shiqun, knowing that it would be difficult to succeed for a while by relying only on sniping from the periphery of the Shanghai District, so he decided to find another way and sent Dai Xingbing, a special agent of the military command, to take advantage of the relationship between the "restructuring faction" in the past to break into Wang Jingwei's side and wait for the opportunity. Dai Xingbing arrived in Shanghai via Hong Kong on the orders of Dai Li and pretended to defect to Wang Jingwei. However, because Dai Xingbingyuan's status in the reorganization faction was not high, he could not be reused after throwing Wang, so it was difficult to get close to Wang, and Wang was assassinated twice at this time, and he became a frightened bird early, and he was strictly guarded everywhere.
As a result, the work has not progressed for more than half a year. Dai Xingbing felt that if he continued to mess around like this, it would be difficult to explain to Dai Li and Chiang Kai-shek, so he wrote to suggest Wang Jingwei, saying that he could return to Guangdong to instigate Zhang Fakui, Li Hanhun, Deng Longguang and other former Cantonese generals to surrender to Wang. His original intention was to take advantage of this to withdraw and make a message to Dai Li. But Dai Li refused to let Dai Xingbing pass, he was determined to succeed in stabbing Wang, no matter how big the price was. Therefore, it was decided to send Wu Gengshu, secretary general of the Military Statistics Bureau and a fierce special agent, to personally lead 10 operational spies to secretly return to Shanghai with Dai Xingbing to carry out the assassination plan.
Dai Xingbing returned to Shanghai for the second time, and Wu Gengshu and others also sneaked to Shanghai and began to work. According to Dai Li's new plan explained to Dai Xingbing and Wu Gengshu, if the assassination operation could not be successful for a while, he could first attack other traitors who were second only to Wang. So Dai Xingbing and Wu Gengshu decided to take the pseudo-Shanghai Special City mayor Fu Xiaoan first. But because of the lack of confidentiality, Dai Xingbing was arrested by No. 76. After learning his identity, Ding Mo Estate and Li Shiqun decided to contact Dai Li through him, with the aim of making No. 76 secretly cooperate with the military commander. Dai Xingbing agreed to Ding and Li's request and wrote a letter to Dai Li, and the Military Statistics Bureau also replied and agreed. However, through the use of thick and thin strokes in the reply, Dai Xingbing was also given secret instructions, ordering him to disguise cooperation, seek opportunities to get rid of Ding and Li, and step up the elimination of Wang. After Ding and Li deciphered this letter, they became embarrassed and angry, and when they reported the case to Wang Jingwei, Wang hated Dai Xingbing's "betrayal" extremely much, and with a wave of his pen, he was immediately shot. Dai Xingbing became the first military commander to be executed during Operation Assassination.
Dai Li and American officers
After the second assassination operation was aborted, Dai Li did not relax his deployment because of this, and still sent a telegram to Wu Gengshu, asking him to continue his activities and wait for the opportunity to assassinate Wang. Wu Gengshu is a very qualified special agent in the military system, and because of his arrogance and fierceness, he is very respected by Dai Li. This time he led the expedition to Shanghai, and he vowed not to return to Chongqing without taking Wang Jingwei's first rank.
As soon as Dai Xingbing died, he was active and inquired from many sources, and finally found Chen Chenglun, an old classmate who was a staff member in the puppet restoration government, and then plotted to assassinate Wang. Because Wang Jingwei had a teacher-student friendship with Chen when he was an instructor at the Guangzhou Agricultural Movement Institute, Wu coerced Chen Chenglun to use his teacher-student relationship with Wang to get close to Wang Jingwei, waiting for the opportunity to plant a time bomb or poison Wang in Wang's house or office to kill Wang.
Chen Chenglun is a timid and fearful little civil servant, and he has no guts to seek a plot. However, Wu Gengshu's ruthlessness and fierce prestige made him dare not refuse Wu's request. He thought about it again and again, and for now, he had to let Wang Jingwei deal with Wu Gengshu so that he could get out of it. Therefore, Chen Chenglun secretly reported the incident to Wang, and Wang confessed that No. 76 designed Wu to be arrested and immediately shot. Wu Gengshu became the second military commander to die in the assassination campaign, and the third assassination operation failed.
The news of Wu Gengshu's death was reported to Dai Li by the Shanghai District of the military command, and Dai was extremely sad, and at the same time, it also further aroused Dai's revenge against Wang. To this end, he readjusted his deployment, on the one hand, he sent Chen Gongshu, an expert in military unified operations with both wisdom and courage and head of the Hanoi Thorn Wang Operation Group, to take over as the head of the Shanghai District to strengthen the leadership of the Thorn Wang operation; On the one hand, by combining internal and external methods, the Arctic Refrigerator Company was established in Shanghai as a secret point and liaison station for the assassination operation, and through this station, Zhu Yapeng, the commissioner of the second department of No. 76 and former special agent of the military commander who accompanied Wang Tianmu to Wang Wang, was bought to plot three strategies to assassinate Wang. The entire operation was commanded and coordinated by Chen Sancai, manager of the Arctic Refrigerator Company and special agent of the military command. Considering that Wang Jingwei was in an insurance car at this time, Dai Li also equipped Chen Sancai with 1 armor-piercing gun for sniping Wang's car. This case was originally extremely confidential, and Dai Li also had high hopes, but unexpectedly betrayed by Wu Daoshen, a special agent of the military command, as a result, Chen Sancai was arrested, Zhu Yapeng confessed, all the assassination plan of action, documents, guns and ammunition were all confiscated, and Chen Sancai was also reported to Wang Gu by closing the case on the 76th.
The fourth assassination operation also died halfway.
Chiang Kai-shek
All four assassination operations ended in failure, but Dai Li was still determined to take Wang's head. He summed up the lessons of many failures and decided to change the deployment again, select a strong man or a warrior who could get close to Wang Jingwei, and when Wang was received, he did not need to resort to murder weapons or poison, but only relied on fists and feet to kill Wang on the spot. This not only passes the close inspection of the security personnel at the Wang, but also simplifies the steps, quickly implements the assassination operation, and reduces the risk of revealing the whereabouts during the long-term preparation process. After many searches by the Operations Department of the Military Command Bureau ordered by Dai Li, an ideal operator was found. This man's name is Huang Yiguang, a native of Guangdong, whose wrist strength is extremely strong, and it is said that he once killed one tiger. He engaged in Scout activities in peacetime, organized a hiking group before the Anti-Japanese War, and served as its leader. After arriving in Nanjing, Wang Jingwei, who was the chief executive at the time, met him once and took a group photo.
After Huang Yiguang was ordered, he immediately took the photo to Nanjing to meet Wang Jingwei. At this time, Wang had "returned" Nanjing. Because he has repeatedly cracked the assassination cases of the military unified organization, Wang has long been "refined" and his protection has become more tight. Since Dai Xingbing, a member of the restructuring faction, was shot and killed in connection with the assassination operation, he has been strictly wary of all kinds of old relatives and friends who came to join him, preventing them from being assassins sent by Dai Li. Now Huang Yiguang only asked for a visit based on only one yellowed photo of that year, and of course Wang would not be relieved, so he first secretly sent Agent No. 76 to investigate, and sure enough, he found one 4-inch armor-piercing pistol, 10 dumdum bullets, one camera, one small radio station, and a codebook from the room of the Central Hotel where he was staying. Based on this, Agent 76 immediately arrested Huang Yiguang and found a package of poison from Huang Yiguang. It turned out that although Huang brought guns and ammunition, according to Dai Li's explanation, he did not want to use them. According to the original plan, he only wanted to take advantage of his fellow villagers and old relationship with Wang, and when Wang received him, he only strangled Wang to death with huge arm strength. In case he can't get out, he will swallow medicine on the spot and commit suicide. When Wang Jingwei heard the report, he did not hesitate to order the execution. Huang Yiguang became the third military commander agent to die in Operation Assassination. At this time, Chen Sancai was still in prison, and Wang Jingwei had no time to take care of it for a while. After being detained for a period of time, Chen Sancai's family bribed Wang Jingwei's brother-in-law and asked him to speak to Wang and acquit Chen Sancai. I don't know if I don't mention it, but it reminded Wang Jingwei, and he immediately found the report sent on No. 76 from a large number of documents. At this time, Wang Jingwei had already ironed his heart, and he had already killed people with red eyes, and anyone who stabbed Wang would never forgive his softness. Therefore, he immediately approved the four words "summary execution" on the report, and Chen San became the fourth victim of the assassination operation.
In the one year from May 1939 to 1940, Dai Li organized four consecutive operations to assassinate Wang Jingwei, not only investing a lot of energy and material resources, but also losing four generals, but still did not achieve an inch. This made Dai Li have to admit that Wang Jingwei was indeed a difficult old fox to deal with. Although Dai Li hated Wang to the bone, he would want to eat it quickly, but he was helpless. Finally, when the plan was exhausted, it was decided to put the assassination operation aside for the time being. This is the most tragic defeat Dai Li has suffered since he came out of the mountain, and it is more unforgettable than Zhang Chao being killed by Chen Yi, a figure in the political science department. Chiang Kai-shek was deeply disappointed and dissatisfied with the repeated failure of Dai Li's assassination operations, and rebuked the efficiency of the military unification's actions.
Gao Zongwu and Tao Xisheng were both people who thought they had made great achievements in helping Wang Jingwei plan the "peace movement"; in the process of Wang Jingwei's "organizing the government" to share the loot, Gao Yi was determined to be the foreign minister, and Tao Zinian was always unsatisfactory to be the minister of education of a cold Yamen. However, after the list of "organizing prefectures" was finalized, Wang only gave Gao one position as vice minister of foreign affairs and one propaganda minister to Tao. For this reason, the two people were indignant, thinking that they had given Wang Yun a plan, charged into battle, and exerted such great strength, but they could not find a decent minister, and they couldn't help but feel depressed, feeling that being a traitor could not be a famous hall, so they had to use other brains!
At this time, Du Yuesheng accepted Dai Li's request in Hong Kong to find objects in the Wang pseudo clique, waiting for the opportunity to carry out the task of instigating and surrendering to Jiang, and also secretly used his brains on Gao and Tao. The liaison between Du Yuesheng and Gao and Tao were Xu Zhiying and Huang Shuchu. Xu and Du were both executive directors of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce at that time, and the two had a good relationship. After the fall of Shanghai, Du and Xu went to Hong Kong successively, and Huang and Xu were firstly progressive party figures of Liang Qichao, second, fellow villagers in Wenzhou, and third, business partners, so they had a good personal relationship. And Huang Shuchu, Gao Zongwu and Tao Xisheng are all small fellow villagers, and have a friendship with Gaozongwu as a teacher and student. Du Yuesheng was entrusted by Dai Li to discuss with Xu Zhiyi. Xu Sui led Huang to see Du, and the results of the secret discussion between the three people believed that Huang Shuchu could be used to come to Shanghai to plot against Gao Zongwu and Tao Xisheng to surrender to Jiang. Du Dang sent a telegram to Dai Li through Wang Xinheng, the governor of the Hong Kong District of the Military Command, and Dai Li offered conditions or prices so that Huang could go to Shanghai to carry out activities. Because of this, Dai was not allowed to get out of Chongqing for a while, so he asked Du to go to Chongqing for consultation. After Du arrived in Chongqing, he discussed with Dai Li and decided that it was best for Huang to go to Shanghai first to listen to Gao and Tao's words, and if they were willing to turn back, they could first open a bid code, and then Dai Li would report to Chiang Kai-shek for approval. Du Yi also thought that what he said was reasonable, so he stayed in Chongqing for 3 days and hurriedly returned to Hong Kong, and then took out an activity fee from his own pocket and sent Huang Shuchu on a luxury passenger ship to Shanghai.
Huang Shuchu was active in Shanghai for half a month, and he persuaded Gao and Tao Xiao to turn back with national righteousness. Gao and Tao had long been remorseful, worried that they already had a big traitor's hat on their heads and would be punished when they returned to Chongqing. The meaning is that if Jiang and Dai express their attitudes, they must first take off the traitor hat.
Du Yuesheng had no authority to decide on this matter, and telegraphed Dai Li, and after Dai asked Jiang, Jiang instructed Dai to invite Du to Chongqing to discuss everything. So Du Yuesheng flew to Chongqing for the second time and was directly introduced to Chiang Kai-shek by Dai Li. After listening to Du's detailed report, Jiang instructed that as long as Gao and Tao broke away from the Wang puppet clique, they could not be blamed in the past, and if they wanted officials to do it, they would be given a considerable amount of work, and if they were willing to go abroad for investigation, they would be given capital to go abroad, and everything was up to them. If they could bring out the Riwang secret contract, and there was another heavy reward, Chiang also asked Kong Xiangxi, the minister of finance, to give Du Yuesheng 100,000 Hong Kong dollars as an activity fee for instigating Gao and Tao and subsidizing Gao and Tao's living expenses.
Huang Shuchu went to Shanghai for the second time to convey Jiang's instructions, and said that everything was guaranteed by Du Yuesheng, and at the same time gave 40,000 yuan to each of the 100,000 Hong Kong dollars given by Jiang. In early January 1940, when Wang Jingwei went to Qingdao to participate in talks with the puppet Nanjing "Restoration Government" and the puppet "Provisional Government" in North China to merge the puppet regimes between the North and the South, Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu arrived in Hong Kong by boat with the "Guidelines for the Adjustment of Japan-China New Relations" secretly signed by Wang Jingwei and the Japanese Mei organs, where they were welcomed by Du Yuesheng and others. Du Yuesheng immediately instructed Wang Xinheng to report to Dai Li by telegram, and the Hong Kong district sent someone to send the secret contract to Chongqing. With the consent of Chiang Kai-shek on Dai Li's report, the secret contract was published in Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao. Tao first lived in Hong Kong for a while, went to Chongqing after the Japanese army captured Hong Kong, was left by Chiang to work, and soon won Chiang's favor again for drafting "The Fate of China" for Chiang. After Chen Buri committed suicide, he became Jiang's personal entourage and ran everywhere.
In the end, Gao did not dare to return to Chongqing, so Jiang gave him 50,000 US dollars and fled to the United States with his beloved wife. Du Yuesheng was awarded a bonus of 200,000 yuan by Jiang for his merits in instigating Tao and Gao's departure, and a bonus of HK$5,000 from Dai Li to Wang Xinheng and other contractors in Hong Kong.
The demolition of Tao and Gao overshadowed Wang Jingwei's "return capital", and Wang was extremely distressed by this, and cursed Tao and Gao for being despicable and shameless. And Dai Li also relieved the hatred in his heart, and Jiang also lessened his rebuke of him.