On the evening of July 9, 1942, the hands of the pocket watch were already pointing to 12 o'clock, but Sun Lin, the director of the Tongling Underground Transportation Station, was tossing and turning, thinking about a strange thing that had just happened.
On the evening of the 6th, Sun Lin arranged for two cadres to go to Dayao Village, Zhongcang Township, near the stronghold of Liqiaoshui Town, Tongling, and stayed at the homes of two people.
However, for the sake of secrecy, Sun Lin did not go in person, and after explaining, they broke up in Liqiao Town.
In the middle of the night, 300 Japanese puppet soldiers in the stronghold suddenly came to Dayao Village under the cover of night, and surrounded the village.
Then they asked the interpreter to find the puppet village chief and said straight to the point: "You have two Communist cadres hiding in your village, immediately assist the imperial army and find them." ”
The puppet village chief was just a "white-skinned and red-hearted", and he patted his chest and said to the Japanese army: "Our village is a good citizen, and we will not harbor the New Fourth Army and Communist Party members." ”
The Japanese squad leader waved his hand, and the Japanese puppet army rushed to the villagers' houses like bandits.
Suddenly, the sound of gunfire from the Japanese army, the barking of dogs from the people's homes, the barking of Japanese military dogs, the sound of devils slamming on the door, and the cries of women and children were intertwined, piercing the quiet night sky.
The villagers of Dayao Village were awakened by the sound of gunfire and barking dogs, rubbing their sleepy eyes, and were pushed out of their homes by the wolf-like Japanese puppet army, and gathered in an open space in front of an ancestral hall.
Until they saw the fierce Japanese soldiers holding dazzling torches, they looked confused and did not know what was going on.
Around the clearing, more than a dozen machine guns were erected; the Japanese army's bright bayonets shone in the moonlight; and the Japanese squad leader Nakamura stood in the middle of the open space with a murderous face, holding a command knife and staring at the eyes of a cow's egg.
When the unarmed people saw this scene, they all trembled and feared.
The devil didn't speak, the villagers didn't dare to make a sound, and the scene was surprisingly quiet.
After a while, the interpreter Li Dasheng coughed twice and began to speak: "Folks, disturbing everyone in the middle of the night is really a last resort, who doesn't want to sleep with his wife in the bed." ”
He paused, looked around, and then said, "There are two Communist Party cadres who have infiltrated the village, as long as you hand them over, I will guarantee that everyone will be safe." ”
"If not, it will only be a river of blood!" said the interpreter with a sneer.
After speaking, the Japanese soldiers held bright bayonets and forced the villagers to stand in four rows, and walked in front of the squad leader Nakamura and the interpreter one by one.
There was also a person standing behind the translator, and everyone couldn't see his face clearly.
Two cadres of our Party were among the masses at the moment, hoping that they would escape under the cover of night.
However, as they walked in front of Nakamura with their heads bowed, the interpreter suddenly pointed at them and shouted, "Stop!"
Before the words fell, the Japanese puppet army pounced on them together, and the two cadres were arrested on the spot, and they were publicly killed by the enemy two days later.
When the news came, Sun Lin, a traffic officer of our party, was extremely sad and at the same time, he also felt that this matter was extremely strange.
The two comrades did not even know about the overnight stay in Dayao Village, and the villagers where they stayed had always been loyal to the revolutionary cause and had been tested for a long time.
If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, and there must be a traitor within us.
Sun Lin vowed that he would find out the traitors and give an explanation to the sacrificed comrades.
Besides, if the traitor is not dug up, there will be more sacrifices.
Before dawn the next morning, Sun Lin dressed himself as a dung porter, carried a load of stinky dung buckets, and stepped on the morning dew.
Walking to a shop in Liqiao Town with a sign of "Zhangjia Cloth Shop", he knocked on the door and asked, "Does your family need to pick up manure?"
"yes. The owner promised to open the door.
Sun Lin walked in in a flash, looking very sharp.
That's right, this cloth shop is extraordinary, it is the underground liaison station of our party, and the owner of the shop, Zhang Yuxin, is a party member who has been doing underground work for 7 years.
"Stationmaster Sun, why are you here?"
"The situation is urgent, we have a traitor within ......"
After Zhang Yuxin listened attentively, his expression became gradually grim, and he replied solemnly: "Please rest assured, stationmaster, I promise to complete the task." ”
Zhang Yuxin said this, he is confident, his cloth shop business is very good, he is making money every day, and the money he earns is used to make friends, mainly to make friends with the puppet army, so that they can provide information for themselves.
Within the Japanese puppet army, he also installed an undercover agent, Communist Party member Hua Mingkai.
The undercover agent who was finally inserted cannot be contacted directly, it is too dangerous.
Zhang Yuxin and Hua Mingkai usually don't meet at all, and the contact information is to put a note under the 8th blue brick on the 8th floor of the right wall of the alley next to Hua Mingkai's residence.
Check every 3 days to see if there is a note that has been passed on.
The words on the note are in code, and even if the enemy finds out, they can't grasp any tricks.
At the appointed time, Hua Mingkai took the letter under the green bricks, returned home, opened the note and saw that his heart was tight, which read: "There is a hole in the back wall, a thief has penetrated, two silver dollars have been lost, and the loophole is quickly repaired." ”
The content of the letter is a code word, the "wall" is the organization, the "hole" is the mole, the "two silver dollars" is the two comrades, and the "missing word" is to find out the mole.
Hua Mingkai immediately understood when he saw it, and he secretly vowed that he must find out the traitor as soon as possible.
However, he understood that he could not do it on his own, because he had not been in the enemy's territory for a long time, and he had limited information, and in order to know the details, he had to use his brother Dudson.
Du Desheng was the captain of the puppet army, who was originally a law-abiding and good citizen, but later hated the Kuomintang because his wife was occupied by the brother-in-law of the deputy county magistrate of the Kuomintang.
After the Japanese army occupied Anhui, he became a traitor.
Because he became a traitor, his classmates and friends didn't associate with him, and he felt very distressed.
Only his old classmate Hua Mingkai did not dislike him, expressed his understanding of his behavior, and hinted that he had to leave a way back for himself in doing things, so that he could gain the understanding of relatives and friends in the future.
Du Desheng was very grateful, and he became a brother with Hua Mingkai, and arranged him to his puppet army team. Hua Mingkai thought to himself, squad leader Du Desheng must know who the traitor is.
But when he asked around the corner, the other party shook his head again and again and said: "The Japanese army is very cunning, how can I let a squad leader know about such a confidential matter?"
However, Du Desheng promised that he could find a way to inquire.
However, a few days passed, and Dudson still found nothing.
Come to think of it, you can't inquire about such things openly, otherwise you will get involved.
Seeing that time passed day by day, and the traitor's information was still not grasped, Hua Mingkai fell into distress. Just when he was at a loss, he made a surprising discovery.
When the team leader was visiting the kiln, Sister Kiln suddenly snubbed her.
"Hongyu, what's wrong with you, you met a local tyrant?"
"Yes, a client of a prostitute who used to be strapped for money suddenly became generous, and people wanted to redeem me, and I would never have to look at other people's faces again. ”
The team leader asked curiously, "Where did he get so much money?"
Sister Yao said mysteriously: "The man said that he provided information to the imperial army and received a large bounty......"
Hua Mingkai was overjoyed when he heard this, and put the note under the brick, and when Sun Lin came to the cloth shop again, the shopkeeper handed him a note.
Sun Lin carefully put it into the mezzanine of his sole.
When he arrived at the residence, Sun Lin couldn't wait to open the note, but he was surprised when he didn't look at it.
The name of the traitor is very familiar, his name is Gao Deen, not only Comrade Sun Lin, but also the godson of his grandmother, and the two are like brothers.
This Gao Deen participated in the revolution earlier than Sun Lin, he is educated, can write, paint, speak, is Sun Lin's idol, and is also the guide of his revolution.
In general, Gao Deen had the ability to work and his revolutionary stance was very firm, so he was entrusted with the important task of serving as the head of our party in Liqiao Township, and his public identity was the head of Liqiao Township of Wang's puppet regime.
After reading the letter, Sun Lin was deeply shocked, he didn't believe it was true, and thought he was dazzled.
Rubbing my eyes and looking at it again, I was sure.
But he still couldn't believe it, how could Brother Gao be a traitor and ruthlessly betray his comrades? Could this be the enemy's divisive scheme?
For the sake of prudence, Sun Lin decided to break the convention and meet Hua Mingkai in person.
Hua Mingkai said: "I have already implemented it. “
It turned out that after the two comrades Zhao and Li said goodbye to you, they met their superior, Gao Deen, on the way, and the three of them went to a restaurant called "Jun Again" to eat, and then the two left for Dayao Village.
Coincidentally, the owner of the hotel is Hua Mingkai's brother-in-law, he knows Gao Deen, and he doesn't know Zhao and Li, but he said a characteristic, one of them holds an umbrella, one is yellow, and the other is red.
In those days, the red umbrella was very eye-catching.
During the meal, the two inadvertently told Gao Deen their destination.
"You guys, you don't pay attention to secrecy, if I betray you, won't it be over?" Gao Deen criticized with a feigned anger.
"The old leader is really joking, you won't do that anyway. The two disagreed.
Based on Hua Mingkai's letter alone, Sun Lin can't be completely sure that Gao Deen is a traitor, after all, the stakes are very high, wronging a person is a human life, and no one who kills the wrong person can bear this responsibility.
Now, Sun Lin no longer doubted it, and the matter came to light.
However, at this moment, Sun Lin still has an unsolved mystery in his heart, Gao Deen has rebelled, why didn't he not sell himself?
In any case, Sun Lin still invited Gao Deen to the grove outside the town that night, and the two began to have the following conversation:
"On the evening of the 3rd, you and Zhao and Li had dinner at the hotel again?"
"Not bad. ”
"You betrayed them?"
"I fell in love with the prostitute Hongyu and wanted to redeem him, but I was shy in my pocket. ”
When Sun Lin heard this, he took out the pistol on his waist at lightning speed.
"Xiaolin, for the sake of our brothers, spare my life, I treat you like my own brother, otherwise ......"
Sun Lin knew that what he wanted to say was "Otherwise, I will betray you."
Saying this, Sun Lin hesitated for a moment, and the hand holding the gun trembled a little.
Gao Deen keenly grasped this, he knelt down with a plop, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and begged for mercy repeatedly: "You spare me to die today, I will fly away with Hongyu, and no longer be a lackey for the Japanese." “
"Okay, let's go. Sun Lin gritted his teeth and said.
When Gao Deen heard this, he was like a life-saving straw, turned around, and ran away.
He had just run a few steps away when a throwing knife stabbed him in the heart.
Sun Lin didn't go back on his word, he decided to hoe and rape, but he couldn't bear to face each other.
Originally, he planned to shoot, but now he uses a knife, first, not to alarm others, and secondly, to leave him a whole corpse, which can be regarded as a break for brotherhood.
The execution of the national scum is applauded, but it leaves a lot to think about.
There are also many kinds of traitors, and it is somewhat incredible that Gao Deen betrayed our party comrades, but did not betray Sun Lin.
Sun Lin's revolutionary stance was firm, and it is also incomprehensible that there was a brief hesitation in the execution of his sworn brothers.
This shows that human nature is complex, not facial, and even heinous traitors have flesh and blood and heavy feelings.
In any case, Sun Lin was jealous and hateful, loyal to the revolution, did not waver at the critical moment, and finally killed his relatives with righteousness, which is worthy of our admiration.
Resources:
History of Tongling of the Communist Party of China
"The Story of the New Fourth Army" - People's Publishing House
Tongling County Chronicles