Narrator: Wu Chisheng Source: Feng Xinhong
Photo of Wu Defeng's daughter Wu Zhisheng (narrator).
Editor: Li Shengli
After the Long March, Wu Defeng went to Yan'an, where he was then director of the International Liaison Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the CPC Central Committee. Subsequently, [Note: During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression after the Xi'an Incident], Wu Defeng assumed the alias Wu Tiezheng and stayed in Xi'an to open up a hidden front.
Photo of Wu Defeng (pseudonym Wu Tiezheng in Xi'an, Zhoujia Yard, No. 12 Information Traffic Station, North Caojia Lane, Xi'an) photo
At that time [Note: Around 1939 during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression], Peng Zongfan, the receiver of the Xi'an Office of the Eighth Route Army, was attacked by the enemy and confessed that the so-called "Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial Underground Party of the Communist Party of China is called Wu Tiezheng".
Photo of the Communist Party's Xi'an hidden front figure under the pseudonym Wu Tiezheng (Wu Defeng).
Wu Defeng was in danger, and he learned that there was a person with the same name and surname named Wu Tiezheng among the officers of Hu Zongnan's troops, so he asked the insiders to induce the enemy to lead the target to this Wu Tiezheng.
At that time, who were the underground insiders of the Xi'an Communist Party, and who were they? or was it a group of people? How did the underground infiltrators operate this process?
Immediately, the Kuomintang will investigate and investigate this Wu Tiezheng, and this Wu Tiezheng will be arrested. At that time, the prime minister was very anxious and asked my father to go back. Because of their long-term investigation, they have mastered most of Hu Zongnan's generals' names, so they found out that an instructor named Wu Tiezheng of Hu Zongnan's seventh branch was found.
My father organized someone to report him, and as a result, he was sent to prison for the top post.
Photo of Wu Tiezheng (real Wu Tiezheng) of the Kuomintang troops
When Shijiazhuang was liberated, this Wu Tiezheng was the deputy chief of staff of the Kuomintang Third Army and was a prisoner of our army.
In October 1947, after the main force of the Kuomintang 3rd Army in Shijiazhuang was completely annihilated by the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region in the Qingfengdian area, Wu Defeng's interrogation of Wu Tiezheng, chief of staff of the Kuomintang Third Army, occurred during the liberation of Shijiazhuang.
Photograph of three high-ranking prisoners of the Kuomintang Third Army at that time
At that time, Wu Defeng specially brought Wu Tiezheng, deputy chief of staff of the Kuomintang Third Army, to interrogate and talk, but Wu Tiezheng was still confused and did not know that he was Wu Defeng's stand-in at that time. This meeting of "fake Wu Tiezheng and real Wu Tiezheng" became a good story for a while.
[Narrator: Wu Chisheng]