In 1949, after the Kuomintang was defeated and fled to Taiwan, it still left many spies on the mainland in an attempt to retake the mainland.
Among these many spies, there was a person, who was once a major general of the Kuomintang, who wrote a letter threatening Premier Zhou, violently beating Guo Moruo, and injuring a reporter from Xinhua Daily.
And he has clever hiding methods, he has changed many identities, and he has been hiding in the mainland for 8 years without knowing it!
However, he still revealed his identity, but the reason for his exposure was laughable...
The content of this article is based on reliable sources, and it is repeated at the end of the article, and some of the content is apocryphal.
01. Kuomintang spy: Zheng Yunxia
His name is Zheng Yunxia, he was born in a family of eunuchs and has lived a privileged life since he was a child.
When he was young, he was first admitted to the Law Department of Shanghai Law School for further study, and later, he was admitted to the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy with excellent results, receiving formal military training to prepare for serving the motherland.
Zheng Yunxia also participated in the tragic Battle of Taierzhuang and fought to the death against the Japanese invaders.
However, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zheng Yunxia was appreciated by the Kuomintang spy organization because of his excellent ability.
He was not only accepted as a disciple by Chen Lifu, the leader of the Central Union, but also became his confidant. Under the instruction of Chen Lifu, Zheng Yunxia joined the gangster "Ren" Zitang, and soon learned all kinds of tricks of the gang, including various etiquette, code words and black words.
Zheng Yunxia participated in the planning of the "Cangbaitang Incident" and the "Schoolyard Bloody Case" that shocked the whole country, creating a large number of bloody conflicts.
In the "schoolyard entrance bloody case", he personally commanded spies to rush into the meeting hall and punch and kick the democrats attending the meeting, injuring many people.
Guo Moruo was not spared, and was instructed by Zheng Yunxia to "entertain him well".
In August 1947, when large numbers of students demonstrated against the civil war, hunger, and persecution, he led a crowd in ambushes and marches in many places, injuring many students.
Taking advantage of the chaos, his minions also smashed the Xinhua Daily and other progressive newspapers and periodicals, injured many staff members, and looted a large number of documents and files.
In order to intimidate the Communist Party, Zheng Yunxia even did not hesitate to issue death threats to Premier Zhou Enlai.
This letter made Premier Zhou have a deep impression on him, so much so that after the Kuomintang was defeated and fled to Taiwan, Premier Zhou paid special attention to him, saying that no matter whether he lived or died, he must be caught.
02. Missed the Taiwan plane and stayed in the mainland
When the Kuomintang was losing and retreating, Zheng Yunxia originally planned to run away to Taiwan with the party-state members.
As a result, his driver was rebelled by the Communists, causing him to miss his last flight to Chongqing.
When he finally arrived in Chengdu, it had already been occupied by the People's Liberation Army, and the road to Taiwan was completely useless.
As soon as Zheng Yunxia saw that he couldn't go to Taiwan, he planned to flee to Hainan Island or the Golden Triangle.
Because he had stayed in the Golden Triangle during the Anti-Japanese War and was familiar with it, he wanted to cross the Chishui River first, then go through Guizhou to Yunnan, and finally smuggle to the Golden Triangle.
But how could the Communist Party let him run away like this? Premier Zhou Enlai directly ordered that he should see people alive and corpses when he died!
Chongqing police are arresting him in various districts of the city. Zheng Yunxia himself also knew that the Communist Party was determined to arrest him, and he couldn't cross the Chishui River if he wanted to, and he was engaged in a counter-rebellion movement everywhere, so he could only hide first.
Later, he found a mustard factory, and planned to hide there for a while as a small worker.
Who knew that as soon as the volunteers went to North Korea, the mustard factory became a key target for defense, and the PLA directly took over the factory.
Zheng Yunxia realized that he couldn't hide for long, and he had to hurry up and change places. But now he is like a rat crossing the street, everyone shouts and beats, he doesn't have a decent fake identity, and it is difficult to escape smoothly.
So he turned into a small businessman, changed his name to "He Anping", and fled all the way to Chengdu.
03. Incarnate He Anping
In Chengdu, he defected to Wang Yuanhu, a distant relative who had been the commander of the Sichuan Army. As a result, Wang Yuanhu mentioned the "uprising" in his mouth, which scared Zheng Yunxia enough, for fear that he would be sold by Wang Yuanhu.
He hurriedly slipped away and found a small inn in the city to hide.
At this time, Chengdu was arresting spies with great fanfare.
Zheng Yunxia couldn't sleep well, thinking that he should flee to Yunnan quickly and try to get out of the country, otherwise he would be caught sooner or later.
Early the next morning, he hid his two pistols and went to the "Anle Temple," the largest speculative market in Chengdu, intending to exchange the silver yuan for the renminbi used in the liberated areas so that he could escape.
Who knew that he had just exchanged 50 silver yuan, and suddenly there was a pot of porridge in Anle Temple, and it turned out that He Biao from the Military Management Commission led people to search with guns.
Zheng Yunxia's silver yuan was confiscated, but fortunately he didn't bring a pistol today, otherwise he would have been completely exposed.
Then, Zheng Yunxia was escorted into a car and put in a detention center along with a group of opportunistic profiteers.
Zheng Yunxia hurriedly took out the fake ID card of "He Anping" and passed the test in confusion. In the shelter, Zheng Yunxia swept the streets with others during the day, and had to study at night.
He himself thought it was funny, a dignified Kuomintang major general, and now he was reduced to sweeping the streets.
After being locked up for 8 days, Zheng Yunxia was finally released. He knew that he couldn't stay in Chengdu anymore, so he hurried away.
However, when he was detained, the Public Security Department of the Chongqing Military Management Commission held an emergency meeting, and Section Chief Zhang of the Reconnaissance Section said that news had come from Chengdu, and according to the report of the rebels, Zheng Yunxia had indeed hid in Chengdu.
Section Chief Zhang didn't say a word, and immediately rushed to Chengdu.
When he was reading the newspaper, he really saw a piece of news that said that the Municipal Military Management Committee was going to rectify the financial market and arrested a group of silver dollar dealers.
Section Chief Zhang had an idea and pondered: If Zheng Yunxia hides in Chengdu, he will definitely have to change some money to spend, right? When he came out of Chongqing, he only brought gold bars and silver yuan with him, and he couldn't spend them in Chengdu.
Maybe when he goes to change money, he will let the military management committee catch him?
Section Chief Zhang hurriedly ran to the Municipal Military Management Commission, found Director Li Wenjiong and Deputy Director Huang Yiji of the Financial Department, and flipped through the case files. Section Chief Zhang took out a photo of Zheng Yunxia and asked everyone to help identify it.
A soldier in charge of registration in the detention center of the Financial Department quickly recognized the man in the photograph and said that he was one of the people arrested that day, but the name used when he registered was "He Anping".
Section Chief Zhang immediately took someone to the hotel to check the registration book, but no trace of Zheng Yunxia was found.
The clue of "He Anping" was broken like this. The Chongqing and Chengdu Military Management Commissions hurriedly issued wanted notices and searched for people everywhere.
Although the Communist Party found a clue, it was still a step slow and let him run.
04. Change of identity: Liu Zhenggang
Zheng Yunxia in this regard is also very thrilling.
Along the way, there were slogans everywhere that read "Clear the bandits and oppose the hegemon" and "Eliminate the traitors and the special ones", which frightened him so much that he hurriedly threw all the pistols and bullets on his body into the Tuojiang River.
Zheng Yunxia fled everywhere alone, he thought to himself that this would not work, it was too easy to show his stuff, and he had to find an identity as a cover.
happened to pass by Longshui Town, Dazu County, where iron tools are produced, Zheng Yunxia had an idea, bought a basket of iron scissors, kitchen knives or something, followed a few old dealers who sold iron goods, and also pretended to sell iron goods.
They rushed all the way to the market and finally arrived at Xuyong County at the junction of Sichuan and Guizhou. Zheng Yunxia saw that after crossing the Chishui River, it was Bijie County, Guizhou, and then he could go to Yunnan, and he was so happy in his heart.
But when it came to Bijie, Zheng Yunxia was dumbfounded, and there were People's Liberation Army everywhere.
The owner of the inn told him that the remnants of the Kuomintang in the previous counties were making trouble with bandits, and the road to Yunnan was blocked.
Zheng Yunxia had no choice, so he had to flee to Luzhou again and rest in a small inn.
The money on his body was looted by the bandits, but fortunately, two gold rings were hidden in the cotton clothes, and he exchanged some money for some Luzhou specialties and continued to pretend to be small traders.
But this is not the way to do it after all, so he found a big brother Wang to make a fake certificate for him.
One is the official paper of the Mianyang County Government, and the other is the resident's exit card, which even has the signature and seal of the People's Liberation Army Military Management Committee, which is the same as the real thing.
Zheng Yunxia hurriedly filled in "Liu Zhenggang" in the name column.
Later, Zheng Yunxia fled to Fuling County, and as soon as he lived in the inn, the People's Liberation Army came to check the night.
Zheng Yunxia's heart was pounding with fright, and he thought he was coming to arrest him. He trembled and took out his fake documents, and actually got away with it!
05. There are many flaws
At the end of 1950, he fled to the town of Lishui in Wuchuan County, Guizhou Province, under the pseudonym Liu Zhenggang, and sold haberdashery such as needlework grates and matches on the streets.
Slowly, he gets acquainted with the locals, and everyone thinks of him as a poor bum.
During the land reform in 1953, Zheng Yunxia took advantage of the honesty of his neighbors to disguise himself as a pauper, and also found a woman named Shao Chunlan to marry, which made it even more difficult to show his stuffing.
In 1956, Zheng Yunxia was sent by the town to study in the county seat, and after returning, he worked as an accountant in the cooperative canteen, and later went to work in a public-private joint store.
At this time, the people of Lishui found that this Liu Zhenggang was a little unusual.
An old man said that Liu Zhenggang claimed that he didn't know a few words, but taught him to plan the plate, and he could crack addition, subtraction, multiplication and division the next day.
Until one day in 1957, he accidentally slipped out of his mouth and popped out a sentence of "disappeared", how could a person who could not read and write say the idiom so easily?
So he was targeted, and he was immediately reported to the county public security bureau.
A few days later, Zheng Yunxia was called to the county to "study", and when he went there, he saw that there were all problematic people, and he himself was the target of attention.
He was uneasy in his heart, but he didn't expect that after finishing his studies, not only did he not arrest him, but also asked him to go back and continue to work as an accountant.
Zheng Yunxia thought that he would not die, but in fact, the Public Security Bureau had already targeted him.
One day, Unit Chief Zhang of the Public Security Bureau held a cold pistol and pointed it at Zheng Yunxia's chest and shouted: "Zheng Yunxia, you are arrested!"
As soon as he heard the name he hadn't used for 8 years, Zheng Yunxia breathed a sigh of relief as if he had unloaded a burden, and obediently stretched out his hands.
In this way, the last Kuomintang general-level officer lurking on the mainland was also captured.
06. The last Kuomintang general-level officer on the mainland
One day in December 1958, a huge public trial was held in Chongqing, and a group of heinous Kuomintang agents were sentenced to death.
Zheng Yunxia thought that he would be shot, but what he never expected was that the final verdict said 15 years in prison.
Zheng Yunxia couldn't believe his eyes, a dignified head of the Central Union's secret service, with the blood of the people on his hands, still had a chance to live.
When he was released from prison, he was already old, and the once commanding major general of the national army had become a gray-haired old man at this time.
But he did not die depressed like those Kuomintang generals who were defeated and retreated to Taiwan, but as a special invitee, he became a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Wuchuan County, Guizhou, and found a new direction in his life in his later years.
Zheng Yunxia was once a hot-blooded young man full of ambition to serve the country, but he was lost in the corrupt rule of the Kuomintang and became a criminal spy leader.
But the Communist Party's leniency policy allowed him to change his mind and become a new man. He frankly admitted that he had experienced too many vicissitudes in his life and witnessed the great process of New China from its founding to prosperity.
In the last days of his life, Zheng Yunxia's greatest wish was to see the reunification of the motherland.
I was born in 1907 and am now 102 years old, and I can say that the world is full of flowers, hemp, black, and red...... What haven't you experienced? The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was won, but Taiwan has not yet been reunified...... Although I am a 100-year-old person, although my energy is not good, I also have the ambition of 'being an old man and aiming for a thousand miles,' and I am willing to do my best for the reunification of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait in China.
Zheng Yunxia's life is a legend of ups and downs. He was a Kuomintang agent, but eventually returned to the bosom of the people.
He witnessed the rise of New China and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Although he did not have time to see the day when the motherland would finally be reunified, he firmly believed that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, this day would eventually come.
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