"How could it be you?"
In 1946, in a café in Nanjing, a young man sitting in the corner couldn't help but stand up when he saw the person walking towards him.
In the eyes of outsiders, this is a meeting between friends after a long absence, but this young man has not been able to come back to his senses for a long time, and after a short period of surprise and surprise, he is happy, but he did not expect that the person who came to contact him turned out to be his father who was a Kuomintang lieutenant general.
But the surrounding environment did not allow them to talk too much, and the father motioned to his son to talk about any problems when he got home. Ten minutes later, the two left separately, unbeknownst to no one that they had just completed the transmission of information.
After the task was completed, the young man had time to reminisce about the meeting just now, he smiled and shook his head, the old man hid it really deeply, admire!
The young man's name was Wu Qunan, who was engaged in securities work in Shanghai and was an underground party member, and his father's name was Wu Zhongxi, who was the chief supervision officer of the Kuomintang Supervision Bureau at the time.
Wu Qunkang is Wu Zhongxi's eldest son, in 1941, when he was in high school in Shaoguan, Guangdong, he met Liu Wudan, secretary of the school's underground party branch, and joined the Communist Party of China under her introduction, but later because he was sick and went to other places for treatment, and when he returned to Shaoguan again, he found that the underground party organization had been destroyed.
Many of his classmates died, and Liu Wudan was sent by the organization to carry out the revolution in other places. Before leaving, she asked Wu Qun to keep in mind two points, not to take the initiative to go to the party, not to reveal his identity to others, to remain silent, and to wait patiently for the organization to contact.
In this way, Wu Qun dared to become a kite with a broken string, he didn't know where Liu Wudan had gone and whether he was still alive, but he always kept in mind Liu Wudan's advice.
After graduating from university, Wu Qun dared to stay and work at the Shanghai Securities Exchange, mixing in a group of elites all day long in suits and leather shoes.
His father, Wu Zhongxi, was afraid that he would get lost in the world of flowers in Shanghai, so he specially reminded him to be cautious.
Wu Qunkang never forgot his identity as a member of the Communist Party, and every time he returned home and saw his father wearing a Kuomintang military uniform, he raised his vigilance to prevent his family from revealing his flaws in front of him and his family discovering his secrets.
He also never gave up looking for an organization.
On this day, he really found an opportunity.
He found out that his father's friend Wang Shaohua was a member of the Shanghai Democratic League, and guessed that this Uncle Wang should know the Communist Party members in Shanghai, and perhaps find the party organization through him.
So, Wu Qundang came to visit, and the two talked about literature, economy, and the current situation, and Wu Qundang finally decided that the king was not simple. So, he cautiously talked about his current confusion and wanted to do what he could for the country, but he was like a lost lonely goose, not knowing the direction.
Only then did Wang Shaohua know the intention of this nephew, he didn't let Wu Qun dare to continue, but asked him to write and hand over how he joined the party and how he lost contact, including his experience in the past few years, and he helped hand it over to his superiors.
Wu Qun dared to leave the Wang family happily, he finally found the organization, his whole person became relaxed, and the people around him could feel the joy of this second generation of officials.
A few days later, he received a reply from Wang Shaohua, and the sound of Comrade Wu Qundang brought tears to his eyes.
It didn't take long for Wu Qun to receive the task and go to a certain place in Nanjing to connect with the senior agents of our party who were lurking within the Kuomintang, and bring back top-secret information back to Shanghai.
This was the first official task that Wu Qun dared to accept, he was nervous and cautious, and when he arrived in Nanjing, he did not even return home, and went straight to the junction site, a café.
Wu Qun came early, and the intelligence officer of the joint had not yet arrived, so he ordered a cup of coffee, chose a corner position, and sat down facing the door.
Suddenly, a man in a yellow military coat came in at the door, how could his figure be so familiar? Wu Qun couldn't believe his eyes, and he stood up suddenly. I wanted to call someone, but when I saw that someone came to him, he shook his head, and when the words came to his mouth, it became "How could it be you?"
The person who came took off his sunglasses and sat down, isn't this his lieutenant general's father, who was a supervisor in the Kuomintang Supervision Bureau? This old man is really hidden, Wu Qun dares to slander him.
However, he also knew organizational discipline, and he restrained his curiosity and confronted his father as a stranger. The father handed him a pot of tea and asked him to take it back to Shanghai, and then left, only to look at his son with approval as he left.
Wu Qun dared to feel that this experience was really very special, but he didn't expect that the senior agent mentioned by the organization turned out to be his father, which was really good, because he was worried that he would show his stuff in front of this high-ranking Kuomintang official. Thinking that he would fight side by side with his father in the future, Wu Qun dared to be full of energy.
From then on, Wu Qunan became an intelligence peripheral agent of his father Wu Zhongxi, and a lot of important information was brought from Nanjing to Shanghai through his hands, and then transmitted to the Party Central Committee.
Since the secret identities of the father and son were revealed, Wu Qun dared to go home more frequently.
Although on the surface, his father Wu Zhongxi is not used to him. But when the father and son were alone, Wu Zhongxi looked at him with some please, his son actually joined the Communist Party of China a few years ago, and hid it from him for 5 years, and grew up!
And every time Wu Zhongxi went out, Wu Qun was scared, and he couldn't say anything, he could only watch his father leave and pray for his safety.
In fact, for a "trump card agent" of Wu Zhongxi's level, our party must have arranged a lot of people to cover him, but Wu Qun dared not know.
Wu Zhongxi had very old seniority in the Kuomintang, graduated from the Baoding Army Military Academy, participated in the Northern Expedition, and Zhang Zizhong, Wu Shi, and Bai Chongxi were all his classmates.
After the September 18 Incident, Wu Zhongxi, who had already resigned and returned to his hometown, took the initiative to ask to go to the front line to kill the enemy.
In 1937, 42-year-old Wu Zhongxi was introduced by Wang Shaowei and became a glorious member of the Communist Party of China with the special approval of the Party Central Committee.
Due to his special status, only a very small number of people know about his joining the party. He had direct contact with Pan Hannian. In this way, Wu Zhongxi became an important nail in the heart of the enemy in my hidden front.
Whether he was a major general in the 8th Group Army or a commander of the Shaoguan garrison, Wu Zhongxi took advantage of his position to help underground party members out of danger many times.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Wu Zhongxi thought that his hidden mission was over, and asked his superiors for instructions to go to Yan'an to study, and then go to the front line.
After careful consideration, the organization held that Wu Zhongxi would be able to better work for our party if he stayed within the Kuomintang, that the hidden front was also a battlefield, but that the smoke of gunpowder could not be seen, and that the danger was even worse than that of the front line, and that Wu Zhongxi's position was the highest among the special intelligence personnel of our party who had penetrated into the Kuomintang.
Wu Zhongxi accepted the organization's arrangement to take up his post at the Kuomintang Supervision Bureau in Nanjing.
The Chief Inspector sounds good, but in fact, he is an idle job, he needs to travel everywhere, and it is easy to offend people. Ordinary people are reluctant to do it, but this is exactly what Wu Zhongxi wants. He could take the opportunity of the inspection to see first-hand the military deployment, personnel transfers, and the latest movements of the Kuomintang.
In June 1948, Wu Zhongxi was sent to Xuzhou to suppress the president.
His friend Wu Shi knew his purpose for going to Xuzhou, so before Wu Zhongxi left, Wu Shi wrote a personal letter to his student Li Shuzheng in Xuzhou, asking him to take care of Wu Zhongxi. At that time, it happened that the two commanders, Liu Zhi and Du Yuming, went to the front line to inspect, and Li Shuzheng, the chief of staff, was in charge of all matters.
Li Shuzheng respectfully accompanied the general sent by the Ministry of National Defense to visit the confidential room.
Wu Zhongxi seemed to be just going through the motions, but he had already written down the deployment of those key positions. When he returned to the room, he immediately wrote it down from memory, and he waited until the third day to propose to Li Shuzheng that he would go to the confidential room to have a look.
This time, Li Shuzheng only sent one of his staff officers to accompany him.
Wu Zhongxi memorized those strategic deployments slowly, generously, and seriously.
But how can this information be sent?
Wu Zhongxi was careful, and as soon as the meeting started, he went to the toilet frequently, and the people attending the meeting asked him with concern what was wrong.
Wu Zhongxi sighed and said: "Alas, I am old and unaccustomed to water and soil, so I guess I have to go back to Nanjing for treatment." ”
Li Shuzheng was afraid that something would happen to him, so he hurriedly sent a car to send him to Nanjing.
A few days later, a detailed "Xuzhou Suppression of Bandits Secret Telegram" appeared in front of Chairman Mao, which should be the earliest and most comprehensive strategic deployment.
On the eve of the battle of crossing the Yangtze River, Wu Zhongxi obtained a copy of Tang Enbo's defense map from his subordinates, and the situation was urgent, and he did not care that his identity was exposed, so he immediately went to Shanghai in the name of visiting his son, but at that time, some personnel of the Shanghai organs had already withdrawn to Hong Kong, and Wu Zhongxi flew to Shanghai non-stop and personally handed over the information to the person in charge.
In 1955, the secret identities of Wu Zhongxi and Wu Qundang's father and son were made public, and a good story of father and son soldiers was staged.
Both father and son are red agents of our party, especially when my father is still a lieutenant general of the Kuomintang, so I don't dare to write like this in my book, but this happened.
With the passage of time, many dusty historical archives have been declassified, and people know that the information provided by Wu Zhongxi played an unexpected important role at the critical moment of the war, directly affecting the overall situation of the Huaihai Campaign and the victory of the Battle of Crossing the River.
In June 1983, Wu Zhongxi died of illness in Guangzhou at the age of 88!
Salute to the agent father and son Wu Zhongxi and Wu Qunkang's predecessors, in the enemy camp, you endured the unbearable pain and high pressure of ordinary people, risked your lives, passed on a piece of heavyweight information, and finally ushered in the victory of the revolution.
For decades, like the Wu family father and son, for the sake of New China, there are many unsung heroes in the dark, and some even died on the eve of dawn, but we will never forget their silent exploits.
Salute to the heroes of the hidden front!
Resources:
Documentary "Silent Merit: The Red Inspector Wu Zhongxi in the Ministry of National Defense"
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Author: Noah
Editor: Chi Hong
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