During the war-torn years of the Anti-Japanese War, a mysterious Japanese female spy was active in Xi'an. She left behind a strange string of passwords that were puzzling for more than sixty years. The secret of this secret was unraveled by her great-granddaughter half a century later. A mystery that has been explored by countless people has been uncovered by an ordinary girl. How did she do it? What kind of shocking secrets are hidden in this string of passwords? The answer to all these questions will be revealed in this article. Let's wait and see what kind of story is hidden behind it.
Foreword: The war-torn years of the Anti-Japanese War
The flames of resistance against Japan burned all over the land of China, and the smoke of gunpowder filled every corner of China. On July 7, 1937, the Japanese army launched the Lugou Bridge Incident that shocked China and the rest of the world, completely igniting the flames of war between China and Japan. Since then, the Chinese military and civilians have begun a long period of resistance against Japan.
In this blazing fire, the ancient capital of Xi'an was also ruthlessly devastated. As an important military town and strategic location, Xi'an has been subjected to frantic air raids by the Japanese army since November 1937. It was not until the end of 1944 that the Japanese aircraft stopped bombing Xi'an.
In nearly eight years, the Japanese army dispatched 1,106 planes, dropped 3,440 bombs, and bombed Xi'an a total of 145 times. The continuous air raids caused huge casualties and destruction to the citizens of Xi'an, killing and wounding 3,489 people, destroying 6,781 houses, and severely damaging many munitions enterprises.
What is even more terrifying is that the Japanese planes are like having eyes, and each air attack can accurately hit important military facilities and strategic targets. Power plants, textile mills, bomb shelters, and even some highly classified Kuomintang offices were bombed with precision.
In the face of such a precise air raid by the Japanese army, the Kuomintang top brass was very angry. General Cheng Qian, who was the director of the camp in Xi'an at the time, suspected that there must be a traitor in Xi'an, and ordered a thorough investigation.
However, even with the Kuomintang's all-out efforts to track down, it was not able to fully capture all the Japanese spies lurking. During the Anti-Japanese War, Japan had as many as 500,000 spies operating in China. They often use barber shops, hotels, pharmacies and other businesses as a cover to set up spy networks all over China.
These professionally trained Japanese spies were not only equipped with wireless telegraphs and were responsible for transmitting intelligence; When the Japanese carried out air raids, they would even use clear signs to direct the aircraft to the exact bombardment target. According to documents at the time, there were Japanese spies who used red umbrellas as a guiding signal for air raids.
In the face of such cunning Japanese spies, although the Kuomintang tried its best, it was never able to exterminate all these spies. This made Xi'an a hard-hit area of the Japanese espionage conspiracy during the long years of the Anti-Japanese War, and it was ravaged.
The Japanese air raid on Xi'an, the precision strike is incomprehensible
The reasons for the Japanese air raid on Xi'an are not difficult to understand. Xi'an is not only an important military town in the interior, but also a distribution center for grain, grass and military supplies during the war, providing a large amount of logistical supplies for front-line soldiers and soldiers. Therefore, Xi'an was a heavy strategic shackle for the Japanese army and had to be razed.
In November 1937, just two Japanese planes flew over Xi'an to conduct reconnaissance and drop a small number of bombs, which had already attracted the attention of the Chinese military, and sent anti-aircraft guns and fighters to counterattack with all their might. However, this was only a brief lull before the storm.
In March of the following year, the Japanese army began a concentrated bombing of Xi'an. What is shocking is that whether it is the Xi'an power plant, the Dahua yarn factory, the railway station and the airport, and even some highly classified underground bomb shelters, the bombs of the Japanese planes can accurately hit.
The most shocking thing is that even the office of Cheng Qian, the top commander of the Xi'an camp at the time, was also attacked by the Japanese army. On March 7, 1939, dozens of bombs fell directly on the entrance and vent of the underground cave where the camp was located, causing casualties to dozens of generals, including Cheng Qian.
Two months later, on May 24, another secret air-raid shelter at Qiaozikou in the West Gate was attacked again by the Japanese army, causing thousands of casualties.
In the face of such an unmistakable bombing, how did the Japanese army, which was supposed to know nothing about the target, do it? The Kuomintang was furious, and deeply felt that there must be a counter-espionage inside who had betrayed the military intelligence, so it ordered an all-out investigation.
However, despite the KMT's thorough investigation of suspicious persons, the identity of the traitor was never clarified. That's when a strange password signal came to mind.
Whenever a Japanese plane strikes, there is always a mysterious radio station that sends out a strange code, and then quickly disappears without a trace. The military's cryptographers struggled but were unable to decipher the rules.
Under the guidance of this mysterious radio station, the Japanese bombing was more accurate, inflicting heavy damage on major military targets in Xi'an. This is undoubtedly a "spies" hidden in the shadows who are offering advice to the Japanese army.
In November 1939, the Kuomintang finally arrested a suspect, a woman named "Wu Wumei". After testing, the military command department confirmed that this "Ume" was really a mute person, and there was no way to ask for any useful clues.
Zhang Yifu, the angry head of the military command, ordered the "Wumei" to be secretly executed on the spot. A few months later, the night sky in Xi'an was quiet again, and there were no more Japanese planes to harass them. People thought that the death of this mysterious female spy had solved the mystery of the Japanese army's precision bombing.
However, the good times were short-lived. In 1941, that puzzling coded signal reappeared, directing the Japanese army to bomb Xi'an's military and civilian targets. Since then, Xi'an has been shrouded in dark clouds again, ravaged by artillery fire.
Later generations dig out the truth and fall into the abyss of pain
The flames of war have finally died out, and peace has arrived. But that painful period of the Anti-Japanese War left an endless shadow on the citizens of Xi'an. What was the conspiracy of the Japanese air raid on Xi'an? This mystery has haunted future generations.
It wasn't until 1986 that an unexpected discovery finally solved the mystery that had haunted Xi'an for decades.
That year, Feng Lisha (pseudonym), who lived in Jilin City, returned to her hometown to move the grave of her late grandfather. While sorting through the relics, she stumbles upon a dense stack of manuscripts. This was actually written by her grandfather, whom she had never seen before.
Flipping through the manuscript, the shocking content jumps onto the page. It turns out that these are not ordinary words, but a mysterious password. It is the password used by the Japanese female spy "Wu Wumei" before her death!
Feng Lisha looked closely and found that these manuscripts were actually decoded by her grandfather's handwriting. It can be seen that my grandfather tried to decipher this puzzling code.
What is even more surprising is that at the end of the manuscript, there is a text explaining the origin of this password. The mysterious female spy "Wu Wumei" many years ago turned out to be Feng Lisha's grandmother!
For a moment, this astonishing discovery struck Feng Lisha like lightning. She felt a lot of pain, it turned out that her family was a spy of Japanese devils!
In order to find out the truth, Feng Lisha gave up everything and began to explore this string of passwords. She has exhausted almost all of her family property just to solve this mystery that has puzzled countless people.
Looking through a large number of historical materials, she gradually pieced together the life experience of "Wu Wumei" back then. It turned out that she was a native of Tohoku, who was adopted by the Japanese at an early age and trained as a professional agent. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, she was sent back to China as a spy.
With her mastery of the Chinese Chinese and excellent radio communication technology, she soon infiltrated the secret agency of the Kuomintang's Xi'an camp and became a traitor and traitor. It was by relying on her to send a cipher signal that the Japanese army was able to carry out precise strikes against the confidential targets of the national army.
Feng Lisha couldn't accept this fact, her grandmother turned out to be a traitor supported by the Japanese! What makes her even more unrelieved is that as the great-granddaughter of her grandmother, she also has the blood of a traitor in her veins.
After the truth was revealed, Feng Lisha was mentally tortured and almost collapsed. As a result, her mother suffered from severe depression and the family was torn apart. However, until the last moment of her life, she could not escape the haze of all this.
Faced with such a horrific past of her family, Feng Lisha was almost in pain. She can't forgive her grandmother "Wu Wumei" for her treason, and at the same time, she can't let go of her family affection. Again and again, she tried to kill herself to end this dissoluble conflict, but at the last moment, she was lucky and continued to live.
The password was shockingly exposed
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the 21st century. More than 70 years have passed since that painful period of resistance against Japan. However, the strange code left by her grandmother "Wu Wumei" is still a mystery that no one can solve.
It wasn't until 2017 that a big shocking thing was inadvertently uncovered by Feng Lisha's great-granddaughter Shanshan. This secret, which has plagued people for decades, has finally been revealed.
Shanshan is Feng Lisha's granddaughter, and she has heard about this grievance and hatred of the family since she was a child. Growing up, she has always been obsessed with this string of passwords, hoping to find out the truth.
With her expertise in electronic communications, Shanshan quickly deciphered the first meaning of the code. It turned out that this was not some esoteric cipher, but a simple alternative encryption using the ancient Mongolian script.
It's just that there are a lot of terms and metaphors related to the situation at the time, which makes decoding extremely difficult. Fortunately, Shanshan knew many Chinese languages and had some understanding of the historical background of the year, so she finally deciphered all the content.
What is surprising is that this seemingly mysterious code is actually a telegram from "Wu Wumei" secretly reporting the military situation in Xi'an to the Japanese army superiors. It contains detailed records of the Kuomintang garrison in Xi'an, the location of important military installations, and even the whereabouts of some high-ranking generals.
It was precisely by relying on the top-secret information that she personally transmitted that the Japanese army was able to carry out precise bombing of military and civilian targets in Xi'an, causing such heavy casualties.
The last paragraph of the password is even more shocking. "Wu Wumei" actually planned the "Qiaozikou Incident" on May 24, 1939, which shocked China and foreign countries on May 24, 1939, according to the instructions of the Japanese military superiors!
This was a horrific massacre of air raids against civilians in Xi'an. On the same day, Japanese planes bombed indiscriminately in waves, and a bomb weighing 250 kilograms directly hit the underground bunker at Qiaozikou, killing and injuring thousands of innocent citizens on the spot.
After the incident, the Japanese army arrogantly declared to the media that this was a strategic attack on "the military dignitaries and arsenals of the Kuomintang." But in fact, it is simply a refuge for civilians and has nothing to do with military objectives.
Faced with all these appalling details revealed by the code, Shanshan was shocked and angry. She can no longer believe that her physical relative "Wu Wumei" is such a humane traitor and murderer!
Sadly, Shanshan found that there was a reference in the password to "suspicion of each other internally, and they were almost killed". It can be seen from this that there is also suspicion and infighting within the espionage system of the Japanese army's superiors in Tokyo.
This solves the mystery of why this string of passwords was leaked. It is likely that due to a dispute between "Wu Wumei" and other spies, the password was leaked, and it eventually fell into the hands of the Kuomintang.
This is the reason why she was secretly executed in the future. However, at that time, the Kuomintang did not completely decipher the contents, resulting in this string of codes becoming a mystery, and no one could solve it for generations.
The country's repeat offenses will end in the law
The shocking revelation of the password has undoubtedly uncovered a painful national major crime. At the critical juncture of the nation's survival, there was such a traitor, born in China, who served the devil and led to the casualties of countless compatriots.
In the face of such a tragic crime, it stands to reason that "Wu Wumei," who had already been sentenced to death by hanging, could not escape his serious crimes. However, due to the lack of direct evidence from the Kuomintang at that time, she was only secretly executed and escaped justice.
Time flies, more than 70 years have passed in a flash. There has never been a complete explanation of this state crime, which has made countless people ask themselves: Could it be that such a traitor escaped into the Yellow Spring in this way and escaped the judgment he deserved?
Just when everyone thought that the incident would never be resolved, a big turning point appeared. That was in 2017, Shanshan deciphered the content of the code left by "Wu Wumei", which brought the cause and effect of the whole incident to the surface.
With this crucial piece of evidence, as well as some other remaining documents, the procuratorate quickly opened a case for investigation of this state crime that had been brought to law for more than 60 years.
After several months of arduous investigation and evidence collection, the case found out the entire process of "Wu Wumei" joining the Japanese army's Tokyo spy system, receiving training, and infiltrating the country. More importantly, the password file written by her own hand is undoubtedly ironclad evidence of her treason.
The most surprising thing is that according to the Japanese archives of that year, it turned out that the real identity of "Wu Wumei" was not like this, and her Chinese name was just a pseudonym given to her by the Japanese.
Her real name is actually Liu Demei, the only daughter of General Liu Zhi, a famous anti-Japanese general. As soon as this shocking story was revealed, it immediately attracted national attention.
General Liu Zhi is known as the "Tiger General", he is not only a front-line brave general of the national army to resist Japan, but also a hero who completely eliminated the warlords of the Ma family in the northeast. Unexpectedly, his own daughter betrayed the interests of the country and caused thousands of innocent civilian casualties. What a desecration of his Liu family's military flag!
Because of this cruel reality, coupled with ironclad evidence, the court finally made a final decision and sentenced Liu Demei to death for treason and intentional homicide. Although the criminal "Wu Wumei" himself has long since passed away, this verdict is undoubtedly a retrial of this crime by the state, demonstrating the fairness of the law.
After more than 70 years of twists and turns, this mystery that once plagued the whole country has finally been solved. Only in this way can the citizens of Xi'an who died innocently in the flames of war be regarded as Final rest in peace. This verdict not only serves justice for the innocent, but also shows the people of the whole country that any traitor who endangers the interests of the country and the masses of the people will never escape severe punishment!