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Beginning in December 1946, the Kuomintang launched a series of attacks on the base areas of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army. After the arduous battles of three guarantees and four battles in the south of the Yangtze River, the situation gradually tilted in favor of our army.
In the battle of Sanbao Linjiang, our army concentrated three main columns to besiege the isolated city of Dehui, and the strength of our army's offensive in this operation reached 4 divisions, using 80 artillery pieces, 3 tanks, and the weapons and equipment were even superior to those of the national army.
The 50th Division of the New First Army stationed in Dehui has 3 infantry regiments, as well as artillery, communication troops, cavalry and other directly subordinate teams, a total of more than 5,000 people, plus two local security regiments.
However, because our army did not have the experience of infantry coordination at that time, it finally suffered a loss in the battle of Dehui.
On March 1, 1947, Du Yuming mobilized a total of 12 regiments of the New First Army and the 71st Army to reinforce the troops, and Sun Liren took three regiments from Changchun for a detour, which made our army passive.
There was no way, by March 2, our army was already in passivity and had to prepare to withdraw from the battle. However, just when our army was about to withdraw from the battle, the Kuomintang army gave us a "big gift".
The Kuomintang 13th Army, which had been ordered to reinforce, actually let the 89th Division and the 162nd Regiment of the 54th Division march a total of 7,500 troops towards Xinbin and Sanyuanpu, and fell into the pocket formation set up by our army in the Lanshan area.
As a result, these 7,500 people were completely annihilated by our army, and the originally lost battle was turned into a draw, and some money was made.
At that time, many commanders and fighters in Dongye wondered, how could this Kuomintang army get on the pole and drill into our pockets? But Higashino's top brass knew that this time it was our army's intelligence officers who were secretly helping a lot.
And this one who helped the Kuomintang army to get into the pocket formation of our army was the sleeper of our party codenamed 902.
From Kuomintang officers to sleepers in our party
Zhao Wei is a cadet of the 16th phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. In the autumn of 1940, Zhao Wei graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy and was assigned to the 13th Army as a midship.
Soon, it broke away from the 13th Army and came to the 30th Army of the Northwest Army System. At that time, one of Zhao Wei's classmates, Zhu Jianguo, was in the appeasement group of the Fifth Theater Staff Office.
After coming to the 30th Army, Zhao Wei had many contacts with Zhu Jianguo, and obtained many progressive books from the other party, such as Ai Siqi's "Popular Philosophy" and Mao Zedong's "On Coalition Government".
At that time, Zhu Jianguo was already an underground member of our party, so under the deliberate influence of Zhu Jianguo, Zhao Wei gradually changed his views on the Communist Party.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhao Wei was transferred from the Kuomintang Fifth War Zone Japanese Overseas Chinese Prisoner of War Management Office to the Kuomintang Northeast Security Command as a major staff officer. When he went to the northeast to take up his post, Zhao Wei made a detour to Tianjin to meet Zhu Jianguo again.
During this meeting, Zhu Jianguo did a lot of work for Zhao Wei, and finally made Zhao Wei, who was already ideologically inclined to our party, make up his mind to work with the Communist Party of China to create a new China.
After confirming Zhao Wei's idea, Zhu Jianguo immediately arranged for Zhao Wei to meet with our party's intelligence officers in Beiping at that time.
What Zhao Wei didn't expect was that the intelligence officer of our party who came to see Zhao Wei in person was Li Kenong's right-hand man "Shi Jian (Wang Shijian)"
The two met in the living room of the south room of the courtyard. His appearance is nothing special, he looks like an ordinary person, he dresses like a businessman, and you can't tell that he is an underground member of the CCP at all.
During this meeting, Shi Jian and Zhao Wei chatted a lot, which not only made Zhao Wei understand our party's political propositions more clearly, but also taught Zhao Wei some simple intelligence common sense.
In this way, in a simple conversation, Zhao Wei became an intelligence officer of our party.
After that, Zhao Wei met with Shi Jian twice, and the last time they met, Shi Jian told Zhao Wei that although Zhao Wei had not yet joined the party, he had won the trust of our party's top brass, and Li Kenong personally approved Zhao Wei to lurk in the Kuomintang army under the code name "902".
After becoming an intelligence agent of our party lurking within the Kuomintang, Zhao Wei did not get too many tasks at first.
On the one hand, our party's intelligence department is out of consideration for Zhao Wei's safety, and on the other hand, it is also to test Zhao Wei.
In this way, Zhao Wei spent a long time in the Kuomintang army without panic, and became the chief staff officer of the secret room of the Northeast Security Command of the Kuomintang.
A false order inflicted heavy losses on the Kuomintang army
One day in early March 1947, Zhao Wei's liaison Yuan Ze appeared. At that time, it was during the battle of "Four Guarantees Linjiang", and when Zhao Wei saw Yuan Ze, he knew that the time had come to need him.
On the first day of meeting Yuan Ze, Zhao Wei revealed to Yuan Ze the detailed battle plan for the fourth attack of the Kuomintang army on Liaodong. After that, Zhao Wei quietly handed over the Kuomintang army's troop allocation table to the other party at a specific time every month.
It was precisely because of Zhao Wei's intelligence that our army was very well prepared during the fourth "Linjiang" operation.
On March 27, 1947, the Kuomintang army mobilized 20 regiments and launched an attack on the Linjiang area in three ways. As a result, the South Manchurian Democratic Alliance Army pinned down its two flanks with part of its forces, and concentrated its main force to annihilate the weaker 89th Division, which had advanced to the middle of the road.
Regarding the annihilation of the 89th Division, it was written in our army's battle report that it was caused by the opponent's rash advance, but in fact, the reason why the 89th Division entered our army's ambush circle was all due to Zhao Wei.
At that time, in the battle of Sibao Linjiang, our army and the Kuomintang army fought very anxiously. So Du Yuming urgently telegraphed the 13th Army to the north for reinforcements and entered the Nong'an Dehui area of Jilin.
In the process of the 13th Army's northward movement, Zhao Wei got on the train as a staff officer of the military headquarters and figured out the specific time when the main force of the 13th Army arrived at the reinforcement site.
At that time, our troops were setting up an ambush, but they did not know that the enemy had sent reinforcements. If the 13th Army cooperated with the large army to pursue our army, then the little soldiers and horses left by our army to set up an ambush would definitely not be able to eat Du Yuming's troops.
After learning of this situation, Zhao Wei did not have time to report the situation to his liaison, and immediately drafted an order after returning to the military headquarters: "Urgent telegram, Commander Shi: After your military vehicle is transported to Qingyuan, you will quickly march to Xinbin Sanyuanpu, quickly enter the position, carry out a strong attack, and occupy the commanding heights of Lanshan, there must be no mistake!" ”
At that time, Shi Jue, the commander of the 13th Army, immediately asked the 89th Division and the 54th Division to rush to Xinbin and Sanyuanpu after receiving the order.
In this way, the 89th and 54th Divisions, which were originally used as reinforcements, were disconnected from Du Yuming's large army, forming a forward part, and the lone army went deep into the encirclement of our army.
As a result, after the 89th Division and the 162nd Regiment of the 54th Division were annihilated and the 13th Army suffered heavy losses, the remaining Kuomintang troops could not figure out the situation and did not dare to reinforce the 13th Army at all, and the remaining troops could only flee in a hurry.
The 13th Army suffered heavy losses, and Du Yuming's battle plan was self-defeating. After the war, Chiang Kai-shek was furious and scolded Du Yuming fiercely.
Du Yuming, who was puzzled, immediately investigated the matter of giving the order after returning to the army. But after checking and checking, he couldn't find Zhao Wei's flaws.
It turned out that after Zhao Wei issued the order, it was not directly sent to the 13th Army, but was issued as a confidential document to the theater operations section, staff office and other departments for countersigning.
The chief of the operations section, the chief of staff, the chief of staff, and others did not pay attention to the problem with this document, so they all signed it in the end. After the signing was completed, Zhao Wei sent the order to Shi Jue, the commander of the 13th Army.
In this way, Du Yuming couldn't find someone to ask for the crime, so he had to do it.
Emergency evacuation
After that, Zhao Wei continued to lurk in the heart of the enemy to obtain intelligence for our army. Shortly after the end of the Linjiang Battle, in mid-May 1947, the Northeast Democratic Alliance launched a summer offensive and concentrated its forces on besieging Siping.
During this period, whenever Zhao Wei had a major military deployment of the Kuomintang army, he would always send the information to the comrades of the underground radio station specially set up for Zhao Wei by our army in Shenyang as soon as possible.
In the more than 50 days after our army launched the summer offensive, the Kuomintang army lost more than 83,000 men and 42 cities and towns, and our army's base area expanded by 160,000 square kilometers, connecting the eastern, western, southern, and northern Manchurian liberated areas.
In view of Zhao Wei's major contributions in these battles, after the end of the summer offensive, our party's intelligence department also called Zhao Wei to commend him.
In this way, Zhao Wei has been fighting in the heart of the enemy, but the enemy did not know Zhao Wei's identity until the end until September 1947, when the Beiping intelligence agency was cracked by the Kuomintang and Zhao Wei was exposed. Considering Zhao Wei's safety, our party's intelligence department immediately issued an order to Zhao Wei to evacuate.
So in mid-October 1947, Zhao Wei sneaked out of the barracks unprepared and went to the military area of our army. After a few days of cautious travel, Zhao Wei arrived at the outskirts of the liberated area on the morning of October 16.
When a soldier at the border patrol post of the Southern Liaoning Military Region saw Zhao Wei, he felt that the other party was very strange, not at all like a fleeing citizen, so he cautiously held a gun and came behind Zhao Wei.
"Hands up!" The sentry of the People's Liberation Army scolded, so frightened that Zhao Wei hurriedly raised his hand, and after seeing that it was a PLA soldier, Zhao Wei took a breath of air and let the other party arrest him.
Zhao Wei, who had been on the road for several days, didn't explain anything, since he had arrived in the liberated area, he would take a rest first. The next day, when the People's Liberation Army (PLA) that captured Zhao Wei was about to send him to a labor camp, Zhao Wei spoke.
Zhao Wei referred to the PLA soldiers who were holding him as "902".
When Zhao Wei said this, the PLA soldiers who were guarding him were stunned for a moment, feeling that the other party did not seem to be lying, so they reported the situation.
Two weeks later, the troops received orders to release Zhao Wei immediately, and were received by Chen Yun as soon as he was released.
After the liberation, Zhao Wei served in the CCP's intelligence agency and retired from the Ministry of State Security. After his retirement, he traveled to nearly 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government to give voluntary lectures, contributing to the work of caring for the next generation.
Resources:
People's Daily Online-National Humanities and History: "CCP Senior Undercover Zhao Wei: A Fake Order Changed the Northeast War Situation" dictation, courtesy of Zhao Wei Interview, written by: Kangdi 2013-06-09
"Top Secret Code Name "902" Author: Liao Chunmei Source: Party History