A heavy tragedy hangs over Zhou Hao's life. He was originally a hot-blooded young man with the ideal of saving the country and the people, but he was accidentally involved in the whirlpool of power of military command. In that turbulent and chaotic era, Zhou Ho seemed to have made some incomprehensible choices, and was even accused of being a "traitor". However, many years after his death, his wife Wu Xueya finally avenged him with a diary, revealing all the secrets behind his tortuous life. What did Joo Ho go through? What was the reason for his seemingly "betrayal" choices?
1. The road of resistance of the ideal youth
Zhou Hao was born in a poor peasant family in Luotian County, Hubei Province, and his ancestors have been farming for generations. Despite his poor family, his parents were passionate about educating their children. They cut back on food, and even sold the few acres of thin land left in their family just to support Zhou Ho to study in a private school.
When he was a teenager, Zhou Hao was excellent in character and learning, especially fond of reading, and also had a strong sense of concern and anxiety about the future and destiny of the country and the nation. Mr. Private School often told him about the country's difficulties and poverty, which inspired him to contribute to the country. After graduation, Zhou Ho cherished the ideal of saving the country and the people, and resolutely applied for the military academy in Wuhan.
During his time at the military academy, Zhou Ho showed extraordinary military talent, but he hated the practice of "Chianghua" ideological education in the school. He adheres to the values of independent thinking, which is in stark contrast to other students. As time went on, Zhou Ho's dissatisfaction with this became more and more superficial, and he even openly expressed his views in an thought test, and was finally expelled from the school.
After leaving school, although Zhou Hao had lost the opportunity to further his studies, he soon joined the 19th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army and became a junior officer with what he learned in the military academy. There, he witnessed the corruption and brutality of the KMT, and anger arose. In 1933, the 19th Route Army launched the "Anti-Chiang Operation", and Zhou Hao also participated in it with great ambition, but the operation failed, and he had to interrupt his military career and return to his hometown with regret.
However, bad luck did not avoid Zhou Ho. Kuomintang spies had already set their sights on this "unsubordinate" and captured him alive and imprisoned him while he was passing through Fujian. In the face of the interrogation of the military police officers, Zhou Ho sincerely explained that the reason for his participation in the "anti-Chiang" was out of a sincere heart to ask for the people's life and be ashamed of the country. Fortunately, the person in charge of the interrogation was an old acquaintance of Zhou Hao, and he also felt the same way, so he opened a secret for Zhou Hao - to join the military command.
In this way, a young man with the ideal of saving the country has unknowingly embarked on a fork in the road, and what lies ahead will be a thrilling experience, and even a major test of life. All this happened and destined Zhou Hao's life to be extraordinary, full of bizarre and legendary.
2. Transformation and rebirth within the military command
After entering the military command, Zhou Hao was not reused at first, but was just an ordinary station member at Wuhan Station, and he did not have access to any secret information. However, by chance, he was unexpectedly appreciated by Zhou Weilong, and his career ushered in a turning point.
Zhou Weilong has an extraordinary position in the military command, he is not only the core personnel of the military command, but also the brother of Dai Li's sworn brother and the veteran of the military command. With the support of Zhou Weilong, Zhou Hao has been strengthened like a tiger, and he has been promoted all the way in just a few years, from station member to colonel section chief. Dai Li, who himself has 100 percent trust in the newly promoted colonel.
In 1943, Dai Li suddenly summoned Zhou Hao secretly, personally promoted him to the rank of major general, and appointed him to go to Nanjing to secretly rebuild the Nanjing latent station in preparation for the launch of a "major counteroffensive" in the future. At the same time, Dai Li revealed that the connector was actually the notorious traitor leader Zhou Fohai, and said jokingly, "You will get along well, he is still your own family."
Obviously, this is a dangerous and difficult task. Zhou Hao had to carefully dress up as a businessman and take a detour to Nanjing with a translator, and was interrogated by Zhou Fohai on the way. After entering Nanjing, although Zhou Fohai arranged for manpower to respond, he never saw Zhou Hao himself, and he was also wary of him.
It turned out that as early as 1940, Zhou Fohai's agents had seized a military radio station and controlled it in their own hands, and kept in touch with Chongqing. In the face of such cunning people, Zhou Hao must work step by step, secretly collecting intelligence for Dai Li, and at the same time ostensibly working for Zhou Fohai, betting on both sides.
However, as the situation changed as the war changed, the situation became more and more confusing. In order to survive, Zhou Ho has no choice but to continue to maneuver in this crisis-ridden situation. He began to secretly transport arms and supplies to the New Fourth Army and provide assistance to the hostile forces of the Kuomintang, while at the same time not giving up his ties with Chongqing.
This kind of "three-sided spy" career is destined to put Zhou Ho in danger and may be imprisoned at any time. Sure enough, under Chiang Kai-shek's suspicions, he was finally arrested in 1946 and thrown into prison. Just when he was about to despair, an unexpected figure appeared and changed the trajectory of Zhou Hao's future fate.
3. Maneuvering in the Wang puppet regime
After being released from prison, Zhou Ho became an idle person, and his life fell into a difficult situation. At this moment, an unexpected turn of events occurred. It turned out that during his imprisonment, Wang Jingwei had just established Wang's puppet regime in Nanjing and was starting to recruit talents. Zhou Fohai, as a pro-Wang element, naturally became an important figure under Wang Jingwei.
Zhou Fohai remembered the old favor that Zhou Hao had worked for him during his time in Nanjing, and took the initiative to recommend his name to Wang Jingwei. As a result, Zhou Hao was ordered to go to Wang Puppet Ministry of Defense to serve as the director of the second division, responsible for espionage work. In this way, a military spy who was supposed to be loyal to the central government turned out to be in the core of the puppet regime.
In Wang's puppet regime, Zhou Ho ostensibly accepted Zhou Fohai's leadership and arrangement, and was responsible for handling all espionage affairs. But in fact, he has been secretly collecting favorable military intelligence for Dai Li in Chongqing, and has become a spy who has been lurking in the enemy camp for a long time.
In the spring of 1944, the puppet army marched to southern Anhui, which once posed a serious threat to the New Fourth Army. In order to help the New Fourth Army tide over the difficulties, Zhou Hao used his power to secretly instruct his subordinates to transport a batch of arms and materials to the New Fourth Army garrison, raising a large amount of military supplies for the New Fourth Army.
At the same time, Zhou Ho also often used telecommunications to contact the Chongqing side to report on the enemy's movements. At a time when the suspicion of Chongqing was growing by the top level of the Wang puppet regime, he did not hesitate to risk his life to secretly receive the agents airdropped from Chongqing into Nanjing.
Under these circumstances, Zhou Ho had to go to great lengths to maneuver between Wang's puppet regime and the Nationalist government, becoming a "three-sided agent". Sometimes he cooperated with the Chongqing side, and sometimes he had to act according to the instructions of Wang's puppet regime, for fear that he would be killed if his identity was exposed.
However, despite all his caution, Zhou Ho could not escape Chiang Kai-shek's suspicion and revenge in the end. In 1946, during a meeting, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly asked him to his face: "What are you doing in the puppet zone?" I suspect you've apostatized! ＂
In this way, Zhou Ho was arrested by Chiang Kai-shek and imprisoned again. Seeing that his life had come to an end like this, Zhou Hao had mixed feelings in his heart, and he began to have some doubts and confusion about what he was doing.
Fourth, rebirth of ideals and beliefs in prison
This time, Joo Ho spent nearly two years in prison. What he didn't expect was that this seemingly desperate period made him re-examine his life values and ideals and beliefs.
While in prison, Zhou Ho happened to become acquainted with an underground party member surnamed Xu, a communist who gave him great ideological enlightenment. Xu Chuguang was originally a grassroots Communist Party member who was imprisoned here because of the incident. The two exchanged frequently through letters, and Zhou Hao was deeply infected and inspired by Xu Chuguang's revolutionary ideals and tenacious beliefs.
Xu Chuguang vividly told him how peaceful the people's lives were in the anti-Japanese base areas led by the Communist Party; It tells the moving scene of the party and the people sharing weal and woe in Yan'an and other places. Zhou Hao seemed to see a completely different picture of New China, and his heart was greatly touched.
At the same time, Xu Chuguang also analyzed the darkness and corruption of Kuomintang rule step by step, and Zhou Hao felt the same way. In their correspondence, there was no lack of severe criticism and condemnation of Chiang Kai-shek and other Kuomintang ruling circles. Gradually, Zhou Ho's attitude towards the Kuomintang changed radically.
It was at this time that the major changes of 1947 came: Dai Li was assassinated and died, and the core of the military command collapsed. Zhou Ho was released and rediscovered, but his life fell into unprecedented hardship. As a "traitor" and a traitor, no one can trust and hire him.
In this desperate situation, Zhou Ho is forced to make a living by peddling rickshaws on the streets. But in this difficult period, Xu Chuguang's words of "don't give up your ideals and beliefs" have always been heard. Zhou Ho realized that although his life's pursuit of ideals was bumpy and tortuous, he never really gave up.
Therefore, he once again resolutely made up his mind that he would no longer be at the mercy of the Kuomintang and the Wang puppet clique. Under the recommendation of Xu Chuguang, Zhou Hao took the initiative to contact the underground party organization of the Communist Party of China in Nanjing and threw himself into the torrent of the Liberation War.
From this moment on, Zhou Hao, who had hovered between ideals and reality several times, finally completely unraveled the chronic disease in his heart and firmly stood on the correct position and camp. A man who was seen as a "traitor" and a traitor, thus rekindled the flame of revolutionary ideals.
5. Martyrdom and the Truth Revealed
After joining the revolution, Zhou Hao did not hesitate to join the Nanjing underground party organization of the Communist Party of China and became an important intelligence officer and liaison in their positions behind enemy lines. Using his connections within Wang's puppet regime, he provided the underground party with a large amount of valuable military intelligence.
In 1948, the Kuomintang warlord Sun Yuanliang was defeated and surrendered by the People's Liberation Army. In the list of the first prisoners they were released, Zhou Hao's name actually appeared. In order to ensure Zhou Hao's safety, the underground party specially forged the identity of a traitor and secretly transferred him to the liberated area.
After entering the liberated area, Zhou Ho reunited with the comrades of the underground party and was greatly encouraged and encouraged. He immediately submitted an application to the party organization to join the party, and without hesitation expressed his determination to always follow the cause of the communist revolution.
However, just as Zhou Ho was about to devote himself to a new career of struggle, a sudden disaster befell him.
In July 1949, Zhou Ho was ordered to go to Shanghai on a secret mission, but unfortunately he was attacked and rounded up by a group of remnant Kuomintang spies. In a fierce shootout, although Zhou Hao resisted bravely, he was finally outnumbered and captured alive.
According to the laws of war at the time, Zhou Ho, as a traitor, should be punished on the spot. Shockingly, instead of doing so, the Kuomintang secretly took him away without revealing his whereabouts. For a time, the news about Zhou Hao's capture caused great shock and concern within the party.
It wasn't until 1965 that Zhou Hao's wife, Wu Xueya, found out about the heart-wrenching ending: it turned out that Zhou Hao was brutally interrogated to extract a confession after being captured, and finally secretly executed one day in October 1949. And the diary that recorded Zhou Hao's last years became the key evidence for Wu Xueya to avenge her husband's grievances.
With the records of the diary and some powerful clues, Wu Xueya found the key person who participated in the execution of Zhou Ho that year. After years of petitions and petitions, finally in 1965, Zhou Hao was rehabilitated by the Supreme People's Court, and the stigma of "traitor" was removed, and the truth was finally revealed to the world.
A person who was once caught in the whirlpool of power and deviated from his ideals and beliefs finally rekindled the fire of ideals in his lifelong pursuit and paid the price of his life for it. Although Zhou Hao's life was full of hardships, his spirit has always been burning, and eventually became a bright light that illuminates people's way forward.