On September 27, 1952, night shrouded Eaglebeak Mountain on the east coast of North Korea, and an unidentified plane was parked over. I saw seven people jumping off the plane one after another, and slowly arrived on the ground with the help of parachutes.
After the seven people landed, they packed their parachutes and threw them in the grass while sneakily looking around. Suddenly, there was a small sound not far away, and it was getting closer and closer, and a group of Chinese troops with guns quickly surrounded them. The seven people fled in a hurry, trying to escape from Shengtian, but unfortunately the bullets had been ruthlessly released, directly killing four people, and the remaining three immediately squatted down with their heads in their hands, shouting to surrender.
Unexpectedly, a few months later, the three arrested people became important information providers for the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Who are they, and what kind of surprise have they brought to our army?
The enemy intended a second landing, and forty years later published false information
As a major victory after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is of milestone significance that will go down in history. This war was arduous and long, not only with a frontal confrontation between us and the enemy, but also with the transmission of information behind enemy lines.
In the process of signing the armistice agreement, a piece of information from our army played a crucial role, directly scaring the enemy into sitting at the negotiating table and honestly choosing a peaceful armistice.
Things have to start with the "Inchon landing". In September 1950, the enemy saw that the DPRK had triumphantly conquered one defense line after another and occupied 90% of the peninsula, and they could not sit still and began to closely prepare for the landing plan.
The enemy chose to take a fancy to the port of Incheon, and a large number of soldiers went ashore to make a detour to the rear of the Korean people, and drove our troops to the Yalu River in just 13 days. They even hyped up the "Thanksgiving Offensive, Christmas Offend" in the delusional hope of taking the Korean Peninsula without much effort.
It's a pity that they underestimated the Volunteer Army! In 1952, the Battle of Shangganling, which lasted for nearly a month and a half, successfully reversed the situation of the war and defeated the enemy. After that, our army and the enemy fell into a long armistice, and the enemy was ready to move under the apparent calm.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered that the army must achieve a "second landing" and take the existing territory of our army in one fell swoop. Just as the enemy was ready to attack, a piece of intelligence reached CIA Director Dulles.
The intelligence reads: "There are still 836,000 volunteers in the army, more than 300,000 heavy troops stationed on the east and west coasts, 294,000 North Korean troops who can cooperate with the operation, and a large amount of food is in reserve, which is expected to last for 8 months." Dulles immediately passed the message to Eisenhower and persuaded him to stop the landing plan.
Eisenhower chose to land for the second time because he thought that our army would soon run out of ammunition and food, and that it would be unable to withstand the encirclement attack in ten days and half a month. Seeing such information, he was also shocked in his heart, so he could only secretly swallow his unwillingness, and let the army leader sit down honestly to negotiate a peaceful truce.
It was not until 1994 that the United States released this intelligence document, and everyone suddenly realized the real reason behind the armistice. In fact, the content of the intelligence is completely false, and it was all planned and compiled by Ding Gongliang. Who is Ding Gongliang, who has such a heavenly ability to confuse the enemy?
Wizard Ding Gongliang, the first spy who captured the enemy
Ding Gongliang, born in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province in 1921, joined our party at the age of 17 and was responsible for hoeing and raping together with his comrades. During the Anti-Japanese War, with his meticulous working methods and excellent insight, he led the "400 Secret Service Group" to successfully penetrate the enemy's interior and obtain countless important information for our party.
The seven members he led were all selected elites, and later identified and persuaded more than 60 enemy spies. Even a high-ranking officer within the enemy wrote to Ding Gongliang, saying that he chose to surrender peacefully and voluntarily offered supplies and military weapons to our army.
Ding Gongliang, who is only 24 years old, has already held an important position in our party, and after the founding of New China, he turned the tide in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and defused the major crisis of the second landing. How did this disinformation he compiled reach the enemy?
It turned out that before the second landing operation, the enemy sent special personnel to test the situation of our army. A man named "Crazy Zhang" came into the enemy's field of vision, and this person had many battles with our party and knew many things in the party well. After the victory of the war, Chang became a wanted maniac, and the reward for him was overwhelming, and he was forced to flee to the Korean Peninsula.
Here, "Madman Zhang" gathered a group of ill-intentioned people to set up a new "Huidaomen" to specifically publicize some evil sects with ghosts and gods. When he was in China, "Madman Zhang" obeyed Lao Chiang's orders, and in this War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Lao Chiang contacted him again, hoping that he could cooperate with the US side.
For the sake of prudence, the enemy sent a preemptive spy to take the lead in meeting with "Crazy Zhang" and ensuring that the situation was safe before carrying out follow-up work.
On the night of July 26, 1952, a team of our army was patrolling, and a soldier heard the sound of an airplane not far away, but when he looked up, there was no light, only the shape of the fuselage of the plane was vaguely recognized. The team followed the path to the vicinity of the cliff where the plane was staying, and sure enough, one person was slowly sliding down the rope. As soon as this person landed, he was captured by our army.
The infiltrator of unknown origin was sent to the Ninth Corps, where Ding Gongliang was located. At first, the infiltrators insisted that they were ordinary poor people, and they sneaked into the territory by night to avoid the war. Ding Gongliang didn't believe such a statement, where could there be such a coincidence, and it happened to fall near the hillside where our army was stationed.
He stared fiercely at the infiltrator, deliberately asking a few deceptive questions. Sure enough, this person finally showed his fox tail and fell under Ding Gongliang's powerful aura.
He confessed that when his name was Park Bei, he was an intelligence officer of the South Korean army, and the reason why he infiltrated our army at night was because he wanted to connect with "Crazy Zhang". Once the connection is successful, he will send the news back to the South Korean army with a pigeon, and a senior intelligence officer will arrive in the near future. It's a pity that even if Pu Beishi hadn't been arrested, he wouldn't have seen "Crazy Zhang", because he had been killed by our army a few days ago, and only a wreckage was left lying in the barren mountains and mountains.
At that time, the way to transmit information was mostly radio, and the way to choose pigeons was really rare. The pigeon brought by Park Beishi had a scientific experiment tube tied to its leg, and two chemical liquids were placed in the tube. According to their plan, as soon as things went well, they had to twist the small mechanism on the test tube to mix the liquid and put the pigeon back. If the situation is not good, Pu Beishi needs to send the pigeon and the experimental tube back intact, which is safer and more sophisticated than the ordinary "flying pigeon biography".
After listening to Pu Beishi's words, Ding Gongliang decided to lure the snake out of the hole in order to find out the enemy's conspiracy.
He ordered Pak to dispose of the experimental tube on the pigeon's leg, and then release it to wait for the enemy intelligence officers who had thrown themselves into the net. At the same time, Ding Gongliang ordered his subordinates to strictly inspect the mountains and forests and not let go of any fish that slipped through the net. However, more than two months have been arranged, and our army has not even seen a single hair of the enemy.
Persuade the enemy's intelligence officers to surrender and smoothly spread false news
In the middle of the night on September 27, the army, which had been reconnoitring for a long time, waited for seven agents. Before the seven people could stand firm on the ground, they were caught by our troops, and four of them struggled desperately to escape, but were directly dealt with by a few bullets. Seeing that the situation was not right, the remaining three people knelt on the ground and held their heads, shouting in Chinese: "I want to surrender!" He motioned for the other two to surrender quickly.
In this way, our army successfully captured three intelligence officers, and the next thing to do is to dig out useful information from their mouths.
Surprisingly, the intelligence officer, who shouted for surrender, was particularly cooperative with the interrogation. According to his confession, his name is Sun Xian, and the two are Quan and Pei, both of whom are specially trained members of the intelligence group. The mission of this trip is to spy on the deployment of our troops on the east coast for the "second landing," including military strength, food supplies, and battle plans.
Hearing this, Ding Gongliang's back couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and a burst of panic struck, fortunately he caught a few people to learn about the enemy's tricks, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
The reason why this Sun Xian quickly revealed the spy plan was because he was a North Korean who was only captured by the South Korean army. As a teenager, Sun Xian followed his mother to the land of Yantai, where he studied and lived and learned to speak Chinese fluently. After returning to China, he became a local middle school teacher, and although he was not wealthy, he lived a stable and comfortable life.
After the outbreak of the war, Sun Xian's area was occupied by the United States, and he himself was caught in the intelligence base. Because Sun Xian has a very high language talent, he is proficient in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean, and is a rare talent.
In order to save his life, Sun Xian succumbed to the orders of the enemy and trained with others, but deep down he was extremely reluctant to spy work. So, when he saw our soldiers, there was almost no struggle in his head, and he chose to surrender. Looking at Sun Xian, who hated war, Ding Gongliang knew that the opportunity for peace was coming.
After successfully persuading Sun Xian without much effort, he asked Sun Xian to persuade Quan and Pei. The willpower of the two was not firm, and Sun Xianxiaozhi directly broke through their last line of defense with a few words of emotion and reason.
In just one day, the elite cultivated by the enemy in a time-consuming and labor-intensive manner was cleaned up by Ding Gongliang. They even told Ding Gongliang the code words of the telegram, as long as the 12th word of each telegram was inserted: "The horse is running", it means that it is their own people, and the espionage work is safe and sound.
Subsequently, Ding Gongliang set up an intelligence group called the "Reverse Radio Working Group", carefully selected three experienced people, and three volunteers disguised themselves as Quan, Pei, and Sun Xian, and used radio code words to get in touch with the enemy's high-level officials.
Ding Gongliang summoned the staff officers of the Ninth Corps Security Department and prepared to give the enemy a big gift. It took them several nights to produce a map of the eastern and western coasts without any loopholes. On the defense map, the garrison points of our army are marked in detail, and the real and false are mixed together, and there is not the slightest flaw to be seen.
When the time came, Ding Gongliang asked the three volunteers to pass the "defense map" to the salivating enemies. After getting the "defense map", the enemy was not completely convinced, and they were ready to tentatively launch an offensive at several points on the east coast, and our army had already received the news of the attack and dealt with it seamlessly.
After a few rounds, the enemy was beaten to the ground, and it was finally believed that our troops were very well garrisoned on the coast. Taking advantage of its defeat, Ding Gongliang sent another false information, telling the enemy that the total number of our troops on the east and west coasts exceeded 300,000, and that with the help of the Soviet Union, there were enough food supplies to last for August.
Faced with this information, CIA Director Dulles was convinced, and only then did he report it to Eisenhower and ask him to negotiate peace.
On July 27, 1953, China, the United States and North Korea signed an armistice agreement, and the three-year chaotic situation finally came to an end.
Decades after the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the outside world always thought that the US withdrawal was due to internal and external troubles, but they did not expect that it was a false intelligence of Ding Gongliang that played a role. It can be seen that information work is equally important, and sometimes it can be a key way to break the game.
Ding Gongliang also got the opportunity to be promoted because of such great achievements, and continued to do his best for the Chinese cause. In 1964, he transferred to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a year later transferred to the East China Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he passed away in 2017 at the age of 95.
Unlike the soldiers who fought bloodily, Ding Gongliang, as a rear worker, has very few relevant records, but it does not affect that he is still a great figure. Without his skillful examination and cross-examination, our army would not have been able to learn of the enemy's plans; Without his ingenuity, the war might have killed many more people, and the people would have suffered lasting pain and misery.
The concept of "heroes" is very broad, the martyrs who shed blood for the Chinese nation are heroes, the workers who transmit information for the war are heroes, the cadres who greet the people can be heroes, and the heroic people who rescue people who fall into the water can also be heroes.
In China, where there are heroic feelings, "hero" will be a praise that will never go out of style. There are countless behind-the-scenes personnel like Ding Gongliang, some of whom have left a well-known name, and some of whom have turned into the dust of history, without exception, they are all the builders of historical monuments.
The people should not only remember the warriors who built a new China with their flesh and blood, but also remember all the nameless people who silently contributed behind their backs. In the same way, the people should always remember to love peace and engrave the true meaning of peace in their bones, so that they will not fail the sacrifices of their ancestors.