Shen drunk and shocked to expose the historical truth: Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo were not assassinated by military commanders!

In mid-July 1946, a series of political assassinations took place in Kunming, Yunnan Province, the most famous of which was the assassination of democrats Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo by Kuomintang agents less than three days apart.

Since the military commander was the most famous in the Kuomintang secret service, almost everyone pointed the finger at it at that time. However, as Shen Zui later wrote in his memoirs, it was revealed that Mr. Li and Mr. Wen were not assassinated by agents of the military command.

So what's going on? Through this case, we can see how complex the Kuomintang spy organization is.

1. Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo were not killed by the military commanders

Mr. Li Gongpu and Mr. Wen Yiduo, as patriotic democrats who opposed the civil war and opposed the autocratic rule of the Kuomintang, were assassinated in Kunming, Yunnan Province on July 12 and 15, 1946 respectively.

At that time, as a spy organization, the military command had actually ceased to exist a month ago. This is because since the establishment of the Military Command and its predecessor, the Secret Service of the Rexing Society, has been carrying out spy activities of sabotage, assassination, and arresting the CCP and democrats since its establishment in 1932 (renamed as the Military Commander in 1938), but during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it also carried out most of the activities against Japanese enemy agents, and even as many as 17,000 members of the Military Command died heroically during the Anti-Japanese War.

However, in the later stage of the Anti-Japanese War, as the Kuomintang passively resisted the war, the functions of the military command were increasingly aimed at the CCP and patriotic democrats, so as early as the "Double Tenth Agreement" reached in the Chongqing negotiations, the reduction of military reunification was listed as an important condition.

In June 1946, the military command underwent a major change with the death of Dai Dai on the plane.

First of all, the armed forces in the military command organization were subsumed into the newly established Second Department of National Defense, while the original intelligence department was reduced to the newly established Secrecy Bureau.

Although the military command no longer exists, because the Secrecy Bureau still exists, it can be said that it is a small military commander, so if this case is really committed by the Secrecy Bureau, it is not unjust to say that the military commander committed it.

As soon as this case happened, even Chiang Kai-shek immediately suspected that the Secret Bureau was responsible, after all, they were the best at doing this kind of thing. Hearing Chiang Kai-shek's inquiry, even Mao Renfeng didn't dare to pack the ticket and say that it was not the Secret Bureau. After all, although Mao Renfeng himself did not give an order, he could not guarantee whether his subordinates had carried forward their subjective initiative, and he did this kind of thing without reporting him.

However, with the investigation of this case, it was soon discovered that it was really not the Secret Bureau's doing.

2. The complex Kuomintang spy system

According to the investigation and handling of the case after the fact, people soon discovered that although the case was not committed by the military commander and the successor secret bureau, it was inseparable from the Kuomintang secret service.

Before analyzing which spy organization did it, we might as well first sort out the complex spy organization of the Kuomintang.

First of all, the two most famous spy organizations of the Kuomintang are called the Central Unification and the other the Military Unification. These two spy organizations, fans who are used to watching spy wars can be described as thunderous, so there is no need to describe them in detail here, otherwise a few books will not be finished.

Secondly, the Kuomintang also had a gendarmerie, which also had a special service department.

In other words, the Kuomintang gendarmerie is essentially a spy organization, and because of the complicated factional problems within the Kuomintang, the gendarmerie that should have been used for military discipline picketing has not played much significance in this function, but has always played an important role in anti-smuggling and suppressing the Communist Party.

As early as before the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang set up a military police headquarters and set up as many as a dozen regiments of military police regiments. Basically, in its core dominion, there is a gendarmerie regiment in each province.

The special high school group was established within the military police corps, which was of course the earliest name, but later changed to a special service group because it was the same name as the special high school section in the Japanese gendarmerie.

This is an organization that is different from the military command, but has a close relationship, and even the military command and the secret bureau have led the organization to a certain extent, but we must be clear that it is not the same organization as the military command.

1. The Kuomintang has set up garrison headquarters in various provinces and major cities, and has also set up special service organizations within the garrison headquarters.

Although the military command is very famous, because it directly reaches Chiang Kai-shek, coupled with the limited establishment, for example, the military command establishment in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces is generally 60 to 120 people, although it can recruit as many as ten times the number of supernumerary personnel, but it is impossible to cover everything, not to mention that the garrison headquarters must also have its own spy organization in order to maintain local law and order and anti-communist needs.

For example, in Yunnan, as the rear of the Anti-Japanese War, in 1946, just after forcing Yunnan Wang Longyun to step down, Kuomintang Lieutenant General Huo Yuzhang served as the commander of the garrison, and immediately established a special service battalion, which is a special service organization. In addition, he also gathered some local hooligans to set up some supernumerary spy organizations.

The assassination of Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo was precisely instigated by the Yunnan Provincial Garrison Commander Huo Yuzhang. During the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yunnan was under the rule of Long Yun, and for the purpose of fighting together and dealing with Chiang Kai-shek, Yunnan became the base camp of democrats, and a large number of patriotic democrats focused on Yunnan.

At this time, not to mention that the post of garrison commander in Yunnan was in the hands of the Long family, even the military commanders and the central commanders did not dare to be too presumptuous.

However, just after the end of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, Chiang Kai-shek began to swell, creating the Kunming Incident, forcing Long Yun to serve in the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, and then Chiang's descendants settled in Kunming in large numbers. In line with this, spy organizations, including the military commanders, also entered Kunming, Yunnan, but at that time, the military commanders were already rats crossing the streets, and they did not dare to make any big things easily.

However, as the commander of the Yunnan garrison, Huo Yuzhang was bent on overthrowing Lu Han, who succeeded him as chairman of Yunnan Province, and thus assumed the post of provincial chairman, so he was particularly active.

At the same time, although Long Yun had stepped down, the anti-civil war tide among the patriotic democrats in Yunnan, especially in Kunming, was getting higher and higher, which made Huo Yuzhang very annoyed, for fear that this would affect his position in Chiang Kai-shek's heart.

In this way, under the instructions of Huo Yuzhang, on July 12 and 15, 1946, three days apart, Kuomintang agents caused two world-famous bloody cases.

Third, the Kuomintang has repeatedly made people dirty in order to get rid of its involvement

Because the case was so large that even US President Harry S. Truman sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek demanding a strict investigation of the case, and threatened to stop military aid to Chiang if the investigation was not effective.

Under these circumstances, Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered an investigation, and there is no doubt that the case fell into the hands of the former army commanders Tang Zong and Shen Zui.

It's just that Tang Zong and Shen Zui's investigation has not yet begun, but Huo Yuzhang took the lead, and when Li Gongpu was just killed, he first framed the case on the CCP's underground organization, and even spread rumors that it was a love killing.

It was only at Mr. Li Gongpu's memorial service, in Mr. Wen Yiduo's last speech, that he angrily condemned this statement, and Huo's trick was self-defeating.

After that, Huo wanted to push the case onto Long Yun's remnants in Yunnan, intending to get rid of Lu Han and other places in Yunnan. It's just that this kind of thinking has just begun, and Shen Zui, who was ordered to investigate the case, has already found the special service battalion of Huo Yuzhang's garrison headquarters and found the direct killer.

It is precisely because of this that when Huo Yuzhang proudly took the investigation report to report to Chiang Kai-shek, he was immediately scolded.

With the bankruptcy of the planting plan, Huo Yuzhang can be said to be completely exposed, and it is difficult to escape the catastrophe. However, no one expected that although he knew the truth, Chiang Kai-shek did not want to deal with this confidant and favorite general because of this.

Therefore, under Chiang's instructions, the whole Kuomintang from top to bottom, from the Ministry of National Defense, the Military Police Command, the Secrecy Bureau, and the Garrison Command, worked together to find a suitable scapegoat and end the case as soon as possible.

In the end, Chiang Kai-shek handled the case like this:

On the one hand, it vigorously publicized in society that this was the work of some lower-ranking officers, and for this reason, they also found people who were willing to be substituted for the crime Tang Shiliang and Li Mingshan from the special service battalion of the Yunnan Garrison Command at a high price of 40 taels of gold per person.

Of course, they did participate in the assassination of Mr. Li and Mr. Wen, but they were not the main personnel, and they could only be regarded as in-depth participants.

After the court pronounced the verdict, the two men were sentenced to death, and then drunk and hastily shot. And one of the conditions that was promised to them was that there would be absolutely no fear of their lives.

On the other hand, the main commander, the Yunnan garrison commander Huo Yuzhang, was dismissed from his post in terms of leadership responsibility. Although he was dismissed, Huo was able to hide in Changsha with the money he had looted, and less than a year later he came out to take up a new position, and finally went to Taiwan with the defeat of the Kuomintang in the civil war.

Except for Tang and Li, who were shot, the rest of the people, regardless of their official positions, were either removed from their posts or imprisoned, but they were all given preferential treatment, and some of them were soon transferred to other places.

Although the Chiang Kai-shek administration tried their best to convince the people of the whole country, the Truman administration of the United States even interrupted military aid for ten months.

Fourth, the Secrecy Bureau does not clarify that it is also involuntary

With the liberation of the whole country, after the peaceful uprising in Kunming, Yunnan, most of the Kuomintang spies in Yunnan were captured, although Shen Zui signed the telegram of the uprising, but because of his hatred for the spies, Shen Zui was soon sent to prison by Lu Han as a war criminal, and has been imprisoned for more than ten years before being released from prison.

However, Wang Zimin, Cui Zhenshan and other spy leaders who really participated in the assassination were arrested or killed in various places after the unremitting pursuit of New China, and justice was finally upheld in this case.

Of course, the main instigator Huo Yuzhang ran to Taiwan before the founding of New China and escaped, but he only lived for three more years and died in 1953 at the age of 52.

It can be said that this case was already clear at the time, and it was not committed by the military commander and his heir, the Secret Bureau, so why did everyone always think that it was the military commander?

On the one hand, this is because the reputation of the military commander is too great, and it is natural for everyone to detain all the actions of the Kuomintang spies in the name of the military commander;

Second, because the military commander had just been laid off at that time, several major cadres either went to the Second Department of the Ministry of National Defense or went to the police station, and they were also busy with the civil war that was about to start, so no one thought of coming forward to clarify this point.

What's more, as Chiang Kai-shek's spy organization, whether it is the Central Unification or the Secret Bureau, it is originally an organization that does dirty work, and such an incident just strengthens the fear of the entire society towards the Secret Bureau, and it can be said that it willingly took over this black cauldron.

Of course, Shen Shen, who later became a war criminal in Gongdelin, underwent a profound change in his mentality with the reform, and began to truly understand the reactionary nature of the Kuomintang spy organization, and wrote a large number of articles exposing the military command and the secret bureau. As an investigator of the assassination cases of Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo, he also comprehensively recalled the incident and wrote the ins and outs of the incident very clearly. Only then did our descendants finally know the truth about the murder of Mr. Li Gongpu and Mr. Wen Yiduo.

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