In 1949, just after the Spring Festival, there was no half-joy in the National Government, and the air was filled with an unusually dignified atmosphere. It turned out that not long ago, according to the returns from the front, the Kuomintang troops ended in disastrous defeats in the battles of Pingjin and Huaihai, especially in the Battle of Huaihai, which lost more than 400,000 militiamen.
As soon as the news reached Chiang Kai-shek's ears, there was a hysterical roar in his office, and the man who had been strategizing was like a shrew, pointing at the person in front of him and scolding.
As a stenographer, Shen Anna spends her days in the office, often confronting high-ranking government figures like Chiang Kai-shek. For the high and indignant scolding voices issued by Chiang Kai-shek's office in recent years because of the defeat in the war, she also changed from being cautious at the beginning to becoming accustomed to it later.
Unlike other people's respective duties, whenever she saw someone coming out of the office to report on the war, Shen Anna would always consciously or unconsciously put her attention there, especially when she saw those people coming out with their heads down, her heart was even more happy.
In this way, until February, Shen Anna found that the number of personnel in the Kuomintang government had recently begun to decrease, and before she could find someone to ask what was going on, Zhang Shouxian, the head of the confidential department of the Kuomintang Central Committee, came to the door, and as soon as she saw her, Zhang Shouxian opened the door and instructed: "The Kuomintang party and government organs have begun to move south, and you should make preparations here and quickly retreat together." ”
As soon as these words came out, Shen Anna almost instantly understood what was going on, she forced herself to endure the excitement, and said calmly, "I am definitely going to go with the Central Party, but now the Legislative Yuan will still be held in Nanjiang, and I need to do shorthand, and I can't leave for the time being." ”
After saying that, she gave the seal and a ring engraved with her name to Zhang Shouxian, and asked him to keep it for herself, and she would personally retrieve it afterwards.
Looking at the thing similar to the keepsake in his hand, Zhang Shouxian didn't think much about it, and after putting it away, he turned around and left.
After this conversation, Shen Anna's state of mind when she returned home was also very different from the past, although the nanjing city at this time still looked calm on the surface, but under the calm, it was already dark and turbulent, and the first thing she did when she returned home was to find her husband Hua Mingzhi, and the two of them discussed the way to leave together.
Hua Mingzhi instructed Shen Anna: "The closer we are to victory, the more we cannot take it lightly, and we must hide our identity during this time." ”
After staying in the National Government for so many years, Shen Anna also understood this, and after the couple jointly analyzed the current situation, they decided to evacuate Nanjing in batches, with Hua Mingzhi as the main resource committee and some personnel evacuated first, while Shen Anna, as a person who obtained intelligence, needed to stay in Nanjing, and immediately evacuated Nanjing after completing the work of court shorthand.
Shen Anna's stay was not really to complete her shorthand work well, she planned to seize this last time and submit the next information of the Kuomintang to her real organization.
And Chiang Kai-shek could not have imagined that this little stenographer who spent his days in the meeting was actually a spy installed by the Communist Party earlier, and that she had been lurking for more than ten years...
Shen Anna
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="113" > rose was born, and it was fateless</h1>
Shen Anna, whose original name was Shen Wan, was born in 1915 in Taixing County, Jiangsu Province, to a family of scholars. She was gifted, intelligent and studious, and from an early age she recited classical poetry and practiced calligraphy under the guidance of her father, and was able to write beautiful calligraphy and calligraphy with a brush.
But even such a girl with Zhong Linghuixiu could not escape the fate of arranged marriages in feudal society.
In 1932, Shen Anna, who graduated from Taixing Middle School, under the influence of teacher Liu Bohou, had a very deep resistance to feudal thought, and she did not want to become a victim of feudal arranged marriages, nor did she want to be a tool for passing on the generations.
But who knew that after graduating and returning home, she was running into her father marrying her sister Shen Yina. Seeing this scene, Shen Anna asked her sister if she was really willing to marry a man she didn't know, and to live a lifelong husband and children, living a life when the door was not out and the second door was not moving?
Because she also accepted new ideas in school, Shen Yina was not satisfied with her father's forced arrangement of her marriage, and now when she heard her sister's words, she immediately shook her head and said: "Now that it is a revolutionary era, everyone advocates freedom of marriage and love, if I can't find someone I like, I will be lonely and old, and I will not marry a stranger." ”
But after all, the family is the father's master, the things he decided few people can change, the two sisters saw that there was no way to negotiate peace, they discussed taking advantage of the dark, and ran away from home together. So, in a silent and deserted night, two figures quietly slipped out of the Shen family's gate and ran towards the station in the county town.
Their destination was Shanghai, which was the most prosperous place at that time.
After the two settled down, they continued their own pursuit of education, the sister Ina was admitted to Shanghai Wuben Middle School, and the younger sister Anna entered nanyang commercial senior high school, and during the study period, she met Shu Yuexin, an underground party member of our party, and Hua Mingzhi, a progressive young man. Under their guidance, the two sisters of the Shen family began to come into contact with progressive ideas and books, and became curious and yearning for what they called the revolutionary cause.
Among them, the sister Shen Yina got along with Shu Yuexin, the two became in love for a long time, and soon formed a revolutionary partner, and then under the guidance of Shu Yuexin, Ina also joined the revolutionary cause.
Unlike her sister's happy marriage, in 1934, anna had just finished her sophomore year of high school, and was forced to drop out of school because she could not afford to pay the tuition, and instead chose the Shanghai Bingxun Shorthand School, which had a lower fee and shorter semesters, in order to make a living in the future. Here, she studied hard, excelled academically, and excelled.
In the winter of 1934, the Kuomintang Zhejiang Provincial Government sent personnel to the school to recruit stenographers, and the students flocked to it, but Shen Anna, who was recommended by the school to apply, was not happy, thinking that it was better to go to the Kuomintang organs to serve the bureaucrats than to make progressive movies, and even complained about this matter in a letter to Shu Yuexin.
After reading the letter, Shu Yuexin thought that this was a perfect opportunity to grasp the inside situation of the Kuomintang government, so he immediately reported the matter to his superior leader Wang Xuewen. Wang Xuewen hoped that Shen Anna would work hard to win this opportunity and use the natural examination method to break into the Kuomintang Zhejiang Provincial Government and collect intelligence for the party.
When she learned that going to the National Government of Zhejiang Province was to join the revolution and use intelligence to help the underground party work, Anna, who was still hesitant, suddenly became enthusiastic again, and she raised her forehead and solemnly said: "I am willing to work for the revolution!" ”
Seeing the serious appearance of the young Shen Anna, Shu Yuexin reminded her with a smile: "Ya tou, breaking into the Kuomintang may be in danger of life at any time... You..."
Before Shu Yuexin could finish speaking, Shen Anna calmly said, "Breaking into the enemy's interior to obtain intelligence is also revolutionary and indispensable, how can I be timid?" ”
At the beginning of 1935, Shen Anna officially entered the deliberation section of the Kuomintang Zhejiang Provincial Government Secretariat, served as a shorthand reporter, and began a long period of intelligence work under the direct leadership of the Special Branch of the Communist Central Committee.
At that time, she was only 20 years old, and she did not expect that this arrangement was the beginning of her 15-year lurking career, and the road ahead would be difficult and uncertain, full of thorns.
Shen Anna in her youth
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="134" > "small shorthand" into the "enemy core"</h1>
In order to gain a firm foothold in the provincial government and win the trust of the enemy, Shen Anna worked diligently and earnestly, treated people respectfully and respectfully, and continuously improved her shorthand skills and ability to do things.
After a period of observation and research, she decided that Xue Yuanyan, the chief of the deliberative section, was a good learned person, and in order to build a good relationship with him, she usually took Xue Yuanyan as the center of her work, and after the shorthand was sorted out and copied, she sent it to the section chief for reading and correction, and even recognized Lady Xue as a dry relative, and soon became Xue Yuanyan's confidant.
Xue Yuanyan is also very kind, as soon as she has free time, she will introduce people and things in the organ to Shen Anna, help her revise the record draft, and praise her in front of some important people in the organ. To this end, the big and small leaders trusted Shen Anna, and without a backstage, she was able to attend all the important meetings of the provincial government, and left a deep impression on Zhu Jiahua with accurate shorthand and correct handwriting.
In practice, Shen Anna also gradually understood the laws and habits of the Kuomintang government organs, and made full preparations for effectively cooperating with the local revolutionary armed struggle.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="140" > collect intelligence for the first time</h1>
It is still very interesting to say that Shen Anna first passed important information to the "underground party".
At that time, her sister Shen Yina suddenly wrote a letter asking Anna to come to Shanghai to help her arrange the marriage. Anna was overjoyed to learn the news, and she rushed to take the letter to ask for leave, but what can she bring back as a "congratulatory gift"?
After obtaining approval, when passing by the office where the documents were placed, Anna secretly selected several confidential documents and high-level meeting shorthands that she thought were useful from the provincial government documents and records, mixed them into her clothes and put them in her small suitcase, and brought them to Shanghai in a big way.
As soon as she entered her sister's house, Shen Anna couldn't wait to take out a stack of information and mysteriously said to her sister Ina: "In order to celebrate my sister's marriage to someone she likes, I also specially prepared a gift, I think you and your brother-in-law will definitely like it." ”
At first, Ina didn't think so, at this time she didn't think about the intelligence at all, until she spread out the "special gift" in Anna's hand, that is, the stack of materials on the table, and for a moment she was surprised and happy and angry, how could she think that Anna would take such a big risk and bring out the secret documents of the Kuomintang.
With that, Ina said that Anna was too rash, it was too dangerous, and if the box was discovered, the consequences would be unimaginable!
After confirming the authenticity of the materials, the brother-in-law Shu Yuexin hurriedly helped Anna break the siege: "We can't blame Anna, we haven't officially handed anna how to pass on information!" ”
Shu Yue letter
Subsequently, Shu Yuexin handed over several important materials to Wang Xuewen, who praised happily: "Great, this information is very important, Anna this little girl is the first time to collect intelligence, but it is really not easy!" ”
Since then, Wang Xuewen has been called "uncle" by Shen Anna, and he personally met Shen Anna, not only highly praising the information she transmitted this time, but also explaining to him in detail some principles and methods of secret intelligence work.
Shen Anna took these words to heart one by one, felt the trust from the organization, realized the importance of the burden on her shoulders, her eyes flashed with tears of excitement, and solemnly said: "This is the first time I have provided intelligence for the party organization, and I will be more cautious and careful in providing intelligence in the future." ”
Wang Xuewen patted Shen Anna's shoulder and said, "We are also particular about collecting intelligence, and at the moment we must focus on collecting and suppressing intelligence related to bandits, but we can't rush to get the confidential documents back without the permission of the organization, as we did this time!" ”
Later, with the approval of Wang Xuewen and the party organization, Shen Anna officially joined the SPECIAL BRANCH of the CPC Central Committee and became a member of the intelligence agency, and she was proud to be "a glorious soldier on the hidden front of the party".
Shen Anna's initial method of passing on the information was relatively primitive and simple: she wrote down the secret information on paper with an invisible potion, and then disguised as a family letter to send it to the post office in person to Shanghai, and finally Ina used another potion to crack the contents of the letter.
But at that time, Anna was living with her roommate in the dormitory, and the roommate saw that she often sent letters, and she couldn't help but be suspicious, so she told the section chief Xue Yuanyan about it.
Perhaps because of too much trust in this girl, Xue Yuanyan directly called Anna to ask about the reason for the frequent outings recently, and when she heard the section chief ask this, Anna was also confused, almost thinking that her identity had been discovered, and she quickly pulled out her words of missing her hometown, because she was a girl, and she went to school in the field at a young age, so she quickly dispelled Xue Yuanyan's suspicions.
For safety reasons, Wang Xuewen decided to immediately change the way of sending intelligence, and instead took the morning bus to Hangzhou on the weekend by Hua Mingzhi to guide and contact Anna, and took the night train to bring the information back to Shanghai at night. In the slow process of getting along, Anna and Hua Mingzhi developed feelings. In the autumn of 1935, with the consent of the party organization, the two people married, and Hua Mingzhi resigned from his job in Shanghai and came to Hangzhou to form a husband and wife intelligence group with Anna.
Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="161" > go deep into enemy camps to obtain intelligence</h1>
After the July 7 Incident, the situation in and around Shanghai became increasingly severe, and the Zhejiang Provincial Government moved to Jinhua, and later to the Fangyan Mountain District of Yongkang, Zhejiang.
Seeing that it was no longer meaningful to continue to follow the provincial government to withdraw to the west, Shen Anna decided to leave the provincial government without pay and go to the Wuhan Eighth Route Army Office to find the party organization to restore contact.
In May 1938, after Shen Anna met with Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu and other CCP leaders at the "Eighth Office" in Wuhan, she reported her past work in detail and applied to stay behind to do the revolution and devote herself to the vigorous anti-Japanese mass movement.
However, at that time, Dong Biwu received news that Anna's boss, Zhu Jiahua, secretary general of the Kuomintang Central Party Department, was recruiting troops. Therefore, they decided to let Anna go to Zhu Jiahua in the name of her old subordinates and continue to fight on the hidden front, and as a cooperation, Hua Mingzhi would also fight alongside her.
Hua Mingzhi and Shen Anna
A few days later, Shen Anna came to the Kuomintang Central Party Department in Wuhan at the time and asked to see Zhu Jiahua as an old subordinate.
Seeing that Shen Anna had traveled thousands of miles to defect to herself, Zhu Jiahua couldn't stop praising: "Miss Shen, you rarely rushed from Hangzhou to Wuhan to be loyal to the party, you are really a promising young man!" ”
"I came to Wuhan with all my hard work and asked the chairman to arrange work for me."
Zhu Jiahua was very happy and immediately instructed his secretary to handle special procedures for Shen Anna to join the party, and at that time, Shen Anna did not join the Kuomintang, and he also specially handled the "special party member" for her.
The "special party member" mentioned here is actually a member introduced by three members of the Kuomintang Central Committee to join the Kuomintang, and the procedures and approval time are very simple and fast, as long as they are called "special party members", the Kuomintang will automatically think that this is a person with a backstage. It can be seen that Zhu Jiahua has a very deep trust in Anna.
After the formalities were completed, Shen Anna officially became a member of the confidential stenographer of the Kuomintang Central Party Department, plus she was specially introduced by Zhu Jiahua, so the director Of The Division, Zhang Shouxian, and the section chief Xu Fuping trusted her very much, plus Anna's good handwriting, as well as the extraordinary shorthand efficiency of all the stenographers, made the Kuomintang full of good feelings about her appearance, and Anna was able to smoothly obtain important information on the speech of the Kuomintang military leader.
Zhu Jiahua
At the same time, Shen Anna also had access to the meetings chaired by Chiang Kai-shek and served as its stenographer.
However, at any important meeting convened by the Kuomintang politicians, Shen Anna's petite figure is likely to appear on the side of the rostrum, where she sits quietly, burying her head in writing down the speeches of everyone at the meeting, and then translating the shorthand manuscript into Chinese characters, and her husband will compile and write it down and report it to Yan'an for reference by the central authorities.
Of course, not all the content of the meeting can be shorthanded, and when it comes to some of the most important speeches, Chiang Kai-shek will ask the stenographers to stop, and this is the time to test Shen Anna's memory. Often at this time, she would silently bow her head, draw a hand on her body, write down these confidential information, and then wait for the meeting to end, and then find a place where no one was to write it down.
In this way, with her own wisdom, Anna successively transmitted many documents and messages within the Kuomintang, allowing the CPC Central Committee to grasp Chiang Kai-shek's policies and trends against the Communist Party.
In 1939, while secretly planning plans such as "dissolving the party," "defending the party," and "restricting the party," the Kuomintang was vigorously performing the good play of "the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China," and after learning of Chiang Kai-shek's real conspiracy, Shen Anna, under the cover of Hua Mingzhi, found Dong Biwu and Bogu, and reported all the reactionary documents and the situation of the meeting in their entirety, thus contributing to the cpc's rapid response.
In the Mid-Autumn Festival of the same year, after witnessing Shen Anna's dedication on the secret intelligence front, the central government approved her request to join the Communist Party of China, and the news was relayed by Lu Jingru, and after hearing this news, Shen Anna burst into tears with joy.
Shortly after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, according to the information provided by Shen Anna, the Kuomintang did once again set off a wave of "liquidation and suppression" of the Communist Party, but this time it was different from the past, and the CPC Central Committee had already obtained enough information from Anna before this, so it quickly reacted, and a big war broke out between the Kuomintang and the Communists.
So there was the first scene, after the three major battles, the Kuomintang was defeated and retreated, and had no choice but to move south.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="186" > the victory of the War of Resistance, "Blood Rose" is known</h1>
On April 21, 1949, Chairman Mao Zedong and Commander-in-Chief Zhu De issued an order to march across the country, and the People's Liberation Army, after receiving the order, launched the Campaign to Cross the River and attack Nanjing.
Unlike the high morale of the People's Liberation Army, at that time, a run on the Kuomintang area had begun to appear, because the Kuomintang side had lost a lot of confidence, coupled with the "lack of help", when the People's Liberation Army successfully crossed the Yangtze River and directly pounded Nanjing, the Nanjing Nationalist Government no longer existed.
At this time, Shen Anna not only did not follow the Kuomintang to move south and retreat, but quietly came to Shanghai, and with the liberation of Shanghai on May 27, 1949, her 15-year underground espionage work officially ended. In these 15 years, she has experienced the process of Chiang Kai-shek's government from prosperity to decline, which makes people can't help but sigh.
In October of the same year, after the founding of New China, Shen Anna and her husband entered the State Security Bureau and held positions at the level of department and bureau. During this period, the two men spent decades of time for national security and kept a pure land for the people.
Shen Anna's family of three
After the two left in 1983, she also served as an advisory member of the Ministry of State Security, and Shen Anna enjoyed vice ministerial treatment; in December 1989, Shen Anna was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Ministry of State Security for the Unsung Hero of the Hidden Front.
Since then, the two elderly people have settled in the western suburbs of Beijing, raising flowers and grass every day, that is, watching the news in front of the TV set, or reading the "People's Daily" and living the life of an ordinary person.
I thought that this experience of lurking in the enemy camp would become a dusty page in the history of the party with the passage of time, until the release of a spy war movie based on Shen Anna in recent years, "Spy War Rose", pushed her to the public again. At this time, people learned that there was such an obscure "female version of Yu Zecheng" on the original hidden front!
On June 16, 2010, the 95-year-old Shen Anna passed away peacefully in Beijing, leaving a latent legend that made the world sigh.