The secret agent heroes who "go deep into the tiger's den and walk the tip of the knife" in the spy drama will always get everyone's heartfelt admiration. In fact, the real spy war more than 70 years ago, its thrilling degree is not inferior to today's film and television dramas. The protagonist of the story we are going to tell today is the only chinese secret service group that penetrated into the Japanese gendarmerie during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
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The "400 Secret Agents Group" formed by chance
The "400 Special Agent Group" is one of the many spy groups in the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines in eastern Zhejiang. The 7 heroes of the special agent group not only roamed the magic cave with ease, collected a large amount of Japanese intelligence, but also plotted against more than 60 Japanese spies, and even the officers of the Japanese gendarmerie personally wrote letters, hoping to surrender to the New Fourth Army.
Today, the heroes of the "400 Special Agent Group" have passed away one after another, and only mr. Ding Gongliang, who is 95 years old, is still alive.
Later years of Ding Gong
Ding Gongliang, a native of Dinghai, Zhejiang. Born in October 1921, he joined the New Fourth Army in 1938 and joined the Communist Party of China in May of the same year. In December 1942, Ding Gongliang was organized and sent to eastern Zhejiang to open up an anti-Japanese base area, and the "400 Special Agent Group" was directly led by him. Who would have thought that this secret service group, which is far more thrilling than all spy movies today, was established by chance.
In the first half of 1943, Zhou Didao, an old party member under the pseudonym Zhu Renda, was arrested, who was then the director of the Nanshan Financial and Economic Committee of the Zhejiang Eastern Administrative Office, and was betrayed by a pseudo-township chief while raising funds in Yuyao, and the Japanese army first escorted him to the Japanese garrison in Yuyao and then to the Japanese gendarmerie in Ningbo.
What Ding Gongliang did not expect was that in order to release the long line to catch big fish, the Japanese deliberately released him after detaining Zhou Didao for a period of time, asking him to become a secret agent of the Japanese army to collect intelligence of the New Fourth Army, and actually secretly monitored his actions.
Ding metric
Zhou Di secretly delivered a message to the organization, hoping to agree with his idea of taking advantage of the plan and lurking inside the enemy. After the organization agreed, Zhou Didao used his special status to set up a "counter-espionage group" within the gendarmerie team, together with several other arrested comrades. His code name is 401 and he serves as the leader of the counterintelligence team. Ding Gongliang served as the superior commander of this group.
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The fake traitor killed the real traitor
After Zhou Didao and other comrades successfully infiltrated the Japanese gendarmerie, they sent a message to Ding Gongliang, who lacked funds to obtain intelligence and engage in activities. Ding Gongliang instructed in his reply, "Don't forget your own identity, your identity is a 'traitor', if you are a traitor, you must have the appearance of a traitor, and you can go to 'knock the bamboo bar' if you lack money!" ”
This trick really worked, and the largest amount of money that Zhou Didao "blackmailed" was more than 100 million yuan. The money was obtained from Yuan Duanfu, the president of the puppet Chamber of Commerce. Ding Gongliang instructed that if the money for "knocking on the bamboo bar" is too much, others will be red-eyed. After discussing with the comrades of the group, Zhou Didao distributed this money to the traitors of the gendarmerie team, leaving only 10 million yuan as funds for the activities of the group.
After the other traitor spies received the money, they all praised Zhou Didao for "being angry enough to be friends" and "I want to work with you." As a result, his status among these spies was greatly improved, and he invisibly became their leader.
However, the object of their "extortion" must be traitorous businessmen who have defected to Japanese devils and extorted and extorted the common people, and ordinary people absolutely do not extort.
The direct leader of the "400 Agent Group" is the music group
Ding Gongliang said that like the plot of the current spy war film, the "400 Special Agent Group" encountered Li Ping, a traitor lurking within the Communist Party, in the Japanese gendarmerie. One day, Junichi Suzuki, an officer of the gendarmerie corps, handed Li Ping over to Zhou Didao and instructed that Mr. Li was also in the New Fourth Army, and that he had taken the initiative to come to join the Imperial Army, was willing to "make peace," and had a very good idea, so you should take him with him in the future!
After studying the "400 Special Agent Group", it was decided to stir up discord among Suzuki Masaichi, kill people with a knife, and kill Li Ping through the hands of the Japanese. Zhou Didao seized an opportunity to tell Suzuki that according to his observation, Li Ping's boy had come to fake surrender, and that the New Fourth Army had specially sent him to engage in intelligence. There was a mixture of this boy in the middle, making it difficult for his men to carry out activities.
Suzuki Masaichi could not withstand Zhou Didao's ridicule, and finally agreed to kill Li Ping. After a dinner party, Li Cheng, a member of the "400 Special Agent Group," drunk the traitor Li Ping and fired a shot in the jungle, but failed to kill him. After learning that Li Ping had fled back to the base area, he immediately notified the organization to get rid of him.
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Japanese officers became the New Fourth Army carrying explosives
In order to gain the trust of the Japanese gendarmerie, the "400 Special Agent Group" also provided them with "real intelligence" on many occasions. However, this intelligence is a time difference. For example, they told Suzuki That He Jing, commander of the Eastern Zhejiang Column, crossed the Yao River yesterday for the Three Norths, and the specific destination is unknown. After three or four days, they arranged for the "New Zhejiang East Daily" to publish the news, confirming that this information was accurate.
Xu Xiaoqi, a member of the "400 Counter-Espionage Group"
This news is indeed true, but the time is different, Commander He did go to the Three North, but a few days ago he had returned to the Simingshan base area in Zhejiang Province, and if Suzuki Masaichi got the "intelligence" and then sent an army to surround and suppress the New Fourth Army, he would definitely pounce.
Although the action is always empty, every time Suzuki Masaichi receives information, he can always get confirmation from other intelligence sources, so he has to admit in his heart that "Zhu Renda (Zhou Dido's pseudonym) is very good!" ”
Walking on the sharp knives of the enemy, the "400 Special Agent Group" experienced many thrilling stories.
One day, Zhou Didao received instructions: the Shanghai underground party had obtained a box of explosives urgently needed for the production of grenades for the Zhejiang Eastern Column, but could not be transported, and ordered the "400 Special Agent Group" to try to retrieve the explosives from Shanghai and send them to the Simingshan base area. The explosives were contraband and were found to be beheaded.
In a hurry, Zhou Didao learned that Kida, the head of the special high school, wanted to go to Shanghai to play, and took the interpreter and his wife with him. So, Zhou Didao begged Kiba and the translator to take himself with Xu Xiaoqi (a member of the "400 Special Agent Group") pretending to be his wife. Zhou Di said to the translator: "Our husband and wife are uneducated, have not been to Shanghai, and want to play, you are willing to take us, I will cover all the expenses." The translator was very happy to hear this, and he actually agreed. Kiba agreed.
After arriving in Shanghai, Zhou Didao and Xu Xiaoqi successfully obtained the explosives and put them in a newly purchased women's suitcase. On the day of his return, Xu Xiaoqi carried a women's suitcase in one hand and Zhou Di's arm in the other, and followed closely behind The Wooden Field, not daring to slow down half a step. On both sides of the entrance of Shanghai North Railway Station, there stood heavily armed Japanese soldiers, and the gendarmes inspected the boxes and packages of Chinese passengers entering the station one by one, and looked through them carefully, and none of them leaked.
Zhou Di Dao saw this scene, carried the box in Xu Xiaoqi's hand into The wooden field, and said: "Please help me carry the box to the train, thank you!" Kiba coldly grabbed the box, swept it very heavily, and asked, "What are you doing, why don't you carry it to the car yourself?" Are you making a fortune in the gold business? ”
Zhou Di said, "If you look at my dress, you Japanese will definitely trouble me, won't you delay your time getting on the bus?" I don't do some business where to eat and drink, take some 'yellow goods' back to subsidize subsidies. ”
Kiba listened, laughed, and did not suspect him. Although there were many inspections along the way, the box was placed behind the wooden yard, and the inspectors did not ask. After returning safely to Ningbo, the "400 Special Agent Group" managed to successfully deliver the explosives to the Simingshan base area.
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The gendarmerie officer personally wrote a letter wanting to surrender
On August 12, 1945, within the Japanese Gendarmerie, there was a meeting of Japanese gendarmerie officers, translators, and secret agents. Captain Ōba said in a low tone that His Majesty the Emperor had officially issued an edict declaring an armistice. Soon after, they returned to China, asking their spies and translators to find a way out for themselves, and those who had ties with the Chongqing Kuomintang or the New Fourth Army in Simingshan could go back, and those who had no contact on both sides decided the way out.
At this time, the "400 Special Agent Group" was still not exposed, but chose to plot against the Japanese puppet army to fall to the New Fourth Army. Zhou Didao invited the Japanese and the spies to a meal, saying that he had received the understanding of the New Fourth Army and could return to the Simingshan base area. Even a person like him who had betrayed the New Fourth Army could go back, which showed how lenient the policy of the New Fourth Army was! As a result, many secret agents were willing to defect to the New Fourth Army.
On August 16, most of the members of the "400 Special Agent Group" and more than 60 people, including secret agents who were willing to defect to the New Fourth Army, arrived at Kaiming Street in Ningbo. The Japanese gendarmerie set up 6 tables here, and captain Keiji Oba said in a toast that they would soon go to Nanjing to concentrate, and then they would be repatriated to China, and now they would break up with you and wish everyone a bright future. He also announced that anyone who went to the New Fourth Army could take away their original weapons and belongings.
This afternoon, Suzuki Masaichi and others also brought out two radio stations, 2 light machine guns and other weapons to give to Zhou Didao, saying that this was a parting gift. Fearing a Nationalist attack, a platoon of troops was sent to escort them to the base area of the New Fourth Army.
Xu Xiaoqi's children donated their suitcases to the New Fourth Army Memorial Hall
According to Ding Gongliang's recollection, "Suzuki later wrote to say that it is still difficult to predict whether he will be able to return to China in the future, and if he is not abandoned, he will now go to your ministry." Suzuki Masaichi's words are not polite words, but heartfelt words, but also to leave a way back for themselves.
On September 27, 1945, the New Fourth Army and local party and government cadres in eastern Zhejiang, totaling 15,000 people, withdrew north to the anti-Japanese base area in northern Jiangsu according to the instructions of the central authorities.