Source: Taiwan Straits Network
According to the Fuzhou News Network, at 7:00 a.m. on December 20, 1975, Luo Qingchang, then deputy secretary general of the State Council and director of the office of the Central Leading Group for Taiwan Work, received a telephone call from Premier Zhou Enlai.
At the last moment of his life, Premier Zhou left a deep message to Luo Qingchang: "Don't forget Wu Shi and them..."
General Wu Shi (left), Yu Zecheng in "Latent" (right)
Wu Shi in the mouth of Premier Zhou is an outstanding unsung hero of our party's hidden front, the prototype of the male protagonist Yu Zecheng in the famous literary works and film and television drama "Latent", and also a dazzling star in Fuzhou, a land where heroes have emerged.
Wu Shi is a native of Luozhou, Fuzhou. In the autumn of 1894, Wu Shi was born in a humble Confucian family, and his father Wu Guohuan attached great importance to education, and Wu Shi obtained a good opportunity to study.
Wu Shi's former residence Garfield/Photo
In 1911, the young Wu Shi joined the Northern Expedition student army to participate in the Xinhai Revolution, and from then on embarked on the road of saving the country from danger.
After graduating from the officer school, Wu Shi used his excellent ability to rise through the ranks of the Kuomintang and was deeply relied upon by Chiang Kai-shek. However, Wu Shi was deeply disappointed by the corruption and decadence of the Kuomintang authorities, and even lamented that "it is unreasonable for the Kuomintang not to die."
Stone statue of General Wu Shi. Photo by Shi Meixiang
Then, through the mediation of his close friend He Sui, Wu Shi had a separate meeting with Liu Xiao, secretary of the Shanghai Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
This meeting became an important turning point in Wu Shi's life -- he became a high-level internal line installed by the CCP in the Kuomintang military organs, and his life has since been closely linked to the Chinese Communist Party and the cause of Chinese liberation.
In Nanjing and Shanghai in 1949, the atmosphere of slaughter was pervasive.
In the early morning of one day in March, there was an agreed knock at the door of He Fu, No. 2 JiandeFang in Shanghai, and He Kang, an underground member of the Communist Party of China, hurriedly opened the door, and it was Wu Shi, a lieutenant general in the History and Politics Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense.
Wu Shi carried with him a set of top-secret intelligence, including a military map that clearly marked the deployment of the Kuomintang troops' defense forces on the Yangtze River. At that time, the Battle of Crossing the River was about to begin, and our army urgently needed the detailed military deployment of the Kuomintang army.
The first boat to cross the river "Kyoden"
In May 1949, Wu Shi became the deputy director of the Fuzhou Appeasement Office. He took advantage of this position to send to our party, through the hand of Xie Xiaoyi, commissioner of the Social Department of the CPC Central Committee, a large amount of core military information, including top-secret documents held by a very small number of people at the top of the Kuomintang Military Commission.
Screenshot of the TV series "Latent"
From Nanjing to Shanghai to Fuzhou, Wu Shi risked his life to provide intelligence and made special contributions to the liberation of important cities such as Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Fuzhou.
The War of Liberation was in full swing, and soon the Kuomintang was preparing to retreat to Taiwan, and Wu Shi was faced with the choice of whether to go or stay. He said: "Now that there are still opportunities, personal risk is nothing. He resolutely chose to go deep into Taiwan's "tiger's den" and shouldered a very dangerous and arduous lurking task.
In August 1949, Wu Shi and his family flew from Fuzhou to Taiwan, which was under martial law. After entering Taiwan, Wu Shi was unable to contact the party due to the strait barrier.
However, he secretly traveled to Hong Kong from Taiwan twice, regardless of his personal safety, to connect with the Chinese Communist intelligence agencies in Hong Kong, and sent people to send important military intelligence on many occasions.
October 6, 1949, lunar Mid-Autumn Festival. Wu Shi and his wife Wang Bikui took a group photo with their young son in Taipei.
In November of that year, Wu Shi was promoted to deputy chief of staff and entered the military core of the Kuomintang army, using this as a cover to step up intelligence and counter-insurgency. But the road to lurking is not smooth.
At that time, the Kuomintang authorities that had retreated to Taiwan launched a frenzied crackdown on Communists and leftists. In the spring of 1950, Wu Shi was implicated and arrested because of the destruction of the Taiwan Provincial Working Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Wu Shi's Handwriting in Prison Courtesy of the Communist Party History Publishing House
On the afternoon of June 10, 1950, In Taipei, China, Baba town execution ground. This year, the midsummer in Taipei was not hot, but the atmosphere was very tense and stagnant. Wu Shi, Zhu Feng, Chen Baocang, and Nie Xi, who were executed on the same day, were accused of being so-called "traitors to the party and the state."
In the face of death, Wu Shi and the other four people had no fear and finally calmly became righteous. Before the sacrifice, Wu Shi calmly chanted a poem: "With the heart of a general, the fountain is worse than me." ”
The last photograph of General Wu Shi's life
It is gratifying that after 42 years of twists and turns, Wu Shi's remains were returned to the mainland in 1992. In October 2013, the Monument to the Unknown Heroes was inaugurated in Beijing, and full-body statues of Wu Shi, Zhu Feng, Chen Baocang and Nie Xi stood in front of the monument for people to admire.
"The waves are shining on the isolated island, the blue waves reflect the dawn; the tiger's den hides the loyal soul, and the dawn ushers in early." This is a five-sentence poem written by Mao Zedong in 1950 in praise of Wu Shi. And Wu Shi really deserves such praise, and all the Chinese should not forget this heroic revolutionary martyr.
The hundred-year journey is magnificent, and the original intention of the hundred-year journey has lasted for a long time. Here is to listen to Fuzhou, welcome to the next issue, continue to follow the red mark with us in Fuzhou.
[Source: Fuzhou News Network Content synthesis: Fuzhou Daily, Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee Party History and Local History Research Office, "Three Squares and Seven Alleys" magazine, etc. 】