At sixteen o'clock in the afternoon of June 10, 1950, a murderous smell filled the area around the Baba-cho execution ground, and this unpleasant smell made the people at the execution ground feel a little breathless. The sun was still emitting heat, and the strong sunlight pierced the eyes of those present. Half an hour later, at the order of the captain of the execution, the gendarmes pulled the trigger, and the evil bullets were frantically fired at the "traitor", and the "traitor" fell down in response.
General Wu Shi took a group photo with his wife and son
This fallen "traitor" was Wu Shi, then lieutenant general of the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense, and his real identity was an undercover agent installed by the underground party organization of the Cpc in the upper echelons of the Kuomintang, and his task was to collect top-secret military intelligence of the Kuomintang, help the People's Liberation Army attack Taiwan, and realize the reunification of the motherland at an early date.
On August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered, and the whole country rejoiced. The peaceful reunification that the masses of the whole country had longed for had finally arrived. However, the top level of the Kuomintang, represented by Chiang Kai-shek, suffered from gains and losses and secretly formulated a plan to attack the Liberated Areas. In June 1946, Chiang Kai-shek's false peace was self-defeating and he attacked the Liberated Areas of the Central Plains.
At this time, Wu Shi, who was already dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's authoritarian rule and closely hoped for national reunification, began to lean toward the Communist Party. In 1947 and 1948, Wu Shi took the initiative to contact Wu Zhongxi, who was ostensibly the chief inspector of the Kuomintang but was actually an underground party installed by the CCP in the Kuomintang, hoping to join the Communist Party and help the Communist Party overthrow the Kuomintang dictatorship.
By January 1949, the People's Liberation Army had won the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin, and the main force of the Kuomintang had been crushed, and the Kuomintang was at the end of the crossbow. In order to accelerate the liberation of the whole country, the remnants of the Kuomintang were dismantled. The Kuomintang gradually retreated, and a large number of Kuomintang archives were transported to Taiwan, and the 500 boxes of important military archives that were originally to be transported to Taiwan were cleverly left in Fuzhou on the grounds that Fuzhou had "it is easy to return to Beijing if you enter, and it is convenient to transfer to Taiwan when you retreat," and then handed them over to the People's Liberation Army. In July 1949, wu shi could have stayed on the mainland to accompany his family, but Wu Shi took the initiative to go to Taiwan to contribute to the liberation of Taiwan and the realization of the reunification of the motherland, to calm his shame that he had not contributed to the people and the country for so many years.
In October 1949, the Kuomintang army stuck in Kinmen, and the People's Liberation Army failed to attack Kinmen due to lack of military intelligence; in November of the same year, the People's Liberation Army failed to attack the Zhoushan Islands, making it more difficult to attack Taiwan.
At this time, Wu Shi had moved to Taiwan with the Kuomintang. In order to contact Wu Shi and provide the People's Liberation Army with Kuomintang military intelligence through Wu Shi, the East China Bureau sent Zhu Feng to Taiwan to contact Wu Shi.
Zhu Feng was escorted to the execution ground
During his incubation in Taiwan, Wu Shi quickly passed a large amount of military intelligence through Zhu Feng to the Intelligence Bureau of the East China Bureau through Hong Kong. Chairman Mao deeply praised the source of this important information and demanded that Wu Shi and others be credited.
As the Kuomintang withdrew from Taiwan, the Kuomintang stepped up its crackdown on the CCP's underground party organizations in Taiwan and launched a series of "great purge" activities in Taiwan. On January 29, 1950, the head of the Taiwan underground party of the Chinese Communist Party, Cai Xiaoqian, was arrested, and within a week, he immediately defected, and he confessed Wu Shi and Zhu Feng, and his defection directly led to the arrest of more than 400 underground party members of the Taiwan Communist Party, and the party organization in Taiwan was completely destroyed.
Cai Xiaoqian (1908-1982)
Because Wu Shi held an important position in the Kuomintang and held a relatively high position in the Kuomintang, Wu Shi did not immediately arrest Wu Shi after being confessed by Cai Xiaoqian, and the Secret Bureau only had a suspicious attitude toward Wu Shi. Mao Renfeng, director of the Secrecy Bureau, had to report to The Chief of Staff, Zhou Zhirou, and was given the task of screening Wu Shi. Mao Renfeng set up a special task force specifically responsible for screening Wu Shi, and sent gu zhengwen, the leader of the group, to visit Mrs. Wu Shi, taking the opportunity to get the news that Wu Shi and Zhu Feng often met. This further strengthened Mao Renfeng's suspicions, and Mao Renfeng reported it to Chiang Kai-shek.
Director of the Secrecy Bureau Mao Renfeng (1898-1956)
Chiang Kai-shek ordered Zhou Zhirou to investigate the case severely and thoroughly, and finally found the "Special Pass" that Wu Shi had personally issued to Zhu Feng, and Wu Shi was immediately arrested.
Zhu Feng, who had already completed the task, was preparing to return to the mainland within a month, but at this time he was already in Zhoushan, across the river from the mainland, and he also entrusted a letter to his family in Shanghai.
In June 1950, Wu Shi, Zhu Feng, Chen Baocang, and Nie Xi were sentenced to death by the Kuomintang Special Military Tribunal for "espionage", and on June 10, they were heroically inaugurated at 16:30.
Wu Shi was writing a suicide note
Today, we may only be able to obtain their stories from words and pictures, but their contributions to the cause of the people's liberation and the reunification of the motherland cannot be ignored or even forgotten by future generations.
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