One day in December 1949, Chairman Mao received a batch of top-secret military intelligence retrieved by Zhu Feng from the "Secret Envoy No. 1" lurking in Taiwan, and happily wrote a poem: The waves are shocking the isolated island, and the blue waves reflect the dawn; the tiger's den hides the loyal soul, and the dawn is early.
Why was Chairman Mao so happy? It turned out that this information contained extremely valuable information such as the "Strategic Defense Map of the Taiwan Theater," the "Map of Troop Strength and Firearms Equipment of The Frontline Positions of Coastal Defense, and the Deployment of the Fleet of the Taiwan Naval Base."
Who is "Secret Envoy No. 1" and why can they obtain such top-secret information? It turned out that "Secret Envoy No. 1" was Lieutenant General Wu Shi, who held the position of deputy chief of staff, and had provided a large amount of important information in the Liberation War. After the victory of the Liberation War, General Wu Shi could have stayed on the mainland and would have had a very good local position with his status and contribution. But for the sake of the reunification of the motherland, he chose an extremely dangerous path - to continue to lurk in Taiwan...
General Wu Shi is the prototype of the male protagonist Yu Zecheng in the TV series "Latent". His legend is more real and touching than Yu Zecheng. The following tells you the moving story of General Wu Shi.
Wu Shi, a native of Minhou County, Fujian Province, was born in 1894, his original name was Cui Wen (萃文), the character Yu Xuan (虞薰), and he studied hard since childhood. After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, the 17-year-old Wu Shi resolutely threw himself into the Pen and joined the Northern Expedition Student Army. After that, he was sent to the third phase of the Baoding Military Academy to study, and was classmates with Bai Chongxi and Zhang Zhi.
When Wu Shi was in Baoding Military Academy, he was the first in the whole school in every examination and was known as the champion of the military academy. After graduation, Wu Shi participated in the Dharma Protection Movement and was appointed commander of the Jing min army. After that, Wu Shi served as chief of staff in the Third Army and the Fujian Military Institute.
In 1929, Wu Shi decided to travel east to Japan to study. At that time, Wu Shi was 35 years old, and most of his classmates and friends were busy making meritorious achievements. But Wu Shi was disappointed by the state of warlord melee, and was also keenly aware that Japan would be our worst enemy in the future. So he resolutely crossed the east, studied at the Japanese Artillery School and the Japanese Army University, and ranked first in the two schools with his graduation results.
During his six years in Japan, Wu Shi lived in great poverty, and he used all the money he saved to buy military works and information about all aspects of Japan, and grasped as much of the situation in Japan as possible. Therefore, after returning from his stay in Japan, Wu Shi taught at the Army University for many years and was recognized by the military circles as a "Japanese master".
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, Wu Shi served as the director of the intelligence department of the military base camp. Old Chiang kai-shek summoned Wu Shi almost every week to consult him on the dynamics of the Japanese army. At this time, Wu Shi had already become a senior staff officer that Old Chiang was extremely dependent on.
Wu Shi's previous monographs such as "Apocryphal Compilation of Military Dictionaries", "Studies on clausewitz's Theory of War", and "Analysis of Sun Tzu's Art of War" have aroused great repercussions in military circles, especially the book "Affixed To the Dictionary of Military Science", which is called the best military reference book. The movements of the Japanese army in the Songhu War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression showed that the combination of forces and the direction of attack of the Japanese invading army were mostly as Wu Shi predicted.
After that, Wu Shi was recommended by Bai Chongxi as the chief of staff of the fourth theater of operations, commanded the Battle of Guiliu and the Sino-Vietnamese border defense war, and finally had the opportunity to exert his outstanding military talents. However, although Wu Shi was talented, he was not good at pandering to others and was not reused. In this regard, Wu Shi himself deeply regretted it.
At this time, Wu Shi met his old friend Wu Zhongxi. Wu Zhongxi secretly joined the Communist Party before the July 7 Incident, and Wu Shi was disappointed in the old Chiang Kai-shek, admired Chairman Mao's military work "On Protracted War", and had a good feeling for Premier Zhou, Ye Jianying and others, so Wu Zhongxi found an opportunity to mobilize Wu Shi. Since then, Wu Shi has planted a seed in his heart that will take root and sprout in the future.
In the Battle of Yuxianggui in the later stages of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Japan mobilized heavy troops to besiege Xianggui, and Wu Shi's troops repeatedly sent telegrams requesting additional troops, but old Jiang did not send a single soldier, which eventually led to a major rout in Xianggui. Wu Shi knew that old Chiang Was doing this in order to eliminate dissidents, but he was deeply saddened by this and angrily resigned from the post of chief of staff of the Fourth Theater.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, although Wu Shi was a lieutenant general, he had no real power in the army, and only served as the director of the Historical Administration Bureau, unable to truly exert his talents. Coupled with Wu Shi's preference for old Jiang's concubines, the incompetent defeated general who reused Liu Zhi would feel unfair, and his heart was even more resentful.
Liu Zhi often collapsed in the War of Resistance, lost a lot of battles, trained a mysterious escape skill, and obtained a "long-legged general" elegant title. Later, Liu Zhi sat in Xuzhou, and he really miserably caused old Jiang Tokeng.
Of course, what disappointed Wu Shi the most was that the old Chiang Kai-shek brazenly launched a civil war, and the receiving officials skillfully seized and indiscriminately issued gold coupons, causing prices to soar and the people to be unhappy. When Wu Shi talked to his close friend at home, he once exclaimed that "it is unreasonable for old Jiang not to die." After these words reached Old Jiang's ears, Old Jiang also sent people to investigate, but in the end no evidence was found, and it was not resolved.
At this time, Wu Shi, like Yu Zecheng in the TV series "Latent", is increasingly inclined to revolution. = Wu Zhongxi, He Sui and others pulled Wu Shi at the right time, so that Wu Shi officially established contact with our underground intelligence staff.
In June 1948, Wu Zhongxi was sent to the Xuzhou General Headquarters. The long-legged general Liu Zhi was not worried, but the hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers under his command could not be underestimated. The organization asked Wu Zhongxi to take the opportunity to try his best to gather intelligence in the front, but Wu Zhongxi was not familiar with the high-level officers on the Xuzhou side, so he first found Wu Shi. It just so happened that Li Shu, Liu Zhi's chief of staff, was Wu Shi's student, so Wu Shi wrote a letter to Li Shuzheng, asking him to take more care of Wu Zhongxi.
Wu Zhongxi arrived in Xuzhou with Wu Shi's handwritten letter, and Li Shuzheng was very kind to Wu Zhongxi after reading the letter, and personally took Wu Zhongxi to the confidential room to read the battle map. Wu Zhongxi took the opportunity to record the information on the xuzhou front troop number, stationing place, and service type, and then asked for medical treatment and sent the information to the organization.
When Wu Zhongxi recalled this incident, he once said: Without Wu Shi's forceful introduction, without Li Shuzheng doing all kinds of care according to Wu Shi's instructions, it would not have been possible to go so smoothly. This information obtained by Wu Zhongxi played a very crucial role in the victory of the Huaihai Campaign.
After the Battle of Huaihai, the organization gave Wu Shi an important task directly — it was in urgent need of river defense intelligence. After receiving the task, Wu Shi quickly searched for the intelligence map of Jiang defense. Half a month later, Wu Shi personally handed over a group of top-secret intelligence to He Sui's son He Kang. One of the large maps is a map of the deployment of troops for the defense of the Yangtze River, and the number of the troops marked is detailed to the regiment. The information transmitted by Wu Shi played a very important role in determining the main attack direction of the river.
After that, Wu Shi served as deputy director of the Fuzhou Appeasement Office. Before leaving, he handed over a package of important information to He Sui, including statistics on the enemy's total strength and logistics, as well as the organization, number, and equipment of the enemy's army in the Jiangnan region, and so on.
During his stay in Fuzhou, Wu Shi also delivered important information such as the "Enemy-Us Situation Map" and the "Troop Allocation Map" to help the People's Liberation Army smoothly and quickly enter Fujian. Not only that, Wu Shi also shouldered a heavy responsibility - mobilizing the navy to revolt.
Wu Shi quickly completed the work of captain Lin Zun, a fellow villager. Lin Zun is the nephew of the national hero Lin Zexu, who led a fleet south to recover the main island of Nansha after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, naming it "Taiping Island" after the name of the main battleship. At the end of April 1949, Lin Zun led 25 ships and more than 1,200 naval officers and men of the Second Coastal Defense Fleet to revolt, and later became a founding rear admiral, serving as deputy commander of the East China Sea Fleet, and making significant contributions to the new Chinese Navy.
In addition, Wu Shi also left 500 boxes of important military classified archives in Fuzhou. At that time, Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng, and others advocated directly transporting the archives to Taiwan, while Wu Shi cleverly left them on the grounds that "it is easy to return to Beijing if Fuzhou enters, and it is convenient to transfer to Taiwan when retreating." These archives played an extremely important role after the founding of the country, so that hundreds of thousands of armed agents lurking on the mainland were eliminated in one fell swoop.
On the eve of the liberation of Fuzhou, Wu Shi's identity was still not revealed. At that time, Wu Shi could have stayed on the mainland, and with wu Shi's contributions, he could definitely get a very good local position in Fujian. However, when the old Chiang Sent a Telegram urging him to go to Taiwan to serve as the deputy chief of staff of the "Ministry of National Defense," Wu Shi resolutely chose to go to Taiwan and continued to lurk like Yu Zecheng in "Latent."
Wu Zhongxi recalled that he had discussed with Wu Shi the problem of staying in the past. Wu Zhongxi stayed, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Justice, the vice chairman of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and died of illness at the age of 88.
But Wu Shi did not choose to stay, he wanted to use the important position of deputy chief of staff (equivalent to our deputy minister of general staff) to continue to provide intelligence to help the reunification of the motherland. Wu Shi said to Wu Zhongxi:
My determination has been made too late, and I have done too little for the people, and now that I have the opportunity to liberate Taiwan and reunify the motherland, what is the personal risk? After arriving in Taiwan, I continued to provide intelligence and strive to help the motherland reunify at an early date.
Wu Shi resolutely took his family to Taiwan and continued his tense and dangerous lurking life, and the contact code was "Secret Envoy No. 1". In order to avoid arousing suspicion, Wu Shi's wife Wang Bikui and her two children also went to Taiwan together.
At that time, the remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's forces were concentrated in Taiwan, and the situation on the island was very dangerous. After Wu Shi learned that He Sui was also on the island, he quickly found He Sui and repeatedly urged He Sui to leave. Wu Shi said to He Sui: It doesn't matter to me, I have the cover of the deputy chief of staff, but you don't, you go fast!
Wu Shi helped He Sui buy a direct ticket from Taipei to Hong Kong and personally escorted He Sui to the airport. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, He Sui served as a member of the East China Military and Political Committee, minister of justice, and deputy director of the Political and Legal Committee, and died of illness at the age of 80.
In October and November 1949, Sanno lost successively in the battles of Kinmen and Zhoushan Islands, mainly due to inaccurate intelligence. At that time, the underground organization in Taiwan was seriously damaged, and the connection with the internal line of the enemy's upper organs was severed. At this time, the importance of Wu Shi is self-evident.
After careful study, the leaders of the East China Bureau finally decided to send Zhu Feng to Taiwan to contact Wu Shi. Zhu Feng, also known as Zhu Chenzhi, was a native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang, who had been arrested and imprisoned by the Japanese gendarmes, withstood the test of cruel torture, and was released from prison under the rescue of the organization. Zhu Feng has long been engaged in underground intelligence work in Shanghai and Hong Kong, is a tried and tested underground worker, and she was working in Hong Kong at the time, and her daughter and son-in-law worked in Taiwan, which is not easy to arouse suspicion.
On November 27, Zhu Feng arrived in Taiwan and quickly contacted Cai Xiaoqian, who was code-named "Lao Zheng". Cai Xiaoqian, a native of Changhua, Taiwan, was the only Taiwanese party member to participate in the Long March, and was appointed secretary of the Taiwan Working Committee in September 1945, and secretly returned to Taiwan in July 1946 to work.
Zhu Feng made a request in line with the professional habits of underground intelligence personnel: she herself, "Old Zheng", and "Secret Envoy No. 1" could only meet separately, not at the same time. Unfortunately, even if Zhu Feng was cautious, he could not prevent the subsequent misfortune.
On December 4, Wu Shi secretly received Zhu Feng in the study of his apartment. After confirming her identity, Wu Shi listened to Zhu Feng introduce her intentions, and then took out a round iron box from the small safe hidden in the study, and solemnly told Zhu Feng: The microfilm contained in the box is all top-secret military intelligence, and I hope that you will return to the mainland as quickly as possible.
After that, Zhu Feng handed the information into the hands of a special traffic officer who served as a first officer on a sea vessel that regularly traveled to and from Hong Kong and Keelung. The intelligence was first sent to Hong Kong, then to the East China Bureau, and finally to Beijing, where it was delivered directly to Mao Zedong.
The intelligence contains extremely valuable materials such as "Analysis of Geographical Data of Strategic Landing Sites on Taiwan Island," "Strategic Defense Map of Taiwan Theater," "Map of Strength and Firearms Of Frontline Positions in Coastal Defense" of Zhoushan Islands and Kinmen. When Mao Zedong saw this much-needed important and confidential information, he was extremely happy and immediately wrote a poem praising Wu Shi:
The waves beat the isolated island, and the blue waves reflect the dawn.
The tiger's den hides loyal souls, and the dawn ushers in early.
Just when Zhu Feng was preparing to buy a ferry ticket to leave, a major change suddenly occurred - Cai Xiaoqian was arrested. Cai Xiaoqian soon defected and gave a large amount of list information. After Wu Shi learned of the situation, he quickly sent Colonel Nie Xi to make an urgent appointment with Zhu Feng and arranged for Zhu Feng to be transferred immediately.
At this time, the air and sea routes to Hong Kong were blocked. At the critical moment, Wu Shi issued a "special permit" for Zhu Feng and sent her to Zhoushan on a military transport plane.
In fact, Wu Shi was also included in the list provided by Cai Xiaoqian, but Mao Renfeng, director of the Secrecy Bureau, was also quite jealous and did not dare to take action immediately. Wu Shi was the deputy chief of staff, Chen Cheng, Bai Chongxi, and others were all wu shi's friends, and Wu Shi and many other students held important positions.
After Mao Renfeng got the consent of the chief of staff, Zhou Zhirou, he sent someone to Wu Shi's apartment to search. The relevant written materials on Wu Shi's issuance of the "Special Pass" remained in the study, and after these materials were searched, not only Zhu Feng's whereabouts were exposed, but Wu Shi was also completely exposed. When Old Jiang heard the news, he was extremely angry and ordered the immediate arrest of Wu Shi and the arrest of Zhu Feng by the Zhoushan side. At that time, Zhu Feng had not yet successfully left Zhoushan.
Wu Shi was subjected to various tortures in prison, interrogated repeatedly, and blinded in one eye. The ordeal is very human to bear. But Wu Shi was unyielding, regarded death as a homecoming, and did not open his mouth no matter what. In the end, Lao Jiang personally approved the "390084" murder secret order.
When he paraded the streets to show the public, Wu Shi said the following words to the escorting soldiers: Mainland Taiwan is a family, which is the blood and the people's heart. In a few decades, I will be back in my hometown!
Before the sacrifice, Wu Shi calmly recited a poem he had written in prison:
Providence is vast and unseen, and the world is even more difficult to know. Ordinary life is hard work and loyalty, and it is too sad to end like this. Fifty-seven years in a dream, fame and dedication are empty. With a heart of a dan, Izumi can be sorry for me.
On June 10, General Wu Shi was martyred at the Taipei Racecourse Execution Ground. Also killed were Lieutenant General Chen Baocang, Wu Shi's good friend, Colonel Nie Xi, and Zhu Feng, Wu Shi's subordinates. Zhu Feng also had no fear when she was about to be executed, she shouted "Long live new China" and died of 7 bullets in her body.
After the death of General Wu Shi, his identity was not made public on the mainland. Twenty-three years later, Premier Zhou, with the support of Chairman Mao, posthumously recognized General Wu Shi as a revolutionary martyr. Two years later, in the winter of 1975, Premier Zhou, who was seriously ill, still had General Wu Shi in mind, saying: We will never forget our old friends in Taiwan, such as General Wu Shi...
In 1994, General Wu Shi's younger daughter, Wu Xuecheng, brought back her father's bones from Taiwan, and General Wu Shi's youngest son, Wu Jiancheng, brought back his mother's bones from the United States and buried them together at Futian Cemetery in Xishan, Beijing. General Wu Shi finally returned to his hometown as he sacrificed! Hope that Taiwan, the treasure island, will also return to the motherland as soon as possible!