On October 1, 1949, Chairman Mao announced to the world in a loud voice on the tower of Tiananmen Square: "The People's Republic of China has been founded!" ”
This event became the most important event in the whole country at that time, and people relished the grandeur of the day of the ceremony, but they did not know that at this time when the whole country was boiling, countless unknown people were working hard for this sacred moment.
At that time, shortly after the end of the War of Liberation, the Chiang Kai-shek clique, before retreating to Taiwan, arranged many secret agents on the mainland in order to realize its "daydream" of counterattacking the mainland.
Something as big as the founding of New China is precisely when these enemy elements are "ready to move." Therefore, guarding the safety of the leaders at that time and ensuring the normal and orderly progress of the ceremony became the most important work of these people.
In order to be able to carry out their work better, countless plainclothes police officers disguised themselves to secretly protect the safety of the ceremony. To the surprise of many people, the heaviest task of protecting the safety of leaders on the tiananmen Tower at that time was handed over to 40 women in plainclothes.
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In August 1949, as the date of the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China drew nearer, Mu Fengyun, political commissar of the plainclothes guard brigade of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, received a special order from the Party Central Committee:
A ceremonial security team was set up to ensure the absolute safety of the founding ceremony.
This is a secret work, but also a very difficult work, Mu Fengyun received the task, the first time to secretly carry out the team formation work.
At this time, the War of Liberation had already won an absolute victory, and most of the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek had fled to Taiwan, our country. But these thieves are not dead, and even stubbornly think that they are just fighting a defeat. As long as we can grasp the right time, we will certainly be able to continue to occupy the initiative.
When our party announces to the world that the People's Republic of China has been officially established, it is undoubtedly a slap in the face of old Chiang Kai-shek. These enemy elements will certainly not let the founding ceremony be held smoothly, and will certainly make small moves behind their backs. Mu Fengyun's main task was to find these enemy elements lurking among the masses before the founding ceremony. At the same time, on the day of the founding ceremony, beware of the enemy's sabotage.
These things are simple to say, but they are not fun to do. The enemy elements are very cunning, they have rich experience in lurking and camouflage, their anti-reconnaissance ability is particularly strong, and the enemy is in the dark and in the light, and the situation is very unfavorable to us.
Mu Fengyun is also an old policeman, and naturally has his own solution to these problems.
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The first is the selection of plainclothes policemen, which is the basic work and the most important work. Mu Fengyun personally experienced it, and all the plainclothes policemen were personally screened by him, not only with good political quality, but also with a very firm will.
These plainclothes policemen were divided into three brigades, the first of which was a company drawn from the Peiping Picket Corps, which was mainly responsible for leading the safety along the way; the second brigade was a part of the investigators drawn from the Intelligence Department of the North China Military Region, mainly responsible for guarding the vicinity of the place where the party and state leaders were stationed.
Mu Fengyun knew very well that the enemy was hiding inside the masses, and if he wanted to dig these people out, he still had to return to the masses. So he gave these plainclothes policemen a very special order, that is, to really disguise, not to make a show.
If you want to be undetected by the enemy, then be sure to fully integrate into the "character". Plainclothes policemen really went to learn from their teachers, and on the crowded streets, some became shoemakers, some became hawkers along the way, and each of them was very professional.
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Of course, the most special is the third team, they have a total of 40 people, all of them are girls. They were specially selected by Mu Fengyun from the new high school graduates, with outstanding looks, tall figures, high political consciousness, excellent physical fitness, and some kung fu foundation.
On the day of the founding ceremony, the party and state leaders were surrounded by personal guards, and these gold medal guards were specially selected by the Ninth Bureau of Zhongnanhai. Their main responsibility is to ensure the safety of the water source on the day.
Don't underestimate these tea and water work, the enemy elements at that time, the best thing is poisoning. If these enemy elements are exploited on the day of the ceremony, and only a little poison is needed, it may lead to the harm of many party and state leaders, and it will even raise the prestige of the enemy and destroy the morale of their own people.
The water on the upper floor of Tiananmen Square is a special water supply, and there are special people responsible for boiling water to take care of it. If there are enemy elements who want to be poisoned that day, they must be added to the kettle. Coming to this distance in front of the leaders, Mu Fengyun repeatedly stressed to the female plainclothes that no matter what, we must ensure the absolute safety of the water source, and we must ensure that the kettle is not left after getting the kettle.
In this process, the plainclothes women must also watch the six ways and listen to the eight directions, pay close attention to the movements on the city tower, and see if there are suspicious personnel, as if they are security inspection machines.
Mu Fengyun specially invited a etiquette teacher to teach these girls to pour tea and water, smile standardly, and all the training work was carried out in accordance with the standards of the protocol. So when these plainclothes women appeared on the upper floor of Tiananmen Square, they were very skilled in each of their performances.
In addition to etiquette courses, Mu Fengyun also specially arranged martial arts courses, which is to avoid that in case of really discovering enemy elements, female plainclothes can also strike and confront the enemy in time, protect the safety of party and state leaders, and ensure the normal progress of the ceremony.
Therefore, no one thought that these concierges, who looked very weak, were all practicing family members, and their fist and foot kung fu was very good.
In fact, the reason why girls will do such a dangerous job, Mu Fengyun also has her own considerations. Because the goal of the Tiananmen Tower is larger, if you arrange for men to wear plainclothes, it is inevitable that some are too abrupt, it is very easy to expose the identity, and it is more reasonable to choose female plainclothes.
So at that time, Mu Fengyun himself said: "The heaviest burden is placed on the girls." ”
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Just over an hour before the founding ceremony, the delegates who came to attend the ceremony successively stayed at the Asia Hotel (today's Qianmen Hotel). After obtaining this information, the Taiwan side will certainly not let it go easily, and secretly orders agents lurking in Beijing to infiltrate the hotel and carry out sabotage activities.
It was just dawn this day, and wu Ruijin, an enemy agent, disguised as a vegetable farmer, came to the door of the restaurant. Because restaurants need a lot of vegetables every day, they often let these vegetable farmers deliver food to the restaurant. Every time the vegetable farmer came, the sentry on duty would let them deliver the vegetables to the designated place. And this part of the journey, it is easy for vegetable farmers to lurk and disguise themselves.
Wu Ruijin lied that wang qiang, the purchaser of the hotel, let him come, and it just so happened that the sentry also knew Wang Qiang, and the sentry looked at the vegetables in the basket of water spirits, so he let Wu Ruijin go.
At this moment, one of Wu Ruijin's moves suddenly attracted the attention of the sentry.
Qianmen Hotel
It turned out that Wu Ruijin wanted to portray himself more like a vegetable farmer, so he raised his arm to wipe the sweat, but he accidentally exposed his arm.
When the sentry saw that the vegetable farmer's arm was white and fat, he immediately became confused. Generally speaking, vegetable farmers have to work in the fields every day, every day the wind and the sun are blowing, and their arms should be black and dirty, not white and fat like Wu Ruijin.
Most of the people who can have such arms are people who do not work hard. At such a critical time, posing as a vegetable farmer mixed into an Asian restaurant, there must be some ulterior secret.
Without saying a word, the sentry took Wu Ruijin to the duty room, and Wu Ruijin saw that his identity was about to be exposed, and tried to commit suicide by taking poison. Fortunately, the soldier on duty stopped it in time and found a time bomb from his body.
If the sentry had not seen Wu Ruijin's arm and let him in, there would have been a big explosion at the Asia Hotel, and the dignitaries who lived in the hotel would have faced great danger to their lives.
As the founding ceremony drew closer and closer, and seeing that the plan to formulate the bombing was bankrupt, the Taiwan side secretly launched a second plan.
On this day, Liu Shuohu, a platoon leader of the 12th Regiment of the Central Column of Public Security, dressed as an ordinary citizen as usual, made an inspection near Tiananmen Square. This is a soldier with rich experience in guarding, and was a soldier of the Central Guard Regiment during the Yan'an period.
Liu Shuohu is a bold and careful person, and during the patrol he found a Pegasus cigarette butt. The cigarette was very expensive at the time, and the place where the cigarette butt was picked up was very empty. Liu Shuohu subconsciously felt that the identity of the person who lost the cigarette butt was not simple.
The alert Liu Shuohu walked around the neighborhood for five days in a row, and finally on the fifth night, he saw a man wearing a top hat. At that time, the man was still holding a pen in his hand, drawing something on the paper, but when he looked up, it was a road map.
The man found that he had been exposed, and immediately took out a dagger from his arms and fought with Liu Shuohu. But where is he the opponent of our guard regiment soldiers? Liu Shuohu subdued this person with three strokes and five divisions.
After interrogation, it was learned that this person was an agent of the Beiping Intelligence Group of the North China Inspection Group of the Second Department of National Defense of the Kuomintang, and that he had been given the task of drawing up a topographic map of Tiananmen Square and preparing to attack Chairman Mao and a number of CPC leaders with bombs on the day of the ceremony.
After such a thrilling, there are many things that feel "lucky", and the final solution of each thing is because these obscure warriors are working hard behind their backs. The security work of plainclothes police officers is actually a smokeless war.
It was not until the end of the ceremony that Mu Fengyun's heart, which mentioned the eyes of his throat, finally slowly fell. Afterwards he recalled:
"On October 1, 1949, there was no trouble."