On April 24, 1949, at 7:00 a.m. on the second day after the liberation of Nanjing, at the entrance of the Thirty-fifth Army Department of the Eighth Corps of the People's Liberation Army, a middle-aged woman dressed in a plain cheongsam wanted to see Political Commissar He Kexi and declare her name.
After reporting one after another, not long after, He Kexi, the political commissar of the military, trotted all the way over, shouting while running, "Xiuliang, Comrade Xiuliang, we have finally won!" ”
This middle-aged woman is the red agent Chen Xiuliang!
In 1907, Chen Xiuliang was born in a wealthy business in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, but unfortunately Chen Xiuliang fell in the middle of the family road when he was two years old, and his father died of illness, leaving only his mother Yuan Yuying and an older sister to rely on each other. In the extended family, such a pair of orphans and widows were soon remembered by ill-intentioned clansmen, who went around embarrassing their mother and daughter. The half-brother handed a complaint to the government at the time, and after placing false accusations on the heads of the mother and daughter, he drove out of the house.
It is not easy for women to work outside, and Mother Chen is a person who wears several jobs, just to spend a lot of money to ask a tutor to teach her daughters, hoping that they will become talents in the future and not be played by others like herself.
The change of family did not make Chen Xiuliang degenerate, but inspired her fighting spirit, in the girlhood, Chen Xiuliang showed her talent in learning, with the first place was admitted to Zhejiang Women's College, it is here that she met the person who changed her life.
In school, she often read revolutionary books, which broadened her horizons and ignited her fighting spirit to participate in the revolution, and the idea of devoting herself to the revolution sprouted in her heart early. In addition, she often went to the bookstore to participate in activities and met a large number of party-loving people.
Because of Chen Xiuliang's excellent performance and leading the students to rebel against the dark and corrupt authorities, he was expelled from the school.
Fortunately, Zhu Feng, a fellow classmate in Ningbo, let Chen Xiuliang live in his own home, and said that he was close to Zhu Zhichi, and Zhu Feng came into further contact with revolutionary ideas through Chen Xiuliang.
She greatly admired Qiu Jin, Sun Yat-sen and other advanced revolutionary figures, actively participated in the May Thirtieth Movement, and began her revolutionary career.
Her talent and strong ability to work were very prominent during the Period of the Revolution. Because of his outstanding ability, he was quickly appreciated and recommended to Xiang Police, one of the founders of the Communist Party of China, as a secretary, and was introduced to a full party member by Comrade Xiang Police.
While Chen Xiuliang devoted his whole body and mind to the revolutionary cause, he also met the love of his life, Sha Wenhan. However, before that, she had been married twice, but she even deceived Chen Xiuliang and betrayed the party. It almost led to the exposure of many party members. Fortunately, Sha Wenhan was able to avoid the disaster by informing a large number of people to move in time.
After seeing his true face, he immediately broke off relations with the traitorous husband. Soon after, Under the guidance and advice of party personnel, Chen Xiuliang began to engage in espionage work. Later, he worked with Sha Wenhan and Chen Xiuliang for many years, experienced ups and downs with the same happiness and hardships, and gradually the two became affectionate and eventually married a revolutionary couple.
In many inspections by her superiors, Chen Xiuliang's performance was very outstanding, and her unswerving loyalty to the party and her firm enthusiasm for the revolutionary cause deeply affected the leadership of her superiors. The higher-level organization decided to send Chen Xiuliang to Moscow for further study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow to learn a wider and more advanced knowledge. In July 1930, Chen Xiuliang returned from her studies, and after returning to China, she accepted the arrangement of the party organization and engaged in underground work in Shanghai and other places.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the couple organized anti-Japanese armed forces in Jiangsu, carrying Japanese planes and cannons through the flames and smoke.
After the birth of Chen Xiuliang's daughter Sha Shangzhi, the mother and daughter gathered less and left more, because the Japanese in the south were rampant, so they could only hand over their daughter Sha Shangzhi to the care of The underground party's Ke Xiuzhen.
Since the Kuomintang's first "cleansing" in 1927, the underground party organization in Nanjing has suffered eight devastating blows in succession, and all eight municipal party secretaries have been sacrificed to the butcher's knife by the enemy. By the time Of the fall of Nanjing in November 1937, the CCP's underground organization in Nanjing had ceased to exist.
In 1946, when the national civil war was about to break out, Chen Xiuliang was appointed underground secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee for the sake of the work of the underground party, although this was a sudden appointment, but Chen Xiuliang shouldered this important burden.
Chen Xiuliang, who accepted the heavy responsibility, resolutely and resolutely said goodbye to her husband Sha Wenhan: "The wind is cold and the water is cold, and the strong man will not return once he is gone." "Chen Xiuliang can be said to have gone deep into the tiger's den and died nine times in his life." She took off her gray military uniform, changed into her daughter's outfit, dressed up as a Mrs. Kuo, and accompanied by Ma Wenlin, the underground party in Nanjing, crossed the river to Zhenjiang and boarded the train from Shanghai to Nanjing.
Before taking office, Chen Xiuliang's husband, Sha Wenhan, gave a poem to the hero: "When a boy is rampant, will there be no whales in the towel?" If you want to get the tiger, you must enter the cave, and now the tiger's den is Jinling! ”
In this city with a dense spy network, Chen Xiuliang lived a life of "rich wife", indulging in playing mahjong every day.
Playing mahjong was the most obsessive activity of the high-ranking ladies at that time, and it was also the best way to inquire about the news, and Chen Xiuliang took this as an opportunity to live a so-called gossip life.
In this seemingly gossipy activity, Chen Xiuliang successfully stole the Kuomintang military combat codebook and passed this important information to the Shanghai CCP Intelligence Bureau through various means.
Lurking in Nanjing for nearly 4 years, the underground personnel led by Chen Xiuliang have developed more than 2,000 agents of the downline before and after, forming a sophisticated and comprehensive intelligence network, deeply rooted in the enemy's interior, firmly grasping the lifeblood of the Nanjing government, and also spreading intelligence to shanghai.
During a meeting with Fang Xiu, Chen Xiuliang learned that Fang Xiu's brother-in-law was actually a Kuomintang spy, had just returned to Nanjing from Chongqing on a business trip, and was visiting Fang Xiu's home at the moment, and Fang Xiu reminded Chen Xiuliang to pay attention to the conversation between the two and the confidentiality of their work, and if necessary, Fang Xiu and his wife could also avoid it.
Chen Xiuliang verified that Fang Xiu's brother-in-law's position in the Kuomintang was actually a secret work of the Kuomintang radio station. Chen Xiuliang immediately decided that we should not only not avoid it, but also "take the initiative to attack." A few days later, Chen Xiuliang was reported by Fang Xiu, whose wife found a secret report in his brother-in-law's briefcase, and Chen Xiuliang was very surprised to check it out, and this secret report was the frontline information that was of great importance to our party.
In February 1949, Chen Xiuliang again formulated a plan to plot against the Kuomintang naval vessels. The move was also a great success. Chen Xiuliang learned through Sha Wenwei that Deng Zhaoxiang, captain of the Cruiser "Chongqing" of the Kuomintang Navy, was a decent man, was relatively patriotic, and hated the Corruption of the Kuomintang very much, so he sent Bi Chongyuan, a backbone of the underground party, to enter the Kuomintang warship soldier training class. After many efforts by Bi Chongyuan, Deng Zhaoxiang piloted the cruiser "Chongqing" directly to our liberated area in the early morning of February 25, 1949. This cruiser was the most advanced warship in the Kuomintang Navy at that time, which made old Chiang Kai-shek angry to death.
Under Chen Xiuliang's overall planning, even Wang Yanqing, commander of the Nanjing Capital Guard Division, was successfully plotted against.
Under Chiang Kai-shek's eyes, she was engaged in dangerous and difficult work, and in this case, she completed one difficult task after another, and before the liberation of Nanjing, Chen Xiuliang also rescued those "political prisoners" who were imprisoned, and plotted against many people.
The Kuomintang also saw the strength of Chen Xiuliang's countermeasures, but they did not know until the liberation of Nanjing that the boss lady of the Shanghai Huade Electric Materials Company, who liked to play mahjong, was the main person in charge of the entire counter-offensive action.
At the critical juncture of the liberation of Nanjing, which was related to the turning point in history, Chen Xiuliang led the nanjing underground party comrades to "open fire in full force," not only passing on the secret information of the Kuomintang Yangtze River defense line, but also organizing many patriotic forces to provide support and assistance in all aspects for our army to cross the river.
In the end, the Yangtze River defense line, which Chiang Kai-shek regarded as "impregnable," was like a "turkey tile dog" in front of our army. It took our army only 3 days to break through the Yangtze River defense line, capture the Nanjing Presidential Palace in one fell swoop, and Nanjing also ushered in liberation.
After the liberation of Nanjing, Chen Xiuliang could finally return to the team, and she went to find He Kexi, the political commissar of the 35th Army in Sanye, for the first time, but she was stopped by the guards, because everyone did not know her, and reported it layer by layer.
Hearing that Chen Xiuliang had visited, He Kexi immediately ran out to greet him. When he saw Chen Xiuliang, he excitedly shook Chen Xiuliang's hand: "Thank you, Comrade Chen Xiuliang, Nanjing has been liberated, we have won!" ”
After the liberation of Nanjing, the lurking team led by Chen Xiuliang successfully completed its mission, and Chen Xiuliang also ended her life as an agent. At this point, the neighbors learned that this neighbor who had known them for more than two years, who seemed ordinary and whose biggest "hobby" was playing mahjong, was actually a red agent of our party and a big leader like the secretary of the Nanjing Municipal CPC Committee.
When reorganizing the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee, Chen Xiuliang took the initiative to give up the post of secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, turned around and retired to the second line, and served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee. Under the humble concession of Chen Xiuliang, Liu Bocheng succeeded him as the secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chen Xiuliang served as deputy director of the Organization Department of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee, director of the Propaganda Department of the Zhejiang Provincial CPC Committee, deputy director of the East China Working Committee of the All-China Women's Federation, and second executive committee member of the All-China Women's Federation.
On November 16, 1998, Chen Xiuliang ended his glorious life at the age of 91.
In 1998, Chen Xiuliang, who was lying on a hospital bed, said with a smile in an interview: "I don't know who you are looking for, and you can't catch me. ”
In 2010, the famous painter Li Bin painted Chen Xiuliang's plain white cheongsam in the oil painting "424 Clear Skies and Miles nanjing 1949" to celebrate the victory of the People's Liberation Army in Nanjing, smiling and shaking hands with the commander of the People's Liberation Army.