During the revolutionary war years, in order to disintegrate the enemy in all directions and to obtain important intelligence from the Kuomintang, the Communist Party planted a large number of spies in the enemy camp.
These spies hid in the enemy camp to obtain intelligence for our party, directly sabotage the military operations of the nationalist army, and plot against the generals of the nationalist army.
The environment in which these people are located is very dangerous, and once exposed, Chiang Kai-shek will inevitably torture these spies hidden within the Kuomintang, obtain information and then kill them again; after all, the Kuomintang is also very good at doing this kind of thing, and they know the great harm of spies.
In order to avoid the identity of these spies in our party from being exposed, the work of secrecy has always been in place, and for important spies, only a single line of contact with the senior leaders of the CCP is made.
Once, Premier Zhou accidentally lost a notepad, which recorded the identity information of important spies of our party. The notebook was obtained by Marshall, a mediator sent by the United States, but he did not tell Chiang Kai-shek why.
"Jiang Gan's theft of books" is a famous historical allusion that occurred during the Three Kingdoms period. In 208 AD, Cao Cao's army led by Cao Cao and the army led by Zhou Yu of Eastern Wu confronted the Yangtze River across the yangtze river, and the two sides were about to start the Battle of Chibi.
Jiang Gan was a strategist under Cao Cao and a former companion of Zhou Yu, and since he was a former friend of the same window, he was now his master. Jiang Gan said to Cao Cao, "I will cross the river and go to The tent of Zhou Yu of Eastern Wu to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender." ”
After Cao Cao listened, he was overjoyed and personally placed wine to send Off Jiang Gan. When Jiang Gan came to the Army of Zhou Yu of Eastern Wu, Zhou Yu knew his intentions early, pretended to be generous to entertain Jiang Gan, and made a rule at the banquet: At this banquet, only the old is allowed, and it is not allowed to talk about the current war, and those who violate it are immediately beheaded!
When Jiang Gan heard this, he had no choice but to stop the work of persuading him to surrender. In the evening, Zhou Yu arranged for Jiang Gan to sleep with him. Seeing that he could not complete the task of persuading Him to surrender, Jiang Gan was so anxious that he could not sleep, so he got up in the middle of the night to peek at Zhou Yu's letters.
Seeing cao Cao's water army governor Cai Mao and Zhang Yun's letter to Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu pretended to receive these two people. Jiang Gan was overjoyed and quickly returned to Cao Jun's side and told Cao Cao about this "important information".
Cao Cao listened, believed it to be true, was furious, and immediately beheaded Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, and finally in the Battle of Chibi, because there was no qualified water division governor, the army was defeated.
In fact, all this was Zhou Yu's counter-plot, he forged letters, successfully used Jiang Gan, let Cao Cao kill his own water army governor, and won the war.
After the end of the National War of Resistance, the country ushered in an opportunity for peace, and the Two Sides negotiated on the issue of domestic peace under the mediation of the Americans. The main mediator sent by the United States is the famous General Marshall.
Once, Premier Zhou flew from Yan'an on General Marshall's special plane from Yan'an to Nanjing to participate in the mediation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
Due to the fatigue of running for days, Premier Zhou quickly fell asleep after getting on the plane, and in the process of falling asleep, a notebook he was carrying fell out of his pocket and landed on Marshall's plane.
When Premier Zhou got off the plane, he didn't realize that he had dropped his notebook. This note was later picked up by the crew of Marshall's plane and handed over to Marshall. Marshall kept the notebook in good order again and handed it over to Premier Zhou.
As soon as Premier Zhou looked at the lost notebook, he immediately felt the seriousness of the problem. It turned out that his notebook had recorded an address with a bear character written on it.
This "bear" character represents exactly Xiong Xianghui, a spy arranged by our party within the Kuomintang. Premier Zhou knew that although Marshall had returned the notebook, he must have taken a picture of every page of the notebook and preserved it, hoping to study a little important secret of our party.
If this is the case, it means that Xiong Xianghui is in danger of being exposed at any time, and it is even possible that Marshall has already revealed this important information to Chiang Kai-shek.
Once Xiong Xianghui is exposed, what awaits him is bound to be generous to death, and the Kuomintang will also obtain more valuable information from him, which will threaten the intelligence work of the Chinese Communist Party.
Xiong Xianghui's identity at that time was that of General Hu Zongnan's aide-de-camp and confidential secretary, and at the same time, he also had the identity of a spy installed by the Chinese Communist Party within the Kuomintang.
This extremely legendary CCP spy went deep into the enemy camp, acted cautiously, hid for many years, and repeatedly turned dangers into disasters, winning the trust of Hu Zongnan.
He also revealed important information about the Kuomintang to the Chinese Communist Party on many occasions, and Chairman Mao once commented on the role of Xiong Xianghui in hu Zongnan's side.
Because of his special status, ordinary people do not know his spy identity at all, and have always maintained a single line of contact with Premier Zhou. Premier Zhou went to Nanjing this time with the intention of meeting Xiong Xianghui, so he left Xiong Xianghui's address on his notebook.
Premier Zhou knew that this matter was not only related to Xiong Xianghui's life safety, but also to the cause of liberation of the whole country. In order to save Xiong Xianghui, Premier Zhou immediately entrusted someone to tell Xiong Xianghui of the risk of possible exposure, asking him to flee for his life immediately.
But for the sake of the revolutionary cause, Xiong Xianghui chose to continue to lurk, willing to risk being killed.
Xiong Xianghui said: "As a Communist Party member, I am ready to sacrifice at any time, and I cannot evacuate now. ”
However, Xiong Xianghui still followed the prime minister's advice and immediately went to the Shanghai area to avoid being captured by the enemy. Premier Zhou, on the other hand, began to predict whether General Marshall would tell Chiang Kai-shek this important information, and concluded that it was possible.
The United States has always been an ally of the Kuomintang, and after the end of World War II, although the United States intervened to mediate the contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communists, the United States has been secretly helping the Kuomintang train its troops and providing weapons to the Nationalist forces, with the purpose of helping the Kuomintang win the civil war and contain the communist forces in Asia.
Marshall, as the chief mediator, will of course follow the arrangements of the US leadership and help the Kuomintang as much as possible. At the critical moment when Premier Zhou was impatient, another important piece of information came:
In order to receive General Marshall, who came from afar, US Ambassador to China Stuart Layden specially arranged for him to watch Chinese Peking Opera, one of which was "Jiang Gan stealing books."
Based on this information, Premier Zhou immediately judged that it was very likely that Marshall would not tell Chiang Kai-shek the information in his notebook.
In the play "Jiang Gan steals books", Zhou Yu forges letters to make Jiang Gan mistakenly believe that Cai Mao and Zhang Yun have surrendered to Eastern Wu, and Jiang Gan tells Cao Cao this "important information".
Cao Cao killed these two men, resulting in no more qualified water divisions in Cao's army. Cao Cao's army, which was not accustomed to water warfare, connected all its ships together. In the following Battle of Chibi, zhou Yu attacked with fire, burning the Cao army to a great defeat.
Marshall is also a man who has experienced hundreds of battles, and must know that the military means on the battlefield are full of scheming. After watching the play "Jiang Gan stealing books," Premier Zhou concluded that Marshall must have learned from it, mistakenly believing that premier Zhou himself deliberately made a divisive plan.
Stuart Redden just invited Marshall to watch the play, and Marshall was afraid that he would become a person like Jiang Gan and be used by others, so he would not be fooled like this. Perhaps, at that time, Marshall was still full of joy in his heart?
As Premier Zhou had expected, Marshall did not tell Chiang Kai-shek this important information. Premier Zhou calculated that there is another important reason why Marshall did not do this, that is, Marshall is after all the chief mediator sent by the United States, representing the US government.
If this news were told to Chiang Kai-shek, it would be impossible to be fair and just, obviously contrary to morality, and Marshall would not have taken the risk of revealing the information.
After all, just by relying on a string of addresses and a "bear" word, it is concluded that Xiong Xianghui is a spy, whether it is true or not, whether the Kuomintang takes action or not, it will attract distrust from the Chinese Communist side, which the Americans at that time did not want to see.
Since Marshall did not disclose the information to Chiang Kai-shek, xiong Xianghui also passed this pass without any danger. Soon, a civil war broke out between the Kuomintang and the Communists, and Xiong Xianghui, as an important member of the Kuomintang, followed Hu Zongnan's troops and "successfully" captured Yan'an, accompanying Hu Zongnan to inspect the results of the victory.
Soon after, the Kuomintang finally obtained accurate information and confirmed Xiong Xianghui's spy identity, but at this time, Xiong Xianghui had already gone to the United States to study and escaped from the clutches of the devil. All the KMT could do was cancel Xiong Xianghui's public funds for studying abroad.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xiong Xianghui served as deputy director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, and began his diplomatic career of more than 20 years. On many important diplomatic occasions, Xiong Xianghui appeared as a "prime minister's assistant".
In today's view, Premier Zhou's move is obviously also a dangerous move, because everything is based on speculation. We know that different schemes applied to different people have completely different effects.
In terms of Zhuge Liang's empty city plan, if it was not the suspicious Sima Yi who came, but a reckless person, seeing the city gate open, Zhuge Liang leisurely playing the piano, he was bound to be overjoyed, rushed to the city, and captured Zhuge Liang alive.
But after all, it was Sima Yi who came, and Zhuge Liang knew that he was suspicious and would not take risks, so he used the empty city plan and deceived Sima Yi.
In the past, Premier Zhou did not have an intersection with Marshall, did not know what kind of a person Marshall was, and everything depended on his own speculation, which was really dangerous and dangerous, which fully demonstrated Xiong Xianghui's revolutionary spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice.
Text/Wen Shi Wangwang