In 1954, Lü Bobing, a former Kuomintang agent of central unification who fled south to Guangzhou on the eve of liberation, under the cover of a fortune teller, formed a counter-revolutionary group with a group of former Kuomintang military and police gendarmes, hooligans, villains, and socially dissatisfied elements, the "Chinese Minist Representative Accusation Group.", plotted to hijack the "Folklore" passenger ship sailing from Guangzhou to Hainan Island, killed the ship's escorts and crew, and then robbed the ship to Taiwan. The enemy's conspiracy was promptly detected by our public security organs, and the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau swept away the counter-revolutionary clique before the enemy's action, and the case was later adapted by the Pearl River Film Studio into the famous anti-special feature film "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel".
The "folklore wheel" of conspiracy hijacking. Profile picture
One day in August 1954, in the summer of the southern country, the sun was scorching hot and hot enough to make people a little breathless. On this day, a man in his 30s walked to the front of the security front street police station of the East District Bureau of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, looked back nervously a few times, confirmed that no one was following, and suddenly flashed into the police station and reported to the police on duty that there was an important situation to report. The police on duty saw that the person on arrival looked nervous and immediately called the director of the police station.
The visitor, who called himself Liu Rende, was a staff member of the Miaoxiangyuan Snack Restaurant in Front Straight Street of Dongshan Temple. He reported to the director that a man with a provincial accent named Lu Bobing had recently often gone to the Miaoxiangyuan Snack House to drink tea and eat. After getting acquainted with him, the man suddenly ran to his house last night and mobilized him to participate in a major operation , the hijacking of the passenger's turn to Taiwan. Liu Rende was taken aback at first hearing this, and hesitated for a moment: "This matter is not trivial, I want to consider it." ”
That night, the more Liu Rende thought about it, the more frightened he became, and the next day he ran to report to the police station. The director of the police station told Liu Rende to go back first, without moving, not to alarm Lü Bobing, and to report the situation immediately.
The police station immediately reported the situation to the public security organ at a higher level, and after receiving the report, the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau considered the case to be serious, and immediately decided that Liu Jianfu, deputy director of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau in charge of investigation work, would be responsible for forming a special case team to carry out the investigation work.
A few days later, the public security police handling the case came to Miaoxiangyuan in civilian clothes to find Liu Rende and asked him to go to a secluded place after work to further understand the situation. According to Liu Rende, he was originally a small clerk of the old Kuomintang government, and after liberation, he was dismissed and had no place to live, so he went to the Miaoxiangyuan Snack House as a staff member, and later met Lü Bobing, who often went to Miaoxiangyuan to drink tea and eat, and found that he showed some dissatisfaction from time to time.
Lü Bobing was originally from Sichuan, and at that time, his identity was that of a jianghu xiangshi who set up street stalls and told fortunes, known as "little immortals". He often invited Liu Rende to eat and drink together, bragged to him that he had been a division-level official of the Kuomintang, advised him that the young man should do a great cause, and showed him his face, predicting that he would soon develop and get ahead.
The people's police taught Liu Rende, first of all, that he could report the situation to the public security organs in a timely manner, ask him to have a clear understanding of the situation, and falsely allow Lu Bobing to participate in the hijacking of passenger ships, waiting for an opportunity to find out their action plan, and make meritorious contributions to the people's government. Liu Rende promised him that he would be willing to assist the public security organs in solving the case and strive for meritorious service.
According to the clues provided by Liu Rende, Lü Bobing lived at No. 187, Qianzhi Street, Dongshan Temple, and the special case team of the Municipal Public Security Bureau sent several investigators to monitor Lü Bobing's whereabouts day and night near his residence, and found that there was a man in his 40s named Chen Guodong living with him. Through checking the household registration, it was found that this person's real name was Wu Zongjian, who originally lived at No. 21 Dengfeng Street, Xiaobei Road, Guangzhou, and this person was very cunning, and when the original police station was transferred to the household registration, he filled in the move to No. 87 Miaoqian Straight Street, Donghua Road, and when he registered at the police station, he added the word "1" and changed it to No. 187. Continuing to investigate, it was found that Lü Bobing was an agent of the Kuomintang secret service organ "Central Unification" before liberation, and had served as the director of the "Central Unification", and Wu Zongjian was a major agent of the Traffic Police General Bureau of the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense.
Soon in September, the investigators who had been secretly monitoring Lü Bobing and Wu Zongjian found that the two began to move frequently. The two left early and returned late, or divided or merged, and frequently went out to contact each other. These two former Veteran Kuomintang agents were cunning and abnormal, always going out one after the other, separated by a distance, if the tracking investigators saw a person come out and immediately followed, it was easy to be found by the one behind, and sometimes the two deliberately walked in the opposite direction or suddenly accelerated their steps into the alley. According to Liang Dajun, who once participated in the follow-up and investigation of this case and later served as director of the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau, he was an investigator at the Guangzhou East District Public Security Bureau, and was specifically responsible for the tracking and surveillance of Lü Bobing and Wu Zongjian.
Prepare the murder weapon for the hijacking of the ship. Profile picture
After more than a month of investigation, the situation of the members and action plan of the counter-revolutionary group was gradually ascertained by the public security organs. During this period, Lü Bobing and Wu Zongjian recruited more than 30 people to participate in the organization, most of whom were military, police, and gendarmes, bandits, and bullies of the former Kuomintang government who had fled from all over the country to Guangzhou after liberation, and harbored bitter hatred for the people's government.
Lü Bobing and Wu Zongjian gathered these people together and discussed proposing to hijack the passenger ship to Taiwan and form a "Chinese people's representative accusation group" to go to the United Nations to accuse the Government of the People's Republic of China of "crimes." They often gathered in Central Park or at Zhao Guizhen's house to formulate a meticulous plan of action, and the two of them also prepared compasses and nautical charts to carefully study the route of the voyage and the location of the shipjacking, and at the same time instructed Xie Qiansheng, a member of the stone mine in Huiyang County, to prepare iron brazes, iron hammers, and other weapons for hijacking ships, and smuggled them to Guangzhou.
On September 13, Lü Bobing and Wu Zongjian gathered all the personnel to announce the plan of action: Lü Bobing was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the operation, and the time of the operation and the target of the hijacking were announced the day before the operation, and each person first walked in the opposite direction of the dock before getting on the ship after getting on the ship, and then went around a few more circles to avoid the sight of the public security personnel; and each person was divided into several action teams, each group was responsible for the first floor of the cabin. After the ship departed, Huang Yiping and Zhao Guizhen first used the female color to lure the escorts on the ship to eat and drink in the passenger ship restaurant, and pre-drugged the wine and dishes to charm the escorts.
Before the operation, Lü Bobing first inspected the cabins to remind everyone to pay attention to preparing to move, and at the same time everyone wrapped a white towel around their left arm as a recognition, and then Lü Bobing used the throwing cup as a signal, and everyone moved together, first sprinkling pre-prepared lime powder on the escorts and crew, and then killing the crew and escorts with murder weapons, seizing the weapons of the escorts, Wu Zongjian led a group responsible for controlling the cockpit and radio, and coerced the pilot to sail the ship to Taiwan. After the successful hijacking of the ship, the Kuomintang flag was hung up, a banner reading "Chinese people's deputies to the accusation group" was unfurled, and Wu Zongjian, who knew how to operate the radio, sent a report to the Taiwan side asking for it.
In order to embolden these ragtag people, Lü Bobing also took out a signature that he had specially asked for at the Sanyuan Palace in Yuexiu Mountain, Guangzhou, which read, "The battlefield was successful in a hundred battles" and showed it to everyone. Speaking of happiness, Wu Zongjian clenched his fists, slammed his palms, and said loudly: "This is a planned operation, and the battle against the unprepared will be successful." One by one, the beam-jumping clowns also imitated the car riding around the United Nations, "beeping" in their mouths to imitate the horn of the car, and waving to the welcoming crowd with their hands.
The enemy's plan of action has basically been mastered by the public security organs, but Guan Jian's action time and target of the hijacking have not yet been clarified, and the public security people's police instructed Liu Rende to find out as soon as possible, but the cunning Lü Bobing and Wu Zongjian never disclosed information.
On September 22, Liu Rende came to Zhao Guizhen's house to gather according to the appointment, and did not see Wu Zongjian until about 10 p.m., when Wu Zongjian came, as soon as he entered the door, he shouted and asked Zhao Guizhen to pour a glass of water to drink, saying: "Today I am tired, I have walked more than ten miles." Zhao Guizhen asked where he had gone, and Wu Zongjian replied that he had gone to find the "Mazi" of the Minsheng Company, and as soon as he finished saying this, he immediately became vigilant and silent.
That night, Liu Rende reported the situation to the police. Early the next morning, the police went to the Minsheng Steamship Company to investigate, and the company's security personnel confirmed that the company did have a cook nicknamed "Mazi", named Tang Keming, who was full of hemp and had worked as a cook on the company's "folk customs ship" from Guangzhou to Hainan Island, and later found that this person had political problems and transferred him out of the "folk ship". Further investigation, the police found that "Mazi" and Wu Zongjian had recently gone to the "Folk Customs Wheel" to find Zhou Lianghong, who had previously worked as a cook together, to understand the situation on the ship, and the guards felt that the two were suspicious at that time and had interrogated the two. At this point, the public security organs basically understood that the most likely target of the enemy to be hijacked was the "folk ship" sailing from Guangzhou to Hainan Island.
Since the specific time of the enemy's action was not known, in order to ensure that nothing was wrong, the public security organs strengthened control over the ticketing points of passenger ships from Guangzhou to Hainan, Zhanjiang, and Shantou, and at the same time strengthened the escort forces on each ship to closely monitor the activities of Lü Bobing, Wu Zongjian, and others.
It was at this time that an accident occurred. On this day, when Wu Zongjian came out of Zhao Guizhen's house, Zhao Guizhen accidentally found Wu Zongjian who had just left the house on the upstairs balcony being followed by strangers. The enemy was aware of it, and in order to prevent the enemy's dog from jumping the wall and acting in advance, the public security organs decided to wipe out this counter-revolutionary clique before the enemy moved.
Lü Bobing was detained at the Dongdong District Public Security Bureau. Profile picture
The special case group decided to arrest Lü Bobing and Wu Zongjian first, as well as the backbone elements Tang Keming and Xie Qiansheng.
On the afternoon of October 1, investigators who were monitoring Lü Bobing and Wu Zongjian's residence reported that the two went out to Central Park. At 6 p.m., Lü Bobing and Wu Zongjian set off to go home; as usual, after more than half a month of tracking and investigating, the public security personnel were already familiar with the whereabouts of the two men, and their route home had to pass through the door of the East District Public Security Substation, and the investigators chose a place in advance to set up an ambush. Wu Zongjian struggled desperately and shouted loudly, trying to inform Lü Bobing behind him. After shouting twice, he felt that he was being held up by a hard object, and at the same time heard a low roar: "The public security bureau, no barking." Wu Zongjian did not dare to say anything more, and was pushed into the public security sub-bureau by the investigators. Two other investigators did the same and captured Lu Bobing.
In order to avoid hitting the grass and startling the snake, the public security personnel ordered Lü Bobing to make a paging call to Tang Keming and lured Tang Keming out of his residence, and when Tang Keming hurried out of the house to listen to the phone, the investigators arrested him on the way and stuffed him into the car parked nearby. Public security officers immediately interrogated the three people, and Lü Bobing was forced to confess that Xie Qiansheng, who was responsible for transporting the murder weapon, was hiding in a rented boat on the East Causeway of the Pearl River. The public security personnel rushed straight to Dongdi overnight, and with the assistance of the Dongdi police station, they found Xie Qiansheng's hidden boat, arrested Xie Qiansheng in his sleep, and found a large number of shovels, hammers, and other weapons in his boats that were ready to be used to hijack the ship. For the remaining two days, public security officers attacked and arrested all 31 members of the counterrevolutionary clique.
At this point, this well-organized counter-revolutionary clique that plotted to kill people and hijack ships was completely destroyed by the public security organs.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Kuomintang scattered soldiers, triad organizations, bandits, bandits, and hooligans colluded with hidden counter-revolutionaries in guangdong's major and medium-sized cities, remote mountainous areas, and coastal areas to frantically carry out criminal activities such as riots, robberies, homicides, arson, poisoning, and explosions. At that time, there were an average of 84 robberies per day in Guangzhou.
From the end of 1949 to the beginning of 1950, the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department and the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau cracked the "Flywheel Party", an armed bandit gang that specialized in pickpocketing train goods, robbing passengers of property, and extorting merchants on the southern section of the Guangdong-Han Railway and the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway. The "Flywheel Party" was entangled in the mid-to-late 1940s, and was armed with bandits composed of "Big Heaven II", hooligans and villains, who specialized in climbing over the southern section of the Guangdong-Han Railway and the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway to cross goods and rob extortion of merchants. This gang of gangsters all have the ability to fly up and down the Mercedes-Benz train with one hand, so they are called "flywheel parties". On the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Kuomintang secret service organs incorporated this gang of bandits and sent secret service leaders to join its organization and provide weapons and ammunition. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, this gang of gangsters, under the direction of the Kuomintang secret service organs, intensified their sabotage activities and killed tourists at every turn. The provincial public security department is determined to eliminate this bandit armed force that seriously endangers the safety of railway transportation.
Members of the "Flywheel Party" arrested by the police. Profile picture
At the end of 1949, the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau captured 63 members of the "Flywheel Party" who were active at the Huangsha Railway Station. In January 1950, the Provincial Public Security Department organized dozens of public security personnel to go deep into the northern section of the Guangdong-Han Railway to investigate. In the early morning of January 23, when Ou Jiyuan, the leader of the "Flywheel Party," led more than 10 gangsters to climb over the train, they were all arrested by the public security personnel and militia who were ambushed on the train and along the line. Then, through interrogation, clues were obtained, and 51 members of the "Flywheel Party" such as Huang Qiucai and Liang Gongze were arrested and arrested. The "Flywheel Party" collapsed, and the railway law and order tended to be stable.
During this period, the criminal investigation work in the province was mainly the responsibility of the public security departments of public security organs at all levels. In October 1949, the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau established a criminal police brigade, and each district bureau set up a criminal police team. In December of the same year, the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department was established, and the Urban Public Security Department was set up in the Public Security Department, which was mainly responsible for criminal investigation. At the end of 1953, the Public Security Division of the Public Security Department of the Provincial Public Security Department was renamed the Criminal Investigation Division.
In September 1953, the Ministry of Public Security held a national public security work conference of the people's police, requiring public security organs at all levels to pay close attention to the establishment of criminal investigation institutions after the end of the town counter-movement, strengthen the struggle against criminal offenses, and defend the country's economic construction. In accordance with the spirit of the meeting, the public security bureaus of 8 cities in Guangdong, including Haikou, Zhanjiang, Shantou, Foshan, Jiangmen, Shaoguan, Shiqi, and Chaozhou, have successively set up criminal police teams, and some county public security bureaus have set up criminal police groups or detection teams.
By the end of 1954, 69 counties in the province had set up criminal police groups or detection teams, and there were 661 criminal police officers in public security organs at all levels in the province. In January 1955, the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau expanded the Criminal Police Brigade to establish the Criminal Investigation Department. In August of the following year, the Provincial Public Security Department established the Criminal Investigation Division, which is responsible for guiding criminal investigations throughout the province. Public security organs at all levels throughout the province have also enriched their criminal investigation forces. So far, criminal investigation institutions at the provincial, municipal (special bureau) and county levels have been established, forming a basic criminal investigation work system.
In terms of criminal technology construction, the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau has established technical majors such as criminal photography, fingerprinting, handwriting identification, forensics, and inspection. The public security organs at the level of the special bureaus have also purchased some criminal technical equipment, selected criminal technicians to go to the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau for further training, and established preliminary criminal technical work.
(Integration: Zi'an)
Author Huang Wei
Edited by Zhang Ziling