Yang Qiqing, former vice minister of public security, used the word "thrilling" to describe it without exaggeration, and I believe that many spy films cannot make his legendary experiences.
He has long been responsible for safeguarding the safety of important state leaders and key departments, and is the most trusted person of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and other state leaders.
The location of the founding ceremony and the formulation of the security plan, the escort of Mao Zedong's first visit to the Soviet Union, and the security of Zhou Enlai's participation in the Bandung Asian-African Conference are all closely related to Yang Qiqing's name.
One wrestles with the two-faced spy and secretly escorts Jude away
On April 30, 1930, Yang Qiqing, a 28-year-old native of Pingjiang, Hunan Province, joined the Red Army with a letter of introduction from the party organization and became a strong-willed soldier.
In May 1933, Yang Qiqing was recommended to enter the training class for political defenders, and from then on, he embarked on the post of security work, which was a lifetime.
From 1934 onwards, Zhu De led the officers and men of the Eighth Route Army to march to the anti-Japanese front and fought to the death with the enemy. At this time, the field hoeing department led by Yang Qiqing received top-secret information: Dai Kasa personally made a careful plan to assassinate Zhu De.
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Dai Kasa personally selected a killer code-named "Skeleton" to carry out the assassination plan, and also selected the town of Zhichuan in Hancheng County, on the west bank of the Yellow River, as the location of the assassination. This "skeleton" identity is not simple, he belongs to the double agent, serving both the Kuomintang and the Japanese. Dai Kasa is looking at his dual identity, which can not only get rid of Zhu De, but also put the blame on the Japanese.
Dai Kasa also made sufficient preparations for this, and while giving the "skeleton" an assassination order, he also sent an action team to closely monitor the "skeleton's" movements, preparing to eliminate him after he completed the task.
Yang Qiqing learned of Dai's plan in advance and quietly began to arrange the work of defending Zhu De.
Not long after, the news that the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army was about to arrive in Hancheng spread throughout the county, and the people of Hancheng held a solemn welcoming ceremony at the entrance of Shibakawa Town, and the masses lined up on both sides of the road to wait and prepared famous delicacies.
At this time, the "skeleton" was sitting on a two-story tea house not far from the town entrance, seemingly leisurely sipping tea, but in fact, his attention was always focused on the town entrance. According to the plan, as soon as Jude appeared, he quickly opened fire, and then jumped out of the back window to evacuate in the confusion.
He didn't know that there were a lot of people outside the tea house, that is, the action team sent by Dai Kasa to be responsible for secret surveillance. As long as the "skeleton" succeeds, the group will quickly rush into the tea house to kill him, and then show evidence that the "skeleton" is a Japanese killer, so as to guide public opinion across the country.
At this time, a group of cavalry wearing the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army appeared on the main road, only to hear the leader of the group say loudly: "I am Yang Qiqing, the former commander of the Eighth Route Army!" Let's fight for Commander-in-Chief Zhu! ”
Hearing Yang Qiqing's words, the "skeleton" relaxed, since this group of people was standing in front of Zhu De, then Zhu De should still be behind, and he didn't need to be too anxious.
After a while, the person in charge of monitoring Yang Qiqing ran back sweating profusely and reported that Yang Qiqing was missing, and the "skeleton" reacted and immediately went straight to the Yellow River ferry. When they reached the dock, a large ship was carrying Zhu De and Ren Bishi and others straight to the next stop, Huma Town.
Originally, Yang Qiqing used a trick of "Ming Xiu Zhan Dao Darkness Chen Cang" method, his bright and righteous appearance to attract the attention of the enemy, secretly sent Zhu De and others to a large boat that had been secretly prepared to cross the Yellow River, he himself also secretly left in a small boat while inspecting Zhu De's accommodation in Zhichuan Town, and the task was really completed wonderfully.
Not long after, the "skeleton" was arrested by our army.
The second personally selected the address of the founding ceremony military parade
In 1949, Beijing was peacefully liberated, but hidden Kuomintang agents and all kinds of idle people, as well as many gangster organizations, often plagued the people and disrupted the social order in Beijing.
So in July, the Ministry of Public Security of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China was established, with Luo Ruiqing as minister and Yang Qiqing as vice minister. Not long after, Yang Qiqing, who had taken office as a new official, received an important task - to choose a suitable place for the military parade of the founding ceremony.
Yang Qiqing searched the city of Beijing and finally compared it repeatedly between Xiyuan Airport and Tiananmen Square. Xiyuan Airport has a wide runway, the traffic is very convenient, and although Chang'an Avenue is relatively narrow, Tiananmen Square is magnificent and grand.
After careful consideration, comprehensive consideration of geographical location, security and other conditions, Yang Qiqing finally chose Tiananmen Square, which is located in the city center and convenient for evacuating the masses. This option was quickly approved after it was submitted to the central government.
Before the founding ceremony, the situation was quite grim, and Mao Renfeng, director of the Taiwan Secrecy Bureau, personally issued instructions to the many secret service organizations lurking in Beijing, indicating that they would sabotage the founding ceremony at all costs.
Yang Qiqing was responsible for the defense of the founding ceremony, and he called meetings again and again to strive for the impeccable defense plan. Every time everyone spoke and said that the program was well organized and well-deployed, he would shake his head repeatedly, "I asked you to pick thorns, not to ask you to sing praises" and "to pick bones from eggs."
Before the founding ceremony, Yang Qiqing often had to climb Tiananmen Square in the middle of the night to inspect the route of the leaders to Tiananmen Square and the specific posts of the security workers, and every detail was not missed.
In order to hold the ceremony smoothly, Yang Qiqing and many security personnel did not sleep for many days: the security range was extended to the surrounding area of the parking lot, the sappers inspected every inch of the ground in front of the square several times, and the special key position was double-guarded to implement two-way vigilance.
In addition, he adopted a policy offensive method against the Kuomintang's latent agents, using the self-surrendered agents to find out and grasp the situation and dynamics of other hidden agent organizations, detected more than 100 major cases before the founding ceremony, and completely destroyed the Kuomintang reactionary organizations lurking in Beijing.
On the day of the founding ceremony, Chairman Mao announced the "founding of the People's Republic of China" on the upper floor of Tiananmen Square, and the whole Tiananmen Square became an ocean of joy, 300,000 people participated in the celebration, the scene was orderly, and Yang Qiqing's contribution was indispensable.
For the safety of Chairman Mao, he left his wife, who was seriously ill
In early December 1949, a northbound train stopped at Shanhaiguan. In the train, Mao Zedong was wearing a coat and square-mouthed velvet shoes, and he asked Yang Qiqing next to him: "How long will it take to stop here?" Yang Qiqing replied, "Half an hour." ”
"Let's go down and have a look?" Mao Zedong smiled with pleading, and Yang Qiqing originally wanted to refuse, but after seeing the chairman's sincere gaze, he swallowed the words into his stomach again.
"It's windy outside, you help the chairman add some clothes!" He beckoned the guard commander on the side to come forward, and then was the first to jump off the train to watch the situation, and the conductor saw chairman Mao almost shouting, but Yang Qiqing, who was walking in the front, shook his head, and they would deliberately hold their mouths tightly. Everyone knew in their hearts that all kinds of spies along the train line had not yet been eliminated, and rushing to shout out Chairman Mao would add a lot of danger to him.
Chairman Mao's outing was to Moscow to celebrate Stalin's 70th birthday and to discuss and sign a treaty of concern to the two parties; this was the first foreign affairs visit of a new Chinese leader, and the burden of defense was again on Yang Qiqing's shoulders.
At this time, Yang Qiqing's wife Xiao Bin was critically ill and was being rescued, and Yang Qiqing only hurriedly entrusted her to relatives and friends, and then embarked on the journey of protecting Chairman Mao without looking back.
Chairman Mao's special train numbered 9002, a total of 3 sections, in front of the guard company, behind the backup car, selected an old hero driver to drive. At each station, Yang Qiqing always had to get off the bus for inspection, and on the route passed by the special car, the road protection troops set up a guard post every kilometer to see the situation in all directions.
When arriving at Tianjin Railway Station, a shell was found in the middle of the railway track through which the special train was to pass, although it was an old bullet that could no longer explode, it was still worrying, and an explosive package was also found on the pier of the Yangcun Bridge of the Tianjin Railway Bureau, and a grenade was found strapped to the locomotive of a locomotive at Harbin Station, because Yang Qiqing commanded properly, and these dangers were eliminated in time.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek learned of Mao Zedong's specific whereabouts through spies infiltrating Moscow and his underground technical column in the northeast, and immediately ordered Mao Renfeng to kill the special train at all costs.
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Mao Renfeng selected zhang Daping, a high-ranking spy, as a special commissioner, and planned to send a special plane to parachute him to the Harbin Twin Cities Forest Farm to join forces with the northeast underground technical column lurking in the local area to implement the "abc" three sets of combat plans against Mao Zedong's special train.
Fortunately, the secret telegram was intercepted by the Ministry of Public Security, and Yang Qiqing decided not to alarm Chairman Mao for the time being after learning of this matter; he judged from experience that the enemy was nothing more than using a secret service organization lurking on the ground, plus an airdrop of secret agents to supervise the battle, so he ordered all parts of the northeast to quickly deploy and control the areas under his jurisdiction.
Facts proved that Yang Qiqing was accurate in judging God, Zhang Daping was quickly captured, and the so-called Northeast Underground Technical Column was also swept away. When Mao Zedong learned of this, he excitedly said to Yang Qiqing: "You can get a good night's sleep tonight." ”
When Mao Zedong returned from Moscow, Yang Qiqing went to Shenyang Station to greet him. Since Mao Zedong's return to China this time was open, enemies at home and abroad had already made preparations, but under the specific leadership of Yang Qiqing, all kinds of hidden dangers were eliminated one by one.
In Changchun, public security authorities found time bombs buried under the rails, which would explode in another 20 minutes. At another station, when it was found that the parts box and the Parts of the MiG 17 that Stalin had given to Chairman Mao were missing, Yang Qiqing personally organized the investigation, inspected the scene, made a thorough investigation, and finally found out that it was a White Russian porter among the railway employees.
After Chairman Mao's smooth return to Beijing, Yang Qiqing finally met his wife Xiao Bin, who was relieved of his illness, and he lamented that although he could not accompany his wife, defending Chairman Mao was more important than his own life.
In order to protect Premier Zhou, he only slept 10 hours in 7 days
In April 1955, the Chinese delegation with Zhou Enlai as the chief representative was preparing to attend the Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia, but the veteran imperialist countries were very hostile to this meeting, sending a large number of saboteurs to obstruct the smooth progress of the meeting, and the Kuomintang also formulated a plan to "eliminate the delegation".
At that time, Yang Qiqing went with the regiment and was responsible for security and intelligence work. At this time, he was informed of important information, and the United States hired special agents to secretly join forces with people sent by Chiang Kai-shek, and Ye Xiangzhi, director of the Inspection Office of the Intelligence Bureau, commanded from Hong Kong as a base, with the purpose of destroying the plane on which Premier Zhou was riding.
At that time, Hong Kong was still under British jurisdiction, although the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had informed the Counsellor of the British Chargé d'affaires in China, asking him to inform the Hong Kong authorities to fortify and stop the sabotage by the agents, and also sent a special person to notify the manager of Air India in Hong Kong. However, the Kashmir Princess passenger plane, which carried journalists from China, Poland, Austria and other countries, was killed by the explosion of a timed bomb placed in the wing fuel tank.
At that time, Zhou Enlai and Chen Yi escaped the disaster because they temporarily accepted the invitation to visit and flew to Bandung on another "Air Overlord".
When the plane landed at Bandung Airport, a group of overseas Chinese troublemakers appeared at the airport, mixed with gunmen from Taiwan's Secrecy Bureau, and Ye Xiangzhi, the commander-in-chief of the farce and the maker of the tragedy of the "Kashmir Princess", was sitting in a house where he could view the airport from a distance, staring at the movement of the airport with a telescope.
Because the airport was relatively strictly guarded, Ye Xiangzhi felt that it was difficult to start, and he decided to assassinate him on the way from the airport to the place where the Chinese government delegation stayed, and the first target was Zhou Enlai.
Ye Xiangzhi saw Zhou Enlai and Chen Yi sitting in the third car, so he issued instructions to attack the third car. However, Yang Qi anticipated this danger early in the morning, and he informed the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia in advance that three cars of the same color and the same model had been prepared, and during the driving, the three cars constantly changed their driving formations, and the enemy could not find out which car Premier Zhou was in, so he had to give up.
During the meeting, Yang Qiqing received important information from progressive overseas Chinese, the Kuomintang organized an assassination group of 26 people, and promised a high bonus.
He first urged the Indonesian government to strengthen the protection measures of the Chinese government delegation through diplomatic channels, and took action to investigate and arrest the "twenty-six-person assassination group", so that the killers fled in a hurry and did not have time to pay attention to the assassination task they were undertaking.
Yang Qiqing also visited the chairman of the Indonesian Communist Party and the progressive overseas Chinese organization, formed a security team of more than 20 people, selected the most reliable drivers to drive for the delegation, and also got a group of well-trained security guards who patrolled and stood guard outside the Chinese government delegation's station day and night.
At the same time, he also started from the inside to strengthen security measures, mobilizing "everyone to do security work", under Yang Qiqing's arrangement, journalists were responsible for the periphery; members of the delegation were responsible for the middle level; and security personnel and translators were responsible for the inner layer of bodyguards, which greatly guaranteed the safety of Premier Zhou.
During the Bandung meeting, wherever Premier Zhou went, Yang Qiqing followed wherever he went, the Bandung meeting was held for 7 days, Premier Zhou only slept for a total of 13 hours, Yang Qiqing's sleep time was even less, even 10 hours could not sleep, so that after returning to China, he could not sleep at night without taking medicine.
Yang Qiqing is a senior cadre of the state, but many times he has to do everything himself. He developed a habit of walking and touching everything that a leader could touch wherever he went. The chair always sits first, and he has to check the elevator he sits in repeatedly to see if there is a leakage of electricity.
For many years, the leaders have talked and laughed with the heads of state of other countries and looked indifferent, and behind them are "guardian spirits" like Yang Qiqing, silently hiding in inconspicuous corners, guarding the security of the party, the country and the people with their own painstaking efforts and loyalty!