On the afternoon of June 14, 1950, Beijing citizens who were immersed in the joyful atmosphere of the founding of New China were panicked by the two loud explosions. The explosion killed 39 people, injured 406 people and destroyed 425 houses. This is the worst explosion in Beijing since the founding of New China, posing a great threat to the safety of the capital.
Just as our public security organs were intensively investigating the explosion, the Kuomintang spy leader Mao Renfeng was extremely happy: " Duan Yunpeng , I did not read you wrong, I did a good job this time!" But what Mao Renfeng did not expect was that Premier Zhou Enlai used his confidant Duan Yunpeng to trick Mao Renfeng around.
01
1949 New China was just established, and the social order is still in the midst of major changes. Various reactionary forces are still looking for various opportunities to destroy the new people's regime.
On June 25, 1950, with the help of Korean War , Chiang Kai-shek frantically sent spies to the mainland. The task of these spies was to inquire about intelligence and create various terrorist and sabotage events. The most important thing was to assassinate national leaders such as Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.
For Chiang Kai-shek, this matter is related to his life and death, and there are many excellent Military Control Commission spies. Why did he hand over such a difficult task to Duan Yunpeng?
Because Duan Yunpeng is not an ordinary military commander, he is not only cruel and ruthless, but also has received special training. It is said that he has a special function, that is, fly over the eaves and walk on the walls. Is this person really as magical as the legend?
Duan Yunpeng was born in an ordinary rural family in Ji County, Hebei Province. He has many children. In order to have a full meal, 16-year-old Duan Yunpeng joined the Zhilu Alliance. In the era of warlords' melee, it was a matter of being able to gain a foothold in the army.
Although Duan Yunpeng is young, he is very brave and is unambiguous in charge. Moreover, he is strong and has a rough personality. He practices physically and martial arts in the army, and rarely encounters opponents who compete with him.
Duan Yunpeng continues to advance in the army due to his boldness and high skills. However, in 1927, his troops were dispersed by warlords. At that time, the troops who had only recruited them had soldiers and no officials. In desperation, Duan Yunpeng came to Beijing.
has martial arts and doesn’t want to endure hardships and get tired. Duan Yunpeng thought about it and finally came up with a way to make a living, that is: “steal.”
Stealing is not that easy. In order to master this technology faster and better, Duan Yunpeng has taken out all his wealth and became a famous Guantao Li Yushan in Beijing.
Duan Yunpeng is indeed a smart person. He learned how to steal and sell stolen goods in a short time.
At the same time, he also worshipped another master, the famous flying thief Swallow Li San. From the swallow Li San, Duan Yunpeng not only upgraded the art of stealing, but also learned a good light skills.
Duan Yunpeng has a martial arts foundation, and he is also very skilled in learning light skills. He jumps up and falls like flying bodhis leaves. As long as he has something to rely on under his feet and borrows some slight tolerance, he can walk on it like a flat ground. Duan Yunpeng's light skills during this period were amazing. Then how powerful is his light skills?
It is said that he met a boxer who performed hard on the street. The boxer was cheering, but he went to find fault. Duan Yunpeng walked into the venue, holding a wine glass full of wine in his hand, suddenly soared into the air, stepped on the shoulders and heads of the onlookers, and jumped to the ground, without a drop of the wine in the glass.
The old boxer saw it and couldn't hold his face, so he had to pack his luggage and leave. But this incident made Duan Yunpeng extremely proud.
It can be seen that Duan Yunpeng is indeed a martial arts practitioner, but he uses his skills to suppress others, is arrogant and has a bad mind.
Since 1927, there has been an elusive flying thief in Beijing . Duan Yunpeng steals everything, from silk and satin to jewelry, and he is very skilled and good at it, and anyone dares to steal from ordinary rich people and wealthy businessmen to nobles in the capital.
Wu Peifu 's high walls and deep courtyard, the heavily guarded Japanese military police are all good places for Duan Yunpeng to show his skills.
Duan Yunpeng's life is enjoyable with his ability to steal. Until one day in 1932, he suddenly washed his hands.
It turns out that the famous flying thief Li San died of illness in prison, and Duan Yunpeng did not want to follow the mistakes of his predecessors. Yan Zi Li San's skills and light skills are above him, and he can't escape the jail after all. How many years can he survive? Thinking of this, he made another major decision: to return to the army.
Relying on his previous relationship with the army, Duan Yunpeng became the major squadron leader in the Sixth Battalion of the Forty-seventh Route Volunteer Army.
Unfortunately, this army was disbanded in a battle against Japan, and was then incorporated by Song Zheyuan troops. It was still only soldiers but not officials. In desperation, Duan Yunben became a "gentleman on the Liang Dynasty" again.
Just such a thief joined the Military Intelligence Bureau’s spy organization? How did he become Mao Renfeng’s right-hand man?
02
Although Duan Yunpeng has excellent stealing skills and excellent light skills, he doesn’t have any shoes wet when walking by the river. According to valid data records, Duan Yunpeng was arrested for stealing in 1927, 1935, 1936, and other records that he was a recidivist.
In the interrogation record, Duan Yunpeng explained his crime process and the tools of the crime. For example, in a 1940 interrogation record, he explained: "There is wooden bolt in the house. If it is locked, it cannot go in. I went to the backyard, cut the rope from under the shed, took it to the east room, tore the door and window paper from the outside, stretched out my hand, and put the rope in the two sides of the bolt, slowly loosened it on the ground..."
It was precisely such an interrogation record that attracted the attention of a person. This person was very curious about Duan Yunpeng's stealing technique, so he found Duan Yunpeng, put it under his own rubbing, and carefully trained it. So who is this person? Can a stealing thief be trained into a cunning traitor?
This person is Gu Zhengwen, another military spy leader after Dai Li and Mao Renfeng. He killed more than 200 Communist Party members in his life.
Gu Zhengwen thought Duan Yunpeng's stealing technique was very interesting. He underestimated Duan Yunpeng's theft incident and released him, and then tempted him. In just half a year, Duan Yunpeng repeatedly stole information on suspects in the underground work of the Communist Party for him.
Under Gu Zhengwen's temptation and cultivation, Duan Yunpeng became an absolute military spy.
1946, in order to save time, Chiang Kai-shek fully deployed civil war . Under pressure, he signed an armistice agreement with the Communist Party of China on January 10. Chiang Kai-shek was peaceful on the surface, but in private, undercurrents were already surging. He sent a large number of spies to supervise and inspect our leaders. Among them, Ye Jianying and Teng Daiyuan, who represented the Communist Party's negotiations, became the targets of their assassination. The person in charge of this assassination was Duan Yunpeng.
As the leader of this assassination, Duan Yunpeng boasted that he could sneak into Ye Jianying's bedroom without realizing it, and some methods were used to use guns, bombs, and set fire.
Duan Yunpeng was very clear and made the Kuomintang officers excited. However, he did not know that when he really acted, he realized that assassinating Ye Jianying was "hard to Shu Road ".
According to records, Duan Yunpeng sneaked into Ye Jianying's residence only once. The reason is very simple. Even if he has the ability to fly the eaves and walls, he cannot fly into the airtight and guarded house. Helplessly, Duan Yunpeng had to point the assassination at Teng Daiyuan.
is just assassinating Teng Daiyuan. Not only did Duan Yunpeng not only failed to complete this task, but he almost lost his life.
Teng Daiyuan lived at that time on Xijing Road in Xicheng District, . It was deep and the terrain was complex. Behind Teng's house were part of the 19th Kuomintang military police regiment and the Sixth Battalion of the Air Force.
Duan Yunpeng's actions could neither alarm the Kuomintang army nor be captured by the Communist Party. Therefore, for several consecutive nights, he lurked nearby to find out the terrain and guards.
Finally, on a stormy night, he took action. Duan Yunpeng still used his light skills to fly over the eaves and walk around the walls, and came to the roof, quietly hiding down, observing the movements in the yard.He saw Teng Daiyuan and his wife living in the north house of the main house, and the south house was an office place, surrounded by soldiers, and the whole yard was brightly lit. He stayed on the roof for three hours without knowing how to start.
Seeing that it was getting dawn, he really couldn't find a chance and wanted to retreat. He moved eastward on the roof, and was about to go down to the alley, he heard a stern shout: "Who? What are you doing?"
This stern shout really scared him. He didn't care about anything in an instant, turned his head and ran away. The gunshot sounded in a lifetime, and the bullet flew over his head. Duan Yunpeng quickly found a small alley to escape, but fortunately, he saved his life with his light skills.
With this lesson, Duan Yunpeng's future actions are to be cautious, careful and careful. Finally, there was a chance to make him turn over.
Mao Renfeng handed him a task to destroy the CCP’s underground intelligence station, and repeatedly reminded him: “Only success is allowed, not failure is allowed.”
Duan Yunpeng knew the importance of this mission to his spy career. He honestly followed Mao Renfeng’s instructions, stayed up all day and night for several months, and finally found the intelligence location, quickly reported to Gu Zhengwen, not only arrested four correspondents of the CCP, but also indirectly destroyed the Beiping underground work intelligence station. Hundreds of Communist Party members were arrested one after another.
Chiang Kai-shek was extremely happy to hear this news and rushed to , Peking and rewarded Duan Yunpeng. After that, Chiang Kai-shek handed over a more important task to Duan Yunpeng, but he did not expect Duan Yunpeng to be the "grass on the wall", causing heavy losses to the Kuomintang.
03
The victory of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949 was a foregone conclusion. Just as the people of the whole country were immersed in the joy of being the master of their own affairs, Duan Yunpeng, a spy agent of the Military Affairs Bureau, had quietly sneaked into Tianjin. His goal this time was to carry out sabotage activities during the founding ceremony of and wait for an opportunity to assassinate national leaders such as Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. But this action obviously lacked some luck.
Wait until the day of the founding ceremony on October 1st, Duan Yunpeng was always stranded in Tianjin and did not even find useful weapons to carry out sabotage operations. There was no way. At the end of October, he had to take a detour to Guangzhou and then go to Hong Kong to finally return to Taiwan to get the weapons.
In the first half of 1950, Duan Yunpeng sneaked into the mainland again. As soon as he arrived in Hong Kong, he heard that an explosion occurred in the Fuhua Pharmaceutical Factory in Peking. He was very excited and quickly wrote a letter to Mao Renfeng to inform him that the explosion was planned and implemented by him.
Mao Renfeng was overjoyed and praised Duan Yunpeng endlessly, and even used the media to publicize his "great achievements".
How did Duan Yunpeng create the worst explosion incident in Peking since the founding of New China?
In fact, after investigation by the public security organs, this explosion in Peking was clearly determined to be an explosion caused by illegal operations, and it has nothing to do with Duan Yunpeng. However, in this incident, Duan Yunpeng's initiative attracted the attention of our party.
In mid-October 1950, Duan Yunpeng came to Tianjin again and tried to contact the Beijing spy chief and got Zhou Enlai's office. He wanted to take this opportunity to assassinate Premier Zhou.
It was just that when he came to Premier Zhou's office, he was shocked by the strict guards, and he could not find a breakthrough no matter what.
In late November, Duan Yunpeng returned to Taiwan, and Chiang Kai-shek not only did not criticize him but also promoted him to the colonel leader.
Duan Yunpeng has been looking for opportunities to confess his love to the Kuomintang. In 1951, he came to the mainland for the third time. He formed a special operation team in Beijing to prepare to attack Zhou Enlai again on Labor Day this year.
Duan Yunpeng learned from his previous experience in this assassination and did not take action personally, but instead found a gardener in Zhongnanhai . However, the gardener saw the flaw before he could take action.
Once Premier Zhou walked in the garden, as if he felt something, turned around and stared in one direction, and saw a gardener following him sneakily.
Coincidentally, once Premier Zhou came out of Chairman Mao’s office and was dozens of meters away from the gardener. Premier Zhou looked back at the gardener. Although his face was very quiet, his hands holding the scissors were shaking.
Premier Zhou immediately found the guards, expressed his doubts about the gardener, sent someone to investigate the origin of the gardener, and clearly pointed out that once the gardener was found to have any doubts, he would report to the public security department for investigation.
A gardener is not a spy and has not received professional training. He always feels that Premier Zhou has eyes on the back of his head, and all his things he does are seen by Premier Zhou.
Duan Yunpeng sent the gardener to inquire about the news and stealing information. He was very anxious and gave the gardener a final notice: either see the information or the gardener goes to see the King of Hell.
After learning that the gardener was bribed by Duan Yunpeng, our party did not immediately arrest him, but instead took advantage of the situation and arrested Duan Yunpeng and other spies together.
In fact, our party has already penetrated into Duan Yunpeng's side and deciphered the relevant code of the Kuomintang. He can only wait for the Prime Minister to arrest Duan Yunpeng at the order.
Premier Zhou said firmly: "Catch it immediately and destroy all his radio stations. He has developed spies to arrest them together and we must crack down on them."
Duan Yunpeng, who was walking on the street, never expected that Premier Zhou would completely ruin his career as a spy at the Military Commission.
Learning that Duan Yunpeng and others were arrested, Premier Zhou immediately rushed to the prison for interrogation. He wanted to see what skills this spy who was born as a thief still has.
Before Duan Yunpeng appeared, the gardener was already trembling with his legs and told the whole story.
Unexpectedly, Duan Yunpeng was still a tough guy. After being arrested, he did not eat or drink. He sighed all day long, upset that he had not completed the tasks assigned by Chiang Kai-shek.
Someone said: "Duan Yunpeng is just a thief who makes a lot of somersault. In Chiang Kai-shek's eyes, he is just a minion holding a butcher's knife."
He studied under the master of light skills, and learned a lot of real skills. People in the martial arts world gave him the nickname " Ski Cat ", mingling in the martial arts world, doing a stealing business. Although he was recruited by the Kuomintang and promoted to the title, it was his capital to work for the Kuomintang.
Duan Yunpeng knew it well, but he was unwilling to admit it.
Premier Zhou told him: "It is so stupid to prove his status to a larger murderer by using murder means."
After some exchange, Duan Yunpeng collapsed.
Finally, Premier Zhou expressed the purpose of the trip: "It is said that you have a strong memory and you don't need to write anything on paper, it's all in your mind."
Duan Yunpeng knew that Premier Zhou wanted to learn about the Kuomintang's intelligence from him. He made the final temptation and struggle: " Zhou Gong , do you really think I will speak out?"
Premier Zhou said firmly: "I believe that one day you will talk, because it is related to the fate of every Chinese. The Chinese people have been oppressed by imperialism for too long. They should live a peaceful and stable life."
Duan Yunpeng's psychological defense line was completely defeated. He not only explained the facts of his assassination of Zhou Enlai three times, but also explained the important information of the Kuomintang, but also joined hands with Premier Zhou to deal with Mao Renfeng from Taiwan, allowing him to willingly send a large amount of military equipment and activity funds to the mainland without knowing it.
I have to say that this trick " counter-espionage " is very good at playing!
Later, Duan Yunpeng confessed his guilt with a good attitude. According to Chairman Mao's instructions, "If you can kill or not kill, you will not kill", he was imprisoned in prison for 13 years until he was executed on October 11, 1967, completely ending his career as a spy.
Duan Yunpeng's life was ups and downs, and he had been living a life of licking blood from the edge of the knife. If he had taken his superb martial arts to the right path, he might have been famous throughout the ages.
References:
History: The arrest of the first thief in Tianjin Duan Yunpeng in the Internet
Beijing TV "Archives": Wisely capture the military thief Duan Yunpeng
"Martial Arts Hall": The last time of the Kuomintang's top spy thief Duan Yunpeng
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