In 1973, in that special era, Zhou Enlai opposed the opposition and suggested to Chairman Mao: "I think Wu Shi should be recognized as a revolutionary martyr." Chairman Mao was silent after hearing this name, sighed and said, "I agree."

1973, in that special era, Zhou Enlai opposed the opposition and suggested to Chairman Mao: "I think Wu Shi should be recognized as a revolutionary martyr." Chairman Mao was silent after hearing this name, sighed and said, "I agree."

December 20, 1975, when Zhou Enlai was critically ill, he once said this: "Our party will not forget his old friends in Taiwan, one is Zhang Xueliang , and the other is Wu Shi..."

Wu Shi

As we all know, those who can follow Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan are his confidant beloved generals. So who is this person named "Wu Shi"? Why did Chairman Mao and Zhou Enlai recognize him as a martyr?

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Wu Shi was born in Minhou County, Fujian Province in 1894. He studied at Kaizhi School in Fuzhou when he was a teenager. It was also at this time that he came into contact with the humiliating history of China in modern times and learned from his teacher that Mr. Sun Yat-sen's feat of the anti-Qing uprising.

1911, with the outbreak of 1 Revolution, 17-year-old Wu Shi resolutely participated in the Fujian Northern Expedition Student Army; in 1913, he was transferred to the Wuchang Second Reserve Officer School; in 1915, he came to the third phase of Baoding Army Officer School, and was classmates of the same period as Bai Chongxi, Zhang Zhizhong and others. Wu Shi studied hard and could never forget everything he could, so he graduated with the best grades among the 800 students of the same class.

After the students graduated from military academy, the school was in charge of the allocation, and they were allocated according to the students' household registration. But it is a pity that since Fujian Province has no local army and is cruelly ruled by Li Houji, Wu Shi was unwilling to serve the warlords and kept at home, which made him very distressed.

Just when Wu Shi didn't know what to do, Mr. Sun Yat-sen launched the " Protection Movement " in Guangzhou. After he found out, he hurriedly joined the local civilian army in Fujian led by Fang Shengtao and Zhang Zhen . However, due to the failure of the assassination, more than a dozen people were sacrificed, and Wu Shi was forced to leave Fujian and head north.

1929, Wu Shi made a bold decision, which was to study in Japan and become a real military strategist with in-depth understanding of the Japanese army, in order to serve the country and nation. Wu Shi's determination was supported by Fang Shengtao , and then he went to Japan to study with the support of Fujian Provincial Government. After Wu Shi came to Japan, he was admitted to the Japanese Artillery School and the Japanese Army University. He also used all the money he saved to buy various Japanese military works and related materials.

In 1934, Wu Shi graduated from the Japanese Army University with the best grades of first place; in 1935, Wu Shi returned to China, and then worked as a general instructor in Nanjing, and also served as an instructor in Army University. In 1936, Wu Shi was promoted to major general of the Army.

1937, after the outbreak of the " July 7 Incident ", the situation of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China and the Communist Party gradually formed. Under the introduction of He Sui , Wu Shi has more and more contacts with members of the central delegation such as Zhou Enlai, Ye Jianying, and Li Kenong, and he also has a certain understanding of our party.

Not long after, Wu Shi came to Wuhan in person to listen to Zhou Enlai's speech, and had dates with Ye Jianying and others. During this period, Wu Shi carefully read " on protracted war " written by Chairman Mao. He believed that this was an amazing work, which not only used the ancient Sun Tzu's Art of War, but also analyzed the situation between the enemy and us in detail.

With the outbreak of Anti-Japanese War , Wu Shi felt deeply disgusted with the Japanese army's cruel killing of the people and invading the country. He clearly agreed with the Communist Party's proposal of "gun to the outside world and uniting to fight against Japan." The late stage of Anti-Japanese War was an important turning point in Wu Shi's ideological transformation. So what's going on?

Chiang Kai-shek

As we all know, Chiang Kai-shek prefers the direct troops and reuses generals who come out of their hometown or Whampoa Military Academy , although these generals have no talent. It was Chiang Kai-shek's approach that made Wu Shi feel extremely unfair. He has served in the army of the Zhili, Guangxi and Chiang, and has received systematic higher military education, but he has never been able to grasp the real power in the army. This is a knot that Wu Shi could not untie.

In addition, when Wu Shi saw corruption and retreat within the Kuomintang; when he saw thousands of soldiers fighting bloody battles, but lost his life due to the wrong command of officials; when he saw thousands of ordinary people displaced and running in the wilderness, he felt very uncomfortable and guilty, and then decided to resign from his position as Chief of Staff of the Fourth War Zone.

At this time, Wu Shi realized that the Guiliu battle plan he formulated was destined to fail again and again. The failure of the Henan, Hunan and Guangxi battle is definitely not the responsibility for the army's poor equipment, training and appropriate command. The fundamental problem lies in the corruption of the government, Chiang Kai-shek's autocratic dictatorship and separation from the people.

In May 1946, the National Government returned to Nanjing and Wu Shi was appointed as the director of the Historical Materials Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense. Although this position is an unpopular position within the Kuomintang and has no real power, it is very suitable for Wu Shi. After all, he loves to study military affairs.

However, as time goes by, other departments of the Ministry of National Defense are rich, powerful and powerful. Compared with other departments and bureaus, the Bureau of History and Materials is simply not worth mentioning, which also makes Wu Shi feel helpless and sad. When Wu Shi witnessed the corruption and deterioration of the Kuomintang and the intrigue within the party, he was deeply disappointed and at the same time he was more sure that China's hope lies with the Communists. He also said in private: " will never give any more advice for the Kuomintang regime!"

Not long after, Wu Shi visited Tokyo, Japan and met his old friend here, and is also a Japanese writer Ludigen . Wu Shi revealed his inner thoughts to Lu Digen. The two drank a lot of wine and talked a lot.

Lu Digen asked Wu Shi: "What do you think the future of the Kuomintang will be like?" Wu Shi sneered and said: "There is no hope!" Lu Digen continued to ask: "Then what do you think the reason for the failure of the Kuomintang?" Wu Shi said: "They do not unite the people and believe that the people's role is not great. This is the most important reason for the failure of the Kuomintang."

During the conversation, Wu Shi said: "If there is no longer war in the country, I will resign from all my positions and just be an ordinary citizen..."

Wu Shi's political tendency of "patriotism, democracy, and opposition to dictatorship" gradually attracted the attention of our party's top leaders and underground party organizations, and listed it as the target of active struggle. At that time, the one who impressed Wu Shi the most was his close friend He Sui.

He Sui and Wu Shi had the same idea. They all agreed with the Communist Party’s proposal of “ Anti-Japanese National United Front ”. After the Xi'an Incident broke out, He Sui clearly supported our party's propositions and established contacts with some leaders of our party. After the outbreak of civil war , he was disappointed with the civil war initiated by Chiang Kai-shek, and then realized that if he wanted to save China, he had to pin his hopes on the Communist Party.

Under the direct influence of He Sui, Wu Shi also hopes to establish direct contact with the Communist Party. After He Sui learned Wu Shi's thoughts, he quickly reported the situation to the head of the Central Shanghai Bureau Zhang Zhiyi , and he passed it on to the leader of the party organization. The party organization attached great importance to Wu Shi's social relations and replied, "I wonder if Mr. Wu Shi is willing to meet publicly?" Wu Shi agreed readily.

He Sui

In April 1947, under the recommendation of He Sui, Wu Shi and the head of the Shanghai Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a special meeting. This meeting also caused a drastic change in Wu Shi's political life. From then on, Wu Shi began to embark on the road of accepting the leadership of our party...

Chairman Mao: Secret Envoy No. 1 is really capable!

In the autumn of 1948, after the People's Liberation Army won the decisive victory of Zai in Huaihai, it rushed to approach Nanjing. After Chiang Kai-shek learned the news, he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to retreat to Taiwan and Guangzhou in two groups.

At this time, Chen Cheng , who was then the General Staff of the Ministry of National Defense, wanted to transport a batch of confidential military files preserved by Shi Zhengshi to Taiwan. Wu Shi, as the director of Shi Zhengshi, suggested:

"We should transport all these materials to Fujian, with convenient transportation in Fujian. If we win, it is easy to enter Beping . Even if we fail, it is the most convenient to retreat to Taiwan. If all these materials are transported back to Taiwan, it will be very troublesome to transport them back then."

Chen Cheng heard Wu Shi's words and thought it made sense, so he immediately adopted his suggestion. Immediately afterwards, Chen Cheng established a deportation team composed of Wang Qiang and others, and asked them to transport more than 500 boxes of confidential files from Nanjing in late December 1948. He arrived in Fuzhou before New Year's Day 1949 and kept in the Shanqigong Temple Hall.

Around New Year's Day in 1949 to April, Wu Shi often traveled to Guangzhou and Fujian. While providing information to our army, he also went to Hong Kong and Li Jishen to plan an uprising more than once. html In May, he officially served as the deputy director of of the Pacification Office. At this time, the Kuomintang authorities in Taiwan sent another telegram asking them to transport the files to Taiwan as soon as possible.

Wu Shi knew that these files could not be delivered to the Kuomintang, so he replied: "The situation is tense now, and it is difficult to transfer the ship. I can only send a small part of the files first. After the ship is available, I will definitely send all the remaining files to Taiwan as soon as possible."

Immediately afterwards, Wu Shi treated those unimportant reference materials, military books, etc. as top secret files and asked the guards to transport them to Taiwan. The purpose of his doing this is to delay time and strive to leave 298 boxes of top-secret documents kept by Wang Qiang.

When facing the fierce attack of the People's Liberation Army, Wu Shi issued a "death order" in an urgent tone, causing Wang Qiang to immediately and Nie Xi, the former head of the General Affairs Group of the History and Political Bureau who had just returned from Guangzhou, to transfer all the remaining files to the Fujian Provincial Research Institute's library, and to explain to the Huang Juemin of the research institute's to save it well. In the early morning of the next day, Wang Qiang hurriedly came back after completing the task assigned to him by Wu Shi, and was later appointed as the intelligence staff officer of the Pacification Office.

August 14, Wu Shi suddenly received a telegram from Taiwan's "Director of the Presidential Office" Lin Wei under the order of Chiang Kai-shek: "Take your family to Taiwan immediately." Although Wu Shi did not want to go to Taiwan, he had to obey for the sake of the revolution and for the future of China.

On the morning of August 15, Wu Shi asked Wang Qiang to his residence, and then made a detailed and brief explanation: "Chang Kai-shek asked me to take my family to Taiwan. I have a good chance of my crime, but I want to send more information to the Communist Party. The matter here is for you. Be sure to remember to fulfill the duty of a soldier! The confidential file is here!"

In the early morning of August 16, Wu Shi flew to Taiwan with his wife and two younger children, and his eldest son and daughter stayed in the mainland; 8 On August 17, with the liberation of Fuzhou, Wang Qiang also took out the 298 boxes of top-secret files kept in the Fujian Research Institute Library and successfully handed them over to the headquarters of the 10th Corps of the People's Liberation Army.

Before Wu Shi went to Taiwan, the underground party organization of the Communist Party of China gave him a code name "Secret Envoy No. 1". After going to Taiwan, because he was Chiang Kai-shek's confidant general, he was immediately appointed as the deputy chief of staff of the "Ministry of National Defense". Chiang Kai-shek suffered too much from my underground party members in mainland China, so he began to search for underground party members crazily as soon as he arrived in Taiwan. My organization in Taiwan was destroyed, and the connection between Wu Shi and our party's underground organization was also cut off.

In October and November 1949, the People's Liberation Army attacked Kinmen and Zhoushan people suffered setbacks, which also made the invincible PLA realize that Taiwan was not as easy as expected. Under this circumstance, our army decided to contact Wu Shi as soon as possible to get more information about Taiwan from him. So the leaders of the East China Bureau decided to send a female party member who has been engaged in intelligence work in Shanghai, Hong Kong and other places for a long time to go to Taiwan to contact Wu Shi.

Zhu Feng was born in 1905 in a wealthy family in Chengguan, Zhenhai. He was admitted to Ningbo Women's Normal School in 1921 and participated in the May 3rd Movement.In 1927, Zhu Feng married a technician from Shenyang Arsenal as a re-string and gave birth to a son three years later. In 1931, with the outbreak of " September 18th Incident ", Zhu Feng's family returned to Zhenhai to live. The next year, her husband died of illness, leaving only her and her children to depend on each other.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhu Feng joined the Xinzhi Bookstore led by our underground party organization, and worked as a post in books, mail order, accounting, etc. Not long after, Zhu Feng married Zhu Xiaoguang, a Communist Party member who also worked in a bookstore, and joined the Communist Party in 1945 with his introduction.

Zhu Feng

1949, in order to contact Wu Shi from Taiwan, the East China Bureau of the Communist Party of China came to Zhu Feng. Zhu Feng's ex-husband's daughter Chen Lianfang and her husband Wang Changcheng live in Taiwan and have certain social relations. If Zhu Feng is asked to go to Taiwan, it will not arouse the suspicion of the Kuomintang spies, and can also hide their identity well. Therefore, after careful consideration, the East China Bureau finally decided to let Zhu Feng go to Taiwan to carry out his work in the name of "visiting relatives".

On November 27, that year, Zhu Feng docked at Keelung Port, Taiwan on a steamship. Later, according to the organization's arrangement, she contacted two people alone in Taiwan. One was her online "Lao Zheng" Cai Xiaoqian , and the other was Wu Shi .

The day after Zhu Feng arrived in Taiwan, she met Cai Xiaoqian at Keelung Tea Food Building as agreed. She first conveyed the instructions of the leaders of the East China Bureau to Cai Xiaoqian, and then Cai Xiaoqian also reported to her about the secret armed forces of the Taiwan Working Committee to respond to the People's Liberation Army landing organization. In addition, he also handed over some important information possessed by the Working Committee to Zhu Feng.

A week later, Zhu Feng and Wu Shi got in touch. In the study, Wu Shi handed the iron box in the safe to Zhu Feng and said:

"Comrade Zhu Feng, it contains microfilm, full of Taiwan's secret military intelligence, and the geographical data analysis of Taiwan's strategic landing point, aircraft and types of air force airports, etc. Please send it back to Hong Kong as quickly as possible and to the hands of mainland leaders!"

3 days later, at Keelung Wharf, Zhu Feng handed the first-hand information in his hand to the intelligence officer of the East China Bureau as agreed, and he took it back. A few days later, this batch of intelligence was transmitted to the Intelligence Department of the East China Bureau through Hong Kong. It is worth mentioning that several important top-secret military intelligence were submitted to Chairman Mao.

Chairman Mao

When Chairman Mao heard that this information was handed over to a female commissioner by the "Secret Envoy No. 1" in Taiwan, he immediately praised: "This 'Secret Envoy No. 1' and the female commissioner are so capable!" then instructed the relevant leaders: "Must Envoy No. 1" and the female commissioner are so capable!"

While Zhu Feng was in Taiwan, he met Wu Shi six times in secret, and countless confidential documents sent back to the mainland. However, just when she was preparing to return to the mainland according to the order of her superiors, an accident happened...

Zhou Enlai proposed to Chairman Mao: Recognize Wu Shi as a revolutionary martyr. Chairman: I agree to

On February 2, 1950, Cai Xiaoqian, who was in contact with Zhu Feng, was arrested by the Kuomintang authorities. After some interrogation, he confessed to Zhu Feng, and the Taiwanese authorities quickly blocked all air and sea routes from Taiwan that were out of the island. At such a critical moment, Wu Shi used his identity to risk issuing a "Special Pass" for Zhu Feng and sent her to Zhoushan, which the Kuomintang also occupied.

However, what Zhu Feng and Wu Shi never expected was that Cai Xiaoqian not only confessed Zhu Feng, but also provided Wu Shi. So what's going on?

Cai Xiaoqian

It turns out that there is a diary in Cai Xiaoqian's briefcase with a record of "Chief Wu" on it. These simple three words have also become a fatal flaw, causing the Kuomintang Secret Service to target Wu Shi.

Chiang Kai-shek was very angry when he learned about this and immediately ordered the arrest of Wu Shi. He also found the "Special Pass" he personally issued to Zhu Feng to Zhoushan at his residence. In this way, the Taiwanese authorities not only found the whereabouts of Zhu Feng, who had been missing for a long time, but also found important evidence of Wu Shi's "traitor crime".

In this way, Wu Shi was arrested and Zhu Feng was also arrested from Zhoushan and returned to Taiwan by the Kuomintang military and police. In addition to Zhu Feng and Wu Shi, Wu Shi's wife Wang Bikui, old subordinates Nie Xi, Chen Baocang, Fang Kehua, etc. were involved.

In the eyes of the Kuomintang authorities, the interrogation of Wu Shi was the most difficult thing. Wu Shi was silent a few days before he was locked up, almost never speaking, and there was no expression on his face. He usually spends half of his time reading books, and lies down the rest, while sitting in a place where the light shines.

One night a few days later, the Kuomintang spy called Wu Shi out, and he did not come back until dawn. The next afternoon, the door was opened and the two spies threw Wu Shi in roughly. I saw Wu Shi's body full of injuries, lying on the ground without moving, and he didn't speak. He kept lying on it. After an hour or two, he slowly sat up, leaning against the wall in a daze, and never spoke.

After a while, the spy brought the meal. Wu Shi pointed to his very rich basin and said to his inmate Liu Jianxiu, "You eat it, eat it." But he didn't eat anything himself. When Liu Jianxiu saw Wu Shi speak, he asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Wu Shi shook his head and said, "It's okay, I'm tortured." Liu Jianxiu asked again, "What's the reason?" Wu Shi said, "It's nothing, it's okay." Since then, the guards would call Wu Shi out every day and then apply medicine to him.

A week or two later, one night, Wu Shi was called out by the spy again, and it was only the next day that he was carried in. This time, Wu Shi looked even more fragile and painful. He slept for a day and a night, neither moving nor awakening, but just kept making moaning sounds.

Wu Shi spent three months and 11 days in prison. During this period, he was tortured by the Kuomintang, and one of his eyes lost his light. Wu Shi knew clearly that he could not get out of prison, so he wrote a suicide note intermittently, which lasted more than 2,000 words.

Wu Shi introduced himself in his suicide note; recalled the scenes of marrying his wife and living; mentioned his poor children, his beloved youngest son was only 6 years old, and he could not enjoy the family joy of kindness and filial son; he also wrote that he was honest all his life, and his only asset was books, and he hoped that his friends could build a small library for him to commemorate.

From the end of March to early April 1950, with the end of the interrogation of Wu Shi and others, Chiang Kai-shek's handling of the relevant personnel of the "Wu Shi case" was also put on the agenda. Not long after, the "Wu Shi case" entered the trial stage. After a month of fierce discussion, in early June, Jiang Dingwen , Han Deqin and others sent a final decision to Zhou Zhirou, the "Chief of the General Staff of the Ministry of National Defense": "Wu Shi, Nie Xi and others will not be sentenced to death. We recommend that you give a heavy sentence, but you are exempt from the death penalty."

Zhou Zhirou received this telegram and sent it to Chiang Kai-shek for a review. Who would have thought that after seeing this, Chiang Kai-shek became furious and sternly ordered it: "The trial of Jiang Dingwen and Han Deqin is unfair and pleads with the criminals, and the three people should be dismissed from office and investigated!" In this way, with Chiang Kai-shek's intervention, the trial of Jiang Dingwen and others did not take effect, and the death penalty followed.

On June 10, 1950, at 4 pm that day, Jiang Dingwen and Han Deqian announced the death penalty, saying that the death penalty was approved by the Supreme Government and was executed immediately. When Wu Shi, Zhu Feng and others were escorted to the execution ground, Zhu Feng shouted: "Long live the Communist Party of China! Long live the New China!" Wu Shi looked in the direction where the mainland was and said affectionately: "Taiwan and the mainland are inseparable. We only have one China. Decades later, I believe I can return to my hometown..."

1973, in that special period, in order to commend Wu Shi's contribution to the great cause of reunification of the motherland, Zhou Enlai opposed the public opinion, and suggested to Chairman Mao to recognize him as a revolutionary martyr . When Chairman Mao heard Wu Shi's name, he sighed and said: "I agree."

December 20, 1975, when Zhou Enlai was critically ill, he was still worried about General Wu Shi. He said: "Our Communist Party will never forget his old friends in Taiwan, one is Zhang Xueliang, the other is Wu Shi..."

Wu Shi's wife was later released from prison and settled in the United States. In February 1993, Wang Bikui died of illness. The next year, Wu Shi's youngest daughter Wu Xuecheng moved the remains of her parents' ashes back to the mainland. The country buried her together in Futian Cemetery outside Beijing based on their last wishes...