In 1949, a female teacher with a southern accent came to Jiuquan Normal University. Before each class, she always said to everyone with shining eyes, "The rooster crows, and it is almost dawn."

Preface

In 1949, a female teacher with a southern accent came to Jiuquan Normal University. Before each class, she always said to everyone with shining eyes, "The rooster crows, and it is almost dawn."

Students We understand that the female teacher is saying that the People's Liberation Army is coming soon and Jiuquan will be liberated.

Sure enough, In May 1949, the First Field Army of the People's Liberation Army was ordered to pursue the enemy in Shaanxi, Qinghai, Ningxia and other places.

Picture | Ma Hongkui

Female spy lurking in Jiuquan

At that time, the northwest region was in the hands of the "Er Ma".

The "two horses" refer to Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui groups. They have been entrenched in the northwest region for many years. Their power is deep-rooted and their weapons and equipment are sophisticated, making many people very afraid.

After several months of fierce fighting, the People's Liberation Army finally entered the northwest region. Subsequently, the Central Military Commission dispatched the First and Second Corps of the First Field Army to continue marching westward, heading straight for Jiuquan.

Here in Jiuquan, there is a remnant force of the Kuomintang, which is led by Liu Ren, the chief of the Kuomintang in the northwest region.

In fact, this place originally belonged to the "Second Horses", but when the People's Liberation Army led the troops to defeat the "Second Horses", Liu Ren took advantage of the opportunity and took the place of the "Second Horses" and continued to struggle.

Seeing that his struggle was useless, Liu Ren wanted to run away, so he threw the mess to Huang Zuxun, the commander of the 91st Army.

Picture | Peng Dehuai

Huang Zuxun is not a fool. Of course he is not willing to take the blame for Liu Ren, so he also ran away, but before running away, he left 40 female spies in Jiuquan and named them - Digging Group .

The mission of this group of female spies is very insidious: That is to disguise themselves as progressive young people, actively join the army, strive to marry PLA cadres, and then blow the whistle and turn them all over.

It seems that this trick is not advanced, but in the history of our army, there have been similar lessons:

Zhu De's bodyguards and Lin Biao's confidential secretaries all went astray because of their greed for beauty and stole important secrets. Surrender to the enemy.

Peng Dehuai's personal bodyguard also fell into the trap of a female spy and was almost encouraged to assassinate Peng Dehuai. Fortunately, he was discovered in time and did not cause a catastrophe.

This time, our army learned about this incident from the secret message Huang Zuxun sent to Chongqing. Peng Dehuai, who had almost been recruited before, took this matter very seriously. He immediately called Wang Zhen and told him the information.

Wang Zhen was very angry. He slapped the table and said, "Give me three days, I will definitely capture these 40 female goblins!"

Peng Dehuai believed in Wang Zhen's ability to lead troops to fight, but these 40 female goblins There is very little information about the agents, and it would be quite difficult to capture them all within three days.

What Peng Dehuai didn't expect was that the next night, Wang Zhen suddenly arrived on horseback and told him that 37 female spies had been captured!

Peng Dehuai quickly asked Wang Zhen to sit down and asked him how he was captured. Wang Zhen said carelessly, "Women, whether they are from the enemy or from us, can't change the problem of being together."

It turned out that until Wang Zhen heard about this incident, he guessed that these female spies should be temporarily Those gathered together had not received any real spy training.

So they will still do everything in small groups as before, often gathering together for small meetings. In addition, they are not locals, which makes them easier to recognize.

Picture丨Wang Zhen

Therefore, Wang Zhen mobilized the masses to make the local people pay more attention to foreign accents, and it was easy to gather whispering women. Soon, several suspicious elements were targeted.

Following these, Wang Zhen directly uprooted 37 female spies, and this only took one day.

Peng Dehuai listened happily, but he still reminded Wang Zhen, "Huzi, there are still three people you haven't caught, so don't take it lightly. If you let those three take advantage of the loophole, there will be endless troubles."

Wang Zhen laughed. “I was too lazy to catch these three, so I just sat and waited for them to come and surrender."

Wang Zhen's guess was indeed good. The remaining three female spies were frightened all day long when they saw that all the little sisters had been arrested.

And they also heard that not only were the captured female spies not tortured, the People's Liberation Army also tortured them They were treated leniently, and those who wanted to join the army could stay, and those who didn't want to join the army could go home, and their travel expenses would be reimbursed.

The three of them thought about it and decided that it would be better to surrender themselves instead of hiding in Tibet. That's it, all 40 female spies. Captured and brought to justice.

Picture丨Zhou Enlai

Assassination Plan of Mao

Although this incident seems a bit comic, in fact, the Kuomintang agents have always done everything possible.

In 1942, the Kuomintang agents targeted Zhou Mansion . A young man named Zhu Hua, whose main job was to drive for Zhou Enlai.

Zhu Hua had an older brother named Zhu Yinsong who opened a hardware store in Zhongshan Road, Chongqing. Hua was in love with a girl, so he often didn't have enough money, so he had to borrow money from his brother.

As time went by, Zhu Yinsong had some objections to Zhu Hua. One day, Zhu Hua went to his brother's store to borrow money, and was targeted by Kuomintang agents. , After discussion, they decided that would start with Zhu Yinsong and try to buy Zhu Hua over.

Coincidentally, Zhu Yinsong happened to have a good relationship with a spy named Xu Weichuan, so Xiong Shuheng, a female spy from the Chongqing Experimental Zone, passed. Through his relationship with Xu Weichuan, he met Zhu Yinsong and his wife.

Picture丨Zhou Enlai

Xiong Shuheng’s plan was this: After he got along with Zhu Yinsong and his wife, he would secretly send a sum of money and ask Zhu Yinsong and his wife to transfer it to Zhu Hua after a period of time. , when the money ran out, Xiong Shuheng told him that the money was not his own, but belonged to the secret service. If you use other people's money, you have to do things for others, and there will be money to use in the future.

In this way, they can understand everything about Zhou Enlai. Dynamics, and can further steal the CCP's confidential documents.

One night, Xiong Shuheng came to Zhu Yinsong's house with a large bag of money. Probably because he felt that no one could resist the temptation of money, Xiong Shuheng truthfully told Zhu Yinsong's wife his plan.

Zhu Yinsong's wife was very surprised. She did not expect that this beautiful woman who often came to her shop turned out to be a spy.

Two days later, Xiong Shuheng came to Zhu's house again with confidence, intending to find out how far the plan was being implemented. Unexpectedly, Zhu Yinsong's wife took out the large bag of money and returned it to her.

Later, the Kuomintang agents also formulated a plan of "kidnapping" and "threat" in an attempt to force Zhu to use it. When the

plan was reported to the headquarters of the Central Bureau of Statistics for research, it was deemed that "the risk was too great and difficult to implement", so it was abandoned.

Picture丨Mao Zedong and Stalin

In addition to coercion and inducement, the Kuomintang agents most often engaged in assassinations, and the targets of their assassinations were mostly important leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, government and military.

At the end of 1949, Mao Zedong was about to take a train to visit the Soviet Union to participate in Stalin70th birthday celebrations.

After learning the news, Mao Renfeng, the director of the Kuomintang Secrecy Bureau, was immediately ready to take action. He formulated a plan to assassinate Mao Zedong on his way back from his visit to the Soviet Union.

However, what Mao Renfeng did not expect was that Mao Zedong himself learned of this information not long after this evil plan was released.

Before leaving, he instructed the Ministry of Public Security: "Suppress this counterrevolution before I return to China."

Soon, Zhou Enlai deployed the investigation and solving work. He invited the Minister of Public Security Luo Ruiqing to Xihua Hall .

Luo Ruiqing said that this enemy agent intelligence was intercepted from the air by the anti-special surveillance agency, and can provide reliable evidence for our investigation. Therefore, 's discovery of the enemy's lurking radio station is the key to uncovering the lurking enemy agent and crushing the assassination conspiracy.

Zhou Enlai also analyzed that

"Judging from the instructions issued to them by the Taiwan Secrecy Bureau to 'seize the opportunity to blow up Mao Zedong's special train', it shows that our confidentiality work was not done well and the news of the Chairman's visit to the Soviet Union was leaked. Second, the enemy not only had a lurking platform in Beijing, but also had organizations involved in the explosion. "

With the target, the investigation of the case began to be carried out in an orderly and smooth manner. Later, because the Ministry of Public Security had to accompany Mao Zedong to protect his safety, the case was solved. was forwarded to Li Kenong, Minister of Social Affairs of the CPC Central Committee.

Picture丨Li Kenong

Detecting the "Universal Platform"

Based on past experience, Li Kenong will trace the source of the money as a breakthrough in the entire case. Because after the collapse of the Kuomintang, all remaining spy forces basically work for money.

Therefore, as long as we can investigate remittances from abroad, we will definitely find clues. However, there were no suspicious remittances within Beijing, and the investigation was in trouble.

Subsequently, Li Kenong deployed 4 direction-finding machines and 3 search machines to monitor 24 hours a day. The hard work paid off and the case made progress.

investigators found that Tianjin has recently had several large-amount remittances transferred from Hong Kong to Beijing via Tianjin. The remittance address is "No. 7, Liangjiayuan East Courtyard, outside Hepingmen, Beijing Shen Zhai". The person is "Ji Ailin".

Why not send it directly to Beijing, but go to Tianjin and then go to Beijing? This remittance is very problematic.

Picture丨Ji Zhaoxiang

The public security officers immediately used this address to find out that the owner of "Shen Zhai" was named Shen Deqian, and he was the general manager of Zhoukoudian Zhonghua Kiln Industry Company. However, there was no one named "Ji Ailin" in his family. people.

The clues seemed to be broken, but the public security officers were unwilling to give up and sent agents to monitor Shen's house. One day, the eyeliner heard Shen Deqian quarreling with his wife, and his wife Ji Zhimei yelled at him to pay back the money to his sister Ji Cainan.

The anxious Shen Deqian roared, "Don't think I don't know where you got the money! If I report to you, no one will survive!"

revealed the secret with one word, and this Ji Cainan aroused suspicion. After investigation, the public security agency discovered that in the company where Ji Cainan's lover worked, Ji Cainan had two shares, one with his own name and the other with "Ji Ailin".

followed the clues and found other clues. Ji Cainan also had a younger brother named Ji Zhaoxiang. He had served as the captain's information team leader in the Peiping Appeasement Corps of the Second Department of the National Defense Ministry.

Picture丨Mao Renfeng

On the eve of the liberation of Beijing, Ji Zhaoxiang accepted the latent mission assigned by the pacification corps, and in early 1949, he was under Mao Renfeng's direct leadership.

However, when the public security officers checked the household registration, they found that Ji Zhaoxiang had no address or occupation, only one name, and the investigation work reached a deadlock again.

Coincidentally, when everyone was at a loss, the electronic detection team of the Ministry of Public Security detected traces of a hidden radio station in No. 7 Courtyard of Ciqiku Hutong, Nanheyan.

After a secret investigation of 10 residents of Courtyard No. 7, a man named "Ji Xu" came into the investigators' sight. There were abnormal radio waves in their home, and the electricity consumption was very large.

Subsequently, the task force compared Ji Zhaoxiang's photo with "Ji Xu" on the city's enemy and puppet files preserved during the peaceful liberation of Beijing. They found that they were the same person. At this point, the truth about the

matter has been revealed. However, the assassination of Mao Zedong could not rely solely on Ji Zhaoxiang, and Mao Renfeng still had some cards to play.

Picture丨Li Kenong

Therefore, Li Kenong did not rush to catch Ji Zhaoxiang, but turned to the "Northeast Technology Column".

The "Northeast Technical Column" is the Kuomintang's spy organization lurking in Harbin. The task of blowing up Mao Zedong's special train was completed by them.

On the evening of February 17, 1950, Zhang Daping and Yu Guanqun were airdropped by two parachutes . As soon as they landed, they fell into the dragnet set by the public security personnel.

Public security officers found radio stations, American-made carbines , explosives, letters of attorney and other agent supplies from the two persons on the spot. After interrogation, the two confessed that they were special commissioners appointed by Mao Renfeng personally, and planned to go to Harbin's Songhua River Hotel at 8 a.m. on the 18th to meet with Manai, the commander of the "Northeast Technical Column."

As a result, the public security officers took advantage of their plan, and Cheng Runzhi and Shen Jizong replaced Zhang Daping and Yu Guanqun to meet with Manet.

Picture | Chiang Kai-shek

After sitting down, "Zhang Daping" solemnly announced: "I came to supervise the battle on the order of Director Mao Renfeng of the Kuomintang Secrecy Bureau. Chairman Chiang issued an order that if this battle does not succeed, all actions will be successful." In addition to generous rewards, all mobilization personnel will be promoted to the third level."

Manai stood up quickly, "I am willing to show my loyalty to the party and the state."

"Zhang Daping" nodded, "Very good, Commander Ma, please talk about the preparations for the operation. ”

"According to the call from the Beijing lurking station, Mao Zedong's special train will arrive in Harbin at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. We plan to hold three operations in Manzhouli , Harbin, and Changchun. One way to attack from the front, one way to block the attack from behind, and the rest to attack the reinforcements all the way. After completion, we will retreat to Changbai Mountain and build Establish an armed guerrilla base and welcome the arrival of the national army after the Third World War begins. "

"How many troops do you have? Are they enough?" Manet hesitated for a long time and took out a copy of the most confidential organization member contact map. , "a total of 170 people".

Picture丨Mao Zedong

"Zhang Daping" smiled knowingly. At the same time, "Yu Guanqun" walked into the room, "Commander Ma, I will issue you a letter of appointment now."

Manet was overjoyed and took the letter The paper he thought about day and night turned out to be an arrest warrant from the public security agency. He quickly reached for his gun, but was immediately restrained by the police officers who rushed into the room.

Subsequently, Cheng Runzhi ordered simultaneous operations in Harbin, Manzhouli, and Changchun to capture all 170 Kuomintang agents.

html On December 31, the Soviet special train that Mao Zedong took returned to Manzhouli Station. Later, Mao Zedong transferred to his own special train and returned to Beijing smoothly.

Now that things have happened, Li Kenong finally decided to close the network. On February 26, public security officers surrounded Ji Zhaoxiang's home and found spy evidence such as radio stations, code books, telegram manuscripts, etc. on the roof.

Li Kenong flipped through the manuscript of the telegram and asked casually, "Are you Ji Zhaoxiang, who is known as the director of the 'Universal Station'?"

Ji Zhaoxiang shivered, "Sir, I will explain."

Picture丨Li Kenong

Li Kenong walked up to In front of Ji Zhaoxiang, "Don't be afraid. I'm here today to see your Ji Zhaoxiang's sending skills. Just use this radio and your original transmitter to call Taipei."

"I'm willing to help. Send To whom? "

" Your immediate boss, Mao Renfeng. "

Ji Zhaoxiang raised his head and looked at Li Kenong in confusion. , "Do you know Director Mao?"

Li Kenong sneered, "More than just acquaintance, you know, the earliest radio station you established was the one we helped you establish. At that time, Mao Renfeng had not yet entered this field."

Soon, the message was sent to Mao Renfeng,

" Mao Renfeng, after your careful planning, we have detected the omnipotent platform in Beijing. Do you still have the ability? Come here if you have the ability. Let me tell you, the person who is talking to you is Li Kenong. Listen: He who wins the hearts of the people will prosper. , This is an irresistible law of history. Let me tell you, the operator who sent the report is your newly promoted major director Ji Zhaoxiang."