However, unfortunately, the old man suffered a car accident midway and died on October 23 after rescue efforts failed. A generation of legendary spies ended their glorious life. After Guo Rugui's death, her family received a letter from Taiwan. When she opened it, she saw that th

In October 1997, "Red Spy" Guo Rugui celebrated his 90th birthday. His children and grandchildren came from other places to spend a period of family reunion with him.

When his daughter Guo Xiangwei said goodbye to him, Guo Rugui insisted on sending her daughter to Chongqing Jiangbei Airport in person.

However, unfortunately, the old man suffered a car accident midway and died on October 23 after rescue efforts failed. A generation of legendary spies ended their glorious life.

After Guo Rugui's death, her family received a letter from Taiwan. When she opened it, she saw that there was only a blank piece of paper inside. What did this mean?

, this legendary red spy in modern Chinese history, what kind of magnificent life did he have?

became a red spy

Entering 1945, the defeat of the Japanese army was a foregone conclusion.

At this time, Guo Rugui, who was then the director of the Military Affairs Administration of the Ministry of Military Affairs of the National Government, in charge of the establishment and equipment of the national army, and who was also the deputy director of the National Defense Research Institute, became a little anxious.

Because in his heart, he always sided with the Communist Party. Faced with the invasion of Japanese imperialism, he had no choice but to join the Kuomintang army.

But now that the Anti-Japanese War is about to win, and the two parties are likely to face confrontation again, Guo Rugui is impatient to return to the Communist Party.

However, he has been away from the party organization for too long and has long lost contact with the organization. How to convey his position to the Communist Party has become Guo Rugui's biggest headache recently.

Fortunately, he soon ushered in an opportunity.

In April 1945, Guo Rugui collided head-on with a school officer at the gate of the Military Affairs Office. Upon closer inspection, he turned out to be an old acquaintance.

The other party's name is Ren Tiyou. They both came from the Huangpu Military Academy. They were already members of the Communist Party in school.

After Guo Rugui recognized him, he immediately pulled him aside and asked quietly: "Do you still have a 'relationship' now?"

Ren Tiyou looked confused. He knew very well what relationship Guo Rugui was talking about. .

Guo Rugui looked at Ren Tiyou's expression until the matter was probably out of the question, but Ren Tiyou said that his cousin Ren Lianru might have a "connection" and promised to help him find out.

Five days later, Ren Lianru came to visit Guo Rugui as a fellow villager.

The two of them talked for a long time in the room all night long. Ren Lianru was indeed a comrade of the Chinese Communist Party.

Ren Lianru did not dare to be careless about Guo Rugui's request to rejoin the party. After all, his status in the Kuomintang government was of great importance.

Some time later, under the instruction of Dong Biwu, head of the Southern Bureau of the Communist Party of China, Ren Lianru had many contacts with Guo Rugui and gradually became clear about Guo Rugui's position.

After that, Guo Rugui officially became a senior intelligence officer of the CCP, accepted the tasks assigned by the organization, and continued to lurk in the Kuomintang government.

For a long period of time, Guo Rugui has been circulating among Chen Cheng, He Yingqin , Bai Chongxi , Gu Zhutong , and secretly delivered one important strategic intelligence after another to the Communist army. .

During the War of Liberation, in many cases, the national army's combat deployment was not yet decentralized to the frontline units, and the intelligence was already sent to the desk of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

In May 1947, the Battle of Menglianggu started. The People's Liberation Army completely wiped out the Kuomintang's ace reorganization 74th Division. The division commander Zhang Lingfu was killed. Chiang Kai-shek's strategic intentions in the North China region were thwarted.

Guo Rugui played an important role in achieving such a great victory in this battle.

It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek invited everyone to a dinner on May 12. Guo Rugui, who was delicate and thoughtful, realized that the dinner would not be simple, so he sent his confidants to invite his contactor Ren Lianru to his home in advance.

Sure enough, at the dinner, Chiang Kai-shek formulated a combat plan for three major corps to encircle the Communist army.

After Guo Rugui returned, he immediately wrote down the national army's combat plan and troop deployment and handed it to Ren Lianru. He also warned: "The 74th Division will also participate in the war. This unit is fully equipped with American equipment, so be careful!"

With the information provided by Guo Rugui, the People's Liberation Army made targeted deployments in advance and won a complete victory in the Battle of Menglianggu.

In the Battle of Huaihai , the Huangwei Corps, a direct force of Chiang Kai-shek, was trapped in a double pile.

Guo Rugui first provided information on the combat deployment of the national army to our party, and then used the trust of Chiang Kai-shek and others to induce Chiang Kai-shek to change his strategic determination many times.

In the end, Chiang Kai-shek followed Guo Rugui's suggestion and abandoned the Battle of Bengbu and instead conducted a decisive battle around Xuzhou City.

This not only led to the annihilation of the 12th Corps of Huang Wei Corps in Shuangduiji and the capture of commander Huang Wei , but also created a large number of opportunities for the People's Liberation Army to divide the enemy forces and annihilate them one by one during the battle.

The intelligence provided by Guo Rugui was comparable to a million troops and directly promoted the victory of the Huaihai Campaign.

In the face of right and wrong, Guo Rugui firmly stood on the side of the Communist Party and made great contributions to the founding of New China and the cause of communism.

No matter how high he was in the Kuomintang government, Guo Rugui never gave up his faith in the Communist Party. He also sacrificed his life time and time again and successfully completed the tasks assigned to him by the organization.

So, why does Guo Rugui stand unswervingly on the side of the Communist Party?

Since his youth, what kind of ups and downs has Guo Rugui experienced in order to pursue the party organization?

Determined to join the Communist Party of China

In August 1907, a boy was born to a declining scholarly family in Tongliang County, Sichuan. Because his father Guo Langxi was still obsessed with the imperial examinations, he named his son "Rugui", meaning Won the title of Toad Palace and was named on the gold list.

After graduating from high school, Rugui chose to apply for the Huangpu Military Academy under the introduction of his cousin Guo Rudong, the division commander of the Sichuan Army, and changed his name to Guo Rugui.

In 1926, Guo Rugui officially entered the Huangpu Military Academy and became a cadet in the fifth phase of Huangpu Military Academy.

Guo Rugui was lucky. This was during the first period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Many of the teachers and instructors at Huangpu Military Academy were from the Communist Party.

Communists such as Xiao Chunv, Wu Yuzhang, Xiong Xiong, these Communists became Guo Rugui's teachers, thus allowing him to come into contact with correct ideological guidance when he first entered the ever-changing stage of modern Chinese history.

The baptism of Huangpu Military Academy gave Guo Rugui a detailed understanding of the Communist Party. From this, he switched from worshiping Mr. Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles to communism.

At that time, Guo Rugui learned that his friend Yuan Jingming was already a member of the Communist Party, so he asked him to introduce him to the party.

However, considering the status of his cousin, the Sichuan Army Division Commander, the organization did not allow him to join immediately.

On April 12, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek betrayed the revolution and launched the April 12 coup in Shanghai.

Guo Rugui returned to Sichuan and persuaded his cousin not to be loyal to Chiang Kai-shek. On the surface, his cousin agreed to him, but secretly he still sided with Chiang Kai-shek and secretly sent a special envoy to Nanjing to surrender to Chiang Kai-shek.

Subsequently, Wang Jingwei's government colluded with Chiang Kai-shek and joined forces to fight against communism, and the revolution completely failed.

At this time, Guo Rugui could only temporarily stay under Guo Rudong, but his firm belief in the Communist Party remained unswerving.

On May 8, 1929, under the introduction of classmate Yuan Jingming, Guo Rugui finally realized her long-cherished wish and secretly joined the Communist Party of China.

In April of the following year, the Central Plains War broke out. Chiang Kai-shek ordered Guo Rudong, already the commander of the 20th Army, to lead his troops to Hubei for garrison. Guo Rugui also came with the large army.

In the summer of the same year, Yuan Jingming quietly visited Guo Rugui's residence one night and conveyed to him the order to lead a battalion under his command to cooperate with the Red Army troops in a military violence.

If nothing unexpected happens, Guo Rugui will be able to leave the national army after this operation and officially appear as a communist.

However, due to errors in communication during the operation, which led to confusion between the enemy and ourselves, Guo Rugui's department, which was supposed to cooperate with the Red Army in combat, ended up fighting with the Red Army. Guo Rugui was shot and injured and was sent to the hospital.

After he was discharged from the hospital, the organization under his command had been abolished due to heavy casualties, and he himself was transferred to the military department.

In order to strengthen his control over the Twentieth Army, Chiang Kai-shek sent his cronies deep into the military headquarters, hoping to eliminate the hidden Communists in the army.

Fortunately, Guo Rugui had the protection of her cousin and escaped the disaster.

In order to avoid getting into trouble, Guo Rugui simply sent Guo Rugui to Japanese Military Academy to study.

At this time, Guo Rugui had lost contact with the organization because of the death of his friend Yuan Jingming. In addition, he also wanted to learn more skills, so he followed his cousin's arrangement and traveled east to Japan to study.

I just didn’t expect that his departure would cut off 15 years of contact with the party organization.

Guo Rugui said frankly in his later memoirs: "This was the turning point in my political career, and I took more than ten years of detours after that."

Battle of Songhu Outstanding Heroes

In April 1931, Guo Rugui entered the Japanese Military Academy study.

In just over half a year of studying abroad, on the one hand, he received strict military training and his military quality continued to improve; on the other hand, as a Chinese student studying abroad, he was discriminated against and insulted by the Japanese authorities, which stabbed him deeply like a sharp sword. Guo Rugui's self-esteem was affected.

At the end of the same year, the September 18th Incident broke out, and the angry Chinese students spontaneously formed a group and chose to drop out of school en masse.

After returning to Shanghai, Guo Rugui entered Army University to study.

However, Guo Rugui's inner resentment towards the Kuomintang has not dissipated, especially after Chiang Kai-shek still pursued the policy of "reconciling foreign affairs before settling domestic affairs" in the face of Japanese invaders.

Therefore, for a long time, Guo Rugui had been studying in school or serving as an instructor, and was unwilling to go to the battlefield for Chiang Kai-shek. It was not until the Xi'an Incident that Chiang Kai-shek finally agreed to the joint resistance of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party against Japan, Guo Rugui He decisively chose to abandon literature and join the military. After being introduced by his classmates, he joined the 14th Division of the 18th Army led by Chen Cheng and served as chief of staff.

After the July 7th Incident, Guo Rugui was ordered to follow the 14th Division to North China to fight the war. Because Shanghai was attacked midway, the division turned around and participated in the Battle of Songhu.

Two brigades of the 14th Division were ordered to guard the north and south Tangkou area. The commander of the 42nd Brigade, Zeng Yuehan, was afraid of the enemy. Guo Rugui was ordered to be in danger at the critical moment and became the acting brigade commander of the 42nd Brigade. Under the leadership of Guo Rugui, the

42 brigade braved the bombings of more than ten enemy planes, fought bloody battles, and held their position.

Guo Rugui took the lead and personally picked up the submachine gun and rushed out of the bunker. He launched an attack on the enemy while supervising the battle. It was under such encouragement that the 42nd Brigade blocked wave after wave of Japanese attacks.

At the most critical moment, Guo Rugui even wrote a suicide note:

"All eight thousand athletes of our army have died! The enemy's offensive is fierce, and the future of our army is uncertain! If the position is lost, I will die on the battlefield!"

Guo Rugui also explained one by one what happened after her death, as well as her thoughts and greetings to her family.

word by word, impassioned and as if death is at home!

It was with this spirit of fighting bravely and risking life and death that Guo Rugui led all his men to fight against the enemy for seven days and seven nights, and the position was always firmly in our hands.

In the end, Guo Rugui had to be ordered to withdraw from the position because the national army was gone.

At this time, only more than 2,000 of the eight thousand soldiers were left, most of whom were injured or support personnel.

The Battle of Songhu completely launched Guo Rugui's reputation and established his position in the national army.

At the beginning, many of his colleagues thought that he was just a scholar and literati. They did not expect that he would be so brave when fighting on the battlefield.

For a time, Guo Rugui became a well-known figure in Shanghai and the Kuomintang army.

Soon after, he was transferred to the 54th Army, Chen Cheng's direct unit, and served as chief of staff.

Guo Rugui's performance in the Battle of Songhu was just a microcosm of his eight-year military career in the Anti-Japanese War.

Whenever he fought with the Japanese aggressors, Guo Rugui would always confront them with a desperate attitude, and his military career continued to rise with the accumulation of military exploits.

However, in Guo Rugui's heart, he has always been a member of the Communist Party, so after the Anti-Japanese War is about to end, he can't wait to return to the party organization.

After the organization gave him an order to lurk the Kuomintang government, he was able to deliver important information one after another to the Party Central Committee with absolute loyalty.

led the troops to revolt and restored the identity of the Communist Party

With the defeat of the Kuomintang army in the three major battles of , Chiang Kai-shek's elite troops were almost destroyed, and the People's Liberation Army already had an absolute advantage.

Therefore, Guo Rugui requested to return to the party organization, but the organization had different views.

After all, old Chiang Kai-shek still has millions of troops in his hands. Now only northern China has been liberated. In order to prevent Chiang Kai-shek from entrenching himself in the southwest corner and resisting despite the danger, the organization instructed Guo Rugui: Try to control an army in the southwest as much as possible. When the People's Liberation Army marches south, they should cooperate with each other inside and outside to disintegrate the enemy forces as quickly as possible.

Guo Rugui always puts the interests of his family and country first and obeys the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Guo Rugui took the initiative to resign on the grounds of repeated failures in the three major battles, left the war room, and asked to be transferred to the local army.

At this time, the Kuomintang military was short of major generals. Guo Rugui's application was approved by Chiang Kai-shek. He was appointed commander of the 72nd Army and rushed to Sichuan to supervise the war. After

arrived at the army, Guo Rugui immediately started working. First, he eliminated the spies and reactionary elements in the team, and arranged his cronies into units at the regiment level and above.

At the same time, he also found a way to transfer a set of the latest weapons and equipment from the reorganized army from the Ministry of National Defense and the Logistics Department, giving the 72nd Army a completely new look.

As the People's Liberation Army troops entered the southwest, Chiang Kai-shek specially flew to the front line and made strategic arrangements for the defense work of the 72nd Army.

Seeing Guo Rugui's effectiveness in reorganizing the troops, Chiang Kai-shek was deeply pleased and promoted him to commander of the 22nd Corps, commanding most of the troops in the southwest.

On December 11, 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek had led the remnant troops to retreat to Taiwan Province and was paying close attention to the stubborn resistance of the National Army in the southwest region, Guo Rugui suddenly announced an uprising in Yibin .

For a time, the southwest region was in chaos. The People's Liberation Army took advantage of the situation and pursued the victory, and soon wiped out the remaining enemies of the Kuomintang on the mainland.

Chiang Kai-shek was furious and cursed Guo Rugui as a "traitor!"

At this time, he still did not know that Guo Rugui had always been a red spy of the Communist Party until Guo Rugui wrote his many years of experience into a memoir and told the world It was only then that the Kuomintang in Taiwan Province realized his red identity.

In June 1950, Guo Rugui once again applied to the organization, hoping to restore his party membership.

However, due to his high status in the Kuomintang army, the few comrades who could prove his underground party status, and the obstacles of various historical reasons, Guo Rugui did not apply for party membership until April 1974. was passed and became a formal party member in 1981.

The Chengdu Military Region Party Committee took into account Guo Rugui's hard work over the years and rated him as an outstanding party member of the entire military region that year.

Guo Rugui has been tirelessly pursuing party membership for most of his life, and finally realized his long-cherished wish in his seventies.

After that, the gray-haired Guo Rugui still did not stop.

He traveled around, organized relevant experts, and spent more than ten years. edited a set of "Chinese Military History" with more than 6 million words and two large volumes of "China's Anti-Japanese War Frontal Battlefield Operations", filling the gap between China and the United States. Gaps in the literature of military studies.

After his death, a letter from Taiwan Province was sent to his son Guo Xiangcao.

After Guo Xiangcao opened it, he found that there was a blank piece of paper inside. His family members were very confused about this.

Later, after many interviews and visits, Guo Xiangcao understood the inside story after having an in-depth understanding of his father's experiences over the years.

It turns out that when Guo Rugui left the Kuomintang center and went to the southwest, he said this to his comrades when bidding farewell: "Everything is left unsaid."

Many years later, when Guo Rugui passed away After the news reached Taiwan Province, old friends across the Taiwan Strait also expressed their remembrance and memory of Guo Rugui in this special way.

Conclusion

In Mr. Guo Rugui's life, he began to follow the Communist Party from a young age. Whether he went to study in Japan, joined the Kuomintang army to participate in the Anti-Japanese War, became a red spy, or became a public servant after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guo Rugui Never gave up on the faith in my heart.

Fortunately, at the last moment of his life, he finally managed to see the moonlight and realize his long-cherished wish.