On April 8, 2018, after the 80th anniversary of the Taierzhuang victory, people were surprised to find that in the Taierzhuang War Memorial Hall, large photos and related historical materials of a person who was once considered a "big traitor" three times were added.

April 8, 2018, after the 280th anniversary of the Taierzhuang victory, people were surprised to find that in the Taierzhuang War Memorial Hall, large photos and related historical materials of a person who was once considered a "big traitor" three times were added.

What is even more surprising is that this "big traitor" turned out to be the "key gentleman" of the Taierzhuang Battle. He provided a lot of information about the Japanese army to the commander at that time, and made a significant contribution to the final victory of the Taierzhuang Battle.

History is not a little girl who can be dressed up, and the "big traitor" is originally a spy hero. Today, the hermit will work with everyone to clear away the fog of history and pursue the different feelings of family and country.

Xia Wenyun was born in 1905 and is from Qidingshan, Jinzhou, Dalian City. The Xia family is a big family in the local area, and there are dozens of uncles and uncles of Xia Wenyun. Because he is fair and pure, smart and shy, the adults are nicknamed "Miss Xia" and are deeply loved by the elders of the family.

Xia Wenyun is smart and has excellent grades in every subject since childhood. In 1919, Xia Wenyun was admitted to the Lushun Normal School , which was opened by the Japanese at that time. After graduating from the top three in the school, he went to study in Hiroshima Higher Normal School in Japan to study history and law.

1929, Xia Wenyun graduated from Hiroshima Higher Normal School and was admitted to the master's degree in the Faculty of Literature of Kyoto Imperial University, Japan. In Japan, he lived a half-working and half-study life, and has translated and published many works and collections of Japanese novels such as Shirakugawa Shirakumura, Koizumi Yakumo and others, and has left deep footprints in the history of Chinese new literature.

1931, after Xia Wenyun returned to China, he applied for the job as a professor and secretary of the president of Fengtian (now Shenyang). During the summer vacation, he returned to Japan to complete the master's thesis defense and officially graduated from Kyoto Imperial University in Japan, becoming one of the earliest master's degree students in China at that time. If this continues, he will have no worries about food and clothing and be safe for his whole life.

However, in 1931, the "September 18th" incident broke out, the Japanese army invaded the Northeast, Feng Yong University was forced to move to Beijing, and Xia Wenyun was unemployed. When he was inseparable from his life and had no way to serve the country, he entered the pseudo-"Manchukuo" government agency through an introduction.

Special growth environment and study abroad experience, Xia Wenyun can not only speak authentic Japanese, but also proficient in Japanese culture. Soon, Xia Wenyun was attracted by the head of the intelligence section of the Japanese Kanto Army Command, the leader of the four major secret agencies, and the leader of the Lan agency and Zhiying Zhongsou, and hired as a personal translator.

Due to work, Hitoshiji often took him to socialize with the senior management of Kanto Army . Therefore, Xia Wenyun was familiar with young Japanese officers such as Kenji Doihara, Seishiro Itagaki, and Neji Okamura 1 Okamura , which provided unique conditions for his future intelligence work.

In Japanese pronunciation, the character "Xia" is similar to the character "He". The change of Xia Wenyun's name, He Yizhi, means it is beneficial to He Zhiying Er, and he further gained the trust of He Zhiying Er.

I originally thought I would just keep working like this, but my inadvertent encounter with Li Zongren inspired his deep feelings for family and country, and changed his life trajectory.

"918 " and "January 28" Incidents, especially between 1931 and 1936, China was in a warlord melee. The warlords in Guangdong and Guangxi have always been against Chiang Kai-shek , and Guangdong and Guangxi is in a semi-independent state. In order to stabilize the anti-Chiang stance of Guangdong warlord Chen Jitang HTML , the Guangxi warlord Li Zongren lived in Guangzhou for a long time.

1931, He Zhiying was appointed as the military officer of the Guangzhou Army of the Japanese invaders in China. His main task was to contact "Southwest factions" such as Hu Hanmin, Chen Jitang and Li Zongren to fight against Chiang Kai-shek, and intensify conflicts between the powerful factions in China's local governments. The Japanese also benefited from it, and their intentions were not uncommon.

Xia Wenyun accompanied He Zhichang to Guangzhou. Xia Wenyun was the translator of Hezhi and Li Zongren's previous meetings.

After meeting Xia Wenyun many times, Li Zongren felt that he was upright, young, enthusiastic, and talented, so he wanted to awaken his conscience and serve the motherland.

I guess even He Zhi would not have thought that their original intention was to instigate Li Zongren, but their translation was instigated by Li Zongren!

One day, Li Zongren secretly asked Xia Wenyun to talk to his private residence. Li Zongren asked tentatively: "I think you are a virtuous and talented young man. Now our motherland is so broken, your hometown is also occupied by the enemy. The fate of the motherland is on the verge of life and death. Can you be willing to serve the enemy without being moved?"

After this question, Xia Wenyun's psychological defense line completely collapsed, just like a wandering child finding his relatives, and tears suddenly fell like rain.

He recalled the scene of being bullied by Japanese when he was a child and during his study abroad. Even if he looked at the Japanese more, he was beaten to the point of being blue and swollen and unrecognizable. Although he is famous now, he is still inferior to others in the eyes of the Japanese, but he is often ridiculed and harassed by Japanese...

The feelings of family and country hidden in his heart were aroused. Xia Wenyun wiped his tears and said solemnly: "If you have the opportunity to serve the motherland, you will die!"

Li Zongren saw that he was sincere and spoke sincerely, so he made a private agreement with him to be a secret intelligence officer, spy on the Japanese secrets, and contacted him with a single line through an underground radio station and a special password. Xia Wenyun agreed immediately and refused any reward.

After becoming Li Zongren's intelligence personnel, Xia Wenyun used his years of friendship with Kazuchi Eagleji and his relationship with Japanese senior figures such as Kenji Tokihara, Seishiro Itagaki, and Yasuji Okamura to obtain a lot of core top-secret information. Through secret radio stations and special passwords, he sent it to the commander-in-chief of the fifth zone of , and then translated it from the dedicated radio station of the chief of the chief department and submitted it to Li Zongren on a single line.

Among these information, the biggest influence was the deployment and changes of Japanese troops in the Taierzhuang Battle.

In January 1938, after the Japanese army captured Shanghai and Nanjing, the Japanese army continued to attack along the Jinpu Line in two routes to open up the connection between the Japanese army in the north and south. To this end, the 13th Division of the Central Chinese Expedition Army headed north along the Jinpu Line, successively occupied Bengbu, Fengyang and other places in Anhui, and then occupied the important town of Huainan, Mingguang , echoing the actions of the Japanese army in North China on the Jinpu Line.

The fifth war zone commanded by Li Zongren is responsible for the defensive tasks in this area. Most of the participating troops are miscellaneous troops, with many new recruits and poor weapons and equipment. Li Zongren plans to send troops to reinforce the southern defense line, blocking the 13th Division of the Japanese army heading north, but he is also worried that the Japanese army on the northern line will go south, resulting in an enemy from both sides.

When he was undecided, Xia Wenyun sent a secret message: " The Japanese army moved south but not north ." Seeing that his name was turned worries and became happy, Li Zongren immediately ordered Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army to set up defenses on the north bank of the Huaihe River , and at the same time, he transferred the 59th Army of Zhang Zizhong, who could attack and defend, from the northern line to the Huaihe River front line.

In early February, when the Japanese army rushed to the north bank of the Huai River, the two armies of Yu and Zhang fought together, causing the enemy to overturn. After a fierce tug-of-war, the Japanese army suffered more than 3,000 soldiers and were driven back to the south bank of the Huai River. Due to the obstruction of the Japanese army on the southern route, the Japanese army was unable to advance to attack Xuzhou as planned, which created conditions for the future victory in Taierzhuang.

After the Japanese army lost on the southern line, they organized an attack on the northern line. Seishiro Itagaki's 5th Division invaded from Qingdao to Shandong . Risuke Isotani's 10th Division attacked south along the Jinpu line. More than 20,000 Japanese troops rushed to Taierzhuang, the gateway of Xuzhou, with hungry wolves pounced on food. Both Japanese troops were elite Japanese troops. They thought the Chinese army was vulnerable and arrogant, so they took the initiative.

Xia Wenyun sent another top secret information: "Handling the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, Sakagaki Seishiro, from Jiaoji Road south to Mengyin , Yishui and other places. " Based on this, Li Zongren decided that Sakagaki would attack Linyi and ordered the Kuomintang Third Army stationed in Lianyungang to intercept it.

Pang's army actually had only five infantry regiments. Although he fought bloody battles in Linyi, he could not resist the attack of the 5th Division of Itagaki, known as the "flower of the army", so he urgently sought help from Li Zongren.

At this time, Li Zongren had no troops to reinforce. When he was in a hurry, Xia Wenyun sent a secret message from Shanghai: "The Japanese army moved north and south this time, ." After receiving the information, Li Zongren immediately ordered the 31st Gui army to defend Chuzhou and Mingguang to retreat west quickly to lure the enemy deeper. At the same time, he ordered Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army to continue to deploy defenses on the north bank of the Huai River, and to draw Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army to head north quickly.

Zhang Zizhong got off the train at Guanqiao and marched 180 miles a day and night. He suddenly appeared outside Linyi City. He cooperated with Pang Bingxun inside and outside, defeated the Itagaki Division, annihilated more than 3,000 enemies, and won the Linyi Victory. After the Japanese army suffered this severe damage, they could not gain a foothold in the Linyi area and retreated 45 kilometers.

In this way, the plan of Itagaki and Isotani Division to meet with Taierzhuang has been ruined. In Taierzhuang, the rash Isogao Division became a lonely army. Under the fierce attacks of Sun Lianzhong and Tang Enbo, the Japanese army was surrounded, fled and died more than 20,000 people. The two divisions of Sakagaki and Isogao were severely injured. The Chinese army achieved the first great victory on the front battlefield since the full-scale war of resistance, greatly encouraging the confidence of Chinese military and civilians to win.

Xia Wenyun's intelligence support to Li Zongren is more than that.

In April 1939, after careful planning and full preparation, the Japanese army attempted to sweep the main forces of the Fifth War Zone in order to consolidate the periphery of Wuhan. In the late month, the Japanese army assembled more than 100,000 elite troops, and with the support of more than 200 cannons and more than 100 tanks, they invaded the west along the two highways, Xiangyang to Garden, and Jingshan to Zhongxiang .

Xia Wenyun sent another secret message from Shanghai to report in detail the strategy and deployment of the Japanese army's war zones. Based on this, Li Zongren made up his mind and cleverly set up his formation. He led his troops to fight hard for more than a month. Finally, he defeated the invading enemy and killed more than 5,000 enemies.

Li Zongren admired the value, speed and accuracy of Xia Wenyun's intelligence, saying that his intelligence was " can be said to be unique" in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japan.

Later, he wrote in his memoirs: " He Jun risked his life to collect information for us, which was all out of patriotic enthusiasm. The matter was always the case, not in any name of the government, nor was he helped by the government at all. How could a patriotic patriot like Jun be willing to be an unknown hero, and his achievements in the fight against the war are indeed ."

However, it was not without danger that Xia Wenyun provided intelligence to the Kuomintang. The first time the danger came from the "pig teammates" within the Kuomintang.

In July 1939, Secretary-General of the Supreme National Defense Committee of the National Government, Zhang Qun, was proud of his interview with foreign news agencies such as Hezhongshe , Associated Press , and blurted out all the highly confidential information such as Matsuoka's ultimatum and Japanese work on China, and other highly confidential information to the media.

was in a panic now, and foreign journalists were very surprised: "How did China get so much secret Japanese intelligence?"

However, Zhang Qun was still not aware of the huge mistake at this time and replied casually: "This... this information was obtained from Shia." Therefore, Chinese and foreign media reported on the title of Chongqing's Japanese intelligence obtained from "Xie" or "Xia".

Zhang Qun's words were like a "giant bomb" that spread out quickly. After Xia Wenyun learned the news, he quickly sneaked to Hong Kong. As soon as he left, the Japanese military police surrounded his residence in Shanghai.

I thought it was difficult to come back, but I knew that the Kuomintang soon had a "scapegoat" and his suspicion was eliminated.

In 1940, Gao Zongwu, Director of the Foreign Ministry of the Kuomintang, who had contributed to Wang Jingwei's treason and surrendered to the enemy, and Tao Xisheng, Minister of Propaganda of the Wang Puppet Government, broke away from the Wang Puppet organization and fled to Hong Kong from Shanghai. After he disclosed Wang's secret agreement "The Integration of the Adjustment of the New Relations of Japan and the Attachment" and its attachments in Hong Kong's " Ta Kung Fu ", causing chaos within the Wang faction camp.

At this time, the news that "Gao Zongwu is a spy from Chongqing, he is the one who leaked Japanese secrets" spread wildly.

has this "scapegoat", regardless of "Xie" or "Xia", the suspicion on Xia Wenyun was eliminated, and he returned to Shanghai after ending his escape career.

In December 1941, after the outbreak of the Pacific War of , the Japanese army entered Shanghai Concession . Xia Wenyun's frequent intelligence delivery activities finally aroused the Japanese side's alertness and found out that the radio station was located in the home of a Japanese friend in the concession. Xia Wenyun was hunted by Japanese spies and was forced to flee to Taiyuan, Shanxi. Since then, Xia Wenyun has ended in providing information to Li Zongren.

In Taiyuan, Xia Wenyun served as the president of the fake " Xinmin Daily " and the director of the construction of the Shanxi Provincial Government. During his tenure as the director of the construction department of the pseudo-Shanxi Province, Xia Wenyun used his special identity to often help the Eighth Route Army transport materials, and covered and rescued the lives of many Communists, including his family Dong Biwu.

Because he had been a translator for the Japanese and worked in the pseudo-government, Xia Wenyun was a "big traitor" named in the National Government. In March 1946, Dai Li, director of the Kuomintang Military Affairs Bureau, flew to Beiping . When he heard that Xia Wenyun was here, he was overjoyed and personally deployed, arrested and interrogated him.

Xia Wenyun was detained in the Dongcheng District Police Station and could be executed at any time. After learning the news, his wife Chen Guizhen was anxious and immediately went to see Li Zongren, who was then the director of the Beiping headquarters, and requested rescue.

Li Zongren personally came forward to prove that Xia Wenyun was lurking in the "what we did for us" by the Japanese puppet regime. In 1947, Xia Wenyun was released from prison by Li Zongren and returned to Shanghai to settle in 1948.

After the liberation of Shanghai, Xia Wenyun still could not escape the misfortune of the "big traitor". Notices to capture him were spread all over the streets and alleys. Xia Wenyun's children and relatives were deeply implicated, and some were persecuted to death.

In early 1950, Xia Wenyun was arrested by the Shanghai Military Control Commission. Later, he was proved by Wu Kejian, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Intelligence Committee, and was finally acquitted. It turned out that as a CCP agent, Wu Kejian was arrested and sentenced by the Japanese military police earlier, Xia Wenyun went to visit prison and delivered food and medicine, and gave him many care. The two became friends.

Later, Xia Wenyun passed by Hong Kong, set foot on the Japanese territory, and started his family again in Japan. Later, with the guarantee of Japanese politician Nobusuke Kishi, Xia Wenyun obtained the right to live in and served as the special consultant for Japan Railway . After retirement, he made a living by running a restaurant.

In his later years, Xia Wenyun missed his motherland very much and wanted to go back to his hometown to see him, but because China and Japan had not yet established diplomatic relations, they had not achieved their wish. On November 15, 1970, Xia Wenyun died suddenly due to a sudden cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 73. He made important contributions to the War of Resistance Against Japan and always had a Chinese heart, and did not add Japanese nationality until his death. He expressed his patriotism with practical actions.

tribute! Xia Wenyun, the hero behind the Taierzhuang Battle!