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On March 18, 1946, just dawn, Mao Renfeng, secretary of the Kuomintang Military Affairs Bureau, hurried to Chiang Kai-shek's official residence.
The thick fog in the morning made him have water droplets hanging on his hair. After seeing Chiang Kai-shek , Mao Renfeng, who had always been steady, was so nervous that he couldn't speak. After finally speaking, he said: "The plane the boss was on was out of contact! The aviation committee is still looking for..."
Mao Renfeng
Mao Renfeng's "Boss" is the leader of the Military Control Commission Dai Li . Upon hearing this news, Chiang Kai-shek immediately picked up the phone and contacted the Aviation Committee. However, after verifying with the Aviation Committee, it was indeed as Mao Renfeng said, Dai Li lost contact!
Dai Li is Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand man, and Chiang Kai-shek controls the entire Kuomintang's "eyes" . If Dai Li dies, then his eyes will be like blinding one.
So, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Mao Renfeng to immediately send a general-level cadre to take the radio station and the doctor to find it. If you find the plane Dai Li was on, report it immediately. If the plane cannot land by then, you have to go down to find it!
Dai Li
But at this time there were rumors that this was Dai Li's 's plan to escape from the shell of , and it was him "fake to die" . So what is the truth? Where did Dai Li go?
The disappearing aircraft No. 222
On March 16, 1946, Dai Li, then director of the Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Kuomintang Military Commission, went on a business trip to Tianjin on duty. The other ones were also the director of the Personnel Department of the Military Affairs Bureau, and Gong Xianfang and others.
Dai Li
After arriving in Tianjin, Dai Li heard that the Northeast Security Commander Du Yuming was hospitalized, and hurried to Beiping to visit, and then took a special plane to Qingdao .
The plane he was riding was a DC-47 type 222 military transport aircraft assisted by the United States. It has good performance, can fly all day, and is equipped with complete navigation equipment, which is world-class. Therefore, although some abnormal weather occurred when the plane arrived in Qingdao, Dai Li didn't care.
After summoning local officials in Qingdao, Dai Li came to Qingdao Cangkou Airport at 11:30 the next morning. At this time, there was thick fog in Qingdao, and light rain was sandwiched in the fog, and the visibility was very low. It was very dangerous to take off in this situation. So the officials who came to see him off all advised Dai Li to take a break for a few days and leave another day.
Dai Li
However, his itinerary has been arranged long ago, and it is difficult to change in haste.
This time he left Qingdao. First, he would go to Shanghai to meet with the big star lover butterfly to deal with the relationship. After that, he would also have to talk with his old friend Qinggang boss Du Yuesheng . Second, he would go to Nanjing to find the upcoming visit to the United States, and let He Yingqin go abroad for inspection, and promptly urge the United States to provide military assistance and help him as commander of the Shanghai Army.
Finally, Dai Li had to rush back to Chongqing before the 18th. Therefore, the itinerary is very tight and we cannot waste time here.
plus airport staff report: "The weather in Shanghai is bad and it may not be possible to land. Nanjing is still good and can land normally." Therefore, Dai Li, who is particularly confident in US military aircraft, did not take this abnormal weather seriously and got on the plane without any worries.
Dai Li
He thought, if Shanghai cannot land, then turn around and fly directly to Nanjing, let go of private relationships in advance, and put state affairs first. Therefore, he asked the crew to fill the plane with fuel in case there was enough fuel to fly to Nanjing when it could not land at Shanghai Airport.
And as the crew reported, Shanghai is indeed cloudy and thunder and lightning. After the plane flew over Shanghai, it was unable to land due to heavy rain, so the plane had to fly westward to Nanjing.
But the weather conditions are changing. Nanjing was still clear when he set off from Qingdao. After the plane flew over Nanjing, thunderstorms were already falling in Nanjing. The clouds were thick, and the visibility in the air was extremely poor. Even the American military transport aircraft may not be able to hold on.
In this case, the No. 222 transport plane Dai Li was riding requested landing from Nanjing Airport. Nanjing Airport refused many times but failed, so he had to allow the plane to land.
Dai Li
At 1:06 pm on March 17, Nanjing's call was returned and could land. Transporter No. 222 said it was received. This is the last time Nanjing Airport contacted Transporter No. 222 at the end of the last time.
However, unexpectedly, the No. 222 military transport plane that could have landed in the afternoon disappeared, and there was no news again.
At this time, the Shanghai office and Military Control Commission personnel who were originally scheduled to pick up the plane in Shanghai were still waiting at the airport. They didn't know that the plane had flew to Nanjing and disappeared.
At 4 pm, Nanjing and Shanghai both generated electricity to ask Chongqing, asking Dai Li if he was turning around. Mao Renfeng, who was left at the headquarters of the Chongqing Military Control Commission, did not receive any news from Dai Li and had no idea of the plane's disappearance.
Dai Li
Shanghai contacted the airport where Dai Li passed to inquire, and asked the US military fighter plane to search on the route that the No. 222 transport plane flew over, but until the next day, there was no news.
Mao Renfeng did not sleep all night. After reporting to Chiang Kai-shek early the next morning, the entire Kuomintang was alarmed. Especially the Military Control Commission headquarters, this is tantamount to putting a bombshell into it.
For many years, Dai Li has covered the sky with one hand in the Military Control Commission, and many people have been promoted by him. The slogan of "Group is a family, and comrades are like brothers and feet" has made many people in the Military Control Commission willing to work for him. For these people, Dai Li is their heaven.
Now Dai Li is missing, and it is suspected to be an air crash, which makes those who have always followed Dai Li's horse's head feel that the sky has collapsed. Suddenly, the morale within the Military Control Commission was sluggish.
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At the same time, around the missing transport aircraft No. 222, the US Air Force, the Kuomintang Aviation Committee, and the Military Control Commission were dispatched together to search for traces of the aircraft everywhere. , the No. 222 transport aircraft No. 222 was like evaporating from the world, and could not be found.
So, where did the No. 222 transport plane go?
The death of the head of the Military Control Commission
In fact, the reason why the Kuomintang so vigorously looked for Dai Li was not simply because it was afraid that he would die.
Living people are always more terrifying than dead people, which is what Chiang Kai-shek really fears. Over the years, Dai Li has covered the sky with his own hands within the Military Control Commission, and the Military Control Commission has almost become his own military control. Although Dai Li was still listening to himself, he did not want to see the Military Control Commission being controlled by others.
Chiang Kai-shek
Compared to Dai Li's death in the air crash, Chiang Kai-shek was more worried about Dai Li's defection . If the plane lands in an area controlled by the Communist Party and Dai Li surrenders to the Communist Party, then Dai Li, who has mastered a large number of secrets of the Kuomintang, will become the biggest traitor in the history of the Kuomintang.
Therefore, after Chiang Kai-shek learned that Dai Li had lost contact, he asked Mao Renfeng to send people to the Communist District to search, fearing that the plane landed in the Communist District, Dai Li was caught and surrendered to the Communist Party, or that Dai Li took the initiative to rebel.
says it is a search, but it is better to say that it is to confirm whether it is dead or not. If it is not dead, bring him back.
So after Mao Renfeng returned to the headquarters of the Military Control Commission, he immediately announced Chiang Kai-shek's order. Director of the General Affairs Office, , Shen Zui , who has the rank of major general, took the initiative to stand up and expressed his willingness to find Director Dai.
Shen Zui
Before leaving, Chiang Kai-shek handed Shen Zui a copy of "Terminal of Chairman of the Military Commission of the National Government" , which read "No matter who is, no one is allowed to hurt Dai Li. If all military and political organs and local governments find Dai Li, they should be responsible for properly escorting out of the country."
Dai Li is the director of the Military Intellectual Property Bureau. , who dares to hurt Dai Li in the Kuomintang-controlled area? Obviously, this was written by Chiang Kai-shek to the Communist Party in the liberated areas.
But before Shen Zui and others set off, the clues of the plane were found.
htmlOn the evening of March 19, Liu Qirui, director of the Nanjing Office, contacted Chongqing and said that a crashed military aircraft was found in the suburbs of Nanjing, which was suspected to be the No. 222 transport plane Dai Li was on.Liu Qirui
Mao Renfeng immediately instructed Nanjing to find it. Liu Qirui knew that it was of great importance, so he took a bus to the deep mountains near Nanjing to look for the plane. The ground near Nanjing, which had just rained, was muddy, and the mountain roads were even more unpassable. Many places had to get off and push carts to pass. Therefore, when the group came to Banqiao Town, Jiangning, Nanjing, cold and tired, almost everyone had no strength to find any further.
At this time, Liu Qirui learned from the local public that the plane crashed into the nearby Daishan Mountain and exploded on the spot. The staff also took out a pistol and a stamp found at the explosion site.
Aiden Officer Dai Li, who was walking with Liu Qirui, saw the pistol and cried on the spot: "This is the boss's pistol!"
And that seal belongs to Gong Xianfang, who was walking with Dai Li.
Dai Li (middle)
Seeing these two things, the missing plane and Dai Li's ending has finally been confirmed. Several people supported themselves and climbed towards Daishan overnight. Finally, they saw a wreckage of planes halfway up the mountain.
Later, everyone found a shrinking "black carbon rod" in the valley. Judging from the gold teeth and clothes fragments still left on "bar" , is Dai Li's body.
Dai Li's hands were covered with countless blood throughout his life, and countless people wanted to assassinate him. According to statistics, he had been assassinated more than 180 times in his life, but he could be defeated by him and successfully escaped. Because he has been elusive and uncertain in his whereabouts, he was once rated as one of the most mysterious figures in modern Chinese history by the American magazine "Colleries".
But no one expected that such a person known as , "the most difficult person to assassinate in the Republic of China", , died in an air crash, which is ironic.
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After hearing the news of Dai Li's death, Chiang Kai-shek was so sad that he finally breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Dai Li does not fall into the hands of the Communist Party, everything will be fine. Dai Li died. Although he lacked one "eye" for him, it also ensured the clarity of the other "eye" . From then on, he no longer had to worry about someone taking charge of the military command alone and threatening his status.
After Dai Li's death, Chiang Kai-shek also sent him a elegiac couplet to express his affirmation of his past work.
At this point, Dai Li's death seems to have settled. After all, even the capital of the corpse has been found, so what's there to be uncertain? But some people raised doubts, saying that just a few gold teeth and fragments of clothes could not prove that the charred "black carbon rod" was Dai Li. Dai Li might not be on the plane at all, and the air crash was just "fake death" .
Dai Li's funeral
Why does anyone raise such a question? Dai Li is not on the plane, can’t he go to other places?
Reminding the content on Chiang Kai-shek's handwritten after Dai Li's disappearance, it makes people feel a little imaginative.
The truth about "fake death"
In fact, if we look at the relationship between Dai Li and Chiang Kai-shek before his death, Dai Li does have the possibility of fake death.
First of all, Dai Li once said to Shen Zui in person: "I will not die at the hands of the Communist Party in the future, but also at the hands of the Chairman." Because the Military Intelligence Bureau is a secret agency of the Kuomintang, it involves too many secrets, which can be said to be the weakness of the Kuomintang. As the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, Dai Li has mastered a large number of secrets, and once it is leaked, it will inevitably lead to a catastrophe.
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Chiang Kai-shek had to rely on the Military Control Commission to control the Kuomintang and understand the enemy's intelligence, but he also had to be careful of the Military Control Commission, especially Dai Li, who was firmly grasped by the General Administration. Therefore, even if the enemy can let him go, Chiang Kai-shek will never let him go in the end.
Secondly, before Dai Li's plane accident, when he was on a business trip to Peking, he had explained the "family" of the Military Control Commission to the Kuomintang General Zheng Jiemin , and explained the internal and external affairs of the Military Control Commission to Zheng Jiemin. But at that time, Zheng Jiemin was not an internal member of the Military Control Commission, so he said that Dai Li could handle the internal affairs of the Military Control Commission and he did not want to understand them.
But Dai Li said: "No matter whether you want to understand or not, you must grasp the situation of the Military Control Commission." Zheng Jiemin felt that the situation was different, because Dai Li seemed to be explaining his funeral at this time. Under Zheng Jiemin's questioning, Dai Li said that he planned to go abroad for inspection, and then the Military Control Commission handed over to him, so he explained these to him.
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did a good job in the position of Director of the Military Affairs Bureau. Why did Dai Li go abroad for inspection? At this time, the lover in Shanghai had already broken up with him, and it was unlikely that he would elope with the money.
And the United States, he has already planned to urge He Yingqin to ask the United States to provide assistance to the Navy as soon as possible to promote himself as commander of the Shanghai Army, completely looking ready to show his skills. Why are you suddenly preparing to go abroad? What he called "exploring abroad" had no reason to support it.
plus, after the outbreak of Anti-Japanese War , the Military Control Bureau developed extremely rapidly. By the time Dai Li died, the Military Control Bureau had become a behemoth within the Kuomintang, which really made Chiang Kai-shek feel threatened. Therefore, before Dai Li's accident, Chiang Kai-shek was already planning to reorganize the Military Control Commission. was to separate the huge Military Control Commission organization and weaken Dai Li's strength.
Zheng Jiemin
In this way, Dai Li's situation was already very dangerous at that time, and he wanted to "go abroad to inspect" and explain to Zheng Jiemin what was it? If Dai Li discovered any clues, it is not impossible to use the "Golden Cicada Escapes" strategy at this time to retreat bravely.
Therefore, some people suspect that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to kill Dai Li, and Dai Li learned about the situation in advance and arranged a substitute to replace himself at the airport.
But in fact, this suspicion is simply untenable.
Dai Li's status at that time did make Chiang Kai-shek feel threatened and also made Chiang Kai-shek have the idea of weakening him, but it was not at all the point of killing him.
Chiang Kai-shek
Xi'an Incident Zhang Xueliang , Yang Hucheng "Soldier Response" Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek was just a house arrest and the other sent to conduct an investigation abroad. He Yingqin even had the idea of rebellion, but Chiang Kai-shek knew it and did not do anything to him. Even the Kuomintang general Wei Lihuang really had "Tonggong" , and Chiang Kai-shek did not want to kill or cut.
Dai Li's status only made Chiang Kai-shek feel threatened. In fact, Dai Li is still very obedient under Chiang Kai-shek. In addition, on the eve of the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Chiang Kai-shek first needed intelligence support from the Military Affairs Bureau, and secondly, Dai Li needed to contact the United States to provide international military assistance. Unless Chiang Kai-shek wanted to break his own hands, he would never kill Dai Li.
Therefore, the claim that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to assassinate Dai Li was not valid at all. Later, the so-called "Golden Cicada to escape from the shell" was even more nonsense.
Shen Zui
Based on Shen Zui's memoirs in his later years, we can roughly see what happened to the No. 222 transport plane Dai Li was riding. Shen Zui said that the pilot on the plane Dai Li was temporarily replaced. A pilot named Feng Junzhong, who wanted to take advantage of Dai Li's opportunity to go to Shanghai to resell foreign exchange, so he bribed other personnel to change shifts.
However, Feng Junzhong's flight skills are too poor. He was born in the Guangdong Air Force and his grades were always hovering at the passing line during training. It was okay to fly an ordinary plane, but he could only barely drive the advanced transport aircraft produced in the United States.
If it is normal weather, Feng Junzhong should be able to send Dai Li to Shanghai or Nanjing safely, but unfortunately, it encounters wind and rainy weather, which undoubtedly increases driving difficulties.
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When they arrived in Nanjing, the clouds were deep above Nanjing. Feng Junzhong descent too fast when flying the plane, causing the plane to crash into the ground. After scratching a tree on the ground, Feng Junzhong raised the joystick and wanted to pull the plane up, but with extremely low visibility, the plane just raised its head and pierced its head on the hillside, which eventually led to the tragedy of plane destruction and death.
As "King of Agents" , Dai Li died in an air crash after experiencing more than 180 times. Many people could not accept this result, so they had many suspicions about the cause of Dai Li's death. In addition to the suspicion of Chiang Kai-shek's assassination, there are also , Ma Hansan, assassination, American bombs, etc., but these suspicions are the same as Chiang Kai-shek's assassination, and they are simply untenable.
From the scene of the air crash, the gold teeth on the body, the dropped pistol and the fragments of clothes are enough to prove that this "King of Agents" did die in the air crash, and the source of is just a pilot who wants to go to Shanghai to resell foreign exchange.
Dai Li
Regarding Dai Li's death, Premier Zhou once commented: "Dai Li's death, the revolution of the Communist Party of China can be successful ten years ahead of schedule." The reason is that although Dai Li made contributions to the War of Resistance in his life, he sent people to assassinate traitors such as Zhang Jingyao , Gao Yuebao , His hands were also covered with the blood of the Communists, and he was a sinner who hindered the development of the revolution.
Therefore, Dai Li's death is due to sin, and death in an air crash may have been God's kindness to him.
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