The military compound is probably the safest place . There are sentries with guns standing in front of the door. Senior leaders in the compound will also have guards. However, such a safe and well-defended place was destroyed on December 17, 1970. The assassination of the founding lieutenant general of shocked the whole country.
Under the direct instruction of Premier Zhou, the police and the military quickly formed a joint task force to find the murderer. However, after the case was solved, learned something even more outrageous.
When the lieutenant general was assassinated, his guards were committing adultery next door.
Premier Zhou angrily denounced: "This is the worst guard since the founding of the People's Republic of China. We must be punished severely!"
The lieutenant general who was assassinated due to the inaction of the guards was General Tan Furen.
Lieutenant General Tan Furen was assassinated in the early hours of the morning.
Tan Furen joined the Red Army at the age of eighteen, and joined the Communist Party of China in the same year.
has been serving our party loyally since then and has performed outstandingly in all stages of the war.
Among the major awards after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tan Furen was awarded the rank of lieutenant general for his illustrious military exploits. He served successively as the president of the Military Court of the People's Liberation Army, political commissar of the Engineering Corps, and political commissar of the Kunming Military Region.
In this special period, despite the turmoil and chaos in the country, Tan Furen still dedicated his efforts to the party and the country with his loyal party spirit, down-to-earth work style, strict self-discipline, and integrity.
In 1967, Tan Furen served as the office director of the Mao Zedong Thought Study Class run by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. During this period, he worked tirelessly in various study classes and did a lot of work to protect old comrades, and many old comrades were protected from persecution.
But such a conscientious and dedicated veteran general who served the party and the people was brutally assassinated . Also killed was the veteran general's wife.
In the early morning of December 17, 1970, several gunshots were suddenly heard in the silent night sky. Now is the peaceful era. Even in special periods, gunshots are rarely heard. Moreover, those who listen to gunshots The location should be in the compound of the Kunming Military Region, and all the senior leaders of the Kunming Military Region live in the compound.
The guards on duty in the courtyard immediately dispatched and ran towards the direction of the gunfire. When they searched for courtyard No. 42, they found that the door of the courtyard was wide open, and the owner of courtyard No. 42, Lieutenant General Tan Furen, fell in a pool of blood. .
Soldiers from the Military Region Security Department also arrived quickly after receiving the alarm call. Soldiers from the Security Department quickly surrounded the scene and carefully searched every room. They found Mrs. Tan dead in the master bedroom on the second floor. Mrs. Tan was The bullet in the eyebrow killed at that time.
The assassination incident was quickly reported to the central government. Premier Zhou was extremely shocked after receiving the report and immediately instructed : "First, organize forces quickly to rescue General Tan Furen at all costs, Second, immediately establish an army and police force." The joint task force must seize the time to solve the case. This case must involve the military region. At the same time, Premier Zhou immediately arranged for medical experts from Beijing to fly to Kunming to rescue General Tan, but General Tan was eventually shot. All were critical. The injuries were too severe and he was unable to recover. He died around noon on the 17th.
This is the highest-level assassination of a military general that has occurred since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The most puzzling thing is that General Tan was equipped with guards. Where were the guards when General Tan and his wife were assassinated? What are they doing?
The inactive security guard
The task force established under the instructions of Premier Zhou immediately launched an investigation. The task force was divided into two groups, one to investigate the person, and the other to investigate the gun that committed the crime.
The investigation team was the first to interrogate the general's two guards .
When the task force interrogated one of the guards named Li, the guard was still in a panic. He had not yet recovered from the gunfire and murder that night.
The task force asked him if he heard gunshots that night. Guard Li looked pale, lowered his head, and stammered in an almost inaudible voice : "Listen, heard."
"I heard gunshots." What did you do after that?" asked the task force.
Guard Li replied : "I, I was scared, so I hid in the room and didn't dare to come out.
I have never participated in any battles, and I have never fired a gun." His voice became even lower.
After investigation, we found out that the guard was a recruit who had just joined the army for one year and had never been on the battlefield at all, let alone shot a gun.
When the task force interrogated another guard, the guard's answer was even more shocking.
When General Tan heard the gunfire, he ran to the guard room and knocked on the door of the guard and shouted for help. The guard whose duty was to protect the leader was in the room, but he did not open the door for the general. When he heard the murderer opening the door to the general, When the gun was fired, he still did not open the door, but allowed the murderer to brutally shoot the general three times.
The task force asked him why he didn't open the door to rescue the general. His answer was: "The general's nanny is in my room, we are..."
The members of the task force were furious. As a training officer, The plain guard has forgotten even the most basic professional ethics. Not only did he neglect his duty, but he was also afraid that his adultery with the nanny would be exposed. When the chief asked him for help in a critical moment, he turned a blind eye and allowed his protection object to be exposed. Massacre.
Both guards were excluded from the suspicion of killing the general, but they were still imprisoned for dereliction of duty and will be reported to the central government for processing after the general's assassination is solved.
The real murderer surfaced
After eliminating the suspicion of the two guards, the task force asked Tan Furen's sister-in-law Wang Wenying.
Wang Wenying also stayed at the general's house that night.
After Wang heard the gunfire, she immediately got dressed and ran out of her room on the first floor. As soon as she went out, she saw her brother-in-law, General Tan Furen, running downstairs in a hurry.
When he saw Wang Wenying, the general shouted at her: "Hide quickly, there is a bad guy in the house, he has a gun."
When Wang Wenying heard the cry, she hid at the corner of the stairs and looked out secretly. She saw her brother-in-law She ran towards the backyard. She knew that the backyard was where the guards lived, but soon she saw a figure running out following her brother-in-law. The man was tall and strong, slightly fat, and should be over 1.75 meters tall. , Age She was about forty years old, and then she heard several gunshots. The
task force drew a portrait of the murderer based on the clues provided by Wang Wenying, and accordingly launched an investigation near the military compound. New clues soon emerged.
The person who provided the clue was a teenage child. The child’s father was an ordinary cadre in the army. The child recalled: “On the day of the shooting, someone asked him where the Minister of Security lived, and then went to the home of the Minister of Security. He also knew that person. He was the father of one of his playmates named Wang Zizheng. "
The task force quickly sent people to the home of the Minister of Security to learn about the situation. According to the minister's wife, someone had looked for her husband that day, but because of her husband. On a business trip, the man left. The man's appearance was very similar to what the child and Wang Wenying described. The
task force immediately asked the military region to learn about Wang Zizheng's situation, but the result was a bit confusing because Wang Zizheng is currently imprisoned for concealing historical issues.
Just when the person investigation team encountered a bottleneck, the gun investigation team returned exciting news. The source of the gun was found in .
Because the murderer used a military-issue pistol, the team first checked the weapons of personnel and the situation of firearms in the firearms warehouse in the military region. During the inspection, it was found that the military region security department had lost two pistols and dozens of bullets !
However, there was no damage to the doors, windows and safe of the Security Department. The safe was a combination lock, so it was determined that the murderer must be an insider of the military region, and was most likely a member of the Security Department .
The sentries at the four gates of the military compound also confirmed that no outsiders came in or out on the night of the incident, and there were no signs of climbing on the walls of the military compound. This also shows that the murderer probably lived in the military compound..
When the two groups summarized the situation, pointed their finger at the same person, Wang Zizheng, who was in prison.
In order to be sure, the task force also specially found the child who had met the murderer and asked him to help identify him. When the child saw Wang Zizheng through the glass of the prison cell, he said with certainty: "That's him, he was the one who asked for directions that day." "Human."
Wang Zizheng was the deputy section chief of the Security Department before he was imprisoned. He had the key to the security room and was familiar with the password to the gun safe. He also lived in the military compound and was responsible for the security of the military compound. Knowing the environment well, fully meets the murderer's characteristic conditions .
Therefore, the task force first asked the person in charge of the review Wang Zizheng to understand the situation.
It turns out that Wang Zizhen was from Henan. He joined the army during the Liberation War. He was very brave in the army and often performed meritorious service. Therefore, he was repeatedly promoted in the army. By the 1960s, he was the deputy section of the Security Section of the Kunming Military Region Security Department. Long. During the
period, Wang Zizheng served as a security guard for the Security Department, and also took care of the firearms warehouse in the military compound, so he was very familiar with the situation in the military compound.
However, in the late 1960s, the military region received a letter of accusation against a man named "Wang Zhizheng" During the Liberation War, he persecuted the people in his hometown with the Kuomintang security group and participated in shootings. A comrade of our party, Wang Zhizheng, fled to other places after the Kuomintang was defeated.
However, the local people have not forgotten the crimes committed by Wang Zhizheng. have been doing everything possible to find him and paid close attention to Wang Zhizheng's family in his hometown. Finally, discovered his correspondence and mailing address with his family, and then reported him. The letter was sent to the Kunming Military Region, and it was General Tan and the Minister of Security who were in charge of reviewing the matter.
After painstaking comparisons, verifications, and external investigations, it was finally found out that the "Wang Zhizheng" in the report letter was the current deputy section chief of the Ministry of Security "Wang Zizheng" , which is why Wang Zizheng was imprisoned and reviewed. It was General Tan who approved the review of Wang Zizheng’s imprisonment.
After finding these clues, the task force decided to interrogate Wang Zizheng. However, what was unexpected was that when the Minister of Security and a soldier went to the prison cell to mention Wang Zizheng in person, Wang Zizheng suddenly drew his gun and shot at the two of them. and shot himself when the soldiers quickly surrounded him.
Afterwards, they searched the prison cell where Wang Zizheng was located and found another pistol and remaining bullets. After verifying that the two guns were the pistols lost by the Military Region Security Department, the assassination of Lieutenant General Jianguo, which shocked the country, was solved.
As for Wang Zizheng’s motive for committing the crime, based on the few words found in the notebooks, it can be known that Wang Zizheng developed a huge hatred for the Communist Party and the leaders of the military region after being censored. He wrote in his diary: “I hate Chen from the Security Department. Minister, I hate the leaders of the military region. I will support him even when I die. "
But how did Wang Zizheng escape from the prison cell, how did he sneak back after stealing guns and killing people, and how he committed suicide to this day. It's also a mystery. After the
case was solved, the task force quickly reported the summary of the case to Premier Zhou. At the same time, it also reported to the Prime Minister the various performances of Lieutenant General Tan Furen and the two guards during the incident. When the Prime Minister heard about it, Tan Fu When Lieutenant General Ren was assassinated, a guard committed adultery next door. Premier Zhou was furious: "This can be regarded as the worst guard since the founding of the People's Republic of China. We must punish him severely! A loyal and excellent general will It’s such a shame that he was killed because of a bad guard! You must take this as a warning!”
