After the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek launched a civil war. Originally, he thought that with the support of the United States and their sophisticated equipment, he would win in the end.
But he underestimated the strength of the people's army led by the Communist Party. The enemy lost a large number of troops in the War of Liberation.
After losing troops and generals one after another, the enemy was unwilling to admit defeat, so he thought of other ways and tried to assassinate the commander of our People's Liberation Army.
In 1948, the enemy sent traitors to assassinate our generals. However, before the plot was implemented, four girls were stillborn. How did they do it?
Red Family
Zhao Youzhi was born in November 1924. Her hometown lives in Hengtang Lane, Dinghai, which is very close to Zhuangyuan Bridge and Zhongjie Street in the center of Dinghai.
She studied in Dinghai County Central Primary School as a child. When she was 11 years old, she followed her parents to live in Shanghai. She studied in many girls' schools .
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Shanghai also held a vigorous anti-Japanese and national salvation movement, and the successive patriotic movements affected her.
Zhao Youzhi was also exposed to many advanced ideas in middle school. Everyone often got together to read progressive books, and sometimes talked about their own views on the development of the current situation.
It was also here that Zhao Youzhi met Comrade Wang Yueying who changed her life. Comrade Wang Yueying was an intelligence officer of our party. Inspired by her, Zhao Youzhi came up with the idea of ​​joining the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu .
Wang Yueying also admired this Shanghai girl, but considering the Zhao family's huge influence in Shanghai and their numerous social connections, she felt that Zhao Youzhi's role in Shanghai would be much greater than joining the army in the base area.
These words did not change Zhao Youzhi's mind, and she still insisted on joining the army in the base area.
Seeing that he could not persuade her, Wang Yueying continued: "Whether you go to the front line or stay in Shanghai, as long as there is a revolution, there will be dangers.
I will tell you the truth, the dangers of staying in Shanghai may be greater than going to the battlefield. You Think carefully. I still want to ask you to work with us here."
Under Wang Yueying's persuasion, Zhao Youzhi joined the Communist Party's intelligence department in Shanghai after graduating from high school, doing research and translation work.
In order to facilitate her work, Zhao Youzhi changed her name many times and used her identities as a primary school teacher and a music teacher to cover her underground revolution.
Zhao Youzhi has many brothers and sisters. Under her influence, three sisters of the same age in the Zhao family all engaged in revolution with her.
's cousin Zhao Yanan engaged in intelligence work at the Shanghai Telecommunications Bureau after joining the revolution; Zhao Lingzhi also worked underground in Shanghai; Zhao Youzhi's younger brother Zhao Yinxin joined the New Fourth Army and rushed to the anti-Japanese front line, and later died to save others.
The Zhao family gave birth to many revolutionary patriots and can be regarded as a red family.
With Wolves
Not long after Zhao Youzhi joined the revolution, Wang Yueying told her to learn typing as soon as possible. Although she didn't know why she wanted to learn typing, since Wang Yueying said so, she just tried her best to learn.
However, in Shanghai at that time, it was not easy to learn typing. She used her network to become a teacher in a primary school founded by her hometown association.
used this identity as a cover to learn typing. She also met several like-minded friends like her and learned typing skills together.
In August 1947, through the introduction of underground party member Zhou Ming (pseudonym Zhou Yueying), and taking advantage of the personnel change in the Songhu Security Command, Zhao Youzhi and Fu Yajuan were assigned to the Inspection Division.
Songhu Security Headquarters is located on North Sichuan Road, surrounded by high walls and heavily guarded. It is directly commanded by the HT1 Secret Bureau HT2, the head of the military special agent Mao Renfeng, and is one of the organizations that opposes the Communist Party in Shanghai.
Here, Zhao Youzhi's mission is: to prepare a long-term ambush, penetrate into the enemy's interior, understand the enemy's intelligence, collect information about all the enemy's activities, and try to destroy the enemy's plans to oppose the Communist Party and the people's activities as much as possible.
Since entering the Inspection Office, Zhao Youzhi began to understand the surrounding environment and the people's origins, personalities, characteristics, and their degree of anti-communism.
Not long after working, Zhao Youzhi introduced Liu Maocai into the military command , and worked with them to fight for the cause of our party.
She had been working in school before and had already adapted to the monotonous but regular life. Now that she has become a "soldier", she has to adapt to this identity in every aspect.
must adapt to the sense of hierarchy within the Kuomintang as soon as possible and disguise herself to look more like the "eldest lady" of Shanghai.
In order to reduce the wariness of the Kuomintang personnel against her, she went to movie theaters, clothing stores, and entertainment venues every day, and she also disguised herself as a simple, inexperienced, and unsophisticated woman.
is conscientious at work, has outstanding abilities, and his typing speed is much faster than others. He is a small employee with outstanding abilities and is easy to get along with. The
Inspection Office has strict requirements for all personnel. It has also established regulations to prevent the enemy from planting undercover agents and clearly warns against the intrusion of CCP personnel.
They also secretly set up a "anti-corruption team" to monitor every move of all members of the inspection team, and if there is any suspicion, they will be imprisoned.
Everyone's office drawers and dormitories will be raided by the "anti-corruption team" at any time. The entire inspection team is panicked and dare not act rashly.
The four Shanghai girls walk on the edge of a knife every day, and they are cautious in everything. They are worried that if they are not careful, they will reveal their flaws and affect the organization's mission.
In order to better carry out intelligence work, the four Shanghai girls hid their identities and severed all ties with those revolutionary organizations, democrats, and progressive relatives and friends.
This is to protect family and friends, so as to avoid catastrophe to their family if one day they are exposed.
In the eyes of people who don't know the truth, their behavior is a sign of rebellion, and many people condemn them.
In the face of other people's gossip, they choose to endure it silently. Although
is a generation of women, the performance of these four girls at work is not inferior to that of men, and their ability to gather information is also different from ordinary people.
Zhao Youzhi and others took the initiative to deal with their enemies, narrowed their relationship, and became "confidant friends" with them.
The friendship between friends is enhanced by in-depth understanding. After these four Shanghai girls became familiar with their temperaments, they liked them and made them happy.
also stepped forward to help them when they encountered problems, regardless of reward, and established a good relationship network for themselves.
These agents have become their invisible protective barrier in the inspection team.
When the head of the Audit Division handed over their work, they always showed a respectful manner and completed the task well every time. Song Ying, director of the proofreading office of
, is responsible for typing and transcribing documents, and he is also personally responsible for proofreading.
Song Ying is over 50 years old and is a person who is well versed in human relations. Using her ability to flatter, she has considerable power in the inspection team.
He likes to drink the most, and he also likes to listen to flattery from his subordinates. He does not value his work ability.
Zhao Youzhi and the others caught this characteristic of him and always respectfully called him "Mr. Song" or "Director Song."
Whenever there is a chance, he will come up and offer him a glass of wine and say a few flattering words to close the relationship.
In the military command, they serve as agents who draft, transcribe materials, and files for officers. They always invite them to watch movies, go to the park, play ball together, and travel and take photos in their spare time in order to obtain confidential information in the future.
Because they type quickly and accurately, their handwriting is clear, and their format is standardized, which is pleasing to the eye.
also responds to other people's requests for help and never refuses, and has won everyone's recognition and praise.
Get the secret
Although they successfully penetrated into the enemy, they also gained a firm foothold. But trying to collect intelligence is like walking on a cliff. If you are not careful, you will fall into an abyss.
Although Zhao Youzhi and the others occupy the typing positions in the Intelligence Section, they are like strangling it by the throat. Information can come uninvited, but once the information is discovered, they will be the first to be blamed.
In order to send the information out, they will make an extra copy and secretly hand it over to the organization. When someone is watching and unable to deliver the information, they will use other methods.
seems to have deliberately typed the main content wrong. The wrongly typed paper was crumpled into a ball and thrown into the trash can, and then typed again.
When no one was looking, they picked out the paper thrown into the trash can, revised it and handed it over to the organization. There are also many confidential documents in the
Audit Office, which are copied and filed by others. These secrets are inaccessible to them.
At this time, Zhao Youzhi and the others will pay attention to see if they can find an opportunity to access these confidential documents.
One day, the director of the audit department asked the transcriber to complete the document transcribing within the specified period.
The three transcribers all felt that even if they stayed awake, they would not be able to complete the task within the specified time.
They went to Song Ying, the director of the correction office, to explain their work, but Song Ying was also in a dilemma. This was an order from above.
Zhao Youzhi and the others had been waiting for such an opportunity. At this time, they took the initiative to stand up and said, "Gentlemen, are you in trouble? Do you want some of us to help?"
Song Ying, who was worried about this matter, saw it. They couldn't be more happy that they were willing to help, and they hurriedly said: "It's good to have ladies to help, so please help me!"
Zhao Youzhi and the others said with a smile: "Director Song, I don't need to say thank you. After transcribing, "Remember to treat us!"
With their help, the writing progress has been accelerated a lot. Song Ying and the secretaries looked at the copied documents and couldn't help but praise their beautiful, dignified and smooth handwriting.
With the help of a few of them, the document was completed as scheduled, but Song Ying never mentioned the treat again, and Zhao Youzhi and the others didn't mention it either.
After all, their goal is the file content, not the meal.
After this incident, orders issued to various security brigades and records of interrogations of CCP personnel were handed over to these four Shanghai ladies for transcription.
The secretaries were very happy because their heavy tasks were relieved; Zhao Youzhi and the others were also very excited because they got the confidential documents; Song Ying no longer had to worry about transcribing documents, everyone was really happy.
In May 1947, Jin Ke, secretary of the Central China Prefectural Committee, was arrested by the enemy and could not withstand their torture and rebelled.
He clearly explained all the information he knew, and all this information was handed over to Zhao Youzhi, Fu Yajuan, Zhou Yueying, Liu Maocai and others for transcription.
After seeing this confession, several people were extremely surprised. If the enemy is allowed to act according to this confession, how many people in our party will fall into the enemy's clutches?
Zhao Youzhi gave Fu Yajuan a wink. She understood and immediately said: "There are so many documents. It seems that we can't finish them today. Why don't we go to eat first and copy together tomorrow."
As soon as Fu Yajuan finished speaking, Zhao Youzhi Echoed: "Okay, I happen to be a little hungry too, but we can't all leave. Why don't Maocai and Yueying stay, and the others go to eat first."
"Then you go first." Zhou Yueying replied.
Just like that, several other secretaries were taken away for unknown reasons, leaving only Liu Maocai and the others, and they were also given the opportunity to deliver confidential documents.
After being arrested, Jin Ke confessed to the New Fourth Army's main trading organization in Shanghai: Shanghai "Dahua Company", and also led agents from the Inspection Office to arrest the company's Shanghai director Xin Yuanxi.
Fortunately, Xin Yuanxi was not in Shanghai at the time, so he was spared this disaster.
Although Jin Ke can only provide so much information, his status within our party is not low. If he can penetrate into our party and steal secrets for them, wouldn't it be more useful?
They asked Jin Ke to inquire about our senior general Su Yu and wait for an opportunity to assassinate Su Yu!
This document attracted great attention from our party. They sent a large number of personnel to inquire about Jin Ke, and finally determined that he had completely surrendered to the enemy, rather than pretending to surrender.
Therefore, when he first arrived in Jiangdu County, a large number of people from our party raised their guns and pointed them at his head. All the people accompanying him were arrested by our army.
He knows that his identity has been exposed! However, it is not clear which link made the mistake that caused the intelligence to be leaked so quickly.
If it weren’t for these four Shanghai girls, I don’t know how much damage our party would have suffered!
There is a filing cabinet in the Audit Office that stores important documents, which cannot be obtained except by confidants.
The more the enemy cares about this filing cabinet, it means that the information here is of high value. Zhao Youzhi and the others have been trying their best to get close to the filing cabinet.
After waiting for a long time, the Security Command finally moved to Sichuan Road . Zhao Youzhi, Liu Maocai, and the archivist who guarded the filing cabinet were assigned to work in an office.
The filing cabinet was also very close to them. After a long period of observation, the two found that although the documents in the filing cabinet were confidential, they were usually not locked!
Liu Maocai approached Zhao Youzhi to discuss how to obtain the documents in the filing cabinet. They moved to the government dormitory on the grounds that there was a shortage of typists and they often had to work overtime.
As soon as it is a holiday or at night, they plan to transfer all the personnel, leaving one person to quietly pass the information to the organization.
They took the information back to the dormitory and took advantage of the night to copy it. When you are sleepy, wipe your face with cold water; when you are cold, use an electric stove to warm yourself; when you are hungry, drink a lot of water. The
file could not be copied until late at night, and then when no one was around, the file was quietly put back to its original place to eliminate all traces.
Those agents are usually dragged until the early hours of the morning. After watching the movie, they go straight back to the dormitory to sleep, not realizing that the documents are being passed under their noses.
Severe test
In 1948, Fu Yajuan was walking home from get off work and passing through an intersection. She heard someone calling her name. It turned out that she was a revolutionary who she met in the New Fourth Army. By this time, he had already rebelled.
Fu Yajuan didn't think much, just responded casually and left.
However, this sound almost threatened her life.
Guo Liemin reported Fu Yajuan's participation in the New Fourth Army to the Kuomintang agents, which led to her arrest by Zhongtong . After her superiors found out, they asked Zhao Youzhi and Liu Maocai to withdraw immediately.
However, Zhao Youzhi considered that there was a deep conflict between the military command and the central command. As long as Fu Yajuan herself was not exposed, there should be no danger to her life.
If the two of them evacuate at this time, it is likely to arouse the enemy's suspicion. Zhao Youzhi suggested that Fu Yajuan should be rescued first.
No matter how the enemy interrogated her, Fu Yajuan answered fluently and never revealed her true identity.
After a period of time, the enemy found no reason to release her, and she resigned from the Inspection Office on the grounds that her family was forcing her to marry.
Zhou Yueying, who was the first to break into the enemy, had to evacuate due to exposure, leaving only Zhao Youzhi and Liu Maocai.
ushered in liberation
When Shanghai was about to be liberated, Zhao Youzhi and Liu Maocai received orders from their superiors to collect information and photos of all agents of the Inspection Department.
They took the opportunity to go out for fun and took photos of themselves one by one with their cameras. They also developed and printed a group photo of all the personnel of the Inspection Office in a photo studio.
These materials were naturally reserved for the elimination of spies after the liberation of Shanghai.
From the time Zhou Ming entered the Inspection Office in early 1946 to the liberation of Shanghai in 1949, they collected thousands of pieces of information in three years. Many of
were also included in Shanghai Public Security Bureau as materials to eliminate Kuomintang spies.
Evacuate calmly
In the spring of 1949, gunfire was heard all around Shanghai, which was a sign that Shanghai was about to be liberated.
At the same time, the Songhu Security Command burned a large number of confidential files. Zhao Youzhi knew that the enemy was preparing to flee Shanghai.
At this time, they had not received the order to retreat from their superiors. They stayed in the inspection office on the grounds of earning a few more "Yuan Datou".
One day, the chief secretary of the Inspection Office found Liu Maocai and Zhao Youzhi to talk and asked them to evacuate to Taiwan with the Kuomintang.
The two shook their heads and said that their families were in Shanghai and they could not go to Taiwan, otherwise their parents would be reluctant to leave.
But the secretary did not consult with them, but issued orders.
The Kuomintang people knew that these two girls had access to many confidential documents. Once they were used by the Communist Party, the situation would be very unfavorable to them.
However, this command was not implemented in the end.
Our People's Liberation Army broke through many obstacles and approached Shanghai. The Kuomintang agents were in panic all day long.
They were all dejected and depressed, with no motivation at all, although the head of the Inspection Office sent out "Yuan Datou" every other day, trying to stabilize people's hearts.
But everyone with a discerning eye knows that the liberation of Shanghai is only a matter of time. They are worried that the sins they have committed in the past will be liquidated, so they pack their bags one by one and prepare to flee.
The director of the Inspection Office was too busy to take care of himself at this time. He could not take care of Zhao Youzhi and the others. At 9 o'clock in the evening, he fled to Taiwan in a hurry with all the personnel and materials.
The reason why New China can be established is not only those soldiers fighting on the front line, but also the agents who hide under the eyes of the enemy.
Without their information, we don’t know how many people our party would have sacrificed!
Even though they were arrested, they remained firm in their beliefs and did not reveal any secrets about our party. They are admirable heroes.
Although some heroes have not even left their names, we will not forget their efforts and contributions!
