1949, the 35th Army of the People's Liberation Army took the lead in crossing the Yangtze River, invading Nanjing, and occupying the Kuomintang Presidential Office.
Soon after, a jeep was parked at the door of Presidential Palace . A rich wife in a cheongsam walked out of the car and walked straight to the door of the Presidential Palace and was stopped by the guards.
The guards were very alert. Although the People's Liberation Army entered Nanjing, there were still many enemy spies left here, so they must be careful.
The woman said to the guards: "Tell you Political Commissar He, I am Chen Xiuliang."
Chen Xiuliang
Soon, He Kexi, the political commissar of the 35th Army, ran out excitedly. When he saw the woman, he immediately stepped forward to hold the other party's hand and said excitedly: "Comrade Chen Xiuliang, thank you for helping us liberate Nanjing!"
Who is Chen Xiuliang mentioned by this Political Commissar He? Why did she say she helped the People's Liberation Army liberate Nanjing?
Women's Revolution, Women's Absolutely Benevolent
1907, Chen Xiuliang was born in a wealthy business family in Ningbo, Zhejiang, and has had no worries about food and clothing since childhood.
The wealthy life did not make Chen Xiuliang addicted to it. She was born rebellious, had a arrogant personality, despised depravity and luxury. Instead, she yearned for an elegant study life and liked to be thrifty and struggle.
Chen Xiuliang
As a teenager, Chen Xiuliang entered the Provincial Women's Middle School with the support of his parents. During this period, he was deeply influenced by progressive books and magazines such as "China Youth". She admired revolutionary pioneers such as Sun Yat-sen and Chen Duxiu and had the idea of participating in the revolution.
When he became a young man, Chen Xiuliang studied at Ningbo Women's Normal School and began to publish some revolutionary articles to inspire students and the general public to fight against the enemy, and personally participate in and organize students' patriotic movements.
Her activity was opposed by the school, and the school was afraid of being affected and expelled from her school.
Chen Xiuliang had to leave the school and join "Young Pioneer" as editor. By chance, she met Comrade Xiang Jingyu and became Comrade Xiang Jingyu's secretary.
Chen Xiuliang
Xiang Jingyu was one of the early founders of the Communist Party of China and also a leader and pioneer of the women's movement. She admired Chen Xiuliang's personality very much and introduced Chen Xiuliang to join the Communist Party of China.
was inspired by Xiang Jingyu. Chen Xiuliang became increasingly firm in the incident of his woman participating in the revolution. With the support of the Party, she went to Moscow to study advanced revolutionary concepts.
1928, Comrade Xiang Jingyu was arrested by the Kuomintang reactionaries because of a traitor's informant. He was killed in May of the same year at the age of 33.
's sacrifice to Jingyu not only did not make Chen Xiuliang feel pessimistic about the prospects of the revolution, but instead aroused her grief and anger, and her revolutionary beliefs became more firm.
The police were given
In 1930, Chen Xiuliang graduated from the Communist University of Moscow. After returning to China, he accepted the arrangements of the party organization to carry out underground intelligence work in Shanghai.
Since Gu Shunzhang betrayal, party organizations in Shanghai, Wuhan and other places have been severely damaged. The Kuomintang spies attach great importance to these areas where the Communist Party of China intelligence personnel are active.
After Chen Xiuliang arrived in Shanghai, he acted in a low-key manner, slowly carried out intelligence work, and lurked quietly. During this period, he observed the current situation, looked for people to win over, and watched the changes.
Hard work pays off. When the full-scale war of resistance broke out, the Shanghai Party organization ushered in the opportunity to recover, and the central government sent people to Shanghai to try to rebuild Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee .
Chen Xiuliang played a huge role at this time. She contacted many Shanghai celebrities and trained a large number of intelligence personnel, promoted the recovery of the Shanghai Party organization and became an important person in charge.
At this point, Chen Xiuliang made his mark in his career as a agent and officially embarked on the legendary Agent journey.
Civil War Crisis, Going deep into the Dragon Pond Tiger's Lair
1945 August 15, , Japanese Emperor announced unconditional surrender, Anti-Japanese War won.
The whole country is shrouded in the joy of victory, and at the same time, the haze of civil war also quietly spread.
The party organization considered that Chiang Kai-shek's desire to perish the CCP was undead, and the civil war was probably inevitable, so it considered sending people into Nanjing City to lurk, waiting for an opportunity to establish the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee, and planning to restart Nanjing's intelligence system.
But who is the right person to choose as the person in charge?
Chiang Kai-shek
You should know that as the political center of the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek is very cautious about it and has always been vigilant against the infiltration of the CCP.
Since the "Counter-Revolutionary Coup" in 1927, Chiang Kai-shek has launched eight devastating strikes on the CCP's intelligence system in Nanjing. Coupled with the later destruction of the Japanese army, the CCP's intelligence system left in Nanjing has long fallen apart.
At that time, there were only more than 200 intelligence personnel lurking in Nanjing, and they could not have smooth contact with each other and lacked unified management. In this case, the difficulty and danger of establishing the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee can be imagined.
At that time, Chen Xiuliang was the director of the Nanjing Work Department under the Urban Work Department of the Central China Branch, and his work ability was enough to stand alone.
After consideration, the organization believed that Chen Xiuliang had had a long-term experience of lurking in Shanghai, and that her identity had never been exposed. There were very few people who knew that she was an underground party, so there was no need to worry about being recognized by some traitors. Therefore, Chen Xiuliang was appointed as the secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee, responsible for establishing and restarting a series of underground work in Nanjing.
This is the party organization's recognition of Chen Xiuliang. Even though there are many dangers, Chen Xiuliang still accepted the appointment unswervingly.
Chen Xiuliang's husband, Sha Wenhan , one of the "Five Heroes of Sha Family", is also a loyal soldier of our party. He was quite worried when he learned about this, but he understood that his wife was more suitable for this position than him, so the couple bid farewell. Chen Xiuliang entered Nanjing in October 1945.
After arriving in Nanjing, Chen Xiuliang realized how arduous his task was. Compared with the tasks lurking in Shanghai in the past, this time it was simply hell level difficulty.
At that time, Nanjing was the capital of the Kuomintang, with a population of only more than 900,000, but among these more than 900,000, the Kuomintang military and political personnel alone accounted for 110,000, and nearly 10,000 were registered policemen.
Chen Xiuliang and her husband Sha Wenhan
To be exaggerated, there may be hidden the Kuomintang's eyeliner everywhere here. Chen Xiuliang's trip to Nanjing can be said to be walking on the tip of a knife. How should he start working in this situation? ,
At the beginning, Chen Xiuliang dressed up as an inconspicuous old mother, mixed into Nanjing City, and began to contact comrades, but she soon realized that this would not work.
First of all, the limitations are too great. The identity of the small person seems to be hidden, but in fact it is easy to arouse suspicion of the spies, and it is not able to get close to the Kuomintang officials, let alone obtain intelligence to carry out their work.
is thinking about change at all costs. Since there is no way out, Chen Xiuliang decided to do the opposite!
If you want to hide a leaf, the best way is to throw the leaf into the woods. This is the case.
Chen Xiuliang contacted Ke Xiuzhen and his wife in Nanjing. The two underground party members helped Chen Xiuliang obtain a new identity - Mrs. Zhang from a certain business .
So, Chen Xiuliang transformed himself into a "rich wife". He first bought a house to live in, and then showed up every day to make friends with wives in the circle of nobles.
In the process of dating these rich wives, Chen Xiuliang showed the qualities that vulgar women often have - frivolous, stingy, gossip, greedy for money, and gambling .
Especially in gambling, rich wives like gambling the most when they get together. Chen Xiuliang looks stingy and gambling. He plays mahjong with his hands and quickly integrates perfectly into the circle of noble wives.
In this way, the identity of "Mrs. Zhang" was completely formed, and Chen Xiuliang became a member of the rich wife. She acted high-profilely and never hid herself, but no one had any doubts about her.
In the eyes of others, she is a typical rich wife. Who would have thought that she was a Communist Party member?
In the interaction with rich wives, Chen Xiuliang found out a lot of information and used this identity to start establishing the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee.
intelligence experts, struggling in the heart of the enemy,
When I first entered Nanjing, there were only five people in the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee, except for Chen Xiuliang, there were only a few people including Liu Feng, Fang Xiu, etc.
When Chen Xiuliang carried out a series of work as "Mrs. Zhang", more than 200 intelligence personnel lurking in Nanjing in the past gradually contacted the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee, and the intelligence system was gradually restored, which meant that " second front " began to be launched!
As the party organization expected, Chiang Kai-shek was unsuccessful and tore up Double Ten Agreement after the " Chongqing Negotiation ", and the civil war broke out.
Civil war was unpopular. On the one hand, the party organization competed with the People's Liberation Army and on the other hand, it instructed Chen Xiuliang to give the enemy a painful blow in the "second front".
Chen Xiuliang seized the opportunity of the Kuomintang losing the hearts of the people and took the opportunity to find many people who were dissatisfied with the Kuomintang. He expanded the "second front" party members to more than 2,000, almost all walks of life in Nanjing, and established a strict contact password system in management without revealing his identity.
1947, Chen Xiuliang secretly instructed and led our party to organize students to carry out anti-hunger and anti-civil war demonstrations.
The march was suppressed by the Kuomintang, and even caused a bloody crime, but it aroused the anger of more students and other classes, and the people of Nanjing were even more dissatisfied with the Kuomintang.
Chen Xiuliang also reported the situation in Nanjing through the newspaper he had in his control, which made the Kuomintang condemn by the people of the whole country and helped our party to attack the enemy from its momentum.
Her series of actions had a serious impact on the enemy, and Chiang Kai-shek almost gritted his teeth with hatred.
Lao Jiang knew that there must be underground members of the Communist Party of China lurking in Nanjing. He ordered the people from the Military Control Commission and Zhongtong to conduct strict investigations, but no matter how he found out Chen Xiuliang's head.
As Chen Xiuliang expected, "Let's hide in the city", no one could have thought that her frivolous and high-profile "rich wife" would be a member of the Communist Party of China.
Chen Xiuliang
In addition to cooperating with the party organization to crack down on the Kuomintang reactionaries, Chen Xiuliang also used his identity to obtain information from the rich wives, and even approached some nobles, intentionally or unintentionally inquire about the situation within the Kuomintang.
Once, Fang Xiu, a member of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee, told Chen Xiuliang that his wife's brother came to Nanjing from Chongqing to do business and lived in his home. Because his wife's brother was a spy from the Kuomintang, Fang Xiu was afraid that he would be exposed.
But Chen Xiuliang told him not to be nervous, the more nervous he is, the more flaws he will reveal, and he should do the opposite.
Since that day, Chen Xiuliang has often visited Fang Xiu's house to meet his wife and brother-in-law, which seems very talkative. The spy never doubted the two.
One day, the spy forgot a password book at home. Chen Xiuliang and Fang Xiu seized the opportunity to copy the password book and forwarded it to the Shanghai Communist Intelligence Bureau, which was highly praised by the party.
In addition, Chen Xiuliang also assisted Chauwenwei in establishing a work system for rebellion, and instigated many Kuomintang members.
Sha Wenwei is also one of the "Five Heroes of Sha Family". He is an experienced CCP intelligence officer.
With the joint efforts of Chen Xiuliang and Sha Wenwei, the system was established. Chen Xiuliang issued instructions to pay close attention to those who are dissatisfied with the Kuomintang and strive to win these people into their own camp.
National Army pilot Yu Bo is the first person to be noticed by the rebels and successfully rebel.
Yu Bo was originally a pilot of the 8th National Bomber Team of the Kuomintang. He witnessed the brutality of the Japanese army and was determined to fight the Japanese. However, Chiang Kai-shek always asked him to beat his own people, which made Yu Bo dissatisfied. Lin Cheng, a party member of the system who instigated against Yu Bo, noticed Yu Bo's situation and informed Chen Xiuliang. Chen Xiuliang instructed to try his best to win over him, so Lin Cheng boldly revealed his identity and invited Yu Bo to join the Communist Party.
Yu Bo not only agreed immediately, but also pulled his four teammates together, and five of them drove the most advanced B24 bomber to the PLA.
B24 bomber
This incident caused a sensation and caused a serious blow to the Kuomintang's momentum. Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that he gritted his teeth but could do nothing.
There are one to two. Starting from Yu Bo, more and more people have joined the camp of resisting the Kuomintang.
It can be seen from here that as the People's Liberation Army gradually gained advantages in the civil war, the Kuomintang and the people were in great trouble, and there were signs of internal and external difficulties.
Nanjing Liberation, public identity: I am Chen Xiuliang
Instigated the Air Force to rebel, Chen Xiuliang turned his attention to the Navy again.
After investigation, Sha Wenwei learned that the captain of the " Chongqing cruiser " Deng Zhaoxiang is upright and has a great chance of rebellion. He told Chen Xiuliang about this situation. Chen Xiuliang immediately arranged party member Bi Chongyuan to infiltrate the soldier training class of the warship warship to approach Deng Zhaoxiang.
On February 25, 1949, after Bi Chongyuan tried many times to persuade him, Deng Zhaoxiang was finally convinced. He drove a warship to rebel and surrendered to the People's Liberation Army.
Deng Zhaoxiang
After the Air Force, the Navy has another example of being instigated, and the Kuomintang in Nanjing is shrouded in haze.
Chiang Kai-shek was panicked about this. He could feel that someone was planning everything behind him, but who was this person?
Chiang Kai-shek would not even know that the person who caused such huge trouble to him was a vulgar woman who often played mahjong in the circle of rich wives.
is such a woman who rebuilt the intelligence system with one person in just a few years and also assisted in establishing a system of insults and rebellion, which dealt a heavy blow to the Kuomintang reactionaries!
1949, the People's Liberation Army was full of momentum and had already reached the Yangtze River. It was about to cross the river and liberate Nanjing.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was not awake yet, and he was still dreaming of "dividing the river" from the Communist Party, trying to use the Yangtze River to stop the People's Liberation Army.
On April 21, Chairman Mao issued an order to "marche into the whole country"!
At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek held a meeting to arrange defensive measures and issued instructions: block the river estuary, all ships rushed into the inland river. Once Nanjing is lost, the army must destroy important facilities such as ports and railway stations before evacuation!
On April 22, in order to prevent the People's Liberation Army from entering Nanjing, the enemy sent troops to attempt to blow up the Xiaguan Railway Station.
Chen Xiuliang closely monitored the current situation and immediately instructed underground party members to mobilize and make every effort to stop the enemy's actions. The party members mobilized the masses and cooperated with the vast number of workers to smash the enemy's conspiracy.
At this time, Chen Xiuliang learned an important information from the radio station of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee: The 35th Army of the People's Liberation Army is about to arrive at Pukou, Jiangbei, but the Kuomintang blocked the river. The 35th Army lacked ships to cross the river. I hope the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee will arrange ships to help!
Chen Xiuliang understood that the last moment of Nanjing's liberation came. She notified the underground party members lurking in the Xiaguan Power Plant and the Xiaguan Aircraft Department to issue tasks.
The party members received the order, regardless of the danger of their lives, and instigated a large number of workers to assist. With the efforts of the big guys, the workers collected nearly twenty transport and motor ships and drove them to the dock to wait. When the
35 army arrived, the ships were already ready. They used the help of the workers' brothers to cross the river smoothly. After a fierce battle, the People's Liberation Army soldiers invaded Nanjing to occupy the Presidential Palace, proclaiming the liberation of Nanjing!
This means that Chiang Kai-shek's dream of "dividing the river" is shattered.
Not long after, Chen Xiuliang came to the gate of the Presidential Palace and she revealed her identity to the guards.
The guard didn't know who she was. When the political commissar of the 35th Army He Kexi arrived, the guard realized that the person in front of him was the key figure in helping the 35th Army cross the river!
lurks in Nanjing for many years, and now that his achievements are done, there is no need for Chen Xiuliang to hide his identity anymore.
The rich ladies who had dealt with her were surprised to hear the news. Unexpectedly, "Mrs. Zhang" who always looked like he was stingy in money and stingy, turned out to be a Communist Party member!
postscript
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chen Xiuliang no longer had to engage in dangerous underground work. She was valued by the Party and has served in important positions such as Deputy Minister of the Organization Department of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee.
On November 6, 1998, the legendary agent Ms. Chen Xiuliang died of illness at the age of 91.
Chen Xiuliang
Women's revolution, women are as good as men.
goes deep into the tiger's den and struggles in the heart of the enemy.
Chen Xiuliang is a woman, brave and fearless, and unparalleled in wisdom. He has made great contributions under the eyes of the enemy. Her deeds tell us that as long as we serve the country, no matter the elderly, weak, women and children, they are heroes.
