One day in March 1930, a Chongqing aunt was buying vegetables at a local vegetable market, but after looking at it again and again, she always felt that the food was not fresh enough. Just as she was about to go home, she was attracted by a vegetable farmer in the corner. His vegetables are very fresh, they must be grown by country people and sold here.
The vegetables produced by rural vegetable farmers are very popular everywhere. The vegetables are fresh and affordable. In addition, the country people are relatively honest, so you will not suffer any loss when buying them.
But when the aunt walked in, she always felt that something was wrong. This vegetable farmer is a tall and sturdy man. He looks neither like a poor vegetable seller nor a farmer. His behavior was also very strange. He was wearing a straw hat with the brim of the hat pushed down very low, as if he was deliberately covering it up.
Generally, vegetable farmers will wear straw hats when working. After a long time, they will get used to it. But it is only March, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the temperature is very suitable. Isn’t it a little early to wear a straw hat?
Looking around, I saw that this vegetable farmer was the only one in the entire vegetable market, so this vegetable farmer seemed very special. In addition, he was obviously here to sell vegetables, but he always hid in the corner. The more Auntie thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong.
After careful observation of this person's appearance, it seemed that he had seen him somewhere before, but he couldn't see his face, so he couldn't confirm it.
The aunt decided to find out and walked over to pick vegetables. When the vegetable farmer didn't reply, the aunt started to bargain with the vegetable farmer, deliberately keeping the price very low. The vegetable farmer was so angry that she blurted out a sentence in Henan dialect. The aunt finally looked at it. After looking at the vegetable farmer's face, he was so frightened that he almost lost his grip on the vegetable basket in his hand. This vegetable farmer was no ordinary person. He was the executioner of the military secret service, the director of the Zhazidong Detention Center Xu Guilin .
The aunt's name is Ye Lanying. After liberation, she worked as the director of the Yuhua Cotton Mill Nursery School. She lived near Zhazi Cave. She has some impressions of the people who come in and out of Zhazi Cave. She is also aware of the heinous crimes committed by the spies in Zhazi Cave. Couldn't be more clear. Now that we are liberated, I didn’t expect that there are still remnants.
The reason why Ye Lanying was deeply impressed by Xu Guilin was because he was tall and strong, like a black bear, and it was difficult not to notice him.
Ye Lanying is also someone who has seen big scenes. After recognizing Xu Guilin, she continued to bargain. After the price was agreed upon, she pretended that she had forgotten the money and wanted to go back to get it, leaving Xu Guilin to wait where he was.
Ye Lanying was afraid that she might be mistaken, so she specially found two sisters who knew Xu Guilin to confirm. Through secret observation, it was finally determined that this was Xu Guilin himself.
So, Ye Lanying asked the two sisters to continue to observe his movements, and ran to the phone booth to call the police. Comrade police, I found Xu Guilin, please come quickly, don't let him escape.
Xu Guilin is a famous thug in the National Army's special service team, known as one of the Four King Kongs. When he was the warden in Zhazidong, he was cruel by nature and killed many revolutionaries. Hence the nickname "Owl".
Before the liberation of Chongqing, Xu Guilin, who was still a guard at the detention center, participated in the killings of Xichuan Provincial Party Committee Secretary Luo Shiwen, Xichuan Special Committee Military Committee Member Che Yaoxian, New Fourth Army soldier Long Guangzhang and others.
During the November 27 massacre in Chongqing, as the director of the detention center, he directed the massacre in Zhazidong, killing more than 180 people on the spot.
During the massacre, due to time constraints, he ordered the Zhazi Cave to be set on fire. Thirty-three revolutionary patriots who had not yet been killed perished in the flames.
Xu Guilin also ordered the Zhazi Cave to be surrounded. Although he was lucky enough to escape from the sea of fire, he still could not escape the machine gun fire. The scene was horrific. Fortunately, 15 patriots managed to save their lives by crashing into the wall at the critical moment. Otherwise, all the people imprisoned in Zhazidong would have died.
It can be said that the great spy Xu Guilin owes too many lives to his hands. No matter when, he is the executioner with unforgivable crimes.
On October 10, 1949, the People's Liberation Army came to the city and Chongqing was liberated. While people were mourning the martyrs, their top priority was to bring Xu Guilin to justice. Such a person would not be relieved even if he was shot a hundred times.
The police searched in many ways, but never found Xu Guilin.
So some people speculated whether Xu Guilin had fled to Taiwan, so we couldn't find him.
But Xu Guilin was just a director of a medical center, a man of low opinion, and not qualified to board a plane flying to Taiwan.
According to the intelligence at the time, almost all of the military commander's spies in Chongqing remained and continued to work as lurkers, waiting for opportunities to make a comeback.
When looking at the list of Kuomintang members who fled the mainland, Xu Guilin's name was not on it. Based on these materials, it can be said that Xu Guilin is on the mainland, but his exact location is not known. Xu Guilin is a time bomb. If it is not eliminated, no one will feel at ease.
In order to give the people an explanation as soon as possible, the People's Liberation Army set up a special hunting team to hunt down the latent agents of the Kuomintang day and night. As long as there is the slightest sign of trouble, they will immediately investigate and then arrest them.
As the capital of the National Government , Chongqing has countless spies here. Most of the spies have decided to change their past, surrender, and go to the Ministry of Public Security to explain their crimes and strive for leniency.
However, there were still a few people struggling to their death, so the pursuit team sent a large number of plainclothes investigators to conduct overt and covert inspections in different areas, and some of the spies were arrested one after another.
After several months of hard work, coupled with reports from a large number of people, more and more spies have been brought to justice. Only a few big spies have never been heard from, and Xu Guilin is one of them.
The investigators retrieved Xu Guilin's information and found that he was from Anyang, Henan. Since he could not go to Taiwan and was not in Sichuan, had he fled back to his hometown?
At that time, several spies were arrested and brought to justice after escaping back to their hometowns.
Just do it, the hunting team immediately sent people north to Anyang to inquire about Xu Guilin. But when the pursuers came here, everyone in the village said they had not seen Xu Guilin for a long time. He had never come back since he left the village as a soldier and had no idea where he was.
This also awakened the investigators. Henan was liberated before Chongqing at that time. If Xu Guilin really escaped back to his hometown in Henan.
The road is far away, and it seems impossible to pass through the levels.
Now that his hometown has been ruled out, where is this Xu Guilin hiding? Is it possible that he is still invisible?
Since the pursuit team did not have a photo of Xu Guilin at that time, otherwise they would have issued a wanted order for everyone to help find him. This made everyone worried. Although the pursuit team never stopped chasing him, they still kept searching for him every time. It's all in vain.
But Skynet is sparse and not leaking. In March 1950, a report was received from Ye Lanying. Everyone suddenly realized that this Xu Guilin was really cunning. Other agents wished they could stay far away from Chongqing, but he took a wrong approach and mingled with the people.
The hunting team was extremely happy when they got the news, but they did not catch him immediately. This made Ye Lanying anxious. It was almost dark, and it would be difficult to catch Xu Guilin if he left.
In fact, the comrades of the pursuit team have already sent people to secretly control the situation. In order to ensure that the arrest operation is foolproof, they are all on standby. Xu Guilin has already been the turtle in the urn, and everything is under the control of the pursuit team.
After many days of observation by the comrades of the investigation team, we finally figured out Xu Guilin’s route. Every day, he would carry an empty vegetable basket and walk into the home of a man named Wang Degong at No. 57, Danzi Shihui Village, Chongqing, which is a small town away from the urban area of Chongqing. It's so far away that it's not surprising that the pursuit team couldn't find it.
Xu Guilin has been hiding in the home of his father-in-law Wang Degong. He calls himself Xu Tiande to the outside world. With the cover of his father-in-law, his identity as the executioner of Zhazidong has never been discovered.
Since no other agents were found, the people in the pursuit team immediately judged that Xu Guilin had no helpers or was already an abandoned son of the Kuomintang, so they decided to take immediate action and arrest him.
On March 22, 1950, several comrades from the pursuit team dressed up as ordinary people and came to a vegetable stall. One of the pursuit team members pretended to buy vegetables and chatted with him. While Xu Guilin bent down to weigh vegetables and relaxed his vigilance, the others They swarmed up and pinned Xu Guilin to the ground with his backhand, and tied him up with ropes.
In fact, Xu Guilin knew that he was full of evil and would be caught sooner or later, but when that day came, he was still unwilling and shouted, "Why are you arresting me?" What crime did I, a common man with a flat head, commit by selling vegetables here?
Xu Guilin was just doing useless work. The pursuit team took him away and put him in Shibanpo prison.
During the interrogation, Xu Guilin still refused to give up. No matter what the interrogators asked him, he said he did not know. He only said that his name was Xu Tiande and that he did not know Xu Guilin.
During the subsequent interrogations, Xu Guilin still said these words. He naively believed that as long as he did not let go, others would be unable to do anything to him. Subsequently, the pursuers found a number of insiders who came to Shibanpo Prison to identify him.
Among those familiar with the matter, there was a comrade named Liu Debin who almost died at the hands of Xu Guilin when he was in Zhazidong. He hated him even more. Liu Debin lost control of his emotions on the spot and shouted, "I know you even if you turn into ashes." You, if the comrades from the Public Security Bureau hadn't tried their best to stop you, Xu Guilin would have died on the spot.
In the face of irrefutable evidence, Xu Guilin knew that he was unable to resist, so he changed his mind and admitted that he was Xu Guilin, the great spy owl of Zhazidong, and stated his crimes one by one.
On May 18, 1950, because Xu Guilin's crimes were so heinous that he met the conditions for execution. With the sound of a gunshot, Xu Guilin fell to the ground. The people at the scene cheered. The criminals of this party will not escape the people's trial. The martyrs can finally rest in peace.
