Chapter 30 11. In order to win the war of resistance, go deep into the Japanese ruled area to conduct intelligence

In the spring of 1942, Jiang Dingwen, director of the Xi'an General Office, was transferred to the commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang's first war zone.I accepted the instructions of the Central Committee of our party and also used Jiang Dingwen's relationship to transfer from the Xi'an General Office to the Commander's Department of the First Theater Command to do underground work.Served as a major general's treatment councilor.Then, in the name of "Leader of the Field Liaison Group of the Commander-in-Chief of the First Theater", he went to the Japanese-ruled area in eastern Henan to do intelligence work.For the convenience of contact and confidentiality, I set up my office and radio station in Bulouzhai, Jieshou, Anhui, and I used Shuochangheng Commercial Firm in Jieshou City as the contact center.In Shangqiu, Tuocheng, Boxian, Beiping, Shanghai and other places, there are liaison stations or liaison officers.At this time, Comrade Liu Zijiu and I were no longer in contact.So I went to Xi'an and had a horizontal contact with Comrade Li Nian. Later, Comrade Li Nian reported my relationship to the superiors, and had organizational contact with the person in charge of a certain department of our Party Central Committee in Xi'an.

Shangqiu escape: In the autumn of 1942, I went to work in the city of Shangqiu under Japanese rule, and was discovered by Japanese secret agents, who reported to the Japanese Gendarmerie.The gendarmerie informed the military headquarters of the puppet army stationed in Shangqiu City, asking them to quickly step up four gates to assist the gendarmerie agents in hunting me down.The military department ordered its subordinates to carry out this task.At that time, a person who served as battalion commander in the army (an underground member of our party and the captain when I was fighting guerrillas) heard the news and immediately notified Niu Jingkang, the director of our liaison station in Shangqiu (his identity was the military supply of the puppet army teaching regiment). director).Niu Jingkang hurried back to the contact station and told me the situation.He asked in a hurry, what should I do?

I said: Thirty-six strategies, walking is the best strategy. He said: The gates of the city have been guarded, and there are Japanese gendarmes just to hunt you down. How can you go out? I said: Of course I can't go through the city gate.I took off my puppet uniform and put on plain clothes.I asked Niu Jingkang to take the rope of a chief purser, and we walked out of Chen's mansion, which is an underground work liaison station.The gate of Chen Mansion faces south.The east side is adjacent to the east city wall, and I led Niu Jingkang to walk north along the base of the city wall. He asked hurriedly, how could this run out?

I said: Don't worry, you can run out.Walking to the northeast corner of the city wall, part of the city wall collapsed due to years of disrepair, wind and rain.The two of us stepped on the broken bricks and climbed up the city wall. Niu Jingkang said, why didn't I know there was such a gap?I said: People who work underground, when they arrive at a place, they must first find a place to go out before entering.At that time, Niu Chuanyu, director of the intelligence contact station in Tuocheng County, was also in Shangqiu. I told Niu Jingkang: After I leave the city, you should hurry up and tell Niu Chuanyu to wait for me in the waiting room of Paul Hospital (a hospital run by an American church) in the north of the city.

Niu Jingkang let go of the rope, he pulled the upper half of the rope, and I pulled the second half of the rope, and went down smoothly outside the city wall. After leaving the city, I went to a friend's house outside the north gate.He is a Muslim who makes a living by doing small business and owns a small car.As soon as I knocked, the friend came out and let me in.I said: Second brother, I am sick, you can accompany me to the hospital, okay? He said: Good!Take you there with a car. When I was about to go out, I said to his wife: Second sister-in-law, I feel a little cold, please cover me with a quilt, okay?

She said: Good!I went into the room and took out a quilt and covered me.In this way, the puppet army sentries along the road did not interrogate us, and the Hui friend sent me to the hospital safely. I went to the waiting room to check, but Niu Chuanyu hadn't come yet.I went to the small restaurant opposite the hospital and ordered a bowl of noodles. While eating the noodles, I stared at the hospital entrance through the glass window.When I was about to finish eating, I saw Niu Chuanyu entering the hospital door.I hurried to call him to the diner.He was a little flustered and scared. I said: Don't be afraid, the danger has passed, and I want to live in Tuocheng for a few days to avoid the wind.

He said: Good!it is good! We left the tavern and discussed which way would be the best way to go. Niu Chuanyu said: Take the path closer, and there is no Japanese sentry post. So we walked along the path, and as night fell, we arrived at Tuocheng.I stayed in Niu Chuanyu's Sundori grocery store run by his father for three days, and then returned to Jieshou safely. Obtain documents from the Japanese and Puppet Nanjing Senior Military Conference: In the mid-term of the Anti-Japanese War, a fallacy of "curve to save the country" appeared.Some miscellaneous troops affiliated to the Kuomintang Military Commission, under the pretext of "saving the country with curves", have defected to the enemy and turned into traitor troops.In order to win over these traitor troops, the General Headquarters of the Japanese Invading Army held a high-level military meeting in Nanjing in the spring of 1943, and only traitor officers above the division commander could participate.I have an intelligence officer who works as an interpreter for a traitor commander (the position is a staff officer).Before he went to Nanjing with the teacher, I told him to bring back the meeting documents as much as possible.The traitor teacher was illiterate, and he handed over all the documents issued by the conference to my intelligence officer (his translator) for safekeeping and processing.

After returning from Nanjing, the intelligence agent handed over a large number of meeting documents to me.I learned from this large number of documents that the main contents of the puppet Nanjing High-Level Military Conference are: (1) boasting to these traitorous officers about the power of the Japanese "imperial army" and promoting the three-dimensional policy of Japan, "Manchukuo" and China (referring to the traitorous government) (2) Advocating Japan's ambition to realize the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere". In those documents, I saw a schematic diagram of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"; it indicated that Japan wanted to open up the "Great East Asia Communication Line" on the one hand, that is, the railway lines from North Korea, Northeast China, Beiping, Wuhan, and Guangzhou.In order to transport troops by land to attack Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, India and other countries.On the other hand, the Japanese navy started from the mainland and invaded and occupied the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and other countries by water.At that time, China's Ping-Han Railway, from Zhengzhou to Hankou, was still under the control of the anti-Japanese forces, and Japanese trains could not pass through it.Therefore, I estimate that Japan may send troops to open up the Ping-Han Railway to complete the conspiracy to open up the "Great East Asia Communication Line".

I made two copies of the schematic diagram of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", and reported it to our Party's Xi'an Underground Intelligence Organization and the KMT's First Theater Commander's Department together with my above estimates. From March to April 1944, the Japanese sent troops to capture Zhengzhou, Luoyang and other places, opened up the Ping-Han Railway, and realized their so-called ambition of opening up the "Great East Asia Communication Line". A little bit of Shanghai under Japanese rule: In the early summer of 1943, Jiang Dingwen, the commander-in-chief of the First War Zone, called and asked me to return to Luoyang to report on my duties.

After I arrived in Luoyang, he talked to me: After inquiring about my work situation, he said, the wife of Du Yuesheng (the leader of the Shanghai Qinghong gang) has come to Luoyang from Chongqing, can you send her back to Shanghai? I said: can. So the Minister's Ministry sent a car to take us to Jieshou (the area controlled by the Anti-Japanese War Force).Mrs. Du and Zhang Jiaao's younger sister came with her and lived in Jieshou for three days.I sent a liaison officer to notify Niu Jingkang, director of the Shangqiu Liaison Station.Starting from Jieshou, I rode a bicycle, and the two of them sat on a shelf car. After three days, they passed through the Japanese and puppet-occupied areas and arrived at Shangqiu (the Japanese-controlled area).Niu Jingkang had already booked rooms for the two of them in a hotel.This hotel was run by the puppet battalion commander I mentioned earlier and others. Living here, they could not be harassed by the Japanese and puppet military police.Niu Jingkang sent us on the train the next day, and arrived in Shanghai on the third day.

For the convenience of work, I did not live in Mrs. Du's house.I stayed with a friend of mine (underground liaison). Now that I am in Shanghai, I want to take the opportunity to learn about the social situation in Shanghai under Japanese rule.That friend accompanied me to some places in Shanghai, whether to see them or not; and introduced me to talk to some of his friends respectively.According to the materials obtained from various parties, I learned that the economic situation in Shanghai was very bad at that time. Prices rose, counterfeit currency depreciated, and the living materials needed by the citizens were in short supply. Japan's practice of supporting war with war is a great way to scrape people's hearts and minds.For example, at the beginning of the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, the rice and other military supplies used by the Japanese army were all imported from Japan, but now they are all collected locally, which has increased the burden on Shanghai residents. My friend said: A few years ago, Japan exploited the Chinese people by raising the price of Japanese goods; now the Japanese use gambling to plunder the wealth of the Chinese people.The Japanese openly set up several large casinos in Shanghai. I said: Can we go to the casino? That friend said yes. One night, that friend invited me and a lawyer Ma, and the three of us went to a big casino run by a Japanese.Once the gambler enters the door, he must exchange the money he intends to make a bet into chips; if he does not exchange chips, he is not allowed to enter the door.The three of us arrived at the door, and a fat man standing by the door waved his hand, and the gatekeeper let us in. I was very surprised, and I asked my friend: Why didn't we buy chips and let us burst? The friend said: Lawyer Ma is the legal advisor of this casino. After we entered, a person in charge of the casino entertained us in the living room, offering tea and smoking, very politely.After sitting for a while, we entered the gambling hall to visit.The hall is large in size and brightly lit. There are many gambling stalls, each of which is presided over by a young girl;Gambling tools are very simple, can quickly decide whether to win or lose.No matter who the gambler wins, the girl who hosts the booth will have to tap.It is said that these girls have no wages, but rely on dividends from the lottery to get paid for their work.So when the guests came to her gambling booth, the girl said "kindly": Boss, please come and play!The simpler the gambling equipment, the faster the winning and losing, and the more draws, it is really a huge profit. Casinos have opium, heroin, morphine and other smoking rooms, and gamblers can enjoy themselves at any time as long as they have money.There is also a buying department in the casino, where watches, rings, gold pens, coats and other items are bought; redemption on the same day, the interest is one cent.If a gambler loses all his chips, he can sell jewelry, clothing, etc. at any time to make a bet and continue to gamble.Some gamblers, when they enter the casino, are rich, like a rich man; when they leave the casino, they are empty-handed, like a pauper.This is a vicious method used by the Japanese imperialists to exploit and entrap the Chinese when they ruled Shanghai. Under the Japanese rule, the baggage check-in office of Shanghai Railway Station was a den of thieves: I lived in Shanghai for a week. When my friends learned that I was going to get married, they gave me some clothes.I also bought some clothes, quilts, quilts, and mosquito nets.I packed these things in a wicker box and tied it with twine.A friend surnamed Fan and I traveled together and arrived at Shanghai Railway Station. For the convenience of getting on and off the train, I handed over the crate to the baggage check office and bought a baggage ticket.Xiao Fan wants to carry the suitcase on the train. I said, if you buy a luggage ticket, it will be so convenient to check the suitcase.He doesn't buy it. At Shangqiu Station, when Xiaofan left the station with his suitcase on his shoulders, the Japanese on duty wanted to check his suitcase. He held hands with the Japanese man, but the Japanese let him carry his suitcase out of the station without checking. I asked Xiao Fan: Do you know that Japanese guy?Why doesn't he check your suitcase once you hold hands with him? Xiao Fan said, "I don't know him. As soon as I shook hands with him, I gave him a 10 yuan bill, and he stopped checking me." I said: You can buy a luggage ticket for less than 10 yuan, so why bother. Xiao Fan smiled. After I got out of the station, I went to the parcel and luggage office to pick up the crate, and the person there said: "It hasn't arrived yet." The next day I went to the luggage office again and took out the crate.When I opened the box, I saw that it was full of torn clothes, leather shoes, and shredded newspapers.Except for the two remaining marriage certificates I bought, all the other items I put in are gone.I went to the station master (Japanese) of Shangqiu Railway Station to demand compensation.The Japanese said in half-understandable Chinese: This kind of thing happens a lot, there is no way, no way.This is another incident that harmed the Chinese during the period when Japanese imperialism ruled China's railways.I guess this bad thing was done at the luggage check-in office of Shanghai Railway Station.Because when I checked the crate, they went through the contents one by one. Establish a center to monitor Japanese military movement at Shangqiu Railway Station: In the spring of 1943, I reported the schematic map of Japan’s “Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” and my estimate that the Japanese army had attempted to attack Zhengzhou and open up the Ping-Han Railway to the Commander’s Department of the First Theater Command. The Chief of Staff of the Department replied: Yours It is estimated that it is possible to strengthen the monitoring of Japanese military transport on the Longhai Railway. After I returned to Shangqiu from Shanghai, I asked Niu Jingkang and Niu Chuangan, directors of the two intelligence liaison stations stationed in Shangqiu and Tuocheng, to try to establish a center at Shangqiu Station to monitor the Japanese military movement on the Longhai Railway. Niu Chuanqian rented a house in the north of Shangqiu Station and opened a warehouse.Using this as a cover, he contacted a train driver and a station worker to form a center to monitor traffic in Japan.They registered the number of Japanese military vehicles passing through Shangqiu Station on a daily basis, their whereabouts, the numbers of the troops carried, the number of people, weapons and equipment, types and quantities of military supplies, etc. Niu Jingkang and Niu Chuanyu sent intelligence liaison officers to send me the registration materials in time, and I quickly forwarded them to the First Theater Commander's Department and the Xi'an underground intelligence organization through radio or letter. Go deep into the enemy's rear to reconnaissance the mobilization of Japanese troops: In January 1944, I monitored the materials sent by the Japanese military transportation center and other intelligence agents from Shangqiu. I saw that Japan’s military transportation from Xuzhou to Kaifeng was frequent, and there were a lot of river crossing equipment such as rubber boats. The plan of "opening up the Great East Asia Communication Line" proposed at the "High-level Military Conference", I think Japan may launch a war to attack Zhengzhou and open up the Ping-Han Railway. I reported the transportation situation of Japanese troops on the Longhai Railway and my opinion to our party's Xi'an underground intelligence organization and the Commander's Department of the First Theater Command. Chief of Staff Dong of the Ministry replied: "Your opinion can be used as a reference, and you quickly went to the enemy's rear (mainly Tianjin and Jinan) to investigate the mobilization of Japanese troops." I arrived in Tianjin at the end of February, and learned that a large number of Japanese troops had moved south from the northern section of the Ping-Han Railway.When I returned to Jinan from Tianjin, I learned that there were Japanese military vehicles coming from Qingdao every day, transferring to Jinpu Railway to go south. When I returned to Shangqiu, I saw that I monitored the materials provided by the Japanese military transportation center, and learned that Japanese military vehicles from Xuzhou went west through Shangqiu every day. I quickly reported the above information to Chief of Staff Dong of the First Theater and our party's Xi'an underground intelligence organization. Not long after, Japan launched the Battle of the Central Plains (that is, the battle to open up the Ping-Han Railway).Zhengzhou and Luoyang fell one after another, and the commander-in-chief of the first war zone withdrew from Luoyang to Hanzhong, Shaanxi. Because of the retreat, the radio station of the Commander's Department of the First War Zone lost contact with my radio station, and my source of funds was cut off, making it difficult to carry out work.I wrote to our party's Xi'an underground intelligence organization, explaining the situation.After receiving instructions from the intelligence organization, I returned to Xi'an in the autumn of 1944.