Chapter 31 12. Stay and work in Xi'an

After I returned to Xi'an, my friend helped me rent three houses and settled down. Zhao Yaobin, Li Nian and other comrades from the Xi'an underground intelligence organization came to see me.I talked to them about the work situation after entering the Commander's Department of the First Theater Command, and I asked about my future work tasks. Zhao Yaobin said, you have to go to Hanzhong to see the movements of the Commander-in-Chief of the First Theater Command and clear up the funds they owe you. After I arrived in Hanzhong, I learned that the commander-in-chief Jiang Dingwen had resigned, and Chen Cheng, the chief of staff of the Kuomintang Military Commission, acted as the commander-in-chief.The chief of staff, the chief of staff, and the chief of the intelligence section have all changed.I went to report to the General Staff and none of them knew me.After checking the files, they found out that I was originally a major general counselor of the commander's department and the leader of the field liaison team of the commander's department sent to eastern Henan.

I asked: How to solve the unpaid funds after the Luoyang war? The person who received me said: You bring the reimbursement book, and we will issue it to you; the unpaid funds before the Luoyang war, you go back to Xi'an to find the person in charge of the former manager's office to clear it. I asked, how to arrange my future work? The person who received me said that Hu Zongnan, the commander-in-chief of the 34th Army Group, has also served as the deputy commander-in-chief, and the commander-in-chief will soon move to Xi'an; Liu, the chief of the intelligence department of the 34th Army headquarters, has been transferred to the chief of the intelligence department of the commander-in-chief; regarding job placement, You go back to Xi'an to talk to Section Chief Liu.

In Hanzhong, I cleared up the procedures for unpaid funds after the Luoyang war, and returned to Xi'an.I went to find the person in charge of the former manager's office and cleared up the funds owed before the Luoyang war.Afterwards, I went to Section Chief Liu, who was newly transferred to the Intelligence Section of the Minister's Ministry, to talk about job placement.He said: Let's talk about it when the executive department moves to Xi'an. I told Zhao Yaobin, the head of the Xi'an underground intelligence organization, about the above situation.He said: In the European battlefield, Germany and Italy have already lost; in the Asian battlefield, Japan can't last long; you should stay in Xi'an and wait for the right time.

One day, Zhao Yaobin said to me: Comrades want to raise funds to open a bookstore, nominally under the banner of the Shaanxi Youth League Branch of the Three People's Principles, but actually to establish an underground work contact station for us, and you will also participate in the bookstore .We have been preparing for more than half a year, and this bookstore has been established. It is called Xi'an Research Bookstore. I also bought part of the stock of this bookstore. In the spring of 1945, an American plane was shot down by a Japanese plane near Xuzhou.The pilot parachuted down and was not captured by the Japanese.The U.S. Air Force Liaison Station in Xi’an, after being introduced by a Peking University classmate, knew that I had worked in the Xuzhou area, so they asked me to try to find out the whereabouts of the pilot for them.I immediately informed my intelligence agents who stayed in eastern Henan. After investigation, they learned that the American driver had originally landed in the countryside north of Mengcheng and was hiding in a farmer's house.Later, he was taken away by Hao Pengju, the governor of Huaihai Province, and detained in Xuzhou.I reported the situation to the U.S. Air Force Liaison Station in Xi'an, and they were very grateful.I reported this to the underground intelligence organization.Zhao Yaobin asked me to keep in touch with the US Air Force Liaison Station.