Chapter 166 Communist Party Security

The arsenal run by the government is under special surveillance by the military command, which also controls the security inspection office of the army's munitions department.As a result, the underground Communist Party invented a complex set of ciphers similar to those used by secret societies as identification methods and codes to keep in touch with each other.A handkerchief folded into a triangle, a square cloth folded in three layers, a white strap tied under a watch, a special way of greeting (slapping the left elbow and making the Chinese character "eight" with the right hand, touching the back of the neck or earlobe, etc.), are used to mean "fight to the end, not to be captured alive, not to love one's parents, and to fulfill one's duty".

In Chiang's sprawling police state, these are the weapons of the oppressed.But while the Communists actively established their branches in these factories in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, their top leaders were more interested in the national military and security systems of the Kuomintang regime.By January 1942, Zhou Enlai and his office in Chongqing under the Second United Front claimed that they had placed more than 5,000 agents in Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou.He and Kang Sheng also infiltrated Chiang's top intelligence and counterintelligence agencies (KMT Lieutenant General Yan Baohang, a central figure in the spy network under Zhou and Kang, was one of Chiang Kai-shek's military strategic chiefs.) General Yan sent Hitler to attack the Soviet Union provided accurate information to Moscow, photographed Japan's entire military deployment in Northeast China, and notified Stalin of Japan's impending Pearl Harbor air attack.

Another deadly infiltration activity was Zhang Luping breaking into the military command's communication system, exposing hundreds of military command radio stations and thousands of agents to the Communist Party.The fiasco may have even prompted Dai Li to form an alliance with the Americans in search of better counterintelligence measures at the time. Then came the most famous infiltration incident.It was during the Huaihai Campaign in the final stage of the Civil War, and Tang Yukun led the Anhui Station of the Military Command (which had been renamed the "Secret Bureau" at that time).One of the main units under Tang's leadership was the Juntong office at Zhengyangguan, whose head Liu Huisheng was involved in merging local security regiments with scattered military units to form a First Army under the command of Whampoa graduate Liao Yunsheng .

Tang was skeptical of Liao's loyalty and ordered Liu Huisheng to keep him under close surveillance.Liu immediately told Liao about the military commander's surveillance of Liao Yunsheng.At the same time, Zhang Gongxia, a Communist intelligence officer, began to approach Liu Huisheng himself, advising Liu to change his position and going to persuade Liao Yunsheng to secretly defect.Since then, Liu Huisheng has regularly provided military intelligence reports to the underground agents of the Communist Party, allocated radio equipment to the guerrillas who rebelled in the mountains, and through the arrangement of Liao Yunsheng, the First Army did not have military conflicts with the Communist forces.