Chapter 16 Section 7

The next day, Shen Zui didn't sleep well all night, his eyes were red and swollen, and he dragged his tired body to Mao's mansion.When he opened the door, Mao Renfeng, Ye Xiangzhi, director of operations, and Pan Qiwu, director of the director's office, were already waiting for him. The four secret agents closed the door, plotted for a whole morning, and finally drafted a detailed assassination plan.After Chiang Kai-shek's approval, the plan was immediately finalized. Mao Renfeng was quite satisfied with this. He cheered up and said: "This operation must be successful. You don't have to worry about other preparations. I have ordered the Operations Department and the Personnel Department. All the requirements of the operation team must be met as much as possible. If you want money, we will guarantee it with all your strength. You can rest assured."

The first set of plans was proposed by Shen Zui, to deal with Li Zongren in Nanjing by extraordinary means, and the specific location was selected as Fu Hougang's official residence where Li Zongren lived. They decided to open an old bookstall at the corner of the road leading to their residence as a cover for reconnaissance. As a bookstall, it is natural that more people can stay here in the name of reading books, and stay longer, so as not to arouse suspicion.Moreover, setting up the bookstall here is also conducive to taking advantage of Li Zongren's car to slow down when entering and exiting the corner, and to attack from both sides.

In order to complete the monitoring task, the person in charge of the bookstall was personally selected by Shen Zui, Wu De, who was a "highly talented student" who graduated from the Linli spy training class and has always been engaged in mobile work. At the same time, according to the requirements of the assassination host Shen Zui, the assistant must be a master, because Shen Zui can shoot with both hands, and has always been known as a sharpshooter in the military.In this regard, Mao Renfeng used his brains a lot when choosing an assistant. After thousands of choices, he finally chose Qin Jingchuan, who had been in charge of the assassination mission of the military command.This man is accurate with marksmanship and calm when performing tasks.Another assistant surnamed Wang is from the Northeast. He has been a habitual bandit of killing people and stealing goods since he was a child. He can shoot down birds in the air with a pistol, and Shen Zui is satisfied with that.

This set of plans is called "Ambush in the Mansion".In this way, no matter which way Li Zongren goes, he cannot escape the end of being assassinated. Li Zongren didn't realize it, and swaggered in and out of the mansion every day.It is interesting to say that the Li mansion in troubled times has changed its owner several times. In 1934, it was built by Yao Cong, deputy director of the General Office of the Kuomintang Military Commission and director of the Capital Police Department.Breaking ground and taking 3 years to complete.Due to the fall of Nanjing during the Anti-Japanese War, the house has not been fully completed. In August 1937, CCP representatives Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Ye Jianying attended the Nanjing National Defense Conference and lived in this mansion.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Yao Cong took over his once-lost mansion, and rented it to the US military as a guest house the following year.

After Li Zongren came to Nanjing, Yao Cong gave him the mansion, and Li Zongren changed its name to Li Mansion, which was called "Vice President's Mansion" at that time. But this plan also has disadvantages. One is that it is located in the downtown area of ​​Nanjing, and the target of action is too big; the other is that it is near his official residence. To be on the safe side, Mao Renfeng and Shen Zui formulated two other plans to assist them. The second plan set by the military command is to assassinate the telegraph boss Shi Liangcai. It is planned to use the opportunity of Li Zongren to go out on the Shanghai-Nanjing line, and let the killer stop Li Zongren's car with a car, and then snipe. .

The assassination of Shi Liangcai has always been a classic lesson plan that the military commanders talk about. In the 1930s, Shi Liangcai, a giant in the history of China's modern newspaper industry and the owner of "Shen Bao", openly declared that "newspapers are the mouthpiece of the people, and they must speak for the people to stand firm."His radical, democratic, humane and journalistic style of running a newspaper was deeply intolerable by Chiang Kai-shek.Under Chiang Kai-shek's many pressures and temptations, Shi Liangcai stuck to his policy of running a newspaper and remained unmoved. In October 1934, taking advantage of Shi Liangcai's return from Hangzhou to Shanghai, the military command sent several killers to lie on the Shanghai-Hangzhou highway in advance. A classmate of Shi Liangcai's son.Shi Liangcai and his son knew that their relationship had changed, so they ran wildly.Due to old age and frailty, Shi Liangcai was finally shot and killed in a dry pond by a military commander.The Chiang Kai-shek thief shouted to catch the thief, pretended to be investigating, and announced it to the world.But after checking and checking, they couldn't find out why, and the case was closed, and the insiders of the military system leaked the secrets, and people understood the truth about Shi Liangcai's assassination.

The situation Li Zongren encountered at this time was somewhat similar to that of Shi Liangcai. He was cramped in Nanjing, restrained by many parties, and the peace talks were not progressing satisfactorily.In the midst of depression, I often take a light car and travel with only a few people on the Shanghai-Nanjing Highway to relieve boredom and leisure. But this scheme has its drawbacks.After all, Li Zongren is the acting president. Once he travels, at least one or two cars will accompany the guards. If the assassination fails, it will be easy to cause trouble, and the killers will not be easy to get away.In this way, it is quite difficult to operate.But once this set of plans is in place, Chiang Kai-shek and his military commanders are the easiest to excuse. It is very easy to call out thieves and blame the Communist Party or other factions.In the aftermath work, it is very easy to win the initiative.

The third scheme is the safest in comparison, but it is time-consuming, laborious and difficult to operate.Taking advantage of Li Zongren's opportunity to take a plane, he created an air crash, so that no one would notice it, and he was able to prevaricate the Quartet. It turned out that Li Zongren and his wife had always had a dream wish. They always wanted to take Chiang Kai-shek's presidential plane "Meiling" and show off.Because the "Meiling" special plane was the most advanced and comfortable Boeing plane imported from the United States at that time. Mrs. Li Guo Dejie has always been envious of Song Meiling's special plane.

One day in 1948, Li Zongren and his wife were invited to visit Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling's "Meiling Palace" in Nanjing. Chiang Kai-shek, who was trying his best to win Li Zongren not to run for vice president, asked Li Zongren with concern during the meeting: "Delin, can you come here?" Let’s relax, what’s your plane like? It’s much more convenient to go back and forth by plane.” Chiang Kai-shek asked Li Zongren, who was invited to be a guest, very affectionately. "Mr. Jiang," Li Zongren smiled shyly and said uncomfortably, "Mine is a special ordinary airliner."

"Darling," Song Meiling, who was at the side, asked Chiang Kai-shek, "Mr. Li's special plane must be suitable for riding. Can we send the special plane 'Meiling' to Mr. Li?"