More than twenty years later, Colonel Tam Musen, a former intelligence officer who had retired from the intelligence department, recalled the scene in his memoirs:
"The layout of the Zhongtong Intelligence Network is relatively early, so in terms of intelligence collection capabilities, it is no worse than our old enemy, the Military Command. Before the country's all-out war of resistance started, we had already formed a relatively strong network across the country. A complete intelligence network has begun to collect all aspects of intelligence in a targeted manner.
¡°I was among the first batch of intelligence personnel ordered to lurk in the Beijing-Tianjin area. Later, due to the situation, I was sent to Shijiazhuang to implement further lurking plans.
At that time, Shijiazhuang Station lacked a professional and reliable telegraph operator. Since I had been working as a telegraph operator in the post office in the British Concession in Shanghai in my early years, I started working as an apprentice at the age of twelve and worked there for ten years.
¡°In addition, I have indeed achieved some achievements in the Beijing-Tianjin area before, so I have the trust of Shangfeng, so I was naturally appointed as the director of Radio No. 2 of Shijiazhuang Station.
In fact, it is said that he is the director of Radio No. 2, that is, a person who both sends and interprets messages. He specializes in serving a senior latent agent of Zhongtong. He has a single line of contact, one-on-one, and an independent password. Internally, I am. A captain and an officer, externally I am the boss of Liu Ji Yang Company.
On the day of the big explosion, Renhe and the Wang Puppet were holding a very important meeting in Shijiazhuang. The general meeting was to discuss things like future plans to instigate rebellion against our personnel, and Shangfeng was eager to know about this time. and the specific content of the Wang Puppet meeting.
Readers who are familiar with the history of China's Anti-Japanese War may know that the situation in the national Anti-Japanese War at that time was very unfavorable to our side. A large number of party and state officials who had sworn an oath in front of the Blue Sky and White Sun Flag went to the side of the Wang Puppet and sang with the Chongqing National Government. A rivalry began, which also included many senior military and political officials such as legislators and ministers.
As for those military generals with heavy troops, there are even more, as many as 500,000 to 600,000. If you look around, most of the people responsible for public security in occupied areas are Japanese soldiers, and real Japanese soldiers are very rare. I believe that readers who are familiar with that period of history will know who these bastards are, so I don¡¯t want to say more. It¡¯s really sad to say it.
So it was very unfortunate that just when I was sending information about the meeting to Shangfeng, a big explosion happened. At first, I thought it was an earthquake. I only heard a loud "bang" and the lights stopped. It came on, so I quickly put away the radio and ran out of the secret room.
But when I ran out, "boom-boom-boom" explosions rang out one after another in the city, and they were more powerful than the explosion just now. The whole earth was shaking, as if something happened. It was like a big earthquake, and the enamel jar I placed on the table was even knocked off the table.
Huge fireballs continued to rise in the west direction of the city, and accompanied by the "long-long" explosions, the thick smoke in the sky, and the huge firelight, although it was during the day, it was already a little burnt. The red sky says it all.
The fire over there is really big.
As a professional agent, I know that something big happened in Shijiazhuang at this time. The earthquake just now was not an earthquake, but a huge explosion.
??That is to say, it is very likely that someone is stabbing a knife in the heart.
So, I didn't care about admiring the fireworks in the sky, and ran straight back to the secret room where I had just sent the report. I used the spare dry battery as a power source to set up the radio again, and reported the emergency situation I saw in front of me directly to Up the peak.
Shangfeng was also very surprised by this unexpected situation, because according to the information we have, none of our Central Command intelligence personnel in Shijiazhuang are currently engaged in activities in this area, and there seems to be no such thing in the military command. Movement, let alone any statement.
If it had been before, the old guy surnamed Dai would have gone to the old man to ask for credit, so everyone was very confused as to who did this.
After that, the whole Shijiazhuang became even more chaotic. The streets were full of Japanese soldiers and foreigners who were busy building forts, as if a war was about to happen.
Heavy machine guns that were rarely seen on the streets were also set up, with their muzzles pointed directly at pedestrians passing by.
What¡¯s even more exaggerated is that the Japanese armored vehicles were also driven onto the streets. The streets were filled with Japanese and puppet patrols with nuclear weapons and live ammunition. The entire city fell into an unprecedented panic, and the war seemed to be about to break out.
People and puppet troops went door to door to search for suspicious persons, and the entire street was covered with various sentries to interrogate passers-by.
It wasn¡¯t until a day later that we learned that General Tao Ping¡¯s troops had arrived in the suburbs outside the city, less than 70 miles away from the city. At this time, all the Japanese and puppet troops outside the city were on their way.?Shrink the defense line and enter a first-level combat readiness state.
The big explosion in the city a day ago was the work of the Eighth Route Army's death squads. They set fire to our military's underground oil depot and also blew up the power plant. In other words, the city was completely without power at this time, and our arsenal was completely destroyed. It¡¯s time to stop cooking.
As for the trains that had always departed on time, they were even suspended. The reason was said to be that the railway was damaged by the Eighth Route.
As for the number of Japanese soldiers who were killed, injured and missing in this big explosion (actually said to be missing, but in reality they were bombed so that their bodies could not be found), the number reached nearly 300, so that when we look at When I reached this number, I couldn't believe it (the number publicly announced at the time was thirteen casualties and five missing, which is fucking nonsense).
But this is the fact. This casualty report of the Japanese army was provided by our party-state cadre. He has been lurking inside the Japanese puppets and provided a lot of valuable and important information to the party-state. Therefore, his intelligence has always been very important. reliable.
It¡¯s a bit funny to say that in the second month after the big explosion, I was ordered to be transferred out of Shijiazhuang to engage in another job.
Because of the nature of my work, I have never been able to meet with the party-state cadre lurking inside the Japanese and puppets. To this day, our secret documents from that time have not been declassified.
Therefore, I still don¡¯t know the name of the party-state official who has been working with me?
What does it look like?
How is he doing now?
Maybe, maybe he is no longer in this world!
¡°After all, I asked many of my old colleagues, and they didn¡¯t know this person existed.
It is also possible that he is now in his twilight years like me, still recalling those war-torn years.
It is also possible that our secret file was destroyed by the war when we evacuated the mainland, and we will never know his name.
Like thousands of martyrs who shed their blood and sacrificed their lives for the liberation of our nation, he became an unknown hero. "
Let¡¯s turn our attention to the headquarters in Shijiazhuang, where Iijima Aiharu Division Commander is located. Since the entire city¡¯s power has been cut off, four diesel generators are rumbling in the Japanese headquarters at this time.
The commander of the Iijima Aiharu Division was also anxiously looking at the increasingly pessimistic combat map in the war room. Due to the sudden appearance of Taoping's troops on the outskirts of the city, the entire North China movement was also underway. Now there are three Reorganized divisions and an unknown number of Eighth Route Army troops entered the battle, and the entire Shijiazhuang was in danger.
"General, your phone number!" A combat staff officer immediately handed the phone to the commander of the Iijima Division.
Before the commander of the Iijima Aiharu division who had just answered the phone spoke, the roar of Commander Okamura, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese invaders, came from the other end of the phone:
"Iijima, you bastard, listen to me, if Shijiazhuang is lost, you don't have to come back and do the work of committing seppuku!"
"Hi! Hi!" the commander of the Iijima Aiharu Division replied with a confused head.
Then Commander Gangcun continued to order:
"In two hours, Lieutenant General Shinozuka's special plane will arrive at your headquarters. He will take over your post. You must hand over the command honestly. Do you understand?"
Hearing that Commander Okamura was about to replace him, the commander of the Iijima Aiharu Division couldn't help but take a long breath. He immediately said to Commander Okamura excitedly:
"Your Excellency, Commander, as a soldier of an empire, only dying in battle is a waste of time, and there is no way you can live an ignoble existence. If you really want me to leave the battlefield, you might as well shoot me. I will never Will leave the battlefield."
As soon as Iijima finished speaking, Commander Okamura on the other end of the phone roared:
"Asshole, don't you know that you have completely embarrassed the Imperial Army! It is precisely because of your incompetence that their 'Million Attack' plan had to be postponed. It is precisely because of your incompetence that The war armies of our empire cannot fly into the blue sky. It is precisely because of your incompetence that all the military factories of our empire have stopped production. Isn¡¯t this enough for me to dismiss you and investigate you!"
"Hi! Hi!" the commander of the Iijima Aiharu division continued to answer in a confused manner.
At this moment, there was only a "pop" sound, and Commander Gangcun had hung up the phone.
At this time, the combat staff who were beginning to deduce the battlefield situation on the sand table involuntarily stopped.
"What are you looking at!" Commander Aiharu Iijima yelled immediately.
Two hours later, Lieutenant General Shinozuka, holding the certificate of appointment as commander of Okamura, appointed the commander of the Iijima Aiharu division.He took over the command of the Shijiazhuang garrison.
About ten minutes later, only a "bang" gunshot was heard, and Division Commander Iijima Aiharu, who was sitting in the car, pulled the trigger of the gun.
This result can be said to be beyond everyone's expectation, because no one expected that it was precisely because of Tao Ping's bold military action that a Japanese lieutenant general was forced to commit suicide.
But what was even more unexpected was that when everyone thought Tao Ping would attack Shijiazhuang, Tao Ping quietly retreated with his headquarters.
Many years later, students like Tao Ping from the Central Military Academy of the Military Academy analyzed the situation at that time and found that Shijiazhuang was one of the most important military bases and heavy industrial bases controlled by the Japanese invasion of China. Its city defenses were quite complete and strong, and it was completely possible To describe it as a military castle, we did not have any decent heavy-duty offensive weapons at the time. If we fought hard, it would be equivalent to blocking the enemy's machine gun holes with the lives of soldiers. Under the circumstances at that time, I led The troops he leads are likely to be completely destroyed. ro! .