On March 17, 1946, the sky over Qingdao City was covered with dark clouds, the sky was overcast, and there was a continuous light rain. There was a plane parked on the tarmac of Cangkou Airport, as if waiting for someone.
Not long after, a car stopped at the airport, and Dai Li, along with several entourage, got out of the car and hurried to the plane with an umbrella.
Dai Li looked at the gloomy sky and asked the pilot of the plane, "Can you fly in this weather?"Impact?”
The pilot replied to him: "The weather is bad, and the flight may be affected." ”
Hearing this, several entourages hurriedly persuaded Dai Li to leave another day. Dai Li hesitated for a while, but still said to everyone: "Let's go today, bring more fuel, and if the weather is bad in Shanghai and you can't land, then go to Nanjing, and then fly back to Qingdao if it doesn't work." ”
In this way, Dai Li's plane took off as originally planned, and no one knew that it was a flight without return.
What happened to Dai Li's plane?Why did Dai Li insist on taking off as originally planned?
According to the original plan, Dai Li's plane would arrive in Shanghai in the afternoon, but until the evening of the same day, the Shanghai pick-up personnel did not see the shadow of the plane. I confirmed with Qingdao and Nanjing airports that they didn't see the plane, and it seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
When the news reached Chongqing, the people at the headquarters of the military command were in an uproar. Everyone acted urgently overnight and contacted all parties to find the whereabouts of Dai Li's special plane, but to no avail. In the early morning of the next day, Chiang Kai-shek learned of the news and ordered Mao Renfeng to make every effort to find Dai Li's whereabouts. Mao Renfeng immediately convened a meeting of his subordinates to discuss the search plan.
On March 19, two days after Dai Li's plane went missing. On this day, many spies came to Banqiao Town, Jiangning, Nanjing. Villagers here said that the day before yesterday, they saw a plane crash into a tree, and then hit Daishan Mountain by inertia and fell.
The spies went into the mountains under the leadership of the villagers, and after searching for more than half a day, they finally found the wreckage of the wrecked plane. There were thirteen bodies on the plane, all charred and barely recognizable. However, near the wreckage, the agents found two burnt objects, the White Jade Nine Dragons Cup and the Nine Dragons Sword, which Dai Li had always carried with him.
As a result, the agents finally determined that this was Dai Li's special plane.
Dai Li's trip this time was actually a telegram from Chongqing, and Chiang Kai-shek asked him to attend a meeting in Chongqing. However, before going to Chongqing, Dai Li planned to go to Shanghai to meet his girlfriend Hu Die, and then flew from Qingdao to Shanghai instead of Chongqing.
Dai Li's spy organization has always been a powerful minion of Chiang Kai-shek, and he eliminated many dissidents for Chiang Kai-shek, but after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek felt that the Military Command Bureau was a little out of place, and it was not good for him to let it develop. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to abolish the Military Command Bureau and subsume the secret service work into the police system.
Chiang Kai-shek, as the leader of the military command, naturally felt this intention of Chiang Kai-shek. Not only that, Li Shizhen, who had always been at odds with Dai Li, also took the opportunity to make a statement to Chiang Kai-shek while Dai Li was on patrol outside, saying that there was chaos within the military command, and that the military command should be abolished and a new department should be established.
This kind of downfall angered Dai Li, who was outside, and he sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek in a fit of rage, angrily reprimanding Li Shizhen, and even bringing Chiang Kai-shek in his words.
After Chiang Kai-shek saw this "angry" telegram, he was silent for several hours, especially when he read the sentence "boil beans and burn the seeds, why not hurry to fry each other" for a long time, and he understood that Dai Li was blaming him for disregarding friendship and unloading the mill and killing the donkey.
However, Chiang Kai-shek was not changed by this telegram, and soon after, he explicitly proposed to Dai Li that the Military Command Bureau should be abolished.
Although Dai Li's spy work was excellent, his wings were stiff and he secretly organized his own forces, which made Chiang Kai-shek very jealous. Therefore, although Chiang Kai-shek learned of Dai Li's dissatisfaction from the telegram, he was even more worried about Dai Li's inability to control, and his suspicion of Dai Li became more and more serious day by day.
By March 1946, Chiang Kai-shek's suspicion of Dai Li was so suspicious that he could not sleep well, and he sent two telegrams to Dai Li in Qingdao in one day, ordering him to return to Chongqing for an emergency meeting.
No matter how dissatisfied Dai Li was with Chiang Kai-shek, he still did not dare to disobey on the surface. Therefore, after the two "instructions", Dai Li had no choice but to set off with trepidation. However, he wanted to meet Hu Die before going to Chongqing, and this was the scene at the beginning when the weather was bad and he was going to leave for Shanghai. Who would have thought that this trip would be killed?
Hu Die has been saying several theories about the cause of Dai Li's wreck, but there is no conclusive conclusion.
Some speculate that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to get rid of Dai Li. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Li were no longer as close as before, but to the point of mutual suspicion, and Dai Li's secret development of private forces was a taboo for Chiang Kai-shek. Dai Li's accident happened to be on the way to Chiang Kai-shek urging him to return to Chongqing, and this timing is also very coincidental.
However, after Dai Li's death, Chiang Kai-shek has always behaved very sadly, and wept several times when Dai Li's memorial was read at the public memorial ceremony, and then personally selected a cemetery for Dai Li, and the grief and nostalgia do not seem to be fake.
Dai Li and Chiang Kai-shek also believe that it was Ma Hansan's hand on Dai Li, Dai Li had handed over the Nine Dragons Sword to Ma Hansan for safekeeping, but Ma Hansan wanted to keep it for himself, and then he fell into the hands of the Japanese, and handed over the sword in order to survive.
Later, Ma Hansan was released by the Japanese army, and the Nine Dragons Sword was also returned to Dai Li's hands.
There is also a theory that Dai Lian committed suicide. Chen Hua, the military commander **, is Dai Li's confidante, and she found in the ** of Dai Li's wrecked plane that Dai Li's right hand was in a clenched state, which was his Xi after shooting, so she thought that Dai Li shot and killed the pilot, and then the plane lost control and had an accident.
All these claims are speculation, but there is no way to be confirmed. However, judging from the results, Dai Li, as a notorious spy, had countless blood stained on his hands and mutilated many people, but his death made many people breathe a sigh of relief, which can be said to be expected. It has also been said that Dai Li's death advanced our victory by ten years.
The death of the terrifying big man with such an unexpected ending has to be said to be full of storytelling, and it also adds a layer of mystery to Dai Li, no wonder future generations have been talking about Dai Li's death.