On November 6, 1949, the premier held a banquet in the Qinzheng Hall in Zhongnanhai to entertain Zhang Zhizhong, Fu Zuoyi, Liu Fei and other Kuomintang uprising generals. Most of these people were high-ranking generals in the former Kuomintang army, for the sake of national righteousness and national peace. They resolutely chose to break with Chiang Kai-shek of the Kuomintang and actively participated in the reunification and construction of New China.
In order to thank these generals for their profound righteousness, **On behalf of ***, a banquet was held in Zhongnanhai to entertain them. When General Zhang Zhizhong walked into the banquet hall, they were all surprised, because they found a person who shouldn't be here?
Zhang Zhizhong was surprised, and hurriedly stepped forward and said to this person: ".Dude, when did you revolt? ”。Before this person could talk, he smiled and said; "Haha, he's not an uprising, he's going home! ”
Yes! *'s words made this group of former Kuomintang members look at each other.
After a long time, Liu Fei, former deputy chief of staff of the Ministry of National Defense, sighed: "No wonder Hu Zongnan often loses battles, even his henchmen are the Communist Party, how can he be undefeated." ”
General Zhang Zhizhong also sighed: "I have long thought that Chiang Kai-shek is inferior to the Communist Party militarily and politically. Only today did I fully understand that he was far from the Communist Party in terms of intelligence.
So, who is this figure who made many former KMT dignitaries sigh with emotion? What kind of contributions did he make for our party?
His name is Xiong Xianghui, a senior ** in the history of our party, he was once known as the head of the "Later Three Heroes" in the three heroes of Longtan, ** once praised him "One person is worth several divisions!" ”
In 1919, Xiong Xianghui was born in Ye County, Shandong Province (now Laizhou, Shandong), and his father was a magistrate in the county at that time, equivalent to the current county party committee cadre. Xiong's father has served as the president of the Criminal Division of the Hubei Provincial High Court and the president of the Hunan Provincial High Court.
It was born in such a family of eunuchs that Xiong Xianghui received a good education since he was a child. When he was a child, he was once called a "prodigy" by others with his intelligence.
At the age of 17, Xiong Xianghui was admitted to Tsinghua University with excellent grades, and joined the Communist Party of China at the end of the same year, becoming a glorious communist fighter.
After the outbreak of the "77 Incident", patriotic students from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Nankai University and other colleges and universities joined forces to form an anti-Japanese group and called it the Youth Field Service Corps. Xiong Xianghui was an active member of this group, and his leader was Jiang Nanxiang, then president of Tsinghua University, who was also an underground worker of our party.
One morning, a big man came to the service group, and this big man was Chiang Kai-shek's protégé and a graduate of the first phase of Whampoa, and he was the famous Hu Zongnan.
At that time, Hu Zongnan heard that the members of the Field Youth Service Corps were all thoughtful and educated college students, so he planned to select some talents from them for training.
**After learning the news, he immediately instructed Jiang Nanxiang to select some talents from our party who had a firm position, handsome appearance, and a well-off background to participate in Hu Zongnan's interview. In order to penetrate into the interior of the Kuomintang and prepare for future intelligence work.
At that time, Xiong Xianghui, as the leader under Jiang Nanxiang, naturally became the number one candidate for this task, when Hu Zongnan came to the Youth Field Service Corps for an interview, Xiong Xianghui thought that he must be ingenious and let Hu Zongnan remember himself, only in this way can the other party choose himself and successfully complete the task assigned to him by the party organization.
So, when Hu Zongnan took the roster and took the roll call, the other students all stood up and replied: "Yes", while Xiong Xianghui sat and raised his right hand and replied: "I am." And then this alternative performance, Xiong Xianghui really left a deep impact on Hu Zongnan.
Then Hu Zongnan asked: "Why are you willing to come to work under me?" ”
Someone said: "To serve the motherland." Some people responded: "I admire General Hu's ability." The answers of the people at the scene were varied.
And only Xiong Xianghui replied categorically: "For the revolution".
Hu Zongnan asked Xiong Xianghui with a smile: "Then what is a revolution?" ”。
Xiong Xianghui did not hesitate and responded: "Mr. Zhongshan originally proposed that the revolutionary task was to 'drive out the Tartars and restore China'. Now 'expelling captives' is to resist Japan, and resisting Japan is revolution. ”
Hu Zongnan was very satisfied with this 18-year-old young man, and immediately summoned Xiong Xianghui alone. After a simple inquiry, Hu Zongnan found that Xiong Xianghui was extraordinary, thoughtful, and immediately decided to hire this person.
Soon after, Xiong Xianghui followed Hu Zongnan to work at the headquarters of the 17th Army Corps. In order to cultivate this young talent, Hu Zongnan also took advantage of his power to send Xiong Xianghui to study at the Seventh Branch of the Whampoa Military Academy to help him grow into a member of the 15th batch of graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy.
After graduation, Xiong Xianghui returned to Hu Zongnan and served as the platoon leader of the guard platoon. Because of his meticulous thinking, meticulous service, and excellent writing, he quickly gained Hu Zongnan's trust.
Since then, Xiong Xianghui has not only been responsible for Hu Zongnan's food, clothing, housing and transportation, but he has even drafted speeches on important occasions, and Hu Zongnan has personally spoken. Xiong Xianghui became Hu's absolute confidant, and then came into contact with a lot of important information.
In the early days of entering Hu Zongnan's group, ** did not arrange any tasks for Xiong Xianghui. ** He once asked them to become an "idle chess player", and it is best to be idle and cold for a long time. And Xiong Xianghui also silently adhered to the instructions of his superiors, lurking beside Hu Zongnan, waiting for the opportunity to start.
In June 1943, when the whole country was struggling to resist the war. Hu Zongnan, then the commander of the First Theater of Operations, received a secret order from Chiang Kai-shek, asking him to find an opportunity to raid Yan'an by means of a blitzkrieg and exterminate the Communist Party in the shortest possible time.
Hu Zongnan, as Chiang Kai-shek's confidant, would naturally carry out Chiang Kai-shek's orders without discount. For this reason, he did not hesitate to withdraw the troops defending the Japanese army and instead launched an attack on the Yan'an area.
As Hu Zongnan's confidential secretary, Xiong Xianghui also participated in the formulation of the battle plan. When he realized the danger he was facing, he immediately transmitted the information to Yan'an through a special channel. On the second day after Hu Zongnan's pre-war meeting, his battle plan was sent to ***'s desk.
**Quickly convene an emergency meeting to discuss specific coping strategies. At the same time, he also asked Dong Biwu, the representative of the Communist Party stationed in Chongqing, to expose Chiang Kai-shek's sinister intentions to major news** and diplomats from Britain and the United States.
Under the pressure of society and the strong intervention of foreign ambassadors, Chiang Kai-shek could only be forced to retract his fate. At this point, Hu Zongnan's plan to attack Yan'an was also stillborn. In this incident, Xiong Xianghui's intelligence can be said to be very timely. Afterwards, even *** sighed:"Xiong Xianghui alone can be worth several divisions.
In 1946, Hu Zongnan recommended Xiong Xianghui to study in the United States. When he went to Nanjing to go through the formalities for studying in the United States, he suddenly got an urgent summons from ***. When he arrived at ***'s temporary residence, ** told him bad news.
It turned out that in the process of returning to Yan'an, he accidentally took the special plane of US Ambassador Marshall. Due to the fatigue of long-term work, ** fell asleep on the plane and accidentally left the notes with Xiong Xianghui's address on the plane.
Later, Marshall sent someone to send the notebook back, ** worried that Marshall would inform Chiang Kai-shek of the situation. Then, Xiong Xianghui's identity has been completely exposed.
After a brief discussion, it was suggested that Xiong Xianghui first go to Shanghai to hide for a while. Xiong Xianghui also accepted ***'s kindness and went to Shanghai to avoid the limelight temporarily.
Changed to his fiancée Zhan Youhua, secretly monitoring the movements of the Kuomintang, time passed quietly, about half a month later, seeing that there was no Kuomintang ** anything unusual, Xiong Xianghui returned to Nanjing with trepidation.
In fact, Marshall had already discovered Xiong Xianghui's true identity at that time, and took the initiative to find Chiang Kai-shek, wanting to inform him of the news. However, Chiang Kai-shek was very dissatisfied with the fact that the United States had secretly contacted the Communists, and his conversation with Marshall was also full of guns and sticks, and he was sneering.
When Marshall said that there was important information to inform Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek's expression was very cold, and he also showed disdain for the intelligence of the Americans. In addition, Chiang Kai-shek also strongly demanded that the United States **seize the time to provide** and economic support.
However, after Marshall was very dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek said: "The intelligence of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was first intercepted by the Kuomintang military command department, but the Americans did not believe us, so they caused huge military losses. ”
Marshall left in a fit of rage, and he did not reveal Xiong Xianghui's identity to Chiang Kai-shek. This allowed Xiong Xianghui to escape.
In 1947, Xiong Xianghui married his fiancée Zhan Youhua, and the wedding was extremely luxurious, and many important members of the Kuomintang attended the wedding, and even the witnesses were Chiang Ching-kuo, the eldest son of Chiang Kai-shek.
After the wedding, Xiong Xianghui and his wife spent their honeymoon in Hangzhou. One day, a secret agent from the Secret Bureau found Xiong Xianghui. Xiong Xianghui was very nervous, he thought it was the notebook incident. But the spies told him that it was Hu Zongnan who had something urgent to find him.
When Xiong Xianghui and Hu Zongnan met, they learned that Chiang Kai-shek had already instructed Hu Zongnan to attack Yan'an again, but in order to eliminate the bad society, Chiang Kai-shek asked Hu Zongnan to "make this offensive operation three parts military and seven points political."
Regarding military operations, Hu Zongnan understood very well. But for political actions, Hu Zongnan felt a lot of headaches, and in desperation, Hu Zongnan thought of the clever Xiong Xianghui, so he hurriedly found the other party for help through the military commander's spies.
At that time, Hu Zongnan specially told all his subordinates that this matter must be kept secret. But he didn't want the plan to be implemented before it was passed back to Yan'an by Xiong Xianghui.
After Hu Zongnan rushed to Luochuan to hold a military meeting, before the ** troops began to act, they were easily defeated by our army with the strength of three regiments, and then our army annihilated tens of thousands of people in the battles of Qinghuatou, Yangma River, and Panlong Town, and captured a brigade commander, which made Hu Zongnan completely dumbfounded.
However, due to the large number of ** troops, Hu Zongnan led hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the Yan'an area desperately. ** Evacuated the local area ahead of schedule, taking into account the fact that the enemy was outnumbered and the form was different. This gave Hu Zongnan the opportunity to occupy Yan'an, and hyped it up that he had captured the Communist lair.
After occupying Yan'an, Hu Zongnan thought that there was nothing important, and immediately arranged for Xiong Xianghui to study in the United States. However, Xiong Xianghui had just arrived in the United States. Wang Jian, the former liaison officer of the underground party in Xi'an, was unlucky, and then surrendered to the enemy and confessed the information he had.
As a result, many underground parties lurking within the Kuomintang were exposed, causing huge losses to our party's hidden front, among which Xiong Xianghui's identity was also exposed at this time.
Fortunately, because Hu Zongnan had a close relationship with Mao Renfeng, the director of the Secret Bureau, Mao Renfeng informed Hu Zongnan of the news before reporting to Chiang Kai-shek. Hu Zongnan was shocked when he found out, and begged Mao Renfeng to handle the matter by himself, and he must not tell Chairman Chiang (Chiang Kai-shek).
Hu Zongnan thought about it carefully for a long time and decided to continue to conceal the matter. First of all, Hu Zongnan himself is more face-loving, and he has always regarded himself as the first person in Whampoa, and his status within the Kuomintang ruling group is extremely high. If this matter is allowed to spread, it will have a bad impact on his reputation.
Secondly, Hu Zongnan was Chiang Kai-shek's confidant and had long been deeply trusted by Chiang Kai-shek. If Chiang Kai-shek knew about this, then his position in Chiang Kai-shek's heart would not be guaranteed. It will also attract other factions that have been fighting against Hu Zongnan, and at that time, Hu Zongnan may really be in trouble.
Finally, considering the reality at the time, Xiong Xianghui was far away in the United States, and the emperor was far away, even if the matter was made public, it would be troublesome to extradite Xiong Xianghui. Therefore, for the sake of the party-state and himself (mainly for himself), Hu Zongnan could only smash his teeth and swallow it in his stomach and eat this dumb loss.
Two years later, Xiong Xianghui returned to Beiping. This is why there is a question from Zhang Zhi and others in front of him. When these former Kuomintang dignitaries learned that Xiong Xianghui joined the Communist Party of China as early as 36 years, and was instructed by *** and *** to lurk by Hu Zongnan's side for 10 years. They sighed one after another: "The intelligence work of the Communist Party is really pervasive!" ”
And the reason why *** revealed Xiong Xianghui's identity to Zhang Zhi and others actually has an important purpose, that is, to drive a wedge between Hu Zongnan and Chiang Kai-shek.
Because at that time, Hu Zongnan and Song Xilian were entangled with hundreds of thousands of remnants, retreated to the southwest Yunnan, Guichuan area, and there were signs of fleeing to northern Burma. **and*** means that they must never be allowed to escape from the country, and this group of remnants must be dealt with in the territory.
So Zhang Zhizhong wrote to Chiang Kai-shek: "Hu Zongnan's confidential secretary Xiong Xianghui is a senior ** of the CCP who has been lurking by Hu Zongnan's side for 10 years. Hu Zongnan already knew that Mao Renfeng had also found out. But no one reported to you. Is there a credible person around Jiang Gong? ”
When Chiang Kai-shek saw this letter, he was very angry, and immediately scolded: "Niang Xipi, the stupid Hu Zongnan is a big thing for me, and he should really be shot." At this point, Chiang Kai-shek also lost his trust in Hu Zongnan.
A few months later, Hu Zongnan sent several telegrams to Chiang Kai-shek, asking the troops to retreat to Burma, but Chiang Kai-shek directly refused to do so.
Until, the generals of Yunnan, Sichuan and other places revolted one after another, Song Xilian was successfully captured by our army, and Hu Zongnan fled to Taiwan in embarrassment. Chiang Kai-shek realized that he had fallen victim to our party's counter-plots. However, at that time, it was too late to regret it.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xiong Xianghui has always served as an important member of the People's Republic of China and has made great contributions to the diplomatic cause of New China.
Xiong Xianghui's daughter once asked him that Hu Zongnan had the grace of knowing him and trusted him very much. He has been by Hu's side for 10 years, hasn't he abandoned the Communist Party and voted for the country? Xiong Xianghui's answer was:"I never thought about it, because I believe that only the Communist Party can save China! ”。