In the autumn of 1942, there were few pedestrians on the streets, and the eyes were full of withered maple leaves. A man walked forward with his coat tightly wrapped, hoping only to be reunited with his wife and children as soon as possible.
However, there was no joy of reunion on his face, but a tightly knit brow, full of worries.
The man returned home covered in dust and saw his wife walking towards him, she shook her coat intimately, and was ready to go back to the house to pack up her rice and prepare to eat. However, the man suddenly spoke: "I'm sorry, I hid something before, in fact, my name is Tu Zuochao." ”
Hearing this, his wife was surprised and asked suspiciously: "Jiang Lingen is not your real name, so who are you?" ”
Image source network, Tu Zuochao is about to set off, leaving only one sentence: "If I can't come back, take my children to the leader of the Communist Party of China*** He will take care of your life." ”
The wife was puzzled, and it wasn't until later that she realized that Tu Zuochao was explaining what was going on. What is the identity of Tu Zuochao? And how did he get acquainted with ***? Finally, will he be able to reunite with his wife and daughter?
All this will be revealed in his revolutionary path.
At the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1928, ** and Deng Yingchao participated in the grand event in Moscow. At this time, they met Tu Zuochao, who was studying in the Soviet Union, and said excitedly to Tu Zuochao: "You used to be a carpenter, and from now on your code name will be called Carpenter!" ”
Although this is the first encounter between Tu Zuochao and ***, it is not the last. Because Tu Zuochao is a staunch member of the Communist Party of China, his loyalty and perseverance have always been consistent.
Tu Zuochao was born in a poor family in Changsha, Hunan. He grew up in the midst of war and hardship, but his father was clever enough to find him a job as an apprentice under a carpenter.
However, the world is not peaceful, and the safety of the country directly affects the peace of every family. When facing difficulties inside and outside the country, Tu Zuochao's heart ignited the determination to defend the country and protect the people.
At this time, the labor movement in Hunan was in full swing, and he actively joined the marches and became a member of the local labor union with his outstanding performance.
Everyone should take responsibility for the rise and fall of a country. It was against this backdrop that Tu Zuochao gradually showed a heroic demeanor and officially became a member of the Communist Party of China during the Shanghai workers' movement in 1924.
Image source network, a red light illuminates the way forward for Tu Zuochao, who embarked on a journey to study in the Soviet Union with full of enthusiasm and deep belief in the Communist Party of China.
He spent three fulfilling years in a strange country, but he knew that it was the most rewarding period of his life. At that time, the Communist Party of China had just been founded, and in addition to the brave and fearless soldiers, there was also a need for underground workers who were silently dedicated.
And Tu Zuochao is the young man who has been carefully cultivated by the organization and endowed with high hopes. He was young, only twenty years old, but with tenacity and perseverance, he quickly mastered the basic skills of shooting, fighting, explosives, and disguise, which are all qualities that an underground worker must have.
Tu Zuochao encountered great difficulties in learning telegraph work. Due to dropping out of school early, he didn't even fully memorize numbers, but to memorize nearly a hundred codes, it was an almost impossible task.
Every time he went to class, Tu Zuochao would try his best to memorize a few codes, but the other students in his class were able to write all the codes fluently. This made the Soviet teacher deeply regretful, and he said: "You have performed very well in other aspects, but it is this work that has held you back."
If you can't overcome this difficulty, then how can you successfully complete your studies? ”
Tu Zuochao said hard: "I will do my best to give me more time." However, his knowledge reserve is not sufficient, and no matter how hard he tries, he can only memorize a maximum of thirty, which is far from enough for him.
During that time, Tu Zuochao was distressed, thinking that his red career was about to come to an end. However, the dawn of hope came suddenly. That day, Tu Zuochao began to study the telegraph again, during which one of the trainees' machine malfunctioned and kept hissing.
The teacher urgently asked a professional machine reporter to let everyone not panic.
Tu Zuochao used his knowledge of the basic course of telegraph and carpenter's skills to successfully repair the telegraph with radio waves. The telegraph teacher praised his repair ability and asked him if he had ever touched a telegraph.
Tu Zuochao responded modestly, saying that he had only worked as a carpenter at home, and he knew something about telegraph machines but was not proficient in them, so he did not dare to make an axe.
Tu Zuochao humbly said that this made the teacher more convinced that he was a gifted student, so he took him under his command and taught him the maintenance and assembly skills of telegraph machines.
It didn't take long for Tu Zuochao to complete his studies with excellent performance and leave the Soviet Union, ready to apply what he had learned to the revolutionary cause of the country. However, the road was more difficult than he had imagined......He was an honorable underground worker.
Tu Zuochao used the method of "one belt and more" to allow more people to consolidate the knowledge of underground work, and made an important contribution to the construction of our party's underground network. He took the lead in organizing radio teaching in the Shanghai underground in a small three-story building in the French Concession, using the "Shanghai Welfare Electric Appliance Factory" as a cover to teach comrades to assemble and repair radio stations.
Although the Kuomintang reactionaries pursued the investigation tirelessly in an attempt to sabotage our party's underground organization, Tu Zuochao persevered and made tremendous contributions to the party's cause.
During the period of the source network, Tu Zuochao, with his keen insight, skillfully led other comrades to hide in the east, and avoided the search and arrest of the Kuomintang many times. He was good at disguise, often wearing shabby clothes, and could almost become a down-and-out worker.
However, danger always lurks in the shadows.
Tu Zuochao went to the training class as usual, but no one responded in front of the door, which made him alert, and shouted in a louder voice: "Boss Li, open the door quickly!" I haven't been paid for months, and if you let me go, I'm not leaving, I'm going to fight with you! ”
Tu Zuochao skillfully coped with it, evaded the arrest of the Kuomintang reactionaries, and successfully escaped. If he had reacted more slowly, or if he had walked in and turned away, he might have been caught by the Kuomintang reactionaries and ended up in prison, or even involving other comrades.
Image source network. The carpenter's abilities are admirable, and the construction of the new home depends on him. ”
After the training of the telecommunications class, Tu Zuochao devoted himself to the front-line work, and he has been working for more than ten years. He has always been vigilant and careful, and has never shown his disguise, so he is known as the "trump card" by the organization
Tu Zuochao knew very well that once he encountered danger, the entire underground organization of our party would fall into a panic, and this would be a very serious consequence. However, as cautious as he is, it doesn't mean that other underground workers are immune to making mistakes.
In 1942, the Japanese tried to expose the underground organization of our Party in Shanghai through the strategy of "zonal blackout". However, due to the swiftness of the action, one of the intelligence workers named Li Bai was unlucky**.
After learning about this, Tu Zuochao exclaimed: "This is not good! It turned out that Li Bai was Tu Zuochao's protégé in the Shanghai telegraph class and their close friend. Even after completing their studies, they remain closely connected, and even some of the work is done together.
Due to Li Bai's poor technology in assembling telegraphs, Tu Zuochao developed a small and portable telegraph and cleverly transformed it into a radio mode for camouflage.
Together, they provided strong support to our Party's intelligence officers. However, Li Bai, who had always been cautious, unfortunately fell into the hands of the enemy, which made Tu Zuochao deeply distressed and began to have some worries about his future safety.