Chapter 0160: Gaining Trust
In January 1934, Zhang Xueliang returned from an inspection trip to Europe and was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the deputy commander of the "Suppression Chief" of the three provinces of Henan, Hubei and Anhui, acting as the commander-in-chief. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Li Bohai, who goes by the pseudonym Li Tiancai, served as the deputy director of the political training department of the "General Suppression".
Li Tiancai catered to Zhang Xueliang's interest in the revolutionary theory of the Communist Party, and recommended Pan Wuyang to Zhang Xueliang as a Marxist-Leninist scholar.
So, Pan Wuyang joined Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army.
Zhang Xueliang quickly fell in love with the young and capable Pan Wuyang.
Pan Wuyang's erudition and insights impressed Zhang Xueliang, and Zhang Xueliang transferred him from Beiping to the "General Suppression" Headquarters in Xujiapeng, Wuhan, and Pan Wuyang stayed with Zhang Xueliang to work from then on.
Li Tiancai set up a confidential group in the Wuhan "General Suppression" Headquarters, personally served as the team leader, and placed all the people he trusted in it.
Li Tiancai arranged for Pan Wuyang to be the lieutenant colonel's secretary of the confidential group, in charge of the telecommunications office, and this post almost allowed Pan Wuyang to obtain military intelligence on Wuhan's "suppression of the general" without omission.
Zhang Xueliang was puzzled by the victories won by the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in the first four anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns, especially after he became deputy commander-in-chief of the "suppression of bandits" in the three provinces of Hubei, Henan, and Anhui, he transferred more than 80 regiments from the Northeast Army to "encircle and suppress" the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base areas, but was defeated by the Red 25th Army led by Xu Haidong.
Zhang Xueliang was very confused, whether it was weapons or equipment, the Red 25th Army was far inferior to his Northeast Army, but he let him suffer defeats one after another, and his "encirclement and suppression" plan was a complete failure.
Zhang Xueliang believes that it is necessary to study why the Red Army is so strong, and at the same time, he also has his own little ninety-nine in his heart in doing so, that is, can he join forces to resist Japan?
The loss of the three eastern provinces has always been a pain in Zhang Xue's conscience, and he is eager to contact all armed forces to resist Japan and recover the three eastern provinces as soon as possible.
Deep down, Zhang Xueliang wanted to contact the Red Army and fight against Japan together.
Against this background, Zhang Xueliang instructed Li Tiancai to collect detailed information about the Red Army for him to analyze and study, so as to understand the inside story of the Red Army.
Li Tiancai knew very well in his heart that Pan Wuyang could complete this task.
So, Li Tiancai gave Pan Wuyang the task of understanding the Red Army.
Pan Wuyang, with the support of the Peiping Special Branch, formed a compilation group to arrange some of the Red Army's materials that could be made public, such as armed theory, the history of army building, the three major disciplines and eight points of attention, leading figures, and major events.
After the booklet was compiled, Li Tiancai personally took Pan Wuyang to meet Zhang Xueliang.
After Zhang Xueliang reviewed the "Bandit Words", he was very satisfied, personally wrote the preface, ordered it to be printed and distributed to the troops, and he himself took a copy with him and read it from time to time.
Pan Wuyang was naturally recommended to Zhang Xueliang by Li Tiancai and became Zhang Xueliang's teacher.
Zhang Xueliang studied Marxism-Leninism very seriously, and Pan Wuyang explained very carefully, Zhang Xueliang opened his mouth and closed his mouth to call Pan Wuyang a "teacher", and the same was true in front of others.
Since then, Pan Wuyang has won the respect and trust of Zhang Xueliang.
In this position, Pan Wuyang obtained many convenient conditions for working for the party, and he also took the opportunity to introduce Liu Zunqi, a reporter from the Beiping branch of the Soviet Union's TASS News Agency and a member of the Communist Party, to Zhang Xueliang.
Liu Zunqi and Pan Wuyang both worked in the Propaganda Department of the Shunzhi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and as a reporter of the Beiping Branch of the Soviet Union's TASS News Agency, if Liu Zunqi can successfully interview Zhang Xueliang, it will be very beneficial to promote Zhang Xueliang's anti-Chiang anti-Japanese resistance.
Liu Zunqi rushed to Wuhan from Beiping, and when he saw Zhang Xueliang, Pan Wuyang was giving a lecture to Zhang Xueliang, and Zhang Xueliang pointed to Pan Wuyang beside him to introduce Liu Zunqi and said: "This is my teacher, he is teaching me to study Das Kapital." ”
"Hehe, young marshal, that's the Bible of the Communist Party, aren't you afraid of poisoning?" Liu Zunqi joked to Zhang Xueliang.
"Haha, poisoned? This kind of poison is good in the middle, and it is good for the mind. I don't think Capital is poison, it's a tonic of thought! Zhang Xueliang replied with a hearty smile.
"Then the young marshal should thank you for your ideological nutritionist, Mr. Pan Wuyang." Liu Zunqi said.
"That's natural!" Zhang Xueliang nodded.
After working at Zhang Xueliang's side, the Beiping Special Branch gave Pan Wuyang the task of winning Zhang Xueliang to oppose Chiang Kai-shek's resistance to Japan, and obtaining important military intelligence.
In late January 1934, after Chiang Kai-shek suppressed the 19th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which had broken with him, he regrouped his forces to launch an offensive on the Central Soviet District.
The fifth "encirclement and suppression" and counter-"encirclement and suppression" of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began to enter a critical period of decisive battle.
In October, the Red Army's anti-"encirclement and suppression" battle became more and more fierce.
In order to completely annihilate the Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek's army borrowed a large amount of money from the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, and other countries to buy weapons, and hired foreign military advisers and experts to help make suggestions.
At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized heavy troops for a direct attack on the central Soviet region with a force of 500,000 troops, and Chiang Kai-shek personally sat in Nanchang and directly commanded the fifth "encirclement and suppression".
Zhang Xueliang was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the deputy commander-in-chief of the "Suppression Chief".
During the fifth operation to "encircle and suppress the Red Army," Pan Wuyang continuously passed on the military secrets of the "suppression of the general army" that he had "come into contact with" to the Beiping Special Branch, and the Beijing Special Branch promptly telegraphed to the CPC Central Committee or tried to transmit them to the Soviet area through secret lines of communication.
Therefore, in the early days of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, the Red Army often lost no time in extricating itself from dangerous situations and turning defeat into victory, and Pan Wuyang's intelligence played a great role.
However, due to the fact that the Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of China continued to promote left-leaning military adventurism and put forward the erroneous policy of "keeping the enemy out of the country," the Red Army fought continuously for nearly two months and failed to keep the enemy out of the Soviet area, and even fell into a passive position completely in the later stage of the anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign.
The Red Army's fifth anti-encirclement campaign in the Central Soviet District finally failed, and it was forced to embark on a slow Long March.
Pan Wuyang, who was in the enemy camp, saw and heard the news of the defeat of the Central Red Army in the Long March every day, and his heart was extremely anxious; on the one hand, he was nervously following the war, and on the other hand, he stepped up the collection of confidential military information.
Pan Wuyang hoped to do more for the Red Army in the Long March, and to have more accurate information, so that the Red Army in transfer would be less dangerous.
Pan Wuyang devoted his whole body and soul to collecting and analyzing the enemy's deployment of troops to encircle, pursue, and intercept the Red Army.
Pan Wuyang privately backed up a large amount of confidential military information sent and received by the Wuhan General Suppression Headquarters, preparing to find an opportunity to hand it over to Yang Qinglin of Beiping Special Branch.
At this time, it happened that Yang Qinglin was sent by Beiping Special Branch to Wuhan to secretly meet with Pan Wuyang and ask for confidential information such as the enemy's troop deployment and campaign operations.
The more urgent the war, the more important intelligence will be, and the reason why the previous anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns were able to "use troops as if they were gods" was that intelligence played a key role.
In the early days of the Long March, the Red Army's repeated defeats had a lot to do with the inaccurate intelligence, so why didn't Pan Wuyang want to provide all the confidential documents of the "General Suppression" to the Red Army as "artillery shells"?
Yang Qinglin's visit to Wuhan this time was sent by Li Guangwei, the new head of Beiping Special Branch, before that, Wu Chengfang, Xiao Ming and Zhou Yi, the founders of Beiping Special Branch, were transferred out one after another.
The day after Yang Qinglin arrived in Wuhan, Comrade Kang Zheng, the main leader of the Central Special Branch, under the pseudonym Zhang Sanxi, secretly infiltrated Wuhan and set about restoring the party's underground organization in Wuhan.
Kang Zheng quickly connected with Yang Qinglin, and through Yang Qinglin, Kang Zheng and Pan Wuyang got in touch again.
After Kang Zheng made a comprehensive investigation and learned about the situation of the underground party struggle in Wuhan, he felt very worried and suspicious.
Because Kang Zheng is very aware of Pan Wuyang's details, he has always been obsessed with Pan Wuyang's surrender and work for Zhang Xueliang, and he has a high degree of vigilance against people who are not firm in their position.
Kang Zheng was very annoyed that Beiping Teke once again asked Pan Wuyang to join the party organization!
Through Wu Chengfang, Kang Zheng knew that Pan Wuyang's re-entry into the organization was specially approved by Chief Wu Hao, so Kang Zheng had to accept this fait accompli and had the courage to connect with Pan Wuyang.
But Kang Zheng doesn't trust Pan Wuyang very much!
However, the situation forced that the underground party organization in Wuhan must be rebuilt as soon as possible, and the military information of the enemy's encirclement and interception of the Red Army must be obtained as soon as possible.