On March 17, 1946, Dai Li's plane crashed in Daishan trapped in the rain ditch, because Dai Li's original name was Chunfeng, the word rain farmer, so at that time there was a saying that "Dai Ji hit Daishan, Yu Nong trapped in the rain ditch, spring breeze died spring breeze" - the place is called "Daishan" is also called "Daishan", Shen Zui said in his memoirs that he also did a review because he wrote "Daishan" as "Daishan".
Shen Zui recalled in "My Confessions ·of a Military Commander Spy in the Past Thirty Years": "Because I wrote in the material "What I Know About Dai Li", I wrote that Dai Li was thrown to death in Daishan in Banqiao Town, Jiangning County, Jiangsu, and there was a small Dai family temple at the foot of the mountain, which was said to be blatantly propagating 'superstition'. In addition to reviewing at the forum, I also had to write a self-critical poster and post it in the hall of the organ. ”
Shen Zui has always said that Dai Li's plane crash was purely accidental, and the article "Dai Li in Taiwan's Latest Declassified Archives" published in the eleventh issue of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference's memoirs "Zongheng" in 2012 revealed that Dai Li's death was related to his report that Zhang Zhizhong "did not handle things effectively" in the Changsha fire, and Gu Zhutong "helped his subordinates to help women seek happiness".
When he was criticized, he admitted that he had used historical materials to promote feudal superstition, and wrote that Dai Li's plane crashed and died in Daishan in Banqiao Town, Jiangning County, which implied that "the general committed a place name"; It is said that there happens to be a Daijia temple under Daishan, and it is consciously spreading the toxins of feudal superstition. Of course, this is all for self-protection and passing the test during that special period.
Shen Zui was a prisoner of war from 1950 to 1959 and amnesty from 1960 to 1980, so he wrote his memoirs without scruples.
By the way, Shen Zui's status as a detained war criminal did not begin in December 1949, and if Li Mi and Yu Chengwan had not left Kunming and fought back after signing the telegram of the uprising, Shen Zui would not have been sent to prison - he also signed the telegram of the uprising, because some of the people who signed their gang counterattacked Kunming, so Shen Zui was handed over to the Military Management Commission by Lu Han in March 1950, and from then on, he became a real prisoner of war.
When Shen Zui wrote about Dai Li's death, he naturally had to be vague, and he had to keep defending himself and "reviewing" it from time to time, but he went to Dai Li's tomb in March 1964 after Dai Li's crash to investigate and amnesty, and Shen Zui still wrote it, but in a different tone.
Shen Zui mentioned in the two books "My Thirty Years" and "Between People and Ghosts" that he went to Dai Li's tomb to pay his respects: "The day after arriving in Nanjing, it happened to be the 39th anniversary of the death of Mr. Sun Yat-sen. The Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference arranged for us to go to Chenling. Coming down from the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, everyone went to visit the Linggu Temple. Instead, I wanted to go to the Zhigong Hall next to Linggu Temple to see Dai Li's grave. When Pu Yi watched the Zhigong Palace, I ran to the place where Dai Li was buried on the right side of the Zhigong Palace. I think Dai Li's grave must have been destroyed beyond recognition. When I approached, I couldn't believe my eyes, the grave of Dai Li, the head of the great spy who had killed thousands of Communist Party members, was so intact except for the tombstone written by Wu Zhihui that it was gone. ”
According to Shen Zui's recollections, Dai Li's cemetery was personally selected by Lao Jiang and built under Shen Li's personal supervision. This also led to the fact that it was impossible for Mao Renfeng to move Dai Li away when he fled: "In 1949, Mao Renfeng and many big spies researched and tried to dig up Dai Li's body, cremate it, and take it to Taiwan to avoid being whipped and broken. It was only because it was built so strong that it could not blow up the few meters of cement without explosives. Moreover, even if the grave is blown open, the bones will be blown into powder. As a result of the study, I had to decide not to move. ”
In 1964, Shen Zui saw Dai Li's tomb is still well preserved, and later it was destroyed in the era when Shen Zui often wrote reviews and was imprisoned twice, and there is a photo of Dai Li's tomb in Shen Zui's memoirs, but the photo is too blurry, no matter how to deal with it, you can't see the face and handwriting clearly, so you can't show it to readers.
Before Dai Li's death, the senior spy who had the most contact with was Lieutenant General Wen Qiang, director of the Northeast Office of the Military Command and director of the Northeast Camp Supervision Office, and director of the Supervision Department of the Northeast Security Command - the reason why Wen Qiang was officially promoted to lieutenant general during the military command was the result of the joint sponsorship of Hu Zongnan, the commander of the Eighth Theater, and Sun Lianzhong, the commander of the Eleventh Theater, and Dai Li's activities.
Dai Li's last "begging telegram" to Chiang Kai-shek was drafted by Wen Qiang for him, but because there were some words in the telegram, Mao Renfeng thought it was too sharp and did not send it to Lao Jiang - Dai Li was in Beiping (now Beijing) at that time, and the telegrams he sent to Lao Jiang were first sent to Mao Renfeng, the acting chief secretary (the chief secretary was Zheng Jiemin, director of the Second Department of the Ministry of National Defense), and then Mao Renfeng forwarded it to Lao Chiang's chamber.
According to Wen Qiang's recollection, before Dai Li left Beiping, he already knew that his life was short, so he asked Wen Qiang, who had a very high level of education, to draft a telegram for him, hoping that Lao Jiang would let him go, Wen Qiang described Dai Li's panic in "Dai Li's people· several things before Dai Li's death", Dai Li's panic was not going to Shanghai to see any movie star Hu Die, and he was not in the mood to get married: "Dai Li was anxious to fly to Nanjing to see He Yingqin, ostensibly to report on the two work of suppressing rape and sending Ri Qiao, But in his bones, in order to delay Chiang Kai-shek's call to urge him to return (Chiang was in Chongqing at the time, he repeatedly urged Dai to return to Chongqing to participate in the meeting on the dismissal of spies), he wanted to go abroad and hoped to get He Yingqin's support. ”
Why didn't Dai Li dare to go back to Chongqing to see Lao Jiang? On April 1, 2012, 59 volumes of precious intelligence and historical materials such as Dai Li's manuscripts, letters and telegrams were officially declassified and published by the "National History Museum" authorized by the "Military Intelligence Bureau".
These two documents state: "After the Changsha fire in 1938, Dai Li called Chiang Kai-shek, saying that 'the Changsha fire caused great damage, and Zhang Zhizhong was ineffective'; He also beat Gu Zhutong's small report because of the matter of 'subordinates aiding women to seek happiness', and sent a telegram to Hu Zongnan, 'The failure of the war in the Third War Zone was all due to the lack of fighting spirit due to the poor life and military discipline', which aroused the dissatisfaction of many high-ranking generals of the Military Commission. ”
Zhang Zhizhong used to be Lao Jiang's confidant and favorite general, and Lao Jiang's "Five Tiger Generals" were equally valued, and the "Commander of the Third War Zone" offended by Dai Li was Gu Zhutong - Gu Zhutong served as the commander of the war zone since 1938, In January 1946, after the abolition of the Third War Zone, Gu Zhutong successively served as the director of the Xuzhou Appeasement Office, the commander-in-chief of the army, and the chief of staff, and was a first-class celebrity in front of Lao Jiang.
Zhang Zhizhong should not be responsible for the Changsha fire during the Anti-Japanese War, this issue will cause trouble if it is discussed too much, and historical data say that Zhang Zhizhong also served as the director of the Military Command Bureau (Dai Li was only the deputy director who presided over the work until his death, and Major General Quanxu hung the rank of lieutenant general), Dai Li offended Zhang Zhizhong, naturally there would be no good fruit to eat, and he would work against Gu Zhutong, and he also joined forces with Hu Zongnan to engage Gu Zhutong, which would be a taboo for Lao Jiang.
When we watched the TV series "Latent", we must have seen Dai Li's visit to Tianjin to "investigate and prosecute Yang Wenquan's concubine", which has a historical basis, and may also be one of the fuses for Dai Li's crash.
Shu Jiheng, head of the military commander's Tianjin Hidden Taiwan Station, recalled in "Dai Li's Activities in Tianjin Three Times" that Dai Li's third and last visit to Tianjin was on March 13, 1946: "The purpose of Dai's visit to Tianjin this time was to deal with the fact that Yang Wenquan, deputy commander of the 94th Army, had become a concubine in Jinnayong. On March 14, Mou Tingfang invited Tianjin Mayor Zhang Tingge and Vice Mayor Du Jianshi to Wu Taixun's house to meet Dai Li, and intercede on behalf of Yang Wenquan. ”
Dai Li himself has several wives and concubines, Wen Qiang and Shen Zui did not say it in their memoirs, but he investigated and dealt with the style problem, but he was resolute, he grabbed Gu Zhu and his subordinates to take concubines, and offended many military bigwigs and local snakes, so he crashed on the way from Tianjin to Qingdao to Nanjing.
The declassified documents show that Dai Li not only offended Zhang Zhizhong and Gu Zhutong, but also did not deal with Chen Cheng, and Dai Li wanted to "make a statement to Chen Cigong (Chen Cheng) and persuade him to concentrate on running the north (military) in order to share the principal's worries" and crashed as he wished, so some people have always suspected that the military did something on Dai Li's plane.
These declassified documents just confirm these suspicions, and readers who are familiar with the secrets of the military command will definitely find out from which documents there is another mystery in Dai Li's crash: In your opinion, Dai Li's crash was a simple mechanical failure, or was it a matter of offending too many people and being killed? Lao Jiang and his family, are they also involved openly and secretly?