Zhou Hao

Zhou Hao

Zhou Hao (1910-1949) was born in Luotian, Hubei Province. In his early years, he joined the Kuomintang Bureau of military statistics and held the rank of major general. In 1943, he was dispatched by Dai Li, director of the Military Commission, and lurked in Nanjing. He was active in the upper military circles of the Wang puppet government and was specially responsible for Intelligence Liaison. In 1946, Zhou Hao was instigated by Xu Chuguang, an underground intelligence officer of the Communist Party of China, and asked to join the Communist Party. Zhou Hao is a special member of the Communist Party of China with the approval of Deng Zihui and Tan Zhenlin, who are in charge of the central China branch of the CPC Central Committee and the central China military region. During the battle of Huaihai in 1948, Zhou Hao was ordered to instigate an uprising against Liu Ruming, a member of the national revolutionary army. Unfortunately, he was betrayed by Liu Ruming and sun Liangcheng and was arrested. He died in Nanjing in January 1949.

Join in military unification

Zhou Hao was born on January 21, 1910. He was born into a peasant family in qilichong ZHOUJIAYUAN, Sanliqiao Township, Luotian County, Hubei Province. Now it is laotashan village, Fengshan Town. His family has been farming for generations. When he was 14 years old, his family cut down on food and clothing and sent him to Wuhan Private Chengcheng middle school. He graduated in 1927. The following year, the fourth group army of Guangxi established the suiying Military Academy in Wuhan, and Zhou Hao was admitted to the infantry division of the Academy (later changed to Wuhan Branch of the Central Military Academy). After being controlled by Chiang Kai Shek, the Wuhan branch school strengthened its education and control over the students, and Zhou Hao was very dissatisfied. Soon after, in a political test, he showed his anti Chiang sentiment. He missed the political active atmosphere when Deng Yanda and Yun Daiying presided over Wuhan branch school before, and refused to admit his mistake. Therefore, he was considered to be impure and was expelled from the school. He went to Shanghai to join the 19th Route Army as a junior officer. After the Songhu war, the 19th Route Army was transferred to Fujian by Chiang Kai Shek to fight against the Red Army. On November 20, 1933, Li Jishen and others, with CAI tingkai's 19th Route Army as the backbone, launched the "Fujian incident", which was severely suppressed by the Nanjing national government headed by Chiang Kai Shek. After two months of failure, the 19th Route Army was withdrawn. Zhou Haonai left his army and wanted to return to his hometown by way of Shanghai, but he was tracked by KMT agents on the way. When he got off the ship in Hankou, he was arrested by the gendarmerie police in the name of "Communist suspect". Unexpectedly, one of the gendarmerie officers in charge of the trial had an old friend with Zhou Hao. He urged Zhou Hao to come from Huangpu, why not join the juntong? He also told him that he could not investigate everything in the past, and he could guarantee his acquittal. Zhou Haonian, his old friends and current situation were forced to give it a try. In 1935, Zhou Hao formally joined the Bureau of investigation and statistics of the Military Commission of the national government and served as a stationman of Wuhan railway station. Soon after, he was arrested and censored by the Military Commission for his radical remarks among his colleagues, and sent to No. 1 Honggong temple in Nanjing. Later, he was rescued by Zhou Weilong, one of the core members of the "ten member regiment" of the Military Commission. the experience of being detained had an important impact on Zhou Hao's gradual rise in the military unification. Within the juntong, everyone knows that Zhou Weilong and Dai Li are close friends. Zhou Weilong was able to protect Zhou Hao, which naturally made Zhou Hao grateful, but Zhou Hao was also reused. In 1936, Dai Li appointed him as the director of the military unification Guiyang post and Telecommunications inspection office. The next year, he was transferred to the head of the investigation and arrest unit of the Guangdong Tax Police Corps, and was temporarily assigned to the captain of the spy team of the eighth division (adapted from the Guangdong Tax Police Corps). In 1940, he was appointed as the inspector of the military unification of Guangdong Province. In 1941, he was transferred back to Chongqing military unification Bureau as the chief of the first section of the inspector's office. Most of these positions are important or key positions. At this time, Zhou Hao was more important to Dai Li.

Lurking in Nanjing

At the beginning of 1943, Zhou Hao was entrusted by Dai Li and disguised as a businessman. Together with Li Lianqing, a translator, he carried the radio station from Sichuan to Hunan, and then accompanied by Cheng Kexiang, the head of Beijing and Shanghai District of the Bureau of military statistics, he traveled to Nanling, Anhui Province. Then, Zhou Fohai's brother-in-law Yang Xinghua appointed Yang Shudan, the police sergeant team leader of the Ministry of finance of Wang puppet, to secretly bring Cheng Kexiang, Zhou Hao and others to Nanjing. Cheng Kexiang turned to Shanghai, while Zhou Hao and Li Lianqing, a translator, were settled in the home of a businessman who had business relations with Chongqing in Pingshi street, Nanjing, waiting for Zhou Fohai to meet him. Zhou Fohai sat still in Diaoyutai for half a year, but he didn't move. When Zhou Hao arrived in Nanjing, he didn't know his place very well. Six months' leisure made him free to roam around the streets. He also took this opportunity to meet and make some friends, including Xu Chuguang, who later introduced him to the Communist Party as an underground intelligence officer of the Communist Party of China and was a captain of the intelligence bureau of the Political Department of the Wang puppet Military Commission Yao Ziyun, an employee of Nanjing vehicle management committee, who came to be his aide. After getting familiar with the surrounding situation, Zhou Hao rented another house at 174 Changjiang Road and moved from Pingshi street to live alone. One afternoon in July 1943, Zhou Fohai finally met Zhou Hao. According to Zhou Hao later, the reason why Zhou Fohai met me at this time was that his original underground radio station was exposed and he was unable to communicate with Chongqing by telecommunication. Similarly, Zhou Fohai stayed still for more than half a year, which was the time for him to observe the movement. In the basement of Xiliuwan No.8, the former official residence of Zhou Fuhai, there was a secret radio station that contacted Chongqing. This was an underground radio station of juntong that was cracked by Wang puppet secret service under Zhou Fuhai's leadership in the summer of 1940. It's also interesting to say: after the radio station was cracked, under the control of Zhou Fohai, it continued to "keep in touch" with Chongqing and exchange "intelligence" with the original call sign code. After more than a month, Chongqing didn't notice it, and planned to stop the work of the radio station when the juntong found the flaw. But Zhou fo Hai is not willing to give up this opportunity to connect with Chongqing. On September 11, he personally drafted a telegram, asking Dai Li to forward it to Chiang Kai Shek. The wording of the telegram was very cordial and sincere. Dai Li needed to find an important figure in the Wang puppet regime as the target, and the interests of both sides were related. Not long after the message was sent, under the tacit consent of juntong, Zhou Fohai moved the radio station from Yangzhou road to No. 8 Xiliuwan, his official residence. In order to show his attitude, the radio station is still controlled by the former military unification personnel, who will provide information and food and clothing expenses for the staff. Zhou Fohai's relationship with Chongqing at the beginning was tacit and privately supported by the Japanese aggressor authorities. However, behind the back of the Japanese and Wang Jingwei, he set up another secret service system under his own control, which was unexpected by Japan and Wang. Especially after 1942, Zhou Fohai sent envoys to Dai Li secretly in addition to radio communication. The close contact between Chongqing and Nanjing certainly aroused the suspicion of the Japanese secret service. Especially when the KMT and Wang puppet agents had contact, they had friction with each other and revealed some clues. First of all, the underground radio station at home at Xiliuwan 8 in zhoufo sea was detected by Japanese intelligence agencies and monitored. When this situation was revealed to Zhou Fohai by Peng Shengmu, a Japanese translator of Zhou Fohai (a Taiwanese and military spy), he was really surprised. Zhou Fuhai did not expect that the radio station, which he thought was infallible, was also monitored by Japan's ultra-high technology. He kept quiet in his social activities. As if nothing had happened, he secretly and nervously arranged for the staff of juntong radio station to evacuate from their residence on Yangzhou Road, while considering the disposal of the radio station at home. When there was no reliable place to transfer, he decided to destroy the radio station decisively. Under the guise of unintentional fire, his official residence and radio station were set on fire together. In this way, they not only preserved their status, but also burned the root of Japanese suspicion. In his diary on January 11, 1943, Zhou Fohai recorded the fire in the official residence. Afterwards, Zhou Fuhai took the trouble to write a 3000 word article entitled "the story of the fire", which narrated the process and feelings of the fire in the official residence. It was published in the January 1943 issue of Dagong, a bimonthly magazine sponsored by Zhang Ke, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the central Committee of Wang puppet, to observe the public opinion and the reaction of the Japanese. After a few months, people forgot about the fire, and there was no news from the Japanese. Zhou Fohai decided to summon Zhou Hao and tell Dai Li the inside story. He was grateful to the juntong for his help at the critical moment, and he also told Chiang Kai Shek that he had completely fallen to the side of the Chongqing national government.

Major general of juntong

Zhou Hao's first meeting with Zhou Fohai was at Wang Jingwei's guest house (that is, Sun Ke's official residence when he was Minister of Railways in 1928). This meeting left an excellent impression on Zhou Fohai. He believed that Zhou Hao was "extremely stable and experienced" and very reliable. Zhou Hao also told Zhou Fohai about his old mother and other relatives, told him the tasks Dai Li gave him when he came to Nanjing, and asked Zhou Fohai to arrange him a position with an open identity. Zhou Fuhai promised. In order to show his kindness and enthusiasm to juntong, Zhou Fohai invited the tailoring division of Li Shunchang's woolen clothing store by phone, and customized six sets of full wool high-grade Zhongshan suits and overcoats for Zhou Hao on the spot. He said to Zhou Hao, "change the clothes first, and let you know the work arrangement later." A few days later, Zhou Fohai sent someone to take out the radio station from Zhou Hao and transport it to Shanghai to put it in a secret place of his brother-in-law Yang Xinghua. Chongqing sent another translator to work with the new code and call sign. Li Lianqing, a military unified translator who came to Nanjing with Zhou Hao, was placed as a clerk in Nanjing chamber of Commerce. Zhou Fuhai considered the reason why the radio station was not located in Nanjing but in Shanghai. He believes that there are many Japanese and puppet intelligence agencies in Nanjing, and a little negligence will endanger them; while there are many kinds of radio stations in Shanghai, which are conducive to concealment; the transportation between Shanghai and Nanjing is convenient, and the train can go back and forth on the same day, so the information delivery is very timely. Before long, Zhou Fohai placed Zhou Hao in the sixth section of the military department of the Wang puppet Central Military Commission as the chief of the major general section. Zhou Hao immediately took office, and began to set up the military unified Nanjing

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