The true biography of Yaqiao, the first chivalrous king of the Republic of China

Chapter 74
After Yin Pengjie settled down, he sent a letter to her husband hiding in Hong Kong in code words.Soon, a delivery man from a briquette shop quietly knocked on her door, slipped a note and left.That night, in a remote alley on Hede Road, Yin Pengjie walked back and forth and found nothing unusual, so he used a signal to ring a residential house on the second floor.Hua Kezhi quickly opened the door, pulled his wife in, closed the door, and hugged her tightly. When they met again after the robbery, the couple laughed through tears.

After Hua Kezhi received Yin Pengjie's letter, he was deeply relieved, and at the same time, worried about the safety of his pregnant wife.He thought over and over again, and with Wang Yaqiao's consent, he sneaked back to Shanghai, preparing to bring her to Hong Kong, and then make a long-term plan.

However, military spies have a good sense of smell.Not long after Hua Kezhi returned to Shanghai, Shen Zui, the leader of the French Concession Team in the Shanghai Special Zone and the leader of the reconnaissance brigade of the Songhu Garrison Command, received an order from Dai Li and led his men to dispatch immediately.

Later, in the article "Hunt for Walker", Shen Zui described the hunting process in detail:

It was already dark when I took men to capture Walker.A group of 12 of us drove to Hart Road in two cars, got off at a place far away from his residence, and quietly outflanked him under the cover of night.

This is a very narrow alley, and he lives upstairs in an ordinary two-story building.When we saw that there was no light in the room where he lived downstairs, we guessed that he was not at home, so we gently knocked on the door of the second landlord downstairs, took out the ID, and pointed to the upstairs.The second landlord is a middle-aged woman. After reading the certificate, she nodded slightly and said in a low voice, "I'm not at home. I went out before dark and haven't come back yet." Several people went upstairs and pried open Walker's door.

After turning it on, the second landlord was about to reach out to turn on the light, and told me to grab it and said, "Don't turn on the light!" Because I was afraid that Walker would run away if he saw the light from the window in the distance when he came back.I covered the flashlight with my hand and looked inside the house.The interior layout is very simple, only a double bed, a writing desk, and a few chairs; a lot of books are neatly stacked on the writing desk, a desk lamp, and a photo frame with a photo of a young woman embedded in it. The photo is about eight inches in size.The second landlord told me, "This is his wife!"

I opened the drawer, and there were several letters and a small photo inside.The photo is a full-body photo of Hua Kezhi and his wife; some letters were written to him by Ai Siqi, and several letters were written by others.After the search, I asked other people to watch at the entrance of the corridor and downstairs, and I lay on his bed and waited for him to come back.

I just waited at his house for three days and three nights, but Walker never came back.

In fact, both Dai Li and I knew at the time that the main person Sun Fengming wanted to assassinate was Chiang Kai-shek, not Wang Jingwei, but Sun Fengming assassinated Wang Jingwei only because Chiang Kai-shek did not appear.Therefore, Dai Li believed that if these people were not removed, Chiang Kai-shek's safety could not be guaranteed.Dai Li did everything possible to send someone to assassinate Wang Yaqiao.At the same time, I was instructed to continue to search for Hua Kezhi, and as soon as Hua Kezhi showed up in Shanghai, he would be arrested immediately.

That evening, Walker went out with his wife.When Hua Kezhi was going out, in order to prevent the spies from "squatting" indoors, he adopted a trick he learned from Wang Yaqiao and set up an alarm mechanism: a cotton thread was tied to the door frame, and one end was tied with a white Take the paper bag out through the crack of the window.If someone opens the door without permission, the cotton thread will break automatically, and the white paper bag will fall naturally with the broken thread, but the person who enters the house will not know it.From a distance, he can see whether the white paper bag is still there through the street lights, so he can decide whether to go or not.

At about 10 o'clock, Walker, who was dressed in makeup, walked into the entrance of Hurd Road, and saw from a distance that the white paper bag by the window had disappeared.So he and Yin Pengjie left quickly.It can be said that Shen Zui, who thought he was extremely smart, didn't know until his death. Hua Kezhi, who went out in the evening, didn't show any signs of escaping from the house. How could he not come back if he didn't come back?
Walker judged that since his appearance in Shanghai had been exposed, a big net had already been laid to arrest him, and it would be more or less ominous to smuggle into Hong Kong by boat like Wang Yaqiao.Therefore, he discussed with his wife and decided to do the opposite, go north first, go to Yan'an, and divide the army into two groups. Cousin Hua Longzhang's son) escorted him to Yan'an for a reunion at an opportunity in Beiping...

(End of this chapter)