Chen told Chi Buzhou: What do you think of the Central Committee (referring to the Kuomintang) looking for students studying in Japan to study and translate Japanese code words? The chairman (referring to Chiang Kai-shek) said that whoever can translate Japanese cables is equivalent to adding hundreds of thousands of troops ahead. Chi Buzhou readily agreed. So after Chen's introduction, Chi Buzhou entered the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, and was intercepted by the secret unit of the General Affairs Group for research and translation.
Chi Buzhou was the only student studying in Japan from the Central Bureau of Statistics at that time. Chi Buzhou was only 30 years old at work and had no experience. However, through statistics, he found that the Japanese secret letters he received were basically a mixture of English letters, numbers and Japanese, and the characters were closely related, mostly (MY, HL, GI…… ............). Chi Buzhou further found that there were just ten such English double-word groups, which probably represented 10 numbers from 0 to 9. Based on this discovery, Chi Buzhou made a bold guess: he designated MY with the highest frequency and GI with the lowest frequency as "1" and "9" respectively. In addition, the figures in Japanese cables are likely to indicate the strength of the warring forces and the number of soldiers at that time. So Chi Buzhou went to the army to check and found more and more breakthroughs.
In addition, he combined many code words, such as "west wind is tight" indicating tension with the United States, "sunny in the north" indicating relaxation with the Soviet Union, and "rainy in the southeast" indicating tension on the battlefield in China ... Finally, he deciphered the secret information sent by the Japanese military headquarters.
19411On February 3, Chi Buzhou deciphered a special secret message sent by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Nomura, the ambassador to the United States:
1 burned all confidential documents immediately;
2. As far as possible, notify relevant depositors to transfer their deposits to neutral national banks;
The imperial government decided to take decisive action.
According to the situation at that time, Chi Buzhou judged that this was a harbinger of "East Wind, Rain" (Japan-US War). Chi Buzhou made two estimates based on the Japanese translated information about the naval base in Honolulu, USA: first, the war started on Sunday; 2. Location: Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Honolulu.
When the news was presented to Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek was shocked and immediately informed the United States. However, due to the upsurge of isolationism in the United States, President franklin roosevelt did not attach importance to the information from China. Four days later, the Pearl Harbor incident that shocked the world happened.
After the successful attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese navy general Isoroku Yamamoto marched into Southeast Asia, seized the British and French territories in Southeast Asia, and took control of the Straits of Malacca. 1943 On April 18, Isoroku Yamamoto and his party took two special planes and were escorted by six fighter planes to patrol the front line of the Pacific War to boost Japanese morale.
At that time, Chi Buzhou got two telegrams about Isoroku Yamamoto's trip. The Japanese navy sent a secret telegram to inform the subordinates who arrived there; Send a copy with LA code (the secret code deciphered by Chi Buzhou, usually starting with LA, which is customarily called LA code) to inform the mainland of Japan. Chi Buzhou deciphered the latter's secret message.
Chi Buzhou quickly reported the deciphered information to Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek immediately informed the US military. The us military quickly dispatched 16 fighters to attack and destroy enemy planes. On the second day of the battle, the Japanese search team found the wreckage of the plane crash in the virgin forest. Isoroku Yamamoto was lying beside the wreckage, armed with a saber "Moon Mountain". Chi Buzhou deciphered a large number of Japanese telegrams and provided a lot of valuable information.
1942 10, Chi Buzhou deciphered an intercepted Japanese secret telegram and learned that the Japanese Air Force would take off from its base in Myanmar and bomb Kolkata, India. China immediately informed the British Air Force Headquarters in India, and the British Air Force intercepted and destroyed it.
Sun Ke wants to go to other places on business from Chongqing. The news was detected by the Japanese side, and the Japanese plane was intercepted halfway. This secret message was deciphered by Chi Buzhou, and Sun Ke was informed immediately. Sun Ke, who has arrived at the airport, quietly came back. Later, the plane was shot down by a Japanese plane halfway, and all the people on board were killed.
1On August 24th, 945, after Japan announced its unconditional surrender, the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai sent a secret telegram to Japan in LA code to the effect that Chen Gongbo, Cen Deguang, He Bingxian, Yao and others (all traitors), led by military advisers, landed directly at the Japanese airport from Shanghai by military plane. Please send someone to take good care of them. This secret message was also intercepted and deciphered by Chi Buzhou. Chiang Kai-shek informed the allied headquarters in Tokyo accordingly, and ordered the Japanese surrender government to extradite the above-mentioned personnel to China according to this list.
Because of the particularity of intelligence work, neither the United States nor the Kuomintang government disclosed Chi Buzhou's contribution in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. After the Anti-Japanese War, Chi Buzhou opposed the civil war and refused to continue the research and translation of passwords. He has successively moved to Shanghai, Central Cooperative Bank and Shanghai Branch to engage in financial work. On the eve of liberation, he asked himself that he was innocent all his life and refused to retreat to Taiwan Province Province.
After the end of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Chi Buzhou did not want to participate in the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and once returned to his hometown of Minqing County, Fujian Province with his wife and children. Chi Buzhou continued to live in Shanghai because he refused to go to Taiwan Province Province. After Shanghai was occupied by the China army, Chi Buzhou worked as a clerk in the savings office of Shanghai Branch of the People's Bank of China as a "retained employee".
195 1 April, a nationwide counter-revolutionary movement was suppressed, and Chi Buzhou was arrested for "resisting the registration of reactionary party member".
1952 1 month, Chi Buzhou was recognized as a member of the Central Unification Organization for his research and translation of secret telegrams, and was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment by the Shanghai Military Commission 12 years. At the beginning of his sentence, Chi Buzhou worked as a workshop statistician in a reform-through-labour factory in Shanghai.
From 65438 to 0956, Chi Buzhou was placed in the "People's Liberation Army Officer Training Corps" in Yucheng, Shandong Province, and was transferred back to the "People's Liberation Army Officer Training Institute" in Jinan, Shandong Province at the end of the year. It was not until1May 963 that Chi Buzhou returned to Shanghai.
1979 In May, Chi Buzhou was hired by Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences as a special researcher to study Taiwan's economic history.
1983 In March, Chi Buzhou met Li Zhifeng and Fire Lion in Shanghai. Li Zhifeng proved that although Chi Buzhou was in China, he did not join the secret service organization. Huo Shizi proved that what Chi Buzhou did was an anti-Japanese cause and was beneficial to the country and the nation. He is not only innocent, but also meritorious.
1983 12 in April (30 years later), Chi Buzhou was acquitted by the Shanghai Higher People's Court. Since then, Chi Buzhou has been elected as a member of CPPCC in Changning District, Shanghai. In his later years in Chibuzhou, he accompanied his wife back to Japan and lived a quiet life.
On February 4, 2003, Chi Buzhou died in Kobe, Japan at the age of 95. After his death, his ashes were taken back to China.
In 2003, on the occasion of the 58th anniversary of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Minqing County, Fujian Province established the Chibu Prefecture Monument in Taishan Park to commemorate the anti-Japanese hero and the expert who deciphered the secret message.