Weng Bailing, Huang Yanning and Zhao Yuanliang discussed for a long time but failed to come up with a mature interrogation plan.
Although they had worked as spies in the Fuxing Society for several years, they had no interrogation experience, and the Shanghai station of the Fuxing Society had not trained any professional interrogators.
Interrogation is not just as simple as inflicting physical pain on the prisoner. It is a relatively advanced technical job and a contest of wills between the presiding officer and the prisoner.
Whether it is interrogation or torture, there is only one purpose, which is to get the prisoner to fully confess.
Of course, the use of torture can achieve miraculous results. It is said that nothing can be gained under torture, but confessions obtained through torture may not always be true.
Many times, prisoners cannot stand the torture and just want to be freed by death. They often make up confessions that the interrogator likes to hear, or even completely fabricate the confessions. In this case, the confessions obtained during the interrogation are completely invalid.
Even if they get a false confession, the interrogators are happy because the prisoner has spoken after all.
But what was fake was fake. After spending manpower and material resources to verify it, I got nothing. Only then did I realize that I had actually deceived myself.
The Fuxing Society has also had theoretical discussions on the subject of interrogation, but unfortunately it has not been put into practice. After all, it is just talk on paper.
In the past, when the Songhu Security Headquarters and the Special Operations Brigade interrogated prisoners, they used to watch and learn from the sidelines. It turned out that these two departments did not pay attention to methods in the interrogation, and often killed the prisoners before the confession was obtained.
Once a person dies, all the work done in the early stage is wasted.
If Dai Li was not in Shanghai to supervise the formation at the moment, Weng Bailing might wait two days before interrogating Hou Liang. He wanted to discuss with the interrogators from his brother departments whether there was a better way to obtain a confession.
But now Dai Li seems to have no intention of leaving Shanghai. Of course Weng Bailing does not dare to ask for foreign aid and has no choice but to go on his own, otherwise it will appear that the Shanghai station is incompetent.
"Director Zhao, you go up first." Weng Bailing nodded directly.
"I can't do this. Why don't I ask Deputy Webmaster Huang to come first? Deputy Webmaster Huang is more experienced than me in this regard." Zhao Yuanliang was confused.
"Neither can I. I am an adjutant at the garrison headquarters, so there is a huge gap between me and the interrogation." Huang Yanning postponed.
"Director Zhao, it's better for you to go first, be the red face, and give him a good word. If that doesn't work, we'll be the white face again and torture him." Weng Bailing decided.
As soon as Zhao Yuanliang heard that this was enough, he walked into the interrogation room with a blank file.
"Mr. Hou, I've admired you for a long time." Zhao Yuanliang said with a strange tone, sitting on the chair in front of the interrogation table.
On the opposite side, Hou Liang was not only handcuffed, but also shackled, and his feet were fixed on the iron table legs welded to the ground to prevent him from jumping up and hurting others.
Hou Liang was not beaten after he was arrested, but his face rubbed against the ground during the arrest, and a few pieces of his skin were broken, making him look a little ferocious.
Hou Liang said nothing, looking over Zhao Yuanliang's head and looking upward.
"We were supposed to meet earlier, but last time you ran too fast, so we were a step late, but I didn't expect you to come back with a sword. This is relatively new, can you tell me this is
Why?" Zhao Yuanliang continued to ask casually.
Hou Liang glanced at him contemptuously and sneered: "If you want to kill, then kill, if you want to cut, then cut. No need to waste words, you won't get a word from my mouth."
"You can't say that. You just said so much. It seems that we have a good start." Zhao Yuanliang pretended to be happy.
During the interrogation, we are not afraid of the prisoner talking too much, but we are afraid that the prisoner will not speak. As long as the prisoner is willing to speak, it is a good start.
"What you're doing is useless. I was arrested by you on April 12. I've already tasted your torture once, and it's nothing extraordinary. I heard that your Fuxing Society has recently purchased a lot of torture instruments. I've seen them all.
Come out, why are you hiding me?" Hou Liang said coldly.
Hou Liang is actually a person who died once.
During the April 12 Massacre, he was arrested by the Songhu Security Command and endured inhuman torture. He gritted his teeth and endured without revealing a word of information.
In the end, he was shot by the enemy together with many comrades. He received a bullet in the chest, but luckily it avoided the heart, but he passed out and was buried in a mass grave.
Later, the Shanghai Underground Party organized a worker rescue team to dig out the bodies of the martyrs and prepare for reburial. They discovered that Hou Liang was still breathing.
They rushed Hou Liang to the hospital for simple treatment, and then sent him to Hong Kong, where he underwent surgery at a British hospital and removed the bullet.
After Hou Liang recovered from his injuries, he still wanted to return to Shanghai and fight the enemy at his heart.
As a person who has been tortured and had one foot in hell, he is really not afraid of any enemy's methods. He has already lived five or six years longer and has already earned it.
Although death is inevitable this time, there is nothing worth lamenting.
"Mr. Hou, let's not talk too much. Let's make a deal. You tell us the action plan that the Shanghai Municipal Working Committee of the Underground Party will take this time. Not only will we let you go, but we will also give you 10,000 yuan."
With the settlement allowance, you can settle down anywhere and live the life you want," Zhao Yuanliang said.
"I'm not going anywhere, I'm just going to stay here, and you can stop dreaming." Hou Liang said firmly.
"Why are you doing this? You should know that the information you want to take away has already fallen into our hands. Even if you don't say it, we all know it. Now I want you to say it with your own mouth. I just want you to express your attitude.
." Zhao Yuanliang said, shaking the blank file in his hand.
The information they got from the grocery store originally filled them with expectations, but unfortunately when they opened it, they were all disappointed.
The information is written in code, and without a corresponding code book, it cannot be deciphered at all.
Hou Liang didn't know the content and form of the intelligence. He was just a traffic officer. He took the information and handed it to his superiors, or sent orders from his superiors to various contact points. He was just a traffic officer and had no right to know the specific content.
But he firmly believed that the action plan of the Shanghai Municipal Working Committee this time would not be written in that intelligence, because that intelligence was to be handed over to the leaders of the Municipal Working Committee, not to the grassroots level.
Of course, he didn't know the specific content of the action plan, he just knew a general outline.
"You don't need to try this kind of fraud. I'm not a fool. If you all know it, why are you still asking me? You should arrest the person and then shoot me directly." Hou Liang looked at him contemptuously.
Zhao Yuanliang.
"You can't say that. We treat you with the attitude of not forgetting about past mistakes and treating illnesses to save others. For people like you who have been poisoned by the Communist Party, we will not give up as long as there is a chance of saving you." Zhao Yuanliang said seriously.
"Really? How did you save us during April 12? With bullets or machine guns? You killed thousands of our comrades, and now you still have the nerve to say these things?"
Hou Liang became angry as he spoke. He wanted to rush over and strangle Zhao Yuanliang to death, but unfortunately his hands and feet were handcuffed, and all he could hear was the clattering of the shackles.
Zhao Yuanliang was so frightened that his whole body trembled. The two burly men next to him had already rushed forward and pinned Hou Liang to the iron table.
When the vigorous revolution was in full swing, the undercurrents wrapped in the torrent and the hidden crises in the victory were also developing. Zhao Yuanliang was very clear about the development and evolution of the April 12 Incident.
On March 24, 1927, the Northern Expeditionary Army occupied Nanjing. That afternoon, British and American warships cruising on the Yangtze River violently bombarded Nanjing under the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese, causing heavy casualties to Chinese soldiers and civilians.
The Nanjing incident accelerated Chiang Kai-shek's collusion with imperialist forces. On the 26th, Chiang Kai-shek went to Shanghai and held a series of secret talks with the imperialist powers, Jiangsu and Zhejiang plutocrats and gang leaders.
In early April, Chiang Kai-shek held a secret meeting in Shanghai and decided to use violent means to "purge the party" and launch a surprise attack on the Chinese Communist Party.
On April 12, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup in Shanghai, and the reactionary troops occupied the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions and the general headquarters of the workers' picket team.
Then, revolutionary organizations and progressive groups were seized or disbanded, and frantic manhunts and massacres were carried out.
In the three days after the incident, more than 300 Communist Party members and revolutionary masses in Shanghai were killed, more than 500 were arrested, and more than 5,000 people disappeared.
After that, counter-revolutionary coups also occurred in Guangzhou, Beijing and other places, and outstanding Communist Party members Li Dazhao, Wang Shouhua, Xiao Chunu, Li Qihan and others were killed.