Chen Geng arrests Chen Geng? Revealing the "humorous" life of Chen Geng, Chief of the Intelligence Section of the Central Special Branch

There was such an interesting scene in the film and television drama "Outside the Building".

On this day, Mr. Lu Xun was invited by a friend to have dinner in a restaurant. As soon as he took his seat, people from the Hangzhou Police Department arrived in a menacing manner.

The leading policeman shouted loudly, "Who is Lu Xun?" and said that he was here to arrest Lu Xun. At the same time, he directed his minions to surround the dining table.

Mr. Lu Xun responded calmly: "I am Lu Xun. You said you are here to arrest me. Do you have an arrest warrant?"

The policeman snorted coldly, Show the search warrant in front of Mr. Lu Xun.

Unexpectedly, after reading it, the husband said: "This search warrant clearly mentions the arrest of Zhou Shuren. If you want to arrest Zhou Shuren, what does it have to do with me, Lu Xun?"

For a moment, The policeman Zhang Er was also confused. The search warrant clearly stated that he wanted to arrest the person named Zhou, but his boss asked him to arrest the person named Lu. Could it be that he had arrested the wrong person?

Thinking of this, he actually turned around and left the restaurant with the people, and Mr. Lu Xun saved the day in this way.

Art comes from life. Although the plot in this film and television drama looks funny and bizarre, similar events did happen in history, and it happened to General Chen Geng.

When it comes to General Chen Geng, the first thing people often think of is his extraordinary military talent. As a top graduate of the first batch of Whampoa Military Academy, he was one of the most valued students by Principal Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek tried to persuade and coerce Chen Geng to join the Kuomintang many times, but he refused because he was a staunch proletarian fighter.

During the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Geng, who was still just a brigade commander, used strange tactics to ambush the Japanese army twice in Qigen Village in just three days.

After that, he ambushed the Japanese troops many times in Changshengkou, Xiangtangpu and other places, so much so that the Japanese repeatedly put up the slogan "Specially attack the 386th Brigade" during the "mopping up".

When Colonel Carlson, the US military attaché in China, visited southeastern Shanxi, he also praised "the 386th Brigade as the best brigade in China."

In the Battle of Huaihai, Chen Geng commanded the East Group composed of the 4th and 9th Columns in the middle field to penetrate directly into the enemy's double accumulation core position, defeating and annihilating the enemy Huangwei Army in one fell swoop.

Mr. Chen once praised Chen Geng as one of the "Five Tiger Generals" who is as famous as Mr. Peng, Marshal Lin Biao, Marshal Liu Bocheng, and General Su Yu.

Chen Geng not only performed well on the domestic battlefield, but also performed well on the international battlefield.

In 1950, due to long-term aggression by France, Vietnamese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh secretly visited China to request assistance.

In July of the same year, Chairman Mao dispatched the first military advisory group headed by Chen Geng to Vietnam to help the Vietnamese army reorganize and train its troops and fight against the French army.

After arriving in Vietnam, he found that although the Vietnamese army had good combat effectiveness, they were very afraid of the French army and did not dare to face the enemy head-on.

Therefore, Chen Geng suggested that Ho Chi Minh draw his troops out for a head-on confrontation with the French army to exercise their courage.

Ho Chi Minh was convinced and urgently dispatched the 308th Division of the Vietnamese Army to the front line to confront the French army. In less than two months, the division's mental outlook changed drastically and it became very brave, and later became one of the main forces of the Vietnamese army.

After carefully analyzing the situation on the battlefield, Chen Geng made a suggestion: The Vietnamese army does not yet have the ability to attack fortresses, so it should not forcefully attack the French army's large strongholds, but should give priority to attacking small strategically important positions. Based on Dongxi, force the enemy to support and annihilate the enemy in mobile warfare.

Hu Mingzhi, who had participated in the revolution in China, was well aware of Chen Geng's abilities and once again adopted his advice.

On September 16, the Vietnamese army attacked Dongxi with absolute superiority and completely wiped out the French troops stationed in Dongxi. At the same time, the French troops stationed in Shadong and Leba near Dongxi had already On the way to support.

Chen Geng commanded the Vietnamese army to set up pocket formations in Dongxi to show the enemy's weakness and lure them deeper. Seeing that the Vietnamese army lacked combat effectiveness, the French army fought hard to catch up, and the enemy army stepped into Chen Geng's trap.

On October 8, French commander Leba finally noticed, but it was too late. The Vietnamese army had completed the encirclement of the French army.

On that day, the troops headed by the 308th Division, the main force of the Vietnamese army, launched an all-out attack on the French army.

In less than two days, the Vietnamese army ended the battle. In this battle, more than 8,000 besieged French troops were wiped out, and three French generals and several mid-level officers were captured alive. It was the first major annihilation battle in the Vietnam Anti-French War.

The victory in the Battle of Dongxi directly forced the French army to shrink across the board, and the border between China and Vietnam was completely opened, which also marked that the Vietnamese army finally took back the initiative in the anti-French war.

In Ho Chi Minh’s letter of thanks to Chairman Mao, he specifically mentioned his gratitude to the Chinese advisory group headed by Comrade Chen Geng.

When the French commander in Vietnam heard that the Battle of Dongxi was personally commanded by Chen Geng, he exclaimed: "Oh God! Chen Geng stepped in to take command. No wonder the Vietnamese army became like an army overnight." ”

In 1955, Chen Geng was awarded the rank of General of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and is a well-deserved national general.

In fact, Chen Geng was not only a military wizard, but also an excellent intelligence officer. Even Li Kenong, known as the "King of Red Agents", was once his subordinate.

In April 1927, the Kuomintang reactionaries launched the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup that shocked China and the world. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China deeply felt the importance of intelligence work.

In order to protect the Party Central Committee, in November 1927, the organization established a political protection agency in Shanghai - the Special Operations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (referred to as the Special Operations Section of the Communist Party of China).

This agency is directly led by Premier Zhou, and consists of four departments: general affairs, intelligence, security, and transportation. They are responsible for arranging venues for secret meetings held by the Party Central Committee, infiltrating the enemy to obtain intelligence, punishing revolutionary traitors, and maintaining ties. Contact between revolutionary base areas and other work.

At this time, Chen Geng was recovering in the hospital because he was shot three times in the leg during the Nanchang Uprising.

However, after receiving the arrangement from the organization, he rushed to Shanghai regardless of his injury and served as the first section chief of the Special Intelligence Section of the Central Military Commission to assist Premier Zhou in his work.

Although he was sent by the Party Central Committee to study intelligence work in the Soviet Union, he lacked practical experience. When he first arrived in Shanghai, Chen Geng was considered a complete intelligence rookie.

Fortunately, he has been passionate about learning, good at thinking, and diligent in summarizing since he was a student. He quickly combined the experience he learned in the Soviet Union with the actual situation in Shanghai at that time, and summed up a set of basis for The family's method of hiding.

In order to hide from others, Chen Geng lived in Shanghai with his wife Wang Genying and his wife’s brother and sister-in-law, forming a quite ordinary family.

Soon, Chen Geng’s eldest son, Chen Zhifei, was born, and the family seemed happy. He also took this opportunity to hide himself in Shanghai under the white rule of the Kuomintang.

While Chen Geng was responsible for intelligence work, he handed over the knowledge he learned and the experience he gained to other comrades in the Intelligence Section without reservation.

When he first took office in the Intelligence Section, he conducted a 29-day special training for them.

The training content includes adding sugar to gasoline to destroy cars, how to quickly open handcuffs to escape after being arrested, etc.

In addition, Chen Geng also taught gays how to make up, so that gays could change their identities calmly and move around Shanghai more conveniently.

Chen Geng himself is an expert in makeup. He speaks multiple dialects and frequently changed his identity while working in Shanghai. Sometimes he was a dock worker, sometimes an ordinary working-class person, sometimes a youth gang member... ...

According to the description of Zhang Kexia, a Kuomintang general, when he first met General Chen Geng, he was "dressed in a blue satin trousers jacket, with the trouser legs tied tightly with a black ribbon. He looked very much like Xiaokai (rich) from Shanghai." The second generation). Asked how his leg injury was, he jumped wildly for a while, then squatted and bent his legs... We were very surprised."

However, the identity that Comrade Chen Geng uses most is that of a wealthy businessman "Wang Yong" who wears suits and polished leather shoes all year round and does business in Shanghai.

With such an image of a wealthy businessman, Chen Geng was able to enter the circle of Shanghai's upper class, and his intelligence work became easier.

He frequently visited some high-end restaurants and dance halls, and was invited to attend banquets organized by rich people, politicians, and celebrities.

During this period, he deliberately hung out with the police and foreign patrols, and became "good friends" with them. Even some Kuomintang agents and Youth Gang leader Du Yuesheng had contacts with him. They called him "Mr. Wang" ".

Wang Yong’s identity provided great convenience for General Chen Geng’s subsequent work.

In 1928, the Party Central Committee was holding an important meeting in a theater in Shanghai, and Chen Geng also attended the meeting.

However, due to a traitor's informant, the meeting location was leaked, and Kuomintang agents and police soon surrounded the theater.

The participating party members could only mingle with the theater audience, looking for opportunities to escape.

The spies came well prepared. While they arranged for manpower to guard each exit of the theater, they also sent people to check the audience row by row, vowing to catch all the communists in the theater.

If the spies are allowed to continue their investigation, the party members hidden in the audience will be exposed sooner or later, and the consequences will be disastrous. We cannot sit still and wait for death.

Chen Geng had an idea and saw him striding towards an agent, patting the man on the shoulder and asking: "Brother Liu, what are so many people here for today?"

The agent turned around and saw "Wang Yong", turned around and hammered his shoulder, and then whispered in his ear: "Mr. Wang, we are here to arrest the Communist Party today. "

"There is a Communist Party in this theater! "

"Wang Yong" pretended to be very surprised, and in order to create opportunities for other comrades, he told Agent Liu Said: "I hate the Communist Party the most. If brothers can be trusted, how about letting me help?"

When the agent heard that "Mr. Wang" offered to help, he didn't even think about it. After thinking about it, he agreed: "Mr. Wang, the Communist Party is very cunning and may even have guns. Please don't arrest people with us.

Let's do this. You can help us guard the southwest. How about the exit? If there is a communist party who wants to escape, just call us loudly."

Chen Geng agreed while suppressing a smile. As soon as the agents left, he quickly asked his comrades to guard him. Escaped from the exit.

After a search, the agents naturally couldn't catch anyone, so they could only hang their heads and close the team.

Before leaving, the agent who was familiar with General Chen Geng kept saying: "Granny, the Communist Party runs so fast."

However, it is not an easy task to carry out intelligence work in Shanghai under the white rule of the Kuomintang reactionaries. Since arriving in Shanghai, Chen Geng's family has been in a nervous state all year round.

In order to hide their identities, they moved frequently, from Zhabei to Wusong, from Pudong to Hongkou... Even though they were so careful, Chen Geng almost exposed his identity many times.

But he did not expect that the most dangerous time in Shanghai would actually be because of his own son.

People are always defenseless against their loved ones, and Chen Geng is no exception. When he returned home late at night, he would often put the gun in his arms under his pillow, then simply wash up and go straight to sleep.

Since there were only his wife and son in the room, he had nothing to hide. Over time, Chen Zhifei knew that his father had a gun. He even stole the gun while his father was sleeping.

It was another ordinary day. Chen Geng went out to work, his wife Wang Genying was busy with housework, and Chen Zhifei ran to the street to play with the children nearby.

Suddenly a British policeman passed by, and Chen Zhifei saw the gun on the policeman's waist at a glance. He muttered innocently: "This gun is not as good-looking as dad's."

Although the patrolman is British, he can understand some Chinese after living in China for a long time. Chen Zhifei's words instantly caught his attention.

You must know that it is not ordinary people who can own guns. A gun better than his shows that the identity of this child's father is not simple.

In order to find out the truth, the patrolman squatted in front of Chen Zhifei and asked: "Kid, your father has a gun?"

The young Chen Zhifei suddenly felt scared when he looked at the patrolman and did not dare to answer. , started running home without looking back.

The British patrolman felt that something was fishy and followed Chen Zhifei closely to Chen Geng's house.

Wang Genying saw his son running around and was about to scold him, but when he looked up, he saw a blond and blue-eyed foreign patrolman standing at the door of his house.

"What can I do for you?" Wang Genying said calmly. She is also a member of the Communist Party, and her husband has a special status. It is definitely not normal for a foreign patrolman to suddenly come to the house.

Although she had a bad premonition, she did not show any nervousness.

"Ma'am, your son said you have a gun at home, is that true?" the patrol officer said straight to the point.

After hearing this, Wang Genying's whole mind was stunned. The ancients said that disaster comes from the mouth, but this ignorant brat actually caused such a big disaster.

She knew she couldn't panic, because something would really happen if the truth was revealed.

Wang Genying replied calmly: "Yes, the child's father bought him a toy gun at the department store the day before yesterday. Do you want to see it?" He said and made a request. Taking out the "gun" for inspection by the patrolman.

The patrolman saw that Wang Genying looked normal and did not seem to be lying. He shook his head and left directly.

A huge crisis was resolved by Wang Genying's alertness and calmness. When Chen Geng came back in the evening and heard his wife talking about this, he was still frightened.

After experiencing this incident, Chen Geng became more cautious.

But how can you walk along the river without getting your shoes wet? In 1931, due to the betrayal of Gu Shunzhang, one of the leaders of the Special Branch of the Communist Party of China, Chen Geng’s revolutionary activities in Shanghai were known to Dai Li, the reactionary spy chief of the Kuomintang.

He immediately ordered the military special agents in Shanghai to join the Central Unification agents, police, lease patrols and gangsters from the Youth Gang to arrest Chen Geng, the intelligence chief of the Chinese Communist Party.

As a result, the day after Dai Li issued the order, General Chen Geng received a call from the British patrol: "Mr. Wang, we need your help."

Chen Geng, whose pseudonym is Wang Yong, here By then he had become a well-known know-it-all and information dealer in Shanghai.

Due to his wide network of connections, he knows everything from political changes in the Shanghai government to trivial matters such as whose house the gangsters from the Qing Gang are going to cause trouble today, so many people like to look for him. Buy information.

He would also disclose some less important information to patrolmen and policemen for free from time to time, so he was very familiar with these people.

"Hey, the patrolman of the British Empire also wants my help?" Chen Geng joked: "Tell me, what is the reason for today?"

"Mr. Wang , we have received information that the Communist intelligence leader Chen Geng is now in Shanghai, and we have been ordered to assist the Kuomintang in arresting Chen Geng. Do you have any news over there?

"I have been exposed?" Yes!" Chen Geng wanted to hang up the phone and run away, but he calmed down immediately. Running away would only make himself more dangerous and lose Wang Yong's identity as a convenient source of information.

"Chen Geng? Is it the communist Chen Geng who organized the Nanchang 'riot'? Has he arrived in Shanghai?" Chen Geng asked pretending to be curious.

"Yes, that's Chen Geng. Shangfeng said that the Kuomintang offered a reward of tens of thousands of yuan for his capture. Is Mr. Wang interested in joining us?"

Chen Geng realized after hearing this , "Communist Chen Geng" has been exposed, but "rich businessman Wang Yong" has not yet, so he decisively accepted the invitation of the British patrol and arrested Chen Geng with them.

As soon as he hung up the phone, General Chen Geng burst into laughter. It seemed that his disguise was quite successful!

In this way, a good show of "Chen Geng catching Chen Geng" was staged in Shanghai. Not surprisingly, with the great help of "Mr. Wang", the Kuomintang agents and patrols failed to catch Chen Geng for several months.

During the period, the British patrol even vouched for the identity of General Chen Geng, which really made people laugh.

In fact, on the thorny road of establishing New China, there are many underground workers like General Chen Geng who remain anonymous for the sake of the party and the country.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, some underground workers came to the forefront from behind the scenes. For example, Li Kenong, one of the "Three Heroes of Longtan", was awarded the title of Lieutenant General of the Founding of the People's Republic of China for his outstanding achievements.

But there are more underground workers. They were just ordinary members of the 400 million Chinese people. They were willing to fall into the trap for the birth of New China, but they disappeared again after the victory of the revolution. marketplace.

There were also many underground workers who fell on the eve of the birth of New China and became a candle that dispelled the feudal darkness.

Some of them were even mistaken for traitors and traitors because of their underground work, and they were still stigmatized until their death.

They are Zhang Luping, Qian Zhuangfei, Hu Di, they are Yan Youwen, Li Shiyu, Pan Hannian, and they are the "Yu Zecheng" whose names are still unknown to thousands of people in the world. .

It is true that the establishment of New China cannot be separated from the desperate fighting of frontline soldiers, the strategizing of Marshal Liu Bocheng and other famous generals in the world, and the wise decision-making of Chairman Mao, but it is also inseparable from the Thousands of underground workers risked their lives to obtain pieces of intelligence from the enemy and instigated generals to rebel.

Unlike the soldiers on the front line, it can be said that underground workers who have been in contact with enemy agents and senior officials all year round are being tempted by the enemy all the time.

If they choose to join the Kuomintang like Gu Shunzhang, they will no longer have to live a life of fear, and may even be given high-ranking officials and generous salaries. But have they obeyed, wavered, or surrendered? No!

Some of them are the young owners of gold shops, some are born into official families, and some are landlords. They could have closed their eyes and pretended not to see the injustice of the world and enjoyed a good life, but They don't!

They traveled around for the revolution, hiding their names, and were always worried about being arrested by the spies because their identities were exposed. Many of them could not even get a good night's sleep for several years.

Mr. Lu Xun once said: "With a bit of heat and a bit of light, it can be like a firefly. It can also shine a little in the dark without waiting for the torch. If there is no torch from now on, I will be the only one. "

These underground workers were the light that illuminated China in that dark era. Let us pay tribute to all the martyrs who fought, bled, and sacrificed for the establishment of New China!