In August 1937, during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, Li Kenong, Ye Jianying, and Xiao Zuoyun were invited by the Operations Department of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government to take a car to Wutai Mountain in the west of Nanjing city and visited the anti-aircraft artillery positions of the Nanjing defenders together.
After the visit, Li Kenong and his party walked to the parking lot and prepared to get on the bus and return to the Eighth Route Army Office. Suddenly, a short old man in a straw hat on the side of the road ahead caught Li Kenong's attention.
I saw that the old man was dressed in rags, and a pair of cloth shoes at his feet were torn, revealing his big feet. It is reasonable to say that in the city of Nanjing at that time, people like him who looked like refugees abounded, and there was nothing special about it.
But Li Kenong "sniffed" a smell of soldiers from him, so he couldn't help but take a closer look, Li Kenong's eyes just met the old man's eyes, and Li Kenong keenly saw something in his eyes.
The old man seemed to bend down carelessly, pulled out the upper of his shoe, and then straightened up and slowly left. At the moment when the old man pulled out the upper of his shoe, Li Kenong saw a small paper ball fall from the palm of the old man's hand...
Li Kenong pretended to be a smoker, and when he walked to the place where the old man had just stayed, he stopped and pulled out a cigarette, but "accidentally" dropped the matchbox on the ground, so he bent down and quietly picked up the small paper ball together while picking up the matchbox.
When he got into the car, Li Kenong hurriedly spread out the paper ball, which indeed had "material" inside, and on it were written two lines of pencil characters: Japanese agents are going to assassinate General Bai recently, please tell him not to be careless. The payment is: a Chinese who does not want to be bullied by the Japanese.
Li Kenong was surprised, who was this mysterious old man? Why did he pass on information to me? Could it be that he knows me?
This information immediately attracted the attention of Li Kenong, and Bai Chongxi was then the deputy chief of staff of the General Staff Headquarters of the Military Commission and the director of the Military Training Department, presiding over the formulation of the plan for the War of Resistance, which attracted the attention and jealousy of the Japanese army. The news that the Japanese army wanted to assassinate him would not be empty, and it was indeed possible for the Japanese to resort to despicable assassination methods. For the sake of the overall situation of the all-people War of Resistance, he decided to inform Bai Chongxi of this news.
However, in view of the many factors considered, it was not appropriate to report the news through formal channels in the name of the Eighth Route Army at this time, Li Kenong thought of a person, and it was just right for him to convey the news, and this person was Bai Chongxi's secretary Xie Hegeng. Xie and Geng's father was close friends with Bai Chongxi and had worked with the Eastern Route Army in the Northern Expedition. Xie hegeng was an underground party member of our party who broke into the Gui clan.
Soon, Xie hegeng and the liaison officer sent by Li Kenong connected their heads, and Xie Hegeng, who had received the information, immediately and cleverly warned Bai Chongxi according to Li Kenong's prompts.
Bai Chongxi couldn't help but link this news to several recent events. The day before, Bai Chongxi had just "refused" the "kindness" of the gendarmerie commander Gu Zhenglun to send gendarmes to protect his residence, because Xie Hegeng had reminded him that Gu Zhenglun's relationship with the Japanese spy organization headed by Nanzao Yunzi was "ambiguous"...
"Little Zhuge Ge" Bai Chongxi has two residences in Nanjing, one at No. 9 Yongyuan near Yixian Bridge, and the other at No. 1 Qingliangshan. Bai Chongxi often took turns to stay in the two places, "cunning rabbit three caves", there is no law to follow. Ever since Xie he and Geng told him about the assassination of the Japanese spies, Bai Chongxi was more careful and vigilant, and strengthened his guard forces in both residences, and all this was not hidden.
On the night of September 19, the sky was raining lightly, and in the night, seven or eight men dressed in black sneaked to Bai Chongxi's Qingliangshan Villa in two ways, and when the three men in black climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard, they alarmed the wolf dogs in the nursing home, and suddenly, the dogs barked.
More than a dozen heavily armed guards flashed out of the hidden place of the courtyard wall, and a burst of gunfire immediately sounded in the courtyard, and immediately some people dressed in black were shot and fell to the ground, and the remaining black-clad people rushed to the main building regardless of life and death.
Because of the preparations, the guards quickly annihilated the men in black in the courtyard, and the guards were also killed and wounded.
These men in black are the spies of the Japanese army and the gangsters. A few men dressed in black who had not yet had time to enter the courtyard saw that they were not in a good position, did not dare to fall in love with the battle, and quickly fled the scene before the patrol troops of the garrison headquarters arrived. In this way, the mysterious man warned, and Li Kenong helped, disrupting the Japanese spy assassination plan.
Everyone must ask whether the man in black has hurt Bai Chongxi, or whether Bai Chongxi is shocked. In fact, Bai Chongxi is worthy of the title of "Little Zhuge Ge", when the Qingliangshan Villa was attacked, "Little Zhuge Ge" was humming "I am watching the mountain view in the city tower" at the Jingjue Temple.
That night, Bai Chongxi did drive to Qingliangshan Villa, but he quickly quietly left through the back door. Under the escort of the guards, Bai Chongxi secretly went to the Jingjue Temple on Shengzhou Road (the seat of the Chinese Islamic Association).
Most people do not know that Bai Chongxi is also the chairman of the Islamic Association, and several of the imams of Jingjue Temple are good friends of Bai Chongxi, and before that, Bai Chongxi had spent more than one night at Jingjue Temple.
When his men reported to him the news of the attack on the Qingliangshan Villa, Bai Chongxi was still scared out of a cold sweat while he was happy.
The little "Zhuge Ge" and "Cunning Rabbit Three Caves" escaped a disaster. If he had learned that it was Li Kenong and other Communists who had warned him in advance, he should have been grateful.
Li Kenong also quickly found the mysterious old man who delivered the information. The old man, Qin Ruiyi, participated in the Baise Uprising in his early years, but later lost contact with the party organization and went into exile in Nanjing and Shanghai.
He overheard miao fengchi bragging about the green gang in the tea house, and learned that the Japanese spy was going to poison Bai Chongxi. He immediately felt that this matter had a great impact on The Japanese, and he was also suffering from the lack of access to inform Bai Chongxi. So he thought of the Communist Party, and in his mind, Li Kenong and other Communists were trustworthy, so he disguised himself and passed on the information.
Li Kenong was very grateful to Qin Ruiyi for his trust and was also very concerned about his safety. Li Kenong sent him a sum of money to remind him to leave Nanjing to avoid retaliation from the Japanese spies, but Qin Ruiyi refused and continued to drift in the rivers and lakes.