This Li Haifeng wants to do bad things. —Dai Kasa
What's the big deal? Why is Li Haifeng's defection a bad thing? This article starts with one thing, talking about the thrilling and strange spy war scenes in the first two episodes of "Latent", which is the assassination of Lao Wenchi ordered by Wanlilang.
Speaking of "Latent", many viewers are talking about the scenes of Yu Zecheng, Wu Jingzhong, Li Ya, Lu Qiaoshan and Ma Kui, in fact, the aura of the protagonists of those spy dramas is relatively heavy, and the composition of workplace dramas is more.
The real classic spy dramas in "Latent" are in the first two episodes, and those two episodes are not only the peak of "Latent", but also a god-like existence in the field of domestic spy dramas. The first two episodes of "Latent" are not only very complicated, but the characters are also human spirits.
They are Dai Kasa, Zhou Fohai, Wan Lilang, Li Haifeng, Lü Zongfang and Lao Wenchi (Yu Zecheng)
Back to the beginning, why did Wanlilang order the assassination of Lao Wenchi (Yu Zecheng)?
1. Clean up the portal
After he assassinated Li Haifeng, the head of the Telecommunications Department, although Wan Lilang, director of the General Administration of Political Security, did not know what the true identity of Lao Wenchi was, when he found out that Lao Wenchi was the killer who assassinated Li Haifeng, cleaning up the portal was the easiest choice, and it was impossible to let a traitor who killed the backbone of his department retreat. At the same time, it is not a matter of showing one's own subordinates to be a traitor, or it is better to assassinate.
This is the simplest explanation of why Wanlilang assassinated Lao Wenchi, and of course the most superficial explanation, but this is certainly not the most core reason, because Wanlilang may not necessarily want to kill Lao Wenchi in his heart.
Second, have to kill
Wanlilang does have its own people in history, and there is a line in "Latent" that may not be quite right, Wanlilang said that the military commander hates such traitors as Lao Wenchi more than Wang pseudo spies, which is inappropriate, because Wanlilang himself is also a traitor to the military command.
In 1939, When Wan Lilang was the deputy captain of the Fourth Action Team of the Shanghai Station of the Military Command, he was arrested because he was dumped by the captain at work, and Wan Lilang immediately defected and betrayed a group of military command agents, including Chen Gongshu, one of the four major killers of the military command.
However, Dai Kasa hated some traitors of the military command to the bone and ordered the whole country to hunt down and kill them, but there was never a severe sanction plan for wan Lilang, a traitor.
Later, some people said that this was Dai Kasa Aicai, and this statement was not all right, in fact, according to Chen Gongshu's memoirs, Wanlilang had already stood with Zhou Fohai before the victory of the War of Resistance, and Zhou Fohai was the internal line of formal cooperation between the military command, so Dai Kasa was an open side to Wanlilang. When Wan Lilang found out that Lo Man Chi and Ding Mo Estate had a cooperation, he once said that he was a family with Chow Fo Hai and Ding Mo Estate. This is actually seen as a hint: we are all together.
If Dai Kasa had not crashed into the mountain and died in 1946, perhaps Wan Lilang would have been able to return to military command like Chen Gongshu, but after Dai Kasa's death, Wan Lilang lost his patron and was executed on August 15, 1946, for the crime of traitor.
Now we can explain Dai Kasa's words, and the big thing that Li Haifeng wants to do badly is probably the secret cooperative relationship between Chow Fo Hai, Ding Mo Estate, Wanli Lang and the military command. Compared with those three people, Li Haifeng was a hardcore traitor, and there was no way back, if he knew the cat in the middle, he would inevitably destroy the cooperation between the military command and Wang Fei and ruin The big thing of Dai Kasa.
Therefore, since Wanlilang had already established contact with the military command through Zhou Fohai, he naturally would not kill Lao Wenchi, the inner line of the military command, when the Japanese were about to surrender, and it might be a way to return to the military command in the future.
However, because Yu Zecheng's hands and feet were not clean when he assassinated Li Haifeng, leaving obvious traces, the agents of the General Administration of Political Security had already found out that he had killed Li Haifeng, and at this time, Wanlilang could not protect him, after all, there were many people who knew, and it was difficult to hide.
The advantage of the assassination was that the military commander did not know who killed Lao Wenchi, And Zhou Fohai would not say it when he guessed it, and Wan Lilang would be able to talk when he saw Dai Kasa in the future.
Third, Lao Wenchi has ten identities, and the background is too complicated
If Wanli Lang could save him if he was hard to protect Wen Chi? Of course, the easiest way is to put it in jail first, and if you delay it, you will drag it out until the victory of the war, knowing that Germany has surrendered at that time, and the end of World War II is just around the corner.
However, the background of Lao Wenchi's person is too complicated, so complicated that Wan Lilang, the old agent and old fox, cannot see his true face, in the words of Wan Lilang: There are many trials and trials that will lead to trouble.
Let's count the ten identities of Lau wenchi:
1, military command agents, participants in Operation "Crab", this is obvious.
2, Wang Jingwei was once a liaison officer, receiving the wind banquet last week Fo Hai personally introduced.
3, in 1945, Wang Jingwei was dead, and it was Wan Lilang's superior Zhou Fohai who received Lao Wenchi, so Wan Lilang told his subordinates to clean their hands and feet so as not to offend Zhou Fohai.
4, Xiao Jiang, Lao Wenchi himself said, Chiang Ching-kuo and Kang Ze Doufa, he supported Chiang Ching-kuo, and finally Chiang Ching-kuo transferred him to the Second Department of the Military Headquarters (in charge of intelligence)
5, Xiong Shihui, also said by Lao Wenchi, he is a subordinate of Minister Xiong, and Xiong Shihui and Dai Kasa are at odds, Xiong Shihui is a big man in the Kuomintang Political Science Department, and Dai Ka has always been incompatible. And zhou fohai wanli waves they did not dare to offend is Dai Kasa.
6, Li Shiqun, Wang Pseudo No. 76 grand secret agent, according to the Japanese at the wine table, Li Shiqun once sent a radio station to Lao Wenchi. Li Shiqun had a conflict with Zhou Fohai and Ding Mo Estate, and was eventually assassinated by them in conjunction with the Japanese, and Wan Lilang told Lao Wenchi that he and Minister Zhou and Director Ding were family, which meant that there was also a contradiction between Wan Lilang and Li Shiqun.
7, the Mei organ, the Japanese secret service, according to Lao Wenchi, his exposure in Chongqing was caused by the destruction of the Mei organ liaison station, and an important job of the Mei organ at that time was to monitor the high-ranking officials of the Wang puppet regime.
8, Dai Kasa, after assassinating Li Haifeng, Lao Wenchi accepted a new task to ensure communication for the negotiations between Dai Kasa and the Japanese, this is Dai Kasa's private affair, Wanlilang should also know something, then Lao Wenchi also has a private relationship with Dai Kasa.
9, Ding Mo Estate, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the first contact with the military command in the Wang puppet regime was Chow Fo Hai, then Ding Mo Estate, and Lo Man Chi sent a telegram for Dai Kasa under the banner of Ding Mo Estate, and Ding Mo Estate was also willing to cover for Lo Man Chi, making Wanli Lang a little jealous.
10, Lü Zongfang, after the assassination of Li Haifeng by Lao Wenchi was exposed, Wan Lilang naturally knew that Lao Wenchi and Lü Zongfang came together, so it is known that Lü Zongfang is an underground party, so who is Lao Wenchi? Therefore, Li Haifeng also thought of this question before he died, so he asked Lao Wenchi: Chongqing, or Yan'an? This question is also uncertain.
On the whole, the ten identities on Lao Wenchi's body are simply complicated to the point of making people's heads grow, some of which are brought by Lao Wenchi himself, some of which are brought by the "crab", and some of which are on Yu Zecheng's body.
From the perspective of the audience, Lao Wenchi is already complicated enough, from the perspective of Wanlilang, he is even more unsure of who Lao Wenchi really is, and in the end, which aspect Oflau Wenchi will stand on, whether these words are good or bad for him, he is not sure.
Since you can't be sure, then assassinating Lau Man Chi is the best way, a hundred, to solve the case of Li Haifeng's murder, but also to relieve a lot of wanlilang worries, I am afraid that Zhou Fohai and Ding Mo Estate will be very happy to know that Lo Man Chi is dead.
Therefore, stepping on ten boats, the background is too complicated, sometimes it can scare people, but sometimes it will also kill.
Fourth, practical considerations
If we consider it a little more thickly, Wanlilang's resolute killing of Lao Wenchi may still have a double mentality.
First, prevention, how did Li Lilang's former colleague Li Shiqun die? It was Chow Fo Hai and Ding Mo Estate who cooperated to alienate and use the Japanese to poison him, and the death was extremely tragic, and finally Li Shiqun's body shrank to the size of a monkey, and at that time, there was a lot of commotion in Nanjing, and Wan Lilang must have known about it.
Lao Wenchi was introduced by Zhou Fohai and had private contacts with Ding Mo Estate, but Wanlilang had a black eye on The true identity of Lao Wenchi, and Wanlilang would naturally worry that Lao Wenchi was a thunderbolt, and if he did not get it right, he would also treat himself like Li Shiqun and Li Haifeng. In order not to let himself become the next Li Shiqun or Li Haifeng, killing Lao Wenchi is also a preventive means.
For Zhou Fohai and Wan Lilang, the value of Li Haifeng, a traitor to the military command, does not lie in how many passwords he knows to help Wang pseudo-agents, on the contrary, Li Haifeng's greatest value is that Dai Kasa hates him.
In other words, once the War of Resistance is won, if Li Haifeng is still alive, then he will definitely become the name of Zhou Fohai and Wanlilang in their hands. Even if Lao Wenchi didn't kill Li Haifeng, wouldn't Zhou Fohai and Wan Lilang want to make a great contribution to military command?
Lü Zongfang and Yu Zecheng went to Nanjing to secretly assassinate Li Haifeng's "crab" operation directly under the leadership of Dai Kasa, so how did Li Haifeng know about Lü Zongfang and the "crab" operation? Who betrayed them?
I am afraid that the most likely answer is that Zhou Fohai deliberately leaked the "crab" operation to Li Haifeng, and he only said half of it to expose Lü Zongfang, if it were not for Ma Kui's horizontal insertion, then Li Haifeng would have caught Lü Zongfang.
The simplest reason for Zhou Fohai to do this is to stir up the yellow "crab" action, Li Haifeng killing Lü Zongfang will make Dai Kasa hate him even more, the more angry Dai Kasa is, the greater the value of Li Haifeng, then the more valuable this name is.
Of course, Zhou Fohai would definitely not tell Li Haifeng the true identity of Lao Wenchi, so that he himself would be exposed, so Lu Zongfang became a gift from Zhou Fohai to Li Haifeng.
According to the plot of "Latent", Yu Zecheng was only responsible for finding out Li Haifeng's whereabouts during the "crab" operation, and the assassination operation was arranged by Lü Zongfang. Yu Zecheng's personal assassination of Li Haifeng was an unplanned operation, and Zhou Fohai certainly could not predict it.
Therefore, for Zhou Fohai and Wanlilang, Li Haifeng's big throw name in his hand was destroyed by a stunned Qinglao Wenchi, and zhou Fohai and Wanlilang could imagine how much they were depressed in their hearts.
Don't forget, after Lü Zongfang's death, only Lao Wenchi knew that the "crab" operation had been leaked, if he continued to live, once Dai Kasa was tracked down in the future, the first thing he suspected was Zhou Fohai, and Wanlilang could not escape the interference, so Lao Wenchi would have to disappear like Lü Zongfang.
In summary, the spy war scenes in the first two episodes of "Latent" are very close to historical reality, and most of the characters appearing are also historical real people or archetypal adaptations, the complexity and treachery in them are very difficult for people who do not understand that period of history, and if they are taken apart and crushed, they can also be made into a long drama.
"Latent" will be such a wonderful scene only two episodes, because the pace is too fast to appear too many characters, involving too much history, resulting in many viewers have ignored the wonderful points of these two episodes, it is a pity. As mentioned at the beginning of this article, these two episodes are the pinnacle spy scenes of "Latent".