In December 1952, the public security department secretly arrested a central command agent who had been absconding for many years, and after interrogation, the staff learned a news that surprised them.
The interrogators immediately reported the matter to their superiors, and when they learned of the matter, they immediately ordered the local public security personnel at Shanhaiguan to.
Immediate action captured a vegetable farmer!
This vegetable farmer, named Wang Fuxiang, has been selling vegetables on the street in front of the police station on weekdays, because he is proud and fresh, so nearby residents often come to buy.
But why would such a seemingly honest vegetable farmer make the public security department extremely vigilant and secretly order an arrest?
What is his true identity? What kind of process is this? Let's take a look at this history and the past of a former commander of the Eighth Route Army detachment who defected for many years.
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Since the defeat of the Qing Dynasty in the Opium War, China's national gates have been forcibly opened by the West with strong ships and cannons, and the smoke of war has not dissipated since then.
Many ordinary people in China are also at the critical juncture of life and death because of the long years of war, so when they cannot survive, many of them will choose to join the army and get a bite of food from the army.
Chai Enbo was one of these sentient beings, born in a poor peasant family, with the nickname "Little Bias".
Because of the years of war, the burden on the bottom people in China is extremely heavy, and all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes have long been unable to suppress the Chai family.
Therefore, in order to survive better, Chai Enbo decided to join the army, which was also a better way out for the poor people who were not the majority at that time.
Since the fall of the Qing Dynasty, China's social order has been wiped out, and local warlords have desperately expanded their spheres of influence and recruited soldiers.
At the same time, these warlords also collude with the Western powers to wantonly exploit and overthrow the people at the bottom, who are often cornered because they do not have enough to eat.
Some of them would go into the mountains as bandits, and some of them would accept the recruitment of warlords and become members of the old army in order to eat a bite of food.
Moreover, the conditions for warlord conscription at that time were extremely low, and often a pound of millet could recruit a large number of young adults.
Therefore, when Chai Enbo was really forced to make a living, he also chose the path of becoming a soldier.
So Chai Enbo joined the army of the warlord Wu Peifu, who was known as the "Governor of the Five Provinces" at that time, and his power spanned Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Anhui and other places, and his strength was extremely strong.
Chai Enbo
Later, Wu Peifu also forcibly stationed himself in Beijing through several warlord wars, and then openly proclaimed himself the "premier of the Republic of China" and ordered one side.
Therefore, during this period, Chai Enbo's life was still relatively moist, and Chai Enbo was also because of the battlefield
He was promoted by his superiors and soon became a low-level officer.
Since Chai Enbo was promoted, Chai Enbo's thinking has also undergone a major change, and his only purpose as a soldier is to find a way to live, so that he can live better.
Of course, this was an extremely normal thing for the vast majority of the countrymen at that time, so after the small power, Chai Enbo's nature was exposed.
He often used his status as an officer to begin to oppress the local people, and behind his back, he also wantonly amassed wealth for himself to squander.
In fact, Chai Enbo's actions were also a common problem of the old army at that time.
They have no faith at all, and they don't know who they are fighting for, so after they develop, they usually show vices of one kind or another.
In 1924, after the Start of the Revolution, Dr. Sun Yat-sen first founded the Whampoa Military Academy in Guangzhou, and then began to cooperate with the Chinese Communist Party.
After the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the revolutionary situation in the whole country was reversed, and the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy also cultivated a large number of outstanding talents for the Chinese revolution, who had firm ideals and convictions in their hearts and knew what they were fighting for.
Therefore, when the Guangzhou Revolutionary Army was reorganized, the Northern Expedition began, facing such a revolutionary army with faith and high morale.
The troops formed by the old warlords were like turkeys and dogs, with no resistance at all.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
Therefore, under the attack of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Wu Peifu was defeated and announced that he would go into the wilderness, and the Northern Expeditionary Army took advantage of the situation to pursue and attack all the way to the Yangtze River Valley, and the Great Revolution was about to achieve the final victory.
However, at this very moment, the reactionaries within the Kuomintang, led by Chiang Kai-shek, brazenly launched the "April 12" coup d'état and wantonly slaughtered communists and social democrats, and the vigorous great revolution was declared a failure.
Subsequently, Chiang Kai-shek announced the establishment of a national government in Nanjing, and Wang Jingwei also accepted Chiang Kai-shek's "recruitment" soon after, and the revolutionary situation in the whole country once again fell into a trough.
At this time, Chai Enbo, because in the previous battle with the Northern Expeditionary Army, was beaten and abandoned his armor, and fled all the way to Zheng County (now Wen'an County), Langfang, Hebei Province.
After Chiang Kai-shek launched a coup d'état, Chai Enbo saw that the Northern Expeditionary Army had stopped attacking, so a hanging heart slowly let go.
After fleeing to Zheng County, Chai Enbo only had more than twenty loyal guards left around him, and he no longer had the momentum of the year, so this also made Chai Enbo's mood extremely depressed.
In order to survive, Chai Enbo decided to settle down in Zheng County, and he thought to himself that there were more than twenty people around him.
I also have a dozen guns in my hand, so it's easier to get a job.
So he began to find a way to secretly contact the local government, and he took all the money he took with him to save his life to bribe the local officials.
In addition, Chai Enbo himself did have some talents, and there were some people around him, so soon Chai Enbo was appointed as the leader of the local security team.
In this way, Chai Enbo settled down in Zheng County, and later married a daughter-in-law here, and the family's life was also stable.
However, such a stable day has only passed for more than ten years, since Japan passed the Meiji Restoration, the national strength has been rapidly improved, and it has also won the war by relying on sneak attacks in the Sino-Japanese War.
After the overthrow of the Beiyang Marine Division, which the Qing Dynasty had dedicated to building, Japan forced the Qing Dynasty to sign the Treaty of Maguan and obtained huge war reparations.
Since then, Japan has embarked on the aggressive path of foreign expansion.
They pointed the spearhead of aggression directly at China, so after forcibly occupying Korea, Japan launched the "September 18 Incident" in 1931, and the Kwantung Army occupied the northeast region.
Subsequently, the Japanese army created a series of frictions in North China, collectively known as the "North China Incident", forcing the Nanjing government to recognize the "autonomy of the five provinces of North China".
Under the constant persecution of the Japanese, the Sino-Japanese national contradictions quickly became the main contradictions in Chinese society, so after the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek abandoned his previous policies and began to face up to the Japanese threat.
At this time, Japan could not bear the wild hopes in its heart, so in 1937, the Japanese army once again created a shock to China and foreign countries "July 7 Incident" and began to invade China in an all-round way.
Under the attack of the Japanese army, a large area of territory in north China fell, the iron hooves of the Japanese army trampled on the land of China, and the Japanese army burned and plundered everywhere.
And the local government of Zheng County saw that the Japanese army was strong,
The Nationalist army could not resist the invasion of the Japanese army, so the county magistrate of Zheng County, with a group of cronies, abandoned the city overnight and fled.
Chai Enbo was also forced to be wrapped up in it, but at this time, Chai Enbo did not want to flee in his heart, and years of stable life did not smooth out Chai Enbo's edges and corners, but let him learn to lie dormant.
Under the powerful offensive of the Japanese army, Chai Enbo sensed a glimmer of opportunity, a glimmer of an opportunity to make himself rich again.
So on the way to flee with the county magistrate of Zheng County, Chai Enbo privately contacted the old department he had brought in the past, and in the name of "resisting Japan and saving the dead", he encouraged them to return to Zheng County with him.
Under the seduction of Chai Enbo and his henchmen, most of the people in the security team have chosen to defect, and most of them actually do not want to leave their hometowns, so under the encouragement of Chai Enbo, they have chosen to follow.
Therefore, Chai Enbo once again pulled up a team of more than a hundred people and returned to Zheng County, but at this time, Zheng County had already been conquered by the Japanese army.
The Japanese also formed a puppet government here to help them maintain their rule in Zheng County.
Li Zuobin, the pseudo-county magistrate appointed by the Japanese army, had a little vigilance in his heart at first after seeing Chai Enbo return to Zheng County.
But soon Chai Enbo tore off his original face and hurriedly expressed his "sincerity" to the Japanese army, hoping that the Japanese army could accept him.
In the face of Chai Enbo's surrender, the Japanese army was naturally very happy, so the Japanese army appointed Chai Enbo as the leader of the Zheng County Security Regiment, and since then Chai Enbo has become a "superior person".
However, at this stage, the main task of the Japanese army is to occupy as much Chinese land as possible, so for the governance of the rear, the Japanese army is actually "more than enough and insufficient strength".
War of Resistance
Therefore, after our party launched a struggle behind enemy lines and actively built up base areas behind enemy lines, the rule of the Japanese army in the occupied areas was greatly threatened.
At this time, Chai Enbo sensed that the Japanese army seemed to be "a strong foreign cadre" and was unable to clear and suppress our anti-Japanese base area, so Chai Enbo had an idea in his heart again.
The reason why Chai Enbo chose to join the army was to survive better, so when Chai Enbo sensed that something was wrong, he would inevitably have thoughts in his heart.
So he began to secretly contact the anti-Japanese armed forces in Zheng County, creating an image of "being in Cao Ying's heart in Han", and secretly funding these anti-Japanese forces many times.
Therefore, the anti-Japanese armed forces near Zheng County were quickly deceived by Chai Enbo, believing that Chai Enbo was a "good man who knew the great righteousness of the country".
So they came to the aid, and Chai Enbo also gathered a large number of forces, and the number of troops in his hands was as many as a thousand.
In January 1938, in order to build and develop the anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines in the central Hebei region, our party sent a large number of cadres to enter this area to mobilize and develop the local anti-Japanese forces.
After learning of our Party's actions, Chai Enbo was also actively in contact with our Party, and when our Party first arrived, it was not clear who Chai Enbo was.
It was only in the ordinary days that he learned some information from the mouths of the local people, so he made a preliminary judgment that Chai Enbo could be trusted.
So Lü Zhengcao, who was later awarded the rank of general by New China, got in touch with Chai Enbo, and Chai Enbo, after contacting our party, immediately showed a "firm anti-Japanese" image.
In order to gain the trust of Lu Zhengcao,
In October, Chai Enbo designed the arrest of Li Zuobin, the governor of Zheng County, and his henchmen, as well as Japanese adviser Saburo Suzuki and others.
Subsequently, Chai Enbo personally escorted these Japanese puppet traitors to The Headquarters of the People's Self-Defense Army of Lü Zhengcao, and Lü Zhengcao was also shocked by Chai Enbo's actions, and immediately invited Chai Enbo to the headquarters as a guest.
Subsequently, Chai Enbo's unit was reorganized into the Second Guerrilla Regiment of the Jizhong People's Self-Defense Army, and Chai Enbo was appointed as the regimental commander.
After formally accepting the reorganization of our army, Chai Enbo began to recruit troops in the name of "anti-Japanese resistance", and many children of ordinary people in the vicinity were deceived into coming to Chai Enbo's command, and the strength of the second regiment once expanded to more than 2,000 people.
Later, thanks to the good situation of the development of guerrilla warfare in central Hebei, in order to unify the anti-Japanese forces in central Hebei, our party once again reorganized the anti-Japanese armed forces in central Hebei.
Therefore, our party established the Hebei Guerrilla Army, and Chai Enbo's department was reorganized into the Twelfth Route Army of the Hebei Guerrilla Army, with Chai Enbo as the commander-in-chief.
At the same time, in order to enhance the combat effectiveness of Chai Enbo's troops as soon as possible, Lü Zhengcao also wanted to better propagate communist ideas.
Therefore, more than a hundred military and political cadres were successively dispatched to Chai Enbo's subordinate, led by Xu Enrong, a member of the Communist Party, who served as the director of the political department.
At first, Chai Enbo did not comment on Lu Zhengcao's approach, believing that it would not only help him train his troops, but also deepen his trust in himself, so he had no intention of opposing it.
However, later, Chai Enbo gradually realized that his grasp of the troops seemed to be declining, and he could not decide alone at all, but everything needed to be discussed and approved by the party congress before it could be implemented, which caused Chai Enbo to be greatly dissatisfied.
However, although Chai Enbo was very dissatisfied with this in his heart, he did not show it, because at this time the Japanese army had begun to gather forces to attack the anti-Japanese forces behind the enemy.
Baxian is located in the north of Zheng County, and the Japanese army uses this as a forward base to launch a fierce attack on Zheng County, although Chai Enbo's troops have stubbornly resisted.
But in the end, because of the disparity between the enemy and us, we had to evacuate after three days of fighting.
After the evacuation, Chai Enbo joined the Independent First Regiment of the People's Self-Defense Army and the Fifth Route Army of the Hebei Guerrilla Army, and after some rest, re-attacked Zheng County.
With the cooperation of friendly forces, Chai Enbo successfully recaptured Zheng County, and on the second day of recapturing Zheng County, Chai Enbo was ordered to attack the Japanese forward base - Baxian County.
After three days of bloody battle, Chai Enbo personally came to the front line to command, which greatly boosted the morale of the troops, so our army took advantage of the situation to conquer Baxian and expelled the Japanese puppet government.
After successfully conquering Baxian County, in order to prevent the Japanese army from counterattacking, Chai Enbo was ordered to come to Renqiu for rectification, and after two or three months of rectification training,
Chai Enbo's unit was reorganized into an independent second detachment of the third column of the Eighth Route Army, with Chai Enbo as the commander of the detachment.
The second detachment had two brigades and a battalion directly under its command, totaling more than 3,000 people, and was also replenished with equipment, and many light and heavy weapons were also captured, and the strength was relatively strong.
Although the second detachment was commanded by Chai Enbo, the deputy commander was Xu Enrong, and the political commissar was Zhang Yichen, a member of the Communist Party, and at this time the second detachment had gradually established a firm belief in communism and was no longer like the old army before.
However, this change also made Chai Enbo more and more dissatisfied, in fact, although Chai Enbo accepted the reorganization of our party, he always recognized the Kuomintang in his heart.
Therefore, when he realized that his control over the troops was getting weaker and weaker, Chai Enbo was also actively trying to solve this matter.
It was precisely at this time that the Kuomintang installed Fang Ping, a Central Unification agent deployed in the occupied areas, and did not know where to find out about Chai Enbo's deeds.
Therefore, after some investigation, Fang Ping believed that Chai Enbo was not a communist and could try to rebel, so he privately contacted Chai Enbo's uncle to introduce him.
After the two met privately, Fang Ping promised Chai Enbo a heavy profit, claiming that as long as Chai Enbo led his troops to "correct the chaos",
The National Government would appoint Chai Enbo as the commander of the independent division, and everything in the army would be decided by Chai Enbo alone.
Chai Enbo was impressed by Fang Ping's words, so after some thought, Chai Enbo decided to accept Fang Ping's suggestion and lead his troops to defect.
However, at this time, the second detachment had already undergone great changes under the ideological education of our Party, and ordinary soldiers were very much in favor of our Party's policies, so it was very difficult for Chai Enbo to lead the troops to defect.
So Chai Enbo personally took his cronies and privately detained and arrested more than a hundred party members in the two detachments, and also said at the meeting held the next day, "I am not the Kuomintang, nor the Communist Party, I am the Anti-Japanese Party." ”
Therefore, many soldiers of the second detachment were deceived by Chai Enbo's words, and Chai Enbo immediately went to the arrested political commissar Zhang Yichen after the meeting.
He said to Zhang Yichen, "I was deceived by the Kuomintang agents, I am really sorry for Commander Lu, and I don't have the face to return to Jizhong, so I will send someone to send you back." ”
Zhang Yichen was just silent about this, he had already seen it, this was just Chai Enbo's sophistry, and sure enough, Chai Enbo continued to speak.
"Although I am willing to send you back, I have a few conditions here
First, I am allowed to break away from the structure of the Eighth Route Army, second, I am allowed to return my original territory, and third, I am not allowed to attack me; as long as these three are satisfied, I can release your people. ”
After listening to Chai Enbo's words, Zhang Yichen immediately rebuked him angrily, and also painstakingly persuaded Chai Enbo that it was not too late to turn back at this time, but at this time, Chai Enbo was thinking of independence, so he did not listen, but just let Zhang Yichen go back.
After Zhang Yichen returned to the Jizhong Headquarters to report the matter to his superiors, Lü Zhengcao was heartbroken and called out that he did not know anyone, resulting in heavy losses to our army.
Therefore, we immediately reported to the Party Central Committee, and it was also at this time that in order to strengthen the anti-Japanese forces in the Central Hebei region, our Party sent the 120th Division to this place, and the division commander was He Long.
When He Long heard about Chai Enbo's rebellion, he was also furious on the spot, so he immediately sent someone to the second detachment to reprimand Chai Enbo for this move.
At this time, a large number of ordinary soldiers who were deceived by Chai Enbo completely saw Chai Enbo's face, so a large number of soldiers chose to return to the Eighth Route Army.
Seeing that his general trend had gone, Chai Enbo stepped up contact with Fang Ping, hoping that the Kuomintang could fulfill its promise as soon as possible.
However, after Fang Ping saw that Chai Enbo had rebelled and left, he believed that Chai Enbo had lost its use value, so he directly broke off contact with Chai Enbo.
The desperate Chai Enbo decided to surrender to the Japanese army after thinking about it, so he gathered the remaining more than a thousand people under his command and told them his decision.
The reason why many soldiers continued to stay was because Chai Enbo had always insisted on resisting Japan, but now Chai Enbo decided to surrender to the Japanese army, which caused great dissatisfaction.
Therefore, after this, seven or eight hundred people secretly fled Chai Enbo's command and returned to the Eighth Route Army, and also told He Long the news that Chai Enbo wanted to surrender to the Japanese army.
This completely angered He Long, so He Long, with the approval of his superiors, immediately led the 120th Division to suppress the rebellion, and after a battle, Chai Enbo fled the battlefield with the remaining dozens.
After that, Chai Enbo officially surrendered to the Japanese army, in order to gain the trust of the Japanese,
Chai Enbo also handed over to the Japanese army more than twenty members of our party who had been detained without permission, and was therefore appointed as the head of the security regiment.
Until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chai Enbo successfully saved his life through his private contact with Fang Ping, a special agent, and was appointed as the captain of the brigade.
Later, when the War of Liberation broke out, the Kuomintang army collapsed for thousands of miles, the Chiang Kai-shek clique fled to Taiwan in defeat, and Chai Enbo's brigade commander could not continue.
Before the founding of New China in 1949, the sister of Chai Enbo's wife came to visit her sister and saw that the Chai Enbo family was living in difficulty, and her heart was very unbearable.
So he invited them to move to Shanhaiguan to live, and the two families also had a care, and Chai Enbo agreed to this suggestion after thinking about his own situation.
So Chai Enbo followed his wife and sister to shanhaiguan to live,
Also pseudonym "Wang Fuxiang",
Usually, he sells vegetables for a living, and it was not until the public security department arrested Fang Ping that he learned of Chai Enbo's whereabouts.
So he immediately contacted the Shanhaiguan local government to secretly arrest Chai Enbo, and after interrogation, Chai Enbo confessed to his crimes, and in 1953 Chai Enbo was executed by shooting.
Throughout Chai Enbo's life, if he can wake up in time and strengthen his belief in resisting the war to the end, then with his merits, at least after the founding of New China, he can also be awarded the rank of major general, but unfortunately, Chai Enbo is uncertain.