In the spring of 1938, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the most intense stage, and Laiyuan County in Baoding, Hebei Province, was full of Japanese soldiers who were making a fortune. As the spring blossoms, there are more pedestrians on the street, and vendors who do small businesses also begin to walk the streets. Under the eaves of a house, a young man carrying a burden to sell fried peanuts, he shouted hard to the pedestrians: "Fried peanuts!" cigarette! Opposite him was the Japanese garrison in Laiyuan, and the young man would also recruit in Japanese: "Antarctic hemp rice (peanuts)!" ”
Passing Japanese people who heard his shouting, some would stop to taste peanuts, but they would pose as aggressive and unwilling to pay. Many local people would rather make less money than avoid the Japanese and not do business with them, but this peanut seller took the initiative to go forward and get close to the Japanese. When the Japanese bought his peanuts, he would erase the change and even take the initiative not to ask for money. Sometimes the Japanese asked for credit, and he didn't collect debts.
One day, Yoshio Donmae, a Japanese officer stationed in the army, came to the boy's stall and tried to blackmail him. Without saying a word, the young man gave the Japanese officer several boxes of cigarettes and a large pile of peanuts, and respectfully sent away the Yoshio dojo. Later, every time Tangqian Fangfu passed by here, the young man had to stuff him with a bag of peanuts, so that Tangqian Fangfu had a good impression of him and thought that this young man was obedient and clever. But when this guy faces Chinese, he is not only not accommodating, but also not allowed to pay on credit, and sometimes overcharges money. Over time, many Chinese scolded him as a traitor, bowed to the Japanese, but Chinese.
When the young man heard these scoldings, he was even indifferent, but directly did not do business with Chinese, and devoted himself to serving the Japanese, and also learned a few words of Japanese. Later, when he saw Maeda Yoshio, the young man said flatteringly: "I will speak Japanese in the future, and I will learn a few words early now and benefit early." Maeda Yoshio was very proud after hearing this, and said loudly: "Good boy, there will be benefits in the future, we will definitely think of you." From then on, Mrs. Maeda Yoshinori released words, saying that this young man was a friend of the Imperial Army and was trustworthy.
At this point, the young man became a complete traitor, and the local Chinese were very angry, and it turned out that this was to do big business for the Japanese. Seeing the young man mixing up in the Japanese, many people scolded him as a traitor behind his back. But the guy never responded, still hanging out with the Japanese. One day, Yoshio Donzen was eating the boy's peanuts and said in broken Chinese, "You, you are very lucky." ”
The young man did not know, so he quickly sent two boxes of newly entered cigarettes and said, "This is a new brand, Taijun tasted." Yoshio Donzen took the cigarette in his pocket with satisfaction and said, "You, how much money do you make?" The young man said respectfully: "Small business, small business." Donzen Smiled and motioned for the interpreter to tell the young man the inside story. Originally, Yoshio Donmae felt that the young man was a Japanese officer and was trustworthy, and planned to let him go to the Japanese army to do the bathhouse, specifically to serve the Japanese officers, this work is a lot of oil and water, the young man was very happy, and hurriedly agreed to come down.
This incident did not seem to be anything, but in the winter of the following year, the famous Japanese general Norihide Abe was taken away by a cannon fired by the Eighth Route Army and killed in the ravine outside Baoding. After this incident, the Japanese army was so shocked that they arrested the guy who burned the bathhouse water and tortured him, saying that he was undercover. The Japanese really guessed correctly, the young man's real name is Ji Cheng, it is indeed the underground party of the Eighth Route Army, and he approached the Japanese in order to obtain intelligence. So, what happened to him? Why did you choose him to go undercover?
In 1916, Ji Cheng was born into a poor family and came out to work early to subsidize his family. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Laiyuan County was occupied by the Japanese army, and Ji Cheng could only walk the streets and alleys to do some hawker work, and his life was very difficult. At the end of 1937, the Eighth Route Army opened up the Jin-Cha-Ji base area and established an anti-Japanese government in Laiyuan. Located deep in the Taihang Mountains, the Japanese troops stationed here could not penetrate at all, and the commander of the Japanese army here was Lieutenant General Norihide Abe.
In order to recover the lost territory, Yang Chengwu, commander of the First Division of the Eighth Route Army, decided to set up an intelligence station in Laiyuan and then send outstanding intelligence workers to penetrate into the enemy's interior. After some screening, they found Ji Cheng. He was not only familiar with the situation in the county, but also had a lively brain and worked as a small trader, which was convenient for opening up relations with the Japanese. When Yang Chengwu found Ji Cheng to explain his intentions, he agreed without hesitation. After Ji Cheng became acquainted with the Japanese, he learned that The minister of japanese intelligence, Keio Yamamoto, had a cleaning habit and had to take a bath once a day, and had to boil hot water in winter. Ji Cheng felt that there was an article to be done on this matter, so he paid extra attention.
After they were mixed, The fangfu in front of the hall asked Ji Cheng to come and burn the bathhouse, which was a rare opportunity, and Ji Cheng hurriedly responded. Yamamoto built a bathhouse in the courtyard of the Intelligence Department, and Ji Makoto was responsible for boiling water. But Yamamoto Keio asked for a lot of requirements, not too hot or too cold, but also had to adjust the water temperature according to the daily temperature. Ji Cheng worked very hard and cleaned the bathhouse every day. At first, Yamamoto was vigilant, and he bathed himself and did not let Ji Cheng come in. Slowly, after he trusted Ji Cheng, he also let him give himself a bath, so that Ji Cheng was talking in small talk and slowly knew a lot of information.
After the news of Ji Cheng giving the Japanese a bath came out, it aroused the contempt of many people, and some people directly accused Ji Cheng of being a traitor to his face. But For the sake of the overall situation, Ji Cheng silently endured. Ji Cheng met a translator surnamed Shui, because the Japanese army needed to translate Chinese documents for the puppet army, so shui translators knew a lot of japanese combat intelligence. Shui Translator is not a native of Laiyuan, and he is also discriminated against within the Japanese army, often using alcohol to dispel his sorrows. Ji Cheng noticed this and often took the initiative to invite water translators to drink together, and the two became acquainted with each other.
On October 24, 1939, Ji Cheng went to the Intelligence Department as usual, but he found that there were many strict inspection posts around him, and even the puppet army had to be strictly checked before he was allowed to enter the door. He was keenly aware that something big was definitely going to happen. On the way to the intelligence department, almost a few meters away, there were many Japanese soldiers on patrol, and from time to time they had to check the pedestrians on the road. After Ji Cheng came to the Intelligence Department, he was surprised to find that TangQian Fangfu and the others were not there.
Ji Cheng had wanted to find these well-known Japanese officers to inquire about what had happened, but today he could not see anyone. Ji Cheng's heart was anxious: after lurking for so long, today it must look extraordinary, but he can't find anyone to ask. He decided to take a look at the street, made an excuse to go out, went to a photo studio he knew well, and hid to observe the situation. I saw several small cars coming not far away, with at least thirty Japanese people. In the cab of the last car, there sat an imposing officer, only to see that he had two gold stars pinned to his coat, which must be a high official.
When Ji Cheng returned to the Intelligence Bureau, he noticed that the water translator had been busy in the room all day, and that Yamamoto Keio was taking a shower later than usual. Therefore, Ji Cheng could not go out of the city, he took a few bottles of wine to find the water translator, knocked on the door for a long time, the water translator opened the door for him with a sweaty head, while saying: "Alas, this is also you, otherwise I would not dare to open the door!" Ji Cheng's eyes widened and he asked, "Why?" The water translator said: "I am afraid of leaking secrets." Ji Cheng's heart moved, and when he entered the door, Yu Guang caught a glimpse of the march map on the table of the water translator, while placing the wine bottle on the table.
Ji Cheng put on a look of indifference and said, "Water translator, you should put these away quickly, we still have to drink." The water translator said, "No, the ink is not dry yet." Then he rolled his eyes and smiled, "Will you look at the map?" Ji Cheng scratched his head and pretended to be stupid: "You see what you asked, I thought I could understand the word, but I was still blind, how can I understand the map?" The water translator put his mind at ease, Ji Cheng took the opportunity to pour wine vigorously, and when the water translator was dizzy, he said: "This is a head, when to go, we can also go out and have a good drink." ”
The water translator said incoherently: "I can't stay for a few days, tomorrow I will recruit soldiers to collect grain, and after three days I will go into the mountains to sweep, enough for the eight roads to suffer..." The water translator drank a few more drinks, and his head was groggy and drowsy on the table, hoping to see the situation sincerely, carefully remembering the march map in his heart, and then said to the water translator: "Then I am leaving!" The water translator lay motionless, Ji Cheng hurried back to his room, copied down the information and maps he had heard about today, and the next day rushed to the contact point and handed it over to the correspondent of the Eighth Route Army.
After receiving the information, an operational meeting was immediately held within the Eighth Route Army, and Yang Chengwu personally formulated a battle plan, which was reviewed by Nie Rongzhen and immediately threw himself into battle. On the night of November 6, the two sides began a fierce battle, and the next afternoon, our army found that there were many Japanese officers gathered in the small temple of Loess Ridge, and ordered mortar bombardment. It wasn't until later that I learned that there was Norihide Abe in it.
Such a big defeat made the Japanese very angry and arrested a bunch of skeptics, including Ji Cheng. Yamamoto was also worried that if Ji Cheng was an underground party, he would not have good fruit to eat. After some interrogation, the Japanese did not gain anything, and had to release Ji Cheng. When Yamamoto learned of this, he trusted him even more and let him do a lot of confidential intelligence work. By 1944, japan's situation in China was becoming more and more defeated, and the unwilling Japanese formulated a plan to destroy the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, which was learned by Ji Cheng. However, in the process of sending information, he was accidentally exposed, but fortunately, the underground party came to the rescue, and he was able to return to the base area.
After the founding of New China, Ji Cheng was assigned to work in the Public Security Bureau, and some local people reported that Ji Cheng was a traitor and also made trouble with the county party committee. Finally, the county party committee came forward to clarify Ji Cheng's identity, and everyone suddenly realized that It turned out that Ji Cheng's bearing the burden of humiliation was for a greater goal, so he admired him even more.