preface
"Stinky boy, I'm your teacher, you give me a little rule, don't take everything and eat it, this is mine."
"It's because it's yours that I eat and drink casually, and you said it before, just be casual, and since that's the case, then I can't even eat and take it too much."
"You bastard Chen Geng, how did you behave politely when you were at the Whampoa Military Academy, and how did you end up like this after a few years in the Communist Party?"
"Alas, it is difficult to say a word, but it is only right to eat and drink enough."
In the exclusive carriage of the train from Shanghai to Tianjin, Chen Geng was chatting with Qian Dajun, a teacher at the Whampoa Military Academy, and it was clear that the two were in the opposing camp, so why did they come together?
One or three save Chiang Kai-shek
Pictured| Chen Geng
Most of the older generation of generals in our party came from poor families, but Chen Geng was different, he was born in a rich family, Chen Geng's grandfather was named Chen Yihuai, a famous general of the Xiang Army, who once followed Zeng Guofan to suppress the rebellion, and only returned to his hometown to retire when he was old.
Chen Yihuai was very fond of this little grandchild, so he often took his grandson with him to teach, and in this way, Chen Geng grew up next to his grandfather, and after learning about his grandfather's early experience, he also learned to serve the country with enthusiasm.
Faced with the "dark" country at that time, the 14-year-old Chen Geng could no longer study peacefully in school, and he wanted to be like his grandfather, but he was still young, and after being blocked by his family, Chen Geng was determined to throw himself into the Xiang Army and join the revolution despite the opposition of the elders in his family.
At that time, the Qing government had long since perished, and the feudal system that had lasted for thousands of years had finally disappeared from the land of Self-Love China, which could be replaced by a long period of scuffle between warlords everywhere.
In this case, Chen Geng had long recognized that the essence of warlords was to compete for interests, and he was no longer willing to continue to serve the warlords.
When he learned about the Chinese Communist Party, Chen Geng gradually discovered that the ideology of the Communist Party was the one that could really help the common people. So after Chen Geng left the Xiang Army, he joined the Communist Party and became an excellent party member.
"Since you have joined the party, you must always contribute to the party", thinking about it, Chen Geng decided to study, so in December 1923, Chen Geng was successfully admitted to the Army Lecture Hall in Guangzhou, and a year later, Chen Geng was again admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy, becoming the first batch of students in the military academy.
Pictured| Whampoa Military Academy
In the Whampoa Military Academy, due to Chen Geng's good study and good physical fitness, he has been known as one of the "Whampoa Three Masters".
However, there is still a saying circulating in the Whampoa Military Academy: "The three masters of Huangpu, Jiang Xianyun's pen, and He Zhihan's mouth cannot withstand Chen Geng's legs." "And what's going on?
In 1924, the first year of the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, Chiang Kai-shek, as the principal, attached great importance to this group of students, and for this reason, each student was personally interviewed by him.
Under the first meeting between the two. Instead of being afraid of the stage in the face of Chiang Kai-shek, Chen Geng talked about his glorious history of participating in the war of the Xiang Army, and Chiang Kai-shek has since paid special attention to this special student.
However, Chen Geng did not fail Chiang Kai-shek, who had saved Chiang Kai-shek's life three times.
In 1924, Chen Geng, who had just entered the Whampoa Military Academy and learned a little fame, became famous in the Battle of The Pacifying Merchant Regiment.
At that time, if you want to solve the business group, you need a scout to go to the city of Guangzhou to inquire about military information, and the average soldier only needs to investigate the general distribution of firepower in the city and the rotation of soldiers.
However, when Chen Geng was investigating, he not only drew out all the firepower arrangements of the business group, but even clearly understood the specific hobbies of the leaders of the organizations in the business group.
On the basis of Chen Geng's reconnaissance report, Chiang Kai-shek attacked the heart on the one hand and the city of Guangzhou on the other.
The caravan was soon pacified, at which point one of the leaders of the merchant group surrendered and presented his sword to Chiang Kai-shek.
With Chen Geng's investigation last year, this leader is an indomitable character who would rather die than do such a flattering thing, and just when Chen Geng felt that something might not be right, the leader suddenly pulled out the treasure island when he was close to Chiang Kai-shek and slashed at Chiang Kai-shek next to him.
Fortunately, Chen Geng had been staring at the surrendered man, watching him carry out assassination, and immediately kicked the leader over, and as the leader fell, the knife was also cut off with Chiang Kai-shek's left arm, which frightened Chiang Kai-shek, who was sparing his life.
Pictured| Chiang Kai-shek
In 1925, with the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the peace in The Shangcun Village in China was completely broken, and the rebel general Chen Jiongming took the opportunity to collect the remnants and successively occupied Huizhou and other important places, and the soldiers pointed directly at Guangzhou, where Dr. Sun Yat-sen had been the base area for many times.
In the face of Chen Jiongming's rebellion, Chiang Kai-shek, who was the second-largest figure in the Kuomintang at that time, could not bear it, so the National Revolutionary Army began the Second Crusade.
During this crusade, Chiang Kai-shek served as the commander-in-chief, and Zhou Enlai, who was the director of the political department of the Whampoa Military Academy, was also appointed director of the political department of the army, and while participating in the battle, he also had to manage the students of the Whampoa Military Academy in the army.
There was still a certain gap between Chen Jiongming's remnants and the formal troops of the Eastern Crusade Army, and Chen Jiongming was defeated and retreated, and the soldiers were defeated to the old nest huizhou.
The terrain of Huizhou was fierce, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Chen Jiongming's troops stubbornly resisted, and the Eastern Expeditionary Army led by Chiang Kai-shek could not capture huizhou city for a while. In order to achieve victory as soon as possible, Zhou Enlai suggested to Chiang Kai-shek: "Concentrate all forces to attack, but open one side of the net and gather and annihilate it."
Zhou Enlai's idea was good, but the siege was difficult, and if the siege was not strong, it would be difficult for the rebels in Huizhou to have the idea of fleeing.
Just when everyone was worried about who was going to attack the city, Chen Geng took the initiative to ask for help and led his troops to attack the city.
After receiving approval, Chen Geng personally led the siege of the city, and when the vanguard troops had already climbed the city wall, Chen Geng's ankle was unfortunately hit by a stray bullet.
In order to win the war, Chen Geng ignored the suggestion of the people around him to "treat first", and forcefully withdrew the bullet from his body, and even went directly to the wall without bandaging.
As soon as the enemy army saw that the city wall was lost, they scattered and fled, and the city of Huizhou was occupied by the Eastern Expeditionary Army, and Chen Geng was also appointed as the commander of the guard company, closely protecting Chiang Kai-shek's safety.
However, when Chiang Kai-shek took advantage of the victory to pursue and prepare to completely eliminate Chen Jiongming's troops, the accident happened again.
Figure | a schematic map of the Second Eastern Expedition and the Southern Expedition of the National Government
Originally, the remaining battles were the best to fight, after all, there were not many warriors around Chen Jiongming, but the commander of the Third Division, Tan Shuqing, was greedy and aggressive, resulting in being surrounded by Chen Jiongming.
At this moment, Chiang Kai-shek, who was sitting in the Third Division, was eager to kill Tan Shuqing.
Chen Jiongming's troops on the periphery began shelling the Third Division after encircling the Regiment, and the Third Division suffered heavy casualties, and in such a situation, it was a matter of time before the Third Division was wiped out.
Faced with this situation, Chiang Kai-shek, as the commander of the First Army, also had no master, and in desperation, Chen Geng decided: Break through.
When Chen Jiongming launched a general offensive, Chen Geng pulled up Chiang Kai-shek, who was still unwilling to leave, and ran on his back, this back was three hours, and Chiang Kai-shek on Chen Geng's back was extremely painful in his heart, and the first time he led his troops alone to suffer a major defeat, he had no face to see the Kuomintang dignitaries.
The good villains threw off the enemy army far away under Chen Geng's efforts, and Chen Geng just wanted to sit down and catch his breath, and by the way, he treated the bleeding wound on his ankle, and saw that Chiang Kai-shek was about to pull out his gun and commit suicide, but was dissuaded by Chen Geng.
When Chiang Kai-shek escaped with the help of Chen Geng and was born, in order to win the victory of the war, he also had to get back the lost face.
So Chiang Kai-shek, after gathering the remaining personnel of the Third Division, decided to let the First Division carry out a counterattack, but the headquarters could not communicate with the First Division.
In order for the First Division to get news of the attack, soldiers were needed to go to the First Division's garrison to deliver letters, but none of the hundreds of soldiers around Chiang Kai-shek dared to take the risk.
Just when Chiang Kai-shek was preparing to "have some compassion," Chen Geng took the initiative to stand up.
At that time, the Third Division was surrounded by Chen Jiongming's troops, and once it encountered not only his own death, but even affected the entire war situation, how to deliver letters without being discovered became the main difficulty for Chen Geng to send letters.
The battle of Huizhou |
However, this witty Chen Geng dressed himself as a businessman, did not carry any guns and weapons, and even specially found the local old farmer to learn a few words of less authentic dialect, and after everything was ready, Chen Geng took the letter and rushed over the mountains to the First Division.
On this way, he encountered a lot of rebel inspections, and Chen Geng said: "Sir, you search at will, I really don't bring anything, I am a small trader." ”
"No, then you can't go, martial law is here." The rebel leader said solemnly.
Chen Geng saw the situation and helplessly took out the ocean and said flatteringly: "Several bosses, you have also worked hard recently, these small money please a few bosses to drink tea, I am indeed a small business, Huizhou City is still waiting for me to receive the goods in the past, if it is late, my family treasurer will have to scold me to death, please a few officials and grandfathers to do well, let me go!" With that, he handed the ocean to the leading soldier.
When the rebels saw the money, they naturally would not bother with Chen Geng anymore, so they also saw Chen Geng let him go.
Along the way, there are many such autumn winds, but fortunately, Chen Geng is witty and can get by every time. In this way, Chen Geng arrived safely at the First Division and delivered Chiang Kai-shek's letter.
The First Division launched a general offensive at the time and place specified in the letter, and promptly depleted Chen Jiongming's rebels to avoid Chiang Kai-shek being encircled and suppressed again.
After these three rescues, Chiang Kai-shek attached great importance to Chen Geng and even praised Chen Geng himself: "Chen Geng is wise and courageous, and he is the most trusted student in my military academy."
But to Chiang Kai-shek's surprise, Chen Geng went farther and farther away from him. At that time, with the death of Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek could no longer tolerate the existence of the Communist Party, so he was ready to launch the "April 12" movement to eliminate the Communist Party within the Kuomintang and the hidden Communist Party members.
At that time, Chen Geng knocked on the door and entered Chiang Kai-shek's office, because Chiang Kai-shek had absolute trust in Chen Geng, Chiang Kai-shek did not put away the communist list, and Chen Geng saw that he already understood Chiang Kai-shek's approach, so after leaving Chiang Kai-shek's office, he immediately notified the Communist Party to withdraw, and he also left Chiang Kai-shek and left the National Government.
Second, the road meets Qian Dajun
The picture | a photo of the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy
After Chiang Kai-shek carried out a counter-revolutionary coup, countless Communists were persecuted, and organizationally, in order to avoid Chen Geng being arrested by the Kuomintang, Chen Geng was specially sent to the Soviet Union to participate in military studies.
Two years later, Chen Geng returned to the mainland from the Soviet Union, arrived in Shanghai again, and secretly cooperated with Zhou Enlai in the intelligence collection work in Shanghai.
Chen Geng, who was engaged in intelligence work in Shanghai under the pseudonym Wang Yong, deliberately grew a beard, wore pants, and hats in order to build his network of connections, and looked like a street corner hooligan.
However, it was precisely because of this that Chen Geng was able to mix well with the three religions and nine streams in Shanghai, and even Chen Geng, the police and secret agent in Shanghai, could figure it out clearly.
Under their full trust, Chen Geng's work in Shanghai was carried out very well, and even if Dai Kasa signed a wanted warrant for the arrest of Chen Geng at that time, the inspector of the British Concession in Shanghai would ask "Mr. Wang" to assist in the arrest of Chen Geng.
At that time, Chen Geng was very open in Shanghai, and with the cooperation of Zhou Enlai, he rescued many important Communist Party members who had been arrested by the Kuomintang.
In May 1930, the Congress of Soviets was held in the British Concession in Shanghai, and in order to ensure the smooth convening of this meeting, Chen Geng deliberately transferred personnel from Tekko to conduct reconnaissance and protection, and only after finding a suitable place did he properly arrange the members of the meeting to ensure their personal safety during the meeting.
Under Chen Geng's arrangement, the meeting was held smoothly, and the Shanghai police and agents did not find any trace of the participants, which Chen Geng and his men contributed to.
As Shanghai Teco's actions became more and more meticulous, the Kuomintang agents could not grasp the handle of Teco at all, so they could only watch as Teco was "acting in a wrong way", and in order to destroy Shanghai Teco in one fell swoop, the Kuomintang arrested and abducted Gu Shunzhang.
Gu Shunzhang was the chief of the special branch, the most important person in the special branch besides Zhou Enlai, who almost mastered the underground intelligence network of the Communist Party in Shanghai, and even Gu Shunzhang's home was once a meeting place for special branch personnel, and his family had seen the Shanghai underground party personnel.
Pictured| Chiang Kai-shek and Qian Dajun
In order to ensure the safety of the underground party in Shanghai, Zhou Enlai and Chen Geng and other section chiefs issued an order for all the transfers in a short period of time, and demanded that the "four sections" specifically responsible for assassination carry out hoe rape, wait for the opportunity to kill Gu Shunzhang, and kill all his family members to avoid leaking Communist secrets.
Subsequently, Chen Geng went to Tianjin under the arrangement of the organization, but on the train to Tianjin, Chen Geng was actually discovered.
At that time, Chen Geng had just prepared to get on the train from the Pukou Railway Station, and the alert people got that he was looking around to see if there were any spies hiding in the crowd.
Unexpectedly, this look did not matter, I actually saw some old acquaintances, they were preparing to board the exclusive carriage prepared for them, he carefully recognized, among those people were his own teacher at the Whampoa Military Academy, Qian Dajun, and several classmates of the school.
Qian Dajun was originally the commander of the Songhu garrison, although he was transferred to Jiangnan to "suppress bandits", but because official affairs had not yet been handed over, he left Shanghai, coincidentally Chen Geng and Qian Dajun happened to be on a train.
In order to ensure that his whereabouts were secret, Chen Geng deliberately walked to the last train car, found a corner to sit silently after getting on the train, and covered half of his face with a long hat, pretending to sleep in the corner, others thought that it was an unimportant person in the corner, so no one paid attention to him, which was just as Chen Geng wished.
As the train slowly started, Chen Geng was preparing to go to sleep, and in that special carriage, Qian Dajun was instructing the guards: "You go to find a man with a beard and a long-brimmed hat, you go to the back of the carriages to find it, pay attention to the corners, remember, the person's surname is Chen, you invite him over." ”
With Qian Dajun's order, the guards did indeed find a person in the corner of the last carriage who met all the conditions the commander said.
The guard then walked over to Chen Geng and said to him, "Hello Mr. Chen, our commander has asked you to come and sit down." ”
Pictured| Chen Geng
Hearing the guard's words, Chen Geng thought to himself, Qian Dajun must have seen me, otherwise he couldn't send the guards over.
In the face of the invitation, Chen Geng could only refuse: "I am not surnamed Chen, you have recognized the wrong person, I am a small businessman, how can I know your chief!" ”
Originally, the guards did not know what the chief asked him to look for, and could only find it according to the chief's description, but he saw that Chen Geng was sincere, so he said "disturbed" and left.
The guards who looked around did not find anyone other than Chen Geng who was more similar than the chief's description, so they had the courage to tell Qian Dajun what they were looking for, but Qian Dajun laughed and said, "He is a monkey spirit, if you can bring him over, I will have to sit for you in this position." After saying that, he asked the guards to lead the way and look for it himself.
Originally, Chen Geng thought that he had confused the past, so he then pretended to sleep, but he did not expect that this time Qian Dajun personally came, took a look at Chen Geng who was pretending to be asleep, slapped him on the shoulder, and said: "Look, I really did not recognize the wrong person, go away, Mr. Chen, go to my carriage and sit down." ”
Chen Geng looked at Qian Dajun in front of him and was helpless, so he had to go to the exclusive carriage with him. As soon as the two of them sat down, Qian Dajun said, "I looked like you when I was at the station just now, what have you been doing lately?" ”
Chen Geng listened to Qian Dajun's inquiry, secretly thinking about the purpose of his doing so, so he pretended to answer easily: "What else can I do, I haven't done anything, I am trying to go out and find a job." ”
When Qian Dajun heard Chen Geng say this, he asked in a half-convinced tone, "How did you change from evil to righteousness?" Not with them? ”
Chen Geng replied, "Alas, if we can't talk about reforming evil and returning to righteousness, others don't want me." ”
In this way, the two talked about the past from now on, talking about rescuing Chiang Kai-shek, and at that time, Qian Dajun, as the head of Chiang Kai-shek's guard regiment, was actually scattered by Chen Jiongming's troops, putting Chiang Kai-shek in danger.
Thanks to Chen Geng's rescue, Chiang Kai-shek was able to retrieve a life, and Qian Dajun was also ordered to be shot by Chiang Kai-shek because of his unfavorable handling of affairs.
Figure | Qian Dajun handwriting
From Qian Dajun's words, Chen Geng also understood that he did not want to seize his life, but the two camps were opposed after all, and if they could be less together, they would be less together, so when the train stopped, Chen Geng immediately resigned.
Chen Geng got off the train and did not leave the train station, but found another carriage to get on the train, but Chen Geng did not expect that his every move was watched by Qian Dajun.
With Qian Dajun waving his hand, the guards next to him found Chen Geng again, smiled and said to Chen Geng, "Mr. Chen, why haven't you gotten out of the car yet?" In that case, our officer invites you over. ”
Chen Geng knew that Qian Dajun was eyeing himself, but his face did not show panic, but instead came to Qian Dajun's carriage casually, and as soon as he sat down, Qian Dajun said to him: "Don't be afraid, I know you didn't leave over there, I let you come over to chat, I don't arrest you, but you have to be careful, the principal is still very concerned about you, if you are caught, it will not be so easy to run out!" ”
Hearing Qian Dajun's relationship, Chen Geng pretended to be sincere and said, "Oh, you see, where the teacher is talking, you are my teacher, but I can't trust others, I can't trust you." ”
The two started small talk mode again, until Chen Geng arrived at his destination in Tianjin before getting off the bus.
Qian Dajun did not arrest Chen Geng, and Qian Dajun also knew that Chen Geng was a rich man's son, and he did not suffer anything when he was a child, watching him look at Chen Geng's appearance of being depressed now, he hurriedly took out 300 pieces of ocean and forced it into Chen Geng.
After Chen Geng accepted the ocean, the two separated.
After Qian Dajun reluctantly sent Chen Geng away, the guard asked, "Commander, why didn't you just arrest him? ”
Qian Dajun said with a smile: "You stupid child, you don't know the story of Chen Geng, I think he was one of the three masters of Huangpu in those days, and even more so, he also saved the life of the chairman of the committee three times, and now most of the senior officials in the military circles within the party are students of the huangpu phase I, and they are also Chen Geng's old classmates. What should those classmates of Chen Geng do? If you really get caught, your commander will be equivalent to being hostile to the high-level officers of the whole party, and even be hated by the chairman of the committee. ”
epilogue
After the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, Chen Geng often talked to others about Qian Dajun giving him the ocean, and said: "I just didn't see him, if I saw him, I would definitely return the money to him, and by the way, pull him into the Communist Party." ”
Unfortunately, Chen Geng and Qian Dajun's meeting on the train was the last time in his life, and when the news of Chen Geng's death reached Taiwan, Qian Dajun was deeply saddened.