In the long river of history, some stories are like dusty old photos, always inadvertently jumping into reality, which makes people's eyes shine. Have you ever heard of the underground members of the Communist Party hidden in the ranks of the top generals of the Kuomintang? This is not just an ordinary piece of history, but a spy war story about the last battle, wisdom and bravery. In the spring of 1995, a chance trip to Macao allowed Han Jing to uncover the secrets of his father and his comrades-in-arms in those years, these "invisible generals" in the Kuomintang army.
In that turbulent era, Han Liancheng and Lu Wenzhen were both high-ranking generals of the Kuomintang, but their identities had an unknown side: they were underground members of the Communist Party lurking within the Kuomintang. This dual life is full of dangers and challenges, and every day is a brush with death.
Lü Wenzhen's name was well-known in the Kuomintang army, but it was no less important in the secret archives of the Communist Party. He and Han Liancheng were not only brothers on the battlefield, but also stood shoulder to shoulder on the secret front of the Communist Party. It wasn't until that chance encounter in 1995 that Han Jing learned from Lu Lao that this old man turned out to be his father's comrade-in-arms and a long-dormant underground party member.
The story begins with the military careers of the two veteran generals. After graduating from the third phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, Han Liancheng's military talent had already been appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek. Not only did he hold a high position in the Kuomintang army, but he was personally selected by Chiang Kai-shek to enter the National Defense Research Institute, an institution designed to train all-round generals, modeled after Hitler's elite education model. And here, the friendship between Han Liancheng and Lu Wenzhen began and gradually deepened.
Lu Wenzhen's identity is more complicated. He joined the Communist Party in his early years, but lost contact with the party due to the chaos of the war. It was not until near the end of the Anti-Japanese War that he was able to reconnect with the party, and the driving force behind all this was his friend Han Liancheng. After a secret meeting with Zhou Enlai in 1942, Han Liancheng officially became a member of the party. He used his influence within the Kuomintang to provide great help to the party's work.
This clandestine collaboration is more than just a military operation. In the mountain city of Chongqing, it was already turbulent at that time, and various intelligence activities were carried out day and night. Han Liancheng and Lu Wenzhen, while maintaining their status as high-ranking generals, also need to deal with secret orders from the Communist Party, and the mental pressure and physical danger brought by this dual life are unimaginable to ordinary people. They must be extremely careful in their daily words and deeds, so as not to reveal their identities, and if they are caught by the Kuomintang intelligence services, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Han Liancheng and Lu Wenzhen's work is not just simple intelligence gathering. They are also responsible for setting up a secure communication network to ensure the safe delivery of messages. The danger of such work is that as soon as the communication link is discovered by the enemy, there will be a chain reaction that will lead to the collapse of the entire underground network. Every contact they have has been full of crises, and every piece of information they convey may be related to the life and death of countless comrades.
In this high-pressure and intensive working environment, the friendship between Han Liancheng and Lu Wenzhen has also deepened. They are not only comrades-in-arms, but also brothers who support each other. In the fight against the Japanese army, they also had to carefully deal with the suspicions and surveillance within the Kuomintang, and this double life put them under great psychological pressure.
It was not until after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War that the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party broke out again, and the situation became more complicated. Although Han Liancheng and Lu Wenzhen still maintain their status as high-ranking generals, their inner struggles and uncertainty about the future make their actions more cautious. Even in the relative peace period after the war, they did not dare to relax and always maintained a high degree of vigilance against the enemy.
In this context, Han Jing went on a business trip to Macao by chance in 1995 and visited his father's old comrade-in-arms Lu Wenzhen. It was an emotional reunion. The old man didn't say much, but every sentence revealed deep emotions and memories of the past years. When Lu Wenzhen asked Han Jing if he knew anyone from the military, this seemingly ordinary question was actually a kind of temptation and memory of close cooperation in the past.
Although Han Jing was not directly involved in military work, he had been exposed to it since he was a child, and he had his own understanding and feelings about this period of history. He knew that when Li Kenong was mentioned, it meant a special historical memory Li Kenong was not only a senior general of the Kuomintang, but also a well-known intelligence figure within the Communist Party, codenamed one of the "Three Heroes of Longtan".
Lu Wenzhen is well aware of this, and in his conversation with Han Jing, he reveals infinite nostalgia and complex emotions for the past. He mentioned that the relationship with Li Kenong was only connected through the line of Luo Qingchang.