In the early morning of April 27, 1931, Chen Lifu, the head of the central unification secret service, after receiving information, sent someone to arrest Zhou Enlai and Chen Geng in Shanghai. But when they opened the residence of Zhou Enlai described in the intelligence, they found that there was a void, and Zhou Enlai and Chen Geng had secretly evacuated. Chen Lifu and the others, who were very upset, looked at the fragments of documents that were still smoking in the hearth, and knew that Zhou Enlai and Chen Geng had not gone far.
Xu En, the head of the Central Unification Committee, once asked his subordinates: "Who did you see on the road?" ”
His men told him that he had seen an old man and a woman in a cheongsam pass by, and there was no one else. Xu En, who heard the news, was furious and angrily denounced the group of men as waste, and they eventually found a pile of wigs and a cheongsam by the trash can. After Chen Lifu saw it, he even lamented: "Only 5 minutes away, you can catch Zhou Enlai!" ”
What's going on here?
What is the connection between the old man and the woman who passed by the agents of the Central Unification And The Premier Zhou Enlai and General Chen Geng? In this issue, we will take you back to Premier Zhou's thrilling escape experience when he was engaged in underground work in Shanghai.
After Chen Lifu and the others saw the wig, the cheongsam, and some beards, they angrily told their subordinates that the old man and woman just now were Zhou Enlai and Chen Geng they were going to arrest. His subordinates looked at Chen Lifu with a puzzled face and asked, "Isn't Zhou Enlai a bearded man?" It turned out that when Premier Zhou organized the underground work in Shanghai, he always had a big beard, and insiders jokingly called him "Hu Gong". The information that Chen Lifu and others received at that time was also told that he had a big beard when describing Zhou Enlai's appearance.
As a result, when the central command agents were assigned to the mission, the focus of the search was on men with large beards. But they did not expect that Zhou Enlai and Chen Geng were so alert, how could they forget to change their appearance and characteristics? The members of the CCP's underground organization have mastered a basic skill, that is, the legendary "transfiguration technique". This technique is not as magical as depicted in the novel, it is actually a blindfold, using people's stereotypes to create cognitive illusions.
For example, when people see a person wearing a cheongsam, they subconsciously assume that it is a woman. If the person had long hair and behaved a little more gracefully, he would not be able to identify the gender at all in the night. Even when men pretend to be women, people are influenced by their own stereotypes and ignore some crucial details. Quick changeovers and makeup are essential skills for every underground worker, who is able to change their identity in a very short period of time and then escape from dangerous places.
Our party's underground workers, including Zhou Enlai and Chen Geng, had small props such as beards, braces, glasses, and even wig covers in their pockets. With these small props, they can transform from a bearded man into a young woman in an instant, and they can also change from a young boy to a white-haired old man. The traitor who confessed Zhou Enlai's residence this time was Gu Shunzhang, who had previously worked in the Security Section, and he was also an intelligence officer who was proficient in this transfiguration technique.
Gu Shunzhang's real appearance is more feminine, and he can be regarded as a relatively beautiful white-faced student. But before being arrested by the Kuomintang, Gu Shunzhang in the intelligence photos was a different face, not only sharp-billed monkey cheeks, but also full of folds and teeth. This image of Gu Shunzhang is exactly the "fake face" of his own design, and the special dentures are put into his mouth, and Qingxiu Xiaosheng immediately becomes obscene. General Chen Geng had even learned this technique in the Soviet Union, and his camouflage skills were not inferior to Gu Shunzhang's, and he escaped danger several times by changing his image.
Premier Zhou Enlai was also proficient in this skill, although he did not go to the Soviet Union to learn secret agent technology like Chen Geng, but Premier Zhou Enlai had a solid foundation in opera and martial arts. In his early years in school, Zhou Enlai had studied martial arts with Han Muxia, the great hero of Jinmen, and he was actually very proficient in the structure of the human body. When he was studying at Nankai Middle School, Zhou Enlai studied acting in the drama club, and what he was best at at that time was to dress up as a man and a woman, and was called "a must" by his classmates and teachers. Premier Zhou's appearance conditions are very good, Qing xiu Junlang's body is well-proportioned, and he can freely switch between a beautiful prince and a beautiful woman.
Of course, when Premier Zhou Enlai was engaged in underground work in Shanghai, he played many roles, sometimes as an old man with a vicissitudes of face, and sometimes as a coachman with a rickety body. It can be said that many identities of celebrities, peddlers and pawns, and even the three religions and nine streams, Zhou Enlai can disguise themselves as eight or nine inseparable. It is also this rapid and easy-to-tolerate technology that has saved Premier Zhou, who is wanted by the Kuomintang, several times, such as the great crisis caused by Gu Shunzhang's defection.
On April 25, 1931, Chen Duxiu, Liu Shaoqi, Qu Qiubai, Zhou Enlai and others gathered together, and they were enthusiastically discussing some things. Suddenly, the guard outside the door sent in an urgent telegram with only 8 large characters on it.
"Dawn is sick, grandma is critically ill."
After Premier Zhou scanned the telegram, his expression immediately became nervous, and he immediately announced the adjournment of the meeting and arranged for the participants to leave in an orderly manner. It turned out that "Dawn" was Gu Shunzhang's code name, and "Youxia" indicated that he had defected. This telegram was sent by Comrade Qian Zhuangfei at the risk of death, and he saved the entire shanghai underground organization in danger.
If it were not for this telegram, not only would the leaders attending the meeting be in danger that day, but even the comrades lurking everywhere would be implicated.
Zhou Enlai took decisive action at that time, he organized the transfer of a large number of organ staff in one day, and informed the underground party comrades lurking in all corners of Shanghai. Zhou Enlai knew that his information had been exposed, but he could not leave his residence, because there were a large number of confidential documents and materials of our party stored there.
Once these documents fall into the hands of the enemy, the consequences will be unimaginable. After sending off the comrades of the organ, Zhou Enlai decided to completely destroy the materials before leaving, and Chen Geng was arranged to stay with him.
As an important member of the Central Special Branch, Zhou Enlai felt that Chen Geng had the responsibility to leave the two to deal with these documents with him, and at the same time, his relationship with Chen Geng was very unusual. When he was the director of the political department in Huangpu, Zhou Enlai knew Chen Geng as a student, and he accidentally discovered Chen Geng's talent for acting. Coupled with the fact that Chen Geng later studied as a secret agent in the Soviet Union, Zhou Enlai was more at ease with him staying, and the two people also had a care.
After the two men stayed in the residence, they threw some important information into the furnace and burned it. At the same time, Chen Lifu and Xu Enzeng also carried out secret arrests of Zhou Enlai and others at the suggestion of Chiang Kai-shek, based on the information provided by Gu Shunzhang. The Kuomintang agent deliberately chose to catch a turtle in an urn at Zhou Enlai's residence in the early morning, but he did not expect to be disappointed in the end. They were very low-key along the way, and it was not until they were about to arrive at the apartment where the intelligence was written that they began to search for zhou Enlai and Chen Geng. Coincidentally, Zhou Enlai and Chen Geng threw the last document into the fire a few minutes before Chen Lifu and others broke into the room.
Seeing that their task was complete, the two men seized the time to evacuate. They knew that if they went out like this, they would definitely throw themselves into the net, and at this time, the transfiguration technique that Chen Geng and Zhou Enlai were good at came in handy.
Using some of the existing props around him, Chen Geng disguised himself as an old man with a slender figure, while Zhou Enlai quickly shaved off his beard, changed into a cheongsam, put on a wig, and transformed into a young girl of good age. After they left the house, they met Kuomintang agents on the road, and one of them asked them if they saw a bearded man.
The old man told the agent that there were no bearded men here, and then left with the young girl in the cheongsam. The group of Kuomintang agents who came to search and arrest them broke through the door a few minutes later, but found that there was no one inside. Chen Lifu and Xu En, seeing that the stove in the house was still smoking, concluded that Zhou Enlai had not gone far, and hurriedly ordered a chase.
However, they searched around but found no one, only to find the small props used by Zhou Enlai and Chen Geng next to the trash can not far away--wigs, beards and cheongsam.
At this moment, Chen Lifu suddenly woke up to the fact that the old man and woman he had just met were Zhou Enlai and Chen Geng. Chen Lifu, who missed the opportunity, was remorseful, and even scolded this group of subordinates as rice buckets, and then sighed bitterly: "Only 5 minutes away, I caught Zhou Enlai."
But no matter how remorseful Chen Lifu was, zhou Enlai and Chen Geng could no longer be found, and they had long been taken to safety by the comrades who had come to meet them.
At this time, the sun has come out, Chen Lifu and others walked out of the apartment, looking at the traffic on the streets of Shanghai that woke up, they could only return disappointedly.
Zhou Enlai, who escaped to the day of his birth, was extremely grateful to Comrade Qian Zhuangfei as an undercover agent. It turned out that Qian Zhuangfei, who was Xu Enzeng's secretary, left Xu Enzeng overnight after exposing Gu Shunzhang's rebellion to Zhou Enlai. Before leaving, Qian Zhuangfei also left a letter to Xu Enzeng, telling him not to embarrass his wife and children, otherwise he would expose Xu Enzeng's scandal to the public.
It turned out that on the night that Xu En had received Chiang Kai-shek's secret report, he and a group of fox friends went to the place of affair to be happy. Qian Zhuangfei, who was Xu En's former secretary, inadvertently discovered the telegram, and Gu Shunzhang's defection was learned by Zhou Enlai.
In October 1934, Comrade Qian Zhuangfei followed the Long March of the Central Red Army, and he also participated in the Zunyi Conference and was appointed deputy secretary-general of the General Political Department. But soon after, Comrade Qian Zhuangfei suddenly lost his voice and completely disappeared as if the world had evaporated. At that time, Premier Zhou Enlai also sent people to look for him, but there was no news at all, and due to the tense situation of the situation, the organization could only stop there. It was not until the Red Army arrived in Yan'an that the organization learned his exact news, it turned out that he was kidnapped by bandits after separating from the team, and tragically died at the hands of this group of outlaws at the age of 40.
"If it weren't for The Money, we wouldn't be there long ago."
Premier Zhou later mentioned Qian Zhuangfei many times, and his words were full of gratitude and nostalgia. But people have never forgotten this great red agent, Jinsha County built the monument to the martyr Qian Zhuangfei in 1997, and later built the Qian Zhuangfei Martyrs Cemetery.
In 2009, martyr Qian Zhuangfei was named one of the 100 heroic and exemplary figures who made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China, and his deeds were forever recorded in history.
The revolutionaries of the older generation fought for the final victory of the ideal cause, and they gave full play to their wisdom and talents, and even paid the price of their lives in exchange for the liberation and independence of the republic. All they hope for in their lives is to build an independent, autonomous, equal, prosperous and strong new China, so that all Chinese can live happily in such a country. Today, China's achievements have attracted the world's attention, and those ancestors who once shed blood and sacrificed for us must smile under the Nine Springs. Today's China is as you wish, and the future China will surely create glory again, leading the world's trend and the style of the times!