Chapter 20 Deng Wenyi

Deng Wenyi was 29 years old at the time.His grandfather was a street vendor selling clothes, and his father was the owner of a candy grocery store in Liling, Hunan.As a schoolboy he was deeply influenced by his principal, Wang Yingzhao, a graduate of the Baoding Military Academy: he plunged the young student headlong into the traditional novels and epics of knight-errant swordsmen and bandits.Mr. Wang will tell the students the story of "Water Margin" every Tuesday night, describing and analyzing the characters in the book and their personalities, their martial arts, social background and the righteous behavior of "green forest heroes".Therefore, under the influence of the principal, Deng and his classmates gradually regarded the characters in "Xue Rengui's Expedition to the East", "Xue Dingshan Pingxi", and "Ban Chao Ping Central Asia" as their role models.

Therefore, Deng Wenyi, the son of a small proprietor, grew up with a kind of romantic determination like many Chinese teenagers who are attracted by martial arts novels—just like Mao Zedong, he was determined to be a brave, help the poor, unknown, save the country and the people, work hard, An honest "gentleman" who is not moved by money and sex, a modern "knight-errant".His determination was reinforced by the financial difficulties he encountered in high school.At that time, his family had no money to pay for his board and lodging at school.Twice Deng had to walk 60 miles home, begging his parents for money to pay.But no matter how much Deng cried, his mother could only scrape together a dollar, so he had to learn to gamble to save enough money to pay for his education.This can only strengthen his admiration for the "green forest heroes" and his respect for the brothers in the novel who "kill the rich and help the poor".Inspired by them, Deng refused to marry, and on the eve of graduating from middle school, he entered Cheng Qian's military school in Guangzhou and "joined the revolution."He heard about the Whampoa Military Academy as soon as he entered the school, so he successfully passed the Whampoa School's entrance examination.

Deng joined a Whampoa student group that included Xiao Zanyu and Zhang Zhen (later Chiang's military and police chief).Members of this group were sent to study in the Soviet Union.They are part of a cohort of 300 students enrolled in China to attend the Moscow Aviation Military Academy or Sun Yat-sen University.These institutions were established in 1925 and belonged to the Far East of the Communist International to train Chinese personnel.About 150 of them were recruited by the Kuomintang in Guangzhou through the recommendation of Whampoa and other designated military units, and passed highly competitive examinations.

In order to fight against the pro-communist "Young Soldiers Federation", the "Sun Wen Doctrine Research Association" was established in Huangpu from 1924 to 1925. Deng Wenyi herself was a student leader among them, just like He Zhonghan, Yang Yinzhi, Feng Ti and Zeng Kuoqing , all belong to the "big head". When his application to go to Moscow was accepted by the Kuomintang headquarters in Canton, he was sent to Sun Yat-sen University.As a student leader, he became a target of the Communist Party.Although he was a member of the Kuomintang branch and continued to secretly meet with other Whampoa Military Academy cadets, inspired by He Zhonghan's anti-communist zealotry to keep the Sun Wen Doctrine Society alive, it was clear that his superiors were increasingly certain of him. Loyalty to the Comintern.

Within three months of Deng Wenyi's arrival at the Communist University, he was elected a member of the "Commune Committee," became chairman of the "Health Soviet," and coached the women's shooting team.He was also later named class president and head of the student group to which he belonged. In the spring of 1927, when the Comintern began recruiting a special detachment to work in M. N．When Roy returned to China under the leadership of Roy, Deng Wenyi was one of 40 students selected by Sun Yat-sen University.But when the steamer arrived at Canton from Vladivostok, Deng landed and disassociated himself from the detachment, reaffirming his allegiance to the Chiang Kai-shek faction within the Kuomintang.

Later in the same year, Deng Wenyi joined the army and went north to join the revolutionary army that had begun to fight with each other, and began to mobilize military students in the Whampoa circle to collect anti-communist intelligence and study books bought in the Soviet Union detailing the operation of the Cheka and the GPU (National Political Administration) , and use this to independently form its own anti-espionage agency. During 1927-1928, Deng Wenyi suggested that the spy unit be placed in the headquarters of the Security Service in the provinces in order to carry out its various tasks. Maintain surveillance of the commanders of each column, and carry out spy activities among the non-military population.Chiang Kai-shek finally approved the plan, so in the early spring of 1932, an action team was formed in Nanchang Jingtang Lane under the control of Deng Wenyi.

Deng Wenyi's investigation department and secret investigation team are two different things: unlike the two independently operating departments in the capital Nanjing, it is a provincial-level network organization. Although it is attached to the garrison camps in the three provinces, it has its own formal status.Until the "January 8th Incident" in 1932, the secret investigation team has always been an informal and unofficially funded organization. During the "January 28th" Incident, the Japanese Navy and the 19th Route Army fought continuously for three months in the Zhabei District of the northern capital of Shanghai, destroying Zhabei.

The Nineteenth Route Army—Cai Tingkai, the commander of the army, suddenly became a national hero and a world celebrity. Chiang Kai-shek, under the pressure of public opinion to reinforce the Nineteenth Route Army, ordered the Eighty-seventh Division and the Eighty-Seventh Division led by Wang Jingjiu and Yu Jishi The Eighth Division formed a new Fifth Route Army under the leadership of Zhang Zhizhong, the dean of the Central Military Academy.