Chapter 123 Linli Training Course

The training class that Dai Li set up in Hunan is located in an old middle school site in Linli County outside Changsha.When this important cadre training school was established in March 1938, it only existed in the form of a "training class". In 1937, when the planning team that established the school began to operate, the military system had not yet been formally established.So Dai Li used the power of the Military Commission and named it the "Special Training Class of the Military Commission".But the General Office of the Military Commission refused to recognize it, so he had no choice but to use his authority as the director of the Central Police Academy Educational Committee to change its name to "Central Police Academy Special Police Training Class".

The graduates of the first phase of the military reunification were absorbed into this central police academy, but within the military reunification they were only called members of the "special training class".The trainees later used the "temporary training class" or "Linli training class" to refer to their training class at that time. They were extremely proud of being the first students of the new agent training school of the military.Because, of course, they are all strongly aware that this is almost equivalent to the Whampoa Military Academy.Moreover, Dai Li's determination to send the best talents of the military command to Linli as instructors made this even more obvious.After graduation, these men and women became the backbone of other training units, such as Liao Huaping who later directed the Lanzhou Special Training Unit.Wu Lang served as the deputy director of the Qianyang special training class, and Jin Shuyun served as the director of the Southeast special training class.

Yu Lexing, the deputy head teacher, gave a speech on intelligence work, which aroused the sense of superiority of the students in the Linli training class.The veteran agent Yu Lexing, who has more experience, compares their new career with the mission of Zhuge Liang, the protagonist in the movie. "Zhuge Kongming is the most accomplished and outstanding organizer and practitioner of intelligence work in the history of our country." He not only established a "scientific intelligence network" among the three countries, but also adopted "the most talented senior secret service personnel" "At the same time, he himself is an outstanding analyst and an extraordinary combat commander.

Although hundreds of students were introduced by relatives and friends who were already in the secret service, not all the freshmen realized that they had entered Linli when they first arrived in Linli, put on their gray uniforms and received their twelve-month allowance. Military.More than 800 young people from Liang Ganqiao in Zhengzhou were told that they had participated in the training class for "technicians of the Directorate Department" of the Kuomintang army.Many of them were homeless, and when they first arrived in Linli and were unfamiliar with Hunan, they were sent to work with teachers to build school buildings and a grass-and-bamboo auditorium that could accommodate thousands of people.Perhaps they realized the truth of the training when director Yu Lexing named a part of the auditorium "Yunongdi" after another name of the military leader to please Dai Li.

Yu Lexing is actually just the deputy director of the training class, and Dai Li is the nominal director.The Director of Academic Affairs, Xie Ligong, was sent by Dai Li to counteract Yu Lexing's influence on the students.After the students finally realized that they were going to spy school, they became very disturbed.They gradually understand the truth of training.When students undergo "enlistment training" (mainly observing their political and ideological status) between March and June, their family backgrounds are investigated and their personalities are tested to determine their best future jobs.When they went to "team training" and saw that they had learned all the techniques of search and arrest, kidnapping, assassination, etc., many were afraid of regretting it.

The strongest resistance came from a group of girls whom Dai Li asked Hu Zongnan to recruit from the seventh campus of the Changsha Central Military Academy.These young women thought they were abandoning their pens to join the army to fight against Japan and save the country. When they learned that they were being trained to become agents, and their enemies included the Communist Party, they asked to go back to their original schools.Both Dai Li and Yu Lexing reacted very cautiously.Because they were recruited by Hu Zongnan and their families were near Changsha, these young women were not directly coerced.Instead, Xie Ligong and the political training instructor spent the whole day telling them the importance of working for the military command and the various possibilities for future promotion.In the end, they reluctantly agreed to stay and train.Under the tutelage of famous female agents such as Wu Yukun, Zhao Shiying, Peng Jiacui, Wu Kuiyuan, Wu Shunhua, and the vicious squadron leader An Zhanjiang (whose husband was shot to death with a pistol for annoying her), they gradually became the backbone and core of the army. field agent.

From then on, all new students had to sign a form to voluntarily join the military order.As Dai Li said: "As long as you put a trap around their necks at the beginning, you can control them later." In the initial stage of the six-month training in the Linli training class, considerable effort was spent on "ideological education," and, according to Shen Zui, who worked in the General Affairs Office at the time, most of the political training was about anti-communism. Wang Zuhua, the head of the political training instructor, tried to convince the students that the Communist Party was lying when it said they had won the war against the Japanese.Students were skeptical of his claims.But this political instructor, along with the political instructors of seven squadrons (each with 140 students), insisted that the Communist Party was secretly waging a reactionary war against the Kuomintang.It is the Kuomintang with its "revolutionary clique" and the Bureau of Military Statistics that is fighting the War of Resistance Against Japan. "Except for the Kuomintang, there is no party that is revolutionary and anti-Japanese."

The political instructors of the temporary training class also spent a lot of time investigating the students' political words and deeds, confiscating "progressive" books and magazines, such as Xinhua Daily, and checking their mail.Such snooping especially angered students whose love letters had been intercepted.Later, the students asked a nearby store to pick up their mail for them, and the store owner was told not to help the students, or to send their mail to a political instructor to be opened and read surreptitiously. Although the authorities of the temporary training class tried their best to keep the existence of the training class secret, they soon discovered that many people knew that there was a large special agent training class in the county.There were even letters from the Communist Party's Lu Xun Academy of Art in Yan'an, pretending to be from former students of the training class, which asked the students to quit the training class before it was too late.Not long after the letters were discovered, the Linli regiment opened "blind rooms" for students who violated discipline or threatened to flee.

Fear of Communist temptation spread even to the instructors themselves.Courses on infiltration of the Communist Party were considered particularly sensitive because some instructors in these courses, such as Liao Huaping, a former political instructor at the Whampoa Military Academy, were themselves ex-Communists.In these classes, they use Communist Party documents confiscated from postal inspections or police raids to teach students some Marxist terminology so that they can pretend to be "progressive."At the same time, instructors had to use these textbooks to slander the Communist Party's ideology and make students resistant to Leninism.According to Shen Zui, he was working in the Linli team headquarters at the time, which made the teachers very embarrassed.As former members of the Communist Party, they wanted the students to understand the power of Marxism, but they were afraid that other military commanders would misunderstand that this was a secret left-wing political training for students to undergo re-education.They knew that Dai Li had spies among them, which added to their fear.When Dai Li came to the campus for the first time, he casually mentioned that Tao Yishan, the captain of the company, had the habit of playing cards after dinner.This made everyone aware that he was keeping a close watch on the place.

Dai Li first came to the Li training camp in the autumn of 1938.Yu Lexing wanted to make a good impression on him, so he asked the students to salute Dai Li's car as guards. The students from the two squadrons served as the guards, with one guard at three steps and one sentry at five steps.When Dai Li's car arrived near the county seat, a command to stand at attention was issued, followed by several orders to stand at attention at the same time.And the armed students standing on the traffic arteries immediately began to perform the task of cutting off the traffic.Before Dai Li came here, he had received a lot of dissatisfaction with Yu Lexing, and he was already furious.When he arrived at the county seat and saw the reception was so elaborate, his temper exploded on the spot.As he got out of the car, he loudly asked Yu Lexing what was going on with the strict security.He said, they are not the warlords of the past!If the leader, Commander-in-Chief Jiang, knows about these ridiculous formations, then you, Mr. Yu, will be finished!He didn't let Yu Lexing make any excuses, and lost his temper all the way to the class, terrified the students present, and felt the majesty of their director was terrible.

The small report that made Dai Li so angry came from his spy, and the report described Yu Lexing's excellent work as the deputy head teacher.Yu's extensive knowledge of agents earned him the respect of his students from the start.Since he gave basic espionage classes to all the freshmen, he made the acquaintance of most of them while earning their respect and loyalty.In the first few months of training, Yu was very close to the students, which made Dai Li, who wanted to be the students' only leader and mentor, very jealous. Thus, on the second day of his visit, Dai Li deliberately belittled Yu Lexing to the instructors and students assembled in the auditorium to listen.Not only did he specifically criticize the deputy director, but he also scolded the captain and the chief instructors, saying that they lived a life of debauchery and spent too much time on women while ignoring the students.He said that many of the instructors and captains had illicit sexual relations with girls.He severely accused the headquarters of forcing all the students to learn how to swim, which resulted in the drowning of a Hunan girl; also, a student was wounded to death while learning boxing from a North Korean karate instructor.However, he highly praised the former Communist Party member Liao Huaping, saying that he tried to make the students understand in the political training class: If the "red bandits" are not wiped out, then everyone will die without a place to die in the future. On the third day of the visit, Dai Li spoke to various student groups, telling them that the Military Command is the most revolutionary organization in the country and that their own future is bright.He also looked specifically at the records of "his" pupils, and promoted those whom he considered deserving of merit, while ordering the confinement of those whose worst reports were made.However, Dai Li's control over the students did not break Yu Lexing.Dai Li returned to Hankow after his visit to Linli, and a new report on Yu's reputation was sent to Juntong headquarters.So Dai Li decided to replace Yu Lexing with Tao Yishan.But that didn't solve the problem.Although Tao Yishan managed the school to the best of his ability during May-June 1938, the teachers and students seemed very saddened by Yu's dismissal.Finally, in order to revive their morale, Dai Li relented and restored Yu Lexing to his post in late July. Naturally, for teachers and students, the whole incident served only to remind them of Dai Li's ever-present eyes and ears, and to reinforce their awareness of the dark side of Dai Li's personal dictatorship, which soon became a fact of life for them.Yet Linli students, despite their concerns about their future personal security as the secret police, were fascinated by espionage: whether it was learning how to quickly draw a gun, pick locks and handcuffs, or be on the streets of Changsha. Practice spotting and throwing off tracks, etc. They were drawn partly by modern espionage techniques and partly by traditional martial arts.Dai Li himself loved Chinese boxers deeply. For example, a Linli student named Li Kelian was a Qigong master. He could put a large stone slab on his abdomen, and others could smash the stone slab with a hammer, but his abdomen would not be damaged at all.Dai Li later appointed Li Kelian as the deputy director of the Chongqing martial arts class of the military command.At the graduation ceremony of the Linli class, Dai Li was also impressed by the finger-pinching technique used by a North Korean karate instructor to render a teenager unconscious in a few seconds.When Dai Li scolded him after the martial arts instructor's performance, others thought their leader was humane and afraid of killing the kid.In fact, Dai Li got angry because he didn't want the martial arts instructor to reveal this "brilliant trick" in front of everyone.