The "Research Department" intelligence organization was founded at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War. Due to the increasing pressure of the Japanese invaders, the headquarters of the Ninth Theater Command of the Nationalist Government had to withdraw from Wuhan to Changsha, Hunan. Chen Cheng, then the commander-in-chief of the Ninth Theater Department, suffered from

The lack of intelligence often prevented the Japanese military from doing anything. After the fall of Wuhan in 1938, the Kuomintang accepted the suggestions of the Communists and held a guerrilla cadre training class in Hengshan, Hunan, appointing Tang Enbo and Ye Jianying as principal and deputy directors. Later, Chiang Kai-shek personally served as the training class director, and Bai Chongxi,

Chen Cheng concurrently served as deputy director, Tang Enbo, and Ye Jianying served as principal and deputy director of education. According to historical records, the guerrilla cadre training class was held in Hengshan for three periods. It later moved south to Qiyang, Lingling and other places, and was held for four to seven periods. In 1942,

Suspended.

During the existence of the guerrilla cadre training class, according to Chen Cheng's order, two intelligence teams were set up within the training class, namely the fifth team of the second period and the tenth team of the third period. Zhang Zhenguo himself served as the captain, and Ruan Chengzhang

After graduating from the first period, he stayed as an instructor of the intelligence team. The courses of these two teams are basically intelligence collection training, and both male and female students are included. In addition to guerrilla tactics, the training courses include intelligence operations, makeup skills, communication skills, and reconnaissance skills.

, surveying and mapping, theft, transportation, etc. After graduation, most of these students were sent to the Staff Office of the Ninth War Region Governor's Department with Zhang Zhenguo. Among them, the girls Guo Yaping and Liao Guoqiong also married Zhang Zhenguo and Ruan Chengzhang respectively. When the first

When the students of the fifth team graduated, Zhang Zhenguo returned to the Chief of the Ninth War Zone in Changsha and became the head of the second section of the Staff Office. He used these students to establish five intelligence teams in Liuyang, Yiyang, Pingjiang, Xiangyin and other places in northern Hunan.

Ruan Chengzhang, Yu Cheng, Wang Zimin, Xiao Zanhe, Liu Hanping, Xiao Quancai, etc. were the intelligence captain and instructor respectively at that time. These intelligence personnel later became the main backbone of the intelligence activities of Chen Cheng's "Research Department".

In the summer of 1943, during the Battle of Western Hubei, especially when the Japanese army attacked Yidu, the frontline agents of the Second Office of the Military Command and Military Command Department had already heard the news and retreated. The Yidu Intelligence Team of the Sixth Theater Research Office did not have time to retreat, so they had to hide behind enemy lines in Gong'an County

He hid near the Bamboo Field. Therefore, he could report the Japanese army's invasion of Wufeng and Changyang in Yidu, Songzi and Changyang by telegram every day, prompting the chief to seize the favorable opportunity to organize a decisive battle and win the defense.

The victory of the battle. Afterwards, Zhang Zhenguo, Ruan Chengzhang and the Yidu intelligence team leader all received the "Baoding" and "General Service" medals respectively. Zhang Zhenguo took the opportunity to request Chen Cheng to establish a formal intelligence agency. Chen Cheng called the Military Command Department to establish a formal organization communications room

, approved by the Military Commission. It has a director, deputy director (major general or colonel level) and four units (one unit is in charge of general affairs, the second unit is in charge of intelligence, the third unit is in charge of personnel assessment, and the fourth unit is in charge of communications), a radio station,

A roving education group; external organizations have a total of 12 reconnaissance squads. As a result, the Communications Office of the Sixth War Zone Commander's Department has formed a huge spy organization, with a total of more than 300 internal and external staff, and its intelligence collection scope has also expanded.

The main backbone of the "Research Department" is commonly known as the "Three Heads and Six Arms". The so-called "Three Heads" are Zhang Zhenguo (Director of the Investigation Office of the Expeditionary Force Commander's Department), Ruan Chengzhang (Director of the Intelligence Division of the Naval Headquarters) and Liu Zhuangru (The Tenth

Director of the Research Office of the First Theater Command); the "six arms" refer to Yang Dahe (Deputy Director of the Office of the Second Department of National Defense), Chen Jisheng (Director of the Wuhan Inspection Office), Li Tiesheng (Deputy Director of the Wuhan Inspection Office), and Yu Cheng

(Director of the Intelligence School), Zhou Boda (Deputy Director of the Naval Intelligence Department), Ruan Gengsheng (Director of the Kunming Inspection Department). The "Research Department" is caught between the two major spy factions of the Kuomintang, the "Military Command" and the "Central Command"

, stood out with a unique attitude, and successively occupied the Ninth War Zone, Sixth War Zone, Eleventh War Zone Chief's Department, Expeditionary Force Chief's Department, Military and Political Department, Yunnan Provincial Garrison Headquarters and other open and secret intelligence agencies in the National Government, within a certain period of time

, and also controlled the personnel and administrative department of the Second Department of the Ministry of National Defense of the Nationalist Government. In short, wherever Chen Cheng's sphere of influence lies, that is, the places where the personnel of the "Research Department" frequently move, and the reason why the "Research Department" only has activities and

The reason why there is no "formal name" for an organization is as Ruan Chengzhang said: "We are still young and the organization has not yet been finalized. On the one hand, we have to play the card of resigning to prevent the "military reunification" from excluding us.

On the other hand, we cannot use the banner of resigning, which will cause resigning to be politically passive."

According to historical records, the period from 1945 to 1947 was the heyday of the rapid development of Chen Cheng's "Research Department". During this period, the power of the "Research Department" agents not only spread throughout central China, but also in North China, East China, Southwest China and along the Yangtze River.

Important ports along the coast and even some inaccessible islands have also left their traces. In Nanjing, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Kunming, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Qingdao, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Taipei, Shashi, Yichang,

In Jiujiang, Anqing, Zhenjiang and other places, the "Research Department" has control bases, and the total number of agents and intelligence personnel in various places exceeds 1,000, thus forming a relatively independent agent group nationwide.

Chen Cheng's "Research Department" is neither a military commander, nor a central commander, nor does it belong to the Second Department of the Ministry of National Defense. It was not even a stereotyped organization at the beginning, but it had a common source - a research laboratory. Therefore,

At that time, within the Kuomintang, people collectively called this group of agents the "research department."

Although Chen Cheng's "Research Department" played a certain role in the frontal resistance organized by the Nationalist Government, it was a small gang force within the Kuomintang and had the instability of a gang. In addition, some key members of the "Research Department"

Individuals have a strong desire for expression, and some people show off their talents everywhere in pursuit of performance, which has led to denunciation in society. For example, Zhang Zhenguo, a key member of the "Research Department", made enemies everywhere. First, he competed with Kunming Longyun's son Chen Peiqiu, which affected Chen Cheng's own career.

Reputation, and then the pornographic news about his hookup with Liu Beibei in Nanjing was widely exposed in newspapers in Beijing and Shanghai, which made Chen Cheng very angry with Zhang Zhenguo and expressed that he would "never hire him", etc.
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