On February 9, 1962, General Li Kenong, a great revolutionary martyr of our country, died at Peking Union Medical College Hospital.
Because he was not very old at the time of his death, his life experience was legendary, and at that time people also began to debate the reasons for his death, and some people even said that the United States was dissatisfied with the defeat of the war on the Korean Peninsula, so that it cast a chronic poison on General Li Kenong, which can be said to be a storm in the city.
Why would people link the death of Admiral Li Kenong to the United States? What did his son Li Lun say that made people cry?
When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the US military crossed the 38th Line without heeding warnings, endangering China's homeland security, and hundreds of thousands of Chinese volunteer troops, under the leadership of Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai, rushed to the Korean Peninsula in a mighty way, officially opening the curtain of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea can be roughly divided into two stages, the first stage is the "confrontation stage" including the five major battles, and the second stage is when our army crushed the morale of the US side, and the two sides entered the stage of "fighting while talking."
After the second stage, the US military is no longer able to launch a large-scale war, and finally can only be forced to negotiate with our army, but at this time, the Central Committee of our Party has made a mistake, who should be sent to negotiate with the United States?
"Your father, he's a big spy."
Just when the leaders of our Party Central Committee were all in trouble, Chairman Mao suddenly remembered his conversation with Li Bing, the daughter of General Li Kenong, and immediately personally named Li Kenong as the general responsible person for the DPRK negotiations in the future.
After learning of Chairman Mao's arrangement, Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, and other senior generals in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea also nodded their heads and said hurriedly:
"He fits! He fits! ”
At that time, General Li Kenong was the director of the Intelligence Department of the Central Military Commission and executive vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of china, and he naturally knew quite well about the United States.
After learning of the appointment of the central authorities, he did not resign, and immediately drew more than 30 people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Xinhua News Agency to form an "elite negotiation department."
As everyone knows, although the United States was forced to agree to the negotiations in form at that time, it had no sincerity in negotiating at all, and not only repeatedly carried out partial harassment of our army, but also put forward a series of unreasonable demands at the negotiation meeting.
In the face of the left-right sway of the US military, Admiral Li Kenong fully demonstrated the calmness and persistence of a negotiator, neither afraid of the us military's momentum nor blindly following the praise of the US military, so he patiently consulted with the US negotiating group repeatedly.
Regarding the unreasonable demands made by the US military, we may give an example here.
After all, it was still in the war period, and in order to ensure the safety of the negotiating delegations of the two sides, Li Kenong proposed that a red flag be planted on the vehicles of both sides to show the distinction.
However, the US negotiating group did not do it, they felt that the red flag was the symbol of the Communist Party and had to plant the blue flag, and after learning that our party's artillery regiment had the habit of seeing the blue flag firing, the Americans asked for the white flag to be planted.
How difficult is this negotiation? Here is a set of data for everyone, you can clearly understand.
In the process of Sino-US negotiations, there have been 5 times when the negotiations broke down and the address of the negotiations was changed twice, but the congress of representatives between the two sides alone was held 58 times, and as for the small benefits of various consultation details, it was opened as many as 733 times, with a total of 747 days.
At the beginning of the negotiations, the US negotiating team was full of confidence and arrogant attitude, but by the end of the negotiations, the self-proclaimed professional members of the US negotiating team were already dejected and completely worn out.
Chennault, an American who had participated in the negotiations, publicly stated such a passage at the 1955 meeting,
"There are two strange people in China's intelligence community, one is Dai Kasa and the other is Li Kenong, and judging from the experience of the North Korean negotiations, Li Kenong may be much stronger than Dai Kasa."
When Admiral Lee died in 1962, the CIA was glad to have missing a strong opponent.
This shows how much pressure General Li Kenong put on them during the North Korean negotiations.
And the United States can do so, it is no wonder that at that time, the death of Admiral Li Kenong was widely rumored in China, which was caused by the americans' chronic poison.
Just when everyone thought that The death of Admiral Li Kenong was secretly committed by the Americans, Li Lun, the son of General Li Kenong, came forward to clarify the truth - The death of General Li Kenong did not come from the persecution of others, but from himself.
The meaning here is naturally not suicide, but the death of Admiral Li Kenong as a general for the country and the people, regardless of himself, due to long-term fatigue and pain.
According to the theory and later relevant reports in China, when Admiral Li Kenong died in 1962, the cause of his death was "brain softening", and this disease was often caused by excessive use and the body did not get enough rest.
The intelligence workers themselves are trembling and walking on thin ice, not to mention that Admiral Li Kenong is directly lurking under the eyes of the Kuomintang, and it can be said that behind every piece of intelligence he obtains for our party, there is a risk of facing death.
The long-term high-pressure life not only leads to extreme mental tension, but also makes it impossible to rest peacefully, and in the long run, it is inevitable that overwork will become a disease.
In the course of the war, General Li Kenong's body was already in trouble, and he was even sent to the Soviet Union for a time to recuperate; and by the time the War of Liberation was won and he was finally able to catch his breath, General Li Kenong's physical condition was already quite serious.
In 1952, General Li Kenong went to Korea on behalf of our country to participate in the Dprk negotiations, although chairman Mao made the decision at that time, but it was also inseparable from his initiative.
At that time, the leaders of our Party were feeling safe for Admiral Li Kenong to be able to participate in the negotiations, but at the same time, they were also deeply concerned about his body.
"His health was already very poor, and everyone told him not to go, and he didn't listen."
When Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou wanted him to return to China to rest and be treated, General Li Kenong refused, saying, "There will be no change of generals!" ”
Speaking of the experience of General Li Kenong, it is too legendary, he is not only the "King of Secret Agents" who can suppress the prestige of Dai Kasa, but also the only "general of the country" among the 55 founding generals of our country who has not led troops and fought.
His honors were all earned by himself with a knife and a gun.
In 1926, at the age of 27, General Li Kenong joined the Communist Party of China, and with his outstanding ability, became the agent of our Party in the Anhui region, leading the team to wage a fierce struggle against the great warlord of the Kuomintang, Chen Tiaoyuan, but unfortunately, the Kuomintang was so powerful at that time that he was forced to go to the Nanjing area to cover up his tracks as the founder of the newspaper and continue to work for our Party.
In 1931, Admiral Li Kenong, who was dormant within the Kuomintang, ushered in his highlight moment.
At that time, Gu Shunzhang, the core figure of our party, was arrested for betrayal and unfortunately, and what made people feel infuriated was that Gu Shunzhang, as one of the leaders of our party in the early days, went so far as to confess and betray many comrades in an all-round way before he had even experienced severe torture to extract a confession, so that Yun Daiying, Cai Hesen, Chen Geng and Xiang Zhongfa were unfortunately arrested, and the situation of Premier Zhou, Chairman Mao, and other comrades was also precarious.
At the moment of the first attack, General Li Kenong, who was independent of Gu Shunzhang's intelligence work, received the news, and he immediately informed the Party Central Committee and assisted Premier Zhou and other leaders in carrying out the evacuation work, thus retaining an important and effective force for the early leadership organization of our Party.
Because General Li Kenong was extremely excellent in intelligence work, he was later rated as one of the "Four Masters of the Party's Secret Work.".
Of course, Gu Shunzhang, who rebelled against our party, did not have a good end, because he tried to form a "new communist party" within the Kuomintang and was directly and brutally killed by Chiang Kai-shek.
After the Gu Shunzhang incident, General Li Kenong successively served as the director of the Political Protection Bureau and the director of the Red Army Work Department, and was mainly responsible for the political defense work of our Party at that time.
Later, he also followed the troops on a twenty-five-thousand-mile long march and waged an active struggle against Zhang Guotao's so-called Second Central Committee, which was a great contribution to our Party.
Since our army arrived in northern Shaanxi in 1935, Admiral Li Kenong officially took on diplomatic work and became Premier Zhou's deputy. Like the later Xi'an Incident and the establishment of the united front, he played an important role in it.
During the second period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, he carried out his work under the eyes of the Kuomintang in spite of the dangers; after the kuomintang broke down, it was he who led his comrades to break through all the difficulties and obstacles along the way, and successfully returned to Chongqing to join the large troops of our party; after the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the beginning of the War of Liberation, it was he who single-handedly shouldered the intelligence management work at that time, creating space for the reversal of the inferiority of our army.
Because of his outstanding personal ability and firm revolutionary convictions, in September 1955, he was not only awarded the Liberation Medal of the First Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the First Class, and the August 1st Medal of the First Class, but also was awarded the title of General and world-famous.
Although Admiral Li Kenong has never led a soldier to fight in his life, the battlefield he is fighting for is no less difficult than the front line, and we can even say that the intelligence department he is responsible for is the battlefield, the real front line!
In contrast, the Kuomintang's so-called "king of secret agents," Dai Kasa, can no doubt only take a step back; after all, Dai Kasa himself is only a sword in Chiang Kai-shek's hand, and even his final death is a strange death, suspected of dying of intrigue within the Kuomintang, so how can this be compared with General Li Kenong?
The reason why the hero is called a hero may be because he dared to do the final torch, and the life of General Li Kenong disappeared, but his spirit, together with the hundreds of thousands of volunteer soldiers at that time, was remembered in the hearts of countless Chinese people.