On May 27, 1949, Shanghai was liberated. Two days later, people from all walks of life in Shanghai held a ceremony to "welcome the victim comrades out of prison" at Tilanqiao Prison, and the masses of the people greeted them on both sides of Changyang Road, cheering one after another, and the families of the victim comrades were all in tears. However, Qiu Huiying, Han Huiru, Zhang Bangben and others looked at each other until the crowd was almost gone, and they did not expect their relatives, one by one, they were anxious.
Almost at the same time as the ex-prison ceremony was held at Tilanqiao Prison, Chen Yi, the newly arrived mayor of Shanghai, received a telegram from Beiping. The telegram was sent by Li Kenong, the head of the Central Intelligence Department, asking Chen Yi to find out the whereabouts of a comrade named Li Jing'an (also known as Li Bai), who wanted to see people in life and corpses in death. Chen Yi immediately instructed the Shanghai Municipal Military Control Commission to make an inquiry.
Mayor Chen Yi
The evil reactionary government of Chiang Kai-shek, in order to buy time, rushed to transport supplies, covered the strategic retreat, stubbornly resisted in Shanghai, prepared to wantonly destroy the city, plotted to provoke international incidents, and prompted imperialism to intervene militarily. During this period, Chiang Kai-shek instructed his agents to frantically slaughter underground party members and progressives.
On May 30, major media outlets in Shanghai reported in prominent positions that hundreds of bodies of revolutionary martyrs killed by Kuomintang reactionaries had been found in Hongqiao Cemetery, Zhabei Song Park, Pushan Mountain Villa, and other places. Qiu Huiying saw the newspaper and immediately rushed to identify it, but still did not find her relatives. After that, the newspapers published the news that more than a hundred martyrs had been killed by the Kuomintang reactionaries, and Qiu Huiying rushed to Pushan Mountain Villa and did not find it. The next day, more than 70 martyrs were found on Hongqiao Road, and there were also 17 martyrs' remains in Song Park, but none of Them found Qiu Huiying's husband, Comrade Li Bai.
Mr. and Mrs. Li Bai
On June 17, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau received a telegram from the Shanghai Military Control Commission, the full text of which is as follows:
"Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau: In the winter of 1938, Comrade Li Jing'an (i.e., Li Bai), who was sent by the Party Central Committee of Yan'an to work in the Shanghai underground Party, is now unknown, Trauscha. Relevant lead materials, that is, special personnel are sent to deliver. Shanghai Municipal Military Control Commission, June 17, 1949. ”
As soon as the telegram was sent, the Military Control Commission also sent a special person to present the original official document of Li Jing'an to the Penglai Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Police Station on May 7, 1949, to provide the original clue for finding someone.
From the central to the local, from high-ranking officials to the people, they are all paying attention to and looking for this person named Li Bai. So, who is Li Bai?
Li Bai, formerly known as Li Huachu, formerly known as Li Pu, pseudonyms Li Xia and Li Jing'an, was born in May 1910 in Liuyang County, Hunan Province. He worked hard and studied since his mother's death, but since his mother's death, he has taken on the burden of going up the mountain to cut firewood and take his younger siblings with him, so he also dropped out of school. He was 13 years old at the time, working in a landlord's house, and because of his dissatisfaction with the landlord's waste of food and bullying and slavery, he also used poetry to scold the landlord, and vowed to seize the opportunity to study well, contribute to the people in the future, and overthrow the landlord.
At the age of 15, Li Bai joined the Communist Party of China, participated in the Xiangganbian Autumn Harvest Uprising led by Chairman Mao in 1927, joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in August 1930, became a soldier in the signal company of the Red Fourth Army, and later served as an instructor of the communication company. In June 1934, Li Bai was transferred to the Second Telecommunications Class of the Ruijin Central Military Commission Radio School (i.e., the Red Army Communication School, now Xidian University) to learn radio technology, and after graduation, he was assigned to the Red Fifth Army as a radio station director and political commissar, and participated in the Long March.
Martyr Li Bai
In October 1937, Li Bai was dispatched by the Party Central Committee under the pseudonym Li Jing'an to Shanghai to work on the Party's secret radio station. In Shanghai, where the environment is extremely harsh, Li Bai overcame various difficulties and built an "air bridge" between Shanghai and Yan'an with radio waves. In 1939, the working environment was even worse, and the party organization arranged for Qiu Huiying and Li Bai, a communist party member from a female worker background, to pretend to be husband and wife to cover the radio station and carry out work. The two fell in love in a common revolutionary struggle, and were later married with the approval of the underground party organization, becoming a "house of secret struggles".
In the winter of 1940, in order to let Li Bai learn to build his own transmitter, the party organization specially opened a "Fusheng Radio Company" under the building of No. 338 Weihaiwei Road as a cover. When Li Bai was already able to make his own transmitter parts, he pushed the company out, and Li Bai and Qiu Huiying lived in a 4-square-meter pavilion, in addition to cooking, eating, and sleeping, the newspaper distribution work was also carried out here.
In July 1942, the weather was hot, and Gong Yinbing, the leader of the underground radio station, considered that the living conditions of Li Bai and his wife were too poor to do a good job in sending newspapers, so he asked him to temporarily go to Lu Yunlin's residence for the summer. Lu Yunlin was the lover of Zheng Zhizhong, a member of the Communist Party, who was also engaged in radio work, and when he went to the base area, his lover stayed in Shanghai. In September of that year, Li Bai posted a newspaper in the attic on the fourth floor of Lu Yunlin's house, but unfortunately was detected by the Japanese army and arrested and interrogated severely. But he insisted that he was a private radio station, and was later rescued by the party organization and released on bail.
Li Bai's former residence
After being released from prison, the party organization transferred Li Bai and his wife to Zhejiang and arranged for him to be recruited into the Kuomintang Institute of International Studies as a newspaper operator. Under the pseudonym Li Jing'an, he traveled back and forth between Chun'an in Zhejiang, Changkou, and Leadshan in Jiangxi, using the Kuomintang radio to secretly transmit a large amount of strategic intelligence to the party on the Japanese and Puppet sides and the United States and Chiang Kai-shek.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Bai returned to Shanghai and continued to work on the party's secret radio station. In the early morning of December 30, 1948, he was arrested by the Kuomintang secret service in the course of communicating with the Party Central Committee and being measured by the location of the radio station. After his arrest, Li Bai endured the lure of the high-ranking official Houlu and suffered torture to force a confession, but he was always unyielding and stubborn to resist the enemy, and the enemy was never able to get a little information from his mouth.
After his arrest, Li Bai was initially imprisoned at the Kuomintang Songhu Police Headquarters, and on April 20, 1949, he was transferred to the Penglai Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Police Station, where he disappeared after May 7.
After receiving the clues provided by the Military Control Commission, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau immediately began to investigate and asked the Police retained by the Penglai Public Security Sub-Bureau to understand the situation. A retained police officer surnamed Chen told the investigators that on the evening of May 7, a prisoner wearing a long shirt was indeed taken to a torture car and later heard that he had been shot and killed in the Yangsi area of Pudong.
Based on this important clue, the military and political organs in Yangsi district sent people to visit the local people in depth, and after several twists and turns, finally on June 20, the bodies of 12 martyrs were dug up in a wasteland behind the Qijia Temple near Yangsi. The worn-out robe was full of bullet marks, and Qiu Huiying recognized Li Bai's body at a glance. There were also the remains of Qin Hongjun and Zhang Yaozhai, the leader of Qin Hongjun's secret radio station, and other three martyrs...
Although the body has been found, how did the enemy destroy my secret radio station? How were Li Bai and other martyrs arrested? Where are they lurking now?
After the news that Li Bai, Qin Hongjun, Zhang Yaozhai, and other martyrs had bravely and righteously been killed by the enemy in secret was disclosed in The Shanghai Newspaper, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, the Military Control Commission, and the public security organs continued to receive letters from the masses providing clues to the martyrs' murderers.
On August 27, Wu Ping, director of the Luwan Public Security Bureau in Shanghai, found a "merit report" from the files of the Lujiawan Police Substation of the Nationalist Government that he had taken over:
At 00:05 today, Fu Ruopeng, a telecommunications section officer at the Songhu Police Headquarters, informed that there was a secret Communist Radio Station that had been cracked within 1 hour before, but the main offender, Qin Hongjun, was on the run. After telegraphing the commander, 15 police officers were allowed to assist, and the police were sent to the police, and on the one hand, the police were sent to block the four blockades, and on the other hand, they personally led Qiang Yuangui and other police officers to enter the house and search, and seized a radio and a transmitter, and a photo of Qin Hongjun. Later, according to the roof tile tracking, a person was captured in the balcony outside the house, and the photo was checked to be Qin Wufa.
At the same time, public security personnel seized two important pieces of evidence from the captured archives of the Kuomintang Shanghai Municipal Police Station. One was a circular issued by the Shanghai Municipal Police Bureau's Reward and Punishment Appraisal and Reform Committee: Inspector Shi Zhili and Inspector Qiang Yuangui participated in the operation and were credited with meritorious deeds, and the remaining 14 police officers of the police force were commended; the other was a copy of the signature issued by the Songhu Police Headquarters on April 15, 1949: Assisting the headquarters in cracking the espionage station and awarding bonuses and yuan of wu wan yuan.
Shi Zhili and Qiang Yuangui were both retained by the Lujiawan Public Security Bureau after liberation, and they usually behaved very obediently. After reviewing the relevant materials, Wu Ping, director of the sub-bureau, immediately made a report to Yang Fan, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau. In the afternoon of the same day, Yang Fan sent someone to take Shi Zhili away, and an arrest warrant was announced that night. After interrogation, Shi Zhili and others were indeed ordered by the Kuomintang Songhu Police Headquarters to coordinate the capture of Qin Hongjun. However, the culprit who cracked my secret radio station and the mastermind to capture the martyrs Li Bai and Zhang Baozhai is still unclear. However, after a period of work, the reconnaissance did not make any progress and fell into trouble ...
Sail
It was not until March 30, 1950, that the Shanghai Hongkou Public Security Bureau received a call from the Shanghai Customs and Excise Bureau's Hubei Inspection Office, saying that a middle-aged man had come to pay taxes with a batch of military communication equipment and was in a very suspicious state. The sub-bureau chief immediately dispatched two investigators to the audit office, and through careful interrogation and analysis and education of the parties, they quickly clarified the situation of this person. Originally named Li Shulin and pseudonym Li Zhicheng, this person was a Kuomintang "soldier in the township" who had completed the registration procedures and had worked in the military command for 10 years.
From 1947 onwards, Li Shulin operated the Shangbao Radio station in Shanghai, and the following year he co-opted Tang Jianfeng, director of the Shanghai Electric Power Supervision Section of the Second Department of the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense. According to Li Shulin's explanation and revelation, the investigators immediately summoned Tang Jianfeng, who had already been detained. According to Tang's account, Xu Mingqiu, a former lieutenant-level investigator at the Shanghai Electric Power Supervision Section, who once participated in sorting out the so-called "confession materials" for the interrogation of martyr Li Bai, has now concealed his criminal history and mixed with the People's Liberation Army of our Chinese.
Soon, Xu Mingqiu, who was disguised and mixed into the cadre training brigade of the East China Aviation Department of the People's Liberation Army, was arrested. After interrogation, Xu Mingqiu confessed that the main culprit who cracked my two secret radio stations was Ye Danqiu, a lieutenant colonel inspector of the Shanghai Electric Power Supervision Department. But he didn't know where Ye Danqiu went after liberation. At the same time, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau received a whistle-blowing letter from the United Front Work Department of the East China Bureau, saying that a man named Chen Yuchen had worked in the Shanghai Electric Power Supervision Department before liberation and had participated in the sabotage of Li Bai's radio station. Chen Yuchen was also quickly arrested, confirming that Ye Danqiu was the culprit in the sabotage of Li Bai and Qin Hongjun's two secret radio stations, and providing an important piece of information: Ye Danqiu returned to his hometown in Suzhou before the liberation of Shanghai, and after the liberation, he still had contacts with himself.
Ye Danqiu, whose hands were stained with the blood of underground workers, was a military commander with a 16-year espionage career. As early as 1947, during his tenure at the Beiping Electric Power Supervision Section, he used the secret report of the snitch Duan Yunpeng to collude with the Inspection Office and the Criminal Police Brigade of the Beiping City Police Bureau to sabotage the secret radio station of the Beiping underground party, creating a "Beiping conspiracy spy case" that shocked the whole country, and many comrades on the secret front were arrested. The Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau arrested Ye Danqiu in Shanghai on September 18, 1950, based on clues provided by Chen Yuchen.
Ye Danqiu
According to the accounts of Ye Danqiu, Shi Zhili, Tang Chuanfeng, Xu Mingqiu, Chen Yuchen, and others, an important clue was also given that traitors appeared among our underground workers. This traitor is Li Zhengxuan, the director of the underground radio station who was destroyed in the "Peiping Communist Spy Case." Ye Danqiu monitored and destroyed Li Bai's radio station and secretly arrested him on the basis of secrets provided by Li Zhengxuan, such as "the working hours, methods and characteristics of the Shanghai underground radio station". Later, in the same way, Qin Hongjun's radio station was destroyed, surrounded his residence, and arrested him. Qin Hongjun did not have time to set up a secret police signal, and the Kuomintang agents waited there to arrest Zhang Zhaozhai who had come to contact him.
While Li Bai, Qin Hongjun, and others were detained, Li Zhengxuan, a traitor who had already served as head of the investigation team of the Kuomintang Central Electric Power Supervision Section, went to the Songhu Police Headquarters to talk to Li Bai, and was reprimanded by Li Bai. In the end, Li Bai and others were tortured to extract confessions, and no information was disclosed.
On April 22, 1949, Li Bai, who was imprisoned at the Penglai Police Station, wrote his last suicide note to his wife, Qiu Huiying.
Huiying: On the afternoon of the 22nd of this month (Friday), I was released from the Security Department to the Detention Center of the Penglai Road Police Station in Nanshi City. The air in the room here is better than in the Security Department Detention Center, but it is far from home, and the reception is more difficult than before. If you come to see me, come with your aunt and aunt, and take care of the children while you take the bus. I heard that here every Monday and Friday at 9 to 10 a.m., three to four o'clock in the afternoon can send things, because when the road is far away, please buy some salted radish or things that can not be damaged for a long time, bring some cash to me, so that it is convenient to use, fried rice noodles, please bring some, in addition to a piece of soap, a hot water bottle. I am here to take care of myself, I can rest assured, the family is in difficulty, I hope you are good at taking care of yourself, and raising children well. Good luck, Jing'an Word (The detention center is entered by the gate of the Penglai Police Station)
Most of the suicide notes left by martyr Li Bai were written with a brush, and this pen suicide note was written with clear and straight handwriting, and the calm and unhurried mentality jumped on the paper.
On May 7, 1949, when Shanghai was about to be liberated, Mao Sen, the head of the Kuomintang secret service, took Li Bai, Qin Hongjun, Zhang Qiaozhai and others to the Qijia Temple in Pudong to be secretly killed according to Chiang Kai-shek's instructions.
In January 1951, the Shanghai Municipal People's Court sentenced Ye Danqiu to death in accordance with the law and executed him immediately. Other offenders were also sentenced to prison terms separately.
In 1958, in order to commemorate Li Bai, a communist party member who had long been engaged in underground party work in Shanghai, he used him as a prototype to shoot the movie "The Eternal Radio Wave".
In 2021, for the first time, the Ministry of State Security declassified a top-secret file, the CIA Radio's "Daily Work Report Form." This radio station's "Daily Work Report Form" clearly records the ultimatum between the CIA radio station and the "Peak Station" of Li Bai's radio station on the night of Li Bai's arrest. With the declassification of this file, the comrades who fought side by side with Li Bai, the last words issued by the "Peak Platform", and the story that happened after a night of meticulous action finally met people.
Martyr Li Bai's family of three