On April 21, 1949, before the Battle of the River Crossing began.
Li Qiang, deputy commander of the 312nd Division of the Kuomintang Forty-fifth Army, led the army to the battlefield. On the way, the army walked wildly on the road, if it were not for the fact that the army was fully equipped, it thought that it was playing with the army.
When the army reached the halfway point, Li Qiang and all the soldiers were captured by the Eighty-eighth Division of the Eighth Regiment of the Third Battle Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
After being captured, the soldiers of the 312nd Division were all depressed and afraid of being punished by the Communists, but the deputy division commander Li Qiang ate well and slept well, and the soldiers all thought that the division commander was enjoying the Last Supper, and one by one they were even more depressed.
When Li Qiang was explaining his identity to our army, he happened to meet Qian Shenfu, the commander of the Supplementary Training Regiment of the Eighty-eighth Division, so he shouted to Qian Shenfu: "Qian Shenfu, I am Li Weiping, we are old classmates, do you remember me?" Three brigades in the fourth phase of the Anti-Japanese War. ”
When Qian Shenfu, who had not originally planned to stay, heard this, he stopped and seriously looked at Li Qiang. After a while, he asked, "Oh I remembered you, didn't you go to the North China Front?" How did he become a member of the Kuomintang? ”
Only to see the corners of Li Qiang's mouth raised, full of smiles and mysterious whispers: "You just need to call the Central Military Commission and ask whether there is Comrade Li Qiang in our party, and you will know my identity!" ”
Hearing this, Qian Shenfu was even more confused in his heart, so he reported the matter to the Central Military Commission layer by layer in order to find out the origin of the matter.
So, who is Li Qiang? Why did a Deputy Commander of the Kuomintang Commander look at him with a pleasant face after being captured, and claim that the Party Central Committee knew his true identity? To solve the mystery, you have to start in 1915.
Li Qiang
Li Qiang's real name is Li Weiping, a CCP agent who has been lurking in the Kuomintang for many years, and his story begins in 1915.
Born on April 30, 1915 in a peasant family in Baitasi Township, Anyue County, Li Weiping was influenced by his cousin when he was in middle school and received an advanced ideological education.
Li Weiping's second cousin, Yao Zhongshu, had to focus on it. Yao Zhongshu attended the Whampoa Military Academy and joined the Chinese Communist Party after graduation, and whenever he carried out revolutionary activities, his young cousin Li Weiping would follow him and help him set up his guard.
Therefore, Li Weiping had contact with many revolutionary activists, and gradually he developed a strong yearning for the revolution. Even when he was in middle school, he once wanted to drop out of school and go to the revolution, but in the end he was stopped by Yao Zhongshu.
Yao Zhongshu told Li Weiping: "You are still young, the most urgent thing is to improve yourself through continuous study, and the revolution also needs cultural support!" ”
Li Weiping, who was still ignorant, nodded, began to study angrily, and entered the best school in Anyue County with excellent results- Anyue Middle School.
In 1935, after graduating from high school, Li Weiping was successfully admitted to the Sichuan Provincial First Normal School. During his time at the school, he actively participated in student progress groups and carried out anti-Japanese rescue activities. In his spare time, he also read many progressive books, such as the Communist Manifesto. Gradually, he developed a longing for the Communist Party, and he longed very much for Yan'an, the base of the Red Revolution of the Communist Party.
When he was in school, Li Weiping met many people with lofty ideals, one of whom was a compatriot of an anhe, and this person was also the person who guided Li Qiang to the road of communist revolution, his name was Zhou Junlie.
Zhou Junlie was an old Communist Party member, and under the guidance of Zhou Junlie, Li Weiping began to do some secret work in intelligence.
In 1938, Li Weiping went to Yan'an after graduation. After arriving in Yan'an, under the organizational arrangement, Li Weiping entered the Kang University to study, and then entered the advanced research class of Shaanxi North Public School to continue his studies.
In May 1939, Li Weiping was tasked with saying that he could no longer use the name "Li Weiping" when he was studying in Yan'an, and that he should use the names "Li Biguang or Li Changheng" when he was studying. The name "Li Qiang" is the name Dong Biwu gave him within the Communist Party.
This time, Li Weiping was given the task of breaking into the Kuomintang and becoming a "nail" in the body of the Kuomintang.
Li Weiping, who received the task, quickly returned to Anyue and found a job as a teacher, hoping to wait for an opportunity to get close to the Kuomintang. But here his situation was very difficult, so he went to Chengdu again, found Liu Wenzhe, the liaison officer of our party, and began to work under the command of Liu Wenzhe.
At that time, Li Weiping was renting a home in his hometown, and by chance, he found that his compatriot Zhai Zixiang had two Kuomintang friends, one of whom was Zhou Bicheng, head of the organization section of the Kuomintang Sichuan Provincial Party Department Organization and Training Office.
Therefore, Li Qiang decided to try to start with Zhou Bicheng and break into the Kuomintang.
In order to continue to rent Zhai Zixiang's home, Li Weiping pretended to like Zhai Zixiang's aunt, and Zhai Zixiang originally wanted to match the two of them, so Li Weiping was able to continue to live in Zhai Zixiang's home.
At the beginning, Li Weiping often asked Zhai Zixiang and Zhou Bicheng to come out to eat, and gradually over time, Li Weiping and Zhou Bicheng also became friends who talked about everything. In addition, he is originally a sociable personality, usually always "spit out the truth after drinking" when drinking with Zhou Bicheng, saying that he wants to serve the country, but he has never had the opportunity.
Not long after, news came from Zhou Bicheng that the 7th research class of the Kuomintang Military Academy was about to start, and a group of people were needed to train, and after the training, they would be assigned to work in the Political Intelligence Bureau.
After learning this news, Li Weiping expressed his determination to Zhou Bicheng that he wanted to go. Under the operation of Zhou Bicheng, Li Weiping successfully obtained a place. However, when going through the formalities, Li Weiping hesitated, because if he wanted to enter, he must be a member of the Kuomintang, so Li Weiping contacted Liu Wenzhe again.
Liu Wenzhe comforted Li Weiping and explained to him: "There are many people in our party whose identities are the Kuomintang on the outside, and this is no big deal. ”
After entering the training class, Li Weiping found through careful observation that in the class, the people of the military command were not very good contacts, and they could start with the people of the central command, make friends with them, build trust, and try to mingle with them.
After the training, Li Weiping was assigned to the political training room of the Sichuan Army as a lieutenant officer and began his latent journey.
On October 24 of the same year, Li Weiping officially joined the Communist Party of China under the introduction of Zhou Junlie, and for some reason, Liu Wenzhe was transferred away, and his connector became Chen Yutong.
In order to get more information, Li Weiping began to go deep into various classes to socialize, and he also mixed with various gangs, learning about some information about the Communist Party and the intelligence of the Kuomintang secret service.
Due to Li Weiping's extensive social networking before, with the help of his classmates during the training, he participated in the third training session of the Central Unity Training Class in 1943 and successfully entered the Central Unity.
Here, in order to gain the trust of the Central Command, Li Qiang, who was well aware of the contradiction between the Central Command and the Military Command, told the Central Command that there was an undercover military command in the training class, and after being confirmed, Li Weiping successfully gained the trust of the Central Command.
After the training, Li Weiping was successfully assigned to the Chengdu Experimental Zone as an assistant to the district chief, and soon after taking office, an incident occurred that made Li Weiping successfully enter the joint secret service agency.
Li Weiping
At that time, a copy of the investigation materials of the Central Bureau of Statistics secretly investigating the Chinese Youth Party was published, and Zeng Qi, chairman of the Chinese Youth Party, inquired about the specific situation of the Kuomintang and demanded that the Central Bureau of Statistics must investigate the truth of the matter.
At this time, Li Weiping remembered one thing, Zeng Qinggao, who was in charge of field affairs before, walked through this information, and Zeng Qinggao was Zeng Qi's cousin, so he thought that Zeng Qi was very suspicious.
Just when there was no progress in this matter, Li Weiping told his director about this matter.
After the Central Unification Committee interrogated Zeng Qinggao, it was found that this information was given by Zeng Qinggao to Zeng Qi, chairman of the Chinese Youth Party. After that, Li Weiping was successfully transferred to the Sichuan Provincial Special Work Committee as the chief officer and the inspector of the Sichuan Room.
With this identity, Li Weiping had very convenient access to a lot of secret intelligence, and he began to pass on the information he obtained to the organization. And in order to pass on information, Li Weiping tried his best, he often wrote the intelligence on cigarette paper and rolled it into a cigarette to pass on information to Chen Yutong.
In order to be able to ambush for a long time and plunge into the depths of the Kuomintang, Li Weiping also married Zhao Shufang, the daughter of a member of the Kuomintang, and although the husband and wife had a good relationship, he never revealed his identity to anyone.
Since then, Li Weiping's actions within the Kuomintang have become more and more convenient.
In 1946, due to the betrayal of traitors, the communist Zhou Junlie was accidentally arrested by the Kuomintang.
Zhou Junlie is an old Communist Party member, and he will certainly not betray him. After receiving the news, Li Weiping went to inquire with the person in charge of the interrogation department, and found out that since Zhou Junlie was arrested, he would not say anything, even if he had undergone severe torture, he had been going around in circles all the time, as if he really didn't know anything, and now the interrogation department didn't know if they had arrested the wrong person.
Then, Li Weiping said casually: "Since you have caught the wrong thing, you still leave him here to do something, let it go, waste the place, and reduce your work efficiency." ”
Hearing this, the head of the interrogation department felt very reasonable, anyway, many of the cells were mistakenly arrested, so he made a report to his superiors, cleaned up the cells thoroughly, and released the people who had been arrested for a long time but never asked anything.
After Zhou Junlie was released, Li Weiping's contacts immediately sent Zhou Junlie out of Chengdu.
Zhou Junlie
One day, Li Weiping inadvertently learned that in the hands of Ye Shenzhi, chief of the Special Intelligence Section, he had a copy of the information on the internal traitors hidden within our party, and these internal traitors had done great harm to our party. After Li Qiang's investigation, it was found that this information was personally kept by Ye Shenzhi.
In order to obtain this information, Li Weiping took the initiative to make friends with Ye Shenzhi and often looked for opportunities to invite Ye Shenzhi to drink. In order to build a good relationship with Ye Shenzhi, Li Weiping even took his family's things to the pawnshop for money. Gradually, Ye Shenzhi began to believe li Weiping more and more, and privately the two even called each other brothers.
One day, after Li Weiping and Ye Shenzhi were drunk in the tavern, they were clamoring to go back to the office, and Li Weiping took the opportunity to send Ye Shenzhi back to the office. In order not to leave a trace, Li Weiping chatted with Ye Shenzhi, who was drunk and talking, and as he chatted, he introduced this topic, and Li Weiping held Ye Shenzhi while talking without a trace.
Finally, Ye Shenzhi, who was cheered up, told Li Weiping that the information was in the safe under the influence of alcohol, and he also took the initiative to show Li Weiping. After Li Weiping saw this list, he immediately recorded the list in his own mind, and immediately sent a letter to Chen Yutong after returning.
Later, I learned that many of the people on this list are important people in the Communist Party, and some have even climbed to the top level of the Communist Party.
In May 1947, the Kuomintang authorities in Chongqing and Chengdu, in order to cooperate with the Kuomintang army's large-scale attack on the Central Plains, decided to arrest the Communists from June 1.
After knowing this news, Li Weiping has been thinking about how to prevent this matter, and at the arrest discussion meeting, Li Weiping said in his speech: "People must be arrested, but we must arrest useful people, and if anyone is arrested, the cell cannot be packed. ”
After this method was proposed, it was recognized by most people. First of all, they believe that if they are not caught, they will grasp it in vain; second, if they grasp it all, the amount of tasks will be too large, and the grasp will not necessarily be the real Communist Party, just like the previous ones.
Through this method, many Communists escaped this arrest, and after the list came out, Li Weiping quickly passed out a copy of the list, which made many people evade this arrest.
In 1949, Li Weiping was transferred to Nanjing as the deputy commander of the 312nd Division of the Kuomintang 45th Army, and after taking office, he weakened the quality of the army, did not allow the Kuomintang soldiers to train, and took them all day to "have fun" with them. There are even some recruits who don't even use guns.
Because Li Weiping knew that there would soon be a war between the Kuomintang and the Communists, in order to liberate them as soon as possible, he could only think of this method.
Sure enough, on April 21, 1949, Li Weiping's troops were ordered to withdraw back to Taiwan, and Li Weiping was ready to return to Taiwan with the Kuomintang to continue undercover. But he is captured on the way, which is the scene at the beginning of the article.
After Qian Shenfu called the Central Military Commission, he quickly received a reply: Quickly escort Comrade Li Qiang to Beiping.
At this time, Qian Shenfu realized that Li Weiping's identity was not simple, and he was likely to be his own! So he hurriedly sent someone to escort Li Weiping to Beiping.
At this point, Li Weiping finally ended his nearly decade-long latent work and returned to the embrace of the Communist Party.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, there were many people like Li Weiping who gave up everything for the victory of the revolution and were willing to dedicate everything, even their lives, to the revolution.