On June 17, 1949, a telegram no. 008 circulated in the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau:
"In the winter of 1937, Comrade Li Jing'an, who was sent by the Party Central Committee of Yan'an to work in the underground Party in Shanghai, is unknown, Trauscha."
The investigation was carried out intensively, but no trace of Li Jing'an was found.
Three days later, investigators received feedback from the masses that a group of Kuomintang escorted more than a dozen people to the Qijia temple for execution, and that there were only 20 days left before Shanghai was successfully liberated.
In order to find out whether there was Li Jing'an among these people, the investigator immediately passed, accompanied by Li Jing'an's wife.
In the Qi Family Temple, one after another martyr's bones were carried out, and it was not until the last moment that the woman who had always been silent howled out, "Li Bai! O my husband! The people present heard the sound like a knife.
It turned out that Li Jing'an, that is, the Communists who assumed the pseudonym Comrade Li Bai, were among them.
When the body of martyr Li Bai was moved to Longhua Cemetery, many people did not know him, but in 1958, a "Eternal Electric Wave" was released nationwide, and the name "Li Bai" was no longer exclusive to Tang poets.
However, Li Bai's real life experience is far more magnificent and larger than the movie shows, let's take a look at it together.
He grew from a farmer to an excellent Communist Party intelligence officer
Li Bai was a native of Hunan, half a fellow villager with Mao Zedong, and his family was poor, so he came out early to work and supplement his family.
At that time, there were still many landlords in the countryside, and don't look at Li Bai's young age, he was very unaccustomed to the landlords' grain and bullying and enslavement, so he wrote his own poems and scolded these "moths" bitterly and happily.
After the scolding was over, he made a vow to overthrow these landlords in the future and let the big guys live a good life.
When the Communist army went to the village to do propaganda, he signed up for the party and later joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
This year, he was only 15 years old. Because of his cleverness and cleverness, in 1934, he was transferred to the Ruijin Central Military Commission Radio School to study radio technology, and after graduation, he was assigned to work in the radio station.
By this time, his telegraph technology had reached home, basically there was no word he could not type, there was no telegraph machine that he could not operate, he could also dismantle and reorganize the telegraph machine, and then pretend to be exactly the same as the original.
These out-of-the-box operations laid a solid foundation for his later underground intelligence work.
Moreover, Li Bai also had extremely pure communist beliefs; in the course of the Red Army's Long March, he never pretended to fake the telegraph machine to others, always carried it alone, climbed snowy mountains and crossed meadows, and also tightly guarded his heart.
Until the Red Army successfully arrived in northern Shaanxi, his whole body was thin.
However, as a member of the Communist Party, Li Bai firmly believed that "radio is more important than life" and even paid for it.
After the Battle of Songhu, the Kuomintang lost to the Japanese on the frontal battlefield, and Shanghai bore the brunt of it. At this time, Mao Zedong, who was far away in Yan'an, decided to install a "signal source" in the heart of the enemy, so Li Bai was ordered to be in danger.
His intelligence work was the best he could do, and Yan'an was important, but Shanghai needed him even more.
Therefore, Li Bai was assigned to Shanghai to carry out underground intelligence work, the most important task of which was to establish a secret radio station.
This was a very dangerous thing at the time, because it was possible to sacrifice lives at any time.
However, Li Bai did not hesitate in the slightest, and in his heart, the glory of a Communist Party member was to sacrifice himself on the battlefield.
Therefore, on the day he received the order, he rushed to Shanghai, which was in the depths of the water at this time.
Since then, a radio channel connecting Shanghai to Yan'an has been connected, and in the "tick-tock" sound of the telegraph, countless signals related to the future and destiny of 40,000 sons and daughters of China have been transmitted to the land of China.
Trying to build a "red radio station" and stick to "party secrets" through torture
Although the "Li Baitai" was established, how to ensure that the radio station was not discovered by the enemy and ensure the safety of sending telegrams became Li Bai's primary consideration.
First, it is to solve the flow of radio waves in the transmission of telegrams.
This is related to the working principle of the telegraph machine, the use of a telegraph machine, often transmit a large number of radio waves, which will lead to the instability of the current, for example, causing the lights to flicker on and off, as well as sudden tripping or power outage.
These strange phenomena can easily attract the attention of the enemy and are not conducive to the long-term maintenance of the station.
Therefore, Li Bai wanted to reduce the power of the telegraph machine to 30 watts, so that although the problem of current instability was solved, a new problem emerged, that is, the radio wave could not drive long-distance transmission.
In this way, the meaning of "Li Baitai" no longer exists, because it is the most important hub connecting Yan'an.
There was no way, Li Bai could only think of another way, after repeated experiments and studies, he finally explored a set of reporting rules.
- That is, between 0:00 and 4:00 every day, when people are asleep and the enemy's reconnaissance is not strict, they use radio antennas as cover and operate telegraph machines to send telegrams.
Although this does not completely solve the problem of the flow of radio waves sent, it weakens the presence of the telegraph as much as possible, and as long as the enemy does not carefully examine, it can ensure the basic security of transmitting information.
In addition to the problem of air currents, there was constant harassment by the Japanese and the Wang puppet government.
Under the leadership of the Kuomintang military command, spies and spies were planted in almost every part of Shanghai, and they went deep into the streets and alleys in an attempt to find traces of the communist underground workers.
The Japanese and the Kuomintang hated the radio waves transmitted from Shanghai to the bone, but they were unable to find the sender, and during this period, Li Bai and the enemy carried out protracted maneuvers.
In order to cover Up Li Bai's actions, the Party Central Committee also specially appointed a female textile mill worker, Qiu Huiying, to pretend to be his wife.
Li Bai taught Qiu Huiying to simply send reports on weekdays, and on the other hand, he actively searched for Japanese intelligence and transmitted it to Yan'an. In this way, the revolutionary friendship between the two soon warmed up, and a year later, with the approval of the organization, they were married as a real couple.
And Qiu Huiying also grew up very fast, she saw the heroic integrity of not fearing life and death from her husband, and secretly swore that she would also look up to her husband Li Bai and be a warrior who dared to sacrifice herself!
With the escalation of Japan's international battlefield, the United States declared war on Japan, and the Japanese, who had previously been vain with the British and Americans, completely tore their faces and openly occupied the Shanghai Concession, and Li Bai and his wife in the concession thus fell into the hands of the Japanese.
In order to protect the party's intelligence network, Li Bai calmly dismantled the telegraph and then quickly cleaned up the scene, but the Japanese were very cunning, and after finding the parts of the telegraph, they arrested Li Bai and Qiu Huiying.
In prison, Li Bai was subjected to inhuman treatment, and in order to pry open his mouth, the Japanese gendarmes used electrocution, sticks, bamboo sticks, leather whips, soldering irons and other torture devices, but under such severe torture, Li Bai never let go.
Later, in the midst of the general's suspicions, the Japanese accepted Li Bai's bail and released the couple.
When he returned home, Li Bai's face was already swollen and deformed, and there was no good piece of flesh on his body, but the first thing he said was, "When will the comrade come?" I wish I had worked earlier."
It is precisely because of this perseverance that "Li Baitai" became the most important "lifeline" during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, transmitting Yan'an's instructions to Shanghai and East China, becoming a well-deserved "red radio wave".
He sacrificed his life for the cause of the revolution, and after the founding of the country, all the perpetrators were imprisoned
After coming out of the Japanese gendarmerie prison, the party organization transferred Li Bai and his wife to Zhejiang, which was relatively safer, and Li Bai also concealed his identity and entered the Kuomintang and became a newspaper operator.
Under the pseudonym Li Jing'an, he often traveled back and forth between Jiangxi and Zhejiang, using the convenience of his position to secretly transmit intelligence to the party.
Because of his superb radio skills, the Kuomintang never discovered the secret of his identity. After the surrender of Japan, Li Bai returned to Shanghai again and continued to work on the telegraph of "Li Baitai".
Although the operation was very secretive, Li Bai's every move aroused the suspicion of the Kuomintang military command, and after the last telegram was sent, a large wave of military police surrounded Li Bai's residence.
Li Bai, who was still in the room, typed the last line with a telegram, "Comrades, farewell forever!" ", click Send.
He guessed his fate, but in order to leave a message to the comrades who were not yet in the know and avoid more sacrifices, he had to do so, to exchange the sacrifice of one man for greater victory, which was what he insisted on "radio is more important than life".
In the enemy's prison, Li Bai clenched his teeth in the face of endless torture. When the enemy saw that he could not break through from him, he found his wife and children and tortured Li Bai inhumanely in front of them.
In the face of the enemy's sinister intentions, Li Bai warned his wife that the sky was about to dawn, and what I hoped for was equivalent to seeing. Of course, it is best for me to come back in the future, in case I can't come back, you, like the people of the whole country, can live a free and happy life!
With 20 days to go before the liberation of Shanghai, the Kuomintang began a frenzied massacre.
Li Bai, who was in prison, was then secretly taken by a military truck to the Qi Family Temple more than a dozen miles outside the city, and then executed by shooting. He was only 39 years old when he died.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Bai's deeds were known to more people through "The Eternal Radio Wave", and the truth about his murder has always been concerned in people's hearts.
Chen Yi wrote in a call back to Li Kenong that the blood debt should be repaid with blood! The counter-revolutionaries who brutalized the martyr Li Bai, we will certainly repay this blood debt from them!
After a long period of follow-up and investigation, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau found the Kuomintang "soldiers in the townships" who were sorting out the interrogation materials of martyr Li Bai at that time, and through him found ye Danqiu, the mastermind who destroyed Li Bai's radio station and harmed martyr Li Bai.
Ye Danqiu, a veteran military commander with a 16-year espionage career, had his hands stained with the blood of our party's underground workers, and Li Bai and others sacrificed their precious lives in the midst of their dealings with him.
The Public Security Bureau took swift action against such a vicious criminal, approved the arrest, and, after a people's court judgment, imposed the death penalty on Ye Danqiu and others who had harmed the martyr Li Bai.
As a result, a nearly decade-long "red radio wave" came to an end, and Li Bai used his stable and accurate signal to send countless crucial telegrams to Yan'an, North China, and even all of China.
And this intelligence officer who broke into the heart of the enemy used his life to explain to us what is called "the ideal and belief of the communists"; although the hero has passed away, his heroic soul will last forever and he will not forget history, so that he can forge ahead courageously and continue the "red radio wave".
Author: He Yuyao
Editor-in-Charge: Tea Nine
Review: Blue Orange