In the struggle of the Chinese revolution over the past few decades, because the environment is very sinister, countless revolutionary ancestors, in order to save the people from water and fire, overthrow the three mountains, and establish the ideals and convictions of a new China, face the powerful enemy, and in the midst of arduous and extreme struggles, hunger, cold, fatigue, pain, wind and snow, mud and swamp, blood and fire, life and death, and have always shown enduring enthusiasm, consistent hope, and admirable revolutionary optimism.
However, in such a difficult environment, there are also some weak-willed soft bones, who betray their comrades and mutilate their compatriots, for which everyone hates the traitors and condemns them, and wants to eliminate the tumor in the ranks and purify the revolutionary contingent. Today, introducing a senior cadre, in order to execute a traitor named Yi Juexian, what he did not expect was that he was unfortunately arrested during the operation and died heroically.
His name was Li Mingke, a native of southern Sichuan, who joined the party at an early age and was admitted to the fourth infantry section of the Whampoa Military Academy. On August 1, 1927, Li Mingke participated in the Nanchang Uprising and served as the commander of the guard battalion of the Former Enemy Committee, responsible for the safety of the leaders in the uprising, protecting documents, archives, weapons, cash and other tasks.
On the way south of the Nanchang uprising troops, the situation was precarious, and Li Mingke, regardless of his own body, led his troops to participate in the blockade war, defeated the enemy and won the victory, and won the praise of "fighting bravely and commanding well." Later, he went to Shanghai with the leaders to take up the work of the Military Department and the Central Special Branch, and he alertly maneuvered with the enemy, punished treachery and eliminated evil, and grew into a "sharp knife on the hidden front" of our party.
In the summer of 1928, after the "Xinglong Lane Incident", the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee was seriously damaged. In order to strengthen the party's leadership in Sichuan, the organization decided to send Li Mingke, who has rich experience in underground armed struggle, back to Sichuan and serve as a member of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Central Military Commission, responsible for the revolutionary military work in Sichuan and safeguarding the security of the provincial party committee organs. In the last two years of his life, this hero played a magnificent and thrilling chapter of life in the mountain city with loyalty and bravery, blood and faith.
After Li Mingke took office, he devoted most of his energy to guiding the whole sichuan to carry out armed struggle. In his early years, Li Mingke, on the other hand, appeared sophisticated and mature, often disguised as a businessman or doctor, and traveled to Chengdu, Fuling, Jiangjin, Pengshui, Luzhou, and other places to instigate warlord troops, transform bandits, disintegrate the training of landlords' armed regiments, and launch peasant armed rebellions, thus forming a climax of armed uprisings with great momentum and one after another in Sichuan. During this period, there were more than 20 revolutionary armed uprisings that broke out and brewed in Sichuan, the second guerrilla group of the Sichuan Red Army was established, and the revolutionary base area in eastern Sichuan was born, and the situation was very good.
In view of Li Mingke's outstanding military ability, leadership ability, and achievements, the central authorities decided to transfer Li Mingke to the Soviet zone to serve as the commander of the Red 6 Army and lead the Red Army to better strike at the enemy.
When Li Mingke received orders to prepare to serve as the commander of the Red 6 Army, an emergency occurred, and his subordinates, Yi Juexian, a former member of the Sichuan Military Commission's Soldier Movement Committee, defected and was appointed by the enemy as the leader of the special agent reconnaissance team. Mu Qing, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial CPC Committee and director of the Organization Department, Chen Zehuang, secretary of the Chongqing Zhongcheng District CPC Committee, Rao Gengzhi, secretary of the Youth League Committee, and Ren Jinshi, head of the special task force of the provincial party committee, were arrested one after another under his arrest.
At this time, Li Mingke, who was about to go to the Su District, learned the news and decided to get rid of this big problem! Regardless of his personal safety, he personally led the personnel to search for the whereabouts of the traitors and sought an opportunity to execute them. At noon on April 17, 1930, Chaotianmen Wharf was bustling with people. Li Mingke hid a short gun, took his assistant, and vigilantly surveyed the surrounding situation as he walked.
The road is narrow! At this time, Yi Juexian had led the agents to the Jiangbei City Release Pond (in the area of present-day Jiangbeizui) to sabotage the CCP's Jiangbei Special Branch organs, arrested Liu Senyuan, the secretary of the special branch, and the proud party crossed the river by boat and came ashore from the Chaotianmen Wharf. When I first climbed the steep stone steps, I felt that I was breathless and felt that my eyes were black, and two people were already standing in front of me. He looked up and saw that it was Li Mingke!
Yi Juexian's soul flew away and shouted, "I have turned against the party." Li Mingke shouted angrily: "It is to kill you anti-party dog bastard!" He quickly pulled out his gun and shot Yi Jue first in the waist twice (Yi Jue was sent to the hospital first and then killed).
In the face of the surrounding agents, Li Mingke fired several bullets in a row, injured several people, and shouted: "Scatter!" Taking advantage of the enemy's panic, he quickly withdrew and hid on the roof of a house near the dock. The enemy searched unsuccessfully overnight. The next morning, when Li Mingke was preparing to evacuate from here, he was unfortunately found and arrested by the patrol team.
After Li Mingke's arrest, he was unyielding, and on the afternoon of the same day, Li Mingke was escorted from Da Liangzi through Da tie Street (now Chopstick Street) to the Chaotianmen Shazui Execution Ground. In the end, he was shot five times in a row and died heroically, at the age of 31.
After his sacrifice, on Huofeng Mountain, across the Jialing River from the county seat in southern Sichuan Province, a statue of the martyr Li Mingke stands in honor of this revolutionary pioneer who bravely sacrificed his life for the revolutionary cause.