Marshal Lin had the "Four Great Kongs" under his command, namely Huang, Wu, Li, and Qiu. Among them, Li refers to General Zuo Peng.
General Lee was born in 1914 to a peasant family in Ji'an. At the age of 16 he joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
During the Red Army period, General Li successively served as a translator, a staff officer of the 2nd Bureau, and the chief of the 2nd Section in the Confidential Section of the Central Military Commission, and participated in the anti-encirclement and suppression struggle and the Long March.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, General Li served as the chief of the reconnaissance section and the chief of the operations section of the headquarters of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
During the Liberation War, General Li served as the commander of the 6th Column of the Northeast Field Army and the commander of the 43rd Army.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, when the title was awarded in 1955, General Lee was awarded the rank of founding lieutenant general. After that, he successively served as the director of the Military Training Department of the General Staff, the deputy commander of the Navy, the deputy chief of the general staff and the first political commissar of the Navy.
On September 13, 1971, General Lee made a big mistake in the matter of "Lin Shuai's departure". It was he who tampered with the superior's statement that "the No. 256 special plane for Lin's use must be ordered by Zhou, Huang, Wu, and Li to take off together."
At that time, When general Li issued an order to Shanhaiguan Airport, he said: "One of the four chiefs instructed to release the air and let it fly."
After the No. 256 "Trident" plane forcibly took off, the airport leader called general Lee and asked: "What should I do if the plane forcibly takes off?"
General Lee did not take any measures to prevent the take-off, and shirked and said: "You can directly ask the supreme commander." “
After 13 September 1971, General Lee was suspended for inspection.
In August 1973, General Lee was expelled from the party and dismissed from all positions. In January 1981, the court confirmed his crime and sentenced him to 17 years in prison. After medical parole.
General Li settled in Taiyuan after his release from prison. The organization asked him to change his name, but the general was unwilling, and after repeated work, he agreed and assumed the pseudonym "Li Ming". why? He said: "Li Ming is a Ming person who does not do secret things. ”
General Li liked calligraphy in his later years and wrote Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong" banner to hang in the living room.
In his later years, General Lee spoke many times about what he experienced during the Long March.
He said: "When I crossed the meadow that year, I was a staff officer of the Second Bureau of the Central Military Commission and the chief of the 2nd Section, and I was specifically responsible for monitoring and deciphering the enemy's secret code. It was I who deciphered the enemy's code so that the Red Army could escape from the enemy's encirclement and smoothly walk through the meadow. Honestly, when I crossed the meadow, it wasn't me, and it was difficult. ”
The general also said: "During the Long March, Chiang Kai-shek's troops divided into several routes and sent hundreds of thousands of troops to encircle, besiege, and suppress the Red Army. At a critical juncture, it was I who deciphered the enemy's code and knew his enemy's actions very well. At that time, Ma Jiajun's, Hu Zongnan's, Chiang Kai-shek's, their codes were all deciphered by me. Where did the enemy come from? How did it come about? I knew very well that without deciphering this code, it would be difficult for the Red Army to cross the meadow! ”
When it was said that he had military merits, General Lee said: "What a battle achievement! It's good to be an ordinary citizen... I joined the Red Army at the age of 16, and after a lifetime of revolution, not only was the blood red, but it was red from head to toe, and the bones were also red! “
In his later years, when General Lee was writing his memoirs, someone asked him: "How do you write some questions, such as Siye and Lin?" Why not write a memoir and stay? ”
"Wrote. 1 million words. Be realistic. General Lee replied.
When asked when his memoirs would be published, General Lee humorously said, "When I die, enter it into the computer and save it." There are also backups, which no one can take away. "
Later, when a foreign publisher wanted to buy the copyright to General Lee's memoirs at a high price, the general refused: "No, I am a Chinese and will never publish books abroad." China can come out, otherwise, it will be saved for rats to chew away. ”
At 7:30 a.m. on January 3, 2009, General Li died of illness in Beijing at the age of 95.