While dai was carrying out deployment work in Beiping, he received a telegram from shen Weihan, a major agent. He read the contents of it at a glance, looked at the name on it, couldn't help but laugh, and said firmly: "This is impossible!" ”
What is in the telegram? It was Shen Weihan who wanted to report a group leader of the Shanghai district of the military command, believing that this person was a communist, and hoped that Dai Kasa could arrest him. But as soon as Dai Kasa saw this person's name, he directly refused Shen Weihan's request.
In Dai Kasa's view, how could this talent who was loyal to the Kuomintang above be an underground worker of the Communist Party? Therefore, he immediately took a reply telegram and asked Shen Weihan to carefully verify the situation and not directly arrest him.
The name of the man mentioned in the telegram was Li Shiyu.
However, Dai Kasa didn't expect that he would actually look away this time, because Li Shiyu, who he had fully guaranteed, was indeed an underground worker with a "white skin and red heart"!
As a member of the Communist Party, what did Li Shiyu rely on to make this suspicious and treacherous secret agent leader trust him so much?
Pictured| Li Shiyu
In Bayan County, Heilongjiang in 1908, Li Shiyu was born in a local family, his original name was Li Tingfang, and later changed this name to himself because he admired Song Jiang, the "timely rain" in the good Han of Liangshan.
In "Water Margin", Song Jiang can be said to be the embodiment of benevolence, righteousness, and wisdom, so this teenager who has witnessed the suffering of the people at the bottom is determined to follow his example, wanting to emulate him to change the dark old society at that time and provide a stable and happy future for those poor working people who are oppressed to the point of not being able to live.
Based on this vision, in school, Li Shiyu worked hard, seized all the time to study, and when he was unwilling to provide tuition fees for further education in order to save money at home, he still did not give up, but fought hard according to reason, and won the opportunity to continue his studies for himself.
In 1925, the "May Thirtieth Massacre" alarmed the whole country, and Li Shiyu took to the streets with his indignant classmates to hold a parade and carry out patriotic anti-imperialist propaganda in solidarity with the students who fought against the enemy in Shanghai.
The experience of this period had a profound impact on Li Shiyu, who further realized that if he wanted to change the old China that was rotten to the bone, he must carry out revolution, and the Chinese Communist Party was the only flame of hope in this darkness!
Picture | oil painting of the May 30 Massacre
In 1931, After Being Introduced by Xia Shangzhi, Li Shiyu first joined the Chinese Communist Youth League, and at the end of the same year, he was officially transformed from a member of the Communist Youth League to a glorious Communist Party member.
In 1934, Li Shiyu, who had graduated from the law school of Fazheng University in Beijing, was assigned by the party organization to work in the northeast border guard garrison of the National Revolutionary Army. At that time, chiang kai-shek, in the face of the Japanese aggressors' step-by-step pressing, instead of keeping the country's security in mind, appointed Zhang Xueliang as deputy commander of the "suppression of the general" of Eyuwan and pointed the spearhead directly at the Red Army, which insisted on resisting Japan.
In order to break into the interior of the Northeast Army as quickly as possible, it is first necessary to have a "special relationship", for which Li Shiyu contacted Zhang Xuemeng, a friend who had studied with him in qiqihar Provincial No. 1 Middle School. Zhang Xuemeng happened to be the director of the guard room at Zhang Xueliang's mansion, and with his recommendation, Li Shiyu successfully entered the guard house and became a clerk.
In 1935, Li Shiyu came to Xi'an with the help of Zhang Xuemeng and became a lieutenant clerk in the fourth department of the "Suppression General", on the one hand, he collected relevant intelligence for the party organization of the Northeast Army, and on the other hand, he publicized the idea of anti-Japanese resistance and national salvation to the officers and men of Zhang Xueliang's department.
After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang was instead detained and questioned while escorting Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing, and the Northeast Army was internally divided, and in June 1939, the Northeast Army was reorganized and reorganized, and Li Shiyu became one of the officials who was laid off, but he did not stop his intelligence gathering work, but went to the Pingjin area to continue to engage in underground party work.
Picture | Zhang Xueliang
Coincidentally, Wu Guangbi, chief of the general affairs section of the Tianjin Public Security Maintenance Association controlled by the Japanese invaders, had also worked in a certain information room in Xi'an, and had some old feelings with Li Shiyu.
Li Shiyu approached Wu Guangbi for help, and soon sat in the position of prosecutor of the Tianjin High Court, and at the same time, he also obtained an extremely important item - a pass. This document was issued by the Japanese secret service, and with it, Li Shiyu could pass through the blockade line set up by the Japanese Kou unimpeded and pass on the message.
For example, once, He Songting, Li Shiyu's direct leader, asked him to transport radio machinery and motors from Tianjin to Beiping. If you want to go to Peiping, you must pass through the Japanese checkpoint, these oversized machinery is not like thin pieces of paper, it is easy to be found by the Japanese, and if you are not careful, you may bring serious consequences.
After thinking for a long time, Li Shiyu first visited the president of the High Court with a heavy gift, saying that he hoped to borrow the president's car to pick up his wife Sun Jingyun in Beiping.
Pictured| radio station during the War of Resistance
In August 1939, Wang Jingwei never looked back on the road of traitors, he colluded with the Japanese to plan the establishment of a puppet government, for which he made a special trip to Japan, and after returning to China, he secretly convened the Sixth Congress of the Puppet Kuomintang, and the banner of this congress was "to unite with neighboring Japan to fight the Communist Party."
In order to hold a congress, it is first necessary to select the right representatives. Zhu Jinghua, who was sent to Tianjin by Wang Jingwei, met Li Shiyu under the introduction of a friend, and he thought that Li Shiyu was a legal professional and his fellow countryman, so he decided to recruit him as a representative to the conference.
As soon as Li Shiyu heard his invitation, he realized that this was a wonderful opportunity to break into the Wang puppet government, and he reported the situation to the superior leaders on the pretext that "the matter was too important and needed to be discussed with his family." After receiving a reply with consent, Li Shiyu found Zhu Jinghua the next day and expressed his willingness to become a representative and serve Wang Jingwei.
Zhu Jinghua was overjoyed, and after hearing Li Shiyu mention that he was not a member of the Kuomintang, he said that Wang Jingwei was now in a shortage of people, and there was no time to carefully examine the identity of the deputies, so he asked Li Shiyu to claim that he had been introduced to the Kuomintang during his college years.
In this way, Li Shiyu smoothly mixed into the Sixth National Congress of the Pseudo-Kuomintang convened by Wang Jingwei, carefully recorded the contents of the meeting, and passed it on to the Social Department of the Northern Branch of the CPC as quickly as possible, and these important materials provided great help to the later work of the CPC Central Committee.
Picture | Wang Jingwei
On March 30, 1940, Wang Jingwei led his gang of traitors to establish the Wang puppet government, and Li Shiyu, who had participated in the sixth congress of the puppet Kuomintang as a representative, was personally appointed by Wang Jingwei as a legislator of the Legislative Yuan.
In order to obtain more internal information about the Wang puppet government, Li Shiyu resolutely gave up the underground work foundation he had spent a lot of energy on laying in the Pingjin area and went to Nanjing. After analysis, he thought that he would need to return to Tianjin frequently to pass on information at that time, and he could use the excuse of "visiting relatives", so he did not take his wife Sun Jingyun with him. The revolutionary couple separated from each other until a long time later, when Sun Jingyun came to Nanjing to help her husband in his revolutionary work.
In the Wang Pseudo Legislative Yuan, Li Shiyu quickly gained the appreciation of President Chen Gongbo by virtue of his outstanding talent. So he deliberately threw himself into his daily work and praised it without leaving a trace, so as to further gain the trust of the other party.
Chen Gongbo's female secretary once said to Li Shiyu privately: "Mr. Chen's impression of you is very good, he once praised you as a generous and honest person, the foundation of legal science is also very solid, and you are a very talented young man." Part of the reason she said these words was to win over and please Li Shiyu, which shows the importance of Li Shiyu in Chen Gongbo's heart at that time.
I am afraid that Chen Gongbo could not have imagined that because of his trust, Li Shiyu was only a legislator, but he could know a lot of evil activities and important strategic information of the Wang puppet government from him.
Pictured| Chen Gongbo
With the passage of time, the collusion between the Japanese army and the puppet government became increasingly close, and Chen Gongbo was already the mayor of the Shanghai puppet government and the commander of the Shanghai security at this time, and he did not forget to bring his cronies with him after his promotion. Li Shiyu had his back to the "big mountain" and smoothly became a standing committee member and secretary general of the Wang puppet party department.
In order to flatter the Japanese, Chen Gongbo shifted the main focus of his work to attacking our party's anti-Japanese forces, and the task of handling important documents of the Wang puppet government naturally fell to Li Shiyu's head.
During this period, the frenzied Japanese puppet army began to "clean up and suppress" the New Fourth Army, and to this end, the Wang puppet government even specially set up the "National Committee for Clearing The Countryside," of which Li Shiyu served as the director of the fourth section of the Shanghai branch.
He used his authority to skillfully transmit the operational information of the Japanese army to the New Fourth Army in a timely manner, so that the New Fourth Army could always do a good job of concealment or counter-offensive deployment one step ahead of time, resulting in repeated failures in the large-scale attacks of the Japanese puppet army, and the Japanese were so angry that the Japanese scolded Chen Gongbo for being incompetent.
At the meeting summarizing the anti-"Qingxiang" New Fourth Army branch meeting in the spring of 1943, Chen Yi specifically mentioned Li Shiyu's great contribution during this period, praising: "This information has at least helped us increase the strength of a division!" ”
Pictured| Chen Yi
As for Chen Gongbo, although he held a fire in his stomach in the face of the insults of the Japanese, he could only endure it silently, because he looked like a high official and powerful person, and when he said it, he was just a lackey of the Japanese. He had the heart to track down, but he did not expect that the person who had destroyed his plan again and again was Li Shiyu, the beloved general around him, so Chen Gongbo did not have any good way to deal with it except to scold his chief of staff and regimental commanders after failure as "waste and rice buckets".
Not only that, he also used Chen Gongbo's preparation to rectify the matter of officials, vigorously punished a large number of pseudo-officers who bullied men and women, and ran amok in the townships, and to a certain extent protected the ordinary people who struggled to survive under the oppression of the Wang puppet government.
In 1945, on the eve of Japan's surrender, Zhou Fohai, a government official of the Wang puppet government who had long been in collusion with Chiang Kai-shek, found Li Shiyu and informed him that he had been appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander-in-chief of the "Shanghai Action Corps of the Military Commission." He said: "You are now the chief of the Military Law Department of the Action Corps, and the task entrusted to us by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek is to maintain 'order' in Shanghai and to arrest suspicious elements as soon as they are discovered." ”
The so-called "suspicious elements" mentioned by Chiang Kai-shek are actually the New Fourth Army, which is about to enter Shanghai.
Pictured| Japan surrendered
Chiang Kai-shek's intentions have long been seen through by the leaders of our party, and Li Shiyu has already received the task of the Intelligence Department of the Central China Bureau: to plot against the armed forces of the puppet army and police, to cooperate with the New Fourth Army and to liberate Shanghai!
After analyzing the analysis of Wang's security corps in Shanghai, Li Shiyu believed that Li Guozhang, the leader of the teaching regiment, and Liu Tiecheng, the leader of the regiment, had some friendship with him and were the easiest people to accept lobbying and leading troops to revolt.
Therefore, Li Shiyu often took the opportunity of contact with them to talk about the current situation in China and the traitorous evil deeds of the Wang puppet government, instilled revolutionary ideas in them without leaving a trace, and advised them to turn back to the shore and not become sinners of the state and the nation.
At this time, the New Fourth Army launched the Funing Campaign and won a huge victory, which made the Wang puppet government officials in Shanghai even more panicked, and at the instigation of Li Shiyu, Liu Tiecheng and others were willing to cooperate with the New Fourth Army and do their part to liberate Shanghai under the leadership of the Communist Party.
However, after observing the domestic situation, the Party Central Committee decided to concentrate its forces on occupying Shandong and planning to seize the northeast, and the plan for the liberation of Shanghai had to be temporarily shelved, and the Kuomintang took over Shanghai one step ahead of the other.
Picture | oil painting of the New Fourth Army
Just when Li Shiyu was hesitating which side of his next work, a man named Yu Xiangqin came to the door, ostensibly a lawyer, but in fact he was the person in charge of the command station of the Kuomintang army's unified Shanghai district.
Yu Xiangqin had long planned to rebel against Li Shiyu, who was working in the Wang puppet government, and let him serve the Kuomintang military command, so he gave a promise: "If you can pull some people from the police to my side, I can take you in." The meaning of this sentence is that Li Shiyu should hand over the roster of personnel of the Shanghai Military Justice Department as a "meeting gift" for joining the military command.
This was a big joke, at first Zhu Jinghua took a fancy to Li Shiyu and gave him the status of a member of the Kuomintang to help him break into the interior of the Wang puppet, and now Yu Xiangqin of the military command has stuffed Li Shiyu into the interior of the military command in order to obtain the list of personnel of the Wang puppet government.
They have been going around and tossing and turning for so long, if they knew that Li Shiyu's real identity was actually an underground party member of our party, I am afraid that my face would be blue!
Li Shiyu, with the help of Yu Xiangqin, continued to lurk in Shanghai.
Soon after, the military command held a "weekly meeting to commemorate the Shanghai office," and Li Shiyu, one of the internal personnel of the military command, also attended the meeting. What he did not expect was that the head of the secret service, Dai Kasa, not only personally presided over the meeting, but also asked specifically when speaking freely: "Which one is Mr. Li Shiyu?" ”
Li Shiyu's heart clattered, almost thinking that his identity was exposed, but he quickly stood up calmly. Dai Kasa looked at him for a moment, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "I know that you, Comrade Yu Xiangqin, told me that you are very capable and have done a lot of work for the party-state after breaking into the Wang Pseudo Central Committee. These words made Li Shiyu's heart hanging in mid-air suddenly fall, and he humbly replied: "Mr. Dai is well led as a whole." ”
Dai Kasa's special inquiry this time made the surrounding agents take a look at Li Shiyu, although they were not familiar with the identity of the young man in front of them, they speculated that he might be Dai Kasa's concubine subordinate, so in the later work, li Shiyu always opened the door to Li Shiyu, and Li Shiyu's lurking work was carried out more smoothly.
He sifted through the classified Kuomintang military and political documents he came into contact with during his screening work, and then transmitted them to the Yan'an Party organization through secret radio. With this information, the Central Committee of our Party has always been able to grasp the situation of the Kuomintang in a timely and detailed manner and make reasonable responses, and it can be said that Li Shiyu's intelligence work has played a tremendous role in our army's battle on the frontal battlefield.
Pictured | Dai Kasa
But at the same time, after repeated failed attempts, the Kuomintang began to suspect the existence of underground Communist workers within. Dai Kasa arranged for a group of his men to go to important cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing, and Beiping to investigate, and Li Shiyu was listed on the list of military commanders as one of the suspects.
After all, Li Shiyu was a person that Yu Xiangqin personally "dug" from the Wang puppet government, and the agents of the military command actually did not intend to question his identity at first, but they learned an old thing in the course of the investigation: When Li Shiyu was still working in the Wang puppet government, his wife Sun Jingyun and his brother Li Chunfang were arrested by the Japanese army on suspicion of resisting Japan.
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At that time, Li Shiyu was the secretary general of the Shanghai puppet government, and he often traveled between Ning and Shanghai in order to pass on information, and later his wife Sun Jingyun also came to Shanghai to assist him in underground work. These movements attracted the attention of the Japanese gendarmerie, and one night, the Japanese arbitrarily broke into Li Shiyu's home, arrested Sun Jingyun on the grounds of "communism", and locked her up.
Sun Jingyun, a seemingly weak woman, has an indomitable backbone, and in prison, in the face of all kinds of torture inflicted by the enemy, she has never told any secrets about our party's underground organization, insisting that she is not a communist, and her husband Li Shiyu has nothing to do with the Communist Party.
Picture | Li Shiyu (right) and wife Sun Jingyun (left)
Li Shiyu did not close his eyes all night, and after dawn, he immediately drove to Chen Gongbo's mansion to tell him about last night's experience. When Chen Gongbo heard that his trusted general had been so "slandered" by the Japanese gendarmerie, he angrily asked his secretary to call and contact Shigeru Goto, director of the special high office of the pseudo-city police station, to deal with the matter.
With Chen Gongbo as a guarantee, plus the night the Japanese gendarmerie went out to arrest people, they did not find any suspicious documents and letters in Li's house, so they had to release Sun Jingyun.
But now that the agents of the military command had revived the old matter and cited the evidence in Yu Xiangqin's archives that Li Shiyu had not been sent to the Wang pseudo-central government, the grand secret agent Shen Weihan asked Dai Ka to arrest Li Shiyu immediately. But the agents did not expect that Dai Kasa's first reaction after seeing the documents was: "This is impossible." ”
The | old photo of the Japanese gendarmerie
As an "old fritter" who has been immersed in the Kuomintang officialdom for many years, Dai Kasa has long seen a lot of things about the mutual confrontation between parties, and "listing a certain person of a certain faction as a suspect" is the most common means they use when they are vying for power.
What's more, since he had once highlighted Li Shiyu at the meeting, it showed that he had a certain understanding of this person, so Dai Kasa held that Li Shiyu, who was "in the Communist Party," was only a victim of the internal political struggle of the Kuomintang, and he explained in his reply telegram to Shen Weihan that Li Shiyu had made a meritorious contribution to breaking into The Interior of Wang Fei and that his work in the military command in the past was also very outstanding, so he did not approve the arrest.
With Dai Kasa as a protective umbrella, although Li Shiyu was in a dangerous situation, he finally turned the danger into a disaster. Unfortunately, not long after, Dai Kasa fell to his death because of the plane crash, Shen Weihan's eyes suddenly lit up, in order to suppress Yu Xiangqin, who had always been against him, he mentioned "arresting Li Shiyu" again.
Without Dai Kasa, even if Yu Xiangqin wanted to protect Li Shiyu, there was nothing she could do.
Li Shiyu was detained in the detention center by secret agents, who tortured Li Shiyu to confess his identity as a Communist Party member, and they handed over a confession prepared in advance and asked Li Shiyu to sign and detain him.
However, as soon as Li Shiyu saw this posture, he guessed that they must not yet have the exact evidence that could prove their identity, so he righteously and sternly scolded the agents who tortured them, pierced the ugly face that they did not do anything when the country was in trouble, and only knew how to eat, drink and enjoy themselves in Chongqing, and said in awe: "When you were making a lot of money and playing with women, I was fighting against the Japanese devils, and now you are persecuting me in turn, it is really a bunch of kings and bastards!" ”
These spies looked at Li Shiyu's righteous and courageous appearance, and their hearts also burst into muttering: Is it true that Li Shiyu is not a member of the Communist Party, but that someone deliberately put the charge on him in order to frame him?
Li Shiyu always insisted on the initial statement, refused to admit his identity as a communist, and the secret agents of the military command had no way to take him, and did not dare to directly release him, so they could only continue to detain him vaguely.
Picture | Kuomintang agent in the film and television drama
Li Shiyu was imprisoned in prison for more than two years, and in February 1949, the trumpet of victory of the People's Liberation Army sounded one after another in various cities in China, and the senior officials of the Kuomintang were already unable to take care of themselves.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Sun Jingyun used a large amount of money to smooth out relations and successfully released her husband from prison on bail. As soon as Li Shiyu was released from prison, he published a special "search notice" in two Newspapers in Shanghai, which was his method of contacting the party's underground organizations in the past.
Sure enough, not long after the "search notice" was published, the members of the underground organization found Li Shiyu, a revolutionary who had been separated from the party for a long time, and once again threw himself into the embrace of the party.
In April of the same year, in view of the fact that the Kuomintang agents had not relaxed their surveillance of Li Shiyu, in order to ensure his safety, the party organization decided to arrange for Li Shiyu to leave Shanghai and go to Beiping.
In 1999, the hero who dedicated his life to the hidden front of China passed away peacefully, and his review of his life was reflected in the small poem he wrote after his retirement:
Northern Yan flew south and did not return, and the long journey was white-haired,
The country and mountains are covered with splendid embroidery, and a history book is spring returning.