In December 1948, the Kuomintang Secrecy Bureau secretly received the latest radio wave detector issued by the Ministry of National Defense. This device is the latest product of the U.S. military and is only available to U.S. military intelligence. It took great efforts for the Kuomintang Ministry of Defense to obtain several copies from the Americans, who were using this state-of-the-art equipment to detect the CCP's underground party radios.
At that time, the Kuomintang government had already lost three major battles, but they were still not willing to lose, and even fantasized that they could rule the river and temporarily protect half of the country. At this time, the Kuomintang top brass still stubbornly insisted on this self-deception trick, not only ignoring the defeat on the frontal battlefield, but instead carrying out a more frantic search and persecution of the CCP underground organization.
From Chiang Kai-shek to the front-line officers of the Kuomintang army, many people believe that the fundamental reason for the defeat on the frontal battlefield is the leakage of secrets. Indeed, many of the deployment and action plans of the Chinese army in the three major battles were acquired by the underground party of the COMMUNIST Party and sent to the Central Military Commission in a timely manner. Therefore, at that time, when the Kuomintang army was fully deploying the Yangtze River defense line, it intended to completely eliminate the underground organization of the Chinese Communists lurking in the Kuomintang area and prevent intelligence leakage.
In Shanghai, the Secret Service and other Kuomintang agencies found that a mysterious CCP radio station was continuously sending newspapers to the north. They always wanted to find the exact location of the station, but they always found nothing. Their radio wave detector at that time could only determine the size of the radio power and the general position of the radio, and the range of measurement was relatively large.
By the time they conducted a field search for the measured area, the CCP underground had long since stopped sending reports and moved. Agents and police officers find nothing each time.
In 1948, in order to wipe out the CCP underground organizations in the Shanghai area, Mao Renfeng deliberately assigned the most advanced radio detection equipment to the intelligence agencies in the Shanghai area. The Shanghai Secrecy Bureau has been keeping an eye on the mysterious radio station. And this radio station that continues to send mysterious radio waves is the secret radio station directly under Li Bai, a senior agent of the Communist Party of China.
In 1927, Zhou Enlai personally went to Shanghai to establish the first intelligence agency of the Communist Party of China, the Central Special Branch. As a result, Shanghai is also the birthplace of the CCP's intelligence apparatus, and since then, the CCP's secret radio station has been operating in Shanghai, sending a large number of high-level classified intelligence to the CCP Central Committee.
Long before the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the CCP had developed a huge underground intelligence network in Shanghai, and the number of secret radio stations had been set up. But in Pan Hannian's intelligence system, there are three highest-level secret radio stations, which accept the direct leadership of Pan Hannian. The radio station that Li Bai was in charge of sent a direct report to the Party Central Committee.
Li Bai was a veteran party member, and as early as 1925, Li Bai joined the Communist Party of China and became an excellent party member, when he was only 15 years old. Later, Li Bai, who was enthusiastic and active in his work and was intelligent and studious, was recommended by the organization to get a chance to further his studies.
Li Bai was sent to the Red Army Communications School in Ruijin, the capital of the Central Soviet Region, where he received training in systematic radio communications. Li Bai seemed to have a special talent for these semiconductors and mysterious codes, and soon mastered all the communication knowledge. And for the construction, assembly and maintenance of the station can also be bypassed, becoming a comprehensive communication expert.
After graduating, Li Bai naturally became a Red Army radio operator, and he belonged to the first batch of telegraph operators. The young Li Bai took the radio with him and followed the Red Fifth Army to participate in the Long March of the Red Army. After arriving in northern Shaanxi, he served as the radio station director of the Red Fourth Front, an important backbone of the Red Army's communications work, and was deeply valued by Li Kenong and others.
After the Xi'an Incident, the Kuomintang and the Communists began to cooperate, and the Ccp was able to openly operate in the Kuomintang area. Li Kenong was appointed as the head of the Eighth Route Army's office in Shanghai. Li Kenong found Li Bai before he went to work and asked him to work in Shanghai with him.
Li Kenong is no stranger to Shanghai, and his intelligence career began in Shanghai, and he left Shanghai after Gu Shunzhang's rebellion in 1931, and since then he has become the specific head of the CCP's intelligence front.
Li Kenong is well aware of the importance of Shanghai, which is a hub for China's economy and information at any time. It can even be said that Shanghai's status in the intelligence community is even higher than that of Nanjing. Therefore, the CCP Central Committee sent to Shanghai is the top elite in the intelligence system.
Li Kenong had realized that the Japanese might soon attack Shanghai. Therefore, we must take advantage of the rare space of KUOMINTANG-CPC cooperation to deploy and expand the CCP's intelligence apparatus in Shanghai as soon as possible. Radio is the only way for the central government to communicate with the Shanghai intelligence agencies in the future.
Li Bai was the top technician in the eighth route army's communication system, and he could be regarded as a veteran on the intelligence front, and Li Kenong brought him to Shanghai, which showed his trust in him.
When the Japanese warships assembled outside Wusongkou, Li Bai had already completed all the preparations according to Li Kenong's requirements. In order to facilitate the latent work, Li Kenong renamed him "Li Xia".
Li Bai's task was to protect the radio station and, as required, to send the information handed over to him by his superiors to the Party Central Committee as quickly as possible at the specified time. After the report is sent, hide the radio station.
It seems like a simple job, but the risk factor is very high. The radio can be hidden when not in use, but once it is turned on, it is in danger of being discovered by the enemy.
At that time, electricity was already widely used in Shanghai, but there were few electrical appliances in ordinary households, and ordinary households were only used for lighting. Households in better condition may have radios, phonographs and other low-power appliances. The radio station that Li Bai is responsible for is a modified military radio station, which is not very powerful in normal times, and once it starts to send a report, there will be a high-frequency signal, which is very easy to attract the attention of the enemy monitoring agency.
Therefore, Li Bai usually disguised himself as an ordinary citizen and worked and lived like everyone else, but in the dead of night, he would take out the radio and send out the information as quickly as possible. Moreover, he needs to open the receiver at the specified time and accept instructions from the central authorities.
Although Li Bai did not need to go deep into the enemy's interior to steal intelligence, he still had to receive the information they sent, and sometimes he had to meet with superior leaders to accept new tasks.
During the Japanese rule, every move must be very careful, and the slightest carelessness is in danger of exposure.
Born in 1910, Li Bai was only twenty-seven years old when he arrived in Shanghai, and considering the dangers of latent work, Li Bai stayed in Shanghai alone. Although there are also normal jobs as a cover, living with ordinary people on weekdays, there is nothing unusual about it. But a young man in his thirties, who has a normal job, has not been looking for a wife, which seems to the neighbors to be somewhat abnormal.
In order to cover his long-term lurking, the superiors decided to find a "wife" for him. In 1939, the party organization arranged for Qiu Huiying, an outstanding Communist Party member in Shanghai, to come to Li Bai's side and pretend to be Li Bai's wife to cover his lurking work.
Qiu Huiying ostensibly works as a female worker in a silk factory, and lives with Li Bai pretending to be a husband and wife on weekdays. At night, Li Bai received a telegram in the attic, and Qiu Huiying was in charge of the guard around him.
In this way, Li Bai and Qiu Huiying, pretending to be young couples, worked and lived in Shanghai like thousands of ordinary people, and never aroused the suspicion of others.
The so-called people are not grass and trees, how can they be ruthless? Twenty-two-year-old Qiu Huiying and twenty-nine-year-old Li Bai live together, going out to work during the day, going home for dinner at night, and cooperating with work late at night. The work of sending and receiving newspapers is actually very short, Li Bai's skills are skilled, and the reporting is very skilled, generally not more than ten minutes. As a result, they live together most of the time.
Over time, the two revolutionary youths had mutual affection, and in 1940, with the approval of the party organization, the two finally officially married.
However, Li Bai's heart never dared to let down his vigilance. Because the radio was constantly reporting, the enemy must have been paying attention to the radio waves he was emitting day and night.
The Japanese already had radio lateral technology at the time, but the accuracy was so low that it could only lock on to the general discovery and could not accurately determine the position.
Li Bai, who deals with radio stations day and night, also pays special attention to the development of radio technology. Shanghai, a city with extremely developed economy and information, not only has the most prosperous streets in the country, but also has the latest scientific and technological advice from all over the world.
Through various channels, Li Bai also learned that the Japanese should have more advanced radio wave lateral technology, which was undoubtedly a huge threat to him and his radio. He must take precautions in advance.
Japan's special high-tech departments have carried out strict search and surveillance of Chinese intelligence agencies lurking in Shanghai, and they will never allow intelligence agents from the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to operate under their own eyes.
The Japanese had the dominant position, so they often conducted random searches of homes, shops, factories, and even shot and killed people without any reason. Over time, the Japanese search efforts also increased.
Li Bai repeatedly found Japanese radio flanking vehicles near his home, as well as some suspicious traitors and spies, often appearing in nearby streets.
Li Bai and Qiu Huiying discussed that all the unusual signs around the area showed that the enemy had begun to suspect this area. If they continue to collect telegrams according to the original working rules, sooner or later they will find out. Therefore, Li Bai suggested moving into the concession as soon as possible, where the Japanese would have to be somewhat restrained, which could reduce the risk of exposure.
Years of experience in intelligence work have given Li Bai a keen intuition about the situation, and he feels that there is nothing wrong with it, that Japan has locked this area, and in fact the scope of the search has been very small.
Li Bai quickly reported what he found and his suggestions to the party organization, and with the arrangement and help of his superiors, Li Bai and his wife took their young children and moved into the French Concession.
After moving to his new home, Li Bai did not dare to take it lightly, although the Japanese army could not enter the leased search for the time being. But traitors and spies are everywhere, and the concession is originally a place where Crouching Tiger, Hides Dragons. A large part of the military command, the central command, and our party's underground intelligence organizations are located in the concessions, and the Japanese have long carried out all-round infiltration here.
At that time, there were frequent gun battles in the concession, many of which were exchanges between Chinese intelligence personnel and Japanese agents. Li Bai was more careful at this time, because he felt that the Japanese radio flank was getting more and more accurate. Even in the French Concession, traces of Japanese agents could often be found.
Li Bai is not only proficient in transceiver technology, but also very proficient in semiconductors and radio equipment. So he made a bold modification to the station.
First he removed the radio shell and placed the internal device inside the outer cover of an old radio. Radios and radios are common to many non-critical components of semiconductor equipment. Li Bai used his superb semiconductor technology to connect radio and radio together.
Li Bai used an ordinary copper wire to make a special coil, he connected the coil to the radio, the power of the radio increased, you can replace the receiver. In conjunction with another transmitter, a completely new radio station can be formed.
In addition, in order to avoid the enemy's radio direction finder, he also reduced the original radio power of up to 75 watts to only 15 watts. This is also the minimum power for sending and receiving telegrams.
However, Li Bai, who had simple conditions, did not escape the direction finder of the Japanese special high-tech department after all, and soon their new home was locked by the Japanese.
Less than a month after moving into the French Concession, the Japanese also tore off their camouflage masks, cast aside international law, and openly sent troops to break into the concession and hunt down the anti-Japanese forces.
Although Li Bai sensed danger, he did not expect that the enemy would find their exact location so quickly. The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1942, Li Bai sent and received newspapers as usual, and Qiu Huiying was in charge of vigilance.
Suddenly, Qiu Huiying heard a noise outside, and when she looked through the window, a group of Japanese gendarmes climbed over the wall and broke in. Qiu Huiying immediately sent an emergency signal upstairs. Li Bai heard the signal and understood that the Japanese were coming, and he sent the last piece of code as fast as he could.
Then, quickly pulling off the coil on the receiver, kneading the copper wire into a ball, and then dismantling the radio parts haphazardly and stuffing them into the radio. Finally, place the radio and transmitter under the floor.
A few seconds later, the Japanese broke in and held Li Bai to death. Soon they found the "radio" under the floor, but it was already a mess of parts.
The Japanese decided that this was the radio station that the direction finder had just discovered, so they arrested Li Bai and his wife together for interrogation.
After Li Bai and his wife were arrested and put into the Japanese gendarmerie command, they were tortured. However, both husband and wife were staunch revolutionary fighters, and since they dared to engage in intelligence in the Dragon Pond Tiger's Den, they had long been prepared to martyr the country with their bodies.
The Japanese pressed Li Bai what was going on on the radio, and Li Bai insisted that his family had just moved in. As for why there was a broken radio under the floor, he didn't know what was going on.
Qiu Huiying also underwent torture, but she always pretended not to know anything, and performed so intently that the Japanese interrogators thought that the gendarmerie had caught the wrong person.
All interrogations were at an impasse, and the gendarmerie could not conclude that the couple were spies based on a jumble of semiconductor parts.
In order to confirm the identity of Li Bai and Li Bai, the Japanese found their telecommunications experts and assembled the pile of parts. When their experts assembled the radio, they found it to be a radio. Because there is only a transmitter and no receiver, it cannot be used as a radio station, at best it is a radio.
When the Japanese gendarmerie got the conclusion of the telecommunications experts, they were all discouraged at once, so that Li Bai could not be convicted. In desperation, they released Qiu Huiying first, but Li Bai still had doubts in his body, and later the Japanese sent Li Bai to No. 76 for detention, and the traitors continued to interrogate him.
Cave Seventy-Six, located on Jisfer Road, is a very special traitor organization for our Party. After the secret rescue of our party, Comrade Li Bai was finally found innocent and released.
After Li Bai was released from prison, he continued to set up a secret radio station with Qiu Huiying to send secret intelligence to the Party Central Committee. However, they were more careful at this time, always on the lookout for japanese searches.
In 1944, Li Bai and his wife were assigned to The Pan Hannian Intelligence System, and under Pan Hannian's arrangement, Li Bai entered the Kuomintang Institute of International Studies. This institution was nominally an institute, but in fact it was a military intelligence agency of the Kuomintang, and through cooperation with the Americans, they had a lot of first-hand intelligence, especially about the movements of the Japanese army.
Li Bai was working as a telegraph operator in this organization at the time, and with superb technology, this position was very low-key and stable. With exquisite skill, Li Bai sent secret information to the Party Central Committee through the Kuomintang radio station in between his work.
While working here, Li Bai was arrested by a Kuomintang checkpoint for carrying a secret radio, but was quickly rescued from prison. Later, he continued to work at the institute, but did not arouse suspicion from the Kuomintang side.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Bai and his wife moved back to Shanghai, but soon after the Institute of International Studies was abolished, Li Bai found a job as an electronics repairman himself. Using the cover of public identity, Li Bai and his wife continued to run the CCP's secret radio station in Shanghai.
At this time, Li Bai's opponents became secret agents of the Secret Service, and they would not be soft compared to the Japanese. The Secrecy Bureau found that the CCP had several secret radio stations in Shanghai, but one radio station had an extremely high frequency.
Because the radio operator of this radio station is extremely skilled, the general operator needs ten minutes to send the code, and the person can definitely send it within five minutes. As a result, the station's telegraph time was so short that even when the direction finder discovered that by the time they began to search in the direction of the station, the secret radio station had finished sending the message and stopped working.
Because the radio report, especially when the remote report, consumes a lot of power, under the living conditions at that time, by looking at the electricity consumption and the electrical appliances in the house, you can determine whether there is hidden equipment.
At this point, the experienced Li Bai had long been on guard. He first installed a light bulb with a power of up to 25 watts in his home. In the middle of the night, he unloaded the large bulb and replaced it with a small bulb with only 5 watts of power. Then start reporting.
Moreover, Li Bai also boldly broke through the limit and reduced the power of the radio to only 7 watts. But such a low power, to yan'an, is almost impossible. But after careful analysis, Li Bai changed the time of the report to the early morning, when most of the radio stations were in silence and received the least amount of interference. In this way, although the signal received by Yan'an is extremely weak, it can ensure that the intelligence is received in its entirety.
After such adjustment, it also confused the enemy for a long time, and they did not believe that such a low-power signal was sent to Yan'an.
In this way, Li Bai and his wife relied on their superb skills and rich experience in struggle to maneuver with the enemy for two or three years. The agents also hated this secret radio station, and obviously played them as monkeys.
However, the agents in the Kuomintang Secrecy Bureau are not all rice buckets, and they are approaching Li Bai and his wife step by step.
There is another way for the enemy to roughly lock the position of the station, that is, the partition power outage. Because Li Bai's reporting time is mostly in the early morning, as long as there is a temporary power outage in a certain area when he sends a report, it can be judged whether the radio is in this position.
If the station is not in this position, when it sends a sudden power outage, the signal of the station will not stop. If the radio station is in this area, the signal will be interrupted at the same time as the power is lost.
Although the power grid had been popularized in the Shanghai area at that time, the power supply system was very unstable, and power outages were common. Li Bai also often encountered power outage accidents in his previous work, and at first he was still more worried, and later he was not surprised.
Perhaps it was this negligence that led to the subsequent arrest.
On December 30, 1948, Li Bai was ordered to urgently send the Kuomintang Army's Yangtze River Defense Plan to the Party Central Committee. This battle plan is very long, in order to ensure that the Party Central Committee receives such important information at the first time and ensures the victory of the People's Liberation Army in the battle of crossing the river.
Li Bai ventured to send continuous reports, and it was this time that Li Bai's position was completely exposed.
Li Bai had just finished sending the telegram when he heard a noise on the street, and he immediately realized that he might have been exposed. So the couple immediately destroyed the telegram and dismantled the transmitter and hid it. Subsequently, Qiu Huiying hurriedly handed over the child to a neighbor for the time being.
When the couple went back to bed and pretended to be asleep, more than a dozen Kuomintang agents broke through the door. The agents seemed to have been monitoring them for a long time, and when they broke in, they began to search without asking much.
Soon the news receiver hidden in the wall was discovered, and Li Bai and his wife were arrested again. This time, after Li Bai was arrested, he still did not give in to the enemy. However, when the enemy found the receiving machine, the machine was still hot, and naturally identified Li Bai as a communist spy and would never let him go easily.
Of course, the enemy still let Qiu Huiying go, and they hoped to ask more about the CCP underground organization from Li Bai's mouth. Li Bai was tortured by the enemy even more severely than when he was in a Japanese prison. Later, when Qiu Huiying came to visit him, she was almost unrecognizable.
On May 7, the shanghai police chief escorted 12 underground CCP members to The Qijia Temple for secret murder. Li Bai, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China and an outstanding intelligence fighter, was brutally killed at the age of 39.
Chinese a million heroic divisions of the People's Liberation Army successfully crossed the Yangtze River and instantly broke through the Yangtze River defense line that the Kuomintang claimed to have painstakingly managed. And the intelligence sent by Li Bai played an important role.
On May 27, the People's Liberation Army invaded Shanghai and liberated One of China's most prosperous cities. And this day is also the day that heroes like Li Bai are always looking forward to!
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