In 1949, the beginning of the Battle of the River Crossing sounded the death knell of the Kuomintang regime. A Kuomintang division fled south in a hurry during the battle, but still did not get out of the encirclement of the People's Liberation Army. It did not take long for the division commander of this unit to become a prisoner of our army. however
Instead of showing the slightest fear at the muzzle of our soldiers' guns, this captured senior Kuomintang official has always vigorously called himself an agent of our Party
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(Battle of the River Crossing)
The captives were almost imprisoned, and the old classmates rescued them in time
Long before the Battle of the Crossing River began, the Kuomintang troops were already in a panic, and Chiang Kai-shek, who was at the end of his rope, had to transfer leading cadres from various localities to the army, and a senior Kuomintang official named Li Qiang was among the troops drawn this time.
At the beginning of 1949, Li Qiang, who had previously done intelligence work in the Central Command, was transferred to the 312nd Division of the 45th Army of the Nationalist Army as a deputy division commander.
As the saying goes, the new officer took office with three fires, and the big battle was imminent, and everyone thought that Li Qiang, the newly appointed deputy division commander, would seize the training of the Nationalist troops and prevent the People's Liberation Army from crossing the river. However, to the surprise of the officers and men of the 312nd Division of the Nationalist Army,
Instead of strengthening the training of the troops, Li Qiang, the newly appointed deputy division commander, turned a blind eye every day, and only let the soldiers build fortifications, and even the recruits who were recruited could not even use guns.
Over time, the 312th Division began to ridicule Li Qiang, the backbone of the former central command, and now he has become a "layman" when training the army.
However, Li Qiang did not care about these rumors in the army at all, and still lived the day when the monk hit the clock one day. When the Battle of the River Crossing began,
The Nationalist army he trained quickly collapsed before it had even gone through a fierce battle, but it was still captured by the People's Liberation Army Sanye, which had already been ambushed on the Ninghang Highway, and he himself was taken prisoner of the People's Liberation Army
。 So, there is the scene at the beginning of our article.
(Li Qiang)
In the face of this Nationalist division commander who has always stressed that he is "undercover", the soldiers of Sanye are overwhelmed for a while, what should be done with this Nationalist prisoner? And this nationalist division commander also seemed to be in a hurry, eager to prove his identity. Just as the soldiers of Sanye wanted to escort the suspicious nationalist division commander to a prisoner-of-war camp, Li Qiang accidentally found an old acquaintance in the PLA troops and hurriedly shouted to him:
"Qian Shenfu, it's me, your old classmate of Yan'an!"
This PLA soldier named Qian Shenfu, who was serving as the commander of the supplementary training regiment in the Sanye Eighty-eighth Division at the time, rushed over to look at the prisoner of war and found that the senior officer of the Nationalist army in front of him was his old classmate who used to live in Yan'an.
This conscious old classmate still lives in a cave with himself, so why is he now wearing a Kuomintang uniform?
Although his friendship with Li Qiang was very deep, he still acted impartially at a critical moment, and immediately sent a telegram to the Party Central Committee, asking:
"Does our party have Comrade Li Qiang?"
(Chanshenfu)
The reply of the Beiping Party Central Committee is also very simple, and the telegram reads:
"Send Comrade Li Qiang to Beiping quickly!"
Hearing the telegram, Li Qiang hurried to Beiping, where he met his former comrade, and he sighed: "I originally wanted to follow the Nationalist troops to Taiwan and continue to do latent work, but I didn't expect that I would be liberated so soon!" ”
After returning to our party, Li Qiang finally found his real name for many years: Li Weiping.
Dong Biwu gave him a new name and was determined to drill into the belly of Zhongtong
According to Li Weiping's recollection,
He changed his name from Li Weiping to "Li Qiang", which is the meaning of the old superior Dong Biwu, which is taken as "strong ability and strong will to fight".
At that time, Li Qiang was The secret of Li Weiping, which only Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu and a few other leaders in our party knew, which was enough to witness how arduous the task li Weiping shouldered was. From Li Weiping's infiltration of the Kuomintang in 1940 to his return to our party's work, he experienced nearly 10 years of incubation, which can be called a life of nine deaths, and made great contributions to our party's intelligence work. Li Weiping also lamented:
"If he hadn't been captured by our army after the Battle of the Crossing River, he would probably have gone to Taiwan for longer intelligence work."
So, why is Li Weiping willing to accept such a difficult and long-lasting lurking mission? This requires a lot of talk about his personal experience. In 1915, Li Weiping was born into a revolutionary family in Anyue County, Sichuan Province, where the young Li Qiang had several older brothers who had participated in the revolutionary movement at that time.
Among them, the biggest influence on Li Weiping was yao Zhongshu, who studied at the Whampoa Military Academy and later joined the Chinese Communist Party.
Under the influence of his second cousin, Li Weiping studied hard and was admitted to the Sichuan Provincial First Normal School with excellent results, becoming one of the few "small champions" in the township at that time with a higher education.
However, seeking "Yan Ruyu" and "Golden House" in the book is not Li Weiping's lifelong dream. In his heart, there was an ideal holy place that really attracted him: Yan'an. When he was young, he had heard his second cousin say many times that in Yan'an he could not only learn advanced revolutionary culture, but also see the future of New China. So, in
In 1938, with the help of the local Communist Party in his hometown in Sichuan, Li Weiping waded through mountains and rivers to Yan'an to accept the baptism of revolutionary culture.
When Li Weiping arrived in Yan'an, he made many close friends who shared his ambitions, including Qian Shenfu, who later recognized him in the prisoner-of-war camp and sent a telegram to the Party Central Committee in a timely manner. At that time, Li Weiping and Qian Shenfu studied together at yan'an Kang Da and slept in the same cave, so they formed a very deep friendship.
And Li Weiping, who had no exploitation or oppression in Yan'an at that time, felt more and more that the ideal new China in his heart should be like this in front of him.
However, Li Weiping's study in Yan'an was only one year old. As the situation in the War of Resistance Against Japan became more and more severe, and the diehards in the Kuomintang set off anti-communist upsurges again and again, our Party became more and more aware of the importance of carrying out intelligence work within the Kuomintang. thereupon
At that time, Kaifeng, the propaganda director of our party, summoned Li Weiping and revealed to them the willingness of the organization to return to Sichuan to do intelligence and propaganda work for the party.
Li Weiping is also a Native of Sichuan and is very familiar with the local area, so when the Party organization wants to carry out intelligence work in Sichuan, it first takes him into account. Kaifeng told Li Weiping:
"Sichuan is the rear of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but it is also the front line of our revolution, and I hope that you can really play a role for the party on the front line."
Li Weiping was very touched by these words.
However, returning to Sichuan to do intelligence work also meant that he would no longer be able to use his original name, so Dong Biwu gave him a new name "Li Qiang".
Since then, "Li Weiping" has disappeared like evaporation in the human world, replaced by an unidentified Li Qiang.
Qian Shenfu, who suddenly saw his best friend disappear, also felt strange, and repeatedly inquired about the whereabouts of Li Weiping to the organization, and the organization's reply was: Li Weiping was transferred to work in North China.
But what Qian Shenfu did not expect was that the next time he met his old classmates and old friends would be ten years later.
(Sichuan during the Republic of China)
Before Li Weiping sneaked into the Kuomintang Central Committee, he did propaganda work, a high-profile work that once made him the object of deep hatred by the local Kuomintang secret service. Now, the organization let him break into the central government and do low-key intelligence work, which made Li Weiping feel very distressed for a while, but when the organization once again stressed the arduousness of this work with him, Li Weiping firmly made a guarantee with the organization:
"I must be lurking in the belly of the Kuomintang!"
By 1940, the Kuomintang's Political Research Class at the Chengdu Central Military Academy was officially opened, which gave Li Weiping the opportunity to infiltrate the Central Unification. After being admitted to the research class, Li Weiping seems to have changed into a person, clinging to relationships everywhere, making brothers and friends.
Later, he also became a "robe brother" in Sichuan, and Li Weiping's popularity within the Sichuan Kuomintang was very good. Therefore, it did not take long for Li Weiping to officially join the third training class of the Central Unification and became a member of the Kuomintang agents.
He made great contributions to gaining face for Chiang Kai-shek, and made many meritorious achievements in obtaining intelligence many times
Although Li Qiang eventually broke into the interior of the Central Unification, if he had always been an ordinary small clerk of the Central Unification, it was obviously difficult to get close to the core intelligence of the Kuomintang. So
Li Weiping racked his brains and repeatedly wanted to find an opportunity within the Central Unification To "not only make meritorious contributions to oneself, but also not to harm our party."
Later, Li Weiping really waited for his own opportunity. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a group called the Chinese Youth Party and Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang had a cooperative relationship. However, Chiang Kai-shek, who had always held great power, still had a skeptical attitude toward this party, so he repeatedly secretly sent the Central Unification to investigate the telegrams of the Chinese Youth Party.
Unexpectedly, the "small moves" of the Central Unification in the Chinese Youth Party were detected by the Chinese Youth Party
Zeng Qi, chairman of the Chinese Youth Party, openly rebuked Chiang Kai-shek for "being eavesdropped," which made Chiang Kai-shek very faceless. Therefore, at that time, Chiang Kai-shek concluded: Someone must have slipped through the cracks within the Central Unification Department, who was in charge of the investigation.
Enraged, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Central Unification To track down the real culprit who had humiliated himself "within ten days."
Li Weiping, who has always paid attention to details, discovered that before the intelligence of the Central Command was leaked, a colleague named Zeng Qinggao had asked to read the deciphered Chinese Youth Party telegram privately, so he expected that the problem might be the person. Not long after, Li Weiping revealed this detail to his superior, Sun Yunfeng, who, after investigation, found that it was indeed Zeng Qinggao who leaked the traces of the actions of the Central Command, and after punishing Zeng Qinggao, Chiang Kai-shek's face was also an explanation.
Sun Yunfeng was overjoyed, calling Li Weiping "shrewd and capable, loyal and reliable," and from then on, the most important intelligence in the Central Command would pass through Li Weiping's hands.
After accepting the secret service and intelligence work of the Central Command, Li Weiping mediated many times, and many staff members of our party and democratic progressives were brutally attacked by the Kuomintang.
In 1946, Li Weiping's party introduction, Zhou Junlie, was unfortunately arrested by the Kuomintang, and Li Weiping faced the risk of exposing his identity.
However, Li Weiping still racked his brains to evade the KMT's internal interrogation, and forged evidence that Zhou Junlie and our party had long been "disconnected," so that the KMT's arrest of Zhou Junlie could only be eliminated, and he himself was able to successfully escape. In 1947, while the Kuomintang sent troops and the People's Liberation Army to fight fiercely on the front line, on the other hand, it stepped up its secret service operations in the Kuomintang areas, and a large number of our Party members and democratic party figures were arrested every day.
"We can use the method of arrest by public factors to arrest half of the people who have made arrest recommendations. If there are more people arrested, not only will the people handling the case have to be investigated one by one, but we ourselves will be very tired. ”
Seeing such a leader who was able to "touch the fish" at work, the Kuomintang's central unification agents were also happy to blossom, and it was precisely for this reason that under the protection of Li Weiping, many comrades in our party who might have been imprisoned escaped the clutches of the Kuomintang.
At the beginning of the Battle of Crossing the River, Li Weiping was transferred by the Kuomintang to the army as a deputy division commander, and he also deliberately let the troops relax in training, thus providing a valuable opportunity for our army to cross the river smoothly.
After returning to the embrace of the party, he participated in the liberation of the great southwest and served as the vice president of the China Public Security University, devoting his life's efforts to the revolution and construction of new China.