There are two Li Bai in Chinese history, the most famous of course are the poets of the Tang Dynasty, who are called "poetry immortals" by later generations. As for the other, Presumably not many people know him, he is the revolutionary martyr Li Bai of the last century, compared to his real name, perhaps someone has heard of his other name "Li Jing'an". This Li Bai was highly concerned by the Party Central Committee before the liberation of Shanghai, and his personal safety was once raised to a very high level, and even after the liberation of Shanghai, he was directly ordered by the Party Central Committee to find his person, whether he was alive or dead. Who is this Li Bai, and why does it arouse such great attention from the Party Central Committee? All this has to start with Chen Yi's telegram.
In May 1949, shanghai was declared liberated, Chen Yi was appointed by the Party Central Committee as the mayor of Shanghai, and chen Yi, who had been in office for only three days, received an urgent telegram from Beijing, asking him to immediately look for a comrade named Li Jing'an, regardless of life and death, to find his whereabouts. If he is alive, of course, it is best to send him back to Beijing safely, and if he dies unfortunately, then the remains of the martyrs must be found and properly disposed of no matter what.
This urgent secret telegram from Beijing was sent by Li Kenong, then acting director of the Intelligence Department of the CPC Central Committee, and upon receiving instructions from his superiors, Chen Yi did not dare to be careless and immediately gave instructions to all the personnel of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau: Please investigate the whereabouts of Comrade Li Jing'an in detail. Although Mayor Chen Yi's mood is very well understood by the comrades of the Public Security Bureau, finding such a person whose life and death are unknown to millions of people in Shanghai is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack. The road ahead is full of difficulties, and the Public Security Bureau still attaches great importance to it, after all, it is the order of Mayor Chen Yi, so they are also mobilized.
First of all, the public security bureau managed to contact Li Jing'an's wife, Qiu Huiying, and only from the latter's mouth did it learn that Li Jing'an was not his real name, and that this person whose real name was Li Bai had disappeared like evaporation in the world long before the liberation of Shanghai. For this matter, Qiu Huiying was obviously more anxious than the Public Security Bureau and Chen Yi, but after all, Qiu Huiying's ability was limited, and now with the help of the Public Security Bureau, it was equivalent to adding some hope to this search mission.
After a series of visits and investigations, the comrades of the Public Security Bureau concluded that the possibility of Li Bai's survival was very small, and that he was probably killed by the Kuomintang reactionaries before the liberation of Shanghai. The most urgent task now is how to find the remains of Comrade Li Bai through the existing situation.
Subsequently, the Public Security Bureau contacted a reporter from The Liberation Daily and, with the assistance of media opinion, identified at least three confirmed burial sites of revolutionary martyrs in Shanghai, but Li Bai was not found among the many corpses.
At this point, can it be assumed that Li Bai is still alive, thus overturning the previous conclusion of the Public Security Bureau? Of course not, although a meticulous investigation was conducted at three large martyrs' burial sites, the Public Security Bureau still believed that Li Bai was most likely killed, and the only person who was unwilling to accept this fact was his wife Qiu Huiying.
Soon after, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau learned through clues provided by the Penglai sub-bureau that on May 7, an unknown man dressed in white had been taken to Pudong District for secret execution, and because he was wearing a white shirt, he was particularly conspicuous in the crowd. Without further ado, the Public Security Bureau took action and, with the help of local government officials and the masses in Pudong, exhumed 12 other bodies in a nearby wasteland. Qiu Huiying, who rushed to the scene to identify the news, quickly recognized the corpse of her husband Li Bai from these corpses.
After such a long search, although unwilling to admit it, the reality in front of him still broke the last psychological defense line of this strong woman.
Looking at her husband's body, Qiu Huiying sat paralyzed on the ground, as if everything around her had lost its original meaning and value, and tears flowed unconsciously from her eyes. At that moment, the bits and pieces of her husband's life echoed in her mind like a slide, and after a little calm, Qiu Huiying vowed to find her husband's murderer.
Later, the matter was notified to Mayor Chen Yi at the first time, Chen Yi, in addition to comforting Qiu Huiying, said that he would definitely help her find the murderer, and under the report of media reporters, Comrade Li Bai's life deeds and tragic ending were gradually understood. However, to find the murderer in a short period of time, this undoubtedly gives the public security bureau another problem.
A year later, the Hongkou Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau received a strange telephone call to report that someone had seen a middle-aged man with strange whereabouts and had gone to pay taxes with a batch of military communications equipment. According to the situation on the telephone, the comrades of the Public Security Bureau immediately rushed to the scene to carry out the arrest, and soon they found that this person had worked in the Kuomintang military command department for 10 years, mainly responsible for the management and liaison of radio and other communication equipment. It is worth mentioning that although this person has been working in the intelligence department for a long time in secret, he is bloodless and confesses after a set of interrogations by public security bureau personnel.
According to the clues provided by this person, the public security bureau shunteng touched the melon and successively brought Tang Across-feng, Lin Jie, and Xu Mingqiu, three Kuomintang military command agents, to justice, and the interrogation of these three people soon began, and Xu Mingqiu said that the person who destroyed Li Bai's radio was called Ye Danqiu, who was also a secret agent in the military unification organization. On September 18, the Public Security Bureau arrested him.
After some data searching, the comrades of the Public Security Bureau were surprised to find that before the liberation of Shanghai in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek secretly instructed the military command department in Shanghai to execute all the underground members of the COMMUNIST Party who were arrested, including Qiu Huiying's husband, Li Kenong's old friend Li Bai.
When the truth finally came out, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Li Kenong, who was far away in Beijing, was saddened when he learned the final result. In 1958, based on information provided by Li Kenong, Bayi Studios made a black-and-white film called "The Eternal Electric Wave", the protagonist of which was based on Li Bai, combined with some touching deeds of other underground intelligence workers.
As soon as the film was released, it swept the country, especially at the end of the film, when the protagonist Li Qian's radio station was searched by secret agents, and under the muzzle of the Kuomintang agents, Li Qian tearfully sent out the last telegram: "Comrades, farewell forever, I miss you." "Touching and profound, straight to the heart."
This case is almost over at this point, but who is Li Bai, and what exactly will he affect the nerves of Li Kenong and Chen Yi?
In 1926, Li Bai, who was still very young at the time, joined the revolution, and together with the peasants in his hometown, he set off a peasant movement, beating up local tycoons, dividing up the land, and making contracts... This year, at the age of 15, he had already joined the Communist Party of China. After Mao Zedong launched the Autumn Harvest Uprising in Pingxiang, Li Bai came to support from Liuyang, Hunan Province, and later, this force known as the "Red Guards" cooperated with the Red Army to win the victory of the armed uprising, and Li Bai also served as the leader of the Young Pioneers.
Two years later, with the establishment of the revolutionary base area, Li Bai came to Jinggangshan with his team to work, where he joined the Red Army and served as a propagandist for the Red 4th Front, and with the large troops insisted on fighting in the Gannan and western Fujian regions. After the victory of the first "anti-encirclement and suppression" victory, Li Bai captured a radio station from nowhere, and after this matter was known to the higher-level departments, it aroused the great attention of the top level of the Red Army, and the establishment of his own intelligence personnel within the Red Army was put on the agenda, so the first radio training class was established, and the diligent and enterprising Li Bai was also recruited.
In the class, Li Bai was always the best student and the smartest student, and soon he mastered how radio works and was able to easily manipulate the station. After the Start of the Long March, Li Bai led a radio squad of more than 100 people, shouldering all kinds of heavy communication equipment and equipment. As a communications officer, this group of people not only has to be vigilant against the enemy soldiers behind them at all times, but also has to be responsible for the reception and dispatch of various telegrams to get in touch with other troops during rest, and do a good job of recording and reporting, which can be described as a heavy task.
During the Long March, a leader saw that he was too thin and weak, so he equipped him with a military horse, which was not available to everyone in the Extremely Difficult Red Army at that time, but Li Bai never rode a horse, but let this military horse be used to carry valuable communication equipment or for seriously ill comrades.
After the beginning of the All-out War of Resistance, Li Bai was assigned by the Party Central Committee to carry out secret work in the Shanghai National Unification District, and it was from this time that a deep revolutionary friendship was established between Li Bai and Li Kenong. At that time, it was not a little difficult to engage in intelligence work in the metropolis of Shanghai.
It took Li Bai a great deal of effort to gather intelligence and communicate with Yan'an in Shanghai, and later, the superior leader sent him an assistant, his future wife Qiu Huiying, and the two soon developed from initial acquaintances to husband and wife. In order to protect the radio and intelligence, the two people lived a life of fear in Shanghai. With the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army carried out a large-scale search and arrest operation against the Communists in the Shanghai area, and once it fell into the hands of the Japanese, the fate could be imagined.
During their "work" in Shanghai, the two were briefly imprisoned and persecuted by the Japanese, but with the efforts of the underground party comrades, they were finally rescued. In 1944, Li Bai, alias Li Jing'an, continued to work secretly with Qiu Huiying in Shanghai, but at this time, their main opponent was replaced by a Kuomintang agent.
After Japan's unconditional surrender in 1945, the Kuomintang reactionaries headed by Chiang Kai-shek provoked a civil war at the expense of national interests. At the end of 1948, the Kuomintang military command discovered Li Bai's radio station, so they arrested him, and on May 7, 1949, after being detained and tortured by secret agents for nearly half a year, Li Bai was killed by military agents before the liberation of Shanghai.
After all, Li Bai could not wait for the first day of the liberation of Shanghai, but his history has been recorded in the annals of history, a legendary life, an indomitable fighter behind enemy lines, a revolutionary hero, and immortal.