Li Bai: Heroically sacrificed his life for the party's secret radio station

After the founding of New China, in order to commemorate Li Bai, a communist party member who had long been engaged in underground work in Shanghai, he took him as a prototype and filmed the movie "The Eternal Radio Wave". The deeds of Li Xia in the movie who are loyal to the party and heroically dedicate himself to the revolution truly reproduce the life of martyr Li Bai.

Li Bai, formerly known as Li Huachu, used to use the name Li Pu, pseudonyms Li Xia and Li Jing'an. Born in May 1910 in Liuyang County, Hunan Province, he joined the Communist Party of China in 1925, participated in the Xianggan Border Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927, joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in August 1930, became a soldier in the Communications Company of the Fourth Red Army, and later served as an instructor of the Communications Company. In June 1934, Li Bai was transferred to the second telecommunications class of the Ruijin Red Army Communication School to learn radio technology, and after graduation, he was assigned to the Fifth Red Army as a radio station director and political commissar, and participated in the Long March.

After the outbreak of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in October 1937, Li Bai was dispatched by the party organization, under the pseudonym Li Xia, to Shanghai to work as a secret radio station for the party. In Shanghai, where the Japanese and Wang puppet military and police agents gathered and the environment was extremely dangerous, Li Bai overcame all kinds of difficulties and was responsible for the liaison work between the underground organization of the Shanghai Party and the secret radio station of the Party Central Committee, and built an "air bridge" between Shanghai and Yan'an with radio waves. By 1939, the working environment was more sinister, and the party organization arranged for Qiu Huiying and Li Bai, a communist party member from a female worker background, to pretend to be husband and wife to cover the radio and carry out work. The two fell in love in a common revolutionary struggle, and were later married with the approval of the underground party organization, becoming a house of secret struggle.

In September 1942, the Japanese army arrested Li Bai and his wife during the investigation of the secret radio. Rikou tortured Li Bai in various ways, but he insisted that he was a private radio station. In May 1943, he was rescued by the party organization and released on bail. After being released from prison, the party organization transferred Li Bai and his wife to Zhejiang and arranged for him to be recruited into the Kuomintang Institute of International Studies as a newspaper operator. Under the pseudonym Li Jing'an, he traveled back and forth between Chun'an in Zhejiang, Changkou, and Leadshan in Jiangxi, using the Kuomintang radio to secretly transmit a large amount of strategic intelligence to the party on the Japanese and Puppet sides and the United States and Chiang Kai-shek.

After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Bai returned to Shanghai and continued to work on the party's secret radio station. In the early morning of December 30, 1948, in the course of telegraphic communication with the Party Central Committee, he was arrested by the Kuomintang secret service to detect the location of the radio station. After his arrest, Li Bai endured the lure of the high-ranking official Houlu and suffered all kinds of torture to extract a confession, but he was always unyielding, and the enemy was never able to get the little information he wanted from his mouth.

On May 7, 1949, on the eve of the liberation of Shanghai, Li Bai was secretly killed by Kuomintang agents at the age of 39.

Don't forget the original heart, keep in mind the mission, and keep moving

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Source: Learning to power the country

Editor: Chen Jing

Review: Peng Zhiyao