His name was Li Anfu, and he was only 1.2 meters tall, but he became an excellent assassination agent. Blind in his right eye and deaf in his left ear, he single-handedly assassinated 7 senior Japanese officers and then retired, making eight battle achievements and being awarded a number of honorary titles. So why is this revolutionary with great military achievements only 1.2 meters tall? What is his secret weapon to annihilate the enemy? Today, let us walk into the revolutionary hero Li Anfu and appreciate his legendary life together.
In 1925, Li Anfu was born in a squire family in Leling, Dezhou, Shandong, at that time, the life of ordinary people was generally more difficult, often eating and not eating, running around for food and clothing. But Li Anfu, who came from a wealthy family, certainly did not have such troubles, and under his father's arrangement, Li Anfu entered the school from the age of 7.
The clever and clever Li Anfu learned knowledge effortlessly, not only that, but also far beyond ordinary people in terms of physical fitness. His father saw his advantages and let him practice martial arts in his spare time (boxing at the age of nine, marksmanship at the age of ten, and the normal class of Leling Middle School at the age of 12). If there is no accident, Li Anfu will be an all-rounder in literature and martial arts when he grows up, inherit the family business, and live a peaceful life for a lifetime.
Pictured| Li Anfu
As the saying goes: There are unpredictable storms in the sky, and people have bad luck and bad luck. With the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, a large part of the mainland territory fell under the iron heel of the Japanese invaders, and the unarmed people had no power to fight back in the war. For a time, hundreds of people were displaced, their families were destroyed, and they were in dire straits. A patriotic upsurge of resistance against Japan was set off throughout the country, people's armed forces were spontaneously formed, and countless patriotic young people threw their heads and spilled their blood on the battlefield against the Japanese Kou.
On July 7, 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, and the prepared Japanese army burned the war to the Jilu Border Area in a short period of time. Leling was also not spared, and the murderous Japanese Kou did not spare even women and children, and hundreds of people were tragically killed. Under the control of the Japanese army, Shandong was like a purgatory, full of ruins and broken walls, lifeless.
Hiding in the shadows, Li Anfu witnessed the atrocities of the Japanese army, and the seeds of revolution took root in his heart. At that time, he thought: We must drive the Japanese army out of the land of China and let them get the lesson they deserve. But a bigger storm also hit Lee, and soon after, his father, who was seriously injured, was sent home with news that the second and fourth brothers had died on the battlefield.
The young Li Anfu was heartbroken, and he hated that he could not immediately rush to the battlefield and kill all the Japanese. However, considering that his father still needed to take care of himself, he served his father to filial piety and forced him to take care of him personally. After this incident, Li Anfu's desire to kill the enemy and serve the motherland was even stronger, and it was at this time that an opportunity quietly came to Li Anfu.
In many encounters with the Japanese army, our army suffered huge losses, and the front line urgently needed fighters who could kill the enemy. In 1938, Xiao Hua, commander and political commissar of the Eighth Route Army's eastward anti-Japanese advance column, was assigned by his superiors to lead his troops to the east to resist Japan and enter the Jilu Border Region.
Soon after, the Eighth Route Army came to leling County. Li Anfu understood that this was his only chance, and when he was still young, he bravely came to Xiao Hua and said firmly to him: "I want to join the Eighth Route Army and go to the battlefield to fight the Japanese!" ”
At that time, Li Anfu was only 13 years old, far from the age of joining the army, where is the reason for letting a child go to the battlefield? Therefore, Xiao Hua refused, "Where is this?" You're still a child, and it's dangerous to have no eyes on the battlefield, so you'll come back in a few years. ”
But where did Li Anfu, who was bent on serving the country, listen to this, and he was eager to go to the battlefield to avenge his brothers who had sacrificed their lives for the country, and he pleaded: "Although I am young, I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child." Let me participate, I have to avenge my brothers. ”
Xiao Hua asked incomprehensibly, "Child, don't worry, you slowly say, what happened to your brother?" Li Anfu replied truthfully: "My second and fourth brothers are dead, died at the hands of the Japanese army..." It turned out that there was such a hidden feeling behind joining the army, and Xiao Hua really couldn't bear to refuse Li Anfu who was so sincere, so he left him in the army.
Xiao Hua thought like this: This Li Anfu is indeed a good seedling who is a soldier, but he can't let him go to the battlefield as soon as he comes, he is too young. It is better to stay in the army and find a job suitable for him to exercise for a few years, cultivate well, and maybe you can have a good job. But what job should I find for Li Anfu? This made Xiao Hua feel very nervous, and he quickly solved the problem.
In the chaotic world of war, the cultural level of soldiers is not high, many older soldiers even can't read a single character, and their cultural literacy needs to be improved urgently. And Li Anfu has read books, which is very rare in the military, and it is most appropriate for him to help everyone learn. In this way, Li Anfu was appointed as a cultural instructor, and he was responsible for teaching the soldiers to read and write on weekdays.
But Li Anfu's ambition is by no means here, and he is always worried about killing the enemy in his heart. In his time outside of work, he often practiced shooting with his fighters, and he did not expect that Li Anfu also had a talent in shooting. Through a period of diligent study and hard training, Li Anfu's shooting skills improved by leaps and bounds, and he soon became the best in the army. Such a sharpshooter will definitely be a good helper in battle, and sure enough, in the next battle, Li Anfu will begin to shine!
It was July 1939, and the guard battalion of the Nationalist gao shuxun division marched to Ningjiazhai in Leling County, Shandong Province, and a group of Japanese puppet troops took advantage of their lack of preparation to black hands, and then launched a fierce attack on them. The passages around them were blocked, the enemy was outnumbered, and Gao Shuxun's troops were instantly in a situation of great danger.
Upon learning the news, Xiao Hua decisively led his troops to rescue Gao Shuxun's troops. With the support of Xiao Hua and his subordinates, the unfavorable situation was suddenly reversed. Originally, Gao Shuxun's troops were surrounded by Japanese puppet troops, but now it was the Japanese puppet army that was attacked by Gao Shuxun's troops and Xiao Hua's troops on both sides. The war situation gradually became clear, and with the tacit cooperation of the two armies, the war went smoothly, and this group of Japanese puppet armies was quickly strangled by the two units, but the crisis did not seem to have been completely eliminated.
Li Anfu, who has always been cautious, heard a faint groan when he cleared the battlefield, was it the voice of the Japanese army? After thinking about it for a moment, Li Anfu decided to go and have a look. This look could startle him, it turned out that the Japanese soldier was not seriously injured, and at this time he was trying to reach the gun not far away with his hand, thinking that he wanted to make a sneak attack.
How could Li Anfu let him succeed? Saying that it was too late and fast, I saw Li Anfu rush to the front of the Japanese army with an arrow step and grab the pistol with lightning speed. In the process, this Japanese soldier was still stubbornly resisting, and even wanted to take out the short knife on his body to assassinate Li Anfu, and he immediately retreated when he saw it.
A shot was fired at the Japanese from afar, and the bullet shot into the heart with great precision. This Japanese army is no one else, it is Kuroda Ichiro, he has committed many crimes on the mainland, and Li Anfu can be said to have made great achievements this time. However, in this battle, Lee also made a mistake: he secretly left the gun he snatched from Kuroda Ichiro. This kind of behavior was not allowed in the army, and Li Anfu was punished by confinement.
Fortunately, he quickly admitted his mistake to the organization and promised never to do it again. When he first arrived, he did not understand the rules of the troops, and the organization treated him leniently. This is just one of the small episodes, and what really matters is that because of Lee Anfu's excellent performance this time, he received the task of assassinating the Japanese gendarmerie captain Ibaraya Goo, which is enough to see the organization's appreciation for Lee Anfu.
Li Anfu also attached great importance to this mission, first through the Huimin inner line, roughly grasped the trajectory of Ibarya Goo's activities; then, after some simple preparations, finally cautiously set off. It was in an alley north of Wenchang Pavilion, and with the sound of a gunshot from Li Anfu, Ibaraya Wuxiong fell to the ground.
If one accurate time is a coincidence, then these two kills are enough to prove Li Anfu's ability. Since then, the good name of Lee Anfu's sharpshooter has spread in the army. In a mission not long after, Li Anfu's body was greatly damaged, and his height was always stuck at 1.2 meters. What's going on?
It was an explosive mission, and Li Anfu was responsible for throwing the explosive package out, but for various reasons, he did not have time to evacuate, and the explosive package exploded not far away. A huge wave of air threw Li Anfu to the ground, and although his life was saved, his right eye was blinded and his left ear could no longer hear.
What's even more frightening is that Li Anfu has suffered severe damage to his pituitary gland, which means that his height will remain at 1.2 meters forever. He could have grown into a strong boy, but now it has all become delusional, it is really sad, it is a pity!
Pictured| Li Anfu (first from left) and his comrades-in-arms
Just when everyone thought that Li Anfu would collapse, he stood up from the suffering, and after a short period of recuperation, Li Anfu returned to the army. Everything has changed, but it seems that nothing has changed, he is still the hard-working little soldier he used to be, but he is more tenacious than before, practicing all day on the training ground.
Li Anfu did not have time to grieve for his own suffering, the motherland and the people were still waiting for the soldiers to rescue him, he must throw himself into the battlefield with the best mental state, and everything he is doing now is preparing for the battle to kill the enemy.
In fact, sometimes disadvantages can also be turned into advantages, which is extremely evident in Li Anfu. He was small in stature, more agile than the average warrior, and was often not easily detected in confrontations with enemy troops. At this time, we had to aim at the opportunity, Li Anfu's good marksmanship could give the enemy a fatal blow, and a good marksmanship was Li Anfu's secret weapon!
In addition, the organization also excavated another skill of Li Anfu, that is, camouflage. First of all, he is not tall, his appearance is also very young, it is easy to be mistaken for a child, if you go to become a martial arts engineer, it would be perfect. After discussion, the organization decided to let Li Anfu enter the Armed Forces Department and become a military engineer. This armed engineer is to assassinate the agent, and the main task is to disguise himself as a variety of characters according to the situation, blend in with the enemy, and achieve the purpose of assassinating senior Japanese officers.
Such agents are not available to anyone. However, Li Anfu seems to have been born to be the material for assassination agents, and since becoming a martial engineer, he has participated in assassination missions many times, and each time he has successfully completed it. In view of Li Anfu's excellent performance, the organization is also assured to assign him some difficult tasks. In 1939, Lee received a major mission to assassinate the Japanese instructor Kawashima Tanigawa.
As a traditional Japanese instructor, he has a strong militaristic color and has always regarded the whale swallowing China as a lifelong ambition. During his time in China, he committed many unforgivable crimes, and he seemed to have a penchant for killing people, always slaughtering innocent people with extremely cruel means.
Kawashima Tanigawa also likes to see the way the people can't struggle, it's crazy! Of course, Kawashima Tanigawa's cruelty is by no means limited to this, and I will not discuss them in detail here.
All in all, Kawashima Tanigawa is synonymous with nightmares, and they want to get rid of them quickly, and now this task is left to Lee Anfu to complete. In fact, the task is very difficult, after all, Kawashima Tanigawa is a high-ranking official in Japan, does not appear much on weekdays, and when he appears in the public eye, he often follows many retinues around him, and it is not easy to get close to Kawashima Tanigawa.
There are only two conditions to solve Kawashima Tanigawa: one is to avoid his retinue, and the other is to disguise his identity. Through many explorations, Li Anfu had a certain understanding of Kawashima Tanigawa's general itinerary, and learned that Kawashima Tanigawa would go out alone in the near future, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and Li Anfu must seize it.
Kawashima Tanigawa is suspicious and wary of Chinese, in order to get closer to Kawashima Tanigawa, Li Anfu used his appearance advantage to dress himself as a primary school student, not to mention Li Anfu in student clothes, it is really difficult to distinguish. When everything was ready, Lee waited for the opportunity on the daily road of Kawashima Tanigawa.
Early that morning, Li Anfu, who was crouching on the side of the road, saw Kawashima Tanigawa from afar, although he dressed very ordinary that day, but that face Li Anfu would not forget. In order to get closer to Kawashima Tanigawa, Li Anfu quickly ran forward and deliberately pretended to be very respectful and bowed to him to say hello.
Kawashima Tanigawa, who has always been cautious, thought that Li Anfu was a child, so he let down his guard, and even touched his head with great pleasure and said, "The child is very good!" Then he left. But he would never have imagined that this child would be the end of his life. Just as the two passed by, Li Anfu pulled the trigger, "Bang! With a cry, Kawashima Tanigawa fell to the ground.
The bullet hit Kawashima Tanigawa's heart with unmistakable accuracy, and there was no possibility of waking up. Since Kawashima Tanigawa regarded Chinese's life as grass, he now left his own life to pay homage to the undead who died tragically at his hands!
After the assassination was perfectly over, a new crisis also began. The gunshot caught the attention of japanese soldiers patrolling the streets, and a group of people rushed forward to check what was happening. One of the soldiers flipped Kawashima Tanigawa's body over and startled, this is not their instructor! It was a big deal that someone dared to assassinate them in the street, and all the soldiers began to look for the assassins.
Pictured| Japanese officer
After investigation, Kawashima Tanigawa was killed by a primary school student. This result surprised all the soldiers present, how could a schoolboy have such superb marksmanship? This puzzled them. They will never know that this schoolboy is the assassination agent of our army, Li Anfu!
On Li Anfu's side, as early as after the success of the assassination, he took advantage of the chaos to escape, with excellent disguise to move freely through the city, no one found his tracks, in the four-day long pursuit, the Japanese army found nothing but to give up. According to statistics, Li Anfu killed a total of 7 senior Japanese officers, including 2 regimental officers and 5 battalion-level officers.
Removing these seven people is equivalent to removing tens of thousands of Japanese troops on the battlefield, after all, only by eliminating these big tumors will those Japanese troops be jealous! Although Li Anfu was famous, he was also hated by the Japanese army, and for a time Li Anfu's situation became very dangerous. At this time, he was no longer suitable for assassinating the Japanese army, and in order to protect Li Anfu, he organized and let him carry out party propaganda work and carry out underground activities.
In November 1948, Li Anfu led the health team and stretcher team to participate in the first phase of the Huaihai Campaign. On the battlefield, swords are blind, and many soldiers are seriously injured and in need of treatment, and the task of transferring the wounded falls on Li Anfu's head.
On that day, Li Anfu and others escorted the seriously wounded to transfer as usual, but they did not expect to see more than a dozen Kuomintang soldiers withdrawn from the front line. According to the normal situation, at this time, it is indispensable to fight a hard battle, the enemy is outnumbered, this ending is probably not easy to say, taking advantage of the fact that the soldiers have not yet approached, Li Anfu resolutely commanded everyone to hide the wounded.
When the enemy did not react, Li Anfu rushed to them and pulled out his pistol, shouting loudly: "You are already surrounded by us, don't make a senseless struggle, immediately hand over your weapons." Our rule is to surrender guns and not kill, and to give preferential treatment to prisoners! Unexpectedly, Li Anfu really frightened this group of Kuomintang soldiers, and they obediently surrendered their weapons, so Li Anfu single-handedly captured the enemy platoon alive.
On October 1, 1949, Li Anfu and heroic representatives from all over the motherland walked up to the Tiananmen Tower Viewing Platform, during which they shook hands with Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou, and others one by one, and everyone was immersed in the great joy of the founding of New China.
Pictured| Old Man Li Anfu
There is no more war in the country, and the people have ushered in a long-lost and stable life. Li Anfu continued to dedicate his strength to the country and the people, and was diligent and conscientious in his work, which was more than thirty years. After retirement, Li Anfu and his family returned to their hometown in Leling and have been living a simple and poor life.
In the 2019 Qingming Festival, in the special program "Poetry Remembers Qingming" held by CCTV, the energetic Li Anfu stepped onto the stage with a healthy step, and it is difficult to imagine that he is 95 years old at this time.
At the scene of the program, Li Anfu, as a veteran soldier, said with deep affection to those soldiers who sacrificed for the revolutionary cause: "Comrades and comrades-in-arms, today is the Qingming Festival, I have come to see you." China is now rich and strong, and it is getting stronger and stronger, please rest assured! Later, at the invitation of everyone, Li Anfu told everyone the revolutionary stories that happened in the past, and exhorted young people not to forget history and cherish the hard-won peace. I think this is the best legacy!