In September 1947, a telegram from the secret radio station in Peiping was urgently delivered to Premier Zhou's desk.
Premier Zhou
On the secret front, the telegram sent by the secret radio station in Peiping is like a magpie, but the "Sun Lianzhong is determined to cooperate and please send responsible personnel to business as soon as possible" received this time is also good news on the surface.
After all, it was the Kuomintang's "senior officials who closed the frontier" who gave the good signal.
However, Premier Zhou, who received the secret telegram, did not have the slightest joy, but quickly called Luo Qingchang over, and slashed his head and covered his face.
Luo Qingchang
"The united front and secret intelligence must be separated, otherwise there will be a big mess, do you know it?"
Premier Zhou rarely gets angry, but it turns out that his anger is not without cause, and after only a few days, his worst fears happened, and the number one person implicated was the person who repeatedly repeated Li Kenong in his coma in 1957.
Peiping spy case
Familiar house, familiar six-tenth, familiar wooden box, familiar man.
He brushed his teeth and washed his face as usual, then made himself a glass of milk, lifted a wooden box from under the bed with the rising sun in the east, placed it on the table, and put on his headphones.
Such a scene has been seen countless times by Duan Yunpeng in the dark.
As Gu Zhengwen's right-hand man, what the roof peeping place did was really a bit "succumbent".
Gu Text
You know, as the head of the Peiping Special Working Group of the Kuomintang Secret Bureau at the time, Gu Zhengwen was a notorious spy leader.
The Kashmiri Princess was committed to him, more than 200 underground party members and progressives were also tragically killed by him, and it is said that the notorious Mao Renfeng once said to him, "You are more ruthless than me."
Mao Renfeng
Enjoying the "prestige", such an eavesdropping thing should not have fallen on Duan Yunpeng, who is under Gu Zhengwen's right-hand man and has special snitch skills, but in fact, peeping is just bait, and the big fish is our party's Peiping secret radio station.
The man who was monitored without knowing it was not an ordinary person who worked at sunrise, but a staff member of our party's Beiping underground radio station, carrying headphones, but the voice inside was secret information related to our party.
The intelligence officer's body with his back to the window blocked Duan Yunpeng's view of what he was doing with his hands on the table, but it did not prevent the destruction of September 24, 1947.
He sent the last piece of information under Duan Yunpeng's nose, but before he could hide the equipment under the bed, the agents of the Secret Security Bureau broke through the door and came to "get all the stolen goods."
Duan Yunpeng
None of the four people on the underground radio station in Peiping were spared, but what surprised Duan Yunpeng even more was that there were a large number of original manuscripts of telegrams under the bed, some of which were written by himself.
There was a burning smell on it, but due to the urgency of time, it did not succeed.
"Take them all, the acquaintances of good food and drink, and the disobedient ones also let him see our strength", Duan Yunpeng, who easily completed the destruction of the secret radio station in Peiping, couldn't wait to ask for credit, and the rebellion of the director Li Zhengxuan made him even more powerful.
However, for the underground front of our party, this blow was enormous.
At that time, there were three groups of intelligence personnel engaged in underground work in Peiping, and the three groups were not in contact with each other, but the secret radio station was their common intersection.
One of them applied to join the party
If one party is exposed, it will affect the whole body.
The successive rebellions of Li Zhengxuan and others made the range of the explosion at the assembly point far beyond imagination, except for the paralyzed Peiping, the entire intelligence network covering the north was implicated.
radio station
More than 20 comrades of the Peiping underground intelligence group were arrested, and even the secret radio stations in Shenyang and Chengde were deciphered one after another, and this result was the reason for Premier Zhou's anger late at night.
Because Sun Lianzhong's intelligence was very wrong.
Sun Lianzhong
Although Sun Lianzhong can be regarded as an important figure, contacting and discussing such matters with them is united front work and is not within the scope of the work of the Peiping group.
The thrill of licking blood from the edge of the knife, the slightest carelessness is a disaster, and the most feared thing in the struggle of the hidden front is to create extraneous branches and increase the danger.
What's more, 1947 was the crucial time when the CPC Central Committee moved to northern Shaanxi, and the need for intelligence on the enemy-occupied areas was very urgent, and if the Peiping intelligence group not only provided secret information, but also got involved in other aspects, then the radio waves would always exist and be easily monitored
Zhao Rongde, who was in charge of the detection work, also drove the detection radio directly to the jeep to carry out round-the-clock monitoring of Beiping.
The device, provided by the U.S. secret service, shrewdly captured the ticking sound of radio waves sending intelligence, revealing the approximate location of the secret radio station.
In order to lock in the specific location and carry out the capture, Duan Yunpeng would climb to the highest point in the suspicious area at five o'clock in the morning every day, and all the residents who turned on the lights at six o'clock in the morning were listed as suspicious targets by him, and finally after several days of investigation, the location of Li Zhengxuan and others was determined, and the secret radio station was destroyed.
Wang Shijian's mutiny
Things are moving in the direction that Premier Zhou feared, and although it is too late to make amends, it is better than doing nothing.
After hearing that a number of underground informants were arrested one after another, Premier Zhou held a meeting with Ren Bishi and others and decided to divide the existing confidential departments into intelligence, united front, and military departments, and implement management by category.
Ren Bishi
Wang Shijian still fell into the hands of the enemy on the fifth day after the secret radio station was exposed, and eventually defected.
As an intermediary of the intelligence network, Wang Shijian, who was far away in Xi'an, did not know the news of the secret radio station in Peiping.
This is a fantasy, but the incident is artificial, and the most likely reason behind it is that the arrested Li Zhengxuan and others still pretend that nothing happened, and use the radio to keep in touch with Wang Shijian.
Wang Shijian
Because of the enemy's deliberate intentions, Wang Shijian had a "poor information", and after the arrest of Geng Xiaowen, an intelligence officer in Xi'an, on September 28, in order to save the revolutionary fire, he immediately went to Beiping, where the "wind and waves were calm."
It's just that these are all pretending.
Facing the fierceness of the Kuomintang, Wang Shijian betrayed the party organization and revealed most of what he knew, causing our party to lose 44 intelligence workers again.
Chiang Kai-shek
This is not the first time Wang Shijian has been imprisoned, but compared with his unyielding steadfastness in 1933, Wang Shijian's changes can be described as earth-shaking.
Born in 1911, Wang Shijian was well-read since childhood, he was pitiful for the people under the turbulent national conditions, he was bored with the new China that was in ruins, and he wanted to do something for the country, so he joined the Communist Party of China and became one of the underground workers.
The ambitious Chiang Kai-shek opened the curtain of a counter-revolutionary coup d'état in Shanghai on April 12, 1927, in order to seize power, and Shanghai fell into a "white panic" and the outstanding patriotic comrade Li Dazhao was arrested.
Li Dazhao
In order to strictly guard the party secrets, Li Dazhao calmly accepted righteousness, and when secretly participating in Li Dazhao's funeral activities, Wang Shijian's identity was unfortunately revealed and fell into the hands of the enemy.
The tiger frame is right in front of him, but in the face of the enemy's fierce false benevolence and false righteousness of "telling everything you know, I can spare your life", Wang Shijian only said: "There must be evidence to arrest people, what is my crime?" ”
The Kuomintang could not come up with it, but it still sentenced Wang Shijian to eight years in prison.
At an age of great achievement, eight years is too long, but fortunately, Premier Zhou did not let him wait long.
After the Xi'an incident, the Kuomintang and the CPC reached an agreement on "cooperation in resisting Japan," and since they were "friendly neighbors," they should also release a few comrades.
Under the repeated maneuvers of Premier Zhou and others, Chiang Kai-shek finally relaxed, and released Wang Shijian and several other comrades in 1937.
Premier Zhou
Seeing Wang Shijian's thin body, Premier Zhou said "You have worked hard" and affirmed all his deeds; it turned out that in addition to physical resistance, when he was in prison, Wang Shijian did not give up his spiritual progress, secretly published progressive publications, and launched a heroic struggle against the enemy without the smoke of gunfire.
Because it withstood the test, the organization reused Wang Shijian and included him under the "red agent" Li Kenong to work for our party's underground intelligence work.
Li Kenong
In 1947, Wang Shijian's imprisonment allowed Wang Shijian to choose and confess, and many comrades were implicated, which was a great blow to Li Kenong.
He wrote a review as soon as possible and asked the central authorities for punishment for his failure in work, and such a tragic price was undesirable to everyone, but Premier Zhou has always been right about things.
"This matter has nothing to do with you, just a review, after all, there is no eternal victorious general in the soldiers."
Premier Zhou's relief did not relieve the mountain that weighed on Li Kenong's heart, and this matter has been pressing on his heart, becoming a sharp sword, warning him to be more careful in doing things.
Premier Zhou
Whisper when injured
But the precipitous form did not give Li Kenong much time to blame himself.
Chiang Kai-shek's ambitions were clear, a big war was imminent, and Li Kenong's agents played a huge role.
Xie Hegeng on Bai Chongxi's side sent military information reports to our party many times, and Yan Youyi beside Fu Zuoyi asked the PLA to peacefully liberate Beiping without a single soldier.
Xie and Geng
Although he never led troops to fight, Li Kenong laid the cornerstone for victory in many key wars, and was "praised by Premier Zhou for his merits greater than that of an army."
As the main figure among the agents, Li Kenong has an undeniable credit in the face of the defeat and retreat of the Kuomintang who suffered the consequences of self-inflicted evil, and after the proclamation of the founding of New China on October 1, 1949, the burden on Li Kenong has not been relaxed.
He spends his days running for work, as did the day the accident happened.
When he fell to the ground on October 25, 1957, Li Kenong was about to have lunch, thinking that there would be a meeting in the afternoon, and there were a bunch of things waiting to be dealt with in the office, so he finished his meal in three bites and hurried to the office.
The anxiety in his heart made Li Kenong ignore the body's vigilance.
Li Kenong
His breathing was so loud that he was out of breath just after a few steps, and he wanted to hold the handrail to rest, but he grabbed the air, and his body lay straight back, throwing himself heavily on the stone steps.
The cry of "ah" and the sensational sound attracted the attention of others, and when he wanted to drag his head to help Li Kenong up, he touched it drenched in blood.
The galloping ambulance took away the shocked Li Kenong, and Premier Zhou, who learned the news, also directly ordered to "rescue at all costs", talking about the degree of obsession with work, Premier Zhou is absolutely unabated compared to Li Kenong, but when Li Kenong was rescued in the operating room, Premier Zhou was pacing back and forth in the office, never calming down.
Li Kenong
Fortunately, Li Kenong, who was lucky enough to save his life, but unfortunately, because of a fractured skull, no doctor could give an accurate answer to when he would be able to wake up.
Everyone was looking forward to a miracle, praying to see Li Kenong's eyes open, but before they opened, the voice came out of the throat first.
"Wang... King... Stone... Jian", when he heard the movement for the first time, Li Lun thought he was dreaming, he put his ear to his father's side, and finally determined that his father was not dreaming, but really speaking.
Although he did not know this person, as his father became clearer and clearer when he talked all day, the hope in his heart for his father to wake up was also growing.
In March 1958, Li Kenong ushered in a recovery, but knowing that he was still whispering Wang Shijian's name when he was in a coma, Premier Zhou knew that the underground line was destroyed, he still did not let go, still blaming himself.
Li Kenong
But in fact, Wang Shijian did not confess the core, and the Party Central Committee never recognized Wang Shijian as a traitor.
Because he left the most core secrets for the party.
The underground workers confessed by him are undeniably important, but Xiong Xianghui, Chen Zhongjing, and Shen Jian, who are deeply lurking in the Kuomintang, were originally led by Wang Shijian, but they did not betray them after they were exposed.
Because of this, Premier Zhou also considered how to get Wang Shijian back.
Premier Zhou knew that Li Kenong could not give up for several years because Wang Shijian had been his most trusted comrade, but everything was settled, and only by letting go of his obsession could he move forward better.
Premier Zhou
If the soldiers fighting in the battlefield are sharp swords, then the underground personnel of our party who lie dormant in the Kuomintang are eagle eyes in the night.
In order to hide, they chose to hide their names and lick the blood with their knives to pave the way for the victory of the revolution, they hid in the darkness, but their hearts were born to the sun.
The medal is not on the surface, remembering is the best reward, and I would like to pay tribute to all the "Li Kenongs" with this article.