In 1949, the People's Liberation Army captured a Kuomintang deputy division commander, and after interrogation, his special identity was exposed, which alarmed the Central Military Commission. In 1949, the overall situation in the country had been decided, and our army's million soldiers could not exceed the Yangtze River, and countless Kuomintang officers fled in despair. Naturally, it was impossible for our army to let them escape easily, and among them was such a Kuomintang division-level unit, which was intercepted by our army in Jiangsu, and the enemy did not even dare to fire a single shot, and directly surrendered to our army. To the delight of the fighters, the enemy's deputy division commander was also captured by our troops. But what is puzzling is that after the enemy's deputy division commander was captured, he did not see a trace of panic and fear, but looked proud, as if he was very happy to be captured by our army, and it was an honor for his own troops not to fire a single shot. The soldiers were very puzzled, and the commander of our army went to interrogate, but he revealed a shocking identity, and said that only the Party Central Committee knew who he really was. What is so special about this high-ranking prisoner? Why is he so happy to be captured by our army? Pay attention to it, and let's learn the story of this multi-faceted high-ranking Kuomintang officer.
This person was the Kuomintang's Major General Li Changheng, who was the deputy commander of the 312th Division at this time, and before that, he had been staying in the Central Command and had a lot of weight in the Kuomintang secret service. However, after he was captured by our army, he told his interrogators that he was a comrade of our party and an intelligence agent who had infiltrated the Kuomintang. However, when the interrogators asked him what his name was, Li Changheng said that his name was Li Qiang, which was obviously inconsistent with the information provided by the other captives. The interrogators believed that this person was lying, either greedy for life and afraid of death, or had other purposes, so they did not believe what Li Changheng said at all.
The soldiers were convinced that Li Changheng was lying, and since the fighting on the front line was still going on at that time, and the troops also had a heavy task, they wanted to put his affairs aside and let him stay in the prisoner of war camp for a while. On the way to the prisoner of war camp, Li Changheng did not give up convincing our soldiers, and kept explaining to the people around him. It's just that the soldiers have already closed their ears, and no matter what Li Changheng is chattering about, this has made Li Changheng depressed. Fortunately, at this time, a person suddenly appeared, which made Li Changheng's eyes light up, and he knew that the opportunity to prove his identity had come.
The person who came was named Qian Shenfu, who served as the commander of the supplementary training regiment in the 88th Division of the Eighth Corps of the People's Liberation Army. Li Changheng knew Qian Shenfu, and jumped up excitedly to say hello: "Old classmate, this way!" Qian Shenfu was a little puzzled, but he also walked over, and Li Changheng took Qian Shenfu's hand very excitedly and said: "Old classmate, I am Li Weiping! Can you remember me? When we were in Kang Da, we still lived in the same cave in the 4th Phase 3 Brigade. Qian Shenfu thought about it carefully, and found that there was indeed such a character, who was indeed his classmate at Kang Da back then, but now Li Changheng is wearing a Kuomintang military uniform makes Qian Shenfu very strange.
And Qian Shenfu also remembered some remarks back then, and he had the impression that this classmate was afraid of going to the battlefield and broke away from the organization, and he didn't dare to recognize Li Changheng at this time. Qian Shenfu's hesitation was very obvious, and Li Changheng naturally knew what he was thinking, so he took the initiative to speak: "Old classmate, my situation is very complicated, and you won't believe it if I tell you directly, so let's send a message to the Central Committee and ask me if there is a person named Li Qiang in the party." ”
Qian Shenfu didn't think that the students who could enter the Kang University would betray the revolution, so he contacted the leaders of Sanye and sent a message to the Central Committee. After the central authorities received the telegram, an urgent message came, that is, to immediately escort Comrade Li Qiang to Beiping. Is Li Changheng really a comrade of our party? How did he break into the Central Unification and become a high-ranking official?
In 1949, after the deputy division commander of the Kuomintang was captured by our army, he asked to send a message to the Central Committee, and when the Central Committee learned of this person's existence, it immediately ordered the local troops to escort this high-ranking official of the Central Committee to Beiping.
This man's name in the Kuomintang was Li Changheng, and the story about him began in 1915. Li Changheng has a lot of names, he was born in 1915 in Dongxing Township, Anyue County, Sichuan, and his parents named him Li Biguang, and the party prefers to call him Li Qiang. Li Qiang's family environment is very good, and his parents gave him a very superior learning environment, so he has a cultural temperament and has been exposed to many progressive ideas. And the biggest influence on him was his second cousin Yao Zhongzhi, a comrade who joined the party told Li Qiang the story of the revolution very early and conveyed the spirit of the revolution. Li Qiang admired his second cousin very much, and following in his footsteps, he also actively participated in the revolutionary movement.
In 1935, after graduating from the middle school in his hometown, Li Qiang entered Chengdu Normal School in Sichuan Province under the persuasion of his second cousin. Why did the second cousin want him to come to this school so much? Because there are many advanced young people gathered here, and the elite students in the school are all progressive in their thinking. Li Qiang was like a fish in water after coming here, and many like-minded classmates made him more determined in his revolutionary ideals, first joining the national liberation vanguard, and later joining the Communist Youth League to organize and lead the patriotic student movement to resist Japan and save the country.
In Chengdu, another figure who changed Li Qiang's life appeared, this person is Li Qiang's close comrade-in-arms and old friend Zhou Junlie. Zhou Junlie is a veteran party member who has done intelligence work in Shanghai and Sichuan, and he can see at a glance that Li Qiang is talented, thoughtful, never panicked, and treats people and things very decently, thinking that he is very suitable for intelligence work. Under the leadership of Zhou Junlie, Li Qiang began to carry out simple secret work, and as the work continued to be completed excellently, the boss decided to recommend Li Qiang to further his studies.
In July 1938, the party organization secretly arranged Li Qiang, who graduated from university, to go to Yan'an to study at Kang Da Middle School. Here, Li Qiang met a lot of good comrades-in-arms, including the aforementioned Qian Shenfu. At first, the organization did not set a direction for Li Qiang's future, but as time went by, the teachers found that Li Qiang's social skills were very good, and combined with Zhou Junlie's recommendation and follow-up investigation, the organization decided to arrange him to the rear to carry out intelligence work.
Engaging in intelligence is a very dangerous thing, and the concealment of identity is very important, and Li Qiang is very optimistic about the fact that he has known to hide his identity since he was a child. His original name was Li Biguang, and under the influence of his second cousin, he always used the pseudonym Li Changheng when he went to school, and after he went to Yan'an, he assumed the pseudonym Li Weiping. The organization told him to no longer use Li Weiping's name, but to use Li Biguang or Li Changheng. In order to leave a backup in the organization and prevent the upline from being able to contact him and not being able to recover his identity, the organization gave him an internal code name "Li Qiang". This is the name that Dong Biwu personally gave him, and only Premier Zhou and Dong Biwu and a few other people know it within the Central Committee. In this way, Li Changheng embarked on his road of intelligence behind enemy lines. So how exactly did he get into the enemy?
In 1949, after the deputy division commander of the Kuomintang was captured by our army, he asked to send a message to the Central Committee, and when the Central Committee learned of this person's existence, it immediately ordered the local troops to escort this high-ranking official of the Central Committee to Beiping.
This person's name is Li Changheng, and his code name in the party is Li Qiang, who has delivered a lot of important information for our party and successfully penetrated the internal system of the Central Union. Speaking of how he entered the Central Union, I have to mention one of his fellow countrymen. After Li Changheng's identity was modified, he appeared in front of people as a teacher, and after returning to his hometown, he used his identity as a teacher to continue to lead the anti-Japanese salvation movement, which made the local Kuomintang officials very unhappy, thinking that he was too influential. In order to avoid being targeted by the Kuomintang, Li Changheng decided to go to Chengdu to work. The situation in Chengdu was even more severe, and the quilt that Li Qiang had received from the organization, the previous owner had just been captured by the enemy, made Li Changheng realize that he must enter the Kuomintang in order to better protect his comrades.
It's just that it's not easy to enter the Kuomintang, Li Qiang urgently needs a way, and this way is his fellow countryman Zhai Baixiang. Zhai Baixiang has a good friend, Zhou Bicheng, who is the section chief of the training department of the Kuomintang provincial party department, and Li Qiang uses his ability to deal with people to get acquainted with the two. Zhai Baixiang knew that his fellow didn't have a good job yet, so he asked Zhou Bicheng to arrange it for him. And Zhou Bicheng also regarded Li Qiang as his good friend, so he sent him to the seventh phase of the political research class of the Kuomintang Central Military Academy, and after graduation, he successfully entered the work of the Central Unification Middle School.
Li Qiang found that the Kuomintang was very chaotic, and there were many contradictions between the Central Union and the Military Command, and he thought that this was an opportunity, so he carefully looked for the spies of the Military Command in the Central Union, but he did not expect that he really caught a spy who was secretly filming intelligence. The superiors immediately recognized Li Qiang's ability, and he used his means of making friends to be like a fish in water in Zhongtong, and soon he was in a high position and passed on a lot of valuable information. Li Qiang passed on the information in an ingenious way, either hiding it in a cigarette roll or in a dim sum heart, and if there was danger, lighting a cigarette or eating a snack would destroy the evidence. In this way, Shirley has not been exposed.
And Li Qiang was soon taken by Zhao Xuan, the secretary of Chengdu, and married his daughter Zhao Shufang to him, so that it was more convenient for him to collect intelligence. It's just that this makes Li Qiang's life more cautious, because his wife is neither from the Kuomintang nor from our party, and Li Qiang's two identities have to be hidden from his wife, which makes him very stressed. At this time, there was also bad news that Li Qiang's good friend Zhou Junlie was arrested in Chengdu. However, Zhou Junlie is a tight-lipped person and did not betray Li Qiang, Li Qiang waited until the rumors passed, and also tried to rescue Zhou Junlie.
In the work of the Central Unification, Li Qiang also had a very great achievement, that is, he obtained "special intelligence" intelligence from the Kuomintang, which included traitors to our party, spies of the Kuomintang, and people of our party who were secretly arrested. In order to get this information, Li Qiang gave full play to his expertise in making friends, and constantly contacted Ye Shenzhi, the section chief who kept the materials, took Ye Shenzhi everywhere to eat, drink and have fun, and after gaining Ye Shenzhi's trust, he took an opportunity to get him drunk, opened the safe with his key, and recorded the list. This piece of information not only prevented a large number of our party comrades from being arrested, but also found out many people who betrayed us, thus making immortal contributions to the party.
At the end of 1948, Li Qiang was transferred to Nanjing by the Kuomintang because of his outstanding achievements and became the deputy commander of the 312th Division. At this time, he was ready to go to Taiwan to continue his work, but he happened to run into our army's troops, which is why the things mentioned at the beginning appeared, and the surrender of this division without firing a single shot is all due to Li Qiang.
On March 2, 1999, Li Qiang died of illness in Beijing at the age of 84, and his ashes were buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery. There are countless red agents like Li Qiang in history, who are not afraid of danger and work on the hidden front, delivering a lot of important information for our party, and many of them died without even letting people know their names, buried in the long river of history with secrets and beliefs. It is precisely because of the selfless dedication of so many martyrs that we have today's prosperous age, let us pay tribute to these unsung heroes!