In the 1945 Peking Anti-Espionage War, Li Kenong handled the drip water.
At that time, Li Kenong, Zhou Enlai, Ye Jianying, and others attended the tripartite joint meeting, and the Military Investigation Department arranged for them to live in Cuimingzhuang to obtain intelligence from the Chinese Communists, and the surrounding areas were full of Kuomintang agents. Other generals were fighting on the battlefield, and even if they understood this, Li Kenong was afraid that the content of the conversation would be eavesdropped by the enemy, so he always reminded them that they must pay attention and speak carefully. In particular, everyone must take care of their own lives, can not call the waiter, if there is a waiter to enter, remember to follow and keep an eye on it.
Fortunately, Li Kenong had instructed in advance that these "waiters" were really diligent, cleaning the room, changing clothes, and removing the confetti in the garbage basket were very active, trying to obtain information and decipher and intercept our party's code and telegram.
Li Kenong, who has been working in intelligence for decades, can not understand this, he asked everyone to deliberately write numbers or Chinese characters on paper, and then tear them into pieces and put them in pockets and garbage baskets to consume the enemy's energy.
Throughout the course of the meeting, Li Kenong handled every detail quite well, and under his leadership, the CPC delegation kept strict precautions and did not leak anything, and the enemy did not even have even a single bit of information.
Later, at the conferment ceremony of HuairenTang in Zhongnanhai in 1955, Li Kenong was awarded the rank of general, a general who came out of the silent battlefield, but never brought a single soldier, let alone commanded thousands of troops and horses, but carefully planned countless breathtaking intelligence battles. None of the 51 generals present raised objections to Li Kenong's award of the rank of general.
During Li Kenong's revolutionary career, he was loyal and responsible, providing favorable information at critical junctures on many occasions and protecting the security of the Party Central Committee.
Chairman Mao was even more proud of him, and when he received foreign guests, he said: "Li Kenong is a great agent of China, but he is only a secret agent of the Communist Party!" ”
Dong Biwu wrote a poem saying that his merits were comparable to those of Li Zuoche, a strategist of the Qin and Han Dynasties, and Fang Xuanling of the Tang Taizong period, so was this "king of secret agents" Li Kenong really as powerful as they said?
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Li Kenong, born on September 15, 1899 in Wuhu, Anhui Province, his father Li Daoming was a clerk and his family was not bad. When Li Kenong was 11 years old, he was sent by his father to study at The Anhui Public School in Wuhu, and in the process of studying, Li Kenong slowly came into contact with the ideas of democratic revolution.
In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution broke out, but the revolutionary achievements were stolen by the Beiyang warlords led by Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui, and under the oppression of warlords and imperialism, the people after the Xinhai Revolution still did not live a peaceful life.
Faced with cruel oppression and a turbulent China, Li Kenong resolutely decided to join the revolution. Because he was the eldest son, Li Kenong married his wife Zhao Ying at the age of 18, and soon after marriage, he went to Beijing alone to do distribution work in popular weekly newspapers.
Two years later, he went to Anqing, which was the center of the Anhui Revolution at the time, where he served as the editor of the supplement of the National Daily. Not long after, he was arrested and imprisoned for exposing the crimes of warlords in the press, but was rescued by a group of student organizations.
After that, he knew that only revolution could save the country, and in order to cultivate revolutionary talents, Li Kenong organized the creation of a new school, named "Minsheng Middle School". In 1926, at the age of 27, Li Kenong joined the Communist Party of China, and the organization made him the propaganda director of the Kuomintang Wuhu City Party Department.
At that time, there was a big warlord in Anhui named Chen Tiaoyuan, who was fierce by nature, often bullied the weak, and plundered the people's money, and Li Kenong had long wanted to get rid of this scourge!
In April 1927, Li Kenong organized a student demonstration and exalted "Down with the kidnapper Chen Tiaoyuan!" Because the impact was too great, Chen Tiaoyuan did not dare to send troops to suppress it, so he pretended to seek peace but was recognized. Later, Chiang Kai-shek wantonly arrested people in our party, and Chen Tiaoyuan took the initiative to request that he be responsible for the arrest work, and his first thought was to arrest Li Kenong.
Chen Qiaoyuan pounced, but Li Kenong calculated and spread the news that he could escape this time thanks to Chen Qiaoyuan, if he had not been extra gracious, he would definitely have died.
After Chiang Kai-shek heard this, he believed it to be true and scolded Chen Tiaoyuan, who was well aware of Chiang Kai-shek's character, so he spent a lot of money asking someone to say good things and come forward to explain. Although he saved his life, Chen Qiaoyuan's savings over the years were running out.
During the period when Wuhu was leading the revolutionary struggle, Li Kenong, under the instructions of the party, broke into the Youth Gang with his superb acting skills, and here he obtained information that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to suppress the Kuomintang leftists and our party figures, and immediately took the risk of informing the party organizations in Wuhu, and it was good to report them in a timely manner, otherwise the revolutionary organizations accumulated in Wuhu over the years would face the danger of being destroyed.
Because Chiang Kai-shek's plot failed this time, they began to suspect Li Kenong, and after Li Kenong learned the news, he immediately went to Minsheng Middle School to organize an evacuation. After his identity was exposed, he was forced to move to Shanghai, where he embarked on a decades-long intelligence career under the leadership of the party.
This experience in Wuhu made him realize a problem, intelligence work is not easy to do, there is a danger of losing his head at any time, so he must always do a good job of secrecy, so that he can truly become a lurker and pretender.
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In 1929, when the Kuomintang secret service organization recruited people at the Shanghai Radio Administration, Li Kenong received instructions and openly took the exam. Not long after being admitted, with his excellent ability, he was mixed with the chief of the secret service unit and became a red person around Xu Enzeng, and almost all the country's wireless telegraphs were controlled by him.
After that, he worked with Qian Zhuangfei and Hu Di, and the "Three Masters of Longtan" in the history of ccp intelligence refers to the three of them. After all, they were all engaged in intelligence, and Xu En, who had trusted them again, also left a back hand. He had a codebook in his hand, which was specially used for senior Kuomintang officials to exchange information and carried with him.
Li Kenong put a lot of thought into getting the codebook. Xu En once had a fatal weakness, that is, lust. Once, Li Kenong told him that there were a group of new girls in xx place, Xu En had gone in the evening of the same day, he hurried to the door, Li Kenong saw the situation and said: "Don't worry, why are you so careless, how do you carry this, in case others see it?" ”
Xu En instinctively touched the codebook and said, "Yeah, almost forgot." Well, you help me watch for the time being, you must look good! ”
In this way, Li Kenong used the information in the codebook to decipher the top-secret intelligence of the Kuomintang. When he learned that Gu Shunzhang, who had been arrested, had defected, he immediately informed the central organs, the relevant departments in Jiangsu, Shanghai, and other places to transfer all of them, once again protecting the lives and safety of our party members. It is said that Chen Lifu and Xu En rushed to Shanghai with Gu Shunzhang overnight, and the next morning began to search and arrest, as a result, many strongholds had already retreated, when the agents rushed into Zhou Enlai's residence, the paper in the room had not burned out, Zhou Enlai and Chen Geng disguised themselves and fled, Chen Lifu lamented: "Capturing Zhou Enlai alive is only 5 minutes away!" ”
In 1935, the Liaison Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was established, with Li Kenong as its director, mainly engaged in united front work against the Kuomintang and the Northeast and Northwest Armies.
During this period, the Red Army captured Gao Fuyuan, a regimental commander of the Nationalist Army, and during his capture, Gao Fuyuan saw that the Red Army was as close as a brother, united and fraternal, and often talked about stopping the civil war and unanimously resisting Japan. Gao Fuyuan wanted to contribute to the motherland's anti-Japanese resistance at this moment, and went to Luochuan in 1936. Here, he learned that Wang Yizhe and Zhang Xueliang, commanders of the Sixty-seventh Army of the Northeast Army, were in favor of the anti-Japanese resistance, and especially Zhang Xueliang expressed his willingness to negotiate with the Chinese communists.
In this way, Li Kenong went to the meeting with a single knife and went to Luochuan. After the two met, Zhang Xueliang asked 3 questions in a row:
"Do you really want to resist Japan?"
"Is there real unity within the Red Army?"
"Since you resisted Japan, why do you have to oppose Chiang Kai-shek?"
In the face of such problems, Li Kenong believed that although the Red Army has always treated people with sincerity, it still cannot lose its confidence. Then he said angrily: "If the Red Army did not want to resist Japan, why did it have to march?" Whether the Red Army is united or not, I believe you have also heard Gao Fuyuan say that as for the third question, it is obviously because he does not resist Japan! But whenever we resist Japan, we in the Red Army must unite. ”
Zhang Xueliang still had some doubts about this explanation, especially during the dinner, he also asked Li Kenong if he could be responsible for this discussion? Li Kenong said, "If I can't be responsible, it's someone else who came here to negotiate today!" ”
After this negotiation, Zhang Xueliang also had a preliminary understanding of the Red Army, and he asked for more careful negotiations in Yan'an, preferably with Chairman Mao or Zhou Enlai as plenipotentiary. Shortly after the Yan'an negotiations, Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident, after which the anti-Japanese united front was initially reached.
At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Kenong served as the director of the Eighth Route Army's office in Nanjing, where he wanted to prevent persecution by the military and central command on the one hand, and to crack down on Japanese spies and traitors on the other.
One day, a Japanese female spy suddenly appeared on the naval radio station in Hongkou, Shanghai, and Li Kenong was very surprised. Because this Japanese female spy named Nanzao Yunzi was supposed to have been imprisoned in Tiger Bridge Prison in the center of Nanjing, but now she has run out? Only later did he learn that Nanzo Yunzi and 11 other Japanese spies had been released, and that it was the Kuomintang secret service that acted as an internal response.
Li Kenong immediately asked the CPC Office in Beijing and the Eighth Route Army Office in Beijing to quickly prepare for evacuation, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. When he and Ye Jianying, Tong Xiaopeng and others were the last to evacuate, the city of Nanjing was also breached by the Japanese army, a difference of only 9 days.
After that, he moved to Wuhan and began a new phase of the battle.
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During the war years, Li Kenong and his family gathered less and more, and once it was difficult to reunite with his family, Chairman Mao invited Li Kenong's family to dinner and invited Zhu De as a companion. During the meal, Chairman Mao asked Li Kenong's daughter, Li Bing, "Do you know what your father does?" Li Bing said he didn't know, and then Chairman Mao asked Li Kenong's younger son Li Lun, and Li Lun also shook his head.
Chairman Mao laughed loudly: "Your father is a big spy, but he is a secret agent of the Communist Party, and he always protects us with superb wisdom at critical moments!" ”
In 1945, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek arrived in East China and North China with aircraft and automobiles, but it was difficult for the Nationalist troops to be transferred to various battlefields in a short period of time, and the strategic situation was not favorable to them. In order to delay time, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram and invited Chairman Mao to Chongqing for "peace talks."
Chiang thought that Chairman Mao did not dare to go forward, after all, he had failed to invite him several times before.
But Chairman Mao was well aware of Chiang Kai-shek's purpose, so he made up his mind, and he decided to go to Chongqing, and before he went, he instructed Li Kenong to hurry up and decipher the secret telegram between the Yan'an Liaison Office and Chongqing, so as to keep abreast of the movements of Chiang Kai-shek's army.
On the day of departure, Chairman Mao was preparing to board the plane, when Li Kenong suddenly shook his hand and couldn't help but shed tears; he was well aware of Chiang Kai-shek's personality and was very worried about Chairman Mao's safety. Chairman Mao saw this and quickly said, "O Knong! It is said that boys have tears and do not flick! Why are you still in tears? Don't send me salted beans! ”
Li Kenong wiped away his tears and sent chen long, the strongest guard, to protect Chairman Mao's safety. Immediately after returning home, he ordered the secret party organization in Chongqing to ensure Chairman Mao's safety at all costs.
He himself even listened to the Kuomintang radio day and night, and afterwards he learned that Chairman Mao was really far-sighted, and it turned out that Chiang Kai-shek had originally planned that if Chairman Mao did not go to Chongqing, he would announce to the outside world that our Party would reject peace talks and push the responsibility for the civil war to the Communist Party. When Chairman Mao went, Chiang Kai-shek's plan was once again frustrated.
During the Chongqing negotiations, the KmT and the Communists reached an agreement at that time and signed the Double Tenth Agreement. At night, Chiang Kai-shek tossed and turned and could not sleep, and he wrote in his diary: "I am very sorry that the Communist Party cannot be in the same group."
In June 1946, the Kuomintang ruling clique completely tore up the Double Tenth Agreement, and civil war broke out.
After the outbreak of war, Li Kenong, as a general on the hidden front, once again defused the crisis.
Just after the peaceful liberation of Peiping, he found a bomb in Chairman Mao's room.
After the liberation of Peiping, the People's Liberation Army held a ceremony to enter the city, but Li Kenong could not relax for a moment, he knew that in this city, there were at least thousands of Kuomintang agents lurking, waiting for the opportunity to move.
Faced with this dilemma, Li Kenong planned to salute first and then soldiers, and he first released the news that the agents of the Nationalist army who were willing to surrender themselves could turn themselves in. It is said that the people who know the times are Junjie, the spies are not stupid, and now that the People's Liberation Army has entered the city, it is difficult to do anything more than to ascend to the sky. So in less than two months, more than 2,000 agents came to register and turn themselves in.
Following these self-surrendered agents, Li Kenong took them as the target of breakthrough, followed the vine to explore the melon, launched a search, and for a time, captured thousands of agents, and the safety of Peiping has improved significantly.
However, there were still uncertainties, and in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Li Kenong suggested that the central leaders live in Xiangshan for the time being, and Chairman Mao's residence Li Kenong personally went to inspect.
At 2:00 a.m., Li Kenong received a phone call saying that Chairman Mao had already set out, and Li Kenong once again went to inspect the room, but suddenly an extra bomb appeared in a corner of the room.
Seeing this bomb, Li Kenong hurriedly sent someone to check the surrounding area again, and did not notify Chairman Mao to stay until it was determined that it was safe. It's just that Li Kenong is puzzled, in Xiangshan, the garrison is tight, not to mention people, even a fly is difficult to fly in, where did this bomb come from? It was not until a secret agent was later caught that she learned that an old nun in Xiangshan was a Kuomintang agent, and that she had brought the bomb into Chairman Mao's room.
Fortunately, Li Kenong was careful, but the consequences were unimaginable!
When Li Kenong was awarded the title in 1995, Zhou Enlai bluntly said, "Li Kenong's contribution to New China is definitely greater than the role of an army!" ”
For his intelligence ability, everyone can see it, especially after the founding of New China, his peak duel with Mao Renfeng is breathtaking!
In December 1949, when Chairman Mao visited the Soviet Union, Mao Renfeng in Taiwan learned of it and ordered the "Northeast Underground Technical Column" lurking in the northeast to either destroy the Changchun No. 14 Railway Bridge passed by Chairman Mao's special train and plant a bomb there, or let the "Universal Sleeper Platform" lurking in Nanchizi, near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, take command and wait for the opportunity to move.
The "Almighty Lurking Station" is Ji Zhaoxiang, who combines the enemy station director, newspaper service, intelligence, and translation and telegraphy. When Li Kenong learned of this, he ordered Cao Chunzhi, head of the investigation section of the Ministry of Public Security, to search for the enemy station, saying that this battle was very important, and what we wanted was not as simple as arresting a few people, but to crack down on the Kuomintang secret service organization and let them know how powerful we were!
After continuous searching, Cao Chunzhi finally caught Ji Zhaoxiang and searched for the enemy platform. After Li Keyong arrived, he asked Ji Zhaoxiang to send a telegram to Mao Renfeng. Mao Renfeng, who thought that the "universal platform" he had left behind would not be discovered, was a little surprised until he received a telegram.
Mr. Mao Renfeng: We have already captured the "Almighty Lurking Platform" that you have repeatedly boasted, and Ji Zhaoxiang has also tied his hands, and in the future, we will also take in all the agents you dispatched, so I will not thank you in person here. Also, it was Li Kenong who spoke to you, and it was Ji Zhaoxiang who sent the telegram.
Mao Renfeng was very angry after seeing it, he knew that Li Kenong was very powerful, because he had made Dai Kasa a mess before, but he did not know that he was also restricted by him, and he originally wanted to perform in front of Chiang Kai-shek, but now he was so embarrassed.
In order to take revenge, Mao Renfeng activated the trump card of the "Northeast Technical Column", and he asked the telegrapher to call back: "Li Kenong, you walk and see, who is the final winner is not yet known!" ”
Not long after, Mao Renfeng sent a stateless plane to land in a mountain forest in Harbin, and before the two agents on the plane could get down, they were already surrounded by our army. After interrogation, it was learned that these two agents had come to join the "Northeast Technical Column." Li Kenong immediately disguised himself as a Kuomintang agent and the "Northeast Technical Column" to join forces.
After a few words of greeting between the two sides in a high-end guest room, the person in charge of the "Northeast Technical Column" handed over a list with detailed information of more than 170 people, and Mao Renfeng's so-called trump card fell into Li Kenong's hands again.
This duel, there is no suspense at all, it can be said that it is the end of the abuse of Mao Renfeng. Li Kenong has never lost since he confronted Dai Kasa, let alone Mao Renfeng. You must know that Dai Kasa offered a heavy reward and asked these spies to arrest Li Kenong, but he did not even see Li Kenong's shadow.
In the War of Liberation, the hidden front led by Li Kenong, like an invisible giant hand, has been protecting the safety of our Party figures, and Chairman Mao said that Li Kenong's intelligence has played too great a role in the CPC Central Committee's study of the war situation and the formulation of strategic principles!
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In June 1950, when the Korean War broke out, Li Kenong, although he did not go to the front, he also played an important role, that is, he participated in the Korean armistice negotiations.
It was a face-to-face diplomatic struggle with the United States, and Chairman Mao appointed Li Kenong as the first commander of the Sino-DPRK joint delegation, responsible for handling many issues in the negotiations. As the behind-the-scenes conductor, Li Kenong, code-named "Captain Li", has been carrying out his work with illness.
In order to ensure the safety of Peng Dehuai's signature, Li Kenong suggested that "South Korean personnel and journalists should be completely denied access to the venue to avoid emergencies." Later, it was proposed that the commanders of both sides should not go to the scene to sign, but only need to send representatives to exchange words with each other after signing, so as to ensure the safety of their respective commanders.
After Peng Dehuai signed and celebrated the victory of the North Korean negotiations, Li Kenong secretly returned to Beijing. The Korean armistice negotiations lasted for more than two years, during which there were five interruptions, which was an extremely complicated diplomatic struggle, and Lee Kenong, as the commander-in-chief behind the scenes, smashed the enemy's conspiracy again and again with his careful boldness and superb wisdom, and protected the safety of Peng Dehuai and others.
Li Kenong has been engaged in intelligence all his life, and many people at that time did not know his deeds, just as he secretly returned to China after negotiations in North Korea, and some people did not know that he went to North Korea.
From his secret service work, there are more than a dozen pseudonyms alone, such as Zetian, Xia Gong, Zhonghe, Manzi, Jiaxuan, Tianzhi and the like, and the code names have been changed and changed.
According to Li Kenong himself, when he grew up, he cried only three times in his life, the first time was when Chairman Mao went to Chongqing for peace talks, worried about Chairman Mao's safety, and couldn't help but shed tears;
The second time was the guilt of his child, who devoted his life to the party and lived a life of "not seeing the light of day". A few days before he went to North Korea to negotiate, his wife Zhao Ying asked him to end his son's marriage, and Li Kenong cried bitterly at the wedding.
He said to his son Li Lun: "I have 5 children, your sister and brother are married, I have not been present once, I am not a qualified father." The reason for saying this is because after Gu Shunzhang defected and put out all the known strongholds and disks, Li Kenong's first thought was to notify Zhou Enlai and others to evacuate. Her family did not receive his notice, fortunately, his wife Zhao Ying reacted quickly, she found that there was something wrong around her, and fled from the back door with her children, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
The third time he cried was because of his father, in July 1952, Li Kenong's father died of illness, he received a telegram, but at this time in North Korea, he forced the tears to hold back, put the telegram in his pocket. At night, he walked outside alone, bowed deeply three times in the direction of Beijing.
Li Kenong has been running all his life, his father died without sending him to the end, his mother died and he could not rush back in time, and the pain of not being able to fulfill filial piety made him feel guilty all the time.
In 1955, Li Kenong was awarded the rank of general and was awarded the Order of August 1st Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the First Class, and the Liberation Medal of the First Class. Chairman Mao said, "Li Kenong's contribution is indispensable, without him, the history of the party may have to be rewritten!" ”
In 1957, Li Kenong went to the office after lunch, and his asthma made him cough for many years, and when he walked to the table, he tried to hold the tabletop, but he fell down, and his head hit the stone steps, causing cerebral hemorrhage.
After arriving at the hospital, Zhou Enlai ordered that experts in brain surgery across the country be brought in to organize rescue. According to the youngest son Li Lun, "Although my father was rescued, his brain was not good, and his memory disappeared too much, and even the logic of speaking was gone." After this, Li Kenong began to recuperate, and it was difficult to recover his memory and be able to speak, but Li Kenong kept mentioning the three words "Wang Shijian".
It turned out that "Wang Shijian" was a secret beiping radio station belonging to the Xi'an intelligence system, and in 1947, this radio station was detected by the Americans, which was the most serious destruction of the CCP's intelligence system, and intelligence personnel in Xi'an, Lanzhou, Shenyang, and Chengde were all killed and suffered heavy losses.
Afterwards, Li Kenong repeatedly asked Zhou Enlai to punish himself, and Zhou Enlai comforted him: "Only need to write a review, this is inevitable on the hidden front." ”
On January 6, 1961, his wife Zhao Ying died of illness, and Li Kenong was deeply shocked;
On February 6, 1962, Li Kenong attended a work meeting with an illness, and his condition worsened, and Deng Yingchao and others advised him to go to the hospital for convalescence, but he did not agree. After three days of persistence, he died at Peking Union Medical College Hospital on February 9, when the announcement said he had died of cerebral hemorrhage.
But Li Lun said: "The reason for my father's death was that the brain was softened, and the brain had become mushy. ”
After Li Kenong's death, it is said that after the famous intelligence organization in the United States learned about it, it actually ordered all the staff to take a 3-day holiday, and it does not matter whether this rumor is true or false, what is important is that we modern people should remember this history.
Don't forget your original intention, forge ahead!