In early 1949, the 312th Division of the Kuomintang 45th Army was newly appointed as a deputy division commander named Li Changheng, who was originally a secret service chief of the Central Command in Chengdu. After the three major battles, the edifice of the Chiang family dynasty will fall, and Chiang Kai-shek began to plan a retreat, gathering some available talents from all over the country to prepare for the retreat to Taiwan. It was under these circumstances that Li Changheng was transferred to Nanjing and placed in the army, and the 45th Army was originally the guard unit of the Nationalist government in Nanjing, and most of the main generals were from the youth army controlled by Chiang Ching-kuo.
Shortly after Li Changheng was transformed from a secret agent to a deputy division commander, another division of the 45th Army, the 97th Division, under the leadership of division commander Wang Yanqing, declared an uprising, which was crumbling like the Nationalist government.
After Li Changheng became the deputy commander of the 312nd Division, his performance in leading the soldiers was obviously somewhat amateurish, and he constantly weakened the intensity of the soldiers' military training, only letting them build fortifications all day long, so that many recruits could not even use guns, let alone fight.
Of course, in such a rotten army as the Kuomintang, it is not surprising that there are any generals. Kang Ze, a secret service leader much higher than Li Changheng, had never led soldiers to fight before the age of 43, and was transferred out of the core of the secret service organization because of his failure to fight with Chiang Ching-kuo for power. Before being captured in the Battle of Xiangfan, Kang Ze also gave himself a birthday feast on the front line. Although Li Changheng was only a deputy division commander, far less prominent than Kang Ze, he could not escape the fate of being captured.
On April 20, 1949, a million troops of the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River and liberated Nanjing on the 23rd. Li Changheng followed the remnants of the Kuomintang along the Beijing Highway to evacuate Nanjing, preparing to retreat to Taiwan, but soon after they left Nanjing, they encountered the 88th Division of the Eighth Corps of the Third Field Army of the People's Liberation Army, and without any resistance, the entire 312th Division was taken prisoner.
The Pla.D. always gave preferential treatment to prisoners, but many senior Nationalist generals knew that they had committed serious crimes and would often pretend to be ordinary soldiers when they were captured to get away with it. As early as the Red Army period, there were cases of senior Kuomintang generals dressed as soldiers, successfully received road fares, and escaped. As a deputy division commander, Li Changheng is also considered to be a sufficient level, plus he was a secret agent who was deeply hated by everyone before, so it is reasonable to say that he should find a way to cover it up. But he didn't seem to have this intention at all, but instead took the initiative to cooperate with the PLA to inventory its own troops. After the troops have been gathered,
Li Changheng revealed his identity to the People's Liberation Army—his own people lurking inside the enemy.
At that time, it was true that many underground working comrades had infiltrated the enemy's interior, including some high-ranking generals, but how could Li Changheng, a major agent of the Central Unification, be his own? The soldiers also had to march and fight, and there was no effort to listen to his explanations, and the organizational relationship of the secret front was not something that ordinary soldiers in the front-line troops could understand. In this way, Li Changheng was imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp.
While the imprisoned Li Changheng continued to negotiate his identity with the Platon Army, Qian Shenfu, the commander of the 88th Division's Supplementary Training Regiment, came to the prisoner-of-war camp to replenish the source of troops. Li Changheng saw it and excitedly told him
"I'm Li Weiping!" Old schoolmates! The third team of the fourth phase of the Anti-Japanese War, when we were in Yan'an, we still lived in a cave, remember? ”
Qian Shenfu fixed his eyes on it, and also recognized this old classmate, and his face was suddenly surprised. It was the second half of 1938, and they were fellow patriotic young people studying together at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in Yan'an, but after the study period expired, he obviously heard that Li Weiping had gone to the North China Front. Li Changheng also saw Qian Shenfu's surprise and quickly explained:
"With regard to my situation, I tell you now that you certainly won't believe it either. I would like to ask you to immediately report to the Sanye Front Committee, call the Party Central Committee, and ask a question, 'Is there comrade Li Qiang in our Party?' 'When the central government sends a telegram, you will understand my identity. ”
Does our party have Comrade Li Qiang? This sentence was the top-secret secret language that Li Changheng's contact chen Yutong told him when he was transferred away. At that time, Chen Yutong told Li Changheng: "Your position is very important, you must stick to your post, you can't leave until you have to, you must be prepared to lurk for a long time, even if you break off contact with the organization, you must work alone." If you need to contact the party organization in an emergency, find the highest level of the local party and ask it to send a telegram to the central government, and the contact code is 'Does our party have Comrade Li Qiang?' ’”
Li Qiang
Li Qiang is Li Changheng's pseudonym in the party, which Dong Biwu personally took for him, which means that he has strong ability and combat effectiveness.
Even within the party, only a few people know the name.
And Li Changheng is not his real name, it is a pseudonym he uses when he lurks within the Kuomintang. Li Qiang's original name was Li Biguang, and he also used a name called Li Weiping, which is the name when he studied at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in Yan'an.
In 1915, Chen Duxiu founded the Youth Magazine in Shanghai and launched a new cultural movement, which effectively attacked and shaken the dominance of long-standing feudal orthodoxy and awakened a generation of young people. Li Qiang was born in Anyue County, Sichuan Province, in this year, and was influenced by his ideologically progressive cousins during his schooling, especially his second cousin Yao Zhongshu. The young Communist Party member, who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, returned to his hometown in 1927 to carry out party work. At the age of 12, Li Qiang often stood guard for his second cousin's revolutionary activities, and after that, under the influence of this revolutionary trend, he was admitted all the way to Anyue Middle School, and then entered the Sichuan Provincial First Normal School.
During his school days in Chengdu, Li Qiang continued to read progressive books, participate in progressive groups, and lead the anti-Japanese student movement to save the country. In addition, Li Qiang, like a large number of progressive young people in the country at that time, longed for Yan'an, the holy land of communism and China's revolution. It was also during the student movement that
Li Qiang became acquainted with Zhou Junlie, an old Communist Party member who had worked in the Shanghai Central Special Branch
, and start getting in touch with some secret work. In July 1938, Li Qiang graduated from university, and under the secret arrangement of the chengdu underground party organization, he went to Yan'an, where he longed for, and successively entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University and the advanced research class of Shaanxi North Public School.
Because of his experience in secret work, after the completion of the study period, Li Qiang and several other Sichuan classmates returned to the southwest and announced that they had gone to the north China front. At the Eighth Route Army's chongqing office in Hongyanzui, a suburb of Chongqing, Li Qiang and others were received by Kaifeng, then a member of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee and director of the Propaganda Department of the Southern Bureau. Liao Xiangguang, a cadre of the Southern Bureau, talked to Li Qiang alone, confessed the secret work tasks, and told him that Dong Biwu had given him the name "Li Qiang".
Bidding farewell to Hongyanzui, Li Qiang returned to his hometown of Anyue, where he had been away for four years, and found a job as the director of the county high school to cover up secret work for the party. Although it was already a cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists to resist Japan, the White Terror was very serious in the city of Anyue County at this time, and the Kuomintang agents persecuted the Communists on a large scale. Li Qiang often led the common people to carry out anti-Japanese activities, which also aroused the envy of the spies, who threatened to "throw him out, and if they can't leave, they will be killed." In desperation, Li Qiang, with the help of Zhou Junlie, quietly left Anyue and went to the provincial capital of Chengdu.
In Chengdu, anti-communist activities of the Kuomintang were still rampant, and agents of the Central Unification were frantically sabotaging communist organizations in western Sichuan and Chengdu. In order to obtain intelligence and protect the members of the party organization, Li Qiang's superior, Liu Wenzhe, conveyed instructions from the Southern Bureau, asking him to try to break into the Kuomintang secret service.
Why did you choose Li Qiang to perform this task?
In addition to his relevant underground work experience, he also has excellent communication skills. In addition, Li Qiang's father, Li Keyan, is a famous uncle of the robe brother in several counties around Anyue, and he is also a long-born in the local robe brother. Such an identity also has many benefits for underground work, one of which is to be familiar with the set of society, and to be able to climb the relationship with people of the three religions and nine streams. Second, the core of the Central Unification, Chen Lifu and Chen Guofu brothers, are from the Green Gang, and the main characters in it must join the Gang at the same time to understand the rules of the Green Gang and the Robe Brotherhood.
Comrade Li Qiang was photographed on the shore of Xuanwu Lake at the end of 1948 when he was the director of the political work department and deputy commander of the Kuomintang 312 division in Nanjing
After accepting the task, Li Qiang looked for a breakthrough in his social relations, and sure enough, through a fellow villager named Zhai Zixiang, he got to know Zhou Bicheng, head of the organization section of the Kuomintang Sichuan Provincial Party Department Organization and Training Office, and thus entered the seventh phase of the political research class of the Central Military Academy. During his time at the Central Military Academy, Li Qiang often deliberately made friends with the students in the class and pulled relations. After graduating, Li Qiang was assigned to the political training office of the 984th Regiment of the 164th Division of the 56th Army of the Sichuan Army as a lieutenant officer. At the same time, Li Qiang still did not relax his relationship with some Central Unification personnel. Soon after, with the help of Liao Zhenhua, a classmate of the Central Unification, he entered the third training class of the Central Unification.
Although it has entered the Central Unification, if it cannot enter the core institutions, it is difficult to obtain confidential information only on the periphery. But how can we get the attention of the top and get into the core institutions? He obviously could not lead the agents of the Central Unification to arrest the Communist Party and destroy the Party organization. afterward
After discussion between Li Qiang and liaison officer Chen Yutong, it was decided to take advantage of the internal contradictions of the Central Unification and gain opportunities from them
。
The Central Unification is also a gang and faction, and once any problem arises, they all cover up and prevaricate with each other. Sometimes when the intelligence is leaked and all the blame is prevaricated, Li Qiang secretly reports to his superiors. As long as someone sues for this kind of thing, it will definitely be investigated, and the parties have already found out before they know who filed the complaint. After doing such a few more things, the head of the secret service looked at Li Qiang differently, thinking that this Li Changheng still had some ability.
Soon after, Li Qiang seized another opportunity to "make meritorious contributions". A document on the investigation of the Chinese Youth Party was leaked, and Zeng Qi, chairman of the Youth Party, questioned Chiang Kai-shek about the matter, making the old Chiang kai-shek feel embarrassed. Chiang Kai-shek ordered Xu En, the leader of the Central Command, to solve the case within a time limit. Li Qiang remembered that Zeng Qinggao, who was in charge of the field, had asked him for the original telegram to read, and only returned the document a few days later, and he keenly concluded that the problem was Zeng Qinggao. Just when Sun Yunfeng, director of the Sichuan Mediation Office of the Central Unification, was at a loss for this, Li Qiang took the initiative to report this important clue. After interrogation, Zeng Qinggao admitted that he was Zeng Qi's cousin, and that he had photographed the original telegram to Zeng Qi.
Zeng Qi
After "meritorious service", Li Qiang was assigned to the Sichuan Provincial Special Work Committee, the highest secret service organ in the province, as a group of chief officers, and officially entered the core organization. Since we have already occupied the position, we must be prepared to hold on for a long time.
In order not to arouse suspicion, Li Qiang also married Zhao Shufang, the daughter of Zhao Xuan, the secretary of the Kuomintang Chengdu County Party Department.
After marriage, the two were very affectionate, but Li Qiang never revealed his true identity to his wife.
When he arrived at the "Provincial Special Meeting", Li Qiang gradually learned that among the various sections of the Sichuan Adjustment Room, the third section (the Party Section) was the most important, because it was in charge of the most confidential "special intelligence" materials in the Sichuan Adjustment Room. The Central Command has quietly released Communist Party members or other personages who have defected after a "short raid" who have been secretly arrested or who have defected after a "short raid" to return to their original units or localities and regularly report the situation to the Secret Service of the Central Command. The list, address, unit, contact information and other relevant materials of such personnel are the so-called "special circumstances".
This "special situation" material also includes a list of people in some other democratic parties and progressive groups who can provide valuable information to the Central Committee. Ye Shenzhi, the chief of the third section, was originally the secretary of the Mianyang district of the Communist Youth League, and later defected to the Kuomintang, this person was young, flexible, and had many ideas, and was deeply valued by Sun Yunfeng, director of the Sichuan Adjustment Office. This batch of "special situation" materials was personally established after he became the chief of the third section. Ye Shenzhi locked the top-secret material in a safe in his office, and the key to the safe was always tied to his belt. Except for Sun Yunfeng, this "special feeling" is absolutely not to show people.
In order to get these special materials, Li Qiang began to take the initiative to make friends with Ye Shenzhi, and the two often ate, drank and had fun together, and at the same time, they also co-opted a group of young spies and established a "Youth Mutual Society". Li Qiang told the agents that he had a part-time job outside and that he usually paid for the parties. In fact
Li Qiang often sent his family's belongings to the pawnshop and took money for their entertainment
。 And Ye Shenzhi ate, drank and gambled, and Li Qiang often paid for Ye Shenzhi. Seeing that Li Qiang had a generous hand and made a wide range of friends, Ye Shenzhi proposed to find a fat difference with more oil and water, and Li Qiang made some connections, and Li Qiang agreed with a full mouth.
After a period of contact, Li Qiang finally got the key to punch the safe after a drunken Ye Shen, opened the "special intelligence" file with extremely agile movements, quickly flipped through, and found the list of traitors such as Chen Jingwen and Feng Yifei and the list of special intelligence personnel who had entered the Democratic League. After receiving the information, the Southern Bureau quickly took measures to take the initiative to cut off contacts with the traitors and notify the relevant Communists and progressives to evacuate Chengdu.
At the end of 1948, when Comrade Li Qiang was the director of the political work department and deputy commander of the Kuomintang 312nd Division, he was photographed on the shore of Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing (the person wearing the military hat on the left was Li Qiang)
During the incubation period of the Central Command, Li Qiang also cleverly rescued Communist Detainees without revealing his identity. Once, when Li Qiang's liaison officer, Chen Yutong, was exposed, he offered to lead the team to arrest him, and when he was about to reach the location, he asked the driver to turn on the high beam from a distance and honk the horn. Chen Yutong was able to calmly dispose of confidential documents and escape over the wall.
As Li Qiang's official position within the Kuomintang grew, the intelligence he intercepted became more and more valuable. With their loyalty to the party and their great wisdom and courage, the lurkers eliminated the traitors for the party, and one person can reach a million heroes. At the end of 1948, Li Qiang was transferred to Nanjing, originally planning to retreat to Taiwan with the Chiang Kai-shek clique to continue to lurk, but was captured by Sanye and returned to the embrace of the organization.
Although his classmates at Kang Da still had doubts about his identity, they still did not dare to slacken off, and reported to the Sanye Front Committee according to Li Qiang's description, and sent a telegram to the Party Central Committee, asking, "Is there any comrade Li Qiang in our party?" ”
Two days later, the Sanye Front Committee received an urgent telegram from the Central Military Commission: "Quickly send Comrade Li Qiang to Beiping." ”
Two months later, Li Qiang rushed from Beiping to Wuhan and reported to Qian Ying, the first vice minister of the Central China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, that he had joined the ranks of Erye in liberating the great southwest according to the requirements of the organization.
After the founding of New China, Li Qiang successively served as the director of the Anti-Corruption Office of Southwest Town and the vice president of Chinese Min Public Security University.