[History of Northeast China] Korean warrior Li Yin involved in the battle in Liaoji Province (Huang Tao)
Lee In-san, formerly known as Kim Pyeong-san, is a Korean male who was born in 1907 to a poor peasant family in Yongcheon-gun, North Pyongan Province, North Korea. In 1917, he came to Sanggenpo in Liuhe with his parents, rented land for a living, graduated with honors from the Samwon Pudong Myong School (an eight-year consistent school of pure Korean nationalism in the spirit of overthrowing Japanese imperialism and striving for the independence of the Korean nation), joined the Samwonpo Local Korean Youth Association in 1925, joined the Goryeo Communist Youth Association in 1926 as a propaganda worker, and then moved to Cheonghagou in Cheongwon County. In 1928, he joined the Goryeo Communist Party.
Portrait of Li Yin
In May 1930, Li Yin was transferred to the Goryeo Namman Special Committee Office in The Three Houses village of Nanshan Chengzi in Qingyuan County, and worked with Jin Yicai and others to build Korean schools in Wan dianzi and Sanfang to publicize revolutionary theories and cultivate talents. In June 1930, in accordance with the principle of "one country, one party" of the Communist International, Chen Desen, an inspector appointed by the Manchurian Province, held a training class for Goryeo party members in Nanshan Chengzi, Qingyuan County. After training, Li Yinshi, Shen Changshan, and Li Jifeng became the first members of the Communist Party of China in Qingyuan County. Together, they were sent by the CPC Qingyuan County to Hailong County, and established the first party branch in Hailong, the Four Eight Stones Party Branch. In July 1930, the Qingyuan County Party Committee appointed Li Yinshi as a member of the first party branch in Hailong County, the Sibashi Branch.
A monumental stone plaque to the site, erected in 2008
As a teacher at the School of The Four-Eight Stones Democracy Village, Li Yinshi took cover to carry out party work and mobilized the local masses to carry out the struggle against Japanese imperialist aggression and the feudal system. He secretly organized the Young Pioneers in the school to convey anti-Japanese messages, taught and sang revolutionary songs to students, taught at school during the day, and held night schools to explain revolutionary principles to peasants at night, propagating the idea of resisting Japan and saving the country, so that the thinking of the peasant masses and students was more active and active. The Four-Eight-Stone Party Branch was responsible for the party building work in the western region of Hailong and carried out anti-imperialist and anti-feudal, purged feudal running dogs, and actively carried out the struggle to reduce rent and interest rates. In the report of the Southern Manchuria Special Committee, it was considered that this branch was a party branch with a relatively good foundation at that time.
Later, due to the traitor's whistle-blowing, he was arrested in teaching in 1932 and imprisoned for the crime of poor educational thinking, but in prison he strictly guarded the party's secrets and was acquitted. A few days before the restoration, on August 10, 1945, he was arrested and imprisoned at the police station in Qinghe Town, Kaiyuan County, and released to return home on August 18.
In Kaiyuan, Lee Yin-sha and Kim Yi-choi led the Korean masses to overthrow the reactionary "Korean militia group," organized a "comrades' meeting," went deep into the kaiyuan countryside, propagated and called on young people to join the revolution, and carried out the expansion of the army to establish the Korean army. Under their propaganda, many young people actively participated in the revolution and joined the army, and more than 80 people joined the army in just over a month. At that time, the people's political power in Kaiyuan County had just been established, and they took the initiative to participate in revolutionary work, showing a firm stand, enthusiasm for work, and vigorous action.
In November 1945, the Northeast Bureau arranged for Shen Qing and three other Korean cadres from Yan'an to come to Kaiyuan, where they formed the Korean Independence League, and Li Yinshi was appointed as the director of the alliance. After the establishment of the Korean Independence League, under the leadership of the Kaiwon County CPC Committee, Li Yinshi attached great importance to the work of uniting the Korean nationality, and deployed, inspected, and reported on the work of the Korean Independence League.
The Kaiyuan Korean Independence League under the leadership of Li Yinshi was very active, and grass-roots organizations were established in the villages where Korean ethnic groups were concentrated. The organization mobilized the Korean masses in Kaiyuan County to carry out a vigorous struggle to "counter-rape liquidation" and land reform. In order to fulfill the tasks entrusted by the county party committee, he did not hesitate to work hard to organize the Korean masses. In particular, in the War of Liberation, the Korean masses were organized to carry out pre-support work and achieved certain results, mobilizing Korean women to make more than 500 pairs of military shoes, organizing more than 100 pairs of stretchers for Korean adults, and more than 200 young people joining the army. During the war, Ri Yin-shuan and the main leaders of the Korean Independence League have been operating with the county brigade led by the county party committee.
Li Yinshi organized the young Koreans from Xiantun (Xiaolangtun) and Dongertaizi villages into a Korean company, with Jin Cheng, a cadre from Yan'an, serving as the company commander. Without weapons, Li Yinshi and Jin Chengyi went to the Twenty-fourth Brigade stationed in Kaiyuan, asked the brigade commander Ma Ji to come with 80 three-eight large cover guns, and equipped the company for military training. Soon, Li Hongguang's detachment came to order the transfer of the former Korean company, and Li Yinshi personally sent them away.
After that, Li Yinshi asked gong Youyuan, secretary of the county party committee, for approval, and soon organized more than 100 young people to join the army and incorporated into a Korean company of the Kaiyuan County Security Regiment. Li personally went to Tonghua to find Li Hongguang's detachment to ask for a cadre with a certain military quality who could work independently, named Park Jin-pak, as the commander of the Korean company. The political commissar of Li Hongguang's detachment gave him a No. 2 long-mouthed box gun, and Li Yinshi happily returned to Kaiyuan. At the end of March 1946, the Kaiyuan County Party Committee withdrew from Kaiyuan County, and the New First Army of the Kuomintang entered Kaiyuan. The Kaiyuan County Brigade was transferred to Badeshu and Lijiatai with the county party committee and county government organs, and then to Xinbian, where the environment was quite harsh, and some soldiers could not withstand the test and desert. And this Korean company organized by Li Yin involved in the organization of this Korean company did not waver, and it was very firm, so the county government decided that the Korean company would be used as a guard company. Because the commanders and fighters of the Korean Company were resolute in their revolutionary will, the provincial party committee transferred the Korean Company of the Yuanxian Brigade to the Seventh Linjiang Division to enrich the main force. The Kaiyuan County Party Committee decided to leave one platoon to defend the county party committee organs and send two platoons to the main force.
In August 1949, the Provincial Department of Education decided to establish the Kaiyuan Korean Middle School in Kaiyuan (now the Air Force Aviation School), and instructed Li Yinshi to be responsible for the preparation, and on the 15th, the Kaiyuan Korean Middle School class opened, and Li Yinshi served as the principal. In December of the same year, the Provincial Department of Education incorporated the Tieling Shatuozi Chaozhong into the school and became the Kaiyuan Korean Middle School in Liaoxi Province, with Li Yinshi as the director of teaching.
After liberation, Li Yin was involved in the head of the ethnic section of the Civil Affairs Department of Liaobei Province and the director of the Kaiyuan County Nationalities Committee. He died in Kaiyuan in 1993 at the age of 87.
Author: Huang Tao, a native of Qingyuan County, Fushun City, is a scholar of local literature and history.