On the third day of the Shanghai People's Liberation Army in May 1949, the people were immersed in joy. However, Chen Yi, who had just taken office as mayor of Shanghai, received an urgent telegram from Li Kenong, director of the Intelligence Department of the CPC Central Committee, at this time:
I hope to help find a comrade named Li Bai, to find him at all costs, and to see people die and to see corpses.
Chen Yi frowned slightly when he heard it. Something big is definitely going on. Soon, Mayor Chen Yi, in the name of the Military Control Commission, immediately sent a telegram No. 008 to the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau. It is reasonable to say that the telegrams that can be sent are basically major events and emergencies.
Chen Yi
When the comrades in the frontline of public security received this news, they felt very puzzled: What kind of figure is this Comrade Li Bai? What is going on if the central level can directly order the search, and let Chen Yi, who has just taken office as mayor of Shanghai, pay so much attention?
All this must start from Comrade Li Bai, whose alias is Li Jing'an, who was born in 1910 in a poor peasant family in Liuyang, Hunan Province, with three brothers and sisters, which made the family's conditions even more difficult. But he still cut back on food and clothing for him to go to school.
When I was 8 years old, I was in the May Fourth New Youth Movement, and most of the teachers in the school were progressive youth, often using the new youth progressive literature to educate students. As a result, Li Bai was influenced by revolutionary ideas from an early age. However, within a few years, Li Bai still dropped out of school and returned home because of his family's poverty.
Li bai
In order to survive, he had to go to a dye shop as an apprentice. Apprentices in the old society were the most undignified, living by selling brute force, and once there was a moment of rest, scolding was a common thing, not only that, but also withholding wages all day long.
This cruel life of oppression made Li Bai also wake up and see through the injustices of the old society. For this reason, he vowed to overthrow the landlords in the future and seek true happiness for the people.
In 1925, the revolutionary upsurge reached its peak throughout the country, and Li Bai also actively participated in the local peasant association organizations and devoted himself to the revolutionary cause. At the age of 15, he joined the Communist Party of China.
Always follow the party
Soon after, Chiang Kai-shek launched the April 12 coup d'état and began to wantonly maim our Party personnel and the revolutionary masses, plunging the whole country into a white terror. Not only was Li Bai not afraid, but strengthened his revolutionary convictions and participated in the armed struggle among the guerrillas. He also participated in the autumn harvest uprising organized by Chairman Mao under the fierce peasant movement.
In 1930, with the establishment of revolutionary base areas in various places, Li Bai also officially joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and became a propagandist of the Fourth Army, following the troops around in the battle.
However, the military struggle is also becoming more and more intense and complex, in which communication is very important, and whoever masters this technology will have a foregone conclusion. The Red Army also gradually became aware of this problem and began to train its own intelligence personnel. Li Bai was therefore sent by the troops to the Ruijin Red Army Communication School for radio communication technology.
The Red Army in film and television
The young and studious Li Bai quickly mastered this technique with a lot of drilling strength. After graduation, Li Bai relied on his excellent skills and was transferred to the army as a radio captain. Under the teachings of Li Bai, many fighters also mastered this excellent radio technology.
The telegram that never fades away is Comrade Li Bai's firmest belief!
After the Red Army carried out the Long March, Li Bai and the soldiers always carried very heavy radios, participated in the war, and completed the task of sending and receiving telegrams. At this time, Li Bai said the goal he had struggled for all his life: as long as we were there, the radio was there, and the radio waves could not be interrupted.
The eternal wave of electricity
Once, when the radio team was stationed on a hillside and was just in time for the enemy planes to bomb, Li Bai braved artillery fire to protect the two antenna masts for this never-disappearing radio wave, and the bombs dropped by the enemy planes exploded not far from Li Bai.
Li Bai then grabbed his machine gun and strafed at the enemy planes in the sky. A bomber fell in response, and Li Bai became famous in the war. When the All-out War of Resistance broke out in 1937, Li Bai had already aroused the determination to defend his family and defend the country against the brutal and unscrupulous behavior of the Japanese Kou, and was ready to follow the troops to the front line to fight the devils.
Go to the front line to fight the enemy
However, in order to better attack the Japanese Kou, the organization sent Li Bai to Shanghai to take charge of intelligence gathering. Li Bai said he obeyed the arrangements of the party organization. It was Li Bai who came to Shanghai Beach under the pseudonym Li Xia, immediately carried out the work of establishing a secret radio station, and then transferred the collected hostile intelligence back to the Party Central Committee.
At this time, Shanghai was in turmoil, surrounded by Kuomintang Agents, and surveillance and inspection were everywhere. It was in such a difficult situation that Li Bai stubbornly set up the first radio station in Shanghai.
However, a problem solved a new problem also followed, Shanghai and Yan'an are far apart, if the power is small, after electromagnetic interference, some messages can not be transmitted to Yan'an.
Telegram
After Li Bai knew this, he and his subordinates tu Zuochao went through several repeated trials and found a solution that could overcome the difficulties. In the early hours of the evening, the newspaper is sent out in the early morning, and the antenna of the radio is used as a cover, and then a black cloth is covered to avoid the light bulb flickering on and off. This allowed Li Bai to finally build an airborne radio bridge between Shanghai and Yan'an.
At the same time, Li Bai is in his thirties, but he is still single and easy to be suspected.
In order to better cover up the secret work of Comrade Li Bai, Qiu Huiying, who was only 23 years old, was instructed by her superiors to join a comrade on the banks of the Suzhou River and form a family pretending to be a husband and wife. When Qiu Huiying came to the suzhou river, she saw a very tall and beautiful man wearing a long shirt, and this man was Li Bai.
Joint
The two then pretended to be husband and wife and lived in a room on Pushi Road. Later, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the stage of strategic stalemate, and the work tasks of the secret radio stations became more arduous, and Li Bai had to carry out a large number of intelligence collection and sending tasks every day.
This kind of work is even more difficult in the summer and winter, in order to avoid the enemy seeing through the window, the doors and windows can only be closed tightly, the house is like a steamer, the hot Li Bai is soaked, and at the same time to pass on information.
Shanghai is even colder in winter, with purple fingers still moving in the radio buttons. When Li Bai was working, Qiu Huiying would also carefully observe the surrounding environment in the doors and windows, and immediately reported the abnormality to Li Bai.
Observe the surrounding situation
The two people have been in love for a long time under such tacit cooperation. And with the approval and matchmaking of the party organization, Li Bai and Qiu Huiying became a real couple.
The work of the underground radio station was so dangerous that it was like walking on the tip of a knife, and in order to hide Li Bai and his wife and the underground party, they all lived in a small three-story building. In 1942, the situation also became more and more tense, and after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army paid less attention to Britain and France, and directly let the army enter the concession.
In the open search for communists and revolutionary masses, for the safety of the shanghai underground party organization, Li Bai reduced the power of sending and receiving telegrams to 15 watts, but surprisingly, the Japanese army had already updated the radio radar detection technology, and soon Li Bai was discovered in a report.
The Japanese stole our intelligence
On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival of the same year, Qiu Huiying was uneasy in her heart and asked Li Bai to receive the telegram as soon as possible. There was a movement outside the door, the Japanese gendarmerie and secret agents had come to the neighborhood where they lived, and Qiu Huiying immediately asked Li Bai to quickly send a telegram and hide.
Li Bai hurriedly sent the last telegram and sent three goodbyes at the end of the end, indicating that he had encountered danger.
Soon, the Japanese took control of Li Bai and Qiu Huiying, and under their rummaging boxes and cabinets, the radio that had been dismantled into parts was also discovered. The two men were directly arrested and imprisoned and tortured.
The Japanese tortured him
Li Bai and Qiu Huiying gritted their teeth and said they had nothing to do with the party. In the end, the enemy also did not have evidence of Li Baitong.com. But the enemy did not let Li Bai out, but instead put him in prison.
The following year, after the active rescue of our party, Li Bai was released. Later, because the enemy spied on And summoned Li Bai at any time, he could only suspend his work. Li Bai said that he could continue to work. Therefore, he was arranged to work as a telegraph operator at the Kuomintang research institute, intercepting internal information from it and transmitting it to the Party Central Committee.
However, not long after the Kuomintang seized the radio station Li Bai was arrested and imprisoned. After the Kuomintang-Communist united front, the party organization personally came forward to rescue Li Bai. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Bai and his wife continued to work on secret radio stations in Shanghai. As the Kuomintang's anti-communist actions became more active, it became increasingly difficult for the CCP's underground party work to carry out.
Work is difficult to carry out
Despite the difficulties and obstacles, Li Bai still relied on secret radio stations to maintain contact with the Party Central Committee. When the Kuomintang-Communist Civil War broke out, Li Bai relayed information on the northeast battlefield reinforced by the Kuomintang troops through the radio, which provided great help to the PLA's strategic decision-making.
It can be said that Li Bai's intelligence transmission left a strong mark in our party's liberation war, and without him, the whole country might not have been liberated so quickly. In 1948, Kuomintang agents set their sights on this secret radio station, and after repeated reconnaissance, they were eventually arrested and imprisoned.
The enemy directly tortured for more than thirty hours to extract confessions, and the hard ones could not come soft, and directly brought Qiu Huiying and the children to the front hoping that Li Bai would confess everything. Li Bai remained unyielding and unmoved. Until 1949, Qiu Huiying took the child to visit her father, and the five-year-old child said without knowing anything: Daddy, when will you come to hug me?
Li Jing'an family
What the child does not know, however, is that the father's legs have long been broken by the enemy. Subsequently, Qiu Huiying listened to the child's words and was full of grief. With the defeat of the Kuomintang on the battlefield, the head of the Kuomintang secret service, in accordance with Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, escorted Li Bai and several other revolutionary party members to a wasteland on Pudong Road and secretly killed them.
At this time, less than a month after the liberation of Shanghai, a shining star fell. After the liberation of Shanghai, Qiu Huiying has been looking for Li Bai and the Party Central Committee that he is looking for. So there was the opening scene.
After receiving such a serious order, the Municipal Public Security Bureau immediately launched an investigation. Through clues, he found Li Bai's wife, Comrade Qiu Huiying, and asked for relevant information.
Ask for information
Soon after, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau's investigators were looking for Li Bai's whereabouts. A police officer from the Shanghai Penglai Public Security Bureau received information that in early May a prisoner wearing a long shirt was escorted to a torture cart and taken away, and later may have been taken to the Pudong area and shot.
Qiu Huiying, who heard the news, was anxious and grief-stricken. According to this clue, the public security comrade went to the local area to visit the masses in depth. Twelve bodies were finally found in a wasteland in the Pudong area.
Qiu Huiying followed the public security comrades to the scene, and when she saw a scarred body with multiple bullet hole wounds, she could no longer suppress the sad crying in her heart. This is the body of her husband, Comrade Li Bai.
Li Jing'an and Qiu Huiying
Li Kenong was very sad to learn of Li Bai's sacrifice, and if he were still alive, he might be the first minister of posts and telecommunications of New China. In 1951, after an investigation by the Public Security Bureau, the murderer of Li Bai was finally arrested and punished according to the crime committed, among which Ye Danqiu, the leader of The secret agent who killed Li Bai, was sentenced to death.
There are thousands of comrades like Comrade Li Bai hiding on the front line, and they are not afraid to sacrifice their lives to defend the country and the party, and some of them fell before the dawn and cannot see the prosperity of today, and we must cherish the peaceful life of today even more.
Salute to the hero Li Bai, salute to all the heroes hidden in the battle line.