In 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and our party, in light of the current situation, decided that the New Fourth Army would concentrate its forces on stabilizing Shandong, and should seize the northeast and give up the occupation of Shanghai.
At this time, the Kuomintang took over Shanghai, and the military command agents began to "suppress traitors" activities, and when the military command agents interrogated the traitors, the military command agents learned an astonishing clue.
There was a traitor who confessed that there was a big fish in the military command, and under interrogation, he learned that there was an underground party who had broken into the military command, and when he said that this person was Li Shiyu, the colonel and head of the Shanghai station, it caused an uproar.
When Shen Weihan, director of the Military Judge Advocate General's Office, learned about it, he thought it was a major discovery, and immediately sent a secret telegram to Dai Li, asking for instructions to arrest Li Shiyu immediately.
Dai Li said: "Li Shiyu is just a victim of an internal power struggle, it is impossible to be a Communist Party, and after he entered the military command, he made great achievements and did not agree to be arrested." ”
What kind of person is Li Shiyu who can make Dai Li trust him so much?
Li Shiyu, formerly known as Li Tingfang, was born in 1908 in a large landowner family in Bayan County, Heilongjiang.
Born into a landlord family, he was admitted to the provincial Qiqihar No. 1 Middle School at the age of 14, and with excellent Xi results, he entered Tianjin Nankai Middle School two years later.
Here, Li Shiyu got to know Lin Feng, an underground party member of the Communist Party of China, and some ideological progressives, who were like-minded and slowly accepted Marxist-Leninist ideas.
In 1930, Li Shiyu was admitted to the Law School of Peking University and became a top student.
In 1931, after the September 18 Incident, Li Shiyu saw the reality of the country's ruin and family ruin, and he understood that only by following the pace of the Communist Party could the country be saved, so he joined the Youth League and then joined the Communist Party of China.
After graduating from law school, Li Shiyu's first task was to enter the Northeast Army and carry out the anti-Japanese salvation movement.
So, Zhang Jingzai, the underground party of the law school, introduced Li Shiyu to Zhang Xuemeng, who was the director of the guard room of Zhang Xueliang's mansion at the time, but he didn't expect the two to be fellow countrymen and alumni, so Li Shiyu was left.
In 1934, Li Shiyu met Sun Jingyun, and the two became husband and wife.
In 1935, Chiang Kai-shek established the "Northwest Bandit Suppression General Headquarters" in Xi'an, and appointed Zhang Xueliang as the deputy commander-in-chief.
At that time, Li Shiyu was specially assigned by the party to do the work of the Northeast Army, and he was directly under the leadership of ***, and he was required to complete two tasks
Learn about the situation of the Northeast Army;
Propagandize the ideas of the Communist Party and encourage the Northeast Army to fight back to the Northeast.
But plans don't change as quickly.
In 1936, the Xi'an Incident broke out, and after the peaceful settlement, Zhang Xueliang was detained by Chiang Kai-shek for no reason, and the Northeast Army was leaderless, and there were many contradictions among the senior leaders. Soon after, the Northeast Army was reorganized, and most of the ** were cut, and Li Shiyu was also one of them.
According to the organizational arrangement, Li Shiyu came to Tianjin, and under the introduction of his old classmates, Li Shiyu met He Songting and was responsible for Tianjin's secret intelligence work, so Li Shiyu stayed in Tianjin.
In 1937, a public order maintenance committee was established in Tianjin, which was actually supported by Japan, and Wu Guangbi served as the chief of the general affairs section.
According to the instructions of the party organization, Li Shiyu asked him to introduce him to work, because Li Shiyu studied law, and Wu Guangbi arranged for him to be a prosecutor in the Tianjin High Court.
In order to facilitate his work, Li Shiyu obtained a few passes from the Japanese secret services, so that he was able to travel back and forth between Beijing and Tianjin freely and transmit important intelligence information to our party.
Soon after, He Songting gave Li Shiyu two tasks: one was to get a radio station and transport it to Beijing, and the other was to rescue Feng Ji, a Communist Party member, and instructed: "Be careful, don't reveal your identity!"”
Radio stations are military prohibitions, especially fully equipped radio stations, which are not available in the market, so he decided to assemble a radio station, and he inquired that materials and accessories could be bought from the electricity stores opened by foreigners, and he often went in and out of there to buy some materials and accessories.
After half a month, the radio accessories and motors were purchased. The next question is how to get them out of Tianjin
At that time, Li Shiyu lived on Dawenli Road in the British Concession, and there was a checkpoint set up by the Japanese army near his house.
Li Shiyu racked his brains and thought of a way, first of all, to get a car that could pass the inspection of the Japanese army, the more expensive the car, the better, he thought of the sleeping car of the president of the High Court, Fürth, but how could the president's special car be easily obtained?
At this moment, Li Shiyu suddenly received a ** from his wife Sun Jingyun, she was going to Beijing, hoping that Li Shiyu would pick up the station, at this time, Li Shiyu's heart lit up, and he suddenly had an idea.
In the evening, Li Shiyu came to the dean's house with a generous gift, and the dean admired Li Shiyu, a top student of the law school, so he went to the Three Treasures Hall without anything to do, and asked him directly what was the matter.
Li Shiyu was a little embarrassed and said that he wanted to borrow a car to pick up his wife, and the dean saw that he loved vanity, so he agreed to lend him the car.
Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, and the next thing is to figure out how to get through the Japanese checkpoint. Li Shiyu prepared two boxes, one box for a sewing machine and the other box for radio materials, and first put the box with the sewing machine elsewhere.
Early the next morning, Li Shiyu moved the box to the car, and when he passed the Japanese checkpoint, he took the initiative to ask the Japanese army to inspect it.
After that, Li Shiyu came to his residence by car, and he arranged for the driver to have breakfast. After the driver finished eating, they passed by the Japanese checkpoint again.
When the Japanese saw that it was the box that had been inspected just now, they did not check it again and quickly let them through.
The car drove all the way to Langfang, Li Shiyu handed over the box to the underground party members of the joint, and then took the car to pick up his wife Sun Jingyun and completed the first task.
The second mission was to rescue Communist Party member Feng Ji.
Before the fall of Tianjin, Feng Ji was suspected of being a Communist Party and imprisoned in Tianjin Prison, and Li Shiyu, as a court prosecutor, had the right to inspect the case files of the clerks of each court.
Once, Li Shiyu took advantage of the clerk's outing, secretly found Feng Ji's case file, and took it all away, and a few days later, Li Shiyu came here again and asked to see Feng Ji's case file by name.
But the clerk searched for it many times, but he didn't find it, and he panicked, at this time, Li Shiyu deliberately scolded him fiercely, and later reminded him: "Was it blown up last time?"”
Because during the Japanese occupation of Tianjin, the court was bombed once, and the clerk hurriedly walked down the steps and quickly nodded and said that it might be the case.
Then, Li Shiyu proposed to go to the prison for inspection, looked at each cell, and then said that he would interrogate several prisoners individually.
When Feng Ji was interrogated, Li Shiyu secretly stuffed him with a note, telling him that the case files about him had been destroyed, telling him not to admit that he was a member of the Communist Party, saying that he had fought with others and was falsely imprisoned.
In the court, Feng Ji could not be convicted because there was insufficient evidence, and he was finally acquitted. In this way, Li Shiyu successfully completed the two tasks assigned by the organization.
In August 1939, Wang Jingwei rebelled, planned to establish Wang Puppet, held the "Sixth National Congress of the Kuomintang" in Shanghai, and sent people to all parts of the country to collect delegates.
At that time, Wang Jingwei sent Zhu Jinghua and other three people to Tianjin, and after being introduced, Zhu Jinghua met Li Shiyu, and after a long talk, he thought that Li Shiyu was young and promising, and he was a rare talent, and he intended to recruit him as a representative.
But Li Shiyu became worried and said: "I am not a Kuomintang, how can I participate in the 'Sixth National Congress' deputies?"Zhu Jinghua patted his chest and said: "There is an urgent need for talents at the moment, they will not carefully examine whether you are a Kuomintang or not, so you can rest assured that you will go with me!."You said that when you were at Peking University Law School, I introduced you to join the Kuomintang. ”
Li Shiyu engaged in a fierce ideological struggle, because he had already laid a fairly good foundation in Pingjin, and at this time he broke into the enemy camp single-handedly and with his bare hands, and he did not know when he would be able to gain a firm foothold.
Li Shiyu, who couldn't make up his mind, made a report to He Songting, and when he heard Li Shiyu's thoughts, He Songting thought that this was an excellent opportunity for our party to break into Wang's puppet **, and said encouragingly: "You can rest assured that you can boldly climb up ......."”
With He Songting's encouragement, Li Shiyu was confident and finally agreed to attend the meeting as a representative of the Kuomintang in the north.
At the meeting, Wang Jingwei was appointed chairman of the "national government", Chen Gongbo was president of the Legislative Yuan and mayor of Shanghai, and Li Shiyu was appointed as a member of the legislative committee and a member of the legislative system.
During the meeting, Li Shiyu recorded the details of the meeting, and immediately reported to the Social Department of the Northern Branch Bureau after the meeting, providing first-hand information for the party organization.
In 1940, Li Shiyu came to Nanjing to take office, working under Chen Gongbo, at the first regular meeting, the members of the committee had differences on the legislative process, and at this time, Li Shiyu, as a graduate of the law school, has professional legal knowledge, eloquent talk, clear views and one sentence, so Chen Gongbo appreciated.
It only took three months for Li Shiyu to create a new situation for the puppet Legislative Yuan and further became Chen Gongbo's cronies.
Chen Gongbo's secretary once said to Li Shiyu: "Mr. Chen has a very good impression of you, saying that you are honest and honest, have a very good foundation in law, and are a young man with talents and achievements. ”
With the trust and appreciation of the president of the Legislative Yuan, it invisibly provided a reliable cover for Li Shiyu to carry out underground activities, Li Shiyu "prospered in official fortune", his position rose steadily, he got in touch with the high-level leaders of Wang Pseudo-**, and frequently went in and out of the social occasions of the upper echelons, expanding his personal network.
At the same time, Li Shiyu continued to collect valuable information for the party organization, and in 1942, Li Shiyu took over as the chief of the military justice division of the security headquarters.
During this period, the Japanese army began to "clean up" the New Fourth Army, and Wang Pseudo** asked Li Shiyu to be in charge of the supervision and supervision of the "Qingxiang" personnel.
It really took no effort to get it, and all the Japanese invaders' "sweeping" plans were passed on to the New Fourth Army by Li Shiyu in a timely and accurate manner, which bought precious time for the withdrawal of the New Fourth Army, and the Japanese army's plan to clear the countryside failed miserably.
The Japanese severely reprimanded Chen Gongbo, and Chen Gongbo scolded the chief of staff and the regiment commander without the slightest suspicion of Li Shiyu, and Chen Gongbo would never have thought that the person who leaked the secret was his most trusted "cronies".
In 1941, Chen Gongbo served as the puppet mayor of Shanghai and the commander of Shanghai's security, and appointed Li Shiyu as a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Department and secretary general.
Li Shiyu took the opportunity to arrange for several underground party members to facilitate the collection and transmission of intelligence, and his wife, Sun Jingyun, also came to Shanghai to take charge of internal logistics and intelligence exchange, and although she acted cautiously, she still attracted the attention of the Japanese gendarmerie.
One night, the Japanese gendarmerie broke into Li Shiyu's house and took his wife Sun Jingyun away, in fact, the Japanese have become suspicious of Li Shiyu, because he is a "red man" of Wang Pseudo**, it is inconvenient to do something to him, and they want to find out his identity through Sun Jingyun.
The Japanese gendarmerie tortured Sun Jingyun to extract a confession from her, Sun Jingyun endured severe pain and did not reveal half of the truth.
Later, this incident was also suspected of being the handle of the Communist Party when the military commander's special agents examined it.
In 1944, Wang Jingwei died of illness, Wang Pseudo ** caused a commotion, the most powerful contenders for the chairman's position were Chen Gongbo and Executive Vice President Zhou Fohai, and finally Chen Gongbo served as the chairman, Zhou Fohai, who did not grab the position, had to be unconvinced to serve as the mayor of Shanghai and the director of the police department.
Chen Gongbo went to Nanjing to take up his post and appointed Li Shiyu as the deputy director of the Ministry of Justice and Administration, but Zhou Fohai resolutely disagreed: "Mr. Chen, you can't transfer everyone, especially Li Shiyu." ”
Chen Gongbo didn't want to get into too much trouble with Zhou Fohai, so he had to leave Li Shiyu, who was appointed by Zhou Fohai as the head of the judicial department of the Shanghai Municipal Police Department.
At this time, Li Shiyu can be said to have power in his hands, and he is coming from all directions, providing superior conditions for obtaining all kinds of intelligence, and the organization attaches great importance to Li Shiyu's intelligence network, and for the sake of security, he should pay attention to concealment.
In order to reduce Li Shiyu's contact area, it was decided to directly put the CCP China Bureau under direct leadership, so Zhang Zhiyi, vice minister of the Ministry of Social Affairs, was sent to Shanghai as a representative of the New Fourth Army to cooperate with Li Shiyu's work.
Zhang Zhiyi briefed him on the current situation of the New Fourth Army, which had already entered the stage of strategic counterattack, and organized Li Shiyu to give instructions for the next step, master a certain amount of force, secretly plan an uprising, and cooperate with the New Fourth Army to conquer Shanghai.
There are four regiments of the Shanghai Security Corps, and the commanders of the first regiment, Liu Tiecheng and Li Guozhang, have the closest relationship with him, and the chance of winning them over is relatively large. So, he stepped up his contact with Liu Tiecheng and Li Guozhang, and often talked to them.
In 1945, the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu captured Funing and 26 cities and towns, Wang Pseudo ** was hit hard, Liu Tiecheng and Li Guozhang recognized the current situation, expressed their willingness to follow Li Shiyu to defect to the New Fourth Army, abandon the darkness and turn to the light, Li Shiyu was very happy.
At this time, Wang Pseudo** was in a state of panic, and Li Shiyu took the opportunity to get a batch of guns and ammunition, and took advantage of his position to successfully transport them to the hands of the New Fourth Army
For Li Shiyu's outstanding performance, ** praised him: "This Comrade Li Shiyu, I have long said that he is one person to top two divisions, and after the victory of the revolution, I should thank him well!."”
With the surrender of Japan, Wang Puppet ** was already in a fragmented situation, Li Shiyu stepped up preparations for an armed uprising, and formulated a detailed plan for military violence with Zhang Zhiyi.
If the uprising is won, Li Shiyu can end his ** career in the hidden enemy's den, whenever he thinks of this, Li Shiyu's heart is surging and excited.
However, after Japan's surrender, our party decided to abandon the capture of Shanghai in light of the changes in the new situation, and Li Shiyu had no choice but to stop the armed uprising.
At this time, Li Shiyu was faced with two choices: one was to pull the military and police forces that had already rebelled back to the liberated areas, and the other was to continue to lurk and play a greater role.
Just when Li Shiyu was hesitating, an old friend named Yu Xiangqin found him and said that if Li Shiyu could pull the police force to his side, he promised to take Li Shiyu to join the army.
Li Shiyu didn't expect him to be the leader of the military command, let alone that he could take a fancy to himself, this matter should not be underestimated, and then reported the situation to the organization. The party organization studied and decided to let Li Shiyu enter the work of military command.
One day, Yu Xiangqin took Li Shiyu to visit his teacher Du Yuesheng, and it happened that Dai Li was also there, so Yu Xiangqin introduced Li Shiyu to him, and Dai Li's first sentence said: "I know you." I heard Comrade Yu Xiangqin say that you are very capable, and after breaking into the Nanjing puppet organization, you have done a lot of work for the party and the state. ”
Li Shiyu said: "That's Mr. Dai's leadership! ."This wave of flattery, Dai Li's heart was very comfortable when he listened, and he had a good impression of him. Finally, under the recommendation of Yu Xiangqin, Dai Li personally appointed him as the colonel leader of the second group of the Shanghai Second Station of the Military Command.
The second group is the social group, which specializes in social dynamics in Shanghai, so it can know the major events that happen every day. Li Shiyu took advantage of his position to obtain the command of the General Headquarters of the Military Command and other confidential documents such as directives, circulars, and circulars of the various stations under the command of Shanghai, and compiled them into information and passed them on to the organization.
This is because the party organization has grasped the plan of action of the military commander in advance, learned about the "blacklist" of the military commander's assassination, and notified the underground Communist Party personnel and progressives who have been monitored, tracked, or even assassinated, so that they can get out of danger.
The first task of the second group is the "anti-traitor" activity, Li Shiyu made a list of more than 100 Wang pseudo-**senior** and detailed addresses, he reported all the situation to the military commander, and the traitors were wiped out.
Therefore, Li Shiyu made great contributions in the "anti-traitor" activity and won Dai Li's commendation, which recognized and trusted him very much.
When the military commander's spies were examining the traitors, there was an opening scene, and Li Shiyu was suspected of being a member of the Communist Party. Under Dai Li's guarantee, he escaped.
But unfortunately, on March 17, 1946, Dai Li died in a plane crash due to a plane accident, so the Military Justice Department began to focus on Li Shiyu again and sent people to spy on him, and Li Shiyu had to report the situation to the party organization.
Zhang Zhiyi decided to let Li Shiyu find an opportunity to evacuate Shanghai and go to Beiping. Li Shiyu bought a plane ticket in advance, but just the day before he left, the military commander's agents arrested him and detained him.
The agents of the military command tortured Li Shiyu and interrogated him with torture such as beatings, pressing bars, and pouring cold water, and tortured him to the extreme, but Li Shiyu, with his amazing perseverance, never admitted that he was a communist.
Because no result of the interrogation was obtained and the evidence was insufficient, Li Shiyu was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison three months later.
With the successive victories of the People's Liberation Army, the Chiang dynasty was in turmoil, and the struggle against hunger and democracy in the Kuomintang-ruled areas was surging, and the Kuomintang was forced to release a group of "political prisoners."
Li Shiyu was released, and the day after he was released from prison, Li Shiyu got in touch with Zhang Zhiyi, and according to the instructions of the party organization, let Li Shiyu continue to engage in underground activities as the deputy general manager of a company in Shanghai.
After two months of hard work, the work made great progress, so it also attracted the attention of the Kuomintang, which sent people to secretly monitor Li Shiyu's every move, and for his safety, according to the organizational instructions, he immediately withdrew from Shanghai and made a detour through Hong Kong to Beijing.
In April 1949, Li Shiyu met Li Kenong, Minister of the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Communist Party of China and Director of the Intelligence Bureau of the Military Commission, with an ancient book disguised as a thread-bound ancient book, and handed it over to him in person.
After the vice chairman of the Military Commission learned that Li Shiyu had come to Beijing, he immediately asked to see him, and when he learned that he was going to meet him, Li Shiyu was very excited and nervous, and a few days later, he wore the military uniform of the People's Liberation Army and met ***
** clasped Li Shiyu's hand and said: "When I was the secretary of the ** Northern Bureau and the political commissar of the New Fourth Army, I often received important information from you, and you were alone in three divisions!."It is a miracle that he has been in the heart of the enemy for fifteen years, and he has been able to triumph today!”
After fifteen years of fighting in the Demon Cave, now his identity has been made public, wearing the military uniform of the People's Liberation Army, Li Shiyu has a feeling of "going home", and excitedly wrote a poem:
The enemy camp has been fighting for fifteen years, and the sword and sword shadow are invisible. On the day of the victory of the revolution, he changed into a military uniform and smiled. ”
On December 28, 1999, Li Shiyu died of illness in Beijing at the age of 91, completing his legendary life.