In 1951, the public security department in Chongqing handed over a list of the latest arrested enemy agents to ***.
** I wondered in my heart, this person named Li Du was not Li Du, a Kuomintang officer who was appointed as an army general by Chiang Kai-shek?
**Immediately contacted several Kuomintang generals to verify the situation related to Li Du, and learned that Li Du had been living in Chongqing since his resignation, and it was completely consistent with the information on the list, so he immediately called the Ministry of Public Security in the southwest**.
Under the instructions of ***, the Ministry of Public Security of Southwest China immediately took the amnesty order issued by *** and went to the Shibanpo Prison where Li Du was located, invited the elderly General Li Du out of the prison and sent him home, and apologized to Li Du.
As an army general in Chiang Kai-shek's regime, it should be normal for Li Du to be imprisoned after liberation, but why did he immediately order his release and apologize to him?
This also starts with Li Du's special life experience.
Li Du is a native of Yixian County, Liaoning, when he was 20 years old, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army attacked Beijing, and the ** army took the opportunity to burn and loot in the northeast of our country, causing the people to live in misery.
Li Du saw that the country was weak and bullied, and that the people were suffering from disasters and had nowhere to stay, he resolutely decided to abandon his pen and join the Qing army patrol battalion in the northeast, and he served as a clerk in the army because he had read books.
When the mountains and rivers were broken, Li Du realized that the army was the backbone of saving the country from danger, and he was unwilling to only do civilian work in the army, so every time he fought with bandits and soldiers, he boldly charged forward, not only trained his courage and killing skills, but also with the promotion of his official position, his command and combat ability has become stronger.
In 1906, Xu Shichang, the governor of the three eastern provinces, set up the Northeast Lecture Hall in Mukden to cultivate military talents, and Li Du immediately signed up to participate.
In the Northeast Army Martial Arts Hall at that time, many people went to military academies for the purpose of being promoted and making a fortune, while Li Du worked hard to learn military knowledge with the ideal of saving the country and the people.
After graduating from the military academy, Li Du stayed in the army in the northeast, and was later assigned to the Feng army as a company commander.
His meticulous attitude towards military affairs, as well as his courageous and resourceful combat ability, were gradually noticed by Zhang Zuolin, the leader of the Feng army at the time, so he was constantly promoted.
Before the 918 Incident, Li Du had been promoted to a brigade commander and was ordered to lead troops to garrison in Yilan County, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province.
When the 918 incident occurred, some subordinates persuaded Li Du to obey the orders of his superiors and take the initiative to withdraw to Guannei, but Li Du said angrily:
"The responsibility of a soldier is to defend the land and protect the country, and now that the Japanese are fighting at the doorstep, if I lead the troops to withdraw, will I not be punctured by the people! ”
He gathered the troops and let all the brothers choose freely, those who were willing to stay to fight the Japanese stayed, and those who were willing to go were never reluctant, and the men in the Northeast clenched their steel guns one by one and decided to follow Li Du to fight the Japanese.
In the chaotic situation in Northeast China, other units of the Northeast Army quickly withdrew from Northeast China one after another, and the Japanese drove straight into all parts of Northeast China.
Li Du gathered militia and police forces from more than a dozen towns and villages in the Yilan area, and reorganized them together with the regular army to form the Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Army.
When the Japanese army was about to occupy Harbin, Li Du led his army westward and fought fiercely with the Japanese army, although he failed to hold Harbin in the end, but the Japanese army paid a heavy price before finally being able to enter the city.
After the defeat in Harbin, Li Du led the army to retreat to Yilan, which was the place where Li Du had operated for many years, and the Japanese did not dare to march easily, and only launched an attack on Yilan after the artillery troops arrived.
Li Du led the troops to fight bloody battles and block the Japanese army step by step, but the Japanese artillery fire was too fierce, and the self-defense army finally failed to hold Yilan.
Li Du often felt ashamed of the Northeast Army's abandonment of resistance, and shed tears for the loss of mountains and rivers, and he often looked at the place in his hometown of Yixian and muttered"If you can't get rid of the Japanese, you won't have the face to go home in this life. ”Then he was saddened, and his subordinates were all moved.
Without military food and salaries, the soldiers lacked food and clothing in the mountains, so Li Du tried to send people to the people's homes at the bottom of the mountains to borrow food and clothes.
Whenever they heard that they were anti-Japanese troops, the people handed over all the food and clothes they could take out at home without saying a word, and the old lady held the soldier's hand tightly and said with tears in her eyes
"When are you going to call back? Did you just let the Japanese occupy the Northeast? ”
When the soldiers heard these words from the common people, they often felt so guilty that they wanted to fight the Japanese immediately.
At that time, the anti-Japanese fighters in Northeast China did not have a completely regular army structure, no military food and military salaries, and what could support them to starve in the ice and snow and the desperate efforts of the Japanese was completely the guilt of the fathers and villagers in the northeast and the sense of responsibility as Chinese.
Later, the Japanese army surrounded them in the mountains of Heilongjiang Province, so they fought their way out and moved to the mountains of Jilin Province to establish the Jilin Self-Defense Army, with Li Du as the commander-in-chief, and continued to fight the Japanese.
In the guerrilla warfare full of dangers and lack of backup, the fighters held very limited ammunition and fought fiercely back and forth with the Japanese soldiers armed to the teeth, fighting and maneuvering, and many fought until the last moment were shot and fell to the ground, just throwing their bodies into the wilderness.
For them, their death is not earth-shattering, in addition to being an unsung hero who sacrificed his life for the country, they no longer belong to the official Northeast Army sequence, but they have no regrets, because they would rather be an unsung hero who died fighting to protect the territory than a soldier who fled without a fight.
The soldiers were loyal to their duties and willing to follow Li Du to fight the Japanese, which is why General Li Du unswervingly insisted on the anti-Japanese front, even if there was only one person left, he had to fight the Japanese army to the end.
After more than a year of fighting with the Japanese army, the Self-Defense Army led by Li Du suffered heavy losses due to being outnumbered, and was forced to retreat north to the Soviet Union in early 1933.
Whenever he thought of the accumulated anti-Japanese loyal bones buried in the mountains of Northeast China, Li Du had mixed feelings, he was sad, he was resentful, and he blamed himself.
So many brothers died defending the territory, and as their commander, he must continue the anti-Japanese activities no matter what, so that the blood of the soldiers cannot be shed in vain.
In May, Li Du made a detour from the Soviet Union to Europe and returned to Guannai in China, where he joined the Chinese National Self-Defense Committee organized by Soong Ching-ling, where he served as Minister of Armed Forces.
At this time, Li Du, like thousands of soldiers of the Northeast Army who had withdrawn to Guannai, was thinking about waving his army back to the Northeast and saving his fathers and fellow villagers in the occupied areas of Northeast China, so he went to Nanjing to meet Chiang Kai-shek many times and asked Chiang Kai-shek to send troops to the Northeast to recover the lost territory.
He put aside his demeanor as a general, pleaded and confided in every possible way in front of Chiang Kai-shek, telling about the hardships of the Northeast guerrillas in fighting against the Japanese invaders, and about the suffering of the Northeast fathers and villagers living under the Japanese rule.
The general in his fifties showed an old face, blocked Chiang Kai-shek's office and the door of his official residence, said all the good things, and asked Chiang Kai-shek to send troops to the northeast, but Chiang Kai-shek did not enter the oil and salt, and adhered to the principle of "first securing the interior before attacking the outside."
The disheartened Li Du was greatly disappointed in Chiang Kai-shek, and at the same time, the Communist Party's advocacy of "stopping the civil war and jointly resisting Japan" gave Li Du hope.
So he got in touch with the Communists through Soong Ching-ling to discuss anti-Japanese countermeasures.
In February 1937, Japan's aggression was approaching North China, and the anti-Japanese armed forces in Northeast China united to attack the Japanese army in order to delay the pace of Japanese aggression.
General Li Du, who was in Shanghai at that time, became the candidate of public expectation, and under the recommendation of everyone, Li Du established the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and personally served as the commander-in-chief, commanding the anti-Japanese armed forces in the Northeast to unite to resist Japan.
In the vast white mountains and black waters, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Federation fought bloody battles with the Japanese army, containing more than 700,000 Japanese troops on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, eliminating more than 180,000 Japanese puppet troops, and making indelible contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance against Japan.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek promoted Li Du to army general, at first Li Du thought it was just as a commendation for his anti-Japanese achievements, and later he learned that Chiang Kai-shek wanted him to return to the northeast to lead troops to prepare for the civil war.
Li Du had already been disappointed in Chiang Kai-shek during the Anti-Japanese War, and now Chiang Kai-shek's intention to start a civil war made him even more angry.
Since the September 18 Incident, the 14-year war against Japan has allowed him to see too many broken mountains and rivers and the people's livelihood.
He was no longer willing to be with Chiang Kai-shek, let alone the main culprit in starting the civil war, so he angrily resigned from all his posts, discarded the appointment letter and epaulettes granted by Chiang Kai-shek, and lived in Chongqing as a civilian, participating only in some patriotic activities that sought to promote peace.
Later, after several years of war, the unpopular Kuomintang gradually declined, the Kuomintang army was defeated and retreated, Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan in 1949, and before leaving, he asked Li Du, who was in Chongqing, if he was willing to go to Taiwan together, Li Du categorically refused.
On November 30, 1949, the People's Liberation Army successfully liberated Chongqing, and the Kuomintang left behind a large number of spies before leaving, lurking in various places, sometimes jumping out to sabotage the new society.
In order to arrest these vicious spies, the Chongqing People's Liberation Army and public security personnel intensified their crackdowns, investigating suspicious people on the road on the one hand, and checking the military and police gendarmes left behind by the Kuomintang on the other.
The fact that Li Du had been awarded the rank of army general by Chiang Kai-shek was also found out, and the PLA took him away and temporarily imprisoned him.
Later, the public security department in Chongqing handed over the list of the latest arrested enemy agents to ***.
** I have doubts in my heart, is this person named Li Du the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army during the Anti-Japanese War, General Li Du?
If it is true, it is really a big misunderstanding, General Li Du fought in the bloody anti-Japanese battlefield, and later resigned resolutely because he refused to participate in the civil war, he is a hero of the country, there is nothing to be sorry for the country, he should spend his old age in peace, and should not be imprisoned in prison.
**Immediately contacted several Kuomintang generals to verify the situation related to General Li Du, and confirmed that General Li Du had been living in Chongqing since his resignation, and it was completely consistent with the information on the list, so he immediately called the Intelligence Department of the Southwest Ministry of Public Security**.
Yu Bingran, director of the Intelligence Department, had worked with Li Du, and he was quite surprised when he heard about Li Du**.
Under the instructions of ***, Yu Bingran immediately took the amnesty order personally signed by *** and went to the Shibanpo Prison where Li Du was located, and invited the elderly General Li Du out of prison and sent him home.
At this time, Li Du was already in his 70s, although his legs and feet were a little inconvenient, but his body was still straight when he stood upright, and he maintained the upright air of a soldier, and he didn't say much about this misunderstanding.
He had fought side by side with the Communists, and understood that it was not easy for the Communists to do their duty to search for and arrest the Communists for the sake of social stability, and it was normal for him to be misunderstood by Chiang Kai-shek's appointment as an army general.
Even so, while ordering Yu Bingran to release Li Du, he still specifically told him to apologize to General Li Du, explain the cause and effect, and help General Li Du arrange his life, and Yu Bingran did it one by one.
Although Li Du was no longer an official in his later years, he had been actively contributing to the construction of New China, and was successively elected as a member of the Chongqing CPPCC and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
In order to fight for Taiwan's liberation, he contacted his former friends in Taiwan in many ways and persuaded them to return to the mainland.
On August 23, 1956, at the age of 76, General Li Du died in Chongqing due to a heart attack.
Li Du's life is a life of worrying about the country and the people, and a life of loyalty to the country, he once refused to obey the Northeast Army Command and Chiang Kai-shek, but he only obeyed his own heart, obeyed his conscience as a Chinese ** person should serve the country and the people, so his life is a great and pure life.
Salute to General Li Du, the hero of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War!
I would like to pay tribute to the thousands of heroes who have insisted on fighting against Japan in the white mountains and black waters of the Northeast since the 918 Incident!