1940, summer, Nanjing city. A train from Peking entered the platform, and a beautifully dressed lady got off the train. Her name was Sun Jingyun, and she came to join her husband, Li Shiyu, who was a legislator of the Wang Puppet Government at the time.
In the eyes of others, this is just an ordinary couple's reunion. However, for Li Shiyu, the significance of this reunion is extraordinary, because Sun Jingyun brought him an important message.
After the two returned to the apartment, Li Shiyu immediately closed the doors and windows tightly and took a letter from his wife. The moment Li Shiyu saw the content of the letter, he couldn't help but be stunned. There was only one sentence on the letter: " Shiyu, boldly climb up, and attack the puppet organization extensively, regardless of its upper departments. "
It turns out that Li Shiyu is ostensibly a legislator of the Wang Puppet Group, and is a "national traitor who "will be punished by everyone." ", but in fact he and his wife are both espionage warriors on our party's secret front, ace agents operating in the dragon's den and the tiger's den.
The reason why he was surprised by the content of the letter was because his official position in Wang's puppet regime was getting bigger and bigger. Although this "big shot" status could bring huge advantages to intelligence work, "big shot" also meant With big goals, it is inevitable that there will be some obstacles in some activities, so Li Shiyu wanted to get the next step of work instructions from Shangfeng.
After receiving encouragement from the central leadership, the stone in Li Shiyu's heart fell to the ground, and his legendary latent career had just begun.
The early experience of the "Red Eavesdropper"
In 1908, Li Shiyu was born in Bayan County, Heilongjiang Province. His original name was Li Tingfang. Because he read "Water Margin " when he was a boy, he became obsessed with the robbers headed by " Timely Rain " Song Jiang. I admired the Liangshan heroes who helped the rich help the poor and spared money through righteousness, so they took the word "Shiyu" from Song Jiang's nickname "Shiyu" and changed his name to "Li Shiyu".
At the age of 18, Li Shiyu came to Tianjin to study alone, and met many progressive young people there. With the help of his classmates and friends, Li Shiyu's academic performance improved by leaps and bounds, and he was successfully admitted to the National Beijing Hosei University. At first, Li Shiyu was not interested in politics. His dream was to contribute to China's legal industry after graduating from college and become a public interest lawyer who litigated cases for the poor. Therefore, he rejected the invitations of his friends and did not Join any political organization.
However, Li Shiyu's dream was soon torn to pieces by the cruel reality. On September 18, 1931, the Japanese invaders brazenly launched the September 18th Incident, and then annexed the entire Northeast region. For people like Li Shiyu who were far away from home, overnight, their homeland became a war engine for the invaders. After Li Shiyu saw the reality of the country being destroyed and his family being destroyed, he felt deeply that in this dark era, the only option was communism. is the only way out for China, so he contacted Xia Shangzhi, one of the leaders of the Peking Party organization at the time, through his friends. After a conversation, Xia Shangzhi was very fond of this young man who was determined to save the country. With the introduction, Li Shiyu became a glorious Communist Party member.
After the September 18th Incident, Chiang Kai-shek's non-resistance policy aroused widespread dissatisfaction across the country, especially the Northeastern Army who withdrew into the customs. They not only suffered from the pain of losing their hometown, but also shouldered the burden of The infamy of being "greedy for life and fear of death", the fireworks of revenge were high, and petitions and petitions poured into Nanjing like a tide.
However, at this time, Chiang Kai-shek was busy with his plan of "reconciling the outside world before settling the country inside" and ignored the domestic calls for anti-Japanese resistance. Moreover, he was worried that the dissatisfaction of the Northeast Army would lead to mutiny, so he ordered Zhang Xueliang to lead his troops there. Northern Shaanxi, to encircle and suppress the Central Red Army active here, trying to use the hands of the Communist Party to weaken the strength of the Northeast Army.
Under Chiang Kai-shek's perverse actions, the Northeast Army's anger reached its peak. Upon seeing this, the Party Central Committee believed that Zhang Xueliang and the Northeast Army were accessible targets and an important force in pushing the Nanjing government to abandon the civil war and fight against Japan in an all-round way. The Party Central Committee decided to send people into the Northeast Army to conduct intelligence collection and other related work.
As a native of the Northeast, Li Shiyu naturally became the best choice for lurking personnel. Through the recommendation of Zhang Xuemeng, the then director of the security office of Zhang Xueliang's residence, Li Shiyu successfully broke into the Northeast Army.
You must know that in that era, Li Shiyu, as a top student in the university, was like a dimensionality reduction strike in the Northeastern Army with a strong atmosphere. With his rich knowledge reserve and outstanding ability, Li Shiyu quickly obtained the rank of lieutenant. Becoming a member of the Northeast Army's intelligence system, from that moment on, Li Shiyu began a long career of secretly working for the party. From the Northeast Army to the Fourth Section of the "Suppression General" in Xi'an, from lieutenant to major general, he made contributions to the cause of the Chinese revolution. made a huge contribution.
On December 12, 1936, the outbreak of the Xi'an Incident promoted the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. The Anti-Japanese National United Front officially entered the historical stage. After completing the historical mission, Zhang Xueliang chose to escort Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing, and soon Under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek . The leaderless Northeast Army suddenly fell into chaos.
On February 2 of the following year, the Northeast Army assassinated General Wang Yizhe. Soon, the Northeast Army announced a reorganization and a large number of departments were abolished. At this time, Li Shiyu believed that it was no longer necessary to continue to lurk. So under the arrangement of his superiors, Li Shiyu and his wife Sun Jingyun prepared to go to Peking to seek new opportunities.
Unexpectedly, on the third day after Li Shiyu and his wife arrived in Tianjin, The July 7th Incident broke out. The Japanese army immediately captured Tianjin and cut off transportation to Peiping. Li Shiyu and his wife were forced to stay in Tianjin and had to use emergency contact information to find them. Party organization stationed in Tianjin.
When his superiors learned that Li Shiyu had arrived in Tianjin safely, he immediately gave him the task of lurking on the spot and ordered him to try to infiltrate the local traitor group and collect relevant intelligence.
Because the identity of the Northeast Army was too sensitive at that time, and they were worried that the identity of the underground party would be exposed! In desperation, Li Shiyu could only rely on his status as a top student in the Department of Political Science and Law to join the Tianjin High Court as a prosecutor.
With this identity, Li Shiyu began his latent career in Tianjin. During this period, although Li Shiyu's position was not greatly promoted, this did not affect his ability to deliver information and provide convenience for our party!
The most impressive thing is that he successfully completed the arduous tasks assigned by his superiors twice.
is shipping radio stations out for the first time. In the war years, radio stations were sensitive military supplies, and a slight mistake could expose their identities, causing the entire plan to fail.
In order to avoid this situation from happening, Li Shiyu had an idea and went to the Maintenance Association headquarters to find his "old friend" Wu Guangbi, who was the "Chief of the General Affairs Section" at the time, and told him that his wife was going to attend a wives' meeting in the procuratorate and that he My car was too old, and it would really lose my status when I drove it. I hoped to borrow Wu Guangbi's family's luxury car to increase my appearance.
When Wu Guangbi heard Li Shiyu's request, he couldn't help clasping his hands and laughing. He didn't expect that you, a top university student from Peking, would be so greedy for money. You are the same as us! So without saying a word, he lent the car to Li Shiyu.
Under the cover of the car of the general affairs section chief, Li Shiyu easily passed through multiple inspection levels and successfully delivered the radio station into the hands of the party organization.
The second time was to rescue Feng Ji, a communist who was imprisoned in Tianjin Prison. As a senior prosecutor of the Tianjin Puppet Procuratorate, Li Shiyu used his status to go to the clerk who was in charge of hearing the case. While the other party was out, he quickly put Feng Ji's case files into his wallet, and then took them home to burn them.
A few days later, the clerk discovered that important Communist Party files were missing, which was a serious crime at the time. In desperation, the clerk had no choice but to ask Li Shiyu for help, which played into Li Shiyu's plan.
So Li Shiyu gave him a cover-up idea, saying that Feng Ji's case files had long been burned due to the war. Although this reason was not perfect, it was successfully concealed from the superiors and did not punish the clerk.
In order to repay his kindness, the secretary began to give Li Shiyu the green light while at work. With his help, Li Shiyu successfully entered the detention center where Feng Ji was detained. He told Feng Ji: The files about you have been burned, and as long as you During the interrogation, they insisted that it was framed by enemies, and they didn't dare do anything to you without evidence.
Sure enough, due to the lack of relevant evidence, the pseudo-Tianjin court had to acquit Feng Ji. After a period of time, Li Shiyu used this method of burning files to successfully rescue many comrades in jail and made great contributions to the revolutionary cause.
However, even though Li Shiyu has done a lot of work for our party secretly, he is still an official of the puppet government on the surface! And with his excellent academic qualifications and resume, he gradually began to be "re-used"!
二 Heroes Revealed in the Dragon's Den and the Tiger's Den
In May 1939, Wang Jingwei went to Japan from Hanoi and directly conducted treasonous transactions with the Japanese authorities. In August of the same year, Wang Jingwei returned to Shanghai to prepare for the so-called Sixth National Congress of the Kuomintang. In order to enrich his "facade", Wang Jingwei sent his cronies across the country to recruit "representatives" who could attend the meeting. Li Shiyu, who was slightly famous, also became one of Wang Jingwei's bribe targets.
When Li Shiyu learned that Wang Jingwei would invite him to Nanjing to attend the puppet Kuomintang conference, he realized that this would be a good opportunity to break into Wang's puppet group. After a simple handover of work with his successor, Li Shiyu went south to Shanghai to attend the meeting. , all the intelligence collected by the general was passed to the party organization, so that our party immediately grasped the movements of Wang Jingwei and other big traitors.
In order to gain Wang Jingwei's trust, Li Shiyu prepared a policy program for the future traitor regime in the occupied areas based on Wang Jingwei's concept of "saving the country through curves", and presented it to communicate with his "colleagues" during the meeting, which successfully aroused The attention of Wang Jingwei and others. For a time, everyone was deeply impressed by this handsome and well-spoken young man, and their favorability gradually increased.
Relying on the favorability gained at the puppet Kuomintang conference, Li Shiyu successfully entered the Nanjing central government of Wang Puppet. On March 30, 1940, at the first meeting of the Central Political Committee of the puppet Kuomintang, Li Shiyu became The first legislator of the Wang Puppet Group. In mid-April, after Li Shiyu arrived in Nanjing, he immediately visited the President of the Legislative Yuan - the second traitor of the Wang Puppet Group Chen Gongbo as a legislator.
Chen Gongbo had already heard of Li Shiyu's name. When he saw this influential figure coming to visit him immediately, Chen Gongbo thought that this was a sign of goodwill towards him, so he wanted to take advantage of the situation and take Li Shiyu under his wing. After a simple test, Chen Gongbo discovered that Li Shiyu was indeed a unique genius, and his level of trust in him was constantly increasing.
In 1941, Chen Gongbo served as the mayor of the pseudo-Shanghai City, and Li Shiyu also followed him. He concurrently served as the director of the Secretariat of the Shanghai Security Command, the director of the Military Law Department, and the fourth director of the General Office of the Shanghai Branch of the Qingxiang Committee. His powers covered " In the four fields of "party, government, military and law", Shanghai can be said to be inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people, and it is unparalleled for a while.
At this time, Li Shiyu, who had become a "big shot", successfully entered the core layer of Wang Wei Group. In dealing with various personnel of Wang Puppetry, Li Shiyu had a clear grasp of the personnel organization and activity rules of Wang Puppet Government. A large amount of strategically important intelligence was collected.
At the end of 1941, the Japanese and puppet troops began to launch a campaign against the New Fourth Army in the Jiangnan area. Li Shiyu promptly and accurately conveyed the Japanese army's "mopping up" plan to the New Fourth Army, giving the New Fourth Army time to move in advance, making the Japanese and puppet troops' "clearing the countryside" operation comprehensive. Bankruptcy.
In addition to transmitting combat intelligence in a timely manner, Li Shiyu also cooperated with his wife Sun Jingyun to do as much work as possible behind the enemy's rear that could weaken the enemy and benefit the people. After Chen Gongbo took control of Shanghai, he urgently needed to win over a group of highly respected social figures to whitewash the treasonous behavior of the Wang Puppet Group.
Li Shiyu took the opportunity to write to Chen Gongbo, stating that he would prepare a comprehensive academic magazine to attract scholars and young people from all walks of life to publish articles through the journal, thereby brainwashing intellectuals.
Chen Gongbo believed that this proposal was a good opportunity to gain prestige and immediately agreed, so the "Pioneer" magazine was founded. With the double umbrella of Chen Gongbo and Li Shiyu, this magazine became an important base for our party to collect intelligence and preserve progressive books and materials. At the same time, it also protected a large number of progressives who were persecuted by the Wang puppet regime.
On November 10, 1944, the great traitor Wang Jingwei died of illness in Nagoya, Japan. Chen Gongbo, Zhou Fohai and other traitors took over the political legacy left by Wang Jingwei and tried to continue to maintain the reactionary rule of the traitor group in the occupied areas.
However, at this time, the world anti-fascist war had seen the dawn of victory. The Japanese invaders were retreating on all fronts, and the domestic voice for severely punishing traitors was rising. Zhou Fohai, Ding Mocun and others secretly communicated with the military commander , hoping to avoid death after the war, while Chen Gongbo jumped over the wall in a desperate attempt to make a final struggle.
In January 1945, Chen Gongbo announced that he would sort out the party affairs of the pseudo-Kuomintang. What he did not expect was that at this time, the party organizations of the pseudo-Kuomintang at all levels had become useless, and everyone was busy "collaborating with the enemy", which would give him a better future after the war. Find a way out. In August of that year, Chen Gongbo decided to convene a meeting of the pseudo-Kuomintang. As a result, within a few days, the invincible "master" in his heart announced his unconditional surrender.
For Li Shiyu, Japan's unconditional surrender meant the end of his mission of lurking in the Wang Puppet Group. Just when he was considering whether to return directly to the party organization, the arrival of an uninvited guest changed everything.
In September 1945, Li Shiyu was packing his luggage at home when he heard a rapid knock on the door. When he opened the door, he saw a middle-aged man in a suit and gold-rimmed glasses. This person's name is Yu Xiangqin , and he is an "old friend" Li Shiyu met during his tenure in the Wang Puppet Government. Yu Xiangqin told Li Shiyu that his true identity was the stationmaster of the Juntong Shanghai Transportation Station. He was ordered to invite Mr. Li to join the Juntong. After all, with the removal of foreign enemies, there was bound to be a war with the CCP. If Mr. Li joined the Juntong, then The past experience of working in the puppet government will be forgotten. I hope Mr. Li will think twice.
After Li Shiyu heard about this, he decided to use the trick, so he agreed immediately, and successfully penetrated into the military command and got the opportunity to get close to Dai Li.
As the saying goes, "gold shines wherever it is." Li Shiyu, who has outstanding abilities, quickly became a popular figure in the military command. He was appointed as the leader of the second team of the military command Shanghai station, responsible for collecting information about underground party members lurking in Shanghai. intelligence.
Just like when he was lurking in the Wang Puppet Government in the past, Li Shiyu took advantage of his position to promptly deliver the contents of important documents such as instructions, notifications, notices, etc. collected from the military command area, as well as the list of party members persecuted by the military command, and saved a large number of people who were unfortunately exposed. Identity comrade.
However, after all, Li Shiyu did not climb to the core level of the military command, and his status as a local high-level official could not serve as a shield for him. The second group he led had no "records" for a long time, which inevitably aroused the suspicion of the senior military commanders, so they Li Shiyu launched a secret review.
In March 1946, after the underground party received the news that the military command was about to arrest Li Shiyu, they immediately decided to let Li Shiyu withdraw from Shanghai and go to the Northeast Liberated Area. On September 17 of the same year, after handling all matters, Li Shiyu bought a ticket to Peking on the 18th and asked for leave from his superiors on the grounds of visiting relatives. However, what was unexpected was that Liu Fangxiong, deputy director of the Shanghai Station of the Military Command, noticed that Li Shiyu wanted to leave. With the intention of leaving the military unification, he immediately ordered the arrest of Li Shiyu. After
was unfortunately arrested, the military commander immediately launched an interrogation of Li Shiyu, because Li Shiyu firmly refused to admit that he was a communist. When asked why he had made no achievements despite being in a high position, Li Shiyu said that his failure to make any achievements in the military was just because he was not familiar with intelligence work.
Didn't get the answer they wanted. Of course, the military commander would not give up. They ruthlessly tortured Li Shiyu to extract a confession. They tortured him for two days and two nights with whips, pressing on bars, and pouring cold water on him. However, they never recovered from the beginning to the end. Li Shiyu got a little bit of useful information from his mouth.
After being detained by the military for more than three months, because there was really no evidence that Li Shiyu was a communist, he could not be acquitted.
So in December 1946, Li Shiyu was sentenced to 7 years in prison by the Shanghai court for " dereliction of duty ".
But Li Shiyu did not stay in prison for long. As the Liberation War progressed, our army continued to win on all fronts. The Kuomintang reactionary government's financial situation was stretched thin, so it had to significantly reduce the prison budget and launch an "amnesty for the world". " and released all prisoners with sentences of less than 15 years in prison. Li Shiyu also followed this "trend" and successfully breathed the air of freedom.
From the Northeastern Army to the Tianjin Maintenance Committee, from the Tianjin Maintenance Committee to the Wang Puppet Government, and then from the Wang Puppet Government to the Military Command, relying on great courage and meticulous thinking, they composed a great hymn on the hidden front. As the saying goes, "For fifteen years in the dragon's den and in the tiger's den, there was an invisible battle with swords and swords. On the day after the victory of the revolution, I put on my military uniform and smiled."
