In 1945, shortly after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began to liquidate a large number of traitors and collaborators produced in the country during the Anti-Japanese War. Many traitors were arrested and nailed to the pillar of shame

In 1945, shortly after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began to liquidate a large number of traitors and collaborators who had emerged in the country during the Anti-Japanese War. Many traitors were arrested and nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

After Shanghai was taken over by the Kuomintang authorities, the military command led by Dai Li was responsible for the anti-traitor operation. A large number of traitors who had not had time to escape Shanghai were arrested by military command agents .

On this day, Shen Weihan, who was the director of the Military Law Department of the Juntong Shanghai Station at the time, learned from the confession of an arrested traitor that the colonel leader of the Juntong Shanghai Station - Li Shiyu was an undercover agent of the Communist Party who broke into the Juntong!

Shen Weihan immediately sent a secret message to Dai Li, requesting Li Shiyu's immediate arrest. At the same time, he also began to secretly formulate an arrest plan.

However, Dai Li only replied with 6 words, which forced Shen Weihan to give up his plan to arrest Li Shiyu.

So, who is Li Shiyu? What did Dai Li say in his call back to Shen Weihan to make Shen Weihan give up his arrest plan?

Li Shiyu, who was resourceful and accomplished many extraordinary feats,

On July 7, 1937, the July 7th Incident broke out, causing the whole of China to begin a struggle against the Japanese invaders.

In late July of this year, the Tianjin High Court, which was almost on the verge of collapse, welcomed a new chief secretary. The new secretary is handsome and about 30 years old. That's right, this secretary-general is the protagonist of the story - Li Shiyu.

At this time, Li Shiyu had already become a member of the Communist Party of China in June 1931. In September of that year, the Japanese Kwantung Army launched the "September 18 Incident" and occupied the Northeast region. Li Shiyu was also assigned by our party the following year to infiltrate the Northeast Army to perform latent missions.

In the Northeast Army, Li Shiyu met his fellow countryman and good friend - Zhang Xuemeng, then director of the security office of Zhang Xueliang's ministry.

Under the arrangement of Zhang Xuemeng, Li Shiyu entered the guard room as a clerk, and was later transferred to the "Suppression General" in Xi'an as a staff officer.

In December 1936, the Xi'an Incident broke out. At this time, there were many internal conflicts in the Northeast Army. In order to protect Li Shiyu, the party organization once again sent Li Shiyu to Peking and Tianjin to engage in latent work.

The superior Li Shiyu contacted in a single line was He Songting, one of the founders of People's Bank of China and . Just two months after Li Shiyu came to Tianjin to work, He Songting assigned him two tasks: first The mission is to obtain a complete radio station and send it to Peiping; the second mission is to rescue Feng Ji, a member of our party.

These two tasks can be said to be more difficult than the other. Time was tight and the task was heavy. He Songting was also well aware of the complexity and arduousness of the task. He repeatedly told Li Shiyu to be careful when performing the task to avoid exposing his identity.

At that time, after the Japanese invaders occupied Peiping, they began to screen and investigate the latent personnel of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party one after another. Therefore, the control of their radio stations was also extremely strict.

Therefore, at that time, the existence of the radio station would undoubtedly expose the identity of the lurking personnel and even seriously threaten their life safety; in addition, the radio station was large in size and very inconvenient to carry around. Carrying it around would attract the attention of others.

But this did not stump Li Shiyu. The entire radio station is not portable, so aren’t the parts of the radio portable?

Li Shiyu had an idea and decided to buy the parts of the radio station and assemble it himself.

Just do what he said, Li Shiyu found relevant books and secretly searched for the locations of nearby stores selling telecommunications parts.

While diligently studying the books, Li Shiyu found out the types, quantities, and assembly methods of parts needed for the radio station, and made detailed records.

After making all the preparations, Li Shiyu went to electrical appliance stores opened by foreigners many times and purchased the parts described in the book.

This process only took Li Shiyu about two weeks.

However, a bigger problem faced Li Shiyu: How should transport these parts out of Tianjin?

You must know that what Li Shiyu will face is the checkpoint set up by the Japanese army day and night, and detailed searches will be conducted on passing pedestrians and items carried with them.

At this time, Li Shiyu thought of using high-end cars to transport parts out of Tianjin.

It happened that his wife Sun Jingyun was coming to Peking recently, so Li Shiyu knocked on the door of the dean's house of Tianjin High Court with gifts.

The dean had a good impression of Li Shiyu. When faced with Li Shiyu's request to borrow a car, the other party lent him the car without hesitation.

After borrowing the car, Li Shiyu prepared two identical wooden boxes. The first wooden box contained a brand new sewing machine, and the second wooden box contained parts for the radio station.

Early the next morning, Li Shiyu put the first wooden box into the trunk of the car. After passing the Japanese army's interrogation, Li Shiyu quickly unpacked the two wooden boxes while the driver was eating breakfast.

When the car passed through the checkpoint again, the Japanese soldier responsible for the inspection saw that it was still the wooden box he had just inspected, so he relaxed his vigilance and let Li Shiyu's car pass.

Later, under Li Shiyu’s arrangement, this box of radio parts was safely handed over to our party and sent safely to Peking.

Later, when connecting with Li Shiyu, He Songting told him that the purchased radio parts had been put into use in Peiping and had good performance, ensuring the connection between Peiping and Yan'an. The

radio station has been obtained and successfully sent to Peking. Li Shiyu's next task is to rescue Comrade Feng Ji.

As mentioned earlier, under the arrangement of the party organization, Li Shiyu came to the Tianjin High Court under the management of the Kuomintang authorities as the secretary-general. Coincidentally, Comrade Feng Ji was imprisoned in a prison affiliated to the Tianjin High Court.

Li Shiyu took advantage of his position to learn the location of the files related to Feng Ji, and then used a small plan to steal these files.

In addition, Li Shiyu secretly greeted the judge presiding over Feng Ji's case and lied that Feng Ji was a relative of his friend who was framed and imprisoned, hoping that he could "grasp" it.

Later, Li Shiyu secretly handed a note to Feng Ji while inspecting the prison on the pretext of inspecting the prison.

Soon, Feng Ji was brought to the court.

The presiding judge who understood the situation used the loss of files related to Feng Ji as an excuse to excuse Feng Ji, making it difficult for Feng Ji to be convicted, and was eventually acquitted by the Kuomintang authorities.

In late March 1940, the Wang Puppet Government was established in Nanjing. the great traitor Wang Jingwei served as the Chairman of the Wang Puppet Government, and Chen Gongbo served as the President of the Legislative Yuan and the Mayor of Shanghai under the Wang Puppet Government.

At this time, Li Shiyu was also assigned to Nanjing by our party, infiltrated into the Wang Puppet Government, and carried out hidden work again.

Li Shiyu relies on many years of work experience to give people a mature, sophisticated, young and charming impression. In this way, Li Shiyu was assigned to work under Chen Gongbo.

Chen Gongbo had a good impression of Li Shiyu and believed that Li Shiyu was a rare talent.

In August 1940, Li Shiyu was appointed as the Secretary-General of the Shanghai Security Command. This position was very beneficial to the development of Li Shiyu's latent work. Soon Li Shiyu used his position to quickly find out the organizational structure and main actions of Wang's puppet government, and reported these situations to the party organization as soon as possible.

Li Shiyu collected a large amount of valuable intelligence while undercover in the Wang Puppet Government, which played a key role in our party's struggle against the Wang Puppet Government, allowing our party to disclose the true situation of the Wang Puppet Government at the appropriate time, so that The Chinese people see clearly the ugly face of the Wang Puppet Government.

The reason why Li Shiyu was able to collect a lot of important intelligence was not only due to his superb intelligence collection capabilities, but also due to his rapid rise in the Wang Puppet Government.

As his immediate boss, Chen Gongbo, he was very optimistic about Li Shiyu, and Li Shiyu's various performances seemed to echo Chen Gongbo's views.

In May 1942, Li Shiyu was promoted again. This time he was appointed as the Director of the Military Law Division of the Security Command and concurrently as the Director of the Fourth Division of the Wang Puppet Qingxiang Committee, and was awarded the rank of Major General.

Li Shiyu enforced the law impartially after taking office. This made Chen Gongbo very happy. He believed that he had not misjudged the wrong person and won glory for the "clean politics" he proposed.

7 months later, Li Shiyu learned that the Wang Puppet Government and the Japanese Army Headquarters had formulated a plan to "clear the countryside" in the spring of 1943. He once again used his position and Chen Gongbo's trust in him to secretly photograph the plan. , and quickly passed it on to superiors.

Fortunately, this information was sent very timely. The Party Central Committee acted decisively and made careful arrangements, which enabled the New Fourth Army involved in the Qingxiang Plan to respond in advance and thwarted the conspiracy of the Japanese army and the Wang Puppet Government. At the same time, in order to counterattack the enemy, our party also formulated a plan to counter "clearing the countryside" and give the enemy a head-on blow.

With the continuous expansion of the power of Wang's puppet regime, Shanghai, not far from Nanjing, has become the political and economic center of Wang's puppet government. This has also caused our party to attach great importance to Shanghai's intelligence.

In view of the large amount of valuable intelligence that Li Shiyu had provided before, the Party Central Committee decided to appoint Li Shiyu as the special commissioner in Shanghai, and at the same time sent a dedicated person to Shanghai to assist Li Shiyu in establishing an intelligence transfer station.

In April 1943, Li Shiyu and the comrades sent from Yan'an successfully connected, and the intelligence transfer station established by our party in Shanghai was also announced.

In this way, with the efforts of Li Shiyu and others, until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, this information transfer station made outstanding contributions to our party's fight against the Japanese invaders.

Traitor betrayed and almost exposed

On August 15, 1945, Japanese Emperor Hirohito issued the "End War Edict", announcing Japan's unconditional surrender. Since then, the 14-year-long Anti-Japanese War of the Chinese nation has ended with China's complete victory.

As mentioned at the beginning of the article, on this day, Shen Weihan, then the director of the Military Law Department of the Juntong Shanghai Station, learned from the confession of an arrested traitor that Li Shiyu, the colonel leader of the Juntong Shanghai Station at that time, was actually a communist traitor. Join the army as an undercover agent!

Shen Weihan immediately sent a secret message to Dai Li, requesting Li Shiyu's immediate arrest. At the same time, he also began to secretly formulate an arrest plan.

So, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, how did Li Shiyu, who had served in the Wang Puppet regime, become an officer at the Shanghai Station of Military Reunion? Who is this Shen Weihan?

Speaking of this, Shen Weihan is a villain who likes to retaliate. He has always been at odds with Li Shiyu's immediate boss Yu Xiangqin due to competition for fame and fortune. He has always wanted to replace him, but he has been suffering from no suitable opportunity.

But the villain is a villain after all. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Shen Weihan was ordered by Feng to interrogate a captured traitor. When he saw the traitor's confession identifying Li Shiyu, Shen Weihan had a plan in mind.

Shen Weihan planned to ask Dai Li for instructions to arrest Li Shiyu. Firstly, he could give Yu Xiangqin some eye drops and make him lose face. Secondly, he had also made a great contribution by showing his ability to work in front of Dai Li, laying the foundation for his future promotion. Foreshadowing.

However, just when Shen Weihan was looking forward to his request for instructions being affirmed by Dai Li and Yu Xiangqin's shameful appearance, Dai Li sent a reply to Shen Weihan.

After seeing Dai Li’s call back, Shen Weihan was disheartened. Apparently his dream was shattered.

Because in the message to Shen Weihan, Dai Li only said 6 words, Shen Weihan had to temporarily give up his plan to arrest Li Shiyu: "Impossible, I don't agree."

The matter will not be revealed until late August 1945. Since then, shortly after Japan announced its surrender, the Kuomintang authorities were busy taking over Shanghai and accepting various legacies left behind by Japan during its occupation of Shanghai.

At this time, Yu Xiangqin found Li Shiyu, who claimed that he could incorporate Li Shiyu and his men into the military to work.

However, Yu Xiangqin did not know Li Shiyu's identity as a member of the Communist Party of China. He only knew that Li Shiyu held an important position in the former Wang puppet government.

Li Shiyu also expressed his doubts to Yu Xiangqin: As a staff member of the former Wang puppet government, how could he work in the military reunification?

Yu Xiangqin's answer gave Li Shiyu reassurance. The other party said that Li could serve as an agent placed by the military commander next to the traitor Chen Gongbo to complete the "sacred mission" assigned by the party and state.

Li Shiyu believed that the matter was of great importance and he must ask the party organization for instructions before making a decision. After

consulted his superiors, 's superiors believed that breaking into the military command at this time would be very beneficial to our party's future intelligence collection work, so that we could learn about the trends in the military command in a timely manner to avoid putting our party into a disadvantageous situation.

After receiving a positive reply from his superiors, Li Shiyu approached Yu Xiangqin and expressed his willingness to join the military.

On September 24, 1945, Dai Li, then director of the Military Command , hosted the "Shanghai Office Memorial Weekly Meeting" in Shanghai. Li Shiyu and others were also invited to attend the meeting.

At the meeting, Dai Li took the initiative to ask: "Who is Li Shiyu?"

Li Shiyu was shocked, thinking how could Dai Li know his existence and actually call his name directly at the meeting, but Li Shiyu did not put these mental activities Instead of showing off, he calmly announced his name.

After meeting Li Shiyu, Dai Li fully affirmed and praised Li Shiyu's work performance, believing that he had made outstanding contributions to the Kuomintang's confrontation with the Wang Puppet Government.

Obviously, this is indispensable for Yu Xiangqin's kind words to Li Shiyu in front of Dai Li.

Li Shiyu, who is well versed in the ways of being an official, immediately replied: "This is Boss Dai's good leadership."

These words made Dai Li elated, and his impression of Li Shiyu became even better.

With Dai Li and Yu Xiangqin's endorsement of , Li Shiyu was at ease within the military system, and his covert work was carried out smoothly.

Soon, Li Shiyu, who had just joined the military command, was appointed as the colonel leader of the social group of the second station of the military command Shanghai station. Yu Xiangqin served as the director of the second station, and Yu was Li's direct leader.

At this time, Li Shiyu, relying on his experience in latent work in Wang's puppet government, promptly sent a large number of secrets he came into contact with at the Shanghai Station of the Military Command Bureau to the party organization.

With the help of a large amount of intelligence provided by Li Shiyu, our party has a good understanding of the next movements of the Kuomintang army, the number, number and commander of the troops and other important information.

However, Li Shiyu soon became the object of suspicion by the military commander. Fortunately, Li Shiyu, who was under investigation, survived many times because of Dai Li's protection.

However, fate is not as good as fate. On March 17, 1946, Dai Li died in a plane crash.

Without the big tree on his back, the danger is getting closer and closer to Li Shiyu.

As mentioned above, Dai Li’s 6-word reply forced Shen Weihan to give up temporarily.

However, after Dai Li's death, the unscrupulous Shen Weihan directly ordered Li Shiyu's arrest.

In November 1946, after his arrest, Li Shiyu was detained at the Juntong Detention Center in Shanghai. Juntong agents tortured him severely and questioned him about his past experiences.

Li Shiyu did not forget his vow. With his strong willpower and the support of his faith, he withstood waves of torture.

Since the military commander could not get any confession from Li Shiyu and there was no substantive evidence, they had to give up temporarily. However, they did not release him and continued to be detained in prison.

Later, with the help of Yu Xiangqin and others, Li Shiyu was finally released on bail, regained his freedom, and finally connected with the higher-level party organization.

Under the arrangement of the party organization, Li Shiyu continued to engage in hidden work under the cover of his identity as the deputy general manager of Shenhui Enterprise Company. However, only two months later, Kuomintang agents targeted him again. In order to protect Li Shiyu's safety, the party organization decided to let Li Shiyu retreat.

When he learned that Liu Shaoqi was going to meet him, Li Shiyu was extremely excited. He couldn't restrain his inner joy and couldn't wait to put on his beloved PLA uniform.

Liu Shaoqi was also very excited after meeting Li Shiyu, thinking that Li Shiyu made a great contribution.

Shortly after the founding of New China, Li Shiyu started working in his old profession, working in the Intelligence General Administration of the Ministry of Social Affairs of the CPC Central Committee and the Liaison Department of the Military Commission until his retirement in 1982.

On December 28, 1999, at the dawn of the 21st century, Li Shiyu unfortunately passed away in Beijing at the age of 91.