During the Great Revolution, Li Yimang served as the section chief of the Propaganda Department of the General Political Department of the National Revolutionary Army and other positions. In his position in the Propaganda Department, Li Yimang was smart and capable, and handled some extremely complex files very well. Guo Moruo is highly praised for this:
He is one of the three pillars of the treasure of the General Political Department , and if he is missing, he will not be able to do anything.
However, just as he was preparing to achieve great political ambitions, Chiang Kai-shek , Wang Jingwei and others launched a series of counter-revolutionary events. Countless Communists fell into pools of blood under the bloody storm of the Kuomintang reactionaries. For a moment, the revolution fell into a low point.
But even so, in the face of the terrifying and high-pressure environment of white terror, Li Yimang not only did not retreat, but under the instructions and leadership of his superior Zhou Enlai, he translated a large number of Marxist-Leninist works, and used the pen as a knife to cooperate with Guo Moruo, Pan Hannian and others to launch a tit-for-tat anti-"encirclement and suppression" with the Kuomintang's cultural "encirclement and suppression", and used Shanghai as a base to unite left-wing writers to open up a "left-wing cultural position" to fight against Chiang and anti-warlords.
1931, with the rebellion of Gu Shunzhang , the work of the CCP’s special sciences in Shanghai was almost impossible to carry out, and the Provisional Party Central Committee had to move to the Central Soviet Area, and Li Yimang had to enter the Central Soviet Area to continue the revolution.
During the Central Soviet Area, Li Yimang participated in previous anti-"encirclement and suppression" battles, but in the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggle, Li De's "left-leaning" adventure militarist line, the unfortunate situation of the Central Red Army took a sharp turn for the worse after a bloody battle, and since then the 25,000-mile Long March was started, and Li Yimang also followed the large army to complete the Long March.
At this time, Li Yimang was still trusted and valued by the organization and served as the Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Shaanxi-Gansu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Provincial Committee, and the Shaanxi Provincial Committee. If this situation continues, Li Yimang's political future will be limitless.
Unfortunately, the subsequent changes in the situation not only changed the path of the Chinese revolution, but also changed Li Yimang's life.
The "July 7 Incident" broke out in 1937. The Japanese invaders' iron hooves rushed in and wanted torture the land of North China, and the crisis of the Chinese nation was unprecedentedly aggravated.
This year, with the efforts of the people and the Communists of the whole country, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have achieved another cooperation, and Anti-Japanese National United Front was officially formed.
According to the content agreed by . The red revolutionary forces of the eight southern provinces were reorganized into the New Fourth Army through the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Since they were nominally classified as the battle sequence of the Kuomintang army, the New Fourth Army became the top priority in the selection of commanders.
Previously, as a member of the Kuomintang, Ye Ting followed Mr. Sun Yat-sen in his early years and performed well in Northern Expedition . Later, Ye Ting led and participated in the Nanchang Uprising and Guangzhou Uprising . Therefore, Ye Ting, who has the background of both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, was naturally pushed down by the times and became the first commander of the New Fourth Army.
, and the Red Army team in the eight southern provinces was mainly responsible for Xiang Ying after the main central force of the central government. Therefore, the candidate for the deputy commander fell on Xiang Ying without any suspense.
But the problem is that although Ye Ting served as the commander of the New Fourth Army, he was not a Communist Party member at this time. Many of the contents and instructions of the party were conveyed to Ye Ting through Xiang Ying, and Ye Ting was responsible for implementing it. In other words, Ye Ting had only command power at this time and had no power to make decisions, command, or mobilize the troops.
The troublesome problem is more than that. Ye Ting was a famous general of the Northern Expedition. He was good at planning and decisive in military affairs and had a long-term strategic vision. Xiang Ying was born in the working class and was accustomed to fighting guerrillas. The two naturally had great dissent in the future survival and development of the New Fourth Army.
At this time, Li Yimang, who had outstanding abilities, was given high hopes by the central government and sent to the New Fourth Army as Secretary-General. His main responsibility was to assist Ye Ting and Xiang Ying in completing the establishment, development and strengthening of the New Fourth Army.
Of course, the most important point is to coordinate the relationship between Ye and Xiang.
In this regard, Li Fuchun, the then deputy director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, once talked to him and pointed out directly:
"You are very familiar with Ye Ting and Xiang Ying, and you will be a buffer between them in the future."
Although Li Yimang's extraordinary ability, he still cannot bridge the different opinions between Ye and Xiang, and he cannot become the so-called "buffer between the two."
In this way, the outbreak of the Southern Anhui Incident was eventually led to the outbreak of the New Fourth Army. As a result, more than 9,000 people from the New Fourth Army were ambushed by the Kuomintang army. In the end, only Fu Qiutao and Li Yimang from the First Column led some people to break out.
After Li Yimang rushed out by luck, he transferred to Hong Kong via Hengyang and Shaoguan . Finally, he arrived at the Northern Jiangsu Army headquarters of the New Fourth Army after several twists and turns.
The Southern Anhui Incident caused immeasurable huge losses to the New Fourth Army and also brought considerable negative impacts to the world's anti-fascist situation. However, Li Yimang, as the "buffer" between Ye and Xiang, did not play the due role, which made the organization not only launch an investigation into him, but also gave him a warning.
It was from then on that, Li Yimang, who was originally the secretary-general of the Nanchang Uprising and was once an important figure in the history of the Party gradually faded out of his core position and took up the post of President of Dalian University after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
However, the organization has not forgotten this person who has contributed to the Chinese revolution. After the founding of New China, Li Yimang successively served as ambassador to Myanmar, deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the State Council, and vice president of the Chinese People's Diplomacy Society, and continued to play his spare time in diplomacy and other fields.
