1938, a 15-year-old man joined the party and vowed to defeat his father who was a "traitor". Until 11 years later, on the day of the founding ceremony of , President He called him to his side and told him: "Actually, your father is a red agent..."
The young man is named Li Keqian, and his father is the red agent Li Maotang. Li Maotang was born in Weinan County, Shaanxi Province in 1906. At the age of 15, he was introduced to the Xi'an Telegraph Training Institute to learn telegraph technology. After graduation, he worked as a radio operator at the Shaanxi Telegraph Bureau and came into contact with many progressive newspapers. In 1926, 20-year-old Li Maotang joined the Communist Party of China and served as branch secretary of the Shaanxi Telegraph Bureau of the Communist Party of China and secretary of the East District of Xi'an.
11935, when Li Maotang went to attend the enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, most of the participants were arrested due to betrayal by a traitor, and Li Maotang, who was delayed on the road, survived. But what the Kuomintang really wanted to arrest was Li Maotang, so they spoke: As long as Li Maotang surrendered, they would let others go. So Li Maotang immediately surrendered himself alone, but none of the arrested comrades were released.
The spy chief Xu En once believed that Li Maotang had great value in use. As long as he was willing to "submit", he could make great contributions. Therefore, Xu Enz sent people to persuade Li Maotang to surrender many times. After careful consideration, Li Maotang decided to surrender to the enemy. After
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was released, Li Maotang immediately contacted the comrades of Central Special Section and explained his thoughts in detail. Finally, after the decision of the party organization, Li Maotang entered into Zhongtong as a rebel to obtain information for our party. In this way, with the support and affirmation of the organization, Li Maotang quickly invaded the enemy and began his 14-year lurking life.
However, Li Keqian, who didn't know the truth, thought that the father who had once made him proud had become a "traitor", and was very angry, so when he joined the party, he vowed to execute his "traitor" father himself.
Of course, at the beginning, the Kuomintang did not believe whether Li Maotang really surrendered. In order to gain the trust of the Kuomintang and sneak into the Central Commission for Discipline more deeply, Li Maotang also made a lot of "contributions" to the National Army under the instruction of the organization.
11 On December 12, Xi'an Incident broke out, and the Kuomintang fell into chaos. At this time, Li Maotang volunteered to to propose the "airborne rescue" method, and said that he was very familiar with Xi'an and had friends there, so he was willing to go to rescue Chairman Jiang.
After hearing this, Xu Enzeng immediately agreed to Li Maotang's request and sent him to Xi'an that night. Although the rescue was just a formality and the rescue was not successful in the end, after this incident, Li Maotang stood up in the Central Committee. His courage was also highly valued by Xu En. Later, with Xu En's promotion, he was promoted to the director of the Shaanxi Central Commission for Research Office, which also provided convenience for him to get closer to Hu Zongnan .
11938 On December 13, Nanjing fell and the National Government hurriedly retreated to Wuhan. The Japanese army's spy Ozaki took advantage of the random thoughts to behead Chiang Kai-shek. After learning about the information, the Central Commission for Discipline Agency immediately began to fight back, but they were guarding against each other, so they returned in vain every investigation. Li Maotang, who held two high-level intelligence lines of the Military Control Commission, , and the Communist Party of China, finally successfully solved the spy case, and became a famous figure in the Central Commission for Discipline Agency, and Li Maotang also entered the core circle of the Central Commission for Discipline Agency.
As the number one figure of the Kuomintang in the northwest, Hu Zongnan will regularly gather leaders from all parties to carry out joint meetings . As a great celebrity in the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Li Maotang, naturally also attended the meeting. Since then, all the information of Hu Zongnan's headquarters will be reported to Yan'an on time. With his position, he easily collected a list of spies with more than 6,000 people and secretly sent it to our party, eliminating significant hidden dangers for the development of our party.Later, he accidentally obtained a piece of information named " scorched earth policy ", and this plan was also cleverly strangled by him. In this way, in the next eight years, Li Maotang provided our party with more than 100,000 words of important information.
1949 was on the eve of liberation, and the People's Liberation Army was approaching Xi'an step by step, and Hu Zongnan's troops had no choice but to retreat. Li Maotang took the opportunity to tell Hu Zongnan that he was willing to stay in Xi'an and wait until all the troops were withdrawn before rushing to Baoji to meet him. Hu Zongnan was also particularly moved and specially left a sum of money for Li Maotang. When Hu Zongnan arrived in Baoji, he couldn't wait for Li Maotang for a long time before he realized that he had been fooled.
That's it, the People's Liberation Army liberated Xi'an without any effort. After He Long led the 18th Corps into Xi'an, he summoned Li Maotang. After inquiring about the enemy situation, he arranged for him to cooperate with the Military Control Commission and to eliminate hidden spies and reactionary remnants. Only then did he end his undercover career and return to our party's work.
Due to special reasons, Li Maotang's identity needs to be absolutely confidential, so not many people know his true identity, including his family. Therefore, after he "bending against the enemy", his bloody son Li Keqian had always been ashamed of his father and vowed to be incompatible with him. When he joined the party in 21938, he publicly stated: "I joined the army and joined the party to eradicate traitors like Li Maotang!"
endured humiliation for many years, lived up to the party's instructions, and successfully completed his own task. Li Maotang finally ushered in a moment of seeing the light again.
11949, at the founding ceremony, President He specially called Li Maotang's son Li Keqian and said to him: Your father is not a traitor, but a red agent lurking within the Kuomintang. He has made great contributions to the liberation of the country. Because of his special identity, I can't tell you. Now, New China has been established . He misses you very much and hopes that you can go home to see him.
When Li Keqian heard this news, he immediately showed an incredible expression. He remembered that he broke up with him because he suspected that his father was a traitor and had never seen his father again. How regretful he was at this moment. He wished he could return to his father immediately and apologize to him. But now that New China has just been established, I am busy with official duties and can't get rid of it at all. It was not until July 1950 that Li Keqian was able to reunite with his father. At this point, the Li family was finally reunited. Unfortunately, on May 27, 1953, Li Maotang died of illness in Beijing at the age of 47.
As an agent, Li Maotang endured too much bitterness and pain. In addition to risking his life to deal with the enemy at all times, he also had to endure the scolding of the world and even relatives and friends, wandering alone on the blade, enduring the torment of time. In the red history of our party, there are countless red agents like Li Maotang. They exchanged their lives for the peace and safety of the motherland today. They are well-deserved people's heroes!
