At the end of the year, the "December 12th Movement" broke out in Beijing. During the "September 9" Movement, patriotic students went on strike and demanded the government to resist Japan. The Japanese drove the tank to the corner of Dongjiaomin Lane, threatening Qin Dechun, then mayor of Beiping, to suppress the students and vowed to drive the tank out. Chiang Kai-shek also telegraphed Qin Dechun and Song to join hands with the school to "severely punish" the student movement. Seeing that the situation was urgent, Li Cheng ran to see Qin Dechun and advised him not to use force against the students and not to repeat the mistake of Duan shooting the students. Taking advantage of the contradiction between Qin Dechun, Song and Chiang Kai-shek, he said to Qin: "If you shoot the students, Chiang Kai-shek will criticize you in the name of caring for the students, so as to achieve his goal of eliminating the alien forces." This painful and powerful persuasion prevented Song and Qin Dechun from shooting at the students. At the same time, in response to the rumor that Qin Dechun thought that "students were bought by Soviet rubles", he said to Qin: "Soviet gold rubles are not allowed to be exported, and we have no institution to exchange paper rubles. What's the use of asking him? These are all rumors of Chiang Kai-shek's CC department. Don't be cheated. The students are purely patriotic. " He also made a list of arrested students to Qin Dechun and rescued some of them.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Chengzhi was appointed as the secretary of the Kuomintang First Army Command. He took part in Song's anti-Japanese activities first, and then went south to Wuhan, where he got in touch with the Communist Party of China. At the beginning of 1938, he obtained the legal status of education inspector of the Ministry of Education of the Kuomintang and returned to Shandong from Beiping to carry out anti-Japanese work behind enemy lines. At that time, Shandong was the time when the 69th Kuomintang Army was stationed in Laiwu. After contacting Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Zhang Youyu, Minister of Political Department sent by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Yangtze River Bureau to the 69th Army, is going to set up the Lunan Anti-enemy Working Group and Lunan General Mobilization Committee in Shandong. The Provincial Party Committee and the 69 th Army will jointly deploy cadres and mobilize celebrities and powerful people from all walks of life in Shandong to form a working group. Li Chengzhi served as the Minister of Propaganda Department of Lunan General Mobilization Committee, and carried out anti-Japanese and national salvation activities behind enemy lines in Lunan counties.
Shen Honglie, chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government of the Kuomintang, learned that Li Chengzhi was in southern Shandong, and tried his best to win him over and appointed him as the headmaster of the Silian Middle School in Shandong Province. Li Chengzhi reported to the Party Organization of the Communist Party of China that he thought that he could take this opportunity to train cadres for the revolution and send talents to the base areas with legal sources of funds. In the process of running a school, he paid attention to uniting with senior intellectuals who persisted in resisting Japan and pursued progress, and trained a large number of anti-Japanese backbones for the base areas. 1June, 939, the school was forced to dissolve due to the war, and Li Chengzhi led some faculty and senior students to join the Eighth Route Army.
On July 7th, 1939, Shandong National Anti-Japanese Association (hereinafter referred to as "Anti-Japanese Association") was established, with Li Chengzhi as its president. With the support of Shandong Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the association was established within the jurisdiction of the Kuomintang. Later, the Anti-Union broke away from Kuomintang control, entered the anti-Japanese base areas and established grass-roots organizations. With the help of Shandong branch of the Communist Party of China, "Anti-Union" organized the National Self-Defense Force to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army to fight against the enemy and puppet troops, and achieved great results. 1940 65438+1On February 2, celebrities from all walks of life in southern Shandong held a New Year's chat with local gentry, and Li Chengzhi presided over the meeting. Participants had a heated discussion on constitutional issues, and decided to set up the Shandong Constitutional Promotion Association, with Li Chengzhi and other six people as the preparatory leaders. In late March, Xu Xiangqian personally commanded Sun Zu to win the battle and killed 200 enemy troops. At the victory celebration meeting held by Shandong Branch of the Communist Party of China and Shandong Column, Li Chengzhi highly praised the Eighth Route Army soldiers for their heroic fight against the Japanese invaders. At the beginning of April, Li Chengzhi was elected as the director of the preparatory committee of Shandong Cultural Salvation Association and Cultural Publishing House. On July 26th, Li Chengzhi, Yu Xuezhong, Xu, Jolie, Li Yu and Luo Ronghuan were elected as "deputies to the National People's Congress who truly represent Shandong's public opinion"/kloc. 1September, 943, the War League was renamed the wartime administrative committee of Shandong Province). Li Chengzhi was appointed as the deputy head of the delegation (taking turns as the deputy director), and was elected as a member of the Provisional Senate of Shandong Province and the director of the General Mobilization Committee of Shandong Province. After this meeting, Shandong realized the unified leadership of the province's anti-Japanese political power and anti-Japanese mass organizations.
Li Chengzhi also set up a local grain purchasing committee to help the anti-Japanese army buy rations, but it was interfered and suppressed by Shen Honglie. Li Chengzhi said angrily, "Anyway, we will resist Japan. The Kuomintang won't let us resist Japan. Let's go to * *. "
Under the direct leadership and education of Shandong Branch of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Li Chengzhi not only actively participated in revolutionary practice, but also read a lot of works of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong. The study of revolutionary theory, the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s bloody struggle behind enemy lines and his own struggle practice made Li Chengzhi deeply realize that only * * * can save China. The new understanding has made a leap in his thought. He changed from a democratic revolutionary to a proletarian revolutionary who resolutely obeyed the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and was determined to fight for communism. This change laid the direction for his later life. During the eight years that Lunan persisted in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Chengzhi's unshakable revolutionary belief, superb and rigorous organization and command ability, profound knowledge and spirit of hard struggle were praised by the broad masses of cadres and masses in the base areas.
194 1 winter, the Japanese aggressors assembled 50,000 troops and, with the cooperation of planes and tanks, began a sweeping campaign in Yimeng mountain area, in an attempt to destroy the leading organs of the Party, government and army in Shandong and the anti-Japanese base areas in Luzhong. One day in February, 65438, Li Chengzhi led some members of the trade union and the Anti-Union Movement to move from Liutian Village in yinan county to Dongmeng Mountain and Daqingshan Mountain. On the way, due to the interruption of contact, I was surrounded by Japanese invaders. In the fierce battle, German friend Herb, Li Chengzhi's guards and many others died heroically, and Li Chengzhi was unfortunately captured and taken to Jinan. The Japanese aggressors regarded him as an important person and put him under house arrest in an attempt to win over and use him.
In the face of threats and inducements from the enemy, Li Chengzhi was firm and calm, and made a witty deal with the enemy. The Shandong Branch of the Communist Party of China gave Li Chengzhi an eight-character policy instruction through underground staff: "Never die, never surrender, the camera runs away." Li Chengzhi resolutely acted according to the branch's instructions. No matter what means the enemy used, he kept his mouth shut and said nothing. The enemy tried his best, but the trick was always difficult to succeed. The Japanese aggressors forced him to write materials, but he refused to write and questioned him. He said firmly, "If the Anti-Japanese War is won, the Japanese aggressors will be defeated." The enemy kidnapped his mother as a hostage from his hometown in an attempt to force him to surrender. He took advantage of this opportunity to get in touch with the outside world, which gave the Chinese Communist Party a chance to rescue him.
The Japanese invaders failed to soften their forced landing, so they took a vicious plot to spread rumors and provoke, fabricate that Li was transformed and used, and undermine the trust of the CPC party organizations in Li. Li Chengzhi saw through the enemy's plot, issued a tit-for-tat statement, and defeated the enemy's insidious tricks. In the meantime, some people think that Li Chengzhi has escaped. It is a matter of time to escape from the enemy's cage, but considering that he has never been in contact with the Communist Party of China (CPC), if he is credulous and afraid of falling into the enemy's trap, he will ignore it. 1at the end of 942, Li Chengzhi was rescued by the armed forces of Taian, the Communist Party of China (CPC). On the fourth day, the Japanese invaders discovered that they sent cars to the highway to intercept them. However, Li Chengzhi, escorted by the armed forces, arrived safely in Lunan base area from Taishan Road and continued to serve as the deputy director of the provincial administrative committee. When the Japanese aggressors failed to catch up with him, they viciously called him a "real old fox".
After returning to the base area, Li Chengzhi was loved by the Communist Party of China and the people. At the 10,000-person meeting of soldiers and civilians in the base area held in Zhubian Village, Junan, the young people who had been deceived in enemy-occupied areas confessed their deception and exposed the enemy's false propaganda to slander Li Chengzhi. At this meeting, Comrade Xiao Hua announced to all the soldiers and civilians that Li Chengzhi was innocent. He did not give in to the enemy and there was no problem. At this point, the plot created by the enemy was completely bankrupt. Li Chengzhi deeply thanked the party and people for their concern for him, and strengthened his determination not to be afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice for the revolution.