Li Zhilong ( Chinese 李 之 龙 ; December 10, 1897 - February 8, 1928 ) - Chinese military commander, commander of the Kuomintang fleet, member of the CCP .
| Li Zhilong | |
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| 李 之 龙 | |
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| Date of Birth | December 10, 1897 |
| Place of Birth | prov. Hubei , China |
| Date of death | February 8, 1928 (aged 30) |
| Place of death | Guangzhou , China |
| Affiliation |  NRA PDA |
Biography
Born in Hubei in a peasant family. In the fall of 1912 he entered the Academy of Foreign Languages in Wuhan , from where he was expelled for participating in student performances. He later studied at a commercial school.
In the fall of 1916, Li Zhilong entered the naval school. While studying here, he showed himself to be a politically active student, organized youth for actions in support of the May 4th Movement .
In August 1921 in Shanghai, he met Dong Biu , who participated in the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party . Together with him, Li Zhilong took part in the revolutionary events that took place in September in Wuhan, and in December of the same year joined the CCP.
In early 1924, Li Zhilong was appointed a member of the CCP Executive Committee in Hankou . He worked as one of the translators of the Kuomintang political adviser M. Borodin . Graduate of the 1st set of the Wampu Military School . In 1925 - translator V. Blucher , an employee of the political department of the Huangpu school, one of the organizers of the Union of Young Military of China, head of the political department of the Naval Administration of the National Government.
In 1926 - Acting Head of the Naval Administration of the National Government, commander of the cruiser Zhongshan . In this post, he was a direct participant in the provocation by Chiang Kai-shek on March 20, 1926 . On March 19, Li Zhilong ordered the Zhongshan cruiser to approach the location of the Wampu military school (according to Li Zhilong himself, this was done on the basis of a telephone call from Chiang Kai-shek himself). On the night of March 20, an armed detachment of soldiers from the Wampu School and the 2nd Division landed on the Zhongshan and gunboats. The guard of the division commander was arrested Li Zhilong, who was injured. The incident gave Chiang Kai-shek's supporters a pretext for an anti-communist action that led to the removal of the Communists from important military and political posts.
Since June 1926, Li Zhilong was the head of the propaganda department of the Main Political Directorate of the National Revolutionary Army , in 1927 - the director of the Central People's Club in Hankou, and the director of the publishing house of the Xuehua Ribao newspaper. After the defeat of the Chinese revolution in July 1927, he made his way from Wuhan to Guangzhou , where he took up work among the sailors. At this time, he made a trip to Japan.
Immediately after returning from Japan via Hong Kong to Guangzhou on February 6, 1928, Li Zhilong was identified and arrested by agents of the nationalist government. On February 8, he was executed by the Kuomintang.