China News Service, Yichang, October 5 (Dong Xiaobin and Tan Dan) A reporter learned from the Bureau of Veterans Affairs in Changyang Tujia Autonomous County, Hubei Province on the 5th that Li Ziyi, a veteran of the Anti-Japanese War, who had participated in the Great Western Yunnan Counterattack, October 3, 6:20 He died at his home in Changyang at the age of 98.

　　Li Ziyi was born in December 1922. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, life at home became more and more difficult due to the death of his father due to illness. Li Ziyi, who was only 17 years old, had to live by her brother-in-law.

In 1940, Yichang fell. In December of the same year, Li Ziyi enlisted in the military model team in the Lingdu Division.

　　After training, Li Ziyi was admitted to the Sergeant Teaching Company of the Third Regiment of the Army Signal Corps to learn radio.

In 1942, Li Ziyi stood out from more than 150 people with excellent results and was promoted to sergeant.

After the study, Li Ziyi was assigned to the General Headquarters Intelligence Station of the 11th Group Army of the Expeditionary Army as a second lieutenant telegraph operator and stationed in Dali, Yunnan.

　　In February 1944, on the eve of the Great Counterattack in Western Yunnan, Li Ziyi was transferred from Dali to the front line to engage in espionage work.

Together with his comrades, he sneaked across the Nu River via Baoshan by rubber boat, avoided the Japanese blockade on the riverside, dived to the Santai Mountain Highway, and concealed in the deep mountains and forests to monitor the activities of the enemy's troop carriers and provide subsidies.

　　On December 9, 1949, the then chairman of Yunnan Province Lu Han staged an uprising in Kunming.

Li Ziyi's unit was merged into the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

In 1951, Li Ziyi was demobilized and retired. After returning to his hometown, he actively participated in the construction of his hometown and retired at the Longzhouping Town Tyre Repair Factory in Changyang.

In his later years, what Li Ziyi did most often was to read a newspaper in an empty house not far from home.

The old man said before his life that the empty house is quiet, which is conducive to learning, plus walking around every day, the body will be more comfortable.

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