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==Biography==
Li was born into a family of minor landlords of Han Chinese descent who assimilated into the Mongol people. His Han Chinese ancestor was part of a group of Han Chinese during the Qing dynasty called "Mongol followers" who worked as servant for Mongols and married Mongol women. Their descendants continued to marry Mongol women and changed their ethnicity to Mongol. They distinguished themselves apart from "true Mongols" 真蒙古.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Tsai |first=Wei-chieh|date=June 2017 |title=MONGOLIZATION OF HAN CHINESE AND MANCHU SETTLERS IN QING MONGOLIA, 1700–1911 |type=Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University |chapter= |publisher=ProQuest LLC |docket= |oclc= |page=7 |url=https://search.proquest.com/openview/5c6d78516e80433b02e24bbac4409096/1.pdf?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y |access-date=}} </ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Liu |first1=Xiaoyuan |title=Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911-1950 |date=2006 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=0804754268 |page=117 |edition=illustrated |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mhJY7VgEWTUC&pg=PA117&lpg=PA117&dq=li+shouxin+zhen+menggu&source=bl&ots=PnlcD16BPG&sig=ACfU3U1IAkSxxiLMvUsqXzsfEgUF_QjQww&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9ov7S2v3hAhWknuAKHSHLBdYQ6AEwAXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=li%20shouxin%20zhen%20menggu&f=false}}</ref><ref>BORJIGIN, BURENSAIN. “The Complex Structure of Ethnic Conflict in the Frontier: Through the Debates around the 'Jindandao Incident' in 1891.” Inner Asia, vol. 6, no. 1, 2004, pp. 41–60. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/23615320.</ref> In 1919, he enlisted in the military forces of the [[Zhili clique]] in [[Jehol Province|Jehol]] province, rising steadily through the ranks until he reached the position of [[colonel]], with an equivalent ranking being granted by the [[Kuomintang]] government. Assigned to [[Tongliao]] in what is now [[Inner Mongolia]], he helped assist in the suppressing the revolt of [[Gada Meiren]] in 1929.
In 1933, his forces clashed with the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] on the border with Manchukuo, and Li managed to down a Japanese aircraft. However, this opened the door to negotiations, and in exchange for weapons, money and supplies, Li defected to the Japanese side, and was appointed commander of a portion of Inner Mongolia and Jehol. In 1933 commanded the Manchukuo forces defending the fortifications around [[Dolon Nor|Duolun]] against the [[Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Army]]. In late 1935 he commanded Manchukuo forces aiding [[Teh Wang]] in seizing control of the six northern districts of [[Chahar Province|Chahar]]. The following two years he was in command of the Manchukuo detachment of the [[Inner Mongolian Army]] attempting to capture [[Suiyuan]] province.
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