On September 18, 1947, the Kuomintang army occupied Laiyang City. Landlords, bullies, traitors and others who fled to Qingdao, Jimo and other Kuomintang-ruled areas took the opportunity to counterattack. They collected landlords, rich peasants, and land ruffians who were fought during the land reform and land reform review, and pieced together the reactionary armed "Self-Defense Forces". "Under the protection of the Kuomintang army, they brutally retaken the divided land, houses, and property from the masses, and frantically hunted and killed revolutionary cadres and the masses.
In the Kuomintang army occupied Laiyang for three months, more than 5,600 Communists, cadres, and masses were killed in Laidong and Wulong counties. They were brutal and terrifying. Here are the three major tragedies that occurred during this period.
After the Heshan tragedy
In October 1947, return group was led by Dong Shubiao (a native of Heshan South Village, the then Kuomintang Heshan Township head, later fled to Taiwan) He went to Heshandong Village, Xicun Village, and Nancun (now Heshanhou Village, Muyudian Town) to arrest and kill Communists, village cadres and the masses in retaliation. In one of them, 31 people were tied up with a rope and killed all at the Xiaohekou of Dongguan (on both sides of the Dongxiaohe Bridge, the current Party School of the Municipal Party Committee).
After the two brothers, Wang Jingchun, the militia captain of Heshandong Village, and Wang Jinglun, chairman of the peasant association, were captured by the Home Returning Corps, they were tied up under a big tree in Zhuxun Village, stripped of their clothes, and poured boiling water over their bodies from head to toe. Sweeping and stabbing with a bamboo broom caused the brothers to be bloody and bloody. The brothers passed out and couldn't walk when they woke up. The returnee group smashed the two of them unconscious with a shackle and buried them alive.
Heshanxi Village militia instructor Wang Fucheng and young woman captain Wang Fumei, who were captured by the Home Return Team, were tortured in Laiyang City. The Home Return Team used an axe to cut a hole on each of their heads, and then poured them on. The kerosene was lit and burned to death, and their parents were taken to Laiyang City, where they were brutally tortured to death. There were 5 people in the family, and there was only an 80-year-old grandmother left.
Jiang Cuiying, leader of the Women’s Rescue Association of Heshan South Village, and several mass activists,He was arrested by the Returning Group to Laiyang City and tortured. On the night of September 30, the Returning Group dragged Jiang Cuiying and the captured people to the Xiaohekou of Chengdongguan to kill. Jiang Cuiying escaped from the dead and was arrested after running home. Jiang Cuiying, who had been pregnant for several months, was beaten to the skin, and then shot to death by the village's west water bay.
The Home Returning Group arrested and killed more than 40 communists, village officials and the masses in Heshandong Village, Xicun Village, and Nancun Village, causing the shocking post-Heshan tragedy.
Wangshi Massacre
Xin Shipan (from Wangshi Village), leader of the Returning Bandit Group, led his minions to arrest Wangshi Village (now Guliu Street) more than 70 cadres With the masses, beside the big water bay in the east of the village, they killed them with guillotines and yokes, and then pushed them into the water bay. The blood stained the entire water bay. All 7 members of Xin Shaoyun's family in Wangshi Village were killed.
Village young woman captain Xin Shufang was arrested by the wife of Xin Shipan, captain of the Returning Bandit Band. After being beaten up, he was frantically grilled with charcoal, topped with kerosene, and stabbed to death with a red iron rod. Created a brutal and inhumane Wangshi tragedy.
Laiyang City Prison Massacre
After the People's Liberation Army liberated the city of Laiyang, the bandits stationed in the city were making their final dying struggle. In the middle of the night on December 4, 1947, they drove all the cadres and masses detained in the prison to the courtyard, used machine guns to shoot, and massacred more than 230 people. Created the appalling Laiyang City Prison tragedy.
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