On May 21, 1947, Wailing broke out in a Buihulanzi village of in Jehol Province with only more than 30 households. At that moment, the sun angrily penetrated the clouds in the sky and illuminated the bright red blood stains on the ground. With trembling hands, the fellow villagers placed the bodies of the 22 soldiers of our army one by one, preparing to lay them in their graves.
At this moment, an even more sad situation occurred. Although the villagers of Buihu Lanzi Village traveled all over the surrounding villages, they only borrowed 19 coffins.
is still three steps away, what should I do?
The fellow villagers around choked up and said: "They are heroes. They can't just walk away naked. It's really not possible... Use cabinets!"
In the end, with the help of the folks in Buihu Lanzi Village, the 22 heroes They were laid to rest on this piece of land outside the Great Wall, including 5 cadres above the division level.
What exactly happened in Buihu Lanzi Village at that time? Why did our army sacrifice so many senior cadres at one time?
Everything starts from a meeting.
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On April 2, 1947, Jehol Province, which had not yet been completely liberated, ushered in a grand meeting. There were 11 delegations coming to participate in this meeting, and the Jidong Army Division delegation was one of them. The entire meeting lasted more than 40 days.
After the meeting, the 72-member Jidong delegation was fully loaded with the harvest of the meeting. Under the leadership of the group leader Su Linyan, Linxi embarked on the road back to the station.
At dusk on May 20, after two days of long journey, the delegation arrived at Buihu Lanzi Village, which can be seen at a glance. Seeing that it was getting late, the group had to decide to camp in the village.
Chaihu Lanzi Village is not big. There are only more than 30 households in the whole village. Even if the homes of the villagers are crowded, it will be difficult to accommodate so many people at one time.
In addition, this village is not absolutely safe. In addition to the west, north, and south sides being controlled by our army, there is also the biggest threat, which is Chifeng City in the east, where the Kuomintang's 93rd Army is located.
Before the break, Su Linyan, the head of the delegation, held a special meeting. He not only carefully arranged the security work, but also arranged personnel to take charge of security work. After getting to know the villagers, they learned that there were enemies around Caifengyingzi Village in the past few days. Therefore, the delegation decided to transfer the cavalry company sent by the 22nd Army there to spend the night.
As soon as we arrived, Caifengyingzi Village was not far from Chaihulanzi Village. Once there was any trouble, for the cavalry company, 3.5 miles was nothing at all. They could arrive in a short time and facilitate support. Secondly, it eliminated two hidden dangers in the same direction to a certain extent, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone. From this, it is not difficult to see that Captain Su was careful.
Just like that, the cavalry company set off with a roar and headed to Caifeng Yingzi Village to set up camp.
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The people in the delegation fell asleep, and the horses of the cavalry company were also tied to the horse posts. They stopped chewing from time to time, as if they felt something.
Sure enough, in a village less than 6 miles away from Buihu Lanzi Village, the enemy was surrounded by darkness, with thousands of people in total.
Mob, we won’t study who it is used to describe, but it is definitely the most appropriate to apply it to this group of people.
The leaders are Bai Jinhui and Yu Xiucheng, the habitual bandits from Rebei. Because they have the largest number of people, together they can account for almost half of the group. The remaining group consists of about a hundred people, each of whom is the bandit leader. Ren Fangwu led the way, as well as the police brigade of Weichang County. In addition, there were more than 30 intelligence personnel from the 93rd Army of the Kuomintang mixed inside.
The cat not only did not catch the mouse , but also became good friends with the mouse. Why is this?
It turned out that the Kuomintang army saw that they had lost the support of the people and that the situation was over, so they had to play the trick of their ancestors, giving these people a random title, and recruited these people under their command for their use. The more than 30 intelligence officers of the 93rd Army of the Kuomintang came specifically for this matter.
Although there were thousands of people gathered, this group of people knew very well the bravery of our army in the Battle of Rexi and wanted to show off and go to Chifeng in broad daylight. They still did not have the courage for fear of encountering the People's Liberation Army when they went out.
Everything was a mistake. The delegation did not know that there were thousands of enemies hiding nearby, and the enemies were even less aware that there was a delegation of our army in the village of Chaihu Lanzi, which was very close to them.
Without much effort, this group of people arrived at Buihu Lanzi Village. Originally, they did not plan to enter the village, but who would have expected that the appearance of a fellow dung collector would become the trigger.
Regardless of whether the fellow villagers want to rush back to the village to spread the news, let’s just say that this group of people usually do evil and do all kinds of evil. It is human instinct to run away when you see them.
ran away, but he didn't run away. The fellow was arrested. After using some methods on the fellow, they found out from the fellow's mouth that there was a delegation from our army in Chaihu Lanzi Village, which also included 13 senior officials. cadre.
Cat and Mouse, when they heard that there was a "big fish" in the village, they were very happy. In their opinion, 1000 vs. 72 was still safe, so they decided to outflank Chaihu Lanzi Village from the west and south.
Coincidentally, Li Zhongquan, who was the deputy director of the delegation at the time, lost sleep early that day and simply got up and went for a walk to the west of the village.
As he walked, Li Zhongquan felt something was wrong. He saw crowds of people outside the village, and a large group of people bent over and approached the village.
Coming from the west, Li Zhongquan realized that these might be friendly troops. As mentioned before, according to the situation at the time, those coming from the east were most likely to be enemies.
General Li Zhongquan
In order to prevent accidental injury, Li Zhongquan asked the sentry to shout: "Which army are you from?"
After a gunshot, our army's sentry was knocked to the ground.
At this time, Li Zhongquan felt that he might have failed to identify himself, which led to the misjudgment of the other party, so he hid and shouted to the opposite party again: "Which department are you from? Don't get me wrong, we are the Eighth Route Army, representatives of Jidong The regiment is here for a meeting. "
In fact, Li Zhongquan shouted this on purpose. If the opposite party was really a friendly army, he would not understand it. Although on March 24, 1947, the Eighth Route Army Yan'an Headquarters was officially renamed " Chinese People's Liberation Army Headquarters". , our army used the name "People's Liberation Army".
As soon as Li Zhongquan finished speaking, the other side finally let out a ghostly howl: "You are the Eighth Route Army? Then we are the Ninth Route Army!"
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Immediately afterwards, a hail of bullets from the enemy sprayed out from the muzzle of the gun, hitting Chai. Hulanzi Village. Li Zhongquan ran toward the village while shouting: "It's an enemy attack. All personnel, quickly seize favorable terrain and prepare to fight!"
In the village, the regiment leader Su Linyan also realized that something was wrong after hearing the gunfire and quickly All personnel were organized and prepared to fight the enemy to the death. If the equipment of the delegation at that time was acceptable, and with the excellent combat style of our army, it should be possible to repel this group of people.
But the problem is that the purpose of the delegation is not to fight, but to attend a meeting. Therefore, the entire delegation is basically lightly armed. Except for a very few long guns, the cadres only wear short guns.
Compared with the enemy's heavy machine guns and mortars , the delegation's equipment is like fire sticks. It is obviously impossible to completely evacuate.
Just because you are not afraid of sacrifice does not mean you can sacrifice casually. At the critical moment, someone proposed to hit an enemy point hard to clear a bloody path for the communications troops, and notify the cavalry company in Fengyingzi Village to come for reinforcements. Maybe there would be reinforcements. Odds.
Therefore, the delegation sent communications troops for the first time to Fengyingzi Village to look for the cavalry company. The result was that the cavalry company disappeared.
Seeing the comrades around him fall one by one, Su Linyan decided to send out a five-man combat team again to search for traces of the cavalry company. Sure enough, the hard work paid off, and the four soldiers who broke out finally ended up on Niutou Mountain north of Fengyingzi Village. , found the cavalry company.
The four people begged hard and repeatedly stated that the delegation was surrounded by layers of enemies and was in danger. They hoped that the cavalry company could provide rapid support.
However, the company commander and instructor in charge of this cavalry team claimed: The enemy's situation is unknown, so stay put!
In fact, when the enemy launched an attack on Chaihu Lanzi Village, the cavalry company heard the gunfire, but the leader of the team immediately chose to avoid it and pulled the team to the top of the mountain to watch the situation from a distance. And the so-called unknown enemy situation has become an excuse for being greedy for life and afraid of death.
The cavalry company could not be counted on, so the delegation had to decide to break out at separate points.
Accompanied by fierce gunfire, explosions, and shouts, the delegation's cadres, staff, guards, and even grooms all jumped into the battle. They suppressed their inner grief and indignation and rushed toward the enemy again and again. The battle scene Very tragic.
Compared with the bad behavior of the cavalry company, the cavalry of the Second Guard Regiment of the 20th Military Region stationed around Chaicun, the cavalry and infantry of the Chixi County Detachment and the Rezhong Military Division responded quickly after hearing the gunshots, and the brigades arrived in Chai Village one after another. Hulanzi Village and launched a fierce attack on the enemy.
Under the overwhelming attack of our army's artillery shells, the enemy was beaten to pieces and their flesh and blood flew everywhere. Except for some bandit leaders who managed to escape by chance, most of the others were annihilated by our army.
After this battle, the Jidong delegation suffered heavy losses, losing 22 soldiers with outstanding achievements in the Red Army period and the Anti-Japanese War period, including Su Linyan, Hu Liguang, Wang Keru, Ji Guang and Wang Pingmin, 5 division-level and above. senior cadres. In particular, the regiment leader Su Linyan was the first to fall on the way to the charge, and Li Zhongquan was also shot twice. One of the bullets penetrated the tip of his left lung, only one millimeter away from the aorta.
In order to allow the 22 heroes to die with dignity, the surviving villagers of Buihu Lanzi Village ran around, rummaged through eight villages and borrowed 19 coffins and three cabinets. Accompanied by Qingshan, they rested in the place where they last fought.
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Five cadres above the division level were sacrificed at one time, which is unheard of in the military history of our army.
After the news reached the Central Committee, Chairman Mao was very angry and immediately issued a strict order: The enemy must be made to pay with blood, and at the same time, all the cavalry company commanders and instructors responsible for the security work were killed.
In the end, the Central Branch of the Northeast Bureau and the Military Region ruled that the instructor and company commander of the 5th Company of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment were shot because they refused to save him!
In addition, the relevant bandit leaders who participated in the operation in Buihu Lanzi Village also received due sanctions. Except for this one person, his whereabouts are unknown.
He is Ren Fangwu.
As the saying goes, justice is clear and retribution is unyielding. After Ren Fangwu got his hands stained with the blood of our soldiers, he actually thought of hiding his name and prepared to end his sinful life with a beautiful pastoral life.
Unexpectedly, in the winter of 1968, what was supposed to come finally came.
Qida Bang, this gangster who participated in the Chaihu Lanzi Village Incident, spent 18 years in prison, saw the light of day again, and returned to his hometown of Manzigou Commune in Chengde, Hebei Province. The
transformation is useful for some people, but it won't have much effect on those who are stubborn.
After Qidabang was released from prison, it was still difficult to change his old habits. Not only did he think about cheating and cheating all day long, but he also often cursed at everyone. The production team leader simply kept him away from everyone's sight and gave him a job driving a big truck. Things to do.
There is a car in and out, which is very convenient. Qidabang also has more places to stroll while pulling goods for the brigade.
Until one day, Qi Dabang saw a person in the North and South Camp Brigade. He looked at that person repeatedly and always felt that he seemed familiar.
In order to further satisfy his curiosity, Qidabang went out to the Beiying Brigade twice privately. Sure enough, after repeated identification, he was sure that the person was Ren Fangwu, the big brother he had not seen for many years.
Later, there was a connection between the two.
Ever since Ren Fangwu disappeared, his case has been pending. The investigators worked hard to solve the case to no avail. Therefore, Qida Bang's series of abnormal behaviors quickly attracted their attention.
Qi Dabang is cunning, but he cannot withstand the interrogation of the security director of the brigade. The reason is very simple. This director is a veteran. On the battlefield, Qi Dabang has seen the power of our soldiers. 18 years in prison made Qidabang's scalp numb. He knew that if he didn't explain the problem clearly, he would get burned again. At this time, the righteousness in the veteran's eyes was like a mirror looking into a demon. Qi Dabang soon showed his true colors and confessed the fact that he saw Ren Fangwu.
On September 24, 1969, Qidabang and the investigators knocked on Ren Fangwu's door. After a while, an old farmer who looked "honest and humble" walked out. He looked at Qidabang in confusion and asked: Are you not? Are you catching a big train? Why did you bring so many people to me?
In order to avoid suspicion, Qida Bang "killed relatives for justice", he pointed at the old farmer and shouted: "He is Ren Fangwu, our eldest brother, and he has a murder case on his hands! It was him who killed five senior cadres of the People's Liberation Army!"
After hearing this, Ren Fangwu, who was already gray-haired, turned pale instantly. He collapsed on the ground and murmured feebly to himself: "It came... quite... quickly!"
In this way, 71-year-old Ren Fangwu was arrested and brought to justice, 1970 On March 23, 2011, Ren Fangwu was executed by firing squad in the people's protest for justice.
Finally, to borrow a sentence from Mr. Chen: Good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil. It’s not that I won’t report it, the time has not yet come. When the time comes, everything will be reimbursed!
