"I roared Leng Kaitai, and the Sichuan ground shook three times. Whoever dared to fight me, stab him three times and six holes."
In the spring of 1950, the largest sack brother leader in Sichuan, Leng Kaitai, the bandit leader who was called "Leng Da Wang" by the locals, yelled shamelessly in Erlang Temple in Yulei Mountain, Guan County (Dujiangyan City).
Yulei Mountain Erlang Temple Suspension Bridge
Leng Kaitai was originally from Muni Temple Village, Guanyin Temple, Renshou County. He was born in 1889 and was extremely naughty since childhood.
The Leng family is from a wealthy family. Leng Kaitai's father is the leader of Diandian (Brother Pao). The rock eagle does not eat in the nest. Most of the local bandits have joined Pao. For the sake of their peers, no one makes things difficult for Leng Kaitai. If his father was just a yellow mud pole (a rich man), Leng Kaitai would have been "carried" by the bandits (kidnapping the child).
Leng Kaitai was twelve years old. His father thought that the child was old and should have a skill, so he sent his son to Cuqiao Town, Shuangliu District, Chengdu to be an apprentice in a silk shop.
The pillar industry of mulberry picking and silkworm breeding is a long history until the ancient mythology era. It is said that the first ancient Shu king was named " Cancong ". The wife of Huangdi , the inventor of mulberry planting and silkworm breeding, is Shushan Sichuan . Because of this, Silk Store's business is very good.
Leng Kai Tainian is a little weak and hardworking. He is inevitably a little arrogant when working. Being scolded by the shopkeeper has become commonplace.
Leng Kai Thai people are big and have a grudge against the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper of the Silk Store is very superstitious and always enshrines the statue of the "Silk Flower Empress" (Horse Head God).
Once Leng Kaitai was scolded by the shopkeeper again. That night, Leng Kaitai carried the "Silk Flower Empress" down from the shrine, took it to the riverside, and gave the statue a cold shower.
The mud is made of the statue of gods and cannot be ashamed of water, and the "Silks Flower Empress" has become a pile of mud? Leng Kaitai's behavior, in the eyes of the Silk Storekeeper, is tantamount to "a monk demolishing the temple; being the emperor's digging Golden Palace ", is a ruthless act. According to the rules of apprenticeship, Leng Kaitai should be lynched.
The shopkeeper of Sixing is also a brother, and he has a good personal relationship with Leng Kaitai's father. There is a rule among brothers in Pao: "The fifth day, the fourteenth day, and the twenty-threeth day of the lunar calendar, Laojun rode a cow and did not refine alchemy." On the day of the cold-blooded water washing "Silks Flower Empress" was the fifth day of the lunar calendar. Taishang Laojun visited the house and did not go to work. His negligence made Leng Kaitai do such a traitor.
Leng Kaitai made a mistake, and the Taishang Laojun took the blame. The Silk Storekeeper did not dare to hold the ancestor accountable, so he had to drive Leng Kaitai out of the sect.
13-year-old Leng Kaitai caused a big disaster and did not dare to go home to see his father. At that time, the imperial court recruited patrol troops in Chengdu, and Leng Kaitai signed up for the army. He was small and thin, and could not fight in battle, so he became a serviceman, specializing in serving the patrol battalion 's pilot.
In the Qing Dynasty, the commander of the patrol battalion was called the steward. The responsibility of the patrol battalion was to be responsible for the public security in Chengdu, similar to the later security group . Therefore, the position of the patrol battalion is not high, but someone has a gun, which is an important target for local officials and nobles to curry favor with.
Leng Kaitai is like Wei Xiaobao next to , becoming the target of high-ranking officials and prominent officials.
The largest leader of the Pao Ge in Xinxiang in Chengdu, Mr. Luo (also known as the rudder), introduced Leng Kaitai to Pao Ge and appointed him as the youngest phoenix tail at the entrance of the hall. Because Brother Pao is taboo on the numbers four and seven, he is young and has already sat in the eighth seat among Brother Pao, which is a step to reach the top.
In the following years, the patrol battalion was upgraded to the patrol army, and Leng Kaitai also upgraded from an ordinary personal soldier to the captain of the patrol army guard. He is bold, meticulous and has good shooting skills. Among the brothers, he also sat on the fifth seat, commonly known as the "Fifth Master in charge of the affairs". It is the most important position among Brother Pao.
1911 After the Wuchang Uprising , the leader of the Pao Ge, Yin Changheng , proclaimed himself "Mr. , the governor of the Sichuan Military Government of the Great Han Dynasty", and he was the "ruler" of the "Da Han Gong".
Han Sichuan Military Government Governor’s Military Flag
The position of governor is held by Pudianjun .And this Governor Pu was released from prison a few days ago. In order to show his civil and military skills, Pu Dianjun and his soldiers were ordered at Chengdu East School on December 8.
Yin Changheng was able to sit on the throne of "Da Han Gong" mainly because he received strong support from the Pao Ge forces. Therefore, on the ground of the East School, the officer Pao Ge, who was mainly Leng Kaitai, publicly asked Pu Dianjun for double military pay.
Pu Dianjun couldn't afford the money and sneaked away. Leng Kaitai led the soldiers to mutiny, the rebels rushed into the city and began to rob, and the shops along the street were robbed.
The rebels became more and more rampant, and finally occupied the bank of the vassalt treasury. Leng Kaitai opened the bank's vault and ransacked the 7 million taels of silver stored in the vault.
Leng Kaitai, who made a fortune, went away to Bikou Town, Wen County, Gansu Province. He was gambled here and also drew opium very fiercely. In just three years, he squandered tens of thousands of taels of silver he robbed, and finally he had to return to Chengdu in shame.
Leng Kaitai broke the rules of Brother Pao. The leaders of Brother Pao, who were called the "Three Heroes of Guan County" at the time, Shen Jingping, Diao Qingyun, and Song Fuqing, wanted to arrest Leng Kaitai to implement the rules of the gang.
Leng Kaitai was unable to gain a foothold in Chengdu, so he fled to Chongqing alone and surrendered to the then commander of the Sichuan Army's Sichuan Anti-Yu Jitang. Not long after, Yu was renamed the commander of the 6th Division of the Sichuan Army.
or more people under Tang's subordinates were mixed, among which Fan Jixiang, the commander of the fourth district, was the bandit armed forces incorporated.
Fan Jixiang has three Peng brothers under him, who are famous local bandits. The second brother Peng Huiqing and the third brother Peng Shaoqing are all grassroots officers in the 6th Division of the Sichuan Army. The eldest brother is nicknamed "Big Laoquan". He is a mysterious figure. He is just named under Fan Jixiang, and few people know his true identity.
Leng Kaitai was under Yu Jitang's men and soon met the Peng brothers. At the home of Peng brothers in Shixiang, Taishan, Jiangbei, Zeng Derong of Longquanyi , Duan Chengzhou (nicknamed Duan Lao Monk) and others, reorganized the Pao Ge Hall, and Leng Kaitai became the master of slaughter. He began his career as a bandit in armed robbery.
Leng Kaitai is quite smart. He opened a "Qunying Tea House" in Bishan County, which specializes in storm bandits who are desperate. Therefore, Leng Kaitai's subordinate bandits are not many, but his combat effectiveness is very strong. He often kills and robs in Anyue Sunzichang and Shiyangchang.
Leng Kaitai is very good at winning over grassroots officers under Sichuan warlords. Liu Wenhui has at least four or five regiment commanders, all of whom are brothers and brothers with Leng Kaitai.
Leng Kaitai has some support behind it, and it is even more unscrupulous. At that time, the most profitable business of was to transport opium from Guizhou to Chengdu.
After becoming rich, Leng Kaitai secretly sneaked back to Chengdu. Through relationships, he obtained the understanding of the local robber leaders Shen Jingping, Diao Qingyun and Song Fuqing.
In the spring of 1920, Leng Kaitai held a big banquet in Chengdu, and Shen Zhengping, Diao Qingyun, Song Fuqing and others were all present. In just over a month, Leng Kaitai was very fond of hands and eyes in Chengdu. The opium he transported from Chongqing to Chengdu has become unobstructed and has never been troubled by anyone again.
It was cold this winter, and Kaitai was in Chengdu. At one time, he became brothers with more than 20 characters of various colors. These even include the abbot of Shipanpu Shijing Temple.
These people are all-round and all-round, and they are in love with each other. From then on, ordinary people in Chengdu, Huayang, Jianyang, Shuangliu, Renshou and other places are poisoned.
Seeing that Leng Kaitai's power is getting stronger and stronger, the local warlord Lai Xinhui decided to implement "recruitment" for Leng Kaitai. He was appointed as a leader of his detachment, and the bandits under Leng Kaitai were adapted into three battalions, namely in Longquanyi, Chadianzi, Shanquanpu and other places.
Leng Kaitai finally realized his dream ten years ago. He could get a double salary. Lai Xinhui gave him a military salary. Anyway, it was just a free job. When you have nothing to do, you would do something about robbing the family, that is, you would have a generous income, and you don’t have to worry about the government army coming to cause trouble. Why not do it?
However, Leng Kaitai didn't work for long under Lai Wenhui's .A few months later, a wealthy businessman from Suining made a fortune in other places and hired professional bodyguards to escort twenty-pick silver ingots back to his hometown. A silver ingot weighs 120 kilograms, which is about 2,000 taels of silver.
This is a total of 40,000 silver vehicles. Leng Kaitai was jealous of money and summoned all his brothers together, set up an ambush on the mountain spring paving ground, and took the money for himself.
, who made a fortune, Leng Kaitai brought his brothers to Pengshan and defected to the warlord Yu who was stationed in the local area.
more than company commander is his personal name, but in fact he is called Brigade Commander Yu. Even Brigade Commander Yu, Leng Kaitai didn't take him seriously. Military pay should be required, and robbery should not be left behind.
Leng Kaitai made money by reselling opium, but he was still unhappy. From Guizhou to Chengdu, he peeled off layers of skin along the way. Those who had guns and bullets in their hands regarded Leng Kaitai as a fat sheep who could pick up the sheep at will, smiling in front of him, sharpening the knife behind him quickly.
Leng Kaitai bought a batch of guns from warlord Liu Wenhui and began his career in armed escort.
Leng Kaitai did this to cut off some people's financial resources, especially those small warlords who proclaimed themselves as kings. They had a good connection with local bandits and specifically attacked Leng Kaitai's goods, so that every time he transported goods, he had to save several lives.
Leng Kaitai felt that this was not a solution, so he took the initiative to make friends with Zhu Tengfeng, a bandit in the ninth-story rock of Lu County.
Zhu Tengfeng specializes in water business. With his protection, Leng Kaitai's goods have never taken the land route, and have all taken the water route.
Chongqing's "Yousheng Hotel" is Lengkaitai's transfer station. The hotel is very luxuriously built. When the famous Sichuan leader Pao Ge comes to Chongqing, he will choose this place as his destination.
In the summer of 1921, Qiu Boyuan, deputy manager of Shanghai Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Branch, was preparing to open a branch in Chongqing. Qiu Boyuan was an important figure in Shanghai Qinggang . After he arrived in Chongqing, he soon got together with Leng Kaitai. And three new American Colt M1911 pistols were given to Leng Kaitai as a meeting gift.
But Leng Kaitai set up a bet at Yousheng Hotel and lost three pistols to a bandit nicknamed "Yang Powang".
The Colt M1911 pistol has a large caliber and strong lethality. With these three new guns, "Yang Bowang" killed the official army so hard. Finally, the official army used cannons and machine guns and to kill several bandits such as "Yang Powangshou".
The government army suffered heavy losses, and the problem ultimately lies in the three new pistols. Leng Kaitai was held accountable and was arrested and sent to prison. For Leng Kaitai, he was lucky in disguise. The reason why the government wanted to arrest him was to know who bought his latest pistol from.
Leng Kaitai's pistol was given by someone else. If he knew where to buy it, he would have confessed long ago.
The most feared thing among them is Qiu Boyuan. If someone put him in charge of smuggling arms, although there would be no prison, he would be beaten hard by bamboo snatch , that would be expected.
Just when Qiu Boyuan was worried, Leng Kaitai was acquitted and only stayed in prison for 22 days. As for how he did it, it is unknown.
Leng Kaitai did not complain about Qiu Boyuan. Qiu Boyuan was grateful and took the initiative to find the three Qinggang bosses in Shanghai, Huang Jinrong , Du Yuesheng , and Zhang Xiaolin . The three of them just joined forces to open a Sanxin company, whose business scope includes selling opium, forcing good people to become prostitutes, opening casinos, and raising many killers to serve as hiring assassins.
Qiu Boyuan found Sanxin Company and praised Leng Kaitai for his "righteousness and silence" to the three bosses in the company, which can be called the world's Mengchangjun . Huang Jinrong, Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin came forward together to send a telegram to Leng Kaitai, inviting him to Shanghai to "communicate friendship".
Leng Kaitai went there happily and was warmly treated by Huang Jinrong and others. At that time, Yang Qingshan, the leader of the Hankou Hongmen Gang, was also invited to Shanghai. At that time, the Qing Gang, , Hongmen , and Pao Ge were the three largest gang organizations in the civil society at that time. Its influence cannot be underestimated.
Huang Jinrong, Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin are the second most in the Qing Gang.Yang Qingshan is also an outstanding figure in the Hongmen. In comparison, only Leng Kaitai's fame is not as good as the above four people. But he couldn't resist Qiu Boyuan's desperate attempt to brag for him, Leng Kaitai became the boss of Sichuan Ba Ge.
As the saying goes, Leng Kaitai and Zhang Xiaolin, known as the "three-color tycoon", controlled Yang Qingshan and others, who controlled Hankou , hit it off at first sight.
Zhang Xiaolin's character is well known, while Yang Qingshan often says "If you don't stop or put on your clothes, if you don't beat, if you don't beat, if you lick the ashes." The twelve-word mantra 8 is on your lips. The meaning of this sentence seems to say: If you don't do bad things, you won't get money, and you just lie on the ground and eat dirt. Leng Kaitai got the true teachings of Zhang Xiaolin and Yang Qingshan, and became worse than before.
With Zhang Xiaolin and Yang Qingshan support, Leng Kaitai became a local snake on the Yangtze River route. Any ships leading from Shanghai to Sichuan will be investigated by Leng Kaitai. When they encounter ships carrying arms or opium, they simply take the ships and cargo together. In just two years, Leng Kaitai made a fortune.
What really made him famous in Sichuan was because Leng Kaitai made friends with the great warlords in Sichuan Liu Xiang .
Liu Xiang was fighting openly and secretly with another Sichuan warlord Yang Sen . Both sides were like water and fire, and they both wanted to get rid of it and then get it away.
Once, Liu Xiang spent a lot of money to buy a large number of guns and ammunition from Shanghai. After loading the ship, he went upstream into Sichuan. When he passed by Wanxian, he was robbed by a group of bold bandits.
Liu Xiang was furious and vowed to let this group of robbers go to Fengducheng for the New Year’s Eve dinner. But after careful investigation, it was found that the bandits who robbed the arms were sent by Yang Sen to pretend.
made Liu Xiang even more upset. As long as the arms he purchased were taken from the Yangtze River route in the future, he would likely be harmed by Yang Sen. Just when Liu Xiang was in a state of trouble, someone reminded him to find Liu Congyun, a famous local "god" who wrote a fortune.
Liu Congyun is an fortune teller . He claims to be "Zhuge's rebirth, his magic tricks". He has more than ten thousand believers under his command. At that time, almost all fortune tellers in Sichuan claimed to be Liu Congyun's apprentices.
No one knows whether Liu Congyun has real skills, but Liu Xiang believes it deeply. Not only did he recognize Liu Congyun as his teacher, he also built a "Immortal Palace" for the teacher in Chengdu.
Liu Congyun got these many benefits, so he pretended to calculate and suggested that Liu Xiang go to Leng Kaitai, and said that as long as Leng Kaitai takes action, the Yangtze River route will be unobstructed.
Leng Kaitai and Liu Congyun are old acquaintances. Before they made their fortune, they once rented a room at Changfu Hotel on Insen Road in the British Concession in Hankou for nearly a year. The two of them are sympathetic and often help each other, and eventually become brothers of the opposite sex.
Liu Congyun recommended Leng Kaitai to Liu Xiang, which also means "If you are rich and noble, don't forget each other."
Liu Xiang was skeptical about the suggestion of the "master" and came to visit Leng Kaitai in person. Purchasing arms from Shanghai to Sichuan is a good move for Leng Kaitai. He said to Liu Xiang: "Why didn't you say such a small thing earlier?" Then he set off for Shanghai, bought a ship of arms, and found a French warship for armed escort, and arrived in Chongqing unimpeded along the way.
Liu Xiang didn't expect Leng Kaitai to have such great energy, so he kept him by his side and appointed him as the "Sichuan Aviation Inspection Director" and the "Sichuan Aftermath Supervision Office Intelligence Director". Its status is equivalent to Dai Li around . In Sichuan, it can be considered a one-handed way to cover the sky.
Leng Kaitai is a bandit brother after all, and he has no lofty ambitions. He thinks that Zhang Xiaolin is his role model. Deng Kaitai sold opium and opened a casino in Chengdu. He opened 13 brothels in one go.
Leng Kaitai built the Leng Mansion on Dongsheng Street in Chengdu, with its luxurious pavilions, towers, stables, and car houses, all decorated in magnificent style. At that time, many wealthy warlords came to visit the Cold Palace Museum and felt ashamed of their fashionable decorations.
Sichuan warlords Liu Xiang, Deng Xihou, Tian Songyao, , Liu Wenhui, Yang Sen, Li Jiayu, Luo Zezhou, Wang Zhangxu, Wang Fangzhou, Fan Shaozeng, Chen Shunong, and He Guoguang, , are all disciples of the "god" Liu Congyun. Leng Kaitai is Liu Congyun's sworn brother, and his seniority is longer than that of the warlords of Sichuan.
At that time, there were more than 15 million Pao Ge in Sichuan, and Leng Kaitai was the well-deserved master of Pao Ge.
Leng Kaitai has power and power, has a broad mind, and is regarded as a backer by many bandits. He no longer has to do those careers of licking blood from the knife. He spends all day long and goes to watch Sichuan Opera in his spare time. It seems to be indifferent to the world, but in fact, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a daily wage of money.
In May 1949, the Fourth Field Army of our army launched the second Crossing the River Battle . The troops were bloodless and captured Wuhan, the important town of the Yangtze River.
The Kuomintang army is in a desperate situation. At the instruction of Chiang Kai-shek, the spy of the Military Intelligence Bureau, Wang Xufu, started to hold a "guerrilla backbone training class" at the Chengdu North Education Site on July 2. The main members of the
training class include the security groups of the Kuomintang counties in Sichuan, Hunan, Guangxi, Guizhou and other places, security chief , A-level chief , local bullies, landlords, wealthy businessmen, big businessmen and other people in the city. The study class is more than 400 people in each session, and the semester is 20 days. The main study is that after the main force of the Kuomintang army fails, these rich and powerful local armed forces will launch "guerrilla warfare" with our army. After the
training class was held for 4 sessions, Wang Xufu and others felt that there was no suitable candidate to train again. Unexpectedly, Leng Kaitai volunteered and encouraged Wang Xufu to start the fifth training class.
The personnel of this training class are all habitual bandits from all over the world, the soldiers who change their minds, and the gangsters in the city. The personnel of this training class are the most complex, and the number of people has expanded sharply to more than 1,200, almost equivalent to the total of the first three periods.
The more famous people in this training class are Li Yuanheng, Li Zeru, the giant bandit in Chongqing County, and He Suzhen, and He Suzhen, who are famous female bandit in Qingcheng Mountain. The staff of this training class all have a common identity, they are all the masters of the brothers from all over the world.
The opening ceremony of the school was held in Erlang Temple on Yulei Mountain next to Dujiangyan. In front of more than 1,200 robed brothers, Leng Kaitai shouted shamelessly: "I roared Leng Kaitai, and the land in Sichuan trembled three times. Whoever dared to fight with me, stab him three times and six holes." After the opening ceremony of
, these mobs, either riding horses, sitting in a sedan, riding a car, or riding on slide rod, , drove to Leng Mansion on Dongsheng Street, Chengdu. For the next 20 days, these people have lived here.
On the eve of Chengdu's liberation, Leng Kaitai took a jeep and went to the Pixian Garden Farm, Wenjiang Wenjia Farm, Guan County Qingcheng Mountain, and 16 counties including Neijiang , Ziliujing, Meishan , Xinjin, and plotted on February 16, 1950. This day was the New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar, and launched an armed rebellion at the same time.
In February 1950, large-scale bandit chaos broke out in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan and other places, causing the unfortunate death of senior generals such as Zhu Xiangli, director of the Political Department of the 178th Division of our army. More than 30 counties including
Wenjiang , Chongqing , Pi County, Jintang , Xinfan and Xiushan were occupied by rebels, Qionglai City was besieged by more than 20,000 bandits, and 8 district governments of the Bishan Military Sub-district were attacked by bandits overnight, all were lost. The more than fifty bridges on Rongya Highway were all destroyed by rebels.
The rebels were rampant for a while, and our army launched a large-scale bandit suppression operation. This unprecedented bandit suppression lasted for three years, but Leng Kaitai, the initiator of the bandit chaos, was out of the matter. His life was peaceful and comfortable, and the Liantian Fenghuo outside seemed to have nothing to do with him.
Leng Kaitai follows the steps every day, leaving Leng Mansion, drinking in the restaurant, listening to operas in the theater, occasionally going to Erlang Temple to burn incense, and going to Qingcheng Mountain to find Liu Congyun to ask for divination.
Liu Congyun
is just the once glorious "Shenxian Liu" and it is also a clay Bodhisattva who crosses the river - it is difficult for him to protect himself. I can't come up with any better ideas for Leng Kaitai.
In June 1950, the bandit leader Li Zeru (nicknamed Li Mazi) and more than 4,000 bandits under Qiao Zijun, a regular bandit in Qionglai County, were all captured by our army's bandit suppression troops in Wumianshan, Qionglai. Li Zeru escaped alone and was captured by bandit suppression troops in Chengdu on June 13.
During the interrogation of Li Zeru, he admitted that he was bewitched by Leng Kaitai and embarked on the evil path of armed rebellion.
In the next few days, several other bandit leaders in western Sichuan were arrested. In their confessions, they pointed to the mastermind behind them.
On July 19, 1950, Leng Kaitai went to listen to the opera after getting drunk and was arrested by our army scouts on the street.
"I lived naked. I had already made a profit if I could have a straw curtain wrapped around my body when I died." This is what Leng Kaitai said before he was shot. At that time, he was so scared that his face was ashes and his body was like sieve. But he still insisted on talking nonsense, which could be considered a braised duck - the meat is rotten but the mouth is not rotten.
