Song Junnian and more than a dozen bandits hid in a cave in Jingjia Mountain. Lu Zhihao hid behind a huge rock, threw a grenade into the cave, and then ordered the bandits in the cave to surrender.

In August 1950, our army's reconnaissance platoon leader Lu Zhihao led three comrades to chase and suppress the bandit Song Junnian, known as the "killer demon king".

Song Junnian and more than a dozen bandits hid in a cave in Jingjia Mountain. Lu Zhihao hid behind a huge rock and threw an grenade into the cave. Then he ordered the bandits in the cave to surrender.

A flame suddenly spewed out of the hole, burning the stones at the entrance of the hole. The knowledgeable Lu Zhihao couldn't help but curse, "This old thing Song Junnian actually has a flamethrower."

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Song Junnian was originally named Song Qingyun. He lived in Changshiqiao, Zhuangqiao District, Cixi County (now belonging to Zhenhai District ). He was born in 1907.

Song Qingyun has been naughty since childhood. He has a fierce face and a bearded face at a young age. He is nicknamed "Song Huzi".

Song Qingyun doesn't like reading and loves dancing guns and sticks. He makes friends with bandits, kills people and sets fires, steals men and women, and does everything he wants. Therefore, the locals also call him "the murderer".

In April 1940, the county town of Cixi fell into the hands of Japanese enemies. Song Qingyun sold his country for glory, defected to the Japanese, and became the captain of the pseudo-Cixi County Security Corps.

In order to seek credit from the Japanese, Song Qingyun found out the exact location of the Anti-Japanese Guerrillas in Huagaishan through friends he made when he was a bandit. He personally led more than 1,000 Japanese and puppet troops to attack Huagai Mountain overnight.

The guerrillas were caught off guard and almost wiped out the entire army, with the remains of the martyrs covering the valley.

On November 6, 1943, Song Qingyun led the Japanese and puppet troops to attack the New Fourth Army's offices in Cidong and Zhenbei. More than 20 New Fourth Army soldiers died heroically on the spot, and more than 130 people were captured.

Halfway through, Song Qingyun cut off the heads of nine soldiers including Su Ruiqi, Sun Minbao, Ge Chuanhua, and hung the heads of the martyrs on the big tree on the roadside to show them.

According to incomplete statistics, in the years when Song Qingyun was accused of tigers, more than 1,100 anti-Japanese military and civilians were massacred.

After Japan surrendered to , the traitor Song Qingyun was imprisoned.

But just over two months later, by bribing the Kuomintang Ninghai County Magistrate Lai Yunzhang, Song Qingyun changed his name to Song Junnian. Not only was he able to escape from prison, he also transformed himself into the captain of the Kuomintang Ninghai County Self-Defense Corps. He has become more and more serious intoxicated and killed innocent people.

On July 5, 1949, the county town of Ninghai 3 was liberated. In the Song Jun, he was like a dog, and hid in Jingjia Mountain in Xiban Township, Xiangshan County. On July 20, the 79th Division of the Kuomintang Army, entrenched on islands such as Dongmen and Nantian, landed in the dark and attacked Shipu, Fantou, Gaowan, Xinqiao and other places, and once occupied most of the areas south of Dongxiling, Xiangshan County.

Song Junnian believed that the time had come, so he immediately collected more than 2,000 remnants of soldiers, landlords and bullies, gangsters, robbers, and habitual bandits. This group of mobs was organized by Song Junnian into 10 infantry brigades, a machine cannon squadron, and a special guard report team.

The former county magistrate of the Kuomintang Ninghai County and the Military Intelligence Bureau spy Lai Yunzhang also rushed to join him.

Song Junnian was grateful to Lai Yunzhang for saving his life, so he made Lai Yunzhang become the so-called "commander", and Song Junnian was the "deputy commander".

Lai Yunzhang quickly contacted his old boss Mao Renfeng. Mao Renfeng was overjoyed and gave this group of mobs some excellent weapons and funds, and named it "Zhejiang Fourth District Guerrilla Column". Lai Yunzhang and Song Junnian were appointed as chief commanders and deputy commanders.

But not long after, Lai Yunzhang found that he was a commander who was a bare-headed commander. Song Junnian monopolized the power and did not discuss anything except for guns and money.

Lai Yunzhang knew what Song Junnian was and was worried that he would die in the future, so he found an opportunity to escape. Song Junnian naturally became the commander.

Lai Yunzhang ran away. Song Junnian had no ATM. He asked Mao Renfeng for money and guns again, but he always felt that he was not that tough. You have to make some achievements in order to win Mao Renfeng's trust.

So Song Junnian attacked everywhere, extorted everywhere, burned, killed, and plundered. Especially for local cadres and peasant association cadres, it was particularly cruel to break the hand. In less than two months, 34 peasant association cadres were tragically killed.

And the families of these peasant association cadres were all captured into the mountains by Song Junnian's people. The torture suffered by these families was outrageous, and most of them were ate them as "military rations".

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Song Junnian's sphere of influence, the people who were ruined were living in poverty. The bandits sent grain, money and strong men to ordinary people. If the people had any complaints, they would not only kill them, but also burn the house.

The local people dare not speak out, and the calls for our army to suppress bandits are getting higher and higher.

In early 1950, the 21st Army of the East China Field Army was transferred, the 187th and 188th regiments, the Military Region Teaching Battalion, the Armed Forces Team, and two security regiments, established the Bandit Suppression Force Command, and entered Xiangshan and Ninghai counties. The tactic of split-advance attack was adopted, and the bandits entrenched in the four counties of Xiangshan, Sanmen , Ninghai and Fenghua.

Our army's 188th Regiment, the Teaching Battalion, the Second Guard Regiment, the Xiangshan County Brigade, and the Xihu District Squadron formed the East Road Column, entered Baixian Mountain from east to west, and conducted a dragnet search in the Xishaling, Cheling, Hanshan and other mountainous areas.

The West Road Column of the Bandit Suppression Force, including the 187th Regiment, the Armed Forces Team, the 6th Guard Regiment and the Ninghai County Brigade, set out from Ninghai County Tea Garden and Liyang, and searched and advanced from west to east to the area of Duanshuigang and Dongdianshan. The plan to suppress the bandits was to gradually compress the main force of Song Junnian's bandits to Jingjiashan and Jiantouling in one month, and then gather and annihilate them.

Although the combat plan formulated by our army's bandit suppression troops was very perfect, they did not actively mobilize the masses in advance. Within such a vast area, the search and suppression of Song Junnian's bandits was obviously insufficient and the blockade line was not tight, which gave the bandits many opportunities to take advantage of.

Song Junnian has been a bandit for more than 20 years and is very familiar with the local terrain. He ordered his bandits to break into pieces and put on makeup and break out in dispersed ways.

Our army's bandit suppression troops braved the cold wind in the deep mountains, went through a lot of hardships, and after a month of search and suppression, they finally met in Jiantouling.

The bandit suppression troops were very determined in this operation, but the results of the battle made the army leader laugh. They only caught more than 200 scattered bandits, all of which were captured by the soldiers after the bandits were exposed when they broke through the siege.

The leader of the bandit suppression force is a Shandong native. He complained angrily: "Old Fei has been struggling for more than a month. He wanted to kill a group of fat pigs for the New Year, but he didn't expect that he only caught some small rats in the end."

Before the leader could finish complaining, a report of bandits came from Bajiao Mountain, Xiangshan County. A bandit suppression team of our army's 188th Regiment had more than 100 people. When passing Guanshan Shuajiwan, they were suddenly attacked by bandits ambushed on the top of the surrounding mountains in advance.

The bandits occupy favorable terrain, have an absolute advantage in military strength, and their firepower is not weak.

The soldiers of the bandit suppression team were caught off guard and suffered significant losses. What is even more unbelievable is that our army broke through several times but failed.

Our army's second battalion rushed to reinforcements under the leadership of the battalion commander, and was also trapped in the enemy's encirclement halfway.

This Song Junnian was too cunning. The leader of the bandit suppression force made a quick decision. The troops stopped resting and divided into four groups to reinforce Saojiwan. If he could surround a battalion of our army, he must be the main force of the bandits in Song Junnian. He couldn't find him everywhere. Unexpectedly, he jumped out by himself.

Soldiers are very fast. Our main force rushed to Saojiwan in the shortest time, but then rushed out again.

Song Junnian's gangsters had already withdrawn from the battle an hour ago. In the nearby bamboo forest, 17 corpses buried by the bandits were found. They did this enough to prove that the bandits retreated voluntarily, and retreated very calmly.

However, the bandits also exposed their weaknesses in this battle. With an absolute advantage, after more than 9 hours of fighting, they were unable to annihilate a company of our army. It can be seen that the combat effectiveness of the Song Junnian bandits is definitely not as powerful as the legends of the people.

The leader of the bandit suppression force is an old Eighth Route Army, and he has never suffered such a loss when fighting the Japanese.

The stubbornness of Shandong people comes up, and even nine cows can’t pull them back.He ordered all the soldiers who participated in the war to be not afraid of fatigue or sacrifice, and to look for clues left by Song Junnian's gangsters when they retreated.

The main force of the bandit suppression force immediately launched a pursuit and searching the mountains and forests day and night. Late at night two days later, a unit of the bandit suppression troops discovered the enemy in Niulianggang.

Because the temperature was very low at that time, the bandits spent the night in the village houses.

The soldiers of the bandit suppression troops did not delay for a minute and immediately launched an attack. The battle was very fierce. The bandits had very strong firepower. They not only had heavy machine gun , but also artillery fire support. In particular, they had a fire-breathing weapon, causing huge damage to some new soldiers who had just joined the army.

Our soldiers went one after another, not afraid of sacrifice. After fierce fighting all night, they finally wiped out all the bandits.

A total of 492 bandits were killed and wounded, and 538 were captured below the captain of the bandit brigade. Another bandit brigade captain Wang Bochuan judged the situation and abandoned the darkness and turned to the lightness. He led 166 of his subordinates to turn against the battlefield, abandoned the darkness and turned to the lightness, and took the initiative to seize the gun and reform himself. Song Junnian also captured 37 bandit leaders including Zhang Changchen, Ma Qi, and Lin Huan'ao.

In this battle, our army seized 5 heavy machine guns, 60 guns, thousands of guns of various types, one radio station, several war horses, and more than 400,000 ammunition of various types.

This battle, Song Junnian suffered heavy losses and did not dare to show up for a long time.

7 In July, the main force of the bandit suppression force was transferred from the Xiangshan Peninsula.

Song Junnian's bandits were waiting for an opportunity to take the banner of "East Zhejiang Guerrilla Column", gathered nearly 2,000 bandits, organized 6 brigades in the city, and appointed Lou Buyun, Long Baoxing, Si Changyi and others as team leaders; contact station manager Zheng Xiaojin.

In order to deceive the ignorant people, Song Junnian said with ulterior motives that the purpose of this bandit armed forces is to "welcome the Third World War and fight back to Ningbo to celebrate the Spring Festival."

Song Junnian did not do the "commander" this time, and gave himself the title of "Demon King of the World" and claimed that his subordinates were "arachi soldiers who have been tempered into steel".

Some people dare to believe that those bandits and habitual bandits who have been hidden for a long time have joined in. The power of the bandits in Song Junnian's stock bandits was blowing like anger and quickly expanded.

In less than a month, the bandits destroyed 18 newly established farmers' associations and killed more than 40 farmers' association cadres. In addition, the bandits also captured many young people and forced them to join the gang.

local bandits are becoming increasingly rampant. With the county brigade and other local armed forces alone, the bandits with excellent weapons and large numbers of people cannot resist the bandits. By August, the situation further deteriorated, and the bandits' power was even worse than last year's peak.

The bandit suppression troops were divided into two groups. The first battalion and the third battalion landed from Gongyu and Baidun, and entered Juexi, Xikou, Shipu and other places respectively, cutting off the way for Song Junnian's bandits to enter the sea eastward. The second battalion of the 198th Regiment and local troops set up defenses on the front line of Xiangshan Port and Xizhou Port to block the bandits' route for fleeing west.

Such a large-scale military mobilization was completely completed at night.

Song Junnian never noticed it, and he was already in trouble.

When the main force began to operate, Fu Kunyong, the commander-in-chief of the 198th Regiment, broke the regiment's reconnaissance company into pieces, formed several flight groups, and went deep into the bandit cave.

Capturing the thief first captures the king. The mission of the flight team is to capture Song Junnian alive.

Due to the tight blockade of our army, although the bandits of Song Junnian set up countless spies in various places, they did not realize that the bandit suppression troops had prepared a net for them.

Since the beginning of the battle, good news has been frequent, and unaware of the bandits have been arrested one after another.

Song Junnian has 6 team leaders. Five of them were captured alive. Among all the important bandit leaders, only Lou Buyun, the captain of the bandit No. 1 brigade, and Zheng Xiaojin, the stationmaster, was still missing.

More than half a month later, the bandit suppression troops failed to give the enemy a chance to breathe, and killed more than 1,100 prisoners. The captain of the second bandit brigade, Long Baoxing, were the captains of 97 bandit leaders obediently.

According to the prisoner's account, Song Junnian's most elite machine cannon squadron and guard special report team had a total of seven or eight hundred people. He is now hiding in the mountains and forests of the Niuli area. It is said that these people have "magic skills to protect their bodies and are invulnerable to swords and guns". They are the so-called "arhat soldiers who have been tempered into steel".

Political Commissar Fu Kunyong is from Ningjin County, Shandong Province. He is also an old Eighth Route Army. He never believes in evil. He believes that the so-called "arhat soldiers who have been tempered into steel" are tools that Song Junnian took out to fool people. Thosearhat soldiers have no ability to "invulnerable swords and guns".

However, some local troops who participated in the bandit suppression last time said confidently: These "arhat soldiers" can spew out the Samadhi True Fire with just one mouth, which can burn the stones. If they fall on people, they will jump into the water, and the fire will not be extinguished. I wonder how many comrades in the army were burned into charcoal by this terrifying Samadhi True Fire.

The rumors of fear spread rapidly among the soldiers of the bandit suppression force. Before the war was fought, many soldiers had already developed a strong fear of the "Arhat Soldiers".

These words finally reached Fu Kunyong's ears. He believed that the "Arhat Soldier" vomited Samadhi True Fire, which was completely a tact. He had fought for half his life and had never seen a soldier who could vomit fire.

In order to eliminate the soldiers' fear of the Arhat soldiers, Fu Kunyong issued an order to attack Niu Li.

Our army's two battalions set off overnight. Fu Kunyong was worried that the enemy really had any evil tricks? The artillery company was ordered to follow up urgently. Try to avoid fighting face to face with the Arhat soldiers, but use artillery to carry out saturation bombing of the bandit’s nest.

As the saying goes, "Gods cannot hide from the sky." Facing the saturated attack of artillery soldiers, even gods cannot escape, let alone those "arhat soldiers" under Song Junnian.

Before departure, there were still many warriors secretly looking for local Taoists and "invite" a "talisman" to save their lives for themselves, and hide it closely.

bandit suppression troops arrived at Niu Li, and the "arhat soldiers" were making fires and cooking. The rising smoke just provided the bombing coordinates for our artillery.

The enemy is so hospitable, so don’t be polite, just set up a cannon and just bang it.

Amid the roar of artillery fire, the "Arhat soldiers" flew everywhere, and those who were lucky enough to die also fled in all directions.

The enemy also had a machine cannon squadron, and they only had two mortars and . As soon as they opened fire, they were hit by the superior firepower of our army. Soon, the bandits' machine cannon squadron no longer existed.

The soldiers who were ready to go on the position of our army might have hesitated at the beginning, but later they found out that these "arhat soldiers" were just like this. They were blown away and flesh and blood, and they didn't see anyone coming out to spray Samadhi True Fire . These "arhat soldiers" have no other ability except to bluff people.

is still afraid that he will do what he will do, so the soldiers rushed forward and wiped out all the bandits' cannon squadrons and guard special reports, and captured more than 400 prisoners.

Looking at the dusty and dejected prisoners, some of our soldiers were still unsatisfied, and some people secretly leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Membersman, can you vomit the true fire of Samadhi?"

The other party shook his head blankly, with a confused look on his face. Some of our soldiers were happy until they asked about all the prisoners.

With the "Arhat Soldiers" completely wiped out, Song Junnian was left with only more than 100 remnants of bandits, and they hid in groups of three or five in the mountains and old forests.

will never give the enemy a chance to revive. Fu Kunyong dispatched the entire regiment to form several plainclothes reconnaissance teams to penetrate deep into the mountains and forests, and not let go of any clues left by the remaining bandits.

The moment belongs to the 182nd Regiment's reconnaissance hero Lu Zhihao has arrived.

Lu Zhihao was just 20 years old at that time, from Leling, Shandong. He participated in the Huaihai Campaign and the Crossing River Campaign. The young man was smart and brave, quick-witted, and was born to be a scout.

After less than three years of joining the army, he became the platoon leader of the reconnaissance platoon.

Before Lu Zhihao set off, a leader said to him earnestly: I heard that some bandits will spray Samadhi True Fire. We would rather believe in this kind of thing than not. When encountering these bandits with extraordinary skills, you must be careful. If conditions permit, it is best to catch someone alive. I always feel that this matter is a bit evil.

At dawn on August 22, Lu Zhihao and four comrades caught a sneaky guy in Xiashen Village. He claimed that he was a farmer who got up early, but his waist was full of bulging, and he was obviously carrying a weapon.

Although Lu Zhihao is young, he doesn't rub the sand in his eyes and exposes the other person in person. The other party had no way to deny it, so he had to admit that he was the orderly soldier of the bandit captain Lou Buyun.

Important bandit leaders such as Lou Buyun and Deng Xiaojin were all hiding in Jieao Village, with a total of forty or fifty people. This orderly soldier was sent by the bandit leaders to inquire about the news.

Lu Zhihao is willing to go back to report the news, but the sky is about to dawn. Will the bandits in Jieao Village take the opportunity to run away?

Finally, Lu Zhihao made up his mind and sent a comrade back to the station to deliver the letter. He and three other comrades rushed directly to Jie'ao Village. Before he could enter the village, he saw someone peeking out in a cave on the side of the road.

Lu Zhihao rushed into the cave, and the two female bandits were still sleeping soundly. A bandit packed up the radio in panic and prepared to escape.

The leader of the bandit intelligence team, Chen Guobin, and two female radio operators, obediently became prisoners.

As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the village, a pregnant woman closed the door in a panic look.

Lu Zhihao and a comrade climbed over the wall and were dragged out from under the bamboo bed. A middle-aged man with a fleshy face was identified as Lou Buyun, the captain of the First Bandit Brigade.

Lou Buyun is quite stubborn and refuses to explain the hiding place of other bandits. Lu Zhihao tied Lou Buyun and threw it into a sweet potato cellar.

At this time, the sky was already bright and the bandits had already received the news, but they could not understand the truth and did not dare to break through rashly. They found a place they thought were safe to hide.

When Lu Zhihao was searching, he found a lot of straw, with traces of being moved. Looking closely, there was a pigpen under the straw.

Lu Zhihao shouted sternly: "Get out quickly, otherwise I will set fire."

A guy wearing glasses ran out tremblingly. This guy was Song Junnian's secretary.

Then, bandits crawled out of the haystack one after another. Even Lu Zhihao didn't expect that there were 29 bandits growing in this haystack, including Song Junnian's guards and intelligence team leaders.

Lu Zhihao took prisoners tied into a string and left Jieao Village. A little boy watching the fun at the entrance of the village was seven or eight years old. When he saw Lu Zhihao and the others, he ran away.

Lu Zhihao felt something strange and he was reluctant to leave. The little boy ran into a farmyard with his front legs, and Lu Zhihao chased him in.

A thin monkey-like bandit in the yard was stunned at first, then took out a pistol. Before he could lift the gun, Lu Zhihao had already chased him closer, kicked the bandit over to the ground, and tied him up tightly.

Lu Zhihao escorted the bandit back to the queue. A bandit who was unknown in depth shouted: "Webmaster Zheng, why are you arrested?"

It turns out that this thin monkey-like bandit is Zheng Xiaojin, the webmaster of the bandit intelligence station. Zheng Xiaojin is the only one among the captured bandits who knows where Song Junnian is hiding.

At this moment, our army's reinforcements had arrived. Seeing Lu Zhihao and four others arrested more than 30 fully armed prisoners, they all praised them for being amazing.

But Lu Zhihao did not show too much happiness. The biggest bandit leader, Song Junnian, has not been caught yet. In addition, the leader asked him to catch a bandit who could spit fire, but the mission was not completed.

According to Zheng Xiaojin's confession, the bandit leader Song Junnian hid in a cave in Jingjiashan nearby. They had just met the night before yesterday, and Song Junnian also gave him 4 boxes of cigarettes.

Without further ado, Lu Zhihao, who had not rested for two consecutive nights, led several comrades to set off again.

In the cave identified by Zheng Xiaojin, only cigarette butts and food residues were seen on the ground. The cave was empty. On the moss on the side of the cave, there were footprints that were stepped on everywhere. Follow the footprints, and on a piece of gravel, the footprints disappeared.

was run away by Song Junnian again. The soldiers were a little unwilling to give up and dispatched their main force to surround Jingjiashan. Jingjia Mountain is not large in area and is only more than 500 meters above sea level. The bandit suppression troops and local militia searched for more than 5 hours in a row, and almost searched every corner. Seventy or eighty scattered bandits were captured, but Song Junnian still did not find the whereabouts.

The militia company commander who cooperated with the search operation was named Lai and was named Lai Shengqiang. They caught the fewest prisoners and the search operation was completed the fastest.

Lv Zhihao, who was a little disappointed, accidentally found a figure flashing in the cave where the militia searched. He took his comrades to check the truth, but was blocked by Lai Shengqiang. There was only one reason, and this task could only be completed by them. Then Lai Shengqiang sent two militiamen to inspect.

Lu Zhihao said that he saw at least three or four figures, and he might suffer if he went to less militia. Then 10 more militiamen volunteered.

As a result, the militia captured four prisoners from the cave. One of them everyone knew was Lai Shengqiang's cousin Lai Shengjian.

It turns out that Lai Shengqiang is an insider, so the soldiers had to search the area that the militia had just searched for.

In a forest, the soldiers found two burned bushes. It was summer, and the burned bushes were only a piece of black and gray. This made Lu Zhihao think of those "arhat soldiers" who could spit out fire.

Lu Zhihao and four comrades climbed a cliff and found a dark cave entrance in the corner on the other side of the cliff. On one side of the cave entrance is a cliff, and on the other side is a huge rock full of green moss. If you didn’t look down on the cliff, you would not have discovered this cave at all.

Lu Zhihao and his comrades climbed off the cliff, quietly came to the entrance of the cave, and hid behind the huge rock.

Between the huge rock and the cliff is a natural aisle about 10 meters long, leading to the entrance of the cave, and the sound of speaking is faintly heard from the cave.

Lu Zhihao threw a grenade into the entrance of the cave through the huge rock. The explosion sounded, and Lu Zhihao lay behind the huge rock and shouted sternly: "Song Junnian, you have been surrounded. Come out and surrender immediately, and strive for leniency. If you are obsessed with it and resist stubbornly, there is only one way to die."

The cave was speechless, and a scout named Li was eager to make contributions. He jumped off the huge rock and rushed towards the entrance of the cave with a submachine gun.

A flame suddenly flew out of the cave, and the scout named Li died heroically.

"Flamething Thrower", Lu Zhihao saw this thing during the Huaihai Battle and knew it was powerful and could burn the stones.

At this moment, the soldiers of the bandit suppression troops also climbed up the cliff. Lu Zhihao asked his comrades to chop and pick grass, and condescend to the entrance of the cave. Song Junnian, who was hiding in the cave, was desperate and could only take 17 subordinates and hold their hands high out of the cave.

Two flamethrowers became the spoils of Lu Zhihao and his comrades. He successfully completed the task assigned by the leader, exposing the lie that the "arachi soldier" could expose the true fire of Samadhi.

Lu Zhihao received a commendation from his superiors, and the chief asked him what he had. Lu Zhihao wanted to execute Song Junnian with a flamethrower to avenge his sacrificed comrades.

However, Lu Zhihao's proposal was rejected by the leader. Because Song Junnian is notorious and is called the "killer devil" by the local people, he must wait until he is sentenced to death and be confirmed by the local people. It is indeed Song Junnian's body, which can also dispel everyone's fear of him.

Five months later, Song Junnian was executed on the spot and executed by firing. In more than half a month after his death, local people came to visit the body in an endless stream. Everyone praised the bandit suppression troops even more.