Sichuan is surrounded by mountains. Since Zhuge Liang's " Later Departure of Masters" praised him " the Chengdu Plain, the land of abundance, with fertile fields thousands of miles away, and the great ancestors became emperors because of it", Sichuan has been known as the land of abundance.
During the Warring States period, Li Bing and his son built the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project. The plains of western Sichuan were able to maintain harvests despite droughts and floods, and Sichuan people's lives were prosperous and healthy. At the same time, Sichuan has also given birth to a splendid movement of great people and celebrities.
Endless years have passed. Although it is not a developed area due to the twilight of industrial civilization and the natural barrier of mountains, it is still rich in land and people and the people are prosperous.
Whenever the country is in danger, it will always provide a shelter with humility and kindness.
However, history is a mirror. Although this land has avoided major wars, it has also experienced many major changes in the cycle of reincarnation. This change shocked history and future generations.
Sichuan during the Republic of China
Throughout the past dynasties, whenever there was a change of political power, Sichuan would always be the first to do so; every time when the world was peaceful, the aftermath was still raging here.
Therefore, historians lamented: before the world is in chaos, Shu will be in chaos first; the world has been governed but Shu has not been governed.
Is the strange circle of history turning around again?
In early 1950, appalling banditry broke out in Sichuan, which had just ushered in liberation.
Longtan Temple in the suburbs of Chengdu. The night of February 5, 1950. Several dim lanterns were hung on the pillars, flickering against the cold wind.
A group of bandits with white handkerchiefs on their heads, guns slung across their shoulders, and torches in their hands swarmed around.
At this time, this ancient temple named after the bathing of Liu Adou , the empress of the Shu Han Dynasty, was drowned in the noise. More than 10 People's Liberation Army soldiers were tied up and pushed to the front of the temple.
Between the two grinning stone lions, a strong man with a face as black as coal, wearing a shabby Kuomintang colonel uniform, brandishing a pistol and staring fiercely at the audience.
He is a local snake in Longtan, the bandit leader Wu Jie who was named "Commander of the Longtan Column of the People's Anti-Communist National Salvation Army in Western Sichuan" by Mao Renfeng.
Wu Jie, whose real name is Liu Jinmao, is from Longtan Temple and comes from a family of bully landlords. When he was young, he was extremely envious of the various Sichuan warlords who "have guns and are like grass-headed kings". At the age of 15, he embarked on the road of eating food and serving as a soldier.
He followed Sun Lianzhong of the Northwest Army and traveled north and south. He eventually became a colonel and brigade commander and became a professional soldier. Later, he was demoted to lieutenant colonel because he competed with Sun Lianzhong's brother-in-law for an actress.
He harbored a grudge and sneaked into the military headquarters in an attempt to seek revenge. However, he was bitten by a wolf dog and had no choice but to escape back to his hometown, Longtan Temple, and live in seclusion.
His father Liu Yuyuan was a big bully landlord in the Longtan Temple area. After Wu Jie returned home, he rarely felt lonely. He quickly used his old military connections to become the special agent team leader of the Chengdu Security Department.
On the eve of liberation, Wu Jie quickly registered with the "Yougan Ban" in Beijiaochang, Chengdu, and received a batch of guns and ammunition.
With Longtan Temple as the center, he recruited some ruffians, habitual bandits and local ruffians, with pao brother as the backbone, to intimidate and deceive some people who did not know the truth. After being appointed by Mao Renfeng, he organized the so-called "Longtan Column of the People's Anti-Communist National Salvation Army of Western Sichuan".
At this time, looking at the bound People's Liberation Army in front of the stage, Wu Jie laughed dryly "Hey hey" twice, walked around and said:
"Which party of the Communist Party are you? Dare to break into our Longtan Temple" . "
"Huh! Who are you? Now that the whole country is liberated, you still dare to act like this in broad daylight," a tall and handsome PLA cadre shouted.
"I am Wu Jie, the Commander of the Longtan Column of the National Salvation Army in Western Sichuan."
"You are a group of bandits! I am Zhu Xiangli, director of the Political Department of the 178th Division of the People's Liberation Army. I am telling you now that you can only lay down your weapons before arriving. The only way out is for the local government to surrender. Otherwise, you will make the same mistakes again and again."
Zhu Xiangli
The kidnapped PLA cadre turned out to be Zhu Xiangli, director of the Political Department of the 178th Division.
Sichuan is surrounded by mountains. Since Zhuge Liang's " Later Departure of Masters" praised him " the Chengdu Plain, the land of abundance, with fertile fields thousands of miles away, and the great ancestors became emperors because of it", Sichuan has been known as the land of abundance.
During the Warring States period, Li Bing and his son built the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project. The plains of western Sichuan were able to maintain harvests despite droughts and floods, and Sichuan people's lives were prosperous and healthy. At the same time, Sichuan has also given birth to a splendid movement of great people and celebrities.
Endless years have passed. Although it is not a developed area due to the twilight of industrial civilization and the natural barrier of mountains, it is still rich in land and people and the people are prosperous.
Whenever the country is in danger, it will always provide a shelter with humility and kindness.
However, history is a mirror. Although this land has avoided major wars, it has also experienced many major changes in the cycle of reincarnation. This change shocked history and future generations.
Sichuan during the Republic of China
Throughout the past dynasties, whenever there was a change of political power, Sichuan would always be the first to do so; every time when the world was peaceful, the aftermath was still raging here.
Therefore, historians lamented: before the world is in chaos, Shu will be in chaos first; the world has been governed but Shu has not been governed.
Is the strange circle of history turning around again?
In early 1950, appalling banditry broke out in Sichuan, which had just ushered in liberation.
Longtan Temple in the suburbs of Chengdu. The night of February 5, 1950. Several dim lanterns were hung on the pillars, flickering against the cold wind.
A group of bandits with white handkerchiefs on their heads, guns slung across their shoulders, and torches in their hands swarmed around.
At this time, this ancient temple named after the bathing of Liu Adou , the empress of the Shu Han Dynasty, was drowned in the noise. More than 10 People's Liberation Army soldiers were tied up and pushed to the front of the temple.
Between the two grinning stone lions, a strong man with a face as black as coal, wearing a shabby Kuomintang colonel uniform, brandishing a pistol and staring fiercely at the audience.
He is a local snake in Longtan, the bandit leader Wu Jie who was named "Commander of the Longtan Column of the People's Anti-Communist National Salvation Army in Western Sichuan" by Mao Renfeng.
Wu Jie, whose real name is Liu Jinmao, is from Longtan Temple and comes from a family of bully landlords. When he was young, he was extremely envious of the various Sichuan warlords who "have guns and are like grass-headed kings". At the age of 15, he embarked on the road of eating food and serving as a soldier.
He followed Sun Lianzhong of the Northwest Army and traveled north and south. He eventually became a colonel and brigade commander and became a professional soldier. Later, he was demoted to lieutenant colonel because he competed with Sun Lianzhong's brother-in-law for an actress.
He harbored a grudge and sneaked into the military headquarters in an attempt to seek revenge. However, he was bitten by a wolf dog and had no choice but to escape back to his hometown, Longtan Temple, and live in seclusion.
His father Liu Yuyuan was a big bully landlord in the Longtan Temple area. After Wu Jie returned home, he rarely felt lonely. He quickly used his old military connections to become the special agent team leader of the Chengdu Security Department.
On the eve of liberation, Wu Jie quickly registered with the "Yougan Ban" in Beijiaochang, Chengdu, and received a batch of guns and ammunition.
With Longtan Temple as the center, he recruited some ruffians, habitual bandits and local ruffians, with pao brother as the backbone, to intimidate and deceive some people who did not know the truth. After being appointed by Mao Renfeng, he organized the so-called "Longtan Column of the People's Anti-Communist National Salvation Army of Western Sichuan".
At this time, looking at the bound People's Liberation Army in front of the stage, Wu Jie laughed dryly "Hey hey" twice, walked around and said:
"Which party of the Communist Party are you? Dare to break into our Longtan Temple" . "
"Huh! Who are you? Now that the whole country is liberated, you still dare to act like this in broad daylight," a tall and handsome PLA cadre shouted.
"I am Wu Jie, the Commander of the Longtan Column of the National Salvation Army in Western Sichuan."
"You are a group of bandits! I am Zhu Xiangli, director of the Political Department of the 178th Division of the People's Liberation Army. I am telling you now that you can only lay down your weapons before arriving. The only way out is for the local government to surrender. Otherwise, you will make the same mistakes again and again."
Zhu Xiangli
The kidnapped PLA cadre turned out to be Zhu Xiangli, director of the Political Department of the 178th Division.
Immediately, he struggled to turn around and faced the black bandits and persuaded loudly: "Folks, most of you are poor farmers. The People's Liberation Army serves the working people of the world. You must not be deceived by the bandits!"
"Damn, the mouth of a cooked duck is still hard. Brothers, kill the flag and kill his son and I." Wu Jie roared angrily.
Zhu Xiangli, director of the Political Department of the 178th Division of the 60th Army, originally led his troops to reorganize the Kuomintang uprising troops in Shibantan, Xindu County.
On February 4, Director Zhu received a notice from the military region, asking him to hand over the work of Shibantan to Comrade Guo Tie, political commissar of the 536th Regiment of the 179th Division, and then report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in Beijing, preparing to go to Bulgaria to serve as the attaché of our embassy abroad.
html On February 5, before going on the road, Guo Tie reminded Zhu Xiangli again and again: Be careful on the road. Because the road was not peaceful when he came yesterday. There were suspicious people in many places, and there were people in several places making cold shots at the People's Liberation Army. The situation was very complicated.Guo Tie
In order to ensure the safety of Director Zhu Xiangli on his way back to Chengdu, Guo Tie also specially selected Deputy Platoon Leader Zhao, who had won the title of combat hero, to lead a reinforced class to serve as the escort.
When returning to Chengdu, we have to pass by Longtan Temple. Longtan Temple is only 9 kilometers away from the urban area of Chengdu. It is said that Liu Chan, the empress of the Shu Han Dynasty, once bathed in this pool during the Three Kingdoms period, hence its name.
The bandit leader Wu Jie who was hiding here killed the People's Liberation Army team sent there by the Chengdu Military Control Commission to collect grain, and planted gangs along the way in an attempt to attack the People's Liberation Army passing by.
At about 10 o'clock in the morning, Zhu Xiangli and his party came to the small stone bridge over a small river behind Longtan Temple.
There was a bunker on the hill beside the bridge. Zhu Xiangli and his party thought it was built by the Kuomintang troops in the past and paid no attention to it. Because there were indeed many such bunkers around Chengdu at that time.
When they were just walking past the Xiaochang Bridge, a burst of gunfire suddenly came from the bunker, and several soldiers were hit in the shoulders.
"Spread out!"
Deputy platoon leader Zhao shouted, and at the same time, he pushed Zhu Xiangli down into the wheat field next to him.
"Fellow, don't shoot, we are the People's Liberation Army of China, passing by here." The guard squad leader shouted towards the bunker.
"Where did the Communist Party come from? You are not allowed to set foot in our Longtan Temple." The gangsters screamed.
"We are passing through your area and do not want to fight with you. Please do not shoot indiscriminately. You have wounded one of our comrades." Zhu Xiangli personally shouted, hoping to ease the situation and take the initiative.
The gangsters shot again! The bullets flew straight over the heads of Zhu Xiangli and others, making the commanders and soldiers unable to lift their heads.
At this time, the bandit leader Wu Jie led hundreds of bandits to appear on the mound, shouting fiercely: "Charge! Beat him!"
Zhu Xiangli was afraid of accidentally injuring the crowd, so he did not give the order to fire. However, when he saw the bandits rushing up with howling, he had to order a counterattack.
Deputy platoon leader Zhao has also realized the criticality of the situation at hand, and he understands even more the important responsibility he shoulders to protect the safety of Director Zhu Xiangli.
But at the moment, they can only concentrate their firepower and try to open a passage from the front to cover Director Zhu Xiangli's forced breakout from the small stone bridge.
Following his decisive order, the whole class's four carbines , a Czech light machine gun, and all other long and short firearms rushed towards the small barren hill on the opposite side of the bridge with unprepared firepower.
Several hundred bandits were forced to retreat. Seeing this formation, Wu Jie ordered all the bandits to lie down. He shouted: " machine gun , hit me hard and suppress the firepower of the Communist army."
Five machine guns on the mound fired at the small stone bridge. Zhu Xiangli commanded the guard squad to resist tenaciously. At this time, strange sounds suddenly sounded from all around. Zhu Xiangli looked up and was shocked.
Tens of thousands of people came from all directions, wearing all kinds of clothes and with all kinds of weapons, including guns, cannons, firecrackers, and broadswords. , shuttlecocks, axes, kitchen knives, sticks;
there were men, women, old and young, many people were beating washbasins, gongs and drums , blowing suonas and ox horns, the formation was extremely scary.
Cries of death could be heard everywhere within five or six miles.
Zhu Xiangli ordered a breakout, but it was already too late. Zhu Xiangli divided the class into two groups, one group under his own command, and the other group under the command of deputy platoon leader Zhao. The two groups of personnel covered each other and approached the Xiaoshi Bridge in turn.
However, no matter how they rushed left and right, they could not get close to the small stone bridge in front of them, and they could not break out from it.
Until about 3 p.m., 19 members of the class went with them, including the combat hero Deputy Platoon Leader Zhao. Nine comrades had died gloriously, two soldiers were seriously injured, and Director Zhu Xiangli himself was injured in three places.
What’s even more serious at this time is that almost all their bullets have been fired.
Out of desperation, Zhu Xiangli ordered the health worker to break out of the encirclement alone. Other comrades provided full cover, and asked the health worker to make every effort to break out of the encirclement and report the situation there to the head of the corps immediately.
The health worker took off his military uniform, followed a bamboo forest next to the riverbank, and took advantage of the chaos to get out of the group of bandits.
He ran 20 miles in one breath and reached the Corps headquarters. He ignored the call for a report and stumbled into the duty room. He said out of breath: "Commander...Longtan Temple, Zhu Xiangli, director of our division's political and metallurgical department, and...there was also a comrade in the intensive class who were all killed by bandits..."
Commander Zhou Shidi heard the report and immediately summoned deputy commander Wang Xinting. The Corps Headquarters quickly made a decisive decision:
Wang Xinting
sent Deng Shijun, chief of staff of the Western Sichuan Military Region, to lead a regiment and a guard company stationed in Chengdu to rush to Longtan Temple to rescue Zhu Xiangli, director of the Political Department of the 178th Division, and all the guards who were surrounded by bandits and were in critical condition.
Before departure, Zhou Shidi repeatedly emphasized three points to Deng Shijun: (1) Do not use force lightly unless absolutely necessary;
(2) Go all out to rescue Director Zhu Xiangli and all escorts. After achieving the goal, we will not continue to pursue the bandits that I defeated;
(3) Find out the full situation of the large-scale armed bandit riot in Longtan Temple as soon as possible.
Deng Shijun led the rescue force of the 540th Regiment and a security company, which set out from Chengdu at 7 o'clock that night. After nearly two hours of rapid march, they arrived at a hillside more than ten miles away from Longtan Temple at about 8:30 p.m.
Standing here, you can see the torches all over the mountains and plains of Longtan Temple from a distance, and you can also vaguely hear the roar of people and various noisy gunshots.
Deng Shijun
He ordered the troops to stop advancing and stay put, and detached a reconnaissance platoon from the 540th Regiment, led by the reconnaissance staff of the regiment, to go to the front to reconnoiter the situation, and strive to capture a few "tongues" back in order to clarify the specific situation of the bandits.
The reconnaissance platoon broke into the torch array, causing fierce gunfire. However, the gunfire quickly became sparse and returned to its original state.
An hour passed, and there was no news from the reconnaissance platoon. Two hours passed and still no news.
At around 12 o'clock in the night, no one from the staff officer or the reconnaissance platoon he led came back. Deng Renjun ordered the deputy company commander to take another platoon to the front to reconnoiter the situation, and at the same time to connect with the platoon led by the reconnaissance staff.
The deputy company commander had been walking for about half an hour when a burst of fierce gunfire rang out in front of him. However, there was no news from the deputy company commander until about two o'clock in the morning the next day.
Within dozens of miles around Longtan Temple, there are still dots of torches, and there is still a roar of people and chaotic gunshots.
"Commander of the first battalion!" Deng Shijun ordered, "Come in with the whole battalion and see what kind of birds are there!"
A battalion of soldiers rushed into the torch array and encountered the same situation again. The battalion commander saw that more than 20 people had been killed or injured in a few minutes and ordered a counterattack.
The battle became more and more intense, and the sound of gunfire made Deng Shijun upset like fried beans.
The first battalion sent people back to report that there were many enemies and they were very cunning. They surrounded me but did not attack me. They just kept shooting. From time to time, the voices of women and children were heard. I don’t know who they were. They were advancing and others were retreating, and others were retreating. It was always a stalemate.
Wu Jie was grinning ferociously in the darkness.He was very proud. In the dark night, he couldn't figure out the strength of the People's Liberation Army, so he could only encircle them but not attack them, and fire volleys at random.
"This trick is really effective!" Wu Jie thought.
It's almost dawn. "We must not let the bandits know our strength!" Chief of Staff Deng and the commander of the 540th Regiment decided that the commander would personally lead the second battalion to advance forcefully and strive to rush into Longtan Temple to find Director Zhu Xiangli and all the besieged comrades as soon as possible.
Then, we tried to hold on together with the comrades inside. After daybreak, we determined the situation, and then worked together from the inside and outside to completely rescue the comrades trapped inside by the bandits.
The second battalion opened up its posture and forced its way into the sea of torches and people, approaching Longtan Temple. However, as soon as they arrived in front of a dirt beam on the north side of Longtan Temple, dense bullets were fired from the surrounding bamboo forests, behind the field ridges, and from the houses.
The regimental commander ordered the entire battalion to use light and heavy firearms to suppress the opponent. However, the machine gun shooters could not find the location of the opponent's firepower point. In the blink of an eye, the entire battalion lost more than 20 comrades.
This battle is difficult to fight. It is difficult to distinguish which is the enemy and which is the masses. The Corps also ordered not to harm the masses, so the troops can only advance while avoiding hidden guns. The whole battalion finally rushed to the soil beam, but could no longer move forward.
Chief of Staff Deng Shijun learned about the situation of the entire battalion through the walkie-talkie from behind. He was so angry that he threw the microphone down: "Damn it, what kind of ghost battle is this? Artillery battery, move it up to the soil beam and hit it hard!"
Immediately, one after another 60 artillery shells exploded around the soil beam.
At this time, it was getting daylight. After the whole regiment's artillery concentrated their firepower and threw a burst of artillery shells around Tuliangzi, Deng Shijun shouted: "Rescue team, guard company, all follow me!"
Deng Shijun waved his hand and led all the rescue troops to press towards Longtan Temple.
The surrounding bandits began to collapse, and the main force of the 540th Regiment led by Deng Shijun joined forces with the Second Battalion.
When they arrived at Longtan Temple, the bandits were nowhere to be seen. They only saw the bodies of the two platoons of soldiers sent out for the first time, and the bandits who were killed and wounded by my shells.
Deng Shijun quickly found the small bridge on the north side of Longtan Temple and found the place where Zhu Xiangli, director of the Political Department of the 178th Division, and more than 10 security personnel were besieged by bandits.
However, in the wheat field at the bridgehead and under the bridge, except for piles of bullet casings and a few pools of bright red blood, there was nothing else.
Deng Shijun divided his troops and searched the entire Longtan Temple and every ditch and ridge and bamboo forest around the temple, but still could not find any trace.
It was not until 9 days later that they figured out that in the evening before Deng Shijun led the rescue team to Longtan Temple, Wu Jie announced a killing to sacrifice the flag, and six people including Zhu Xiangli, who was injured and captured, were tortured to death by the bandits.
Finally, the cruel gangsters buried their bodies in a small mud pond. The troops dug out the bodies from the mud pond, which was simply unbearable to witness.
After the investigation, we learned that most of the people holding torches all over the mountains and plains were people who had been deceived and coerced.
In order to win people's hearts, the witch bandits distributed food from their own warehouses to the masses, deceiving the masses into organizing and taking up arms to "protect their homes and defend themselves."
He also issued an order that in the event of a firefight with the Communist Party, light cigarettes during the day and set fires at night, and respond from all directions. Those with guns should use guns, and those with knives should use knives to prevent the People's Liberation Army from entering Longtan Temple.
He also used the usual tricks of the Kuomintang reactionaries to spread rumors, saying, "The Communist Party came to take the money of the rich and the lives of the poor. It will make the rich poor and kill the poor, making it impossible for the poor and the rich to live."
After he committed the heinous crime of besieging and killing PLA officers and soldiers, he knew that he could not escape the blame and had to threaten more people, so he loudly announced:
"All the high-ranking officials of the PLA were killed by Commander Wu, and the PLA is nothing special. Don't be afraid. Now that you have done it, follow Commander Wu Jie to the end."
So, Wu Jie used the power of the crowd to create a tragedy that shocked the southwest. They occupied Longtan Temple and "flyed posts" everywhere, calling on bandits everywhere to riot.
news is out.Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping wrote special reports on this issue and urgently informed Chairman Mao and the Central Military Commission.
Chairman Mao was very angry and specifically instructed the Southwest Bureau and the Southwest Military Region, "The banditry is so serious, we must not allow it to spread, and we must quickly organize forces to wipe out the banditry."
The murder of Zhu Xiangli thus officially opened the prelude to the suppression of banditry in Sichuan and even Southwest..
Wu Jie not only killed the People's Liberation Army, but also caused chaos around Chengdu.
At the beginning of 1950, the country had just been liberated, and there was a lot of waste waiting to be done, and food was particularly tight. Take Sichuan as an example. Hundreds of thousands of troops have suddenly entered the country, plus more than 600,000 old military and political personnel who surrendered during the Kuomintang uprising in the past. The issue of food alone is not an easy task.
At that time, considering that Sichuan had always been a major grain-producing province, the Southwest Military Region, in addition to focusing on political power building, also sent work teams to the countryside to collect grain. This violated the fundamental interests of the feudal exploiting class.
Wu Jie saw this opportunity and fanned the flames everywhere, deceiving and beguiling some people who did not know the truth.
He spread rumors everywhere, saying: "Chairman Chiang is about to fight back, and the People's Liberation Army in the city has begun to withdraw into the mountains. Food is everyone's life. Protecting food is like protecting life, and must not be handed over."
"The common people have guns in their hands. When forced, get up and fight with them. It is better to starve to death."
Wu Jie seized on the grain requisition and made a big fuss. After causing the tragedy in Longtan Temple, he went to the Yangma River in Jianyang and conspired to launch bandits from all over the country to riot.
On February 20, he and the bandit Fan Juchuan, the former deputy commander of the 2nd Security Division of the Kuomintang Hubei Province and Ma Lie who rebelled after the uprising, and the leader of the Three Youth League of Jianyang County Jiang Jun, together with some local tyrants and habitual bandits, held an "emergency response meeting" in Yangma River.
Wu Jie was very proud of the meeting. He slapped his chest and spat with saliva: "Now that 'guerrillas' have been established all over the country, it seems that mobilizing the poor with the slogan of anti-grain is the right move."
"At present, the situation is developing very fast. Chairman Chiang and Director Mao are very satisfied with the efforts of the mainland guerrilla fighters."
"Last time, I brought ' The Longtan Column ambushed the People's Liberation Army. The senior Communist officer named Zhu Xiangli was the director of the political department of the division. It was said that this person was sent by the Communist Party to serve as a foreign attaché in some country. However, he was (killed) by me. "
" Taiwan even called us to commend him. I think the People's Liberation Army is nothing special. As long as we work hard, the cause of anti-communism and restoration of the country will be successful. "
As soon as Wu Jie finished boasting, Ma Lie couldn't wait to stand up, slapped the table and shouted: "Comrades of the party and state, I, Ma Lie, have been accused by the Communist Party of being a traitor, and I will rebel against the "common disaster"."
Local bandit Fan Juchuan was even more excited and couldn't control himself. He cleared his throat, sat down on the table, and banged the tabletop to announce loudly:
"Everyone It's very good to seize the time to start the riot and turn the western Sichuan Bazi into a red. When the time comes, eight people will carry the sedan to invite Chairman Chiang back. Now, I declare that the "Western Sichuan People's Anti-Communist National Salvation Army 1st Army" has been officially established..."
With Wu Jie's four contacts, Jianyang's bandit Caotai team was released.
Fan Juchuan served as the "army commander", Wu Jie and Ma Lie served as the "frontline commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief" respectively, and the township security chief served as captains and squadron captains respectively. Subsequently, they intensified their connections and plotted to stage a unified riot in April.
Jianyang Luodai, February April came suddenly.
4 14th, night has just fallen. A farmer ran into the district office out of breath and said out of breath: "District Chief Wang... The bandits in the Loess Field have rioted. The work team is surrounded in the Loess Field. Please hurry up... hurry up... and send reinforcements to rescue the siege."
District Chief Wang immediately led the district squadron to the rescue.
The Jianyang bandit rebellion carefully planned by Fan Juchuan, Wu Jie, and Ma Lie first appeared in Luodai District (now Chengdu).
The thugs were like wild beasts, pounced on the male and female team members scattered in various townships, and brutally killed 25 team members in Xiping, Wanxing, Jun'an and other townships.
After Zhang Xiang and eight other team members from Wanxing Township were killed by bandits, their bodies were cut into pieces, divided into pieces, and thrown into several manure pits.
Jun'an Township team member Liu Derun was hung from a big tree, his neck was cut off with a knife, his head was hanging on his chest, his body was covered in bruises, and the blood stained the large area of loess under his feet red.
In the evening, when District Chief Wang rushed to Huangtuchang with two squadrons of the district squadron, Ma Lie was leading more than 3,000 gangsters to besiege the Huangtuchang Township Office, trapping all the staff inside.
District Chief Wang was about to rush into the bandit formation. At this time, strange sounds suddenly sounded from all around. He looked up and was stunned in shock.
I saw dots of torches everywhere on the surrounding hillsides and in the woods. The men, women, old and young who had been deceived by the bandits were a mass of darkness, like bats flying over at dusk.
These people carried native guns and swords, carried pickets, sticks, hoes, and rakes, beat washbasins, gongs and drums, and blew suonas and horns.
The sound of gunshots and firecrackers was mixed with the roar of shouts, which resounded through the sky. " The Jade Emperor has lowered his talisman and is about to capture the black evil star." "Drive away the People's Liberation Army" and "capture the working team alive."
"You can't hurt the masses. No shooting is allowed without my order." District Chief Wang squatted down on a high ridge and ordered flatly. The two squads of soldiers had no choice but to retreat.
At this time, the torches danced into a long dragon and slowly came around. The long-lived soldiers of the royal district fired their guns into the sky, and the torches flashed back.
This was repeated all night long.
District Commander Wang commanded the area squadron and work team members to hold on by virtue of the favorable terrain. It wasn't until the early morning of the next day that a company from the 87th Regiment of the Neijiang Military Division of the People's Liberation Army heard the news and came for reinforcements, defeated the bandits, and rescued them.
The gangsterism in Luodai is even more serious. During the fierce battle in Loess Field, Ma Lie and Wu Jie gathered more than 6,000 thugs to surround , Luodai Town, , cut off the telephone lines, and cut off the district office's contact with the outside world.
At that time, Luodai Town had only 5 cooks from a company of the 87th Regiment and 9 cadres from the district office. Captain Wu of the
district working team is familiar with the situation in Luodai. He thought: The Luodai riot must be related to Liu Hui'an, known as "Emperor Liu".
Emperor Liu Liu Hui'an was a large landowner in Luodai with a land rent of ten thousand shi, and his tenants numbered tens of thousands. Common people rumored that if Emperor Liu stamped his feet in Luodai, the doors and windows of the entire district would make a "chacha" sound.
At this time, a strategy came to Captain Wu's mind: Liu Hui'an has not yet openly rebelled, but on the surface he is still pretending to be new and actively supports the new regime. If he is invited to the district office and detained, the bandits will never dare to attack rashly!
So, Captain Wu walked into his home in person.
Liu Hui'an was holding a hookah pole and blowing a twister. He never dreamed of knowing how well the district office was being defended. When he heard that Captain Wu had invited him to discuss defense matters, he was so happy that he said, "Okay! Okay! I'll go right now."
The two of them arrived at the district office. After Liu Hui'an took a sip of tea bowl in a serious manner, he saw that there was no movement, so he asked:
"Captain Wu, how about the defense of the district office?"
Captain Wu said with a meaningful smile: "Now that you are here, the defense plan of the district office has been implemented."
"What do you mean by this?" Liu Hui'an asked puzzledly.
" Jianyang County Who doesn't know you, Emperor Liu? With you sitting in the district office, the bandits would dare to come and fight?"
Knowing that something was wrong, Liu Hui'an put down his tea bowl and stood up to leave. Captain Wu grabbed him, still smiling:
"If the bandits don't leave, you can't leave either. The bandits have invaded the district office, let's go to see Lord Yama together."
Liu Hui'an collapsed on his chair as if he had been hit by a sap.
When my wife learned that Liu Hui'an had been taken hostage, she cried and found the two bandit leaders Ma and Wu.
Ma Lie immediately wrote a letter threatening Captain Wu: "Return Mr. Liu before dark, otherwise the district office will be destroyed."
Captain Wu replied scornfully: "The siege of the district office must be lifted before dark. If the attack continues, Liu Hui'an will be executed immediately."
Ma Lie was so angry that he tore the reply into pieces.
Wu Jie stamped his feet, slapped the table and cursed loudly: "Mr. Liu is still called Emperor Liu. He is just a big idiot. He got in alive and was tricked by the Communist Party. This time it doesn't hurt to fall and get up!"
Wang Weigang, political commissar of the Southern Sichuan Military Region, learned that Luodai was suffering from banditry, and immediately sent a company of the 87th Regiment to come for reinforcements. The gangsters fled immediately after receiving fire.
In order not to escalate the situation, Liu Huian was also released from the district office.
That afternoon, Ma Lie gathered tens of thousands of people from other places who did not know the truth and surrounded Luodai again, and brought up mortars and heavy machine guns .
He organized a death squad and publicly promised: "If Luodai is captured, each person will be given 100 kilograms of rice, and if a member of the People's Liberation Army or work team is captured, a reward of 100 yuan will be rewarded."
Some thugs driven by material interests took the opportunity to join the bandits and poured into Luodai from all directions. For fear of inadvertently injuring the masses, the PLA commanders and fighters exercised great restraint and took the initiative to retreat.
Night is coming. The troops have taken the initiative to shrink to the district office compound and the commanding heights of Randen Temple, and more and more people are threatening them.
Thugs and people who did not know the truth took the opportunity to open the warehouse and looted tens of thousands of public grains, and then set fire to the district government watchtower.
In the raging fire, the two bandit leaders Wu Jie and Ma Lie were smug: I didn't expect that this method was really effective. They confused the masses. The People's Liberation Army held guns but did not dare to fight back. It seemed that the riot in Bazi in western Sichuan was about to succeed.
The two men laughed ferociously in the dark night, leading the death squad to approach the district office and Randen Temple.
Suddenly, there was a burst of fierce gunfire from the southwest of Luo Dai. Then, three flares pierced the night sky. People's Liberation Army reinforcements arrived in a hurry.
It turned out that after Li Jingquan, deputy political commissar of the Southwest Military Region and political commissar of the Western Sichuan Military Region , heard about the situation, he immediately ordered the Chengdu Security Command to send a public security brigade of more than 1,000 people to Luodai. They immediately cooperated with the 2nd Battalion of the 87th Regiment to attack the arrogant bandits.
The public security brigade formed a fire net with light and heavy machine guns. The 2nd Battalion threw hand grenades and explosive packets from the Randen Temple. The bandits were originally a ragtag group. After this internal and external attack, they immediately dispersed.
Those thugs who looted public food and property left behind their carrying poles, baskets and other household items. They only regretted that their parents had lost two legs and fled in all directions.
At dawn the next day, the Luodai riot was quelled. More than 300 bandits were killed, more than 1,000 were captured alive and betrayed, countless weapons and ammunition were seized, and 35 ringleaders of the bandit riots were publicly tried and executed.
But Jianyang bandit riots continue in various places.
On the same day that the bandit rebellion broke out in Luodai, under the planning and instigation of the bandit leaders Luo Gui'an and Bao Guohua, thousands of bandits and thugs brutally murdered more than 40 of our team members and People's Liberation Army soldiers at Chengdu's outpost barrier Longquanyi and burned down the township office.
Later, under the artillery fire of the 533rd Regiment of the Suppression Force, the banditry was calmed down. A total of more than 200 bandits were killed, more than 550 bandits were arrested, and more than 600 people re-registered to surrender.
Longquanyi District organized a temporary court and publicly executed more than 50 of the ringleaders and thugs who massacred our team members.
Faced with such a serious bandit situation, the Southwest Military Region ordered the Southern Sichuan Military Region and the Western Sichuan Military Region to work together the day after receiving Chairman Mao's instructions and quickly dispatched troops to quell the riots with the most determined, decisive and rapid action.
Chief Liu and Deng specially sent a message to the bandit suppression troops: The bandits will never be allowed to spread to other areas.
Under the strict orders of Commander Liu and Deng, the 87th Regiment and Teaching Group of the 29th Division of the 10th Army of the Southern Sichuan Military Region, the 533rd Regiment of the 178th Division of the 60th Army of the Western Sichuan Military Region, and the Chengdu Garrison District Public Security Brigade formed a bandit suppression force, with Deng Shijun as commander, responsible for quelling the bandit rebellion in Jianyang.
At the same time, the Jianyang County Committee of the Communist Party of China also issued a call to the cadres and the masses throughout the county to take active action and closely cooperate with the troops to suppress bandits.
The bandits are purely a mob. Although each bandit team is said to have tens of thousands of people, most of them are deceived and intimidated people.
After arriving in Jianyang with the bandit suppression troops, Deng Shijun, Chief of Staff of the 60th Army, strictly controlled the policy, isolated and attacked a few bandits with blood debts, and vigorously exposed the bandits' atrocities.
Many people gradually saw the enemy's ferocious face, returned to their homes one after another, took the initiative to register for rehabilitation, and some even reported the banditry to the People's Liberation Army.
This fundamentally isolates the real bandits.
In just 8 days, the bandits were wiped out one after another under the heroic attacks of the People's Liberation Army's anti-bandit forces. The last group of bandits fled to the mountains of Sanxingchang and hid in the ancient temple of Longquan Temple.
Longquan Temple has a steep terrain, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing water on one side. It is said that it was built by Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty who fled to Sichuan to avoid the Huangchao peasant uprising army.
The temple has gone through wars and been restored several times, and is quite large. However, banditry has been on the rise recently, and all the monks in the temple have fled to Mount Emei.
The bandit leader Lei Douwen took more than 2,000 remaining bandits into hiding in the temple, then hoarded ammunition, blocked the temple gate on the waterside, and faced off with the People's Liberation Army.
html On the night of April 22, Hu Yusheng, leader of the 87th Regiment, and Du Ziyun, secretary of the Jianyang County Party Committee, led the 5th company to pursue Longquan Temple.When the siege continued until dawn, a platoon leader stepped forward and shouted, ordering the bandits to surrender. Instead of listening, the bandits beat the platoon leader to death.
Captain Hu ordered the 5th company to launch an attack on the temple. However, due to the fierce firepower of the bandits, several charges failed to work and six more soldiers died. What to do with
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Secretary Du was silent for a while and then said with determination: "Old Hu, most of these soldiers have participated in the battle of crossing the river. Their lives are precious and cannot be sacrificed in vain. I think we should just attack with fire."
Commander Hu gave the order. Six soldiers carried three flamethrowers and , in groups of two, one carrying the fuel bottle and the other operating the flamethrower. After everything was ready, the infantry squad fired into the temple to attract enemy fire.
At this time, if God helps, a favorable wind will blow from the sky. Captain Hu shouted loudly: "Shoot!" In an instant, three fire dragons rushed into the temple with a roar.
The bandits ran for their lives in the light of the fire, screaming, and some of the bandits with guns on their backs were on fire jumped into the water. The gangsters who resisted were shot down by machine guns as soon as they rushed out. The bandits howled like ghosts and finally got the punishment they deserved.
During the battle, more than 50 bandits were burned to death and more than 140 people were captured alive. Lei Douwen, who was sleeping, was shot to death at the feet of a stone lion in front of the temple, and his body was burned like a piece of coke.
So, where is Fan Juchuan, the leader of the Jianyang bandits?
html One day in early May, a middle-aged man with big ears, a bald head and a short beard walked in calmly into a teahouse in a back alley in Chengdu. After scanning the surroundings with cunning eyes, he walked straight to a corner and chose a secluded spot to sit down."Master Yao, have a cup of scented tea." He called softly.
"Here we come! Your letter." The waiter responded loudly, then stepped forward holding a tea set in one hand and a long copper pot in the other. After making tea, Master Yao bowed to greet him. "Guoxin, you drink slowly."
The middle-aged man raised his head, thanked with a smile, and then gently scraped the floating tea leaves with the bowl lid.
The moment they looked at each other, the waiter couldn't help but gasped. Isn't this the wanted Jianyang bandit leader and commander of the "1st Army of the Anti-Communist National Salvation Army" Fan Juchuan?
He returned to the back room with the teapot, his expression suddenly changed, and he almost knocked over the tea bowl on the table.
"Xiang Erwa, you've gotten into trouble, you're so confused." The tea boss scolded him when he saw him like this.
"Boss, the bandit leader wanted by the Public Security Bureau... Fan Juchuan is having tea in our teahouse."
"Ah!" The tea boss couldn't help being surprised.
"What do you think we can do?" Yaoshi asked hurriedly.
After thinking for a while, the tea boss had an idea.
"Don't panic. I think we should stabilize him first and send someone to report to the Military Control Commission as soon as possible."
The boss sent someone out the back door to report the news, and at the same time asked the Yaoshi named Xiang Erwa to keep refilling his water and tea.
It turned out that when Yaoshi Xiang Erwa was working as a waiter in a restaurant in Jianyang, Fan Juchuan and a group of gangsters had gone there several times to eat out, so he recognized him at a glance.
It was almost noon, and the people from the Military Control Commission had not arrived yet, so the teahouse owner and the unitary master were worried. Just at this moment, a pair of bamboo harp artists on the street walked into the teahouse, and a tea guest sang a ditty.
"There are peaches and plums in spring... osmanthus in summer... crabapples in autumn... wax plums in winter... plum blossoms..."
Fan Juchuan shook his head to the beat. At this time, several plainclothes officers from the Chengdu Military Control Commission sneaked in quietly. At that time, the ditty had just finished singing, but Fan Juchuan was still squinting and gently tapping his thighs with his hands, intoxicated without waking up.
"Fan Juchuan!" A sudden shout came.
"Which one?" Fan Juchuan responded subconsciously and immediately jumped up from the bamboo chair.
It was too late, but soon, several plainclothes people jumped up, threw him tightly on the bamboo chair, and immediately found two pistols from his body.
Fan Juchuan, the chief planner of the Jianyang bandit rebellion, a giant bandit in western Sichuan, and commander of the "1st Army of the Anti-Communist National Salvation Army", was arrested.
Although the banditry in Jianyang affected a wide area, the bandit suppression troops quickly quelled the banditry in only 8 days.
Our bandit suppression force killed a total of 502 bandits (including 137 bandit leaders), captured 3,508 bandits (including 523 bandit leaders), 5,426 bandits surrendered, and seized 52 machine guns, more than 28,000 long and short guns, and a large amount of ammunition and supplies.
html In early May, Pan Juchuan, Huang Xiang, and Jiang Jun, the organizers and commanders of the Jianyang bandit rebellion, were escorted back to Jianyang from Chengdu and were publicly tried and executed.The remaining two bandit leaders - "Commander-in-Chief of the Anti-Communist National Salvation Army Frontline", Ma Lie, the rebel division commander who wanted to welcome Chairman Chiang back to the mainland, and "Deputy Commander-in-Chief" Wu Jie, the murderer of martyr Zhu Xiangli. After the failure of the Jianyang bandit rebellion, they coerced the rebels and continued to cause rebellion.
html In early July, the two men led the remnant bandits to Jintang and were surrounded by our bandit suppression troops. After two days of fierce fighting, the remnant bandits were wiped out and both Ma and Wu were killed.Other bandit leaders who committed heinous crimes, such as Emperor Liu, and the murderers of martyr Zhang Jinying, Liu Zucun, Yuan Zexu, etc. were also put on trial and executed one by one.
At this point, the Jianyang bandit chaos disappeared.
Cries of death could be heard everywhere within five or six miles.
Zhu Xiangli ordered a breakout, but it was already too late. Zhu Xiangli divided the class into two groups, one group under his own command, and the other group under the command of deputy platoon leader Zhao. The two groups of personnel covered each other and approached the Xiaoshi Bridge in turn.
However, no matter how they rushed left and right, they could not get close to the small stone bridge in front of them, and they could not break out from it.
Until about 3 p.m., 19 members of the class went with them, including the combat hero Deputy Platoon Leader Zhao. Nine comrades had died gloriously, two soldiers were seriously injured, and Director Zhu Xiangli himself was injured in three places.
What’s even more serious at this time is that almost all their bullets have been fired.
Out of desperation, Zhu Xiangli ordered the health worker to break out of the encirclement alone. Other comrades provided full cover, and asked the health worker to make every effort to break out of the encirclement and report the situation there to the head of the corps immediately.
The health worker took off his military uniform, followed a bamboo forest next to the riverbank, and took advantage of the chaos to get out of the group of bandits.
He ran 20 miles in one breath and reached the Corps headquarters. He ignored the call for a report and stumbled into the duty room. He said out of breath: "Commander...Longtan Temple, Zhu Xiangli, director of our division's political and metallurgical department, and...there was also a comrade in the intensive class who were all killed by bandits..."
Commander Zhou Shidi heard the report and immediately summoned deputy commander Wang Xinting. The Corps Headquarters quickly made a decisive decision:
Wang Xinting
sent Deng Shijun, chief of staff of the Western Sichuan Military Region, to lead a regiment and a guard company stationed in Chengdu to rush to Longtan Temple to rescue Zhu Xiangli, director of the Political Department of the 178th Division, and all the guards who were surrounded by bandits and were in critical condition.
Before departure, Zhou Shidi repeatedly emphasized three points to Deng Shijun: (1) Do not use force lightly unless absolutely necessary;
(2) Go all out to rescue Director Zhu Xiangli and all escorts. After achieving the goal, we will not continue to pursue the bandits that I defeated;
(3) Find out the full situation of the large-scale armed bandit riot in Longtan Temple as soon as possible.
Deng Shijun led the rescue force of the 540th Regiment and a security company, which set out from Chengdu at 7 o'clock that night. After nearly two hours of rapid march, they arrived at a hillside more than ten miles away from Longtan Temple at about 8:30 p.m.
Standing here, you can see the torches all over the mountains and plains of Longtan Temple from a distance, and you can also vaguely hear the roar of people and various noisy gunshots.
Deng Shijun
He ordered the troops to stop advancing and stay put, and detached a reconnaissance platoon from the 540th Regiment, led by the reconnaissance staff of the regiment, to go to the front to reconnoiter the situation, and strive to capture a few "tongues" back in order to clarify the specific situation of the bandits.
The reconnaissance platoon broke into the torch array, causing fierce gunfire. However, the gunfire quickly became sparse and returned to its original state.
An hour passed, and there was no news from the reconnaissance platoon. Two hours passed and still no news.
At around 12 o'clock in the night, no one from the staff officer or the reconnaissance platoon he led came back. Deng Renjun ordered the deputy company commander to take another platoon to the front to reconnoiter the situation, and at the same time to connect with the platoon led by the reconnaissance staff.
The deputy company commander had been walking for about half an hour when a burst of fierce gunfire rang out in front of him. However, there was no news from the deputy company commander until about two o'clock in the morning the next day.
Within dozens of miles around Longtan Temple, there are still dots of torches, and there is still a roar of people and chaotic gunshots.
"Commander of the first battalion!" Deng Shijun ordered, "Come in with the whole battalion and see what kind of birds are there!"
A battalion of soldiers rushed into the torch array and encountered the same situation again. The battalion commander saw that more than 20 people had been killed or injured in a few minutes and ordered a counterattack.
The battle became more and more intense, and the sound of gunfire made Deng Shijun upset like fried beans.
The first battalion sent people back to report that there were many enemies and they were very cunning. They surrounded me but did not attack me. They just kept shooting. From time to time, the voices of women and children were heard. I don’t know who they were. They were advancing and others were retreating, and others were retreating. It was always a stalemate.
Wu Jie was grinning ferociously in the darkness.He was very proud. In the dark night, he couldn't figure out the strength of the People's Liberation Army, so he could only encircle them but not attack them, and fire volleys at random.
"This trick is really effective!" Wu Jie thought.
It's almost dawn. "We must not let the bandits know our strength!" Chief of Staff Deng and the commander of the 540th Regiment decided that the commander would personally lead the second battalion to advance forcefully and strive to rush into Longtan Temple to find Director Zhu Xiangli and all the besieged comrades as soon as possible.
Then, we tried to hold on together with the comrades inside. After daybreak, we determined the situation, and then worked together from the inside and outside to completely rescue the comrades trapped inside by the bandits.
The second battalion opened up its posture and forced its way into the sea of torches and people, approaching Longtan Temple. However, as soon as they arrived in front of a dirt beam on the north side of Longtan Temple, dense bullets were fired from the surrounding bamboo forests, behind the field ridges, and from the houses.
The regimental commander ordered the entire battalion to use light and heavy firearms to suppress the opponent. However, the machine gun shooters could not find the location of the opponent's firepower point. In the blink of an eye, the entire battalion lost more than 20 comrades.
This battle is difficult to fight. It is difficult to distinguish which is the enemy and which is the masses. The Corps also ordered not to harm the masses, so the troops can only advance while avoiding hidden guns. The whole battalion finally rushed to the soil beam, but could no longer move forward.
Chief of Staff Deng Shijun learned about the situation of the entire battalion through the walkie-talkie from behind. He was so angry that he threw the microphone down: "Damn it, what kind of ghost battle is this? Artillery battery, move it up to the soil beam and hit it hard!"
Immediately, one after another 60 artillery shells exploded around the soil beam.
At this time, it was getting daylight. After the whole regiment's artillery concentrated their firepower and threw a burst of artillery shells around Tuliangzi, Deng Shijun shouted: "Rescue team, guard company, all follow me!"
Deng Shijun waved his hand and led all the rescue troops to press towards Longtan Temple.
The surrounding bandits began to collapse, and the main force of the 540th Regiment led by Deng Shijun joined forces with the Second Battalion.
When they arrived at Longtan Temple, the bandits were nowhere to be seen. They only saw the bodies of the two platoons of soldiers sent out for the first time, and the bandits who were killed and wounded by my shells.
Deng Shijun quickly found the small bridge on the north side of Longtan Temple and found the place where Zhu Xiangli, director of the Political Department of the 178th Division, and more than 10 security personnel were besieged by bandits.
However, in the wheat field at the bridgehead and under the bridge, except for piles of bullet casings and a few pools of bright red blood, there was nothing else.
Deng Shijun divided his troops and searched the entire Longtan Temple and every ditch and ridge and bamboo forest around the temple, but still could not find any trace.
It was not until 9 days later that they figured out that in the evening before Deng Shijun led the rescue team to Longtan Temple, Wu Jie announced a killing to sacrifice the flag, and six people including Zhu Xiangli, who was injured and captured, were tortured to death by the bandits.
Finally, the cruel gangsters buried their bodies in a small mud pond. The troops dug out the bodies from the mud pond, which was simply unbearable to witness.
After the investigation, we learned that most of the people holding torches all over the mountains and plains were people who had been deceived and coerced.
In order to win people's hearts, the witch bandits distributed food from their own warehouses to the masses, deceiving the masses into organizing and taking up arms to "protect their homes and defend themselves."
He also issued an order that in the event of a firefight with the Communist Party, light cigarettes during the day and set fires at night, and respond from all directions. Those with guns should use guns, and those with knives should use knives to prevent the People's Liberation Army from entering Longtan Temple.
He also used the usual tricks of the Kuomintang reactionaries to spread rumors, saying, "The Communist Party came to take the money of the rich and the lives of the poor. It will make the rich poor and kill the poor, making it impossible for the poor and the rich to live."
After he committed the heinous crime of besieging and killing PLA officers and soldiers, he knew that he could not escape the blame and had to threaten more people, so he loudly announced:
"All the high-ranking officials of the PLA were killed by Commander Wu, and the PLA is nothing special. Don't be afraid. Now that you have done it, follow Commander Wu Jie to the end."
So, Wu Jie used the power of the crowd to create a tragedy that shocked the southwest. They occupied Longtan Temple and "flyed posts" everywhere, calling on bandits everywhere to riot.
news is out.Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping wrote special reports on this issue and urgently informed Chairman Mao and the Central Military Commission.
Chairman Mao was very angry and specifically instructed the Southwest Bureau and the Southwest Military Region, "The banditry is so serious, we must not allow it to spread, and we must quickly organize forces to wipe out the banditry."
The murder of Zhu Xiangli thus officially opened the prelude to the suppression of banditry in Sichuan and even Southwest..
Wu Jie not only killed the People's Liberation Army, but also caused chaos around Chengdu.
At the beginning of 1950, the country had just been liberated, and there was a lot of waste waiting to be done, and food was particularly tight. Take Sichuan as an example. Hundreds of thousands of troops have suddenly entered the country, plus more than 600,000 old military and political personnel who surrendered during the Kuomintang uprising in the past. The issue of food alone is not an easy task.
At that time, considering that Sichuan had always been a major grain-producing province, the Southwest Military Region, in addition to focusing on political power building, also sent work teams to the countryside to collect grain. This violated the fundamental interests of the feudal exploiting class.
Wu Jie saw this opportunity and fanned the flames everywhere, deceiving and beguiling some people who did not know the truth.
He spread rumors everywhere, saying: "Chairman Chiang is about to fight back, and the People's Liberation Army in the city has begun to withdraw into the mountains. Food is everyone's life. Protecting food is like protecting life, and must not be handed over."
"The common people have guns in their hands. When forced, get up and fight with them. It is better to starve to death."
Wu Jie seized on the grain requisition and made a big fuss. After causing the tragedy in Longtan Temple, he went to the Yangma River in Jianyang and conspired to launch bandits from all over the country to riot.
On February 20, he and the bandit Fan Juchuan, the former deputy commander of the 2nd Security Division of the Kuomintang Hubei Province and Ma Lie who rebelled after the uprising, and the leader of the Three Youth League of Jianyang County Jiang Jun, together with some local tyrants and habitual bandits, held an "emergency response meeting" in Yangma River.
Wu Jie was very proud of the meeting. He slapped his chest and spat with saliva: "Now that 'guerrillas' have been established all over the country, it seems that mobilizing the poor with the slogan of anti-grain is the right move."
"At present, the situation is developing very fast. Chairman Chiang and Director Mao are very satisfied with the efforts of the mainland guerrilla fighters."
"Last time, I brought ' The Longtan Column ambushed the People's Liberation Army. The senior Communist officer named Zhu Xiangli was the director of the political department of the division. It was said that this person was sent by the Communist Party to serve as a foreign attaché in some country. However, he was (killed) by me. "
" Taiwan even called us to commend him. I think the People's Liberation Army is nothing special. As long as we work hard, the cause of anti-communism and restoration of the country will be successful. "
As soon as Wu Jie finished boasting, Ma Lie couldn't wait to stand up, slapped the table and shouted: "Comrades of the party and state, I, Ma Lie, have been accused by the Communist Party of being a traitor, and I will rebel against the "common disaster"."
Local bandit Fan Juchuan was even more excited and couldn't control himself. He cleared his throat, sat down on the table, and banged the tabletop to announce loudly:
"Everyone It's very good to seize the time to start the riot and turn the western Sichuan Bazi into a red. When the time comes, eight people will carry the sedan to invite Chairman Chiang back. Now, I declare that the "Western Sichuan People's Anti-Communist National Salvation Army 1st Army" has been officially established..."
With Wu Jie's four contacts, Jianyang's bandit Caotai team was released.
Fan Juchuan served as the "army commander", Wu Jie and Ma Lie served as the "frontline commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief" respectively, and the township security chief served as captains and squadron captains respectively. Subsequently, they intensified their connections and plotted to stage a unified riot in April.
Jianyang Luodai, February April came suddenly.
4 14th, night has just fallen. A farmer ran into the district office out of breath and said out of breath: "District Chief Wang... The bandits in the Loess Field have rioted. The work team is surrounded in the Loess Field. Please hurry up... hurry up... and send reinforcements to rescue the siege."
District Chief Wang immediately led the district squadron to the rescue.
The Jianyang bandit rebellion carefully planned by Fan Juchuan, Wu Jie, and Ma Lie first appeared in Luodai District (now Chengdu).
The thugs were like wild beasts, pounced on the male and female team members scattered in various townships, and brutally killed 25 team members in Xiping, Wanxing, Jun'an and other townships.
After Zhang Xiang and eight other team members from Wanxing Township were killed by bandits, their bodies were cut into pieces, divided into pieces, and thrown into several manure pits.
Jun'an Township team member Liu Derun was hung from a big tree, his neck was cut off with a knife, his head was hanging on his chest, his body was covered in bruises, and the blood stained the large area of loess under his feet red.
In the evening, when District Chief Wang rushed to Huangtuchang with two squadrons of the district squadron, Ma Lie was leading more than 3,000 gangsters to besiege the Huangtuchang Township Office, trapping all the staff inside.
District Chief Wang was about to rush into the bandit formation. At this time, strange sounds suddenly sounded from all around. He looked up and was stunned in shock.
I saw dots of torches everywhere on the surrounding hillsides and in the woods. The men, women, old and young who had been deceived by the bandits were a mass of darkness, like bats flying over at dusk.
These people carried native guns and swords, carried pickets, sticks, hoes, and rakes, beat washbasins, gongs and drums, and blew suonas and horns.
The sound of gunshots and firecrackers was mixed with the roar of shouts, which resounded through the sky. " The Jade Emperor has lowered his talisman and is about to capture the black evil star." "Drive away the People's Liberation Army" and "capture the working team alive."
"You can't hurt the masses. No shooting is allowed without my order." District Chief Wang squatted down on a high ridge and ordered flatly. The two squads of soldiers had no choice but to retreat.
At this time, the torches danced into a long dragon and slowly came around. The long-lived soldiers of the royal district fired their guns into the sky, and the torches flashed back.
This was repeated all night long.
District Commander Wang commanded the area squadron and work team members to hold on by virtue of the favorable terrain. It wasn't until the early morning of the next day that a company from the 87th Regiment of the Neijiang Military Division of the People's Liberation Army heard the news and came for reinforcements, defeated the bandits, and rescued them.
The gangsterism in Luodai is even more serious. During the fierce battle in Loess Field, Ma Lie and Wu Jie gathered more than 6,000 thugs to surround , Luodai Town, , cut off the telephone lines, and cut off the district office's contact with the outside world.
At that time, Luodai Town had only 5 cooks from a company of the 87th Regiment and 9 cadres from the district office. Captain Wu of the
district working team is familiar with the situation in Luodai. He thought: The Luodai riot must be related to Liu Hui'an, known as "Emperor Liu".
Emperor Liu Liu Hui'an was a large landowner in Luodai with a land rent of ten thousand shi, and his tenants numbered tens of thousands. Common people rumored that if Emperor Liu stamped his feet in Luodai, the doors and windows of the entire district would make a "chacha" sound.
At this time, a strategy came to Captain Wu's mind: Liu Hui'an has not yet openly rebelled, but on the surface he is still pretending to be new and actively supports the new regime. If he is invited to the district office and detained, the bandits will never dare to attack rashly!
So, Captain Wu walked into his home in person.
Liu Hui'an was holding a hookah pole and blowing a twister. He never dreamed of knowing how well the district office was being defended. When he heard that Captain Wu had invited him to discuss defense matters, he was so happy that he said, "Okay! Okay! I'll go right now."
The two of them arrived at the district office. After Liu Hui'an took a sip of tea bowl in a serious manner, he saw that there was no movement, so he asked:
"Captain Wu, how about the defense of the district office?"
Captain Wu said with a meaningful smile: "Now that you are here, the defense plan of the district office has been implemented."
"What do you mean by this?" Liu Hui'an asked puzzledly.
" Jianyang County Who doesn't know you, Emperor Liu? With you sitting in the district office, the bandits would dare to come and fight?"
Knowing that something was wrong, Liu Hui'an put down his tea bowl and stood up to leave. Captain Wu grabbed him, still smiling:
"If the bandits don't leave, you can't leave either. The bandits have invaded the district office, let's go to see Lord Yama together."
Liu Hui'an collapsed on his chair as if he had been hit by a sap.
When my wife learned that Liu Hui'an had been taken hostage, she cried and found the two bandit leaders Ma and Wu.
Ma Lie immediately wrote a letter threatening Captain Wu: "Return Mr. Liu before dark, otherwise the district office will be destroyed."
Captain Wu replied scornfully: "The siege of the district office must be lifted before dark. If the attack continues, Liu Hui'an will be executed immediately."
Ma Lie was so angry that he tore the reply into pieces.
Wu Jie stamped his feet, slapped the table and cursed loudly: "Mr. Liu is still called Emperor Liu. He is just a big idiot. He got in alive and was tricked by the Communist Party. This time it doesn't hurt to fall and get up!"
Wang Weigang, political commissar of the Southern Sichuan Military Region, learned that Luodai was suffering from banditry, and immediately sent a company of the 87th Regiment to come for reinforcements. The gangsters fled immediately after receiving fire.
In order not to escalate the situation, Liu Huian was also released from the district office.
That afternoon, Ma Lie gathered tens of thousands of people from other places who did not know the truth and surrounded Luodai again, and brought up mortars and heavy machine guns .
He organized a death squad and publicly promised: "If Luodai is captured, each person will be given 100 kilograms of rice, and if a member of the People's Liberation Army or work team is captured, a reward of 100 yuan will be rewarded."
Some thugs driven by material interests took the opportunity to join the bandits and poured into Luodai from all directions. For fear of inadvertently injuring the masses, the PLA commanders and fighters exercised great restraint and took the initiative to retreat.
Night is coming. The troops have taken the initiative to shrink to the district office compound and the commanding heights of Randen Temple, and more and more people are threatening them.
Thugs and people who did not know the truth took the opportunity to open the warehouse and looted tens of thousands of public grains, and then set fire to the district government watchtower.
In the raging fire, the two bandit leaders Wu Jie and Ma Lie were smug: I didn't expect that this method was really effective. They confused the masses. The People's Liberation Army held guns but did not dare to fight back. It seemed that the riot in Bazi in western Sichuan was about to succeed.
The two men laughed ferociously in the dark night, leading the death squad to approach the district office and Randen Temple.
Suddenly, there was a burst of fierce gunfire from the southwest of Luo Dai. Then, three flares pierced the night sky. People's Liberation Army reinforcements arrived in a hurry.
It turned out that after Li Jingquan, deputy political commissar of the Southwest Military Region and political commissar of the Western Sichuan Military Region , heard about the situation, he immediately ordered the Chengdu Security Command to send a public security brigade of more than 1,000 people to Luodai. They immediately cooperated with the 2nd Battalion of the 87th Regiment to attack the arrogant bandits.
The public security brigade formed a fire net with light and heavy machine guns. The 2nd Battalion threw hand grenades and explosive packets from the Randen Temple. The bandits were originally a ragtag group. After this internal and external attack, they immediately dispersed.
Those thugs who looted public food and property left behind their carrying poles, baskets and other household items. They only regretted that their parents had lost two legs and fled in all directions.
At dawn the next day, the Luodai riot was quelled. More than 300 bandits were killed, more than 1,000 were captured alive and betrayed, countless weapons and ammunition were seized, and 35 ringleaders of the bandit riots were publicly tried and executed.
But Jianyang bandit riots continue in various places.
On the same day that the bandit rebellion broke out in Luodai, under the planning and instigation of the bandit leaders Luo Gui'an and Bao Guohua, thousands of bandits and thugs brutally murdered more than 40 of our team members and People's Liberation Army soldiers at Chengdu's outpost barrier Longquanyi and burned down the township office.
Later, under the artillery fire of the 533rd Regiment of the Suppression Force, the banditry was calmed down. A total of more than 200 bandits were killed, more than 550 bandits were arrested, and more than 600 people re-registered to surrender.
Longquanyi District organized a temporary court and publicly executed more than 50 of the ringleaders and thugs who massacred our team members.
Faced with such a serious bandit situation, the Southwest Military Region ordered the Southern Sichuan Military Region and the Western Sichuan Military Region to work together the day after receiving Chairman Mao's instructions and quickly dispatched troops to quell the riots with the most determined, decisive and rapid action.
Chief Liu and Deng specially sent a message to the bandit suppression troops: The bandits will never be allowed to spread to other areas.
Under the strict orders of Commander Liu and Deng, the 87th Regiment and Teaching Group of the 29th Division of the 10th Army of the Southern Sichuan Military Region, the 533rd Regiment of the 178th Division of the 60th Army of the Western Sichuan Military Region, and the Chengdu Garrison District Public Security Brigade formed a bandit suppression force, with Deng Shijun as commander, responsible for quelling the bandit rebellion in Jianyang.
At the same time, the Jianyang County Committee of the Communist Party of China also issued a call to the cadres and the masses throughout the county to take active action and closely cooperate with the troops to suppress bandits.
The bandits are purely a mob. Although each bandit team is said to have tens of thousands of people, most of them are deceived and intimidated people.
After arriving in Jianyang with the bandit suppression troops, Deng Shijun, Chief of Staff of the 60th Army, strictly controlled the policy, isolated and attacked a few bandits with blood debts, and vigorously exposed the bandits' atrocities.
Many people gradually saw the enemy's ferocious face, returned to their homes one after another, took the initiative to register for rehabilitation, and some even reported the banditry to the People's Liberation Army.
This fundamentally isolates the real bandits.
In just 8 days, the bandits were wiped out one after another under the heroic attacks of the People's Liberation Army's anti-bandit forces. The last group of bandits fled to the mountains of Sanxingchang and hid in the ancient temple of Longquan Temple.
Longquan Temple has a steep terrain, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing water on one side. It is said that it was built by Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty who fled to Sichuan to avoid the Huangchao peasant uprising army.
The temple has gone through wars and been restored several times, and is quite large. However, banditry has been on the rise recently, and all the monks in the temple have fled to Mount Emei.
The bandit leader Lei Douwen took more than 2,000 remaining bandits into hiding in the temple, then hoarded ammunition, blocked the temple gate on the waterside, and faced off with the People's Liberation Army.
html On the night of April 22, Hu Yusheng, leader of the 87th Regiment, and Du Ziyun, secretary of the Jianyang County Party Committee, led the 5th company to pursue Longquan Temple.When the siege continued until dawn, a platoon leader stepped forward and shouted, ordering the bandits to surrender. Instead of listening, the bandits beat the platoon leader to death.
Captain Hu ordered the 5th company to launch an attack on the temple. However, due to the fierce firepower of the bandits, several charges failed to work and six more soldiers died. What to do with
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Secretary Du was silent for a while and then said with determination: "Old Hu, most of these soldiers have participated in the battle of crossing the river. Their lives are precious and cannot be sacrificed in vain. I think we should just attack with fire."
Commander Hu gave the order. Six soldiers carried three flamethrowers and , in groups of two, one carrying the fuel bottle and the other operating the flamethrower. After everything was ready, the infantry squad fired into the temple to attract enemy fire.
At this time, if God helps, a favorable wind will blow from the sky. Captain Hu shouted loudly: "Shoot!" In an instant, three fire dragons rushed into the temple with a roar.
The bandits ran for their lives in the light of the fire, screaming, and some of the bandits with guns on their backs were on fire jumped into the water. The gangsters who resisted were shot down by machine guns as soon as they rushed out. The bandits howled like ghosts and finally got the punishment they deserved.
During the battle, more than 50 bandits were burned to death and more than 140 people were captured alive. Lei Douwen, who was sleeping, was shot to death at the feet of a stone lion in front of the temple, and his body was burned like a piece of coke.
So, where is Fan Juchuan, the leader of the Jianyang bandits?
html One day in early May, a middle-aged man with big ears, a bald head and a short beard walked in calmly into a teahouse in a back alley in Chengdu. After scanning the surroundings with cunning eyes, he walked straight to a corner and chose a secluded spot to sit down."Master Yao, have a cup of scented tea." He called softly.
"Here we come! Your letter." The waiter responded loudly, then stepped forward holding a tea set in one hand and a long copper pot in the other. After making tea, Master Yao bowed to greet him. "Guoxin, you drink slowly."
The middle-aged man raised his head, thanked with a smile, and then gently scraped the floating tea leaves with the bowl lid.
The moment they looked at each other, the waiter couldn't help but gasped. Isn't this the wanted Jianyang bandit leader and commander of the "1st Army of the Anti-Communist National Salvation Army" Fan Juchuan?
He returned to the back room with the teapot, his expression suddenly changed, and he almost knocked over the tea bowl on the table.
"Xiang Erwa, you've gotten into trouble, you're so confused." The tea boss scolded him when he saw him like this.
"Boss, the bandit leader wanted by the Public Security Bureau... Fan Juchuan is having tea in our teahouse."
"Ah!" The tea boss couldn't help being surprised.
"What do you think we can do?" Yaoshi asked hurriedly.
After thinking for a while, the tea boss had an idea.
"Don't panic. I think we should stabilize him first and send someone to report to the Military Control Commission as soon as possible."
The boss sent someone out the back door to report the news, and at the same time asked the Yaoshi named Xiang Erwa to keep refilling his water and tea.
It turned out that when Yaoshi Xiang Erwa was working as a waiter in a restaurant in Jianyang, Fan Juchuan and a group of gangsters had gone there several times to eat out, so he recognized him at a glance.
It was almost noon, and the people from the Military Control Commission had not arrived yet, so the teahouse owner and the unitary master were worried. Just at this moment, a pair of bamboo harp artists on the street walked into the teahouse, and a tea guest sang a ditty.
"There are peaches and plums in spring... osmanthus in summer... crabapples in autumn... wax plums in winter... plum blossoms..."
Fan Juchuan shook his head to the beat. At this time, several plainclothes officers from the Chengdu Military Control Commission sneaked in quietly. At that time, the ditty had just finished singing, but Fan Juchuan was still squinting and gently tapping his thighs with his hands, intoxicated without waking up.
"Fan Juchuan!" A sudden shout came.
"Which one?" Fan Juchuan responded subconsciously and immediately jumped up from the bamboo chair.
It was too late, but soon, several plainclothes people jumped up, threw him tightly on the bamboo chair, and immediately found two pistols from his body.
Fan Juchuan, the chief planner of the Jianyang bandit rebellion, a giant bandit in western Sichuan, and commander of the "1st Army of the Anti-Communist National Salvation Army", was arrested.
Although the banditry in Jianyang affected a wide area, the bandit suppression troops quickly quelled the banditry in only 8 days.
Our bandit suppression force killed a total of 502 bandits (including 137 bandit leaders), captured 3,508 bandits (including 523 bandit leaders), 5,426 bandits surrendered, and seized 52 machine guns, more than 28,000 long and short guns, and a large amount of ammunition and supplies.
html In early May, Pan Juchuan, Huang Xiang, and Jiang Jun, the organizers and commanders of the Jianyang bandit rebellion, were escorted back to Jianyang from Chengdu and were publicly tried and executed.The remaining two bandit leaders - "Commander-in-Chief of the Anti-Communist National Salvation Army Frontline", Ma Lie, the rebel division commander who wanted to welcome Chairman Chiang back to the mainland, and "Deputy Commander-in-Chief" Wu Jie, the murderer of martyr Zhu Xiangli. After the failure of the Jianyang bandit rebellion, they coerced the rebels and continued to cause rebellion.
html In early July, the two men led the remnant bandits to Jintang and were surrounded by our bandit suppression troops. After two days of fierce fighting, the remnant bandits were wiped out and both Ma and Wu were killed.Other bandit leaders who committed heinous crimes, such as Emperor Liu, and the murderers of martyr Zhang Jinying, Liu Zucun, Yuan Zexu, etc. were also put on trial and executed one by one.
At this point, the Jianyang bandit chaos disappeared.
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