Guo Qing: From a gambler to a giant bandit, and then to a major general, he has a ridiculous life.
Peers are enemies, and this principle also applies among bandits. In order to compete for territory, they often betray each other and stage a drama of black eating black.
Guo Qing had always dreamed of expanding eastward, however, Yang Erkuan of Yanggang Village in Wei County had always been a major obstacle in his eastward advance. As the security captain of Beigao Village, Yang Erkuan set up a checkpoint on the northeastern border of Linzhang County, with an obvious purpose.
The famous bandit leader in Linzhang County, who was also Guo Qing's brother Zhao Jinhua, was eliminated by Yang Erkuan. In the summer of 1938, in the name of avenging Zhao Jinhua, Guo Qing united with Han Zhihe, the bandit leader of Zhangcunji, and Wang Ziquan, the bandit leader of Anyang County, to attack Yanggang Village together.
The bandits surrounded Yanggang Village, and after three days of fierce fighting, Yang Erkuan's troops were outnumbered and had to flee. After Guo Qing captured Yanggang Village, he burned down all the houses, cut down all the big trees, filled all the wells, looted the property of the common people, and even the stone mills in the yard were taken away by the bandits.
Guo Qing successfully drove Yang Erkuan away and became the leader of the local bandits. He is well versed in the truth of shooting a bird in the head, so he supported a down-and-out officer named Su Mingqi as a puppet commander, and he controlled everything behind the scenes.
At the time, many people did not understand his motives, but soon, they witnessed Guo Qing's cunning. In the autumn of 1938, the eastward column of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army launched the Zhangnan Campaign.
Because of the notoriety of the Guo Qing bandits, many people asked the Eighth Route Army to exterminate them. So, one night, the 688th Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the 688th Cavalry Regiment set off from Feixiang to attack the Guoqing bandits for a long distance.
On the night of the same day, they surrounded the bandit dens such as Jiahekou, Daying, Dongxinzhai, and Zhangcunji. After a fierce battle, Guo Qing's gang was defeated. However, the commander of the Eighth Route Army, who was in charge of the battle, believed that the puppet commander Su Mingqi was the main culprit, so they captured him and released all the other captured bandits, including Guo Qing.
This was Guo Qing's first contact with the Eighth Route Army, and from then on he was full of hatred for the Eighth Route Army.
After Guo Qing's defeat in Linzhang, he gathered the remnants of five or six hundred people and moved to Cixian and Fengfeng mining areas to continue to do evil. In October 1939, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses from the Eighth Route Army in the southern Hebei region, so it switched to bandit armament to deal with the Eighth Route Army and established the "Anlin Special Garrison Command".
Guo Qing returned to Linzhang to join the Japanese and was appointed deputy commander, and the commander was his uncle, Wang Ziquan, a famous bandit leader in Anyang County. In order to win over Guo Qing, the Japanese also let him concurrently serve as the Japanese puppet of Linzhang County.
Mayors of districts 2 and 3.
Two months later, Guo Qing ordered Jin Fengming to garrison Beigao, and he himself sat in Jiahekou to control the 53rd village of the second district, and at the same time ordered his cousin Guo Zhi to set up a black bureau in Randian and control the first district of Linzhang County.
Relying on the Japanese, Guo Qing ran amok in Linzhang, and the armed personnel under his control expanded dramatically, with a total strength of more than 2,000 people. However, the Japanese feared that Guo Qing's strength was too strong to control, and planned to weaken his power.
In April 1941, a squadron of the Japanese army came to the mouth of the Jiahe River and ordered Guo Qing to cooperate with the Japanese army and sweep in the southeast direction. The sweeping team came to the Putan camp, and the Japanese disarmed Guo Qing and more than 700 people under him in the name of fornicating the Eighth Road, and then pulled them to Anyang by car.
On the way, many bandits felt that this was a bad luck and jumped out of the car to escape. After Guo Qing was escorted to Anyang, thanks to Wang Ziquan's exoneration of his nephew in front of the Japanese, Guo Qing was released and more than a dozen guns were returned.
Guo Qing was like a dog injured by his master, and returned to the mouth of the Jiahe River in a gloomy manner. He was ashamed and annoyed, and said that he would never work for the Japanese again.
Although Guo Qing fell out of favor in front of the Japanese, he was still allowed to continue to manage the affairs of the 53rd village in the second district of the Japanese puppet. In order to prove his worth, he levied grain from the area under his jurisdiction, and only two or three liters per acre of land, while other places required more than two buckets.
When the Japanese came to Guo Qing to demand the payment of grain, he would avoid people with small official positions, but when he saw people with high official positions, he would become a confidant and keep telling his grievances.
The Japanese were tired of Guo Qing's complaints and eventually stopped bothering him. This made Guo Qing realize that in order to win the favor of the Japanese, he needed to make some achievements.
Guo Qing set up a complaint fight in Chenggouji, allowing ordinary people to come and complain to him about their grievances. In order to show justice, the opening of the complaint will only be carried out at noon when there are many people, and only his chief of staff, Li Shenwu, has the key to open the complaint fight.
In the winter of 1941, Guo Qing received the first complaint against a man named Xiao Shengzhi in Gaohekou Village, who was accused of being a woman and killing her husband.
Guo Qing immediately sent someone to arrest Xiao Shengzhi. When Xiao Shengzhi was caught, Guo Qing was roasting by the fire, he didn't raise his eyes to look at Xiao Shengzhi, but just asked him: "Do you have a ** woman?."
Xiao Shengzhi replied: "We are adulterous, and that man was poisoned by his woman, and he has nothing to do with me." Guo Qing said, "If you didn't seduce that woman, how could she poison her husband?"
You can be spared death, but punishment is still necessary. As he spoke, he asked Xiao Shengzhi to be held down, took off his pants, picked up a red-hot soldering iron, and branded off Xiao Shengzhi's crime tools.
Two days later, Guo Qing received another complaint, a man in Jiahe Village sued a girl in the same village for finding a boy he liked without going through a matchmaker.
Guo Qing thought that this was a violation of customs and a great rebellion, so he arrested these two people who were in free love, dug a pit, and buried them alive.
Fu Junhua, the landlord of Fu Village, falsely accused his long-term workers Fu Xilin and Fu Shaotang of having improper relationships with his mother and sister. Guo Qing beat Fu Xilin to death and buried Fu Shaotang alive with just one side of the story.
At that time, Fu Xilin's wife was pregnant, and Guo Qing sent someone to threaten her: "If you give birth to a boy, tear it in half and give birth to a daughter, and spare your dog's life." Later, Fu Xilin's wife gave birth to a girl, and only then did she pick up a life.
Zhang Zaiwang of West Lamb Village, his wife has an improper relationship with others, and he has not changed his ways. Zhang Zaiwang didn't have the courage to divorce his wife, so he went to Guo Qing to administer justice. Guo Qing saw that the woman was a little beautiful, so he first stayed with her for a few days, and then told the woman to go back and buy a coffin.
The woman didn't know what medicine Guo Qing was selling in the gourd, so she did it one by one. Guo Qing sent someone to put the woman in a coffin, put her on the river beach and bury her alive, and boasted to Zhang Zaiwang afterwards: You can't control your woman many times, see that I only took care of her once, and she changed everything.
On another occasion, seven tenants from Diqiu village stole bundles of sorghum stalks from the landlord's family. The landlord found Guo Qing and asked him to give justice to the host. Guo Qing summoned thousands of ordinary people, and in front of everyone, he asked seven tenants to go to each other, and one person bit the other's ears and formed a circle.
Then Guo Qing said: "You all bite hard, whoever doesn't bite hard, will be buried alive immediately." All seven tenants tried their best to survive, and as a result, each of them had one of their ears bitten off.
Guo Qing was confused, but he had a good reputation for being selfless. As a result, many local security chiefs and landlords have asked the Japanese to sponsor Guo Qingguan to be reinstated.
In the spring of 1942, Guo Qingshi came to operate, he first confiscated a batch of smuggled opium, and then sold it, making a windfall. Then, in the brick camp on the south bank of the Zhanghe River, he rescued a Japanese second lieutenant Sato who was injured in the leg by the Eighth Route Army.
As is customary, a junior officer like Sato, who has lost his combat capability, should have his ashes shipped back to Japan after committing suicide. However, Guo Qing spared no effort and found Li Futang, an old local Chinese medicine doctor known as a miracle doctor, and miraculously cured Sato's leg.
Sato was grateful to Guo Qing for this reason, and introduced Guo Qing to Okada, a major general of the Japanese army stationed in Handan, and since then, Guo Qing has soared again. In May 1943, the Japanese army officially reorganized the Guo Qing bandit gang into the "Independent Brigade of the Southern Hebei Suppression of the Communist Party", Guo Qing served as the brigade commander, and the translator and chief of staff was a Japanese Ishida Nakasa.
In order to protect Guo Qing, a hardcore traitor, the Japanese army sent a team to be stationed at Jiahekou. In order to show his loyalty, Guo Qing set a criminal precedent. Some people become traitors in order to earn some pocket money by eating and drinking from the Japanese.
However, Guo Qing was different, he refused to take a penny from his Japanese master. Within his jurisdiction, every 100 civilians had to send one soldier, and they had to bring their own guns and 100 rounds of ammunition.
Guo Qing also forcibly levied taxes on various villages, and there were many types of taxes, which made people dazzled.
Guo Qing purchased more than 50 trucks, cars, heavy and light machine guns, more than 70 mortars, and more than 1,800 grenadiers.
In less than a year, Guo Qing expanded his puppet army to three regiments and one independent battalion, in addition, Han Buyun stationed in Linzhang had a security team of five or six hundred people, which was also under Guo Qing's jurisdiction.
By the end of 1943, the total strength of Guo Qing's puppet army had reached more than 4,000 people, with functional departments such as the quartermaster office, the staff office, and the adjutant's office, and facilities such as hospitals, clothing factories, arsenals, and power plants had also begun to take shape.
At the same time, Guo Qing also set up offices in Anyang, Handan, Linzhang, Cheng'an and other places, with a total area of nearly 2,000 square kilometers with Jiahekou as the center, east to the county seat of Wei County, southeast to Dongzhangmeng Village in Guangping County, west to Ci County, south to Zhanghe, and north to Cheng'an County.
Guo Qing, a hardcore traitor, hated the Eighth Route Army to the core. He was afraid of a head-to-head confrontation with the Eighth Route Army, so he brutally treated those ordinary people with anti-Japanese tendencies and the families of the Eighth Route Army.
He once hanged Chen Baoshan for six hours in Daying Village, leaving him with no intact bones in his body. In Jiahekou Village, he hung Jin Futang upside down from a tree, beat him with a leather whip dipped in salt water, and buried him alive.
He also hung Jin Zhiping and Jin Ergui father and son on a tree and beat them severely, but they died on the way. Guo Qing's gang was so murderous that in Daying Village alone in 1943, nine people were brutally killed by him.
Later, he had killed people to the point of madness, and once buried more than a dozen peasants alive in Mafengtou Village, Wei County. He also arrested eight young people in Xinji Village, Cheng'an County, saying that they were the Eighth Route Army, and then buried them alive together.
Some of Guo Qing's gangsters had a clear conscience and were unwilling to continue to help and abet them, so Guo Qing cut off their hands and feet and threw them into the Zhanghe River. In March 1944, Wang Wanzhen, the 19-year-old director of the Wei County Women's Federation, unfortunately fell into the hands of Guo Qing while on a mission, and he sent her to the Japanese military police in Anyang, where he brutally killed her.
Also killed was Guo Duhua, the captain of the 4th team of the southward detachment of the Eighth Route Army.
Guo Qing not only exploited the hard-earned money of the common people, but also forced them to build fortifications for the Japanese. The slightest snubbing will lead to beatings, and people will die every day. The people of Bingmazhai Village in Linzhang County repaired fortifications in Anyang, and suffered heavy casualties, but no one was spared.
Villager Li Wenzhong was stoned to death by Guo Qing with a rifle butt, his mother died of anger, and his wife was sold to Anyang, leaving behind three young children. Among them, Li Wenzhong's mother-in-law adopted one child, and the other two were given away.
On March 18, 1944, Guo Qing, instigated by the Japanese army adviser Renmu, established the Japanese puppet "Linzhang County Committee for the Suppression of the Communist Party", and implemented a strict system of armor protection and joint sitting in the area under his jurisdiction.
On April 7, 1945, in the spring, Nandongfang Village, Linzhang County, failed to pay the money and goods demanded by Guo Qing on time and in full due to the severe drought last year. Guo Qing personally led a team of men to besiege Nandongfang Village, in an attempt to force the villagers to hand over their belongings.
Wang Jilin, the leader of the Red Gun Society, led more than 200 people to fight fiercely with Guo Qing's bandits for three days, but was finally defeated in Nandongfang Village due to numerical inferiority. Guo Qing led his subordinates to rush into the village, frantically burning, killing and looting, killing people and looting things when they saw them, and brutally killing innocent villagers who had no time to escape.
According to statistics, this incident caused the death of 58 innocent villagers, which caused widespread concern and strong condemnation from the society at that time, and was known as Nandongfang**.