At around 9 p.m. on December 18, 1995, Liu Xiaodong, deputy head of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Public Security Bureau of Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, drove a jeep and took his comrades-in-arms Yang Shunxin and Chen Liankui and Yang Shunxin's 11-year-old son**, intending to go home together to celebrate his wife's birthday.
When the jeep drove over the Yellow River Bridge over the Qili River in Lanzhou, Liu Xiaodong suddenly noticed a person rolling down from a red Xiali taxi in front of him, lying on the ground with blood on his head.
Out of the sensitivity of the police profession, Liu Xiaodong instantly realized that this could be a violent case. Liu Xiaodong and his comrades-in-arms did not hesitate to drive towards the Xiali car, the gangsters in the car reacted quickly, they judged that the jeep coming towards them was a police car according to the license plate, so they accelerated and fled towards the Yellow River Bridge.
Liu Xiaodong immediately turned the front of the car and chased. Due to the poor driving skills of the gangsters in Xiali's car, when he rushed to the Qilihe Bridge, Liu Xiaodong drove a jeep to quickly overtake Xiali and intercepted him in front.
Yang Shunxin and Chen Liankui immediately got out of the car and outflanked the people who tried to catch the car from both sides. A few seconds later, the Xiali suddenly reversed violently and shook off the police. drove towards the city center, Liu Xiaodong immediately drove after him, and finally intercepted the Xiali taxi again. Then he pulled out his pistol, pushed the door and jumped out of the car, shouting: "Hurry up and put your head in the car, or you will shoot".
Unexpectedly, the two gangsters in the car were armed with submachine guns and violently ** through the windshield of the car. Liu Xiaodong couldn't react, was thrown down in chaos, and died on the spot. The young man in the car** saw that Liu Xiaodong was knocked down, so he pushed open the door and got out of the car to try to help Liu Xiaodong who fell, but was shot by the gangsters with a gun, and finally fell in a pool of blood. After that, the two gangsters hijacked a passing car and fled in a hurry, heading for Pingliang City, Gansu Province.
On the way, they robbed another Crown sedan and threatened to let the driver, Wang Lingxiao, drive for them. When the car drove to Jingning County, Gansu Province, Wang Lingxiao found a police car in front of him, and when the two were struggling, he deliberately collided with the police car, and the police car stopped after being hit. Wang Lingxiao was still speeding up and persuaded the two gangsters to flee into the crops on the side of the road. The two gangsters, after following Wang Lingxiao's persuasion, jumped out of the car and fled.
Wang Lingxiao drove to the Jingning County Police Station alone to call the police, and immediately set up a card to intercept him. Longde County in Ningxia is adjacent to Jingning County in Gansu Province and is the most likely place for gangsters to pass through. Wang Pengli, director of the Chengguan Police Station of the Longde County Public Security Bureau, immediately deployed for the blockade mission. In the end, at the long-distance bus station in Longde County, the police in civilian clothes and the soldiers of the armed police detachment jointly arrested the two gangsters.
After investigation, it was verified that these two gangsters were actually soldiers of a certain unit of the People's Liberation Army in Lanzhou. On the afternoon of December 18, the two of them stole two Type 56 submachine guns, four Type 54 pistols, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, bayonets and other items and escaped from the barracks. After kidnapping the taxi driver, he tried in vain to drive to the city of Lanzhou to commit a crime, and near the Qilihe Bridge, he ran into Liu Xiaodong and his party and had a shootout.
In the end, both gangsters were sentenced to death, and the combat team commanded by Wang Pengli was awarded the first-class collective merit by the Ministry of Public Security, and he himself was awarded the second-class heroic model of the national public security system. In January 1996, the Ministry of Public Security posthumously awarded Comrade Liu Xiaodong the title of first-class model, and Gansu Province posthumously recognized Comrade Liu Xiaodong as a revolutionary martyr.