The gambler became a bandit, then a traitor, and finally a giant bandit, Guo Qing's absurd life.
Guo Qing acted brutally and did all the bad things, but he was extremely superstitious. The eighth day of August in 1944 was an auspicious day chosen by Guo Qing according to the advice of Mr. Feng Shui. On this day, the Guo family married three brides at the same time.
Guo Qing accepted five partial houses, his son Guo Jianzhang also accepted a partial house, and his nephew Guo Jianxun married a bride.
Guo Qing did whatever it took to get his wedding, even bringing in the best troupes and storytellers, and accepting a large number of expensive gifts, including a sedan that only high-ranking Japanese generals could use.
He kept all the money received from the wedding for himself, and let the local people bear all the wedding expenses, including the men who helped. He also scolded several villagers for their ragged clothes and beat them out of the door.
In addition, he beat the cooks to a singular number. He also asked a rich man to beat a pig, but because the pig had too much fat, he asked the rich man to bury the pig and make him lick the dirty blood on the board.
Guo Qing is not only addicted to gambling, but also murderous, and his greedy and lustful nature is also flattering.
Guo Qing was a greedy man, he married six wives and concubines, lived in a three-hall courtyard house in Beiping, had more than fifty rooms, and hired dozens of servants. He took a fancy to a 15-year-old girl, but the girl resolutely refused, so Guo Qing ordered his men to forcibly snatch the girl away and torture her to death.
Guo Qing's biggest economy was growing and reselling opium, and his cousins, sons, and nephews followed suit. His uncle Wang Ziquan learned the technology of making *** from the Japanese, and gave Guo Qing 400 taels ***
Guo Qing sold these *** to Beiping and earned more than 40,000 yuan in the ocean. He began to order the large-scale cultivation of tobacco in his jurisdiction, amounting to more than 2,000 acres per year.
In addition to paying taxes normally, farmers also need to pay five taels of tobacco to Guo Qing, and Guo Qing can collect more than 700 catties of tobacco soil a year. In addition to paying taxes, the remaining tobacco soil cannot be bought and sold at will, and can only be given to Guo Qing at a very low price.
Guo Qing invited special technicians from Tianjin and began to make white noodles by himself, and the finished products were sold to Beiping, Tianjin, Jinan and other big cities. According to statistics, Guo Qing can make more than 20,000 taels of white noodles every year, and the profit is as high as more than 2 million oceans.
At that time, the most elite Kind A German armor division of the Kuomintang, the military expenditure was only 250,000 oceans a month. As a nouveau riche, Guo Qing knows very well that he has made ill-gotten gains, in addition to being ruthless, he mainly has Japanese as backers.
The Eighth Route Army was the most active in fighting the Japanese invaders, which undoubtedly damaged Guo Qing's interests, so Guo Qing hated the Eighth Route Army to the core. Guo Qing fought with the Eighth Route Army, but the result was a complete defeat, so he knew the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army best.
Although Guo Qing now has so many thousands of people under his command, they are actually a group of rabble, and they are not the opponents of the Eighth Route Army at all. Therefore, Guo Qing never dared to fight against the Eighth Route Army, but spared no effort to kill the families of the Eighth Route Army and the progressive masses with anti-Japanese tendencies.
According to incomplete statistics, in the first half of 1945 alone, more than 700 progressive people were brutalized by Guo Qing in Linzhang, Weixian, and Cheng'an. In June 1945, the 26th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army attacked Fengtou in Beigao and captured a company of puppet soldiers.
Guo Qing was furious when he heard the news. He ordered the captives to kneel in two lines, and then had the thugs slap the men in the face with the soles of their shoes, and the faces were covered in blood and they had lost a few teeth.
Guo Qing felt that he still didn't understand his hatred, so he shot 5 more people and buried 5 more alive. Afterwards, Guo Qing threatened: Whoever dares to vote for the Eighth Route Army will end up like this. At that time, Guo Qing didn't expect that his backer was about to fall.
Just over a month later, the Japanese surrendered.
Losing the support of the Japanese, Guo Qing became like a bird that had lost its shelter, and he was in constant fear every day. Soon, however, new opportunities beckoned him. After the defeat of Japan, Pang Bingxun, commander-in-chief of the 24th Group Army of the puppet army, changed his identity and became the commander-in-chief of the 1st Route Advance Army of the Kuomintang Army.
Pang Bingxun and Guo Qing have known each other for a long time, as early as 1937, Pang Bingxun sent deputy division commander Zhao Baocai to collect Guo Qing's bandit forces, and gave him the title of brigade commander.
However, at that time, Pang Bingxun was actively resisting Japan, and Guo Qing was unwilling to confront the Japanese, so he rejected his proposal and only accepted the military salary and equipment he provided, but did not leave Linzhang, so the matter of incorporation was not realized in the end.
Later, Pang Bingxun also took refuge with the Japanese. After the defeat of Japan, Pang Bingxun's puppet army was reorganized into the 40th Army of the Kuomintang Army. Pang Bingxun understood that a ragtag armed force like him was cannon fodder in the Kuomintang army, and if he wanted to gain a foothold in it, he had to expand his own power, so Guo Qing entered his sight again.
However, this time Guo Qing had no room for counteroffer, and finally became a brigade commander under Pang Bingxun.
Original text: But just over a month later, Lao Jiang drove Pang Bingxun to lead his troops to attack the liberated areas of North China. As a result, Pang Bingxun was defeated, and in the end there was less than one division of troops left.
Guo Qing's troops also participated in this battle, and the losses were also very large, with less than 1,500 of the more than 4,000 remaining. After this battle, Pang Bingxun was disheartened, withdrew from the military circles, and went to Nanjing to become a duke.
Guo Qing has been operating in Jiahekou for many years, the walled wall of more than three zhang high is made of green bricks, the walled wall can accommodate three horses to walk side by side, outside the walled wall is two trenches that are more than two zhang deep, all filled with water, on the inner side of the ditch, there is also an electrified barbed wire, and there are countless hidden forts under the wall.
Guo Qing once boasted that the defense of Jiahekou was impregnable, and there were no cannons on Tubalu, so he did not want to knock down Jiahekou. However, the Eighth Route Army took advantage of Guo Qing's attack on the liberated area and the lack of troops at Jiahekou, so it sent a company of troops to attack Jiahekou, and conquered Jiahekou without much effort, completely destroying Guo Qing's lair.
Guo Qing, who had returned from the battle, had nowhere to go, so he could only cross the Zhanghe River and retreat to Liuyuan. The Kuomintang army did not forget these remnants of the defeated army. On October 12, 1945, Guo Qing, Wang Ziquan and another bandit leader, Cheng Daosheng, led the remnants of the bandits, and they were combined into the "Anyang Local Self-Defense Regiment", which is actually the notorious "Homecoming Regiment".
It is under the command of Zhao Zhichen, administrative commissioner, security commander, and commander of the Clearance Headquarters of the Third Chief Executive Office of Henan Province. In order to show himself to the new master, Guo Qing repeatedly entered the liberated area to harass him.
Grassroots cadres and their families in dozens of villages, including Jiahekou, Nanzhai, Heilongmiao, Haojiawang Village, Dongdiqiu, Nanyanglang, and Zhangcunji, were brutally killed.
In Jiahekou, village director Yuan Laizhen, his wife and daughter, a family of three, were shot dead at home by Guo Qing's homecoming group. Guo Qing colluded with Ma Guanglin, the landlord of Zhangcunji Village, to kill all the eight members of Ma Fuqi's family, a village cadre.
In August 1946, the return to the hometown group besieged Li Lisheng, the head of the second district, in Jiangcun, and the head of Li District broke out of the siege, and Guo Qing, who was angry and ashamed, was angry with the villager Guo Jingxian, arrested him in Liuyuan, and tortured him to death.
On October 2, the homecoming group surrounded Grandma Miao Village, and Li Xiufeng, the head of District 5, died heroically. District Chief Li's father-in-law, Sun Pei, was also brutally killed by the homecoming group. The liberated areas on the north bank of the Zhanghe River were shrouded in the dark clouds of terror of the returnee regiments.
There are even strange things that no one dares to be a village cadre. In the spring of 1947, in order to completely eliminate the threat of the Returning Regiment to the liberated areas, the main force of the 907th Regiment of the 1st Column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army conquered Liuyuan.
On May 6, he liberated Cuijiaqiao, the old nest of the giant bandit Wang Ziquan. Guo Qing was defeated again and again, fled from Liuyuan to Yuan's house, and retreated to Guojiawan. Guo Qing was promoted by the Kuomintang Army and appointed as the leader of the "Second Column of the Henan Provincial People's Self-Defense Force".
It is stationed in the area of Anyang Bridge and Boai Village. After years of continuous war, the people in northern Henan are struggling to make a living. In order to end the war as soon as possible, Mr. Hao Qingzhen, an enlightened person who lived in the southwest corner of Linzhang, went to Anyang three times alone to try to persuade Guo Qing to surrender.
But this guy is stubborn, and he vows to fight with the PLA to the end, and his arrogance is very arrogant. In the spring of 1948, Guo Qing was promoted again and was appointed commander of the 337th Division of the Kuomintang Army, and concurrently the commander-in-chief of the Qingxiang Suppression Command Headquarters in the Hebei-Henan Border Region.
A few months later, in September, the 40th Army of the Kuomintang Army stationed in Anyang withdrew from Anyang under the pretext of participating in the Battle of Xu Beng. At the same time, Guo Qing was appointed as the commander of Anyang City Defense, and the troops under his jurisdiction included three regiments of the bandit leader Wang Sanzhu, two regiments of Wang Jingchang, one regiment of Liu Lexian, one battalion of Cheng Wanfu, one regiment of Guo Qing's headquarters, and one baggage battalion, with a total strength of more than 20,000 people.
With the end of the Pingjin Campaign, all other places in North China were liberated except for the three isolated cities of Taiyuan, Xinxiang and Anyang. At this time, everyone saw that the Kuomintang army used Guo Qing's bandit arms to hold Anyang in order to let these people be cannon fodder.
Guo Qing firmly believed that he could hold Anyang. In order to achieve this goal, Guo Qing began to arrest strong men everywhere and forced them to build fortifications in Anyang. The city wall of Anyang is 10 meters high, 15 meters wide at the bottom, and 5 meters wide at the top.
Outside the city wall was a trench more than ten meters wide, and on the outside of the ditch was a moat, and the river and the moat were filled with water. And fill the water with sharp bamboo skewers. The walls were filled with reinforced concrete bunkers, with electrified barbed wire on the perimeter of the moats and moats, and dark bunkers everywhere on the inside.
There is a secret passage in the dark castle, which can lead to the city of Anyang. In the depth of 2 kilometers into the periphery, there are more than 50 dark fire points that are horns and horns of each other, and the small city of Anyang is like a hedgehog armed to the teeth.
In addition to consolidating the city's defenses, Guo Qing also frantically hoarded food, and it was said that the hoarded food was enough for the defenders in the city to eat for 5 years. Guo Qing also built an arsenal in Anyang City, which can produce rifles, light machine guns, grenades and other light **.
Guo Qing once proudly planted five-colored flags on the city, which means that it can be guarded for at least 5 years. The predecessor of the 42nd Army was the Fifth Column of the Northeast Field Army, which was a newly formed unit that had not fought much of a tough battle before.
However, Wu Ruilin, the head of the army, was very determined, and issued a mobilization order before the war: to take Anyang City in three days and strive to participate in the battle to cross the river. It turned out that Commander Wu was a little underestimated.
Most of the bandits in Guo Qing's department are habitual bandits, and if they fight in the field, these rabble are vulnerable. But hiding in strong fortifications and shooting outside, the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.
It took the PLA more than 10 days to uproot the outlying strongholds of Anyang City alone. It was not until April 27 that all the peripheral enemies were cleared, and the troops were quite large.
At this moment, army commander Wu Ruilin received two telegrams at the same time. A telegram was sent by Commander-in-Chief Zhu, reminding Wu Ruilin that the defenders of Anyang were all habitual bandits, landlords, bullies, and returnee groups, many of whom were heinous, and therefore demanded that they be caught in a net.
Another telegram was sent by the Siye Command, stating that Anyang's fortifications were stronger than those of Changchun, Shenyang, Jinzhou, Tianjin, and Beiping, and that preparations for manual blasting were therefore necessary.
In addition, in order to strengthen the firepower of the siege troops, the artillery regiment of the 38th Army assisted the 42nd Army in attacking the fortified operations. The 42nd Army had never had such heavy artillery fire, and when attacking a stronghold in the southeast corner, it used four howitzer batteries to bombard it continuously for more than 20 minutes, and the enemy's position was completely destroyed, and an entire battalion of enemy troops was killed in the heavy artillery fire.
The shelling lasted for seven days, destroying the bunkers outside the city and the pillboxes on the walls. Two days after the shelling began, Guo Qing also ordered the bandits in the city to use artillery fire to return fire.
However, the bandits are armed with small-caliber artillery, and as long as they are **, they will immediately be counterattacked by large-caliber artillery. Two days later, the city's artillery was mute.
At 18 o'clock on May 5, the attacking troops launched a fierce attack on the city of Anyang. After the assault troops crossed the moat under the cover of artillery and machine-gun fire, in order to carry out Commander-in-Chief Zhu's order that "not a single enemy should be let go," the soldiers re-erected the barbed wire fence that had been knocked down by artillery fire, diverted the water of the Zhanghe River, filled the moat, and only after everything was ready did they begin preparations for artillery fire.
However, Anyang's city walls were unexpectedly strong, and heavy artillery shells fell on them with dozens of bricks at most. The comrades-in-arms of the artillery regiment were so anxious that they moved the artillery to a distance of 300 meters from the city wall for close shooting, but the effect was not obvious.
Fortunately, they are ready for manual blasting. Therefore, the attacking forces first managed to blow up the breakthrough at the north and west gates. However, the southern direction of the city has not been able to break through, and the division commander Xu Guofu ordered to erect a cloud ladder to attack the city.
With fearless courage, the warriors climbed to the top of the city and fought a bloody path to the city.
Anyang's fortifications were breached, and the defenders, like shelled turtles, could no longer organize a decent counterattack. Guo Qing dug a lot of tunnels in the city in advance, and once the siege troops found the tunnel entrance, they only needed to throw a grenade into it, and then shouted "surrender the gun and don't kill", and they could catch a large number of prisoners.
At 8 a.m. on May 6, the gunfire finally stopped. The siege force eliminated 14,190 enemies and captured 15,128 people in the battle. But when confirming the identity of the enemy army, it was found that Guo Qing was not among them.
Since the siege troops strictly carried out Commander-in-Chief Zhu's order to "leave no enemy behind", Guo Qing had no chance of escaping. He must still be in a corner, so the siege force conducted another city-wide search.
At this time, Guo Qing, since the city wall was breached, knew that the general trend had gone. With a few of his followers, he fled from the alleys to the east gate, where he was met by the besieging forces.
After Guo Qing saw that there was no hope of breaking through, he fled south. At this time, the siege troops had climbed the ladder and climbed to the head of Anyang City, and Guo Qing still had nowhere to escape. The desperate Guo Qing finally hid in the south house of the Nie family's compound in Nancheng.
Because the siege troops began to focus only on finding the remnants hiding in the tunnels and neglecting the search of private houses, Guo Qing was lucky to escape three searches. In the afternoon, the siege troops finally noticed the hut where Guo Qing was hiding and surrounded it.
Guo Qing knew that it was difficult to fly with wings, so he took out a pistol and gave it to his personal entourage, and ordered his entourage to give him a shot. I don't know if the entourage was cowardly, or if he couldn't bear to do it, he didn't shoot for a long time.
Guo Qing was furious, snatched the pistol from the entourage's hand, shot the entourage dead, and then raised the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. Maybe God didn't want to let a wicked person like Guo Qing commit suicide, and the pistol was jammed.
At this time, Guo Qing no longer had the courage to commit suicide, he grabbed a portable machine gun, led another personal attendant, and quietly slipped out of the Nie family's compound through the back door.
Suddenly, gunfire rang out, and more than a dozen PLA soldiers at the gate were ** at the same time. Before Guo Qing could react, he was shot several times and fell in a pool of blood. In this way, Guo Qing, a giant bandit in southern Hebei, ended his absurd and impermanent life.