In the summer of 1956, Nie Lijun, a cadre of the Mohong Township Peasant Association in Fuyuan County, Yunnan, was burly, powerful, and had good kung fu. It's rare to lose when you fight with people. But this time he was badly defeated, and was lifted up and fell to his death.
An inexplicable fear spreads through the surrounding villages. This method of killing people is very familiar to the local people.
A few years ago, there was a hereditary toast named Hei Laojiu in Dongshan Township (Mohong Township) in Pingyi County (Fuyuan County), and his bodyguard captain Lu Yuncong was nicknamed "Dongshan King".
Lu Yuncong is ruthless and violent, when he kills, he likes to lift people high above his head, and then slam them on the ground. Over the years, at least 100 people have been murdered by Lu Yuncong.
In August 1950, Lü Yuncong and his brother Lü Jiyun led more than 1,800 bandits to cut off the Yunnan-Guizhou Highway, which completely interrupted the traffic of this main road from Yunnan to Guizhou.
Chen Geng, commander of the Fourth Corps of the Second Field Army, was furious when he heard the news, and strictly ordered the 110th Regiment of the 37th Division of the anti-bandit army: It is imperative to restore the smooth flow of the Yunnan-Guizhou Highway within one month. If it is difficult to capture the bandit leader Lu Yuncong alive, he can be suppressed on the spot.
In ancient times, there were only three ways to enter Yunnan from the mainland.
One is the "five-foot road". This road is after Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, in order to more effectively control the Yelang Kingdom and the Dian Kingdom, he specially sent a large army to dig a road from Yibin in the north to Qujing in the south.
Due to the steep terrain along the way, the road is only five feet wide, about 117 centimeters, you must know that the track regulations of the Qin Dynasty are six feet, and it is impossible to enter the "five-foot road".
"Five-foot Road" is difficult to carry out large-scale transportation due to congenital conditions.
The second road into Yunnan is the "Lingguan Road", also known as the "Southern Silk Road", from Chengdu in western Sichuan in the north, throughout the whole territory of Yunnan, the silk of western Sichuan in ancient times was transported to Myanmar, India and other places through this road.
Lingguan Road "is said to be built by Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, when Zhuge Cheng "crossed Lu in May, deep into the barren", and took this road.
Take a look at "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to know how difficult that road is.
Due to the limited conditions, "Lingguan Road" is also not suitable for large-scale transportation.
The third road into Yunnan is the Yunnan-Guizhou Highway, which is also called "Shengjing Pass". Since the Yuan Dynasty, it is the most important passage from the mainland to Yunnan, and there is no one.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang's general Mu Ying attacked Yunnan, and he walked through the Shengjing Pass.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Yunnan-Guizhou Highway, as an extension of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, carried the transportation of countless strategic materials and made outstanding contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance against Japan.
In addition, the cotton cloth, cotton yarn and other daily necessities needed by the people of Yunnan are also transported through the Yunnan-Guizhou road.
The tin produced from the old tin mine was also transported to the mainland through this road. Therefore, ensuring the smooth flow of the Yunnan-Guizhou Highway is of great significance to Yunnan's politics, military, and economy.
During the reign of warlord Long Yun in Yunnan, opium cultivation was the most important economy**.
Long Yun collects about 11 million half-kai (silver dollars) in taxes each year, and more than 37% of the tax collected comes from opium.
After the peaceful liberation of Yunnan, our army strictly forbade the cultivation of opium, which greatly harmed the interests of many landlords and bullies.
In April 1950, Yin Liezhao, a bully in Pingyi County, Lu Yuncong, the leader of the bandits, and others, advocated "growing opium without food", and suddenly launched a rebellion, and more than 1,800 bandits participated in the rebellion.
Yin Liezhao and Lu Yuncong's soldiers divided into two routes, and successively attacked the three district offices and nine township offices of Fuyuan (now Laochang), Pinghuang (now Huangnihe), and Dongshan Township (now Mohong), killing 21 local cadres and countless militiamen and progressive masses at the same time.
A few days later, Lu Yuncong, with more than 300 bandits, attacked a health team of the Second Field Army.
More than 20 wounded people who were seriously wounded were thrown off the cliff by the bandits who exterminated humanity, and a platoon of our army escorting the health team was also wiped out under the siege of the bandits, and in the end, only three soldiers broke out of the encirclement with injuries.
In addition, there were more than a dozen female soldiers in the health team, who unfortunately fell into the hands of bandits. After being ravaged, these captured female soldiers were all bitten to death by the bandits with poisonous snakes.
Lu Yuncong ordered the corpses of the female soldiers to be stripped of their clothes and hung on the side of the highway for public display.
At this time, the bandits gathered under Yin Liezhao and Lu Yuncong had exceeded 4,000 people. Because of infighting, the two parted ways.
There are more than 1,800 bandits under Lu Yuncong and his younger brother Lu Jiyun, but they are extremely short of ammunition.
In order to get a gun, Lu Yuncong set his sights on the heavily trafficked Yunnan-Guizhou Highway.
In early July, the road surface of the Cheonggye-dong section of the Yunnan-Guizhou Highway suddenly became narrow, and passing vehicles were cautious.
In the primeval forests on both sides of the road, seven or eight bandits dressed as local mountain people walked out, each of them carrying a bamboo basket with a lid on their backs, and no one knew what was in the bamboo basket.
A transport convoy of five trucks of our army drove from the direction of Panxian, and due to the hot weather, the windows of the trucks were all open.
From the outside of the car, it can be clearly seen that in addition to the driver, there are two heavily armed escorts on each truck. One sat in the co-pilot's seat, and the other stood on the pedal outside the door, both very vigilant.
On the last truck, there was also a platoon of fighters.
In the Cheonggye-dong section, there are several kilometers of uphill roads, so the speed is not fast.
At around 3 p.m., a boulder lay on the road, blocking the way of the convoy.
The fighters got out of the car to clear the road, and suddenly a dense burst of gunfire rang out around them.
Almost at the same time, the bandits, dressed as mountain people, also threw bamboo baskets along the windows into the cab of the truck. It turned out to be full of poisonous snakes.
The truck drivers were in a mess and jumped out of the car one after another, calling for their southern comrades to catch the snake in horror.
It was at this time that the last truck was also blown up by the bandits with a grenade.
Lu Yuncong personally commanded more than 300 bandits to attack the convoy in turn.
Our soldiers rushed to the battle under extremely unfavorable circumstances, and although everyone was brave, they were outnumbered and all died heroically.
Hundreds of guns of various types loaded on trucks, as well as a large amount of ammunition, fell into the hands of the bandits.
In the evening, our reinforcements arrived, and only the wreckage of five burned cars was seen, as well as the remains of the martyrs who were killed everywhere.
Two days later, dozens of bandits, disguised as our army's road guards. A truck full of medicines was forcibly hijacked.
Not long after, Lu Yuncong instructed the bandits to blow up a highway bridge in Panxian County by means of manual blasting, and the traffic on the Yunnan-Guizhou Highway was completely interrupted.
In the days that followed, Lu Yuncong intensified his efforts, fanning the flames everywhere, planting mines, and setting up roadblocks on the nearly 100-mile stretch from Pingyi County to Panxian County, making this section of the highway difficult to move an inch.
Our army's road protection force has a limited number of troops, and they do not know much about the local terrain and banditry. So behave very passively in battle.
Lu Yuncong set up an ambush several times and tried to wipe out the road guards, although he failed to do so in the end, he also caused the road guards to suffer heavy losses.
After the Yunnan-Guizhou Highway was cut off by bandits, this seriously affected the course of our army's anti-bandit operations in Yunnan.
The local units of our army entered Pingyi County twice to suppress bandits and tried to open up the Yunnan-Guizhou Highway, but the result was that they fell short because they underestimated the enemy.
At the beginning of August, Chen Geng, commander of the Fourth Corps of the Second Field Army, strictly ordered the 110th Regiment of the 37th Division of the anti-bandit troops: It is imperative to restore the smooth flow of the Yunnan-Guizhou Highway within one month. If it is difficult to capture the bandit leader Lu Yuncong alive, he can be suppressed on the spot.
The 37th Division of the 13th Army of our army is the trump card of the Second Field Army, and the 110th Regiment under the jurisdiction of the 37th Division is the main force of this division.
On January 13, 1950, the 110th Regiment forcibly marched more than 240 miles in a day and night, and seized Mengzi Airport one step ahead of the enemy, making the hopes of many generals of the Jiang Army flee by plane come to naught, thus opening the prelude to the Southern Yunnan Campaign.
During the battle, the 110th Regiment captured alive Tang Yao, commander of the Eighth Corps of Chiang's Army, and Yu Tiange, commander of the Eighth Army. The strength of its combat effectiveness can be seen from this.
After receiving Commander Chen's order, Fu Yizong, the commander of the 110th Regiment, and Zhang Qian, the political commissar, did not dare to delay for a minute, and immediately took a train from Kunming, and after arriving at the county seat of Zhanyi, they walked 45 kilometers and entered the county seat of Pingyi in the early morning of August 8.
Two days later, the main force of the 110th Regiment had arrived at its destination on time and immediately launched a pursuit of Lu Yuncong's bandits.
Lu Yuncong is very cunning, he is familiar with the terrain, he is all over the local eyeline, and the bandit suppression troops have attacked seven times in a row, all of which have been in vain.
Just when the regiment commanders Fu Yizong and Zhang Qian were at a loss, Hu Miandi, deputy commander of the 37th Division, arrived in Pingyi County.
Hu Miandi was born in Yingshan County, Sichuan Province in June 1915 and was a well-known wise general in the Second Field Army.
After Hu Miandi came to Pingyi, he directly moved the regiment headquarters to Dongshan District (Mohong Township), where bandits were most rampant.
Here, the leaders of the anti-bandit unit learned that Lu Yuncong practiced a cruel system of joint sitting on the local people, and only when they found that someone had contact with the anti-bandit force, in addition to his own family, the four neighboring families, regardless of men, women, and children, killed them all.
The local people hated Lu Yuncong to the core, but they were afraid of his ruthlessness, so they didn't dare to contact the bandit suppression troops.
Hu Miandi believed that Lu Yuncong must have many enemies when he killed innocents indiscriminately in the locality, and the anti-bandit forces found out these people and convinced them that the anti-bandit forces must completely eradicate Lu Yuncong and will not withdraw their troops until they achieve their goal.
Soon, a woman named Erma found the bandit army, her husband used to work as a former migrant worker, and a few months ago, he was killed by Lu Yuncong with extremely cruel means.
Erma said that as long as the bandit troops could avenge her, she would not hesitate to do so.
Hu Miandi came to Erma's house, and her house had already been burned down by bandits. Erma and her young daughter live in a makeshift straw hut.
Erma's daughter was sick with severe malaria and was dying.
Hu Miandi immediately made a decision and ordered the hygienist to treat Erma's daughter, and at the same time sent someone to repair the burned house.
Erma and his people were grateful to the bandit suppression force, and revealed to the bandit suppression force that Lu Yuncong was worried that the bandits in his department would be wiped out and had been broken into pieces. In the red clay wall village in Qujing County, there is a foothold for Lu Yuncong.
That night, the regiment commander Fu Yizong ordered the third battalion and the ninth company to change into civilian clothes, and under the leadership of the company commander Wei Yunzhong, they rushed to attack Hongtuqiang Village overnight.
At the same time, the 7th and 8th companies of the 3rd Battalion, under the leadership of Commander An Yufeng, made a detour back to the area of Sanjia Village behind the Red Clay Wall Village to set up an ambush to cut off Lu Yuncong's retreat.
That night, heavy rain fell, and the anti-bandit troops went through great hardships, and finally rushed to Hongtuqiang Village in the early morning of the next day.
Located in the middle of the Qilin Mountains, Hongtuqiang Village is located in a remote area, and it is said that tigers are often seen in the mountains, and almost every household in the mountains has dogs to guard against tigers.
The local dogs were large and extremely ferocious, and as soon as the bandit troops entered the village, they provoked a barking of dogs.
Lu Yuncong did spend the night in Hongtuqiang Village that night, and after he was awakened by the sound of a dog barking, he took more than 20 bandits with him and planned to retreat to Sanjia Village.
But there were also bursts of dog barking in the direction of Sanjia Village. Lu Yuncong realized that his retreat had been cut off by the bandit suppression forces. In a hurry, the dog jumped off the wall in a hurry, and took advantage of the night to break out directly to the entrance of the village.
The soldiers of the Ninth Company were all dressed in civilian clothes and did not find Lu Yuncong's whereabouts.
Lu Yuncong also didn't expect the bandit suppression troops to wear civilian clothes, and mistakenly regarded the bandit suppression troops as his subordinates. This guy escaped from the village, and even ordered the soldiers of the Ninth Company to retreat immediately.
Lu Yuncong showed his feet. The soldiers of the anti-bandit army asked him for the password, and Lu Yuncong also replied without knowing what to do.
The soldiers opened fire, and Lu Yuncong led the people to flee in a hurry and fled into the deep mountains and old forests.
The anti-bandit troops worked hard all night, and only two bandits were killed. The soldiers who participated in the battle were indignant.
Hu Miandi analyzed: Lu Yuncong is very conceited, and it is definitely a great shame for him to get away with it this time, and he will definitely try to find the person who revealed his whereabouts and retaliate.
That night, the anti-bandit force arranged for Erma and her entire village to move to a safe area, and a battalion of the anti-bandit force lay in ambush in the village, waiting for Lu Yuncong to take the bait.
As expected, two days later, on the night, Lu Yuncong led more than 500 bandits and secretly surrounded this unknown small mountain village.
In this battle, the bandits suffered a great loss, more than 100 people were killed on the spot, and more than 200 bandits were taken prisoner.
The bandit suppression force took advantage of the victory and pursued. Lu Yuncong relied on his familiarity with the terrain and once again successfully escaped.
After dawn, Hu Miandi once again made an accurate judgment that Lu Yuncong would also take the Red Clay Wall Village as a foothold. Because the anti-bandit troops have already been to that village, it is reasonable to assume that in the recent period, the anti-bandit troops will not take the red clay wall village again.
As a key target of clean-up. The anti-bandit forces once again gathered their forces, and in less than a week, they carried out a second major clean-up of Hongtuqiang Village.
That night, Lu Yuncong really spent the night in Hongclay Wall Village again.
For some reason, he, who had always killed people without blinking, suddenly became superstitious. That night, his right eyelid kept throbbing.
At about 2 o'clock in the morning, Lu Yuncong ordered the bandits to gather and change camps overnight.
As soon as the bandits left the village, they collided head-on with the bandit suppression troops.
Due to the experience of the last unsuccessful operation, the anti-bandit unit made very careful arrangements for this operation.
But everyone did not expect that there were four or five hundred bandits who were stopped, and the anti-bandit force was only one company of troops.
When the narrow road meets, the brave wins, and the bandit suppression troops strike first and take the lead in attacking the enemy. The bandits were taken by surprise and immediately collapsed.
Almost at the same time, the two companies led by battalion commander An Yufeng outflanked the bandits from behind, and our army attacked back and forth, killing the corpses of the enemy all over the field.
The captured bandits confessed: Lu Yuncong was shot in the buttocks during the battle, was carried by two cronies and bandits, and fled into the mountains.
After dawn, the anti-bandit troops mobilized the entire regiment to conduct a large-scale search of the area where Lu Yuncong might be hiding.
In three days, more than 200 bandits obediently took prisoners.
Five days have passed since the large-scale search, and Lu Yuncong's whereabouts have still not been found.
In the early morning of the sixth day, a woman dressed in heavy filial piety, escorted by several mountain people, came to the outpost set up by the anti-bandit army crying, saying that she wanted to go home to mourn her father.
Coincidentally, Erma, who has become a militia platoon leader, is on duty at this outpost. She recognized at a glance that the woman with red crying eyes was Lu Yuncong's beloved concubine, named Sun Yanling. looks harmless to humans and animals, but is actually an authentic femme fatale.
Sun Yanling, who exposed her identity, was like a deflated ball, kneeling on the ground and begging, begging the bandit suppression force to spare her life, she was willing to make meritorious service and actively cooperate with the work of the bandit suppression force.
Head Fu Yizong personally interrogated Sun Yanling and asked her where Lu Yuncong was hiding now.
Sun Yanling's answer surprised everyone, she said that Lu Yuncong was dead, and on the day after the injury, she died due to excessive blood loss.
Led by Sun Yanling, the ninth company of the bandit suppression force was platoon, and in a very hidden cave, a highly decomposed corpse was dragged out.
In terms of stature and body shape, he is very similar to the bandit leader Lu Yuncong. In order to dispel the doubts of the villagers, the anti-bandit unit held a mass meeting in Dongshan District and asked the villagers to identify whether the corpse was Lu Yuncong himself.
After more than 100 people identified, it was finally confirmed that this was Lu Yuncong.
The news of Lu Yuncong's killing spread far and wide, and the local people all cheered when they heard the good news. They all stood up and exposed the crimes of the bandits to the bandits.
In just a few days, more than 400 bandits went down the mountain to surrender their guns to the anti-bandit troops.
However, there was another theory at that time that the person who was killed in Qilin Mountain was not Lu Yuncong, but his younger brother Lu Jiyun.
However, this statement did not attract the attention of the head of the anti-bandit unit, who believed that it was just a trick played by the bandits to "borrow the corpse to return the soul".
The development of subsequent events also seems to confirm the speculation of the head of the anti-bandit force.
More than 800 bandits besieged the Dongshan Township Office, trying to retrieve Lu Yuncong's body, and the bandit troops actively responded to the battle, but the bandits lost their troops and returned defeated, and finally only more than 100 people fled into the mountains.
According to the prisoner's confession: The leader of the bandits who led the team today is Lu Jiyun.
There is really no need for the bandit suppression troops to waste too much time on this matter, and their most important task is to restore the smooth flow of the Yunnan-Guizhou Highway as soon as possible.
The 2nd Battalion of the Bandit Suppression Force was on a mission in Cheonggye-dong when it was suddenly attacked by bandits.
The second battalion calmly responded to the battle, and after more than six hours of maneuvering with the bandits, they finally waited for urgent reinforcements from the first and third battalions.
At this time, the bandits had no fighting spirit and began to retreat along the highway in the direction of Panxian.
Taking advantage of the victory, the anti-bandit troops pursued the attack and fought continuously for more than 70 hours, and finally completely annihilated the more than 1,200 bandits who had fled. The bandit leader Lu Jiyun also died in the battle.
Due to the delay in the restoration of the Yunnan-Guizhou highway, the 111th Regiment of the anti-bandit army rushed to the aid and launched an attack on the bandits from Panxian.
Under the powerful blows of the anti-bandit troops, the bandits who had been entrenched on the Yunnan-Guizhou Highway for more than two months finally lost their fighting spirit.
In mid-September, more than 1,600 bandits, led by the bandit leaders Yuan Caozhi and Wang Xiangmei, surrendered to the anti-bandit forces.
Subsequently, on the premise of ensuring the smooth flow of the highway, the anti-bandit troops continued to carry out large-scale search and suppression in the mountainous areas on both sides of the highway.
By the end of September, more than 1,100 bandits had been eliminated.
The banditry on the Yunnan-Guizhou Highway was completely lifted, and the 110th Regiment that carried out the task of suppressing bandits also returned triumphantly.
But there has always been a legend in Pingyi County that Lu Yuncong did not die, and it was his brother Lu Jiyun who was killed by the bandit troops in Qilin Mountain.
The two brothers were very similar, and many locals did not know about Lu Jiyun's existence.
Facts have proved that the statement that Lu Yuncong is not dead is not groundless.
Until 1955, large-scale banditry had been quelled for more than four years, but in Pingyi County, small-scale banditry still occurred from time to time, and these banditry were inextricably linked with Lu Yuncong.
It's just that the anti-bandit forces have long been convinced that Lu Yuncong was killed, so no one will suspect Lu Yuncong of the mastermind behind the bandits.
In the summer of 1956, Nie Lijun, a cadre of the Peasant Association of Mohong Township, Fuyuan County, Yunnan Province, suddenly received a letter written by Hei Laojiu, a hereditary Tusi in Dongshan District.
During the land reform, it was Nie Lijun who took the lead and divided the land of Hei Laojiu, and in the spring of this year, Hei Laojiu planted opium in the deep mountains, and after it was discovered, it was Nie Lijun who led people to destroy it.
Hei Laojiu hated Nie Lijun to the core, and secretly sent someone to kidnap Nie Lijun's son, and then wanted to blackmail Nie Lijun to settle mutual grievances with him on his fists and feet.
Nie Lijun is burly, powerful, and has good fist and foot skills. He knew the details of Hei Lao Jiu, and when he fought against him, Hei Lao Jiu had no chance of winning.
Nie Lijun was so bold that he agreed to go to the appointment alone, and for the sake of insurance, he still brought a pistol to defend himself.
Nie Lijun's wife was worried about her husband's safety, and as soon as her husband went out, she found Lao Yao, the captain of the militia, and asked him to come forward and lead someone to stop the duel.
Lao Yao took more than a dozen militiamen and rushed to the field dueling ground. I didn't see Hei Laojiu, but I saw Nie Lijun's body. The skull was shattered, the lumbar vertebrae were fractured, and the broken bones were pierced**, and the scene was miserable. In addition, Nie Lijun's pistol is also missing.
The people present looked at each other, fear was written on everyone's face, they had seen such a killing method more than once.
Nie Lijun's duel with the other party was fair, but his skills were not as good as others, after being knocked down, he was thrown into the air, and at the moment before his body hit the ground, the other party lifted his leg and broke Nie Lijun's lumbar vertebrae with his knees, and then lifted him above his head again, and his head and feet fell heavily to the ground.
This is Lu Yuncong's favorite method of killing, the sound of the victim's bones shattering, the screams before death, make everyone who has seen it palpitate, and it has become a lingering nightmare.
Captain Yao took the militia to arrest Hei Laojiu, but he didn't know that this guy went to Qujing two days ago, and at least a hundred people could testify for him, proving that Hei Laojiu didn't have time to compete with Nie Lijun.
Captain Yao sneered and said to Hei Lao Jiu: "I knew that you were not at the scene of the killing, and I now ask you to hand over Lu Yuncong." ”
Lu Yuncong has been the bodyguard captain for Hei Laojiu for many years, and the relationship between the two is extraordinary.
Hei Laojiu argued: "Lu Yuncong died a long time ago, you asked me to go to him." ”
Captain Yao said: "You know better than me whether Lu Yuncong is dead or not. If you don't say it today, I will be able to find him sooner or later, and by that time, he will be the only one waiting to eat the gun. ”
Hei Laojiu was really timid, he confessed that Lu Yuncong really did not die back then, and the body found in the cave belonged to his brother Lu Jiyun.
Later, Lu Jiyun, who was killed by the bandit suppression troops in the battle, was Lu Yuncong who found a "substitute for the dead ghost".
Over the years, Lu Yuncong has been hiding in Xiaopotou Village, Laochang Township, on the edge of the Eighteen Lian Mountains, there are only seven or eight households in this village, and the people in the village are all tenants of Hei Laojiu.
Lu Yuncong is hiding in this kind of place, it is really foolproof.
On the evening of September 26, 1956, Lu Yuncong and three other bandits were shot dead by the militia of Laochang Township.
The six-year-long battle against bandits in Fuyuan County ended victoriously with the killing of Lu Yuncong.