Xichang, located in the southwest of Sichuan, at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, was once an important town in Xikang Province, and later belonged to Sichuan Province. Its geographical location is superior, east of Daliang Mountain, south of Jinsha River, north of Dadu River, Han, Tibetan, Yi, Hui and other ethnic groups live here.
Although it was relatively backward in the early days of liberation, it was a good place to defend and retreat because of its unique geographical location. After the liberation, a large number of Chiang's army, political, constitutional, and special personnel who fled to Daliangshan and Xiaoliangshan aroused the vigilance of the Tibetan people.
Faced with this situation, the Tibetan people actively organized themselves to resist the aggression of these people.
Rise up and resist, take root in the southwest, and welcome the new dawn! "These bandits tried to create a unified South-Western Command Center, issued"Power of Attorney"with"Guerrilla armed number", inciting rebellion.
All of a sudden, habitual bandits, routs, bullies, reactionary associations, and other evil forces ran rampant, forming a powerful gangster group. It is estimated that there are more than 1,000 bandit leaders in Xichang alone, and the total number of open and latent bandits exceeds 100,000.
At the end of January 1950, the Southwest Military Region launched the Liberation of Xikang Campaign, and the 185th Division of the 62nd Army liberated Ya'an on February 10. Then, the 186th Division marched to Kangding on March 19, occupied Luding and took control of Luding Bridge on the 22nd, and then annihilated the enemy at Vasigou and marched towards Kangding again.
More than 500 remnants of the Tanaka Regiment fled in the direction of Kowloon, and our army successfully liberated Kangding on the 24th.
The 184th Division moved from north to south, and the 44th Division of the 15th Army in Yunnan advanced from south to north to Xichang, forming a flanking attack on the north and south of Xichang, with the goal of completely eliminating the remnants of the Hu bandits.
Hu Zongnan and He Guoguang saw that our army was approaching Xichang, and hurriedly formulated a plan to continue the rebellion, but soon after, they fled Youchang by plane and fled to Hainan.
On the 27th, Xichang was liberated. On March 31, the 184th Division began to attack, and on April 1, it successfully eliminated the remnants of the 1st Army of the Bandit Southwest Governor's Office and the Ministry of Defense Guard Regiment, and also eliminated the remnants of the 335th Division of the 69th Army.
On the way to escape to the west of Vietnam, the commander of the joint defense, Yang Ren'an, and others were intercepted and surrounded by the 550th Regiment, and then killed by the local indigenous forces. On April 5, the 62nd Army, the 14th Army, and the 15th Army of our army each launched a clearing battle in the area of Xiaoxiangling and Ganxiangying between Yuexi and Zhaojue in Sichuan, and within 7 days, our army eliminated more than 7,000 remnants of the Jiang army who fled from Xichang, and captured a large number of pseudo-Xikang**.
On April 7, the Battle of Xichang ended victoriously. Our army wiped out the remnants of the Kuomintang Hu Zongnan, He Guoguang and local troops totaling 120,000 people, liberated 18 county towns including Xichang, Huili, Kangding, and Luding, and eliminated the last regular troops of Chiang's army on the mainland.
The whole country, except for ** and Taiwan Island, has basically been liberated. However, the war is not over, and tens of thousands of bandits are waiting for an opportunity to counterattack in the remote countryside, or lurking in the mountains to plot to change the world.
For example, in the newly liberated city of Xichang, there are more than a dozen bandit armies, such as the "Hidden Loyalty Regiment" and the "Hidden Filial Piety Regiment". Outside the city, strict armed bandit organizations have long been established in villages near and far.
At that time, two of the three regiments of the 184th Division of the 62nd Army of our army had already been determined to be transferred out in October, leaving only the division headquarters and one regiment to serve as military subdivisions. The bandits learned of this through some channel, and they thought that they were expected to retake Xichang City in October.
In Yanyuan County, Xichang, the leader of the bully Fan Minh An, was extremely arrogant, threatening that if our army could leave Xichang, they would leave them on the Wangxiang Pavilion. And Wang Yao, the female bandit leader of Huili County, released cruel words, saying that if our army held out in Xichang for a month, she would personally cut off her head and send it to Xichang City.
At this time, Liang Wenying, the political commissar of the 184th Division of our army, saw the historical record Xiang Yu Benji in a bookstore in Xichang City, and he was inspired by it and thought that he could learn Xiang Yu's tactics to deal with bandits, so he called a meeting of the deputy division commander and the director of the political department and put forward this idea.
Liang Wenying Liang Wenying skillfully used the arrogant psychology of the bandits and set up a "Hongmen Banquet". On September 11, 1950, he distributed more than 90 invitations through various channels to influential bandit leaders.
The invitation was stamped with the seal of the "Xichang District Provisional Military Control Committee" and invited them to attend a meeting of people from all walks of life to be held on September 19 at the Xichang Liren Garden.
Located in the western suburbs of Xichang City, Beauty Garden is an elegant and quiet place surrounded by mountains and rivers. This was originally the villa of He Guoguang, the commander of the Xichang garrison of Jiang Jun, and was specially used for his little wife Little Red Shoes and her maids.
When Xichang was liberated, He Guoguang and Little Red Shoes fled to Taiwan Island, but the name of Beauty Garden was handed down. Beauty Garden is located in the suburbs of Sanhuali, and the bandit leaders will not worry about being captured when they enter the city, and at the same time, they also mistakenly think that this is their "free palace" and can relive their old dreams.
The bandit leaders who received the invitation, according to Liang Wenying's plan, thought that there was only one regiment left in our army, and in order to keep Xichang, they could only invite them out of the mountain and let them share power.
Some bandit leaders held feasts, and some expropriated the people's Guangyang and millet as entanglements, and they went around publicizing: "They are going to escape, Lao Tzu will go to Xichang tomorrow to sit in the imperial court!" ”
There are also some bandit leaders who are skeptical, but they are afraid that if they don't go, the benefits will be taken by others. On September 18th and 19th, almost all the famous bandits and bullies sat in sedan chairs and went to Xichang City in a majestic manner.
Originally, the bandit leader Danba Xianci forced the villagers to set off firecrackers to see them off, but after they arrived at the Beauty Garden, they were disarmed by the soldiers of the 184th Division of our army, and successfully imprisoned 87 bandit leaders.
The bandit leaders only realized at this time that they had made a big mistake, but it was too late. Several bandit leaders who were far away fled immediately after hearing the news, including Zhang Pseudoyang, commander of the "6th Column of the Xichang People's Revolutionary Army."
The bandit leaders who were successfully captured were detained in more than a dozen rooms in the Beauty Garden, and every six people shared one room, and no one could cross the middle gate. This operation not only succeeded in capturing the bandit leader, but also did not let a single shot go to waste.
The bandit leaders and bullies held in the beauty garden were secretly transferred to the city by truck, and locked up in a row of stables in the military control compound.
* During the period, a company was urgently mobilized in Xichang City to guard the major bandit leaders in the Military Management Committee. All troops and prefectural committees are staffed, and important departments are guarded by special personnel.
At the same time, Beauty Garden also maintained a close guard over the bandit leader, and a platoon of the original guard company remained in the empty Beauty Garden, ready to lure the bandits. If successful, they will break through to the city before dawn.
Intelligence showed that the bandits planned to act during the third watch, but at 11 o'clock in the morning, there was a dense burst of gunfire in the direction of Beauty Garden in the western suburbs. It turned out that hundreds of bandits who were preparing to riot in the city, including the bandit leader Zhang Pseudoyang, suddenly disappeared without a trace.
In the western and southern suburbs of the city, a large number of bandits flocked to the city from the direction of Tuomugou and Oil Mill, besieging the beauty garden. Obviously, the bandits sensed the leakage of the ** plan, canceled the riot plan in the city, took action in advance, and concentrated their forces on attacking Beauty Garden.
From more than 11 o'clock in the night of the 13th to dawn the next morning, more than 3,000 bandits besieged the beauty garden to the death, constantly attacking the walls of the garden.
The bandits climbed the bamboo poles outside the wall and jumped into the wall, and the troops stuck to the two rows of houses, aiming at the wall to fight. By daybreak, the corpses of the bandits inside the wall were piled up half a length of the wall.
The bandits did not dare to set fire to it, for fear that they would be burned to death along with the large number of bandit leaders locked up inside. It wasn't until the next night, when the troops who had held the garden had completed their task and abandoned the garden and broke out of it, that the bandits rushed in to see that there was nothing but the straw mats that the bandit leaders had laid on the ground to sleep on.
The three thousand bandits tossed for two days and two nights, and five or six hundred people, but they didn't even see the shadow of those bandit leaders, and what they got was an abandoned empty garden.
Just when the bandits were frustrated, Liang Wenying commanded a large counterattack of the 184th Division, after two days and two nights of fierce fighting, the bandits were already exhausted and demoralized, and our army basically had no power to parry as soon as it attacked, and all of them were dispersed in half a day.
Zhang Pseudoyang, the bandit who comprehensively organized and planned this bandit, sneaked back to Xichang City again on the night of the 17th, preparing to organize a second riot, but was captured by our scouts.
On the afternoon of the 18th, with the end of the public trial meeting, Zhang Pseudoyang and several other bandit leaders who organized a riot were escorted to the vicinity of the large coal yard in the south of the city to be executed, and thus the bandit rebellion in Xichang was quelled.