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In early 1950, an urgent telegram was sent to the Zhongnanhai *** office. After receiving the telegram, ***, who was in a meeting, immediately became furious. According to the contents of the telegram, on the way back to Chengdu, the cadres of the 1st Division were blocked and killed by remnants of the Kuomintang at the Yuanshan Temple, which was under the jurisdiction of Longtan Temple.
At the same time, bandits are rampant in the southwest region, causing great distress and uneasiness to the people. Faced with this situation, **decisively ordered a thorough investigation of Longtan Temple**, and sent heavy troops to encircle and suppress the bandits in order to ensure the security and stability of the country.
This incident triggered a nationwide counterinsurgency campaign, showing that banditry has always been a difficult problem in history, and whether it is prosperous or troubled, it will cause great harm to the people at the bottom.
From ancient times to the present, ** has been committed to eliminating banditry, but the effect is not ideal. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, banditry has become serious, mainly due to the incompetence of the Qing Dynasty, which led to the hardship of the people, and some people embarked on the road of no return.
* During the period, there were many warlords in various places, and bandits were recruited to expand their strength, which made it difficult to distinguish between officials and bandits. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, banditry in the southwest became more and more serious, and most of the bandits colluded with the Kuomintang.
To this end, the gradual elimination of bandits began. However, the bandits were rampant beyond expectations. In February 1950, Zhu Xiangli received an order that he was about to go to Beijing to serve as a military attache stationed abroad.
After a little preparation, he returned to Chengdu under the escort of a reinforcement class. Although the Kuomintang troops in western Sichuan were being reformed, there were still some diehards who did not accept the reorganization of the PLA, and they hid near Chengdu, waiting for an opportunity.
On the surface, it seems to be calm, but in fact there is an undercurrent surging.
Zhu Xiangli and the others traveled in a low-key manner in the wilderness, dressed in ordinary clothes, riding fast horses and passing down the slope of Longtan Temple at dusk. Suddenly, a gunshot broke the silence, and Zhu Xiangli's horse was frightened and let out a long roar, raising its front body and leaning back.
Zhu Xiangli grabbed the reins to calm the horse's emotions, and quickly glanced at the top of the slope, and soon found that the muzzle of a black hole was pointing at them. Seeing this scene, Zhu Xiangli ordered a messenger to go to investigate, and at the same time hid with other soldiers to a safe place.
However, the correspondent never returned, killed by bandits. The approaching hundred bandits made several soldiers in the team can't help but want to pull out their guns to fight back, but Zhu Xiangli resolutely stopped it, he knew that only a small part of these bandits were real bandits, and the rest were helpless people.
In order to protect them, Zhu Xiangli ordered the team to retreat in two ways, but the bandits gave hot pursuit, and a team of eight people was set on fire by the bandits when they retreated to a private house, while Zhu Xiang led the other team to be forced into a deserted compound.
Without saying a word, the bandit came up and disarmed them, and took up the two fighters beside him and beat them severely. In the face of the bandits' crazy provocation, Zhu Xiangli couldn't bear to fight with the bandits, but he alone was not the opponent of many bandits at all.
At Longtan Temple, Zhu Xiangli, a soldier of the People's Liberation Army, was brutally murdered by deranged bandits, and only one person survived and hurriedly reported to the headquarters of the military region. Deng Shijun, chief of staff of the Western Sichuan Military Region, quickly gathered the strength of the two regiments, but when they arrived, it was already more than 8 o'clock in the evening.
Longtan Temple was in flames, and the bandits stood on the hillside with torches, as if they were ready to fight to the death. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Deng Shijun had never seen so many bandits gathered together.
He first sent two reconnaissance platoons to conduct reconnaissance, but none of the reconnaissance platoons came back to report. Deng Shijun speculated that the Scouting faction might have been controlled by the bandits, and he was furious and immediately ordered an attack on the bandits.
After several hours of fierce fighting, the bandits finally broke up because they could not withstand the shelling. After dawn, the troops, led by several ** bandits, found the remains of the killed soldiers, including the remains of Zhu Xiangli, who was found in a hole along the wall of the pond, and shockingly, Zhu Xiangli had 24 gunshot wounds on his body.
Although the bandits were dispersed, the main culprit who killed Zhu Xiangli was still not found, which is deeply regrettable.
Longtan Temple "shocked the whole country, attached great importance to it, ordered to send heavy troops to encircle and suppress bandits, and a nationwide counterinsurgency movement began in the southwest region. In order to solve the problem of bandits, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th armies of the PLA, the 18th Corps, and the 7th Corps of the 1st Corps were successively dispatched to the southwest region, and a detailed operational plan for suppressing bandits was formulated.
However, with the deepening of the anti-bandit operation, we found that "Longtan Temple**" was not an accidental event, but the beginning of a bandit conspiracy. Prior to this, a large-scale bandit outbreak broke out in western Sichuan.
In order to protect the innocent masses, our army took cautious action, first striking at the small-scale activities of the bandits, disarming them and not killing them indiscriminately. This can not only protect the masses from harm, but also catch prisoners, find out the whereabouts of Zhu Xiangli**, and at the same time probe the strength of nearby bandits.
In Longtan Temple**, most of the bandits who were caught were as timid as rats, and as soon as they heard that they could be punished lightly if they provided useful clues, they immediately stopped crying and rushed to provide clues.
After careful screening, the PLA did find several useful clues. The bandits confessed that the murderer of Zhu Xiangli was named Wu Jie, a well-known local bully.
Wu Jie's background is little known, only that he was not a bandit at first, but followed Sun Lianzhong's Northwest Army, and was promoted to colonel and brigade commander by virtue of his military exploits. After the liberation of Chengdu, Sun Lianzhong fled to Taiwan, leaving a group of Kuomintang soldiers to fend for themselves, and Wu Jie wandered into the dense forest to collude with the bandits.
According to the captured bandits, there is another ** in this case, which is Wu Jie's brother Li Gancai. After that, the Southwest Military Region launched an investigation into Wu Jie and Li Gancai, and it turned out that Li Gancai turned out to be an old acquaintance of the People's Liberation Army.
Li Gancai was by no means an idle person, he used to be the head of the inspection department of the Kuomintang Chengdu Garrison Command, and received professional training.
Li Gancai was captured by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) a month earlier, but he showed an attitude of rehabilitation after undergoing reform, and the PLA decided to release him after an investigation. However, in fact, Li Gancai has been hiding his true intentions, and accepting the transformation is only part of his disguise.
In the end, Li Gancai joined the ranks of the bandits and jointly planned Longtan Temple with Wu Jie. Although the ** who killed Zhu Xiangli has been found, the Southwest Military Region suspects that there is a bigger conspiracy behind this matter.
They believed that although Wu Jie and Li Gancai were both from the Kuomintang, the people they gathered were uninformed masses and could not easily confront the PLA.
Moreover, according to the experience of suppressing bandits in Longtan Temple, it is impossible for Li Gancai and Wu Jie to gather so many bandits in a short period of time. Therefore, they think that there must be a behind-the-scenes ** behind Wu Jie and Li Gancai.
So, who is this person?
The Southwest Military Region fell into a panic for a while, however, Longtan ** was not just an ordinary bandit riot, but a harbinger of a greater crisis. Since the occurrence of Longtan Temple**, the bandits in western Sichuan have become increasingly serious, and the culprits hidden behind Wu Jie and Li Gancai have gradually surfaced.
Unexpectedly, the culprit turned out to be an old lady who was over the age of old, she was Zhao Hongwenguo, who was respected as the "old woman with two guns". Zhao Hongwenguo is a native of Xiuyan, Liaoning Province, formerly known as Hong Wenguo, and later changed his name to Zhao Hongwenguo because he married into the Zhao family.
If it weren't for the astray, Zhao Hongwenguo would have been a heroic heroine. After the 918 Incident, Zhao Hongwenguo's whole family devoted themselves to the cause of the Anti-Japanese War, and she and her son formed the "North China National Anti-Japanese Army" to deal with the Japanese army in the form of guerrilla warfare, which constituted a major containment of the Japanese army.
The team grew from the first few people to eventually have 250,000 people.
Zhao Hongwenguo was valued by Chiang Kai-shek for his heroic performance in the Anti-Japanese War. He was hosted at a grand banquet in Chongqing and posed for a photo with Chiang Kai-shek. This group photo was reported by Chongqing newspapers, and the image of Zhao Hongwenguo with two guns in his waist won the hearts of the people, so he was named "Old Woman with Two Guns", and after her eldest son died in the Anti-Japanese War, she was known as a heroine.
Although Zhao Hongwenguo was full of patriotism in her heart, she was used by Chiang Kai-shek to maintain his rule and stand on the opposite side of the people. After the liberation of most parts of the country, Zhao Hongwenguo fled to the southwest with Chiang Kai-shek, and was named "the second road appeasement commander of the guerrillas in the Jireliao border area" by the Kuomintang.
After arriving in the southwest, Zhao Hongwenguo accepted Chiang Kai-shek's ** equipment and counter-revolutionary propaganda supplies, and began to recruit soldiers, and along the way incorporated Inter as a rout, hooligan ruffian, bandit, etc.
Wu Jie, Li Zicai and others were also among them, and changed their name to "Chinese Kuomintang ** Rescue**" Zhao Hongwenguo served as the commander-in-chief, and his son Zhao Lianzhong served as the commander-in-chief.
At this point, Zhao Hongwenguo settled down in the southwest region and became a time bomb that could trigger at any time.
In the course of the defeat of the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan, leaving behind radio agents on the mainland to direct reactionary activities. Zhao Hongwenguo was used by Chiang Kai-shek to set up a stronghold in Sanjiagou on Tiantai Mountain, on the border between Shifang and Peng County, and distributed a large number of reactionary leaflets, which seriously damaged the party's reputation.
Longtan ** was planned by Zhao Hongwenguo behind the scenes, she praised Wu Jie and Li Gancai at the oath meeting, and even personally ordered people to behead more than 20 peasant activists and members of the grain requisition team.
Taking advantage of the aftermath of Longtan, Zhao Hongwenguo issued an order as a national official to grant Houlu to the bandits who came to take refuge and sent them down the mountain to make trouble.
The next day, Zhao Hongwenguo led bandits to break into the village to kill people and set fires, killing the People's Liberation Army. According to statistics, during the rebellion of Zhao Hongwenguo, more than 300 people of the People's Liberation Army, grain requisition cadres and ordinary people who did not want to join the bandits were killed, countless tiles were burned, countless grain were looted, and even seven battles were fought by her personally.
Zhao Hongwen's bandit division was active in Shifang County, which was once the seat of the 16th Kuomintang Uprising Corps and the 95th Army Uprising Force. What is worrying is that three companies of the 16th Corps of the Uprising have defected to Zhao Hongwenguo, which may cause instability to the 95th Army of the Uprising.
To this end, the Western Sichuan Military Region dispatched Men Guoliang, deputy commander of the Maoxian Military Sub-district, and set up headquarters in Maoxian, Wenjiang, and Jinyang to be responsible for clearing out Zhao Hongwen's bandits.
It was difficult for Men Guoliang to gain a foothold in Mao County, so he led his bandits to wander in the mountainous areas of Shifang and Peng counties. In this regard, Men Guoliang sent a regiment to pursue, and the 16th Corps and the 62nd Army of the uprising also sent forces to assist Men Guoliang in suppressing bandits.
The Western Sichuan Military Region carried out many crackdowns on Zhao Hongwenguo's bandit units, resulting in Zhao Hongwenguo becoming a homeless man fleeing in all directions, and her subordinates were also defeated one by one. Although we are also engaged in political struggle while fighting bandits, there are still many bandits who choose to surrender voluntarily.
After many pursuits, the People's Liberation Army received the news from the captives that Zhao Hongwenguo was hiding in Hongmiao Township. As a result, the troops stationed near Hongmiao Township began to carry out repeated dragnet clearances.
At this time, Zhao Hongwenguo was quietly hiding in the house of Yu Moumou, an ordinary family. While begging Yu to provide her with a hiding place, she threatened with a gun. Forced by Zhao Hongwenguo's obscenity, Yu Moumou could only hide her in the water alley ditch under his house.
There is usually no water in the water lane, only when the water rises, there is a clear stream passing by, and it is difficult for ordinary people to think of this. Therefore, no matter how the PLA searched, it could not find Zhao Hongwenguo. Although the bandit forces did not know where she was hiding, they were sure that she must be hiding nearby.
Because Zhao Hongwenguo was almost 70 years old at this time, he could only rely on a sliding pole to act, and he did not have enough time to escape. As a result, they blocked all passages, intensified their efforts to find them, and encouraged the mobilization of the masses to denounce.
The anti-bandit troops searched unsuccessfully many times, and only found a large number of Zhao Hongwenguo's business cards in Yu's house, which was suspected to be a hiding place. When asked about Yu's business card, he was vague and suspicious.
The People's Liberation Army searched Yu's home in a carpet and found Zhao Hongwenguo in a ladderless high-rise building. Zhao Hongwenguo was in a trance at the time, with a white cloth on his head, and he looked sick. The People's Liberation Army confirmed his identity after taking out the ** comparison, and sent him to Jinzhu County that night, and then transferred it to the Corps Headquarters.
For safety, Zhao Hongwen was escorted with ten trucks, four snipers and four turntable machine guns. There was a heated discussion about her crimes, but considering her contribution to the fight against Japan, it was decided to give her preferential treatment in life, hoping to influence her mind.
The house where she was held was never locked, she could get out if she wanted, and she was accompanied by two female warriors to take care of her life.
First, she wanted to issue shoes to her troops; Second, she wants to carve out a territory for her troops; In the end, she wished she could command the force herself.
However, the comrades of the enemy engineering department of our army told her that the first two demands could be granted, but the third one was absolutely unacceptable. Because if she agrees to the third request, it will be equivalent to letting the tiger return to the mountain, and she is very likely to be obsessed again and unwilling to let go.
Zhao Hongwenguo insisted on not writing a surrender letter to his son, and the stalemate lasted until March 1950, when the People's Liberation Army captured her son alive and her bandit unit was annihilated. At this time, Zhao Hongwenguo began to panic because she was afraid that she would be executed.
Because she has hurt many villagers, the villagers are now collectively **, asking the organization to give an explanation.
At the strong demand of the people, it was decided organizationally to try the detained Zhao Hongwenguo and to have it carried out by the Military Justice Department of the Southwest Military Region of the People's Liberation Army. After Zhao Hongwenguo was executed, Wu Jie was also arrested.
** Personally ordered to show concern for Zhao Hongwen's subordinates, and to give leniency to those bandits who have not made major mistakes.