"Swallow Li San" was famous in the last century, and his legendary deeds have been adapted into countless movies, so this "righteous thief" is also well-known to the public.
However, in real life, there are a lot of "Swallow Li San". One of them was Li Yunlong from Cangzhou, Hebei Province, who was born in 1837 and ranked third in his family, so he used the nickname "Yanzi Li" from the beginning.
The second Li Jinghua, a native of Zhuozhou, Baoding, Hebei Province, known as "Authentic Li San" and "Righteous Bandit", died of illness in 1936 and died in prison, which is still unknown to anyone.
As soon as the name "Swallow Li San" spread to the hundreds, it became the "common name" of the "new Li San", among which the most famous and most famous was Shandong "Swallow Li San" Li Shengwu. How much of an impact is this? The generalissimo himself said: "Within three months, I will capture him alive, I want to see if he can go to heaven!" ”
Catch "Swallow Li San".
Don't look at Li Shengwu, who is known as "Swallow Li San", but in fact, what he does does not look like a "righteous thief" at all.
Li San, a native of Lijiazhuang, Yucheng County, ranked third among his peers, followed behind the "beard" when he was young, and became a thief.
Li San, who returned to Shandong in 1943, successively robbed the Dagong Trust Firm, the Meiji Watch Company, the Huacheng Silk Village, and the Hongshun Dress in Jinan. He spent all his money on the land of flowers.
It was not the first time that Li San had been arrested, but he had already greeted the people of the country, so he quickly walked out of the police station.
In 1948, the criminal police brigade of Shandong Province had to arrest Li San and transfer him to the court because the bribery was exposed.
The court accepted his bribe, and Li Sangan could have been put to death, but was only sentenced to "life imprisonment".
Even if he is in prison, Li San is very comfortable, here, he can enjoy delicious food, and he can enjoy the treatment of a prostitute. The "Second Appeasement Command" also sent a special car to the prison to take Li San there for a "chat."
An ordinary bandit is obviously not worthy of being "Corporal Lixian" by the Kuomintang, and a large part of the reason is to let Li San go to trouble the people's army.
Sure enough, in September 1948, when the First World War broke out in Jinan, all the prison guards fled, and Li San took advantage of this opportunity to gather a group of prisoners, and since the liberation of Jinan, they began to steal, rob, kill, and even attack the police.
This kind of vicious thief is impossible to give him a good look, and a special team was specially organized to hunt him down.
On January 6, 1949, ** received a report from a member of the public that Li San had been found in a woodware shop on Shunjing Street, and immediately dispatched personnel to arrest him.
As soon as the detective entered, he saw a man in his thirties, bald, square-faced, yellow-faced, with a high nose, a large mouth, thin eyes, and two eyebrows. He was talking to the owner of the carpenter's shop. When he saw the police, he was not afraid at all, but smiled and said that he was a "businessman".
Of course, the patrol will not be fooled, because he has already seen the portrait of Li San, and this person is the old thief Li San. He asked Li San to go first, and he followed behind him.
Li San had just come downstairs from the door, and suddenly the whole person rushed forward, and the scout behind thought that he had fallen, and was about to reach out to help, but Li San suddenly rolled along the wall, turned around, and a pistol appeared in his hand like magic.
The policeman's movements were not slow, and he fought back while dodging.
The patrol fired two bullets in succession, neither of which hit Li San, but the sound of this shot startled away the people who were drawing water from a nearby well. Li San took advantage of this opportunity to get into the ** and disappeared.
On 15 January, the Nanguan Brigade saw Li San casually walking out of an oil mill, and two policemen who were waiting around immediately rushed over and arrested him.
However, just as they were escorting Li San to the police station, they encountered a group of Yangge team and onlookers, blocking the main road. Li San took the opportunity to escape from the crowd, and like a carp, he jumped onto a collapsed house and shot at the group.
Everyone instinctively fled in all directions, and the streets were in chaos, Li San took the opportunity to get into the crowd and soon disappeared.
was arrested twice in a row, but was escaped by "Swallow Li San". For a time, "New Li San" became famous, and rumors of "golden cicada coming out of its shell" circulated among the people.
The name "Swallow Li San" soon reached the ears of **. At that time, the Standing Committee of the county party committee was still recuperating, and as the director general of the East China Bureau, he immediately ordered: "Within three months, the one named "Yanzi Li San" will be arrested, and I will see if he can grow up." ”
Swallow catching. Li San is very smart, how can I catch him?
This gave several main leaders in Jinan a bit of a headache.
As the saying goes, "you can't find the north for a thousand miles", who knows, this time, there are traces to follow.
On this day, a case of trafficking in firearms was detected, and Gu Shengsan, as the main suspect, said that after being arrested, he said that he "made a desperate transaction under dangerous circumstances."
In the past few months, Gu Shengsan has borrowed 30 million from Li San, and Li San has been urging him to repay the debt as soon as possible. Gu Shengsan said that all his goods had been shipped to Xuzhou, and if he wanted to pay off the account, he had to get rid of all the goods in Xuzhou.
Li San ignored him, and just said that if you don't hurry up and return it, don't blame me for being polite.
In order to prevent the wrong person from being recognized, the police specially verified with Gu Shengsan that the "swallow Li San" was Li Shengwu.
Now, finally, there is a clue.
It didn't take long for Gu Shengsan to spread in the local underground world that he was going to Xuzhou to sell what he was holdings, in order to pay off his debts as soon as possible.
Sure enough, on May 19, 1949, Gu Shengsan led two "entourages" to Xuzhou to find the firm where he stored the goods, saying that he would sell the goods immediately to repay Boss Li's arrears.
Gu Shengsan dropped this sentence and left again.
After Li San, who was hiding in Jinan, heard about the incident, he came to Xuzhou on 14 June to "chat" with Gu Shengsan. However, the news she got was that Mr. Gu was out and not there.
Li San was a little angry, and left a message at the front desk saying that he would come to Xuzhou again on the 19th, and asked Gu Shengsan to wait.
But on the 19th, the detectives of the task force waited from morning to evening, but they did not see Li San's figure, for fear that Li San would see the trick in it, so they quickly took Gu Shengsan back to Jinan for protection.
But what people didn't expect was that just a few days later, Li San actually wrote to him in person to apologize: "You don't talk a lot!" ”
Since the letter was sent from Xuzhou to Jinan, the Working Group believes that it is highly likely that Li San is still in Xuzhou, which is an opportune time to arrest him.
On June 24, at No. 78 Tieguan Lane, Xuzhou, at Li Sanji's Zhang Honglan's house, Gu Shengsan met with Li San again and expressed his willingness to return the money to him and made an appointment to pay it off the next day.
He wants to divide this account into two payments, the first one is to make sure that Li San is on this account. On the other hand, it is also to provide Gu Shengsan with some clues so that the police can make corresponding arrangements.
On the morning of the 25th, Gu Shengsan took the remaining cash as promised, ran to Zhang Honglan's house, and handed over all the cash to Li San, only then did he "sigh" and turn to leave.
When Gu Shengsan walked out of the courtyard gate, he couldn't help but feel a trace of fear in his heart when he saw those people in civilian clothes surrounding the entire courtyard. If this is just a performance, then not only does he not have a chance to regain his freedom, but he may even be considered Li San's **.
Not long after, two household registration policemen came to the compound and began to "check the household registration" one by one.
When they came to Zhang Guihong's home, the household registration police saw at a glance a man they didn't know lying on the hospital bed, who was said to be Zhang Honglan's distant cousin. The household registration police didn't seem to notice the man's hands on his body, but just glanced at him and looked away, covered the household registration book, turned around and left.
By this time, two police officers had already pounced in front of him, pressed him to the hospital bed, and then took out a pistol and ammunition from his pocket.
Yes, this person is "Swallow Li San", perhaps, it is not an exaggeration to call him Li Shengwu.
Li Shengwu has done a lot of things in Jinan and Xuzhou, and there are more than a dozen murder cases alone. For a repeat offender like him, it is impossible to get his sentence reduced.
On September 4, 1949, the director of the Jinan City Police Department decided to sentence Li Shengwu to death and submitted it to the provincial party committee for approval.
On September 30, Guo Zihua, vice governor of Shandong People's **, signed it: "In favor of the death penalty for the habitual offender Li Shengwu." ”
In this way, on October 27, accompanied by a gunshot, Li Shengwu, an old thief who had murdered like hemp, was finally killed.
As soon as this news came out, the people of Jinan ran around, surprised and delighted that "Swallow Li San" was eliminated so quickly
In the past, the Kuomintang had nothing to do with him, and then let him go. The Communist Party is not afraid of anything, and dares to do anything, that is, to arrest him and shoot him, and get rid of a big trouble! ”