The village fights to ban guns, and the determination is obvious.
On the morning of September 11, 1993, a cannon shot broke the tranquility of Jinggang Village, and then, under the leadership of the village chief, the villagers quickly assembled, successfully seized the commanding heights and set up a field hospital with the company platoon as a unit, and everything was carried out in an orderly manner.
And just like that, a battle of magnitude began. The two sides involved in the battle invested more than 5,000 people, mobilized hundreds of artillery pieces and thousands of grenades, and covered an area of two square kilometers.
You may be surprised to ask, could this be the beginning of a small campaign? In fact, this is just a fight between two mountain villages in Hunan, and the story takes place in the west of Yongxing County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, with 33 organized villages and 6 communities under its jurisdiction.
Among the 33 organized villages, there are two villages with long-standing grievances: Ma Tian Village and Jinggang Village.
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, Matian Village and Jinggang Village were occupied by families surnamed Liu and Li respectively. Grievances have been accumulated between the two villages for a long time over the distribution of water and materials, and the conflict has gradually escalated.
In 1929, a strong man from Ma Tian Village worked hard outside and became the lieutenant colonel of the Kuomintang. In order to protect his people, he returned to Matian Village with 100 soldiers, claiming that he wanted to arrest the "Communists", and blocked Jinggang Village for a large-scale search, arresting 17 strong men from Jinggang Village.
In the end, he tied these ** people to the foot of the village mountain and shot them one by one, which made the hatred and contradictions between the two sides even worse.
Jinggang Village, which originally intended to take revenge, ended the grievance with Ma Tian Village under the stop of the people. However, over the past few decades, the two villages have been in constant friction, and the grievances have become deeper and deeper, and the contradictions have become bigger and bigger.
At 5 a.m. on September 11, 1993, Liu Youyi, a villager from Jinggang Village, was stopped by Ma Tian Village on the way to haul pork and was robbed. In retaliation, Ma Tiancun smashed the grocery store of Li Zuxi's house in Jinggang Village and snatched the goods.
This made the flame of hatred between the two villages completely ignited. The village chief personally led the team and mobilized the whole village to prepare for the war. Men are responsible for front-line fire, women are responsible for logistics such as the delivery of supplies, and elderly and children are responsible for caring for the wounded.
At that time, there was no complete ban on guns, and the villagers were rich in firepower, including earthen guns, earthen cannons, bird swords, spears, and even long and short guns left over from the war.
Both village chiefs are masters of arranging troops, and the villagers have also received some military training.
In the fight between Jinggang Village and Ma Tian Village, both sides invested a lot of resources and manpower. A military headquarters, a field health center, and a canteen have been set up in Matian Village to ensure supplies and ambulance on the front line.
They also planned a route to transport **ammunition to secure the munitions**. The strong men of Matian Village held flags and planted a flag every time they captured a high ground to remind the villagers in the rear to take every step of the way.
The villagers on the ground advanced in groups of three, while Jinggang Village set up a fire network between the key points and the commanding heights, forming a dense and intersecting fire blockade area.
And Jinggang Village also invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the battle. They converted the clinic into a makeshift field hospital, and even veterinarians were mobilized to become military doctors.
Hundreds of women, children, and children in the village formed a ** wall, blocking the entry of public security personnel and forcing them to report the situation to their superiors. The battle lasted for two days, and it was not until the officers and soldiers of the armed police and ** personnel arrived that the situation was barely controlled.
The people of Ma Tian Village surrounded the coal mine explosives warehouse in the county and looted a large amount of munitions. In this fight, both sides have invested a lot of resources and manpower, and there are different opinions, and there is no accurate number.
In China, in order to protect the safety of people's lives and property, the leaders quickly made the decision to strictly restrict the possession of private guns after large-scale armed fights and frequent incidents.
As a result, on October 1, 1996, China officially implemented the "Firearms Control Law", which clearly stipulates that all Chinese citizens are not allowed to possess firearms privately.
Over the next decade, China's public security authorities confiscated more than 2 million firearms, effectively reducing the crime rate and improving people's sense of security, making China one of the safest countries in the world. ”