On the morning of February 5, 1950, an important military and political cadre of our party was brutally murdered, his body was exposed in the wilderness, the accompanying guards were not alive, and the patriotic soldiers were brutally slaughtered.
On December 27, 1949, the People's Liberation Army entered Chengdu in a mighty way, announcing that Chengdu ushered in the spring of liberation. On February 5 of the following year, Zhu Xiangli, director of the Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, was ordered to return to Chengdu and be transferred to the post of Bulgarian military attache abroad, with a bright future.
However, at dusk that day, the figures of the soldiers still did not appear in Chengdu for a long time. Instead, it was the news of the bandits, and the location was the only way for Zhu Xiangli and others.
In the early morning of February 7, Chief of Staff Deng Shijun and the guards found Zhu Xiangli and others, who had been missing for a long time, in the dense forest weeds on the hillside of the courtyard on the outskirts of Chengdu. However, the scene was extremely painful, the corpses of the soldiers were blurred with blood, their limbs were broken, their eyes were hollowed out, their tongues and ears were cut out, and their internal organs were brutally removed.
The accompanying escort soldiers were not spared, and all of them were in different places. What kind of inhumane killings did Zhu Xiangli and others, who were victorious in breaking the siege, suffer such crimes, and such crimes must be punished as they should be.
At the end of 1949, Zhu Xiangli was assigned by his superiors to be responsible for the transformation and reorganization of the Kuomintang uprising unit Zhu Dingqing's department.
However, it was at this time that he received an appointment from Beijing. It turns out that with the founding of the country, the diplomatic cause is facing new development opportunities, and a group of diplomatic talents are urgently needed to devote themselves to it.
* The Central Military Commission decided to select the first batch of military attachés stationed abroad in the whole army, and Zhu Xiangli was successfully elected as Bulgarian military attache abroad by virtue of his outstanding performance and rich work experience.
Therefore, he needs to go from Shibantan to Chengdu and then to Beijing.
Zhu Xiangli prepared to leave for Chengdu, and he embarked on a long journey with 19 fighters. Starting from Shibantan Renhechang, they needed to walk up to 40 miles to reach Longtan Temple Longxingchang, and then walk more than 20 miles northeast to reach the provincial capital of Chengdu.
On the way to Chengdu, they need to pass through the slopes of Longxing Changyuan, an important geographical location with deep forests and trees, which has historically been a battleground for soldiers.
Despite the gray sky and drizzle overhead in Chengdu in early spring, Zhu Xiangli and his team still walked forward firmly.
In order to ensure the safety of this diplomatic attaché who is about to go abroad, the military specially organized a reinforced squad of guards, whose combat capabilities and equipment are excellent.
Although the rain kept falling and the road was slippery, they moved forward firmly, passing through Shibanpo, Huangzhuang, and Tiangong Temple, and had walked more than ten miles. They knew that there might be an ambush in the dense forest on the slope of the Yuanshan Temple ahead, so Zhu Xiangli, an experienced combat veteran, had to be extra vigilant.
He reminded everyone to be vigilant and ordered to pass through the place quickly. At this time, a plainly dressed villager with gray hair and gray hair walked slowly over with a bundle of dry firewood on his back.
Suddenly, the seemingly honest villager took out his pistol from his hideout, with a ** expression on his face, ready to shoot. Then, more and more bandits rushed out from all directions, and after a while, gunshots rang out on Caijiapo in the north of Yuanshan Temple.
The fighters immediately pulled the bolts of their guns and prepared for the attack of the bandits. Zhu Xiangli keenly discovered that many of the bandits were ordinary people, and he immediately understood that these people were instigated by the bandits.
Zhu Xiangli, a PLA soldier who came to this land with a mission to save the people, refused to shoot at ordinary people in his heart. He warned the fighters that only a few people here were reactionary, and most of them were deceived ordinary people.
We are the People's Liberation Army, and our mission is to protect the people, and we cannot shoot at the common people. Therefore, even in the face of the enemy, the fighters were careful not to harm innocent civilians as much as possible.
Zhu Xiangli even proposed peace talks, hoping to persuade the enemy to let go.
This group of stubborn bandits apparently came prepared, and turned a deaf ear to any persuasion. They pressed on and forced a group of warriors to retreat, until they were trapped in a civilian house and brutally burned alive.
And the other team led by Zhu Xiangli also encountered difficulties, the situation became worse and worse, and finally was forced to a courtyard by the gangsters. After capturing the soldiers, the vicious bandits resorted to extremely cruel torture and killing.
They gouged out the eyes of the fighters, cut off their ears and tongues, cut open the stomachs of the fighters, and finally even took out the internal organs of the fighters.
In the eyes of the bandits, once the will to live is destroyed, any cruel means can be accepted. They scalded the soldiers to death with boiling water and then chopped them into several pieces and buried them in a mud pond, and even the war horses could not escape, they were killed and eaten.
In the early morning of February 7, Deng Shijun, chief of staff of the 60th Army, led the Chengdu garrison to finally arrive at the hillside of the courtyard and found that the corpses of the soldiers were cold and stiff, and they were unrecognizable.
And Zhu Xiangli's body has as many as 24 bullet holes and wounds, which is even more distressing, making people imagine how inhuman and cruel treatment he suffered before his sacrifice.
According to the archives, we have found the remains of 71 other comrades-in-arms on the slopes of the courtyard. When we arrived at the scene, everyone couldn't hold back their tears and felt extremely heartbroken for the sacrifice and tragic experience of our comrades.
A veteran who participated in the rescue, Ma Yunpeng of the 60th Army, recalled: "Seeing such a heroic scene, everyone cried. In the end, we could only dig the soil with our fingers, mixed with blood and tears, and buried the bodies of Zhu Xiangli and other comrades who fought and died in Longtan Temple, which was covered with their blood-soaked soil.
The bandits appeared on the way home of the division-level cadres, and even carefully disguised themselves, and many of them were ordinary people. Behind this is not just a group of bandits, there must be a deeper reason.
Huang Dexing, a bandit in Longtan Temple, was bullied by Xu Yinsheng, the head of the bandits, and his wife was robbed and occupied. Fearing for his life, he fled to Beiguan in Chengdu to hide.
On the evening of February 3, 1950, Xu Yinsheng and Wu Jie led their subordinates with ** in their hands and quietly infiltrated Beiguan, planning to get rid of Huang Dexing.
Overnight, Gao Yun, who lived with him, was tragically implicated and beaten to death, and Huang Dexing was also seriously injured, but he escaped by luck because he pretended to be dead. The next day, Huang Dexing's mother found her son *** and immediately hurried to the local security department to report the case.
The garrison department immediately dispatched a squad of security personnel to Xu Yinsheng's house to arrest the murderer. Unfortunately, Xu Yinsheng went out, and the guards had to take his relative Li Yinrong away.
Hearing the news, Xu Yinsheng, Wu Jie and other bandits were unhappy, and angrily led people to rush to the garrison to rob people. However, the garrison department had already prepared and successfully resisted the attack of Wu Jie and others.
On February 5, the gang of gangsters began a frenzied act of revenge. This group of unscrupulous bandits targeted Zhu Xiangli and others, and even carried out robberies and violent attacks on passing PLA soldiers.
On the night of February 5, these bandits colluded with the counter-revolutionaries near Shibantan and jointly launched a three-day and night-long operation in Shibantan.
The land of western Sichuan fell into a panic, and serious armed ** broke out in various counties at the same time overnight. Within a week, bandits and reactionaries were all over western Sichuan, and scenes of burning, killing and looting were everywhere.
Of the 40 counties under the jurisdiction of the Western Sichuan Military Region, 34 of them were attacked by as many as 300 bandits, with hundreds of men in each team, and a total of more than 60,000 bandits. Chengdu is surrounded by bandits, like an isolated island, 8 external roads, 7 of which are cut off by bandits, only the Sichuan-Shaanxi highway can still be passed normally.
They lost control and not only attacked the PLA, but also threatened and coaxed the township and village staff and peasant activists in an attempt to expand their own power.
What is sad is that some ignorant masses who are blinded by money and interests are willing to become the ** of villains. In just one week, the bandits killed 1,111 PLA military and political personnel.
Zhang Jinying, Liu Huangshi and others, because of their status as peasant activists in the township, were targeted and ** by bandits. In particular, Liu Huang, who was pregnant with Liujia, was even more brutally brutalized by bandits and was disemboweled, which was distressing.
And these bandits are mainly composed of feudal forces and scattered people from all over western Sichuan, including the leaders of the robes, the bully landlords, the bandit bosses, hooligans and other evil forces.
The Longtan Temple and Shibantan incidents were an organized and planned counter-revolution, and the counter-revolutionaries took advantage of the opportunity when our army was reorganizing the insurrectionary troops, purging the remnants of the enemy in the vicinity, and when the consciousness of the masses had not yet been raised, and the incident was launched.
The liberation of Sichuan was relatively late, so counter-revolutionaries and other hostile forces from all over the country fled to this place one after another, and there were also guidomen and feudal robe organizations in this place, which were full of banditry.
At this time, Sichuan poured in a large number of 600,000 military and political personnel recruited by the People's Liberation Army and the Kuomintang uprising, and they needed a large amount of food**. However, because all walks of life in the newly liberated New China had experienced the devastation of war, the economy was very depressed, and the level of production was backward, and Sichuan was no exception.
Therefore, in order to alleviate the demand for grain, the Southwest Military Region sent staff to the rural areas to collect grain, and these measures harmed the interests of the local feudal exploiting class and made some landlords and bandit leaders feel dissatisfied.
A group of people used violence to threaten the participation of the people, massively armed forces of the People's Liberation Army, and destroyed public facilities. In this disaster, Zhu Xiangli, a prominent member of our party's military and political affairs, and many other soldiers were brutally killed by bandits under the blue sky and white sun.
** Upon learning of this, he immediately instructed the Southwestern Military Region to gather forces to eliminate the bandits. The murder of Zhu Xiangli and other comrades became the first shot fired in the suppression of bandits and the suppression of rebellion in western Sichuan and even in southwest China.
Adhering to the principle of "the first evil must be dealt with, the threat is never asked, and the meritorious service is rewarded", he led the Western Sichuan Military Region to launch an anti-bandit operation. Their strategy was to retake the main transportation arteries from the hinterland and the heartland, and then gradually move deeper into the periphery and the countryside scattered among the mountains and forests.
On March 7, 1950, in the second ** of Longtan Temple, Du Aiguo led a reconnaissance squad to participate in the clean-up and successfully captured the culprit Wu Jie.
At the public trial meeting of Longtan Temple, the ** and bandit leader Wu Jie who happened in the temple were tried. Investigator Li Shuangting executed Wu Jie with the Colt pistol he used to kill Zhu Xiangli.
Since Zhu Xiangli's sacrifice for a month, the villains have finally received the punishment they deserve. After eight months of hard work, the scourge of bandits in the western Sichuan Plain has been basically eliminated, and the scourge of bandits in the world has also been quelled.
However, the heroes are gone, and although the soldiers are gone, their spirit is still there, and their contributions will forever be recorded in history.
A disaster took the lives of young soldiers, including a soldier in his early 20s, named Zhu Xiangli, who was only 39 years old at the time of his career development.
Zhu Xiangli came from Pingyao, Shanxi, and with the heart of gratitude to serve the country, he traveled thousands of miles to western Sichuan to devote himself to the battle to liberate the southwest. He was a patriotic, gentle, and cultured person, and his comrade-in-arms, Li Wei, the propaganda captain of the 533rd Regiment of the 178th Division of the 60th Army, was extremely impressed by him.
Li Wei described Zhu Xiangli as "very gentle and elegant, and he looks like an intellectual at first glance." However, this brilliant talent, who should have been more dazzling, ended his life at the hands of the villain, which is heartbreaking.
1.In the spring of 1950, in order to commemorate Zhu Xiangli and other martyrs who bravely sacrificed their lives in the suppression of bandits and counterinsurgency in western Sichuan, Wenjiang Prefecture ** specially built a "Monument to the Martyrs of the Western Sichuan Bandits" in Hesheng, and the front was engraved with "Zhu Xiangli and the martyrs of the Western Sichuan Bandits" and the number of the unit where he was alive.
This monument to the suppression of bandits standing in the Chengdu Plain is a remembrance of the righteous soldiers who died bravely, and it is also a memory of those thrilling and eventful years.
2.In 1967, Jinniu District built the Yuanshanpo Martyrs Cemetery, buried the remains of 18 martyrs who accompanied the guards, and established the "Yuanshanpo Martyrs Monument" in January 1969.
On March 27, 2000, the local ** renovated the martyrs' cemetery on the hillside of the courtyard to make it look new.
We respect and commemorate every hero, and specially moved the remains of Zhu Xiangli to the martyrs' cemetery, so that he can be accompanied by his comrades-in-arms who sacrificed their lives for the country. May the heroes rest in peace, their spirit will always inspire us forward.