In the forties of the last century, at the junction of Anhui and Henan, there was a person who frightened the people, and he was "Yue Hulu". Yue Hulu's notoriety can even be used to scare children, which shows his great influence in the local area and the fear of the people.
Yue Qishan, nicknamed "Yue Hulu", because he has practiced martial arts since childhood, he has opened the bow left and right, has a hundred shots, is short and good at running, and is accustomed to seeing the wind and making the rudder, and has taken refuge in the Kuomintang and the Japanese, like an indestructible "gourd".
Yue Qishan is originally from Huangchuan, Henan, and has learned martial arts since he was a child, and his skills are extraordinary. In 1938, the Kuomintang arrested Zhuang Ding, and Yue Qishan did not want to be a soldier and fled, resulting in his father being arrested.
After that, Yue Qishan has been wandering until the next year, when 23-year-old Yue Qishan was introduced by his brother-in-law and joined the bandit Xu Zhikai's department, operating in Huoqiu and Gushi counties, robbing merchants who came and went.
However, after Xu Zhikai's troops were routed by the Kuomintang army, Yue Qishan and several other bandits fled to Huoqiu County, and on the way, they met a Kuomintang officer, Yue Qishan killed him and snatched the pistol, and was also wanted by the local ** of the Kuomintang.
After receiving financial support from Feng Chuan'an, Yue Qishan set up his own door, organized the first batch of bandits, and successfully robbed more than 1,000 silver dollars, and then gathered more than 20 guns.
He contacted the small bandits in Huoqiu, and together they robbed many market towns, and in less than two months, they grew to more than 50 people. However, his crimes were exposed, and the Kuomintang army and the local landlord forces encircled and suppressed his men, so that his men were scattered and he himself became alone.
In 1942, Yue Qishan bought a few acres of land in Fuyang and chose to live in seclusion, although the Kuomintang ** did not catch him, but arrested his subordinates and shot him.
Yue Qishan was so frightened that he didn't dare to go back. Two years later, he decided to make a comeback, defected to the Japanese army in Huainan, served as the leader of the traitor inspection team, and helped the Japanese puppet army ** compatriots.
During this period, he continued to recruit bandits under the banner of the Japanese, and his forces quickly expanded to more than 500 people.
Yue Qishan decided to join the bandits when he was nearing victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan. A month later, he contacted our party members and expressed his willingness to join us. Soon, he led more than 80 bandits into our base area and expressed his desire to join our army.
Comrade Zhao Kai of our anti-Japanese base area received him and decided to disarm him first and then reorganize him. In order to prevent accidents, more than 400 members of the armed engineering team were also recruited to strengthen vigilance.
However, this group of bandits all fled at night, and later learned that the bandit who claimed to be Zhang Daosheng was Yue Qishan, and the purpose of his surrender was to eat the armed forces in our base area.
During the War of Liberation, the Kuomintang army was defeated and retreated, and remembered the bandit forces in various places, so they were incorporated to fight against the people's revolution. Yue Qishan was appointed as the captain of the Fourth Brigade of the Huoqiu Self-Defense Army and the commander of the Huaihe Advance Detachment.
The Kuomintang provided support to Yue Qishan, making him even more fearless. He openly collected taxes from the local people, kidnapped wealthy merchants, ** women, and even had ** concubines himself, and the number of victims was countless.
With regard to the newly born districts, townships, and towns, Yue Qishan even resorted to unscrupulous means to brutalize our party cadres and the masses. Once, Yue Qishan led the troops to Cha'anzi at the foot of the Beida Mountain in Huoqiu, where the main force of the fourth company of the independent regiment was stationed there, and there were only more than 70 people in the whole company, most of whom were newly enlisted soldiers with little experience.
After the cunning Yue Qishan discovered the Fourth Company, he immediately asked his subordinates to disguise themselves as ordinary people and report the false banditry to the Fourth Company. The Fourth Company rashly attacked without finding out the enemy's strength and was surrounded by the cunning Yueqi Mountain.
Although the fourth company fought bravely and well, it was finally outnumbered, the company commander died in the middle of the breakthrough, more than 20 cadres and soldiers were captured and brutally killed, and the rest of the personnel were all killed.
The Ninth Company, stationed in Shidian, sent a platoon to the rescue, but also encountered an ambush by the Yue bandits on the way, and all the soldiers of a squad were killed.
Yue Qishan committed many crimes, behaved badly, brutalized our party cadres and fighters, and robbed the local people, which is outrageous. His crimes are too numerous to mention, and no matter how far he goes, he will bring disaster to the local people.
With the victory of the three major battles, the Kuomintang's military strength north of the Yangtze River was basically wiped out, and the Third Army Subdivision in western Anhui concentrated its military forces to suppress bandits and establish grassroots political power in accordance with the instructions of its superiors.
Inspired by military strikes and policies, many local security regiments and bandits surrendered to our army, but Yue Qishan did not give up resistance. One afternoon in January 1949, he came to Huoqiu County with more than 300 bandits, claiming that he wanted to surrender to the People's Liberation Army, but in fact, he had already privately sent people to contact the underground party before that, and disliked the officials and turned to the Kuomintang.
Now, he wants to take advantage of the kindness of our army and take advantage of opportunism, and his intentions are clearly exposed.
Zeng Qingmei sent an independent regiment from Shou County, planning to incorporate Yue Qishan. The independent regiment is the latest to be incorporated into the former Shou County Security Regiment, the head of the regiment is still Li Xudong, the former head of the security regiment, and the political commissar is Zhu Huaiming, a backbone sent by our party.
However, since most of the members of the Independent Regiment were still old people from the former Security Corps, and some of them had a close relationship with Yue Qishan, Yue Qishan did not pay enough attention to the First Regiment.
Zhu Huaiming tried to discuss the surrender with Yue Qishan, but Yue Qishan always pushed back, and even sent his own cronies to carry out secret activities in a group. This situation was soon known to the military sub-district headquarters, and Zeng Qingmei immediately ordered Regiment Commander Li Biyun to lead the basic regiment to Huoqiu County.
When Zhu Huaiming introduced Regiment Commander Li to Yue Qishan, Yue Qishan couldn't help but feel a little nervous when he saw Li Biyun's serious expression and the identity of the old Red Army.
Li Biyun had already heard of Yue Qishan's evil deeds, so he was very tough on him. He directly accused Yue Qishan and listed his crimes, and every sentence was harshly worded, making Yue Qishan sweat coldly.
Yue Qishan's eyes were rolling around, looking very nervous. However, Li Biyun did not completely reject Yue Qishan's surrender, and he told Yue Qishan that their surrender was still welcome.
Hearing this, Yue Qishan was relieved, and he arched his hand skillfully, expressing his willingness to serve the dogs and horses. Li Biyun waved his hand, and then said that he had come this time on the orders of the head of the military sub-district, and that he would transfer Yue Qishan's troops and a part of a regiment to the military sub-district for training, and that he would set off tomorrow.
When Yue Qishan heard the news, he immediately expressed his hope that he could extend the time for a few days to prepare. Li Biyun understood his request and agreed to his request for an extension.
No, that's the instruction above! "Okay, let's start tomorrow then. Yue Qishan reluctantly agreed. The next day, the basic regiment took Yue Qishan's troops and a part of the regiment to Shou County, and at Yingheji, Zeng Qingmei, commander of the Third Division, and Peng Zongzhu, deputy political commissar, had been waiting for a long time, and held a meeting to study the plan for the reorganization of this gang of bandits.
The more than 300 people brought by Yue Qishan were all organized into three independent regiments and one battalion, with three companies under their jurisdiction, and Yue Qishan served as the battalion commander.
In the process of education, although Yue Qishan pretended to be diligent and studious on the surface, he was actually full of vigilance in his heart and was always ready to escape.
Yue Qishan disguised himself as a small trader and tried to escape, but was intercepted by our soldiers and taken to the regimental headquarters. Commander Li Biyun questioned him: "Battalion Commander Yue, why did you secretly run away?"
Isn't that a shame? Yue Qishan lowered his head and pleaded: "Head Li, the little one is wrong, please forgive me, please forgive me!" Li Biyun solemnly pointed out: "Battalion Commander Yue, the Huaihai Battle has been won, Jiangbei has been liberated, and it is only a matter of time before the whole of China is liberated.
Now there are two paths in front of you: one is to sincerely surrender and accept the adaptation, and the other is to continue to run away and bring about your own destruction. You have to make a choice. Yue Qishan said: "Yes, I understand that I was wrong, and I will not make ...... next time."In the end, after discussion, the leaders of the military sub-district decided to give Yue Qishan a chance to take the original team to Lu'an to accept the second reorganization.
Yue Qishan felt deeply lost after his "defection", he could no longer pursue women as unrestrained as before, nor could he continue to indulge himself, which made him feel very uncomfortable, and even had the intention of escaping.
Secretly, he got in touch with Bai Yunting, the head of the Kuomintang military command special service group. A few days later, in the middle of the night, Yue Qishan led the original group of people to mutiniate collectively and fled into the local mountains, and at this time, our army was busy preparing to cross the river, and the local ** was also making every effort to mobilize the masses to carry out the front work, and there was no time to take care of the tens of thousands of "stubborn bandits" in the Dabie Mountains, so the pursuit of Yue Qishan was temporarily put on hold.
After the mutiny, Yue Qishan and Bai Yunting expanded their ranks together, constantly attacked the nascent grassroots regime, and pulled out Zhang Wenzao, Zhao Bingsheng, Wang Zedong and others who had already surrendered, and killed more than 40 cadres and soldiers of our army.
Two months later, Wang Xian was appointed by Bai Chongxi to come to the Dabie Mountains, where there were more than 1,300 guns at that time, and immediately brought people to join Wang Xian, and was named the commander of the "Huaihe Advance Detachment".
Under the command of Wang Shusheng, the three provinces of Hubei, Henan and Anhui carried out a joint suppression, and Yue Qishan's troops were severely damaged by the People's Liberation Army, and there were less than 200 people left. They fled to the Huoqiu hills, destroying roads and looting food in the southern mountains.
The Anhui District Bandit Suppression Command decided to concentrate the four squadrons of the Huoqiu Brigade and send another company to support them, and it was necessary to catch Yue Qishan, a "habitual bandit." At that time, the Yueqi Mountain Department was hidden in Yeji, this place was located at the junction of Henan and Anhui, and it was the throat of the Dabie Mountain.
After our anti-bandit troops arrived, they immediately worked out a surprise plan, and soon broke through the enemy's position, killing more than 60 bandits and capturing more than 70 people alive.
However, when counting the captives, we could not find Yue Qishan. It turned out that in the afternoon of the same day, Yue Qishan took a few people to a bath in the south of the town to take a bath, and after hearing the gunshots, he jumped out of the back door of the bathhouse shirtless.
As the leader of the bandits, Yue Qishan traveled to many places, plotting counterrevolutionary activities, and brutalizing innocent people. The national public security departments at all levels are urgently wanted, and a large number of reconnaissance personnel are dispatched to arrest them.
However, Yue Qishan was extremely cunning and escaped from the encirclement many times, making the arrest work difficult. The local people and the bandit crackers are deeply anxious about this, because the existence of Yueqi Mountain seriously threatens the safety and production of the local people and affects the process of socialist construction.
Therefore, it is imperative to seize Yueqishan and bring it to justice.
In order to bring Yue Qishan to justice as soon as possible, the 90 th Division of the People's Liberation Army and the county and district public security organs each dispatched an elite team to pretend to be a hotel owner, a small trader, a ferryman, and other roles, and set up a net at key locations such as stations and ferries.
In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival of 1951 was coming, and everyone was in a predicament. Suddenly, an insurrectionist provided an important clue that Feng Xiao'an's family in Miaogangji was related to Yue Qishan.
After investigation, the arrest team learned that Yue Qishan's little wife was still at Feng Xiao'an's house. That night, the arrest team acted decisively and successfully captured Yue Qishan's little wife, and found a letter from Yue Qishan at her residence, which mentioned that he planned to spend the Spring Festival in Xujiaweizi, Banqiaoji, Shou County.
At the same time, the public security officers also arrested Wan Fengyun, a company commander of Yue Qishan's subordinate, who admitted that he had provided 700,000 yuan to Yue Qishan a few days ago, so Yue Qishan may be hidden in the watchtower near the house of Wang Yasheng of Xujiaweizi in Shou County and the watchtower in the northeast corner of Xujiaweizi.
The two clues are clear, which brings hope to the troops and public security officers who have been chasing for many days. The 90th Division and the Huoqiu County Public Security Bureau held an emergency meeting and worked out a detailed arrest plan.
At the meeting, it was decided that Zhao Bangan, head of the reconnaissance section of the Huoqiu County Public Security Bureau, and Chen Deqiao, deputy head of the unit, would serve as the chief and deputy team leaders, and that six capable personnel would be selected from among the investigators to form an eight-member pursuit group, which would be stationed in the 2nd Battalion of the 369th Regiment of the 90th Division near Banqiao, Shou County, to coordinate the operation.
They planned to surround the two locations where Yue Qishan was hiding on Chinese New Year's Eve, and Zhao Bangan led the pursuit team to search for Yue Qishan, with the goal of capturing Yue Qishan alive. Considering that Huoqiu was more than 80 miles away from Banqiaoji in Shou County, in order to avoid startling the snakes, the pursuit team decided to set off that night.
After a tense march, they finally reached their destination in the middle of the night. While the pursuit team was operating, Yue Qishan also sensed that something was wrong, and asked Wang Yasheng if the news had been leaked.
Yue Qishan looked at Wang Yasheng solemnly, and said in a resolute tone: "You don't know that this is a matter of life and death, even my wife doesn't know, and you won't know." Tell you, I'm not Guan Yu from Maicheng, if you do anything, I won't let you go in the underworld. ”
Wang Yasheng reassured again and again, and Yue Qishan nodded with satisfaction. After eating, Yue Qishan was ready to sleep, but he didn't know that the 2nd Battalion of the 90th Division of the People's Liberation Army had blocked all the exits of Xujiawei, surrounded the polders, and slowly narrowed the encirclement.
Zhao Bangan took the pursuit team to the watchtower of Wang Yasheng's house, there are two rooms under the watchtower, one bright and one dark, Wang Yasheng and his wife sleep in the outer room, and Yue Qishan sleeps in the dark room inside.
At this time, they had all fallen asleep, and when it was almost dawn, the arrest team came to Wang Yasheng's roof, and after making sure that there was no movement, they broke into the door, and Wang Yasheng was startled.
Zhao Bangan asked him if Yue Qishan was in **, and Wang Yasheng said that he would leave when he was on the third watch. Zhao Bangan sneered and said, "Three watches? Dare to lie? The two watches were surrounded, and you hid him in **? ”
Wang Yasheng lowered his head and told the public security officers with his eyes that Yue Qishan was hidden in the dark. The movement outside alarmed Yue Qishan, he immediately ran to the watchtower, Zhao Bangan rushed up after him, just as they stepped on the watchtower steps, only to hear a gunshot, Zhao Bang'an was shot in the left chest and fell to the ground, unable to move.
When his comrades carried him out of the watchtower, Zhao Bangan, who was seriously injured, held the hands of the arresting team members tightly and said with difficulty: "Quick, leave me alone, Yue Hulu is on it!" ”
After hearing the gunshots, the second battalion of the round-up immediately rushed to surround the watchtower. Yue Qishan, relying on watchtowers and superb marksmanship, resisted stubbornly and delayed time, resulting in injuries to many commanders and fighters of our army.
The commander and instructors of the 2nd Battalion repeatedly shouted to Yue Qishan, urging him to surrender and ensure his personal safety, but Yue Qishan asked his friends to come and testify before he would surrender.
So, the troops immediately found his friend from Itabashi.
After his companions arrived, Yue Qishan still refused to surrender and asked his old friend Bai Yunting to come. I saw Yue Qishan trying to stall for time, he asked the soldiers to set up crane guns and concentrate their fire on the watchtowers to carry out a fierce attack.
After the watchtower was hit, it was full of holes like a honeycomb, dusty, and could collapse at any time. Yue Qishan was very frightened in the watchtower, and he saw that he had no choice but to throw out the gun and kneel on the ground to be arrested.
In this arrest operation, Comrade Zhao Bangan, who was only 28 years old, was hit in the heart by a bullet, and after rescue efforts failed, he sacrificed his young life. The news of Yue Qishan's capture quickly spread in Banqiaoji, and people rushed to tell each other, all of whom rushed to Xujiaweizi, and the local people carried wine and meat to comfort the People's Liberation Army and public security officers who had eliminated harm for us.
On the afternoon of April 29, 1951, tens of thousands of people gathered outside the south gate of Lu'an to witness the execution of Yueqishan. This once turbulent bandit finally ended his life of sin because of a lot of blood debts.
At the moment when the shots rang out, people's quest for justice was satisfied. Similarly, Peng Gang and others made a will to *** in 1996, agreeing that Gu Guixiang, a female bandit who once killed people, killed her son with her own hands.
This callous act eventually led to her being executed. In another case, a bandit leader who crisscrossed three provinces was also executed for revealing his whereabouts by cooking rice and stir-frying vegetables late at night.
These things tell us that both in the past and in the present, justice will prevail.