It is said that in the chaotic world, the people are not happy, countless innocent people were brutally killed, there was such a group of people, they for their own selfish desires, specially robbed the grain of the common people, these are bandits, fortunately after the victory of the War of Resistance, the whole country began to suppress bandits, at that time there were also many great heroes who defended the country, they threw their heads on the battlefield and spilled blood, not known, today we want to talk about this one is an unsung hero, he captured the leader of the bandits in western Henan li zikui alive, He was also awarded the honorary title of special meritorious service by the military region, but as a result, he chose to hide his name and return home to farm, and when the old man was seriously ill 40 years later, his children inadvertently found a torn piece of paper at home, which revealed his true identity.
This old man in Henan named Lu Wenhuan, born in 1921 in Jiuying Village, Yangping Town, Lingbao City, Henan Province, he lost his parents since he was a child, so he went to the landlord's house to work for a long time, the suffering did not make Lu Wenhuan depressed, but let him develop an independent character, he later chose to join the army, for the liberation of the motherland to dedicate his own meager efforts.
Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the junction of the three provinces of Henan, Shaanxi and Jin, because of the dense forests of the mountains and lax management, so bandit activities are rampant, and the two counties of Lingbao and Fuxiang are even more plagued by bandits, in 1949, with the deepening of the Liberation War, most of the surrounding areas of the two counties have been liberated one after another, and the crippled and Kuomintang troops who were defeated have directly flowed into these two counties, resulting in a situation in which the local bandits are connected to each other, making the local people miserable.
At that time, the bandit armed forces active in the two counties included the First Division of the Third Column of the Kuomintang Defense Department and the 6th Security Brigade of Shaanxi Province, as well as the Suiyuan Detachment, the local landlord armed forces and bandits, of which there were 12 bandits in Lingbao County, with more than 7,220 bandits, and the leader was Li Zikui, who was appointed by Hu Zongnan as the commander of the provisional third column of the Ministry of National Defense.
There are 3 bandits in Fuxiang County, and there are more than 1600 bandits, led by the county governor Wang Lian and the county guard chief Li Xun, among these 15 bandits, Li Zikui is the most arrogant and has the worst influence.
Who is Li Zikui? He was born in 1907 in a family surnamed Ma in Majiazhai Village, Hanguguan Town, and was adopted by his father as a son by his father at the age of one, li keqi in Xinzhuang Village, Jiaocun Town, and later changed his name to Li Xianwa, because his family was poor, he only studied private school for one year, in 1922, Li Zikui defected to the bandit Qusan Province, and started the business of robbing the family house, and then he switched to the bandit Zhang Guangcun.
In 1930, Li Zikui was highly used by Li Xuezheng, the mayor of Lingbao County, to suppress bandits, and was recommended as the first major battalion commander of the Shaanzhou Security Regiment, and he participated in the liquidation of the Red 74th Division in Zhuyang Town.
In June 1949, Henan Province held the second party congress, specially deployed the plan to suppress bandits, the first battle was fought in Zhuyang Town, when the 464th Regiment of the 155th Division of the People's Liberation Army plus the militia totaled more than 800 people, and the 2nd Regiment of the 11th Division of the Third Column of the Kuomintang Defense Department under Li Zikui's department was encircled.
In late September, the bandit leader Li Zhigao was captured, which also marked the complete liberation of Fuxiang County, and in the face of an irresistible offensive, the bandits in the two counties surrendered one after another and accepted the organization, while Li Zikui, the leader of the bandits in western Henan, still had to resist stubbornly, during which the troops rounded him up twice without success.
In early December, according to reliable intelligence, Li Zikui hid in the cave of the landlord Jian She'an Jiajia in HanguGuan, when the Shaanxi Military Sub-district learned of this information, it quickly ordered troops to surround three nearby villages, from which a commando team of 12 elite fighters was drawn, and Lu Wenhuan, a reconnaissance officer of the Fuxiang County Armed Brigade, was also selected.
The cave where Li Zikui was hiding had two exits, one in the house, one leading to the wild, there was a dark hole in the middle of the two holes, he was hiding in the dark hole, when the two groups of commandos directly controlled the two holes, and Lu Wenhuan touched the entrance from the cave with a submachine gun in his hand, the cave was pitch black, nothing could be seen, but inside the cave Li Zikui's figure flashed, or was detected by Lu Wenhuan, before Li Zikui reacted, He was shot against his abdomen by Lu Wenhuan, Lu Wenhuan grabbed his collar, "You are Li Zikui", It's me", after the verification, he took Li Zikui outside the cave and was escorted back to the military district by the commandos to await trial.
The next day, the Shaanzhou Military Sub-district conveyed the news that Li Zikui was captured alive, and the people of the two counties were all rejoicing, and Lu Wenhuan suddenly became a great hero in the eyes of the local people, in 1950, he was judged by the Henan Military Region to be a special meritorious service, and in March of the same year, he was also awarded a certificate of merit, and the government promised that after Lu Wenhuan retired from the army, he could get a decent job with this award, but Lu Wenhuan did not do this, but chose to go home to farm.
After that, he and his wife lived a low-key and plain life, the two raised 6 children, when the old man's eldest daughter recalled: the father got up early every day to earn work, the grain was not enough to eat, several of their brothers and sisters often cried and tossed in order to fight for food, the old two often quarreled, the father was responsible for guarding the crops of the production team, the baby and old man in other people's families stole corn, our brothers and sisters never did this.
Although his life was not satisfactory, Mr. Lu never asked for relief grain once, and even the town and village cadres at that time said: The old hero has a very hard bone, he will not ask for anyone in everything, and he has never reached out to anyone in his life.
In 1984, the state made a regular subsidy for eligible demobilized soldiers, each soldier can get a subsidy ranging from 6 to 9 yuan per month, Lu Wenhuan is the highest level of 9 yuan, in 1994 the elderly were seriously ill and hospitalized, because the family did not have money to treat the soldiers, the children found a yellowed torn piece of paper when sorting things out, Shanghai wrote the word award, they found Lu Wenhuan's true identity, the original father is a big hero.
The children found the staff of the Lingbao Municipal Court to verify the bandit files of that year, which found Lu Wenhuan's deeds, the staff then visited the old man's home, and later the deeds of the old man were also made public, since then Lu Wenhuan and his wife have also been received to the nursing home to spend their old age, medical expenses are all reimbursed, in March 2011, Lu Wenhuan died of illness at the age of 90.