During the Republic of China, bandits arose one after another, which was very common at that time, and it was also the same in anhui at that time, and there were three most famous bandit disasters, namely: Lu'an City was robbed, Fuyang City was robbed, and Fuyang Xixiang was robbed three times.
Li Lao Cat plundered Lu'an City Li Lao Cat, also known as "Li Lao Mo", formerly known as Li Zhenwei, ranked old among the six brothers in the family, and initially made a living in the army, but later because of the problem of military salary, he became a bandit and became a leader.
At the turn of the spring and summer of 1928, Li Laomao, the leader of the bandits who was originally entrenched in the Henan region, was surrounded and suppressed by the army, and Li Laomao led the remaining large number of bandits from his hometown in Henan to Jinjiazhai near Lu'an, and then continued to approach Lu'an City, and finally occupied sujiabu and Mabu areas outside Lu'an City.
Seeing that the bandits led by Li Laomao were constantly approaching Lu'an City, the then county magistrate Na Yuanwei, the garrison battalion commander Jiang Pengcheng and others actually abandoned the city and fled, and a group of bandits led by Li Laomao entered Lu'an City without any resistance.
After Li Laomao entered Lu'an City, he went door to door to loot property, and the paper money was not wanted, as long as the gold and silver treasure, and there were many people in the city who did not have time to escape, most of them were captured by him, if no one took the money to redeem, then it was directly cut.
In addition to robbing money, Li Bandit really did nothing evil in Lu'an City, no matter men, women, young and old, all the people they met were spared, even the elderly and young children.
The next day, after Li Bandit left, thousands of men and women were abducted in Lu'an City, and the pool in the center of the county was filled with S bodies, and almost all of them were cut to pieces, and many women lost their lives after being humiliated.
Before leaving, Li Bandit set fire to the city again, and did not extinguish the fire until the next afternoon, after the Sixiang Red Gun Society entered the city, but at that time, almost all of Lu'an City was burned down, and only a few buildings inside the north gate remained.
After leaving Lu'an, Li Bandit rushed to Huoshan County on the side, but because the people of Huoshan knew the news of Lu'an's robbery in advance, most of them ran away in advance, so Li Bandit did not tie up many people, but still plundered Huoshan and set fire to the city.
After that, the Li bandits traveled to the deep mountains of Qianshan and Taihu Counties until they returned to Lu'an four days later, plundered again, and lived in Sujiabu again, and their main purpose was to ask the kidnapped family members to come and redeem people with money.
For those who take money to redeem people, Li Bandit is polite and polite, called "the god of receiving wealth", but those who have no money to redeem will be subjected to various tortures, and those who have not been redeemed for a long time will be smashed to death by Li Bandit, called "smashing turtles".
At that time, the Lu'an area had long been in a state of chaos, and there was no one to take care of Li Bandit's behavior, until later, when the large army stationed in Bengbu came to encircle and suppress it, and Li Bandit broke up and fled to Macheng.
The old foreigners who plundered Fuyang were really named Zhang Qing, born in a poor family in Ruzhou, Henan, because of their tall stature, yellow hair, deep eyes, high nose, so they got the nickname of an old foreigner, originally Zhang Qing also joined the army, and after the Zhifeng War, he became the leader of the bandits.
Because the old foreigners were fierce and fierce, they soon became a big bandit in the Central Plains, and because of the activities of the old foreigners, Wu Peifu and Feng Yuxiang and others were very uneasy, so they sent troops to encircle and suppress them, and the old foreigners fled.
Soon after the old foreigners occupied Xincai County, they set their sights on the hometown of the Anhui warlord Ni Sichong, the important town of Fuyang in northern Anhui, and in the city of Fuyang County at that time, there was also a regimental garrison in the city of Fuyang County, where there was also a regimental garrison.
Fuyang is rich in vast land and rich in products, and has always been a coveted place in north China, and the old foreigners officially invaded Fuyang in the winter of 1921, when the defense organizations in Fuyang were all born in a clumsy background, and they could not stop the old foreigners from attacking.
In the end, the old foreigners and other large bandits entered Fuyang City, and the commander of the militia group, Ni Daoxu, and the regimental commander Ni Dexin fled in a hurry, while the bandits stayed in the city for three days and three nights, burning and looting on a large scale, and doing all the bad things.
The old foreigners looted and looted a large amount of silver dollars, jewelry and tobacco in Fuyang, as well as more than 3,000 guns and more than 2 million rounds of bullets hidden by Ni Sichong, and even a few cannons.
In the autumn of 1928, Lao Wang Tai, the leader of the bandits at the junction of Yuwan and Hubei, gathered a large number of bandits, known as 50,000 people, to commit evil in various places in the western part of Fuyang City.
However, Li Lou Guzhai was still attacked by bandits, but at this time, the official government did not pay any attention at all, so that Li Laobing, the village chief of Li Lou Guzhai, personally led the villagers to confront it, and after a day of fierce fighting, they were outnumbered, and the bandits broke through the village.
Because the previous residents vigorously resisted, the bandits after the destruction of the village were even more ferocious, whether they were swaddled babies or elderly people, they were killed when they encountered people, and none of them were spared.
In the end, in the whole village, 4,720 local residents and more than 3,000 people who came to take refuge here were all killed, and only one person named Li Laoxian was buried in the pile of people and escaped.
After the bandits left, a man named Wang Huanzhang from a foreign village brought people to cover up the victims, and actually dug up more than 40 acres of land, which shows the ferocity of the bandits who were a disaster in the countryside.
During the Republic of China period, bandits were rampant, although there were also some righteous bandits, who were born poor and became bandits, usually out of helplessness, but more were bandits who did nothing evil, just like the bandits who caused the three major bandit disasters in Anhui at that time, they were all terrible bandits, and in addition to the position of Anhui, many other places in the country at that time were plagued by warlords and bandits.