In February 1950, just after the Spring Festival, the ancient city of Beijing was still immersed in a joyful atmosphere. Just then, the staff rushed into Chairman Mao's office with a telegram.
When the chairman read the contents of the telegram, his expression appeared extremely angry, and he immediately ordered the Sichuan troops to attack and suppress the bandits. After receiving the telegram, Sichuan quickly dispatched 1.5 million troops to "avenge" Zhu Xiangli. Who is Zhu Xiangli? Why would his sacrifice make Chairman Mao so angry that he would mobilize 1.5 million troops to suppress the bandits?
▲Zhu Xiangli
In April 1933, Zhu Xiangli, a progressive student, officially joined our party. In the ensuing revolutionary struggle, he was arrested and imprisoned in Yan Xishan's guard gendarmerie. With the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party again, the organization successfully rescued Zhu Xiangli from prison, and in 1938 joined the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
Are you familiar with the number of this unit? Nothing wrong with that! In the film and television work "Bright Sword", the independent regiment under Li Yunlong belonged to the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
The reason why I want to mention "Bright Sword" here is because one of the things that Zhu Xiangli did also appeared in "Bright Sword". Don't worry, we'll talk about it bit by bit.
In 1940, the Hundred Regiments War broke out. Although this campaign dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese Kou, it also made the Japanese Kou understand one thing: the Kuomintang troops on the frontal battlefield were defeated again and again, retreating again and again, but our army behind the Japanese Kou was growing stronger and stronger.
▲Hundred Regiments Battle
As a result, the Japanese army stepped up its sweeping and encroachment on the anti-Japanese base areas, and the anti-Japanese environment in many base areas suddenly became tense. In particular, the Taiyue Military Region became the core area of the Japanese army's sweep.
The unit stationed here at that time was the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, also known as the Taiyue Column. Under the pressure of the war, the Taiyue Military Region decided to let Zhu Xiangli sneak into the linfen pseudo-"Han rebel army" headquarters.
The so-called "Han Rebel Army" was nothing more than a traitorous force, under the jurisdiction of the 69th Division of the Japanese Army. However, the commander of the headquarters of the "Great Han Rebel Army" was Chen Huanzhang, an underground party member of our party.
In order to better cooperate with Chen Huanzhang's work, the Taiyue Military Region set up a Linfen intelligence station. At the beginning of the establishment of the intelligence station, it was directly led by General Chen Geng. The head of the intelligence station was Chen Huanzhang, commander of the Han Rebel Army Headquarters, and when Zhu Xiangli entered the headquarters, he served as the secretary of the party branch of the intelligence station.
In the following time, Zhu Xiangli and Chen Huanzhangzhu joined forces and provided our party with a lot of extremely valuable information. Among them, the most familiar is the "Observation Group of the Total Annihilation Of the Imperial Army" that appeared in the TV series "Bright Sword".
▲ Stills
Aiming at our army in north China, Ninji Okamura, commander-in-chief of the Japanese North China Front, invented many sweeping tactics. For example, "iron wall encirclement", "capture surprise attack", "flowering tactics", etc., but these tactics have been smashed by our army one by one.
Subsequently, Okamura Ninji created a new tactic called "Iron Rolling 3-Tier Position", that is, multi-echelon repeated clearance and sweeping. It has to be said that this tactic did achieve remarkable results when it was first implemented.
The Tokyo General Staff also greatly appreciated this, and in order to promote this sweeping tactic, the Japanese army organized a Royal Army observation group with more than 120 officers. The regiment consisted of a Japanese major general, followed by a brigade commander, a wing commander, a young man, and all Japanese officers.
On October 24, 1943, the "Imperial Army Spectator Group" came to the Taiyuan front to watch the battle, escorted by a total of 13 armored vehicles and automobiles. When the convoy drove into a ravine, the ghosts in the car were still talking and laughing. As everyone knows, they have entered the ambush circle of our army and become fish on the chopping board!
As the ambush signal sounded, our soldiers armed with light and heavy weapons surrounded and killed from all directions. The ravine where the Imperial Army's spectator group was located suddenly turned into a fire ditch, and the fire when the grenade exploded was like a flower, blooming densely among the enemy.
After the First World War, the Japanese commander in charge of the guard committed suicide, and all but 3 of them successfully escaped were all buried here. I believe that for this bridge section, everyone has seen it in the film and television work "Bright Sword". Our army was able to accurately know the course of action and the time point of the Imperial Army Observation Regiment, relying on the information provided by Zhu Xiangli.
On February 5, 1950, because of the needs of actual work, his superiors ordered Zhu Xiang to leave Beijing to report and then serve as a military attaché stationed in a foreign country. After receiving the telegram, Zhu Xiangli was escorted by a reinforcement squad and set off from Shibantan Town to Chengdu. However, when they arrived at the town of Longquan Temple, they encountered a group of Kuomintang bandits.
Although Zhu Xiangli only had a dozen warriors around him, they were all elites among the elite. If you fight with the enemy, you may not necessarily fall into the inferior position, but Zhu Xiangli ordered that shooting be prohibited.
▲ Bandits
This gang of Kuomintang remnants was very scheming, and when they attacked, they wrapped up a lot of people! As long as there are people in the ranks, our army will not dare to let go of its hands and feet to shoot, what if it hurts the masses?
Forced to be helpless, Zhu Xiangli had no choice but to order a retreat. But under the pursuit of the enemy, the team was scattered. The warriors were killed one after another, and eventually Zhu Xiangli and the guards around him were also captured by the bandits. After learning of Zhu Xiangli's identity, the bandits appeared extremely excited, and Zhu Xiangli eventually made a heroic sacrifice.
Subsequently, Zhu Xiangli reported to Chairman Mao the news that he had been killed by the Kuomintang bandits. After learning the news, he immediately ordered the political commissar to lead a team to surround and suppress the bandits in Sichuan. 1.5 million troops immediately moved, and the war against bandits in western Sichuan was officially launched.
▲ Caught bandits
Soon Zhu Xiangli's body was discovered by the warriors, who had been baptized by the blood and fire of the battlefield. However, when they saw Zhu Xiangli's body, the warriors were unusually angry. Zhu Xiangli was not only killed by the enemy, but also shot twenty-four times!
In March 1950, a month after Zhu Xiang's death, Wu Jie and others, the leader of the Kuomintang bandits who killed him, were captured alive by our army's bandit suppression units.
Subsequently, at the place where Zhu Xiang left his sacrifice, a public trial meeting of 10,000 people was held. During the execution of Wu Jie and others, the soldiers of our army deliberately used the Keerti pistol, because when the bandits killed Zhu Xiangli, they used the Kelti pistol. With a few gunshots, these inhuman remnants of the Nationalist army were killed on the spot.