Author: Lan Yan also fell into the city
Before liberation, there were many bandits in western Hunan Province, and there were no less than hundreds of bandits of all sizes. However, if we talk about the real "dragon head boss", there is only Yang Yongqing, the giant bandit Yao Dabang (the prototype of Tian Dabang), the bandit Peng Yuqing (the prototype of the diamond leopard), etc., in front of him are all little brothers.
Yang Yongqing, whose real name is Yang Zuoxian, is a cold-water shop person in Zhijiang County, Hunan Province, who has been stubborn since childhood, and when he grows up, he is even more of a scoundrel, and his neighbors are afraid to avoid it.
Once, Yang Yongqing gambled for three days in a row and lost only a pair of bottom pants. This guy was really cruel enough to cut a piece of meat from his thigh with a sharp knife and throw it on the gambling table as a chip. It was a matter of death, and the gamblers were so frightened that they turned pale and rushed to return the money to him.
Yang Yongqing, who is addicted to gambling, gambles and loses nine times out of ten, and he cannot cut meat every time, so he simply gathered dozens of gamblers to go up the mountain as bandits and rob houses everywhere. In less than two years, it pulled up a team of hundreds of people and became a hegemon of Zhijiang.
Yang Yufen, the brigade commander of Jiang Jun stationed in Zhijiang, was of the same clan as Yang Yongqing. In order to expand his own power, he recruited Yang Yongqing to an. The bandit leader Yang Yongqing transformed himself into a company commander of the regular army. After becoming an official from a bandit, Yang Yongqing, because he was good at drilling camps, actually rose through the ranks and rose all the way to the commander of the provisional 8th Division.
During the "Confluence of Ning and Han", Yang Yongqing, who had no ink in his chest, was cut off by Tang Shengzhi to serve the people. Back in Zhijiang's hometown, he relied on the belongings he had saved when he was a division commander, recruited soldiers, expanded his power, and became the "hegemon of Zhijiang" again.
In 1946, Yang Yongxin established the "Chu Han Palace" gang organization, which developed more than 20,000 members in a short period of time and collected a large number of membership fees. Bandits from the xiangxi region came to their aid, and even officials in the Zhijiang region joined the gang to seek protection. In 1947, he used the gang power to become the representative of the "National Congress" of Zhijiang County.
On the eve of liberation, Yang Yongqing threatened the authorities to seal officials and was rejected, and Yang Yongqing, in a fit of rage, gathered more than 10,000 bandits to wash Qianyang County in blood. In the midst of the turmoil, the "Changsha Sui Bureau" was unable to encircle and suppress it at all, so it had no choice but to appoint him as the commander of the Zhijiang Garrison, and later appointed him as the commander of the "Third Column directly under the Changsha Sui Bureau."
Yang Yongqing seized the opportunity to make a wish to seal the officials and bring all the bandits in western Hunan under the command of the "Third Column". When Chiang Kai-shek's army was defeated and retreated, he took advantage of the fire and looted a lot of arms and materials. Yang Yongqing's strength increased greatly in a short period of time, ushering in the "highlight moment" of his life.
Yang Yongqing did not take long to be proud, the People's Liberation Army was like a bamboo in the south, and the rabble-rousers of the "Third Column" were not vulnerable at all. In early October 1949, when Zhijiang was liberated, Yang Yongqing fled to Huang County and merged with the local bandit Yao Dabang. In early November, Huangxian was liberated again, and Yang Yongqing and Yao Dabang sneaked to the snow cave and umbrella area on the border between Huangxian and Guizhou, and lay dormant.
In April and May 1950, bandits were in trouble in Guizhou, and the Guizhou Military Region temporarily abandoned some border areas in order to concentrate its forces against the enemy, and Yang Yongqing jumped out and occupied the area.
A few months after the Guizhou Military Region concentrated its forces to clear and suppress, all the bandits who had been bouncing around in the hinterland of Guizhou were beaten to the point of losing their armor and had nowhere to hide, and they all fled to the snowy and cool areas.
Yang Yongqing gathered together the bandits who could not retreat, and encouraged them to say that the People's Liberation Army is water and we are stones. As long as we are united in good faith, when the water flows, the country and mountains will still be ours.
The bandits who fled here then set up the "Xiangqian Border Region Guerrilla Command", with Yang Yongqing as commander and Yao Dabang as deputy commander. Yang Yongqing was once again "ambitious" and ambitious. It is also the collection of grain and distribution, the construction of arsenals, clothing factories, and the construction of many fortifications, in the vain hope of relying on the 5,000 men and horses in their hands to confront our army for a long time.
Of course, the xiangqian and qianqian provincial military districts will not allow this "cancer" to exist for a long time. In December 1950, the Guizhou Zhenyuan Military Subdistrict and the Hunan Huitong Military Subdistrict jointly organized the encirclement and suppression of snow and cool areas.
The specific arrangements were: Li Yuan, deputy commander of the 140th Division of the Huitong Military Subdistrict, commanded the 419th Regiment to encircle and suppress bandits in the Huangnan area; Zeng Xianhui, commander of the Zhenyuan Military Subdistrict, led the guard battalion of the military sub-district and the 149th Regiment and the 150th Regiment, which were attached to the local militia and directly pounded the old lair of Yang Yongqing in the snow and cool areas.
On December 2, the encirclement and suppression campaign officially began. The troops participating in the encirclement and suppression totaled 20 companies, plus more than 3,000 militiamen. The task of the 419th Regiment was to encircle and suppress the bandits in the south and block the bandits' escape route to the south; the guard battalion of the Zhenyuan Military Sub-district was responsible for attacking the snow cave, the 150th regiment attacking the umbrella, and the 149th regiment blocking the periphery. Local militias are responsible for blocking roads and preventing bandits from sneaking north.
At dawn on this day, Ren Anmin, the commander of the guard battalion, quietly sneaked to the vicinity of the snow cave with the guard battalion, and most of the bandits Zou Zhiquan and Wei Demao detachments who were entrenched here were still sleeping, and only one squad responsible for the night was gambling under the oil lamp.
The avant-garde reconnaissance company quickly took control of the squad, and after interrogation, it was clear about the deployment of the snow cave. Just as the guard battalion crept up to the snow hole, a new soldier, too nervous, actually pulled the trigger.
As soon as the gunfire sounded, the bandits hiding in the bunker were awakened, and when they got up, they strafed with machine guns. Chen Jinming, the leader of the 9th squad who rushed to the front, was shot and killed, and the soldiers who followed behind quickly fell down, all of which were overwhelmed by enemy fire.
The reconnaissance company commander quickly transferred the artillery squad up, and several 60 mortar shells accurately hit the enemy's bunkers, and the bandits lost fire support and could only retreat while fighting. At this time, the two companies that had encircled the detour also rushed over in time, attacking on three sides, and the bandits could only hold their heads and raise their guns to surrender. From the time the attack was launched to the end of the battle, it took less than two hours.
In this battle, more than 300 enemy soldiers were killed, more than 400 bandits were captured, and a large number of guns and ammunition were captured, and only the bandit leader Wei Demao took advantage of the chaos to escape. At the same time, the umbrella was also successfully taken by the 150 regiment.
After capturing the snow hole, the bandit troops kept searching for and suppressing the bandits who had slipped through the net. The "suppression of bandits" gave the reconnaissance company the task of death, and it was necessary to arrest and bring all the main bandits to justice before the end of the year.
After accepting the task, the reconnaissance company immediately dispatched elite personnel to form a small detachment, led by deputy company commander Gong Qianrang, disguised as bandits, and searched from village to village.
The squad searched for two days in a row and found nothing. When I searched near the umbrella garden, I found that there were people in the village who went to the empty building, and there was no one. When I turned to another ravine, I found wisps of cooking smoke coming from a house.
In order not to scare the snake, Gong Company Commander asked Dai Shengfu, a soldier from Guizhou, to investigate the situation. After Dai Shengfu entered the house, he saw an old woman cooking sweet potatoes. Dai Shengfu took the initiative to talk to her, saying that he was sent by Commander Zou (Zhiquan) to contact Commander Yang.
The woman saw that Dai Shengfu was wearing a rotten cotton jacket and had a Guizhou accent, and there was no doubt that she had it. He told Dai Shengfu that Yang Yongqing was hiding in the back mountain and specially sent her down the mountain to get food. Dai Shengfu listened to the great joy in his heart and said to the old woman, there are still a few brothers outside, let's go up to the back mountain together to find Commander Yang.
So, the old woman led the way in front, and Dai Shengfu turned around and waved a few warriors, and followed them to the back mountain.
Several of Yang Yongqing's men saw the old woman leading a few strangers up the mountain, pulled out a gun and pointed it at Dai Shengfu and asked the old woman what was going on. The old woman kept waving her hand and saying, Don't misunderstand, they were all sent by Commander Zou to contact Commander Yang.
After the sweet potatoes arrived, Several of Yang Yongqing's men rushed up and rushed to eat the sweet potatoes. Dai Shengfu took a large sweet potato and handed it to Yang Yongqing, and when Yang Yongqing was eating the sweet potato, he suddenly pulled out a gun and put it on his back, shouting loudly, We are the People's Liberation Army, and we will shoot you with one shot.
Yang Yongqing glared at the old woman fiercely, helplessly raised his hands, and several of his men obediently became prisoners.
After Yang Yongqing was arrested, other bandits were also arrested. On December 25, when Yao Dabang and several bandits crossed the Wuyang River in wooden rows, they were chased by the bandits and shot and killed in the river. A few days later, Yang Yongqing was escorted to Zhijiang to hold a public trial meeting, to bring the law to justice on the spot, and to end his life of sin.
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