History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
On September 25, 1949, Tao Zhiyue, commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Xinjiang Provincial Garrison, sent a telegram on September 25, announcing that he would lead the military and political personnel of the province to revolt and Xinjiang would be peacefully liberated. However, at that time, banditry was still rampant, and various forces were surging in the dark, especially the various bandit forces supported by Chiang Kai-shek, which seriously threatened the security of the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang.
The largest gang of bandits in Xinjiang is an armed gang headed by Wusman and Yaolebos. Wusman is a well-known habitual bandit in northern Xinjiang, and since the 1930s, he has specialized in gathering people, killing people and goods, and forcibly hegemony. Yao Lebos was the Kuomintang Hami commissioner and the brother of Wu Siman. In order to bribe him, Chiang Kai-shek specially sent a female Kuomintang agent to be his little wife, making her a loyal lackey of Chiang Kai-shek.
The bandit gang led by these two men, originally only more than 1,000 people, through deception, propaganda and persecution, coerced more than 20,000 herders, and later contacted the Kuomintang's scattered troops in Xinjiang, controlling a population of more than 30,000 people, becoming the most powerful and rampant bandit in Xinjiang.
In March 1950, the bandit leader Wu Siman secretly contacted reactionary officers of the Xinjiang uprising and launched an armed rebellion in six counties near Dihua (present-day Urumqi) in an attempt to restore Kuomintang rule. Subsequently, more than 6,000 anti-communist forces and scattered soldiers were gathered, more than 45,000 ethnic minority people were coerced, and in the area from Suimi to the west of the town, they instigated the largest counter-revolutionary armed rebellion since the liberation of Xinjiang, killing 1,175 people of all ethnic groups and robbing more than 340,000 heads of various livestock.
Martyr Luo Shaowei
On the morning of April 1, Luo Shaowei, deputy commander of the 16th Division, was suddenly attacked by more than 40 bandits on a gentle slope more than 20 kilometers from Qijiaojing. Luo Shaowei, confidential secretary Li Yuqing, staff officer Ma Yuzhang, telegraph operator Song Wancheng, and guard Yang Zhuangyuan all died heroically. Luo Shaowei was only 32 years old when he died, and he was the first division commander to die in the northwest battlefield since the Liberation War.
General Wang Zhen said at the meeting of the bandits: "They are all outlaws, and it is unlikely that they will be able to win surrender, and they must be solved by force, reasoned with tanks, and taught with bayonets." Immediately, the 16th Division was dispatched as the main force, equipped with 41 armored vehicles, 240 automobiles and one aircraft responsible for reconnaissance and communication tasks of the Xinjiang Military Region, the chariot regiment and the national army cavalry regiment.
On April 14, the Plaster Army divided into two roads and rushed day and night towards the bandit nest Da and Xiaoliu Gorge. After arriving at the destination, Cheng Yuechang, commander of the Sixteenth Division, ordered the troops to advance with surprise attacks, rapid attacks, and sudden encirclement tactics. Unforeseen, not expecting the sudden arrival of the People's Liberation Army, ordered his men to return fire, and fled with thousands of Guards of White Russians and cronies in the North Tower Hill area.
When General Wang Zhen learned of Wu Siman's movements, he ordered that none of the bandits should be spared, and ordered the southern Xinjiang troops to join the main force of the 16th Division, which was bound to wipe out the remnants of this stubborn gang of bandits. After several months of siege, pursuit, and interception, the PLA troops, from Xinjiang to Gansu to Qinghai, across three provinces, finally captured the bandit leader Wusman.
On April 29, 1951, the bandit leader Usman was executed by firing squad. The evil-filled Usman finally got the end he deserved.