In mid-January 1946, Wang Yaowu, who was in Changsha, Hunan Province, received an urgent telegram asking him to immediately go to Chongqing, the seat of the Nationalist government, to meet Chiang Kai-shek. At this time, Wang Yaowu was the commander of the Kuomintang 4th Front.
Wang Yaowu was born in 1904 to a poor family in Tai'an, Shandong Province. A graduate of the 3rd phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he participated in major battles such as the "August 13" Songhu War of Resistance and the Battle of Changsha, and in the Spring 1941 Battle of Shanggao in Jiangxi, he commanded the 74th Army to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army, and was praised by Chiang Kai-shek and was soon promoted to commander of the Front.
Among the Kuomintang generals, Wang Yaowu was recognized as a general with a more brain, a better vision, and a better at fighting.
After receiving the order, Wang Yaowu hurried from Changsha to Hankou, and then changed planes to Chongqing. When Chiang Kai-shek saw Wang Yaowu, he smiled and encouraged him, and then said directly:
"Shandong's position is very important, the CCP has a considerable foundation in this region, and our strength in this region is relatively weak, so we must strengthen our strength to occupy Shandong." As long as Shandong is controlled, it can support North China and Northeast China, and the task is heavy. ”
Wang Yaowu nodded as he listened, and he had already guessed Chiang Kai-shek's idea: to let himself rule Shandong.
Sure enough, Chiang Kai-shek asked Wang Yaowu to immediately airlift the troops to Jinan and asked him to grasp two things:
The first thing, of course, is to oppose communism, and it is necessary to step up preparations for war and prevent the further development of the CCP's strength.
The second thing is to restore order in Jinan, especially in Jinan. Because soon the Kuomintang-Communist Military Ceasefire Coordination Group will go to Jinan, and Jinan is under the control of the Kuomintang government, and social order is an important embodiment of a government's ability to govern.
Chiang Kai-shek carefully considered who would be in charge of Shandong, and in the end he determined that Wang Yaowu was a more suitable candidate, because Wang Yaowu himself was a Native of Shandong, had feelings for Shandong, and also had the desire to govern Shandong well.
On the other hand, Wang Yaowu's shrewdness and ability were recognized within the Kuomintang.
As soon as Wang Yaowu arrived in Jinan, he immediately discovered that the situation was not optimistic; first, at that time, the CCP's strength had an absolute superiority in Shandong, and in addition to the big cities along the Jinpu and Jiaoji railways, the county towns and the vast rural areas were the BASE areas of the CPC. Because transportation has not yet been restored, food and materials in the city are extremely scarce, and people's hearts are in turmoil.
Second, Jinan's public security is surprisingly poor, and there are shootings and robberies almost every day.
After consideration, Wang Yaowu could not change the military situation for a while, and when the large Kuomintang troops arrived from the southwest rear, the military situation naturally changed.
With regard to the public security situation, we must pay close attention to it, because the issue of public security can best reflect political achievements, and if we cannot even handle the problem of public security, how to explain it to our fathers and fellow villagers in Shandong, how to explain it to the people of Jinan, and still more how to explain it to Chiang Kai-shek.
How to do a good job of public order, of course, starts from major cases, because major cases can be the most exciting, and the most headache for the police station in Jinan at that time was the Yanzi Li San case.
It should be said that this swallow Li San is a figure who has been rumored to be a god in Jinan.
Yanzi Li San's name is Li Shengwu, born in 1910, his ancestral home is Yucheng County, Shandong, a very poor peasant family's child. At that time, many farmers in Shandong forced themselves to break into the Kanto region, because the northeast was vast and sparsely populated, and planting a piece of land could feed a family.
When Li Shengwu was very young, his father took him to the northeast of the Kanto Region, and after arriving in the northeast, his parents, on the one hand, became ill due to overwork, and on the other hand, they could not help the cold in the northeast, and soon they all died.
Li Shengwu, who has lost his source of livelihood, became a wandering child, and he could only make a living by begging and stealing. But Li Shengwu was tall and big, and he had great strength and was very alert.
When he was 9 years old, he met a Shandong man who broke into the Kanto with martial arts, this person made a living selling art, he was very pitiful to this orphan and took him as an apprentice, and named him Li Shengwu, hoping that he could refine his martial arts and uphold justice.
In this way, Li Shengwu's life finally had a place, he has followed the master to sell art for a living, in the past 10 years, he has learned a lot of martial arts, light gong and other kung fu with the master.
Later, when he followed his master, it was Li Shengwu who performed martial arts, his master collected money, and the master and apprentice gradually broke into fame in the northeast.
By the time Li Shengwu was 20 years old, he had escaped and become a tough guy in the northeast. According to the data, ten fingers are like steel forks, fork people, can poke out five blood holes, catch people, and pick off a piece of skin and flesh. And he can be as light as a swallow, five or six meters wide trench, jump over, the high wall of the house, vertically up, the tiles do not break.
When Li Shengwu was 21 years old, The Japanese imperialists launched the "918" incident and invaded the three eastern provinces, and the soldiers and horses in the northeast made the life of the artists increasingly difficult, and at this time his master was old.
At the end of 1939, Li Shengwu's master fell seriously ill and was bedridden, and on this day Li Shengwu's master felt that he was dying, so he called Li Shengwu to him and said:
"Child, the master can't live long, but you have grown up, you should break into the world by yourself, I watched you grow up, I know that your heart is good, but you are grumpy, less benevolent, we who learn martial arts still have to be benevolent, people are doing, the sky is watching, don't do things that hurt nature and reason."
Li Shengwu was in tears as he listened to his master's last words. His master continued:
"Northeast China is already the world of the Japanese, as the saying goes, the fallen leaves return to the roots, after I die, you took me back to Shandong to find a place to bury, so that I am at ease when I die." Then you fly far away to a place where you can perform your martial arts. If it is suitable, find a place to marry a daughter-in-law, live and work in peace, have a few more babies, and also have a queen, which is also worthy of your parents and the master. ”
Looking at the master on the sickbed, Li Shengwu said:
"Master, you saved me in the first place, and no matter where I go today, I will not leave you alone."
People who break into the rivers and lakes pay the most attention to benevolence, righteousness, chivalry, and more attention to gratitude. Li Shengwu was of course no exception, he hoped to repay his master's kindness in the future, and he decided to take his master back to his ancestral hometown of Shandong.
At this time, the master was already seriously ill, and had already entered and breathed less and out of breath more, Li Shengwu listened to the master's words, he carried the master all the way to learn martial arts and sell art, all the way to Shandong, after more than three months of turbulent travel, finally came to Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province.
However, shortly after arriving in Jinan, the master died of a serious illness, and he finally failed to see the day when the apprentice showed his grand plan. However, he probably never dreamed that his apprentice would later become a heinous robber.
And Li Shengwu, who had lost his master, was also like a kite with a broken line, fluttering with the wind. This winter, a small thing changed his destiny.
In the winter of this year, the snow in Jinan was particularly heavy, and Li Shengwu, dressed in single clothes, walked into a high-end restaurant in Jinan, and he decided to eat a little scraps on the leftover table, but he was found by the guys in the store, and he was beaten by the guys in the shop at that time.
Someone wanted to ask, Li Shengwu was very high in martial arts, and he couldn't beat a guy.
Because in Jinan at that time, the people who could open high-end restaurants were people with backgrounds in the background, this restaurant was opened by the brother-in-law of the police chief of the puppet government at that time, and there were pseudo policemen standing on the restaurant with guns on the same day, although Li Shengwu was high in martial arts, but no matter how high the martial arts were, they could not stop the bullets.
Li Shengwu was more and more angry the more he thought about it, the next day he followed the guy who beat him, and on the way he sent the guy to the Western Heavens with three strokes and five divisions, he licked the blood on the dagger with his tongue, he felt particularly excited, and he felt that killing people was no big deal.
During the period of puppet government, the corruption of the officialdom, the darkness of the yamen, the sudden wealth of the traitorous businessmen, the poverty of the people, and the injustice of the world made Li Shengwu brew into a deformed freak in his heart, and Li Shengwu's violent and murderous nature gradually enlarged, and he began to become cynical and debauched.
Along this trajectory, he did not become the kind of good green forest man who robbed the rich and helped the poor, and drew his sword to help each other when the road was uneven, but gradually became a murderous, violent, eating, drinking, gambling, and gambling social thief.
Using the light skills he had learned in the past, he frequently visited some shops and homes, stealing large amounts of money to satisfy his daily profligacy. Because of his light skills, his theft was always easy to succeed, and often left no trace, so that the stolen shopkeepers suspected the clerks and family relatives and quarreled, and many innocent people were unjustly accused and wronged.
The puppet government began to arrest Li Shengwu, but Li Shengwu was always able to escape, so he became blind, and these evil habits in turn made his appetite for theft more and more big, and the means became more and more crazy, starting with Li Shengwu killing the guy, and by 1945, seven or eight people had died at the hands of Li Shengwu.
His many evil deeds also cast a shadow on the lives of the people of Quancheng, and the puppet government began to go all out to arrest Li Shengwu, but Li Shengwu was always able to escape, and the incompetence of the pseudo police made him unscrupulous, he continued to commit murders and constantly escaped, so Li Shengwu had the nickname of "Swallow Li San".
The meaning of "swallow Li San" is like a dexterous swallow that comes without a trace and goes without a shadow. Li Shengwu's notoriety was passed on from ten to ten, and more and more people among the people of Jinan knew about "Swallow Li San".
Later, it became that "Swallow Li San" had the ability to "fly over the wall, the sword and gun are not in the skill, if you want to steal where, no one can cure him", in the eyes of many people, Li Shengwu has almost become an omnipotent flying hero, so that many people talk about tiger discoloration, so that the common people hear the cats on the house walking around at night, and they will also think that "Swallow Li San" is "flying on the wall" and are terrified.
By 1946, when Wang Yaowu was in charge of Shandong, Li Shengwu had committed more than a dozen lives, seriously endangering social order, and Wang Yaowu decided to start with this heinous social bandit and kill one hundred people to restore public order in Jinan.
Wang Yaowu asked the police chief to arrest Li Shengwu within a month, but a month passed, two months passed, and three months passed, and Li Shengwu was still at large, which made Wang Yaowu very annoyed, but there was nothing he could do.
Then another year passed, two years passed, and by September 1948, the East China Field Army launched the Battle of Jinan, and Wang Yaowu did not have the heart to hunt down Li San.
On September 24, 1948, the gunfire of the fierce Battle of Jinan finally subsided, and the next afternoon, when Chaoxia stained the sky with thousands of purples and reds, the vanguard troops of the People's Liberation Army marched into Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, and the ancient city of Quancheng was liberated.
At this time, The spring city of Jinan, which has just been baptized by the baptism of war, is like an old man who has just recovered from a long illness and has gone through vicissitudes, full of broken walls and ruins, full of devastation, she needs peace, stability, and construction.
What is more difficult to heal than this is the trauma left on people's hearts by the long period of war and social unrest, and the people of Quancheng long for peace, peace, and a new life.
In order to put the city on the track of normal operation as soon as possible, the Jinan Garrison Command implemented military control over Jinan City, so Jinan was also called Jinan Special City at that time.
The first director of the Shandong Provincial Public Security Bureau after the liberation of Jinan was named Li Shiying, who was a prominent figure on the CCP's hidden front.
During the period of the Special Branch of the CPC Central Committee, Li Shiying worked in the Third Section, he served as the deputy leader of an action group of the Three Sections, the chief of the Third Section was gu Shunzhang, the Third Section of the Central Special Section was mainly responsible for the work of hoeing and raping, and Li Shiying eliminated many traitors.
After the liberation of Jinan, Li Shengwu was honest for a while, and for a while, people thought that Li San the Swallow would either change from evil to righteousness or leave Jinan.
However, on the night of December 16, 1948, Li Shengwu robbed Qingyun Jindian, a high-end gold store in Jinan, and shot and killed the owner of the gold shop, Yang Mou. According to Yang's wife, the stolen items totaled 4 pairs of gold, 11 pairs of gold earrings, 1 gold watch, 1 package of gold rings, and about 500,000 banknotes issued during the Kuomintang period.
This is the first major murder and robbery case accepted since the establishment of the Jinan Municipal Public Security Bureau after the liberation of Jinan City, and the irony is that Qingyun Jindian is only more than 100 meters away from the jinan municipal public security bureau criminal police brigade in a straight line, it seems that this thief does not pay attention to the public security bureau at all, and this late-night robbery is clearly a blatant demonstration to the newly established Jinan Municipal Public Security Bureau.
And this is also the case, although Jinan was liberated, Li Shengwu did not pay attention to the Jinan public security at all, and he believed that the current public security was similar to the police in the Japanese and pseudo-Japanese and Kuomintang periods, and they were all incompetent. The Jinan Public Security Bureau also quickly identified the suspect as Yanzi Li San Li Shengwu.
When the situation was reported to Li Shiying, director of the Shandong Provincial Public Security Bureau, Li Shiying was furious, and this swallow Li San was too rampant and must solve the case as soon as possible.
At that time, this was a major case, this case posed a huge threat to the social security of Jinan City, the Jinan Municipal Public Security Bureau reported the case to the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Public Security in a telegram to the Jinan Municipal Public Security Bureau instructed: "We must solve this case within three months!" ”
However, a month has passed, two months have passed, and three months have passed, and not only has the Jinan Municipal Public Security Bureau failed to capture Li Shengwu, but this Li Shengwu seems to have disappeared.
Because there were many cases at that time, Li Shiying could not have examined each case in detail, but this case was different.
Li Shiying has investigated many cases, and he analyzed that all habitual criminals who have committed the most heinous crimes have three characteristics: good gambling, good opium smoking, and good kiln visits.
And Jinan has been liberated, these three things are banned, this swallow Li San is likely to flee, good gambling and good opium smoking is not easy to control, but good kiln this can be used.
All habitual offenders must have fixed kiln sisters, as long as they find these kiln sisters, they can definitely follow the vine and catch Li Shengwu.
Li Shiying's analysis was opened to Mao Setun of the Jinan Municipal Public Security Bureau, so they began to excavate Li Shengwu's social relations, through these social relations to dig out this kiln sister, through the kiln sister to arrest Li Shengwu.
Soon, during a population survey organized by the Jinan police, a division commander of the Kuomintang army originally stationed in Xuzhou was found, and after the liberation of Xuzhou, this person anonymously disguised himself and fled to Jinan with his family. After this person was seized, for the sake of his own future and that of his wife and children, he took the initiative to confess to the government the crimes committed in the Past in the Kuomintang army.
He knew that the public security bureau was arresting Li Shengwu, and in order to win leniency, he confessed that Li Shengwu was very familiar with Xuzhou, and he had a very good kiln sister named Zhang Yulan in Xuzhou.
Therefore, the Jinan public security dispatched Zhang Yungui, head of the criminal investigation team, Duan Muxing, head of the criminal investigation team, and others to form an arrest team to go to Xuzhou to arrest Yanzi Li San and Li Shengwu.
June 25, 1949 was a clear day, and when night fell, Zhang Yungui and others, with the cooperation of the criminal police of the Xuzhou Public Security Bureau, ambushed and waited around the residence of the prostitute Zhang Yulan, who had been squatting for several days.
The weather in Xuzhou in June is not lukewarm, but the mosquito bite is bad after all, but in order to catch the prey, they don't care, they only hope to catch the prey as soon as possible and end the suffering of mosquito bites as soon as possible.
At about 10 o'clock, a black shadow entered the sight of the criminal policemen, and after looking left and right for a while, this black shadow came to Zhang Yulan's door, "Bang, bang, bang" gently knocked three times.
"Who?" A woman's question came from inside the house, and the light came on. With a "squeak" the door opened halfway open, and a black shadow flashed into the room.
The shadow replied, "It's me, Alain!" ”
At this time, Zhang Yungui and the criminal police, who were ambushed more than 30 meters away, judged from the height and movement of the black shadow, this person was very similar to Li Shengwu. In order not to recognize the wrong person, Zhang Yungui and others deliberately brought the Commander of the Kuomintang Division before setting up the ambush. Zhang Yungui asked:
"Is this person Li Shengwu?"
At this time, the shishi commander also said with certainty: "This man is him, there is certainly nothing wrong with him, and the voice is also him."
"Good swallow Li San, you have finally shown your head, this time it depends on where you are fleeing!" A stream of hot blood rushed straight to zhang Yungui's brain. They immediately began to arrest according to the arrest plan.
As soon as Zhang Yungui waved his hand, the criminal police immediately copied the target separately, and everyone quickly surrounded Zhang Yulan's house according to the outsmart plan that had been studied in advance, and the bullets of the gun were loaded.
The judgment of the criminal police is completely correct, this black shadow is The wandering Li Shengwu, he felt very unsafe after staying in Jinan for a while, and Jinan has been liberated, the kiln sisters have changed their profession, so he decided to flee to Xuzhou to avoid the limelight, on the other hand, he also found Xuzhou to find his familiar kiln sister Zhang Yulan. In order to avoid risks, the unfamiliar kiln sister, Li Shengwu is determined not to go.
In the days when he came to Xuzhou, he had committed a total of 6 thefts, made a lot of gold and money, and eaten a lot of mountain treasures and seafood, but he could not bear to live without a woman for a long time, so he could not take care of the tight wind recently, and still came to find Zhang Yulan tonight.
He knew that the Jinan police were arresting him, so Li Shengwu acted very carefully. Xuzhou has also been liberated, the public security also strictly prohibits the activities of the kiln sister, at this time Zhang Yulan will not be other, still based on the kiln sister for a living, only bad are directional services. And Li Shengwu is one of the guests of its orientation service.
After Li Shengwu entered the room, his first words were to ask, "Has anyone ever been here?"
Zhang Yulan replied, "That division commander has been here." ”
Li Shengwu's face changed, and he turned around and wanted to leave, but thinking about it, since they were all here, how could they ask clearly:
"When did it come?"
"Two days ago."
"What did you say?"
"He asked where you were."
Li Shengwu was shocked and wanted to leave, but Zhang Yulan was not willing, there were no guests these days, she said:
"Come and go, what are you afraid of, you will not be late to leave after a while!" After saying that, he leaned over.
At this moment, there was a sudden knock outside the door, and a Xuzhou street sheriff who cooperated with the action arrived at the door, and Zhang Yungui and other criminal police officers were hidden on both sides of the door.
"Who?" Hearing the knock at the door, Zhang Yulan couldn't help but ask in surprise.
"I, check my account." The Xuzhou street sheriff replied.
At that time, Xuzhou had just been liberated, and it was common for communities and streets to organize household registration and population checks at night, and people were used to it. And this sheriff has been here many times.
However, Li Shengwu was still more wary, he signaled Zhang Yulan to look out from the crack in the door, Zhang Yulan glanced at it, and the sheriff who often came to check the household registration outside the door turned back and quietly said to Li Shengwu:
"It's someone who has checked his hukou in the past."
Hearing this, although Li Shengwu's vigilance eased slightly, just in case, he signaled Zhang Yulan not to panic to open the door, and he turned around and hid the revolver from the revolver that could not leave his body into the iron pot on the stove to avoid revealing the identity of the gun on his body.
However, all this was clearly seen by the criminal police hiding outside the window, because Zhang Yulan opened the window for ventilation.
When everything was in order, Zhang Yulan slowly opened the door.
"How many people do you have in your family?" The sheriff asked.
Suddenly he found Li Shengwu standing inside, and couldn't help but ask, "Who is this?" ”
"Oh, this is from out of town, my cousin, come and see me." Zhang Yulan hurriedly responded.
"Yes, I came to see my cousin, and we haven't seen each other in a long time." Li Shengwu said.
"Why don't you report your account?" The sheriff gasped.
"I just got off the train, the time is too late, before it is too late, ready to go to the account at dawn, please rest assured."
The sheriff walked over to the pot stove and jerked the lid up, and a dark and shiny pistol appeared in front of him. It's self-explanatory.
At this time, Zhang Yungui and others appeared at the door, Zhang Yungui gave a look to the criminal policemen, saying that it was late and fast, and several criminal police officers rushed to Li Shengwu.
Li Shengwu was about to react to grab the gun, but his body was already tightly held by a criminal policeman, and then he was hit the head with two punches, at which time the other two criminal policemen also stepped forward, and one of them grabbed one arm and twisted it backwards.
With a "click", his hands were firmly handcuffed behind him, and he could no longer escape. The entire arrest process lasted only about three minutes.
The next day, Li Shengwu was escorted back to Jinan.
After interrogation, Li Shengwu committed 35 major theft cases in Jinan and Xuzhou before and after liberation, killing more than 10 people and injuring dozens of people, causing huge losses to the lives and property of the people, and causing great damage to social order.
Li Shengwu has long since become a major problem for jinan's social order, and the citizens of Jinan are all overjoyed and applauded when they hear the news of Li Shengwu's arrest, and they have demanded that the government severely punish the criminals who have committed the most heinous crimes.
July 7, 1949, was the day Li Shengwu was executed. Early this morning, men, women and children throughout Jinan City took to the streets, and the whole spring city was almost empty, because people were very curious about Li Shengwu and wanted to witness the true face of Li Shengwu. But they found that Li Shengwu was not special except that he was relatively tall.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, accompanied by a righteous gunshot, Li Shengwu, a snitch who had committed many evil deeds and had more than one death, was finally severely punished by the law, and the "swallow Li San" who once made the people of Jinan uneasy became a historical legend that gradually disappeared.
Wang Yaowu could not catch Li San the swallow for two years, and Li Shiying used the kiln sister to set up an ambush, captured her in three minutes, and executed her, which made the people feel that the new China under the leadership of the Communist Party was indeed different, and the people were finally able to raise their eyebrows and breathe. The citizens said:
"Or the Communist Party has done the work to get rid of this great harm!"