What kind of picture will appear in your mind when you think of Xiangxi?
"Yingying Xiang West Bank, autumn solstice wind and dew"
This is the Xiangxi of the Great Poet Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty.
There are beautiful mountains, mysterious and idyllic ancient towns, and meandering rivers.
But you know what? Once upon a time, there was such a group of people hidden in this endless mountain.
They are hateful and fearful, they make the turbulent times more difficult, and they have a uniform name "bandit".
In 1986, the TV series "Wulong Mountain Bandits" turned out to be a mystery for people, unveiling the mysterious veil of bandits in western Hunan Province.
Among them, the behavior of these bandits such as Tian Dabang and Drill Mountain Leopard made the audience itch their teeth.
In real history, it is not easy to select the most vicious bandits in western Hunan Province, but if anyone is the one who has persisted the longest under the liquidation and suppression of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, it must be Qin Guoqing.
Qin Guoqing was born in Qing'anping, Dayong County, Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, his ancestors had created a rebellion against the Ming Dynasty, and his father was also a famous bully in the eight villages of Ten Mile, who usually ran amok in the township and did nothing wrong.
Born in such a family, Qin Guoqing's personality can be imagined. It can be said that he perfectly inherited his father's character, was a standard bear child when he was a child, and became an adult who became a little who stole chickens and dogs, bullied men and bullied women.
Because he had been infected with smallpox when he was young, he left a face of hemp pit, and people gave him the nickname Qing Mazi.
In 1934, in order to attract The Kuomintang troops and respond to the Breakthrough of the Long March of the Party Central Committee, He Long launched an offensive in western Hunan and established the Xiang'echuanqian Revolutionary Base Area, and in November of the same year, the Red Army laid down Dayong City, and the first thing was to fight the local tyrants to divide the land.
Like Qin Guoqing's father, who has done many evils in his daily life, he is also a big bully who has killed Red Army soldiers, and naturally he has been liquidated.
After his father was executed by the Red Army, his mother also remarried, and Qin Guoqing lost his family.
However, all this did not make Qin Guoqing repent, on the contrary, he completely blamed his suffering on the Communist Party and the Red Army, and since then planted the seeds of hatred in his heart.
Qin Guoqing vowed to take revenge on Xue Hate, but how could he take revenge if he was a half-sized son? To take revenge, you must first learn the skill of killing, and in that chaotic era, if you want to say where to learn the real killing skills, the army is definitely a good choice.
So Qin Guoqing, who harbored hatred, joined the Ngee Ann Township Militia.
In the days of joining the vigilante group, Qin Guoqing was definitely the hardest one in training, getting up early and going to bed early every day to practice by himself, and really let him practice a strong force and good marksmanship.
Ability is there, but Qin Guoqing's tyrannical personality is doomed to be difficult for him to develop in the army.
In the vigilante group, he basically had no friends, and did not obey the discipline of his superiors, in a conflict Qin Guoqing opened the commander of the militia, he knew that he could not stay in the militia, so he took off his military uniform and returned to Qing'anping.
In that chaotic era, each place had its own security team, and the security captain of Qing'anping happened to be Qin Guoqing's cousin.
When his cousin saw that his marksmanship was good, he let him join the security team, but he did not expect that Qin Guoqing was not grateful to him, but also hooked up with his beautiful daughter-in-law.
He was given a big green hat.
Uncle Tiantian went to work in other places, Qin Guoqing and his cousin took the opportunity to meet at home, but they did not expect that when the two were making love in bed, the cousin suddenly pushed the door and walked in, seeing the scene in the house, the cousin was furious, and he was about to take out a gun and kill the adulteress on the spot.
Qin Guoqing was young after all, and his eyes quickly dodged his cousin's pistol, but instead beat his cousin to death.
Seeing that there was a big disaster, Qin Guoqing quickly got dressed and fled into the mountains, and the Qin family did not find him later, so they sunk their cousin in the pond, I am afraid that when the cousin took Qin Guoqing in, he could not imagine that he was actually luring the wolf into the room.
After killing his cousin, Qin Guoqing defected to the local bandit leader Qin Tianbao.
Because of his fierce style, his outstanding skills were quickly reused and became the small leader under Qin Tianbao, but gradually Qin Tianbao found that Qin Guoqing was too bottomless in his work, and when he resisted the cottage, he would kill a chicken and dog, and the old and weak women and children would not let go.
Qin Tianbao felt that it was too dangerous to leave this person on the mountain, and maybe one day he would be repulsed.
It was better to send the unfamiliar wolf cubs away, so he gave Qin Guoqing a sum of money and a batch of arms to ask him to seek another high position.
Leaving Nghe An, Qin Guoqing took people back to his hometown of Qing'anPing, and appointed himself as the captain of the security team, claiming to ensure the safety of his hometown, and since then Qing'anping has become his world.
It is reasonable to say that even if you are a bandit, you will not do anything to the people in your village, which is an unwritten rule of the green forest.
However, Qin Guoqing was different, and such things as rules were worthless to him, and the people in the same village were the objects of his adultery and plunder.
In terms of developing forces, Qin Guoqing can be said to be better than blue out of blue, and soon he relied on robbing property and selling tobacco and soil to toss out a lot of family business, and at the same time, there were more and more people under his hands, and his power was getting bigger and bigger.
One day Qin Guoqing led a few of his men to ambush on the road, and saw a team of relatives coming from afar, according to the bandits have a rule not to rob the flower car, but as mentioned earlier, in Qin Guoqing's eyes, there has never been any law.
Moreover, seeing the flower car, this guy got a heart, Qin Guoqing waved his hand to lead people to stop the flower car, and without saying anything, he shot everyone and killed them, leaving only a lone flower car on the road.
Qin Guoqing walked forward with a bad smile, opened the car curtain and ripped off the bride's red hijab, did not expect that the bride was very beautiful, qin Guoqing was overjoyed to see this, and picked up the bride and returned to the mountain.
This bride is called Tian Yulian, not only good-looking but also literate and hyphenated, and a second ago she sat in a car and was sad that she was about to marry someone she didn't know.
In the blink of an eye, she was snatched up the mountain by a group of bandits and asked her to be the lady of the village.
Where had a girl's family experienced such a thing, at the moment she only had fear in her heart, but she didn't expect that this bandit leader named Qin Guoqing was really good to her, eating and drinking spicy in the mountains, and there was a group of people listening to her command.
Gradually, Tian Yulian actually really had real feelings for Qin Guoqing, and learned to ride a horse and shoot with him, and with peace of mind, she became a lady of the village on the mountain and became a well-known female bandit.
Later, Tian Yulian was even more ruthless than Qin Guoqing, and never was soft in killing people.
The village was slaughtered at every turn, and his hands were stained with blood.
At this time, the War of Resistance had already broken out, and the Nationalist government did not have the energy to take care of them, and after the local army had encircled and suppressed them several times, instead of eliminating Qin Guoqing, it also lost a lot of manpower, and then the matter of suppressing bandits was over.
Later, the local government went to the mountain to command Qin Guoqing, and he also went down the mountain to become a vigilante group, and after a period of time, Qin Guoqing was divided into many people, after all, he was a government person, and he always had to restrain it.
Fast forward to 1949,
Chinese people's liberation army crossed the Yangtze River, and the nationalist army in western Hunan saw that the defeat was imminent and started the idea of these bandits.
At this time, Qin Guoqing returned to the mountains to become a bandit because Dayong County was captured by our army, so the Kuomintang also found him, and at this time the Nationalist army was still very generous and gave him a position as the leader of the 5th Division and 6 regiment.
In fact, at this time, there were only more than 100 bandits under his command who could really fight, but this did not delay Qin Guoqing from declaring that his position was commander, but his commander was really shabby.
Because he has always blamed the Communist Party for his father's death,
Qin Guoqing was determined to confront the People's Liberation Army to the end, and he often said to his subordinates: "The Communist Party is my mortal enemy, with me without him, without him without me." ”
Although Qin Guoqing hated the Communist Party, he was not stupid, he knew that it was okay to engage in sabotage by relying on his own rabble-rousers, and once he fought head-on with the People's Liberation Army, it would only be a matter of delivering vegetables.
So when the main force of the People's Liberation Army was stationed in Dayong County, Qin Guoqing behaved very low-key, never going down to the mountains to cause trouble, and by 1950, the People's Liberation Army in Dayong County did not know that there was a poisonous tongue that had been staring at them in the dark.
Since no large-scale bandits had been found near Dayong County for 1 year, the commander judged that the situation here was not serious, so he transferred the main force to other places for reinforcements.
Qin Guoqing, who received the news, thought that his opportunity for revenge had come, and when the main force of the People's Liberation Army withdrew from Dayong County, he began to launch frequent sneak attacks on our army.
On this day, the People's Liberation Army was going to send people to the village to carry out land reform work, because there was no large-scale bandit activity in the vicinity before, so only one squad of fighters was sent to protect the safety of the land reform personnel.
At dawn, more than twenty people set off, at first everything went smoothly, and everyone gradually relaxed their vigilance, and when the group arrived at the Loess Boundary Village in Tarot Township, an accident occurred.
Qin Guoqing, who had already been ambushed there, launched an attack on the comrades.
Although the bandits' individual combat ability is far inferior to that of the PLA soldiers, the bandits' advantage in numbers is too great, and in order to complete greater losses for the PLA, Qin Guoqing brought more than 100 people who could fight on the mountain.
The soldiers of the People's Liberation Army retreated into the village while fighting, relying on the solid defense of the village by the soldiers of the people's house, Qin Guoqing had the advantage of troops and could not move forward.
Seeing that the reinforcements of the People's Liberation Army were about to arrive, Qin Guoqing was so distraught that he ordered the village to be set on fire.
For a time, a raging fire broke out in the village, Qin Guoqing stood outside the village looking at the soldiers struggling in the fire, and laughed madly, and finally the land reform personnel escaped under the protection of the soldiers, but the 12 comrades who left the mat all died heroically.
Even so, the inhuman Qin Guoqing still did not spare the corpses of the soldiers, and he ordered the bodies of 12 comrades to be hung on a tree outside the village to deter the nearby soldiers and civilians.
A few days later, the same thing happened again in Yutan Town, Wentang Town, where the propaganda fighters were once again attacked by Qin Guoqing, and 6 comrades were unfortunately killed.
One of the most miserable comrades was caught by bandits and burned alive with gasoline.
Not long after, the PLA grain carrier was robbed by Qin Guoqing, and this time he not only killed the PLA soldiers escorting him, but also threw many shipwrights into the river and drowned alive.
One by one, qin Guoqing's blood debts were owed, and the cruelty of his methods and the severity of his influence were simply breathtaking, and the local PLA commander decided to concentrate on destroying Qin Guoqing, the most active bandit, first.
At this time, Qin Guoqing had been lucky to succeed in several sneak attacks on the People's Liberation Army, and had become rampant.
He felt that the People's Liberation Army was nothing remarkable, just like his own defeated generals.
He even felt that it was a face-to-face battle, and he was not vain at all.
As everyone knows, it is precisely because of his recent series of actions that the People's Liberation Army has made a fierce effort this time and sent a main battalion of troops to deal with Qin Guoqing.
What Qin Guoqing didn't know was that the scouts of the People's Liberation Army were already all over the townships, and as long as he dared to show his face, it would be a non-negotiable annihilation.
In July 1950, Qin Guoqing went out of the mountains again, this time targeting Shenzhu Village in Sangzhi County, and what Qin Guoqing did not expect was that they had just entered the village People's Liberation Army and received news.
The troops of the two companies were rushing towards Shenzhu Village, but Qin Guoqing and his gang were still eating and drinking at their hometown, and when the People's Liberation Army launched a surprise attack, the bandits were immediately blinded, originally a group of brave and fierce rabble-rousers, where would be the opponents of the regular army who had experienced hundreds of battles.
Qin Guoqing's group of bandits can be said to be collapsed at the touch, and it didn't take long for them to scatter and flee after leaving more than a dozen corpses.
The soldiers examined the bodies of the bandits who had been killed, but did not find Qin Guoqing and Tian Yulian.
The soldiers then searched the village carefully, but unfortunately there was still no trace of the two men, and the commander thought that the two had fled into the mountains in the chaos, so he ordered the fighters to close the team.
At this time, Qin Guoqing and his wife did not actually leave the village, they were hiding in the cellar of a certain fellow villager, shivering, just like this, because the PLA soldiers did not know much about the terrain of Shenzhu Village, they missed an opportunity to arrest Qin Guoqing and his wife.
A few hours later, in the dead of night, Qin Guoqing and his wife went out of the cellar in a hurry, and ran toward the mountain in a panic, and the demon head who had killed people without blinking turned into two dogs that had lost their families.
Qin Guoqing, who had fled to the mountains, finally breathed a sigh of relief and his life was temporarily saved, but what should he do next? Pull people down the hill to join? He didn't dare to go to the death. Returning home with Tian Yulian? It is estimated that without the People's Liberation Army coming, the qin family's people will be able to beat him to death, and don't forget that he still owes a blood debt there!
Desperate, Qin Guoqing could only take Tian Yulian to hide around in the mountains, but fortunately, Qin Guoqing had prepared several hiding places for himself as early as a few years ago, most of which were inaccessible caves, which were prepared with daily necessities and food.
It is with these backhands that Qin Guoqing and his wife have been holding out in the mountains for 8 years.
Of course, Qin Guoqing, this guy certainly doesn't honestly stay on the mountain, and he occasionally touches down the mountain to shoot a black gun.
In 1958, Qin Guoqing's stored grain was almost finished, and he had to find a way to get some back from the bottom of the mountain, but who could he find to help, the former subordinates died, those who were caught were caught, and no one seemed to be able to help him.
When he was cornered, Qin Guoqing suddenly remembered his cousin Fan Shize.
This man once worked under him, once went down the mountain to plunder, Fan Shize was injured and could not walk, according to the rules of bandits, such a person should be killed with one shot.
However, Qin Guoqing was his relative in Fan Shize, so he made an exception to let people flee with him on his back, so Qin Guoqing was still his savior. Qin Guoqing felt that with the relationship between the two coupled with the grace of saving lives, Fan Shize would definitely help him.
When Fan Shize, who had long since reformed, saw Qin Guoqing appear in front of him, he only had fear and helplessness in his heart, and if he could, he really hoped that he would never see his cousin for the rest of his life.
Fan Shize knows Qin Guoqing, don't look at him when he asks you for help and Yan Yuexi, but Fan Shize dares to guarantee that as long as he dares to say a word, Qin Guoqing will absolutely turn his face and not recognize people, and then I am afraid that his family will die in the hands of Qin Guoqing.
Out of fear of Qin Guoqing, Fan Shize could only promise to make grain for him, so Qin Guoqing gave Fan Shize the gold and silver jewelry he had robbed, and then Fan Shize came forward to exchange it for grain and handed it to Qin Guoqing.
With the help of Fan Shize, Qin Guoqing and his wife persisted in the mountains for another 6 years.
The time came to 1964, this day Qin Guoqing heard someone talking at the mouth of the cave, the voice was very strange, hiding in Tibet for 14 years, Qin Guoqing, who was already like a bird with a frightened bow, fired a shot at will.
With the sound of gunfire, there was a sound of a heavy object falling to the ground outside the cave, Qin Guoqing ran out of the cave to see, it turned out that he shot a passing medicine farmer, Qin Guoqing realized that this time things were big, this cave can no longer stay, it was yu and Tian Yulian who hurriedly escaped from the cave.
By the time the People's Liberation Army heard someone report that they had heard gunshots in the vicinity and sent people to check it out, the cave had long been empty, but through the traces in the cave, it could be determined that there had been people living here, and it was almost certain that this person was Qin Guoqing.
Liu Ziyun, then commander of the Hunan Military Region, immediately became furious when he heard the news, new China has been established for 15 years, how can there still be bandits? They must be destroyed.
After some investigation, the PEOPLE's Liberation Army quickly locked fan Shize, and after interrogation, Fan Shize confessed everything he had done and offered to help the PEOPLE's Liberation Army capture Qin Guoqing.
But who knows, the more Fan Shize thinks about it on the way home, the more frightened he is, he knows that the consequences of betraying Qin Guoqing are very serious, once he lets him escape, the ensuing revenge Fan Shize asks himself if he can afford it.
So under the fear, Fan Shize actually jumped into the river and committed suicide.
On March 23, 1965, two fellow villagers who went up the mountain to collect medicine found the traces of Qin Guoqing.
So the local garrison, police, militia a total of more than 7,000 people launched a mountain search operation.
The next day, the People's Liberation Army finally found Qin Guoqing and blocked him in the cave, but this guy's marksmanship was so accurate that the People's Liberation Army could not enter the cave for a while when he aimed at the cave entrance.
Since the people inside are ready to resist to the end, the People's Liberation Army naturally will not get used to them, although people can't get in, but the grenade is no problem, so Hu Qin Guoqing and his wife are tragic.
As several grenades flew into the cave, a series of explosions were mixed with screams,
When the smoke cleared, the People's Liberation Army rushed into the cave and found that Qin Guoqing had fallen into a pool of blood, and was blown up by the grenade.
Tian Yulian was also seriously injured, captured alive by the People's Liberation Army that rushed in, and after interrogation, Tian Yulian was executed, and the last bandit in China was given the head, and there was no more war in the land of western Hunan Province.