In 1951, in a village called Xiaohua Kilnzi in Inner Mongolia, a haggard middle-aged woman was dangling a small baby in her arms, as if to soothe the baby's crying emotions.
Suddenly, the door was gently pushed open, the woman was startled to hear the noise, and after looking up to see the clothes worn by the people, her nervous heart calmed down slightly, and the person who came was not someone else, but a soldier of the People's Liberation Army.
The leading soldier was named Sun Youguang, and after he observed that there was no one else in this room, he gathered around the woman and asked softly, "Comrade, don't be afraid, we are the People's Liberation Army, is there anyone else here besides you?" ”
Photo -- Sun Youguang (recent photo), a former defender of the Central Guard Corps of the Ministry of Public Security, was then a member of the Party Branch of the Reconnaissance Section and the leader of the Reconnaissance Detachment.
After the woman listened to it, she showed a panicked and frightened look, she pointed to the west room in the courtyard with her finger, and gave Sun Youguang a look from someone there, and Sun Youguang knew that there was a situation in the west house, so she took the soldiers into the house and arrested and took away a shoemaker.
Why did the People's Liberation Army come to a woman's house on such a cold night? Who is the shoemaker who was taken away?
It all had to start in 1908.
Ancestral snakes regard the Red Army as a sworn enemy
In 1908, in Jinfoping Village, Jingbian County, Shaanxi Province, there was a family surnamed Zhang, which can be called a "famous family".
Mainly because there were 8 people in their ancestors who had been literate and martial, it is reasonable to say that such a scholarly door, although it is not a squire who benefits one party, it should also be the family of Zhishu Dali.
However, the Zhang family was in the local area, and they were the big landlords of their own rich side, so they ran amok and oppressed the people.
This year, the protagonist of the story, Zhang Tingzhi, was born, who was born in such a family in that era with a golden spoon, and if the family gave him a good education, not to mention the comparison with the ancestors of the wen and martial arts, at least he would be an intellectual.
At that time, Zhang Tingzhi's family controlled the land of more than 400 surrounding villages, and in order to manage and exploit these peasants, Zhang Tingzhi's grandfather Zhang Si madman colluded with the warlord Jing Yuexiu to not only purchase guns to form a vigilante group, but also build a bunker to expand the armed forces, and the local people suffered under his oppression.
Originally, when Zhang Si's crazy man died, everyone thought that life would be a little better, but they did not expect that Zhang Tingzhi's father took over the position of the regiment leader, which became more intense.
Under the influence of such a family environment, Zhang Tingzhi followed her father to oppress the local people when she was young, and when she reached the age of study, she only went to private school for three years.
Not only that, he was also addicted to smoking and gambling, and spent his days with a group of idle people in society.
If the oppression of the people was already abhorrent enough, then the maiming of the Red Army fighters who were fighting Against Japanese imperialism at that time was even more indignant.
Figure - Bandit head Zhang Tingzhi
Originally, the Zhang family was just a local militia group and had nothing to do with the army, but in the hands of Zhang Tingzhi's father, his armed forces were absorbed by Yang Hucheng.
His father was transformed from regimental commander to brigade commander of the garrison cavalry brigade, and his father, seeing his son who had been idle all day, let him join the cavalry regiment as a regimental commander.
Here, Zhang Tingzhi met Gao Gang, the later vice chairman of the Central People's Government, who was the deputy leader of the teaching team, and another person, Liu Zhidan, the deputy regimental commander, who also became a senior general of the Red Army.
Because zhang Tingzhi used his father's power to be high on the people around him, those who did not go along with his heart slightly were either beaten or scolded, and other people in the regiment rushed to seduce him, but Liu Zhidan and Gao Gang were very disgusted with his various behaviors, and usually did not love to take care of him, let alone please him.
In the end, it was the "Three Rivers Incident" that caused the three people to part ways.
Liu Zhidan, a senior general of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, a loyal communist fighter, and one of the main founders of the Northwest Red Army and the Northwest Revolutionary Base Area.
In 1930, Liu Zhidan secretly organized personnel in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region to prepare for a "riot", but when the personnel were ready and about to act, they were discovered by Zhang Tingzhi and led by people and horses to directly suppress it, and this "riot" that had not yet begun was declared a failure.
From then on, Liu Zhidan thought that this person was unreliable, so he broke away from the company with Gao Gang, took some people with lofty ideals out of the independent portal, and established his own Red Army team, while Zhang Tingzhi returned to his old business, set up a vigilante group, and continued to do evil.
Out of dissatisfaction with the "betrayal" of Liu Zhidan and others, coupled with the Red Army's land reform policy, Zhang Tingzhi believed that he had been targeted, and since then, he hated the Red Army, as long as anyone related to the Red Army was hostile to him, and even killed.
Figure -Gao Gang (1905-1954) One of the leaders of the Revolutionary Base Area in Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu-Bian and Vice Chairman of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China (former)
In October 1935, when the Red Army of the Long March came to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China heard that this bandit leader who made the people cry bitterly, it arranged for Zuo Quan to lead the troops to encircle and suppress, but Zhang Tingzhi was not in the village at that time, so he was not arrested.
After this incident, Zhang Tingzhi hated the Communist Party even more, and after that, he often carried out sneak attacks on our army.
On one occasion, he even organized a manpower to surround an independent regiment of our army, and in the confrontation between the enemy and the enemy, the Red Army was defeated and retreated, and in the end, only a few people successfully broke through, and Zhang Tingzhi arrested the others and brutally killed them.
Among the Communists killed by Zhang Tingzhi, there were 5 senior leading cadres.
At that time, they had just returned from the Soviet Union and were preparing to go to the base area, but they were intercepted by Zhang Zhiting, who brutally forced them to confess, and he actually chose to bury them alive for the five people' unyielding death, which can be described as extremely cruel.
Of course, Zhang Tingzhi, who has committed many evil deeds, is not just killing communists.
In 1932, the four soldiers under Fu Zuoyi were just passing by the Jinfoping where he was located, and Zhang Tingzhi tricked them into going to the battalion headquarters and asking the female soldiers to be his fourth aunt.
When the female soldier refused, he beat the other three to death in front of everyone, and in this way, the female soldier was forced to obey him.
Treating the soldier Zhang Tingzhi is so arrogant, not to mention those unarmed ordinary people, as long as it is the woman Zhang Tingzhi looks up to, none of them can escape his clutches.
Zhang Tingzhi's misdeeds have made the lives of the local people miserable.
With the founding of New China, he became one of the main targets of the central encirclement and suppression.
Tu - Fu Zuoyi (1895-1974) General of the National Revolutionary Army. He was a famous anti-Japanese general and a member of the Kuomintang who pursued progress
When the wind and waves are calm, they are actually hidden and turbulent
After the founding of New China, all parts of the country were immersed in the happiness of peaceful life.
In addition to bandits like Zhang Tingzhi, there were also enemy special organizations at home and abroad lurking in all corners of our country, and in 1950 there was an incident in which foreign enemy special organizations planned to bomb Tiananmen Square.
When the Korean War broke out, the U.S. authorities feared that China would come to their aid, so they arranged for a secret service organization to bomb Tiananmen Square on October 1, 1950, China's first National Day, giving Mao Zedong and other leaders a fatal blow.
The organizer, Andon Lee, an Italian, prepared a mortar and dozens of shells at the behest of the CIA Borid.
According to estimates, they designed the best shelling positions, with an explosion range of 120 square meters, enough to pose a deadly threat to the CCP leaders on the upper floors of Tiananmen Square, and this evil plan began to be prepared in the second year of the founding of New China.
Figure - Andon Lee (1896 – August 17, 1951) was an Italian spy for the U.S. Strategic Intelligence Agency
However, the perfect plan in their eyes was exposed under the self-cleverness of Bao Ruide, who was previously Li Andong's intelligence officer Zheli, but then Bao Ruide, who left China, was worried that our intelligence personnel would target Zheli, so he looked for a docking officer again.
This person is Cheng Meng's sister Cheng Na, who once learned piano from Zheli's wife at Yenching University.
Cheng Na, who had returned from Hong Kong to China, instructed the unsuspecting Cheng Meng to talk to ZheLi, but what they did not know was that although the conversation was in English, the conversation between the two of them had been mastered by our intelligence services.
The reconnaissance department, which had obtained the intelligence, worked hard to intercept an air letter detailing the specific location of the bombing and the relevant arguments.
Since then, before the arrival of the National Day, China's reconnaissance department cracked this terrible incident of the enemy and quickly arrested the personnel of the relevant organizations, and finally executed Li Andong and Ryuichi Yamaguchi on August 17, 1951.
Ryuichi Yamaguchi (1905-1951) was a Japanese spy who specialized in collecting intelligence on ships and anti-Japanese guerrillas off the coast of North China
In addition to the threat of foreign enemy special organizations, there are also many Kuomintang enemy special agents lurking in China.
In the Suiyuan area at that time, the Kuomintang enemy special organization colluded with the rebel bandits, which was quite rampant, and the main reason for this situation was that the liberation here was the latest and was peacefully liberated, so the enemies had the opportunity to deploy and occupy the mountains as kings.
In view of this situation, Sun Youguang, under the assignment of the Ministry of Public Security, came to the Suiyuan area to carry out the work of suppressing bandits.
Sun Youguang, who arrived at the Suiyuan Public Security Bureau, after learning about the local situation, took the initiative to ask to work with his wife Hou Xuelian in Wuchuan County, where banditry was most rampant, and Zhang Tingzhi, the leader of the bandits at that time, was here.
Picture - Sun Youguang and his lover Hou Xuelian during the banditry in Wuchuan
However, Sun Youguang, who came to Wuchuan, found that the bandit situation here was even more serious than he expected.
The rebels here have formed a military management, their number has reached as many as 1500, the People's Liberation Army at that time is carrying out rent reduction and anti-hegemony struggle in the local area, these rebels have taken advantage of loopholes, specifically to find those places that have not yet begun to sabotage.
The bandits colluded with spies, bullies and counter-revolutionaries, dressed in the clothes of the People's Liberation Army, in the name of the People's Liberation Army, and did things that hurt nature and reason.
Many people saw that they thought that the People's Liberation Army was coming, and greeted them with a smile, but they did not expect that what was waiting for them was bandits who robbed their belongings, who raped and killed adultery and humiliation, and did all kinds of evil.
If the family had money, at least they could save their lives, and once, this group of bandits came to a school, searched the school without getting anything, and killed all 11 teachers in the school in a fit of rage.
According to statistics, in the year 1950 alone, these bandits launched nearly 60 uprisings, killing more than 200 local cadres and officers and soldiers.
Sun Youguang was well aware of the importance of the work of suppressing bandits, and he was bound to succeed in the arrest of Zhang Tingzhi.
In January 1951, Sun Youguang, who was meeting in Saraqi County, received a reliable tip that Zhang Tingzhi, who had recently been appointed by the Kuomintang as the commander of the Xinyi Column of the 1061St Unit of the Anti-Communist National Salvation Army, had gone to The Erfenzi area of Wuchuan County after robbing and killing the cadres of our Water Conservancy Bureau, and has now arrived in Xiaohuayaozi Village.
Sun Youguang, as the head of the reconnaissance unit of the Public Security Bureau, took the initiative to take the lead of the task after hearing this, and rushed to the Xiaohua kiln with 3 soldiers, and it was inevitable to arrest Zhang Tingzhi alive.
When they braved the snow and wind to rush to the Erfenzi Office, they met Zhao Lixin, the director of the Public Security Bureau who had returned from the countryside due to a stomach disease, and after listening to the arrest plan and work deployment, he joined the arrest work with two fighters.
After a break, 7 people rushed to Xiaohuayaozi Village overnight, and under the leadership of their fellow villagers, they came to this small courtyard where Zhang Tingzhi was hiding, and there was a scene of the People's Liberation Army "breaking into people's houses at night".
Photo - Sun Youguang (third from the left) during the suppression of bandits in Daqingshan with some of his comrades-in-arms
The bandit leader who claims to be a shoemaker
Speaking of returning to the room, after the woman here gave a clue, before Sun Youguang could issue an order, a newly enlisted soldier next to him ran to the West House in a panic, but he retreated after a while.
He whispered to Sun Youguang, "There is a situation in the house. ”
It turned out that this warrior had just opened the grass curtain of the room to see, and after making sure that there was someone, he did not dare to make a move because of lack of experience.
Hearing this, Sun Youguang was afraid that the movement just now would alarm the other party, so he quickly ran to the West House, and the soldier took a gun and opened the grass curtain to break into the house.
The five big men lying on the kang were completely awakened, and the intrusion of the People's Liberation Army made them panic and hurried sideways to get the weapon next to them.
Sun Youguang opened the twenty-ringing barge gun and aimed it at them: "Don't move, we are the People's Liberation Army, lay down our weapons, surrender our guns and don't kill." ”
The other three warriors also pointed their pistols at them, and the frightened 5 big men did not dare to make any more moves.
These 5 big Han are not ordinary peasant households, or the bandits that the People's Liberation Army is looking for, but whether there is Zhang Tingzhi among these 5 people, the soldiers are still unsure.
In fact, at this time, Sun Youguang was also very panicked in his heart, because if the other party was them, then he could only take tough measures to kill them.
This was not the best policy, because at that time, the Daqingshan bandit campaign was underway, and there were still many bandits who had not been caught, and these people were clues and breakthroughs for them.
Fortunately, the other party was intimidated by himself, Sun Youguang asked the warriors to pack up their weapons, and then tied the 5 people with ropes and strung together to take them to the courtyard, and began to ask their names one by one to see if there was Zhang Tingzhi in it.
When he was in the house before, Sun Youguang found that the five bandits had been aiming at the old bandit in the middle, as if waiting for his action instructions.
It seems that this old bandit is the head of these five people, and when it was the turn of the old bandit, Sun Youguang pointed the gun at him and said sternly: "You, honestly confess, you can't lie a little." ”
The old bandit was so frightened that he hurriedly said, "I... I...... My name is Yan Ziping, and I am a shoe repairer. He also pointed to the spike tool by the window: "The four of them are bandits, and I was caught by them to transport things." ”
As soon as the words stopped, the other four nodded their heads in affirmation of his words, "Yes, yes, he was captured by us." ”
Hearing this, Sun Youguang already had a number in mind, first of all, this person must be their bandit leader, and the name Yan Ziping is likely to be Zhang Tingzhi's pseudonym, because the owner of this manor is called Yan Zihe, and Zhang Tingzhi is a brother-in-law.
It seems that most of the people who claimed to be shoe repairmen were Zhang Tingzhi, and Sun Youguang did not expose them, but only sighed in his heart: "This cunning Zhang Tingzhi is estimated to have escaped with this method when he was surrounded and annihilated by our army several times before." ”
Figure - Old Society Shoemaker (non-Zhang Tingzhi)
At this time, Zhao Lixin, who had previously blocked and sentry on the hillside, also rushed over, and he caught a suspicious person nearby, most likely an accomplice of the bandits.
Zhao Lixin heard this old bandit say that he was a shoe repairer, and solemnly stated: "We will take you to Wuchuan County to investigate, if you are really a good person, we will definitely not wrongfully accuse you." ”
However, what they did not expect was that the other four stupid bandits were still interceding for him, and the bandits would intercede for the captured coolies? That's a slippery slope.
One of the warriors really couldn't listen to it anymore, so he said angrily, "You shut me up, he is Zhang Tingzhi, and you are still making things up here." ”
The few bandits who heard this no longer made a sound, and Zhang Tingzhi knew that his lie had been recognized, so he hung his head down and stopped speaking.
At this time, it was almost dawn, and the arrest of the anti-communist bandit Zhang Tingzhi was successfully completed, and when everyone left Xiaohuayaozi Village with the bandits, they saw the woman holding the child and smiling to send the soldiers away.
Figure-Bandits (non-Zhang Tingzhi gang)
The death penalty that cannot be escaped
After Zhang Tingzhi was arrested, the biggest fear of everyone was that during the escort process, bandits would come to hijack them, after all, with the force of their 7 people, there was no way to deal with the large number of bandits.
With no extra horses, the bandits had to brave the wind and snow to walk to the county seat of Wuchuan, a 120-mile journey that was windy and snowy, and had to walk for two days.
Originally, Zhao Lixin was sick to return from work, and on the way he launched a high fever, Sun Youguang, who saw this situation, asked two soldiers around Zhao Lixin to escort Zhao Lixin back to Wuchuan County with the guns and ammunition of the bandits.
After a day of driving, the people were already sleepy and tired, and the bandits were tired, so they stopped at Wujia Village to rest.
Figure - Conclusion of the review of the bandit leader Zhang Tingzhi
However, at night, the tired Sun Youguang did not dare to fall asleep, because he was afraid that as soon as he slept, the bandits who had been caught so hard would take the opportunity to escape.
He was not the only one who could not sleep during the long night, and the bandits already knew their fate in their hearts, and they could not sleep for a long time.
Zhang Tingzhi told Sun Youguang about his previous experience, saying that he joined the Kuomintang in 1936 and followed the Kuomintang to fight the Communist Party, and later in 1949, knowing that the Kuomintang was out of play, he went to Liu Wanchun's 111th Army and joined the cavalry brigade.
"I didn't expect that in January, Liu Wanchun told me that Gao Gang wrote to me that I was an extreme counter-revolutionary and asked me to go to Beijing, and I thought to myself, if you have a friendship with Gao Gang before, he will let me go to Beijing, don't you want my life?" I found a few cavalrymen and ran with them. ”
Listening to Zhang Tingzhi's nagging, Sun Youguang publicized to him our policy of "being frank and lenient and resisting strictness" in dealing with counter-revolution, and Zhang Tingzhi heard this and successively explained some things, so they sat until dawn.
However, Zhang Tingzhi's past crimes were so heinous that on March 12, 1951, he was sentenced to death by the Suiyuan Provincial Public Security Department and executed by firing squad in March 1953.
End of this article
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