At the Hami Martyrs' Cemetery in Xinjiang, Luo Shaowei, deputy commander of the 16th Division of the Sixth Army of the People's Liberation Army, died on April 1, 1950, at the age of 32, and he was also the top general who died in the struggle to suppress bandits and counter-rebellion.
Wang Zhen was very angry when he heard this news, and after investigating and making it clear that it was the Wusman bandits who attacked Luo Shaowei, he ordered the use of the strength of two divisions, plus forty-one tanks, hundreds of cars, and an airplane, to use all their strength to suppress the bandits, and it was necessary to avenge Luo Shaowei's division commander.
Luo Shaowei was a legendary soldier who was born into a poor peasant family in Hanyin, Shaanxi Province, and grew up herding cattle for the landlord's family.
When he was 13 years old, he went to Xi'an City to make a living, and as soon as he entered the city, he was arrested by Yang Hucheng's troops. It just so happened that there were many Communists in Yang Hucheng's army at that time, and seeing that he was relatively young, he took very good care of him.
Under the influence of the Communists, Luo Shaowei was deeply moved by the Communist Party's ideas. In 1935, luo Shaowei, who was already 17 years old, participated in the mutiny uprising and joined the First Anti-Japanese Army in southern Shaanxi.
Later, this time the army was reorganized into the Red 15th Army, and Luo Shaowei was incorporated into the guard regiment because of his bravery in battle. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he entered the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army and fought bloody battles in The Jinji-Hebei Luyu and the Japanese army for a long time.
In 1940, luo Shaowei, who was already 22 years old, grew into a company commander. In one battle, he commanded his army to eliminate more than 100 Japanese ghosts in the stronghold.
In the revolutionary base area of southwest Lu, Luo Shaowei was a well-known anti-Japanese hero. With these merits, he was promoted first to battalion commander and later to regimental commander. If Li Yunlong knew this news, his nose might be distorted, and the speed of this promotion was a bit fast.
In 1942, Luo Shaowei went to the Army Middle School to study. This was originally a good thing, unfortunately in the process of learning was attacked by the Japanese army, because they did not carry weapons? Captured by the Japanese.
Because they were all officers, they were sent to Jinan by the Japanese army to be imprisoned. In prison, Luo Shaowei organized his comrades to wage an indomitable struggle against the enemy. And on the night of November 28, 1942, the sentry was successfully killed and the prison was successfully escaped.
In 1944, Hu Zongnan formulated a plan to sneak attack Yan'an, and Luo Shaowei's unit was ordered to be transferred to Yan'an and stationed at Qingquangou. At that time, there was no major combat operation, so he led the troops to exceed the production tasks in the large-scale production movement and ensured that there was no problem in the food supply of the chiefs of the headquarters.
In 1946, General Marshall visited Yan'an. Because of Luo Shaowei's excellent performance, his teaching brigade became the first honor guard in the history of our army, and he was also the first captain.
In 1949, the Teaching Brigade was reorganized into the 16th Division of the Sixth Army, and Luo Shaowei was promoted to deputy division commander. He was only 31 years old.
The following year, he was sent to Xinjiang to suppress bandits and stationed in Hami, Xinjiang. On April 1, he was attacked by bandits on his way out to inspect his defenses and was killed.
In a documentary broadcast by CCTV, he once recalled the scene of his murder: Luo Shaowei and his party of 6 people, surrounded by dozens of bandits, were all killed in the end, and the enemy launched a frenzied revenge and wentuged out his eyes.
After learning this news, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De ordered that the gangsters who committed the crimes must be caught to avenge Luo Shaowei. The task was quickly conveyed to Wang Zhen, who was also Luo Shaowei's old chief, and he was waiting for Zhu De's order.
At that time, Xinjiang had just been liberated, and there were more than 50 rebel agents and bandits in the area, with a total strength of more than 17,000 troops. The common characteristic of the enemy is that they are very familiar with the local area, their actions are relatively secretive, and it is difficult to be completely annihilated.
The most powerful of these were the three bandits: Usman, Janim Khan, and Yaolebos. After the investigators' unremitting investigation, the murderer who finally identified Luo Shaowei was Usmanbu.
His full name was Usman Batur, born in 1898, of ethnic Kazakhs. From an early age, he grazed others for others, so he was called a wild child on the grassland.
At that time, the main power of the Kazakhs was in the hands of the nobility, and it was difficult for poor boys like Usman to have a head start, but soon the war gave them the opportunity to emerge.
Usman had been a good rider since his time on the Trojan horse, and when he was 18 years old, he was spotted by Ali's bandit Zuhan Nohaji and became a bandit ever since.
In September 1939, the local people launched an armed rebellion against Sheng Shicai. Usman led his bandits down the mountain to respond, and with his superb riding skills and ability to lead troops, coupled with his own cavalry unit, became the commissioner of the Administrative Office of Ashan, and he called himself the King of Kazakhstan.
In 1946, he accepted Chiang Kai-shek's commission and reorganization, and brutally killed soldiers of the Xinjiang National Army, with their hands stained with blood.
After the peaceful liberation of Xinjiang, the US deputy consul in Xinjiang, Maknan, had long admired Usman, so he contacted Usman with another international spy, He Renzhi, to provide him with weapons and equipment, as well as various military intelligence, to encourage him to launch an armed rebellion, at which point he became a bandit again.
With the help of the Americans, Usman quickly grew into the largest local armed force. He erected the Blue Sky and White Sun Flag and spread his thousands of troops in 11 counties to harass and attack these areas.
At this time, Usman had completely turned into a demon, and his men had looted the grain and property of the common people, and killed and set fires everywhere, and the local people's resentment boiled over.
Wu Siman had a bigger idea in his mind, that is, to surpass his predecessor Sheng Shicai, an ambitious attempt to drive the People's Liberation Army out of Xinjiang and then achieve independent statehood.
On the day of his murder, Luo Shaowei was leading the combat staff officer Wang Yuzhang to inspect the Qijiaojing, where the 46th Regiment, a battalion, and a company were stationed.
Located on the south side of Mount Martala in the eastern section of the Tian Shan Mountains, it is also a place where soldiers must fight. If the suppression of banditry is to be completed, the area must be completely controlled.
The bandits laid an ambush here and set up barricades. It was in this area that the two sides met and engaged in a bloody battle. Except for the driver who was captured, everyone else was killed.
Just the day before, on March 31st, under the care of the chief, Luo Shaowei had just introduced a nurse and was waiting for him to go on a blind date. Before he could take a look, he died at the foot of the Tianshan Mountain.
With the support of the Americans, Usman launched a rebellion of 20,000 Kazakh herders in February 1950, and in March led more than 700 bandits to attack Iwu County. Under the stubborn resistance of the local garrison, his plan did not succeed.
In fact, as early as before, Wang Zhen had sent people to negotiate with them, hoping that they could lay down their weapons and change from evil to righteousness, but they refused.
Before the official launch of the bandits, the total strength of Usman had reached more than 7,000 people. These bandits are active in Qinghai and Gansu in Xinjiang, looting property everywhere and killing mass cadres and attacking the People's Liberation Army. When Chiang Kai-shek received this news, he made him the commander-in-chief of the anti-communism and gave him a batch of weapons, and Usiman's arrogance became even more arrogant.
After learning the news of Luo Shaowei's sacrifice, Zhou Enlai said that although the bandits were not strong in battle, they were familiar with the local terrain and it was difficult to eliminate them.
Subsequently, Zhou Enlai reported to Mao Zedong, who sent a telegram directly to Wang Zhen: The suppression of bandits is the most important task at present, and we must concentrate all our efforts on completely eliminating the bandits within the specified time.
Wang Zhen quickly deployed the task of suppressing bandits and held a meeting to discuss the plan to suppress bandits. Everyone agreed that the horse bandits in Xinjiang were familiar with the terrain and flexible, and it was difficult to be besieged by a large army and then destroyed in one fell swoop.
There is only one best way, that is, to vigorously develop production and improve the living conditions of the local people. That way they wouldn't join the bandits and cut off the bandits' rear.
The next step is to deal with the bandits' mobility and flexibility, and the only way is to use tanks and armored vehicles to suppress the bandits, and then use large armies to besiege and eliminate them.
Usman knew the plan of the People's Liberation Army, and he believed that it was better to attack first, and then suffered from the attack, and took the lead in launching a surprise attack on the People's Liberation Army.
His daughter Illyr happened to be stationed in the Iwu area with her troops, so she led her superior forces to attack the county town of Iwu, because it was a ragtag crowd, and it ended in failure.
The garrison of Iwu County, with only one company of more than 100 people, had to strengthen their fortifications and fight with the enemy in the face of the attack of the enemy. For the soldiers understood that once the enemy entered the city, the whole city suffered, and it was necessary to fight until the last moment for the sake of the people.
The two sides fought a bloody battle in this area for more than 40 days, the enemy's mobile combat ability is very strong, but the siege ability is too weak, and hundreds of bandits died here in a few days.
Iryl was not content with his defeat and gathered hundreds of bandits to kill him. The county town became the focus of the war, attracting a considerable part of the main force of bandits here.
At the same time as this battle broke out, the main force of the bandit army had locked in Usman. At this time, his main force was hiding in the Red Willow Gorge, where he was recuperating.
Since another force of the enemy had been drawn to another battlefield, this was the best chance to destroy Usman.
Wang Zhen ordered two troops to be dispatched, one left and one right, to besiege the king in a restrained posture, to capture the thief first, to destroy Usman, and to deter other bandits.
However, with years of operation, the bandits have built complex fortifications here, which has caused great trouble for the army's work of suppressing bandits.
At this time, there were more than 3,600 people around Usman, more than 1,900 long guns, more than 30 light machine guns, and eight cannons. There is obviously no advantage in front of the PLA, but it can still be resisted for a while in defense.
Wang Zhen's troops were even more powerful, with more than 1,500 elite troops first attacking, and thousands more on the periphery. A total of 41 tanks and armored vehicles, more than 120 cars and 32 cannons were used.
The two sides fought a bloody battle in this area, and the bandit soldiers shouted to avenge the commander of the Luo Division, launching round after round of attacks, and the bandits suffered heavy casualties.
The fighting progressed on April 13, and there was infighting within the bandits. Some people think we should run away quickly, and some people think that our old nest must be held.
While the enemy was in turmoil, the main force of the bandit troops arrived, and the final counterattack sounded.
After several days of bitter fighting, the bandits saw that the situation was not good, so they prepared to grease the bottom of their feet. Usman was still cunning, and he ordered a small force to launch a fierce attack, and the elite troops fled on horseback, taking with them a large amount of money and equipment.
Soon, the more than 400 bandits in charge of the defense were all wiped out, and the bandit troops quickly turned to counterattack and began a large-scale pursuit battle.
But the sky was not beautiful, and at this time the fierce wind swept the yellow sand, and the blizzard suddenly fell. The temperature quickly dropped to minus thirty degrees, the soldiers were still wearing thin cotton coats, and many of them were frostbitten.
But at this time, there were more than a thousand bandits around Usman, and they fled into the Black Mountain Head area and embarked on a path of escape.
After receiving the news, Wang Zhen ordered the troops to take a temporary rest and summoned the cadres to a meeting to discuss the next step.
Some officers believe that they should wait until the weather improves before sending troops to suppress it, so that they can grasp it more. But Wang Zhen, after synthesizing the opinions of the majority of the people, believes that if the bandits cannot be eliminated immediately, they are likely to make a comeback after recuperating.
The next step will be to use tanks and armored vehicles to launch a final onslaught against the remaining bandits. In chairman Mao's words, "It is advisable to chase the poor and the poor with courage, and not to become the overlord of fame and learning."
Usman thought that our army would not attack at this time, but he ignored Wang Zhen's determination and was soon caught up by the pursuing troops, and he had to continue to flee.
By July 18, Wusman's troops arrived in the Dunhuang area of Gansu Province, where they coerced local herders to join their ranks, rapidly expanding to more than 2,000 men.
On the surface, his troops are strong again, but in fact, this is the last return to the light. With the tenacious pursuit of our army, the veterans who can fight in the bandit troops have almost suffered casualties, and the new recruits are at most a ragtag crowd with no combat effectiveness.
By 1951, Usman could only hide in hiding, with no power to fight back.
At this time, Wang Zhen asked the central authorities to set up a joint command center for suppressing bandits in Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang provinces, and carried out inter-provincial encirclement and suppression of these bandits and launched a final onslaught against them.
On February 19, 1951, our reconnaissance units again found the trail of Usman near Haizi. But when the large troops surrounded them, they ran away without a trace, and by this time they had run out of ammunition and it was difficult to run farther.
By March 22, during the intensive search by our reconnaissance units, Usman had no way out. He was like a trapped beast passively engaged in the final bloody battle with our army, and in the end it could only collapse.
Wu Siman had no choice but to lead the fifty guards around him to flee again in a hurry, fleeing to the northwest direction of Annamba, hoping to survive here.
Armored vehicles are the natural enemies of the cavalry, and coupled with the fierce attack of the warriors, the bandits quickly lose the ability to fight and can only continue to escape.
But in the process of escaping, most of them were wiped out by armored vehicles and tanks, and Uthman was left with only one person. He fled in a hurry with his superb riding skills, and the bandit squad chased after him.
When the bandit troops crossed a small river, many of the fighters slipped on the ice, leaving Kong Qingyun alone to gallop on horseback.
Kong Qingyun wrapped his arms around Wu Siman deadly, and the two men drove side by side and engaged in a fight on the horse. In the fight between the two men, both fell off their horses.
Wu Si man was indeed more fierce, in the contest between the two people, he was in the upper hand, seeing that Kong Qingyun was about to fall, but he held the other party's waist and did not let him escape.
At this time, the rear fallen pursuers rushed up, and everyone rushed up, knocked Usman to the ground, and gave him a five-flower tie.
At this point, our army dispatched six regiments of about 10,000 people, and with the help of armored vehicles and reconnaissance planes, the great hunt against bandits across three provinces was over.
At the same time, the American spy MarkNam, who instigated the Usman rebellion, was killed in the process of fleeing, and He Renzhi fled the border in a hurry.
On April 26, 1951, in the square of Urumqi, under the attention of more than 80,000 people, the public trial meeting of Usman was officially held.
Uce was full of evil, and his various crimes were submitted by the people, and he himself confessed, and was eventually sentenced to death.
Later, his deeds were made into a movie called "Doing Desert Pursuit", which detailed the arduous process of hunting him down.