"After I die, it will flood!" - The infamous quote of King Louis XV of France
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Banditry in China has existed for a long time, and in modern times, the Republic of China period was the most rampant. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the political situation was turbulent, bandits took advantage of the situation, entered the Republic of China after the Xinhai Revolution, warlords were in a scuffle, the people were not happy, "bandits" became a burning trend, bandits became more and more intense, and the rampant bandit plague in Henan was the first in the country and became a major feature of Henan society during the Republic of China period.
During the Period of the Republic of China, China was plagued by internal and external troubles, and the cancerous tumors of banditry were treated; the official governments of the Republic of China period (Beiyang, the Nationalist Government, etc.) mainly used force to suppress and appease them, and the common people mainly organized self-defense and defense; and our Party's strategy was to "treat them differently, divide and strike, and try our best to plot countermeasures to strengthen the anti-Japanese forces."
The number of bandits in Henan is large, and the number of bandits can reach more than 10,000, such as more than 20,000 people in the heyday of the Bai Lang Army, and the number of bandits in Zhang Qing at the end of 1923 was also more than 20,000. Bandits with more than 1,000 people accounted for 78% of the total number of bandits. After these bandits have become large, they set up armies, divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, and squads in accordance with the specifications of the army, forming "army-oriented bandits and bandit-like armies." After the bandits have formed a certain scale, their combat effectiveness is relatively strong, and they have become the object of all parties' scramble to win over.
Bandits are further divided into socialized bandits (such as Bai Lang and Wang Tianzhong), bandits (such as Cheng Xiuming, the leader of the Luoning bandits), soldier bandits, hui bandits, religious bandits, gangsters, smoke bandits, etc. During the Republic of China, the bandits in Henan included all types of bandits. Some bandits killed the rich and the poor, took the place of The Way of Heaven, and had great national righteousness, such as Bai Lang, who opposed Yuan Shikai's imperial system, threatened the interests of Yuan Shijie and the foreigners in Henan, and were jointly suppressed and killed by the opposition; most of the bandits were ignorant of profit and righteousness, extremely vicious, had no clear political goals and lofty personal ideals, and had no mother and no bottom line.
There are "many evils" in the "evil bandits" who have no bottom line, and "how bad" the bad things they have done, I take Li Rongqing, a vicious bandit in Huaxian County, Henan Province, as an example to tell you how evil the "evil people" are.
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Li Rongqing, birth year unknown, Huaxian Niutun Ji South Street people (Yubei), his appearance is not proud, a short and ugly, lively Wu Dalang reincarnated, others gave him a nickname "Li Child".
“...... This Wu Dalang was less than five feet tall, with an ugly face and a ridiculous mind, and his upper body was long and his lower body was short; the people of Qinghe County saw that he was born short and short, and gave him a nickname, called the three-inch Dinggu bark. - "Water Margin", the twenty-third time".
Li Xiao was born poor, his life was difficult since childhood, and his life at home was very difficult, before the outbreak of the War of Resistance, he went out to serve as a soldier, hoping to mix a meal. One has no culture, two have no background, three have no "looks", and with greed for life and fear of death, Li Xiaohai has not been able to mix a look in the army. After retiring from the army, he returned to his hometown and became a poor person again.
In the chaotic world of the Republic of China, political corruption, the exploitation and oppression of the people by the government, and the family of soldiers and bandits, making the life of the people of Henan unsustainable, Li Xiaozi simply formed a gang with Li Chunshu, Song Degui, and others, pulled up a team to do wrong, and became a bandit from then on.
Li Xiaoxiao's "road to banditry" is full of twists and turns, and it is not as "vigorous and mighty" as the film and television drama is interpreted. In 1936, Li Xiaoxiao and others tied up the first human ticket from Wuxiuzhai in the northwest of Niutun and hid it in the home of Li Chunshu, the owner of the nest, who wanted to contact the meat ticket family and ask for a ransom ticket.
Wo Lord, pronounced wuō zhǔ, is a Chinese word meaning also known as "Wo Jia" or "Nang Qi". The old Chinese law refers to those who harbor robbers, thieves and their stolen goods. That is, to recruit bandits and hide at home, even if they are thieves, to participate in the sharing of stolen goods. In the Han Dynasty, those who accommodated and hid bandits were called bag abandonment. The Song Dynasty abandoned the thieves and imposed heavy penalties. The Yuan Law has the law of the lord of the thief's den. The Ming Law is called "nest master", and the punishment varies according to whether it is intentional, conspiratorial, jointly carried out without dividing the booty, or sharing the booty without participating in the implementation. The clear law is the same as the clear law.
On the day of Niutun's rush to the market, when the kidnappers were dozing off and dozing, they ran straight to the downtown area and shouted "help." The Niutun District Government and the Joint Security Office immediately sent people to surround Li Chunshu's home, arrested and shot Li Chunshu, confiscated the family property, and Li Xiaozi and others escaped by chance.
After becoming a bandit, the first "business" ended in a "fiasco", and the depression in Li Xiaozi's heart can be imagined, and at the same time, he became the laughing stock of his peers and the people. In the spring of 1937, Zhang Xieming, the leader of the bandits in Xiaozhuang, northwest of Li Xiao's Niutun County, was in the guerrilla forces in Yanjin County (called the Guangpu Army under the banner of self-reliance), and the Guangpu Army was lined with factions, vying for power and profit, and dumping each other, and as a result, Zhang Xieming was killed by the local Red Gun Society when he robbed in the area around Yanjin County.
The Red Gun Society is a kind of peasant unity organization that will be armed and self-defense during the Republic of China period, and the origin of the name of the Red Gun Society is because the weapons they use are mostly spears, and the red ribbons are tied on the spears, and their origins actually originate in Shandong, and gradually flow in Henan and Shaanxi, and the Red Gun Society) Traces its origins, far away from the white lotus sect, and nearly the Boxers, and its spread is completely because of the natural repercussions of foreign imperialism and the oppression and disturbance of domestic warlords and bandits.
After Zhang Xieming was killed, Li Xiaoxiao led the remnants to join forces with Zhang Qingshan, the leader of donggu bandits, and defected to a leader of the Kuomintang surnamed Yin. Commander Yin appointed him as the commander of the lieutenant colonel's battalion and sent him to lead more than 200 of his subordinates to sneak up on the Japanese troops in Xinxiang Dongguan. As a result, "the lady lost and the soldiers were broken", the losses of the troops were exhausted, and Li Xiaoxiao himself was seriously injured.
The military and government of the Kuomintang have a characteristic: There are many factions and tilt each other, and those who are strong and strong have weight in their words, and vice versa. Li Xiaoxiao fought hard in the first battle, and his spirit was commendable, but he was difficult to protect himself. After he recovered from his wounds, he crossed the Yellow River south with the commander of the Yin Regiment, and his soldiers, major generals, were weak, and he was reduced from "guest of honor" to "everyone's dislike". Unwilling to be "white-eyed", Li Xiaozi simply broke away from the army, returned to his hometown again, and regrouped a group of bandits, and when he led his troops to raid the house in Guo Zhuang in the evolutionary territory, he encountered the local red gun society to encircle and suppress it, and the whole army was destroyed again.
Frightened, Li Xiaoxiao hid in the dry well of a peasant family, and only 2 days later did he climb out in a panic, disguise himself as a beggar, and escape. After successive failures and setbacks, Li Xiaoxiao's heart was full of despair, full of confusion and helplessness in his life. At this time, he heard that zhang Qingshan, who had been a "partner", was already the commander of the Japanese pseudo-Han traitor imperial allied army in Jixian County, and he was full of emotions, and simply defected to the Japanese army, and the Japanese army named him the commander of the Japanese pseudo-Han traitor imperial allied army in Huaxian County.
With the Japanese as a patron, Li Xiaozi began to mix with the "wind and water", recruited troops in Huaxian County, quickly pulled up a team, set up 3 regiments, stationed with the Japanese army in Niutun, successively surrendered to the east of Li Xu, and then set up their own portals again, all the starting points were "to preserve strength, not willing to leave the base camp Niutun." ”
In November 1939, the traitorous general Du Shu arrived in Huaxian County, took over the bandit Li Xudong, and formed two columns, 27 and 28, with Fan Longzhang and Li Xudong as commanders. In June 1943, Du Shu surrendered to the Japanese army, first as the chief of the Hebei Provincial Security Department, then as the commander of the newly organized Sixth Army of the Wang Pseudo-24th Group Army, Du Shu was also the commander of the Sixth Division, and Li Xudong was appointed as the deputy commander and commander of the Seventh Division.
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After Li Xiaoxiao sits up, the evil things are done, and he can do whatever it takes for the sake of profit. One of the most excessive things he did was to plant stolen goods on March 22, 1938, resulting in the horrific Brick City Massacre.
When Li Xiaozi plundered the brick city village of Weixian in Junxian County, he was resisted by the villagers, causing him to lose face. In order to take revenge on the villagers and vent the resentment in their hearts, Li Xiaoxiao has been looking for the right opportunity. In March 1938, Li Xiaoxiao learned that more than 200 ghosts would go to the county seat on the 22nd, passing through the north of brick city village, so he had a poisonous plan.
Li Xiaoxiao ordered people to kidnap a ghost in a nearby post in advance, beat him to death with agricultural tools, and his bones were broken, and his body was mutilated, and he was buried on the road where the ghosts marched. On the 22nd, Li Xiaozi ordered the bandits to dress up as villagers, holding the villagers' homemade guns, waiting for the devils to pass by, beating the devils randomly, the devils chased after them, and the bandits quickly fled towards the brick city village.
Aggressive devils, did not expect to encounter villagers in the backwoods of the countryside, angry, ordered a chase, the pursuit of the road and "coincidentally" saw the mutilated Japanese soldiers' corpses, in anger, the Japanese commander ordered the blood washing of brick city village.
After the Japanese army surrounded the brick city village on three sides, it used mortars to bomb, the wall of the village was blown down, and the Japanese army swarmed in to carry out a terrible massacre, known in history as the "Brick City Massacre", according to historical records:
After noon, the Japanese army tossed and turned in the village for half a day, and the anger was still not dissipated, so they drove the 85 men they had captured to the west of the village like sheep. Except for Wu Zhenshan and 3 other people who took advantage of the enemy's head and tail care at a bend and did not cross the wall in time to escape to save their lives, the remaining 82 people were all driven to the west of the village and pushed into the trenches 8 feet wide and 6 feet deep.
Then, the bandits fired two machine guns at the same time, turning the entire trench into a ditch of flesh and blood, and pushed out two large stone bricks, smashing the corpse's brain plasma and blurring the flesh and blood. Later, in order to burn the corpses and destroy the traces, the Japanese army forced the women who had been plundered to bring sorghum foil (tools used to dry the flour skin), firewood, etc., filled them in the ditch, covered the corpses, and sprinkled them with gasoline to ignite. A burst of fire burned from noon to half afternoon. The whole ditch was scorched black, and the paste was stinking, and the miserable situation was unbearable to see..."
The "Brick City Massacre" caused the population of brick city villages to almost become extinct, the villages were razed to the ground, and the survivors were left with lifelong disabilities. This is all the work of the evil man Li Xiaoxiao, and it is really the indignation of man and God.
The ruins of the trenches where the Japanese army collectively shot and killed 82 people in the Brick City Massacre
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After Li Xiaoxiao became a child, he appointed Qiu Yinghai, Wang Zhenyuan, and Yu Lunxiu as the leaders of his troops, and he himself served as commanders. He did not refuse the solicitation of the Japanese army, the puppet army, and the Kuomintang, and he sought to maximize his interests by selling the source left and right, waiting for the price to be sold.
When the Eighth Route Army was resisting Japan in the Niutun area, in order to unite and resist Japan, our party sent Xing Xuanli, director of the office of the fourth sub-district, to Li Xiaoxiao's office to do anti-Japanese propaganda work, hoping that he would attach importance to the great national righteousness and participate in anti-Japanese activities. Li Xiaoxiao agreed, but on the other hand, he raised eyebrows with the Japanese and falses, and set up an officer school to continuously cultivate private armed forces.
In order to seek greater interests, Li Xiaozi actually tied up Xing Xuanli and sent him to Xinxiang in 1944, as a bargaining chip to surrender to the commander of the puppet army, Pang Bingxun, and obtained the position of a division commander under the pseudo-forty army.
In 1945, when Japan surrendered, Pang Bingxun himself was unable to protect himself, so he hurriedly called Chiang Kai-shek, saying that he had made meritorious deeds and listened to the fall, and turned to Chiang Kai-shek to work hard to prevent the Eighth Route Army from entering the city and surrendering to the Japanese army. After Li Xiaoxiao was temporarily saved, pang Bingxun's Forty Army was transferred to Kaifeng, and after the 1944 Battle of Hezhuang, the bandit Wang Taigong, who was killed by the Eighth Route Army, had a conflict with Li Xiaoxiao, and his remnants constantly accused Li Xiaoxiao of traitorous traitors and traitors, and Liu Maoen, then chairman of the Kuomintang Henan Province, simply tied him up to the execution ground and shot him indiscriminately.
Wang Taigong: Landlord of Dongyue Village, Laodian Township, Huaxian County, father of Wang Sanzhu, a big bandit and Diehard Kuomintang reactionary, Wang Sanzhu was described by the masses as "the Living King of Yan" in the northern Henan region. Because Wang Sanzhu hung the signboard of the Kuomintang army, Wang Sanzhu's bandit department was relatively strong, regularly equipped, and had eight regiments and as many as eight or nine thousand people. The people angrily called them "official bandits."
In the summer of 1942, Wang Taigong was appointed by the Kuomintang as the commander of the "Northern Henan Advance Detachment" and commanded the Miscellaneous Troops of Northern Henan. Soon, Wang Taigong defected to the Japanese army and was organized as the pseudo-"3rd Detachment of the 24th Group Army" and served as the commander of the detachment. After that, Wang Taigong was appointed by Du Shu, the commander of the pseudo-6th Army, as the commander of the Northern Henan Bandits and the county magistrate of Neihuang County, and later appointed as the county magistrate of Huaxian County. On December 20, 1944, the Ninth Subdistrict of the Jiluyu Military Region held a meeting in Liuguji, Huaxian County, and decided to eliminate this reactionary force. On December 23, the troops of the Ninth Sub-district of the Jiluyu Military Region divided and surrounded Wang Taigong's troops stationed in the villages of Hezhuang and Feng Fu in Huaxian County, attacked in three ways, and after a day and night of fierce fighting, killed Wang Taigong on the spot.
Many acts of injustice will kill themselves, and with the sound of a gunshot, the wicked Li Xiaoxiao ends his sinful life. The Heavenly Dao has reincarnation, and whoever the heavens have spared, everything is fate, and it is not up to man at all. The most evil people, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign have no good end, Li Xiaozi's life, not a good thing has been done, the evil things have been done, and in the end even "his own people" will not let him go, there is only one way to die, this is the end of the exquisite egoist!
(Editor's note: This article is 3780 words, the ninth original article in 2022)