On January 4, 1941, more than 9,000 people directly under the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui, under the leadership of commander Ye Ting and deputy commander Xiang Ying, moved north, and two days later, the troops marched to the Maolin District in southern Anhui, but they were raided by 7 divisions of the Nationalist army.
The encircled New Fourth Army launched a fierce battle with the Nationalist army, but the number of Nationalist troops surrounding the New Fourth Army was as high as 80,000, and after 7 days and nights of fierce fighting, the New Fourth Army was outnumbered and defeated, and the commander Ye Ting was captured, but fortunately, deputy commander Xiang Ying and deputy chief of staff Zhou Zikun successfully broke through, which was the Anhui Southern Incident.
After the breakthrough, Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun, with the help of the masses, moved to a place called bee cave on the mountain of Jing County.
It is reasonable to say that with the cover of the masses, there will be no problem with the safety of Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun, however, on March 24, 1941, Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun were killed in the bee cave.
It turned out that after Xiang Ying and others broke through, they met a comrade of the New Fourth Army near the village of Dakang wang in Jing County, who said that his name was Liu Houzong and he was an aide-de-camp of the New Fourth Army's adjutant' office, and although Xiang Ying did not know him, he asked Liu Houzong to move with him.
After arriving at the bee cave, because the bee cave was small and there were only four people living there, Xiang Ying let his three guards Li Dehe, Zheng Desheng and Xia Dongqing live in the grass hut halfway up the mountain, and then he lived in the bee cave with Zhou Zikun, Liu Houzong and Zhou Zikun's guard Huang Cheng.
As a result, at night, Liu Houzong took advantage of the fact that the three people were asleep, but shot and killed Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun, and Zhou Zikun's guard Huang Cheng was also shot three times in a row, but he survived.
After killing Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun, Liu Houzong snatched away the weapons, gold, silver dollars and other valuables they carried with them and fled...
Why did this Liu Houzong kill his own deputy commander Xiang Ying? The reason for this is from 1938.
This Liu Houzong, a native of Leiyang, Hunan, in 1927, led the peasant association to fight local tycoons and landlords, and became the backbone of the local peasant association, because Liu Houzong dared to fight and dare to rush, and was called "general master" and "big killing star" by the local local tycoon landlords.
Dealing with landlord bullies, Liu Hou was never soft-hearted and decisive in killing, but the perennial struggle also made Liu Hou always develop the character of a "mountain king", and he had to say everything.
In 1935, the organization sent two leaders to Liu Houzong's Leiyang guerrillas, but Liu Houzong believed that this was the organization's distrust of him and that they did not get along well.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Houzong's guerrilla unit was incorporated into the New Fourth Army, and Liu Hou was appointed deputy battalion commander of the special service battalion, but after joining the New Fourth Army, Liu Houzong seriously violated discipline and was sent to Yan'an to study.
However, Liu Houzong, who arrived in Yan'an, could not stand the harsh environment, and repeatedly asked to return to the south, and Liu Houzong, who returned to the south, originally wanted to pull up a guerrilla force again, but unfortunately failed, so he was assigned to the new fourth army headquarters in southern Anhui.
After the anhui incident, Liu Houzong's thinking changed, and after following Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun to the bee cave, he saw the large amount of gold and silver that Xiang Ying and others carried with him, so he began to think of defecting to the nationalist army, so he killed Xiang Ying, Zhou Zikun and others.
After killing Xiang Ying, Zhou Zikun, and others, Liu Houzong went to find a security chief in Taiping County, but this security chief did not trust Liu Houzong at all, and after stripping Liu Houzong of his money and wealth, he drove Liu Houzong out.
Immediately, Liu Houzong found Li Xiekun, the county magistrate of Jingde County, and Li Xiekun ordered people to escort Liu Houzong to the bee cave to check, at this time, the remains of Xiang Ying and other comrades who were killed by Liu Houzong had long been transferred, and Liu Houzong and others naturally found nothing.
Later, Liu Houzong was imprisoned in Chongqing and Zha di Dong for 5 years, and was not released until 1948.
After his release from prison, Liu Houzong still did not repent, and brazenly took the crime he wanted to shoot and kill to ask Chiang Kai-shek for credit, but Chairman Chiang Kai-shek was very reasonable, and who had the kung fu to take care of him?
After the founding of New China, Liu Houzong hid his name and worked in a salt shop, but coincidentally, the only survivor of the bee cave, Zhou Zikun's guard Huang Cheng, became the local police chief.
In 1952, a population investigation, Huang Cheng happened to go to the salt shop where Liu Hou worked, and it happened that Liu Hou was also in this salt shop, after 11 years, Liu Hou had long forgotten this little guard, but Huang Cheng recognized Liu Hou at a glance and immediately arrested him.
In August of the same year, Liu Houzong was shot in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, at the age of 49, ending his sinful life.