In June 1950, when the Korean War broke out, Chiang Kai-shek, who had already retreated to Taiwan, began to clamor for a "counter-attack on the mainland" and successively sent more than a dozen spies from Taiwan to xiangxi in an attempt to disturb the situation in western Hunan province.
Hearing this news, the bandits who had taken refuge in the mountains were stirring up again, colluding with Kuomintang agents and using the Korean War to incite the local people to join the bandit armed forces in order to fight against the People's Liberation Army.
In order to prevent the bandits from counterattacking, the 419th Regiment of the 47th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which was stationed in Huang County, stepped up its vigilance and sent scouts to keep a close eye on the bandits' movements.
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The scouts found that the bandits often scouted the terrain on the outskirts of Huangxian County, seemingly preparing to attack the county seat of Huangxian County.
After a period of tracking and tracing, the scouts further found out where the bandits came from. Including Yang Guozheng and Xiao Zonghuai, the bandit leaders of Guizhou, Pu Laocui, the bandit leaders of Zhijiang, Xiangxi, and Yao Benbang and Yang Tianxiong, the bandit leaders of Huangxian County.
Most of these bandits have been defeated by the People's Liberation Army and scattered to escape, and this time it is Yao Dabang, the famous bandit leader in Huang County, who has gathered them again.
Yao Dabang people sent the nickname "Bang Ye", this character may not be unfamiliar to everyone. That's right, the prototype of the bandit leader Tian Dabang in the TV series "Wulong Mountain Bandit Chronicle" is this Yao Dabang.
Yao Dabang did not do his job in his youth, his personality was competitive, and he especially advocated the strong as the king, so he was sent by his family to the Guizhou Martial Arts School to receive formal military training.
Yao Dabang
Once, a large local family stole yao Dabang's cattle, and when Yao Dabang ran to the door to ask for it, not only did he not want to return the cattle, but he was also beaten up. An indignant Yao Dabang finally found an opportunity to beat the man who stole the cattle to death with an earthen gun, and has since embarked on "Liangshan".
With his fierce and cunning personality, as well as a kung fu he learned in the martial arts school, Yao Dabang quickly pulled up a team of his own, and accumulated a lot of wealth by robbing the house.
Therefore, he returned to his hometown in Huangxian County, bought a house and land, married his wife and had children, and regarded this place as his own bandit nest, and gradually became a big bandit famous on the border of Xiangqian.
The bandits in western Hunan have an unwritten rule, that is, "rabbits do not eat grass on the edge of the nest, and eagles do not eat under their feet", and Yao Dabang is very strict with this rule. He did not allow his men to rob in his hometown of Fangjiatun, and those who violated it were severely punished.
Although the bandits established the rule that "rabbits do not eat grass on the edge of the nest", they would force local villagers to donate money and guns, or send people to join the bandits.
In this way, many ordinary people were forced to become bandits and lived a life of half peasants and half bandits.
At the same time, in order to win the hearts and minds of the people, Yao Dabang also founded a Yuping Central School in the triangle area at the junction of Huangxian County, Yuping and Wanshan, with him as the principal.
Everyone thinks that Yao Dabang has done a good thing for the local government and solved the problem of children's difficulty in reading nearby. In fact, Yao Dabang used the school as a cover, led his men to build weapons, colluded with bandits everywhere, and constantly carried out bandit activities of open robbery and covert robbery.
Yao Dabang's first major financial road was to rob merchants, because his Huang County was bordered by the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the west, the Zhijiang River in the east, and Guizhou on three sides, which was adjacent to Guizhou on three sides, and since ancient times, it has been a "golden corridor" for economic exchanges between the Central Plains and the southwest provinces, and it is also an important trade route and material distribution center on the border of Xiangqian and Qian.
Yao Dabang relied on the superiority of the terrain and occupied HuangXian County for more than fifty years. During this period, the government also sent troops to encircle and suppress several times, but all of them ended in failure, and finally they could only "recruit" them.
However, after accepting the recruitment, Yao Dabang often disobeyed discipline, and also took advantage of the convenience of the official position to strengthen his own ranks, and even led troops to capture the county seat of Huang county.
In the winter of 1948, Li Mo'an, commander of the Kuomintang's 17th Appeasement District, who was in charge of the defense of the Western Hunan Region, ordered that each county town should draw personnel and weapons from the existing local armed forces and set up a "Survey and Chaos Nation-Building Brigade."
As soon as this order spread, the bandits who were "recruited" believed that they were deliberately weakening their own forces, unwilling to carry it out, and even launched a rebellion.
On March 2, 1949, Wang Yuanhua, the leader of the Tenth Security Regiment of Hunan Province, colluded with several bandit leaders to gather about 5,000 people to capture Yuanling City, burning and looting, known as the "March 2 Incident".
After the "March 2 Incident" occurred, the situation in western Hunan was chaotic, and the bandits were rebelling against the water, which is the "Xiangxi Incident" that shocked the whole country in history.
In this incident, Yao Dabang also took the opportunity to gain a vote, he led his team to capture the county seat of Huangxian County, and established the Second Regiment of Huangxian Security, with himself as the leader of the regiment.
In April 1949, a million men of the Chinese People's Liberation Army crossed the River and began to liberate a vast area south of the Yangtze River. Hunan is an important passage for the People's Liberation Army to enter the southwest, and the 100,000 bandits in western Hunan are a major hidden danger on the way, and the Central Military Commission has long wanted to remove this obstacle.
At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek also saw the importance of bandits in western Hunan Province, so he sent Bai Chongxi, chief of the Central China Military and Political Chief's Office, to fly to Zhijiang, Hunan Province, and held a joint military-political meeting, threatening: "We must build a great wall of civil air defense in western Hunan to stop the PEOPLE's Liberation Army from moving south." ”
As the leader of the largest bandits in Huang County, Yao Dabang was also invited to attend the meeting, and was appointed by Bai Chongxi as the deputy commander of the "Anti-Communist National Salvation Army" of the people of the Xiangguiqian Border Region, becoming a pawn in the confrontation between the Kuomintang and the People's Liberation Army.
However, the PACE OF THE PLA's offensive has become unstoppable.
In mid-September, the Fourth Field Army began to encircle Bai Chongxi's army and fought fierce battles in the areas of Hengyang and Baoqing (present-day Shaoyang) in southern Hunan. Hundreds of thousands of troops of the main force of the Second Field Army were also assembled in northern Hunan to prepare to advance to Guizhou and Sichuan.
In mid-October, the Battle of Hengbao officially ended, and the People's Liberation Army eliminated bai Chongxi's four divisions of about 40,000 people.
Through this battle, the so-called "Xiangxi Joint Defense Line" carefully constructed by Bai Chongxi was completely smashed, and the obstacles for the PLA to successfully advance into Sichuan and Guizhou were cleared.
In order to ensure the safety of the flank of the Second Field Army's southward army, the Central Military Commission ordered the 47th Army of the Fourth Field Army to garrison western Hunan Province.
Bai Chongxi
In this way, yao Dabang's conspiracy with another bandit, Yang Yongqing, was crushed by the People's Liberation Army advancing into western Hunan before it could be carried out, and Yang Yongqing fled from Zhijiang.
Two days later, Yao Dabang also withdrew from the county seat of Huangxian County and led the bandits to hide in the deep mountains and old forests.
On November 10, 1949, the Huangxian People's Government was proclaimed, and the work of eliminating the remaining bandits was immediately launched.
Considering that many of the bandits in this area of Huangxian County were poor peasants who were forced to go to Liangshan, the PLA bandit suppression units widely posted slogans and distributed leaflets in urban and rural areas to publicize the policies of the PLA. At the same time, the Seven Persuasion Campaign of "Father Persuades Son, Son Persuades Father, Relatives Persuade Relatives, Friends Persuade Friends, Wives Persuade Husbands, Brothers Persuade Brothers, Bandits Persuade Bandits" was also carried out to persuade bandits to go down the mountain and surrender.
However, when the bandits laid down their weapons and returned to their homeland, Yao Dabang made another choice.
Yao Dabang's eldest son, Yao Yingke, saw the People's Liberation Army entering western Hunan and repeatedly persuaded his father to lay down his weapons and stop making enemies of the People's Liberation Army.
In the face of his son's bitter words, Yao Dabang, instead of listening, broke out and scolded, and even took out a gun to kill him.
Yao Yingke did not expect that his father was also so fierce to himself, he finally gave up the idea of persuasion, ran away from home, and went to Guizhou to become a teacher.
Before leaving, Yao Yingke also secretly took out 24 long and short guns hidden by Yao Dabang and handed them to the People's Liberation Army.
After this incident, Yao Dabang increasingly did not trust anyone around him. In order to avoid accidents, he would change places several times a night when he slept.
In June 1950, the 47th Army of the People's Liberation Army mobilized the main force to Huaihua to support the key bandit suppression operation in the central area, leaving only one battalion of the 419th Regiment to garrison the county seat of Huangxian County.
At this time, Yao Dabang felt that the opportunity to turn over had finally come. He secretly united several major bandits on the xiangqian border, regrouped the troops, and took advantage of the insufficient strength of the People's Liberation Army to capture the county seat of Huangxian County.
However, what he never expected was that the 419th Regiment of the People's Liberation Army had already obtained this information in advance and immediately strengthened its defensive deployment.
Early the next morning, Yao Dabang, who thought that he had a chance to win, led the bandits to rush straight to the county seat of Huangxian County, but they were attacked head-on by the People's Liberation Army, and several attacks by the bandits were beaten back.
In the Battle of Huangxian County, Yao Dabang's wishful thinking was not only unsuccessful, but also learned the strength of the People's Liberation Army, so he hastily retreated with the remaining bandits and fled into the deep mountains on the border between Hunan and Guizhou.
In the following months, Yao Dabang hid in the mountains around Huang County and Yuping County, and he was afraid to live forever.
Once, the People's Liberation Army captured a bandit Huang Dongsheng in Yuping County, who was Yao Dabang's subordinate, so they gave Yao Dabang's hiding place. Upon hearing this news, more than 100 militiamen of the county brigade immediately went to arrest Yao Dabang, but they pounced.
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It turned out that just the night before, Yao Dabang, who was extremely vigilant, seemed to smell danger and fled to the area around Fuluo, Xinzhai and Liang umbrella overnight.
Located in the southwest of Huang County, The Snow Cave is located in the eastern part of Sansui, Guizhou Province, and is connected with the Umbrella Triangle, where the mountains are high and the traffic is inconvenient.
At the turn of the summer and autumn of 1950, more than 5,000 remnants of bandits gathered in the snow cave and umbrella areas, and under the organization of Yao Dabang and other bandit leaders, began to build fortifications and pillboxes, preparing to hold and resist for a long time.
Not only that, they also set up a "guerrilla command" in the Xiangqian Border Region here, with yang Yongqing, the leader of the bandits, as the commander, and Yao Dabang as the deputy commander, in a vain attempt to fight the PEOPLE's Liberation Army to the death.
On December 7, 1950, in order to completely eliminate this part of the bandit force, the 419th Regiment of the 140th Division of the 47th Army of the People's Liberation Army and the Zhenyuan Military Sub-district of Guizhou province fought jointly, and the troops rushed to the snow cave and the umbrella area in ten ways, forming an iron wall encirclement of the bandits.
Bandits in western Hunan Province
On December 18, the battle against the bandits officially began, and the "Snow and Cool Encirclement War" for more than 30 miles was fully launched.
After a fierce battle, the bandits were almost completely annihilated, and Yang Yongqing, the commander of the "Second Forward Command Post", Yang Dezhuang, the commander of the "Second Forward Command Post", Wang Changren, the commander of the Eighth Column, and more than 50 bandit leaders above the commander of the division and regiment were captured alive.
However, Yao Dabang escaped in this battle.
A few days later, the PLA bandit suppression unit that was tracking all the way found Yao Dabang's traces in Haoqing Bay, on the border between Huangxian and Guizhou. After a fierce battle, Yao Dabang's younger son and one of his capable men will be killed on the spot, and his wife Peng Shi and son-in-law Yang Zongzhen and others will be captured.
However, Yao Dabang once again escaped luckily.
Until the evening of December 25, at the Wushui River in Shijiaping, Huangxian County, Yao Dabang and several other people took advantage of the night to hurriedly board two small boats and rowed to the opposite shore.
Just as the boat was rowing to the middle of the river, suddenly there was the sound of gunfire and shouts of killing from the opposite bank, and the boat suddenly panicked, one boat hurriedly turned around and ran back, the other boat was overturned, and all the people on board fell into the river.
The next day, the militia recovered the bodies of more than a dozen bandits from the river, one of which carried a pistol on his shoulder. According to the identification of the local people, he is Yao Dabang, who has absconded for many days.
After Yao Dabang, the notorious Bandits of Western Hunan also withdrew from the stage of history one by one, and the pursuit and suppression of the bandits continued until 1952, when they were completely wiped out.
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