Guo Shuozi, whose real name is Guo Yongsheng, is a native of Pingluo, Ningxia, and among the 9 brothers, he is the eldest. His father, Guo Ronggui, was a self-contained farmer who made a living by farming. Because there are too many children in the family, so life is very poor, although Guo Shuozi is the eldest son in the family, he did not have the opportunity to study, but from an early age, he followed his father to do farm work in the fields. At that time, bandits were rampant in the Helan Mountains, and the town of Pingluo was often robbed.
Guo Shuzi saw that the bandits did not have to do farm work to eat meat and have money to spend, he was very envious, and when he became an adult, he took the initiative to run into Helan Mountain and became a bandit. Although Guo Shuozi did not study, but he was very cunning and fierce, and after a few years he became the most famous bandit leader in the Helan Mountains, and in his heyday, Guo Shuozi's large and small bandits added up to more than 3,000 people, and he proclaimed himself "King of Helan".
At that time, Ma Hongkui was the Tu Emperor of Ningxia, and although Guo Shuozi had many bandits, he never thought of fighting officers and soldiers, so Ma Hongkui turned a blind eye to him, which was equivalent to acquiescing to his title of "King of Helan". In the autumn of 1934, when a batch of Ma Hongkui's arms passed through Helan Mountain, Guo Bolzi was moved and actually led people to snatch all the arms to the mountain.
When Ma Hongkui learned of this, he was furious and immediately sent heavy troops into the mountains to surround and suppress Guo Tuozi. Guo Shuzi operated in Helan Mountain for many years, built many secret strongholds, led the bandits to rely on the favorable terrain and Ma Hongkui's encirclement and suppression army, and also carried out sneak attacks and counterattacks from time to time, making the officers and men exhausted, and finally returned without success. After this battle, Guo Shuozi's momentum was greatly enhanced, and many bandits came to visit and took the initiative to surrender.
Seeing that the strong attack could not be achieved, Ma Hongkui changed his strategy and began to co-opt Guo Zhuzi, promising various benefits and letting him go down the mountain to accept the adaptation. After weighing it up, Guo Tuozi led his men down the mountain to join Ma Hongkui and was appointed as the commander of the security of the Yinbei region. In late September 1949, Yang Dezhi led the 19th Corps to liberate Ningxia with the assistance of the troops of the Trilateral Military Sub-district, and Ma Hongkui fled in a hurry.
A month later, the Ningxia Provincial Military Region was established, with Yang Dezhi concurrently serving as commander and Cao Dongzhi, former chief of staff of the Trilateral Military Subdistrict, as deputy commander. Cao Dongzhi, a native of Hengshan, Shaanxi Province, joined the revolution in 1927 and secretly pulled up a guerrilla force of more than 100 people in Hengshan under the cover of a teacher. After that, Cao Dongzhi led the guerrillas to fight local tyrants and divide the fields around Xigou Village to develop and expand the revolutionary forces. Two years later, Cao Dongzhi's guerrilla group was formally incorporated into the 22nd detachment of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, and he served as the detachment leader and political commissar.
After that, Cao Dongzhi led his troops to participate in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and successively served as the commander of the cavalry regiment of the trilateral sub-district of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, the deputy commander of the trilateral eastern front operations, and the chief of staff of the trilateral military sub-district headquarters. After the liberation of Ningxia, he became the deputy commander of the provincial military district, and the commander was Yang Dezhi. At that time, Yang Dezhi's main energy was spent on the 19th Corps, so many things in the provincial military district were handled by Cao Dongzhi.
After the liberation of Ningxia, Guo Shuzi knew that he had committed many evil deeds, the people's indignation was extremely great, and the People's Liberation Army would certainly not let it go, so he fled into Helan Mountain with the defeated generals, renamed his troops the "Black Tiger Army of Helan Mountain", and declared himself commander-in-chief, in a vain attempt to continue to be enemies of the People's Liberation Army. At that time, Ningxia had just been liberated, a lot of work had to be carried out, Cao Dongzhi was very busy, and he thought that Guo Shuzi was just a remnant of the army and a defeated general, which was not enough to be troubled, so he did not clear and suppress this enemy at the first time, which also laid the groundwork for the subsequent tragedy.
In early 1950, after a meeting in Yinchuan, Cao Dongzhi was escorted by a guard squad and rode back to the station. While passing through Helan Mountain, he was ambushed by bandits led by Guo Shuozi. Cao Dong commanded the guard squad to fight back, while leading everyone to break through, but because he was outnumbered, he failed to break out of the siege and was brutally killed by this gang of bandits.
After learning the news that Cao Dongzhi was brutally killed by bandits, Yang Dezhi was furious and immediately ordered the 65th Army to send a main force into the mountains to suppress the bandits, and explicitly demanded that Guo Tuozi must be killed. The rabble-rousers under Guo Were not opponents of the main plausible force of the People's Liberation Army at all, and they were quickly eliminated, and he himself was captured alive and shot after a public trial.