On the morning of January 17, 1949, a medicinal material merchant in Tianjin's Hebei District was preparing to open its doors for business, when ChangJiangfeng, a third branch of the Military Control Commission, suddenly broke in with more than a dozen fighters, arrested him, and escorted him back to the Military Control Commission for interrogation. Luo Ronghuan, then the political commissar of Siye, immediately sent instructions after learning that this person had been arrested, asking the Military Control Commission to settle the general ledger with him. So who is this medicinal material merchant?
This person's real name was Xing Renfu, a native of Yanshan, Hebei, who had served as a soldier in Ma Hongkui's department in his early years and served as a company-level cadre, but later ran back to his hometown because he was suppressed by his superiors because of his dissatisfaction. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Xing Renfu also threw himself into the anti-Japanese torrent and served as the commander of the North China People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army. Soon after, this unit was officially reorganized into the "Thirty-first Guerrilla Detachment of the National Revolutionary Army's Einsatzgruppen Corps", with Xing Renfu as the commander of the detachment.
At that time, many parts of Hebei had already fallen, and the Japanese puppet army burned and plundered in the occupied areas, doing all kinds of evil, and the local people were deeply affected. Xing Renfu led the 31st detachment to take the initiative to fight the enemy, using tactics such as night raids and liying and external cooperation to recover the four counties of Yanshan, Wudi, Qingyun and Leling in just over half a year. Successive victories in successive battles have greatly enhanced the reputation of Xing Renfu and the 31 detachments led by him, and many enthusiastic young people have rushed to join the army, and the strength of the 31 detachments has reached more than 3,000 people, becoming an anti-Japanese strong brigade.
In July 1938, the 31st detachment was reorganized into the Guerrilla Detachment of the Eighth Route Army's Jilu Border Region, with Xing Renfu as its commander. He was further promoted to the commander of the 6th Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army in 1941, and soon after as the commander of the Jilubian Military Region. At that time, the Shandong Military Region had jurisdiction over six military regions, namely Lunan, Luzhong, Jiaodong, Qinghe, Jilubian, and Binhai, and among the commanders of these six military regions, Wang Jian'an, commander of the Luzhong Military Region, Chen Shiyu, commander of the Binhai Military Region, Xu Shiyou, commander of the Jiaodong Military Region, and Yang Guofu, commander of the Qinghe Military Region, were all from the old Red Army and joined the revolution very early.
Compared with these people, Xing Renfu's qualifications were the most shallow, he only joined the revolution in 37 years, and in just a few years he became the commander of the Jilu Border Military Region, which showed that Luo Ronghuan recognized his ability. If this continues, Xing Renfu was at least a lieutenant general when he was awarded the title in 1955. However, with the continuous improvement of his personal position, Xing Renfu's thinking also changed, and he began to blindly pursue personal pleasures, regarding the Jilu border military region as his "independent kingdom".
At that time, Xing Renfu already had a family, but he disregarded discipline and openly took a female propaganda team member in the army as a concubine, causing an extremely bad impact. Luo Ronghuan, then commander of the Shandong Military Region, was very angry when he learned of this and severely criticized Xing Renfu. In order to restrain Xing Renfu, Luo Ronghuan sent Huang Hua, who had participated in the Long March, to the Jilu Border Military Region as deputy commander. Soon after Huang Hua took office, the Japanese army dispatched heavy troops to carry out a major "sweep" of the Jilu Border Military Region.
Due to the blockade and siege of the Japanese army, the lives of the soldiers and civilians in the border areas encountered serious difficulties, and many troops could only drink two porridges a day. As the commander of the military region, Xing Renfu should have shared the hardships with the soldiers and tried to find a way to repel the enemy's attack. However, he passively avoided the battle, and ran to Wangzi Island with his concubines and guard troops, using the embezzled public funds for great pleasure. Huang Hua repeatedly admonished Xing Renfu, but he ignored them and used his power to retaliate against Huang Hua.
In desperation, Huang Hua had no choice but to report xing Renfu's behavior to Luo Ronghuan. Luo Ronghuan was shocked to see that Xing Renfu had fallen to such a point, believing that he could no longer hold the post of commander of the Jilu Border Military Region. However, in view of Xing Renfu's past achievements, Luo Ronghuan wanted to save him again and prepared to let him study at the Yan'an Party School, and Huang Hua took over the position. After receiving the transfer order, Xing Renfu not only did not reflect on his mistakes, but instead attributed all this to Huang Hua.
He first delayed the date of departure under the pretext that the green yarn tent had not risen and was unsafe on the road, and then instructed his cronies to take advantage of Huang Hua's meeting to break into the venue with guns and commit murder, causing the death of 8 comrades including Huang Hua, Lu Chengdao, and Chen Yunbiao, and 4 other serious injuries. Luo Ronghuan was very angry when he learned of this, and he did not expect that Xing Renfu would be so mad that he openly attacked his comrades. Therefore, he immediately ordered the troops of the military region to arrest Xing Renfu.
But Xing Renfu was very cunning and fled Wangzi Island before the arrival of the capture troops, after which he fled all the way, and finally came to Tianjin to join the Japanese army as a shameful traitor. In order to make meritorious contributions, he reported in detail to the Japanese on the entire situation of the Jilu Border Military Region, and was appointed by the Japanese army as the "Commander of the Six Counties of Jinnan". After that, Xing Renfu served as a pawn for the Japanese army and led his men to kill many progressive masses and revolutionary volunteers. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xing Renfu turned to Dai Kasa again and became the leader of the major group of the Tianjin Military Command Station.
In January 1949, Tianjin was liberated, and Xing Renfu, who knew that he had committed many evils, wanted to take advantage of the chaos and escape. But Mao Renfeng ordered him to lurk on the spot, collect intelligence, and wait for an opportunity to sabotage. In order to hide his identity, Xing Renfu disguised himself as a medicinal material merchant and forged his identity certificate. Soon the Tianjin Military Control Commission received a report from the masses, and Jiang Feng, the third section of the Military Control Commission, personally led people to arrest this traitor and traitor. After learning the news of Xing Renfu's arrest, Luo Ronghuan personally instructed him to settle the general ledger with him. On September 7, 1950, Xing Renfu was shot after a public trial, ending his complex and changeable life.