One day in February 1971, at a brick factory in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, several brick movers were packing up their belongings.
They have just received a temporary notice from the owner of the brick factory, saying that the yellow sand and cement in the factory have been used up, and the new yellow sand, cement and other materials will need to be delivered to the factory early tomorrow morning at the earliest, so this afternoon give them a half-day leave to let them rest and relax.
This is undoubtedly good news! Chengdu in February is still very cold, at this time to move bricks, the bricks are frozen hands. And in order to catch up with production orders, they have been working overtime in recent times. Can steal half a day of idleness! Several workers discussed and decided together: first go back to the dormitory to take a hot bath, clean up their dirty selves, and then go out to the restaurant together to pick up a meal and improve the food.
Brick mover squatting to eat
After about half an hour, they came to a local restaurant near the factory, ordered a few small dishes, meat and vegetables, and asked for a few pounds of liquor brewed by the owner of the restaurant.
The amount of food and alcohol for the coolies is often very good, and after a few small dishes and a few glasses of white wine, the workers chat in the north and south of the sea. Under the slight drunkenness, someone blew up the bull.
"There used to be leopards in our hometown, and the pigs and sheep in the village were often taken away by him, or I once went up the mountain to cut firewood and killed it!" A co-worker boasted.
"What are you doing!" There is a mass burial site in our village, and the villagers often say that it is haunted, and I do not believe in this evil. One night I went there to sleep on my own, and the next day I woke up alive and didn't do anything. Another famous worker is not to be outdone.
Among the co-workers was a man named Zhou Chunyin, who quietly listened to the bragging of the co-workers and did not participate in it. Some co-workers asked him in a mocking tone: "Old Zhou! Also tell us about your 'hero' history, so that our brothers can also 'look up'! ”
Zhou Chunyin was curious because he drank some wine, and he said: "I am a sharpshooter, I can wear Yang's stunt in a hundred steps, within a hundred steps, where do you point where I fight!" ”
As soon as these words were uttered, except for Zhou Chunyin himself, several other co-workers did not believe it. I thought: If you Zhou Chunyin have this skill, are you still moving bricks with us here? He had long since entered the national army as a sniper. A co-worker even said directly: "Old Zhou, you haven't drunk much!" How drunk! ”
Seeing that the workers did not believe in themselves, Zhou Chunyin became angry and said, "If any of you make me a gun, I will try to show you." ”
Earth shotgun, also called "hammer"
At that time, the state was not as strict as it is now, and the guns in private possession were gradually confiscated after the promulgation of the Gun Control Law in 1996. I remember when I was a child, my second grandfather had a shotgun in his house, and we called it "reaming" in the dialect, and there were some black powder and "reaming" (iron sand the size of mung beans, which was used as a bullet for reaming). Therefore, Zhou Chunyin asked the co-workers to make a gun, not to deliberately make it difficult for him, but to do something easier.
It so happened that a relative of a co-worker lived not far from the brick factory, and they had home-made shotguns, which had been preserved from the previous war years and were still usable, although they were old.
So in order to verify Zhou Chunyin's sharp gun skills, the brick movers went to the worker's relative's house to borrow a gun.
Hearing that some people would walk through Yang's stunts in a hundred steps, the relatives of the workers also wanted to open their eyes, so they did not hesitate to lend the gun to Zhou Chunyin.
The site of the experiment was chosen in a vacant lot next to the workers' relatives' homes, where there were no other people or buildings, and only a few wooden telephone poles stood alone in the distance. Because the wires have been diverted, these wooden poles have been abandoned, and only the white porcelain gourds carrying the wires are still nailed to the poles.
Seeing the shotgun brought by the relatives of the workers, Zhou Chunyin seemed to have seen an old friend who had not been seen for many years. Only to see him gently stroking the gun, very skillfully filling, loading, pulling the trigger, "bang", the white porcelain gourd on the wooden telephone pole was shattered by a shot.
At this moment, the workers were stunned, but there were still people who did not believe it, thinking that Zhou Chunyin was lucky and happened to meet. In order to convince everyone, Zhou Chunyin fired several shots in succession, and each shot hit the small porcelain gourd a hundred meters away.
Porcelain gourd on a telephone pole
The facts are in front of them, and they can't believe it. By now, the workers finally believed that Zhou Chunyin's claim that he was a sharpshooter was not a boast, but that he really existed.
Subsequently, the workers asked Zhou Chunyin how he had practiced this skill, but Zhou Chunyin was silent. I was asked in a hurry, but I just casually replied: "I was born with this feeling!" ”
The cultivation of an excellent sharpshooter is inseparable from innate talent, but it must also go through a lot of hard work and practice the day after tomorrow, and it is impossible to have such achievements by relying on talent alone.
For example, Xiang Xiaoping, a sharpshooter who killed 30 enemy troops with 31 bullets on the Sino-Vietnamese battlefield, used to lie motionless in the snow for three hours in order to practice the sharpshooter's skills, in order to exercise his willpower and concentration. In addition, he also hangs bricks on the front of his barrel to increase weight, which is to exercise his arm strength and prevent hand shaking.
Therefore, the cultivation of a good sharpshooter must go through hard practice the day after tomorrow. Since Zhou Chunyin had such a skill, he must also have a similar experience. But he was secretive and silent about his experiences, could it be that there were ulterior secrets?
Thinking of this, a co-worker paid attention to Zhou Chunyin and his sharpshooter skills. After returning to the brick factory that afternoon, he secretly reported the matter to the brick factory owner, and went back to the dormitory to rest as usual.
The owner of the brick factory was also shocked when he heard the news. This week Chunyin is an old employee of the factory, since entering the factory in 1950, it has been working for 21 years now. In 21 years, he has been rated as the advanced employee of the year 12 times, has been highly commended and praised by superior leaders more than 30 times, and has been rated as a model worker 7 times, wearing a large red flower as a representative to speak. How can such a good employee have a problem?
However, because of Zhou Chunyin's special skills, the factory director decided to report Zhou Chunyin's situation to the local police station and ask them to help investigate.
After about a week, the investigation of Zhou Chunyin's matter had a result.
This morning, Zhou Chunyin was moving bricks diligently, when suddenly a co-worker sent him a message saying that the factory director had asked him to go for a trip. Zhou Chunyin did not think much about it, because he usually commented on advanced employees, made speeches, and so on, and the factory director would often look for him.
But this time, when he knocked on the door of the factory director's office, there was no sign of the factory director inside, but several police officers wearing police uniforms. Before he could figure out what was going on, the police rushed up and crushed him to the ground, handcuffed him, and escorted him away.
Subsequently, Zhou Chunyin was urgently handed over to the local procuratorial organ by the Public Security Bureau, and after the overnight surprise interrogation by the law enforcement personnel, Zhou Chunyin's psychological defense line was broken, and he finally explained the reason why he could use sharpshooter skills, and we also learned the true face of this ordinary brick mover!
The prisoner was arrested
It turned out that Zhou Chunyin's real name was Kuang San, and he was born in 1923 in Xiushan County, Chongqing.
Kuang San came to Huayuan County in Xiangxi with his parents from Xiushan County, Chongqing, at a very young age, his father was an ordinary porter on a local river merchant ship, and his mother was sick at home and subsidized the family by giving people pulp and laundry. Kuang San's early life was not very happy.
The father loves gambling and is violent, and the mother loves to be cowardly, and the family is often too poor to open the pot. In order to change this situation, Kuang San began to follow a small group of local bandits to engage in the business of "stealing chickens and dogs", and after coming and going, Kuang San gradually had some spare money.
The wonderful world outside often attracts poor teenagers nestled in ravines, and Kuang San is one of them. With some spare money, Kuang San often went to the city to splurge, and in a restaurant in the local county town, he met a woman named "Sai Hua Hua".
The young Kuang San launched a passionate pursuit of Sai Huahua, and seeing that Kuang San had two dollars, Sai Hua Hua agreed to associate with Kuang San halfway and half on the spot. However, soon after, the arrival of another person broke Kuang San's original "happy" life.
It was in 1940, when a Kuomintang general surnamed Guo was ordered to come to Xiangxi to suppress bandits. In view of the actual situation and topographical influence of the local bandits in western Hunan Province, the general surnamed Guo decided to divide the army into two ways and attack the bandit gang together. So he sent his aide-de-camp Li Shaobin to lead thousands of soldiers and horses to camp outside the county seat of Huayuan County, waiting for his orders to attack together.
This Li Shaobin looked tall and tall, and after putting on the military uniform, he was heroic and full of spirits, and after coming to the county seat, he was very popular with the local girls. In particular, the "box gun" he carried cross-body around his waist was something kuangsan had never seen before, and he dreamed of having one.
Just after Li Shaobin went to Huayuan County for two days, Sai Huahua fell in love with him. Originally, his Kuang San was just a trick and liked his money, but now he has a better one, and he will naturally empathize with him.
Watching his own woman throw herself into the arms of others, Kuang San was furious! But the people were officers, there were thousands of people under their hands, thousands of guns, how could a small bandit of their own fight? After some thought, Kuang San finally came up with a poisonous plan.
He first invited Li Shaobin to dinner at a feast in the restaurant, took the opportunity to make friends, and after coming and going, the two people became acquainted. After all, Kuang San is a person who has been in the local area for a long time and is familiar with all the local doorways, so he has also helped Li Shaobin a lot. Li Shaobin thought that Kuang San was a righteous person, so he took the initiative to worship him, but he did not expect to fall into the trap designed by Kuang San.
On this day, Kuang San came to summon Li Shaobin, saying that Sai Huahua was asking him to meet him in a cave by the river, and Li Shaobin was overjoyed when he heard it, and he did not allow himself to think much about it, and immediately set off to go. Unexpectedly, Kuang San and several of his "brothers" in the cave had already arranged everything, and Li Shaobin had just stepped into the cave door with his front foot, and he was beaten to death by Kuang San and several "brothers" with sticks.
This is Kuang San's first time killing!
Box gun
After killing, Kuang San was not as afraid as ordinary people, but took the rare thing "box gun" around Li Shaobin's waist into his pocket. Later, out of love and his own talent, as well as many actual combat experiences, Kuang San's marksmanship became better and better, and eventually became a hundred steps through Yang's magic skill.
Li Shaobin was an officer of the Kuomintang, and his killing was very difficult to be good, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Kuomintang, Kuang San and several brothers went all the way to the house and fled to a place called Chuanjiehe.
Here Kuang San joined a bandit organization, the leader of this band of bandits is named Kuang Binghua, he was originally engaged in the opium business, and later went up the mountain to accumulate a lot of power for the bandits, in Changde, Huanling, Songtao area that is "prestigious and famous"!
Because Kuang San was witty and bold, he was soon appreciated by Kuang Binghua and made him the third in charge of the village. The name "Kuang San" was given to him by Kuang Binghua, and the surname "Kuang" indicates Kuang San's own identity, and "Three" means the meaning of the three dangjia.
Kuang San, who was the third boss, "opened up the territory" for Kuang Binghua, and with his communication ability, he went up to the official government to the local gangsters, and all kinds of relations were opened up one by one. This opened the door to the growth of this bandit force.
In 1947, at the Battle of Xuzhou, the Kuomintang army suffered a crushing defeat, and Liu Ding, the commander of the 7th Regiment of the 8th Army, took advantage of the chaos to flee south and accidentally broke into the sphere of influence of Kuang San, a band of bandits.
Faced with this well-equipped "Panic Division", Kuang San plans to sneak inside and wait for the opportunity to seize control. Just as he was about to move, the People's Liberation Army went south to hunt down Liu Ding, and Kuang San took advantage of the chaos to flee back to the village.
In 1950, the "Xiang'echuanqian National Salvation Army" arose, and Kuang San was invited to join and served as the captain of the brigade.
The so-called "Xiang'echuanqian National Salvation Army" was just an organization established by the local bandits. They vainly tried to rely on their own armed forces and terrain advantages, occupy the mountains as kings, and confront the people and the People's Liberation Army.
Because this unit was not supported by the people, shortly after Kuang San joined, his unit was reported to the People's Liberation Army by the local people. The People's Liberation Army entered the mountains to encircle and suppress them, and Kuang San saw that the situation was not right, so he slipped away beforehand.
He hid in the mountains for nearly half a month, hungry, cold, desperate, Kuang San decided to defect to a nearby cousin.
On this night, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and Kuang San quietly came to his cousin's house under the mountain. Seeing Kuang San, who was tired and hungry, his cousin prepared a rich meal for him and let him rest well, saying that he was safe here. Unexpectedly, in the second half of the night, my cousin secretly went out and reported Kuang San to the nearby People's Liberation Army.
It turned out that a few days ago, the People's Liberation Army issued a notice to the villagers, and the situation of the third-class bandits was also told to the villagers. This group of bandits usually do a lot of evil, and the villagers will certainly not cover up after seeing it, and Kuang San's cousin did just that.
That night, Kuang San was captured by the People's Liberation Army. In order to survive, he took the initiative to admit his mistake, actively cooperated with the army of the bandits, and said the hiding addresses of several bandit leaders in a row, which made a contribution to the success of the PLA bandits. In view of Kuangsan's good attitude, the People's Liberation Army relaxed its vigilance against Kuangsan.
But Kuang San was not really remorseful, he was afraid that the People's Liberation Army would settle the account after the autumn, so he wanted to slip away.
A few days later, Kuang San coaxed the People's Liberation Army, saying that he would take them to a tea house in the county town to arrest Xu Yanan, commander of the Xiang'echuan Qian National Salvation Army. After arriving at the teahouse, Kuang San asked the People's Liberation Army to uncuff him on the grounds of not striking grass and snakes, and let him go alone to investigate. Who knew that taking advantage of the fact that the People's Liberation Army was not paying attention, Kuang San sneaked away from the backyard of the tea house by sneaking over the wall.
The People's Liberation Army suppressed bandits in western Hunan Province
After escaping, Kuang San did not dare to stay for a moment, he did not reveal his whereabouts to anyone, and went all the way north to the territory of Yichang, Hubei Province. Here he met the real Zhou Chunyin.
This week Chunyin was more honest, and Kuang San's few words fooled him. From Zhou Chunyin's mouth, it was learned that Zhou Chunyin's parents had joined the army and were later tragically killed in the revolutionary process. Zhou Chunyin himself served as a soldier for several years, retiring after the founding of New China in 1949. He was originally a native of Sichuan, and after retiring from the army, he wanted to return to his hometown to develop, and now he is going through the formalities of retiring from the army and returning to his hometown, and soon after returning to Sichuan from Hubei.
After learning about these circumstances, Kuang San came up with a "Li Dai Tao Stiff" plan. He pretended to be a brother and brother with Zhou Chunyin, and helped him to do things before and after, and when Zhou Chunyin returned to his hometown after completing the formalities, Kuang San "took the lead" and stole Zhou Chunyin's ticket and identity certificate and other materials for his return to his hometown and went to Chengdu.
After coming to Chengdu, Kuang San went to the local government to tell about his situation, because he knew Zhou Chunyin's situation very well, and he had all the materials of Zhou Chunyin, the local government did not suspect it, and Kuang San's plan to impersonate Zhou Chunyin was successful.
Later, given that Zhou Chunyin, who Kuang San impersonated, was the child of a martyr, the government assigned him a job working in a brick factory. Kuang San was very satisfied with this arrangement, and he just wanted not to be recognized by others and to tear down the diorama.
During this 21 years in the brick factory, Kuangsan has also received many commendations and praises, and is often rated as an excellent employee and a model worker. It was not until a drunken boast in 1971 that Kuangsan's true identity was revealed to the world.
Later, according to the investigation, Kuang San did a lot of bad things during his time as a bandit, and as many as 19 people were killed alone. Even after becoming a brick mover, Kuang San was inherently difficult to move, and he once cheated a fellow villager of 350 pounds of food stamps and raped a female middle school student on the grounds that he could join the army.
Skynet is restored, neglect is not leaked! After Kuang San was captured, he was sentenced to death according to law and publicly executed at a meeting of 10,000 people!
The prisoner was shot
If it weren't for that drunken boasting, perhaps we would still think that Kuang San, who pretended to be Zhou Chunyin, was a good person and a veritable model worker.
But the ancients once said: "If people don't know, unless they don't do anything", Kuang San's things that hurt nature and reason will ultimately not escape the judgment of justice.
He must not have had a good day after committing a crime, and he was afraid that one day he would be discovered. On the day of his trial, Kuang San shouted loudly: "I ask the revolutionary masses for their sins, I am not called Zhou Chunyin, my name is Kuang San." ”
For Kuang San at this moment, being found is a relief!
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