Author: Sheyu
On April 4, 1950, in the operation room of the Guizhou Military Region, a chief looked out of the window. A staff officer hurried forward to report and handed the telegram in his hand to the chief. Suddenly, the chief's face was somber that he slammed the telegram in his hand on the table.
Although the telegram on the desk was only a few words, the telegram on the desk was extremely dazzling: "The 328th Division of the 89th Army stationed in Yuqing County has defected and occupied the county seat of Yuqing County!" ”
Although Deputy Commander Yin Xianbing had long been worried about this miscellaneous trip composed of professional soldiers and bullies and hooligans, he never expected that things would progress so quickly, and the 89th Army, which announced an uprising in Pu'an on December 7, 1949, only turned again a few months later, which Yin Xianbing could not tolerate, and even more unacceptable to our military's policy.
Further investigation results made Yin Xianbing even more angry, and the 6 regiments under the jurisdiction of the 89th Army, which had originally "voluntarily revolted", actually had 3 regiments of 7 companies and 1 battalion headquarters this time, and rebelled again. These gratitudeless hooligans aimed their guns at the military deputies who were rectifying and educating them on weekdays, and within two days, more than 30 of the rebels' military deputies were brutally killed!
When Yin Xianbing received the news, he was greatly annoyed and personally went to the front line to direct the suppression of bandits. On 9 April, our 140th Regiment attacked with the main force of two battalions, and the troops pointed directly at the rebel-held county seat of Wong'an County. When the battle did not start much, the bandits who were greedy for life and feared death smeared oil on the soles of their feet and slipped into the mountains, liberating the county seat of Weng'an.
In the early stage of the pursuit and suppression, our army attacked the rebels by means of dealing with the regular Kuomintang army, and although it defeated the bandits in an organized manner, the bandits were reduced to pieces and wandered around, and coupled with the unfamiliar terrain, the bandit troops mostly circled with them in the deep mountains. This stalemate situation caused the rebel bandit Wang Futang, who was entrenched in the triangle of Wong'an, Yuqing, and Meitan, to have the illusion that our army's suppression of bandits was no more than that, and he began to act more wantonly, fish and meat towns.
Wang Futang was a Real Person in Guizhou Province, with a big and ruddy nose, originally a deputy battalion commander of the rebel army, after the troops rebelled against the water, Wang Futang, who was bent on "making meritorious achievements", self-appointed as "deputy commander of the field army" and other titles, and began a criminal killing. As early as April 14, Wang Futang, who wanted to "make a name for himself," set up an ambush in the Bowl of Water area and brutally killed more than a dozen cadres, soldiers, and staff, including Wang Fuhai, director of the Organization Department of the Zhenyuan Prefectural Committee. Wang Futang was entrenched in the triangular area of the dangerous terrain, and he was even more overwhelmed, and he began to dream of "sealing officials and knighthoods" in the future.
Just as the so-called "heaven wants its demise, it must first make it crazy", just when Wang Futang was doing the "Spring and Autumn Dream", an invisible net of encirclement and suppression had been quietly opened.
At the operational meeting of the Guizhou Military Region in June, in view of the characteristics of the bandits scattered in the townships, deputy commander Yin Xianbing decided to use his overwhelming superiority to implement the tactic of encircling the enemy with an iron wall, forming a joint encirclement force with the 136th, 138th, 140th, 148th, and 150th regiments, and implementing a strategic encirclement of the narrow strip north of Wong'an and Yuqing and south of Meitan.
Pan Yan, who served as the commander-in-chief of the bandit regiment, faced with rugged and dangerous mountainous terrain that was not suitable for large troops to operate, made a bold decision and divided the bandit group into a 320-way detachment. From all directions, the Weng, Yu and Mei triangles were tied into airtight iron barrels. When night falls, the sparsely populated Miaoling Mountains in the past are lit with bonfires, and every ferry pass in the mountain is lit up by the "red five stars". And slogans such as "Capture Wang Futang alive, the people are happy" have become Wang Futang's "lullaby".
Seeing this huge offensive, Wang Futang was deeply afraid that the end was coming, so he simply divided his bandits into several groups, while he himself only brought a company of troops to move. With the shrinking of the encirclement, Wang Futang, who saw that there was no hope of resisting, could not care about the image of the "deputy commander of the field army", took off his leather boots and armed belt, and only took more than a dozen retinues, disguised as farmers working in the mountains, and lurked down.
In view of the situation in which the bandits are lurking in disguise, Pan Yan, the commander-in-chief of the bandits, on the one hand, ordered all units to increase the speed of encirclement and rapidly reduce the encirclement, and on the other hand, they sent makeup detachments to the depths of the enemy to directly penetrate the enemy's "heart."
One day, there was a sudden rainstorm in the mountains, and Wang Futang, anticipating that our army would not take action in bad weather, hid in Zhongping with his retinue and drank wine.
"Which part!" A wave of soaked centaurs approached, and the bandits shouted loudly. "If you have something important to contact Commander Wang!" The bandit didn't think much of it, and while taking out the dishes and chopsticks, he busied himself with inviting guests to the table.
Before the wine bowl was filled, the cold muzzle of the gun held against the bandit's head, and the bandits who had just woken up from a dream fell to their knees and begged for forgiveness. Wang Futang, who was in the back room, felt that the situation was not good, and he broke the window and fled into the rain as if he were dead.
Wang Futang, who was alone, no longer had the look of the past, he tied a straw rope around his waist and stumbled and ran to a family under the mountain.
The head of the household, Chen Shaoquan, opened the courtyard door, and was really frightened by Wang Futang's embarrassed look, and knowing Wang Futang's intentions, Chen Shaoquan did not want to cause trouble, and suggested: "Why don't the commander flee to Shi Yan?" Who expected, Wang Futang shook the inside of the pocket with his hand, Chen Shaoquan's eyes lit up straight, he immediately changed his mouth, and hurriedly served wine and vegetables to Wang Futang to show his "loyalty."
However, there was no impermeable wall in the world, and the 8th Company of the 138th Regiment, which received the order, sent a plainclothes squad to attack the old West Ditch where the target was located.
"Fellow countrymen, we are Commander Wang's soldiers, and when we heard that Commander Wang was here, we were looking for him." In the face of a plain clothes class dressed as a villager, the blacksmith who was stopped suddenly changed his face and said slowly: "I heard that I live in the home of Chen Shaoquan under the rock." He hurried away.
The intelligence was confirmed, and the plainclothes team members flew to Chen Shaoquan's home. Rushing into the courtyard, the plainclothes team members single-handedly entered: "How many people do you have in your family?" Chen Shaoquan, who was full of emptiness, still wanted to cover up the truth and blurted out: "There are only two people!" "This is not a self-confession, the three pairs of dishes and chopsticks on the table, exposing abnormalities.
With a look in his eyes, plainclothes men scattered around to search, only to see a red-nosed man crouching next to a pile of cow dung on the side of the cowshed. In the face of the team's questioning, this person insisted that he was a short-term worker of the Chen family. The plainclothes player who was staring at his red nose shouted, "Wang Futang! The red nose shook violently, and cold sweat had already emerged.
Seeing that there was no way to deny it, Red Nose finally said, "I am... be...... Wang Futang. The warriors erected Wang Futang, who was already paralyzed.
With the arrest of the bandit leader Wang Futang, the iron wall that lasted for more than 20 days came to an end. What is even more ironic is that compared with Wang Futang, who was captured alive for "making meritorious contributions and becoming a great official," the remaining units of the 89th Army were officially incorporated into the sequence of our army, while the commander Zhang Tao, the deputy commander Xiang Ronghuan, the deputy division commander Wang Guangwei, and others who judged the situation were all cited as guests of honor and passed on through the ages, while Wang Futang, who was a self-proclaimed commander, was left behind for thousands of years.
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