On April 2, 1950, in the early morning of Beijing's Zhongnanhai Fengze Garden, Chairman Mao was leaning back in his chair and quietly reading the newspaper, when suddenly a rushing telephone broke the silence.
Chairman Mao got up and picked up the phone, and on the other end of the phone came Premier Zhou's low voice: "Chairman, the young man You are particularly optimistic about, Luo Shaowei, met the Xinjiang bandit Wu Siman yesterday, unfortunately killed, the bandit has run to hide in the deep mountains and old forests."
This is another senior cadre lost by our army in the bandit rebellion after the sacrifice of Xiang Li at Longtan Temple in Chuanxi on February 5, and it is also the first division-level commander of our army to die since the Liberation War.
Hearing the bad news of Luo Shaowei's death, the chairman could not say a word while holding the microphone, and after half a day, the chairman showed a sad expression on his face.
Luo Shaowei, born in 1918, joined the revolution at the age of 14, and at the age of 17, he marched with the Red Army, and during the War of Resistance Against Japan, he single-handedly destroyed the enemy's command post and annihilated more than 100 Japanese troops.
When U.S. five-star General Marshall visited Yan'an in 1946, Luo Shaowei, at the behest of Chairman Mao, formed the first honor guard in the history of the mainland.
In the War of Liberation, Luo Shaowei successively led his troops and participated in the Spring Campaign, the Battle of Shaanxi, the Battle of Fumei, and the Battle of Lanzhou, and made great contributions to our party.
Luo Shaowei was upright, upright, and very young, only 31 years old when New China was founded, which can be said to have a bright future, just when Chairman Mao planned to reuse him, he died at the hands of bandits in the Xinjiang region, and his death was really a major loss to our party, which made Chairman Mao both angry and sad.
Chairman Mao immediately issued an order to Wang Zhen, first deputy commander of the Xinjiang Military Region, that all localities should regard the suppression of bandits as the most important task in all current work, concentrate all their efforts on accomplishing them within a time limit, and thoroughly eliminate all bandits in their territory.
So what is the background of this Usman bandit?
Why did he dare to kill the senior general of our army, and what was his fate?
Usman, born in Xinjiang in 1895, his father is a local grassroots official, has a large status, so Wusman has been very rich since childhood, received a good education, but after adulthood, Usman did not have children to inherit his father's business, but chose to do animal husbandry business like most herders, relying on cattle and horses for a living.
At that time, Xinjiang was in turmoil and banditry was rampant, in order to ensure that his business was not harassed by various forces, Usman began to attract herders from all over the world, forming a very large organization, after which Usman was also committed to maintaining local law and order while doing business, and made great contributions to local peace and stability.
However, the arrival of the next person pushed the good-natured Usman into the abyss of sin, and this person was Sheng Shicai.
In the 20s and 20s, the Qing government collapsed, and the chaotic situation of group division began, and the leaderless Xinjiang became the number one target of many warlords.
Later, in the midst of decades of warlord chaos, a man named Sheng Shicai swept through all the local forces in Xinjiang, became the well-deserved "earth emperor", and seized the power of the party, government and army in Xinjiang.
Although the whole of Xinjiang was pocketed, Sheng Shicai still did not dare to take it lightly, because the situation in Xinjiang was still unstable, many people were eyeing his throne, and the slightest carelessness was to crush his bones, so the only thing that Sheng Shicai needed to do at present was to keep his power, and then Sheng Shicai began a cruel and high-pressure policy in the Xinjiang region.
In 1940, Sheng Shicai set up a gun clearance committee to collect the herders' weapons, but the weapons were the tools produced by the herdsmen and the means of self-defense, so the herders refused to hand them over.
For a time, the entire Xinjiang region fell into a cloud of terror, as the old saying goes: "Where there is oppression, there is resistance." Sheng Shicai's actions ignited the anger of the herders, and everyone revolted in an attempt to overthrow Sheng Shicai, a tyrant, and Usman was one of them.
After a long struggle, some of the rebel troops were completely annihilated, and some of the rebel troops were recruited by Sheng Shicai, but Wu Si was soft and hard and did not eat, and insisted on fighting against Sheng Shicai.
However, under the blockade of Sheng Shicai afterwards, the weapons and food of Usman's troops became more and more scarce, and they could hardly turn over the water, but Usman was not willing to fail, so he was vicious and bold, and started the idea of herdsmen, and then Usman not only frantically plundered the herdsmen's materials, but also indiscriminately killed innocent people.
Although Usman's move lost the hearts of the people, but by plundering materials and food, gradually gained a foothold, and also absorbed the scattered soldiers of other rebel troops, slowly, Usman's army grew larger and larger, Sheng Shi saw that it was impossible to annihilate it, so he began to use the Huairou policy, trying to recruit Anusman, but was rejected by Usman.
In 1942, in order to maintain his position, Sheng Shicai had no choice but to ask the Soviet Union for help, and the Soviet Union also wanted to infiltrate the mainland inland, so he gladly agreed.
After that, Sheng Shicai relied on the weapons and materials aided by the Soviet Union to gradually gain the upper hand in the struggle with Usman, and seeing that victory was getting closer and closer, Sheng Shicai had a different kind of mind, he did not want to give up the country and mountains he had laid down in vain to the Soviet Union, so Sheng Shicai's attitude toward the Soviet Union came to a one hundred and eighty degree turn, from the previous humble knee to hypocrisy and snake, and at the same time moved closer to Chiang Kai-shek.
In order to weaken Sheng Shicai's strength, the Soviet Union decided to support a puppet in the Xinjiang region and confront Sheng Shicai, and Usman thus entered the eyes of the Soviet Union.
In July 1943, Usman and the Soviet Union reached a secret agreement, and then the Soviet Union provided a large number of weapons and material support to Usman, with the help of the Soviet Union, Usman's forces became more and more powerful, and began to frantically plunder the power of Sheng Shicai, Sheng Shicai helplessly asked the Kuomintang for help, wanting the Kuomintang to confront Usman and reap the profits himself, but Chiang Kai-shek was not a good stubble, he was naturally willing to send troops to Tibet, but the calculation was to force Sheng Shicai to get off the horse and take the Xinjiang region for his own use.
Immediately after the Nationalist troops arrived in Xinjiang, they began to ally with Usman to attack the Sheng Shicai forces, and finally Sheng Shicai was unable to support himself, and could only resign to join the Kuomintang, so that only the Forces in Xinjiang were left with the Wusman forces.
In order to achieve the goal of swallowing Xinjiang, the Kuomintang directly turned against Usman and sent troops to recruit Usman, and Usman's attitude of two sides and three knives made the Soviet Union very dissatisfied, so the Soviet Union was unwilling to intervene and was ready to let the Usman forces be eliminated.
Moreover, at this critical moment, the United States officially entered the situation, held a meeting to support Usman against the Communist Party, and with the United States as a backer, Usman began to pay attention to splitting China.
Therefore, after the end of the Liberation War in September 1949, our army repeatedly persuaded Usman to submit, but Usman was always stubborn and obstinate to fight with our party to the end, and by February 1950, the size of Usman's troops had expanded to more than 20,000 people, which seriously threatened the public order in Xinjiang and let the people of Xinjiang live a happy and peaceful life.
In March 1950, Deputy Regiment Commander Luo Shaowei was sent by the chairman to Xinjiang to participate in the work of suppressing bandits, and just when Luo Shaowei and his party went to the garrison of the 46 regiment to issue orders to suppress bandits, their whereabouts were accidentally learned by Wusman's son Shelman, so Shelman led more than 40 horse bandits to ambush Luo Shaowei on the only road, preparing to teach the Communist Party a heavy lesson.
On the morning of April 1, 1950, Luo Shaowei, confidential secretary Li Yuqing, staff officer Ma Yuzhang, telegraph operator Song Wancheng, guard Yang Zhuangyuan and a total of 6 people took a car to the 46 regiment camp.
When Luo Shaowei's car entered Shelman's lurking place, it was violently attacked by more than 40 people of Shelman's bandits, and finally outnumbered, except for the driver who was captured, all of them died heroically, after Luo Shaowei's death, Shelman also cruelly destroyed Luo Shaowei's body and gouge out Luo Shaowei's eyes.
When the chairman learned of this, he was immediately furious and furious, and he did not expect that the Usman bandits would be so arrogant that they would dare to kill the senior cadres of our army, and if they were not eradicated, how would they account to the people and how to account to Comrade Luo Shaowei.
Chairman Mao immediately conveyed to Wang Zhen, the first deputy commander of the Xinjiang Military Region, the order to "avenge Luo Shaowei and the people of Xinjiang." After receiving Chairman Mao's order, Wang Zhen personally led troops to encircle and suppress the Wusman bandits.
After all, the Usman bandits have been entrenched in the local area for many years and know the local terrain and climate very well, and our army has just arrived, so the Usman bandits have been circling with our army, and the work of suppressing bandits has never been able to make breakthrough progress.
At the beginning of 1951, the Northwest People's Liberation Army District set up a joint command post, Gansu, Xinjiang, Qinghai three provinces coordinated operations, dispatched large-scale cavalry, infantry, armored troops, etc., to fully encircle and suppress The Wusmanbu, the group of shrimp soldiers and crab generals, which can be compared to the volunteer soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles, so within a few months the Wusmanbu has been completely destroyed, and finally The Wusman was captured alive in the Gansu area.
On April 29, 1951, in the square in front of the Xinjiang Branch of the Cpc Central Committee, a public trial conference of unprecedented scale was opened.
On that day, 80,000 people participated in the trial at the scene, and the presiding judge was the provincial chairman Bao Erhan, as well as General Wang Zhen and many soldiers involved in the encirclement and suppression, and when the chief judge issued the verdict of "immediate shooting", more than 80,000 people present were in tears.
This demon, who took people's lives and killed countless revolutionary fighters, was finally judged by the people's justice and ended his sinful life.