In the early days of the founding of New China, the remnants of the Kuomintang were still in turmoil on the mainland, constantly provoking contradictions between the military and the people in various places, and co-opting the old warlords to challenge the authority of the Communist Party.
In 1950, after an inspection, Comrade Deng Xiaoping learned that the number of bandits in the country had reached three million, and he immediately called Chairman Mao to tell him of the harmfulness, and then Chairman Mao ordered the whole country to carry out the work of suppressing bandits. So how serious is this bandit crisis?
The bandit crisis began
In January 1950, the Sichuan side reported that because most of the military troops had gone to support the Korean battlefield, bandits were rampant in the region, and they were stationed in unattended mountains and looted the passing people. The commander of the Guangdong Military Region sent a telegram to Deng Xiaoping: "Today there are several forces along the coast that are in turmoil and are worried that the Kuomintang will land in Guangdong during the Korean War. "There have also been a large number of bandits burning and looting in Guangxi, and even kidnapping military dependents.
These incidents attracted the attention of Comrade Deng Xiaoping, who, after reporting from all sides and his own investigation, found that the current bandit crisis not only hurt countless innocent people but also affected the stability of the country.
But before Deng Xiaoping and the central authorities could take action, a riot broke out in Sichuan. In a mountainous area of Sichuan, a very large bandit force appeared, and their leader was a famous anti-Japanese fighter, Zhao Hongwenguo.
Zhao Hongwenguo led the Zhao family to make many contributions during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and although her War of Resistance was an ironclad fact, in her later years she listened to Chiang Kai-shek's rumors, and Chiang Kai-shek told her that the Communists were doing dictatorial politics, that the Kuomintang was retreating and that sooner or later it would return to the mainland, and that the country needed her to stay in Sichuan to retain the fighting power of resistance.
In this way, she had paranoid illusions about the Kuomintang, and she has been wandering around the Sichuan region, eventually developing an armed force of up to thousands of people.
In 1950, Zhao Hongwenguo gathered scattered armed forces to attack Shifang County, Sichuan Province, slaughtering villages along the way, brutally killing innocent people, and even shouting slogans such as "drive out the Communist Party and resolutely refuse to accept grain." At this time, the commander of the military region still benevolently sent fighters to negotiate, but the distraught Zhao Hongwenguo directly shot and killed the peace talk fighters in front of the PLA.
At this time, the officer was furious and immediately called the central authorities to inform him of the situation. After receiving the report, the Central Committee was equally furious and launched a conference to target the time of this large-scale armed insurrection in the southwest region, after which Chairman Mao issued an order that the gangsters must be eliminated, and the work of suppressing bandits was also the most important task.
After receiving the order issued by the central authorities, the Southwest Military Region vigorously dispatched troops to suppress the rebellion, and within three months the Sichuan bandits were eliminated, and Zhao Hongwenguo himself was arrested and imprisoned. After being imprisoned, she still did not admit her mistakes, but instead believed that the Communist Party had provoked dissension and made it impossible for loyal people to serve the country, and she was eventually publicly executed.
The crisis of banditry is high
Although the bandit crisis in Sichuan has come to an end, the Kuomintang's small actions are still continuous, they have supported many "puppets" like Zhao Hongwenguo, and even told them that Zhao Hongwenguo sacrificed his life for the country, and the influence of such remarks has led to more rampant bandits in Guangxi.
In fact, Guangxi's liberation period is earlier than that of the whole country, but guangxi is the home of The Gui warlords, and before the liberation of the People's Liberation Army, there were many warlords in Guangxi who divided the rule and bandits gained power.
With the rampant banditry in the whole country, the remnants of the warlords in Guangxi wanted to share a piece of the chaotic world, and under the various threats and inducements of the warlords, the number of bandits in Guangxi grew day by day and eventually reached an immeasurable number. Beginning in January 1950, riots of various scales occurred throughout Guangxi, including looting of agricultural tools and attacks on county towns with guns.
Eliminate bandits in Guangxi
The method of the leaders of the Guangxi bandit suppression was even more wrong, and they had a hard time catching the bandits, but it seemed that the people finally let them go only by verbal education. The gangster mentality does not think that this is the tolerance of the state, but will intensify these wrong things.
In the middle of 1950, bandits in Guangxi not only brutally killed more than a hundred ordinary people, robbed countless finances and grain, but even caught a platoon of fighters of the People's Liberation Army and eventually brutally killed them.
After receiving Deng Xiaoping's telegram, Chairman Mao sent a three-way call to Li Tianyou, an official of the Guangxi Bandit Crackdown, ordering him to deal with the problem of banditry in Guangxi in the shortest possible time. After hanging up the phone, Chairman Mao made up his mind to first dispatch the Sichuan bandit leadership team to Guangxi, and then to Hunan troops to support.
When Li Tianyou received Chairman Mao's strict order this time, he changed his previous attitude of suppressing bandits and forcefully handled the problem of bandits in Guangxi; he cooperated with the officers and men who came to support him in comprehensively suppressing bandits, first vigorously rectifying key areas, then shrinking his troops to comprehensively investigate small forces, and punishing the captured bandits according to the evidence of their crimes, and never sparing them lightly.
In this way, with the efforts of the Guangxi side in just two months, it eliminated more than 300,000 bandits and collected about 500,000 weapons.
epilogue
The land of the newborn China was invaded by rampant bandits, and the central government finally suppressed the riot and maintained the stability of the motherland. These events have enlightened us that at all times, we should carefully identify the reactionary forces, resolutely resist reactionary acts, and struggle against them to the end.