In 1953, Cheng Lianzhen, the head of the two-gun female bandit who had been on the run for three years, was arrested for exposing her tracks. Before being executed, the chairman urgently ordered that he could not be killed.
What's going on? Why can the matter of a female bandit alarm the chairman? Speaking of which, Cheng Lianzhen is indeed not an ordinary person.
When she was young, she was very beautiful, a famous local beauty, and the number of people who came to her house to propose relatives was innumerable. Later, a large landowner took a fancy to her and married her into the family as a second house.
Cheng Lianzhen is very clever, and after marrying into the landlord's family, she not only learned to ride a horse, but also practiced a good marksmanship. She also had a good relationship with the big landlord and gave birth to a daughter together.
Later, Cheng Lianzhen's husband, Chen Daming, lost his life because he fell seriously ill. The rest of the Chen family felt that Cheng Lianzhen was just a foreigner and was not qualified to inherit the family's property, so they united and attacked her residence, hoping to steal all the wealth.
If these people really succeeded, Cheng Lianzhen would definitely not have a good end, she was not willing to tie her hands and grab it, holding a double gun to lead the family members to fight back.
With a fierce strength that did not accept defeat, Cheng Lianzhen repelled the rest of the Chen family, and thus won the title of "Two Gun Girl".
However, she did not let down her guard, knowing very well that those who were eager to divide their possessions would stare at themselves like hungry jackals. A little slackness can be defeated by them.
The best way to get rid of them completely is to find a more powerful backer. Therefore, Cheng Lianzhen tried to find ways to be related to Luo Shaoquan, the commander of the national army, and also married his younger brother Luo Shaofan.
After that, Cheng Lianzhen began to live a low-key life, usually except for occasionally going to the countryside to collect some rent, basically staying at home to do housework.
In 1949, when Guiyang was liberated, Luo Shaoquan, who refused to die, gathered a group of bandits and attacked Huishui County. Although the number of people stationed in the city is small, the People's Liberation Army is not afraid of those fierce gangsters.
After two days and one night of fighting, the gangsters who attacked the county town were completely defeated by the People's Liberation Army. Luo Shaoquan and others knew that they could not compete with the People's Liberation Army, and fled back to their old nest with more than 100 remnants.
The cadres of Huishui County believe that if Luo Shaoquan and others are allowed to continue their activities, sooner or later they will cause greater harm to the masses of the people. Therefore, the county leaders have organized people and horses many times to encircle and suppress Luo Shaoquan and others.
Cheng Lianzhen had already remarried to Luo Shaofan, so when Luo Shaoquan and others attacked the county seat, she also participated. In order to avoid arrest, she hid in a small village in Longli County, hiding in the home of a farmer surnamed Wei.
After Cheng Lianzhen was arrested, she was sent to Guiyang, and the leaders of the provincial military region considered that Cheng Lianzhen's problem had a wide range of influences, so they reported her intelligence to the Southwest Military Region and handed it over to General Li Da for handling.
General Li Da also felt that Cheng Lianzhen's situation was rather special and looked for an opportunity to report the situation to the chairman. The chairman believed that although Cheng Lianzhen was nominally a female bandit leader, she did not commit a crime to death, and since she was still a minority, it was better not to be executed.
In June of the same year, Cheng Lianzhen, who thought she would die, was released in public because of the state's leniency.
Cheng Lianzhen was very grateful for this, in order to repay this kindness, she took the initiative to participate in the county's anti-hegemonic work, and also ventured into the deep mountains and old forests many times to persuade 22 bandits to surrender.
There were also 3 bandits who insisted on refusing to surrender because of their stubbornness, and were personally led by Cheng Lianzhen to search and suppress them, and died on the battlefield.
In 1957, Cheng Lianzhen was organized and arranged to work as a worker in the county because she actively participated in the work of suppressing bandits. During her tenure, Cheng Lianzhen was conscientious and responsible, and in 1960 she became a member of the CPPCC committee in the county.