During the Republic of China period, the warlords were at war, and there was no peace in the country, and ordinary people could only run on their own in order to make a living. In such a chaotic world, most people choose to survive, but the more turbulent the situation, the more extraordinary people will appear, they may be heroes or villains. During the Republic of China period, the most were bandits and villains. The people, who were already in the depths of the water, had to avoid the burning and looting of the bandits, and their lives became more painful.
Liu Guitang, nicknamed "Chaos Demon King", Liu Guitang is a Shandong native, the little one was also a shepherd for the landlord, but the very small Liu Guitang has a very strange personality, there has been that kind of petty theft behavior, and when Liu Guitang was 23 years old, he began to choose to be a bandit with several brothers, he thought that when the bandits had food to eat, now this day even meat can not be eaten, it is really too uncomfortable.
Because Liu Guitang ranked 7th among these brothers, so the nickname was also called "Liu Heiqi", and soon over time, Liu Guitang found a large number of like-minded people with them, a total of more than 60 bandits, their job is very simple, that is, to rob the house, and there is a kidnapping ticket.
At that time, it was an era when soldiers and horses were chaotic, and many unemployed street thugs fled to Liu Guitang after learning about it. Soon a group of people grew to three or four hundred people, and they robbed houses and set fires to houses in the Yimeng Mountains in Shandong Province. However, although the Qing government had fallen, it had not yet completely perished, and the Qing government was powerless to break through the bandits throughout the country one by one, and could only suppress a few bandit leaders to kill chickens and monkeys. Because Liu Guitang was too rampant, he was captured by Zhang Huaizhi, the overseer of Shandong, as a typical example of encirclement and suppression.
In the face of the encirclement and suppression of the government army, Liu Guitang quickly could not resist, was beaten to pieces by Zhang Huaizhi's army, Liu Guitang's younger brother Liu Heiba was also captured and killed by officers and soldiers, he himself luckily escaped, and since then Liu Guitang's gang has been destroyed.
However, Liu Guitang, who was lucky enough to pick up a life, still did not change his bandit nature and defected to Sun Meiyao, a famous bandit at that time. Liu Guitang was sleek and quickly reused by Sun Meiyao. Soon Sun Meiyao was recruited by the Beiyang warlords, and then secretly killed, Liu Guitang took the opportunity to escape, collected Sun Meiyao's old troops, and became the leader of the bandits, the team grew to more than a thousand people, calling themselves "Liu Tuan", and began to run amok in the area of the old Lai lair of The Old Yimeng Mountain.
After having the power, Liu Guitang was even more arrogant, in his view, he was the king of this land and could do anything.
In order to have a lot of grain and develop more bandits, he told his men to go down the mountain and grab grain everywhere, and many people's life-saving food was snatched by his men. If he had just grabbed the grain, he wouldn't have committed such a crime. He also likes to rob women, after all, he was too poor to marry a wife, so his psychology was distorted.
In order to satisfy his own desires, all the women he fancied, without exception, became one of his harems, and at the largest, he had seventy-two aunts. At that time, everyone who had a daughter in the family was terrified, afraid that he would rob it.
So that at that time, people in the Lunan area felt that only by mixing with Liu Guitang could they eat meat, and many people chose to mix with Liu Guitang, and then Liu Guitang also took his brothers to the seven provinces of North China to do evil.
The Shandong region was the area where Liu Guitang was the most severely harmed. According to the cultural and historical records of Fei County, Shandong Province, during Liu Guitang's rampage, more than 200,000 people were brutally killed, and near Yimeng Mountain alone, more than 1,000 villages were looted, more than 200,000 houses were burned, and more than 12,000 people were brutally killed.
Among them, Nanxiaoyi Village, Baimayu Village, Dasiyan Village and other villages have been slaughtered successively, and only a few dozen people have survived hundreds of people in the village, and many villagers have been killed to the point of extinction.
After the Fengzhi warlord Zhang Zongchang came to Shandong, he sent two regiments to Ludong to suppress the bandits, and when Liu Guitang was fighting with them, he deliberately put a large amount of silver dollars on the ground, and the soldiers took the silver dollars and "exchanged gifts" with Liu Guitang, leaving a large number of guns and ammunition to Liu Guitang, and finally the bandits not only failed, but also let Liu Guitang white prostitute a lot of weapons and ammunition, and then increased his strength.
In 1927, Zhang Zongchang recruited Liu Guitang, but Liu Guitang did not care about Zhang Zongchang at all, in 1928 Zhang Zongchang was driven out of Shandong by the Northern Expeditionary Army, Liu Guitang stayed in Shandong and did not move, just waiting for whoever offered the high price, he recognized who was the wife.
Liu Guitang had money, soldiers, and guns in his hands, which made Han Fuyu, who was then the commander-in-chief of the Third Front of the Second Army, somewhat moved, and in order to win Liu Guitang over, Han Fuyu sent someone to send him 17,000 oceans and 2,000 bags of noodles.
After defecting to Chiang Kai-shek, Liu Guitang was appointed commander of the Fourth Division of the newly organized Army of the First Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, stationed in Juxian County, but Liu Guitang and his troops did not change their banditry, extorted and extorted during their garrison in Juxian County, causing the common people to complain, and then he was defeated by Yang Hucheng's troops stationed in Linyi and fled in a hurry.
Shortly after defecting to Chiang Kai-shek, the Central Plains War broke out, and Liu Guitang led his men to defeat Feng Yuxiang's army, and also received congratulatory messages from Chiang Kai-shek. However, Liu Guitang was capricious in nature, and soon after being absorbed by Chiang Kai-shek, he was bribed by Yan Xishan with heavy money, and then turned his back on Chiang Kai-shek and defected to Yan Xishan. Yan Xishan immediately appointed him as the commander of the Twenty-sixth Army, and gave Liu Guitang silver dollars, machine guns, and steel cannons, and Liu Guitang took the opportunity to strengthen his power.
Not long after, Yan Xishan was defeated in the Battle of the Central Plains, and Liu Guitang saw that the timing was not right, immediately led his troops to escape, and turned to Zhang Xueliang, who was appointed by Zhang Xueliang as the brigade commander of the Sixth Mixed Brigade. Soon after, Liu Guitang was defeated by Liu Zhi's troops, and he abandoned Zhang Xueliang and fled back to Shandong, where he continued to serve as a bandit. At this time, Han Fuyu was the chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government, and seeing that Liu Guitang was becoming increasingly rampant in Shandong, he began to vigorously suppress bandits.
However, Liu Guitang relied on being a bandit in the mountains for many years, and was familiar with the terrain in the mountains, and several encirclements and suppressions had little effect. In desperation, Han Fuyu had no choice but to kidnap Liu Guitang's mother in order to force Liu Guitang to surrender. After Liu Guitang surrendered, he was reorganized by Han Fuyu into the Shandong Garrison Army, with himself as the commander-in-chief and Liu Guitang as the deputy commander.
After being incorporated, Liu Guitang still did not change his banditry, and he still did the business of burning and looting when he was a bandit in the past. When Han Fuyu saw that he was not listening to the command and acting recklessly, he ordered the supply of guns, ammunition, and grain to Liu Guitang to be stopped. Unsurprisingly, Liu Guitang once again betrayed Han Fuyu and openly made enemies of Han Fuyu. An enraged Han Fuyu sent people to kill Liu Guitang, but the cunning Liu Guitang once again slipped away and fled to the Area of Rehe to continue as a bandit.
Not long after, Liu Guidang hooked up with the traitor Shi Yousan and the Japanese, and established the so-called "North China Defense Communist Army", which resisted the anti-Japanese and saved the country, and became a lackey of the Japanese.
After the outbreak of the "July 7 Incident", Han Fuyu fled without a fight, and a large area of Shandong was lost, and Liu Guitang was appointed by the Japanese army as the "Commander-in-Chief of the Advance of the Imperial Allied Army" and led the Japanese army into Shandong.
After that, Liu Guitang continued to fight for the Japanese army and became a loyal lackey of the Japanese.
Of course, in the end, he also died at the hands of his seventh aunt, Su Qian, and he eventually dug his own grave and died at the gun of the woman he had forcibly married.