There is a Chinese saying that good is rewarded with good and evil is repaid with evil, not by not being reported, and the time has not yet come. This sentence was used at the beginning of the founding of New China, and there are many vivid examples. Also experienced in the war years, some people were thanked and praised for doing good deeds or meritorious deeds in those years, and some people did bad things, even if they were hidden deeply, they would eventually be exposed and punished as they deserved.
Just like Song Dianyuan during the Republic of China, in the early days of liberation, he was hidden in the name, and in the end he was exposed, and Marshal Nie Rongzhen personally ordered him to be shot.
Song Dianyuan is a native of Zhangbei County, Hebei Province, born in 1914, born in poverty, the fifth oldest among his siblings. Due to his parents' doting and lack of discipline, Song Dianyuan beat people and scolded people when he was a child, and often stole chickens and dogs. At the age of ten, Song Dianyuan was infected with gambling again, and he was out of control, and in order to gamble money, he secretly changed the things in the seller. His father could not take care of it, so he had to send him to a local landlord to release horses.
Later, Song Dianyuan joined the army with his employer, but he could not bear the hardships, and soon became a deserter, returned to his hometown, and was idle and gambling. There was nothing the family could do.
Song Dianyuan got acquainted with a bunch of scoundrels, caused trouble, and made a fuss every time he went to the county seat. In the early 1940s, When Song heard that the Japanese were recruiting laborers, he went to dig mines for the Japanese with a group of "brothers" who went to mine for the Japanese. The work was very heavy, and when they were ready to pick up the children and leave, Song Dianyuan dug up a few guns in the cave, and fled with his companions with a bandit leader, and started a green forest business.
After a while, Song Dianyuan changed the court and switched to another bandit leader. Subsequently, the bandit leader was killed in a firefight, so Song Dianyuan set up his own portal, led more than 20 people to pull up the pole, wandered around several nearby counties, hijacked the road and kidnapped tickets, and openly collected protection fees in the county town, and his power was getting bigger and bigger.
Song Dianyuan soon became the bandit leader of Zhanshan as king. However, he did not talk about morality, not only robbed the rich, but also robbed the poor and poor, and his notoriety was far and wide. He had never studied, but he did bad things in a variety of ways, before kidnapping tickets, he had to ask the god of wealth, and the hostages refused to give in, so they hung up and beat, took a whip, burned it with a fire shovel, poured boiling water, scraped the flesh with a bullet, and finally did not give money.
If he entered the village, Song Dianyuan let his subordinates grab the value first, and the guns, horses, and smoke of the rich family were the first choice, and then what was valuable to take. Ordinary villagers have no valuable things, so they grab chickens, ducks, cows and sheep, and even take away a few pieces of torn cotton jackets.
For example, in the summer of 1942, Song Dianyuan led people to a village in Kangbao County, and robbed them for a whole day before leaving. Before leaving, Song Dianyuan looked at a village woman with a rather beautiful posture and wanted to tie her up on a horse to take her away, but the village woman's father-in-law desperately tried to stop her, and was broken by a shot in the leg.
At that time, Cao Kai, a sheriff from the Chahar League Office who was born of banditry, had a friendship with Song Dianyuan and reorganized Song Dianyuan into a squadron and made him the captain. Soon, Song Dianyuan's men and horses were reorganized by the Japanese army, and began to spare no effort to serve the Japanese army, and repeatedly cooperated with the Japanese puppet army to encircle and suppress the anti-Japanese base areas and maim the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians.
As far as the bandits are concerned, whoever gives money will follow whomever has milk, and Song Dianyuan has followed the puppet army, followed the Japanese, and also done bad things for the Kuomintang. After the surrender of Japan in 1945, Song Dianyuan and his remnants defected with Cao Kai to the nationalist army in Wuchuan County, Suiyuan, and were incorporated into the cavalry unit.
At that time, Song Dianyuan still had twenty or thirty people around him, and in order to win him over, the Nationalist army gave him the title of temporary commander of the cavalry regiment. Song Dianyuan used this title to recruit people and horses, started the bandit line, killed people everywhere, and expanded to hundreds of people and horses.
In the autumn of 1945, when Song Dianyuan took people to stay in Zhangyoufang Village in Kangbao County, he heard that Zhang Yuntao, a worker in the Liberated Area, was also in the village, so he arrested Zhang Yuntao. The next day, Song Dianyuan's troops escorted Zhang Yuntao through a certain place and met the Liberated Areas Task Force, and an exchange of fire broke out between the two sides.
The liberated area task force was small and had few guns, so they had to fight and retreat, and three more people were captured in the retreat. Song Dianyuan ordered Zhang Yuntao and four others to be shot on the spot. Some of his subordinates knew Zhang Yuntao and interceded on his behalf, but Song Dianyuan did not listen, so Zhang Yuntao and all four others were killed.
When our troops arrived at the news, Song Dianyuan had already gone far. A few days later, Song Dianyuan ransacked a village on the road, ignoring the villagers' pleas and snatching away all valuable things and mules, horses, cattle and sheep.
At the end of 1945, Song Dianyuan sent a company commander with two hundred people to Huade County to commit a crime, but the road was surrounded by our army, and none of them ran. The leader of the bandit company and several others were tried and shot. Song Dianyuan was greatly annoyed and waited for an opportunity to take revenge. In March 1946, after Song Dianyuan collected a group of bandits, he sneaked into the villages and towns of the Liberated Areas to burn and loot.
The Song Dynasty Yuan Bandit Gang was not a small disaster, and our army specially dispatched troops to guard against it. Later, when Song Dianyuan sneaked to a certain place in Kangbao County, he was discovered by the cavalry of our army, a fierce battle, most of the bandits were annihilated, and Song Dianyuan fled back to his hometown, and did not dare to come out for a long time. In the autumn of 1946, when the Nationalist army launched a large-scale attack on the Liberated Areas, Song Dianyuan tried to make a comeback, collecting more than 200 bandits and cooperating with the Nationalist army to invade the Liberated Areas.
In November of the same year, our army temporarily withdrew from Kangbao County, and Song Dianyuan was appointed as a company commander by the Nationalist Army and stationed in the county seat. In two years, Song Dianyuan acted arbitrarily, did no evil, and became the battalion commander of the police protection regiment. It was not until December 1948, when the nationalist army was gone, that the Song Dynasty Bandit Gang withdrew to Suiyuan.
In 1949, Suiyuan was liberated, and Song Dianyuan hid his name and did small business in the local area. But his nature is difficult to move, in 1950, he and a dozen bandits with guns to rob the road, the result was pursued by the People's Liberation Army, Song Dianyuan was cornered, fled to Baotou, changed his name to Wang Gui, and worked as a boilermaker in an inn.
Two years before Song Dianyuan married a young and beautiful fourth aunt, she also brought her to Baotou. These four aunts dressed up all day long, wearing gold and silver. The innkeeper was suspicious, thinking how a working fellow could afford such a wife. Although Song Dianyuan himself was low-key, he was willing to spend money on eating and drinking, and the more the innkeeper thought about it, the more wrong it was, and secretly reflected the situation to the local public security.
After the secret investigation by the public security, they were surprised to find that the guy who burned the boiler in the hotel was actually Song Dianyuan, who was full of evil. In April 1951, public security officers suddenly surrounded the hotel where Song Dianyuan was hiding, blocking him in the house. Song Dianyuan was very cunning, and when he found that someone was going to arrest him, he deliberately said too loudly to the fourth aunt, "Take my gun quickly!" ”
The public security personnel did not rush in, shouting for Song Dianyuan to surrender. During the stalemate, the innkeeper secretly made an appointment with the police, asking him to go in to talk to Song Dianyuan, unexpectedly hugging the other party, and the public security personnel went in to arrest people. Song Dianyuan did not guard against the treasurer, let him enter the house, but without saying a few words, the treasurer suddenly hugged Song Dianyuan and shouted: "Come on people, come people quickly!" ”
The public security personnel immediately rushed in, held down Song Dianyuan, and tied him up. This heinous bandit has finally been arrested. The news alarmed Nie Rongzhen, who was in charge of the work of the PLA General Staff at the time. Nie Rongzhen was the commander of the North China Military Region, and his troops fought with the Song Dianyuan bandit gang many times. Hearing that Song Dianyuan had been arrested, Nie Rongzhen demanded an immediate trial and execution.
At the end of April, Song Dianyuan was escorted back to Kangbao County for public trial, and the local people were crowded and indignant, accusing Song Dianyuan of his crimes. After the conference, Song Dianyuan was taken to the execution ground and shot in public.