On the afternoon of August 31, 2022, the flow of people in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, was endless.
The clerk of a watch shop is casually playing with his mobile phone, waiting to finish the day's work.
Suddenly, the door of the store was pushed open and 4 strange men broke in.
As soon as the man in black with the head came in, without saying a word, he drew a gun and aimed it at the clerk!
Immediately after, a man in blue drew a knife and shouted, "Robbery! Don't move! ”
In the face of this critical scene, the clerk brother was quite calm, and he first showed his hands that he did not resist.
Immediately after that, he was instructed by the gangsters to help them open the cabinet and get the watch.
In this process, the clerk was even directly pointed at by the gangsters!
But the little brother didn't care, and walked directly past the gangster, past...
It feels like the men in black with guns are stunned!
Of course, the remaining accomplices still did not forget to rob, they quickly opened the bag at hand, frantically loaded the watch inside, and then sat in the black van that came to meet at the door and flew away.
The whole process took only 2 and a half minutes, and they took away 13 million watches worth of watches!
By the time the police arrived at the scene, the watch on the display stand had been looted.
Yes, this is in 2022, in broad daylight, in a crowded city like Causeway Bay, there was a gun robbery!
This is reminiscent of the 80s and 90s of the last century, when robberies in Hong Kong were at their most rampant, when robbers were even more lawless, robbing, escaping, shooting in the street...
In this context, Hong Kong gave birth to the five thieves!
1 Shooting scene
Many people are no strangers to Hong Kong's "three thieves" (Zhang Ziqiang, Ye Jihuan, Ji Bingxiong), but in fact, Hong Kong should have "five thieves kings".
The first generation of thief king Zhang Shixiong was also the first thief king after the opening of Hong Kong.
Zhang Shixiong began to commit crimes in the 80s, committed more than a dozen crimes in just one year, and even fought with the police on the street!
In 1982, he robbed the "Rongxingxiang Jade" market with a gun, stole more than 2 million worth of jewelry and jade, and killed a boss named Deng Guanghua.
A few months later, he looted the "Xie Ruilin Gold Bank" in Tsim Sha Tsui and stole 1 million gold.
But Zhang Shixiong was still not satisfied, and it was not long before he reappeared in the jianghu, sweeping up the "Jingfu Jewelry Gold Line" in Tsim Sha Tsui, also snatching more than 1 million worth of jewelry and shooting two security guards.
This time, however, he was quickly arrested and sentenced to 15 years.
Hong Kong's second-generation thief king, Chen Huji, claimed to have participated in the Vietnam War, and his most frightening thing was that he had created the biggest gunfight in Hong Kong!
In 1985, the police received a tip that a gang of robbers was preparing to rob the Faithful Watch in Tsim Sha Tsui.
They are not ordinary robbers, but bandits with two 54 pistols!
In advance, the police laid a net around the Zhongxin watch shop, and the watch shop was surrounded by peddlers, passers-by and drivers played by the police.
At this time, Chen Huji, who led the robbers, already knew that the police were ambushing them, but he was lawless, did not pay attention to the police at all, and even more eager to try, wanted to have a head-on fire fight with the police!
A month passed, the police's vigilance was relaxed, just at this moment, Chen Huji suddenly appeared, directly with a gun rushed into the store!
Other men drove the crowd with guns in the streets, and a few bandits brazenly robbed on the bustling Nathan Road.
The funny thing is that because they are too arrogant, it makes passers-by feel incredible, thinking that they are filming! The crowd not only did not disperse, but attracted more and more people to watch!
It wasn't until someone in the store shot through the glass that the onlookers knew it wasn't a show, it was a real robbery!
Nathan Road was instantly in disarray, and the police who were ambushed around joined the battle, and the two sides launched a fierce gun battle!
A policeman preemptively shot the gangster in the chest, but the gangster wore body armor, this shot failed to subdue the other party, but the gangster shot a backhand shot at the police armpit, and the police were shot to the ground.
Soon, the support of the police also arrived, they surrounded the entire watch line, but Chen Huji also ignored it, directly shooting at the police car, and 4 more policemen fell to the ground in blood.
In the fierce gun battle, Chen Hu was quick in his eyes and pulled a female clerk of the watch shop as a hostage.
Under the threat of the hostages, the police were forced to cease fire, and Chen Huju rushed to the side of the truck that came to pick him up with the hostages and accomplices, only to find that there were two policemen ambushed here!
The two sides were in another gun battle, and Chen Huji silently discussed in his heart: the two policemen had fired 23 shots, and only the last bullet was left!
In order to get out as soon as possible, Chen Hujie pushed the hostages away, shot and killed one of the policemen who ran out of bullets, and then hurriedly fled to the car, shouting: "Drive fast!" ”
Who knows, at this moment, another policeman suddenly rushed to the car window, shot the driver with the only bullet left in his hand, and shot him!
Chen Hu was furious and shot several shots at the surviving policeman, but he did not hit the point.
But Chen Huji did not give up, he rushed out of the car with a gun and pulled the trigger on the head of the policeman...
However, the bullets of this gun have been exhausted, and this shot has failed!
Chen Huji ran back to the car to get a gun and pulled the trigger against the police...
Unexpectedly, the bullets of this gun were also finished, and this shot failed again!
Chen Hu exploded in anger, he threw a gun and jumped into the driver's seat himself, ready to directly kill the policeman!
But this policeman was really fatal, he turned over and dodged the truck, and Chen Huji could only drive away.
This caused a sensation in the "Loyal Table Robbery Case" throughout Hong Kong.
Chen Stole 2 million yuan in cash and gold, and was arrested 4 months later and sentenced to 13 years.
Interestingly, the first and second generations of Hong Kong's thief kings are inextricably linked to the fifth generation of "the last thief king" Ji Bingxiong...
2 The Last Thief King
One of Zhang Shixiong's accomplices, the Thief King, was named Huang Zhiming, who went to prison with him.
This Huang Zhiming is Ji Bingxiong's master.
When he met Huang Zhiming in prison, Ji Bingxiong was just a pickpocket, and the earth-shattering crimes of Huang Zhiming and others opened the door to a new world for him.
At that time, the jianghu called the pair of masters and apprentices "double ghost shooting doors".
As for the second-generation thief king Chen Huji, one of the 7 people who robbed the Faithful Watch with him that year was Ji Bingxiong.
This was The first time Ji Bingxiong had committed a major crime, his body was trembling and his blood was boiling, those petty thefts in the past were really too low-level, and he would have to do big things in the future!
As a result, Ji Bingxiong began his "Thief King Road" uncontrollably.
In 1986, he robbed Yau Ma Tei's Love Luck Jia Jewelry Gold Shop, abducted 400,000 jewels worth of jewelry, fired 3 shots in a row, and escaped by car.
In 1987, he robbed a Jewellery Store in Central with a grenade and abducted jewelry worth $2 million.
In 1989, he repeated the trick and stole 2 million jewels from the Dickson Jewelry Gold Row in Central...
Compared with the other two in the "Three Thieves King", Ji Bingxiong has a significant feature: low-key and good at hiding.
Several of the cases he committed that year were all sensational cases in Hong Kong, but the police did not find out that this was the work of the same criminal group, and they did not know that the mastermind behind it was Ji Bingxiong!
So after Ji Bingxiong snatched enough money in Hong Kong, he ran to Canada like no one else.
After arriving in Canada, he was arrested for "illegally hiding arms", but the Canadian police did not know that the person in front of him was the "thief king" who was making a lot of trouble in Hong Kong, and it was easy to let him bail.
However, Ji Bingxiong abandoned his insurance and absconded, and disappeared for many years.
Until 1994, Hong Kong Causeway Bay DXN Watch Shop, Central Golden Wheel Watch Shop, a series of robberies occurred!
The first time it was robbed of 6.5 million, the second time it directly snatched more than 10 million!
In the course of the second robbery, the gangsters and the police broke out into a fierce gun battle! A female passerby was unfortunately killed by stray bullets and 6 others were injured.
The police managed to catch a gangster, but the main culprit escaped.
After layers of interrogation and investigation, the police finally confirmed: it turned out that the robberies in the past ten years were all committed by the same gang, and the mastermind behind it was Ji Bingxiong!
But by the time the police finally figured out the belated truth, Ji Bingxiong had once again disappeared and did not know where he had fled...
Since then, Ji Bingxiong has been playing "hide-and-seek" with the police, and he also has his own title in the jianghu, called "Hermit".
In 1998, he snatched jewelry worth $3 million and $250,000 in Causeway Bay before disappearing for three years.
In 2001, when he was walking with his accomplices, he was found by the patrol police to be suspicious and wanted to check the documents, Ji Bingxiong did not say a word to the patrol police backhand is a shot, and he escaped...
The robbers who had been tracking for a long time finally showed their signs, how could the police let go of this opportunity! In the afternoon, hundreds of police officers were dispatched to search and cooperate with the Guangdong police to prevent Ji Bingxiong from absconding to the mainland.
However, Ji Bingxiong seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and no matter how he looked for it, he couldn't find it...
As a result, a month later, another robbery broke out in Mong Kok Watch Shop, and the watch worth 2.85 million yuan was robbed, and there is no doubt that the prisoner is Ji Bingxiong!
The Hong Kong police couldn't bear it, released the highest reward of 2 million yuan in history to arrest Ji Bingxiong, and issued a red notice!
What is the concept of a Red Notice?
This is a wanted notice from Interpol, and once issued, all member states have the right to arrest suspects!
At that time, there were 178 member states, in other words, Ji Bingxiong was wanted by 178 countries at the same time!
But Ji Bingxiong lost his voice again, and it wasn't until two years later that the Hong Kong police finally waited for an opportunity!
3 Finally caught
Ji Bingxiong has a passport with a basically different name in his hand, so he can leave the country unconsciously.
Every time he disappeared, he traveled back and forth between Canada, the mainland, and Hong Kong, and worked as a thug for international drug dealers.
On Christmas Eve 2003, Ji Bingxiong was ready to do another big vote on the occasion of Christmas and New Year.
However, this news was quickly intercepted by the police, and this time the Hong Kong police made up their minds: they must catch Ji Bingxiong!
They did not dare to act rashly, but let O Ji and the Criminal Intelligence Section carefully deploy for 3 weeks, and finally dispatched the Flying Tigers to arrest on Christmas Eve on the 24th!
At 2:00 a.m., the police blocked all 6 streets near Ji Bingxiong's stronghold and heavily armed them.
Subsequently, the police blew open the iron gate and broke the wooden door with a shotgun and rushed into the room.
Then, he smashed the three doors of the house and subdued Ji Bingxiong in one room.
Finally, a generation of thieves who have been at large for 18 years have been arrested!
Not only that, but the police also seized the largest amount of arms in nearly 30 years in this operation!
It wasn't until Ji Bingxiong was arrested and brought to justice that the police didn't know that even the name "Ji Bingxiong" was fake!
He claimed that his real name was Guan Derong, and it was not known whether he was his real name or not.
Ji Bingxiong was eventually sentenced to 24 years in prison in 2005.
As for the two remaining thieves in Hong Kong: Zhang Ziqiang and Ye Jihuan, their fate is not good.
Ye Jihuan was sentenced to 16 years in prison that year, but in the 5th year, he lied that he was going to the hospital with abdominal pain, and then successfully escaped from prison on the road!
After 2 years of prison escape, Ye Jihuan re-emerged from the jianghu, setting a record of 10 minutes of serial robbery of 5 gold shops, and leaving this "famous photo" of holding an AK-47:
5 years later, Ye Jihuan created another gunfight, but this time he was shot 4 times in the back, and his lower body was directly paralyzed!
Ye Jihuan was eventually sentenced to 36 years and 3 months in prison and died of cancer in 2017.
Zhang Ziqiang, on the other hand, was executed by firing squad in Guangdong in 1998.
In 2020, Ji Bingxiong was released from prison, and he is also the only person who is still alive in the "Three Thieves Kings" in Hong Kong so far.
On the day of his release from prison, the whole hong Kong was a sensation, and the police dispatched more than a dozen police cars to martial law!
All-hong Kong media gather at Stanley Prison:
Because Ji Bingxiong did not have a Hong Kong identity, he was directly escorted to the United States as soon as he was released from prison.
The escort car drove directly into the restricted area to the tarmac:
Many media followed the purchase of tickets to the plane, and even followed all the way to the United States, just to track the movements of the thief king.
After arriving in the United States, Ji Bingxiong boarded a seven-person car, and there was no new news about him.
The "hermit" who was once famous for shaking the rivers and lakes has once again lost his whereabouts...
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