The source of this article is the public number: Ji People
In 1952, Li Normal, a militia platoon leader, suddenly received news: Xu Hanzhang, a giant bandit in western Hunan Province, had been captured!
After Xu Hanzhang's team was wiped out, it disappeared without a trace. So how did you get caught?
The militia replied, "He just walked out from the checkpoint of the People's Liberation Army!" ”
"Nonsense!" Li Pai was furious, because Xu Hanzhang's mole was too recognizable, how could he let him walk through the checkpoint.
When he saw Xu Hanzhang, Captain Li sighed: "No wonder you can't be caught for so many years, your current appearance is only afraid that few people can recognize it!" ”
How did this giant bandit in western Hunan get a facelift and escape the search of the People's Liberation Army?
In 1904, Xu Hanzhang was born in a relatively wealthy landlord family, his father Xu Yangpin was a local bully, he bullied men and women, fish and meat people, relying on cruel means of exploitation, obtained a lot of ill-gotten gains. Under the influence of his father, Xu Hanzhang acted recklessly at a young age, and he either fought and fought all day long, or stole chickens and dogs. But his father not only did not correct his behavior, but often boasted that he would become a great instrument in the future.
Xu Hanzhang's father never thought that knowledge could change his destiny, and his life creed was: Money can make ghosts grind.
Therefore, when Xu Hanzhang was a teenager, his father spent money to give him a position as a platoon leader in the National Revolutionary Army.
At this time, when Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12 Coup", in order to ask for credit from his superiors, Xu Hanzhang, like a mad dog, searched everywhere for communist guerrillas and fought several times with He Long, who was developing revolution in the western Hunan region.
Xu Hanzhang was such a person, so fierce that he even killed his own people!
He gained his first political capital by killing the revolutionary masses, and then began to fish in the Kuomintang army day by day. However, the Party organization certainly did not allow such a cancerous tumor to exist, so it organized an assassination operation. Unfortunately, the operation was not successful, but Xu Hanzhang had a wary heart, and it was difficult to start from then on!
In 1934, with the transfer of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army from all over the country to the Shaanxi-Gansu Region, Xu Hanzhang lost its use value in the Western Hunan Region.
Xu Hanzhang thought that he had offended the Communist Party and could not continue to mix with the Kuomintang. Two strokes, isn't there no place for you to die? Instead of waiting for others to clean up after you, you should take the initiative to think of a retreat strategy.
So he and a group of soldiers in the army ransacked the Luxi County Government, and then he fled to Dulan Mountain with this gang and more than thirty guns, and lived a life of robbing his family.
In 1936, Xu Hanzhang was appointed by Liu Minying to become the captain of a miscellaneous militia group. He started with the youngest captain, because he was fierce and his family was also a local landlord, so he was particularly arrogant.
In that era when a gun was the king of grass heads, Xu Hanzhang worked in the miscellaneous army for more than ten years and became an out-and-out "soldier".
In November of that year, Xu Hanzhang found the leaders of the Pushi Town Militia League, Xiang Zhongzhong (later renamed Yang Yunfei) and Li Zibin, instigated 35 regimental leaders to mutiny, dragged their guns up the mountain to become bandits, and Xu Hanzhang became the leader of the regiment.
In order to be able to become an official and become bigger, he did not hesitate to exploit the people's real estate and forcibly abducted young women, and the people dared not speak out. Even revolutionaries.
In order to be able to position the wounded revolutionaries, he threatened the local villagers to kill children and women in person, just to get the news.
Later, the villagers still did not confess. He slashed 23 knives at a man, extremely cruel.
He also robbed two villages, Yang Binzhuang and Yantou Mountain, killing 17 people, abducting five young women, burning 29 houses, and countless livestock and valuables.
In August 1937, after repeated encirclement and suppression failures, Li Zhenwen, the governor of Luxi County, had no choice but to recruit him again and incorporate him into the Luxi County Zhuangding Brigade, making him the captain of the brigade. However, he was not adjusted, and the team continued to live in XinglongChang, while he himself lived in a mansion in the cottage with several pressed ladies.
In 1939, Xu was incorporated into the company commander of the Second Company of the Provisional Fifth Division of the New Sixth Army. Not long after working, he heard that he was going to send troops to resist Japan, so he cheated some weapons and equipment and then secretly dragged the team up the mountain as a bandit. Specialized in looting and selling opium and salt for money.
At this time, the war had reached a critical moment, Xu Hanzhang was sure that the military department would not go to great lengths because of the weapons of this small company, and sure enough, the New Sixth Army was transferred to fight in northern Burma, and Xu Hanzhang escaped the disaster.
Relying on the money looted in the local area for many years, Xu Hanzhang paid bribes on a large scale, danced well in the military and political circles of western Hunan Province, and repeatedly evaded conquest and suppression.
In 1943, his ranks grew to more than 300 guns, and he declared himself the commander of the militia regiment, competing against the regular Kuomintang army.
According to statistics, Xu Hanzhang and several other bandit leaders wasted more than 890 innocent women and killed a large number of people. Due to the inaction of the government at that time, Xu Hanzhang's behavior in the local area was not constrained in any way.
At the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1944, a number of high-ranking Kuomintang officials in the western Hunan region, in order to win the hearts and minds of the people and prevent the local people from falling to our party after the war, mobilized a number of elite troops and began to encircle and suppress Xu Hanzhangbu. This time, when he saw that the Kuomintang troops were determined to suppress them, Xu Hanzhang did not have any more relations, so he directly fell into the grass again and hid in the deep mountains and old forests, thinking of avoiding the wind, and when he saw that Xu Hanzhang's troops suffered heavy losses, the Kuomintang bandit troops did not investigate further, and in order to reduce the losses, they acquiesced to Xu Hanzhang's behavior and turned around and withdrew.
Xu Hanzhang quickly established relations, led his troops to surrender before the nationalist encirclement and suppression began, and became the commander of the local auxiliary defense battalion.
When the Liberation War broke out, Xu Hanzhang was absorbed by the Kuomintang and became a force against the Communists, because Xu Hanzhang himself was very sorry for his life, so he refused to confront the Communists on the battlefield, so he once again came to the mountains, and before leaving, he forced many Kuomintang people to go up the mountains with him as bandits. He also colluded with bandits to rob the Xiangxi Arsenal, obtained a large number of guns and ammunition, and expanded his strength; later, he contacted Chen Jingxiong, a Kuomintang colonel in Huiluxi County, Taiwan, and joined Chen Jingxiong's troops, and Chen was appointed chief of staff. It is stationed in Luxi County, Baisha, Pushi area. This time, Xu Hanzhang had a total of 5,000 men and horses, and there were many guns.
Looking at the jiangshan he had beaten down, Xu Hanzhang was also complacent.
In the same year, all parts of the South were gradually liberated. In September, the field army entered the western part of Hunan, and Xu Hanzhang's good days came to an end.
In September 1949, when Luxi County was liberated, Xu Hanzhang heard the news and led the main force of the "Provisional Ninth Division" to flee to Xinglongchang and continue to resist. In order to quickly dismantle this armed force, the 139th Division of the Yuanling Military Sub-district sent Director Xie of the Political Department and Hao Jingen, deputy governor of the Second District of Luxi County, to Zhongtang to negotiate with Xu Hanzhang, hoping to peacefully quell the bandits in this area. However, at this time, Xu Hanzhang's heart was particularly inflated, and the People's Liberation Army sent people to persuade him to surrender, and he actually humiliated the liaison personnel who persuaded him to surrender on the spot, saying that not only was there no problem of surrender, but he wanted to counterattack Yuanling, attack Qianzhou, and unify western Hunan province.
On January 25, 1950, Xu Hanzhang sent his subordinates Yang Yunfei and Qiancheng bandit Zhang Yuefa, a total of more than 1,000 people, to attack the mountain artillery company directly under the Forty-seventh Army escorting the cargo ship in the area of Songbaitan in Luxi and Huanglianxi in Qiancheng, killing many PLA fighters.
Xu Hanzhang's move completely angered the military and the people.
Although Xu Hanzhang's bandit armed forces were numerous and powerful, they did not experience any battles, and were "taught to be human in minutes by the field troops." In this battle, Xu Hanzhang lost more than 1,000 people and saw the strength of the regular field troops.
On March 3, 1950, the 139th Division of the 47th Army of the People's Liberation Army closed the 5th Road to surround Xu Hanzhang's old lair, Luxi County, Xinglong Field. Hit him off guard. In the Battle of Dulan Mountain, the second regiment of Xubu Li Xiangyun and the third regiment of Li Zibin were almost completely destroyed. Xu Hanzhang fled with the guard battalion all the way to Lan Crab Ge, and saw that the 415th Regiment of the People's Liberation Army was about to catch up. He sighed loudly: Is heaven for killing me?
Suddenly, the People's Liberation Army withdrew! It turned out that the Yang Yunfei regiment that he had ambushed in Baiyangxi behind the PLA had secretly attacked the PLA's grain delivery fleet.
In order to successfully capture Xu Hanzhang, the 8th Company of the 416th Regiment of the People's Liberation Army also formulated a detailed battle plan for this purpose, braved hardships and dangers, pursued all the way for more than 1500 miles, and arrested Li Wenzhi, the captain of Xu Hanzhang's brigade, but unfortunately Xu Hanzhang escaped in advance because he got the news in advance, and as for when he escaped and where he ran, Li Wenzhi did not know.
Xu Hanzhang, on the other hand, said that the most dangerous place may be the safest. So he took the only two remaining bandits out day and night, took the mountain road and fled back to his old lair in Luxi Dalan. Found a hidden cave in the mountains at the junction of Dalan and Heshui. Xu Hanzhang studied traveling medicine when he was young, and he found some herbs in the mountains and healed the gunshot wound on his face.
In these days when he was treating his wounds in the cave, he let Wang Er and Li Si, disguised as mountain people, go down the mountain to steal things.
Xu Hanzhang had a large cinnabar mole under his right lip, which he once thought of as a pride, and now became a burden for his escape.
In order to hide his identity, he slashed a knife in the face with a dagger, and with the assistance of an old subordinate who had washed his hands of the golden basin, led two cows and swung past the PLA, while the inspectors saw that his tattered face was not obviously black mole on the fugitive, so they let him fool him.
It is said that xu Hanzhang mixed with the checkpoint, went straight to Huangxian County, wanted to run to the bandit Yao Dabang there, this day in Anjiazhai found a brick and tile shed, just pushed open the door, the people inside shouted in fright, this person is his old subordinate Li Daowang.
Xu Hanzhang heard that Yao Dabang's troops had been defeated by the People's Liberation Army, so he simply settled down and became a diligent bricklayer. If he lived so peacefully, he might not be recognized for the rest of his life.
But he did not change his nature as a bandit, and when he fled, he did not forget to flirt with the women of the good family, and after a drunken drink, he used his hands and feet on a woman, and in order to threaten this woman, he also revealed his identity to him, and the woman was very afraid of him, pretended to obey him, and after stabilizing him, he immediately reported to the government.
I heard that there was a raw mason in Huangxian County, who looked like Xu Hanzhang, a giant bandit in western Hunan Province. Although the corners of the mouth do not have the iconic mole, there is a new scar at the corner of the mouth. The People's Liberation Army attached great importance to it and immediately dispatched a small force to capture it.
After he was arrested, he looked at his current appearance, and the staff who arrested him looked incredulous.
On April 14, 1952, Xu Hanzhang was publicly convicted of the crime in Luxi County and the death penalty was immediately executed. The people rejoiced and set off cannons to celebrate.
Heaven's sins are still against them, but their own sins cannot be lived.