History is full of wonders.
- said Lao Cui
Thinking of two villages at war, subconsciously, we take it for granted as an "ordinary fight". Even the biggest battle was nothing more than two villagers coming together, holding sticks or farm tools, and beating each other to blood.
But thirty years ago, there were fights between two villages, and the scene was a small "battle". The villagers of the two villages, with good military quality, have an unprecedented situation in the "battle" with the neighboring villages. Both sides held firearms, and the scene was difficult to control for a while. A melee of more than 5,000 people was staged in two villages in Hunan.
After this incident, it directly led to a complete ban on "guns" on the mainland, and the history of legal ownership of firearms by the people has passed since then.
In 93 years, a village battle was so big that it turned out to be a small battle
Comparison of the scale of ancient warfare with the scale of modern warfare
Although there was a war of "one million troops" in ancient times, the most common scale of war was only about 5,000 people, and even the war of 5,000 people could be called a "relatively large-scale" war. Such an army, in ancient times, could play a large role in attacking a small city.
Although 5,000 men is not more than those "million-strong soldiers", if they actively cooperate and have reasonable command, troops of several thousand people can fight several times more than themselves.
When Liu Bang first started the incident, all the troops were only a few young and strong men in his village, and the number of these hundreds was only a few hundred, and these hundreds of people, under the command of Liu Bang and Xiao He and others, on the one hand, they could expand on the one hand, and on the other hand, they could defeat the strong with weakness and win more with small, and their power could not be underestimated.
In modern times, wars in various places are more frequent, so there are always some local forces, with their own guns and subordinates, constantly invading the people in other places on their own territory. Even in modern times, small-scale wars in such places are nothing more than petty fights in the eyes of military experts. It cannot be called "war".
However, in modern times, a force of 5,000 people has the strength of half a division, and its combat effectiveness plus advanced firearms and other military equipment should not be underestimated.
From the perspective of the mainland, Japan's Sengoku period is often joked about as a "village war". This is because its land is relatively small, the plain area is more rare, and the various places are blocked by mountains and hills, resulting in the forces of each party having fewer troops, so it is not an exaggeration to call it a "village war".
In 93 years, the war between Jinggang Village and Matian Village
On September 11 of that year, the chiefs of the two villages, entangled all the adult men in their respective villages, took out all the weapons hidden in their homes in preparation for war.
After a later investigation by the police, the weapons they used and possessed, in addition to ordinary machetes, spear guns, fire pistols and other traditional weapons, also included explosive packs, "earth cannons", "hunting rifles", "grenades" and other extremely lethal thermal weapons.
In order to inflict serious damage on the enemy village and avoid casualties on his own side, the village chief, who had participated in large and small real battles, arranged and arranged hidden fire points in the central area of the village road junction and the place where the mountain behind the village was high and had concrete and other buildings, and after all-round arrangement, it turned out to be a three-dimensional, intertwined, and tight fire attack network.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the forces of the two villages were officially assembled, and a fierce battle was fought at the junction of the two villages.
Under the respective arrangements of the village chiefs of the two villages, all the old and young of the village were mobilized, giving them their own clear division of labor, not only having a team responsible for reconnaissance and preparation, but also a temporary wartime hospital in the rear, and the veterinarians in the village also became military doctors under the arrangement, responsible for treating the wounded in the front.
From this point on, what was originally an ordinary "weapon fight" between villages immediately became a "small battle".
When the war entered a fever pitch, the valley between the two villages was filled with gunshots and shelling, shrapnel fired from the barrels and barrels of guns, sweeping away all the trees on the mountain, and tongues of fire spit out from the muzzles emitted orange-red fire, which were aimed at the enemy's fire points.
The war lasted for a long time, and the number of casualties in the two villages continued to increase over time. Some of the wounded on all sides were blown away by shells, and some were blinded by flying bullets. All kinds of injuries were terrible, and the wounded filled the improvised hospitals in the rear.
This battle lasted from day to night until dawn the next day.
The village chief of Ma Tian Village, seeing that the war had lasted so long and still had no victory or defeat, changed his battle plan against the enemy village after some discussion.
The village chief quickly gathered the various "soldiers" together, divided into groups of three, adopted the offensive strategy known as the "three three systems" in the history of war, and then used the conditions in the gravestones in the village cemetery as a cover, gradually marched to the defensive position of Jinggang Village.
The reason why these villagers who implemented the "three three systems" attack strategy have such high military quality is because most of them are "veterans" who have experienced in the army, and under the slight guidance of the village chief, they have used this tactic to the fullest.
As the three-person team approached the enemy village, the weapons and ammunition of Jinggang Village faced exhaustion. The villagers of Matian Village noticed that the opponent's firepower was getting smaller, and they had already guessed that they were already defeated. Another company launched a continuous attack on Jinggang Village. This counterattack took six hours to break through the elaborate front of Jinggang Village, so that the important defensive port of Jinggang Village was washed away, and the villagers of Matian Village rushed in like a flood.
The war has continued until now, and the ammunition of both sides is not abundant, but its killing intent is everywhere, and it can no longer be suppressed, so they take up large knives and cut at each other's bodies.
The results and causes of this fight
The victory of the villagers of Matian Village is already doomed, and they are preparing to pursue the "poor curse" with a bang. Unexpectedly, the local government finally learned about this matter, and quickly mobilized armed police to calm the armed conflict.
More than 1,000 armed police were transported from helicopters and soon arrived at the battlefield of the two villages. When they received the task, they were still wondering why an ordinary villager would send out so many officers and soldiers to fight with weapons. After arriving, the scene in front of them made them surprised.
The grass and trees on a huge valley were completely swept away by gunfire, countless bullet holes were fired by gunshots between the valleys, and the crops in the cultivated land were covered with soil raised by the large pit hit by the shells, and the caliber of the covered area was hundreds of meters long, covering all the blood stains on the ground.
It is no exaggeration to say that this landscape is a "war". However, this is the first time that many of the officers and soldiers of the armed police have been seen.
The armed police quickly publicized the stop, but it did not have much effect. In desperation, he had to fire tear gas canisters at the villagers who were fighting. After a puff of white smoke, the fighting of the villagers finally stopped.
After some investigation, I learned that the conflict between the two villages has a long history. About 50 years ago, a Kuomintang officer in Matian Village, in the name of the government, arrested the villagers of Jinggang Village, plundered their property and robbed them of the land in Jinggang Village. He also killed a total of 27 villagers in Jinggang Village, thus forming a blood feud.
Later, in '92, when there was a conflict between the two villages because of the well, Ma Tian Village took advantage of the hazy night to destroy the collective property of Jinggang Village, causing the loss of Jinggang Village to be as high as 10,000 yuan.
As a result, the two sides turned against each other again, often fighting and killing on the road, and this large-scale "battle" was the result of the gradual deepening of the contradiction.
After this incident, the mainland stepped up the issuance of bills on the control of firearms and equipment, so that the mainland's civilian ownership of firearms was controlled and confiscated from the people, which made the current environment safe.
- brief summary
The contradiction between the two villages is not only a problem left over from history, but also a basis for reasonable communication between the two sides. Such a disaster is definitely the result of not getting timely communication.
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