After a large number of work groups went to the countryside to mobilize the masses and carry out land reform, the area opened up gradually expanded, and this inevitably affected the interests of the reactionary bandits.
In particular, Xie Wendong, Li Huatang, Sun Rongjiu, Liu Shandong, and other reactionary bandits whose hands were stained with the blood of the people were not willing to accept their own demise, and they did everything possible to gather strength to compete with us.
In September 1946, Xie Wendong and Sun Rongjiu gathered 600 or 700 bandits to meet in the area of Boli Sanhetun, looted the masses, killed cadres, and threatened to attack the county town of Boli, causing panic among the people in the city.
One of the bandits rushed to a certain tun in Jixian Taiping District, grabbed the director of the agricultural association, knocked him to the ground, pressed a stone mill on his stomach, and said viciously: "Tell you to turn over!" ”。“ You poor parties divide the big households, beat our jobs, Lao Tzu will take revenge today! ”。
The rampant activity of bandits, frantic class revenge, caused great difficulties in our work of mobilizing the masses.
In October, a dark wind blew Fengxiang. The bandit leader Liu Shandong led more than 500 bandits to gather in a ravine outside Fengxiang County, threatening to destroy the Fengxiang people's power and capture Fengxiang County. Liu Shandong, whose real name is Liu Guangcai, is originally from Shandong and speaks Shandong dialect, so people call him Liu Shandongzi.
This habitual bandit is said to have served as a company commander under Ma Zhanshan. Ma Zhanshan was the brigade commander of the Kuomintang Su Bingwen division. After the Japanese invaded and occupied northeast China, they insisted on resisting, and Su Bingwen and Ma Zhanshan organized the famous Battle of Jiangqiao in Nenjiang. With the support of the people of the whole country, the Japanese invaders were severely damaged.
Since then, Su and Ma have become famous anti-Japanese generals in the Heilongjiang region. After the defeat in the Battle of Jiangqiao, Liu Shandong led more than 100 people to the areas of Wuyun, Foshan, Ulaga, and Tongjiang, under the banner of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, but in fact became bandits who robbed, plundered, occupied, and traitorized.
Around 1938 and 1939, the puppet Manchu government made a conquest, and Liu Shandong became the colonel of the puppet Manchus. After the surrender of Japan, he took the opportunity to collect weapons and expand his ranks, which soon grew to more than 500 people, and was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the Ninth Brigade of the First Army of the Central Advance Army.
Within the bandits in Liu Shandong, they mainly rely on the Qinghong gang and family education to control them, and they are more tightly organized and well equipped.
In Fengxiang County, there are two cavalry companies of our Hegang Independent Regiment, plus the guards of the county government, about 200 armed people. Hearing that Liu Shandong was going to attack the county town, the troops reinforced the city wall and made preparations to hold it.
The cunning Liu Shandong played a trick, and three or four miles from the city, they swaggered over, creating an illusion for the troops defending the city, as if they were only looting things in the countryside and were not ready to storm the county town.
As a result, our comrades, due to their lack of experience, relaxed their guard. In the early morning of the next day, Liu Shandong suddenly launched an attack on Fengxiang County. The defenders were caught off guard, and the enemy quickly attacked.
At dawn, our troops retreated to the courtyard of the county government. After several hours of fighting, a cavalry company was mostly scattered, and other units suffered heavy casualties. The forty or so people who had retreated to the courtyard gathered in a large three-story bunker and stood by for help.
Comrade Shao Wancai, county magistrate, went to the top of the building to command; Comrade Hu Huiliang, director of the Political Department of the Hegang Independent Regiment, was on the second floor; and Comrade Xuelang, deputy head of the Fengxiang County Work Group, was on the first floor.
The enemy surrounded the pillboxes and launched successive attacks, all of which were repulsed by our troops. The soldiers fought very bravely, especially a few young guards, facing the superior enemy, fearless, their own bullets were finished, and they continued to fight with the bullets that sacrificed their comrades, and they did not get out of the line of fire when they were wounded.
Platoon commander Ye Daosheng, calm command, heroic and courageous, wherever the enemy pounces in which direction, he will appear. The fierce fighting lasted all morning, and the enemy never managed to get a step closer to the bunker. In the evening, about 500 people from six companies of the Hegang Independent Regiment, led by Regiment Commander Chen, came to reinforce.
The troops marched to the Dulu River, sixty miles from Fengxiang County, and encountered enemy resistance. It turned out that while Liu Shandong was attacking Fengxiang, he had already sent people to occupy the Dulu River Bridge and demolished the bridge.
Ren Guangtai, commander of the fourth company of the Hegang Independent Regiment, led the whole company to forcibly lay the bridge board under the cover of artillery fire, rushed across the Dulu River and occupied the bridgehead on the opposite bank. At this time, if the troops quickly crossed the river to reinforce Fengxiang, they could cause Liu Shandong to be caught between inside and outside, and inflict great casualties on the enemy.
However, just as the fourth company rushed across the Dulu River, several small bandits were found on the bank. Regiment Commander Chen mistakenly thought that the enemy had crossed the Dulu River and surrounded them, so he ordered the fourth company to withdraw.
Because of his misjudgment, the reinforcements withdrew to Hegang after repelling these small bandits. After the reinforcements withdrew, Liu Shandong's attack on the Fengxiang County government intensified.
Under the cover of artillery fire, the enemy seized several horse sheds in front of the pillbox and set them on fire. Smoke and fire poured straight into the bunker. Our comrades were choked to the point that it was difficult to breathe. After a day and a night of fighting, in the end only two dozen comrades remained, and there were not many bullets. Everyone was hungry and thirsty and very tired all day and night.
Several comrades of the county party committee discussed breaking through the encirclement and decided that Comrade Xuelang would lead a few people to dig a tunnel with bayonets from under the bunker.
Then the enemy shouted to us, and they asked if we had the surname Pan. At that time, our comrades still did not know what it meant, and no one agreed. Later, I learned that this was a code word from the family teaching, and the word "Pan" means "Sanfanzi".
Then the enemy called our cavalry company commander Shan Feng by name, calling him Shan Sanye (it turned out that from the founder of the family theory teaching, to him was the twenty-second generation, and Shan Feng was the elder of the shouter).
The enemy said, "Third Master Shan, you are an elder, we have no evil intentions towards you, there is something to discuss." "After studying with Shan Feng, Comrade Hu Huiliang decided to take advantage of this opportunity and let Shan Feng come forward to negotiate with the enemy, on the condition that they give way and let us withdraw.
At two or three o'clock after midnight, Shan Feng called out to the bunker, saying that they agreed to our conditions and let us withdraw from the south gate. Comrade Hu Huiliang suspected that the enemy was engaged in a trap, and after reconnaissance, sure enough, the enemy detained the single peak. They are ready to destroy us when we evacuate.
Hu Huiliang led everyone to continue to step up digging tunnels to break through. Seeing that the trick could not succeed, the enemy launched a more violent attack.
The enemy, with a large number of people, finally attacked the bunker. At this time, it was just before dawn, the bunker was dark, and five fingers could not be seen, and the only sign that could distinguish between the enemy and the friend was that the enemy was wearing a fur sheepskin coat, and we were wearing a Japanese army coat.
The two sides changed from shooting to hand-to-hand combat. In the darkness, only the sound of butts clashing, wrestling and screaming was heard. The fire was raging outside, and there was a scuffle inside. After a fierce struggle, finally outnumbered, more than two dozen of our comrades were captured by the enemy.
After receiving the report of the Fengxiang incident, Comrade Zhang Wentian realized the seriousness of the problem. He immediately led the troops directly under the military region to Hegang by train, and the three troops were divided into two routes to rescue.
All the way straight to Liu Shandong, the only way to retreat from Fengxiang to the mountain, Mingshan, and the other way from Wutong Village across the Dulu River and marching towards Fengxiang.
When Liu Shandong learned the news of the arrival of our rescue troops, he abandoned most of our captured personnel at noon on the day he occupied Fengxiang, and took only three comrades, Hu Huiliang, Ye Daosheng, and Xiang Yantian, and hurriedly fled in the direction of Ulaga. On the way, Comrades Hu Huiliang and Xiang Yantian were shot dead, but Comrade Ye Daosheng was not hit at that time, and later was able to get away with it.
In the Fengxiang incident, our Hegang Independent Regiment lost two companies, the county magistrate Shao Wancai and other comrades died heroically, and the county government was destroyed by the enemy. This incident was followed by the Sifangtai incident. A company of the Jixian Independent Regiment was completely eliminated by bandits in the ravine of Sifangtai, and the deputy regiment commander was killed.
The enemy piled up the bodies of our soldiers and burned them, and the conditions were unbearable. The Jixian Independent Regiment went to Sifangtai twice to hunt down the bandits, but they all pounced.
All these examples fully show that after more than half a year of fighting against bandits, although certain achievements have been made, the number of bandits has decreased on the surface, but their reactionary social foundation has not been destroyed; The land reform in the countryside has not yet been fully carried out, and the masses have not been fully mobilized; The main bandits who were not caught are still stirring up trouble everywhere.
Although the railway line is under our control, there are frequent incidents of sabotage and carjacking; The waterway is not accessible, and even the car from Jiamusi to Fujin has been robbed!
We cannot take all this lightly when bandits disturb the social order of the city, carry out counter-plotting activities within me, and occasionally gather certain forces to attack our county town.
If we think that the future struggle against bandits is just to clean up the mess, this paralyzing thinking will not be able to establish a solid base area. In short, if we do not eradicate banditry, we will not be able to stand up, and bandits will return. The following situation with regard to ylang-ylang further illustrates this issue.