Around the 90s of the last century, Binh Yuan Street, a place on the border between China and Vietnam, was called "the country's extralegal place" by drug traffickers.
It is not uncommon for almost every household to have guns in possession, pay no taxes in business, and pay no food for farming, and the police, armed police and government officials who work here have become high-risk occupations.
Hong Kong "bandit" Zhang Ziqiang, who kidnapped the son of Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's richest man, once said about this place when he was arrested and interrogated.
The police officer asked him, "Where did you buy your guns?"
Zhang Ziqiang answered honestly: "All our guns were bought in Pingyuan Street, Wenshan County, Yunnan Province, and this place can buy any weapon except fighters!" ”
So what kind of place is Pingyuan Street? Why is it so rampant?
"Notorious" Pingyuan Street
In the eighties of the last century, the Vietnamese provoked the Chinese side and harassed China in the area around Wenshan Prefecture in Yunnan. In the face of frequent provocations by the Vietnamese army, the mainland also made corresponding arrangements, and our troops stood on the front line and transferred troops from major military regions to participate in defensive operations, and this area became the main area of war between China and Vietnam.
The "Battle of Laoshan" and the "Battle of Songmaoling" both took place in the territory of Wenshan Prefecture. Pingyuan Street belongs to the Wenshan Prefecture area, a small town located on the border between Yunnan Province and Vietnam, which has naturally experienced various armed conflicts for many years.
To this end, some lawbreakers, taking advantage of the chaos at the border, have infiltrated the place from officials to ordinary people, and organized criminal activities such as drug trafficking, firearms and ammunition.
At that time, because of the drug and even gun trafficking in this town, it was once called China's version of the "Golden Triangle".
By the 90s, Pingyuan Street had become a gathering place for many criminals such as drug and gun dealers. Not only did they sell the drugs they made to the local area, but they even sold the drugs to the whole country through various means of transportation!
According to later statistics from relevant departments, the amount of drugs manufactured in Pingyuan Street in Yunnan Province spread throughout 23 provinces and cities across the country, and due to its geographical location, it has also become a transit point for foreign drugs to enter China.
For a while, the black smoke miasma in Pingyuan Street in Yunnan, and the drugs flowing from here caused great harm to the people, and what was more serious was that due to the rapid development of the black industry, the violence in Pingyuan Street was increasing day by day, and a large number of bandits appeared, these criminal and evil forces were particularly rampant because of their weapons, not only openly provoking law enforcement personnel, violently resisting law enforcement activities, and even daring to kill police officers.
All-round encirclement
One day in 1992, Jin Shouping, then secretary of the Wenshan Prefecture Political and Legal Committee, said to the public security officers behind him: Comrades, we are now going to carry out an arrest operation, this task is quite special, we are going to enter the interior of Pingyuan Street in Yunnan to arrest us. ”
After that, Jin Shouping took more than 20 armed police to Pingyuan Town to arrest several criminals.
However, when they came to the villa where the criminals were hiding, they found that there was no defense, even the gate was not locked, could it be that the criminals had escaped?
With doubts, Jin Shouping pushed open the door of the villa, at this time, the criminal suddenly threw a grenade at the door of the villa, rolled to the feet of Jin Shouping, "boom" with a loud noise, scarlet fireball accompanied by billowing smoke. Jin Shouping, who was walking in the front, was blown up by the huge power of the grenade and died on the spot!
The other party actually dared to attack the police! Immediately afterwards, "boom, pop, bang, ding" bullets swept over one after another, far better than the police.
In the shootout that followed, the police fought back. As the police were chasing the criminals to Shangling Village, hundreds of outlaws suddenly came to the reinforcements, rushing up to surround the police car, knock it down and burn it. Later, in retaliation, they rushed into the public security bureau and smashed indiscriminately, shooting demonstrations, throwing grenades, and all kinds of evil.
In the end, the accident caused a total of 15 public security officers to be injured and 5 killed, causing extremely bad impact.
In order to completely eliminate these outlaws, the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee made up its mind and sent a team of 3,000 public security armed police. The area of Pingyuan Street was divided and encircled, and the officers and men of the armed police in neighboring provinces such as Guizhou and Guangxi had also received orders and were ready to reinforce at any time.
At this time, Pingyuan Street has been laid with a net:
All roads are blocked to prevent drug traffickers from escaping; Occupy all hills and erect heavy weapons for fire suppression.
It was also these armed police officers and soldiers that even made the US military feel panic. On August 15, 1992, U.S. satellites suddenly detected a change in the border between China and Vietnam. At that time, the US Department of Defense held an emergency meeting and immediately talked to Vietnam, thinking that China was going to war against Vietnam.
In the quiet Pingyuan Street, the drug lords do not know that what awaits them will be a catastrophe.
"Get moving!"
On the intercom, the commander of the armed police gave instructions.
More than 30 arrest teams moved quickly, taking advantage of the darkness to quietly approach the drug lord's villa. When the time came, the armed police quickly broke down the door and arrested all the drug dealers.
But the development of things is not smooth, the underworld forces in Pingyuan Street have long expected such a day, so they have long prepared their own countermeasures, in the area of Pingyuan Street stands a lot of villas, these villas have different shapes, but the area is quite large, these are those criminals hired from Shanghai, Beijing and other places at a high price to hire designers, at the beginning of the design, they have left many dark passages and shooting holes, it can be said that their villa is a miniature version of the fortification.
Therefore, the drug traffickers, who heard the movement, organized their own armed men to confront. They hid in the shadows to find a suitable opportunity, so they fired cold guns and grenades at the police. In the end, armed police soldiers drove them out of the building with tear gas and killed them with bazookas and submachine guns.
In this way, the 81-day Pingyuan Street strike hard operation finally came to an end.
During this period, public security officers seized more than 1,000 kilograms of drugs; More than 1,900 guns, grenades, bazookas, etc.; 30.47 million stolen money; There are also tons of illegal cars, motorcycles, mansions, etc.
More than 1,800 criminals have also been dealt with accordingly according to their performance.
Of course, the leaders of those criminal groups, who bewitched the local people and openly opposed the police, were immediately sentenced to death.
At this point, the mainland has won a great victory in the rectification plan of Pingyuan Street, and Pingyuan Street has gradually returned to its former tranquility.
This Pingyuan Street rectification plan changed the chaos in Pingyuan Street, severely cracked down on drug gangs, and also deterred some "ambitious" people.
epilogue
Although we won this anti-drug operation, we also sacrificed 15 combat heroes. And in the previous series of arrests, dozens of police officers were sacrificed, their youngest was even 18 years old, they really rushed to protect us!