He went to northern Fujian to suppress bandits, took the translator to the mountains and went to the countryside, and a year later he learned that the translator was the head of the bandit intelligence station

In mid-December 1950, in order to defend the local land reform, the bandits operating in northern Fujian were exterminated in a rapid and healthy manner. The Fujian Provincial Military Region has transferred a number of cadres above the level of squad leaders (and also a small number of fighters) from the grassroots level to form a powerful anti-bandit land reform task force.

The task force consists of brigades, squadrons, detachments, and small groups, which are fully armed and go to places where there are many bandits and where the foundation for mass work is weak. Liu Chunyi, an officer of the Youth Division of the Political Department of the 247th Regiment of the 83rd Division, was also transferred to join the anti-bandit land reform task force and was assigned to the "Songxi, Zhenghe" Brigade (Songxi, Zhenghe County). Captain Zhang Fuhua and instructor Wang Yuheng. The captain of the Songxi County squadron was concurrently served by Wang Yuheng, and Liu Chunyi was the team leader.

Liu Chunyi's detachment consisted of two deputy company-level (Liu Henghe team fu), three platoon-level members (Guo Dujiu, Wang Chengshan, and Zhang Baoquan), more than 10 squad leaders, three students enlisted in Fuzhou Revolutionary University, and four soldiers who had been trained, totaling more than 20 people. The detachment is responsible for land reform in the three townships of Xidong, Zhoudun, and Guyuan in Songxi Weitian District. Liu Chunyi and Guo Dujiu live in Xidong Township. In addition to being responsible for the work of the three townships, Liu Chunyi also has the responsibility of participating in the district committee and leading the work of the whole district.

After the liberation, the remnants of the Kuomintang in northern Fujian "took off their leather shoes and put on straw sandals" and went up the mountain to become bandits, and the bandits in northern Fujian were mainly these people. At the same time, there are also organizations such as the Dadao Society, the reactionary Daohuimen, and the militia groups, habitual bandits who specialize in raiding homes and robbing houses, kidnapping tickets, and extorting money, as well as many people who have been deceived, bewitched, and coerced into going up the mountains to become bandits.

According to the statistics of the Jianyang and Nanping special offices in the first half of 1950, there were more than 170 bandits in the counties under the jurisdiction of the two special offices. In the course of the subsequent clean-up and suppression, it was discovered that there were actually more than 410 bandits of all sizes, with more than 20,000 bandits, of which the larger bandits were the "Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi Frontline Special Attack Headquarters," and the bandits were led by military commanders Wang Tiaoxun (pseudonym Ying Zhicheng) and Quan Zhanglin, and there were nearly 10,000 bandits, and the areas of activity were mainly in Shunchang, Nanping, Jian'ou, Shaowu, Guangguang, Songxi, Zhenghe, Gutian, Shaxian, Jiangle, Jianning, Taining, and other counties, as well as in the mountainous areas at the junction of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi.

Although the anti-bandit land reform task force is still fully armed like the troops, the environment and the nature of its work have completely changed. The inhabitants here live in scattered and backward minds, and the surrounding hostile situation is serious, and the environment is complex and harsh. Under the instigation of the Taiwan authorities, the bandits were extremely arrogant in their counterrevolutionary arrogance. They attacked county seats, district offices, and township governments, killed cadres, intercepted transportation lines, looted military supplies, and sabotaged grain requisition and front-line support in a vain attempt to subvert the nascent people's political power. At the same time, they attacked homes and houses, barricades and robberies, arrested people and kidnapped tickets, extorted money for food, raped women, and burned down houses.

Working in the newly liberated mountainous areas requires not only fighting an enemy who is clearly armed with a gun, but also a hidden enemy of all kinds. The task is very glorious and arduous, it is also dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will "move your head".

This is not an exaggeration. A land reform detachment in Jian'ou County was surrounded by bandits from the Dadaohui at night, and several members of the team were hacked to death. Zhao Zisen, the head of the Zhenghe County Land Reform Detachment, was also shot dead by bandits. The enemy also has a powerful weapon that kills without seeing blood: sugar-coated cannonballs. The cunning enemy used money and beauties to win over and corrupt our team, and some people in the land reform team did make a mistake in this regard, and Liu Chunyi's former political commissar of the column was transferred back to the army because of this mistake.

Whether it is a leader or a team member, once the mind is relaxed, it is possible to make mistakes. Therefore, the leadership demanded that all members of the land reform team must pass three tests and withstand the three major tests, that is, they must withstand the test of armed struggle at the level of suppressing bandits; they must withstand the test of class struggle; and they must withstand the test of sugar-coated shell attacks at the level of daily life.

Northern Fujian is located at the junction of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, with high mountains and dense forests, vertical and horizontal ravines, and complex terrain. Weitian District is bordered by Qingyuan in Zhejiang Province in the north, Jiangshan and Pucheng in the west, and Zhenghe in the east, which is the junction of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, and bandits are very rampant in this area. When the anti-bandit land reform team first arrived here, I was not familiar with the place, I was in the open, the enemy was in the shadows, and I could not see the bandits, but the bandits had a clear understanding of my actions.

During the day, the bandits hid in the mountains, returned to the village at night, and lived in the same village and town with the team. A mass meeting was held, Liu Chunyi spoke on the temple platform, and the bandits sat face to face with the masses in the audience. The crowd was so frightened that they didn't dare to breathe, and the venue was silent. Liu Chunyi did not know the situation, but he also thought that he had spoken well and that the masses had listened to him very well.

Every time there is a meeting, Liu Chunyi and the correspondents plus the interpreter participate, and the bandits must arrive at every meeting. During the day, Liu Chunyi often traveled to Shanpu (small village) with a gun on his back, and bandits were often encountered. As soon as they saw Liu Chunyi, they hid in the bushes. They wanted to move Liu Chunyi, but they didn't dare to move Liu Chunyi.

According to the confession of Zhou, a bandit squad leader who was captured alive in Zhoudun Village, what they were most afraid of was that the gunfire would expose the target and provoke our large army stationed in the suppression of bandits (the first battalion stationed in Weitian), and second, they were afraid that Liu Chunyi's marksmanship would be accurate. He said, "If we can't kill you with one shot, or if we can't catch you at once, we'll die under your gun." ”

Liu Chunyi laughed secretly in his heart when he heard these words, these bandits were really exhausted, and they were frightened. In fact, Liu Chunyi's marksmanship is not accurate, and the marksmanship is accurate by Zhao Zisen, the regimental staff officer and the Zhenghe team.

When the land reform brigade concentrated on Jianou to study Xi, Zhao Zisen went to the street at night after drinking and played with a gun on the iron nails on the door of the store. His guns were accurate, one at a time, and he had broken telephone lines with a box gun. But he also violated discipline by shooting casually, was punished with a warning, and sat in confinement for one night.

But there are benefits to this. Since then, the land reform team's marksmanship has been accurate, and the reputation of being able to hit wires has spread very well among the bandits in northern Fujian and spread throughout the region. The bandits' intelligence is very clever and knows it earlier than the masses.

However, it is not for nothing that the bandits named him and said that he had good marksmanship. When Liu Chunyi lived in Zhoudun Village, one day, he and his correspondent Jiang Hongxu chatted and bragged with a few people next to the water pump, and borrowed the words of the masses to say, "The guns of the land reform team members are accurate, they have been selected and tested, and so on." Militia Fan Shuisheng said: "Instructor Liu, I heard that your marksmanship is very good, please shoot Liu Chunyi to open his eyes." ”

Liu Chunyi didn't say a word, took Jiang Hongxu's 38-style big cover, pushed the bullet and aimed it at a dry branch "horn" on a black cypress tree, the dry branch fell to the ground, and everyone present applauded. However, Liu Chunyi is still very modest about this, saying that in fact, it was also a blind description of a dead mouse.

Fan Shuisheng continued: "Instructor Liu, you can shoot so accurately with a big gun, you are carrying a short gun, isn't it your short gun that is more accurate?" Liu Chunyi came to push the boat down the river, drifted along the gourd, and said, "Maybe." ”

The opposite is true. The long gun he has used for a long time, the box gun is still a recent thing. And, speaking of the box gun he carried, it wasn't ordinary ridiculous. The firing pin of this gun had been worn short in the hands of Liu Chunyi's predecessor, and Liu Chunyi tried it several times, but it could not hit at all. Because the order was urgent, he took it down to participate in the land reform before he had time to repair it.

Then why does he still carry this waste on his back every day? Liu Chunyi said: "That's drinking cold water and using chopsticks as a greeting to scare people." "Since people say that his marksmanship is superb, it is somewhat useful to memorize an ornament. The bandits didn't dare to touch Liu Chunyi, but later Liu Chunyi was scared when he learned about the situation.

But this is not what he is most afraid of, and what he is afraid of in the end is that at that time, I did not distinguish between friend and foe, recognized the enemy as a friend, and ate and lived with the enemy.

When Liu Chunyi first arrived in Weitian District, due to the language barrier, the district committee assigned Liu Chunyi a translator, surnamed Mao Ziliang, who was the same year as Liu Chunyi. This person infiltrated the district office as a cultural and educational assistant, but secretly he was the head of the bandit intelligence station. But Liu Chunyi didn't know anything about it, and he still lived in his village, ate and lived in his house, not knowing that all his actions were completely under his control, surrounded by bandits.

He also had him and the correspondents live in the room next to his husband and wife, and arranged for a beautiful landlord girl in the opposite room from him. However, Liu Chunyi didn't fall for this, but he didn't find out his malicious intentions, and he and Fan Qingdi Township Chief were known to be reliable elements, and this so-called township chief turned out to be an intelligence officer of the bandits.

The reason why these two people didn't treat him was not because they had good intentions, but because the situation forced them, the bandits were gone, and they didn't dare to act rashly and take risks. However, if he really jumps over the wall in a hurry, Liu Chunyi and the comrades of the work team are in danger of being eaten by him at any time.

Under the powerful attack of our bandit suppression troops, the bandits in northern Fujian were eliminated in the summer of 1951, and the bandit commander Yin Zhensheng (from Weitian) was captured alive, and the bandit squadron leader Zhang Zhongwu was killed.

The land reform in northern Fujian began to be piloted in the spring of 1950 during the suppression of bandits, and it was generally carried out after the suppression of the rebellion. With the deepening of the land reform, many opportunistic elements who had infiltrated the revolutionary ranks and deeply hidden enemies were dug out one by one. This is how Mao Ziliang, the head of the bandit intelligence station, and Fan Qingdi, an intelligence officer, were exposed by the masses. A year later, Liu Chunyi had changed jobs and was sent to work in Pucheng, a neighboring county.