Zhang Pseudoyang robbed the beauty garden at night
In Xichang, Sichuan Province, on 26 August 1950, nearly 100 invitations stamped with the seal of the Military Control Commission in bright red in the lower right corner were sent from the compound of the Xichang District Provisional Military Control Commission of the People's Liberation Army in Xichang City to the bandit leaders with the greatest influence and the most rampant activities in the Xichang area.
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The Military Management Committee is hereby scheduled to convene people from all walks of life to hold a cordial meeting at the Liren Garden in Xichang on 19 September, and we hereby invite you to attend it, hoping that you will work tirelessly and go to Changchang on time.
Dedicated to:
The Chinese People's Liberation Army Xichang area temporary
Arms Control Commission
195O/x/x
The entire city of Xichang was stunned, and hundreds of thousands of poor people in the entire Xichang area were stunned.
Xichang, which is bordered by the Jinsha River in the south, the Dadu River in the north, the Daliang Mountain and Lunan Mountain in the east, and the Sichuan-Yunnan traffic point that runs through the roaring Yarlung Zangbo River in the west, and the hinterland bordering the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, is an area where Yi, Han, Miao and other multi-ethnic groups live together. It is located in a remote area, the culture is backward, but the people are very strong and aggressive, and it has always been a region where bandits and various green forest armed forces have emerged.
In March 195O, when the Battle of Chengdu ended, a large number of Kuomintang troops, political and constitutional personnel, as well as a large number of scattered Kuomintang troops, were finally forced to flee into the Da, Xiaoliangshan, and Lunan mountains. At the juncture of panic and not knowing where to go, Chiang Kai-shek sent Gu Zhutong, chief of staff of the Ministry of National Defense, Wang Shuming, commander-in-chief of the Air Force, and his own son Chiang Ching-kuo, who had high hopes, to secretly fly from Taiwan to Xichang with a large number of radio stations, funds, and countless letters of appointment. Rise up guerrillas, take root in the southwest, and greet a new dawn" as the slogan, wantonly disseminate all kinds of letters of appointment and the names of the so-called guerrilla armed forces, and establish a unified organization; in one Xichang area alone, there are more than 1,000 bandit leaders of various "columns," "anti-communist volunteers," and "guerrilla brigades," and the total number of bandits of all kinds who are openly and temporarily hidden underground is nearly 100,000.
At that time, bandits were also in a rampant stage of swarming in thousands of villages and everywhere in various parts of the country, and the newly born people's governments in all parts of the country were either completely destroyed by the bandits, or they complained to the higher authorities one after another. On 27 March 1950, when Chiang Kai-shek's last stronghold in Chinese mainland was declared liberated by the People's Liberation Army, there were more than 10 bandit armed forces such as the "Hidden Loyalty Regiment" and the "Hidden Filial Piety Regiment" secretly lurking by the Kuomintang in Xichang City. Outside the city of Xichang, there have long been strict armed bandit organizations in various townships near and far. The 184th Division of the 62nd Army of the People's Liberation Army, which announced that it had occupied Xichang City, could only stay in Xichang City and hold its position at that time.
Wang Yao, the female bandit leader in Huili County, said: "If the Communist Party can hold out in Xichang until next month, I will cut off my head and send it to Xichang City!"
Fan Minh An, the leader of the bullies and bandits in Yanyuan County, asked people to post a notice at the headquarters of the 184th Division in Xichang City: "······ You can come to Xichang on two legs, and if you leave Xichang, you will have to stand on the Wangxiang Pavilion in the underworld and shed sad tears. ”
Asking for negotiations with the bandits in the Xichang area, is it true that the Communist Party has no foothold in Xichang and is ready to give in? Is it really the Communist Party that has no choice but to give up Xichang and hand over power back to these former hegemons in the Xichang area?
At this time, the most carried away are those county, district, and township bandit leaders, bullies, and gentry who have received invitations from the Xichang Provisional Military Management Committee of the People's Liberation Army. As a result, the bandit leaders who received this invitation in their hands, the bullies and gentry who were invincible in the local area in the past, almost without exception, held banquets in various places, wantonly celebrated, and openly publicized, and some even let the bandits below run around, beating gongs everywhere to propagandize: "The Communist Party invites Lord XXX to Xichang to be an acceptance officer!" "The Communist Party is about to escape, XXX will go to Xichang tomorrow to sit in the imperial court!" Levy and entangle, each family must hand over three pieces of Guangyang, half a load of grain, and those who do not pay will be punished for disobeying the king's order, and the xxx adults will be punished for having a dissatisfied attitude towards Xichang to "sit in the imperial court". On 29 August and 30 August, almost all of these famous bandits and bullies, regardless of the distance or the distance, were carried to Xichang City in a sedan chair. When Danba Xianci, the bandit leader of Lugu Town, Mianning County, left Lugu in a sedan chair on the morning of 29 July, he forced the villagers to send him off firecrackers for several miles.
However, this is really a misunderstanding.
When Liang Wenying, who served as political commissar of the 184th Division of the 62nd Army, recalled this scene to me, he still had a cunning smile on his face that was not without mockery. Liang Wenying later retired from a leading position in the Ministry of Textile Industry and now lives in a small courtyard building on Xinjiekou Wai Street in Beijing. Nearly eighty years old, his thin face still looks very bright. At that time, he was not only the political commissar of the 184th Division and the director of the Provisional Military Control Committee of the Xichang District of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, but also the first secretary of the prefectural party committee of the Xichang region after the liberation of the country.
After these bandit leaders and big bullies arrived in Xichang in a sedan chair, they came to the scheduled registration location in the western suburbs of the city, Lirenyuan. As soon as they entered the gate, according to the regulations, each person could only bring one personal attendant with him, and all the other escorts who came with him were blocked out of the door. Later, when I got inside, even this personal listening was solved. In fact, the troops had already made careful arrangements and preparations in the Beauty Garden, and these bandits, bullies, and gentry were mostly dreaming of it, thinking that the Communist Party could not sustain itself in Xichang. It was not until they entered the second gate of the Beauty Garden, and the last personal bodyguard around them was also forcibly disarmed and taken aside, they woke up from a big dream, and one by one they were horrified to find that they had been fooled and caught in a trap, but at this time, it was already too late.
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Excerpt from "Documentary of China's Great Crackdown on Bandits"