On April 21, 1949, Chen Geng led his army to cross the river to conquer Madang Fortress, and then marched into Jiangxi. Soon, the old revolutionary base area of Jiangxi was successfully liberated, and Chairman Mao, who was thousands of miles away, was naturally very excited when he learned of this good news. Soon after, Chairman Mao made an important personnel arrangement, and he decided to let Chen Zhengren, former secretary of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee, go to Jiangxi to serve as secretary of the provincial party committee and political commissar of the military region.
Chen Zhengren, who received the order, was extremely excited, and he quickly came to Xiangshan Shuangqing Villa and shook the chairman's hand excitedly. Chairman Mao understood Chen Zhengren's feelings very well, and Chen Zhengren, as an important assistant who had followed him for many years, was still very relieved of his ability and conduct. After the liberation of Jiangxi, there are still many important matters to be handled, and the chairman hopes that Chen Zhengren will be able to handle these matters well.
With the chairman's entrustment, Chen Zhengren returned to his hometown after many years of absence. In June, Chen Zhengren and other cadres of the first generation of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee set up leading bodies of the provincial party committee and the military region in Nanchang.
When meeting with the chairman, the chairman mentioned the bandits in Jiangxi many times, especially the name of Xiao Jiabi, the leader of the bandits in Jiangxi. In this regard, Chen Zhengren did not dare to slack off, not to mention that there was a deep blood feud between him and Xiao Jiabi, one of the important reasons why Chen Zhengren was excited about returning to his hometown was that he wanted to take this opportunity to return to his hometown to avenge his mother's murder, and his enemy was this Xiao Jiabi.
In 1927, Chen Zhengren participated in the Wan'an Riot in Jiangxi, and soon after he went to Jinggangshan and became an important helper by Chairman Mao's side. At that time, the Jinggangshan base area faced many enemies, the most difficult of which was Xiao Jiabi, a bandit bully entrenched in the surrounding area.
He and Chen Zhengren are both from Suichuan, Jiangxi, but the two have embarked on different paths, Xiao Jiabi went to school in his early years, and later he returned to his hometown, organized a security team, and began to be a party to the disaster.
In October 1927, Chairman Mao was ambushed by Chairman Mao when he led the troops of the Autumn Harvest Uprising to Jinggang Mountain. After that, Xiao Jiabi fought with the Jinggangshan Red Army many times, although he was not very good at fighting, but Xiao Jiabi was brutal.
He used his local control to frantically persecute the masses who supported the revolution, as well as the families of the Red Army in the localities. Chairman Mao tried to eliminate him several times, but unfortunately he failed to succeed, and later Xiao Jiabi colluded with the Kuomintang forces to cooperate with them to encircle and suppress Jinggangshan, taking advantage of the retreat of the main force of the Red Army to occupy Jinggangshan.
After that, Xiao Jiabi carried out a massacre of the Jinggangshan base area, and all the places where the Red Army lived and had contact were listed as bloodbathed areas. It was during this process that Chen Zhengren's mother was caught by Xiao Jiabi's men, tortured, and finally brutally killed. More than ten years have passed, Chen Zhengren will never forget these things, and Chairman Mao has never forgotten them.
The chairman specifically said to Chen Zhengren: "I want to find this person, and you must also look for him, he is not someone else, he is still your fellow countryman, he is the mortal enemy of the revolution, you must capture Xiao Jiabi alive, not die." So, Chen Zhengren followed the chairman's orders and quickly completed a series of deployments, and at first he planned to directly send a division to encircle and suppress Xiao Jiabi. Later, Chen Zhengren analyzed the specific situation and decided that the 48th Regiment of the 425th Army would be responsible for eliminating Xiao Jiabi's forces.
On September 18, 1949, the 425th Regiment set out from Ganzhou and went to the Suibei area where Xiao Jiabi and his gang were active. Xiao Jiabi controlled the area around Suibei for a long time, and the Kuomintang specially appointed him as the commander of the headquarters of the first anti-communist column in Suibei, Gang's appeasement area.
During the War of Liberation, most of the reactionary forces in Jiangxi saw that there was no longer any suspense in the national war situation, and they all chose to run away. Xiao Jiabi continued to stay in Suibei, gathering a group of henchmen who planned to use the mountainous terrain here to continue the resistance.
By this time, Xiao Jiabi's resistance was meaningless, and after the 425th Regiment entered the combat area, it quickly launched an attack on Xiao Jiabi and his gang. In the face of the powerful offensive of the People's Liberation Army, Xiao Jiabi's forces quickly collapsed, and most of his subordinates chose to surrender one after another.
Xiao Jiabi saw that he had completely failed, so he could only flee with some cronies. In order to avoid being arrested, Xiao Jiabi ran to the deep mountains and old forests, and the 425th Regiment immediately formed several assault groups and began to search in the division.
Soon, Xiao Jiabi's whereabouts were discovered by the local people, and everyone hated this person for a long time, and the masses immediately reported Xiao Jiabi's whereabouts. The assault group of the 425th Regiment quickly came to Xiao Jiabi's hiding place, and finally caught Xiao Jiabi on the 28th.
Subsequently, this wicked butcher was put on public trial on the playground of Suichuan Middle School, and Chen Zhengren personally participated in the public trial. In the end, Xiao Jiabi was sentenced to death, ending his life of crime. Chen Zhengren finally avenged his mother, as well as countless comrades and innocent people who died at the hands of Xiao Jiabi.