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In 1949, the People's Liberation Army won the victory in the civil war, and the Chinese nation finally got rid of the tragic fate of the past century.
However, the liberation atmosphere of New China has not yet benefited every one of the people, especially the people in some remote mountainous areas, who are still living under the heavy pressure of bandits, and a large number of bandits are still doing whatever they want in their own "mountains."
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in addition to cleaning up the remnants of the Kuomintang, cracking down on bandits was also a major task of the PLA.
Click to pay attention and walk into the story of the People's Liberation Army's suppression of bandits.
Hubei Tuyi
In fact, the problem of bandits has been a serious social problem since ancient times, and they often take advantage of the terrain to occupy mountains, rob homes and houses, and oppress the people.
As early as the Red Army, we had a campaign to suppress bandits, but at that time, the area controlled by our party was limited, and we could only exterminate bandits in the areas under our control, but as long as the situation permitted, our army would carry out a campaign to suppress bandits.
However, before the founding of New China, the country did not have a few years of peace, and the long-term war displaced, and a large number of people died in the war, lacking food and clothing, and were either killed by the enemy, or starved to death or died of disease in pain.
The people, who could not find a way out, had no choice but to fall into the grass and make a living by burning, killing and looting, and treating civilians with extreme cruelty.
During the War of Liberation, seeing that the defeat of the Kuomintang was decided, some remnants of the Kuomintang who were unwilling to submit to the People's Liberation Army took advantage of the chaos to flee to remote areas, went to the mountains to become bandits, and continued to cause trouble in the countryside.
Others believed that the KMT's defeat was only temporary and that they would soon be able to make a comeback.
So the group hid in the mountains and worshiped the bandits, lobbying the bandit forces to cooperate with them. Maybe after the Kuomintang counterattacks, they will still be able to become "heroes". These remnants of the Kuomintang cooperated with the bandits and caused a particularly great danger in the local area.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, one of the main tasks of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) was to clean up these bandit forces and create a safe and stable living environment for the people.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, bandit forces emerged one after another in various localities, and bandit activities were particularly rampant in Hubei. Not only did they loot property, but they also openly defied the government, disrupted social order, and brought great suffering to the local people.
In order to maintain public order and ensure the safety of people's lives and property, the PLA has decided to thoroughly wipe out bandits in Hubei.
Enshi, Hubei Province is now a famous tourist attraction, but at the beginning of the founding of New China, the bandits here were particularly serious.
The geographical location of this area of Enshi, Hubei Province is relatively special, the mountains are high and the water is dangerous and rugged, and the bandits often hide in the deep mountains, which is difficult to be detected by the army.
Even if the bandits are discovered, they can hide in the mountains with their familiarity with the terrain so that we can't find them, so it is very difficult to suppress the bandits here, which also leads to the local bandits becoming more and more rampant, and the people live in fire and water.
Secondly, the rampant banditry in the local area is also related to the troops of the people. After the defeat of Song Lianxi's troops, a large number of remnants of the army neither returned to the People's Liberation Army nor returned to their hometowns, but chose to stay in the local area.
In the tide of national liberation, the identity of their national army is bound to cause panic in the local area, so they can only hide everywhere like rats crossing the street, and finally choose to fall into the grass as a coward, collude with the local bandits, run rampant in the countryside, and prey on the common people.
Compared with other people, who went directly to the mountains to become bandits, these national soldiers had combat experience, guns in their hands, and they could also contact other levels of the Kuomintang, and they had never been submissive to our party.
This kind of bandits, which evolved from the national army, are more cunning and more difficult to deal with than ordinary bandits, and they will also pay attention to some strategies and tactics, so that the army that suppresses the bandits will suffer losses.
Because the robbery is not only an unstable economic source, if it goes to the bottom of the mountain, it may also be surrounded and suppressed by the People's Liberation Army. As a result, the bandits came up with a new trick, which was to force the local people to grow drugs for them.
Through the drug money obtained from selling drugs, he can ensure a stable source of income and live a luxurious life. At the same time, this group of people is also habitually oppressing the people, and there will occasionally be small groups of revolutionary soldiers passing by, and they will also kill revolutionaries by cruel means.
These bandits are so vicious that they have killed revolutionary soldiers, and our army will naturally not let them go easily.
However, once the ranks of bandits who entered the mountains to suppress bandits grew, the bandits would immediately retreat back into the mountains and hide, leaving the PLA with nowhere to find them, and then come out after the troops had withdrawn.
If the troops are insufficient, they will use their familiarity with the terrain to set traps, but the PLA must be careful of being ambushed by bandits to avoid being injured by bandits, so the PLA has repeatedly entered the mountains to exterminate them, but has not succeeded.
The problem of banditry in Enshi is too serious, and what we must do is not only to liberate the people of Enshi, but also to help them completely solve the problem of banditry.
Into the mountains to suppress bandits
In November 1949, Wang Dinglie led the Second Independent Division of the Hubei Military Region to Enshi, and liberated Enshi that night.
After all, at that time, New China had already been founded, and the Kuomintang knew that they were no opponent of the People's Liberation Army, especially after Chiang Kai-shek and other Kuomintang executives fled to Taiwan, the soldiers defending the city in many cities also chose to abandon the city and flee, and our liberation process went a lot smoother.
After the liberation, Enshi was jubilant, and the people took to the streets to welcome the arrival of the People's Liberation Army. However, for the common people of Enshi, they want not only liberation, but also a stable life.
If you want to give them a stable living environment, it is necessary to get rid of the stubborn bandits entrenched in the local area, because the bandits are too cunning, and the power of the People's Liberation Army to suppress bandits in the first few times, after the Second Independent Division entered Enshi, it began to prepare for the cause of suppressing bandits.
The bandits here have a characteristic, that is, "I will run if you come, and I will return if you go", they are very clear about their own strength, and they will definitely not be able to defeat a large number of People's Liberation Army, so when facing the bandits of the army, they will resolutely not look good, so they will hide in the mountains.
Once the PLA evacuates Enshi, they will rush out and go down the mountain to rob the people, especially those who welcome the PLA, and they will also be "retaliated" by them.
In view of this, the 2nd Independent Division must be divided into troops to garrison in order to defend the people. However, if this happens, there will be a shortage of troops in various localities, and it will be impossible to achieve the goal of concentrating on suppressing bandits. On the contrary, these scattered forces must always be on guard against bandit attacks.
Even so, there will still be news from time to time that the PLA has been killed or injured by a sneak attack by bandits.
Faced with this situation, Wang Dinglie made up his mind that he must clean up the bandits in Enshi, and if he can't finish the bandits in one day, he will not leave Enshi for a day. Wang Dinglie's attitude reassured the local people and boosted the morale of the bandit suppression corps.
However, the infiltration and deterrence of the local bandits against the masses are too deep, and many people are worried that the PLA will not be able to complete the suppression of the bandits, and after they leave, the bandits will launch a frenzied revenge on the local people.
In particular, some people in some remote mountainous areas will from time to time report to the bandits when the PLA is preparing to enter the mountains to suppress bandits.
Of course, some of the people who went to report the news took advantage of the bandits, while a small number of people were worried that the bandits would come back, and tried to save their families from the scourge of bandits by passing the news to the bandits.
Wang Dinglie also knows that a big reason for this situation is that the local people have no confidence. In order to increase the confidence of the people, and also to show everyone our determination to eradicate the bandits this time,
Wang Dinglie decided to personally sit on the front line of the suppression of bandits, led his troops into the mountainous areas, and launched an extremely arduous battle against bandits.
Wang Dinglie deliberately set up the headquarters for suppressing bandits in Laifeng County, and held a military parade in the local area with great fanfare.
The bandits in Laifeng County are the most rampant in the nearby area, and Wang Dinglie just wants to let the bandits see our strength, personally meet the bandits here for a while, and fire the first shot of Enshi's suppression of bandits in Laifeng County.
The anti-bandit troops led by Wang Dinglie were all elites selected from the battalion, and it is said that they were still Li Xiannian's old foundations, and the troops included all kinds of light and heavy machine guns and mortars, which were full of power, and they were several levels better than those bandits who fell into the grass.
Although the people did not understand military affairs, looking at the weapons held by the PLA, many of them were never seen by the bandits, and everyone's confidence in the PLA suddenly soared.
Not only that, Wang Dinglie's deterrence did play a certain role, some small bandits who used to be powerful in the surrounding area, when they saw these machine guns and cannons, they were immediately frightened and weak, and before Wang Dinglie's team began to suppress the bandits, some bandits chose to turn themselves in.
Faced with this situation, the people reveled for a while, confident that the People's Liberation Army would definitely be able to solve the banditry problem.
However, the small bandits around are not a problem, the PLA can know them when they take action, and it is the remnants of the Kuomintang who are in trouble. Not only did this group of people not intend to be captured, but they also clamored that the PLA would never return.
The problem of bandits in Laifeng County could not be postponed any longer, so after Wang Dinglie presided over a recollection of the suppression of bandits in Enshi, he began to prepare to return to Laifeng County to carry out the plan of suppressing bandits.
On the way back, Wang Dinglie asked the staff officer next to him seemingly casually: "Have you informed the comrades who came to Feng County in this anti-bandit operation?" ”
Without much thought, the staff officer replied that he had already been informed. However, Wang Dinglie, who heard this, suddenly turned pale and ordered the driver to turn around quickly.
Wang Dinglie's judgment
Wang Dinglie came back to Fengxian County to carry out the plan to suppress the bandits, but a phone call made his face change greatly, and he immediately ordered the driver to turn around and go back, why?
When Wang Dinglie asked whether the comrades who came to Feng County had been notified, the staff officer did not think much about it, but thought that Wang Dinglie had asked whether the comrades in Laifeng County were well prepared, and whether the local comrades could cooperate with the PLA to complete the anti-bandit operation.
Then, Wang Dinglie's reaction was beyond everyone's expectations, he immediately asked the driver to turn around and return to Enshi, the staff officer and the driver were confused, and everyone still firmly carried out Wang Dinglie's order.
Along the way, everyone looked nervous, and no one spoke again. It wasn't until a few people returned to Enshi that Wang Dinglie said his judgment that the People's Liberation Army had often failed to suppress bandits before, and everyone suspected several factors, one was the terrain problem, the local mountains were dense and forested, and the bandits would use the terrain to set up ambushes, and the other was that the people under the mountains were forced by the bandits' deterrence, and when they saw the People's Liberation Army entering the mountains to suppress bandits, they would give the bandits news.
In addition to the terrain and people, Wang Dinglie had a faint suspicion in his heart, the telephone line used by the troops at that time was an open line, which was easy to be monitored, if it was an ordinary bandit, he would not have thought of this, but they were facing the remnants of the Kuomintang, who could guarantee that they did not carry listening equipment when they hid in the mountains?
In this way, the news that we informed the brother department would fall into the hands of the bandits, who learned the confidential information in advance, so it is no wonder that they could easily escape.
But if the news that he returned to Laifeng County with his staff officers was known by the bandits, I was afraid that they would be ambushed by the bandits on the road, and Wang Dinglie thought of this and decided to change the route temporarily.
Facts have proved that Wang Dinglie's judgment is too accurate, they stayed in Enshi for two days and set off to return to Laifeng County, and this time Wang Lieding told the staff officers not to inform Laifeng County of this matter.
After going back, the captain of the team who came to Feng County specially told them to be careful recently, they found a group of bandits two days ago who seemed to have a "big move", they observed that hundreds of bandits seemed to be plotting something on the side of the road, but somehow, after waiting for a day, they retreated.
Neither the staff officer nor Wang Dinglie said anything about this matter, but they both knew what was wrong.
After Wang Dinglie came to Laifeng County, he carried out the task of suppressing bandits according to the plan, and he summoned all the cadres to agree on a plan for suppressing bandits, and after the end of the meeting, he specially ordered people to inform all departments by telephone, because the current strength of the bandits is insufficient, the People's Liberation Army is only ready to surround the bandits from three sides, and the remaining side of the cliff is steep, presumably the bandits will not run to that side.
However, after the bandit operation began, when all the troops were in front of Wang Dinglie, he informed everyone to temporarily change their tactics, from the original three-sided encirclement to a three-sided feint.
Pretending to attack from three sides, the bandits panicked and fled to the side that was not originally intended to be fortified, but that side did not really send troops, but instead concentrated their forces to set up a "pocket array" there, waiting for the bandits to get in.
The bandits still thought that they were all "listening" and had not been discovered, and were planning to run to the "undefended" side according to Wang Dinglie's plan, but unfortunately what they didn't know was that Wang Dinglie still had a "plan in a plan".
Seeing that the bandits had entered the trap we had laid, Wang Dinglie gave an order, and the PLA soldiers descended the mountain like tigers and launched a fierce attack on the bandits.
The bandits were caught off guard and immediately plunged into chaos. They originally thought that they would be able to use the terrain to maneuver with the PLA, but they did not expect that the PLA's tactics were so subtle that they were already completely surrounded.
After a fierce battle, the bandits were all annihilated, and none of them escaped the net. Wang Dinglie's strategy was a great success, successfully eliminating the bandits and protecting the safety of the local people.
The people's admiration for the PLA has arisen spontaneously, and they have expressed their support for the work of the PLA and to jointly safeguard social stability and security.
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