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Guangxi Yongning Bandit Chronicle

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Bandit organization

   On the eve of the liberation of Yongning in 1949, the Kuomintang authorities systematically arranged for the sneaking military and political leaders before the rout, and after liberation, they entangled local bandits, landlord bullies, gang leaders, and so on, deceived and threatened some of the masses, and organized armed riots aimed at overthrowing the nascent people's political power. In 1950, the bandits who gathered in Yongning were:

   "Chinese People's Anti-Communist National Salvation Army". The "commander-in-chief" of the unit, Li Pinxian (also known as the "guerrilla commander-in-chief of the three provinces of Xiangyue and Guangdong), and the main bandit leaders under him were: "Commander of the First Front" Yao Huai (former deputy commander of the Kuomintang Guangxi Province Security Department), "deputy commander" Lei Xiaokong, "commander of the Tenth Corps" Xia Wei, "commander of the Twenty-first Column" Pang Weiqing (a native of Yulin County, former brigade commander of the Kuomintang Army), Su Rumin (a native of Liu Wei township, former colonel officer of the Kuomintang Army), Wei Gaojun, commander of the "Seventeenth Column," and Fang Qufei, commander of the "Nineteenth Column." It has jurisdiction over 23 gangs of "detachments" and "divisions", with about 4,000 bandits, and its activities cover the whole county, making it the largest bandit gang in the county.

   "Chinese Youth Anti-Communist National Salvation Army" (also known as the Triangular Star Army). Commander-in-Chief Zhang Ruigui (a native of Guitai, Qinzhou, former commander of the Kuomintang army) belonged to four units, including the "Second Column" (Commander Huang Zhengqiu, a native of Datang Township, and the former governor of Suishui County of the Kuomintang), the "Second Detachment" (Commander Lu Shanguang, a native of Nanzhou Township, the former police chief of Suizhu County of the Kuomintang), the "Sixteen detachments" (Commander Lu Zuqiao), and the "×× Detachment" (Commander Fan Zixuan), with about 1,000 bandits, and were active in the Ninth District, Tenth District, eleventh District, and the borders of Yongqin and Yongshang (Si).

   "Chinese people to seek the Communist National Salvation Army" The main bandits were Wei Yuzhuang, the "commander of a detachment," Yang Guantang, the "commander of the 13th Division, also known as the commander of the 23rd Division of the Seventh Army"), and Li Zhushan, the "commander of the 25th Division." There were about 1,100 bandits, who were active in the Sanguan District and the Yongqin border.

   There are also more than 10 units of bandits, such as the "Anti-Communist Einsatzgruppen of the Central China Governor's Office," the "Anti-Communist Self-Defense Army," and the "Yongyong Border Region Anti-Communist Committee."

   Bandit "local authority". The main leaders were: "Vice Governor of Guangxi Provincial Government" Fang Yiyin (Na Chen Xiang, former head of the Kuomintang Army Regiment), "Commissioner" Li Bingheng (Na Chen Xiang Na Tan Village resident), "Yongning County Governor" Xie Zigang (Su Xu Naqi Village, former Kuomintang Regiment Commander), and so on. There are two districts and 6 township offices, which appoint "district chiefs" and "township chiefs" respectively.

   According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 6,100 bandits who regularly participate in the activities of the above-mentioned bandits, and their weapons and equipment are: 21 60 cannons, 1 machine gun, 283 light and heavy machine guns, thousands of long and short guns, 4 radio stations, and 1 transmitter.

   In addition, there are still 3 non-armed secret service organizations, namely: the Central China Command's Anti-Bandit Spy Brigade, the China-Vietnam anti-communist National Salvation Army, and the China-Vietnam Anti-Communist Committee.

   Overview of banditry

   On February 18, 1950, liang Guodong, the commander of the bandit division, and thousands of other troops attacked the Pingtianxiang People's Government in Zhonghe District, and the township chief Huang Dachun broke through and was killed.

   On February 26, 1950, the traitors colluded with the bandits to arrest Li Ruimin, deputy governor of Sanguan District, and on the 28th, the bandits convened a so-called mass meeting, pierced his nose with a wire to "show the public" and then killed him. On the same day, Yang Guantang, the commander of the bandit division, entangled the two forces of Nong Shisheng and Li Yubi, attacked the governments of Nanjian, Nawu, and Yawang, and killed 3 cadres. On March 7, more than 2,000 bandits besieged the Sanguan District Office for four days and nights, and successively attacked the township governments of Taima, Nanzhong, Tai'an, and Nachen, killing the chief and deputy township chiefs of Tai'an Township, and robbing cars on Yongqin Road near Dingxi.

   In May 1950, bandits spread throughout the county, and bandits killed people and robbed goods everywhere, causing serious harm. For example, 6 families of Lin Qiyi, a worker in Baoan Village, Suwei District, except for 1 child who survived going out, the other 5 were all killed by bandits by caesarean section. In June, Deng Min, the "commander of the bandit detachment," led the bandits to besiege the village of Yongyi in Nalong Township, abducted 13 families (including 5 children) of Li Chen, chairman of the peasant association, and killed them all. Bandit "county magistrate" Xie Zhigang hung up a sign of bandit "county government" in Nasang Village, Nachen Township, openly collected taxes and grain in the nearby polder, led the bandits to kill 4 people in Gulan Village, abducted 22 young and strong men and 18 women, forced ransoms on men, and after some women were raped, all of them were sold to other places.

   According to incomplete statistics, by the end of 1950, the bandits had successively attacked our district offices 5 times, the township government 12 times, and the basic villages of the former guerrillas 10 times, killed 33 revolutionary cadres, 19 backbone peasant associations and militiamen, 32 people, abducted 5 cadres, 42 people, robbed more than 100,000 kilograms of public grain, more than 100 million yuan (old renminbi), destroyed 2 bridges, and more than 20 kilometers of telephone lines.

   Fight against bandits

   After the bandit rebellion broke out, Yongning set up a unified command body for suppressing bandits,--the CPC Yongning County Working Committee, with Li Yi, head of the provincial party committee task force and secretary general of the Guangxi Provincial CPC Committee, as chairman of the committee, Qi Caiguang, secretary of the county party committee, and Zhang Xiaobing, commander of the 134th Division of the People's Liberation Army, Chinese the anti-bandit unit, as deputy directors. In the early days of the bandit rebellion, the People's Liberation Army, with the cooperation of local troops and militias, continued to attack and suppress them, but due to the dispersion of troops and the excessively broad policy, the bandits collapsed one after another and failed to eliminate them for a while. In September 1950, the anti-bandit troops redeployed according to the bandit situation: Focusing on the townships of Datang, Nanxiao, Nanzhong, Tai'an, Nawu, Taima, and Nachen in the Sanguan District, and the townships of Pumiao, Nama, Liuxu, Zhennan, and Lingli in the Bazhi District, they concentrated 6 battalions of troops to carry out comprehensive encirclement and suppression. By the end of 1950, there were 9 detachments and 22 regiments (wings) of the total annihilation of bandits; 5 detachments were severely damaged, and 15,744 people (3,726 prisoners were killed inside, and 12,018 were self-employed bandits), of which the first of the bandits were Li Xiangsheng, deputy commander of the 21st Column, Huang Yaosheng, deputy commander of the 21st Column, Liang Jiechuan, deputy commander of the 4th detachment, Li Bingheng, the commissioner of bandits and squadron leader, Li Zhushan, chief of staff of the 20th Division, Liang Chengli, commander of the 13th detachment, Ling Lingyun of the 6th detachment, and Su Zhenmin, commander of the 11st detachment, and more than 350 people (above the rank of bandits). The leader of the bandits: Yang Guantang, commander of the 13th Division of the Communist Army, Liang Jiesheng, commander of the four detachments of the Anti-Communist National Salvation Army, and Du Chunxuan, commander of the five detachments, and 186 others. The leaders of the bandits were Su Rumin, commander of the newly organized Seventh Army; Lu Wencai, commander of the Second Division of the Anti-Communist National Salvation Army; and Huang Youze, commander of the general brigade. More than 350 bandits were executed. 40,657 guns of various kinds, 429 light and heavy machine guns (including civilian guns in the above two items), 26 60 guns, 20 mortars, 4 machine guns, 2 combat defense guns, 41 grenade launchers, 633,000 rounds of various bullets, and 1,139 shells were seized.

   Examples of bandit warfare

   Xu Hanlin sacrificed himself to blow up the bandit fort

On September 23, 1950, the 2nd Battalion of the 400th Regiment of the 134th Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army surrounded and suppressed pangu Village (now Hanlin Village) in Pangu Village, Xinjiang Township, and the 74th Regiment of the 19th Division of the Anti-Communist National Salvation Army. The village is the old lair of huang Shuode ,former kuomintang township chief Huang Shuode (former kuomintang xinjiang township mayor), and there are strong fortifications on the main road into the village and the commanding heights; among them, the commanding height of Nanshan Mountain is more than 200 meters high, the slope is steep, the thorns are overgrown, and there is a wall more than one person high at the top of the mountain, and there are two deer fences outside the wall, and the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

   At dawn on the 23rd, the battle began. The soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the 400th Regiment attacked the village in multiple ways, but because the Fire of the Nanshan Bandits violently controlled the road into the village, the PLA attack was blocked. The six companies, which served as the main task of attacking and capturing Nanshan, after five repeated charge and killing, the company commander and commander were sacrificed one after another, and the attack still did not work. At this time, the Party Committee of the Six-Link Battalion ordered that nanshan be taken at all costs. Therefore, the 10-man assault squad with communists as the backbone was organized, led by a platoon commander Wang Sen, and under the cover of the battalion's 3 60 guns and 3 heavy machine guns, they attacked Nanshan. During the attack, platoon leader Wang Sen and two soldiers were killed one after another, and the other two explosivesmen were seriously wounded. The remaining seven squad leaders and three soldiers continued to creep forward with great difficulty in bravery and fierce bandit firepower, and in front of the first road deer block about 20 meters from the wall, they found that the fuse of the explosive pack had fallen off and lost during the attack, and Xu Hanlin, the deputy squad leader of the seventh squad, decisively stuffed the grenade into the explosive package as an detonation, and under the cover of his comrades-in-arms, with a clever and agile action, he crossed the two deer blocks, approached the bandit fort, resolutely pulled a grenade, detonated the explosive pack, blew up the bandit fort, and sacrificed his young life. The follow-up troops stepped on the blood of the martyrs and quickly rushed into the bandits' nest, annihilating more than 300 people under Huang Shuode, the leader of the 74th Regiment of bandits. After the war, in honor of Xu Hanlin, the son of the Mongolian people who sacrificed his life for the liberation of the Zhuang brothers, Pangu Village was renamed Hanlin Village.

   TanDong, Pavilion that fighter battle.

On June 17, 1950, more than 800 people, commanded by Huang Tianshi and Huang Dehai, commanders of the "19th Detachment of the Anti-Communist Salvation Army of Guangdong Province," and Liang Jiesheng and Huang Xifeng, commanders of the "Fourth Detachment of the Anti-Communist National Salvation Army" of the Pumiao Township Bandits, attacked Nalouwei under the command of bandit leader Huang Shenglai. A certain regiment of the 134th Division of the People's Liberation Army stationed at the wei was engaged in a battle with the bandits for about half an hour and repelled the bandits. The next morning, in order to paralyze the enemy, the regiment mobilized its troops to move in the direction of Taipingwei in Lingshan County, but on the same day, another unit secretly drove from Xinjiang to Tantunpo near Nalouwei to set up an ambush and wait for the fighters. After the bandits learned that the People's Liberation Army had withdrawn from Nalouwei, they gathered in the villages of Tandong, Tingna, and Naban to prepare to attack Nalouwei again during the Dragon Boat Festival (June 19). With the cooperation of the local militia, the anti-bandit troops took the lead in the enemy's action, surrounded the three villages where the bandits were concentrated on the night of the 18th, and launched an attack before dawn on the 19th. After about a short hour of fierce fighting, all the bandits were annihilated, except for the bandit leader Huang Shengli who escaped. More than 120 bandits were killed or wounded, more than 150 people were captured or less than the commander of the company, 5 light machine guns were captured, more than 300 long and short guns were captured, and thousands of rounds of ammunition were captured. Chen Qinyang, platoon commander of the bandit unit, and Huang Hanxiong, a correspondent, were killed.

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