32. Yishan Qing suppressed the bandit Li Laoba

Li Xingquan (nicknamed Li Laoba) is also known as Li Jingshan. Present-day Zaozhuang City Shanting District Vine Huayu people. He was the commander of the Pseudo-Zou County Security Brigade and the leader of the bandits who occupied Yishan Mountain.

When Li Laoba was in his 20s, he followed Liu Guitang (Liu Heiqi) as a bandit. During the Japanese invasion of China, he served as the commander of the security brigade of the pseudo-Zou County. Around 1945, he set up his own mountain, gathered more than 130 hooligans in the area, and occupied the area around Yishan Mountain, committing crimes and robbing the people's property. In January 1946, the Kuomintang secret service organ appointed Li Laoba as the head of the major special agent group and the leader of the "Zou County Work Brigade", and under the leadership of Gong Zhenhuan, the leader of the "Blue Jacket Society" and the "Iron Blood Anti-Traitor Group", he continued to lurk in Yishan, develop reactionary forces, and frantically carry out counter-revolutionary sabotage activities.

At the beginning of 1946, Li Laoba, together with his brother Li Xingyu, entangled more than 130 hooligans in the area to occupy Yishan, often harassing nearby villages and robbing property, seriously threatening the safety of people's lives and property. In the second half of 1946, in order to meet their needs in attacking the Liberated Areas, the Kuomintang troops in Yanzhou and Lincheng also sent commandos and black killing groups to Yishan to assassinate, kidnap, and confiscate guns from Communists, cadres, and militiamen in conjunction with Li Bandits, sabotaging production and seriously endangering public order. The bandit sabotage activities have affected 7 districts in Zou County, including Yishan, Hongshan, Kaicun, Zhongxindian, Chengguan, Kanzhuang, Kuangzhuang, and Wangcun, and 8 districts in Shiqiang, Luoling, Taiping, Guoli, Mapo, Gucun, Yizhuang, and Hanzhuang in Tengxian County, and Jiehe and Longyang in Tengxian County. The hardest hit was the stone wall area. From July to December 1946 alone, 16 village cadres were killed by bandits, 54 guns, and 46 rifles, 12 short guns, and 2 machine guns stored in Miaozhuang by the 24th Regiment of the 8th Division of the Lunan Military Region.

In November 1946, the 1st Military Subdistrict of Lunan and the Zouxian County Cpc Committee formed a joint command center for suppressing bandits, and surrounded and suppressed Yishan with more than 2,000 people, including 4 companies of the 15th Regiment, 1 battalion of the 16th Regiment, and local armed forces and militia.

On the night of the 19th, the bandit units reached the attack position in covertly. Before dawn on the 20th, the 15th Regiment occupied the commanding heights of Yishan Mountain with 1 company, and compressed by 2 companies from the western foothills of the Yishan Mountains to the eastern foothills according to the predetermined plan. The 15th Regiment first controlled the Niangniang Temple with one part, and most of it was compressed from the eastern foothills of the Yishan Mountains to the western foothills. The advancing and suppression troops adopted the tactics of taking steps as battalions, setting up cards in large holes (leaving half a squad), setting up sentries in small holes (leaving 1 group), and pulling nets to fish, and carrying out search and pursuit. Li Bandit's multiple counterattacks were repelled. Eventually it was all surrounded in a cave. At dawn on the 21st, Li Bandit relied on the many cave entrances and complex terrain to organize bandits to break through and escape, and the bandit leader Li Xingquan and his brother Li Xingyu led more than 20 people to flee to Yanzhou. In the battle, a total of 22 bandits were killed, 10 wounded, more than 80 prisoners, 43 rifles, 310 rounds of ammunition, and 11 bayonets were handed over. The attacking forces wounded only 3 people.

In 1948, Li Laoba fled south. After the Battle of Huaihai, he was dispatched by the Kuomintang secret service to plot to infiltrate the Liberated Areas to continue his counter-revolutionary sabotage activities. On July 6, 1950, when Li Laoba disguised himself as a stonemason and entered the village of Huzhai in Pei County, he was arrested and arrested. After trial by the public security organs of the Teng County Special Bureau, he was executed by firing squad in November of the same year.

——" Zou Chengcheng Chronicle 1840-1992, Li Xingquan Baidu Encyclopedia.