On the evening of August 30, 1992, on the strategic highway from Kunming to Wenshan, 103 military vehicles, 1,300 officers and men full of loads of guns and live ammunition broke through the night and sped toward the former border theater. Rolling iron currents rush through the peaks and valleys of the Yunling Plateau, and the shining headlights make the convoy stretching for more than 10 kilometers meander like a dragon. At the same moment, hundreds of officers and men of the Qujing District Detachment, the Honghe Prefecture Detachment, the Wenshan Prefecture Detachment, and the Armed Police Yunnan Border Defense Corps of the Yunnan Provincial Police Also carried out motorized advances in a separate and encircled manner, directly attacking Pingyuan, only 200 kilometers from the Sino-Vietnamese border.
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In the early 1990s, Pingyuan Street in Yunnan Province was a well-known drug hiding and selling center in the country. It's a small, deformed, thriving town, an underground black market for guns and ammunition, a black den for smuggling cars. Pingyuan Street in 1992 was like a national "extralegal world": people did not have to apply for household registration and identity cards, did not implement family planning policies, did not pay grain on land, did not pay taxes for business, and did not list cars. Here, every family hides weapons and sells guns; every household deals with drugs, and theft, robbery, and murder occur repeatedly. The public security substation was smashed and the police officers on duty were killed.
Assemble on standby
The secretary of the Wenshan Prefecture Political and Legal Committee took someone to the mud village of Pingyuan Street to arrest the criminal, but was killed by a grenade thrown out by the criminal. There are more than 500 stolen cars of various types on Pingyuan Street, including many military vehicles and police cars. The 212 jeeps in eight places of the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Department were stolen to Pingyuan Street and sold at a high price to Baxian County, Shandong Province; a field communication vehicle of the Fourteenth Army was stolen and sold to Pingyuan Street; the Public Security Bureau did a lot of work, and the troops spent 20,000 yuan to redeem it; the public security cadres and policemen of the old city tracked down the stolen car to Tianxin Village, and as soon as they entered the village, they were surrounded by dozens of evil forces armed with submachine guns and pistols.
Officers and men marched to Pingyuan
In 1992, under the instructions of the Central Political and Legal Commission and the Ministry of Public Security, Yunnan Province decided to launch a large-scale strike-hard struggle against Pingyuan Street. On the evening of August 30, 1992, on the strategic highway from Kunming to Wenshan, 103 military vehicles, 1,300 officers and men full of loads of guns and live ammunition broke through the night and sped toward the former border theater. Rolling iron currents rush through the peaks and valleys of the Yunling Plateau, and the shining headlights make the convoy stretching for more than 10 kilometers meander like a dragon.
At the same moment, hundreds of officers and men of the Qujing District Detachment, the Honghe Prefecture Detachment, the Wenshan Prefecture Detachment, and the Armed Police Yunnan Border Defense Corps of the Yunnan Provincial Police Also carried out motorized advances in a separate and encircled manner, directly attacking Pingyuan, only 200 kilometers from the Sino-Vietnamese border.
At 6 a.m. on August 31, the troops secretly arrived at the designated location. At 6:30 a.m., the "front finger" of the Yunnan General Corps opened contact at the Pingyuan Street Military Supply Station. At the same time, the Armed Police Headquarters issued an order to the mobile armed police forces of Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and other provinces and regions adjacent to Yunnan to enter the rank of combat readiness and be on standby for reinforcements. Overnight, the army overwhelmed the territory. 3,000 officers and men of the armed police and public security officers descended from the sky, and the sword of justice hung high above Pingyuan Street...
Anti-narcotics officers and men arrived in Pingyuan
In this small land of bullets, since the 1980s, various criminal activities have gradually become rampant, and although they have been continuously cracked down, their momentum has increased unabated and intensified, and by the 1990s, several evil forces with the nature of the underworld, mainly armed drug trafficking, have been formed. They bought and controlled some grass-roots political power and infiltrated religious organizations, resulting in the vicious development of drug trafficking and gun trafficking activities, and there were 16 drug trafficking gangs in the three villages of Tianxin, Molong, and Songmaopo alone, which became the entry base and distribution center for foreign drugs.
Sanitation officers check water quality
Criminals also sell guns from Vietnam and buy lost weapons and ammunition from war zones and sell them to the interior at high prices. According to statistics, 25 provinces and cities across the country have found guns, ammunition and drugs sold from Pingyuan, and some of them have caused serious consequences. For a time, Pingyuan became an independent kingdom of lawlessness, a "treasure land of feng shui" that hid dirt and grime, a paradise where criminals escaped from justice, and even became a sales center for stolen goods and cars in Yunnan and even the whole country.
The fire brigade is on standby
Stimulated by high profits and dominated by the idea of illegal enrichment, criminals disregard the law of the land and even use force to resist law enforcement. They often incited the masses who did not know the truth to make trouble, smashed and burned, stormed the government and public security organs, and covered their criminal activities under the guise of ethnicity and religion, so that vicious incidents increased year by year: from 1980 to 1987, there were 31 large violent cases of resistance to law enforcement, 42 in 1988, 58 in 1989, 81 in 1990, and 130 in 1991.
Field communications support
On January 16, 1986, public security officers went to Songmaopo to arrest the drug lord Ma Huili, and the lawbreakers incited hundreds of people to besiege and beat up law enforcement personnel and forcibly surrendered the guns of public security cadres; on June 28, 1987, criminals gathered dozens of people, under the pretext of public security personnel law enforcement, smashed the Pingyuan police station and injured 8 cadres and policemen; on December 30, 1987, when the public security personnel investigated and handled a case of illegal driving, they were besieged by hundreds of people, and the lawbreakers smashed the Pingyuan public security substation and the police station. On March 30, 1992, the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee task force and public security cadres went to Chebaini Village to arrest a fugitive from other places, and was violently counterattacked by criminals, Jin Shouping, deputy secretary of the Wenshan Prefecture Political and Legal Committee, and Wang Mingliang, a young cadre of the Provincial Nationalities Commission, were killed on the spot, and 3 public security cadres and policemen were seriously injured.
Anti-narcotics officers and men enter the designated positions
With the approval of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the Yunnan Provincial CPC Committee and the Yunnan Provincial Government have decided to take drastic measures to mobilize the armed police force and public security cadres and policemen to thoroughly solve the problem of serious crimes in the Pingyuan area and cut off this "malignant tumor." In order to win the battle, in late August, the Yunnan Armed Police Corps issued an order for the mobile units to enter the second level of combat readiness in accordance with the action plan approved by the provincial party committee and the provincial government, and at the same time instructed the mobile detachments of the third detachment, Qujing, Honghe, Wenshan, Chuxiong, Dongchuan, Dali and other detachments to transfer to emergency training and be ready to participate in the "large-scale exercise" at any time.
After careful deployment and meticulous preparations, the participating units received orders to advance on the evening of August 30. On the morning of the 31st, 3,000 armed police and public security cadres suddenly appeared in the Pingyuan area. A great battle between good and evil is unfolding here!
At exactly 7:00 a.m. on August 31, as two red signal flares rose in the air, 20 arrest squads, mixed by armed police and public security cadres, shot straight into the lair of 20 registered major criminals. At the same time, a large number of officers and men of the armed police quickly surrounded the villages of the "Pingyuan Golden Triangle" with lightning speed. Suddenly, the criminal became a turtle in an urn, a trapped beast in a cage.
At 7:40 a.m., the criminals were arrested one by one, and the battle went deeper. Suddenly, there was a dense sound of gunfire coming from the direction of Songmao slope. Ma Ming, a criminal, resisted with 6 types of weapons, including submachine guns, pistols, and grenades, and the attack was frustrated.
Anti-narcotics officers and men are preparing to attack
Ma Ming, who has been a bodyguard for a big drug lord, is only 24 years old, but has 10 years of history of drug dealers and guns, and is a fierce and vicious outlaw. He was already prepared to resist, and built fortifications upstairs and downstairs, leaving shooting holes, emergency passages, and sufficient weapons and ammunition. Yang De, deputy squadron leader of the Wenshan Prefecture Detachment who was responsible for the arrest, jumped over the wall into the courtyard, threw tear gas at the horse criminals, led the squad to rush into the second courtyard, quickly occupied the commanding heights, and suppressed the criminals with firepower.
Anti-narcotics officers and men launched an offensive
Ma Ming fired wildly with a submachine gun, and Li Xiaoping, the squadron leader of the guard squadron of the Border Guard Corps who came to reinforcement, was seriously injured as he approached the criminal. Yang De broke through the window under the cover of tear gas and launched a close-range gun battle, forcing Ma Ming from the second floor to the first floor. Taking advantage of the familiar terrain, Ma Ming frantically strafed Yang De, knocking off Yang De's steel helmet and training hat, and Yang De fell in a pool of blood.
Zhou Fuxiang, deputy chief of staff of the Border Defense Corps, who commanded the battle at the scene, requested reinforcements from the "Department Commander." Deputy Commander-in-Chief Si Jiuyi sent three detachments, 2 platoons of 10 squadrons, and 1 platoon of the Special Service Squadron to rush in riot vehicles to rescue the wounded comrades. Squadron Leader Xiao Guobin of the 10th Squadron of the Three Detachments led 4 fighters to enter Ma Ming's residence through the side gate to cover the frontal attack of Yan Dongfeng, deputy squadron leader of the Special Service Squadron, and 2 fighters.
Anti-narcotics officers search for drug dealers
Yang De, who woke up after his injury, wiped the blood from his face, grabbed the explosive package and rushed up, blowing up a gap in the wall of the horse house. The commandos fired tear-jerking incendiary bombs one after another, leaving Ma Ming with nowhere to hide and forced to flee through the rear window. The squadron leader of the tenth squadron and the third squad leader of the special service squadron, who were in charge of the blockade outside the house, were quick to fire and hit Ma Ming, only to see him roll from the cornfield into a stinky ditch and never move again. He was captured 1 submachine gun, 1 pistol and 362 rounds of ammunition. The battle lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes.
The battle to encircle Ma Ming ended in victory, and the battle to encircle and annihilate the criminal Ma Cilin continued. Ma Cilin is a famous bully and gang leader in the Pingyuan area. Sentenced to death two years ago, he escaped from prison before the execution, and since then the horse criminals have not left their guns and bullets from their waists, and have flaunted their military might in the Pingyuan area.
The task of arresting Ma Cilin was carried out by 10 soldiers led by Pang Rubao, deputy commander of the second squadron of the three detachments, and 7 public security officers from Wenshan Prefecture. The horse criminals had long been prepared, and there were two courtyards in front of and behind their residences, and the structure of the building was strong and complex, and the walls had a mezzanine, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Taking advantage of the favorable terrain, the horsemen alternately fired at me with submachine guns, pistols and other weapons. The fighting was extremely hard and intense.
Public security officer Huang Yungao was shot and wounded during the search, and when police officer Su Taide threw a grenade at the criminal by the flower bed, he was hit in the abdomen by a row of bullets fired by Ma Cilin and died on the spot. He ceded his bulletproof vest to another team member before the battle.
Caught drug dealers
Under the unfavorable situation of the enemy and the darkness, Pang Rubao led the squad leaders You Jianqiang and Liu Tiancha to rush into the courtyard in spite of themselves, so that the wife of the horse criminal and her two children were immediately discharged from the hospital and left the dangerous situation. During the search on the first floor, Pang Rubao encountered the criminals, and the two sides opened fire indoors. Pang Rubao beat the criminal from the bedroom to the courtyard and rushed into the kitchen from the courtyard.
Horse criminals who had been trained in gun combat abroad used the cover of tear gas and grenade smoke to sneak back into the room again, shoot back and forth, jump into the backyard through the back window, and hide in the women's toilet to wait for an opportunity to counterattack. Pang Rubao and Gao Wenliang, a public security officer from Yanshan County who fought side by side, alternately took cover, rushed out of the kitchen, moved to the backyard toilet, shot and dropped bombs at the place where the criminal had just shot, and was shot through the steel helmet by a shuttle bullet of the horse criminal hiding in the toilet, and fell together.
The sacrifice of the three comrades-in-arms made the officers and men participating in the battle extremely sad and indignant. Tang Shanglin, deputy chief of staff of the Yunnan Armed Police Corps, and Ma Jingguang, deputy director of the Political Department, rushed out of the war room and personally led the special service squadron to rush to the rescue. More than a dozen officers, men, and cadres pressed hatred into the chambers of their guns, tongues of fire spewed out righteous indignation, nets of fire engulfed the guilt, and horse criminals were killed on the spot, and their bodies were in the shape of honeycombs.
The battle to capture and annihilate Ma Ming and Ma Cilin greatly deterred criminals and demonstrated the determination of the party and the government to use guns to sweep away drugs and eliminate evil deeds. In the "8.31" battle against Ma Cilin, Ma Jinhe, Ma Guomin and other criminals who had pistols tucked in their waists and grenades mixed in the crowd were so frightened that they never dared to move. When attacking Ma Ming, the criminal accomplices who hid in the neighboring building and aimed their guns from the shadows to aim at the armed police were also intimidated by the powerful offensive and quietly put away the automatic guns that were about to be fired. Criminals do not dare to openly resist, but secretly transfer and hide drugs, guns, and stolen funds, and dream of "going to jail for a while and being happy for a lifetime".
Drug dealer's "castle"
In order to change the past practice of only arresting people on the periphery and not entering villages to confiscate illegal gains, and to break the dream of criminals, with the approval of the "Provincial Finger" and the "Department Finger," the "Front Finger" decided to send 20 sharp knife detachments to the homes of major criminals and confiscate their luxurious residences and illegal gains according to law.
On September 4, the sharp knife detachments composed of the first squadron and the second squadron of the three detachments marched into the private homes of Wang Fanying, Sha Guozhu, Ma Pingfu, Ma Wenwei, Sha Quanbiao, Jin Yueqing, and other criminals, and immediately occupied the commanding heights of each village, built protective fortifications, and controlled the main traffic routes. Li Zhantian, deputy director of the liaison group of the Armed Police Headquarters, and Shan Qiwei, chief of staff of the three detachments, led the first batch of detachments to enter the Jin and Shajia families and inserted sharp knives into the "heart" of the criminal gang. When Shan Qiwei sat in the living room of the Sha family's palace and used the radio to report to the "front finger" the news of the successful stationing of the squad, the commanders showed a smile on their nervous, anxious and tired faces. The Jianli detachment monitored the activities of the surrounding criminals day and night, and Ma Pinbiao, a big drug lord who lived opposite Sha Guozhu's house, was frightened by this action and committed suicide in his own home. 72,500 grams of heroin were seized from his home.
Some of the drugs seized
On September 25, the "former finger" ordered the Qujing regional detachment to arrest Chen Fayuan, a gun murderer, and four other people, who were armed with guns and live ammunition in an attempt to resist and fight to the death of a fish. At the moment of this thousand guns, our side launched a psychological battle through the trumpet: "You are surrounded, surrendering your weapons is your only way out; if you resist stubbornly, you can only go to the end of the road." It's up to you to decide where to go! In the end, the 4 criminals finally broke their will, unfastenedly unfurled the white flag, and handed over 2 submachine guns, 3 gunpowder guns, 7 grenades, mines, 326 rounds of ammunition, and a batch of explosives.
The anti-narcotics task force marched into Pingyuan Street, publicizing the spirit of the announcement and the lenient policy one by one, and the strategy of attacking the heart under strong military pressure was successful; without spending a single shot, more than 200 criminals who had escaped into the mountains surrendered themselves, and 16 drug trafficking syndicates and more than 800 criminals also confessed their crimes one after another.
Some of the guns seized