On June 24, 1951, tens of thousands of villagers gathered near Yunzhouxi Village in Wenshui County, Shanxi Province, dressed solemnly and indignantly, and slowly lined up in a neat line to walk slowly to the martyrs' cemetery.
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From this scene, combined with the background of the times at that time, it is not difficult to guess that a serious public trial conference is being held here, and the object of this trial is Zhang Quanbao, the murderer who brutally killed the martyr Liu Hulan 4 years ago, and one of his accomplices.
Zhang Quanbao, an evil man with a fleshy face and a fierce face, changed his usual arrogance when he was tried, and he has always been brain-headed and indifferent, and finally executed on the spot in the grief-stricken complaint of Liu Hulan's relatives.
In fact, the process of arresting Zhang Quanbao at that time was very tortuous, because he changed his name and surname, and then he fled to death, which once made the CPC Central Committee and the Shanxi police think that Zhang Quanbao had already died in the chaotic war and did not pay too much attention to him, which allowed him to go unpunished for several years.
But in the end, "the Skynet was restored without leakage", the commander of a battalion of machine gun companies who had served in the Yan army, who had a deep heart and repeatedly evaded responsibility, and who was constantly promoted, still accepted the sanctions he deserved at the public trial meeting. So why did he kill Liu Hulan, and how was he arrested? To make all this clear, we have to start with the story of Liu Hulan's righteousness.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, the heroine Liu Hulan is righteous</h1>
In 1945, at the age of 13, Liu Hulan attended a training course for CCP women cadres. Her astute and brave character, coupled with her hard-working attitude, made her highly praised in just a few months, and the following year she became a preparatory party member of the Communist Party of China, and was valued and assigned to yunzhouxi village in Wenshui County, Shanxi Province, to engage in women's rescue work.
Liu Hulan has been actively helping the masses in his hometown of Yunzhou West Village, and getting along with the villagers is happy and harmonious. However, in the second half of 1946, as the Kuomintang troops launched a key offensive against the Liberated Areas, Yan Xishan also mobilized tens of thousands of elite troops to start a sweep of the Jinzhong region, and also arranged for the Seventy-second Division under Yan to surround Wenshui County with three regiments.
YunzhouXi Village, which had just returned to calm and peace, suddenly fell into a tense atmosphere, so the Wenshui County CPC Committee proceeded from the two angles of preserving strength and caring for cadres, and ordered Liu Hulan and his party to be safely transferred and temporarily avoided the limelight, in order to plan for the future. However, Liu Hulan refused this request after some deliberation, because the Yan forces were pressing step by step, so that Yun Zhou Xicun immediately took up the post of a pseudo-village chief named Shi Peihuai.
Although Shi Peihuai was the village chief of Yunzhou West Village, he did not do anything practical for the villagers for half a minute, and his mind was all focused on how to pass on information to the Yan army and disintegrate the evil deeds of the CCP members. What particularly forced the villagers to suffer was that Shi Peihuai went so far as to wantonly loot the villagers' money and grain for the needs of promotion, and raised all the money and grain they obtained to serve as military expenses for the Yan army.
The people of Yunzhou West Village, who "work at sunrise and rest at sunset", originally had a surplus of one year and were not rich, and under the insatiable exploitation of Shi Peihuai, most of the villagers were hungry. Liu Hulan was anxious to see the situation, so he cooperated with the district governor Chen Dezhao and the governor of Wenshui County, Xu Guangyuan, and simply and neatly executed the pseudo-village chief Shi Peihuai.
After the news reached the ears of the Yan army, they were very angry, and when they saw that some people dared to blatantly confront themselves, they decided to give some hardships to these CCP cadres who did not know that the "sky was high and the ground was thick," so they immediately sent the 215th Regiment of the 72nd Division of the 61st Army to dispatch three battalions of troops to search YunzhouXi Village.
Xu Desheng, commander of the machine gun company of the first battalion, Zhang Quanbao, an instructor, and Hou Yuyin, deputy commander of the first battalion, led the way to set off, and together with Lu Defang, captain of the "Struggle for Revenge Self-Defense Force," they rushed to Yunzhou West Village. At that time, the group took the lead in reaching the home of the district chief Chen Dezhao to wantonly smash and smash, and then forced his family with a gun, and Liu Hulan, who was hiding in the shadows, knew that the situation was not good, and immediately contacted Chen Dezhao to discuss countermeasures.
But unexpectedly, only a few days later, in the early morning of January 12, the sky was just hazy, Xu Desheng, Zhang Quanbao and Hou Yuyin quietly surrounded the village, and the neighbor Jin Zhongjie hurriedly let Liu Hulan hide in her home, she naively thought that she had just given birth to a child, and the gang should not break through the door in a frenzy.
But Liu Hulan is very sober, she knows the fierceness of these reactionaries, and she knows even more that they will not give up if they do not achieve their goals, and then the whole village may be implicated by themselves. So in order not to involve the kind villagers, Liu Hulan took the initiative to walk to the Guanyin Temple Square in awe.
Lu Defang, the captain of the "Struggle for Revenge Self-Defense Force", had seen Liu Hulan before, and was overjoyed to see Liu Hulan come out, and immediately arrested her from the crowd, and then escorted her to the center of the square.
Zhang Quanbao, nicknamed "Bearded", had been serving as a machine gun company instructor for many years at this time, and his mind was much deeper than that of the rest of the people, and in order to find a justification for conviction, he pretended to let the masses spontaneously "report" Liu Hulan's evil deeds, but none of the kind villagers spoke.
Zhang Quanbao, a group of people, had no choice but to simply be tough, coercing Liu Hulan to tell the traces of the Wenshui County CPC Committee and promising that if he confessed frankly, he would be sent down lightly. Unexpectedly, Liu Hulan did not eat this set at all, but instead released such cruel words as "death does not yield, and it is so big after fifteen years".
Zhang Quanbao, when they saw that Liu Hulan had confessed to the purpose of the CPC county committee, was embarrassed and angry and moved the knife to threaten again, while Liu Hulan directly lay on the knife and defended the faith in his heart with a warm blood.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, the main culprits have been arrested</h1>
The heroine Liu Hulan's heroic righteousness not only made the masses in YunzhouXi Village extremely angry, but also deeply touched the leaders of the CPC Central Committee at all levels, and for a time the slogans of "liberating Wenshui County" and "avenging Liu Hulan" resounded in everyone's heart.
On February 2, 1947, General Wang Zhen led the 359th Brigade to attack wenshui county, and all the way was invincible, so that the Yan army almost fled in all directions, and Zhang Quanbao, the knife bearer who participated in the mutilation of liu Hulan martyr, and four other people saw that the situation was not right, and they tried to escape.
The first to be killed was Lu Defang, captain of the "Struggle for Revenge Self-Defense Force", who fled Wenshui County disguised as merchants who were engaged in business when Wenshui County was liberated and the masses were excited and distracted.
At that time, he went all the way north, and when he fled to the vicinity of Yi'er Village, because of his sneaky look, his speech was very flustered and his eyes flickered, he was seen by the Platon Army stationed there, and after some interrogation, he was executed on the spot.
The next to be captured was Xu Desheng, the commander of the Second Company, who was promoted after the brutal persecution of Liu Hulan and became the battalion commander. However, as General Wang Zhen led his troops to liberate Wenshui County, Xu Desheng's use of value was abandoned by the Kuomintang, and Xu Desheng absconded back to his hometown of Qi County, Shanxi, in order to escape responsibility, and hid in anonymity in the "Wanhetang" medicine shop to support himself by miscellaneous and practices.
The limelight was only temporarily avoided for a few months, and with the "Instructions on Severely Suppressing Counter-Revolution" issued by the CPC Central Committee, the masses in various parts of Central Jinzhong were full of morale and opened their eyes to report undesirable elements.
A villager who witnessed the mutilation of Liu Hulan and other martyrs in guanyin temple square happened to see Xu Desheng, who was a miscellaneous worker, when he went to QiXian to sell dates, and reported to the public security department at the first time, and finally Xu Desheng was arrested and executed on the spot on April 4, 1951.
As for the deputy battalion commander Hou Yuyin, this old brother had a lot of eyes, once fled from the eyes of the People's Liberation Army, and then organized the "Fennan Guerrilla Detachment" to still engage in counter-revolutionary evils.
Hou Yuyin's successful escape was in February 1948, when he was captured when General Wang Zhen led troops to liberate Wenshui County. However, he found that no one recognized him as one of the main criminals who mutilated Liu Hulan, so he fabricated the deputy battalion commander of the 215th Regiment of the 72nd Division of the Kuomintang 61st Army as the deputy platoon commander of the 211st Regiment of the 71st Division of the 61st Army, and won the position of the leader of the middle-level officer captive group with good performance.
After a period of study and transformation, Hou Yuyin took the severance pay and successfully broke off the shell of the golden cicada. In the next two years, Hou Yuyin's thief still wanted to help the Kuomintang regain its advantage, and finally found out in a theft case, because Xu Desheng confessed to the accomplice when he was first defeated, Hou Yuyin could only confess his own mutilation of the martyr Liu Hulan in front of the testimony.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, Zhang Quanbao deliberately escaped responsibility</h1>
In fact, at the time of Hou Yuyin's arrest, Zhang Quanbao, the main criminal who participated in the killing of Liu Hulan, was also arrested at almost the same time. Where did Zhang Quanbao flee at that time? We're going to pull back to February 1947.
At that time, Zhang Quanbao, who called himself the "Duke of Beautiful Hair", was wounded in the battle to liberate Wenshui County, because no one knew that he was Zhang Quanbao, a bearded man who did nothing wrong, so he not only did not die, but was also sent to hospital by the well-meaning masses.
Zhang Quanbao was discharged from the hospital five months later, and was promoted to second lieutenant instructor of the Fifth Company of the First Regiment of the Yan Family's Pro-Trainer Division, and then after recovering from wounds in another battle, he was again promoted to captain of the Fifth Company of the Third Regiment of Mortars.
But good luck will not always take care of him like this, and finally in the Taiyuan Liberation War he was captured by the People's Liberation Army. However, on the eve of being captured, Zhang Quanbao learned that once his cruelty to Liu Hulan was revealed, he would be in danger, so he gritted his teeth and pulled out all the beards of his face one by one.
After all, Zhang Quanbao and his people have not been seen by many people, but the nicknames of bearded and hairdress are well-known, and if the People's Liberation Army finds that there is a beard among the prisoners, then a little investigation into the causes and consequences of persecuting Liu Hulan will be clear.
And the obvious feature of the beard is gone, Zhang Quanbao also has a certain space to play, he is very cunning in his identity under the pseudonym "Zhang Shenghao", the position is also falsely reported as an inconspicuous platoon leader, when stating the background, he also pretends to be extremely remorseful and sincere, and soon escaped and was sent to the Second Regiment of the North China Military Region Teaching Regiment for reform.
After coming to the North China Military Region to teach the Second Regiment, no one doubted that Zhang Shenghao, who was honest and honest, was one of the main criminals who had slipped through the net and brutalized Liu Hulan.
Zhang Quanbao escaped from the guilt in this way, and because he was repeatedly injured in battle, his accomplices did not know whether he was alive or dead, so the public security bureau also temporarily put aside his arrest, and Zhang Quanbao got the long-lost peace of mind.
At that time, Zhang Quanbao worked seriously in the Chahar Agricultural Reclamation Brigade, and was released safely after only one year, at which point he was completely freed, and after several days of wind and food, he returned to his hometown of No. 1 Courtyard of Weijia Lane, Yuncheng County, Yuncheng County, Shanxi Province, and defected to his relatives and aunts living here, and together with his wife Wu Cuihua, he sold needles and threads and peppercorns to make a small business to make a living.
I have to say that Zhang Quanbao, who was transformed into a merchant, was really bold, and it was difficult to change his appearance to escape responsibility, not to mention taking his daughter-in-law to live in another province, and even dared to return to Shanxi to join his relatives, and almost the entire Jinzhong masses were very angry about the evil deeds that killed Liu Hulan, so it was only a matter of time before he was recognized.
Sure enough, Zhang Quanbao's life in his hometown was not at all solid, especially as the mighty counter-revolutionary movement intensified in 1951, Zhang Quanbao did too much because of his bad intentions, and he was haunted by nightmares all night.
One day, the Yuncheng Democracy Stage will stage the opera "Liu Hulan", and soon after the news reached Zhang Quanbao's ears. Zhang Quanbao was particularly troubled after learning about the performance of the opera "Liu Hulan", he was afraid of facing the liu hulan incident staged, making him more difficult day and night, and curious about how the authorities defined Liu Hulan's main criminal, so after tossing and turning for several days, he decided to disguise himself to watch the play and make plans after inquiring into the wind.
On the day of the performance of the opera "Liu Hulan", Zhang Quanbao wrapped himself tightly and mixed in the crowd, when he saw that everyone said that the beard that mutilated Liu Hulan was Xu Desheng (Xu Desheng also had a beard), Zhang Quanbao was secretly happy in his heart, he knew that this was because of the large number of main criminals, everyone Zhang Guan Li Dai confused his identity, at this time he suddenly felt that he could live a solid life.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > fourth, the deeds were revealed, and Zhang Quanbao was arrested</h1>
Only later, after learning that Xu Desheng had been arrested, he was a little flustered, he knew that Xu Desheng, as the commander of the second company, had spent a long time with himself, and everyone had also collaborated to kill Liu Hulan, and once he surrendered, he would definitely reveal his whereabouts.
The more he thought about it, the more afraid he became, Zhang Quanbao became an ant on the hot pot, and he couldn't stay for a moment, he dug up the vegetable cellar in the courtyard overnight and hid it, and told his wife Wu Cuihua to let her tell the outside world that she had returned to her hometown in Shandong. In order to avoid special circumstances, he also took out two pistols he had hidden and loaded them with bullets, planning that if the public security bureau sent someone to find his hiding place, he would simply break the net.
Just when Zhang Quanbao was hiding in the kitchen cellar of his home and worrying all day, Wang Liancheng, a villager in Nanjing Village in Wanquan County, who had done things under Wang Quanbao, was arrested under the town's counter-movement. In order to fight for a light haircut, he confessed that he had accidentally seen Zhang Quanbao in Yuncheng County, and also said that the "big beard" was actually Zhang Quanbao.
He told the local public security bureau at the time that one year on the street of Yuncheng he saw the owner of a grocery store very similar to Zhang Quanbao, the bearded man who killed Liu Hulan, because Zhang Quanbao's beard had long been removed, and it was rumored that Zhang Quanbao was dead, so Wang Liancheng was not sure that it was him at first.
But both sides were familiar, so after some eye contact, they recognized each other. At that time, Wang Liancheng was very surprised, and he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, Zhang Quanbao was afraid that Wang Liancheng would expose his identity, and quickly whispered: "Don't call me indiscriminately, my name is Zhang Shenghao now." ”
After that, Zhang Quanbao also dragged Wang Liancheng to the tavern to eat, although it was under the slogan of "reminiscing about the past", but in fact it was a threat to Wang Liancheng. At that time, Zhang Quanbao advised Wang Liancheng to drink and eat vegetables, warned Wang Liancheng not to reveal his identity, and said to him: "If you dare to expose me, kill your whole family." ”
Wang Lianhua was born as a peasant, although he had participated in the Kuomintang, but he was also forced to be helpless, not a big evil person, seeing that there were parents in the family, there were wives and children and brothers, and Zhang Quanbao was fierce and fierce, so he had to promise him.
And now this clue is already related to whether he can wear the sin and make meritorious deeds, and Wang Liancheng does not dare to hide it anymore. After hearing this clue, the Public Security Bureau attached great importance to it, and immediately sent a scout disguised as a spy to stalk near Zhang Quanbao's home, and also conducted a secret inspection and visit to Zhang Quanbao's neighbors, relatives, friends, and others to find out his whereabouts.
It was only because Zhang Quanbao was very cunning, had prepared his words before, and hid it very early, which made the investigators not get any direct and effective information at the beginning.
However, after a long time, the scouts found a strange phenomenon, that is, Zhang Quanbao's wife Wu Cuihua claimed that her husband was not at home, but every time she poured the bedpan (night pot), it was full, if there was no one in the house, where did these feces and urine come from?
Before contacting the previous neighbors, although there was no one in Wu Cuihua's room, there would occasionally be a very strong smell of paper smoke, Wu Cuihua has always been non-smoking, so the scouts feel that there must be someone hidden in this family, so why should Wu Cuihua hide it? There is only one situation: that is, Zhang Quanbao has not gone out, he has been hiding at home.
After the case became clearer and clearer, the Yuncheng County Public Security Bureau immediately held a meeting to discuss the arrest operation, and the leaders believed that Zhang Quanbao was a soldier, not only could use guns, but also had a brutal personality, fearing that he would fight to the death and cause police casualties, so they decided to adopt the strategy of "encircling and raiding, catching turtles in the urn" and hitting him unprepared.
After the arrest arrangements were arranged, the scouts deliberately relaxed their guard over Zhang Quanbao's family in order to lower Wu Cuihua's vigilance. Wu Cuihua was indeed hooked, one evening, when Wu Cuihua's home lit up cooking smoke, the deputy director in charge of Yuncheng County led more than 20 cadres and policemen to directly break into the door, just in time to collide with Zhang Quanbao, who came out of the vegetable cellar to eat, Zhang Quanbao turned back to run and was directly arrested by the cadres and policemen.
But Zhang Quanbao was not willing to be arrested like this, and he immediately put on a look of obedience in his heart, and said pitifully: "Let me take a few clothes and go back with you." "In fact, he used this as an excuse to go to the quilt on the bed to get a weapon and fight with the policemen.
Fortunately, the policemen first found that he did not look right when he touched his coat, immediately pushed him to the ground, opened his coat and found that there was a pistol that had been loaded inside, and Zhang Quanbao's tricks were exhausted, and he could only tie his hands. Perhaps the cunning and abnormal Zhang Quanbao did not expect that he had been carefully calculating that he would eventually be exposed because his wife poured the bedpan.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > five, evil has evil retribution</h1>
However, after his arrest, at first Zhang Quanbao did not intend to confess his guilt like this, but instead pretended to be calm and cunning: "What law did I break?" Why are you arresting me?" It wasn't until the cadres and policemen directly stated that he was Zhang Quanbao, the main culprit who killed Liu Hulan, that he knew that the public security bureau had understood everything, and his face suddenly turned pale and he stopped arguing.
After Zhang Quanbao was arrested, he confessed to the evil deeds of mutilating Liu Hulan, because one of the main criminals, Hou Yuyin, and Zhang Quanbao were caught in the net, so the two were escorted to the detention center together to await public trial.
The local county magistrate was very relieved to learn that all the murderers who brutalized the martyr Liu Hulan and others had been arrested, and wrote a letter to Chairman Mao and Liu Hulan's mother, Hu Wenxiu, to report on the incident. After the letter to Chairman Mao was published on the front page of the People's Daily, the entire Jinzhong masses were filled with emotion and asked for orders to execute the two in order to comfort the spirit of the martyr Liu Hulan in heaven.
So there is the scene we have in the previous article, Zhang Quanbao and Hou Yuyin were escorted to the Martyrs' Cemetery on June 24, and the verdict was publicly pronounced. Two gunshots after a four-year absence rang out, and the crowd erupted in grief with a burst of cheers, and finally the justice of the martyr Liu Hulan was upheld.