※The banditry in Lingao started after the Political Consultative Conference ended. 【Full text reading】Heart. The liaison system allows the intelligence department to obtain first-hand direct information from the local indigenous people, which is much more in-depth than the past objective observation using reconnaissance teams unfamiliar with the place. And the ins and outs are also clearer.
In order to ensure the accuracy and objectivity of the information, the Intelligence Committee cross-summarized the information provided by each village and compared it with each other when collecting information.
Because bandits often have obvious regional characteristics, each village often shelters local bandits either because of clan relatives or relationships with fellow villagers. Most of the bandits also follow the rule that rabbits do not eat grass near their nests, leaving leeway for local people, and specifically harming villages in other places.
In this social ecology, liaison officers are not immune. Therefore, their reports must be either concealed or exaggerated based on the close relationship between the bandits and their village. There are still feuds between villages and clans, and it is not ruled out that some people deliberately add falsehoods and slanders. Therefore, we must compare the information from each village to see the clues.
After more than a month of research on the liaison officers, the intelligence department has learned a lot of information about Lingao's banditry. Another important channel is Wang Zhaomin. Although he is a foreigner. But I have been living here for more than five years. I usually assist the county magistrate in handling government affairs, and I know a lot about various situations in the county, especially in terms of banditry. The Yamen has a wealth of information. The intelligence agency interviewed him several times alone and obtained a large amount of useful information from him.
"Although the bandits in Lingao are in chaos, the most important ones are the stubborn gangsters from the party." Wang Zhaomin whispered in the private room of the "Half the Sky" restaurant, "The others are just small gangs and cannot make any big waves. These two groups of bandits are deeply rooted and difficult to deal with. As long as we get rid of them, the bandits in Lingao will naturally have nothing to rely on. Lingao will also have peace in the surrounding area. "
Most of the bandits are "household bandits". After destroying the cottages and eliminating the bandit leaders and core members, the "household bandits" have lost their backbone and home base. Naturally, he has no intention of continuing to do evil. As long as he is appeased, the banditry will soon be calmed down.
"When it comes to suppressing bandits, evil must be dealt with, and threats are never taken into account." Wang Zhaomin said, "The four words of mercy and severity must be understood."
"Yes, yes." Luo Feng just said yes, and then asked, "Why is this one the most difficult to deal with?" He filled a glass of wine for him and said, "Sir, please teach me."
"It's a long story." Wang Zhaomin was already a little confused, but actually his mind was very clear. Ran knew the intention of this group of Australians. They probably wanted to clean up the "side of the couch", but that was fine. Anyway, the government couldn't deal with the bandits and couldn't eliminate the Australians. Let them bite each other and maybe get away with it. What about people’s benefit? He pretended to be drunk and said:
Dang Namen, whose name is Dang Guodong, is a local from Daolu Village. After his parents died, he thought that the people in his village would make a living by herding cattle, and when he grew up, he would make a living as a small trader. Because he has no relatives in the village, he has been bullied for a long time in the village. My homestead was also occupied by a family in the village.
Later, the Dang family often engaged in petty theft. In the last years of Wanli, he was turned away by the villagers and sent to the county government, and his mother was imprisoned. The next year, he escaped from prison, gathered a few like-minded brothers, returned to the village, and killed more than ten villagers who had quarreled with him. Then he looted property and went to Baopang Mountain at the junction of Lingao and Yanzhou. .
"Don't think that Dang is from a poor family, but he can read well and has been fond of reading since he was a child. Unfortunately, no one has helped him. He was a good scholar and fell into evil ways." Wang Zhaomin sighed, "After reading, he fell into evil ways. If you take an evil path, you will be more difficult to deal with than ordinary bandits."
Because Dang Namen knows a few words, although he has never read any serious military books, he has read a lot of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, etc., and learned strategies from them, so he often leads bandits by surprise. With this move, the ordinary brave men in the county were no match for him.
"Let's just say he attacked Longbo Village." Wang Zhaomin said excitedly. "The party led dozens of people, pretending to be farmers going to the market. They entered Longbo Village with goods. They used the money to pay taxes to the market. Taking the opportunity to sneak into the Youth League Bureau, a few people guarded the door and set off firecrackers outside. He led people to rush in and killed the teacher Xiang Yong in the Youth League Bureau. The Xiang Yong was in chaos, and there were more than a hundred Xiang Yong. The 30 people he brought to Longbo Village were destroyed. Do you think it is powerful or not?"
Luo Shi nodded. Sure enough, this party and that party had some tricks up their sleeves. This hand should be combined with the outside, and the tactic of hitting the snake in the head is quite beautiful. No wonder Master Wang said that the bandits of the Dang clan are powerful.
"And he also knows how to cage people's hearts!" Mr. Wang tapped the table. "This party has always advocated "beating the rich instead of the poor" outside, which has attracted a group of ignorant people. It caused a scene in Calais and the United States. Villagers in several places in Taiwan rebelled against their ancestors, and the landowners complained endlessly.
I often come to the county government to complain. Finally, a few years ago, Mr. Huang helped and led Yong to severely defeat the party's gang. Their arrogance is no longer so arrogant. "
"Master Huang?"
"That's Huang Shoutong from Huangjia Sai. Mr. Huang." Wang Zhaomin noticed Luo Feng's reaction, "He leads a very strong army, and the party is no match for him. It's a pity that the villagers are ignorant and often try to cover up their traces. In the end, they let him He ran back to Baopang Mountain. It's a pity that he couldn't do it all!
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"So Mr. Huang is still a man who is eager for justice and righteous."
"Natural, natural." Wang Zhaomin vaguely knew that the Australians wanted to take root locally, but Huangjiasai's Xiangyong was the only force that Wu County Magistrate could rely on, and the Australians could not be dragged over or consumed in the name of suppressing bandits. , "It's a pity that Mr. Huang was injured last time and has been in poor health. I'm afraid I won't be able to help with the suppression of bandits."
Luo Feng was noncommittal and just nodded.
Only, based on intelligence. The Dang gang mainly resides in the Baopang Mountain area at the border of Linzhang. This is their old camp. Luo Feng held a pointer and pointed at the map to introduce, "The gangster in the plug." There are more than 300 people year-round. There are firearms. "
The officers below looked at the marks on the map attentively. Luo Shi continued: "But their base is in the "Thirteen Villages" at the junction of Calais and the United States and Taiwan. The area, whether it is supplies or personnel, is supplemented from this area. Once something happens, a team of four to five hundred people can be gathered from here. "
There was a murmur of discussion among the crowd. Someone mentioned it: "This does not mean that there are no good people in Xingpeng County. Ding Zhuang in Wenyi area is suspected of being a bandit."
"That's right. Luo Feng nodded, "The gangsters of the party regard this area as their own forbidden area. They never cause harm to them, and they don't allow other gangsters to intrude. This is very popular.
"Zhou Shou is a separatist force!"
"No, we can't talk about separatism. According to Master Wang, "Ten: Villages and regions have never paid a lot of taxes. It’s just that there’s nothing good about the county. "
"Actually, the party's thinking is similar to ours. There is a lot of money for official contributions and not a penny for floating income. With guns as the backstage, the county can do nothing about them.
"This is the CPPCC meeting," Thirteen Villages. Did the district come to the meeting? "He Ming asked.
Luo Feng said: "They have all been here. I checked the relevant minutes of the meeting and found that we did not say anything on our behalf. We basically just followed the crowd. We did everything we promised to do, such as collecting food, sending missions, and sending liaison officers.
"Does the party know the strategy of struggle very well?"
"That's right." Luo Feng replied cautiously, "There are some ideas on the strategy of struggle."
"Most of the party's gangs are poor people, and he himself was born into a poor man who suffered real consequences. And someone who knows that "beating the rich rather than the poor" should be regarded as having revolutionary consciousness said, "In fact, it is wrong to characterize them as bandits, right? It should be a self-organized peasant resistance organization. We can fight for it
"It's relative not to disturb the people." Luo Feng said, "It's just that the area in Thirteen Villages is slightly better, but the intrusion in other places is very serious, such as robbery, murder, kidnapping, and raping of women. This bandit group is not the same." Most of them have done it. It’s not just the rich who are harmed, the poor are equally unlucky. If you have to call it something, “peasant resistance” or “uprising” is just deceiving yourself and others.
He Ming explained: "The reason why the bandit suppression headquarters chose to start with them first is that they are the most powerful, and their elimination will have the effect of knocking down the mountain and shaking the tiger. The second is that the people in this group are extremely angry. Our division is well-known.
Luo Feng went on to talk about the Thirteen Villages. Locally, this gang has two important members and twenty or thirty people stationed there to control the situation. The leader's name is Xin Nari and Wang Wushu. "
"Xin Nari and Wang Wushu are two of the four heavenly kings under the Dang clan." Wang Zhaomin said to Luo Shi, "The so-called four heavenly kings are just making up the numbers, but these two people should not be underestimated.
Xin Nari has been an idle person since he was a child. As an adult, because of his indolence and indolence, he became a "kuaishou" in the county government. "You must do what you do for the public" are not formal government servants in the county government. They are similar to non-staff "temporary workers" whose income depends entirely on various bad rules and extortion. It is these people who take part in illegal activities where it is inconvenient for the government officials to come forward. If something happens, these people will be blamed. Fortunately, there are connections both inside and outside. Even the county magistrate can't do anything about it. Once the limelight is over, continue to be "doing justice"
That’s what Xin will do on that day. The "public servants" acted very actively, not counting the oppression of the people. In the end, they even got on Shi Shen's head. Finally, they couldn't stay any longer. "Kuai Shou. We don't want to offend Shizhong for him. After all, we are the public servants." More is more, one more is not more, and one less is not more. Xin lost his job that day and simply went to the mountains to work.
This person is flexible and somewhat clever. He is also good at following people's influence and is very good at currying favor with others. So even though he looks like a gangster, he is a gangster. However, he has connections with many subordinate officials in the county government and local evil spirits. If there is any slight disturbance, someone will naturally inform him. Wang Zhaomin reminded, "We Mr. Wu and Mr. Huang have tried to arrest him several times. Every time He slipped every time."
As for Wang Wushu, although he is not a smart person, he is extremely brutal and brutal, and is famous for killing people without blinking an eye. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he has quite a bit of platoon fighting skills. When he was young, he participated in fights and could not be killed by swords or wounded by guns. Very legendary. This civil and military force is stationed at the boundary of the "Thirteen Villages" and controls this area very tightly.
After Luo Feng introduced the basic situation. Participants discussed how to eradicate this group of bandits. There are basically two options. One is to attack the "Thirteen Villages" first to clear out the bandit forces, causing the bandits on the mountain to lose food and personnel supplies, and then besiege the mountain stronghold when the time is ripe.
The other idea is to capture the thieves and capture the king, which advocates attacking the Baopang Mountain area first, wiping out the bandit nests, and then forcing the bandits in the Thirteen Villages to surrender without a fight.
Both options have advantages and disadvantages. After comprehensive consideration, it was finally decided to attack Shansai first.
"If we attack the Thirteenth Village first, it will be difficult to deal with the local civil affairs issues. As a civil affairs committee member and a member of the bandit suppression headquarters, Bu De said, "The local people have concerns and are unwilling to have more contact with us. The gangsters have a base to rely on, and they can use the cover of the common people to launch rampant attacks on us. When our army is stationed there, it will be very passive. In the end, it is likely to take indiscriminate retaliatory actions due to endless attacks. In the end, it will form a confrontational relationship, which will be very difficult to clean up in the future.
The form of combat will be a surprise battle involving a small and powerful synthetic unit. Investing large troops to suppress bandits in mountainous areas is not worth the gain. It is difficult to keep secrets when dispatching large troops. The bandits can move all the materials and personnel in advance, leaving only an empty village. Not to mention mobilizing one or two infantry battalions, but even thousands of troops searching the mountains. Bandits are also easy to hide from. If you stay in the mountains for a long time, supplies will not be transported in, and large troops cannot stay in the mountains for a long time. The long-lasting troops could only retreat. In the past, bandits have always used this method to deal with encirclement and suppression campaigns by the government and army.
Yang Zeng, commander of the platoon of the Chasseur Company of the First Infantry Regiment, was marching in the mountains. The forest was very hot in late spring. Sweat has soaked the military uniform. He carried his beloved rifle on his shoulder and two hundred bullets.
Behind him, followed his platoon of hunters, and then a mountain howitzer and all its belongings: shells, gunpowder, running brushes, etc. All these bits and pieces of equipment were transported by people, which took four full days. Ten "education soldiers" - soldiers who have not yet been officially awarded the rank of private, are being attacked. After them, there were infantry companies one by one, and then more than a hundred education soldiers, carrying a large amount of heavy equipment on their backs. The name "military industry" is actually Xi Yazhou's practice of "replacing animals and losing soldiers." The new soldiers are not of much use. It’s always okay to carry something on your back. Behind the hall is the engineer platoon, led by Panda, the commander of the engineer company. ! ~!
