1950, local bandits in Guizhou, such as Luo Shaoquan, Dong Quanhe and Wei Dianchu, gathered to attack Huishui County. 1949 1 1 month The liberation of Guiyang, Guizhou Province. However, because the main forces of the Second Field Army and the Fifth Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army went south to participate in the Battle of Chengdu, their troops and weapons were few. However, although outnumbered, the PLA is a regular army and will soon be able to beat back the thugs.
Knowing that there were not many people guarding the city and unwilling to disperse, these bandits gathered for a meeting in Yang Ya Village, five kilometers away from the county seat, ready to attack Huishui County again. Bandits usually rob houses and have no mass base. Therefore, the villagers reported their meeting to the PLA garrison. The People's Liberation Army surrounded the village. After two nights and a day of fighting, the bandits were wiped out. Soon, Luo Shaoquan, the bandit leader, was killed in the encirclement and suppression of the People's Liberation Army, and another bandit leader, Sister Chen, was captured alive.
Sister Chen is a legendary bandit. My real name, my real name. She comes from Shunchaopai Village, Guangxiang Township, Changshun County. When she was a girl, she was called a great beauty by the local people because she was slim and tall, with delicate and fair skin and delicate face. 194 1 year, 19 years old, she married her cousin, but this marriage seems to be unsatisfactory. After only half a year, he ran away from home, and was later married by the landlord as his second wife, changing his surname to Chen.
At that time, the landlord's family had private armed forces, and the Chen Zhengming family also had guns and servants. Sister-in-law Chen followed him from village to village. She not only learned to ride a horse, but also learned to shoot a gun.
After his death, Chen came near the Chen family and plundered thousands of hectares of fertile land. A group of people surrounded Mrs. Chen's residence and shot at random. Sister-in-law Chen knew that she was angry, so she closed the door with her and called back in the hospital and upstairs. With favorable terrain and excellent marksmanship, Mrs. Chen led her to kill three besieged bandits with two guns. The besiegers saw that their companions suffered heavy casualties. Besides, Mrs. Chen came prepared, and it was not cheap to go around again, so she carried the body back. Since then, Mrs. Chen's reputation as a "woman with two guns" has been widely known.
Although Mrs. Chen beat off her robbers, there were still many robbers waiting for opportunities to rob her. Sister-in-law Chen is determined to find a backer to keep her property. So she contacted Luo Shaoquan, the mayor of Bairi Town, Huishui County. The name of this town is really interesting.
The relationship between Luo Shaoquan and Mrs. Chen also has a purpose, that is, to covet her money and introduce her brother Luo Shaofan to marry Mrs. Chen. In this way, Sister-in-law Chen looked for a backer, Luo Shaoquan was greedy for money, and Luo Shaofan looked for a beautiful woman. Three people got together according to their own plans.
Luo Shaoquan was an officer in the Kuomintang and later returned to his hometown. He has a lot of property and a group. After the PLA came, Luo Shaoquan refused to hand over his gun. He wants to fight against the People's Liberation Army. In this way, they went up the mountain and became robbers. Sister-in-law Kerwin Chen and Luo Shaoquan went up the mountain, but somehow they became bandits.
People came to see Mrs. Chen after she was arrested. Because Mrs. Chen has been passed down from generation to generation and no one has ever seen her, many people come here with this curiosity.
Sister-in-law Chen is the bandit's battalion chief, equivalent to the head. The Guizhou Military Region held a special meeting to discuss how to deal with this female bandit leader. At that time, any gang leader above the squadron leader who did not surrender would be shot as long as he was caught, and he had great approval power. A warden nods and may be executed immediately. Bandit "colonels" like Chen Jie will die more.
However, some people put forward another view: there are still sporadic bandits in Changshu, Huishui and Ziyun, especially some ethnic bandits.
A few days later, at the meeting of the Party Committee of the provincial military region, someone further explained the reason for "not killing people": she is a minority woman. Although she participated in bandit activities, her destructive effect was not as serious as the legend. Now, a large number of bandits have been eliminated, and she can still fight for the fleeing bandits to surrender to the government. In the new situation, it may play a useful role.
It is difficult to unify opinions, so the Guizhou Military Region reported to the Southwest Military Region the reasons for killing and not killing, as well as the details of Mrs. Chen. Li Da, Chief of Staff of Southwest Military Region, will visit North Korea. He instructed that Mrs. Chen's case should be put on hold until he came back.
1953 In late March, Li Da returned from North Korea and stayed in Beijing for several days, where he was received by Chairman Mao. He reported on the work of suppressing bandits in southwest China, especially Mrs. Chen's situation. The conversation between Mao Zedong and Li Da was recorded in detail.
Li Da said, "Madam President, this female bandit leader killed someone and ran away."
Chairman Mao said in a positive tone: "Don't kill!" With that, he picked up a cigarette, slowly struck a match, lit it, took a deep breath and began to think.
When Li Da saw that the chairman had something to say, he sat there quietly waiting for instructions.
Chairman Mao smoked a third of the cigarettes and said in his unique humorous tone, "It's a pity that there are not many female bandit leaders. Wouldn't it be a pity to kill him? "
"What does the chairman mean?" Li Da asked tentatively.
"The somebody else zhuge liang tackled meng huo, dare to seven tackled seven vertical, we tackled the sister-in-law Chen, why don't you dare to eight tackled eight vertical? Two tackled two tackled? In short, you can't kill it right away. "
Li Da understood Chairman Mao's words and said seriously, "Chairman, we will follow your instructions."
His words are humorous, but they clearly express the reasons for not killing Chen: first, women, and second, national identity. In fact, there is another meaning that Mao Zedong didn't express clearly, that is, although Mrs. Chen is the boss of the gang, she didn't or rarely mentioned the bloody case. If she is as bloody as other robbers, she can't get amnesty from Mao Zedong.
1On June 5, 953, a mass meeting of thousands of people was held in Chengguan Town, Huishui County. Sister-in-law Chen was also brought to the meeting. When she saw the crowd at the meeting, people pointed at her and thought she would die today. Unexpectedly, at this meeting, the president of the court sentenced her and released her on the spot. In this way, a female gangster who "deserved to say so" miraculously survived!
In any case, Mrs. Chen thought that the * * * production party would not let her go, and vowed to repay Mao Zedong for saving his life. A few days after her release, she went to the junction of Huishui and Changshun, often working as a bandit, looking for bandits and their families who did not surrender, telling her personal experience, and drilling into caves where some bandits had been hiding for many times to surrender face to face. In more than a month, 22 gangsters surrendered to the people's government. There are several gangsters, known as "Eight Donkeys Cave", who are particularly fierce and cunning. Killing people is like killing chickens without blinking. Sister Chen repeatedly mobilized her family to persuade her to surrender, but failed, so she led her troops into the mountains to search and killed three stubborn bandits one by one. Later, not only Huishui and Changshun, but also bandits hiding in the depths of Ziyun came and surrendered to the government.
Later, Mrs. Chen was arranged to live in Huishui and was elected as a city councilor and a member of the Standing Committee for many times. 1998, Mrs. Chen died of illness. The Guizhou Provincial Political Consultative Conference also held a memorial service for her, which objectively and fairly evaluated her strange life that she might not have expected before her death.