Song Zheyuan did not completely destroy 5,000 bandits, but said that he killed more than 3,000 people and was released about 1,500 people. This has his considerations and last resorts.
Who is Song Zheyuan?
Song Zheyuan was a general in the Nationalist army of the Republic of China, who was known for his bravery in battle, and was under the jurisdiction of Feng Yuxiang in the Northwest Army. The status of this benevolent brother was spelled out by his own wrist, not a bastard, and he was known as one of the five tigers of Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army. He went from being a sentry commander to a company commander, a battalion commander, a regimental commander, and finally a brigade commander directly promoted to brigade commander by the Great War, and finally a first-class general who was promoted by the Nationalist government.
The work of suppressing bandits is not easy
In 1928, Song Zheyuan became the commander-in-chief of the Shaanxi bandits, and provoked the burden of the Shaanxi bandits, this commander-in-chief of the bandits looked beautiful, but the work of this bandits was not easy to do, especially the work of the Shaanxi bandits, it was more difficult, so Song Zheyuan took over the work of the bandits was not a beautiful difference, but a hot potato, it was easy to not protect the late festival, and the soldiers defeated the bandit road.
In the face of such a difficult work, Song Zheyuan had his last resort, but he also had his determination and belief in suppressing bandits, and his concept was basically four words - just finish it.
In this part of Shaanxi, perennial wars, you beat me, I beat you, during the melee, there were many people who began to stand on their own mountains, some bandits took off their military uniforms to do bandits, and some warlords did banditry. For example, the famous bandit Fengxiang Dang kidnapper in this part of Shaanxi, his name is Dang Yukun, originally a general of the nationalist army, and later the commander Sun Jian was killed, he also took off his military uniform, took the scattered soldiers and the remnants of the defeated generals to become bandits, established himself on the mountain, and guarded Fengxiang City to become the emperor of the earth.
"Hard bones to gnaw"
With so many bandits and wandering scattered soldiers, Song Zheyuan was also a little confused when he saw it, what year would this have to be cleaned up? In the end, Song Zheyuan made a decision to directly kill the biggest bandit party kidnapper.
Fengxiang City, the party kidnapper Dang Yukun, has been operating for many years, and it is said that the iron wall of Fengxiang City is almost the same, not to mention that there are still 7,000 defenders in the city, these people are all people who have been honed by the battlefield, although they are some evildoers who harm the people, they also have a lot of combat effectiveness. Fengxiang City is even more available to the military and the people for three years of grain and grass, the use of inexhaustible ammunition, want to lay down Fengxiang City is really difficult as ascending to the sky, if you are not careful, you will also be defeated by the party kidnappers, then it will be a big loss, the late festival is not guaranteed.
However, after Song Zheyuan's analysis, if he wanted to clear the boundaries of Shaanxi, it was an impossible task without beating the party kidnappers. So he made up his mind and led 30,000 people to surround Fengxiang City, preparing to fight a tough battle and take down this "difficult bone".
But the battle did not go well, and half a year later, the party kidnappers of Fengxiang City were still laughing and smoking dry cigarettes at the head of the city. This battle did not become an example of deterring the bandits in Shaanxi, as Song Zheyuan expected, but became a laughingstock, and the bandits were even more unscrupulous. In the end, Song Zheyuan adopted the tactic of digging tunnels to blow up the city wall, which worked and took Fengxiang City within half a month. In this battle, the headquarters suffered 4,000 casualties, Dang Yukun suffered 2,000 casualties, and 5,000 prisoners, and Dang Yukun died in the chaotic battle.
Song Zheyuan's determination
Although the battle was won, the losses were heavy, and if every bandit army went to such great lengths, I am afraid it would be difficult to suppress the bandits. In the end, he made a decision to slaughter the prisoners and shock Shaanxi!
In the end, in order to eliminate the bandits in Shaanxi, Song Zheyuan decided not to hesitate to bear the insult, and he could not care about the rumors of "killing the prisoners unknown", he vigorously defied the public opinion, decided to massacre 4500 prisoners, release 500 prisoners and spread the matter throughout Shaanxi.
Song Zheyuan's practice really worked, and wherever Song Zheyuan's bandit army went, it was impossible to look forward to the wind, and the bandit plague in Shaanxi was quickly effectively managed.
epilogue
Song Zheyuan slaughtered prisoners, known as the "Fengxiang Massacre". According to the "Song Zheyuan Killing Five Thousand Prisoners of the Shaanxi Army", Song Zheyuan first ordered the pistol battalion to kill 500 prisoners, and then began to execute the beheading, and at night a total of more than 3,000 people were killed, and later the commander of the Seventeenth Division of the Thirteenth Army, Zhao Fenglin, could not bear it, and suggested that his subordinates should kill less to cope, so he released more than a thousand people.
Although it is for work, but such a means is also too cruel, but well, Ci does not control the soldiers, Song Zheyuan's merits, naturally left to posterity to comment. By the way, one thing to say, the party's little wife "little white shoes" were also captured.