In 1949, the Kuomintang regime collapsed, the army was defeated, and the liberation of the whole country had become an inevitable historical development trend, at this time, many high-ranking officials and generals from the Huangpu clan chose to oppose Chiang Kai-shek, and the senior generals of the Hunan Kuomintang, Cheng Qian and Chen Mingren, understood the great righteousness, and resolutely led the uprising in line with the trend of history, and then Hunan was peacefully liberated. Generals Cheng and Chen also became the later founding fathers and founding generals.
However, in the major historical process of the peaceful liberation of Hunan, a lieutenant general of the Nationalist army insisted on following a black road to the end, went so far as to gather thousands of people to go up the mountain as bandits, chose to support Chiang Kai-shek with a dead heart, and fought the PLA to the end in an attempt to continue to resist, and also accepted the so-called last "governor of Hunan Province," "commander-in-chief of the Sixth Guerrilla Column," and "commander-in-chief of the anti-communist volunteer army to save the country," and openly shouted that "a cadre from the north and the south should be captured alive and enjoyed 400 yuan of light and the ocean.", waiting for an opportunity to cooperate with the Kuomintang counterattack, and his arrogance was very arrogant. This person was Chen Guangzhong, the former lieutenant general of the Nationalist Army.
Chen Guangzhong (1897-1949), a native of Shuangquanpu, Shaodong, Hunan, whose family owns thousands of acres of fertile land, was originally a local rich man, began to study when he was young, had a very good foundation in traditional Chinese studies, and wrote very beautifully. He donated funds to preside over the reprinting of the preface and inscription of the book title of the "Baoqing Fu Zhi", which is graceful and elegant, the calligraphy is beautiful, and indeed has some knowledge. Therefore, he chose to teach in the beginning.
However, in the chaotic world of the Republic of China, where warlords were fighting, the city head changed the banner of the king, the government was not the same, the people of the world were confused, and thieves swarmed. After teaching in Shaoyang City for several years, Chen Guangzhong believed that in this chaotic autumn, the pen should not be a gun, and decided to find a way out from the army. He first practiced martial arts, and later, many locals said that he could fly over the wall, run up to catch a dog, and walk at night with a lamp on his head, which was more powerful than the Shenxing Taibao Daizong in the Water Margin. Because Chen Guangzhong was born in the year of Prophecy, the zodiac sign belongs to the monkey, so it is said to be the reincarnation of the monkey spirit.
Indeed, Chen Guangzhong, who was able to write and fight martial arts, temporarily showed his prominence as soon as he served in the Xiang Army in Changsha, and later pulled up a team, first gathering in the mountains and forests, robbing his family and robbing houses, and then being incorporated into the nationalist army camp commander by the Kuomintang government; after the "Ma-Ri Incident," he slaughtered the workers and peasants, was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the "suppression of bandits" in Liuyang, ordered the killing of the "weeds," and later became a major general brigade commander and a lieutenant general division commander, specifically making enemies of the Red Army. Most appallingly, there were two battles that cost the Red Army dearly:
On May 1, 1933, Chen Guangzhong sent four infantry battalions to Chaling County to receive military salaries, equipment, and living materials during the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign of the Red Army. The Chaling Independent Regiment, which had been monitoring the enemy of the Lotus Flower, immediately reported the news to the Red Eighth Army, and the commander decided to take advantage of its return to ambush the enemy in the Jiuduchong area of Chaling County. Jiudu Chong, also known as Jiulu Chong, here the mountains on both sides are undulating, and only one road passes through the valley floor, which is a very suitable area for ambush warfare.
At that time, Chen Guang's central transport team escorted a large number of heavy weights, and when they reached the Thunder Stone in Chaling County, the Chaling Independent Regiment, which was monitoring nearby, quickly occupied the nearby commanding heights and positions and began to block the enemy's advance, and then the three divisions of the Red Eighth Army besieged, and the two battalions of the 63rd Division, which served as the rear guard, were completely annihilated, and a large number of military supplies became the spoils of the Red Army. The two battalions in front of them broke through and seized several nearby high ground, and built field fortifications on the spot, preparing to wait for Chen Guangzhong's reinforcements, at this time the reinforcements of the three regiments personally commanded by Chen Guangzhong arrived, their foothold was unstable, they had not yet built field fortifications, they were crushed by the Red Eighth Army, Chen Guangzhong fled to the county town with dozens of personal guards, and when passing through the village of Huantang in Lianhua Shengfang Town, the villagers of the village were bullied by the Kuomintang army on weekdays, and seeing his current miserable situation, many villagers raised their hoes and shouted: "Capture Chen Guangzhong alive!" "The 63rd Division is really useless!" Frightened, dozens of soldiers immediately surrendered their guns to the masses.
After returning to the city, Chen Guangzhong thought more and more about this matter, the Red Army could not fight, the common people could still deal with it, so it was decided to wash the village of Huantang in blood to avenge the snow and hatred, gathered a battalion to surround the village, rushed into the village in the early morning to see people and killed, more than a hundred people in the village were killed in the field, the enemy who was mad and mad also cut off the left ear of the deceased to ask for merit, and rewarded five silver dollars per ear, which is the famous Huantang Massacre.
The other was the Battle of the Xiangjiang River during the Red Army's Long March, when Chen Guangzhong led his troops to participate in the Battle of Jueshanpu in Quanzhou, Guangxi. The Battle of Jueshanpu was the most tragic battle in the Long March breakthrough after the failure of the Fifth "Anti-Encirclement and Suppression" of the Red Army, and two divisions of the Red First Army fought for 3 days with the Xiang Army led by Chen Guangzhong and others, with heavy casualties. What was even more frightening was that at that time, a Xiang army rushed to the vicinity of the headquarters of the Red First Army in a vain attempt to attack the headquarters of the Red Army.
After the battle of Jueshanpu, the Red Army soldiers could not help but burst into tears when they looked at the gray corpses of the Red Army scattered throughout the mountains! There is a place called Yuewangtang at the bend of the Xiang River next to Jeonju, where the river flow rate is very slow, and almost all the bodies floating upstream after the Battle of the Xiang River converge here, and the corpses of the Red Army are dense and difficult to calculate! Chen Guangzhong frantically encircled and suppressed the Red Army, but the Kuomintang government at that time believed that it was "a pioneer in suppressing the common people, repeatedly building miracles, stabilizing the localities, and completely eradicating the people", chen was praised many times. He was known as the fiercest character to kill the Red Army.
After the peaceful liberation of Hunan, Chen Guangzhong continued to choose to be the enemy of the people's power, leading thousands of people to occupy the mountains as kings, raping and plundering everywhere, killing people's government cadres and insurgents, and on November 27, 1949, the People's Liberation Army, which was in a state of disarray, decided to suppress this bandit army. After several rounds of competition, in just a few days, the main force that Chen Guangzhong had pieced together had been completely annihilated. Chen Guangzhong led the remnants of his soldiers to sneak into the mountains around Yanshan Township in Dongkou County, and when counting the number of people, only more than 50 people, including wives and children, horses, and personal guards, climbed mountains all day long, waded in the water, snaked and rats in the deep mountains and old forests, hoping to break through the Shao'an Highway line and meet the Wugang bandits.
No matter where you flee, where you will encounter the People's Liberation Army, it can be said that the wind is loud, the grass and trees are soldiers, and they have to lie down at night, at this time it is the middle of winter, the cold in the mountains is attacking, and the covers and cotton clothes they bring are all thrown away on the way to life. On this night, Commander-in-Chief Chen led these people to the small mountain village of Shuanglong Village, Dongkou Yanshan Township, where the terrain was complex, the ravines were long, and there was an ancient tree with a chest circumference at the pass, 200 meters away from the ancient tree, there was a bunk, there were two families not far from the shop, there was a paper trough house on the right side of the shop, and the exhausted bandits decided to spend the night in this village.
However, in the middle of the night, Chen Guangzhong thought that the two aunts could not run and followed the trouble, so he decided to abandon the two aunts and wives, and fled with only a few personal guards, and when the two aunts opened their eyes in the morning, they found that the others were gone.
The second aunt and wife, who had been abandoned in the mountain village, were so frightened that they were so frightened that they knelt in front of the peasant woman's bed, and one of them pleaded: "Grandma, help!" They came in and said only that I am your daughter. One swore: "Good grandmother, save a life, win the seventh level of floating slaughter, I will change into a cow and a horse in my next life, and repay your great kindness." But the peasant women ignored it, and they had to drill under the bed.
At this time, the door was pushed open with a "squeak", and with the order of "surrender the gun and do not kill", two People's Liberation Army soldiers came in. They knew that this was a bamboo chicken hiding from the disaster, so they had to crawl out from under the bed, one by one, full of cobwebs and full of gray, living like monsters covered with false masks. As soon as the third aunt, known as "Little Zhuge Ge," stood firm, she threw a large handful of Guangyang "whirring" to the ground, in a vain attempt to take advantage of the fact that the PLA soldiers were leaning over to pick them up, pulling out their guns and rushing out. However, the pistols of the two warriors aimed motionlessly at her chest: "What tricks are you playing, what do you think of us?!" The PLA soldiers warned and ordered Guangyang to be picked up. The two aunts did not dare not follow, so they had to raise their hands.
After interrogating the two aunts and wives abandoned by Chen Guangzhong, through their reports and confessions, the bandit troops learned that he hoped to break through the Shao'an highway line and join the Wugang bandits, so they immediately ordered the rearrangement of troops, and it was not long before Chen Guangzhong was finally arrested and arrested.
After Chen Guangzhong, a tyrant of the chaotic world who was a combination of "bullies, landlords, bandits, spies, hooligans, and goons," was captured, the news immediately spread in Hunan, Jiangxi, and other places; many cities and counties sent representatives to Shaoyang, and tens of thousands of people in Longhui County crowded along the roadside of escorting Chen Guangzhong to automatically open a meeting to accuse and denounce Chen Guangzhong. Shaoyang's "Industry and Commerce Evening News" not only issued an "outside the number", but also published Chen Guangzhong's dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water.
19 days after Chen Guangzhong was arrested, that is, at 2 p.m. on December 25, 1949, a condemnation conference attended by more than 30,000 people was held at shaoyang airfield. "Pay off the blood debt!". Because there were too many charges, the public trial meeting was held for half a day, and finally the murderous demon king was brought to justice on the spot.