In the early days of the Republic of China, the feudal Qing Dynasty was just overthrown and then fell into warlord chaos, coupled with the corruption and incompetence of the later National Government, some people took advantage of the chaos to occupy the mountains as kings, which made bandits in various places during the Republic of China period very rampant. During this period, there were even many bandit leaders with huge forces, such as Zhang Qing, an old foreigner, Qiao Richeng, a Shanxi bandit, Du Lisan, a "foreigner who packed up foreigners", and Dabang, a giant bandit king in western Hunan Province. Among these bandit leaders, the most ferocious bandit is probably Yao Dabang! He committed crimes for fifty years and had many enemies, but he lived until the age of 68, but finally jumped into the river and committed suicide because he was forced to go nowhere.
In the middle of the year of Guangxu, Yao Dabang was born in a commoner family in Yangjiaqiao, Fangjiatun, Huang County, and his ancestors were farmers who did their duty. His biological father was named Yang Deqin, his birth mother Yang Shi, there were five brothers and sisters in the family, but the older brother died early, and the remaining one sister and two younger sisters were not married in their lives. The youngest Yao Dabang is the only son in the family, so his parents doted on him infinitely, which also made him develop a pampered personality.
When he was a teenager, Yao Dabang made friends with some people who did not know each other. He was a lot of hard work, eating, drinking, gambling and gambling, but his parents didn't care about him. Later, his parents sent him to a private school, in which he could learn some words and read some miscellaneous books, but the good ones did not learn, and the bad ones learned vividly. He greatly admired the means and tricks of the great traitors and evil people in the book, and even aspired to become a "strongman" who made his fortune by robbing his family and robbing his house. Yao Dabang's heart was not studying, and his parents did not want him to become a martial artist in the end, so they sent him to the Lecture Martial Hall, which just called Yao Dabang's heart. In the lecture hall, he learned a set of skills to play with guns and sticks, and his physical fitness is excellent, even if he climbs a mountain, it is like a flat ground, and running is even more strides like flying.
In the township, when he was bored, he made fun of people, especially liked to burn the hair on the back of the heads of women and young people with cigarette bags, and the burned people showed a little dissatisfaction, and the end would be even worse. People are afraid to contact him, and Yao Dabang is also known as "Yao Laosheng". After his mother's death, because he often did some unconscionable things, his father thought that he had insulted the reputation of his ancestors, but no matter how Yao's father scolded him, it would not help. Yao's father repented of not being at the beginning, and because he raised such an unfilial son who destroyed humanity, he was mad with life, and then Yao's father died not long after.
After Yao's father died, no one could discipline Yao Dabang anymore, and he soon embarked on the road of going up the mountain and falling into the grass. A fellow villager named Cai Jian dog stole his cattle, and Yao Dabang was fiercely looking for a door to evaluate, but the Cai family was crowded, not only arrogant and unreasonable, but also mocking: "To retreat, the only way to take the white fish cub to retreat you." Annoyed and angry, Yao Dabang beat Cai Jian dog to death with a clay splint, and then because he was afraid of retaliation from the Cai family, he instigated Yao Guoan in a neighboring village, and Yao Benfu formed a gang with him, and also got more than 20 guns from Tang Qingyun, who was known as the King of Tang. After that, Yao Dabang really embarked on the road of banditry and became an outlaw.
Yao Dabang took people with guns to rob people and looted money in Longao, Niuchangpo and other places in Cenggong County, Guizhou, and later developed into a band of bandits to be reckoned with. The border between Xiangqian and Qianqian provinces is remote, with high and dense forests and complex terrain, which is conducive to robbery. In order to make it easier to burn and loot, he moved his family from YaniuXi to Fangjiatun, a remote area at the junction of Xiangqian and Qianqian provinces. As the looted property accumulated more and more, Yao Dabang's wealth became stronger and stronger, so he began to buy land and land, build luxurious houses, and build a luxurious villa in Wucheng, Yuping County, Guizhou, to live exclusively for his wife Jiang Guanying. Not only that, he also robbed 5 women to insult and play. In a short period of time, his family property changed from the original sixty stone fields to more than 1,200 stones, and he mastered a strong armed force of bandits and became a famous bully on the border of Xiangqian.
Yao Dabang had been in the Academy of Literature and Martial Arts, so he had certain management skills and military strategies, and he could be safe and stronger for more than 50 years as a bandit, and indeed had his own way of saving his life. In the den of bandits, he resolutely did not allow outsiders and subordinates to do evil in the vicinity of Fangjiatun, and if anyone violated it, it would be investigated to the end and would never be spared. Of course, this is not because he is kind, but because he knows that "rabbits do not eat nest grass, and eagles do not hit the stones under their feet." Once, a bandit surnamed Wu disobeyed instructions and robbed and killed a passing merchant within the jurisdiction of Yao Dabang, and the outside world put this blood debt on Yao Dabang's head. Yao Dabang thought that her eldest husband should dare to be bold, and he hated being framed the most, so he was furious and traced the whereabouts of the bandits surnamed Wu. When the bandit surnamed Wu saw Yao Dabang, who had a vicious face and seemed to be a blood-eater, he was so frightened that he was paralyzed and paralyzed, and he quickly knelt down and prostrated his head and begged for forgiveness: "I really deserve to die, I really deserve to die, please spare the life of the old man!" Yao Dabang shouted, "Well, you go back!" The bandit thought that the big boss had a kind heart, stood up and quickly slipped away, but before he could be happy, he was shot by Yao Dabang!
In order to win over the hearts and ears of the locals and cover up the eyes and ears of the people, Yao Dabang also established a central school in Yuping County, Guizhou, and served as the principal himself, and also falsely publicized his good deeds, hoping that the people in the county would be grateful to him. On the surface, he helps his neighbors, but secretly he is engaged in shady activities. Because he used the school as a stronghold, he colluded with the bandits nearby and sat here to share the loot.
In 1918, Yao bandits became more and more rampant. The Longxikou merchants were jealous of him, and in order to protect their own interests, a group of merchants asked Yao Dabang to serve as the squadron leader of the Huangxian Baoshang Brigade, hoping to take the opportunity to envelop him, but the greedy Yao Dabang could be fed in this way. He colluded with some people in the business to exert pressure on the business, repeatedly asked for materials from the business, and after getting enough materials, he directly occupied Yuping County, so that Yuping County was free from the control of the government. Later, the Beiyang government was forced to recruit Yao Dabang and appoint Yao Dabang as the captain of the joint defense office of the three counties in the Xiangqian Border Region, putting him in charge of public order in this area.
In 1926, Wang Tianpei, commander of the Northern Expedition, recruited soldiers and horses at Tianzhu in Guizhou. When Yao Dabang heard about it, he immediately led his men to sign up, and Yao Dabang was appointed as the commander of the first battalion of the new Tenth Division of the National Revolutionary Army because he took the initiative to surrender, but the bandits were bandits after all, they never paid attention to principles in their work, and they cheated a lot of guns, ammunition and salaries and then slipped away. In 1934, the Kuomintang government once again recruited Yao bandits, and this time Yao Dabang repeated the same trick. Less than a year after he was appointed "deputy commander of the Huangxian Shoveling Communist Volunteer Brigade", he quietly sneaked back to the mountain with guns, ammunition and his men, and continued to be the king of the mountain.
Zhang Benqing was originally an outstanding graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy, and before the Xi'an Incident, he served as a regimental commander and brigade commander under Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek attached great importance to him. Zhang Benqing is a regular soldier, attaches special importance to military discipline, and is one of the few people who gives Yao Dabang a special headache. Zhang Benqing once said: "I will not allow the evil forces to develop, I will protect the border and the people, at least up to the fish shop, down to the gate tower, that is, in the territory of Huang County, I will not allow bandits to make trouble, and whoever wants to make trouble I will kill whom!" Under the pressure of Zhang Benqing, Yao Dabang also once "changed from evil to righteousness." In 1939, Zhang and Yao jointly defeated Zhang Pinggang of the Tang Pump Mine, and then they cooperated to run the Pump Mine, and the two also had a close personal relationship. Later, Yao Dabang rebelled again, was surrounded and suppressed by the Kuomintang independent group, his wife and children were arrested, and Yao Dabang, who was cornered, found Zhang Benqing, and Zhang Benping protected Yao Dabang's wife and children. To this end, Yao Dabang repeatedly invited Zhang Benqing, and even promised: "Brigadier Zhang, thanks to your rescue, I will not forget your life-saving grace in this life and the next life." But soon after, Yao Zhang and the two of them formed a knot because of the uneven distribution of the profits of the pump mine. After that, Yao held a grudge against Zhang. Later, Zhang Benqing was criticized by the family for marrying his cousin, and Yao Dabang also took the opportunity to taunt Zhang Benqing at the banquet: "Fat water does not flow to outsiders' fields, and his cousins do not let go." Since then, the relationship between the two has completely broken.
Later, Zhang Benqing lost his official and returned to Huang County, so he wantonly developed his family business, and he established a company that not only encroached on the land of the Jiangxi gang, but also robbed the interests of the Jiangxi gang everywhere, which made the Jiangxi gang indignant. The Jiangxi gang sent people to negotiate with Zhang Benqing and demand that he return the land, but Zhang Benqing, who was powerful and powerful, did not pay attention to these small gangs and factions at all. The Jiangxi gang held a grudge against this and decided to secretly get rid of Zhang Benqing. The Jiangxi gang was weak and weak, and did not dare to shoot openly, so they thought of a trick to borrow a knife to kill people, so Yao Dabang, who loved money as much as his life, became their most ideal knife. The Jiangxi gang spent a lot of money to ask Yao Dabang to help, and coupled with the strong instigation of other small gangs, Yao Dabang's heart to kill Zhang Benqing was even heavier.
In the blink of an eye, on the fourteenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar in 1949, it was the rush at Longxikou, and the market was crowded with people, which was the best time for assassination. When Zhang Benqing was going to the market to run errands, Yao Dabang had already sent Wu Yuqing and Yao Guoan, who had already secretly defected to him, to ambush him in the street, and when Zhang Benqing was buying cigarettes at a small stall at the entrance of Binxing Street, Wu Yuqing stepped forward and shouted: "Brigadier Zhang, do you buy cigarettes?" Zhang Benqing had just turned around and was killed by a shot from Wu Yuqing that hit his temple. As soon as the gunshots rang out, the market was in chaos, and the bandits took advantage of the chaos to escape. As soon as Zhang Benqing died, Yao Dabang's heart stone was finally put down.
After getting rid of Zhang Benqing, Yao Dabang felt a lot more relaxed, but Yao Dabang was a suspicious person by nature, and he always thought: "Wu Yuqing even dared to kill his boss, maybe sooner or later he would be poisoned by him." So Yao Dabang also shot him to death on the charge that Wu Yuqing had abused other people's wives and daughters, even Yao Guoan, who had been following him. As soon as Zhang Benqing died, the power to suppress Yao Dabang also disappeared. After that, Yao Dabang became more unscrupulous and became a veritable local emperor. However, Yao Dabang's good days are also coming to an end.
In the winter of 1949, the People's Liberation Army entered Huangxian County and began to suppress bandits, but under the siege and interception of the Plaster, the bandits in Huangxian County soon collapsed. At that time, in line with the principle of reducing casualties, our army also sent Hu Xiuyan, a progressive person, to persuade him to surrender. Under the heavy blockade of our army, Yao Dabang could not see a better way out, so he agreed to surrender. But just as he was about to surrender, a villager brought him two large carps, and the fishmen shouted, "Yao Gong, crucian carp." Yao Dabang, who saw the crucian carp, had a sudden change in face: "The crucian carp is hooked, the sign of evil, can't go, can't go!" So he moved the bandits' nest to a more hidden place, ready to resist to the end.
Yao Dabang's son, Yao Yingke, was a progressive who studied at Guiyang University. Because he saw that the bandits of all roads in western Hunan were suppressed one by one by our army, he repeatedly persuaded Yao Dabang to surrender and strive for leniency, but Yao Dabang, who had always been self-conscious, could not listen to the words of surrender at all. He became angry, his eyebrows were raised, his eyes widened in anger, and he scolded: "Contrarian son, tiger poison does not eat children, today I will eat you!" He immediately took out a gun and aimed it at Yao Yingke's head, and at the moment of this thousand gunshots, the subordinates next to him hurried to lift Yao Dabang's gun-holding hand, which saved Yao Yingke's life. Yao Yingke also completely died of heart and fled in a hurry.
In the autumn of 1950, Yao Dabang's hiding place was confessed by the bandit Huang Dongsheng. Under the pursuit of the county brigade and the militia, Yao Dabang led a group of his subordinates to flee to Fuluo, Xinzhai, Liang umbrella and other places. On August 30, Yao Dabang vainly tried to fight our army to the death at the umbrella, after all, Yao Dabang was just a group of rabble-rousers, and thousands of bandits were quickly annihilated, but Yao Dabang took the opportunity to flee to Qingwan. Our army took advantage of the victory to pursue, and it did not take long to capture his wife, son-in-law, and uncle, while Yao Dabang took more than a dozen of his men to prepare to flee to Shijiaping, planning to gather some scattered bandits in Shijiaping and smuggle them back to the old nest in order to continue to be bandits. The People's Liberation Army took advantage of the victory to pursue and bravely pursue the poor Kou, and the bandits who had been running out of food for several days were now exhausted and exhausted. But this time, he wasn't so lucky. When Yao Dabang fled to Shijiaping, there were only more than ten bandits left in his hands.
In the early morning of the same day, the Yao bandits were ready to cross the river, but our army had already made preparations on the other side of the river. When Yao Dabang's boat rowed to the middle of the river, our army immediately opened fire and strafed, and the bandits instantly made a mess, and in the panic, the boat that Yao Dabang was riding on was trampled over, and the people on board fell into the river, and finally Yao Dabang, who was full of evil, drowned alive in the river. As soon as Yao Dabang died, the bandit plague in Huangxian County was finally solved, and the people of Huangxian County were finally able to return to a peaceful life.
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