It was a winter day in 1946, and the weather in the Northeast was unusually cold.
In the freezing cold of more than thirty degrees below zero, a platoon of PLA bandits was still searching deep in the mountains. Unlike in the past, there was one more photographer in this team, and he was Xu Xiaobing, deputy director of the Northeast Film Studio (later changchun film studio).
Xu Xiaobing was allowed to go into the mountains with the troops in order to shoot a documentary on the suppression of bandits. The suppression of bandits in Hejiang is nearing its end, and this time it is to pursue and suppress Xie Wendong, which was once the largest Kuomintang bandit army.
Xie Wendong
Xie Wendong is very famous in Hejiang and even in the entire northeast. Not to mention that his bandit army exceeded 10,000 people, the highlight of his life was a great hero of the anti-Japanese resistance, and he was once the commander of the 8th Army of the Anti-Japanese League, who made the Japanese army feel frightened.
Xie Wendong has not been a good stubble since he was a child, and has studied private school for several years, because his head is flexible, and he began to take charge of the family business at the age of 16. However, due to greed to buy land and buy a house, he owes a huge amount of money.
To this end, Xie Wendong moved his crooked mind, kidnapped the local rich family to extort 4,000 oceans, and was wanted by the government, and had to flee to Tulong Mountain in Yilan County. At Tulong Mountain, he had a wide range of contacts and a bit of chivalry, and was soon appointed as the chief of the security guard and the head of the self-defense regiment.
Soon, the Japanese forcibly occupied Tulong Mountain and ordered the local people to hand over the land title guns, but Xie Wendong refused to implement it and was dismissed.
In a fit of rage, he contacted another security chief, pulled up an anti-Japanese armed force, and was responded by the local people, and soon the team exceeded 2,000 people.
When the Kwantung Army Iizuka Asagisa learned of the news, he personally led his troops to suppress the anti-Japanese forces at Tulongshan. Xie Wendong skillfully set up an ambush to defeat the menacing Japanese army in one fell swoop, and Iizuka Asagiri was also killed in this battle.
The battle, known as the Tulongshan Incident, shocked both home and abroad, and Xie Wendong's fame was greatly enhanced. However, later, under the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, it still failed. Xie Wendong led more than a dozen of his subordinates into the deep mountains.
Zhao Shangzhi
In 1935, Xie Wendong learned that there was a team called the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, and he managed to contact Zhao Shangzhi, commander of the Third Army of the Anti-Japanese Coalition.
Since then, Xie Wendong's troops have entered the Anti-Japanese League, and he has been appointed as the commander of the Eighth Army of the Anti-Japanese League, entering the highlight of his life. He led the troops and fought alongside other anti-coalition teams and achieved good results.
However, with the heavy encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army against the United Forces, Xie Wendong's troops suffered heavy losses, leaving only a few dozen people. At the most difficult time of the War of Resistance, Xie Wendong felt that his future was uncertain, he lost his fighting spirit, and he actually threw himself into the arms of the Japanese Kou.
Because of his great fame, after defecting to the enemy, he was arranged by the Japanese army to go to Japan to meet Emperor Hirohito. At this point, the anti-Japanese national hero died, and a shameful traitor began to endanger the people in Ilan.
After Japan's surrender, Xie Wendong transformed himself into the commander of the Third Army of the Kuomintang Fifth Theater Advance Army, and cooperated with the Kuomintang army in carrying out a frontal attack on the Northeast Liberation Army. Soon, Xie Wendong was appointed as the commander of the Second Army Group of the Hejiang Provincial Security Army, and continued to be an enemy of the people.
Under the heavy blows of the People's Liberation Army, Xie Wendong fled into the mountains as a bandit and hid in the Jiapi Ditch.
In the novel "Lin Hai Snow Field", it is also written that Xie Wendong, who is the boss of a mountain eagle, is also a real bandit in reality.
At that time, the bandits in Hejiang were the most powerful in xie wendong, Li Huatang, Zhang Heizi and Sun Rongjiu, and were known as the "four flagpoles" in the Hejiang region.
He Jinnian
However, these bandits met He Jinnian, a general known for his bandit suppression, who was then the commander of the Hejiang Military Region. The team of bandits written at the beginning of the article is a platoon under General He Jinnian.
This team of bandits has been chasing Xie Wendong into the mountains for many days, and the snow-capped mountains have closed the road, and no trace of the bandits has been found. But Platoon Leader Liu Shuyan intuitively judged that Xie Wendong's bandits were here, not far from them, and he could almost smell the breath of the bandits.
It must be said that Liu Pai's intuition is very accurate, Xie Wendong is indeed nearby, and he uses his familiar terrain to circle with the bandit team.
But no matter how cunning the fox was, it still showed its tail. The footprints on the snow were found by the warriors, and in this deep mountain, there were no ordinary people entering the mountain in the middle of winter.
Therefore, the warriors followed the footprints to the vicinity of a small temple, and suddenly found Xie Wendong,a bandit. They were ragged and tired.
The warriors quickly formed a siege of the small temple, causing the bandits to raise their hands and surrender. However, the bandits stubbornly resisted and fought against the trapped beasts. Suddenly, gunfire broke out, and several bandits were killed on the spot.
Xie Wendong (left)
In the end, only one fat man remained, who continued to resist stubbornly, refused to surrender, hid behind a large tree, and shot at the PLA fighters.
Seeing that there was only one bandit, photographer Xu Xiaobing felt that if he did not act again, there would be no chance. At the risk of being shot, he rushed up with the camera.
He quickly aimed his camera at the fat bandit— xu Xiaobing didn't know that this fat man was the bandit Xie Wendong.
Xie Wendong knew that he had been surrounded, but he was a person who had fought from the rain of bullets and bullets, and he thought that there was still a chance to rush out, and he was still doing a trapped beast fight.
Suddenly, a dramatic scene occurred, xie Wendong, who was still shooting desperately, suddenly threw down his gun and raised his hands to surrender to the People's Liberation Army.
The people present did not know for a moment, so such a bandit would not surrender until the last moment, so why did he suddenly make the decision to surrender?
It turned out that Xie Wendong, who was still thinking about rushing out, suddenly saw Xu Xiaobing aim the camera at himself. He had never looked at the camera, thinking it was a new weapon of a large caliber, and when he looked at such a large caliber, the power could be imagined, and he was suddenly frightened and scattered, and directly threw away the gun.
This was also too unexpected, no one expected that the bandit Xie Wendong would be captured alive.
On December 3, 1946, the local government held a public trial conference, and Xie Wendong was executed.
Writing here, the author can't help but sigh that some people, living a long life is a tragedy, just like Xie Wendong, if he died when he was the commander of the Eighth Army of the Anti-Japanese League, his highlight will always be there.
From this, I thought of Wang Jingwei again, "Leading the knife into a fast, not living up to the head of the teenager", how passionate, a heroic spirit straight to Xiao Han.
If he had not been rescued from prison and executed by the Qing court, he would have been an idol of the national revolution forever, forever inspiring future generations. There is no chance to become the number one traitor.
At this point, the author can only sigh at the keyboard. I don't know, how many people are lamenting with me?