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*This article is excerpted from the first volume of "Cao County Cultural and Historical Materials" (August 1985), dictated by Sun Boxin, compiled by Wang Wenwei, and the original title is "Sun Xingzhai and His Security Twenty-third Brigade"
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(a)
In 1939, Shi Yousan, commander-in-chief of the 39th Group Army of the Kuomintang, under Chiang Kai-shek's instructions to "passively resist Japan and actively oppose communism," engaged in anti-communist activities in the southern Hebei region of the "War of Resistance behind enemy lines." In March 1940, he fled from southern Hebei to western Luxi in an attempt to collude with the Japanese puppets in Henan and conspire against the communists. When its main force arrived in Shandong, Shi Yousan recommended to Shen Honglie, chairman of the Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Government, Sun Liangcheng, commander-in-chief of the guerrilla operations in the Jicha Theater, as director of the Shandong Provincial Luxi Agency, and at the same time appointed Wang Qinghan, chief of his general staff, as commander of the Third Army and deputy director of the Luxi Agency. In March 1940, Shi Yousan arrived in Cao County; On the charge of fornicating with the Eighth Road, Wang Guanyi, the head of Cao County of the Kuomintang, was detained, and all the armed forces of the security regiment under the jurisdiction of the county government were confiscated, and Yang Muqing was appointed as the head of Cao County.
In August 194O, Sun Liangcheng sent Wang Qinghan's Third Army, Zhao Yunxiang's 30th Division, and Song Rongxin's Special Service Brigade to most of the east and south of Cao County (the county seat was a Japanese puppet at that time). Sun Liangcheng used the authority of the director of the Luxi Administration to ask for guns, food, supplies, and strong men from all counties in southwest Lu to expand his strength. Especially in Cao County, the army pressed the border, ran rampant and domineering, and wantonly extorted and extorted. In the spring of 1941, Sun Liangcheng dismissed Yang Muqing, the magistrate of Cao County, for his ineffective handling of affairs, and sent a staff officer Guo Nianji as the county magistrate (from Ji County, Hebei). Two months later, Gao Tianshun was reassigned as the county magistrate, and the county government was stationed in Zhaomiao Village, near Huoshentai in the southeast of Cao County, and the Luxi Branch was stationed in the southeast of Cao County. At that time, Sun Xingzhai (a native of Sun Zhuang in the east of Cao County's Dayi Jidong), who served three successive county government secretaries, won the favor of Sun Liangcheng. Sun Liangcheng thought that Sun Xingzhai was outstanding in learning and quite prestigious, and named him the commander of the security brigade of the Luxi Travel Agency, and helped him to gather local forces to enrich his armament. He also sent Gao Tianshun and Li Heting (a native of Cao County's Dayiji and former adjutant of Sun Liangcheng) as deputy brigade commanders. The brigade headquarters is located in Huoshentai in the southeast of Cao County. Sun Xingzhai was based on the various district teams, and widely recruited the local rich armed forces, scattered guns, as well as ruffians and hooligans, and collected everything, recruited troops, and rose up in a hurry.
The Security Brigade Brigade Department has four major departments: the General Staff Office, the director is Guo Yizeng (from Jiaodong), the Secretariat, the director is Gao Daoling (from the northwest high-rise building of Cao County), the adjutant office, the director is An Yansi (from Antai, the south of Cao County), and the Quartermaster Office, the director is Zhao Xiangju (from Chengguan, Cao County). It has three regiments and one special service battalion. The head of the first regiment Zhao Zhiqing (from Wuzhuang in the southwest of Cao County), the head of the second regiment Shen Chunhua (from Shendian in the southwest of Cao County), and the head of the third regiment Wang Kaifeng (from Wanghe in the south of Cao County). Cao Jianting, commander of the special service battalion, (from Cao Lou, south of Cao County). Each regiment shall have two regimental deputies, quartermasters, and adjutants, and each regiment shall have jurisdiction over three battalions, and each battalion shall have jurisdiction over four companies. The brigade has a total of 3,500 officers and men and more than 1,300 rifles.
In February 1942, Sun Liangcheng openly surrendered to Japan, accepted the establishment of Wang Wang in Nanjing, and changed his name to the "Peaceful Founding Army", and still occupied the county border of Cao County. At that time, because Wang Peiyuan, the magistrate of Cao County, also followed Sun Liangcheng to Japan and became the magistrate of Cao County (there was another Japanese puppet county magistrate in the city), Zhu Shiqin, the 11th Commissioner of the Kuomintang Shandong Special Administration, appointed Sun Xingzhai to concurrently serve as the magistrate of Cao County of the Kuomintang, and was active in the area of Weiwan and Chen Hutong in the west of Cao County. In February 1943, Wang's puppet Sun Liangcheng's troops were transferred out of Cao County and headed for northern Jiangsu, while Li Xianzhou of the 92nd Army of the Kuomintang was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to lead his troops into Shandong in an attempt to attack the liberated areas. When Li Xianzhou was stationed at the border between Shan and Cao, Cao Banting, the commissioner of the 11th Shandong Special Administration (Zhu Shiqin died in the anti-Japanese battle and was succeeded by Cao Banting), reported to Li Xianzhou that Sun Xingzhai did not obey the command and should be dealt with, in an attempt to repay personal grievances. In June of the same year, when Sun Xingzhai went to the military headquarters of the 92nd Army in Nie Fuzhuang, southeast of Cao County, to welcome Li Xianzhou, he was immediately detained by Li and sent to Fuyang, Anhui Province (a Kuomintang ruled area, where the Shandong Provincial Government was wandering). In August, after the chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government, Mou Zhongheng, and the director of the Government Affairs Department, Liu Daoyuan (a native of Cao County), discussed with Li Xianzhou, Sun Xingzhai was released.
In September 1943, Sun Xingzhai was ordered by the Shandong Provincial Security Command to change the number of the original security brigade of the Luxi Travel Bureau to the 23rd Shandong Provincial Security Brigade. The brigade headquarters is still set up in four places, Wang Maoting, chief of staff of the General Staff Office (a native of Qihe, Shandong Province, graduated from the Central Military Academy of the Kuomintang), and the personnel of the Secretariat, Military Office, and Adjutant Office remain the same. The brigade headquarters has three regiments, three special service regiments, and two special service brigades. The first regiment (regiment commander Zhao Zicheng, a native of Zhaozhuang in the north of the city, I was the commander of the second battalion of the regiment at that time) was stationed in Wagangji, the second regiment (regiment commander Liu Zi'an) and the second special regiment (regiment commander Wang Yitao) were stationed in Yuan Yao, the third regiment (regiment commander Liu Mocun) and the first special agent regiment (regiment commander Cao Jianting) were stationed in Lou Lizhuang, and the third special regiment (regiment commander Fan Zicheng, a native of Fan Zhuang in the south of the city) was stationed in Zhanglou. The 1st Special Agent Brigade (Captain Shen Qinye) was stationed in Xiaowanyao, and the 2nd Special Agent Brigade (Captain Liu Yuanlan [zhǐ]) was stationed in Shizhuang. Each regiment has three battalions, each Lei has four companies, and the special service brigade has three squadrons. The brigade headquarters has a special service battalion directly under it, which is the guard unit of the brigade headquarters, and the battalion commander is concurrently served by Chief of Staff Wang Maoting himself. The first company directly under the special service battalion served as an important task of the brigade headquarters herald (company commander Wang Futing, a native of Jiaodong). In addition, there are other bomb factories, repair factories, and clothing factories, all of which are produced by local methods and are not large in scale.
The 23rd Shandong Security Brigade, which Sun Xingzhai single-handedly built, had a huge establishment, with a total of no less than 4,500 officers and men and more than 2,000 guns. The officers and men of the brigade did not wear military uniforms, long robes and short coats, like plainclothes teams of Japan devils.
(b)
In February 1942, Sun Liangcheng, Zhao Yunxiang and others took refuge in Nanjing, but Sun Xingzhai did not follow the enemy at that time, so he was greatly threatened by Sun and Zhao, and there was a possibility of being eaten from time to time. As a result of the pressure, the security brigade has shrunk and is in a difficult situation. In order to implement the party's united front policy: to unite with the security brigade and jointly resist Japan, the Qibin anti-Japanese county government took the initiative to unite with the security brigade and agreed that Sun Xingzhai's troops should be stationed in the area of Weiwan and Chenhujian in the south of Qibin County, and that a part of the local supplies would be requisitioned to maintain the status quo.
In June of the same year, when the peasants were celebrating a bumper harvest, Sun Xingzhai increased the levy. There are many factions, the levies are tight, military discipline is poor, and harassment is intensifying day by day, the masses are deeply affected, and the people's resentment is boiling. The Qibin County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China repeatedly advised him to be sympathetic to the peasants and reduce the levy, but Sun Xingzhai was stubborn and insisted on going his own way. As a result, the revolt of the masses is growing stronger and more irrepressible. In August, at the request of the masses, the Qibin Anti-Japanese County Government cooperated with the troops of the Fifth Army Division to surround the Sun Brigade. On 17 August, in the battle of Chen Hutong, most of the Sun Brigade was annihilated, and the regiment commander Zhao Zhiqing and many officers and soldiers were captured. The brigade commander, Sun Xingzhai, fled in disarray, and the local peasants were given a respite.
In July 1943, the Fifth Division of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region of the Eighth Route Army cooperated with the local armed forces of Cao County to carry out work in the southeast of Cao County. The troops, commanded by Commander Zhu Cheng and Commissioner Yuan Furong, successively besieged the stubborn chaos of Chen Zhanglou and Li Yuanzhuang, stopped the enemy's stubborn arrogance, and forced the security brigade to retreat to the area of the old Yellow River in the south of Cao County. At that time, the Communist Party had a struggle and alliance with the security brigade, striving to unite and resist Japan together. On 20 July, Commissioner Yuan Furong invited Lin Shaojing, a local democrat, to make a special trip to the Security Brigade (Hu Laojia Village, Chengnan) to meet with the acting brigade commander Zhao Zhiqing (Sun Xingzhai was detained and did not return); He conveyed the unity intentions of Zhu Cheng and Yuan Furong, expounded the spirit of the Communist Party's united front, and discussed the date of the meeting between the leaders of the two sides. However, due to Zhao Zhiqing's timidity, he did not dare to meet Zhu and Yuan. Lin Shaojing had no choice but to invite me to Chen Zhanglou to meet Zhu and Yuan (Yuan Furong and I have been classmates for many years, understand each other, and there is no suspicion), Zhao Zhiqing reluctantly agreed. A short time later, I returned to the brigade headquarters from Chen Zhanglou and conveyed to Zhao Zhiqing the unity aspirations of Zhu and Fu and other leaders, and invited Zhao Zhiqing to have regular talks. However, Zhao Zhiqing was apprehensive and still refused, and only replied in writing: "The matter is very important, I dare not make the decision, and it is appropriate to wait for Brigade Commander Sun to return and then make a face-to-face consultation." ”
In late July of the same year, Fan Zicheng, the commander of the Third Special Service Regiment of the 23rd Security Brigade, led the battalion commander Wang Taiqing and more than 100 palace soldiers; Moved north from Zhanglou, Nanhe, the original defense area, and announced his separation from the security brigade in Zhaogang Village, Liuji Township, defected to the Eighth Route Army, and accepted the command of Commander Zhu Cheng.
In August, Sun Xingzhai was released from Fuyang, Anhui Province and returned to Cao, and was ordered to change the number of the Security Brigade of the Luxi Travel Department to the 23rd Brigade of Shandong Security. In early October, Commander Song Lihua of the Fifth Army Division led the 18th and 20th regiments to work in the southeastern area of Cao County. In order to implement the party's united front policy and hope to discuss the issue of joint resistance against Japan with Sun Xingzhai, commander of the 23rd Security Brigade, Commander Song specially invited Wu Lingxiao, head of the 5th District, to go from the Land Temple to the Brigade Headquarters of the Security Brigade (stationed in Lizhuang Village) to ask Sun Xingzhai whether he was willing to talk. Sun agreed, and sent me to accompany Wu Linglei to the Tudi Temple to pay homage to Commander Song, and Ming agreed to set off from the Tudi Temple on the morning of October 9, with Commander Song, County Magistrate Wang Lisheng, Wu Lingxiao and me, to go to Li Zhuangzhai of Sun Brigade Brigade (County Magistrate Wang did not go to Cheng Zhuangzhai due to a stopover on the way). In the afternoon, when we arrived at the first battalion headquarters led by me, Wu Lingxiao and I first went to the brigade headquarters to report and make an appointment for a meeting. That night, Commander Song took a messenger to the Lizhuang Zhai Department to talk with Sun Xingzhai all night. At dawn the next day: I sent someone to take Commander Song back to Wagangji to rest. In the evening, Commander Song went to the brigade headquarters to continue talking with Sun, and he stayed up all night. The next morning, I sent eight generals to pick up Commander Song. When Wu Lingxiao and I accompanied Commander Song to dinner, I asked Commander Song what the outcome of the meeting was, and Commander Song said, "Brigade Commander Sun is very stubborn. There is a lot of regret in the words. Since the two talks were fruitless, Commander Song was escorted by me to the north gate of Wangdiquan on the northern border of the Sun Brigade Defense Area at 5 p.m. on the same day.
In fact, during this time, Sun Xingzhai was secretly colluding with Zhang Lanfeng, the puppet leader of Henan Shangqiu, and it is not surprising that he did not accept the Communist Party's joint anti-Japanese proposal.
(c)
Although the 23rd Security Brigade was part of the Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Baoshi Command, it relied on the local people in Cao County to supply all military supplies such as ammunition, military sounds, and food and socks. At that time, most of the land in Cao County was occupied by local stubbornness. Caoxian County, Sun Laojia, Qingwomenji and other important market towns are Japanese puppet strongholds, most of the area in the east of the city and south of the city is occupied by the troops of Sun Liangcheng, Wang Qinghan and Zhao Quxiang, and the 23rd Brigade of Security is in the area of the old river body south of the Taihang Embankment in the south of the city and north of the old road of the Yellow River. The food and socks they needed were all taken from the farmers of Cao County. At that time, the county government of Zeng County distributed the number of rations and levies on a monthly basis according to the county's acres of land and townships, and then; The troops will go directly to the countryside to collect and urge for their own use. Due to the small ground in Cao County, the large number of garrisons, the heavy consumption, and the heavy burden, the more and more troops were supplied, and the peasants' hardships became heavier and heavier. As far as the levy of a part of the security brigade is concerned, 5 or 6 catties of grain should be levied per mu every month, and 14 or 5 catties of grain should be levied every month, and more than 100 catties of food should be paid per mu of land throughout the year. In that war-torn era, natural disasters and man-made disasters were combined year after year, hunger and cold, and they were on the verge of despair. However, the security brigade did not care about the lives of the people, sent troops to urge, arrest people and lead cattle, and robbed things, and the poor people could not live in peace.
On the one hand, the security brigade sent troops to urge food, and on the other hand, it sat on the spot to eat, and the common people called it "eating pie rice". In each village, the troops assigned officers and men to each household in the village to take care of food and drink. The hospitality should be courteous, eat sweetly, slightly unsatisfactory, punch and kick, and insult at will. The riots of the peasants by the security brigade are sung as a ballad goes:
Again and again, and again, grabbing people and taking the cow no matter who.
Bandits mutined into thieves, and the brigade commander led the troops to fight around the food.
("Da Fan Wei" Luxi dialect, which means to find a place to eat for nothing)
The common people were requisitioned and fed, and they were forced to have no way out, and they were in pain. However, the officers and men of the security brigade and the local district heads, township heads, and security chiefs were very greedy and filled their own pockets, and the common people said: "The district chief does not yield to the incense of the township chief, and the security chief eats the village chief (with a waist bag), and the security brigade has been swept away, and the good people have suffered." "That's exactly what happened.
During the two years between 1944 and 1945, the scope of the security brigade's activities was confined to both sides of the old road of the Yellow River, and during the day they went north of the Laohe River (Liangditou, Shaozhuang, Huoshentai, and Dayiji) to urge supplies and eat pie rice, and at night they returned to the south of the Laohe River (in the areas of Cui Lou and Li Zhuangzhai) to camp.
(iv)
In August 1943, after Sun Xingzhai was released from Fuyang and returned to Cao County, he lost confidence in Li Xianzhou, so he found another way out, turned to the Japanese puppet, and secretly sent Li Heting, deputy brigade commander, and Wang Jinluan, an old officer (a native of Nanzhukou, Cao County, who had been a division commander), to Shangqiu Station to contact Zhang Lanfeng, commander of the Second Front Army of the Wang puppet "Peaceful Founding Army" in Shangqiu, Henan Province (a native of Zhecheng, Henan, Li Heting had served with him as a senator, and Wang Jinluan had served as an adjutant with him). A month later, Zhang Lanfeng sent deputy army commander Huang Xiufu (also known as Huang Zongyan, a member of the Cao County Qingqi Gathering) and battalion commander Shang Dake (stationed in Liukou, Shangqiu, Henan), accompanied by Li Heting, to meet with Sun Xingzhai in two trucks at the headquarters of the 23rd Security Brigade (Li Zhuangzhai on the southern border of Cao County). Sun Xingzhai summoned the group, battalion-level officers, and section-level backbones of the county government to a meeting to welcome Huang Xiufu, and Huang Toe said arrogantly: "The 23rd Security Brigade is our northern frontier defense, and we are the rear of the 23rd Security Brigade. "Obviously, this hookup is adding fuel to the fire and fueling the anti-communist arrogance of the 23rd Security Brigade.
At 4 p.m. on November 10 of the same year, a certain unit of the Eighth Route Army surrounded and stormed Lou Lizhuang, the stronghold of the Cao Jianting Regiment and the Liu Mocun Regiment of the 23rd Security Brigade. After six hours of fierce fighting, just as Cao and Liu broke through the siege and fled, the Japanese army headquarters in Shangqiu sent four cars and fired artillery to demonstrate. After the Eighth Route Army completed its combat mission, it took the initiative to transfer and did not encounter the Japanese puppets.
In 1944, the Security Brigade was stationed in the vicinity of Lizhuang Village in Nanhe (the old road of the Yellow River) in Cao County, and secretly colluded with the Japanese puppets to preserve their strength and sit on the supply and support. In mid-May, Sun Xingzhai led his troops to the southwest of Cao County, Shaozhuang and Wangji, and clashed with Zhu Hanchen's Zhu Hanchen Department of the Tenth Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Security Regiment (Cao County Wang Zikui Regiment) and Zhang Shengtai's Department (Zhu and Zhang Lianhe), the local armed forces of Kaocheng County, Henan, because of urging the requisition of supplies and fighting for territory, and clashed in the areas of Wangji and Jiazhuang, and fought fiercely for a day.
In late July 1945, He Siyuan, chairman of the Kuomintang Shandong Province, set out from Fuyang, Anhui Province, and through the Japanese-puppet relations, he passed through the Cross River (the Japanese-puppet frontier checkpoint) in Hao County, Anhui Province, and arrived at Li Zhuangzhai, the defense site of the Cao County Security Brigade. Sun Xingzhai treated He Siyuan as a guest and treated him hospitablely. He Siyuan concurrently served as the administrative inspector of the 11th District of Shandong Province of the Kuomintang (the former commissioner Shi Xijiu was dismissed), and Zhao Zhiqing was the magistrate of Cao County. In early August, Sun Xingzhai sent Li Heting, deputy brigade commander, to escort He Siyuan from Cao County to the north, preparing to infiltrate Jinan for activities. On the way to Jiji when Li Heting accompanied He Siyuan, the Japanese army announced its unconditional surrender. After He and Li arrived in Jinan, Li Heting tried his best to make use of his original Japanese-puppet relationship to handle the surrender on behalf of the Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Government.
In late August, Sun Xingzhai sent county magistrate Zhao Zhiqing to lead police chief Wang Chuting, head of the fourth district Zhao Zicheng, and head of the sixth district Sun Zhaopu to the county seat of Yingxian to accept the surrender of the Japanese puppets. Zhu Xiaotang, the Japanese puppet county magistrate, turned into a puppet army and reorganized his puppet army into the 19th Brigade of the Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Security Brigade, with Zhu Xiaotang as the brigade commander.
On 18 September, the Eighth Route Army liberated Cao County, Zhao Zhiqing, Wang Chuting, Sun Zhaopu and others jumped out of the city and fled, and Zhao Zicheng was captured. Since then, the security brigade has only been active in the area of the Yellow River.
(5)
At the beginning of August 1946, the Qiu Qingquan Division of the New Fifth Army of the Kuomintang took advantage of the northward transfer of the Luxi People's Liberation Army to attack north from Shangqiu, Henan. For a time, Heze, Dingtao, Caoxian, Chengwu, and Shanxian were all entrenched by the New Fifth Army. The 23rd Brigade of Security was a fake tiger and followed Qiu Qingquan's troops to Cao County. The special administration of the 11th district of Shandong and the government of Caoxian County moved back to the county seat from Shangqiu at the same time. Sun Xingzhai ordered the start of the "purge" and carried out the anti-communist massacre.
In mid-August, the headquarters of the 23rd Security Brigade was stationed in Xingmiao, east of Cao County (near Houji), and Brigade Commander Sun Xingzhai held a secret meeting of key cadres at the regiment and battalion level that night to arrange the task of "cleaning up" and carrying out large-scale arrests of local peasant associations, militia, children's regiments, and so-called suspects of the Eighth Route for three days and nights. The people arrested by each company were escorted to the brigade headquarters at any time, and Sun Xingzhai personally interrogated and dealt with. At that time, I was the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Regiment, and I often followed Sun Xingzhai as an attendant. I saw with my own eyes that on the evening of the third day, fifty or sixty people were taken and tied with ropes, and they filled a large courtyard. Sun Xingzhai first interrogated, and after interrogating seven or eight people, he slapped the table impatiently, roaring and shouting: "Don't ask!" Pull the back of the road! Half an hour later, the shots rang out, and all the arrested people fell in pools of blood. The next day, the brigade headquarters moved north from Xingmiao and shot 17 key members of the peasant association at Baifuzhuang in Shuangpu Ji. The next day, the brigade headquarters moved south, stationed in Shuanglou Village, South Korea, and killed 16 backbone members of the peasant association with machine guns outside the west gate during the day. The next day, Sun Xingzhai moved to Anwangzhuang, and shot and killed more than 10 people twice behind the Gaoji Temple and outside the west gate of Anwangzhuang. The next day, Sun Xingzhai was stationed in the Miao house in Ximenli, and five people were shot and killed that day. In late August, Sun Xingzhai returned from Qingqiji and then stationed in Xingmiao, passing through Houji, and shot and killed more than 20 rural grassroots village cadres three times in three days. There are daily shootings in Xingmiao. In the village of Raid Chalou, more than 30 key members of the peasant association were killed with machine guns at one time, including Li Rufang (16 years old) of the Wenchangge Village Children's Group, whose father had tried to rescue me, but it was too late.
At the end of August, the security brigade went north from Yuanchalou Village to "clean up," and the brigade headquarters was stationed in Anrenji, where they shot and killed people twice in succession outside the west gate and outside the south gate, and the number of victims is incomprehensible. The next day, Sun Xingzhai led his troops into Chengwu County as the commissioner of the 11th District of Shandong, and the brigade headquarters was stationed in the Jesus Church in the city. Zhiyongde, the magistrate of Chengwu County (who is a sworn brother with Sun Xingzhai), held a celebration meeting and set up a banquet to entertain him. Liu Heting (a native of Cao County, Hou Liu Lou) was appointed police chief of Chengwu County, and with Sun Xingzhai's approval, the next day he put forward 220 local revolutionary backbones and progressive masses in prison and escorted them to the execution ground outside the West Gate in a four-way column to carry out a large-scale mass massacre with machine guns. Along the way, the victims chanted slogans such as "Down with the reactionaries," "Down with Chiang Kai-shek," "Long live Chairman Mao," and "Long live the Communist Party."
At the beginning of September, Sun Xingzhai led his troops from Chengwu back to Cao County, stationed in Wuqiaokou Village, 15 miles south of Rantanji, and shot 11 grassroots cadres behind the village that day. There is a family, the father and son are both the backbone of the peasant association, and the daughter-in-law is the president of the women's salvation, and the three were killed at the same time.
In just one month, Sun Xingzhai single-handedly committed as many as 13 massacres and killed more than 1,000 local revolutionary cadres and revolutionary masses. As for the revolutionary cadres and progressive masses who were killed by such cruel means as interceptions, kidnappings, assassinations, and live burials, there were even more of them. Wang Jianxun (Wang Youchen) of Wang'an Village, the second district in the northwest of Cao County, is well-known in the township. Sun Xingzhai was suspicious of him and secretly arrested him as a living star; The family searched everywhere but could not be found. Lin Shaojing (a native of Donglinzhuang, Sun's hometown) was a member of the Kuomintang, because his younger brother Lin Jinghua was the county magistrate of the anti-Japanese county government of Chengcao County and a member of the Communist Party, so he was also hated by Sun Xingzhai, and he was killed by Sun on the spot within an hour after being arrested. Lin Shaojing and I have been friends for many years, and we had the intention to try to rescue them, but due to the short time, we didn't have time to start.
(f)
In the autumn of 1946, when the Kuomintang Qiu Qingquan troops attacked the liberated areas of southwestern Shandong, Sun Xingzhai was leading his troops to carry out brutal "clean-up" in Chengwu and Cao counties, slaughtering many revolutionary cadres. In October of the same year, he sent secretaries Ding Xiaohan, Wang Yaokui, and staff officer Zhang Shouxian to the sea with a large amount of money to buy three cars, two heavy machine guns, and 200 sets of cotton uniforms for senior officers. At the same time, officials of all sizes prepared to build a "comfortable nest" in the county seat of Cao County, built official residences, set up mansions, married aunts, and took wives, corrupted pleasures, and thought that the world was their private property. In the winter of that year, Liu Deng's army went south from Hebei and liberated Heze, Chengwu and Dingtao counties with lightning speed. On the 28th of the lunar month, the county seat of Cao County was surrounded. Sun Xingzhai Zhang Huang was at a loss, and immediately asked Qiu Qingquan of the New Fifth Army of the Kuomintang in eastern Henan for help. Qiu replied: "Stick to it, support one day and reinforcements will arrive." Sun Xingzhai convened an emergency meeting above the regimental level and decided to stick to the rescue. After two days of encirclement, the People's Liberation Army began to attack the city on the 30th day of the lunar month. On the third night of the first month of the fourth and seventh years, he stormed the east city gate. Brigade commander Sun Xingzhai and chief of staff Wang Maoting personally came to the east gate to supervise the battle, trying to resist stubbornly. As soon as they arrived at the east gate, they saw that the People's Liberation Army was attacking fiercely, their own soldiers were difficult to parry, and the situation was very critical, so they turned around and ran towards the north gate, and ordered machine guns to cover and break through. Sun Xingzhai crawled out of the moat alone and fled. On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) conquered the county seat and captured more than 1,500 officers and men, including Zhao Shitang, secretary of the Kuomintang Caoxian County Party Department, Wang Bingchen, chairman of the county senate, Xu Jingru, secretary of the county government, and Wang Yaokui, director of the county cultural and educational museum, killing more than 600 people, seizing three cars, 12 heavy machine guns, horses, guns, bullets, and a large number of other military supplies. After the battle, the fortifications and walls of the security brigade were dismantled, and then moved.
In February of the same year, Cao Fulin of the 55th Army of the Kuomintang advanced north from Shangqiu, and Sun Xingzhai led the remnants into Cao County. In mid-March, Wang Yaowu, chairman of the Kuomintang Shandong Province, ordered in Jinan: Sun Xingzhai was transferred to the Qingdao commissioner of the Shandong Tobacco and Alcohol Monopoly Bureau, Chao Guangshun (from Heze) took over as the commissioner of the 11th District, and the remnants of the 23rd Security Brigade were organized into a special self-defense regiment, with Li Meicun as the head of the regiment (Cao Zhengji from Shanxian County). After Sun Xingzhai went through the transfer procedures in Caoxian County, he went to Qingdao and then transferred to Nanjing. At that time, Qiao Mingjiu, a member of the Shandong Provincial Party Department of the Kuomintang, invited him to go to Taiwan with him, but Sun did not follow. In 1948, he went to Chongqing, Sichuan Province with his younger brothers Sun Zhaopu, Sun Zhaoming and his dependents, and was introduced by a friend to teach at Fucheng Middle School in Yunyang County, Sichuan, under the pseudonym Sun Yuanfu. He was arrested in 1953. In March 1954, he was sentenced to death by the Cao County People's Court, and was sentenced to justice in the Zhongdi circle of Cao County. The people of Cao County all applauded.
(Compiled by Wang Wenwei)
Sources:
"Cao County Cultural and Historical Materials" Volume 1 (August 1985)