The collection of banditry information in Lingao was fully launched after the end of the Political Consultative Conference. The liaison system allowed the intelligence department to obtain first-hand direct information from the local indigenous people, which was much easier than in the past when the reconnaissance team was unfamiliar with the place.
Objective observation is much more in-depth. And the ins and outs are also clearer.
In order to ensure the accuracy and objectivity of the information, when collecting information, the Intelligence Committee cross-summarized the information provided by each village and compared it with each other.
Because bandits often have obvious regional characteristics, each village often shelters local bandits due to clan, relative or fellow villager relationships. Most bandits also follow the rule that rabbits do not eat grass near their nests.
It leaves room for local people, but specifically harms villages in other places.
In this kind of social ecology, liaison officers are not immune. Therefore, their reports will inevitably conceal or exaggerate based on the close relationship between the bandits and their own villages. There are also feuds between villages and clans.
, and it is not ruled out that some people deliberately included falsehoods and slander. Therefore, we must compare the information from each village to see the clues.
After more than a month of research on the liaison officers, the intelligence department has learned a lot of information about Lingao's bandits. Another important channel is Wang Zhaomin. Although he is a foreigner, he has been living here for more than five years.
, usually assists the county magistrate in handling government affairs, and knows a lot about various situations in the county, especially in terms of banditry. The Yamen has a wealth of information. The intelligence department met with him alone several times and obtained a large amount of useful information from him.
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"Although the bandits in Lingao are in chaos, the most important ones are the stubborn gangsters from the party." Wang Zhaomin whispered in the private room of the "Half the Sky" restaurant, "The others are just small gangs and cannot make any big waves.
These two groups of bandits are deeply rooted and difficult to deal with. As long as we get rid of them, the bandits in Lingao will naturally have nothing to rely on. The Lingao area will also have peace."
Most of the bandits are "household bandits". After destroying the strongholds and eliminating the bandit leaders and core members, the "household bandits" have lost their backbone and home base. Naturally, they have no intention of continuing to do evil. As long as they are recruited more, the banditry will be put down soon.
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"When it comes to suppressing bandits, the culprit must be punished, and threats are never taken into account." Wang Zhaomin said, "The four words of mercy and severity must be understood."
"Yes, yes," Luo Duo just said yes, and then asked, "Why is this one the most difficult to deal with?" He filled a glass of wine for him and said, "Sir, please teach me."
"It's a long story." Wang Zhaomin was already a little confused, but he was actually very clear-headed. He knew the intention of this group of Australians, which was probably to clean up the "side of the bed", but that's okay, the government couldn't deal with it anyway.
The bandits couldn't destroy the Australians, so they just let them bite each other, and maybe reap some benefits. They pretended to be drunk and said:
Dang Namen, whose name is Dang Guodong, is a native of Daolu Village. After his parents died, he thought that people in this village would make a living by herding cattle. When he grew up, he worked as a small trader to make a living. Because he had no relatives in the village, he was bullied by others in the village for a long time.
The homestead was also occupied by a family in the village.
Later, the Dang family often engaged in petty theft. In the last years of Wanli, he was turned away by the villagers and sent to the county government and imprisoned. The next year, he escaped from prison and gathered a few like-minded brothers. When he returned to the village, he would have trouble with them.
The villagers killed more than ten people, then looted their property and dropped weeds on Baopang Mountain at the junction of Lingao and Danzhou.
"Don't think that Dang was born in a poor family, but he can read and has been fond of reading since he was a child. Unfortunately, no one helped him. He was a good scholar and fell into evil ways." Wang Zhaomin sighed, "After reading, he fell into evil ways.
If you take a wrong path, you will be more difficult to deal with than ordinary bandits."
Because Dang Namen knew a few words, although he had never read any serious military books, he had read a lot of novels such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin, and learned strategies from them, so he often led bandits by surprise.
With this move, the ordinary brave men in the county were no match for him.
"Let's just say he attacked Longbo Village," Wang Zhaomin said excitedly. "The Dangmen led dozens of people, pretending to be farmers going to the market, and entered Longbo Village with goods. They took the opportunity to pay taxes at the market.
Sneaking into the Youth League Bureau, a few people guarded the door and a few people set off firecrackers outside. He led people to rush in and killed the teacher Xiang Yong in the Youth League Bureau. The Xiang Yong was in chaos, and there were more than a hundred Xiang Yong in Longbo Village.
The thirty people he led were destroyed. You can tell me whether it is great or not."
Luo Duo nodded. The Dang and that sect really had some tricks up their sleeves. The tactic of joining forces with others and hitting the snake in the head was quite beautiful. No wonder Master Wang said that the bandits of the Dang and that sect were powerful.
"And he also knows how to win over people's hearts!" Mr. Wang tapped the table, "This party has always advocated 'beating the rich instead of the poor' outside, which has attracted a group of ignorant people. It's so troublesome, it's beautiful.
Villagers in several places in Taiwan refused to pay the rent, and the landowners complained endlessly. They often came to the county government to complain. Finally, a few years ago, Mr. Huang helped and led the courage to severely damage the party gang. Their arrogance was not so arrogant.
Already."
"Master Huang?"
"That's Huang Shoutong from Huangjiazhai, Mr. Huang." Wang Zhaomin noticed Luo Duo's reaction, "He leads a very strong army, and the party is no match for him. It's a pity that the villagers are ignorant and often cover up their traces, so in the end they let him
He ran back to Baopang Mountain, but he couldn't do it all! What a pity..."
"So Mr. Huang is still a man who is impatient and loyal."
"Naturally, naturally," Wang Zhaomin vaguely knew that the Australians wanted to take root in the local area, but the local bravery in Huangjiazhai was the only force that Wu County Magistrate could rely on, and the Australians could not be dragged over or consumed in the name of suppressing bandits.
, "It's a pity that Mr. Huang was injured last time and has been in poor health. I'm afraid I won't be able to help with the suppression of bandits."
Luo Duo was noncommittal and just nodded.
"...According to the intelligence, the gangsters of the Party are mainly located in the Baopang Mountain area at the junction of Lindan and Lindan. This is their old camp." Luo Duo held a pointer and pointed at the map to introduce, "The bandits in the village
Guys, there are more than 300 people there all year round. They have firearms."
The officers below looked at the marks on the map attentively. Luo Duo continued: "But their base is in Calais, the 'Thirteen Villages' area at the junction of the United States and Taiwan. Both supplies and personnel are obtained from this area.
Supplement: Once something happens, we can pull up a team of four to five hundred people from here."
There was a murmur of discussion among the crowd. Someone raised the question: "This does not mean that there are no good people in Hongdong County. All the young people in this area are suspected of being bandits?"
"That's right." Luo Duo nodded, "The gangsters of the Party regard this area as their own forbidden area. They never harm it, and they don't allow other gangsters to intrude. This is very popular."
"It's like a separatist force!"
"No, we can't even talk about separatism. According to Mr. Wang, the taxes in the 'Thirteen Villages' area have never been high. It's just that there is no benefit to the county."
"Actually, the party's thinking is similar to ours. There is a lot of money for the official salary, but not a penny for the floating income. With guns as the backstage, the county can do nothing about them."
"This is the CPPCC meeting. Did the 'Thirteen Villages' area come to participate in the meeting?" He Ming asked.
Luo Duo said: "They have all been here. I checked the relevant minutes of the meeting and found that the representatives did not speak. They basically just followed the crowd. They did everything they could to collect food, send missions, and send liaison officers."
"Does the party know the struggle strategy well?"
"That's right." Luo Duo replied cautiously, "There are some ideas on the strategy of fighting."
"Most of the party gangs are poor people, and he himself was born into a poor man who was persecuted. He also knows that 'hit the rich instead of the poor', so he should be considered to have revolutionary consciousness." Someone said, "Actually, is it wrong to characterize them as bandits?
It should be a spontaneous peasant resistance organization. We can fight for it."
"It's relative not to disturb the people." Luo Duo said, "It's just that the Thirteenth Village area is slightly better, but the intrusion in other places is very serious." Such things as robbery, murder, kidnapping, and raping of women, this bandit group
Many of them have done the same thing. It’s not just the rich who are harmed, the poor are just as unlucky. If you have to call it a “peasant resistance” or an “uprising”, you’re deceiving yourself and others.
He Ming explained: "The reason why the bandit suppression headquarters chose to attack them first is that they are the most powerful, and killing them will have the effect of knocking the mountain out of the country. Secondly, the people in this group are very angry. Our division is famous."
Luo Duo continued, "In the 'Thirteen Villages' area, this gang has two important members and twenty or thirty people stationed there to control the situation. The leader's name is Xin Nari, Wang Wushu."
"Xin Nari and Wang Wushu are two of the four heavenly kings under the Dang clan." Wang Zhaomin said to Luo Duo, "The so-called four heavenly kings are just making up the numbers, but these two people should not be underestimated.
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Xin Nari has been an idle person since he was a child. As an adult, because of his indolence and indolence, he became a "kuaishou" in the county government and became a "doing public servant". "Doing public office" is not a formal government servant in the county government, similar to
The income of non-staff "temporary workers" depends entirely on various bad regulations and extortion. These people are responsible for illegal activities that are inconvenient for government officials to come forward. If something happens, these people will take the blame. Fortunately, there are collusions inside and outside, and they take more lightly than others.
Let it go, even the county magistrate can't do anything about it. Once the limelight is over, it will continue to be "doing justice".
On that day, when this "doing business" was very active, not just bullying the people, but in the end he even brought the gentry to his death. In the end, he couldn't stay any longer, and the "quick hands" were not willing to offend the gentry for him - after all
There are many "businessmen", one more is not too much, and one less is not enough. Xin lost his job that day and simply went to the mountains to work.
"...This man is flexible and clever. He is also good at following others' influence and is very good at currying favor with others. So although he is currently a gangster, he has connections with many subordinate officials in the county government and local evil gentry, so there is little trouble.
, naturally someone will tip off the information for him." Wang Zhaomin reminded, "We Mr. Wu and Mr. Huang tried to arrest him several times, but he slipped away every time."
As for Wang Wushu, although he is not a smart person, he is extremely brutal and brutal, and is famous for killing people without blinking an eye. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he has some hard skills in platoon fighting. When he was young, he participated in fights and was stabbed to death.
, can not be hurt by a gun, which is very legendary. This civil and military force is permanently stationed in the boundary of "Thirteen Villages" and controls this area very tightly.
After Luo Duo introduced the basic situation, the participants discussed how to eliminate this group of bandits. There are basically two plans. One is to first attack the "Thirteen Villages" to clear out the bandit forces, so that the bandits on the mountain will lose their power.
Supplies of food and personnel should not be disrupted until the time is right before besieging the stronghold.
The other idea is to capture the thieves and capture the king, which advocates attacking the Baopang Mountain area first, wiping out the bandit nests, and then forcing the bandits in the Thirteen Villages to surrender without a fight.
Both options have advantages and disadvantages. After comprehensive consideration, we finally decided to attack the cottage first.
"If we attack the Thirteenth Village first, it will be difficult to deal with the local civil affairs issues." Wu De, as a civil affairs committee member and a member of the bandit suppression headquarters, "The local people have concerns and are unwilling to have more contact with us. The bandits also have
We can rely on our lair and use the cover of the common people to launch rampant attacks on us. When our army is stationed there, it will be very passive. In the end, it is likely that we will take indiscriminate retaliation due to endless attacks, and finally form a relationship and confrontation. In the future
It will be very difficult to clean it up again.”
The form of combat will be a surprise attack by a small and powerful synthetic unit. It is not worth the loss to invest large units to suppress bandits in mountainous areas. It is difficult to keep secrets when dispatching large units. The bandits can transfer all materials and personnel in advance, leaving only an empty village.
Not to mention mobilizing one or two infantry battalions, even if thousands of troops search the mountains, bandits can easily escape. If they stay in the mountains for a long time, supplies cannot be transported in, and large troops cannot stay in the mountains for a long time. Over time, the troops will only
Able to retreat. In the past, bandits have always used this method to deal with encirclement and suppression by government troops - it has been tried and true.
Yang Zeng, commander of the platoon of the Chasseur Company of the First Infantry Regiment, was marching in the mountains. It was very hot in the forest in late spring. His uniform was soaked with sweat. He was carrying his beloved rifle on his shoulders and 200 rounds.
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Behind him, followed his platoon of hunters, and then a mountain howitzer and all its belongings: shells, gunpowder, running brushes, etc. All these bits and pieces of equipment were transported by people, which took four full days.
Ten "education soldiers" - soldiers who have not yet been officially awarded the rank of private and are undergoing training. After them, there is an infantry company, and then more than a hundred education soldiers, carrying a large amount of equipment. They are called
The "military industry" is actually Xi Yazhou's "replacing animals and losing soldiers". The recruits are not of much use and can always carry things. Behind them is the engineer platoon, led by the engineer company commander Panda himself.