Chapter 4: Classic Prison Break

On July 17, 2000, an explosion occurred in the eastern suburbs of Quancheng, and the urban criminal police and fire police quickly arrived. Fifteen minutes later, a major "prison robbery" case occurred in the western suburbs prison that shocked the whole country. The guards and more than 20 armed criminals engaged in a half-hour shootout. Due to the rapid support of the garrison, the robbers could not succeed and scattered in the night.

The Shandong Provincial Public Security Department immediately convened an emergency meeting and unanimously held that the bombing case in the eastern suburbs was intended to strike at the east and the prison robbery case was committed by a group of people. Their purpose was to rescue the mountain, and apparently they did not know about the mountain's self-harm and fall.

That night, the Ministry of Public Security elevated the "July 17 Prison Robbery Case" to the "No. 1 Major Case of the New Century," and Vice Minister Bai Jingyu personally went to listen to the report. Bai Jingyu spoke at the meeting, and the other party can no longer be simply called criminals, they are enemies, this is a war, and there must be a huge underworld crime group hidden behind it. We are in the light, they are in the dark. This is the first case of prison robbery since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and in the face of a new type of crime, we must have a sense of strategy and must wipe out this gang of people, otherwise serious consequences will be caused.

"It's easier said than done," said Sun Lijie, deputy director of the Quancheng Public Security Bureau, standing up, "and Shan Ya is a wanted criminal who has been on the run for more than a decade, and we know very little about him." Over the years, in addition to drug trafficking, what else he has done, who he has met, and why those people robbed him to rescue him, we don't know. He is currently in a coma, and the other three drug addicts we have interrogated many times and have not been able to provide any valuable clues. ”

"No," retorted Director Li Changshui, "Shanya and those three people are the only clues in our hands, and we must make full use of them, and we should think about how to use them." ”

Wu Shaoming, director of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Provincial Department, boldly proposed: "There is only one way, to penetrate into them, conduct undercover investigations, find out the big and small leaders of the group, arrest them in a unified manner, and catch them all." ”

Bai Jingyu pondered for a while and said: "This reminds me of the anti-drug campaign in Pingxian County in 1992. ”

On August 30, 1992, 1,300 armed police officers and soldiers surrounded Ping County, Yunnan. Pingxian County is known as "China's Golden Triangle," and there are 16 armed drug trafficking gangs in the three villages of Yinxin, Molong, and Songmaopo alone, and there are thousands of drug-related personnel in the county; it is a transit point for foreign drug traffickers to transport drugs to Chinese mainland. In order not to harm innocent people, an undercover team headed by Tang Shanglin, chief of staff of the front-line command of the Yunnan Armed Police Corps, successfully infiltrated the drug trafficking family and provided accurate military targets.

That was the largest anti-narcotics campaign since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it was also the only time the military was used to crack down on criminals. This time, we will join hands with the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense, and we will use all means to arrest this gang and wipe out this criminal syndicate.

That night, Bai Jingyu personally took command and set up the No. 1 Major Case Command Center, which was personally supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, and the provincial public security departments unconditionally cooperated. The command has drawn up an undercover combat plan of "letting people go if they want to be captured, and catching them all." With regard to how to infiltrate this criminal group, the command held several meetings in succession, repeatedly studied and worked out general working principles and specific operational guidelines.

Bai Jingyu said that he immediately found a few of the best police officers from the national public security system to set up an undercover team, and brought them in a helicopter before dawn.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, Li Changshui reported to Bai Jingyu: "The person has been found. ”

"Who?"

"Zhou Xingxing, painting dragons, cold ice encounters."

"Oh, who are these three?"

"Zhou Xingxing is a criminal policeman, Hualong is an armed policeman, and Han Bingyu is a special policeman."

"Let them in."

"Isn't it dangerous?"

"Nine deaths, one life."

"Why did you choose us?"

"Luck!"

Zhou Xingxing is already very familiar with us, so let's briefly introduce the cold ice encounter and the painting dragon.

Han Bingyu, born in special forces, participated in the Southern War, he is familiar with all kinds of guns, can throw throwing knives, has a strong experience in survival in the wild, has been incognito after retiring, served as the caretaker of the local martyrs' cemetery, and served as an honorary instructor of the local special police brigade after 1997. Other information about him is a state secret, and even his neighbors, relatives and friends know little about him.

Hualong, armed police instructor, born in Henan in 1970, 1989 national martial arts champion, 1991 international police free fighting competition first place, 1994 Sanya Sanda King, 1995 King of Thailand Cup 60 kg gold belt winner, 1997 went to Japan to participate in the K-1 International Fighting Championship (a stand-up mixed martial arts event held in Japan), was ordered by the leader to call back, did not achieve the ranking.

In the morning, the dragon likes to wear sunglasses to go for a run; In the evenings, he likes to go to the night market shirtless and drink beer.

At the intersection of a small city south of Henan and north of Hubei, at the junction of two provinces, at noon one day, several cars quietly drove like ghosts and stopped on the side of the road. Suddenly, someone shouted, "Chengguan is coming," and the streets were in chaos. Hawkers scrambled to hide in all corners, some on tricycles, some on wheelbarrows, some with wheelbarrows, and some in baskets full of fruits. A woman selling vegetables led the child, carrying the burden, panting, running so much that the shoes were lost, the chengguan chased after her, grabbed the scales in the basket and folded them into two sections, and the other fatter chengguan stepped on the vegetables on the ground, and the child screamed in fright. Other hawkers who didn't have time to run, their stalls were overturned, and one of the people who sold sugar and fried chestnuts went to the chengguan theory, and was beaten violently. Just as the chengguan confiscated the vendor's belongings and was about to load them into the car, a shirtless young man wearing sunglasses said, "Stop! ”

"What did you do?" Chengguan asked.

"Hit someone." The young man replied with a cigarette in his mouth.

It was probably the first time in history that the chengguan heard such words, and suddenly, more than a dozen chengguan surrounded them angrily. None of the surrounding crowd could see what was going on, and one of the chengguan snorted and collapsed into the holly bushes on the side of the road. Immediately afterwards, the young man kicked one by one, like kicking a straw bag, and more than a dozen chengguan bodies flew sideways and fell to the ground.

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Zhou Xingxing, Hualong, and Han Bingyu, the best of China's 1.6 million policemen, the three elites in the police circle, are now going into a cave and lighting torches to light up the dark corner. We're going to see a lot of unimaginable things and a lot of weird people below.

Those people were in caves, and now they were going to be exposed to the sun.

The bad guys should go to prison and then to hell.

Cangzhou Prison holds more than 1,000 prisoners, including the most inhumane murderers, the most notorious villains, the most shameless prostitutes, and the most ruthless robbers.

Cheng Peng, the murderer and corpse mutilator, Zhu Lirong, the court bombing and killing her husband, He Zhonghai, the adulterous daughter, Tang Jin, the animal teacher, and Li Lijun, the femme fatale, were all once detained in Cangzhou Prison.

Where are they now?

In hell.

Jailbreaking is a miracle.

Expanded in 1977, Cangzhou Prison is surrounded by a 7-meter-high wall, a dense power grid, and a searchlight tower in the middle that can illuminate every corner. There is a corridor outside the cell, which is patrolled 24 hours a day by prison guards, and the cells are made of stone, the floor is concrete, and the roof is embedded with iron sheets.

One of the leaders inspected it with his hands behind his back and said, "No one can escape from here." ”

The following year, however, a prisoner nicknamed Hammer disappeared like air.

On the wall of the cell is a sentence engraved by him:

Death is death wherever it is!

Eighteen years later, a young prisoner was silently contemplating the wall, and he was the son of the oil hammer.

One day at noon, the prison guard who delivered the food told him, "Little oil hammer, your father has found it." ”

"Where?"

"In the sewers!"

In 1998, before the devastating floods, a skeleton was found in Cangzhou Prison while renovating sewers. In the hands of the white bones, he held a rusty iron nail.

That nail may mean freedom.

The prisoners spoke of the hammer with disdain, and when they talked about the small hammer, they showed respect.

One of the prisoners said: "The big oil hammer should learn from the small oil hammer, the small oil hammer is more refined, the big oil hammer is too stupid, he doesn't know that the smell can smoke people to death." ”

The prisoners affectionately called Little Hammer "the clever ghost".

Within a few days, the little oil hammer also escaped from prison.

Desertion, to be exact.

The flood forced some of the prisoners in Cangzhou Prison to be transferred to another prison. The torrential rain washed away the roads, and all 18 military trucks were sunk in the mud, and the prisoners in the cars, all of whom were felons, had been urgently assembled in their sleep, so they all remained true and intact.

18 carts, 18 layers of hell!

When the day dawned, this hell unfolded before the people. Chaotic convoys occupied the entire muddy street. The prisoners were handcuffed, all of them with pale faces like corpses, soaked rags stuck to their bodies, most yawning, the rest whispering something. A few of them were bound with hemp ropes, and they were sick people, wilting and bowing their heads, and the rotten sores on their bodies were inflamed and draining pus.

More and more residents are watching.

A few of the inmates in good spirits began waving and grinning to the audience, and a tall prisoner threw a flying kiss at the little girl in the crowd with his arms around a short prisoner, who was talking obscenities.

The prisoner in the lead car sang a song that was widely circulated in prison, and the people in the car behind were triumphantly whistling to accompaniment. The scene is getting more and more lively. The escorting police were too busy repairing the road to take care of the prisoners. The inmates in two cars began to abuse each other, and the inmates in the other car were threatening spectators.

The prisoner in the fifth car was taking a shower because it was raining. One can see shaggy breasts, all kinds of tattoos, eagles, tigers, dragons, scorpions, flaming hearts, swords entwined with snakes, smoky scars, ninja and hate. One of the prisoners rubbed his neck and looked up and said, "What a shower!"

Not to mention the prisoner in the ninth car. A whole car of people were messing around with pee, stinking badly, and one bad guy was smiling and throwing poop at the audience.

On board the eleventh car were female prisoners. One woman grabbed her hair and said to herself, "I seem to see my husband." ”

The prisoners in the fifteenth car were begging and asking the crowd for cigarettes. An old prisoner shouted at the girls selling fritters on the side of the road: "Big girl, it's fried fritters, I can smell it." The fritters were delicious, and I ate them at the end, and I thought, oh, it got to be ten years ago, and I was sentenced to life in prison. His uncle's, I'm going to die in prison, give me one, let me taste it. Yes, yes, big sister, throw it up, pick up the thick one, I caught it, we brothers and sisters, I'm welcome. ”

In the last car was a small oil hammer giving a speech, and he was gesturing and spitting. He spoke so deeply that he seemed to be able to spit out a pebble from his mouth, and people kept cheering him on. Here's the passage:

"My father and my mother, one in prison and the other in the dirt. They're not good birds, they're all bastards. I know my mother, I haven't met my father, no, I've met once. The other day, I saw a skeleton, and someone said, "Look, that's your father." Tell me what it's called, the first time I saw my father, my father died, and he became like that. What, you asked me how I got in. I stole something, and I stabbed someone's liver carelessly. It wasn't intentional, I cut his wallet, and he caught me and had to send it to the Public Security Bureau, there was no way. You can't rely on me. Cut the wallet, dry; Cut your throat, don't do it. I'm fine. What the? Looking for a job? If I earn more than I steal, would I still be a thief? My arm also wanted to work, but my head wouldn't agree, and my mother never taught me what work was. Do you know what my mother taught me? She didn't teach anything. I still taught myself to do bad things, and I want to do even worse things after I do bad things. When the thief is the most unproductive, he is always beaten, and I have to go out and think about grabbing some bank or something. ”

The scene is getting more and more chaotic.

The escort captain ordered the other policemen, "Go, let the bitch be quiet." ”

Then there was a thrilling sound of sticks in every car, rubber batons banged, and the prisoners who had made the most noise gave in, and the escort captain said, "The road is not repaired, and the prisoner in the last car gets down and pushes the cart ahead." ”

More than twenty prisoners lined up, and the little hammer walked at the back, and on a street corner, he should have followed the line to the left, but he turned to the right and disappeared like a fart. No one noticed him, not even the escort captain next to him.

Did the captain let it go on purpose?

No!

The captain later recalled in his report that I had sneezed and he was gone.

There are some things that shouldn't be described in detail, and jailbreaking is one of them.

Well, let's close our eyes and go see the jailbreak in the dark.

Wu Gengqing escaped from prison with a kite, Yao Yuansong escaped with his hair and handcuffs, Ma Ying escaped with a toothbrush digging a hole, Wei Zhenhai escaped with a dung pit, Kang Shengping escaped by arson, and Song Haiwa escaped from prison by taking hostages.

In a corner of Beijing No. 1 Prison, a prisoner escaped from it without the help of any tools, relying entirely on the strength of his own hands and feet, and with the strength of his shoulders, knees, back, hips, and gecko-like will. Since then, the inmates of Prison No. 1 have taken on a hobby, and they all tilt their heads and marvel at the wind. In honor of the corner, the prisoners named it "Ritian". "Ritian" means "impossible miracle" in the vernacular.

The fence of the prison in the three eastern provinces is five meters high, and one prisoner once escaped by jumping over the fence by playing a pole vault.

An inmate at the Great Northwest Prison killed a police officer, then changed into a police officer's outfit and walked out of the door in a big way.

The most classic prison break took place in Cangzhou. There were five prison escapees, Zhou Xingxing, Shanya, Tiezui, Qiu Ba, and Tu Laoye. This is the largest number of prison escapes in history, and it is also the most difficult. It is not easy for the living to escape, the mountain tooth is dying, and there is no difference between the dead and the dead, how did Zhou Xingxing "transport" the mountain tooth?

Let's first study the structure of Cangzhou Prison.

Like other prisons, Cangzhou Prison has a triple guard. It is impossible to get out of the door.

As I have already said, the cell is made of stone, and there is a slight ray of sunlight shining in at noon, and the rest of the time it is dark. A guy who was imprisoned for corruption once muttered: "It's hot in the summer, cold in the winter, no air conditioning, no heating." ”

The plank beds in the cells serve two purposes: sleeping and making fire.

What do you do with fire?

Smoke!

Prisoners have the habit of chewing tobacco, they can't get a lighter or matches, and the most primitive method of drilling wood for fire is widely used in prisons. The prisoner sprinkled the washing powder on the wooden board and rubbed it vigorously with cotton wool, and soon green smoke came out, and it caught fire as soon as it was blown.

Plank beds also provide an important tool for prison escapees.

The oil hammer found a nail there.

Zhou Xingxing came up with a plan there.

A new surveillance system has been installed in the corridor outside the cell. The searchlight tower in the middle of the courtyard was cracked by the 1998 flood, and was finally demolished in 1999 and replaced by a large chimney. Underneath the chimney is the kitchen, where the pot is as big as a pool, and against the wall are a few shovels for stir-frying. Just because the pot is big doesn't mean there isn't hunger. Southwest Lu and Hebei still refer to going to prison as "eating eight big taels".

Some prisoners complained: "I can't even feed the roundworms in my stomach." ”

The oil hammer used the sewer, did Zhou Xingxing use the chimney?

There is a small kitchen next to the large kitchen, and prison guards often come out with fish, and Cangzhou Prison maintains a good tradition of letting death row prisoners eat fish before they are shot.

Cangzhou Prison has its own execution ground, which is just a few pillars, and in the past, most of the prisoners were shot on river beaches, at the foot of mountains, in wild fields, and in the woods.

The cells near the execution ground were occupied by felons and condemned prisoners. Their eyes were even more sad when they saw their kind being killed through the bar.

The seventh rib of a man is a woman, and the eighth is fantasy.

The prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment lives in fantasy, in a mirage. Slowly aging, until death, maggots starving, mouth open, waiting for their corpses.

Masturbation and homosexuality were open in their cells, and rapes of men were common. A rapist fell "ill" as soon as he entered the prison, and the prisoner with the same name reported to the prison guards that we had "beaten" him.

Outside the prison, he raped others; In prison, someone raped him.

Next to the death row cells are two dark rooms. One was a confinement room, and there were often moaning sounds, and it was normal to be beaten in that dark room, but it was not normal not to be beaten. The other room is the medical room, where Shanya is lying, and Qiu Ba is responsible for feeding him water and food, and serving feces and urine. It is the civilized part of the prison to let the prisoners manage the prisoners.

Shanya and Qiu Ba were in the medical room, and Zhou Xingxing, Tiezui, and Tu Laoye were detained in Cell 43. How did they get in touch before they broke out?

Saturday, 29 July 2000, cloudy.

At noon, when Qiu Ba was queuing up to eat, he was really unlucky, a hard thing hit his head, but he was happy again, it was a steamed bun. He didn't eat it, and when he broke it, there were small stacks of 5-cent bills.

There is a line written on the banknote.

At 11 p.m., there were three black shadows squatting in cell 43, and a little black mouse eavesdropped on their conversation.

Iron Mouth: "Where to go from?" ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Did you see the chimney?" ”

Iron Mouth: "See, like a dick!" ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Climb up." ”

Iron mouth: "It's rough, I can't climb up." ”

Tu Laoye: "It's not a tree. ”

Zhou Xingxing: "That's right, Lao Ye, that's not a tree, that's a quilt." ”

Tu Laoye: "Quilt? ”

Tiezui: "Damn, you can be clear." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "I have sifted through this prison, and the only way to get out of the chimney is to get out." ”

Iron mouth: "What if you climb to the top of the chimney, there is a power grid below." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Climb up, climb down again, step on the power grid, and walk to the fence." ”

Tu Laoye: "My day, that's not electrocution." ”

Iron Mouth: "Grandma is a bear, you bear child." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Make a few pairs of special shoes out of wooden boards. ”

Tu Laoye: "There are guards under the power grid. ”

Iron Mouth: "The police will find us, and the bullets will follow us like flies." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "So be careful and be careful. ”

Tu Laoye: "The wall is high, and you won't fall into if you jump down?" ”

Zhou Xingxing: "So there must be a rope." ”

Tu Laoye: "There is no rope. ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Tear the sheets, tear the clothes, and rub the rope." ”

Tu Laoye: "Bare ass, hehe." ”

Tiezui: "Let's do it, God is helping us, thunder and wind, what a good night of desertion." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "It must not rain. ”

Tiezui: "By the way, what should I do about Master Shan?" ”

Iron mouth: "He can't climb chimneys, he can't jump walls." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "I have a way, do I have to take him away?" ”

Iron Mouth: "Yes, that's the condition. ”

Zhou Xingxing: "What? ”

Iron Mouth: "Take him out, there will be a lot of money, man." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Money to money, buddy to buddy." ”

Tu Laoye: "You can't do it alone." ”

Tu Laoye: "You have to ask the two of us to help you." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Okay, what if he is too late?" ”

Iron Mouth: "That's his business." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Can that Qiu Ba do it?" He didn't know the ropes of doing the job. ”

Iron Mouth: "You say he hasn't done anything, theft, robbery, rape, murder, drug trafficking, fraud, kidnapping." ”

Tu Laoye: "Now there is one more crime, escape from prison." ”

Tu Laoye: "There is one more thing, how to open this door." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Tiezui is an expert in unlocking. ”

Iron Mouth: "All I need is a nail." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "We need three things, nails, ropes, and planks. ”

Tu Laoye: "What is the plank for?" ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Now, one person dismantles the bed, one person rubs the rope, and one person looks for nails. ”

Iron Mouth: "How long will it take?" ”

Zhou Xingxing: "A little more than three hours or a little less." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "I'm in the cage now, and I'll be outside the cage in three hours." ”

Tu Laoye: "Yo ho, there's a mouse." ”

Tu Laoye: "Good guy, prick me, there are nails here." ”

Iron Mouth: "What about the patrol in the corridor?" ”

Zhou Xingxing: "It's very easy, throw a stone to lure him away." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "The rope is kneaded. ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Is there enough planks, you have to use eight pieces." ”

Iron Mouth: "That's enough." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Found the nail?" ”

Tu Laoye: "Found it." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "One, two, three, let's do it!" ”

It was quiet in the hallway. Zhou Xingxing dragged the rope, as if leading a dog that might bark at any time. With each step, he felt the earth tremble. Tiezui and Tu Laoye followed behind, hiding in Zhou Xingxing's shadow, and just like that, they slipped out of the corridor.

They met Qiupachi and Shanya at the kitchenette. Lying in the corner like a dead dog, Qiu Ha patted his ass and roared in a low voice, "Why did you come?" ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "I encountered a little trouble. ”

Qiu Ba asked, "Who are you?" ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "I am the one who threw you the steamed buns." ”

Tiezui said: "His name is Zhou Xingxing, he just came in and wanted to take us out." ”

Qiu Ba asked, "Why did you come in?" ”

Zhou Xingxing said: "I didn't do anything, I am innocent." ”

Tu Laoye said: "It's the same as us, hehe. ”

One of the guards seemed to hear the sound and walked in this direction, but it was never possible to find out where the five men were hiding.

Imaginative people can "see" a few "too" words rising in the chimney, and a few sinful souls wanting to be free. The rope pulled the mountain up, and then they tied a wooden plank to the soles of their shoes and carried the mountain tooth across the grid. The lightning had probably been helping them, but it didn't rain, and they overcame many unexpected difficulties to finally reach the wall.

Outside the wall, there is freedom.

At 3 a.m., a home near Cangzhou Prison was robbed, and three bare-bottomed men snatched several clothes and half a pack of cigarettes. The next day, the hostess said to the man, "Last night, it wasn't going to be a nightmare, was it?" ”

The man said, "It's not a dream, our clothes are gone." ”