Chang Sheng said with a smile, "This Liu Guitang is a bandit in Shandong, nicknamed Liu Heiqi, the seven bandit army wandered through several provinces in North China, for the trouble of the place, not long ago he went to Rehe to take refuge in himself as a Han annihilation, and with the support of Yue himself, he captured Duolun, Guyuan, Kangbao and other counties. ”

"It turned out to be him!" Li Long nodded, he had heard of this Liu Heiqi Li Long.

To say that this Liu Heiqi is indeed a character, Liu Guitang is nicknamed "Liu Heiqi", a native of Fei County, Shandong (now Pingyi County), is a giant bandit, bandit, Han Jian who wandered through the seven provinces of North China, worked as a carpenter and porter in his early years, and was born a poor peasant. Liu Guitang began to block the road and rob when he was a teenager, and began his career as a bandit in 1915, and Lin Chuanju and other 8 people became brothers, robbed homes and houses, and were active in the mountainous areas of Lunan, gradually forming a huge gang. Because his face was like the bottom of a pot, he ranked seventh among the eight bandit leaders who started the incident, so he got the nickname "Liu Heiqi". Liu bandits raided homes and houses everywhere, burned, killed and looted. From 1915 to 1943, Liu Guitang, a scourge of the seven provinces of North China for nearly 30 years, warlords Zhang Zongchang, Han Fuyu and other habitual bandits, bandits, giant bandits, and Han annihilation, finally returned to Huangquan under the guns of the Eighth Route Army.

Chang Sheng continued, "The commander of the puppet army stationed in Guyuan is Liu Heiqi's younger brother Liu Heiba. ”

Chang Sheng paused, then took out a document and read it aloud, "From 1925 to 1928, Liu Hei's seven bandits robbed and annihilated in Tengxian, Linyi, Feixian, Mengyin and other places, and the crimes were innumerable. The song among the bandits said: "If you want to make money, go to the Liu regiment", "Follow the division commander everywhere, and you will not change it for a county magistrate."

Liu bandits also sent grain and money to the villages, and if they resisted or did not pay enough, they would break through the villages, burn and rob, and there were still more than 300 people begging for food in Nanxiaoyi Village around the Spring Festival in 1927, and on February 10, Liu Heiqi invaded the village on the grounds that he had not paid money and grain, and burned and killed the silver and destroyed the appalling amount of silver. Some men had their limbs cut off and dismembered, and children were not spared. A 10-year-old child was stabbed in the left ear with a seven-inch knife by the bandits, and his right ear was pierced and nailed to the wall. A two-year-old child was grabbed by his legs and torn in half, and a one-year-old baby was placed under a stone roller that grinded wheat into a pulp. One woman was killed by more than 20 bandits. A young girl rebelled against the bandits' humiliation, and the bandits killed her with brutal means and filled her with a stone. Many women jumped into the well in disgrace, and the bandits rushed into it with rollers.

In this raid, 346 people were killed in the village and 41 households were killed. Because the whole village burned down, the surviving and returning people had no way to make a living, 73 people died of cold and starvation, 38 sold their children, and 51 women remarried. There were originally 735 people in the village, and only 212 remained.

On March 29, 1928, Liu bandits invaded Dasiyan Village, 48 of the village's 92 families were killed, 559 people were killed out of a total population of 637, and 388 people from other villages were killed to avoid the bandits, a total of 947 people died. Only 78 people survived the disaster (including 15 who returned from going out), and nearly half of them died due to famine and plague, and by autumn, only 42 people remained in the village.

Liu Bandit was also extremely vicious towards the kidnapped people. No ransom for three or five days, that is, one ear or eyeball for which a ticket is sent to his home; In another three or five days, the ticket will be torn up. The methods of ripping tickets are all extremely cruel. If a person is buried in an earth pit, only the head is exposed, and then the top of the skull is slammed with an iron pickaxe, because the blood of the buried person is pressed to the head, so the blood flower brain is rushed out of the old high, which is called "smallpox". Another example is to tie a person tightly with iron wire, and pour kerosene on the upper body to light a fire, which is called "lighting a sky lantern". In addition, there are knife stabs, knives, zero knife cutting, live burial, disembowelment, heart digging, etc. ”

"Beasts are inferior to beasts!" "Kill him!" "! Don't let Lao Tzu catch him, otherwise let him taste the taste of smallpox! Before Chang Sheng finished reading, the officers below shouted angrily one by one.

Chang Sheng threw the information in his hand on the table, and said angrily, "These are just a drop in the bucket of Liu Bandit's crimes, Liu Bandit has been a disaster in North China for more than ten years, and tens of millions of people have died tragically under Liu Bandit's hands, brothers, what should we do about such beasts that are inferior to beasts?" ”

"Kill him! Kill him! The officers shouted in unison.

Chen Zhenpeng stood up suddenly, blushing and shouting loudly, "Brigade! Give the order! As long as you give an order, I will immediately lead the troops to Duolun, catch Liu Heiqi, and hand it over to the brigade seat to deal with! ”

Li Long saw that his morale was aroused, he stood up and said loudly to everyone, "For this kind of national scum, it's just that we haven't encountered them, and since we have encountered them, we naturally can't let them go." It's just that Liu bandits are outnumbered, with five or six thousand people, which is several times the size of our army, and we can't take the enemy lightly. Since we can't eat Liu Bandit in one bite, then we will eat it one bite at a time, and eat more than 1,000 people in Guyuan County first. I ordered to set out early tomorrow morning and march to Guyuan. ”

"Yes!" Everyone stood up and responded in unison.

Early the next morning, the troops quickly marched towards Guyuan County. Twenty miles away from the county seat of Guyuan, the front probed the Malay newspaper and found bandits in front.

Li Long thought that the whereabouts of the troops had been discovered by the bandits, so he couldn't help frowning, "How many bandits are there?" ”

"There are about 100 people, looting a village." The Scout replied loudly.

Li Long's heart calmed down for a while, and then he said, "Order Chen Zhenpeng to attack immediately, eliminate this gang of bandits, tell him that a bandit has run, and Lao Tzu will masturbate him!" ”

"Yes!"

If Jin Zhao is a drunkard, then Chen Zhenpeng belongs to the kind of person who is war-hungry, and if he doesn't fight for a day, he feels uncomfortable. Although these words have been resting, it is a kind of torment for Chen Zhenpeng, not to mention the anger of those Northeast Army, Chen Zhenpeng has long been holding back his anger. Now that there is a war to fight, Chen Zhenpeng directly handed over his regimental headquarters to Li Long (according to Chen Zhenpeng, there is only one regiment anyway, and the brigade headquarters and the regimental headquarters are together!). He rushed to the front with the forward battalion.

The herald informed Chen Zhenpeng of Li Long's order, and Chen Zhenpeng rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "If you can't even deal with one hundred and eighty bandits, you don't need to slap me with the brigade, Lao Tzu directly twisted off his head and used it as a urinal for the brigade." At this time, Chen Zhenpeng led people to the outskirts of the village early, watching the bandits looting in the village, the brothers were angry one by one, and their blood-red eyes glared fiercely at the bandits in the village. (To be continued.) )