Chapter 18 third quarter

In the modern history of China, there is a notorious person who is neither outstanding in literature nor martial arts, but he is notorious because of a shocking act-digging the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty. This person is the big bandit Sun Dianying. Sun Dianying was born in a poor family. She escaped the famine with her parents when she was young. Later, she went to the mountains to become a bandit, and was later recruited by warlords.But he was a bandit, treacherous and cunning, he defected to Feng Yuyang and betrayed Feng Yuxiang: he opposed Chiang Kai-shek and defected to Chiang Kai-shek, he resisted the Japanese and surrendered to the Japanese, turned towards Qin Muchu, capricious.

In April 1947, the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army decided to capture Tangyin, an important town in northern Henan. It was the great bandit Sun Dianying who was guarding Tangyin County. At this time, Chen Xilian was the commander of the 3rd Column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Field Army. He had the honor to meet Sun Dianying, a villain in modern Chinese history, and commanded the 3rd Column and 6th Column to eradicate Sun Dianying, the evil force. Facing the powerful People's Liberation Army, Sun Dianying, who was spurned by the people of the country, knew that he was doomed, but still had to make the last stubborn resistance.After years of painstaking management, Tangyin County has been built into a strong castle by him. He has 3 divisions under his command, plus the local reactionary armed forces, there are more than 10,000 people in total. He is confident that he can resist for a while.

In the small Tangyin City, Sun Dianying actually established five lines of defense, a moat as deep as 5 meters and a width of 9 meters.The city wall is as high as 3 feet, with 3 layers of perforations.The crenels of the city wall and the perforations at the bottom of the city wall constituted an upper and lower crossfire network, and there were passages between each stronghold, and the ammunition depot and grain depot in the city were well stocked.Mines were laid all over the open ground outside the city.The entire defense can be described as impenetrable. Sun Dianying can also be regarded as a hero in troubled times, with courage in digging graves and skill in defending the city.He once stood at the head of Tangyin City, and said confidently to his subordinates: "We can only fight in the field. The communist army, which is not good at attacking fortifications, has no planes and tanks. It is only a dream to enter my Tangyin City!"

He may not know that there are too many people who want to break into Tangyin City and capture Sun Dianying alive.He is a "historical celebrity", and the People's Liberation Army has already set up a list for his portrait, offering a reward for his capture: "Characteristics: big man, bald face, pockmarked face; age: over 60 years old. Whoever captures Sun Dianying alive will be credited once." Before the siege, Liu Bocheng ordered the troops to fire several shells into the city with unfuzed shells, and sent a letter of persuasion.Sun Dianying dismissed this and continued to have fun on the mahjong table.

On April 6, the 6th Zong and the 1st Taihang Brigade began to encircle Tangyin City. The four brigades attacked the four Tangyin passes at the same time, but after a fierce battle for a day, except for the 18th brigade which captured the East pass, none of the other three passes were captured. Sun Dianying was a little complacent, and said to his subordinates: "How is it? I think the Communist Army can't beat it, right? They can't stay in Dongguan for long!" He sent troops to fight for Dongguan. When Chiang Kai-shek learned that Tangyin was besieged, he urgently ordered Wang Zhonglian to help. On April 10, Wang Zhonglian personally led 6 brigades to aid north along Pinghan Road.

Liu Bocheng was determined to encircle the point to fight for aid, and he immediately ordered Chen Xilian to lead the 3rd Column and other troops to go south to fight for aid. On the 18th, Chen Xilian led his troops to wipe out the 2nd Rapid Column of the Kuomintang Army in the Dahuying area south of Tangyin, and captured the commander Li Shouzheng.The other troops took advantage of the victory to pursue and wiped out one part each of the enemy's 41st and 66th divisions, killed and wounded more than 10,000 enemies, and recovered 3 counties.Wang Zhonglian had to return to Xinxiang in embarrassment.

After Chen Xilian led the 3rd column to wipe out the enemy's 2nd fast column, he turned back and rushed to the city of Tangyin, and besieged Tangyin with the 6th column. 6 vertically hit Dongguan and Beiguan, 3 vertically hit Xiguan and Nanguan.Sun Dianying had fought against the Eighth Route Army and knew the tactics of the People's Liberation Army. He knew that the People's Liberation Army would adopt the tactic of digging trenches and advancing after a failed attack, so he ordered his subordinates to bury some water tanks along the city wall and dig a small hole in the bottom of the tank for Listen to the sound of digging in the ground.

He really heard it, the sound of digging in the northeast corner of the city.Sun Dianying personally led the engineers to the northeast corner. When the soil on the outer wall of the moat shook, his engineers quickly buried explosives and detonated them, blowing up the tunnel. According to this method, Sun Dianying blew up other tunnels one after another.One night, the soldiers in the bunker on the wall went back to the city to change shifts. When checking the number of people at the gate of the city, they suddenly found that there was one more man. After searching, they found that this man was full of hand grenades and was carrying an explosive bag.After interrogation, it was found out that he was a soldier of the People's Liberation Army, and he was quickly sent to Sun Dianying.

Sun Dianying looked up and down at the death-defying soldier of the People's Liberation Army in front of him, nodded repeatedly, and sighed: "The Communist Army is really good! We need a daredevil like you to fight!" Sun Dianying ordered this soldier of the People's Liberation Army to be raised first.In addition to digging trenches, our army also dug countless shooting bunkers around the city wall to shoot suppressively at the enemies inside the fortifications of the city wall.This trick was very effective, and it made Sun Dianying's troops dare not move around during the day.

The two sides fought for more than half a month, and Sun Dianying's troops gradually decreased. He couldn't hold on anymore, and asked Chiang Kai-shek again for help.Chiang Kai-shek also strictly ordered Wang Zhonglian to rescue.Wang Zhonglian bit the bullet and dispatched troops, but he was stopped by our army when he reached Bi Road. He was willing to go forward again, and sent a plane to airdrop some ammunition to Sun Dianying, which was regarded as comforting Sun Dianying.In the first wave, Wang Zhonglian dispatched more than 10 planes to Yigou Town in the south of Tangyin City. He mistakenly believed that he had arrived in Tangyin and dropped all the ammunition, but it all fell into the hands of our 3rd column.

The second wave of plane airdrops could be seen clearly, but Chu failed to open the parachute of another box of grenades, and saw that box of "bombs" slammed directly into the Jiang army camp in the city, and there was a loud bang. The Jiang army soldiers who were not enough were blown to pieces.Sun Dianying was so angry that she pointed at the plane in the sky and yelled: "Grandma is a bear! You also helped the Communist Army to bomb me!" When our army is ready, it will start to attack Tangyin. On the evening of May 1st, our army moved its powerful howitzers to a place only 400 meters away from the city wall, and bombarded the front only 200 meters away.The first bombardment blasted a 20-meter-wide hole in the northeast corner of the solid and thick city wall!The collapsed city walls almost filled the moat. After the shelling, the 3rd and 6th vertical troops entered the city and fought hand-to-hand with Sun Dianying's troops.Sun Dianying's troops have been poisoned for a long time and are relatively stubborn.They used earth bags as temporary shelters to resist the People's Liberation Army's attack.The two sides fought repeatedly, and the battle gradually developed in depth. Seeing that the general situation was over, Sun Dianying had to use the reserve team.The commander-in-chief Liu Yueting was shirtless, waving his pistol and shouting hysterically: "The commander-in-chief has an order, and those who stick to it will be rewarded; those who flee will be shot!" Some desperadoes rushed towards the People's Liberation Army crazily. One company went up, and there were not many left under the fierce firepower of the People's Liberation Army. , After repeated fights, Sun Dianying lost all his money. At this time, it was raining heavily, and in Tangyin City, gunshots, shouts, and rain were intertwined.Sun Dianying saw gunpowder smoke everywhere in the city, and couldn't help crying to the sky: "God will destroy me! God will destroy me!" After saying that, he took out a pistol and aimed it at his head... The entourage stepped forward and snatched the gun from Sun Dianying's hand, Surrounded by the tunnel towards the southeast gate. This is the escape route that Sun Dianying has left for himself, if he can't win, he will slip away.This tunnel leads out of the city.After Sun Dianying and his cronies got into the tunnel, they ran forward desperately, left Tangyin City in one breath, and ran to a small village outside the city. Sun Dianying came out of the tunnel, leaning against an upper wall and gasping for breath.The sound of gunfire had become sparse at this time, and Sun Dianying thought that he had narrowly escaped death again, and his life would be great.Just when he was a little proud, suddenly there was a shout from behind: "Don't move! Raise your hands!" Sun Dianying turned around and saw a row of People's Liberation Army soldiers standing in front of him, with their guns pointing at him. It turned out that our army had already expected that Sun Dianying would come, and sent a small team familiar with Tangyin's terrain to carry out the task of hunting down Sun Dianying. They had been waiting at this tunnel exit for a long time.After Sun Dianying was captured alive, many soldiers wanted to have a glimpse of this notorious "Tanglin Thief". A soldier rushed forward and asked Sun Dianying loudly, "Hey! Are you Sun Dazi? You picked up Cixi's tomb?" Unexpectedly, Sun Dianying did not show displeasure at all, instead bowed to the warrior as if to please him, and said repeatedly: "Brother is exactly. Brother, it happened many years ago..." The soldiers who heard these words couldn't help but want to laugh, and they were afraid of criticism from the leaders, so they had to secretly cover their mouths. When Sun Dianying was captured alive, he was followed by an attendant.The entourage carried two large boxes in their hands.The box was unremarkable, just an ordinary wooden box wrapped in a layer of red leather.Anyone who knows the bottom line knows that wherever Sun Dianying went, his entourage with suitcases followed him every step of the way.Sun Dianying became a prisoner, and the attendant followed closely. No one asked what the two boxes contained.Sun Dianying was taken to the 18th Brigade Headquarters and locked up.The news was quickly reported to Ye Si.An hour later, Noji called: "Immediately bring over the two Dongsi in Sun Dianying's hand: one is a jade watermelon, and the other is a sword." Xiao Yongyin, the commander of the 18th brigade, thought to himself, he didn't see these two things on Sun Dianying's body!Immediately called the security officer and said: "Go and check, see where Sun Dianying's jade watermelon and sword are kept." After the security officer left, Xiao Yongyin was a little worried.Ye Si pointed out that he wanted to hand over two items in Sun Dianying's hands, and these two items were definitely treasures.Back then, Sun Dianying took out many treasures from Cixi's tomb, and the ones left behind must be rare treasures.But, did Sun Dianying bring her with her?In case it is hidden...Xiao Shuiyin will ask in person. As soon as she entered the room where Sun Dianying was detained, Sun Dianying immediately stood up respectfully.Xiao Yongyin said kindly, "Commander Sun, I heard that you have two treasures, so let's take a look." Hearing this, Sun Dianying's face suddenly showed a look of pain. At this time, if he wanted to take away the treasures that he had kept around for many years, it would be like cutting out the flesh of his heart with a knife.However, I have done a lot of evil all my life, and my life is in danger. What else can I keep from the two treasures?He was in a daze for a long time, and finally nodded and bowed and said: "Brother presents the treasure, brother presents the treasure!" After speaking, he ordered his followers to open the box. When the ordinary box was opened, the room was filled with light.Jade watermelons are all made of precious jade, and regardless of the value of each piece of jade, the number of jade alone is difficult to count for a while; the sword body is already black, the hilt is engraved with gold and jade, and it is already old. old. Xiao Yongyin looked at it for a while, then asked Sun Dianying: "Commander Sun, where did your two treasures come from?" With this question, Sun Dianying's expression turned dark.After a while, he sighed: "It was taken out from Cixi's tomb..." Xiao Yongyin asked again: "Is there anything special about these two items?" Sun Dianying glanced at the two treasures, and said in a low voice: "This jade watermelon was a tribute to the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. This sword is Zhao Zilong's in the Three Kingdoms era." Xiao Yongyin couldn't help but startled, ah!Zhao Yun's sword!Was this the sword used by Zhao Zilong, who was all-powerful back then? !Xiao Yongyin couldn't help holding the sword in his hand, feeling heavy.Looking at the blackened ancient sword, Zhao Zilong's martial arts and heroism 2,000 years ago seemed to appear in front of his eyes... Xiao Yongyin put the sword back into the box, closed the lid, and said to Sun Dianying: "Commander Sun, these treasures must be handed in!" Sun Dianying was later escorted to the headquarters of the Central Plains Field Army, and Liu Bocheng also met him.Afterwards, he was imprisoned in She County, and he was treated preferentially in life. Because of his bad habit of smoking opium, he was not used to it after being detained, and soon fell ill. The People's Liberation Army actively treated him in a humanitarian spirit, and finally died of illness in the autumn of 1947 due to his poor health.