1950 On September 22nd (August 11th, Gengyin), five or six hundred bandits led by Chen Quan and Luo Yongxi from Youyang County, Sichuan Province passed through Damaoya and Loess, and settled in Xiaojiadui, Bao Chao that night. The next day, he fled to Wuchuan via Yu Heping, Fengshui Cliff and Qikeba, and colluded with the remnants of the Kuomintang 328th Division led by bandit leader Cai Shikang. The "pigsty gate" at the junction of Yanhe and Wuchuan was defeated by the People's Liberation Army. On September 26th (August15th), bandits from Chen Quan and Cai Shikang fled to Niupitang in Yangjiaba village at dusk. Cai Shikang asked the local farmers, "What is the place name here?" Answer: "It's called cowhide soup." At this time, Cai Shikang has become a frightened bird, superstitious that this place name is his own nemesis. He sighed and said, "I am Cai (Cai), and here is the cow." Where can I live if vegetables enter the mouth of a cow? " It seems that the sky will not stop me, and the earth will stop me. I'm finished! "But, Cai Shikang unwilling to do nothing, he will do the last struggle. That night, he conspired with Chen Quan, Luo Yongxi, Chen and others in the earthen bunker where farmer Yang Guohe lived. Sometimes they quarreled and whispered, but they didn't come up with a good idea at dawn.
On September 27th (August16th), it was dawn, and Cai Shikang and Chen Quan sent fifty or sixty gangsters to Wayaotuo and Mengzibao to keep watch. While continuing to plan, they urged them to go to farmers' homes to grab grain, oil and food, lead pigs, sheep and catch chickens, so as to cook, eat well and escape as soon as possible. The result of their planning is that if they can escape from Niupitang and hit Yangjiaba, they will escape from Huangtukan to Gongtan. If you can't, take care of each other, one by one, and then pull the team to avenge the dead. In order to seize time, dinner was served before eight o'clock. Half-baked rice was eaten, and gunshots came from Wayaotuo and Mengzibao.
The bandit soldiers standing guard in Wayaotuo and Mengzibao are scrambling to burn corn to eat. They saw a dozen people dressed in yellow coming from the direction of Mengzibao, and it was raining. Some of them carry umbrellas, some wear raincoats, and many of them have neither umbrellas nor raincoats. Approaching in the rain. The gangster only asked "who", and the other party had already shot. It turned out that the 95th Regiment of the People's Liberation Army was divided into three roads in Liujiazhai, Huangtukan. All the way across the river from Daheba, along Malu River (the name of the river in the middle reaches of undercurrent) to Lei Jia and Dabaoyan, another route is led by farmer Xiao Tingyou, and the other route is led by farmer Liu Shougui to Yu Heping and Fengshui Cliff, and the other route is led by Eagle Rock and Raft House. Leading the way is Liu Shougui of a class of the People's Liberation Army. The gangsters have long been frightened by the People's Liberation Army. Seeing that it was the People's Liberation Army, they fired a few shots at random and rushed to escape. However, because they were not familiar with the terrain and had no choice, a group of people climbed up the earthen camp in Wayaotuo, and another group actually got into a hole in a tile kiln where farmers burned bricks. The gangsters in the camp were attacked by the People's Liberation Army. The camp is very narrow, built with old fortifications that have not been used for many years, and covered with "thorns of the king of hell". Gangsters are like flies without skulls, and some of them are stabbed by the "Pluto" to call their parents. Some people jumped or fell from rocks as high as 20 feet, without breaking their hands and feet, waist or skull. Some people died on the spot. The gangster who got into the cave of the tile kiln was even worse. The mouth of the cave was blocked by PLA machine guns, and a dozen bandits were killed or injured in the cave. The living gangsters can't get out, can't hide, and rush out and fight back wildly. A monitor of the People's Liberation Army hated this heinous and stubborn bandit and stood up and fired at him with a machine gun. The front of the cave in the tile kiln was immediately filled with the bodies of bandits. The monitor of the People's Liberation Army was unfortunately shot in the chest and died gloriously.
Cai Shikang and other gangsters in Niupitang heard the gunshots coming from Wayaotuo and Mengzibao getting louder and louder, so that they could hardly recognize the simple gunshots. They kept banging and clicking. They knew that a large group of PLA had arrived and the fighting was fierce. Cai Fei understood that there was no escape, so he announced the dissolution of the team. "One who escapes counts as one." This time, Cai Shikang has a little wife to accompany him. She can shoot with two guns and is very accurate. She strongly opposed the idea of "one escape counts as one" and forced Cai Shikang to order him to retreat while fighting. Cai Shikang had no choice but to send some gangsters to carry his little wife (riding his own horse), fight with the team and escape. At this time, the east (front line) was blocked by heavy artillery of the People's Liberation Army. In the south, the People's Liberation Army is on standby in Dabao and Fujia areas across Bajiaotan (the name of the river that undercurrents through Niupitang), and there is a natural barrier of "ladder cliff" that is difficult to climb in the south. In the west, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) chased from the "pigsty gate" lives in Xiaoyakou (where the PLA headquarters is located). Only the direction of the lion camp in the north is a gap. Two gangsters blocked the People's Liberation Army with machine guns in the second half of Niupitang village to cover the bandits' escape. The PLA machine gun suppressed the enemy machine gun fire, and a soldier touched the enemy machine gun position. A bullet pierced the hearts of two enemy gunmen, who huddled together and died at the same time. The bandit troops dumped their bodies all the way to the dam and were blocked by the People's Liberation Army to the Lion Camp. The bandit troops fought hard, but they still couldn't catch up with the lion camp, so they were forced to divert to Tongjingtuo and Xiaqingtang. In Xitouba, the People's Liberation Army led by Liu Shougui stayed in Aiziwan and Tianjiabazi for two hours. The bandit troops killed and injured more than 20 people, unable to break through this barrier, so they had to flee to Tongjingtuo again. Tongjingtuo is a mountainous depression, surrounded by three mountains: Jingzhubao, Shiziying and Shangbabao. Naturally, a small depression with only three roads was formed. The people's liberation army attacked from both sides of Qingtang bank and Xiaoyakou, and the bandits suffered heavy casualties. Cai Shikang's mount was killed, and he was also killed on the pheasant water road. A bandit troops occupied the highland Zhu Jing Fort in the north of Tongjingtuo, and Cai Shikang's little wife forced the bandit troops to fight back. The People's Liberation Army failed in three attacks, and only rushed to Fort Zhu Jing for the fourth time. The bandit troops entrenched in the fort were all wiped out, and Cai Shikang's little wife was also killed on the spot. The bandits of Chen Shuan and Cai Shikang were all wiped out except a few who escaped from the net. Dong Xiupeng, the squad leader of the People's Liberation Army, died gloriously in the battle against Jingzhubao.
When cleaning the battlefield, the bandit troops took a prisoner to the Shanjishui site to identify it, confirmed that it was Cai Shikang's body, and found Cai Shikang's personal seal from him. There are seven or eight bodies nearby and under the road, which are Cai's personal guards. The bandit troops handed Cai Shikang's boy, who was only a few years old, to a local man named Xiao for adoption.
I heard that the pheasant water killed the gangster Cai Shikang, and many local people went to see it. I saw a dead body lying across the pheasant water road, and it took a lot of effort for most people to cross it. The body has three gunshot wounds in the left chest, which are triangular. There is a canvas sign on the wound with the words "Kuomintang 328 Division" printed on it. The body had a beard on its face. Handwritten pieces of paper were also found in the grass near the body and on the thorny twigs under the road. Soon, a young farmer found a small pocket of lock-mouth-shaped cloth about 10 feet under the ridge where Cai Shikang was killed, and the pocket was burnt. When I picked it up, I found two gold bars and 48 yuan in the ocean (it was exposed to the government after a long time). Later, the county guard led the people to search the mountains and remove the bandits' weapons. Farmer Yang picked up a pistol, pulled the trigger and fired a shot on the ridge about two feet away from where Cai bandits were killed. There were five bullets in the gun.
People usually say that Cai Shikang died in Niupitang, because bandits were mainly fought in Niupitang, and pheasants were only three miles away from Niupitang, which is an unknown place name.
In the fierce battle between Tongjingtuo and Jingbao, gang leaders Chen Quan and Luo Yongxi fled in disguise respectively. Luo Yongxi fled to the home of a widow surnamed Yang in Xitouba, and was captured alive by the security forces after hiding for six days. Chen Quan fled to Aowoba and Chenjiaba on land, colluded with local bandits in Sawtooth Mountain area, and was finally captured alive.