Dai Xu, in the name of "the Third United Front of the Salvation Army in Central China", appointed Tang Wei as the head on the spot. After listening to Dai Xu's initiative and seeing Tang Wei as the head, the participants expressed their willingness to provide services.
After Tang Wei was ordered, he sneaked into the pit of Jingang Township and summoned Li Shaochu, He Guoqiu, Su Shorty, Tang Huafeng, Li Eryi, He Youdian, Long Aisheng, etc., secretly formulated a business action plan and put forward the slogan of "laying Xintian shop first, then fighting the government". At the meeting, Su Shorty, Li Shaochu and He Guoqiu were respectively appointed as battalion commanders of the No.123 Battalion, and He Youdian was appointed as battalion commander of the Independent Battalion. People from all walks of life put together, and there are about 400 guns.
After the gang formed a team, they wantonly carried out sabotage activities in Shaoyang area.
They surrounded the police station in Jingang town, burned documents and took three long guns. The squadron surrounded the area and snatched a light machine gun and four rifles.
Once, Shaoyang Commissioner Wei went to Xinhua by bus and was stopped by the bandit department at Jumupu. The car was damaged and its materials were robbed. Wei only escaped with the help of an attendant.
The criminal behavior of bandits has seriously endangered people's lives. In order to exterminate bandits, the Shaoyang prefectural party committee and the Shaoyang Army Division, together with the 46 anti-bandits troops stationed in Shaoyang area, quickly formed the anti-bandits command post in Banzishan area. The forces involved in the repression are:
Troops belonging to 1 16 Division and 137 Division, as well as independent regiments of 15 and 16 Division, troops belonging to Shaoyang No.2 District and district squadrons of Xinhua No.4 District and Longhui No.2 District.
By 136 division, three companies of the teaching team were mobilized and stationed in Xintianpu.
The command post is headed by Yang Baozhi, head of the 1st15th Independent Regiment, and Wang Tan, director of the Political Department of the 408th Regiment, is the deputy division commander.
Immediately after the establishment of the command post, the participating troops were organized to attack Wuhu Temple, Isagoda, Dutouqiao, Yaokoudu, Hejiachong and other places where bandits were concentrated, and carried out five consecutive raids and encirclement campaigns, killing some bandits.