It is said that the Russians are a fighting people, and the yellow race is not their opponent. In fact, Chinese could fight better than they did, and once beat the Russian army to the head. Moreover, this is not a regular Chinese army, but a band of bandits.
This bandit leader who can't do cattle is named Du Lisan.
Today's people may not be very familiar with this name, but in the late Qing Dynasty, he was definitely the strongest bandit in the northeast, and he was also listed by the Qing government as the "number one wanted criminal", if he did not die, there would be nothing to do with Zhang Zuolin.
Du Lisan was born in 1880 in Liaozhong County, Liaoning Province, his father Du Baozeng was also a bandit leader, and several younger brothers Du Baoxing, Du Baoshan, and Du Baowang dominated the township. But Du Baozeng did not expect that his younger brother Du Baoxing, in order to get rich from the promotion, actually reported to the government, arrested his brother Du Baozeng and killed him, and Du Baozeng's wife was almost sold by Du Baoxing.
At that time, Du Lisan was still a teenager, gathered a group of young brothers, captured his uncle Du Baoxing alive, ignored his uncle's kneeling and pleading, and chopped it in the forest to avenge his father.
After the news of Du Lisan's revenge for killing his uncle spread, he became famous in the jianghu, and many people came to him. However, not everyone can become Du Lisan's subordinate, to join the company, first look at your guts. Quite simply, you stand in the distance, put an egg on your head, and Doolisan shoots the egg, and the one who is full of excitement does not use it. Du Lisan's marksmanship is good, generally will not hit people, but occasionally there are misses, then it can only be said that this benevolent brother is unlucky.
Soon, Du Lisan became a giant bandit in the Liaodong area, riding a BMW "Green Swallow", galloping between the White Mountains and black waters, no one in the northeast knew its name, and no one was afraid of its strength.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Tsarist Forces invaded Liaodong, which inevitably contradicted Du Lisan. One night, a Russian detachment infiltrated Du Lisan's cottage and prepared to cut the grass and remove the roots, thanks to Du Lisan's vigilance, he escaped the disaster, but his hand was also injured.
Du Lisan was a fierce character with a vendetta, and the next day he took his brothers to attack the Russian stronghold, killing dozens of Russian troops at once. The Russians, armed with the power of the Tsarist Empire, have always been unscrupulous in the northeast, and the common people have suffered greatly, and they have heard that Du Lisan violently beat the Russian army, which was angry for the Chinese, and more people supported him.
Another thing is worth saying, Du Li's method of fighting the Russian army three times is very simple, to sum up:
"If you can fight, you can fight, if you can't fight, you can run, shoot a shot to change a place, specially select a small group of Russian troops to fight, and accumulate small victories into big victories..."
Familiar?
Of course, small fights are not the way to survive after all, and at this time, the Russo-Japanese War broke out between Russia and Japan, and the Japanese found Du Lisan and wanted to ally with him and fight the Russians together.
Although Du Lisan looked down on the Japanese, it was not unacceptable for him to cooperate with the Japanese for the time being, so he agreed and established the "East Asian Volunteer Army", the main leader of which was not only Du Lisan, but also the later King of Northeast China, Zhang Zuolin. The two also worshiped the handle, Zhang Zuolin is 5 years older than Du Lisan, and is the eldest brother.
In February 1904, the Russian army fought a fierce defeat at Lushunkou, and a large number of Cossack cavalry went south to save the remnants of the Russian army under the orders of the Russian Tsar. The Japanese army asked Du Lisan to attack the Cossack cavalry.
Du Lisan must have seen the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhuge Liang set up a suspicious army in Hanshui, startled Cao Cao three times can not sleep, Du Lisan followed suit, led the troops to make a gesture of wanting a big battle, but when the Russian army was ready, there was no shadow at all. When the Russian army collected its troops, Du Lisan came out again to toss. Several times in a row, the Cossack cavalry could not hold on and snoozed straight.
In this way, Du Lisan tossed the Russian army all the way, and by the time the Cossack cavalry arrived in Lushun, the remnants of the Russian army had long been eaten by the Japanese army. It can be said that the Japanese army won the Russo-Japanese War, and Du Lisan's contribution was indispensable.
The Russians hated Du Lisan so much that they offered a huge reward for Du Lisan's head. But at that time, the Russians did no evil in China, and their reputation was extremely bad, and the Chinese people preferred to endure the bandit Du Lisan rather than accept the Russians, so no one revealed it at all.
However, such a hegemonic bandit, the imperial court will not sit idly by and watch him continue to grow, in 1907, the famous Xu Shichang became the governor of the northeast and decided to get rid of Du Lisan.
Who is Xu Shichang? Later, the official became the president of the Republic of China, known for his "sleek machine change", so he did not send troops to recruit and suppress Du Lisan, but borrowed a knife to kill people, gave Zhang Zuolin a high-ranking official Houlu, and let Zhang Zuolin get rid of Du Lisan.
Zhang Zuolin, a very intelligent person, knew who was the most helpful to him, agreed without saying a word, and after returning home, he joined hands with Zhang Zuoxiang and Tang Yulin, several northeastern bigwigs, set up a Hongmen banquet, and invited Du Lisan to come to the banquet.
Du Lisan also got the news and specially brought dozens of bodyguards to the banquet. But Zhang Zuolin was determined to get rid of him, and sent a large number of troops to ambush outside, dozens of bodyguards where the opponents were, all beaten into a honeycomb.
When Du Lisan was killed, he was only 27 years old, and he was absolutely young and promising. Just think, if Du Lisan hadn't been killed, Zhang Zuolin wouldn't have become the king of the Northeast.