Text/Fu Huaxuan
The popular "Lin Hai Snow Field" is a novel written by modern writer Qu Bo, which was first published in 1957.
"Lin Hai Xueyuan" depicts the battle story of the bandits in the northeast at the beginning of the Liberation War. In the winter of 1946, a small detachment of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, under the leadership of Shao Jianbo, chief of staff of the regiment, went deep into the snowy plains of Linhai to carry out the task of suppressing bandits. When the novel was played continuously on the radio, people listened to it like a drunken mystery.
Later, based on this novel, it was adapted into the modern Peking Opera "Wise Tiger Mountain", which can be called the first of the eight model plays.
Here I would like to explain to you a little, why is it called "Democratic Coalition Army" and not "People's Liberation Army"? It was like this: The Northeast Democratic Coalition Army was reorganized in January 1946, with Lin Biao as commander-in-chief, Peng Zhen as the first political commissar, Luo Ronghuan as the second political commissar, and Lü Zhengcao, Zhou Baozhong, and Xiao Jinguang as deputy commanders-in-chief. In November 1947, according to the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Northeast Democratic United Army was renamed the Northeast People's Liberation Army, which administered the Northeast Field Army and the Northeast Military Region.
In fact, the writer Qu Bo had never engaged in literary creation before, but the fighting heroes who dedicated their lives to the revolution lived in his heart at all times. When he was in the hospital to treat his wounds, he told the stories of his comrades-in-arms to the people around him countless times, and he also told the battle experience of The Snowy Plains of Lin Hai countless times. These stories, especially the heroic deeds of Yang Zirong, made the listeners all moved and marveled, and the story of the mountain sculpture also attracted countless listeners. Speaking of which, he has a strong desire to create. Therefore, he wrote "Lin Hai Snow Field".
Many of the characters in the novel have archetypes, and these archetypes are processed and shaped by the writer in the creation.
For example, the mountain carving is a real existence, and there are many legends about the mountain carving.
The mountain carving is not the real name of this old bandit, but the nickname given by people according to his bald eagle eyes and the appearance of a dove, and the big name of the mountain carving is Zhang Leshan. The ancestral home of the mountain carving is Wei county, Shandong, when he was 2 years old, he came to the northeast with his family in the Kanto, originally working as a logging force in the old forest in the deep mountains, but at the age of 15, he went up the mountain to become a bandit, because he had a "talent" for doing this line, and he actually became a bandit at the age of 18.
There are "three absolutes" carved on the mountain, that is, the gun method is absolute, the eyes are absolute, and the legs and feet are absolute, how is it a perfect method?
First of all, the marksmanship is absolutely perfect. This man is a man with accurate marksmanship, good at making the Mauser pistol open the bow left and right, and a hundred shots. This is also related to the general environment of the northeast at that time, in modern times, the northeast region has been constantly in turmoil, and the loss of guns and ammunition is extremely large, so that the equipment level of the bandits in the northeast outside the Guanwai is far more than the "peers" in The Guanli is much larger, so the bandits do not pay attention to what martial arts are strong, but compete in marksmanship.
The pinnacle of archery is the so-called "ten-step loading gun, two-legged bullet, Pegasus bird, night shooting incense head", what is the ten-step loading gun, two-legged bullet? It is required that the bandits be able to disassemble into a pile of parts and put them in their pockets while they are scurrying, and set fire within ten steps, and they can also use their thighs to bend their thighs to change the clip and press the bullets while shooting from the left and right, these two tests are the bandits' proficiency in firearms. As for "Pegasus hitting birds, shooting incense heads at night" is better understood, can shoot down birds on a galloping horse, and extinguish the incense head with only a glimmer of light in the dark night, think about it, think that this shooting method is appalling, and these bandits are not using a serious aiming and shooting posture, but pulling out a gun to raise their hands and throwing it, completely by feeling, pointing to where to fight, people and guns are one.
The marksmanship of the mountain eagle has reached such a high level.
In addition, there are some bearded men from hunters in the mountains who are good at making long guns, bullets are finger noses and never run to the eyes, which is trained from a small fox, because the fox skin with a gun hole is not valuable, in order to get a perfect fox fur, so the hunters have practiced a hand "bullet from one eye of the fox to one eye to fly out" of the unique marksmanship, commonly known as "piercing eye shooting". In order not to be detected by cunning foxes, these people are good at hiding their tracks in the deep mountains and old forests, often ambushing a location for days and nights to wait for the appearance of prey. If these skills are used on the battlefield, it is the level of a high-level sniper.
At the age of 18, the mountain eagle became the leader of a mountain, suppressing a group of fierce bandits, and his skill in marksmanship can be imagined.
Second, the eyes of the mountain eagle are very poisonous. This is also divided into two aspects, one is that his eyesight is really good, his eyes are bright, he can distinguish the end, and there are even rumors that he does not need to light the lamp when he walks at night. Since the mountain eagle can extinguish the burning incense head with one shot in the dark night, in addition to the accurate marksmanship, it must also have a good eye, and even the bandit fighters who escorted him recalled that this old bandit was "more than 70 years old, described as obscene, but there was a pair of eyes thief bright thief bright, very spirited."
On the other hand, the "absolute eye" is that this old bandit has excellent vision, and is good at detecting colors and distinguishing dangers. It is not difficult to understand that in the northeast before liberation, although bandits and mountain thieves were a "profession", they often had to tie their heads to the waistband of their pants to play for their lives, and the mountain eagles could actually play smoothly from the age of 18 to the age of 70 and still "active" in the bandit group, after many encirclements and suppressions by the Republic of China, the Japanese and the Democratic Coalition Army, they were still alive and jumping, and their sense of danger was indeed amazing. During the Japanese occupation of Tohoku, the Japanese Kwantung Army decided to "recruit" him, and the mountain eagle went to the "Huiji" restaurant where the Japanese army held a banquet to drink and swear. As soon as the two sides met, a casual move by the Japanese liaison touched the tense nerves of the mountain eagle, who jumped out of the window without saying a word and fled from the roof of the city with a light effort. It turned out that this was just his paranoia, but it was this personality that made him the king of the mountains for half a century. This also shows from another side how excellent the reconnaissance personnel of the bandit squad are, an old bandit who is so suspicious, he was actually tricked by Yang Zirong, and finally tied his hands, and it is no wonder that after the mountain eagle was captured, he had to lament that "after playing with the eagle all his life, he was finally bitten by the eagle." "
As for the mountain sculpture "legs and feet", it is even more fascinating! From his cornice walking on the wall, from the Mudanjiang streets and alleys of the roof roof to escape from the kung fu can be seen, this old bandit grew up in the deep mountains and old forests, excellent physical fitness, over the mountains and mountains like walking on the ground, ordinary people can not easily catch up with him. Once the mountain eagle led two small minions down the mountain to buy a big cigarette, and was discovered by the masses, the soldiers of the Democratic Coalition Army rushed to the scene, killed one of the minions, and grabbed another, but the leader of the mountain eagle was missing. At that time, there was snow everywhere, he did not even leave a footprint, carpet search could not find his trace, a few days later, on the other side of the mountain there was information about his activities, could he fly? Will he go away? The warriors wondered how he had escaped. It was not until he later seized the mountain sculpture for interrogation that he realized that at that time, the mountain eagle was surrounded by layers of trees, like gibbons, swinging from one tree to another to carry out "high-altitude work", which ran off from the top of the Democratic Coalition. This kind of escape kung fu similar to that of gibbons is indeed very human.
For more than fifty years, with these "three absolutes", the mountain eagle has run amok and committed many evils, and has owed the people a heavy blood debt. Although Zhang Zuolin and the Japanese tried to eliminate him many times, they were always cunning by this old bandit and escaped and made a comeback. It was not until the arrival of the Democratic Coalition Army, mobilizing the masses, and setting up a heavenly net of people's war, that the bandits such as the mountain carving had no way to retreat, and all of them were annihilated. As a long-time veteran bandit, the mountain eagle is not interested in anything other than robbery and kidnapping, and is also wary of all "official families". Whoever will destroy him is against whom? He fought the Japanese, the Soviet Red Army, and later the Democratic Coalition Army, but once someone recruited, it was neither the Japanese nor the Kuomintang, who had milk was the mother, and whoever was hard depended on whom. Especially when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had just been won, the Kuomintang government living in the southwest could not reach the northeast region, so it had to recruit a group of bandits to oppose the Democratic Coalition Army, and for a time the letter of appointment flew all over the sky, and the mountain eagle also got a copy without accident, just like the mountain eagle in the novel said: "I am the commander, and you all get a division commander and brigade commander as a pawn." For this person, the people of the black land mocked it with typical Northeastern humor - the word "central" was crowned in front of some "beards", becoming the infamous "central beard".
According to the recollections of the old man at that time, these bandits, goons, and hooligan bullies who had been reorganized by the Kuomintang government most badly abused the common people, and when the communist-led army of bandits came to clean up these beards, the common people responded in groups and took the initiative to lead the way, deliver food, and pass on news to the Democratic Coalition Army. In front of the powerful firepower of the Democratic Coalition Army, the bandits' few guns were simply not enough to see, and the Democratic Coalition Army wiped out most of the forces of the mountain eagle with a surprise attack, and this old bandit had to take the remaining more than twenty remnants of his subordinates into the deep mountains and old forests and start a guerrilla war with the Democratic Coalition Army.
The chief of the Democratic Coalition Army also knows very well that sweeping away the bandits' hills is only the first step in completing the work of suppressing bandits, and how to bring these old and treacherous bandits to justice and prevent them from making a comeback and resurgence is the focus and difficulty of the crackdown on bandits. Now that a large number of bandits have scattered into the mountains, it is not possible to send a large force to pull the net to clear and suppress, and the best way is to form an elite squad of bandits and chase a target like a hound until it is dragged down and dragged down, either to come out and surrender himself, or to freeze and starve to death. This is the origin of the numbers of the 203, 204 and other teams in the novel, and Yang Zirong is an excellent scout in the 203 unit specially set up to pursue the mountain eagle and others.
Yang Zirong is also a native of Shandong, his ancestral home is Yantai Muping, because he has lived in the mountains and forests of the northeast for a long time, is familiar with the whereabouts and black words of bandits, and is appointed by the army as a reconnaissance platoon leader, responsible for disguised as bandits to carry out reconnaissance tasks. Yang Zirong led five scouts to form a squad of bandits, disguised as bandits, went into the mountains to search for the nest of bandits on the mountain, and waited for the opportunity to be destroyed.
On January 26, 1947, the fifth day of the first lunar month, Yang Zirong and his party of six people received the order and immediately set out to the depths of the dense forest north of Hailin. They walked around the old forest for several days before they found a shed in a place called Toad Pond. There were more than a dozen guys who looked like lumberjacks living in the shed, but Yang Zirong felt that there might be bandits' "eyeliner" among these people, and he was not sure that the clue to find a mountain sculpture was here.
So Yang Zirong first used bandit gestures and black words to test, after a dialogue in the style of "Heavenly King Gaidi Tiger, Pagoda Town River Demon", the bandit understood that this was a "fellow traveler" who was in difficulty and cornered, yang Zirong said that he wanted to ask someone to help him and run to a mountain. At this time, a foreman who claimed to be surnamed Meng made a speech, promised to help his friends, and led them to an empty shed, leaving some grain and then disappearing. Yang Zirong waited in the shed for two or three days in a row, and they didn't see the shadow of The Foreman Meng, and the only bit of brown rice noodles they had eaten was also eaten, and they couldn't help but feel a little anxious. But the opportunity was rare, and he couldn't go away like this, and when he was in a hurry, the Meng foreman returned and asked Yang Zirong to follow him alone to a nearby tunzi. The comrades-in-arms did not want Yang Zirong to take the risk alone, but Yang Zirong felt that it was worth it and followed.
At tun chang's home, Foreman Meng introduced two people to Yang Zirong, and it was another temptation of bandit black words, and when he saw Yang Zirong's answers flowing, he revealed his true identity. It turned out that this Meng foreman was indeed a Zhu Gui-like figure who opened a tavern in "Water Margin", and these two were close associates of a mountain carving, one claiming to be surnamed Liu, who was an aide-de-camp of a mountain carving, and the other was called a company commander, and the two agreed to introduce Yang Zirong and others to the mountain, and said that they would go down the mountain to do some wine and meat, prepare to spend the Lantern Festival on the mountain, and wait for the "Third Master" to report to the mountain, and then pick them up to join the company.
Kung Fu did not pay off, Yang Zirong finally found an opportunity to capture the mountain eagle, he and his comrades-in-arms analyzed that the mountain eagle's men fell apart under the blows of the Democratic Coalition Army, and there was a shortage of manpower, so this gave Yang Zirong a chance, so Yang Zirong decided to make a plan and destroy the mountain eagle together with his subordinates. Two days later, the two bandits came to the shed where Yang Zirong lived as promised. Yang Zirong asked the soldiers to tie up the two bandits, but did not reveal the identity of the Democratic Coalition Army, but explained: The wind is tight, and now I don't know if the other party is his own, so he had to be aggrieved first, and then talk about it when he got to the mountain. The two bandits felt that they would meet and know when they reached the mountain, and they didn't care too much, so they led Yang Zirong and them straight to the "Weihu Mountain". The mountain carving is indeed cunning enough, there are three checkpoints along the way, if a large army was sent to clear the siege, no matter which checkpoint was alarmed, the bandits could escape without a trace. Yang Zirong Every time they passed a checkpoint, two bandits came forward to talk. Then they tied up the sentry and escorted them up the hill together. Not far from the third checkpoint, you will arrive at the old nest of mountain carvings, a wooden shed known locally as the "horse frame house".
Yang Zirong ordered three warriors to watch the bandits outside, and he led the other two warriors to rush into the shed, each occupying a favorable position, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the bandit. There were seven bandits in the shed, one of whom was bald, black-faced, with a hooked eagle nose and a thin old man with a goatee beard, and it was the infamous mountain eagle!
At this time, there were still cronies under the mountain eagle, the so-called "Eight King Kongs", and if they resisted, they were likely to escape in the chaotic war. Therefore, Yang Zirong did not solemnly declare as in the model play, "I am the Democratic Coalition Army, how to represent the people", only said that the men of the mountain eagle were badly righteous and should not come to hand over their guns. Yang Zirong said that you and I went down the mountain to meet our boss and apologize in person. The mountain eagle has been traversing the northeast green forest for decades, and has a lot of prestige among the bandits, and thinks that his vision is extraordinary, but Yang Zirong is dressed up too similarly, and his behavior is a standard bandit, so the mountain eagle is not suspicious, he did not even bring a gun, he went down the mountain with Yang Zirong alone, and when he reached the bottom of the mountain, he found that what was waiting below was not the "boss", but the bandit unit of the Democratic Coalition Army. The mountain eagle was stunned, but it was too late, and he could only lament that he had gone.
In this way, the old bandit was finally captured alive by the scouts of the Democratic Coalition Army, and his career as a bandit ended. Because the mountain eagle once killed the Japanese, whether intentionally or unintentionally, it was always meritorious in resisting Japan, so the people's government did not put him on trial, but only laid down a heavy shackle, handcuffed him to prison, ate and drank, and ate meat every day. But I didn't expect that the old bandit who had spent a lifetime licking blood with a knife head was too poor in psychological quality, and after less than a year of detention, he had a smoking addiction attack and a life whining, which was a crime deserved, and he had to die.
The kung fu of the mountain carving is indeed good, but even the cunning fox can't fight a good hunter! Good must triumph over evil.