After the 9/18 incident, the Japanese took over the entire Northeast region in just a few days. Although the warlord Zhang Xueliang as the main ruler gave up resistance, at that time, there were many small-scale battles against the Japanese in the northeast, both the army and the people.
Among them, a bandit named 'Old North Wind', when the Japanese wooed him, said to the Japanese: "Although Young Marshal Zhang Xueliang sent troops to beat me, I have no opinion, because he is a soldier and I am a bandit." But you Japanese will never be able to win me over because I am a Chinese! "And to the Japanese, they fight when they see it."
'Old North Wind' This person, whose original name was Zhang Haitian, came from Shandong to the northeast in his early years, his family was poor in his early years, and he also had the intention of participating in the revolution, but later under the pressure of the police, he stole guns from the landlords and went to the local bandit 'old man's vote'. Zhang Haitian himself had no culture, but he was smart and bold, and later he was pushed as one of the bandit leaders because of his heavy righteousness.
In 1928, Zhang Haitian, the old north wind, left the old man's ticket and joined Ji Xingyu's 'Xisheng' bandits as cannon heads. After the 9.18 Incident, Lao Beifeng changed their bandit team into an anti-Japanese national salvation team, led this team to carry out anti-Japanese activities, and shot Japan hard within a few days of Japan's invasion of China.
When Zhang Xueliang gave up resistance, Lao Beifeng was determined to resist Japan, and he said to his subordinates: It turned out that when the bandits wanted to get rich, this time the devils came in, the country was gone, the home was gone, and what official was promoted? What fortune? If you don't fight Japan, what humanity is there? What's a good guy? The men were all bloody men, it must be very reasonable, naturally all responded, just like this, Zhang Haitian began to fight Japanese devils under the name of 'Old North Wind'.
A very interesting saying is that Zhang Haitian, who was playing mahjong at that time, was in the old camp of Panji County, and when he heard the news, he was very angry, and directly lifted the mahjong table, full of anger and coldness, and said: Don't play mahjong, pull the flag to fight Japan! When I turned back, I replaced the banner of 'Haitian' with 'Old North Wind'. He also said the above bloody words to the brothers, and the brothers shouted in unison: the slogan of fighting with little Japan to the end and jointly resisting Japan and defending the country.
Why take the name of the old north wind, in the northeast, the north wind is the word on mahjong, which means the upper home of the house, there are rules, whether the house can eat the card, all depends on how the people in the north wind position play the cards, the north wind can control the house. The culprit who initiated the 9.18 Incident was the commander of the Kwantung Army in Japan at the time, named Honjo Shigeru.
Zhang Haitian took this name to mean zhuanke Benzhuang, determined to kill Honjo Fan. This man, a native of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, who ordered the occupation of the three eastern provinces, committed suicide as a Class A war criminal after his defeat.
In the historical records, there is such an event, that is, the Polly incident, but the legend is also very large, it is likely to be a fact, but it is exaggerated. In 1932, the old North Wind sent people to kidnap two British people in Yingkou, one of whom was named Tinko Polly, and the British government protested to Japan and asked the puppet government and the old North Wind to negotiate, and the old North Wind offered them 1,000 guns, 150,000 rounds of ammunition, 500 pistols and 20 light and heavy machine guns to exchange hostages. Then use the equipment you get to fight the Japanese.
There is such a thing, and it is also mentioned in a book by British scholars, the original text in the "Bandits in the Republic of China Period" content: "The gang demanded that the Japanese pay a ransom of 1 million yuan, plus guns and ammunition, and then it proposed that if the 'Japanese devils' withdrew from the northeast within a week, it would release the hostages unconditionally." "But the people involved don't seem to be old north winds.
In the early records of trouble, most of them were passed on orally, whether it was or not, but it did not hinder the determination of the old north wind to resist Japan. According to reliable records, the small Group of Japanese troops in the northeast at that time heard the old north wind coming, and they fled in fear.
In 1931, Zhang Haitian and Gai Zhonghua and other heroes more than 400 people attacked the Japanese army in Tianzhuangtai, quickly killed the Japanese devils, and then attacked the water source of the Yingkou power station, adding great trouble to Japan.
When the fame of the 'Old North Wind' was getting bigger and bigger, the puppet government traitor Ling Yinqing had the idea of wooing the Old North Wind. When Ling Yinqing invaded the Japanese army, he defected to the little devil, and he was very active in doing things for the Japanese of the puppet government. In October 1931, he took more than a dozen Japanese advisers and more than 200 guards to Sandaogou in Panshan County to meet Lao Beifeng. And brought a lot of generous gifts, including materials and ordnance, etc., which is a generous gift to pull the old north wind.
With more than 200 people, they were afraid that the old north wind would kill them, and the name of the old north wind was already a very famous bandit in the northeast at that time, playing the code name of the Japanese devil. But Ling Yinqing did not understand the old north wind.
Although the old north wind was a green forest, he did not forget that he was Chinese, at this time Zhang Haitian and Xiang Qingshan, As well as Gai Zhonghua and others decided to take the plan and eat the supplies sent. In the end, under the plan of Lao Beifeng and others, they surrendered under false pretenses and directly captured them alive when Ling Yinqing relaxed his vigilance, bringing more than 200 puppet troops without a fight, and all 13 Japanese advisers were also arrested. When facing the puppet army as a prisoner, he said to them in person: "Although Young Marshal Zhang Xueliang sent troops to beat me, I have no opinion, because he is a soldier and I am a bandit." But you Japanese will never be able to win me over because I am a Chinese! ”
In this way, the old north wind gradually became the eyes of the Japanese people, and the flesh was stabbed. The Kwantung Army was determined to eliminate this volunteer army. So they sent a team of hundreds of people to surround the North River Mouth in a vain attempt to destroy the Old North Wind. And the old north wind also knows that he has become a tumor in the eyes of the Japanese, and the Japanese are not unhappy with it. Therefore, the brothers have been allowed to hide, recuperate, and only 9 brothers are left around, entangled with the Japanese little devils, and successfully rushed out of their encirclement, giving the enemy a fierce slap in the face.
Old North Wind, from the initial bandit, to the patriotic general who fought with the Japanese every day, his life has changed a lot. He said, "In the past, people who worked in our profession hung their heads on their belts all day long, lived one day at a time, and somehow they were arrested by the government and lost their heads." Now that the country is in trouble, we are leading our brethren to fight Japan, and we are breaking our sins and coming back from the dead, which is equivalent to re-installing a head. It is enough to see that the old North Wind's understanding of the great righteousness of the country is far beyond ordinary people.
After pulling out the anti-Japanese contingent, he further restrained his subordinates from robbing property; second, they were not allowed to rape women; third, they were not allowed to harass the people and harm crops; and fourth, they were not allowed to surrender to the Japanese Kou. It is said that on one occasion, two brothers who had followed him for many years did the work of kidnapping in Dawangtai, and Lao Beifeng immediately shot them publicly after learning about it. There was also a time when the dry son of the old north wind flirted with women, and he did not expect to be directly pulled out to kill after being reported. It can be seen that the old north wind has strict restraints on the opponents.
The enemy repeatedly tried to win over and kill the old north wind, and he was bound to be ashamed and angry, and he made up his mind to take revenge on the old north wind, and then he went out to 13 trucks and more than a thousand people to go out to bomb the plane cannons in turn, causing great harm to the people at that time. In this regard, Zhang Haitian tangled more than 3,000 people to block the Japanese army in the west of Shaling, and in this battle, they won a great victory, killing a lot of small Japanese, and the Japanese army was also killed in this battle.
The old north wind caused a lot of trouble to the entire Japanese army in the northeast. It was not until 1933 that lao Beifeng was seriously ill and retired from the anti-Japanese war, but he also instructed his son Xiao Beifeng to continue fighting, and eventually Xiao Beifeng also became a member of the Anti-Japanese Army in southern Liaoning. By 1939, Old North Wind died in Beijing at the age of 52, and old North Wind, as a generation of anti-Japanese heroes, provided countless contributions to the entire Northeast War of Resistance!