In his early years, he avenged his brother and threw himself into the green forest, the warlords were incorporated into the commander of the Nationalist Army, and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he participated in the Handan Uprising, and he finally died well.
His name is Fan Longzhang.
Fan Longzhang is a native of Yiyang, Henan, born in 1898. He lost his father at a young age and lived with his mother and brother. Because of his family's poverty, at the age of 20, he ran to Shaanxi alone to join the Zhensong Army.
At that time, Shaanxi planted a large amount of tobacco soil, and Zhen Songjun also participated in the tobacco soil sales business. Two years later, Fan Longzhang also made a fortune and returned to his hometown to buy 6 acres of good land for his family. Coincidentally, these 6 acres of land are adjacent to the fields of Zhao Baode' family, the head of the villagers' group, and this Zhao Baode also looks at this land, and has long wanted to buy it and connect with his own land, but he can't negotiate with the seller. Now that Fan Longzhang had obtained this good land, this Zhao Baode was very unhappy in his heart, so he held a grudge in his heart and was determined to clean up the orphan and widow of the Fan family.
One day shortly after Fan Longzhang returned to the army, he received a letter from his mother saying that Zhao Baode had slandered his brother for stealing his sorghum and would beat his brother to death. In the letter, the mother also said: "The complaint is invalid, and your brother died unjustly!" ”
When the young Fan Longzhang heard such bad news, he didn't fight in anger, and the revenge of killing his brother had to be repaid!
In the autumn of that year, Fan Longzhang left the army and returned to his hometown to begin his journey of revenge.
After Fan Longzhang returned home and quietly placed his mother and wife at a friend's house in a foreign country, he bought a pistol and sneaked back to the village, preparing to kill Zhao Baode when he was not ready. However, Zhao Baode's vigilance was still quite high, and every time he went out, he followed with three or five vigilante groups, making it difficult for Fan Longzhang to start.
In this way, he waited for more than a month, and there was no way to get revenge.
One day, he was chatting with his friend, who told him that if you want to take revenge, you should first "go into the water" and go to find Jiang Mingyu.
The meaning of "going into the water" is to become a bandit, and the "Jiang Mingyu" in the mouth of a friend is a local bandit leader.
At that time, in the western Henan region, bandits were rampant, landlords and old money were bullying people, colluding with officials, and ordinary people were bullied, so there were very young farmers who could only choose to take risks and pull poles to become bandits. Therefore, in such a social environment, the bandits are not necessarily all heinous villains, but more desperate poor people.
Fan Longzhang, in the absence of revenge, also chose to be a good man in the green forest. Fan Longzhang, who had experience in the military, soon pulled several brothers and tied up with Jiang Mingyu, marrying brothers who worshiped the master.
In the autumn of 1924, Fan Longzhang took more than a dozen brothers back to his hometown of Guo Village to avenge his brother, beat the four Zhao Baode brothers and Zhao Baode's entire family to death, and avenged his brother. Because Fan Longzhang exercised strict management over his subordinates, he formulated the prohibitions on not raping, killing innocents, pulling donkeys and calves; not interfering with the production of the people; and making public finances and spending money on money. The local people not only did not dislike their group of bandits, but were very popular with the masses, so their ranks continued to grow.
In the winter of 1924, they were incorporated by the Zhensong Army's Yukun Department, and in the melee of the warlords, Fan Longzhang was successively promoted to deputy battalion commander, battalion commander, regiment commander, and brigade commander. In 1927, after the Zhensong Army was incorporated by Feng Yuxiang into the Eighth Front Army of the Second Army of the National Revolutionary Army, Fan Longzhang was also promoted to division commander.
In the subsequent Northern Expedition and the Central Plains Scuffle, Although Fan Longzhang had repeated events, he still served as a division commander and a brigade commander in the Nationalist army.
During the most difficult period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Fan Longzhang led his troops to participate in the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Taierzhuang, and the Battle of Ruichang, and during the most difficult period of the War of Resistance, his superiors such as Pang Bingxun and Sun Dianying surrendered to the enemy one after another, and he still had the iron bones of Zhengzheng, who had Chinese, and led two battalions of the Twenty-seventh Army to break through the siege, and later served as a division commander in the New Sixth Division of the New Eighth Army of Gao Shuxun Group Army.
On October 30, 1945, when Gao Shuxun, deputy commander of the Eleventh Theater and commander of the New Eighth Army, announced the uprising in Handan, Fan Longzhang immediately agreed. This was an important turning point in General Fan Longzhang's life, which was also the right choice he made at the right time, and it was also destined to end well in the second half of his life.
Fan Longzhang was later appointed deputy commander-in-chief of the Democratic Jianguo Army and commander of the 1st Army, and joined our party, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he transferred to local work and died in 1972 at the age of 74.