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"There is no greater sin than betraying the motherland." ―Stalin
There is an old Chinese saying: "Every time you slaughter more dogs, you are a reader with a negative heart." On September 18, 1931, the Japanese army invading China brazenly launched the "918 Incident", which began the pace of aggression against China. On the night of the incident, Rong Zhen, chief of staff of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Northeast Border Defense Army, ordered the Northeast Army to "not resist, not to move, to put the gun in the storeroom, to stand up for death, and to become benevolent and sacrifice for the country."
On September 19, 1931, Zhang Xueliang spoke to a reporter from tianjin Ta Kung Pao at the Union Hospital and said again: "I have ordered our soldiers to provoke the Japanese soldiers and not to resist. Therefore, our army in the northern camp of the North Has long ordered the collection of ordnance and stored it in the storeroom."
Due to Zhang Xueliang's non-resistance orders, the 8,000 defenders of the North Camp were defeated by 300 Japanese troops, and the Japanese army captured the three northeastern provinces in less than half a year, and more than 1 million square kilometers of land fell, which greatly aroused the aggressive ambitions of the Japanese army and aroused the great indignation of the resistance fighters. They took up arms one after another and fought hard against the Japanese army in the northeast between the white mountains and black waters, and Zhang Haitian, a good man in the green forest, was one of them.
Zhang Haitian, formerly known as Zhang Henian, was born in 1888 in a poor peasant family in Jiutaizi Village (then part of Haicheng) in Shaling Town, Panshan County, Liaoning Province, whose ancestral home was in Shandong, and fled to the northeast at the end of the Qing Dynasty. At the age of 22, Zhang Haitian was forced to make a living, and went to the ground to advocate the Hailan family as a coachman and gunner, in the chaotic world, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued, and later his hometown suffered floods, the landlord's family was not in good condition, Zhang Haitian was bullied by the police when he was a miscellaneous servant in the local police branch.
In desperation, Zhang Haitian, who was not willing to admit his fate, stole a gun and defected to a large group of bandits who reported as "old man's vote", first, in order to stop starving and being humiliated. The second is to get ahead and hope to one day become an official and get rich. Zhang Haitian was a nominal bandit, robbing the rich and helping the poor, not disturbing the ordinary people too much, and was soon selected as one of the bandit leaders. His green forest banner is called "Haitian", which means: Haicheng Great Heaven, Lao Tzu is the first in the world.
In 1928, Zhang Haitian left the "old man ticket", and in 1929, Zhang Haitian joined Ji Xingyu's "Xisheng" bandit gang, and Zhang Haitian not only had one of the bandit leaders, but also had an important position: "cannon head".
The "gun head" is actually the sharpshooter who leads the soldiers to fight among the bandits, and his marksmanship must be recognized by everyone. When the gun head performs its own marksmanship, it is often a straw inserted in the wall, and then it is shot from a hundred steps away, hit it, moved backwards, moved to a mile away, or can be hit. The other is to hit the birds, the birds fly in the sky, the point is shot down, and it is said that the bird's head does not hit the bird's neck. Hit the little house sparrow, shoot out, break it, leave a complete body. "Gun head" is further divided into "main gun head" and "secondary gun head".
Zhang Haitian's marksmanship is excellent, he is proud and righteous, he is careful and bold, he does not play cards according to common sense in fighting, and he is resourceful and good at judging, so Zhang Haitian is very famous in the northeast. After the "Huanggutun Incident", in order to disintegrate Zhang Xueliang's forces, the Kwantung Army ordered Kenji Toihara to set up a secret service agency in North China to find and recruit a group of people to act as traitors and lackeys.
The first person Toihara Kenji found was Zhang Haitian, and when Zhang Xueliang learned the news, he was afraid that Zhang Haitian's power would grow (zhang Zuolin was also), threatened his rule in the northeast, and also sent troops to surround and suppress Zhang Haitian in the name of "suppressing bandits", but did not succeed. On the day of the "918 Incident", Zhang Haitian was very angry when he learned that the Japanese army had occupied Shenyang, and Zhang Haitian, who was playing cards, suddenly flipped the card table over and said with a murderous face: "Don't play cards, pull the flag to fight the devils!" ”
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The next day, Zhang Haitian gathered a team and put up a new banner "Old North Wind" in the courtyard of the panshan old camp in Haicheng, why is it called "Old North Wind"? There are several ways to say it:
Some people say that Zhang Haitian not only practiced a good gun technique, but also had a divine skill, able to crouch and run and run as fast as the wind, so it was called "Old North Wind"; some people said that Zhang Haitian was born not afraid of cold, even if it was a midwinter waxing moon, he never wore a hat, and in the cold and frozen weather, he could bare his scalp to top the bone-chilling North Wind, so he had the nickname of "Old North Wind". Some people also say that when playing mahjong, sitting on "Honjo" is the most afraid of "North Wind", and the name of the commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army happens to be "Honjo Fan", Zhang Haitian took the name of "Old North Wind" to show that he was Honjo Fan's nemesis. ”
No matter which way it is said, it shows that Zhang Haitian is a very bad person: he has extraordinary skills, superior wisdom, and is dead to the end! He stood on a millstone in the courtyard and delivered an anti-Japanese speech, the language was simple and unpretentious, but it was sonorous and powerful, and it was loud and loud.
"Brethren, the city of Shenyang was occupied by the Little Japanese yesterday, and it will soon hit us here. Devils this is to destroy our country, the death of our home, little Japan is clearly bullying us China no one! His grandmother's, we are the grandfathers of the northeast, can we give our homes to them? From today onwards, I Zhang Haitian will no longer take the big guys to rob people, rob guns, tie tickets and smash open fires, and I will fight the little devils. The brethren have the will to follow me and stay. If you don't want to do it, Zhang Someone will not force it. If the big guys don't want to do it, then split the pole and scatter the gang! One of zhang's heads and a gun fights with Japanese devils to the end! ”
Zhang Haitian's valuable point is that the Northeast Army has all run away, and he was the first to jump out and announce that he wanted to resist Japan, let alone Chinese, that is, the Japanese and pseudo-Traitors did not believe that a bandit wanted to really resist Japan. "After the 918 Incident", the Japanese and pseudo-enemies who were full of Online traitors once again summoned Zhang Haitian and gave very generous conditions: "High-ranking official Houlu is at your disposal, and the glory and wealth cannot be enjoyed!" ”
The traitor who was responsible for recruiting Zhang Haitian this time was called Ling Yinqing, and Ling Yinqing knew that the Japanese wanted to win Zhang Haitian over, so he made great efforts to negotiate with Zhang Haitian in an attempt to successfully recruit Zhang Haitian and receive meritorious service awards from the Japanese.
Ling Yinqing, zi liancheng, Haicheng County Gaotuozi people. In the course of invading Liaoning and Jilin, the Japanese army actively established a puppet regime and organized a puppet military and police. Ling Yinqing was a Kuomintang party stick that the Japanese military had been raising for many years in Shenyang. In 1924, Zhang Zuolin, Duan Qirui, and Sun Yat-sen formed a triangular alliance against the warlords Cao Kun and Wu Peifu, and Wang Jingwei recruited Sun Yat-sen to Shenyang on behalf of Sun Yat-sen and introduced Ling Yinqing as the distribution manager of the three eastern provinces of Shanghai's Republic of China Daily.
While encroaching on the northeast, the Japanese set up the "Northeast People's Self-Defense Army" to "rule China with China." Kawashima Katako and others believed that the incorporation of local bandits was the way out for the establishment of the "Self-Defense Army." The traitor Ling Yinqing became a very famous figure in the collection of bandits. After the "918" incident, the Japanese took Ling Yinqing out and served his aggression. In early October, the Japanese Kwantung Army appointed the traitor Ling Yinqing as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Self-Defense Army, and sent five veteran secret agents, Including Futaro Kuraoka, as advisers, and later increased the number of advisers. The Japanese army attempted to use this team of traitors as the vanguard to first attack Jinzhou and then control western Liaoning, in preparation for the Japanese army to drive straight into Guannei.
Prints of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army
Zhang Haitian decided to make a plan, pretend to submit, and create the illusion of "submission" to deceive Ling Yinqing's trust. In order to show his sincerity, Ling Yinqing personally led 13 Japanese advisers and 200 Japanese puppet troops to escort a large number of military supplies to "Sandaogou" to discuss "cooperation matters" with Zhang Haitian.
Zhang Haitian was already prepared for a sneak attack, and with 2,000 people suddenly surrounded the "Three Daogou" without spending a single shot, he captured all the Japanese puppet troops such as Ling Yinqing. On January 18, 1932, Zhang Haitian shot Ling Yinqing and other traitors in Shaling after a public trial, and executed (supposedly bayonet stabbed and executed) 13 Japanese advisers.
Zhang Xueliang, who was in Beiping, heard that Zhang Haitian, a good man in the green forest, had pulled up the banner of anti-Japanese resistance, and his heart was full of mixed feelings, and he greatly admired Zhang Haitian, believing that this was a real man, and gave Zhang Haitian and Xiang Qingshan a gold-shell pocket watch with a portrait of a young marshal, a battle knife, and a reward of 50,000 pieces to the volunteer army.
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Zhang Haitian raised the anti-Japanese banner in southern Liaoning, which invigorated the spirit of the people of southern Liaoning, and other anti-Japanese troops responded one after another. The reason why the Japanese army is afraid of Zhang Haitian, I personally analyze there are three reasons. First, Zhang Haitian is very famous in the green forest, the appeal is very strong, Zhang Haitian is anti-Japanese, and there are teams in the green forest that oppose Japan one after another. Second, Zhang Haitian's marksmanship is extremely accurate, his team is following his example, and under his training, his marksmanship is not bad. Third, Zhang Haitian did not do things according to common sense, there was no law to follow, and he was extremely cruel to the traitors, especially the Japanese, and fell into his hands, and there was no preferential treatment for prisoners, almost all of them were "killed", unless they could bring him greater exchange value.
Regarding the third point, Zhang Haitian's "masterpiece" is the kidnapping of British hostages and the forcing of the Japanese to redeem the ticket (paying for the meat ticket kidnapped by the bandits). In September 1932, Zhang Haitian's team lacked grain, grass and ammunition, and everyone was at a loss. Zhang Haitian came up with a brilliant plan, sent someone to the South Manchurian treaty port Yingkou to kidnap Tinkopoli, the daughter of a British doctor, and spread the news. The British government protested to the Japanese Sea government, and the Japanese army negotiated with Zhang Haitian, who proposed the ransom: "1,000 rifles, 150,000 rounds of ammunition, 500 pistols, and 20 light and heavy machine guns." ”
The Japanese gritted their teeth in hatred, calling Zhang Haitian a "shameless person, a rogue", ready to delay time and ignore him. Zhang Haitian sent a letter to the British: "Prepare to 'cruelly' tear up the ticket and make it public!" The British government, taking into account international influence, constantly exerted pressure on the Japanese government, and the Japanese eventually ate huanglian dumbly, considered themselves unlucky, and agreed to Zhang Haitian's redemption conditions. Zhang Haitian, who had received weapons and ammunition, continued to sneak up on the Japanese army after his soldiers were strong and strong.
After Zhang Haitian raised the anti-Japanese banner, he was soon appointed commander of the Second Route Army by the Northeast People's Self-Defense Army. After becoming an anti-Japanese general, Zhang Haitian decided to change his mind, rectify the team, and wholeheartedly fight the devils, which is called "an head" in Zhang Haitian's words.
"In the past, people who worked in our profession hung their heads on their belts all day, 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. ”
In order to "settle the head", he formulated a "sixteen-character order" for the team: "No robbery, help the poor, donate food and donations, and do the skywalker." He also formulated the iron law of "four no's": "First, it is forbidden to rob property; second, it is forbidden to rape women; third, it is not allowed to harass the people and harm crops; and fourth, it is not allowed to surrender to the Japanese Kou." "Whoever violates discipline shall be severely punished." The two hardcore brothers continued to engage in the "ticket kidnapping" business and were shot by Zhang Haitian, and his dry son flirted with his father and daughter and was also ordered to be shot by him.
Dealing with Japanese puppets and traitors, Zhang Haitian's team did not have so many rules and regulations, and how the Japanese army did, they would deal with the Japanese army. The Japanese army encircled and suppressed many times, but none of them succeeded, and they were beaten by Zhang Haitian, and they could only stomp their feet and scold the encirclement and suppression troops as "wine bags, rice bags, waste!" ”
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At the end of 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army surrounded and suppressed Zhang Haitian, who learned the news, dispersed the team in advance, and single-handedly carried 9 brothers with excellent marksmanship and hundreds of Japanese troops around the Jiutaizi North River Mouth. In the end, the devil returned without success, and Zhang Haitian retreated completely.
In late January 1932, the Japanese army dispatched thousands of troops to occupy Shaling under the cover of aircraft and artillery, in a vain attempt to flatten the mountain, the Japanese army implemented the "three lights" policy, people and livestock were not left, burning and looting in the Sand Ridge and Panshan area, and no evil was committed. Zhang Haitian contacted Xiang Qingshan, Gai Zhonghua, and Cai Baoshan, and immediately mobilized more than 3,600 people from three brigades to formulate a detailed combat strategy and issue a combat order to the troops to "exterminate them all and leave no one behind."
They adopted flexible and mobile guerrilla tactics, using some troops to lead the Japanese puppet army in circles continuously, and another part of the troops to attack the Japanese army everywhere, so that the Japanese puppet army could not rest. On the evening of January 14, when the Japanese puppet army was exhausted, the main force of the unit launched a general attack on the Japanese puppet army, and the Japanese army and the puppet army, who did not know the situation, actually shot at each other in panic, killed each other, and cried out all over the place for a while. "Like a fierce tiger, they rushed to the Japanese puppet army, and the Japanese puppet army had no strength to resist, only the share of being killed, and they all retreated. After the battle, the Japanese army pulled two trucks of dead bodies to retreat, and countless wounded were killed, and the Japanese army Oisa Kono Kiei was killed.
Zhang Haitian continued to win battles, and more and more troops responded to the anti-Japanese resistance, and the number of anti-Japanese volunteers quickly expanded to more than 30,000 people. Dressed in tattered clothes, they were not warm enough to eat, they were armed with all kinds of weapons, they no longer robbed houses, but specialized in beating devils and killing traitors. The Japanese puppet army was not afraid of the regular army of the Kuomintang, but it was afraid of Zhang Haitian for three points, taking the words of the Japanese: "This is a group of outlaws, rogue bandits, fierce and fierce, falling into their hands, can only think of their own bad luck, don't think of leaving a whole corpse!" In fact, the Japanese are fierce and fierce, and Zhang Haitian's principle is to treat the enemy as cruelly and ruthlessly as the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves.
After that, Zhang Haitian, together with more than 10,000 people from the XiangguoXue Department, Li Chunhua, Tong Xijiubu, and Cui Deyin, attacked Tai'an County three times, and killed the Japanese puppet army until the Japanese puppet army in the city was exterminated, which was called eliminating evil, resulting in no one daring to take office in the Japanese puppet regime in Tai'an County for more than a month.
Soon after, Zhang Haitian attacked Haicheng four times, Zhang Haitian's brother Fu Tianlong captured The proud disciple of Kenji Toihara (the famous ronin) outside the east gate of Haicheng, Fu Tianlong heard that Huagu Zheng'er was heinous and cruel, and during interrogation, Hua Tianlong thought that Fu Tianlong did not dare to treat him like this, and his attitude was arrogant, and he boldly admitted to the various atrocities of his own (on the Camp Ditch Line) that had harmed Chinese, and Fu Tianlong was furious and took a knife and cut his body into ten thousand pieces. The guards came to inform the news, and after Zhang Haitian learned about it, he did not pursue it, but only said: "Kill well, (Hanaya Shoji) deserves the crime, the blame is self-inflicted, and the death is more than worthy!" ”
When Honjo Fan learned the news, he was furious, and while sending two divisions of Doi and Duomen to besiege Tai'an and Haicheng, carpet encirclement and suppression, dragnet search, and vowed to kill Zhang Haitian's troops. On the one hand, he personally issued a reward order to capture the old north wind alive and reward the ocean with 20,000 yuan; kill the old north wind and reward the ocean with 10,000. Wanted warrants were posted all over towns and villages, but japanese puppet armies and inferior bandits and gentry everywhere could hide and avoid, and everyone knew that even if they got the money by chance, they would not be able to spend it.
At the end of 1932, the Kwantung Army dispatched two divisions and a flying brigade, and mobilized the Fengtian pseudo-guard team to encircle and suppress Zhang Haitian in 4 routes, and Zhang Haitian divided the troops into small units to avoid the enemy's main force and fought against the Japanese army in the area of Shaling and Gaolifang. They adopted flexible tactics such as raids, night raids, and special operations (sneak attacks on enemy command posts) to inflict casualties on the enemy and take extraordinary measures to deter the Japanese puppet army, such as headshots, killing prisoners only to kill japanese troops, not killing puppet troops, assassination, and so on. In the battle for several days, the Japanese puppet army did not even see Zhang Haitian's shadow, and also lost thousands of people, in the Battle of Guanmen Mountain, Zhang Haitian led the team to kill more than 50 people including Lieutenant Rikou Gangkuan, and captured more than 500 puppet troops. This encirclement and suppression by the Japanese army once again failed to return.
The anti-Japanese battles were won one after another, but the conditions of the volunteer army were very difficult, Zhang Haitian was iron-boned, and he was not knocked down on the battlefield, but he was defeated by the disease. In February 1933, Zhang Haitian fell seriously ill and had no choice but to go to Beiping for medical treatment, and before leaving, he instructed his son Zhang Binglin to continue to fight the Japanese army to the end, not to drive the Japanese army out of China, and vowed not to give up.
On August 29, 1945, the U.S. military took over the Omori Prisoner of War Camp in Tokyo, Japan, and the once fierce Japanese guards stood still, allowing the prisoners of war to kick their butts
In 1939, Zhang Haitian died of illness in Beiping, but unfortunately did not see the victory of the War of Resistance. In order to resist Japan, Zhang Haitian's 3 younger brothers and 1 son also sacrificed their lives in the anti-Japanese struggle.
Zhang Haitian made remarkable achievements in battle, and was called "the anti-Japanese hero of Western Liaoning" by the newspapers at that time. In order to develop the anti-Japanese contingent and expand the sources of weapons and equipment, small arsenals were opened, bullets were manufactured, cannons were rebuilt, firearms were repaired, and so on, which played an important role in the anti-Japanese struggle. In September 2020, in order to solemnly commemorate the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, with the approval of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the third batch of 185 famous anti-Japanese heroes and heroes was announced, and Zhang Haitian entered the list.