The life of "King of the Northeast" Zhang Zuolin is also full of legend, early years into the green forest, in 1902 was adopted by the Qing court, he was astute, since the return to the Qing court, he vigorously won the trust of Zengyun, in 1904, the russo-Japanese war broke out, the people of the northeast were miserable, Zhang Zuolin vigorously expanded the soldiers, to prepare for the future.
After Yuan came to power, he also reused Zhang Zuolin, but the rest of the warlords were also making preparations for each other, after Yuan's death, the warlords divided the territory, Zhang Zuolin was appointed as the envoy of the Eastern Three Songs, and after the end of the Zhifeng War, he announced his retirement to the northeast, although Zhang Zuolin had close contacts with the Japanese.
But the people of the northeast and the Japanese have different attitudes towards him, since Zhang Zuolin "occupied" the northeast, he attached importance to the development of scientific research and education, he himself is an ordinary person, plus Rong Ma rarely has access to books in his life, attaches great importance to knowledge, in 1922 Zhang Zuolin organized Northeastern University, and some of the strategists around him were also graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy.
Zhang Zuolin's 300,000 Feng army was the most well-equipped unit at that time, which is why the Japanese army did not dare to launch a war in the northeast, in April 1927, Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Yoshiichi came to power, he demanded railway rights from Zhang Zuolin, forcing Zhang Zuolin to solve the "Manchurian-Mongolian Railway Suspense Case". But Zhang Zuolin refused to let up, plus he had 300,000 troops in his hands, and he was not afraid of the Japanese to fight him.
The Japanese's tough measures were also to force Zhang Zuolin to return to the northeast, but Zhang Zuolin did not think that Tanaka Yoshiichi would actually lay out a "situation of life and death" for him in Huanggutun, on June 4, 1928, Zhang Zuolin was killed by the bombing, but Zhang Zuolin had already made preparations, and he let Zhang Xueliang sneak back to Shenyang to preside over the overall situation.
In 1902, when Zhang Zuolin was the patrol horse infantry guerrilla pipe belt (battalion commander) of the Qing court, his soldiers were killed by Japanese soldiers, and Zhang Zuolin, who loved soldiers like sons, was anxious, and his retaliation was even fiercer than that of the Japanese army, and afterwards the Japanese army was dumb and could only admit to planting. Why was the arrogant Japanese army so honest under Zhang Zuolin's revenge, and in what way did Zhang Zuolin, who was born a bandit, avenge his soldiers?
It turned out that Zhang Zuolin's troops were stationed in Xinminfu, where he was also stationed with Japanese troops, and the imperial court sent him to garrison here in order to guard against the Japanese.
The arrogant Japanese saw that the Qing government sent troops to garrison and fight against them, and ran all day to the vicinity of Zhang Zuolin's military camp to find stubble, and this group of brothers under Zhang Zuolin were all from banditry, and naturally they were not accustomed to the arrogant virtues of the Japanese. As a result, the soldiers of the Chinese and Japanese armies fought, and as a result, two of Zhang Zuolin's men were stabbed to death by the Japanese army with bayonets.
After Zhang Zuolin heard the news and rushed to the scene, he saw that two of his soldiers were killed on the spot. Zhang Zuolin was suddenly furious, and the bandits lost their temper and ran to the Japanese military camp to ask them for an explanation as an official.
After the Japanese officers heard about this, in order to avoid the expansion of the situation, they compensated Zhang Zuolin with 1,000 taels of silver and sent Zhang Zuolin. Zhang Zuolin, who was full of banditry, silently picked up the 1,000 taels of silver compensated by the Japanese army, and left without turning his head back.
Zhang Zuolin, who returned to the station, slapped 1,000 taels of silver on the table with a snap, and then took out 500 taels of silver tickets from his pocket. Several company commanders under his command shouted in front of him:, send someone to the street to kill three Japanese soldiers for me to come back! ”
When several company commanders heard this, they ran to the street and went to find the Japanese soldiers to kill people. With a bag of cigarettes, the bodies of three Japanese soldiers were piled up at the door of Zhang Zuolin's barracks.
Zhang Zuolin sat on the Taishi chair in a gangster's chair and waited for the Japanese side to come to him to ask him about the guilt, and after a while, the Japanese officers really came to Zhang Zuolin and angrily discussed the matter.
Zhang Zuolin slowly stood up from the Taishi chair and said, "I do things according to the rules of your Japanese, according to the price you offer, a soldier's life is worth 500 taels of silver, I have 1500 taels here, you take it!" ”
The Japanese officers who had originally come to Zhang Zuolin to settle the account were suddenly dumbfounded by Zhang Zuolin, and the incident itself was provoked by them, and the Japanese officers could only admit it, so that Zhang Zuolin's mighty and fierce retaliation would make the Japanese people dumb and dumb, and they could not say anything bitterly.