There is an impressive scene in Stephen Chow's movie "Kung Fu", where a group of people in black suits and armed with axes dance in the streets to unique music.
The gang of this group is called the Axe Gang, and each appearance is imposing, well-trained and uniform. Especially every time the Axe Gang leader appears, the aura must overshadow all people.
Righteous thin cloudy days
The Axe Gang does not only exist in the fiction of the movie, but also really exists in history, or it is a gang organization comparable to the Shanghai Green Gang. Even more effective than the Green Gang, the internal members of the Axe Gang are very united.
Therefore, every time the people of the Green Gang encounter the Axe Gang, they must also give three points of courtesy, and must not have any direct conflict with the Axe Gang. The biggest difference between the real Axe Gang in history and the Axe Gang in the movie is that the Axe Gang in the movie is a fish and meat people, a domineering bad guy.
The real Axe Gang was originally established to help the toiling masses and workers living on the docks and at the bottom of Shanghai to stand up for them when they encountered any difficulties and oppression, similar to trade union organizations.
The status and reputation of the Axe Gang in Shanghai is not inferior to that of the Green Gang, and even the three tycoons in Shanghai, Du Yuesheng, Jin Jinrong, and Zhang Xiaolin, must be humble and give three points when they meet the leaders of the Axe Gang.
First, because the number of the Axe Gang is as high as 100,000, and second, it is composed of most of the oppressed laborers, which is extremely united. Another point is that their leader Wang Yaqiao is a very powerful master assassin and very clever, but the assassinations he designs rarely fail.
Chivalrous
Born in 1889, Although Wang Yaqiao was born in the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, he has the style of an ancient chivalrous warrior, just like Qiao Feng in Jin Yong's novel, jealousy and hatred, regard money as dung, but always have national righteousness in mind.
Wang Yaqiao believed in the rise and fall of the country and the responsibility of the puppet, and spent his short life running for the country to eliminate traitors who sought glory, warlords with lust for profit, and The Japanese who invaded China's land.
So the Axe Gang is not so much a gang as a civilian patriotic organization and army of hundreds of thousands of toiling masses living at the bottom. In peacetime, they help each other against the capitalists. In the face of japanese aggression, they also rose up to resist and fought bravely against the enemy.
As the leader of the Axe Gang, Wang Yaqiao was brilliant, once took the imperial examination at the end of the Qing Dynasty and obtained a good ranking. He grew up under the oppression of landlords and officials.
The villagers worked hard for a year, and in the end they all became the rations of the landlords, and they had to be heavily taxed by the officials at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and their lives were very difficult. In order to survive, they had to sell their property, and even their children were unable to resist these people.
Later, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, and the inaction of the Qing government put the common people in the depths of the water, let alone filling their stomachs, and even the most basic ability to survive became a luxury.
Wang Yaqiao single-handedly helped the unfair things he saw, but unfortunately his ability alone was limited.
Coinciding with the Xinhai Revolution, Wang Yaqiao also followed the call of Dr. Sun Yat-sen with his friends and formed an army to resist the Qing government and invaders.
Later, due to internal political disagreements, several friends were shot and killed. After escaping the disaster, Wang Yaqiao traveled a lot of places and finally fled to Shanghai.
Fame
After Wang Yaqiao ran to Shanghai, it coincided with the Beiyang warlord Duan Qirui's desire to monopolize power, contrary to public opinion. Therefore, Wang Yaqiao suggested that Sun Yat-sen assassinate Duan Qirui and bomb the Beijing government. Sun Yat-sen believed that the revolution was to completely overthrow its organization with armed forces, not to kill one or two people to solve the problem.
At odds with Sun Yat-sen's political views, Wang Yaqiao felt that instead of continuing to follow, he should do as he pleased, and by chance, he set up the Axe Gang, which also paved the way for his future assassination activities.
The first assassination attempted and carried out by Wang Yaqiao was Xu Guoliang.
Lu Yongxiang, the overseer of Zhejiang, turned to Wang Yaqiao to assassinate Xu Guoliang, a close confidant of Qi Xieyuan. At this time, Xu Guoliang, then director of the Songhu Police Department, had a huge influence in Shanghai, and 7,000 police officers in Shanghai were under his control. Xu Guoliang not only suppressed the Shanghai workers' movement, but also opened trading companies, sold drugs, and made a fortune in the country.
After Wang Yaqiao agreed, he returned to Shanghai to make plans. People were sent to track Xu Guoliang twenty-four hours a day to check his daily whereabouts. Xu Guoliang is cautious, as the director of the Police Department, he also knows that there are many people who want to kill themselves, and the shanghai beach forces are intricate, so naturally they have to lead more than a dozen policemen to defend everywhere they go.
Xu Guoliang especially likes to take a bath in the hot spring bath, which is opposite a downtown area. Even if Xu Guoliang leads a large number of policemen, hidden in the downtown area is not easy to find, it is also an excellent assassination opportunity.
On November 10, 1923, Xu Guoliang went to the hot spring bath again, and Wang Yaqiao's eyeliner arranged in advance went back to inform him. The action group quietly lurked all over the streets.
When Xu Guoliang came out of the bathroom and got into the car, the people of the action group gathered in an instant and shot at Xu Guoliang from all directions. Even if there were more than a dozen policemen blocking it, the bullets were dense, and the assassination was caught off guard, and Xu Guoliang was shot and killed.
The success of this assassination made Wang Yaqiao famous and became famous in one fell swoop. He has also become the object of great efforts by various parties. However, Wang Yaqiao did not join any party and adhered to his creed: Whoever oppresses the Chinese people will kill them, whoever invades China's land will kill them, and whoever wants to monopolize power will kill them.
Talk about discoloration
Wang Yaqiao has since organized several assassination operations, including several major warlords, traitors, and high-ranking officials of the Japanese invading army, including Chiang Kai-shek, the supreme leader of the Kuomintang.
Moreover, Wang Yaqiao's assassination success rate is extremely high, except for the assassination of Chiang Kai-shek, who was discovered by the vigilant Chiang Kai-shek, other assassinations basically succeeded in retirement. After this series of assassination activities, all those who were weak-minded talked about the discoloration of the tree, and tried not to provoke or attract Wang Yaqiao's attention.
Maybe one day he will die inexplicably under Wang Yaqiao's gun. After assassinating several high-ranking Kuomintang officials in succession and planning to assassinate an international investigation team. Chiang Kai-shek originally wanted to win Wang Yaqiao over, but the matter had reached this point, and he killed his heart and offered a reward of one million oceans to arrest Wang Yaqiao.
Dai Kasa began a meticulous deployment to capture Wang Yaqiao. Wang Yaqiao was haunted, and with patriots from all sides secretly protecting him, Dai Kasa couldn't figure out Wang Yaqiao's whereabouts at all. Wang Yaqiao escaped several times and three times. The people in the Military Command Bureau had a headache, and since they could not catch Wang Yaqiao, they could only start with the people around Wang Yaqiao.
Wang Yaqiao was brave and righteous, and if his men were caught, they would definitely try to rescue them. After making plans, Dai Kasa kidnapped Wang Yaqiao's right-hand man Yu Likui from Hong Kong and brought him back to Shanghai.
However, Dai Kasa underestimated Wang Yaqiao's prestige in the Axe Gang and his feelings with his subordinates. Allowing Dai Kasa to use all the means and punishments to extract confessions, Yu Li Quining died unyieldingly, and did not open his mouth to say half a sentence of information related to Wang Yaqiao.
Unable to pry open Yu Likui's mouth, Dai Kasa had no choice but to think of another way. The agents found Yu Likui's wife, Yu Wanjun, and promised to give her 100,000 oceans as long as Yu Wanjun took them to find Wang Yaqiao. Where has Yu Wanjun seen so much money, and she has had enough of following Yu Likuidong to hide in Tibet, and she also wants to settle down.
For the sake of arrest, they can help orphans and widows to settle their homes.
Wang Yaqiao was naturally obligated, and it was impossible to look at the wife and children of a good brother without shelter. I didn't think much about it as Dai Kasa's conspiracy, and went to meet Yu Wanjun.
As soon as he entered the house, he was fascinated by the lime raised by the ambush agent, and he was shot several times, and the agent made up two knives just in case. Yu Wanjun, who betrayed Wang Yaqiao, did not have a good ending and was killed on the spot.
A generation of chivalrous warriors was thus designed to be killed.
Wang Yaqiao's life began with the word "xia" and died from the word "xia". If he hadn't been so chivalrous, he might not have been calculated by Dai Kasa, but this is also Wang Yaqiao's standard for being a man, and if he were to violate this "chivalrous" word for his personal safety, I am afraid that he would not be able to do it.