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"The organs were too clever to calculate Qingqing's life." ——From the song "Smart and Tired" in the fifth episode of Cao Xueqin's "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the Qing Dynasty
During the Republic of China period, there was a "big man" named Li Zhengde in Xiuchang Village, Wulongkou Town, Jiyuan City, Henan Province, who was also an official and a thief, black and white, and once dominated Xiuchang Village for a while and became a household name.
Li Zhengde was not born well, eight generations of ancestors are stonemasons, ancestors have made a living by making stone lions, stone piers, stone tables and other devices, to Li Zhengde's father's generation, uncles and uncles still inherit the ancestral business and eat by craftsmanship. Li Zhengde's father, Li Zaishe, was tired of the life of a stonemason, and he resolutely abandoned his ancestral business, set up another portal, and started a business.
Li Zaishe opened a rice shop in the village, in addition to selling rice, but also making steamed buns, buns and other food, doing a small business, making still hard money. Since Li Zhengde became sensible, he was shouted by his father to sell steamed bread and other food and miscellaneous goods on the street, and Li Zhengde did not inherit his father's diligence and frugality to run the family, but inherited his father's personality of "not broken and not standing".
However, the children of poor families have long been in charge, and it is difficult for the children of ordinary people to have a noble son since ancient times, and if the children of ordinary people want to have a career, they must have "high people to guide the way" and "noble people to help" on the way to growth. I have to say that Li Zhengde is relatively lucky, when he was selling steamed buns on the street, he met a "high man" - Li Chengxu.
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Who is Lee Sung-seok? Li Chengxu was a disgraced talent in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the official field was not satisfactory, he set up a museum in the village to teach, China's 2,000-year-old feudal society, the class concept of agriculture, industry and commerce is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the whole country has great respect for the readers. Don't look at Li Chengxu as just a private school gentleman in the village, but this person is very knowledgeable, especially proficient in the study of the I Ching, and is good at counting and looking at faces.
It is precisely because he understands the I Ching that Li Chengxu likes to show people pictures and ponder a person's future and destiny. One day, Li Chengxu walked on the street and saw Li Zhengde, who was guarding the stall and selling steamed buns, and after some observation, Li Chengxu secretly marveled: This child has an extraordinary appearance, and he will be able to accomplish great things after that.
After some inquiry, Li Chengxu found Li Zhengde's father, Li Zaishe, told him about The strange appearance of Li Zhengde, and hoped that Li Zaishe could send Li Zhengde to a private school to study and cultivate, so that he could have a career in the future. Li Zaishe also did not refute Li Chengxu, so he proposed a condition: he could let his son Li Zhengde enter a private school, but Li Chengxu would sell steamed buns on the street for him.
This is obviously a disguised rejection of Li Chengxu, which is exactly in response to that sentence: The emperor is not anxious for eunuchs. In a hurry, Li Chengxu finally reached a compromise agreement with Li Zaishe: Li Zhengde would not go to private school and continue to help his father sell steamed bread, but Li Zhengde recognized Li Chengxu as a dry father, and Li Chengxu had the right to teach Li Zhengde at any time.
Li Chengxu's influence on Li Zhengde mainly lies in three aspects: First, he believes that "the prince will have a kind of xiangning". Li Zhengde can have a vigorous experience in the future, probably believing in the chicken soup of the soul that "you are not an ordinary person, you will be able to achieve a career" instilled by Gan Dad. Once people have dreams, they will burst out terrible spiritual power and put them into action. The second is to understand the Entu Report, understand the right and wrong of the world, and know the great righteousness. The third is some guidelines for doing things, such as the eldest husband should be able to bend and stretch, and the gentleman should not be late to take revenge for ten years.
Li Zhengde grew up slowly under the painstaking teachings of Li Chengxu, and as Li Chengxu's son, Li Zhengde was both a beneficiary and a victim. The reason why he is said to be a victim is because Li Chengxu's upright personality has offended li chengshen and Li Zonghai, a rich family in the village.
Li Chengshen and Li Zonghai are typical representatives of the rich and unkind in the old society, bullying men and women, bullying the weak. Li Chengxu has a sense of justice and is too extreme in personality, he has repeatedly exposed Li Chengshen and Li Zonghai's criminal deeds in public, calling on everyone to recognize their ugly faces and hoping that everyone will unite to fight bullies.
Li Chengshen and Li Zonghai hated Li Chengxu to the bone, and they had always been intimidated by Li Chengxu's prestige and did not dare to openly persecute, so they set their eyes on Li Zhengde and wanted to kill Li Zhengde and give Li Chengxu some color to see. Li Zhengde has a quick mind, strong limbs, and painstakingly learned the skill of climbing and climbing a wall, Li Chengshen and Li Zonghai have designed several times to frame, but they are all recognized by Li Zhengde's wit and successfully escape.
Some people advised Li Zhengde to submit to Li Chengshen, Li Zonghai, but Li Zhengde sternly refused. The two sides fought back and forth, gradually becoming enemies, and once Li Chengshen, Li Zonghai, armed with a gun, forced Li Zhengde into the woods by the reservoir on the edge of the village, preparing to kill people and destroy traces. Li Zhengde was forced into a desperate situation, jumped into the reservoir with a desperate bet, and disappeared from the scene.
After Li Chengshen and Li Zonghai returned to the village, their hearts were resentful. After a period of meticulous planning, they simply did not stop at nothing, and bribed a habitual bandit in a foreign village to kill Li Chengxu. Li Chengxu was killed by habitual bandits outside Xiuchang Village, and the corpse was in the wilderness, and it was extremely miserable!
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In the 20s and 1930s of the 20th century, China's land was full of smoke and smoke, internal warlords were fighting for many years, external powers invaded, and the people's lives were miserable. In the chaotic world, there were many bandits, often robbing the people, and the villages around Xiuchang Village set up armed vigilante groups to defend themselves. However, the villagers' armed vigilante groups are weak and weak, and it is often difficult to resist the bandits' looting, and many vigilante groups take the initiative to rely on the bandits and red gun clubs with stronger forces. Li Chengshen and Li Zonghai of Xiuchang Village led more than thirty members of the village militia and guns to defect to the bandit Li Fengtai of Cheng Village.
Li Zhengde, who was very difficult to die, ran to Gushan mountain in Shanxi, became the backbone of the local armed militia with his own skills, and later persuaded more than 20 armed militia groups in Jianghe (Dacun, Yangcheng County) to join his ranks, and became a powerful local militia group (with more than 60 guns). The Kuomintang Central Army lost the battle, a detachment of the Fifteenth Army of the Central Army collapsed to the local area, Li Zhengde led his militia to resolutely join, hoping to kill the devils.
Xie Rongtang, the captain of this detachment of the Fifteenth Army of the Central Army, appointed Li Zhengde as the captain of a brigade and joined the Central Army, Li Zhengde's team changed shotguns for guns, each with one long and one short two grabs, the long gun was the latest submachine gun at that time, and there was also a bang inserted in the waist, which became the most well-armed force in the local non-army armed forces.
One Shot: Early pistols, commonly known as Mauser guns, folded in from the middle to load bullets, one shot at a time.
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After having a gun in his hand, Li Zhengde led the team back to Xiuchang Village to take revenge, and all the people looked respectful when they saw Li Zhengde's mighty style and return to his hometown. Li Chengshen, who got the news, li Zonghai slipped away. At that time, Li Chengxu was not yet dead, and after seeing Li Zhengde, he also taught him: "Don't be a bandit, remember that if you do more unrighteousness, you will kill yourself!" Li Zhengde pointed to the military uniform on his body and said to His father, "Rest assured! We are the national army, and we will not do the work of bandits! Li Chengxu, who could not rest assured, specially gave him a name called "Zhengde", hoping that he would be "upright and virtuous, and righteous and virtuous."
Did not find the enemies Li Chengshen, Li Zonghai, Li Zhengde did not embarrass Li Chengshen, Li Zonghai's relatives and friends were old, but forced the Bandit Li Fengtai of Cheng Village to hand over the people and guns of the Xiuchang Villagers' Group, Li Zaiwu, Li Zaiwen, Li Zaisheng, Li Zailan, and so on soon became the backbone of Li Zhengde, and served as the company commander and platoon leader respectively.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Zhengde's team withdrew and returned to Li Chengshen in the village, Li Zonghai designed to kill Li Chengxu. Li Chengxu's death greatly stimulated Li Zhengde, and he has since completely embarked on the road of "blackening".
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On February 25, 1938, the Sakai Detachment of the Japanese 14th Division captured the county seat of Jiyuan. In April, it was briefly restored under the counterattack of the Chinese army. On July 8, 1938, during the Japanese army's sweep of southern Shanxi, it was again captured by the Japanese army. The Japanese army's capture of Jiyuan made the situation here more complicated, the new order was not established, the old order was destroyed, the bandits were more rampant, and the people's lives were even more restless.
The unconstrained bandits plundered everywhere, and the Japanese adopted the strategy of "feeding the war with war" and swept everywhere. Armed forces in various localities have taken action one after another, and everywhere is in charge. The non-army forces near Xiuchang Village mainly included: Li Fengtai of Cheng Village and Zheng Chuan of Miaodian each had 1200 people, Li Zailan, commander of the Xinzhuang Bandits, commanded 200 or 300 people, and Li Shiping, the leader of the Dayu Red Gun Society. Li Shiping's Red Gun Society had a great influence, and there were also branches in the Shangzhuang area, with a congregation of more than a thousand people.
In early 1938, when the Japanese army first captured Jiyuan, Li Shiping led more than a thousand congregations to block the Japanese army, and as a result, the losses were heavy, and Li Shiping was killed in battle. After Li Shiping's death, the local Red Gun Society was leaderless, and there were often firefights between the nearby bandit armed forces and the Red Gun Society, and no one obeyed anyone, so they took the barrel of the gun to speak, but it was the common people who suffered.
Li Zailan, the commander of the Xinzhuang bandits, wanted to subdue the Red Gun Society and sent troops to attack Shangzhuang, but Li Zailan was killed by the Red Gun Society with a large knife. Part of Xinzhuang's bandit forces were surrendered to Li Zhengde's men, and some of them fled to the Taisha area, where they were absorbed by Van DenKo. Zhang Shuxuan was the commander of a certain battalion of the Central Army, and because of the death of his mother, he returned home to attend the funeral, and the governor of Jiyuan County personally went to his home to attend the funeral, and Zhang was a famous local figure who was also killed when Li broke up in Lanbu, and the chaotic situation in Zhuang at that time can be seen. Soon, Xie Rongtang's troops stationed at the mountain pass were crushed by the Eighth Route Army, and Xie became a prisoner.
After Xie Rongtang was defeated and captured, Li Zhengde succeeded him as the "commander" of the detachment. Li Zhengde's means of subduing other armed forces are relatively clever, that is, to raise the banner of anti-Japanese resistance and buy people's hearts. Li Zhengde "pretended" to sneak up on a small group of Japanese troops, captured several prisoners, and solemnly held a public trial meeting and execution "ceremony" of tens of thousands of people, using homemade artillery to execute Japanese prisoners, iron sand shells hit the Japanese prisoners, the Japanese prisoners struggled to die in pain, and the crowd of onlookers shouted: "Down with little Japan!" Bring down Little Japan! The scene was spectacular, and Li Zhengde became a "flag of justice" and gathered people's hearts.
Taking advantage of the high morale, Li Zhengde led his troops into Shangzhuang Xiaozhai and forcefully recruited the Xinzhuang bandits and the Red Gun Society who were fighting to the death, and controlled more than 1,000 armed troops. After the army was strong and strong, Li Zhengde was no longer under the control of the 15th Army of the Central Army, and established himself as an independent local armed force, with a base camp in Shangzhuang, and his 8 companies were stationed in various villages near Shangzhuang.
Li Zhengde used force to intimidate the most powerful bandit armed forces in the southeast of the city, so that it did not dare to harass the villages and towns he "protected.". At the same time, he sent his subordinates around to loot money and grain, loot the people's fat and people's anointing, and harm one side, but did not plunder or harass the "territories" such as Xiuchang Village and Shangzhuang. In the "territory" to which he belongs, Li Zhengde has strict restraints on his subordinates, and those who violate the ban will not be spared.
Li Zhengde became the local "earth emperor", accumulating countless wealth by scavenging, chicken, duck, fish and meat, night and night cave house flower candle night, although the subordinates had food to eat, but they were also hungry and full. Although the people in the "protected areas" were temporarily "peaceful", they were hungry and had extremely difficult days.
Mencius said: "The poor are alone, and the poor are good at helping the world!" After Li Zhengde "developed", he did not "help the world at the same time", but was "mean and unkind", and slowly he went to the end.
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Li Zhengde then sneaked up on the devils once more, resulting in the loss of soldiers. In order to preserve his strength, Li Zhengde instead began to look at the Japanese army and defected to the Japanese army as a traitor. At the same time, Li Zhengde also wanted to leave a way back for himself, secretly contacted the Central Army, and was also "polite" to the Eighth Route Army, which had come to plot rebellion many times.
Li Zhengde is "half-hearted" and thinks he is very smart, but it has led to all parties being uneasy about him. After Xie Rongtang was captured by the Eighth Route Army, he was released again, and he made a slight counter-plot that made the Japanese army suspicious of Li Zhengde. In order to test Li Zhengde, the Japanese army suddenly summoned him to Jiyuan for a meeting, and was not allowed to bring troops.
Li Zhengde also knew that the Japanese army did not have good intentions, but in order to dispel the doubts of the Japanese army, he only took 10 guards to Jiyuan. On the way, Li Zhengde happened to meet his former enemies Li Chengshen, Li Zonghai, and shot them to death in the wilderness. Arriving at Jiyuan, the Japanese army disarmed them and imprisoned them, waiting for the right time to shoot Li Zhengde.
When Xie Rongtang learned that Li Zhengde was detained by the Japanese army, he contacted the Eighth Route Army to decide to capture Shangzhuang, Li Zhengde's stronghold, and solve this social tumor. However, Li Zhengde's troops who remained in Shangzhuang did not surrender to the death, Xie Rongtang and others could not attack for a long time, and when the Japanese army learned of the situation in Shangzhuang, they instead thought that they had "misunderstood" Li Zhengde, released Li Zhengde, solemnly set up a banquet to apologize to Li Zhengde, and promoted him to commander of the Xinmin Self-Defense Column.
Since then, Li Zhengde has completely become an accomplice of the Japanese Kou, and the troops have received more weapons and equipment, which seems to be more powerful, but in essence, its combat effectiveness has seriously declined. My analysis believes that after the siege of the "Shangzhuang" base camp, most of the low-level soldiers under Li Zhengde thoroughly recognized That Li Zhengde's ugly face of "fake anti-Japanese resistance and real selfishness," and the cohesion of the troops collapsed at once, and the people's hearts were scattered, and they became a ragtag crowd.
Li Zhengde is also very aware of his situation, he has no way out, he can only die for the Japanese army, the core backbone of his subordinates can only rely on money and wealth, his family and cronies are constantly chicken, duck and fish, the headquarters and private houses are constantly feasting, and the "protected area" he once prided himself on is full of hunger and death, and he really responds to the Tang poem: "Zhumen wine smells of meat, and the road has frozen bones!" ”
At the beginning of 1945, the Japanese army was at the end of its rope, and the Eighth Route Army once again advised Li Zhengde to abandon the dark and surrender to the light, but Li Zhengde refused. On April 13, the troops of the Second Taiyue Sub-district sent troops to besiege Shangzhuang, Li Zhengde's soldiers saw the arrival of the Eighth Route Army, raised their guns and surrendered, almost no one resisted, some rebelled in the face of the uprising, counterattacked Li Zhengde's loyal guards, Li Zhengde's brother Li Zhengchun led the special agent company to escape, and as a result, they were killed by the pursuing soldiers at the QinHe Beach.
Li Zhengde rebelled and fled alone disguised as a commoner, and was recognized by the common people outside the village, and the Eighth Route Army captured him and escorted him to Qinshui County, Shanxi. Knowing that he would not be able to escape death, Li Zhengde escaped that night, only to be shot and killed by the militia guarding him. At this point, the "two-faced" evil bandit Li Zhengde was destroyed.
True anti-Japanese resistance, the history of youth left a name, the world is admired! Fake anti-Japanese resistance, must not be good to die, the smell of ten thousand years!