In November 2020, a police blockbuster "Riot Crackdown" starring Wang Qianyuan and Wu Yanzu was released, in which Wu Yanzu played the conceited and violent "Eagle Gang" boss Zhang Falcon, whose heart was fierce and arrogant, which left a deep impression on many audiences. Many people are even more associated with the role of Azu played by him in "New Police Story" released in 2004, and many people sigh that the Azu of that year is back!
However, what many people don't know is that Zhang Falcon and his "Eagle Gang" in "Crackdown" have historical prototypes. The historical prototype of Zhang Falcon is Zhang Jun, the famous "China's first bandit" in the 1990s.
Stills from the movie "Riot Elimination"
Zhang Jun is more than Zhang Falcon in the movie, after committing the murder for the first time in 1993, without fear and remorse, in the next 6 years in several provinces and cities, committed nearly 20 cases along the way, robbing a total of 6 million property, causing serious losses to people's lives and property safety.
In addition, in the process of committing crimes, he also "met" five mistresses and pulled up a so-called "team", which is the prototype of the "Eagle Gang" in the movie. Zhang Jun's first four mistresses were sentenced to death for helping Zhang Jun obtain guns and ammunition and for participating in his robbery. The last one was sentenced to prison earlier for waking up. Most of his gang members were sentenced to death, with only two sentenced to life imprisonment for minor crimes.
How did Zhang Jun step by step become the "first gangster in China" who caused the police a lot of headaches? How did he meet his mistress and his gang members on his way to committing crimes, and make them willing to give their lives? Why was Zhang Jun, who was finally invincible, arrested and finally sent to court for trial?
With this series of questions, we will start from Zhang Jun's juvenile years. Let's explore together to see whether it is "the beginning of man, nature is good" or "the beginning of man, sex is evil".
Born in a poor peasant family, he had a bad heart for money
Zhang Jun was born on August 5, 1966 in Hualin Village, Changde City, Hunan Province.
The zhang family conditions are very bad, and they belong to the typical poor peasant households. There are a total of 7 brothers and sisters in the family, although it can be regarded as a prosperous population, but it also brings a heavier burden to the already poor family. The Zhang family is also a reorganized family, except for Zhang Jun, the children are born to Zhang Jun's mother and ex-husband, and Zhang Jun is the only seedling of the Zhang family.
In 1978, the policy of reform and opening up began to be implemented. It should have delighted all farmers and started the new year of household contracting out of collective labor. But for Zhang Jun, 1978 was a year that left him with deep memories and had a profound impact on his subsequent life path. Because of this year, his mother was diagnosed with uterine cancer. You must know that cancer is synonymous with incurable diseases for the poor people of that era.
His mother also knew that her life was short, so she simply waited at home for her moment to come. Between the pain and suffering, she often thought about eating a bowl of meatball soup and then leaving. Zhang Jun listened to his mother's nagging when she was in pain, and secretly vowed to work hard to fulfill her mother's wishes. So he spent a whole semester saving 5 dimes, went to the market more than 30 miles away to buy a little minced meat, and finally went home to make meatball soup for his mother to eat.
Perhaps it was this experience that made Zhang Jun deeply appreciate the importance of money, but also let him experience the pain of poverty, so he made up his mind to make money by any means. But at this time, he still had hope, because he still had the way to read, and changing his fate through reading was still the consensus of most rural people in that era.
But that promising path was soon cut off. Because his family was so poor that he could not afford to pay the tuition, Zhang Jun, who had just been a senior in high school, had to drop out of school and go home. Suddenly there was so much free time in a day, and there was nothing else serious to do, so Zhang Jun used a fight to pass. As a result, Zhang Jun made a "name" in the local area and slowly became a hooligan who was disgusted by everyone.
Zhang Jun (right)
Maybe it is that zhang jun feels a sense of accomplishment by subjugating others, or perhaps it is that it takes almost no effort to force others to pay money through fighting, and Zhang Jun never returns on the road of evil. Coupled with the lack of family education from childhood, Zhang Jun's personality has slowly distorted, becoming an extremely rebellious and cold-blooded teenager.
In the winter of 1983, 17-year-old Zhang Jun was wandering the road, looking for the next possible target of robbery. Soon after, a victim was entangled with Zhang Jun. In order to avoid Zhang Jun, the victim jumped into the river in a panic. To know how painful it is to jump into the river in the winter, the average little may only be able to count this situation. But Zhang Jun went down to the river, dragged the victim ashore and beat him, and also ripped off the victim's only cotton clothes to sell for money.
After the victim fled, he called the police. The police soon arrested Zhang Jun and sent him to a juvenile detention center. Originally, everyone thought that after Zhang Jun entered the juvenile detention center and underwent reform, he would reflect on his mistakes and abandon evil and follow good. But it wasn't until the moment he walked out of the door of the juvenile detention center that the crowd realized how wrong they had been.
After the release of the juvenile detention center, the thief did not change and committed another crime
How many good things can there be among those who will be locked up in juvenile detention centers? The basic reason for receiving the transformation here is that they were caught because of the previous chickens and dogs, fights and fights, and Zhang Jun and them belonged to the same hill. Infected by such an atmosphere, Zhang Jun not only did not have a tendency to get better, but became worse and worse, and he became less and less in awe of the law, and often fought with others in the juvenile detention center. This experience also led Zhang Jun to embark on the road of crime again after he later left the juvenile detention center.
In 1989, zhang jun married a rural woman. But becoming a family does not mean that Zhang Jun has accepted his heart, and since then he has had a sense of responsibility for the family. On the contrary, Zhang Jun is still as idle as before, thinking only about how to make quick money all day. In the end, I thought about it, or robbed to get money fast. On June 25, 1991, Zhang Jun embarked on another robbery path, this time with a gun and robbing a cigarette wholesale store in Jinshi, Hunan.
However, because it was the first time to rob with a gun, Zhang Jun still seemed a little rusty. In a panic, Zhang Jun fired a shot at the shopkeeper who had spotted his movements, but fortunately only caused minor injuries. After shooting, Zhang Jun fled in a panic, and was eventually discovered by the police who searched for him and sent to prison.
Zhang Jun, who belonged to the "Second Entry Palace", still did not reflect and repent of his criminal behavior, but began to think about why he was arrested. In order to avoid being able to escape the pursuit of the crime in the future, Zhang Jun "asked" the old fritters in the prison for various ways to evade the police. During his two years in prison, Zhang Jun learned various anti-reconnaissance methods and various hidden crimes.
In 1993, zhang jun, who was already 27 years old, once again entered the society with all the "knowledge" he learned in prison, and this time, he would set off a bloody storm.
However, at this time, his courage was not so great, and he planned to grab a shop first to practice the "knowledge" he had learned in prison. Zhang Jun called another prison mate, Liu Baogang, who had been released from prison, and the two decided to cooperate in the division of labor and went to other places to carry out robberies.
In April, the two arrived in Anxiang County, Hunan. After many times of stepping on and checking, a department store with two sisters was finally selected to start. At 8 p.m. on the 19th, it was the time when the store had less traffic and the surrounding environment was more suitable for escaping after committing a crime. The two men were very rampant, and when they entered the store, they pulled out their guns and said they wanted to rob them. The female shopkeeper did not cooperate, and Zhang Jun shot the female shopkeeper in the shoulder, making the female shopkeeper lose the ability to resist. The two then snatched some money and fled.
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On the way to escape, Zhang Jun found that the accomplice's foot was injured by a stray bullet, and the blood flowed continuously. If not treated in time, Liu Baogang will most likely die of excessive blood loss. But Zhang Jun himself did not know the means of first aid, and could not send him to the hospital, so he could only take him with him to avoid the pursuit of the police. Seeing that the scope of the police search is shrinking and shrinking, if Zhang Jun still drags the injured Liu Baogang along, he will definitely be arrested because of the blood exposure. So Zhang Jun was fierce, took Liu Baogang to a remote place, and killed him.
Zhang Jun had no way to retreat. From robbery to murder, the stakes are clear to Zhang Jun. So he chose to leave home and go to the provinces to avoid being pursued. After all, in the 1990s, it was still difficult for the police to hunt down a person across provinces.
Even on the way to the provinces, Zhang Jun was still crazy and went to rob when he had no money. On February 8, 1994, Zhang Jun, who was on his way to escape, shot and killed a person in Ningming County, Guangxi Province, and looted all the belongings of the victims, totaling more than 6,000 yuan, and then flowed westward to Yunnan. And here, he met his first mistress, Yan Min.
Fleeing to Yunnan to meet the first mistress, the journey of sin begins
Yan Min was the first of five mistresses who had helped Zhang Jun importantly.
Yan Min herself is a stage girl in the Wind and Moon Place, although her appearance is not outstanding, but her boldness and carefulness in personality make her a good helper for Zhang Jun to commit crimes. In August 1994, Zhang Jungang, who had wandered to Yunnan, robbed more than 10,000 yuan in Kaiyuan City, with a generous hand. After arriving at the Wind Moon Place, the generous style of shooting attracted Yan Min's attention, and Zhang Jun also admired this careful sitting woman.
Yan Min
After coming and going, the two gradually became acquainted. With the support of Zhang Jun, Yan Min's courage also grew, and he grabbed the business of his peers. Her peers were very dissatisfied with this, so they gathered a group of to try to teach her some lessons. Yan Min approached Zhang Jun for help, and Zhang Jun took the opportunity to propose that if he wanted to protect himself, he needed to buy a gun and bullets to defend himself. At this time, Yan Min had completely regarded Zhang Jun as a reliance, and without saying a word, he used the money he earned from sitting on the stage to buy Zhang Jun a pistol and some bullets. Zhang Jun did help her solve her problems.
And Zhang Jun, who had a guy in his hand, became more and more arrogant. In October, he shot and killed two victims during a robbery in Kaiyuan City, and then fled north to Chongqing. On November 23, Zhang Jun killed another person in Chongqing and snatched more than 6,000 yuan from the victim. After grabbing enough money, Zhang Jun fled back to Yunnan to find Yan Min.
The two men sang in the dance hall, squandering the stolen money stained with the victim's blood. Later, Zhang Jun confessed that at that time, because he felt that there might be no tomorrow after today, the money he grabbed would be squandered at the first time. But the money will eventually be spent one day, and when the stolen money is about to run out, Zhang Jun will start to think of robbing again.
This time, Zhang Jun decided to take Yan Min with him to Chongqing, which is more likely to rob huge sums of money than Yunnan. On January 25, 1995, the two collaborated in a robbery. Yan Min pretended to handle business in the bank, in fact, he was searching for a target that could be attacked, and after finding a contract foreman who had taken a huge amount of 50,000 yuan, Yan Min sent a signal to Zhang Jun, who was hiding in the shadows, and Zhang Jun immediately shot the contractor and robbed 50,000 yuan.
After this case, Yan Min's fate was closely linked to Zhang Jun. Just when Yan Min thought that he was going to "double live and fly" with Zhang Jun, Zhang Jun felt that it was easy to be found with only one woman, and he needed to leave a few more roads, so he abandoned Yan Min. A few years later, Zhang Jun was arrested, Yan Min was also arrested in Chongqing, and on May 20, 2001, he was executed for multiple crimes such as robbery and murder.
As for Zhang Jun, after this crime, he tasted the pleasure of uniting others to commit crimes, so he decided to call a few friends he knew before to "make a fortune", and most of these friends had a prison background, basically some vicious people who were cruel and contemptuous of the law. Zhang Jun wandered around the provinces in the next few years, and the criminal journey of committing multiple murders began.
Recruit people to form gangs and go all the way to commit crimes
In December 1996, Zhang Jun had already summoned a new accomplice from his hometown in Hunan, Yan Ruoming.
The two secretly conducted shooting training together, making thorough preparations for the subsequent crimes. On December 25, the day of Christmas in the West, Zhang Jun and Yan Ruoming together disguised themselves and robbed a gold shop in Chongqing. In the process of committing the crime, Zhang Jun shot and injured 3 shop assistants, of whom 2 were seriously injured and 1 was slightly injured. A total of more than 630,000 yuan worth of gold jewelry was robbed in this crime.
Less than a year later, Zhang Junliu returned to Changsha, Hunan. In September 1997, he summoned his nephews Li Zejun and Yan Ruoming to prepare to do a big job at the Friendship Store in Changsha. A group of people checked the surrounding area of the Friendship Store and conducted targeted training to ensure the safety and smoothness of the entire crime process. After two months of preparation, the three robbed the Gold Jewelry Counter in Friendship Store City on November 7, resulting in 2 deaths, 1 minor injury and 1 minor injury.
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After that, the number of Zhang Jun's gang gradually increased in the process of wandering all the way, and the number of people who had direct or indirect contact with him was as high as 17! At the same time, Zhang Jun also adopted nearly militarized management and training methods for the members of his gang. Among them, because Li Zejun had served in a certain unit of the Navy for four years, he had a lot of experience in how to train ordinary gangsters into professional bandits.
Zhang Jun showed a strong dictatorial tendency within the entire gang. According to the confessions of his gang members, Zhang Jun demanded that all members of the criminal group must obey his instructions and must not have any form of opposition. The slightest disobedience to him was either a severe beating or a disguised abuse by him.
At the same time, in order to ensure that the criminal skill level of the members of the gang is sufficient to assist them in committing crimes, Zhang Jun will also gather members from time to time to conduct physical fitness, shooting, driving motor vehicles and other skills related to the crime process in remote locations. From the items seized during the later search of zhang jun's criminal group's dens, it can be seen that Zhang Jun attaches great importance to the technical level of his members, and he prefers to cultivate the members into real bandits, and he himself can be as "mighty" as The Hong Kong gangster Zhang Ziqiang.
After looting the Friendship Store, Zhang Jun and his party fled Changsha and roamed around Hunan Province. In 1998, in the face of increasing police arrests, Zhang Jun decided to leave Hunan and go to Wuhan, Hubei Province, to commit crimes, and in October, Zhang Jun's gang killed a man armed in Hanshou County, Hunan Province. Two months later, Zhang Jun and his accomplice Zhao Zhenghong killed one person and snatched a taxi as a means of transportation. The next day, Zhang Jun's gang entered the territory of Hubei Province and killed people after being blocked at the Gong'an County checkpoint.
On January 4, 1999, after more than a month of investigation, Zhang Jun's gang broke into Wuhan Square at about 7 p.m. on this day to carry out robbery. The main target of the group was the gold jewelry cabinet there. A total of 1 person was killed, 3 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured, and the looted property included more than 30,000 yuan and gold jewelry worth more than 2.6 million yuan, as well as a taxi hijacked by Zhang Jun's gang during the escape.
The experience of robbing the gold shop several times made Zhang Jun more and more inflated, he thought that he was already omnipotent, and there was no place under the sky where he could not rob. So he set his next criminal target on the bank, especially when the mortgage car and the bank were handed over, which was the best time for him to attack. After Zhang Jun's gang fled to Chongqing, they began to plan to rob the personnel involved in the mortgage.
On June 19, 2000, Zhang Jun and his party robbed the detainees of a branch of Chongqing Municipal Commercial Bank with guns, and snatched a total of more than 140,000 yuan. In order to avoid being traced in the future, Zhang Jun and others even killed the killer, resulting in 2 deaths and 2 minor injuries. After this crime, Zhang Jun's gang left Chongqing again, wandered back into Hunan Province, and soon after started again.
On August 15, Zhang Jun's gang robbed the governor of the Agricultural Bank of Anxiang County, and after robbing money, killed two people. In this case, Zhang Jun's gang robbed a total of 16,000 yuan in cash, 19,000 yuan worth of property, and 3 passbooks totaling 406,000 yuan.
Zhang Jun (middle)
The two successful robberies of bankers made Zhang Jun and his party arrogant, and they even believed that even if armed detainees protected the car, they could still carry out robberies. Driven by this idea, Zhang Jun and his party robbed a cash truck at a branch of the Agricultural Bank of Changde City on September 1. The brutality of this crime far exceeded all the previous crimes they had committed.
Because the cashier Li Jing resisted Zhang Jun's gang by twisting the key to the cash box during the robbery, this group of bandits who had long lost their humanity were furious and shot at everyone in their sight. The case caused a total of 7 deaths, one of whom was the driver of the taxi robbed by Zhang Jun's gang during the escape, 4 people were injured and 1 person was slightly injured, and the submachine gun carried by the escort was also snatched away by Zhang Jun's gang.
This time, Zhang Jun knew that he was really making a big fuss. Zhang Jun, who had fled all the way back to the den, kept a close eye on the wind and learned about the progress of the public security department's search for them by listening to the radio and reading newspaper news, and it turned out that the incident they committed this time had spread throughout the country, and the people in the provinces where they had committed murders before were also calling for their arrest and arrest. So Zhang Jun and his party quickly broke into pieces and fled separately.
The legal net was restored without leakage, and a generation of bandits was finally arrested
Because the nature of the case was very bad and caused an uproar nationwide, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee attached great importance to this matter and instructed the Provincial Public Security Department to arrest all Zhang Jun's gang at all costs and arrest all Zhang Jun's gang as quickly as possible. The public security forces in the province have also begun to cooperate in a joint manner, and the police in many places have visited and investigated everywhere, especially the Changde public security department, which has carried out extremely intensive overt and covert visits to hotels, guesthouses and residential areas in various places.
Eventually, the police captured Zhao Zhenghong, who was preparing to escape, at a hotel in the city, and Zhao Zhenghong quickly revealed the location of Zhang Jun's nephew Li Zejun and where Zhang Jun might have gone to hide. It mentions the location of Chen Le, the mistress of Zhang Jun, who lives in Changde.
Based on the clues he provided, the police rushed to the small area where Chen Le lived to arrest him. In the house where she lived, the police seized more than ten pistols and spears, more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition, and even a grenade after a search. Such armed forces made the armed police forces involved in the search look stunned. Fortunately, they came in time, otherwise zhang Jun and his gang would have caused a lot of damage if they had to transfer this batch of guns and ammunition!
Then there is the vine touching the melon. After Chen Le was arrested, after the persuasion of the police, and the fact that he had not yet participated in Zhang Jun's criminal gang, there was still a chance to change from evil to righteousness. She finally chose to cooperate with the work of the public security department and explained Zhang Jun's general escape direction.
The report of another person also greatly reduced the pressure on the police, this person is Yan Min's ex-husband who has clashed with Zhang Jun. This person had previously been threatened by Zhang Jun with a gun to the door of his head for repeatedly harassing Yan Min, and he had always been grumpy about this matter. When he learned that the public security forces were making an all-out search for Zhang Jun, he called to report clues related to Zhang Jun.
In the end, the police found Zhang Jun's remaining mistresses according to the clues provided by Yan Min's ex-husband, and found the whereabouts of Zhang Jun himself.
Several of Zhang Jun's mistresses
On September 19, 2000, Zhang Jun was arrested at Guanyin Rock in Chongqing, and his mistress Quan Hongyan, who was engaged in the handover of supplies, was also arrested. The supplies they handed over were 178 rounds of ammunition and a lethal military grenade, which made people take a breath of cold air, and if the arrest time was a little later, the consequences would be unimaginable.
After zhang jun, the leader of the criminal gang, was arrested, other criminals also showed their feet one after another and were arrested by the public security organs. After trial, eight key members were sentenced to death and executed on 20 May 2001.
However, it is worth mentioning that Wen Qiang, deputy director of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau who was responsible for interrogating Zhang Jun, once showed a complacent look in front of Zhang Jun, and Zhang Jun immediately predicted that if Wen Qiang did not know how to control his desires like him, then he would eventually embark on the same path as him.
Wen Qiang
Perhaps the dragon slayer will eventually become a dragon, and the one who gazes into the abyss will also become an abyss. On July 7, 2010, Wen Qiang was executed for committing numerous evil deeds as an umbrella for the underworld.