On January 8, 1925, the north wind whistled and the snow drifted, and a special prostitute appeared in a brothel in the northeast region.
After entering the store, the customer named the top girl here, Magpie, and took out two tin gold in his hand. The old bustard of the brothel, seeing that the customer had such a generous hand, quickly sent him to the magpie's house and instructed her to take good care of the grandfather.
Who knew that the customer and the magpie girl did not have a few words to talk, and then pulled out a pistol to take the prostitute away. Seeing that the situation was not right, the magpie pretended to change clothes, turned around to open the box, and was subdued by the customer.
This customer is not an ordinary person, he is Zhang Zuolin's subordinate Old White Dragon. And this magpie girl is not an ordinary prostitute, but a famous bandit leader Camel Dragon.
Why did a generation of female tyrants fall into such a field? Why did Zhang Zuolin's men arrest her? This starts with her childhood.
A bumpy childhood
Zhang Suzhen, whose real name is Zhang Suzhen, was born in 1901 in Liaoyang County, Liaoning Province. She is a native of Liaoyang, and her parents are craftsmen who weave straw shoes and straw hats. Although she was born into poverty, she was very beautiful and could sing and dance from an early age.
There was a teahouse in front of her house, where she sometimes commented and sometimes performed drama. As soon as there is a comedy performance, Zhang Suzhen will run to the door of the tea house to listen to a paragraph. Because there is no money to buy tickets, Zhang Suzhen will listen to a paragraph at the door of the tea house every time. She listened to it a few times and learned it.
However, the sky is unpredictable, and people have bad luck. In the spring of 1916, an infectious disease of the intestines was circulating in the Liaoyang area, and the infected people would vomit and diarrhea, and they would die soon after.
Unfortunately, Zhang Suzhen's mother also contracted the disease and left Zhang Suzhen's father and daughter soon after.
In order to avoid the infectious disease, Zhang Suzhen's father sold all his family property and fled with Zhang Suzhen.
On the way to escape, their father and daughter met a drama team in Changchun, and Zhang Suzhen still had a vision for singing and performing, so he discussed with his father to go to the opera team to learn art.
At this time, the father did not stop him, he watched his daughter cry every day because of the loss of her mother, so he let her go to learn the art with the drama team.
However, what Zhang Suzhen did not expect was that the "leader" of this opera group did not let her stay in the opera group to learn art, but turned around and sold her to the Yuchuntang brothel in Changchun.
At this time, she was just 16 years old, and the brothel bustard gave her a stage name, called "Cui Xi'er." ”
Zhang Suzhen, who originally looked like a beautiful person, could sing and dance, and soon became the "first card" of Yuchuntang, although Zhang Suzhen did not like to sell laughter to please the children of those rich and noble families, but the "mother" of Yuchuntang was not a decoration, and if she did not want to fight, she would fight until you wanted.
After three years of such a life, Zhang Suzhen wanted to go out to find his father, but she couldn't do without this Yuchun Hall.
By 1919, the 19-year-old Zhang Suzhen had become more and more beautiful, like a spring flower with buds waiting to be released, and more and more people came to Yuchun Hall and asked her to serve by name.
It was also in this year that Zhang Suzhen met Wang Futang, who changed her destiny.
Join the bandits
On this day, Wang Futang, a jianghu hero (also known as a beard), who claimed to be the leader of the "RenYi Army", came to Yuchun Hall to find a girl to "accompany and accompany the dormitory". Wang Futang looked around and immediately caught a glimpse of Zhang Suzhen, who was sitting in the corner.
Originally, the "mother" of Yu chuntang was unwilling to let Cui Xi'er receive this jianghu hero, thinking that her "coffee position" was not so big, and wanted Cui Xi'er to receive other richer rich families.
Who knew that Wang Futang directly threw a bag of silver on the table, and designated cui xi'er to receive it, and yuchuntang's "mother" agreed to let cui xi'er receive Wang Futang.
Unlike other women in the Red Chamber, Zhang Suzhen is not the kind of woman who takes the initiative to attack and asks for money afterwards, she is lukewarm to anyone, a proud and weak look.
Wang Futang was very fond of this unusual Qinglou woman, and she had a kind of pride and ambition that different women did not have.
In particular, Zhang Suzhen's spicy personality of daring to love, dare to hate, dare to do daring, deeply attracted Wang Futang. So he had the idea of marrying Zhang Suzhen and making her the Lady of the Press.
Since then, Wang Futang has often come and gone to the Qinglou to meet Zhang Suzhen and find ways to save her from prostitution.
In order to express his admiration, Wang Futang once asked Zhang Suzhen what gifts she liked. He thought that a flower-like girl would like rouge gouache and something like that, but who knew zhang Suzhen said: I want two guns!
This made Wang Futang feel happy in his heart, and said: "Sure enough, I have courage, unlike other women, I like it." ”
Soon after, Wang Futang specially entrusted the Erlong Wang Fuqiang (erdangjia) to send Zhang Suzhen a very special love letter - two brand-new German-made large mirror "fast and slow machine" barge shell guns.
Since receiving these two guns, Zhang Suzhen has been fiddling with them every day.
Soon after, Wang Futang asked the "mother" of the Qinglou for Zhang Suzhen's deed of sale, wanting to redeem herself, who knew that this "mother" also wanted Zhang Suzhen to make more money for her, so she did not agree to Wang Futang's request for redemption.
Zhang Suzhen hated this "mother" after knowing it.
But Wang Futang did not give up on this, but sent someone to kidnap the son of Qinglou's "mother" during a rally, and Zhang Suzhen was able to be released.
After coming out of the Qinglou, the first thing Zhang Suzhen did was to find her father. After inquiring around, she finally got some news, but her father had died.
According to the people in the place where Zhang Suzhen and his father were separated at that time, all the money on his father's body was robbed by the men of those rich children, and his father begged for food from the people around him, but no one helped, and finally he was starved to death.
Hearing this news, Zhang Suzhen seemed to be five thunderbolts, and the hatred in her heart suddenly emerged, and she vowed to avenge her father.
Soon after, Zhang Suzhen followed Wang Futang up the mountain, and the two were officially married.
After marriage, Zhang Suzhen also participated in the bandit's silk. Wang Futang liked Zhang Suzhen very much, and taught her some rules and black words of bandits every day, and taught her to ride a horse and shoot a gun.
Zhang Suzhen has an innate talent for riding and shooting, and under the careful tutelage of Da long, she quickly practiced a good marksmanship, and immediately kung fu also impressed the people in the same way.
Within three years of joining the gang, with the assistance of Zhang Suzhen, Wang Futang's team rapidly expanded from more than 800 people to more than 2,000 people, becoming a bandit on the Wei Zhen side.
At that time, the Dalong belt team often haunted the area of Dehui County near Changchun. After the Republic of China, dehui County's ground warlords were in scuffles, social unrest, the people were not happy, and frequent bandits made it impossible for businesses and residents to be at peace.
In order to protect their lives and property, some landowners and their relatives had to live together and build tall earthen walls around their homes to form "earthen enclosures" to prevent bandits from invading.
Such "tuweizi" is also known as "kiln". The "kiln" with weapons is also called the "ring kiln", and the bandits attack to loot the property are called "beating the kiln".
Among these "kilns" around Dehui County, Wang Futang and Zhang Suzhen were optimistic about the "kilns" of the Lao Ji family. This large family surnamed Ji has a lot of land, but he does not plant it at all, and he lives on rent, and his life is very solid.
However, the old Ji family, who was in the midst of chaos, was still very worried about bandits. In order to guard against bandits, the old Ji family specially maintained a guard team of more than twenty people, equipped with equipment such as fast guns and grenades.
At the same time, the old Ji family also soaked the bricks with kerosene as a night lighting equipment. Despite the old Ji family's full precautions, Wang Futang and Zhang Suzhen decided to "dig the kiln" in order to have more money.
In order to ensure the success of the operation, Wang Futang and Zhang Suzhen joined forces with several other bandits. After the "kiln" operation began, due to the large number of people, Wang Futang's side had the advantage, and they quickly occupied every household in the tun and surrounded the Ji family compound, making it a "lone kiln" that could only be trapped.
Unexpectedly, when the bandits rushed into the courtyard, they accidentally encountered the Ji family's preset dark gun resistance, coupled with the fierce fire in the courtyard, the bandits who entered the hospital were all beaten out.
At this time, the security team in Changchun arrived. So the security team fought outside, and Lao Ji fought inside, trapping the bandits in the middle. After half an hour of fierce fighting, Wang Futang and others could not support it and decided to break through.
During the breakout, Wang Futang was wounded and died. Zhang Suzhen led the remnants to flee to the Area of Wujiayao before stopping.
Since the great dragon was dead, the people elected Zhang Suzhen as the new leader and called himself "Camel Dragon".
Avenge your husband
The camel dragon immediately set up an incense case, wept and sacrificed the dragon, vowing to avenge her husband's hatred.
In order to avenge, she actively trained the team and expanded her power, and at the same time, she also practiced marksmanship continuously. Because the camel dragon is good at double guns and the marksmanship is accurate, it is called "double-gun camel dragon".
The camel dragon xiao was brave and good at war, repeatedly defeated the officers and soldiers who surrounded and suppressed, and soon became famous in the Kanto region and became a famous bandit leader.
At that time, the Ji family thought that Wang Futang had killed Huang quan, and the bandits led by him would be disbanded, so they relaxed some vigilance.
A year later, The Camel Dragon finally returned to the Ji Family Compound with his elite soldiers to avenge Wang Futang. The operation was so successful that the dragon not only led people to sweep away the Ji family compound, but also looted some of the surrounding villages, large and small.
The success of this operation strengthened the ranks of the camel dragons. After becoming powerful, the camel dragon often led the team to move in places such as Wuchang, Elm, and Twin Cities.
In order to take revenge on the old bustard who had humiliated her in the first place, she also disguised herself as a civilian, returned to Changchun, returned to the Qinglou that made her humiliated, and killed the old bustard. The dragon's thoughts of revenge were like runaway wildfires, devouring every target she chose.
With a team of nearly two thousand bandits, she swept across the Kanto land with a swift posture.
In 1924, the camel dragon led people to attack two compounds located in the area called the Eastern Wasteland in the upper reaches of the Songhua River, the Wujia Compound and the Baijia Compound. As a result, the famous East Wasteland Blood Case in history was created.
Before the battle, the camel dragon divided the team into three ways and attacked two compounds at the same time.
Zhang Suzhen personally led a team of people to attack the Bai family compound. The Bai Family Compound was heavily defended, and at the same time, the gun head of the White Family Compound was a dart master, and these brothers under him were also extraordinary. Therefore, Zhang Suzhen's side did not take advantage.
Zhang Suzhen was very angry, and she ordered her men to rush upwards desperately, and the two sides were fiercely fired, hitting dead bodies all over the place and burning everywhere. In the end, although Zhang Suzhen succeeded, she also paid a painful price.
Although Zhang Suzhen came from a humble background, after she became the leader of the bandits, she was not sympathetic to the people at all, and every time she attacked a village, she let her men go down to do evil and harm the public.
Zhang Suzhen's actions deeply resented the people, and at the same time attracted the attention of the government.
In the winter of 1924, Zhang Zuolin, the marshal of the northeast, ordered his subordinate Li Du to take more than 20,000 people and began to encircle and suppress Zhang Suzhen. Zhang Suzhen saw that the situation was not good, and ordered his subordinates to disperse and evacuate, but Li Du's troops chased after it, and the bandit gang of the camel dragon was completely scattered, and the camel dragon that no one could take with him secretly fled to Gongzhuling.
Unexpectedly, Li Du's troops did not give up the search for her, and under the heavy reward, someone confessed Zhang Suzhen's hiding in the brothel.
On January 8, 1925, Li Du ordered Bai Long, the elder of Lian, who was born in the green forest, to take his subordinates disguised as prostitutes to arrest him.
When Lao Bailong revealed his true identity and wanted to take Zhang Suzhen away, she acted very calmly and only said that she wanted to change clothes.
Old Bai Long may have had a premonition that she would go and get the gun, but he did not agree. Later, it was found that in Zhang Suzhen's clothes box were two pistols with loaded bullets!
After Li Du captured Zhang Suzhen, he felt very embarrassed, because he had received two telegrams from Zhang Zuolin "to Shenyang" and Wu Junsheng, another leader of the Feng clan warlords, who was "relieved to the Eight-Sided City" at the same time.
Neither of his superiors, Li Du, dared to offend, and while he was embarrassed, the chief of the Military Judicial Division gave him a suggestion, asking him to kill the dragon on the spot and report to the two superiors.
In desperation, Li Du agreed.
On January 9, 1925, Li Du ordered someone to take pictures of the dragon and executed the female bandit leader of the mighty Republic of China in Changchun.
Before the execution, she wore a long cotton skirt with a long white strip of "tricks" inserted in the back of her neck. It reads ," "Ordered to shoot a bandit Zhang Suzhen."
Curiously, the local people did not scold her because she was a bandit who burned and looted without evil, on the contrary, wherever the torture car went, there were many people and merchants who brought her food and drink.
When she arrived at a silk satin village on the fourth road, she also asked for a piece of red silk to put on her body, and her eyes revealed fearless firmness and calmness.
Zhang Suzhen's ending may have been created by the times at that time. Her life was full of hardships, from a little girl who did not understand the world and could only sing and dance to a bandit who did nothing wrong and killed innocents, he experienced the pain of losing his mother, the pain of selling his body, the pain of losing his father and the pain of losing his husband, and finally he ignored it for revenge.
At the moment when she calmly went to death, it may be the real relief, the person she loves is no longer there, and the end of life is the beginning of a new life for Zhang Suzhen.