"Come on, I'm not afraid of death."
preface
During the years of the Republic of China, warlords were in scuffles, displaced people were everywhere, and the era of soldiers and horses and chaos led to the emergence of many fierce and vicious bandits, and Zhang Zuolin, the "King of the Northeast", was said to be a bandit.
Most of them are refugees or hunters who can't survive before they fall into the grass, but in any case, they have done a lot of things that hurt nature and reason.
Among the most vicious bandits, there is one person who is particularly eye-catching, it is said that she was born beautifully, originally a prostitute, because of the coincidence of chance to go up the mountain and fall into the grass.
However, although she is a female streamer, her means are quite fierce, she does great things calmly, and she has an excellent reputation among the people.
She is the northeast female bandit, the "double-gun camel dragon" Zhang Suzhen.
Wandered to the Qinglou
In 1901, Zhang Suzhen was born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, the mainland, to a poor family, her mother died early, and only her father and she depended on each other.
The father ran a "Zhangjia noodle shop", which was originally a good business, which could provide for the father and daughter to barely make ends meet, but later, with the bad years, the government began to introduce various harsh taxes and miscellaneous donations, and the business of the Zhangjia noodle shop also became more and more depressed.
In contrast, his father's health became worse and worse, and later because he had no money for medical treatment, he finally had to die of illness on the bed.
The young Zhang Suzhen has been helpless since then, living alone in the world.
At the age of 16, she was abducted and sold to the "YuchunTang" in Changchun, where she was sold to a bustard in a brothel and became a prostitute.
Yu Chun Tang's business was very good, even in the era of wars and chaos, there was no shortage of high-ranking officials and nobles, Zhang Suzhen was helpless when she first came here, and she was full of fear of everything around her.
There are also many girls who have been abducted and sold together, and many of them have been sold here by their families, for no special reason, just because they can't afford to eat.
In the chaotic world, human life is not valuable, and many poor peasants have to sell their daughters in order to survive when they flee the wilderness, which is no longer a problem of cold-bloodedness, after all, it is better to be a prostitute than to starve to death.
Zhang Suzhen met a "nobleman" named Xiao Jinbao in Yuchun Hall.
Your people help each other
Little Jin Bao is an old bustard in the brothel, and the old bustard reads countless people in the brothel, so at a glance, it can be seen that Zhang Suzhen, who is still young, is a good piece of jade, and when he grows up, he is definitely a treasure.
So she became Zhang Suzhen's dry mother, taking good care of Zhang Suzhen, who had just arrived, and carefully adjusting.
It didn't take long for Zhang Suzhen to become the number one in the brothel.
Because she was born beautifully, Zhang Suzhen's guests flocked to her, and there were no shortage of dignitaries and nobles who came to find her, and the city was a gentleman.
However, Zhang Suzhen actually knows that although these people are outwardly tender and sweet with her and very protective of her, in fact, they all treat her as a consumer product and just make a scene, without exception.
This can be seen in the fact that none of them are willing to pay for themselves.
Even her old mother, who cultivated her with care, only looked up to her beauty and regarded her as a cash cow.
She was now in the brothel to be windy and rainy, and she should be able to shine for a few more years, but when her most magnificent age passed, then she would definitely be beaten back to her original form by the speed of light, back to the state of helplessness in the past.
No one will always be beautiful as a flower, but there will always be someone as beautiful as a flower.
She made up her mind to change her destiny, and one day a man named "The Great Dragon" gave her hope.
The "Great Dragon" was named Wang Fufan, and he was a bandit.
Bandits are not bandits or anything, Zhang Suzhen actually does not care, in that era of soldiers and horses, how good are the officers and soldiers? Why are so many people displaced? Were they all done by bandits?
The reason she has expectations of "Big Dragon" is that "Big Dragon" offers to redeem her and just take her back to the mountain to be Mrs. Crusher.
As the head of the brothel, Zhang Suzhen's price is not cheap, which is why so many gentry are discouraged from her.
Dew love affair is fine, to spend a lot of money for a prostitute, can not commit.
Zhang Suzhen is not so touched by the behavior of "Big Dragon", there is still gratitude, but what she wants is never a man, but freedom.
But this plan eventually got a little hindrance, and the problem appeared in her "dry mother" little Jimbo.
Zhang Suzhen is now the time of great popularity, I don't know how long she can be red, many high-ranking officials and nobles in the city have come to name her, so instead of letting the "big dragon" buy out at one time, she still prefers to raise Zhang Suzhen in a brothel and continue to be her cash cow.
But unfortunately, Xiao Jinbao may have misunderstood, she may not know that the "Big Dragon" is actually a bandit, and she is not quite aware of the bandit's way of doing things.
After being rejected by the brothel bustard, after returning home, the "big dragon" was indeed angry for a while, but after he told his brother about this matter, the brothers said one after another: Why should the eldest brother worry about this kind of thing, this matter will be left to the brothers to do, to ensure that not a word is spent, let the old bustard obediently send people over.
After much discussion, they came up with a very damaging idea: kidnapping tickets.
Little Jimbo has a very beloved young son, who is the only son.
If she tied up her own son and then let Xiao Jinbao release someone to change it, she promised to agree with her mouth.
Later, one day, Xiao Jinbao took his beloved son to the temple fair, and as a result, in the crowd, Da long's men saw the opportunity to smear sweat medicine on Xiao Jinbao's son's head, and then successfully robbed Xiao Jinbao's son.
After they got it, they asked someone to bring a message to Xiao Jinbao, saying that your son is in their hands, and now they can't let anyone follow you.
Within a few days, the "Great Dragon" waited for Zhang Suzhen as he wished, and then "married" him to Lady Zhai.
Falling grass for Kou
After going up the mountain, "Da Long" loved this new wife very much, and he did not care about Zhang Suzhen's past experience, but he loved her very much.
He was a rough man, and he couldn't read the people's qinser and ming, and respected each other like guests, so he began to teach Zhang Suzhen to shoot guns and talk black.
As a result, I did not expect Zhang Suzhen to be unexpectedly a little talented in this regard, almost a little bit of understanding, learning very quickly.
So not long after, the "Great Dragon" gave Zhang Suzhen a special promise letter.
This promise is neither a necklace nor a diamond ring, but two large mirror "fast and slow machine" shell guns made in Germany.
Domestic words, generally known as box guns.
This special gift full of wild charm is probably far from the gift that most girls expect, but Zhang Suzhen really loves it after seeing it.
With the development of time, Zhang Suzhen's gun skills have continued to improve.
In a match of gun skills, Zhang Suzhen fired seven shots in a row, destroying all seven incense sticks thirty steps away.
In the same environment, the big boss also destroyed seven roots, but the second boss only had six.
According to the martial arts in the gang, Zhang Suzhen's marksmanship had actually reached the point where he could compete with the big boss by this time.
Originally, according to the rules of the gang, Zhang Suzhen could already achieve the position of the second in command of the gang.
But considering that she is a female streamer after all, and the time she has not joined the gang for a long time, it is a little difficult to convince the public if she is pressed on the heads of many gang members so quickly.
So the "Big Dragon" finally only let her be a third boss, and the "Second Dragon" continued to sit in the position of the second boss.
However, since then, Zhang Suzhen has also officially taken a firm position in the gang, at least when the younger brother calls her, she is no longer "the lady of the helper", but "the three bosses".
This gave her finally a chance to build her authority.
Three years later, with the concerted efforts of a group of helpers, the original 800-person team of the "Great Dragon" has grown to 3,000 people, with a huge momentum, calling itself the "Jihei People's Self-Defense Army", but in fact it still does some business of robbing houses.
With the birth and death of her brothers, Zhang Suzhen also gradually broke out some fame on the road, and everyone knew that there was a beautiful-looking female bandit here, and she was brave and had a brilliant marksmanship.
Soon, the government also knew.
Bandits
In 1923, when Zhang Suzhen was 22 years old, Zhang Zuolin ordered his subordinate Li Du to serve as the commander of the Jilin Provincial Garrison and the commander of the Changchun Martial Law, responsible for the task of suppressing bandits.
On October 5, the "Great Dragon" took Zhang Suzhen and a group of more than 30 bandits to raid the house of the good people in the Chaoshi Mountain of Wanbao, Dehui, Jilin Province, killing people and setting fires.
As a result, the news reached the ears of the government, so a group of officials and troops rushed to the scene, and the inside and outside should be combined to kill the "Great Dragon" group.
After being seriously injured, the "Great Dragon" died on the spot, and many of the bandits accompanying him were also killed, and the first rank was cut off by the officers and soldiers and returned to Changchun to receive the reward.
In this process, Zhang Suzhen luckily escaped, a day husband and wife hundred days of grace, dalong was good to her, over the years she also developed feelings for this husband, so for a time grief, left this sad place.
Since then, she has called herself the "Camel Dragon" and continued to roam the road because she used a double gun, hence the nickname "Double Gun Camel Dragon".
Although it is also a house robbery, unlike other people on the road, the "camel dragon" has its own rules.
Probably because of her tragic experiences in her early years, she sympathized with the poor, but on the contrary, she was very disgusted with the gentry and local rich people who were very moral.
After becoming a bandit, she also advocated "killing the rich to help the poor", specializing in robbing the government, the money house, and the big landlords.
Of course, there are also their richer relations, but in this way, they have won the favor of many poor people, which is to help them out of a bad breath.
And probably because of the experience of prostitutes, the "camel dragon" is also very disgusted with robbing women, and if anyone in the gang dares to rob the women, they will be pulled out and shot on the same day.
She gave her subordinates the "ten no robberies": do not rob funeral cars, joy cars, temples, inns, doctors, postmen, ferries, etc., and once these rules are violated, they will be punished very severely.
Because of the decisive killing and the relationship of "robbing the rich to help the poor", she was very prestigious among the local people and the gang, and after losing the "Big Dragon", she became the backbone of the gang.
The end of the camel dragon
Once, her men kidnapped a Japanese.
This Japanese man named Kimura, who came to the mountains to collect furs, was abducted by a gang called "Beard" under the "Camel Dragon", and asked one of Kimura's friends, Sun Zhiyuan, to take money to ransom people.
As a result, I did not expect that because of this incident, I stabbed the honeycomb, and although Kimura was finally redeemed with money, it annoyed the Japanese gendarmerie, and they found Zhang Zuolin and asked Zhang Zuolin to give an explanation.
At that time, the land of China was divided, there were many warlords, and although there were many mountains, many of them were actually agents supported by the great powers.
Standing behind Zhang Zuolin is the Japanese, and the Japanese themselves have many interests in the northeast, so they are naturally Zhang Zuolin's preferred cooperation object.
However, Zhang Zuolin knows the way of balance, knows that he can't put eggs in one basket, and while hooking up with the Japanese, he is said to be eyebrow-to-eye with the Soviets, taking advantage of both sides.
However, the face of the Japanese should still be given, a gang of bandits, caught and arrested.
So in 1924, Zhang Zuolin asked his subordinates to lead 20,000 troops to suppress the bandits, and although Zhang Suzhen played with two guns, he was no longer the opponent of the 20,000 regular army, so he quickly helped all the people to collapse.
She ordered her men to disperse and retreat, one after the other, and then she herself fled all the way, and finally hid in the area of Princess Ridge.
She hid in the Princess LingHongban brothel, where she temporarily hid, hiding her eyes as a prostitute.
Life is magical, and after going around in circles, she's back here.
On January 8, 1925, someone tracked her down and she was eventually arrested.
Li Du sent his subordinates, the "Old White Dragon", who was also from the grassy mang, to bring people and disguise themselves as guests to find Zhang Suzhen.
Zhang Suzhen did not notice the abnormality at first, and came out to pick up the guests as usual.
As a result, when the loose clothes were undressed, the "old white dragon" suddenly said, "Do you know me?" Come with me. ”
Zhang Suzhen was silent for a moment, realizing that it was not right, but calmly said, "Then I will change my clothes." ”
When he was done, he put his hand to the cabinet next to him.
As a result, the old white dragon quickly held her hand and said, "No need, just do it." ”
After his men escorted Zhang Suzhen away, old Bai Long stepped forward and pulled open the cabinet drawer.
Sure enough, inside were two German-made barge guns, and the bullets had been loaded.
execute
At noon on the 19th, the "camel dragon" was escorted to the wasteland east of Changchun Sanma Road and shot, that year, Zhang Suzhen was 24 years old.
It is said that in the year that the "Camel Dragon" was shot, Marshal Wu Junsheng and Young Marshal Zhang Xueliang in the northeast heard of her reputation and wanted to see the female bandit's face, so they both sent a telegram to Li Du, one requesting that the "Camel Dragon" be taken to Shenyang, and the other demanding that it be taken to Bamian City.
However, this made the executive officer Li Du difficult, there is only one "camel dragon", how to divide it between the two of you? Is it difficult to split from the middle, one person half?
Later, after being pointed out by the chief of the Military Justice Department, he came up with a method.
In order not to offend one of his superiors, he disobeyed the orders of both superiors at the same time and chose to shoot the "camel dragon" on the spot.
Only before this, he took a photo of the "camel dragon" and sent the photo to the two bosses, which was to meet the wishes of the two bosses to see the face.
However, this decision directly annoyed his superior, Wu Junsheng, and it turned out that after Marshal Wu Junsheng saw the photo of the female bandit, he moved to want to detain her privately, only to find that he had been executed by Li Du, and for a time he was greatly angry, and directly detained Li Du to prepare for the xingshi interrogation.
Thanks to Li Du's wife Wang Zhipei's intercession with Zhang Zuolin, Li Du was released.
epilogue
It is said that when she was dying, Zhang Suzhen's performance was very calm, with a calm and self-assured expression.
"Come on, I'm not afraid of death."
There were many onlookers, and many ordinary people came to see her off, as if in their eyes it was not a bandit who had committed many evil deeds, but a neighbor girl who deserved sympathy.
After the story of the "Camel Dragon" spread to the people, the world also sympathized with it, believing that the "Camel Dragon" as a weak woman experienced a series of unfortunate encounters in her childhood, and after falling into the grass, the hero's bones and bones wandered the rivers and lakes, and the story was full of sorrow.
Cheng Zhaocai, who is known as the Chinese Shakespeare, heard the story of Zhang Suzhen, rushed to work overnight, closed the door for half a month, and produced a play "Shooting the Camel Dragon", which was a sensation.
Art often comes from life, and the reason why people are moved by the story of the camel dragon is not only because of the dashing and heroic nature of the wandering and vengeful woman of the camel dragon, but also because of the empathy for the tragic experience of the camel dragon in its early years.
In the era of war and chaos, the camel dragon was only one of the many sentient beings, and people sympathized with the early suffering of the camel dragon, often because they saw themselves in it.