The Republic of China was in turmoil, and there were many tyrants, which was an era of rich warlords.
In the chaotic northeast of the North Songhua River, there was a tragic teenager, when he was 14 years old, he watched his father being killed, went to take revenge, and was almost arrested.
Since then, he has stopped thinking of revenge and started a small business along the street in order to make a living.
So-called:
Tilan sells cinder along the street
The dog frantically chased him
A hand inside and out
The children of the poor burst into tears
It was no one else who let the dog bite him, it was the pearl in the palm of the local landlord, and in the end the teenager did not run away, and was captured by the landlord back to the palace and forced him to marry Bai Fumei.
At first glance, it sounds like a paragraph, but this is really not a blind fabrication, because this is a true record of a historical figure, and this teenager is the famous king of the northeast - Zhang Zuolin
Zhang Zuolin
Facts have proved that this Bai Fumei has a very good vision, and the man she is looking for has left a strong mark in the entire modern history of China.
From an unknown bandit to a warlord with 400,000 troops, how did Zhang Zuolin rise, and what did his army experience?
Today we will talk about Zhang Zuolin, the first old cannon in northeast China
Zhang Zuolin was born in Fengtian Haicheng in 1875, and due to his family's poverty, Zhang Zuolin was forced to drop out of school after only three months of private school.
After that. He worked as a veterinarian and a cargo man, and joined the Qing Army as a soldier.
In 1896, Zhang Zuolin, who was not willing to be lonely, finally chose to join the green forest.
Zhang Zuolin
Zhang Zuolin, who joined the green forest, did not have the consciousness of a bandit at all, but instead became the guardian deity of the people.
This made Zhang Jinghui, the "head snake", very impressed, so he was willing to give up the regimental commander of the octagonal platform to Zhang Zuolin, and he was willing to be the deputy regiment.
Since then, he has begun to do the work of lining red flowers with green leaves, and facts have proved that Zhang Jinghui is accurate in his knowledge.
He bet the treasure right, bet himself to Zhang Zuolin, and finally won a puppet Manchukuo prime minister.
Zhang Zuolin thus stayed in the octagonal platform, and soon after he ushered in his fame battle.
"Sha Haizi" had a fierce beard, and he had already moved his mind to rob the octagonal platform, prepared for five or six days, picked a zodiac auspicious day, and then led a group of his men to the octagonal platform in a murderous spirit.
Teacher Li Xuejian plays Zhang Zuolin
Killing a thousand enemies and injuring eight hundred people, the bearded man in the northeast and the leader of the big regiment could all feel the door clearly.
Everyone is poor and whizzing, just point bullets, beard encounters a large clump, can not fight or do not fight.
When the big group met the beard, he could also use the mouth cannon to drive away, so he never got on the real guy.
Faced with the provocation of "Sha Haizi", Lao Zhang put forward a proposal that the northeast masters could not refuse, that is, solo.
As a good man in the green forest, "Sha Haizi" naturally can't admit it, just like that
One box gun per person
An avenue goes central
The two men retreated thirty times
Whoever can't beat it can't decide who suffers
Fight on one and two sides
In terms of actual combat experience in killing people and the speed of firing a gun, Zhang Zuolin is inferior to Sha Haizi, but there is a reason why he dares to bet with Sha Haizi.
Sha Haizi has been a bandit for many years, accumulating a large amount of property, and once people have money, they will be afraid of death, and they will lose if they hesitate.
And Zhang Zuolin has no money and no right to rot his life, naturally...
In the end, Sha Haizi became Zhang Zuolin's gun ghost, and Zhang Zuolin survived, although his body was injured but he was bloody, but he conquered more than 40 beards who came to wash the octagonal platform in blood.
Zhang Zuolin single-handedly provoked Sha Haizi, which also became a battle that made him famous.
After the rise of Zhang Zuolin, after meeting Zhang Zuoxiang, Tang Yulin, Zhang Jinghui and others who came to join the company.
Zhang Zuoxiang
The number of troops under his command expanded to more than 200 people, becoming a powerful and famous green forest armed force in western Liaoning.
However, the green forest life of eating large pieces of meat and drinking in large bowls is far from satisfying Zhang Zuolin's ambitions, and it cannot give Zhang Zuolin a sense of security.
Therefore, taking advantage of the Opportunity of the Qing Government's wanton rectification of local order and the recruitment of scattered soldiers, Zhang Zuolin threw himself into the command of Zeng Yun, the new prefect of the people.
After being incorporated by Zengyun, Zhang Zuolin's unit became the horse team of the Xinminfu Patrol Battalion, and Zhang Zuolin naturally became the pipe belt of the horse team.
Augmentation
After leaping from bandit to regular army, Zhang Zuolin relied on his shrewdness and good fighting skills to win the battle in the official government.
In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 and 1905, Zhang Zuolin turned to Tsarist Russia and Japan successively, and his strength continued to expand.
By 1906, Zhang Zuolin had become a patrol battalion pipe belt, with 5 battalions under his command, totaling more than 500 people.
In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution broke out, the provinces became independent, and the northeast revolutionaries also tried to plan independence.
Under these circumstances, Zhang Zuolin saw this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and he decisively led his troops into Fengtian and suppressed the New Army Revolution together with Zhao Erxun, the governor of the three eastern provinces at the time.
Also because of his meritorious suppression, Zhang Zuolin not only controlled almost all the military forces in Fengtian, but also was appointed by the Qing government as the minister of military training outside Guanwai.
In 1912, the Provisional Government of the Republic of China was established, and in order to appease Zhang Zuolin, Yuan Shikai reorganized Zhang Zuolin's patrol battalion into the 27th Division, and Zhang Zuolin was appointed commander of the 27th Division.
Of course, at this time, Zhang Zuolin was not the only military force in the three eastern provinces. The Left Road Patrol Battalion under Feng Delin, who was also a soldier, was reorganized into the 28th Division.
Feng Delin
With a heavy army in hand, Zhang Zuolin's ambitions began to expand to the three eastern provinces, first foiling Yuan Shikai's initial plan to transfer him to Inner Mongolia, and then joining forces with Feng Delin to take away Duan Zhigui, the Fengtian general and inspector appointed by Yuan Shikai.
After Yuan Shikai's death in July 1917. In order to win over Zhang Zuolin, a powerful faction in the northeast. Zhang Zuolin was appointed by Duan Qirui's government as the Governor of Fengtian And Governor.
At this time, Zhang Zuolin still had only one division under his command, 27th Division. The division had two brigades, an infantry regiment and an artillery regiment with about 10,000 men.
In 1917, when Feng Delin's participation in Zhang Xun's restoration failed, Zhang Zuolin took Feng Delin's 28th Division into his own hands.
Zhang Xun was restored
From then on, Zhang Zuolin completely controlled all the military and political power in Fengtian, and then Zhang Zuolin took advantage of the infighting in Heilongjiang to extend his hand into Heilongjiang.
At this time, Zhang Zuolin already controlled Fengtian and Heilongjiang Provinces.
In 1918, after joining forces with Xu Shuzheng to rob Feng Guozhang of weapons purchased from Japan, Zhang Zuolin's strength soared and he began to expand his army.
In addition to the original 27th Division and 28th Division, Zhang Zuolin expanded 4 mixed brigades and an integrated division.
In 1919, with the help of Little Japan, after dismissing Meng Enyuan, the governor of Jilin by force, Zhang Zuolin completely controlled the military and political power of the three northeastern provinces.
At this point, the Fengzhi warlords headed by Zhang Zuolin had become a complete body, and at this time Zhang Zuolin had three divisions under his command: the 27th Division, the 28th Division, and the 29th Division, as well as a provisional First Division and 15 mixed brigades, and Zhang Zuolin's army exceeded 100,000 for the first time.
While the iron was hot, the red-eyed Zhang Zuolin frantically expanded his sphere of influence to the three special zones of Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan, and the sphere of influence was further expanded.
At this time, the ambitious Zhang Zuolin felt that he had fled to the throne, so in April 1922, in order to compete for hegemony, he and the direct warlord Wu Peifu broke out the first Zhifeng War.
However, the First Zhifeng War ended in Zhang Zuolin's fiasco, and after returning to the three eastern provinces, Zhang Zuolin, who summed up the lessons of the defeat of the First Zhifeng War, began a comprehensive reorganization of the army.
He sorted out the army, founded the navy and air force, founded military schools, vigorously built the Tohoku Arsenal, and began to use a large number of new figures who had graduated from Japanese or domestic military academies.
Fengtian Arsenal
After this reorganization, the Northeast Army took on a new look.
In 1924, there were more than 170,000 people in 3 divisions, 27 mixed brigades and 5 cavalry brigades in the Army, and the Feng Army also had tens of thousands of navy and air force.
Zhang Zuolin, who realized that everything was ready, renamed the Fengjun to Zhenwei Jun and re-entered the customs, and a second Zhifeng War broke out with his immediate line Wu Peifu.
Due to Feng Yuxiang's defection and the great improvement in the combat effectiveness of the Feng army, the war ended in Zhang Zuolin's victory.
When Zhang Zuolin entered Beijing, his identity changed dramatically, from a warlord to the de facto ruler of the country.
The strength of the army was also expanded to 20 divisions, with a total strength of more than 370,000 people, and the power reached its peak, and the grand marshal of the land and sea seemed to be more practical than the grand president.
After the frenzy of the inauguration ceremony, Zhang Zuolin calmed down quickly.
The domestic situation was chaotic, how could it be controlled by a single force, and the more Zhang Zuolin, who had been walking in the rivers and lakes for many years, thought about it, the more uneasy he felt in his heart, and such uneasiness soon became a reality.
In April 1928, Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Yuxiang, Ge Xishan, and Li Zongren attacked the Fengshi, and Zhang Zuolin collapsed on all sides.
From left to right, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, Chiang Kai-shek, and Li Zongren are in order
Zhang Zuolin started with the Japanese, and the Japanese have always supported Zhang Zuolin, but the domestic anti-Japanese wave has risen one after another, and Zhang Zuolin does not dare to meet the demands of the Japanese as he did before.
Therefore, the contradictions between the Japanese and Zhang Zuolin were frequent, especially after the Japanese authorities saw that Zhang Zuolin was difficult to reverse the defeat, they immediately changed their faces and began to fall into the well.
They sent Fang Ze, the Japanese minister in Beijing, to find Zhang Zuolin and ask for a Sino-Japanese joint venture to build the Jihui Railway, but Zhang Zuolin strongly refused.
The defeat in the war and the change in the attitude of the Japanese made Zhang Zuolin feel very uneasy, so he decided to leave Beijing and return to his old home, Fengtian.
It may be that he had a premonition that someone might be unfavorable to him, so he said that he would leave on June 1, and then changed to June 2, but he still did not leave Beijing on the 2nd.
In the early morning of June 3, Zhang Zuolin quietly appeared at the Beijing railway station, in his reluctant eyes. The train slowly moved to his hometown, which was also the end of his life that he did not know at the moment.
Zhang Zuolin's special train had twenty-two trains, and his sleeping car was located in the middle position, and Zhang Zuolin was accompanied by personnel and guards of the Grand Marshal's Office, as well as Zhang Zuolin's sixth wife and third son Zhang Xuezeng.
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At midnight, the train passed through Shanhaiguan, and everything seemed calm, the platform was full of sentries, and the carriage was peaceful.
When the train passed Xinmin at dawn, Zhang Zuolin looked at the railway line outside the window, three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, and the vigilance was strict.
Unconsciously, he relaxed his nervousness and irritability, and even began to imagine how to make a comeback, but he just did not think that it was about to end.
The train arrived at Huanggutun, and at 5:40 a.m. on June 4, there was a loud bang, and the train was instantly pushed into the sky by a powerful impact, and then fell into the fire fiercely.
When the billowing smoke cleared, Zhang Zuolin's carriage was blown up to the point where only two wheels and chassis were left, and the roof, windows and other things were missing.
The guards quickly found Zhang Zuolin, his whole body was blurred with blood and flesh, but he was still conscious, and Zhang Zuolin knew that he would soon die during the treatment.
Left a final note to Madame:
I was too badly injured, I'm afraid it won't work, tell Xiao Liuzi to put the country first, do a good job, my stinky skin bag is nothing, tell Xiao Liuzi to return to Fengtian quickly.
A few hours later, Zhang Zuolin, the king of the northeast who dominated the northeast and could not be immortal, stopped breathing.
Zhang Zuolin, who had been in the limelight all his life, came to an end.
What he left to his son Zhang Xueliang was the 300,000 Northeast Army and the vast territory of the four northeastern provinces.
And his son, Zhang Xueliang, known as the young marshal, only went to hand over his father's papers 73 years after Zhang Zuolin's death.
I don't know if Zhang Zuolin is satisfied?
"Young Marshal" Zhang Xueliang