In May of the twenty-second year of Guangxu (1896), Haicheng, Liaoning, octagonal platform.
"A thousand pieces of eagle ocean, come and get it in three days. Zhang Lao Pimple, don't say that the gentlemen don't open their faces, if you can't see the money at that time, I will insert you to Lianzi (Ma) to fight for his life!"
The three men who blew their beards and stared at each other gave a warning, and at the same time scolded and turned over and walked away. Only the small young man was left standing in front of the stake, looking at the yellow horse lying on the ground with air out and without breath, with a bitter and helpless face.
Xiao Zhang previously served as a cavalry sentry commander in the Qingzi Battalion of the Great Qing Dynasty and participated in the First Sino-Japanese War. After the war ended, Xiao Zhang left the team and returned to his hometown to get married, and then returned to his old job and became a veterinarian.
This morning, three bearded men brought in a sick horse and asked for rectification.
As a result, Xiao Zhangren is indeed very clever, but his craftsmanship is a little more fashionable - he killed the horse......
It's embarrassing.
Where is the beard willing to give up, take the opportunity to strangle the neck.
"his grandmother's whistle, who wouldn't eat and eat (as a beard)?
The more Xiao Zhang thought about it, the more angry he became, and kicked him on the veterinarian's stake. With a horizontal heart, I decided to start the game, and since then it has been out of control......
01
The beard of Kanto is also known as "horse beard" and "horse piece", and the common people call the beard "horse team".
It can be seen that the beard and the horse are inextricably linked. In fact, this also has roots: Shandong Xiangma and Kanto Beard can be said to have the same origin, and the latter is a replacement version of the former, after all, the beard back then was all parties from Guandong.
As the saying goes, "when you are a beard, you are happy, you ride a horse and drink wine", and "when you go into the mountains and forests, you are happy, and you ride a horse to eat gluttony".
No matter what, you have to ride a big horse.
Gathering in the mountains and forests, he is on the road of death, and he needs to pin his head to the waistband of his trousers. And only by riding a horse can you come and go like the wind, and be flexible. Otherwise, he would have been caught by the jumper and the flower harrier (military police) to shoot walnuts (shot).
Therefore, when one beard is to have a gun, and the other is to have a horse.
枪，得是快枪；马，得是快马。
Ordinary mules and horses pulling carts are not good, they have no foot strength, and they run slowly.
And it must be a fat and strong tall horse, whether it is organizing the smashing of the kiln or retreating after success, it can come and go freely.
The Kanto region has many plains, which is convenient for horse teams. Especially along the railways and highways, bearded horse teams are even more rampant.
"Ji bandits are very rampant, and there are endless bandits on the Jichang route and near Changchun" - "Records of Bandits in Modern China"
For example, Liaoning "Du Lisan" (real name Du Guoyi, nickname Lizi, ranked third, reported after the start of the game "Du Lisan") of the handkerchief, there are 300 high-quality horses, each of which is strong and sophisticated, divided into black, red, yellow, white four colors, each into a team, there is a special person to teach and train riding skills in peacetime, can easily cross the ditch, through the forest and wade.
"Du Lisan" is relying on the horse team, in western Liaoning for many years, no one can govern.
02
Generally, the bearded man is not only good at horsemanship, but also has the ability to recognize horses, and will pay special attention to finding good horses in ordinary times. No bearded man can resist the temptation of a good horse, because it is a veritable second life.
For example, Feng Delin, the bearded head of Liaoning, once had a jujube red horse, with hooves to the back and two feet from head to tail, and a red capillary was like a charcoal in the sun, and he could run hundreds of miles in one breath.
Later, the horse lame, which made Feng Delin anxious enough. After Xiao Zhang learned about it, he couldn't hold back the restlessness in his heart, he was addicted to vegetables, and he returned to his old business with no memory, and he was cured of the crooked beating.
Probably this is also the favor of God, destined to walk on the Avenue of Stars.
So later, Feng Delin carried Xiao Zhang many times, but he didn't expect the pot to be bigger than the lid in the end......
As for where the bearded good horse came from - at that time, the big locks would have their own sphere of influence, and they would regularly send letters to large households asking for "big and small items", just to "eat tickets".
Among them, the most common content of the request is: "two fast horses, ten quintals of fine white noodles" (the reason why they do not ask for guns and ammunition is to prevent large households from being convicted of banditry by the government; horses and grain are forced to be helpless, and the elasticity of guns changes).
At that time, Kanto was adjacent to Mongolia, and the black soil was relatively rich, so the folk horses were very large, which made it very convenient for the beard to ask for fast horses.
The so-called "fast horse" generally referred to the Korqin horse and the three hippos at that time.
Because these two Mongolian horses have the bloodline of Yanmar, they are both tall horses, slender and beautiful, with strong explosive power and durability, and are most loved by beards.
If you get a good Korqin horse and three hippos in the dreadlock, then it must be the priority of the big shopkeeper, and then the four beams and eight pillars.
It is not uncommon for four beams and eight pillars to draw guns against each other in order to compete for good horses. For example, in the 11th year of the Republic of China (1922), there was a handbook with the number "Tianhu" in Baicheng, Jilin, because the cannon head and the water incense fought for a good horse, and finally evolved into two groups of people and horses fighting each other, and they had no choice but to break up......
03
At that time, the best horses were generally in the hands of the cavalry brigades stationed in the Northeast Army, and these local garrisons often had unsightly tricks with beards through intermediaries for money, and the most common was private breeding.
If you look through the remaining documents of the Northeast Army's punishment in those years, you can find that cases of "war horse bandits" are not uncommon.
For example, Chang Yaochen's Department of the 4th Cavalry Brigade stationed in Nong'an, Jilin, and Wu Songlin's Department of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade stationed in Baiquan, Heilongjiang, have all recorded relevant cases.
In fact, it is not surprising that this happened, and the boundaries between soldiers and bandits were not very clear at that time. For example, in the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928), there was a handmaiden with the number "for the people" in the border of Nong'an, Jilin, who was recruited by the Northeast Army and became the captain and company commander of the eighth detachment stationed in Nong'an County.
What is ridiculous is that before Zhao'an, "for the people" had many meat tickets in their hands that were not redeemed by their families, but after Zhao'an, they did not let go of the meat tickets, but continued to "copy the tickets" through a variety of cruel methods in order to demand a high ransom......
Under this kind of military discipline, the "war horse bandits" can be regarded as a routine operation.
In addition, the most coveted by the Kwantung beard is the war horses of the Japanese Kwantung Army. During the Warring States period, the warhorses of the Japanese mainland were short and thin, and were ridiculed by the Portuguese as "children who fought on big dogs".
Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has continued to cross-breed, improving with Arabic and Anglo-Norman bloodlines.
After half a century of training, Japan's war horses were reborn, and the Kwantung Army, which was stationed along the Manchurian Railway at that time, had an average height of 160 cm (from horsehooves to horseback) of the horses, and the large ones were even 180 cm.
Beard's thirst for Oriental horses is not uneager, and he even does not hesitate to take risks to attack the Japanese Kwantung Army. For example, Jilin's "Sanjiang Hao" and Liaoning's "Old Man Ticket" have records of robbing the war horses of the Japanese Kwantung Army.
04
In 1946, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army carried out a large-scale all-out anti-bandit activity, and General He Jinnian, who presided over the anti-bandit work, once ran and killed two big horses, one of which was a tall and handsome white Oriental horse.
It can be seen that at that time, the bandits were used to fight quickly and defeat magic with magic......