The bandits in the TV series, the house robbers, the large pieces of meat and drinking, the gold and silver are countless; the real bandit life is far less dashing. Especially the people under the bandits, who were also hard and busy, licking blood on the tip of the knife.
Bandits joined in
There are rules of the way, it is not easy to join the bandit gang, the leader is mixed into the treacherous, and the newcomer must have a guarantor. Secondly, we must "go through the hall"
"Passing through" is the test of the interview.
First, let the newcomers follow in search of the target of the robbery, without issuing weapons, alone to inquire into the news, step on the crime scene, and so on
Second, put a gourd on the head, and the leader suddenly shot the gourd to see if he was scared to pee his pants.
Pass the test and enter the company
The bandits joined in to "worship incense", insert incense in front of everyone and swear to the heavens. The content of the oath is roughly: "Do not betray friends, do not defect, do not leak the wind, if you violate it, you will be slashed with a thousand knives, and so on." After the oath is completed, they will also visit the leaders of the bandit gang "four beams and eight pillars" one by one to receive discipline. People who have just become bandits are called cubs.
The gang usually only cares about the cubs' food and housing, and does not pay wages.
The salary is not paid in one lump sum until the end of the year, but this salary is not easy to obtain.
The newly hired cubs have no guns and no horses, and every time they go out to fight and rob, they only scare people with wooden guns wrapped in red cloth.
After having a real gun, they can share the loot, and once the cubs have a real gun, they have to work hard, such as charging in front and retreating in the back.
The cubs marched during the day every day, and at night they had to take turns to stand guard and feed the horses, and there was no time for sleep, which was more tiring than doing long work.
Bandit robbery
Bandits are on alert
The most profitable action of the bandits is definitely to smash the kiln, that is, to rob the compound of the rich family. Hit it and call it smashing, and not hitting it is called not smashing.
When the kiln is laid, the big treasurer and the chiefs must first fill their pockets, and then down the big treasurer's cronies and gunmen, most of the ordinary bandits are just slaves, how much is divided, there is no bargaining share, but the discipline must be to take those cubs who have no background.
The cubs not only have to fight, but also make cushions. For example, the bandit gang tied up the wrong powerful people, causing the local forces to be angry, and the bandit gang would hand over a few new cubs to behead others to calm the anger of the other party.
The bandit horse team prepares to enter the village
Bandits' food
What do bandits eat? Usually, the bandit gangs, especially the cubs, have a very poor diet, coarse tea and light rice are the mainstream, and eating dumplings is like the New Year. At the beginning of 1937, bandit gangs such as Antu County, "Mustang" and "Old Three Provinces" decided to form a coalition.
They held a banquet in the wooden yard, and these famous bandits sat around a wooden table, and each of them was given a dish, just a bowl of dried white, a plate of oil cakes and a plate of stewed lamb.
In 1941, Li Ran, secretary of the Communist Party's Liaoxi County Party Committee, went to recruit the "Nine-Headed Bird", the treasurer of a large band of bandits in Lishu County.
According to Li Ran's observation in the bandit's den, the bandit dormitory is a row of nests on the ground, the bandit leader "nine-headed bird" is eating, and there are only pickle strips and nest heads on the table.
When Yang Zirong, a well-known reconnaissance officer of the People's Liberation Army, arrested a mountain carving, he could only eat brown rice noodles and soba noodles at the bandit liaison station. The "Hundred Chicken Feast" definitely did not exist, and the bandits only provided 2 chickens to open meat for Yang Zirong and 6 other scouts.
Only by attacking the villages could the bandits improve their diet.
In June 1946, the Yufu bandits invaded the subordinate villages of Fusong County, and the bandits went around catching chickens and asking the villagers to make dumplings and prepare wine.
In the middle of the tunzi, they put on two large pots to cook the pig's head, square meat and chicken to hold a celebration feast.
Under duress, the entire village was busy slaughtering pigs and sheep, stewing meat, dumplings, noodles and flapjacks. The villagers kept cooking in several large pots, making one meal after another, and the bandits starved to death and ate desperately like reincarnated ghosts. Bandits like to say: "Beat japonica rice and scold white noodles, don't fight or scold small rice."
After a day or a few days of tossing, the bandits eat a few good meals and leave the village and run away.
The bandits were eating
What do bandits wear?
What do bandits wear? The northeast autumn and winter season is cold and long, and the bandits have been eating and sleeping for a long time, and they need light and warm clothing.
In the bandit group, the treasurer and the chiefs mostly wear otter skin hats, while the cubs are dog skins, cat skins, rabbit skins and wolf skin hats. The bandits took great care to cover the back of their necks with their hats to prevent cold wind and snow flakes from penetrating.
In terms of coats, the chiefs mostly wear a black cotton jacket inside, and the corner of the outer cotton robe robe must be pulled up and tucked into the belt to facilitate riding. The cubs wear small cotton jackets, coats, and a cotton shoulder or leather jacket.
A piece of rat skin, or pig skin or dog skin mat, should also be tied to the buttocks. Bandits run everywhere, have an extra piece of skin on their butts, can go with the seat, not afraid of the cold.
The bandits put on their coats and tied a black or blue cloth belt around them.
This belt can not be used for pistols, knives, gold and silver, and in case of danger, it can also be used as a rope to go down the house and down the well.
Finally, wear the dog leather sleeves and elbow pads, and insert your hands when you are fine to keep warm.
The bandits wore tight-legged pants underneath and leggings with leggings. Like other industries that survive in the mountains, such as fishing, logging, and hunters, bandits add a pair of trousers to the outside of their trousers to prevent wind and cold from invading their legs. The leather boots that the bandits were pedaling under their feet were a very fat kind of cowhide boots, regardless of the left and right feet.
There are no socks on the feet, only the tassel grass (also known as ula grass, which grows in northeast China and south of the Waixing'an Mountains, has a warm and cold protection effect, and can be used to fill shoes).
Every night when I go to sleep, I have to untie the weeds on my feet, spread them out on the ground and blow the wind and smell.
Tasseled shoes with tassels.
Itachia, also known as Ula grass, is a perennial herb.
Ula means "river" in Manchu.
Because this grass is abundant in the Jilin Ula area, it is called "Ula grass".
Later, people used it to flop shoes, and most of the shoes were made of leather, so "Ula" evolved into "Tatar".
Tassels
The bandits' salaries
The bandits' salaries are paid once a year
The nest owner is the biggest winner
The autumn winds yellow the leaves, and at the end of the year the bandit team begins to divide the money cat winter. The money is divided according to shares, the big treasurer and the four beams and eight pillars and other chiefs get a large share, and the general bandits can only divide the small shares.
If you bring your own guns and horses into the company, you can get a little more. After the bandits had divided the money, they hid their spears, and each of them turned to relatives and friends, or lived in the concession.
Winter is the season that bandits enjoy the most, no longer have to eat and sleep in the wind, born into death.
The cubs took their hard-earned wages to gamble, play cards, drink alcohol, or sneak into the homes of prostitutes.
Every winter, many bandits are arrested, or their wealth arouses suspicion and is detected by the police, or they are recognized by drunk and fall into the hands of officers and soldiers.
There are also many cubs who will hide in the "pull gang" home. The so-called "pulling gang" refers to both husbands and good women. Their husbands are mostly small traders, money gamblers, god jumpers, and even disabled people. Most of their acquaintances are cubs from bandit gangs.
When the cubs lived separately in the "pull gang set" home, the two husbands lived on a kang, one in the first half of the night, and one in the middle of the night.
In the spring of the second year, as soon as the day of the bandit gang's coder gathering arrived, the cubs were about to leave the "gang set" home.
The woman, like her husband, helped him pack his bags and sent him outside the village, telling him to come home quickly after it was cold.
After a year of busy work, bandits and cubs who are born into death and climb the ice and snow are actually difficult to make a lot of money.
The real rich are the owners of the nests, who himself do not come forward to kill, but supply the bandit gangs with guns, ammunition and horses, and share dividends from them.
They also harbour bandits to collect insurance money, lend usury, and extort bamboo.
Many bandits deposited their money in the homes of the owners of the nests, but they could not get back the last penny, and the people were betrayed or directly shot by black shots.
Insecurity made the bandits dare not take off their clothes while they slept, nor did they dare to leave their weapons.
These nest owners themselves are also rich and powerful large landowners, with walled forts and nursing home bodyguards, and they all maintain good relations with the local military and police.
Once a person gets on a thief's boat, he can only go with the flow, live a precarious life, and squander money at will. Even the leader of the bandits was equally hungry and restless, and he had to watch the six ways and listen to all the people, because every one of them could be a traitor or a traitor.
Every time the kiln is smashed, it may be a trap, and every cat winter may throw itself into the net.
Therefore, there are very few bandits who die, and most of them throw their bones in the battlefield and execution ground when they are in their 20s and 30s.
In short, the life of the bandits does not have the romantic mood of imagination, and all the ugly phenomena of society are gathered in the bandit group.
The bandits slept and did not dare to take off their clothes, did not dare to leave their weapons