Zhang Leshan, the mountain carving of the land bandits of the Republic of China

Mondo History Updated on 2024-02-13

Speaking of "Mountain Carving", many people should know that it is the big bandit in ** "Lin Hai Snow Plain". In fact, there is really a bandit called "Mountain Carving" in history, and Yang Zirong is also a real person. Qu Bo, the author of "Lin Hai Snow Field", is Yang Zirong's comrade-in-arms, and Qu Bo wrote "Lin Hai Snow Plain" later according to the real incident of Yang Zirong's capture of the "mountain carving".

The original name of the mountain carving was Zhang Leshan, the ancestral home is Shandong, the ancestors were bandits for three generations, because of the death of their parents, they followed their cousins to the Northeast together in the east of the country, and worked in the lumber yard at the age of twelve. When he was fifteen years old, he felt that he had no interest in being a lumberjack, so he simply went up to the mountains to become a bandit.

may have the blood of bandits in his body, Zhang Leshan was born to be a bandit, he became a bandit leader at the age of eighteen, and he also practiced three skills.

First, his eyesight is very good, his eyes are like the eyes of an eagle, and he can see far away at night, so he has the nickname of "Mountain Eagle".

Second, run fast, whether it is up or down the mountain, whether the road is good or not, no one can outrun him.

Third, the marksmanship is good, as long as anyone wants to go up the mountain to join the gang, he must first test his courage, hold a corn cob in his hand, and then stand still, Zhang Leshan stands far away, and one shot can hit the corn cob.

Because of these three skills, Zhang Leshan experienced the Qing Dynasty, the Feng warlords, and the Japanese puppet period, and none of them were exterminated.

Zhang Leshan is very sophisticated, knowing that rabbits do not eat the grass by the nest, basically will not rob the people on their own territory, and will occasionally give some food to the people. In this way, the local people will sometimes be his eyes and ears, and when the government comes to encircle and suppress, Zhang Leshan can always escape.

During the Japanese puppet period, in order to survive, Zhang Leshan was first incorporated by the Anti-Japanese Federation, but then took refuge in the Japanese. Later, the Japanese wanted to get rid of him, set up a Hongmen banquet for him, and invited him to dinner in a restaurant. Zhang Leshan found that something was wrong at the table, excused himself to leave, and used his good skills to fall down from the window of the restaurant and run quickly.

After the Japanese surrendered, Zhang Leshan superficially accepted the reorganization of the People's Liberation Army, but secretly surrendered to the Kuomintang and was appointed as the "commander of the second detachment of the Northeast Dispatch Army".

In 1946, the People's Liberation Army decided to eliminate all bandits in the Northeast, because Zhang Leshan was a "political bandit", so he was focused on attacking.

In August 1946, after the blow of the People's Liberation Army, Zhang Leshan's main force was eliminated, and Zhang Leshan fled with the remaining dozens of bandits. Because there were not many bandits left in Zhang Leshan, the People's Liberation Army went to encircle and suppress Zhang Leshan in the form of a small detachment.

At this time, Zhang Leshan hid in the mountains near Jiapigou, and the mountains were not as grand as the ** wrote, Zhang Leshan's lair was only in a shack.

Because the PLA was not very familiar with the mountains, a battalion of the PLA went into the mountains to search for a month, but did not find Zhang Leshan. The head of the unit decided to let Yang Zirong lead a small detachment to arrest Zhang Leshan.

Because Zhang Leshan had no winter supplies on the mountain, he wrote to the chairman of the peasant association in Hailin Town, asking for some food and clothes, and if he didn't give it, he would slaughter the village. The chairman of the peasant association gave the letter to the People's Liberation Army, only to learn that Zhang Leshan was hiding near Jiapigou.

Yang Zirong led five scouts, pretending to be bandits, and came to Jiapigou.

Yang Zirong found that Jiapigou was the only village under the mountain, so he thought that there must be Zhang Leshan's eyeliner in the village, responsible for delivering news to the mountain.

After a few days of observation, Yang Zirong found that there was a man who would look around the door of his house every day and set his eyes on this man. One day Yang Zirong found that a person came to the man's house, and the two talked for a while, and hurriedly went out from the back door together and went in the direction of the mountain.

Yang Zirong was sure that they were Zhang Leshan's people, so he took a team to arrest the two of them, saying that he was also a bandit and was surrounded and suppressed by the People's Liberation Army, and the six brothers had nowhere to go and wanted to go to Zhang Leshan.

Yang Zirong relied on a mouthful of black words and dressed like bandits, so the two people believed Yang Zirong and took them up the mountain.

When they arrived at a shack on the mountain, the two bandits asked Yang Zirong and the six to wait in the shack, and they went to report to Zhang Leshan. Two days later, a bandit came, saying that Zhang Leshan had something to do in the past few days, and asked them to live in the shack for a few days.

Yang Zirong knew that Zhang Leshan wanted to investigate whether they were the People's Liberation Army, so Yang Zirong took the soldiers to live in the shack for ten days, but the food on his body had been eaten, but Zhang Leshan still did not appear. Yang Zirong had no choice, so he took the soldiers to pretend to be bandits and "borrowed" food in Jiapigou once.

Maybe Zhang Leshan knew that Yang Zirong went to Jiapigou to "borrow" grain, so he sent a bandit to pass the word, and Yang Zirong tied him up, saying that Zhang Leshan was playing with them, how long did they have to wait, and the bandit said that this time he would take them to Zhang Leshan.

Under the guidance of the bandits, they came to a shack and found Zhang Leshan. At that time, Yang Zirong found that there were only a few bandits around, and the rest were probably sent out, and these bandits were still lying down and smoking big cigarettes.

After Yang Zirong identified Zhang Leshan, he quickly took out a gun and pointed it at Zhang Leshan, at this time Yang Zirong still pretended to be a bandit, saying that Zhang Leshan was not righteous, and asked their brothers to wait on the mountain for more than ten days.

Zhang Leshan hurriedly apologized, saying that he only did this to guard against the People's Liberation Army. At this time, the remaining bandits also returned, and Yang Zirong knew that the six of them were not opponents. He told Zhang Leshan that he had buried hundreds of guns outside, saying that this was not a place for people to stay, and asked Zhang Leshan to take the bandits down the mountain with him, and after taking the guns, he would recruit people to fight against the People's Liberation Army.

Zhang Leshan took twenty-five bandits and went down the mountain with Yang Zirong, although Zhang Leshan had suspicions, but he was at the end of his rope and only gambled once.

When they arrived outside the mountain, the People's Liberation Army had already received the news that a large army had been ambushed around, and as soon as Zhang Leshan appeared, they were surrounded, and the bandits put down ** one by one, and then Zhang Leshan knew that Yang Zirong was the People's Liberation Army.

Later, Yang Zirong died during a crackdown on bandits, and Zhang Leshan died of illness in prison.

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