Is Shan Tianfang’s description of the heroes of troubled times consistent with the facts?

Master Shan Tianfang’s storytelling is indeed wonderful, but there are too many fabricated elements. Many people know Zhang Dashuai because of "The Heroes of Troubled Times", but it is inevitable that they have left a lasting impression on many historical figures. Wrong impression.

Let’s talk about Du Lisan first. There is no such person as Du Laofan in history. Du Lisan's father was Du Baozeng, who died when Du Li was in his thirties. Du Lisan didn't have much dealings with Zhang Zuolin. Although he and Zhang Zuolin were sworn sworn friends, there was no emotional connection between them. There is a big difference between Du Lisan and Zhang Zuolin. Relatively speaking, Du Lisan comes from a green forest family and is more in line with the nature of a "robbery gangster", who is ferocious and cruel. Compared with him, Zhang Zuolin is relatively "kind". ?

Du Lisan is not as good-for-nothing as the storytelling says. Du Lisan also did some decent things, such as building the Liaohe River channel. Although it was for himself, it did directly benefit the local people. It is said that local people in Yongfeng County built a monument to thank Du Lisan for this.

In addition, Du Lisan had a nickname called "Bao Da Foreigner". This nickname was given by the common people. It is difficult to comment on the reason. In short, Du Lisan did destroy the Russians a lot. ?

After Du Lisan was trapped and killed by Zhang Zuolin, his subordinate Wu Sansheng gathered the remnants of Du Lisan. After the September 18 Incident, he established the "Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army", which was later incorporated by the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army. Wu became the commander of the 38th Route. Later, he had many achievements in the war against Japan, but in the end he was lured to surrender and was killed. ?

The second person talks about Feng Linge. Zhang Zuolin got acquainted with Feng Linge in Haicheng when he was young. At that time, Feng Linge was already a famous beard in western Liaoning, while Zhang Zuolin was still nothing. But Feng Linge admired Zhang Zuolin very much. It can be said that Feng Linge actually played a big role in Zhang Zuolin's subsequent fortune. Later, Zhang Zuolin always respected Feng Linge as "big brother". If we follow the logic of storytelling, it is impossible for Zhang Zuolin to always respect Feng Linge so much based on his character. ?

Zhang Xueliang’s nickname is “Little Six Sons”, while Feng Linge’s eldest son Feng Yong’s nickname is “Little Five Sons”. The two were born in the same year and have been close friends since childhood. The friendship between the two generations of the Feng and Zhang families can be seen as deep. Many old people in the Northeast know it. The reason why Feng Linge and Zhang Zuolin turned against each other was not as simple as what was said in the commentary. It was because Feng Linge was jealous of Zhang Zuolin. That is too untenable. Just because of jealousy, he suddenly sent troops to surround the commander's mansion, and then he could still accept negotiations , it is too fabricated.

In fact, Zhang’s 27th Division and Feng’s 28th Division have always been indistinguishable. When they were expelling Duan Zhigui, the two put on a show. Feng played a bad role and claimed to "swear to kill the restoration rebels." Zhang sang red-faced and persuaded Duan to leave Northeast China in the name of protecting Duan. Later, when Zhang Xun was restored, the two repeated their old tricks.

During this process, Feng Zuo publicly offended Beiyang and Yuan Shikai, while Zhang turned out to be a good old man. Feng knew this clearly in his heart. It can be seen that Feng was interested in Zhang, but Zhang took advantage of him. This point pleases Yuan Shikai and climbs all the way up, which makes Feng feel very uncomfortable. Zhang himself didn't know it, but he actually felt sorry for Feng in his heart. Feng Linge once said in his later years that the little man had a conscience. He knew in his heart that he owed me too much in this life. ?

Let’s add another important figure—Tang Erhu. Tang Erhu in the storytelling is a tiger general who is not only brave in battle, but also loyal and a little clever. But the real Tang Erhu is not as cute as the story told.

Tang Yulin, named Cabinet Minister, was tall and mighty, with five brothers. Those who have heard storytelling must be deeply impressed by the story of Zhang Zuolin cutting flesh and betting on it, but the original version of this glorious feat was actually Tang Erhu. Moreover, Tang Erhu had done similar things not once or twice.

There are different opinions on how Tang Yulin became a beard in his early days, making it difficult to verify, but he certainly did not follow Du Lisan as mentioned in the commentary. There are two more reliable theories. One is that Tang followed Haishao and Haiguangyuan in the early days, and the other is that Tang Yulin was the Dahengbang of Hongluo Mountain in Jinxi, which is the Hongluo Stream mentioned in the storytelling. But no matter what, there is no doubt that Tang Yulin saved Zhang Zuolin's life from Jin Shoushan during the bandit melee.

In 1919, Tang Yulin led his team to risk his life twice to rescue Zhang Zuolin who was surrounded by the Taoketaohu anti-reclamation team.

On March 19, 1917, Zhang Zuolin couldn't bear it because Tang Yulin had strong limbs and a simple mind. He resolutely dismissed Tang Yulin from all his posts. Tang immediately led two elite regiments to defect to Feng Linge and jointly issued a telegram against Zhang Tong. , asking Zhang Zuolin to step down. Note that regardless of whether Feng Linge had instigated Tang Yulin's rebellion before, here Zhang Zuolin deposed Tang Yulin first and Tang rebelled later, which is different from what the commentary said. In addition, although Zhang Zuolin and Feng Linge were at odds at this time, they did not break up. It was not until later that Zhang Zuolin deployed a fort behind the military headquarters to prevent accidents until the 28th Division military headquarters. Feng Linge was furious when he learned about it and proposed four Terms of Settlement. Zhang agreed to all of them and ostensibly shook hands to make peace.

In June of the same year, Tang Yulin participated in Zhang Xun's restoration. This shows that although Tang was brave and good at fighting, he did not have great wisdom. After Zhang Xun's restoration failed, Tang hurriedly fled to Mongolia for refuge.

In January 1918, through the mediation of Zhang Jinghui and Ji Jinchun, Tang Yulin and Zhang Zuolin came together again.

Tang Yulin is one of the best in terms of bravery and ruthlessness. Several of his brothers later held senior official positions under him. After Zhang Zuolin's death, Tang Yulin became the chairman of Rehe, with about 30,000 troops under his command. However, without Zhang Zuolin, the Fengtian faction fell apart. In addition to corrupt officials, they were careerists or traitors. Tang Yulin's team, which had always been brainless, was even more corrupt and ignorant. Therefore, when the Japanese army attacked Rehe, the 30,000-strong army was powerless to resist, and Tang had no choice but to flee in a hurry.

Extended information:

Zhang Zuolin came from a humble background. After his father was kicked to death in a casino, his mother remarried. When he was fourteen, he ran away from home because of a disagreement with his stepfather and came to Gaokan to make a living. During this period, he went through a lot of hardships, working part-time for a wealthy man, being cheated out of a penny in a casino, and almost died several times. Fortunately, Widow Sun, Lao Changtou, Tang Erhu and others helped to turn the crisis around. In the midst of adversity, Zhang Zuolin forged a deep friendship with the bandits, and he also had the idea of ????joining the green forest.

When Zhang Zuolin grew up, he joined the Qing army and was stationed on the banks of the Yalu River. In order to defend the Wulongbei gunpowder depot, Zhang Zuolin fought against a group of bandits alone. He was appreciated by his superiors and promoted to sentry commander (company commander). The Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War broke out, and the Qing army crossed the river to fight with the Japanese army, losing consecutive battles. After the war failed and the Qing government ceded territory to pay compensation, Zhang Zuolin was disheartened and fled back to his hometown, Xiaowa Village, Haicheng County with a horse and a gun.

The bandits in my hometown are infested, and the people are in dire straits. Many "bandits" (bandits) admired Zhang Zuolin's name and invited him to join their gang. Zhang Zuolin vowed not to be a servant of others, so he set up a "tie" by himself, called the "Insurance Team". In order to raise money to acquire guns, Zhang Zuolin led people to extort local wealthy people and develop.

The big bandit Xiang Zhaozi wanted to annex Zhang Zuolin, but Zhang Zuolin would rather die than obey and wanted to borrow troops from Sanjiegou to protect himself. There was chaos along the way. Zhang Zuolin missed his family, gave up borrowing troops, and returned to Zhaojiamiao.

In order to make a comeback, Zhang Zuolin bloodbathed the Japanese "Shuangtian Foreign Company" in Xinmin Prefecture, robbed 50,000 taels of official silver from Xinglong Store, and snatched hundreds of military horses from Qinghe Gate, thus raising the "tackle" for the second time. First, take advantage of the conflicts among the Green Forest people to drive away Feng Linge and his party members. Immediately afterwards, they defeated Xiang Zhaozi, Nine-Handed Yu Yi and other big bandits. Conquered Tianzhuangtai, Bajiaotai, Hongluojian and other forces.

Zhang Zuolin's power became more and more powerful, and the Qing government was unable to suppress it, so it had to recruit him. Zhang Zuolin became a regular army, and later put down Jin Shoushan, Du Li and other big "bandies" who occupied Liaodong, and he was still there. Raoyanghe destroyed the Qiaoben Artillery Regiment of the Japanese Kwantung Army and became the dominant figure in the Liaodong Peninsula.

Zhang Zuolin continued to recruit troops to expand his power, and was successively named Commander of the Fifth Battalion and Commander of the Ninth Battalion. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Yuan Shikai usurped power in the Republic of China, and Zhang Zuolin was named Lieutenant General Commander of the 27th Division of the Republic of China, dominating Fengtian. Later, Zhang Zuolin was promoted to the governor of Fengtian and the patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces due to his success in eliminating Mengmao, becoming a veritable king of the Northeast.

Zhang Zuolin was ambitious and wanted to conquer the Central Plains. He fought two wars with the Zhili warlords Cao Kun and Wu Peifu, losing first and then winning. During the Second Zhili-Fengtian War, he finally broke into Beijing and climbed to the throne of General Marshal of the Army and Navy of the Republic of China.

Zhang Zuolin had a conflict with the Japanese Kwantung Army and was killed by the Kwantung Army at Huanggutun East Station. His son, Marshal Zhang Xueliang, traveled thousands of miles to return to Fengtian. The Japanese wanted to occupy the Northeast and threatened the Marshal in every possible way. Zhang Xueliang attaches great importance to national justice and will not surrender to the Japanese. He wants to reach an agreement with the Nanjing government and declare the three northeastern provinces to belong to the National Government. Northeast China will change its flag! The country was formally unified.

While telling the legendary experiences of the Zhang family and his son, "Heroes in Troubled Times" also describes to people the special background of the warlords' melee in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, allowing people to further understand China's modern history from one aspect.

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Zhang Zuolin, courtesy name Yuting, is from Xiaowa Village in the west of Haicheng County. When he was a child, he was poor and worked as a pig herder. When he was 14 years old, his father died and he followed his mother to live with his maternal grandfather in Zhen'an County. He worked as a bun seller, peddler, carpenter, veterinarian, etc. At the age of 19, he joined the Yi Army during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894. The following year, he left the army and stayed in his hometown to join the wilderness, forming an "insurance team". Soon after he was promoted, he rejoined the army and served successively as the cavalry gang leader, garrison envoy, military training minister outside the customs, lieutenant general, division commander, and He held the positions of military governor of Fengtian, provincial governor, and patrol envoy of the three northeastern provinces. He was later promoted to be the security commander-in-chief of the three northeastern provinces in charge of Northeastern autonomy.

In 1926, he led the army to Beijing. On June 18 of the following year, he took office as the Army and Navy Marshal of the Anguo military government, exercised national governance, and formed the 32nd and final Beiyang cabinet. In 1928, after the defeat, he left Beijing to discuss peace and returned to Feng. On the way, he was seriously injured by the Japanese army in the "Huanggutun Car Bombing Incident" on the morning of June April because he had resisted Japan's demands for mining, building factories, immigrants, and building ports. He died on the same day at the age of 53.

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