Is Li Xiangyang’s prototype from the Tang Dynasty?

Li Xiangyang’s prototype - Anti-Japanese hero Zhen Fengshan

Li Xiangyang is a fictional character, but when the playwright created this character, which hero did he use as a model? After that, the author saw a photo of Xing Ye, the author of the "Plain Guerrilla" movie script, and Zhen Fengshan, heard about Guo Zhenqing, the actor who played Li Xiangyang, living with Zhen Fengshan, and listened to Zhen Fengshan talk about his combat experience during the Anti-Japanese War. In addition, the movie takes place in Zhen Fengshan The shooting situation in his hometown further determined that Li Xiangyang's prototype was the anti-Japanese hero Zhen Fengshan.

Zhen Fengshan was born in 1903 in Dongzhugu Village, south of the city of Ding County, Hebei Province (now Dingzhou City). His nickname was "Bai Dan" and he had seven brothers and sisters. My father was a long-term laborer, and the family was in a very difficult situation. During the spring famine, the whole family went out to beg. Zhen Fengshan took his younger brothers and younger sisters to beg for food. Soon, his fifth and sixth brothers also died of starvation. From the age of 15 to 21, Zhen Fengshan worked as a long-term laborer. At the age of 22, Zhen Fengshan was determined to break into Guandong. When he arrived in the Qiqihar area, he first "carried a big man", then dug ginseng, panned for gold, worked as a mason, etc., and suffered a lot.

After the "September 18th" Incident, the Northeast fell. Zhen Fengshan wanted to join Wang Laohong's volunteer army in Sunjiatun, a suburb of Qiqihar, but the king refused. Zhen thought: Wang Laohong must have seen that he came empty-handed and looked down upon him, so he borrowed a gun and returned to the king, but the king still refused to accept it. King Zhen suspected that he had few guns, so he shot two Japanese soldiers to death in an alley in Qi City the next day and seized two guns. Wang Laohong not only accepted Zhen, but also praised Zhen. Zhen has since joined the Volunteer Army. After that, he formed a team with like-minded young people and was active around Qiqihar City, fighting guerrillas against the Japanese. The next day, the invaders mobilized troops to raid and bombed from the sky. The volunteers were dispersed in the Haojia Oilfield area of ??Qi City because they had no backup. Zhen Fengshan saw that the situation was over, so he returned to his hometown Dingxian via Rehe, Chahar, and Zhangjiakou.

At that time, there were organized activities of the Communist Party of China in Ding County. Sun Zhiyuan, a teacher at the county vocational school, was the first secretary of the Dingxian County Party Committee. Zhen Yufan, who lives in the same village as Zhen Fengshan, is a member of the Communist Party. With the help of Sun Zhiyuan and Zhen Yufan, Zhen Fengshan joined the Communist Party of China in June 1932. In this year, Zhen Fengshan and Wang Jun got married. Wang Jun's family lived in Ding County, where he attended private school, and his uncle participated in the Northern Expedition.

After Zhen Fengshan joined the party, he used small business as a cover to deliver intelligence to the party organization, distribute leaflets, put up slogans, and often moved between Dingxian Vocational School and Baoding Normal School. Zhen's activities attracted the enemy's attention. On the night of August 24, 1933, military police surrounded Zhen's family. Zhen Fengshan escaped in a water tank, but her father was brutally beaten and died. At that time, the party organization notified Zhen that he should go out and hide to avoid being poisoned by the enemy. Zhen Fengshan then left his hometown and went to the Suiyuan and Guihua areas, where he made a living by selling needlework, doing business while completing the tasks of the party organization.

After the "July 7th Incident", Zhen Fengshan saw the full-scale outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, so he decided to return to his hometown to fight against Japan. At that time, all major towns in North China fell one after another. The Kuomintang troops were defeated and roaming everywhere, traitors and bandits took advantage of the situation, and social order was extremely chaotic. Ding County was occupied by the Japanese army on September 22, 1937, and the city gates and some villages and towns were occupied by the Japanese and puppets. In mid-October, the Ding County County Committee of the Communist Party of China held a county committee meeting in Mazhuang, Tang County. In order to meet the needs of the anti-Japanese situation, Ding County was divided into Dingnan and Dingbei counties.

After Zhen Fengshan returned to his hometown, he organized relatives and friends in his hometown and determined to fight against the Japanese invaders. The Shiding County train stored a lot of gasoline from the Japanese invaders. Zhen Fengshan immediately mobilized dozens of people to steal gasoline from the Japanese invaders and sell the stolen oil to buy guns and bullets. The last time he stole oil, he was discovered by the Japanese invaders and Zhang Liye was beaten to death. The Japanese found a white cloth strip stamped with Zhen Fengshan's handprint from Zhang Liye. So he sent troops to capture Zhen Fengshan. He then pulled up an anti-Japanese team with more than 20 people. While discussing how to obtain weapons, Zhen Fengshan's second brother Zhen Quanhai, who had served in the 29th Army, said that when the 29th Army retreated, some guns were buried. Under the guidance of Zhen Quanhai, Zhen Fengshan and others dug out more than 30 guns. After that, they seized some guns from the landlord armed forces, and this anti-Japanese guerrilla armed force was established. Zhen Fengshan is the captain of the brigade. Because of his tallness, people affectionately call him "Big Old Zhen". From then on, Dalao Zhen’s name was resounding throughout Jizhong.