At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, bandits rose in Ruzhou, Zhili and western Henan (Ruzhou, Ruyang, Lushan, Baofeng and Jiaxian) and swordsmen ran rampant. 19 13, Zhang, the overseer of Henan Province, classified the burning Ru kiln in Daying Town of Ruzhou as Baofeng, and downgraded Zhili Ruzhou to Linru County, which belongs to Xuchang area. "Jianjiang" is the self-proclaimed leader of civil rebel armed forces, large and small. By extension, the common people call all members of the civil rebel armed forces "Jianjiang". The word "paddle" in the word "paddle" originally meant to walk in shallow water, such as "rowing across the river". By extension, mixing people in society is also called "walking", such as "walking single" Even if you mix well, you can't talk. If you don't mix well, you can't drive. Bai Lang of the old Ruzhou led the generals across half of China. Although he later became an anti-Yuan Shikai, he was still an out-and-out leader. As for Blanc's subordinates, they are all tough generals and "model leaders" of travelers in western Henan. One hundred thousand old foreigners in Jasmine Zhang crossed the county seat, attacked the city and pulled out the village, turning Henan, Anhui and Hubei provinces upside down. Frequent natural and man-made disasters have contributed to the breeding of generals, and ordinary people have built villages to buy guns for their own safety. As a result, people and bandits are not divided, and people and bandits are also involved. Old foreigners are not foreigners. His real name is Jasmine Zhang. He was born in a poor peasant family in Ruzhou, Henan. Because he is tall, with yellow hair, deep eyes and a high nose, he looks like a foreigner, so people later nicknamed him "an old foreigner"1922 10123 October, from west to east,10 days across Henan Province, from western Henan to western Anhui. In the meantime, tens of thousands of bandits held high the banner of "building the army in Henan" and shouted slogans of "helping the rich and helping the poor" and "doing justice for heaven" (under the guise of the slogan of peasant uprising in history), passing through Lushan, Fangcheng, Yexian, Wuyang, Yancheng and other counties along the way, they defeated Jin on the Beijing-Han line. The garrison in eastern Henan did not expect the bandit troops to come so quickly and unprepared, so that Shangcai, Xiangcheng, Shenqiu and Xincai counties were successively captured by old foreigners. Capture Fuyang city and set it on fire. For a time, the city was in flames. In the cries of businessmen, thousands of bandits left Fuyang with looted property and returned to Henan at dawn on the 5th. In the next few days, the morale of the gangsters was greatly encouraged. They first captured the county seat and took away the Christian priest and American Ba Mulin and his son. Trapped in Zhengyang County again, he took away Helmn, a priest of the Christian Church in London and an Englishman. Then cut off the track from Minggang to Xinyang of Beijing-Han Railway; Then along the Hanjing line, it went north and successively captured Suiping, Yancheng and other counties. 10 In late June, when the old foreigners attacked Lushan County, they only promised to give gold and silver money in the form of propaganda in exchange for city guards and obtained a large number of guns and bullets. Other bandits active in western Henan also joined in the fun. 1923165438+10 In October, after Jasmine Zhang captured Xichuan County, Henan Province, he indulged his subordinates in burning, killing, looting and abusing women. In just a few days, the bandit department in Jasmine Zhang burned down nearly 30,000 houses, killed 4,326 innocent people, and threw the bodies into the Danjiang River. The whole Danjiang River was dyed red with blood. Those who survived the disaster were forcibly dragged by Jasmine Zhang to carry the looted goods. If you are exhausted halfway, bandits will shoot at will, and the bodies of ordinary people shot by bandits all the way are simply hell on earth. In Yunxi County, Hubei Province, the crime of Jasmine Zhang's subordinates raping women is outrageous. They searched for women everywhere, and once they found them, they immediately tied them into bandits' nests and abused them wantonly. The bandit disaster of foreigners was one of the most harmful bandit disasters in the Republic of China. Its number, scope and death toll are amazing. With his cruelty, if he hadn't died of infighting and continued to suffer, he would have become the first bandit in the Republic of China.