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In 1940, china was in a period of arduous anti-Japanese resistance, but at the end of May of that year, there was a very pompous funeral in the streets of Chongqing during the entire period of China's anti-Japanese resistance. A total of about 100,000 soldiers and people stood solemnly on the street, with a trail in the middle and several Chinese soldiers escorting a coffin.
Most importantly, the three major forces at the time of his martyrdom paid homage to him. The Japanese army carefully buried him at the time of his death, not only wiped the blood on his body, but also let him lie flat on the battlefield, and finally paid the highest salute to Japan, and the Japanese army specifically announced the cessation of air raids for one day for him, and at the funeral, the Japanese plane flew over the coffin three times without dropping a single shell;
On the side of the nationalist army, Lao Jiang personally supported his soul, and then sent off in frustration, and the entire funeral procession was solemnly performed by the nationalist army, and all the soldiers shed tears;
The most important thing is Chinese government, and when this hero was just martyred, our party was very upset about this news, because China had lost a major general, and after the founding of New China, he was posthumously recognized as a revolutionary martyr by the Chinese government.
Can you guess who this Chinese hero really is? What great deeds did he do? It has been highly valued and respected by the Chinese government, the Nationalist army, the Chinese people, and the Japanese army. Friends who like to watch remember to pay a little attention to let's get into today's topic.
During the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japan, he was the commander-in-chief of the Right Wing Corps of the Fifth Theater and the commander-in-chief of the Thirty-third Army of the Nationalist Army, Zhang Zizhong.
Maybe many people know this name, but you certainly don't know how godly Zhang Zizhong's deeds really are!
Zhang Zizhong was born in 1891 in linqing, Shandong Province, an official family, although his father is not a big official, but basically guaranteed Zhang Zizhong's family is very good, can be said to be what people often call "noble prince". But the rich family background did not make him very bad, nor did he get infected with feudal ideas, but grew into a hot-blooded young man with a sense of justice in the environment at that time.
And Zhang Zizhong has been very fond of listening to the stories of ancient heroes since he was a child, such as many generals and Yue Fei in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so because of the influence of these heroes, Zhang Zizhong is very patriotic.
When the Xinhai Revolution broke out in 1911, Zhang Zizhong also had the opportunity to come into contact with Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles. Receiving new ideas and new concepts, he seemed to have found his faith in an instant, so he embarked on the road of democratic revolution.
The first army Zhang Zizhong joined was Feng Yuxiang's troops, and he did not rely on his official background, but started from the grassroots level. Because Zhang Zizhong was cultured and had great fighting power, he was quickly appreciated for his ability to write and learn martial arts, and became a commander in the army.
In this way, his prestige in the Nationalist army grew, but with the emergence of the Chinese Communist Party and the invasion of the Japanese army, Zhang Zizhong slowly began to doubt his own party.
As Zhang Zizhong grew older, he found that he did not live as he wanted, because he wanted to become a hero in the hearts of the people, but the feedback from reality to him was more of a "traitor".
At the time of the July 7 Incident, the Japanese Kwantung Army began a large-scale northward attack, and the generals who guarded Pingjin at that time were Zhang Zizhong and Song Zheyuan. Song Zheyuan was instigated when facing a large-scale Japanese army, ostensibly talking about preserving strength, but in fact he did gather his own large troops to run.
Zhang Zizhong was guarding the town of Beiping at that time, but he also knew that his troops would definitely not be able to defeat the Japanese army. Therefore, in the end, they had no choice but to surrender their weapons and let the Japanese army drive into Peiping Castle, and Pingjin completely fell. In this way, Zhang Zizhong's accusation of adultery was also confirmed.
Zhang Zizhong was insulted all over the country, and everyone believed that Zhang Zizhong did not resist the Japanese army. And at that time, the Japanese army also had some understanding of Zhang Zizhong, knowing that Zhang Zizhong did not defect to the Japanese army, but in order to confirm Zhang Zizhong's crime of "traitor", he was still secretly spreading rumors.
Not only that, but the Japanese also invited Song Zheyuan to visit Japan, ostensibly in order to ease Sino-Japanese relations, but in fact this is all a Japanese conspiracy. Song Zheyuan sent Zhang Zizhong to Japan for a visit, but no one thought that this was a trap for Japan.
After Zhang Zizhong arrived in Japan, Japan hyped up Zhang Zizhong's "pro-Japanese" behavior in China. Zhang Zizhong also experienced a storm of "dismissal" in the Nationalist army.
Old Jiang saw that Zhang Zizhong was "pro-Japanese" and removed him from his post, but the generals who had worked with Zhang Zizhong before all petitioned Old Jiang one after another, and Zhang Zizhong himself wrote a blood letter hoping that he could continue to resist Japan, and finally due to the urgency of the war, Old Jiang reappointed Zhang Zizhong.
In order to wash away the crimes on his body, Zhang Zizhong has been looking for opportunities, hoping to hit the Japanese army. In the defense of Linyi, Zhang Zizhong believed that the time had come. Although his mission was to support the Third Army, he never missed the opportunity.
And it was very prominent in this battle, and also let the masses see the truth that Zhang Zizhong was not a traitor. But Zhang Zizhong was not particularly happy about this, but constantly looked for opportunities to sit in his place, and then attacked the Japanese army on the battlefield.
The Japanese army also saw Zhang Zizhong's strength, and Zhang Zizhong gradually became a thorn in the eyes of the Japanese army, and in many battles, as long as the team commanded by Zhang Zizhong would suffer heavy losses.
In 1940, Zhang Zizhong's last battle came.
It was May, and the Battle of Zaoyi officially broke out, and Zhang Zizhong happened to be the commander of the Nationalist army. But at that time, the situation in our army was not very optimistic.
In this war, Japan gathered 300,000 troops and suddenly launched a fierce attack on our army, Zhang Zizhong saw that the Japanese offensive was very rapid, so he led the 33rd Group Army, also with weapons, with his most precious pens and large knives, ready to resist the Japanese army, before leaving, he thought of his soldiers to make Zhang Zizhong's last speech before his death.
After listening to the speech, the soldiers under Zhang Zizhong's hands were full of enthusiasm, and one by one they all aroused the desire to defend their families and defend the country. Zhang Zizhong's troops and two other Nationalist forces began to counterattack the Japanese army, and Zhang Zizhong first led more than 2,000 people to fight with the Japanese army at Xianghe.
The Japanese army has always been unable to take advantage of Zhang Zizhong's troops, whether it is hard or strategic, it has always appeared powerless in front of Zhang Zizhong. But with the arrival of a piece of disinformation, the tide of the war was completely changed.
At a very critical juncture, Chiang received a false message, when the original Japanese reinforcements had arrived, and the best thing for the Nationalists at this time was to retreat to the rear for a distance. However, Old Chiang received false information, made a wrong judgment on the judgment of the war situation, and did not retreat at the first time.
Old Chiang Kai-shek's erroneous judgment caused our anti-Japanese generals to suffer very serious losses, and our army panicked for a while after seeing so many Japanese troops. This is not nothing, and more unfortunate news follows.
The telegrams of Zhang Zizhong's troops had been deciphered by the Japanese army, and it was at that time that Zhang Zizhong's every order would be monitored by the Japanese army. Therefore, when Zhang Zizhong led the troops on the march, they were encountered by a large number of Japanese troops. The two sides immediately engaged in a fierce battle, but the Japanese made some preparations for battle in advance, resulting in serious damage to Zhang Zizhong's troops.
After a day of fierce fighting, Zhang Zizhong's troops were only about 1500 people, surrounded by a 6000-strong Japanese army at that time. In such an invincible situation now, Zhang Zizhong also seemed to see that his deadline had arrived, but he did not give up, but led his soldiers to resist desperately.
They fought hard until the afternoon of the next day, during which the Japanese army also knew that Zhang Zizhong's team was not large, so they launched a total of 9 charges in one day, and Zhang Zizhong's troops were getting closer and closer in the position of the Japanese troops, so close that the Japanese army shouted that our army could hear it. The Japanese army began to shout with Chinese, trying to persuade our anti-Japanese soldiers to surrender.
Zhang Zizhong was even more angry when he heard this, and at this time he issued a final report to his main forces, in which he said: "I fought and died, and I have never surrendered or surrendered my weapons, whether it is for the country or the nation, I am not ashamed."
At that time, Zhang Zizhong had already suffered two serious injuries, but he was not cowardly, and after a simple bandage, he continued to strafe the enemy. The Japanese army saw that it had no effect in persuading our army to surrender, so they quickly charged forward to surround Zhang Zizhong, and Zhang Zizhong was also stabbed to death with bayonets by the Japanese troops who rushed forward.
After Zhang Zizhong's martyrdom, the Japanese army saw his body and then performed a high salute and military salute. At that time, Zhang Zizhong suffered eight serious injuries, including gunshot wounds, shell wounds and finally fatal wounds, and his body was covered in blood.
The Japanese officer demanded that Zhang Zizhong's blood be wiped clean, and then a coffin of good quality was selected to bury him. This was followed by not only a military salute for the whole army, but also a one-day military salute for the local Japanese army to stop the air raids.
Not long after Zhang Zizhong's death, Huang Weigang, the commander of the 38th Division, risked his life to retrieve Zhang Zizhong's body, and then carried out a thick burial. The nationalist military government awarded Zhang Zizhong the medal of honor of "Rongzi No. 1", and lao Jiang personally supported and mourned Zhang Zizhong.
And the people who know that Zhang Zizhong mourned Zhang Zizhong, and after the founding of New China, Zhang Zizhong was also posthumously regarded as a revolutionary martyr, and people remembered this national hero again. Also on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Zizhong was named "100 Heroic And Exemplary Figures Who Made Outstanding Contributions to the Founding of New China".
Although Zhang Zizhong was in the Nationalist Army, he never flinched in the anti-Japanese war, and he was repeatedly mistaken by the people and his superiors as a "traitor" and still did not self-destruct and degenerate, so his spirit is worth learning.
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