This Kuomintang lieutenant general was originally an inconspicuous division commander, and the reason for his fame was well known to women and children
During the turbulent period of warlord melee in China in the 1920s and 1930s, Zhang Huizhen, the commander of the division, was not a big man. However, the reason why he is very famous, almost everyone knows it, is that he served as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy in the first "encirclement and suppression" launched by the Kuomintang against the central revolutionary base areas, and was defeated, captured alive by the Red Army, and finally beheaded. The chairman also wrote down the popular poem "Fisherman's Pride and Anti-First Great Encirclement and Suppression", one of which was "Summoned in unison, and Zhang Huizhen was caught in front of him."
It was October 1930, after Chiang Kai-shek had basically won the Great War in the Central Plains, he immediately mobilized his troops to launch a large-scale "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Red Army and the revolutionary base areas, proposing to eliminate the Red Army within 3 to 6 months, focusing on the central revolutionary base areas, and at the same time instructing Lu Diping, chairman of the Kuomintang Jiangxi Provincial Government and commander-in-chief of the 9th Route Army, to organize the implementation.
On November 2, Lu Diping organized the 7 divisions and 1 brigade concentrated in Jiangxi into 3 columns, and limited to 5 days ago, the 18th Division of the 1st Column was assembled in Zhangshu, the 24th Division was assembled on the north bank of the Ganjiang River northwest of Fengcheng, and the newly formed 13th Division was assembled in Linchuan; the 50th Division of the 2nd Column was assembled at Xishan Wanshou Palace, the Independent 14th Brigade was assembled in Jing'an; the 77th Division of the 3rd Column was assembled at Shanggao, the newly organized 5th Division was assembled at Gao'an; and the 8th Division of the General Reserve Was assembled in Nanchang.
In the face of the gradual advance of the "encirclement and suppression" army, the Red Army, in order to preserve its strength and wait for an opportunity to break the enemy, used a small number of troops to cooperate with the local masses to arm the sluggish and deplete the "encirclement and suppression" army. He was extremely demoralized, and while reporting to Chiang Kai-shek on the smooth battle situation, he also carried out "liquidation and suppression" on the spot to make preparations for attacking the central area of the base area.
In early December, Chiang Kai-shek personally rushed to Nanchang to organize the "encirclement and suppression" of the central revolutionary base areas, which began in the middle of the year, and all the "encirclement and suppression" armies took the Donggu area as the general target of the attack and attacked separately and jointly. At the same time, the 19th Route Army was dispatched from Wuhan to participate in the war; the 56th, 49th, and provisional 2nd Brigades stationed in Fujian were also dispatched to advance to the border of Fujian and Gansu to intercept the Red Army. At this point, the total strength of the "encirclement and suppression" army increased to 11 divisions and 2 brigades, with a total of more than 100,000 people. In order to strengthen the command, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the establishment of the Nanchang Xing Battalion, commander-in-chief of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and appointed Lu Diping as director and commander of the 18th Division, Zhang Huizhan, as the commander-in-chief of the front.
Zhang Huizhen (張辉瓒), Zi Shihou (石侯). A native of Changsha, Hunan, he was born in 1885. Lieutenant General of the Kuomintang Army. In his early years, he studied at the Hunan Bingmu Academy and the Officers' Martial Arts School, and later studied at the Japanese Non-Commissioned Officer School. In 1914, he returned to China and served as the chief of the Beijing Quartermaster School and a military science instructor, and immediately went to Germany to study military affairs. In 1916, he returned to China and engaged in anti-Yuan activities in Tianjin. In order to avoid Yuan Shikai's heavy reward and arrest, he returned to his hometown in Hunan to organize an independent regiment and participate in the War of Defending france, and successively served as the guerrilla commander of the Xiang Army, the director of the military station, the commander of the 2nd District, and the brigade commander of the 4th Mixed Brigade. In 1923, he was appointed as a military councilor of the General Headquarters of the Jianguo Xiang Army and the commander of the 9th Division. In 1926, he participated in the Northern Expedition and served as the commander of the 4th Division of the 2nd Army of the National Revolutionary Army. Later, he served as deputy commander and acting commander of the 2nd Army. In October 1928, the 2nd Army was downsized to the 18th Division, serving as deputy division commander. In the following year, he entered Gansu and concurrently served as the commander of the Nanchang garrison.
For the Communist Party, Zhang Huizhan was fierce. In 1929, Lu Diping became the chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Government. In order to consolidate his rule, he transferred his close associate Zhang Huizhan to the 18th Division to Gan. After arriving in Jiangxi, Zhang Huizhan concurrently served as the commander of the Nanchang garrison, frantically hunting down communists and revolutionary masses, which can be described as killing people like hemp, and he was an executioner who killed people without blinking, known as "Zhang Butcher". At that time, the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League were destroyed several times and forced to move from Nanchang to Jiujiang, and hundreds of party members were arrested and killed. This time as the commander-in-chief of the front line, Zhang Huizhong was proud of the spring breeze and uttered wild words at the oath-taking meeting: "Eliminate" and "red bandits" and swear not to survive. ”
On the 29th, Zhang Huizhan led the 18th Division and 2 brigades to venture into Longgang alone. He erroneously judged that the main force of the Red Army was still far away in the Area of Huangpi and Xiaobu, and that the vanguard troops were only attacked by the small units of the Red Army, so he assumed that the troops and weapons were superior, and did not pay attention to it at all, and immediately ordered the vanguard to organize the troops to counterattack. For a time, the battle was glued.
By noon, the Red 3rd Army had all joined the battle. After all, Zhang Huizhan had drunk foreign ink, not a wine bag, and commanded the battle with some means, personally organizing the strength of the two regiments to launch an onslaught, and the battle was very fierce, causing relatively heavy casualties to the Red Army. At 3:00 p.m., Zhang Huizhan personally commanded 4 regiments to carry out multiple attacks on the Red Army positions, all of which were repelled.
At this time, the Red 4th Army and the Red 3rd Army had already inserted themselves into Zhangjiache, cut off the 18th Division's contact with Donggu and Infu, and attacked Longgang from the flank and rear; the main force of the Red 3rd Army occupied Shanggu and nearby favorable positions, cut off the way for the enemy to reinforce from the northwest and the enemy of Longgang to break through to the northwest, and completed the complete encirclement of the 18th Division.
At 4 p.m., the Red Army launched a general offensive. Seeing that the encirclement was getting smaller and smaller, Zhang Huizhan knew that the general trend had gone, and fled to the northwest with the remnants of his troops, but it was too late, Zhang Huizhan and his 18th Division had become turtles in an urn, and the Red Army rushed down from the high mountains behind Longgang and quickly rushed the enemy army to pieces.
Zhang Huizhan secretly changed into the clothes of the soldiers and tried to escape in the scattered troops, but was unexpectedly captured by the Red Army because of his "wide body and fat" mobility. Zhang Huizhen falsely claimed to be a clerk in an attempt to fool through the customs, but was unexpectedly exposed on the spot by the Kuomintang prisoners. It turned out that this zhang division commander usually did some things to deduct soldiers' salaries, and he was deeply hated by the soldiers.
After the Red Army captured Zhang Huizhan alive, it did not want to kill him, and also wanted him to be a professor at the Red Army University, after all, Zhang Huizhan had studied in Japan and had also studied military affairs in Germany, which was also a talent. On the other hand, the Kuomintang was also willing to exchange 200,000 yuan of fresh foreign and 20 quintals of Western medicine for Zhang Huizhen, objectively speaking, this "deal" was very cost-effective for the Red Army, which was in short supply at that time, but in the end it was not reached.
It turned out that just when the two sides were negotiating, the masses demanded that Zhang Huizhan be tried at the meeting, because Zhang Huizhan had done too many bad things, the crowd in the venue was full of emotion, and the order was slowly uncontrollable, and everyone unanimously demanded that Zhang Huizhan be shot, and finally Zhang Huizhan was shot in public in a wave of higher than a wave of condemnation among the masses.