In the history textbooks of middle schools, there is a famous Zhang Zhizhong, and there is also a thunderous Zhang Zizhong. These two names are easy to confuse, and both of them are test centers, encountering fill-in-the-blank questions or multiple choice questions, and accidentally getting them wrong.
Today Xiaobian will come to talk to you about the difference between the two people. First, places of origin are different. Zhang Zhizhong was a native of Chaohu, Anhui, and Zhang Zizhong was a native of Linqing, Shandong. That is to say, one of them is a southerner and the other is a northerner.
Southerners are handsome, such as Zhang Zhizhong is quite bookish, and northerners are burly, such as Zhang Zizhong is a typical Shandong Han. But objectively speaking, both of them are relatively handsome, and they can be called handsome men. There should be no objection to this, right?
Second, identities are different. Zhang Zhizhong graduated from the Baoding Military Academy and later served at the Whampoa Military Academy, where he was a beloved general of Chiang Kai-shek's lineage and subordinate to the Central Army. Zhang Zizhong, on the other hand, was born in the Northwest Army, was a general under Feng Yuxiang, and belonged to Chiang Kai-shek as a general of the Miscellaneous Army.
In the end, the ending is also different. Zhang Zizhong died on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, he was the highest-ranking general of the Kuomintang who died during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and he has been passed down through the ages and will forever be recorded in history. Zhang Zhizhong, on the other hand, was a general of peace, who later left Chiang Kai-shek and joined New China, where he later rose to the rank of vice-chancellor.
So, who is more powerful? You don't have to say, the two pieces have really exchanged hands on the battlefield. It was during the Great War in the Central Plains, when Feng Yuxiang and Chiang Kai-shek went to war. Zhang Zizhong was the commander of Feng Yuxiang's division, and Zhang Zhizhong was the commander of the Second Division of Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army.
They are all division commanders. Which is more powerful? In the Battle of Gaoxianji in Henan, Zhang Zizhong led the fierce Northwest Army to defeat Zhang Zhizhong's central army. It can be seen that in terms of individual combat ability, Zhang Zizhong is even more powerful.
Zhang Zhizhong later confessed in his memoirs that the time he spent leading soldiers in his life was short, and his longer time was to run military education, and his interest also lay in running education. He was a famous general of peace.
Zhang Zizhong was a lieutenant general in the army before his death, and after his death, he was posthumously awarded the title of second-class general, and Zhang Zhizhong was a second-class general before his death, in terms of military rank, Zhang Zhizhong was more powerful, who let him be a general of the Central Army.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Erzhang Duguan was appointed commander-in-chief of the group army. Zhang Zhizhong was the commander-in-chief of the Ninth Army and fought on the Songhu battlefield. Zhang Zizhong was the commander-in-chief of the Thirty-third Army, and eventually spilled blood on the battlefield. They are all well-deserved anti-Japanese generals.
In the Songhu battlefield, Zhang Zhizhong commanded the battle for a full forty days, he had not eaten a formal meal, had not slept once, his eyes were red, his throat was hoarse, and his whole body was thin, and when he returned to his hometown after the war to rest, everyone could hardly recognize him.
Zhang Zizhong was even more tragic, although he said that he was the commander-in-chief of a group army, but when the Japanese army attacked Zaoyi, he only had two regiments of troops around him. Zhang Zizhong decided to personally lead his troops to meet the Japanese army, and which commander-in-chief of the group army personally charged forward?
However, Zhang Zizhong, despite the persuasion of his subordinates, insisted on going personally, personally going to fight with Little Japan, and eventually died on the front line. The determination to die for the country and the nation is unclear, the stone is not rotten, and it will never change in the slightest. Zhang Zizhong is a good boy in China.
Therefore, although Zhang Zhizhong and Zhang Zizhong are very different, there is one thing they are in agreement, that is, they are both patriotic anti-Japanese generals with iron bones.