Zhang Zhen's life can be said to be extremely legendary, he experienced the Long March, the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the War of Self-Defense against Vietnam, the first president of the National Defense University, and finally was awarded the rank of general. Until 2015, this historic figure who witnessed the rise and fall of the republic passed away and contributed his life to the country.
Zhang Zhen's original surname was Wu, at that time, the Wu family had many children, and it coincided with the death of his father, and there was no main backbone in the family, So Zhang Zhen gave it as an adopted son to a grate smith with the surname Zhang in a foreign country, and changed his name to Zhang Jiansheng. Later, Zhang Zhen felt that the name Jiansheng was not domineering, and learned that Yue Fei's descendants were all named after the rain character, and Zhang Jiansheng, who worshipped Yue Fei, changed his name to Zhang Zhen. From Zhang Zhen's later performance, it can be seen that Zhang Zhen's behavior is based on Yue Fei's example everywhere. In that war-torn era at that time, it was indeed necessary for many people like Yue Fei to stand up and fight for the great national righteousness.
The adoptive parents' family supported Zhang Zhen to finish reading until Zhang Zhen held a fifteen-year-old coming-of-age ceremony and married Huamei according to local customs and customs. After his adoptive father became seriously ill, Zhang Zhen went out to earn a living as the top pillar of the family. At first, Zhang Zhen worked as a school worker at his alma mater, but due to the tight war, the school did not open for long. There is no doubt that Zhang Zhen is unemployed, coupled with the bullying of local hooligans, the Life of the Zhang Family is not as good as a day.
This can be anxious Zhang Zhen, watching the deterioration of the family, Zhang Zhen is more and more anxious. Later, the neighbor heard from nowhere that a school in Changsha was recruiting school workers, and on the way to Changsha, Zhang Zhen learned that Changsha was recruiting soldiers, and his military career also began here.
Zhang Zhen went to the Nanhu Barracks at that time, a unit belonging to the Beiyang warlords, which did not have any rules in management and a very poor internal environment. It was not until Peng Dehuai led the Red Fifth Division to liberate Hunan that Zhang Zhen participated in the Red Army troops. Later, Zhang Zhen followed the Red Army in a strategic shift and opened the Long March, when he was a combat staff officer in the Tenth Regiment of the Fourth Division of the Red Third Army. Turning to Yungui, climbing snow-capped mountains and crossing meadows, Zhang Zhen spent an unforgettable youth on the road of the Long March.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zhang Zhen led his troops to fight guerrilla warfare in the mountains. Based on the terrain and the mobility of the guerrillas, they mediated with the enemy in the mountains, and often fought the Japanese army. At that time, the Japanese army was well-equipped and well-trained, and it was almost flat in the country, but it could not show its fists and feet when dealing with the guerrillas. Later, when he arrived in the plain area, Zhang Zhen trained his troops intensively and circled the plain area with the daily average. In just one stop in Itabashi, he led his troops to kill more than a thousand Japanese puppet troops, and also set a record for the Japanese aircraft behind enemy lines.
In 1953, Zhang Zhen was sent to the Korean battlefield to command three divisions of the Twenty-fourth Army. Although facing a well-equipped US military, Zhang Zhen still perfectly exerted his military talents. He divided his soldiers into countless squads and specialized in sneaking up on enemy troops at night. In doing so, the first is to prevent the artillery of the US coalition forces from playing a role, and second, it can also rely on the night lurking, so that the other side cannot touch the bottom of the volunteer army. With the passage of time, the strength of the US coalition army was depleted little by little, and in June of that year, Zhang Zhen organized his troops to launch an attack, annihilating more than 1,800 enemy troops and winning the battle in one fell swoop.
After returning to China, Zhang Zhen was awarded the rank of lieutenant general at the first ceremony of the new China and has been serving in the army ever since.
Until 1985, Zhang Zhen was seventy-one years old at this time, because he was older, basically equivalent to retirement, but Zhang Zhen was still looking forward to doing some military research. Not long after, Yang Shangkun, then vice president of the state, found Zhang Zhen again: "Although the world situation is now tending to be peaceful, people will have near-term worries without far-reaching worries, and the cultivation of national military talents is crucial." Yang Shangkun mentioned the idea of preparing for the National Defense University, but Zhang Zhen did not say a word and became the first president of the school. In 1988, Zhang Zhen was awarded the rank of general for his contributions to the country, which is a great affirmation of a soldier.
Until 1992, When Zhang Zhen was elected vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, when he was seventy-eight years old, Zhang Zhen felt that he was old and wanted to give up his position to young people, but Deng Xiaoping told him that Zhang Zhen had excellent ability and could do another term. Indeed, although Zhang Zhen was already in his prime at that time, he was still full of vigor and vigor on the road, completely retaining the true color of the revolutionaries' arduous struggle.
Zhang Zhen has worked hard all his life, and there is a special bullet in the "legacy" left to his children. In 1945, Zhang Zhen was hit by a stray bullet when he inspected the front line, but the war was tight at that time, and Zhang Zhen persisted after a simple bandage. It was not until ten years later that Zhang Zhen felt uncomfortable and took the bullet out, when Zhang Zhen humorously said that he would leave the bullet to his children as a souvenir. In fact, what is really left to the hundreds of millions of Chinese children is the fearless spirit of revolutionaries like Zhang Zhen who work hard to defend their families and defend the country.