During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was also a battalion commander in the Supplementary Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
Once, in the night, Chen Geng's troops were attacked by the Japanese army.
At that time, they were suppressed by Japanese fire in a depression, unable to break through, and the situation was very dangerous.
I don't know if it was a divine intention or a coincidence. When he learned that it was Brigadier Chen Geng who was trapped, he immediately rushed over with a light machine gun and led the team, suppressed the enemy's firepower, and killed a bloody road to relieve Chen Geng's siege.
For his brave and resourceful performance in the state of war, Chen Geng was very appreciative. Therefore, soon after, Brigadier Chen talked to Xu Shiyou, deputy brigade commander, and decided to let him serve as the deputy commander of the 772nd Regiment, but before taking office, he had a condition, he must first serve as the leader of the special task team, and the main tasks were: first, to get rid of traitors; second, to engage in military supplies in preparation for winter needs.
The 772nd Regiment was the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and its regimental commander was first Ye Chenghuan, who was appointed by Wang Caigui after Ye Chenghuan's sacrifice. The deputy commander of this regiment is even more famous, he is the famous warlord Wang Jinshan. Therefore, it was necessary for him to enter the main regiment of the Eighth Route Army and serve as deputy regimental commander.
After that, he organized a group of good men with extraordinary skills, formed a special task force, appeared in the county occupied by the Japanese army, and spent one night to kill the han traitor dog legs that maintained the meeting.
The name of this so-and-so captain is Zha Yusheng.
Zha Yusheng is a native of Lu'an, Anhui Province, born in 1914. Because of his family's poverty, he herded cattle for the landlord in his childhood and wanted to eat, and it was precisely because of poverty and helplessness that after the Red Army made a revolution, he joined the Red Fourth Front Army at the age of 17 and became a small soldier of the Red Army. It is precisely because he learned from the snack foot that the Red Army was a team that fought for the poor in the Red Army, and he showed great bravery in battle, and in about three years he went from soldier to squad leader to platoon leader to traffic instructor. Later, he participated in the Long March of the Red Fourth Front.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zha Yusheng successively served as the company commander of the 722nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the commander of the Supplementary Regiment, and officially succeeded Wang Jinshan as the deputy commander of the 722nd Regiment during the Hundred Regiments War.
On November 24, 1940, Xie Jiaqing, commander of the 16th Regiment of the 386th Brigade, was shot and killed in the battle to encircle the Japanese army. Zha Yusheng was transferred to the 16th Regiment.
Zha Yusheng fought in the same style as Wang Jinshan, and he actively participated in the battles arranged by his superiors; he took the initiative to ask for battles that were not arranged by his superiors.
During the Liberation War, Zha Yu was promoted to brigade commander of the 4nd Column 22nd Brigade of Chen Geng's department. At that time, according to the instructions of the central authorities, his 22nd Brigade was to be transferred to the northeast, but the brigade commander was unwilling, so on the grounds that "the Yellow River could not return when the water rose," he led his troops to fight several beautiful battles with the fraternal troops in the Central Plains, and became the "four columns and four tigers" under Chen Geng's command, which made Commander Chen Geng cry and laugh.
Speaking of the "Four Tigers" under Chen Geng's command, they were Zhou Xihan of the 10th Brigade, Li Chengfang of the 11th Brigade, Chen Kang of the 13th Brigade, and Zha Yusheng of the 22nd Brigade. However, when it came time to confer military ranks, except for Zha Yusheng, all the other "Three Tigers" were awarded lieutenant generals, and only he was awarded major generals; although it was regrettable, the reason was that the battle that was later fought when he participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was not fought well.
On October 23, 1998, General Zha Yusheng, who was 84 years old, died, and when the children found 13 pieces of shrapnel when they were sorting out the ashes, the people present were all touched and shocked by this, and they all lamented that the old general Zha Yusheng was a person with a steely will, otherwise how could he let these 13 pieces of shrapnel accompany him for most of his life?