As we all know, in the revolutionary years, the Kuomintang usually offered a reward, spent money to buy the heads of The Generals of the Red Army, and could only play such a trick if it could not win the Red Army.
The founding major general was named Zhang Xiulong, he was a Hubei Xiantao, born in a poor family, zhang Xiulong went out to earn a living at a young age, apprenticed in a blacksmith shop, in 1930, 16-year-old Zhang Xiulong signed up for the Red Army and became a Red Army soldier.
In the Red Army, Zhang Xiulong relied on his ability to strike iron to create large knives and spears for the Red Army guerrillas, which gradually emerged and gradually received the attention of his superiors, and in 1932, Zhang Xiulong served as the squad leader of the Guard of the Chuanhan Independent Regiment of the Red Second Army under He Laozong.
Zhang Xiulong fought very bravely, in a battle, he led the soldiers to repel the enemy's attack, but also snatched back hundreds of cartons of grain from the enemy, when grain was a scarce material, which alarmed Mr. He, who praised him as "like a blacksmith."
Since then, Zhang Xiulong's reputation in the Red Army has become more and more famous, on the Long March Road, Zhang Xiulong also served as the chief of staff of the 17th Regiment of the 9th Division, during which he was wounded three times, once in the place of Bijie in Guizhou, the Red Army and the enemy exchanged fire, and they could not break through the enemy's resistance for half a day.
The division commander and the political commissar thought of Zhang Xiulong, although he was injured, but the military emergency could only let Zhang Xiulong go up, and sure enough, after Zhang Xiulong went up, the enemy's blocking position was broken, but during the battle, Zhang Xiulong's leg was injured and he was pulled out of the dead pile by his comrades-
Later, the Anti-Japanese War broke out in full swing, Zhang Xiulong was sent to the anti-Japanese battlefield in Shanxi, at this time Zhang Xiulong was already experienced in hundreds of battles, the Japanese army's so-called "invincible" Bushido spirit became a joke in front of Zhang Xiulong, and the Japanese army was beaten to salute and thank Zhang Xiulong.
It was in the battle of the Jingle Kangjiahui in Shanxi, when Zhang Xiulong took the soldiers to fight the Japanese stronghold, they eliminated a squadron of the Japanese army, and captured a Japanese commander alive in the battle.
Zhang Xiulong was also a little overwhelmed at that time, this Japanese prisoner said thank you to the Eighth Route Army, thanks to being captured alive to survive, the original Japanese so-called "Bushido" spirit is no more than this, so from a point of view, the Japanese army can not win the war of aggression.
After that, Zhang Xiulong also participated in the famous Hundred Regiments War, he led his troops to blow up the Japanese railway, destroyed the Japanese army stronghold, so that the enemy's railway transportation fell into paralysis, in the years of fighting, Zhang Xiulong made great achievements, the war also made Zhang Xiulong lose many comrades-
Even he himself almost died, in the early days of the Liberation War, the Kuomintang 300,000 troops besieged the Central Plains, Zhang Xiulong was then the deputy commander of the Jianghan Military Region, he led his troops to break through in the direction of Sichuan, and when he broke through to Macheng ambush, only one battalion of troops was left.
On the breakthrough road Zhang Xiulong found a lot of notices, above is a reward for the capture of Pi Dingjun alive, Zhang Xiulong rewarded three million oceans, fortunately, Zhang Xiulong escaped later, in his later years Zhang Xiulong recalled these past events still sighed, in 1955, Zhang Xiulong was awarded the rank of major general, until his death in 2015, at the age of 101.