For the founding lieutenant general Zhang Fan, many people are not too familiar with it. The general, born in 1909 and died in 2002, was a founding general of a high life. His life, battle-hardened, full of legends. Especially with the guards, the two of them, without spending a single shot and a bullet, captured more than 500 enemies at a time, you may not believe it, but this is the case, below, the author will talk about how they captured more than 500 enemies.
During the Long March of the Red Army, Zhang Fan, who was then the political commissar of the Forty-eighth Regiment of the Sixteenth Division of the Red Sixth Army, stayed behind and fought guerrilla warfare in the Xiang'egan area, and after the establishment of the New Fourth Army in October 1937, because they lived deep in the mountains, they did not go out of the mountains until 1938 to accept the reorganization, and successively served as the deputy battalion commander of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Detachment of the New Fourth Army, the deputy chief of staff of the Regiment, and the deputy commander of the 1st Brigade of the Advance Detachment of the New Fourth Army. At the beginning of 1939, Zhang Fan was drawn to work in the New Fourth Army, and then appointed as the chief of staff of the New Fourth Army's Advancing Column, crossed the Yangtze River with the troops, participated in the command of the Battle of Guocun, participated in the opening of the anti-Japanese base area in northern Jiangsu, and in 1940 was appointed chief of staff of the first column of the Northern Jiangsu Command.
During the Battle of Huangqiao, he was ordered to be in charge of the work of a column forward command, commanding from the front, and wherever the troops hit, he set up the headquarters. At noon on October 5, the 4th Regiment of the 1st Column of the New Fourth Army first attacked the headquarters of the enemy's 89th Army, and the main force of the 1st Regiment also attacked bravely. In the evening, Zhang Fan saw that the attack of the troops was smooth, and immediately moved the headquarters forward to a private house in a village not far from the headquarters of the enemy's 89th Army, ordered the combat staff officer and the communication squad to quickly set up a radio station, and he wanted to contact the attacking troops.
At this time, there was a sudden noise outside the house, Zhang Fan frowned, and then walked out of the house, and when he looked, a group of people outside came under black pressure, shouting: The regimental commander is not there, just look for the division commander. When the division commander is not there, look for the commander, and so on. Zhang Fan listened curiously, but also a little unhappy, thinking, what is this for? There is no organizational discipline at all. He walked out of the house, approached the gang and looked at it, and he was shocked, why? It turned out that this gang was all enemies. General Zhang Fan immediately understood that this group of enemies had been scattered and could no longer find their commander. Thinking of this, General Zhang Fan wanted to turn around and go back to the house and transfer his troops. But at this time, he could not go, because there were too many enemies, and he was squeezed in the middle.
At this time, General Zhang Fan's clothes were gently tugged, and he turned his head to see that it was his personal guard who was crowded among the enemies like him. Zhang Fan quickly pulled the guard to his side and muttered in his ear for a while, and the guard nodded as he listened. Why did I even nod my head, and I didn't dare to say "yes" out loud. After Zhang Fan finished speaking, the guards shouted loudly: Brothers, don't shout, I know where the regimental headquarters is, come with me. As soon as the enemy heard the guards shout that he knew where the regimental headquarters was, they followed the guards, and General Zhang Fan was also wrapped up in them.
Where are the guards going to take the enemy? Of course, General Zhang Fan told him to take the enemy to the position of the first regiment of the first column of the New Fourth Army closest to the headquarters. When we were about to reach a regimental position, General Zhang Fan and the guards suddenly shouted loudly together: We are the New Fourth Army, and we will not kill us! This group of enemies was in a daze, and the forward soldiers of the first regiment of the first column of the New Fourth Army also found them, rushed out of the position in an instant, and shouted in unison: Surrender your guns and do not kill! In this way, General Zhang Fan and his guards did not spend a single shot and captured more than 500 enemy soldiers.