I believe that many people still have a little impression of the name Zhang Huizhan, he was the first senior general of the Nationalist army captured by our army, and his death also caused our army to suffer heavy losses, and since then our army has written the stipulation that we do not mistreat prisoners into the "Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention", and the lesson can be described as profound.
But in fact, in addition to Zhang Huizhan's 18th Division, there was also Tan Daoyuan's 50th Division in the Central Soviet Area at that time. It is worth mentioning that Tan Daoyuan and the great man still have a fairly deep relationship.
Tan Daoyuan is a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan, and in 1925, when Tan Daoyuan founded the Xiangjun Lecture Hall in Guangzhou, the Chinese teacher he hired was a great man. At that time, the great man was alone in Guangzhou, so he went to eat at the home of his fellow countryman Tan Daoyuan every day. At that time, during the honeymoon period of the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation, Tan Daoyuan was the commander of the 3rd Division of the Nationalist Army, and the great man was also the acting director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Nationalist Army, and both of them were fellow Hunan compatriots, so they were quite close to each other, and they were usually called brothers. However, after the first kuomintang-communist cooperation broke down, the two had to fight each other because of their respective positions.
In 1930, under the instructions of the nationalist top brass, Zhang Huizhan's 18th Division and Tan Daoyuan's 50th Division launched the first large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Central Red Army. At that time, Zhang Huizhan was eager to make a contribution, and soon fell into the encirclement circle of our army, and eventually the whole army was destroyed, and Zhang Huizhan himself was captured by our army.
However, Tan Daoyuan did not support this decision of the top level of the Nationalist army, and he had a deep friendship with the great man, so he has been stationed and watching.
Tan Daoyuan received a secret letter from the great man, in which the great man advised him to think about the survival of the nation and not to beat his own people.
After Tan Daoyuan read the letter, he was silent for a long time, and finally decided to withdraw his troops. In order not to let him be suspected by the top brass of the nationalist army, the great man commanded the Red Army to launch an attack on Tan Daoyuan's rear troops, capturing more than 2,000 rifles, and Tan Daoyuan did not fight the Red Army again.