In 1924, the Whampoa Military Academy began to recruit secret students, after the pre-examination and formal examination, a total of 470 people stood out from 1200 candidates, 350 people were admitted, and 120 people were pre-admission, in addition, Sichuan sent some people, the XiangJun Wu Regiment sent 158 people to merge.
Later, there were 635 people who officially graduated from the Huangpu Phase I, including Chen Geng, Jiang Xianyun, Xu Xiangqian and others of our party, Hu Zongnan, Guan Linzheng, Du Yuming and others of the Kuomintang.
On May 7, 1981, Whampoa Phase I student Du Yuming died of illness, and the two sides of the Taiwan Strait simultaneously held a memorial ceremony for Du Yuming, and only two of the first batch of graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy enjoyed such a special honor.
One is Du Yuming, the other is the protagonist of this article, perhaps mentioning his name, not well known, his name is Zheng Dongguo.
Zheng Dongguo is a native of Shimen, Hunan, born in 1903, attended private school, primary school, and middle school as a child, and in 1923, at the age of 20, Zheng Dongguo studied at the Hunan Provincial Commercial College.
In 1924, Zheng Dongguo heard that Sun Yat-sen was preparing to establish a military school in Guangzhou, and he was excited and ready to apply for the examination, but when he came, the first enrollment time had passed, and when Zheng Dongguo was in a hurry, his fellow huang Ao came.
Huang Ao, worried that he would not be able to pass the examination, reported his name twice at once, and Zheng Dongguo took advantage of the East Wind to name Huang Turtle and was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy, coincidentally, he and the real Huang Ao were divided into the same team.
When the instructor called out his name, the two revealed, after the matter came out, Zheng Dongguo thought that he would be expelled, who knew that the school leaders only criticized him, did not take any harsh measures, and let him change his name.
In fact, from today's point of view, we can clearly see why the Whampoa Military Academy did not pursue Zheng Dongguo's mistakes, the reason is very simple, at that time, Huangpu, that is, to cultivate revolutionary talents, no matter whether Zheng Dongguo was admitted to the school instead of who was admitted to the school, it can be determined that he is indeed an excellent talent, so the school will not pursue.
After graduating from the military academy, Zheng Dongguo successively participated in the battle to quell the armed rebellion of the Guangzhou merchant group and the armed rebellion of Chen Jiongming, and during the Eastern Crusade, Zheng Dongguo had been promoted to the position of company party representative, and in the Battle of Tamsui City, Zheng Dongguo was a pioneer soldier, disregarding his own life, charging forward with a death squad and winning the final victory of the battle.
After the war, he was promoted to battalion party representative.
In 1926, during the Northern Expedition, Zheng Dongguo had been promoted to the commander of the 8th Regiment of the 3rd Division of the 1st Army of the National Revolutionary Army, this year, he was only 23 years old, during the Northern Expedition, Zheng Dongguo made a lot of contributions to the revolution, since then, he has been following Chiang Kai-shek, leading his troops to participate in the Central Plains War, Jiang Gui War and other warlords between the melee.
In 1931, Zheng Dongguo, who had become a brigade commander, fought fiercely with the Red Army in the Eyu-Anhui region.
In 1933, Zheng Dongguo led his troops to participate in the Great Wall War of Resistance, and among the military generals of the Kuomintang, Zheng Dongguo was one of the first generals to fight against the Japanese.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, Zheng Dongguo participated in the Battle of Baoding, the Battle of Zhanghe, the Battle of Xuzhou, and the Battle of Taierzhuang.
Before the Battle of Taierzhuang, Zheng Dongguo received orders to quickly lead his troops south, and when he arrived in Xuzhou, the Japanese army had already captured Teng County, which was guarded by the Sichuan army, and the vanguard of the Japanese army was rapidly moving south from the east of Teng County to Zaozhuang.
Zheng Dongguo pondered: Our army is no longer able to implement the battle plan of facing the enemy on the front line of the city north of the canal, and it is necessary to change the battle plan.
Zheng Dongguo thus reported to his superiors, hoping to command his troops to quickly drive to the south bank of the canal to occupy positions and cover the concentration of friendly forces to ensure Xuzhou, and when the superiors reviewed it, Zheng Dongguo had already taken the lead in carrying out the order.
At that time, the Japanese army was preparing to cross the river to attack, zheng dongguo led the troops to come, immediately fought fiercely with the enemy, due to the insistence of the zhengdong state department, the Japanese army had to give up crossing the river, and instead switched from the Zaotai branch line to attack Taierzhuang.
Later, after the victory of the Battle of Taierzhuang, many people lamented that if Zheng Dongguo had not prevented the Japanese army from crossing the river at that time, then the situation of the Battle of Taierzhuang would have changed to a great extent.
In 1939, Zheng Dongguo once again led his troops to participate in the Battle of Kunlun Pass and made great contributions.
In 1943, Zheng Dongguo came to India as the commander of the New 1st Army of the Chinese Army in India, during the war with the enemy in India, Zheng Dongguo often visited the front line to inspect and supervise the battle, and the New 1st Army won many battles during this period, such as the Battle of Hukang River Valley and the Battle of Menggong River Valley.
The New 1st Army later became one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang forces.
In 1946, Du Yuming, the commander of the Northeast Security Command, left his post due to illness, and Zheng Dongguo came to the northeast to succeed him.
After Chen Cheng came to the northeast in 1947, Zheng Dongguo was deprived of his rights, and in March 1948, he had to fly to Changchun and hold changchun.
After the liaoshen campaign broke out in September 1948, the People's Liberation Army quickly captured Jinzhou, making hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops in Changchun, Shenyang and other places become "turtles in an urn"
During the Battle of Changchun, Zeng Zesheng, commander of the Kuomintang 60th Army, led an uprising, and only a new Seventh Army remained in Changchun, and in order to reduce the losses in Changchun, our People's Liberation Army decided to persuade Zheng Dongguo to surrender, but Zheng Dongguo refused.
Later, the New Seventh Army also revolted, and Zheng Dongguo prepared to commit suicide, but was stopped by the guards around him.
Our army's handling of Zheng Dongguo was handled in accordance with surrender.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zheng Dongguo successively served as a commissioner of literature and history of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the Huangpu Alumni Association.
In January 1991, before his death, Zheng Dongguo told his family: "I am a soldier, I have a very light view of life and death, you should not feel sorry for me, live well, I have no regrets about state affairs and family affairs in my life, but unfortunately I did not see the reunification of the motherland, if the country is reunified, the national revolution will be completely successful." ”
After Zheng Dongguo's death, the party organization held a farewell ceremony for his body at Babaoshan.
At the same time, Taiwan also held a memorial service for Zheng Dongguo, and among the Huangpu students, the only two people who received a memorial service held on both sides of the strait at the same time, one was Du Yuming, and the other was Zheng Dongguo.