This will be known to the Japanese as "Living Guan Gong", and after the sacrifice, the Japanese army will personally scrub and carry the coffin for him
In 1940, China and Japan entered a stalemate stage, and in order to cut off the lifeline of Chongqing, the Japanese army gathered 120,000 troops to capture Zaoyang and Yichang, with the commander-in-chief of the 11th Army, Yuanbu and Ichiro, as the commander-in-chief, while the Chinese army participated in the battle, including Li Zongren, commander-in-chief of the Fifth Theater, Huang Qixiang, commander-in-chief of the 11th Group Army, Sun Lianzhong, commander-in-chief of the 23rd Group Army, Zhang Zizhong of the 33rd Group Army, Guo Chen, commander-in-chief of the River Defense Command in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and Sun Zhen, commander-in-chief of the 22nd Group Army, with a total strength of about 50 or about 35 people.
At this time, only Zhang Zizhong of the 33rd Group Army was ordered to defend the west bank of the Xiang River, and Zhang Zizhong, who was originally the commander-in-chief of the group army, could not have to go to the front line to fight in person, and could completely sit in the rear to command, but General Zhang Zizhong said that commanding the battle at the front line could greatly improve the morale of the soldiers, and he could also fight with his brothers, and he could also clearly know the movement of the enemy army.
At this time, I did not know where the Japanese army got the news, knowing that Zhang Zizhong of the 33rd Group Army was under the command of the front line, they went crazy and ordered to launch an attack on the Xianghe River, at which time Zhang Zizhong personally led more than 2,000 people to cross the river to fight. Attacked bravely all the way, cutting off the Japanese army.
Subsequently, the Japanese army group carried out a front-back attack on Zhang Zizhong's troops, and Zhang Zizhong did not shrink from commanding the troops and charged at the Japanese army more than ten times. The Japanese suffered heavy casualties. Under the dismantling of the Japanese army's losses, the aircraft artillery was launched to desperately launch a fierce attack on Zhang Zizhong's position. Because our army did not have heavy weapons, the casualties of Zhang Zizhong's unit rose sharply, and the battle was unprecedentedly fierce.
On the 15th, just after dawn, the Japanese army launched another attack, due to the serious casualties of Zhang Zizhong's troops, at this time Zhang Zizhong only had more than 1,500 people around him, but he was surrounded by 6,000 Japanese in the village of Gouyanli north of pumpkin shop, and the strength of the enemy and us was extremely disparity, and the battle was extremely fierce. By 2 p.m., Zhang Zizhong was left with only a few hundred officers and men, and the next day Zhang Zizhong's army was completely destroyed, and General Zhang himself was killed.
After Zhang Zizhongzhan's death, the Japanese army asked the military doctor to scrub him, carefully wash the body with alcohol, and bandage the wound, use good wood to bury, and put it into a coffin made in a hurry. The coffin was buried on a hillside with a tombstone that read: "Tomb of Zhang Zizhong, The Great General of China."
It can be seen that General Zhang Zizhong's military virtue in the War of Resistance Against Japan was moved even by the Japanese army, which advocated militarism at that time. After Zhang Zizhong's martyrdom, his wife, Ms. Li Minhui, died after a seven-day hunger strike, and the husband and wife were buried together in the foothills of The Plum Blossom Mountains in Chongqing, although Zhang Zizhong died, he lived in the hearts of the Chinese people at that time, and will forever be engraved in the hearts of the Chinese people, and will flow for hundreds of years...