"The determination to die for the country and the nation is unclear, the stone is not rotten, and it will never change in the slightest."
This was General Zhang Zizhong's last letter before his death.
"The sea can wither, the stone can rot, and death can't forget the pumpkin shop!" This is a battle song that his subordinates personally sent off Zhang Zizhong during the farewell.
The battle song is majestic, breaking through the heavenly dome, how many soldiers, tears sprinkled on the Wushan Mountain.
After this song was sung, the general said goodbye to this, and from then on, the mountains and rivers were far away, and they were reunited in another life.
1. Zhang rebelled against himself and was a general
On May 28, 1940, the streets of Chongqing were crowded with people, and dense people gathered at the Chaotianmen Wharf to bid farewell to an anti-Japanese general, who was Zhang Zizhong, the mourning figure of the "Rongzi No. 1" of the Martyrs' Shrine.
On the day of the sending of the spirit, Jiang Gong, who was above ten thousand people, personally came to the dock and touched Zhang Zizhong's coffin and wept bitterly. For a time, tens of thousands of people burst into tears, and no one in the land of China did not worry about this national hero.
Do you remember that in the past, people's evaluation of Zhang Zizhong was not like this, he was scolded by people as a "traitor", and people wrote "Zhang Reverse Self-Loyalty" in the big character newspaper, and Zhang Zizhong at that time wanted to cry without tears.
When the Japanese army proposed the establishment of a "demilitarized zone", Jiang Gong, in order to deal with it peacefully, let his subordinates pursue the strategy of "non-resistance". After difficult negotiations, the Japanese kept only the 29th Army in the demilitarized zone.
The entire 29th Army, including family members, numbered tens of thousands of people, and when the others withdrew, the 29th Army became a turtle in an urn, surrounded on all sides by Japanese troops. The backbone military commanders each disobeyed this decision, some created small frictions at the junction of the two armies, and some simply closed their doors and resolutely ignored the Japanese. At this time, Zhang Zizhong made a very abnormal move, he and the Japanese army were very close, and he did not refuse the Invitation of Japan at all.
Many outsiders did not understand Zhang Zizhong's approach, believing that Zhang Zizhong took this opportunity to prepare to defect, only the 29th Army knew that only because of the preservation of the entire 29th Army, Zhang Zizhong had no other way, he knew that his move would definitely attract criticism, and under his burden of humiliation, the entire 29th Army was safely withdrawn.
As Zhang Zizhong expected, the outside world began to talk about it, and people said that the 29th Army had a traitor, but any soldier could not stand this criticism, but Zhang Zizhong stubbornly carried these rumors.
However, this is only the beginning, and what makes Zhang Zizhong really feel wronged is after the Lugou Bridge incident.
At that time, There was a change in Peiping, Song Zheyuan and others were sleek-headed, and as soon as they smelled the smell of the Japanese attack, he quickly withdrew from Beiping under the pretext of preserving his large troops. The vast city of Beijing, after withdrawing most of its troops, was actually not enough to resist all changes. Subsequently, several important figures also evacuated Beiping.
It is not okay to withdraw so many high-ranking officials at once, and at this time Zhang Zizhong has become the number one player on the back. He was appointed as the governor of Peiping. Hearing this news, the general with countless backs suddenly shed tears, and he almost choked up and said: "You have all become national heroes, and I Zhang Zizhong can only be poked in the spine by the world!" ”
After the fall of Peiping, Zhang Zizhong's insults came from all over the place, and the people of the world poked at his backbone one after another, calling him a "traitor" and "traitor." In those newspapers and periodicals, the headlines focused on "rebellion" news.
Zhang Zizhong's heart was bitter, even more bitter than the most bitter lotus seed. He knew that this time, no matter how he explained it and how hard he tried, he would be completely unwashed from the crimes of his life.
With tears in his eyes, he silently read the poem he had written:
"Who allowed the Central Plains to be with the rebels?" Undead total negative
There will be Aoyama collecting bones, and the birds and beasts will be taught to sacrifice Danxin. ”
Once upon a time, before carrying the insult, Zhang Zizhong was also a spirited Confucian general. He has a dignified face, is steady and elegant, is more than one meter and eight meters tall, and is a typical Shandong Han.
He loved to read "Three Kingdoms", liked to discuss soldiers, once in the cold winter, in order to train soldiers, personally stripped off to train soldiers in the morning, this is not counted, Zhang Zizhong drank and ordered the whole battalion to take off their shirts to participate in training. In that bloody and heroic winter, Zhang Zizhong accidentally got an elegant name "Zhang Peeling." ”
Since then, the name of "Zhang Peeling" has shaken the entire Northwest Army.
Second, when I die, the country will be born, and if I am born, the country will die
A scolding is hard to get rid of in this life. Finally, one day, the sino-Japanese all-out civil war began, Zhang Zizhong knew that the revenge was back, he finally did not have to be so humiliated, if he wanted to fight painfully and quickly, he had to speak on the battlefield.
Zhang Zizhong's army was trained by him to become a demonic army that "will not know death, and soldiers will not be afraid of war".
As early as the Battle of Xifengkou, Zhang Zizhong introduced large knives into the troops according to the combat methods of the Japanese bayonets, and under Zhang Zizhong's training, this large knife team made great contributions in the battle. The phrase "the big knife cuts off the heads of the devils" is the prototype of the lyrics, which is the 29th Army led by Zhang Zizhong.
Perhaps it was a quick revenge, Zhang Zizhong's battle was almost a hundred victories, on the battlefield he killed the red eye, and the devil also frightened his face.
In 1938, during the Battle of Linyi, Zhang Zizhong led his army to cross the Yishui River and came to the position. After a few days and nights of rapid travel, the ordinary legion was bound to adjust and rest, but Zhang Zizhong and his devil legion were an exception, he believed that the warriors must strike iron while it was hot after the rush, and take advantage of the fact that the devils did not pay attention to the night attack on the enemy camp.
The trick really worked, and the enemy was initially attacked and dizzy. When his superiors appointed Zhang Zizhong to retreat, Zhang Zizhong held his position, stubbornly saying that he would not give up until he reached his goal, and that he would crush the enemy for the last five minutes. After a hard fight, this counterattack won a huge victory.
Zhang Zizhong became famous in world war I, and in North China at that time, a Japanese person knew Zhang Zizhong's prestige.
Zhang Zizhong's war cannot be said to be Xiao Yong, he simply did not want to die on the battlefield, this kind of ruthless person, looking at the entire Republic of China, there are really few.
In 1940, Zhang Zizhong ushered in the last battle of his life, the Battle of Zaoyi.
Before the war, Zhang Zizhong seemed to have a premonition, and he knew that this battle was fierce and less auspicious, so he left the sentence: "Our country and our nation with a history of 5,000 years will never die at the hands of the three islands of Wunu" as a declaration of war.
In early May, Zhang Zizhong led the 33rd Army and launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army. But everyone with a discerning eye knows that with the large number of people and the excellent armament of the Japanese army, Zhang Zizhong's group army is obviously very weak, but who is Zhang Zizhong? He was a desperate general, and he braved the rain of bullets and bullets to fight the soldiers to the death without fear.
Zhang Zizhong led a mere two thousand soldiers and horses to attack the enemy again and again, this time someone fell, he called the others to continue, a group of people fell, he continued to wake up another group of soldiers to attack. The enemy looked at it and felt incredible, how could this person not die or retreat?
Zhang Zizhong blushed and continued to charge, this time the enemy completely panicked, reinforcements arrived, they were even more rampant, the soldiers were mostly damaged, Zhang Zizhong could only retreat to the pumpkin shop.
On May 16, Zhang Zizhong took a break and led the rest of his troops to attack forward. The bullet didn't have long eyes, and the next second he injured his left arm. Zhang Zizhong did not have time to bandage, gritted his teeth and continued to attack. When five consecutive gunshots rang out, Zhang Zizhong's body was instantly pierced into five holes, and blood gushed out and sprayed on the adjutant's body, and the giant fell on the battlefield.
A Japanese soldier came forward to check, only to listen to the sound of "brushing", Zhang Zizhong, who was covered in blood, stood up again from the pool of blood, his face was pale, his eyes were sharp, and his majesty carried the momentum of not being approached by anyone, the Japanese soldier was frightened, he was stunned in the same place and did not dare to come forward. Another Japanese soldier had the courage to pick up his gun and shoot at the already battered general in the head, but a shocking scene occurred, the general did not fall, he used the last bit of strength, stared at the two Japanese soldiers deadly, if the eyes could kill, this kind of look could almost tear them apart.
The Japanese soldiers panicked, and they made the last stab at the general's body. This time, the general fell to the ground and never got up again.
Before dying, he muttered, "I'm like this, I died well..."
On May 16, 1940, Zhang Zizhong, at the age of 49, died on the battlefield, and he became the top general of the anti-fascist league during World War II.
Zhang Zizhong's sacrifice caused the whole army to mourn. When the Japanese army learned that the general in the pool of blood was Zhang Zizhong, they also lamented it. To tell the truth, heroes are cherished by everyone, no matter which country's army.
After his death, 100,000 people in Chongqing spontaneously poured into the streets to see the general.
This time, no one said a word about him, and 100,000 people changed their minds to call him a "national hero."
But this time, the general could no longer hear.