As a famous military school in China's modern history, the Whampoa Military Academy has trained many outstanding military talents for the motherland, among whom many of them later became famous anti-Japanese generals, among whom Du Yuming, Lin Biao, Huang Baitao, Hu Lian, Wang Yaowu, Yu Jishi, Zhang Lingfu, Gao Zhihang and others were the best among them. The relations between the cadets of this revolutionary military school cooperated by the Kuomintang and the Communists were still very close, and both communists and Kuomintang members formed a very deep friendship while studying in it. However, after the veteran betrayed the revolution, there were not many Kuomintang members who could truly identify with the Communist Party, and Zheng Zuomin was one of the more prominent ones.
Zheng Zuomin, a first-term student in Huangpu, was dismissed by lao Jiang because he did not want to fight the Red Army
Zheng Zuomin was born in Xintian, Hunan Province, to a poor peasant family, and at the age of 22, he was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy and became the first cadet of the military academy. During his studies at the school, he always actively supported Sun Yat-sen's proposition of "uniting with Russia, uniting with the Communist Party, and supporting peasants and workers". After he graduated from military school, he joined the army directly. He participated in two battles such as the Eastern Expedition, the Northern Expedition, the Crusade against the Five Provinces Combined Forces Sun Chuanfangbu, and the Battle of the Central Plains, and climbed from the very beginning of the student army to the position of brigade commander of the Twenty-sixth Brigade step by step.
Because of his bravery in battle, he won the trust of Lao Jiang and was directly sent by Lao Jiang to encircle and suppress the Red Army. But he always felt that the Red Army was a team of ordinary people wholeheartedly, and they should not aim their guns at them and directly choose not to move. When old Jiang learned of this news, he was very angry and directly ordered his removal from his post and let him go to the Army University for further study.
He died heroically while participating in the Battle of Kunlun Pass
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Old Chiang felt that it was a waste of talent to put Zheng Zuomin in the Army University for further study, and sending him directly to the front line to fight was also a meritorious service. In fact, in Zheng Zuomin's view, he has not done anything wrong, but now that the country is in difficulty, it is naturally an unshirkable thing to fight the devils himself. Zheng Zuomin, who was the deputy commander of the Kuomintang Army's Second Army and the commander of the Ninth Division, participated in the Battle of Songhu, the Xuzhou Breakthrough, the Defense of Tianjiazhen, and the Battle of Kunlun Pass.
In fact, when he participated in the Battle of Kunlun Pass in Nanling, he already had a premonition that something was wrong. Knowing that I had no chance of surviving this time was very slim. So after settling down and making a will before leaving, he directly embarked on the journey of fighting the Japanese army to the death. After his troops arrived at the military stronghold of Kunlun Pass in Guangxi, in order to prevent the Japanese from pursuing, he personally led a regiment to cover, and finally died heroically because of the outnumbered when commanding the troops to counterattack and break through, and was later posthumously awarded the rank of lieutenant general by the Nationalist government, which was a recognition of his anti-Japanese contribution.