He was born on August 25, 1900 in Songyang County, Zhejiang Province. Zhong Song's original name was Zhong Yongtian, and when he was a child, his family's economic conditions were quite good. As the eldest son in the family, Zhong Song had high hopes from his father Zhong Shishi and his mother Liu Fengyun. The Zhong family has been a cropper of duty for generations, not to make enemies with people, to do their own things, and to live a fairly good life in the family.
In the generation of Father Zhong, he gradually realized the importance of learning. At that time, the country was in a period of war, and Father Zhong realized that if he let his children continue to farm, then the next step must be the same fate as himself and his father. Moreover, it is a time of war, and if you want to change, you must let your children read more and be a learned person.
Father Zhong was a long-sighted man, and he sent his son Zhong Song to a local private school and asked him to learn to read and write with his husband. Under the strict discipline of his father, Zhong Song was admitted to the 11th Normal School of Zhejiang Province. After graduating from school, Zhong Song returned to his hometown and became a primary school teacher. However, a township primary school must not be able to carry Zhong Song's dream of military service.
After working as a primary school teacher for a while, Zhong Song got tired of it. At that time, the country was in turmoil, and he wanted to go to the battlefield, pick up a gun, and become a soldier. The opportunity soon came, and in early 1924, Zhong Song heard that the Whampoa Military Academy was recruiting cadets. The sensitive Zhong Song realized that this choice could affect his life, and after careful consideration, he decided to take a tentative step.
At that time, it was the time when Dr. Sun Yat-sen called on the People of China to join the revolution, and Zhong Song threw his pen into the Rong, corresponding to The call of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. It was also at this time that he changed his original name from Zhong Yongtian to Zhong Song.
In April 1924, Zhong Song passed the first examination of the Whampoa Military Academy and became a regular cadet. If this development continues, Zhong Song's seniority in the Kuomintang is not impressive. Unfortunately, he was unfortunately infected with an emergency disease, and after the diagnosis and treatment of the school doctor, he was sentenced to an incurable disease. This was undoubtedly a fatal blow to the young Zhong Song.
He was taken to the morgue by the school doctor, and seeing that he was about to end his life, he himself felt that all thoughts were in ashes. At this time, fellow villager Zhang Shuqing realized that Zhong Song's condition might not be so serious. Zhang Shuqing rushed to the morgue, pulled Zhong Song out, and re-examined, it turned out that he was just suffering from an ordinary disease. Zhong Song was quickly cured, and this time he regained a new life, and he was full of gratitude to his fellow villager Zhang Shuqing.
This toss took many months, and Zhong Song could not keep up with the learning progress of the original school. After careful consideration by the school authorities, Zhong Song was arranged to study in the second phase of the military academy. At that time, he became classmates with Mo Youshuo, Lü Guoquan, Cheng Gang, etc., and later all four of them got a lot of development. When Zhong Song was in school, his thinking was progressive, and he secretly joined the Communist Party. However, under the influence of the Zhongshan Incident, Zhong Song quit the Communist Party and became a member of the Kuomintang.
In the ranks of the Kuomintang, Zhong Song was promoted one after another. He successively served as the commander of the 21st Division of the National Revolutionary Army, the commander of the 12th Regiment of the 6th Brigade, and the commander of the 20th Brigade. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhong Song served as the commander of the 61st Division. In 1936, Zhong Song was awarded the rank of major general in the army, in 1942, Zhong Song became the deputy commander of the Second Army, and in 1945, Zhong Song became the commander of the Thirty-sixth Army. After that, Zhong Song held the positions of commander of the 16th Division of the Single Reorganized Division, commander of the Xi'an Garrison, deputy commander of the 12th Formation Training Headquarters, deputy commander of the Fifth Corps, and acting chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Government. In the Kuomintang army, Zhong Song was qualified and sophisticated.
Zhong Song's Former Commander of the Thirty-sixth Army was a super army. Generally speaking, the establishment of the national army is "three three systems". That is to say, an army has about 20,000 or 30,000 people, and has three divisions under its jurisdiction, and each division has three regiments. Zhong Song's Thirty-sixth Army was a super army, numbering more than 70,000 people, with five divisions under its jurisdiction, and each division had four regiments. Moreover, the Thirty-sixth Army was well-trained and well-equipped, and was the ace of the national army.
Before becoming the commander of the Thirty-sixth Army, Zhong Song had experienced the Northern Expedition and the Battle of the Central Plains and other battles, and enjoyed prestige in the Kuomintang army. Although it was not as famous as Zhang Lingfu and others, Zhong Song's hard power was not weaker than theirs at all. Zhong Song also participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Wuhan, Zhong Song fought side by side with Wang Lingyun and won impressive results, thus winning the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun.
Because Zhong Song was also from Zhejiang, and he was a fellow countryman with Lao Jiang and Hu Zongnan, and he fought very hard, Hu Zongnan valued him very much and transferred him to his side. As commander of the Thirty-sixth Army, Zhong Song was tasked with sealing off the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.
When the War of Liberation broke out, the Thirty-sixth Army was reorganized into the Thirty-sixth Division, and although the rank was reduced, the number was not correspondingly reduced, and there were still more than 30,000 people. These more than 30,000 people, under the leadership of Zhong Song, became Ichino's number one fierce enemy. Zhong Song was attacking the city and defending the city, and he was an all-round warrior with a keen sense of military smell.
During the Liberation War, in the face of the Communists' attacks, the Kuomintang was gradually defeated and retreated, and Chiang Kai-shek had to consider retreating as soon as the war began, but only Zhong Song was the most difficult to deal with.
In the art of war, there is this method of encircling points to help. When Zhong Song received the order to relieve Deng Baoshan, Mr. Peng planned to encircle the point to help and deal with Zhong Song. However, Zhong Song forced the army and used 2 days to cross the desert and came to Yulin City to relieve the siege of Yulin. Later, he used the same method to relieve the siege of Yuncheng. Zhong Song's strength caused great losses to the Communist Party. Even Mr. Peng called Zhong Song "The Undead Zhong Song."
However, a single Zhong Song could not save the Kuomintang from its crisis, and in the overall situation, the Kuomintang still showed a tendency to lose and retreat. Moreover, Zhong Song himself had great ability and a big temper, and once he lost his temper with Hu Zongnan, blaming him for his ineffective command, so he was refrigerated, and then Zhong Song faded out of the military. Until the age of 95, Zhong Song died in the Netherlands.