In the War of Resistance Against Japan, in order to resist the Japanese invaders, the Chinese army had many senior officers killed on the battlefield, the most famous of which was General Zhang Zizhong, Zhang Zizhong, born on August 11, 1891, his hometown was Liaocheng, Shandong Province, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, he made many military achievements, on January 10, 1933, General Zhang Zizhong led the main force of the 29th Army to Tongzhou, Sanhe, Jixian, Yutian and other places in Shanxi, General Zhang Zizhong annihilated more than 5,000 Japanese troops in the Battle of Xifengkou. Even the Japanese news reported that since the Meiji Emperor created the army, the honor of the imperial army has been lost outside the peak of the mouth.
In 1937, the Japanese army created the Lugou Bridge Incident, when Chiang Kai-shek wanted to negotiate peace with the Japanese army, the person responsible for peace talks was General Zhang Zizhong, many people thought that he was a traitor, General Zhang Zizhong bore the name of the infamy, can only kill the enemy on the battlefield to serve the country, in May 1940, the Japanese army in order to control the Yangtze River Valley, cut off the transportation line to Chongqing, gathered 300,000 troops to launch the famous Battle of Zaoyi, General Zhang Zizhong as the fifth theater right wing group army and commander-in-chief of the 33rd group army was ordered to resist the enemy, and finally heroic martyrdom. Chiang Kai-shek personally supported the spirit and held a state funeral for him.
And the murderer of General Zhang is the Japanese officer Takehiko Yokoyama, Takehiko Yokoyama is Hiroshima, Japan, graduated from the 25th Infantry Section of the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School in 1913, known as the Flower of Famous Generals in the Japanese Army, in May 1939, Okamura Ninji gathered 9 divisions, more than 100,000 people launched the Battle of Zaoyi, General Zhang Zizhong led his troops to defend the Han River Defense Line, and the heavy artillery of the Japanese 39th Division attacked the defense line of the 33rd Group Army, resulting in the martyrdom of General Zhang. The commander of this force was Takehiko Yokoyama, commander of the 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 18th Brigade of the 39th Division.
In June 1940, his troops attacked the village of Guangming in Yuxi Town as the vanguard, killing more than 200 innocent people, killing more than 100 innocent people when they arrived at Qilidian, and also locked up the villagers in a cowshed and shot them with machine guns, then burned gasoline, and burned all the bodies.
On March 17, 1943, He Jifeng, commander of the 179th Division of the 33rd Group Army, received top-secret information from our army that Major General Takehiko Yokoyama would patrol the defense from Dangyang to Jingmen, and He Jifeng decided to take advantage of this heavenly opportunity to bring the murderer of General Zhang to justice, and in order to avenge his commander, he ordered Chen Yunlong, commander of the third battalion of the 537th Regiment of the 179th Division, to take two squads to ambush Takehiko Yokoyama, and in the early morning of March 18, Chen Yunlong rushed to the ambush site and beat Takehiko Yokoyama into a sieve. He also ordered the heavy gunner Lei Feihu to blow up the Japanese to the ground, which repaid General Zhang's revenge, and the Japanese military department also posthumously named Takehiko Yokoyama as a lieutenant general in the army and gave him the 4th class Golden Eagle Medal.