In 1927, the outbreak of the Nanchang Uprising fired the first shot of armed resistance against the reactionaries, and opened the prelude to our Party's independent leadership of the armed struggle and the creation of a revolutionary army, and in this uprising, many years later, many of the famous big figures in our army, there were as many as six founding marshals alone, but it is worth mentioning that the Nanchang uprising team mainly came from the same unit, that is, the Second Front Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and the commander-in-chief of the Front Army is the figure to be told today, he is Zhang Fakui.
To say that Zhang Fakui's seniority in the Nationalist army is still very deep, in 1912 when he was studying in the Guangdong Army Primary School, he joined the League, and later after graduating from the Wuchang Third Army Middle School, he followed the father of the country, Sun Yat-sen, and joined the Guangdong Army.
At the beginning of joining the army, he was only a lieutenant aide-de-camp, and when attacking Huizhou City, he took the initiative to ask to be the captain of the death squad, leading the death squad to break through the enemy's defense line and take the lead in attacking Huizhou City, so Zhang Fakui had the first merit in the victory of the Huizhou offensive battle. It was also because of this heroic performance that he was appreciated by Sun Yat-sen. Later, when the Presidential Palace established the base camp guard regiment, Zhang Fakui served as the commander of the third battalion, the second battalion commander was Ye Ting, and the first battalion commander was Xue Yue.
After the outbreak of the Northern Expedition in 1926, Zhang Fakui served as the commander of the 12th Division of the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, he and the Independent Regiment of the Fourth Army led by Ye Ting served as the vanguard of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the two commanders of the vanguard had known each other for many years, and the cooperation was very tacit, and the troops under him were strong and strong, all the way to Wuhan, after the liberation of Hunan, they marched to Wuhan, at this time Wu Peifu's troops laid heavy troops at Tingsi Bridge, in a vain attempt to stop the vanguard's march here.
Tingsiqiao Town is a necessary pass to Wuhan, but here is surrounded by water on three sides, the terrain is dangerous, if you want to break through the enemy camp can only pass through an iron bridge of the Guangdong-Han Railway, after intense deployment, with the 12th Division and the 25th Regiment as the vanguard, Ye Ting Independent Regiment subsequently, after 22 hours of fierce fighting, the Northern Expeditionary Army won the victory in the Battle of Tingsi Bridge, which was really shocking.
Then the vanguard took advantage of the victory to pursue, first conquered He Sheng bridge, and then directly attacked Wuchang, and after Wuchang was conquered, it completely annihilated Xie Hongxun's troops at Mahuiling, and finally returned to Wuchang, because of the outstanding merits of the 12th Division and Ye Ting's independent regiment, the Fourth Army was also awarded the title of "Iron Army", and soon Zhang Fakui was promoted to the commander of the Iron Army, and by June 1927, Zhang Fakui had been promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Second Front.
After the "confluence of Ning and Han," the Nationalist government began to carry out the "Qing-Communist Party," and zhang Fakui's backbone cadres were mostly members of our party, so he was not enthusiastic about the "Qing-Communists," but instead welcomed Guo Moruo, Zhang Yunyi, Ye Shuai, and a number of other members of our party to serve in the Second Front.
When the Nanchang Uprising broke out on August 1, since most of the rebels came from the Second Front, the six marshals who came out of the Nanchang Uprising were all subordinates of Zhang Fakui, plus Ye Shuai, who was the chief of staff of the Fourth Army, and Xu Shuai, who served as a staff officer at the headquarters of the Front Army, and eight marshals were his subordinates.
Today, it seems that Zhang Fakui's men are full of talents, but at that time it was very unfavorable to him, especially a few months later, Ye Shuai led the Guangzhou uprising, so angry that old Jiang dismissed him, and Zhang Fakui, who was under pressure from public opinion, also went to Japan.
Later, after returning to China, Zhang Fakui participated in the Jiang-Gui War and the Central Plains War, he initially supported Chiang Kai-shek, but soon became anti-Chiang Kai-shek, but he did not expect that the two anti-Chiang Kai-sheks could not succeed, and there were not many soldiers left, and finally he could only return to Guangxi to take some idle posts to pass the time.
When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, Zhang Fakui had not led the troops to fight for nearly eight years, and he had been living a leisurely life, but he was stimulated by the atrocities of the Japanese army to arouse the enthusiasm of professional soldiers, and he personally went to Nanjing to meet Chiang Kai-shek, and after a statement impressed the old Chiang Kai-shek, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Eighth Army.
Eight years of the War of Resistance Zhang Fakui successively commanded the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Northern Guangdong, the Battle of Yuxianggui, eight years of bloody war finally ushered in the victory of the War of Resistance, when he was demoted in guangzhou, accepted the surrender of the Japanese army, this moment was the proudest and most memorable moment of his life, but because old Jiang seized his military power, after the victory of the War of Resistance, Zhang Fakui remained in Guangzhou, until 1949, when the old Jiang went down, he was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the army, but at this time the general trend of the national army has gone, and Zhang Fakui, who does not want to be a scapegoat, resigned in July. Went to Hong Kong.
After the liberation of the whole country, Zhang Fakui always wanted to return to his hometown to see, but until his death this wish was not realized, in 1980, Zhang Fakui died of illness in Hong Kong, his former old subordinate Ye Shuai sent a telegram to the family of Qi to mourn, and the Taiwan Hometown Association also held a memorial service for him.