The Anhui Incident was the most painful loss in the history of the New Fourth Army, and some senior generals did not succeed in breaking through and became martyrs, like Deputy Chief of Staff Zhou Zikun.
Zhou Zikun, a cultured young man, participated in patriotic movements very early, such as the May Fourth Movement. Later, life forced the warlords to become soldiers. His unit launched an armed rebellion in Guangzhou, and he abandoned the dark and surrendered to the light. He not only joined the party, but also joined the Ye Ting Independent Regiment, became a platoon leader and battalion commander of Ye Ting's troops, and participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Shonan Uprising. Went up Jinggang Mountain with Zhu and Chen.
After passing through the army, he served as the deputy captain of the Red 4 Army's teaching team, and then rose all the way to the positions of detachment leader, army chief of staff, army commander, deputy chief of staff of the corps, independent division commander, director of the Operations Bureau of the General Headquarters of the Red Army, and became a senior general of the Red Army.
It is not difficult to see from his resume during the Red Army period that he has risen several times in the army, but his enthusiasm for the revolution has not diminished, and he is still very unswerving.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was transferred to the New Fourth Army, served as deputy chief of staff of the New Fourth Army, became Zhang Yunyi's assistant, and assisted the commander and deputy commander of the New Fourth Army together.
Later, he also concurrently served as the commander of the New Fourth Army's teaching corps, personally compiling teaching materials and teachings in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops.
In 1941, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized heavy troops to encircle and suppress the headquarters of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui and its subordinate units, and finally a small number of people successfully broke through, he hid in a cave, and was killed and killed by traitors.
If he had not sacrificed, according to his seniority and position, he would have also been a general at the level of general, but unfortunately he did not see the victory of the new China.