After the surrender of the Japanese army in 1945, under the coercion of Chiang Kai-shek, many former anti-Japanese generals were reduced to the victims of the civil war, but fortunately, some far-sighted anti-Japanese heroes chose to revolt, and they reduced the casualties of soldiers with their own actions.
The famous anti-Japanese general Zheng Dongguo is one of the generals of the uprising, mentioning that Zheng Dongguo still has many people remember him, during the anti-Japanese period he made great achievements for the anti-Japanese resistance, he was born in a peasant family in Shimen County, Hunan, is a typical general who came out of the countryside.
In 1924, the 21-year-old Zheng Dongguo was admitted to the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and he was the only one among the students of the school to take the exam in the name of someone else, and later he participated in the Crusade and the warlord melee, and after the "918" he only wanted to fight the devils.
In 1933, when Zheng Dongguo was the brigade commander of the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Division, the Japanese army attacked the Great Wall Pass after capturing Rehe, and Chiang Kai-shek dispatched 3 divisions to form the 17th Army to go to Beigukou to block the Japanese army, including Zheng Dongguo's 4th Brigade.
He led the 4th Brigade to the south of the Gate of Heaven, from April 20 to 28, he and his generals starved on the Great Wall to fight the Japanese for 8 days and 8 nights, 8 days later his 4th Brigade was replaced, but Zheng Dongguo did not leave the position far, he heard that the position was occupied by the Japanese army.
So he again took the troops who were ready to withdraw to fight again, because most of the position was lost, the counterattack was frustrated, in order to boost morale, he took off his uniform and charged in a white shirt, so that every soldier could see him, so that morale was greatly shocked, and he retook the position.
On October 22, 1936, he was promoted to major general, and after the Japanese army invaded China in an all-round way, Zheng Dongguo participated in the Battle of Baoding and the Battle of Xuzhou, and Zheng Dongguo took the lead in every battle against Japan.
In addition to resisting Japan at home, in 1943 Zheng Dongguo was also appointed commander of the New 1st Army of the Chinese Army in India, where he planned the counter-offensive in northern Burma according to Chiang Kai-shek's arrangement, and from October 1943 he led his army to fight against Japan in the subtropical jungle.
Successive victories were won in the Siege of Hukang Valley, Menggong Valley and Myitkyina, the Japanese army swept across Southeast Asia, and the 18th Division regiment with the "king of subtropical jungles" was also wiped out by Zheng Dongguo, and the transportation channel from India to China was opened.
In the anti-Japanese battlefield, whether at home or abroad, Zheng Dongguo wrote a brilliant stroke, worthy of being the old scholar of the First Phase of Huangpu, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zheng Dongguo was appointed deputy commander of the 3rd Front.
Chiang Kai-shek has always regarded Zheng Dongguo as a sword, during the Liberation War, Zheng Dongguo was sent to the northeast, but no matter how good Zheng Dongguo was at fighting, Chiang Kai-shek's broken ship he could not save, in March 1948, Chiang Kai-shek sent him to Changchun.
There were more than 100,000 Kuomintang troops stationed in Changchun, but the army was scattered, even if Zheng Dongguo arrived, he was unable to return to heaven, on October 21, 1948, Zheng Dongguo chose to revolt, Changchun was liberated, and Zheng Dongguo received preferential treatment until his death in 1991 at the age of 88, and was buried in Babaoshan after his death.