<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > Centennial 180: Zeng Zhongsheng</h1>
Author: Forget about the jianghu
Of the 36 military families, 11 died before the founding of New China.
Among these generals who died young, Huang Gongluo, Fang Zhimin, Liu Zhidan, Zuo Quan, Peng Xuefeng, Luo Binghui and Ye Ting were famous, while Xu Jishen, Cai Shenxi, Duan Dechang, and Zeng Zhongsheng were little known. Except for Cai Shenxi, who was killed in battle, the other 3 were mistakenly killed while in the Eyu-Anhui Su District.
Zeng Zhongsheng also has a cousin of a "deciphering expert" named Zeng Xisheng.
In June 1900, Zeng Zhongsheng was born in Xingning, Hunan Province, and was named "Zeng Zhongsheng". In the autumn of 1917, Zhong Sheng was admitted to the 7th Union Middle School in Chenzhou.
Former residence of Zeng Zhongsheng
In 1921, after graduating, Zeng Zhongsheng went to Lecheng High School to become a Chinese language teacher.
The following year, Zeng Zhongsheng joined the army and served as a staff officer in the Gui clan's Shen Hongying Department. After staying for less than a year, Zeng Zhongsheng, who was dissatisfied with the old army, switched to Tang Shengzhi of the Xiang Army. In 1925, Zeng Zhongsheng, alias "Zeng Zhongsheng", went south to Guangzhou and applied for the Huangpu Phase IV with his cousin Zeng Xisheng. After graduation, Zeng Zhongsheng returned to the 8th Army as the head of the organization section.
After the Northern Expedition entered Wuhan, Zeng Zhongsheng served as the chief writer of the Republic of China Daily, attacking the shortcomings of the times and calling out for the poor masses. After the confluence of "April 12" and Ninghan, Zeng Zhongsheng was wanted by warlords. In September 1927, he was sent to Moscow to study.
In Moscow in 1928, Zeng Zhongsheng met Liu Bocheng of the Frunze Military Academy. The two men saw each other and attended the meeting together. Zeng Zhongsheng and Liu Bocheng felt sorry for each other, often discussing the situation together, talking about famous generals and famous battle examples in ancient and modern China and abroad. In the exchange, Zeng Zhongsheng and Liu Bocheng formed a deep friendship.
Zeng Zhongsheng
In the winter of 1928, Zeng Zhongsheng returned to Shanghai to assist Zhou Gong in presiding over the daily military work. In the Soviet Union, Liu Bocheng soon ushered in a new partner: Ye Jianying.
In April 1930, Zeng Zhongsheng, as a "commissioner", was sent by Li Lisan to Nanjing to organize an armed uprising, which was nothing more than a fool's dream at the time. However, Zeng Zhongsheng's objections were not accepted by the top brass, and he had no choice but to obey the arrangements for organizing the uprising. Without any accident, the Nanjing Uprising failed, and Zeng Zhongsheng had to sneak back to Shanghai in secret.
At the end of July, Liu Bocheng and Zuo Quan returned to Shanghai via Mongolia and took up posts in the Yangtze River Bureau. Li Lisan sent Liu Bocheng and Nie Rongzhen to Wuhan and Zhenjiang to launch armed uprisings. Liu Bocheng arrived in Wuhan under the escort of Chen Geng and Li Kenong, and as a result, Liu Yun was arrested and killed, and Liu Bocheng luckily escaped the disaster and returned to Shanghai. Translated the Soviet Infantry Ordinance with Ye Jianying, Fu Zhong and others.
In November 1930, Zeng Zhongsheng was sent to Eyuwan as a commissioner. Before leaving, Zeng Zhongsheng and Liu Bocheng, Ye Jianying and others said goodbye.
Young Ye Jianying
In January 1931, the Eyu-Anhui Red 1st Army and the Red 15th Army were merged into the Red 4th Army, and Li Lisan and Xiang Ying prepared to send "contemporary Sun Wu" Liu Bocheng to Eyuwan as a military commander, but Liu Bocheng could not do without it. Later, Kuang Jixun, commander of the Red 6th Army, was sent from the Helonghong Lake base area.
Xu Xiangqian, who gave Kuang Jixun the post of chief of staff of the Red 4th Army, had 2 divisions under the red fourth army, and the commander of the 10th Division, Cai Shenxi, and the commander of the 11th Division, Xu Jishen, were among the 36 later military experts.
Zeng Zhongsheng showed extraordinary military ability, smashing the enemy's first "encirclement and suppression" by "concentrating troops and avoiding the real and making a false point", and capturing Yue Weijun, the commander of the entire 34th Division, alive. In April 1931, the second "encirclement and suppression" of the enemy army was broken, and the Red Army grew to more than 20,000 people.
Just when the development of Eyuwan was rising steadily, Chairman Zhang came to the base area.
With the arrival of Chairman Zhang and the reorganization of the Eyu-Anhui Sub-Bureau, Zeng Zhongsheng was transferred to the political commissar of the Red 4 Army, and his partner was Xu Xiangqian, an old subordinate. In a highly responsible attitude, he repeatedly expressed different opinions on Chairman Zhang's military operations, and as a result, he was demoted from the political commissar of the Red 4 Army to the commander of the 1st Independent Division. In December 1931, Zeng Zhongsheng cooperated with the main force to defeat the enemy's 69th Division.
Chairman Zhang, who has spoken in Eyuwan, it is difficult to listen to different opinions
In 1932, Eyuwan's fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign failed, and Zeng Zhongsheng was wounded in the Battle of Qiliping. Subsequently, the Red Fourth Front abandoned the Eyu-Anhui base area and moved to the junction of Sichuan and Shaanxi to reopen a new revolutionary base area.
At this time, his friend Liu Bocheng also arrived in Jiangxi Su District, first serving as the principal and political commissar of the Red School, and in June as the commander of the Ruijin garrison. However, due to the dissatisfaction of water and soil, Liu Bocheng also published some articles opposing guerrilla warfare and advocating regular warfare.
Liu Bocheng's article had such an impact that Lin Biao, the "eagle of the Red Army", and Peng Dehuai, the "tiger of the Red Army," also expressed their dissatisfaction. From October 3 to 8, Liu Bocheng, who attended the meeting as an observer, sided with the majority again, opposing the chairman's stay in the front to command. After the meeting, the chairman, who had lost his military power, took the guards to the countryside to recuperate.
Liu Bocheng
In fact, the chairman is Liu Bocheng's real Bole. When Li Lisan and others wanted to transfer him and Zhu De out of the front, the chairman said that Liu Bocheng and Yun Daiying must be transferred to command the Red Army before he and Zhu De could leave. However, Liu Bocheng, who had just entered the Soviet Zone, obviously did not know the chairman yet.
Also in Moscow, after drinking foreign ink, Zeng Zhongsheng and Liu Bocheng were somewhat dissatisfied.
Zeng Zhongsheng completely offended Chairman Zhang and was imprisoned in August 1933. Even during the period, he still completed the "Key Points for Fighting with the "Suppression of the Red Army"," which systematically summarized the operational essentials of the Red Army.
In March 1935, the Red Fourth Crossed the Jialing River and began the Long March. Zeng Zhongsheng dragged the sick body and accompanied him on crutches.
He did not know that at this time, his friend Liu Bocheng and the Red Army were crossing the Chishui River in four directions and pretending to attack Guiyang. On the eve of the Long March, Liu Bocheng, who was demoted to chief of staff of the Fifth Red Army by Bogu and Li De, was recalled to the headquarters by the chairman after the Liping Conference, and the gods of the two cooperated to turn the Red Army into safety.
In June 1935, the First and Fourth Fronts met at Maogong Division.
Liu Bocheng had long heard that Xu Jishen, Kuang Jixun, and others had been mistakenly killed, but the two armies did not see their friend Zeng Zhongsheng, so they inquired everywhere about his whereabouts. At this time, Zeng Zhongsheng, who had been detained, also seemed to see hope, so he took the risk of writing a letter to the chairman, hoping that his superiors would intervene in the review.
However, the letter was stopped by Chairman Zhang's men. Soon, when the two armies were divided into left and right routes and went north, when they reached the forest north of Zhuo Keji in Sichuan, a generation of famous generals Zeng Zhongsheng was secretly killed with a rope. In his later years, Xu Xiangqian fondly recalled in "Review of History": Comrade Zeng Zhongsheng was able to write and fight, and was full of revolutionaries' fighting passion and strength.
Liu Bocheng also remembered his friend Zeng Zhongsheng, who was "intellectually superior and wrote like a fly". During the Long March, Zeng Zhongsheng's cousin Zeng Xisheng was deputy director of the Second Bureau, and under Liu Bocheng, chief of the general staff, he repeatedly deciphered enemy messages, making great contributions to the victorious arrival of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi.
Ye Jianying (right) and Xu Xiangqian (left) in northern Shaanxi in 1937
In 1955, Zeng Zhongsheng's friends Liu Bocheng and Ye Jianying and his old subordinate and partner Xu Xiangqian were both awarded the rank of marshal. In 1989, the Encyclopedia of China and the Military Volume identified 33 military experts, among whom Zeng Zhongsheng was listed.
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