Zhang Xuanwu, who insisted on defending Teng County during the Great Victory of Taierzhuang, recalled Zhang Weixi, one of Feng Yuxiang's thirteen Taibao

　Zhang Weixi was one of the senior generals of the Northwest Army led by General Feng Yuxiang. His stature and status in the Northwest Army were second only to those of Zhang Zhijiang, Li Mingzhong, Song Zheyuan, Lu Zhonglin, and Liu Yufen, the so-called "Five Tiger Generals", and Sun Liangcheng, Sun Lianzhong, Han Fuqu, Shi Yousan, Shi Jingting, and Liu Ruming... Status is mutually exclusive. Under Feng Yuxiang, he successively served as platoon, company, battalion, regimental commander and brigade commander, division commander, army commander, commander-in-chief, commander-in-chief of the front army, and acted as the commander-in-chief of the whole army of the Northwest Army. However, he was neither the provincial chairman of the feudal governor like Han Fuqu, nor the capriciousness of the clouds and rains like Shi Yousan, so he was not as famous in society as Han and Shi Zhizhi. He is a historical figure in the military circles, although not too big, nor small. I would like to describe some of his resumes as I know him for the reference of modern historians.

　　Zhang Weixi (张伟西), courtesy name Chuyu, was a native of Nanyan Temple, Guantao County, Shandong Province (the county was transferred to Hebei Province in 1965). In 1889 (the fourteenth year of Qing Guangxu), he was born into a poor family. His father, Zhang Anran (known locally as Zhang Lao'an), sold tofu in his business, and he had five sons, the eldest (forgetting his name) working as a farmer at home; the second Zhang Weixi; the third Zhang Weiheng, who was the county magistrate of Chang'an County, Shaanxi; the fourth Zhang Weifan, who was the director of a tax bureau in Suiyuan; and zhang Weihan, the fifth, a member of the Communist Party of China, who was the commander of the Handan Military Subdistrict of the people's liberation army of the Chinese. Zhang Weixi studied in the township school for several years as a child, and weakly crowned himself into the front team (company) of the eastern three provinces martial arts academy as a student. At that time, the officer (company commander) of this front team was Peng Jiazhen, a famous democratic revolutionary in history who killed Liang Bi, the leader of the Qing Dynasty's sectarian socialist party, with a spirit of self-sacrifice and a grenade. Because Peng Jiazhen often instilled democratic revolutionary education in his subordinates, Zhang Weixi laid the root of overthrowing the feudal dynasty in the depths of his thinking. In 1911, when Feng Yuxiang, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 80th Battalion of the 80th Regiment of the 20th Town (Division) of the Beiyang Army launched the Luanzhou Uprising of the Xinhai Revolution, Zhang Weixi was serving as a platoon leader in the battalion, and he actively participated in the Luanzhou Uprising. Since then, he has followed General Feng Yuxiang for more than thirty years.

　　In 1915, Feng Yuxiang served as the brigade commander of the 16th Mixed Brigade of the Beiyang Army, led his troops into Sichuan, and joined forces with General Cai Songpo to overthrow Yuan. At that time, Zhang Weixi was a company commander and participated in the anti-Yuan movement. In July 1917, Zhang Xun led the Braided Soldiers from Xuzhou into Beijing, plotting to support Puyi's restoration, and Feng Yuxiang led the 16th Mixed Brigade to rise up in Langfang and attack Beijing. Zhang Weixi was then the commander of the second battalion of the brigade's first infantry regiment, and (Han Fuqu was the deputy battalion commander of the battalion) first invaded the Temple of Heaven, where Zhang Xun's headquarters was located, drove Zhang Xun away, eliminated the rebels, and smashed the restoration plot.

　　In 1920, Zhang Weixi was promoted to the commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the 16th Mixed Brigade. In the summer of 1921, Cao Kun and Wu Peifu, leaders of the Beiyang warlords, ordered Feng Yuxiang's 16th Mixed Brigade to sail from Xinyang, Henan to Shaanxi, and cooperate with Yan Xiangwen, commander of the 20th Division of the Beiyang Army, to compete for territory in Shaanxi. Chen Shufan, the overseer of Shaanxi, who belonged to the Warlords of the Anhui clan in Beiyang, refused to abdicate his position, and the two sides fought. Zhang Weixi's regiment was the vanguard, lian ke chan bridge, baqiao, the first attack on Xi'an, Chen Shufan led the remnants to Hanzhong. However, Yao Zhenqian's brigade of Chen Shufan's department did not withdraw with Chen Shufan, and still held a stronghold in Puyang Village, on the outskirts of Xi'an, and carried out stubborn resistance. Zhang Weixi's regiment surrounded Puyang Village on three sides, and Yao Zhenqian's brigade would be annihilated. Unexpectedly, after entering the twilight, Yao Zhenqian sent emissaries to give Zhang Weixi a thousand-mile horse named "Black Wind" and agreed to surrender his weapons the next morning. Zhang Weixi was deceived, believed it to be true, stopped the attack that night, and paralyzed and relaxed the surveillance and vigilance, waiting for the other side to surrender the next day. Yao Zhenqian's brigade all quietly escaped in the middle of the night. For this reason, Feng Yuxiang believed that Zhang Weixi was taking bribes and indulging in the enemy, so he immediately removed him from his position as regimental commander. In fact, Zhang Weixi's dismissal was not simply because of the problem of a "black wind" horse, but another old account, and Mr. Feng liquidated Zhang Weixi at this time.

　　Here's what happened: In July 1920, the Zhiwan War broke out, and Duan Qirui, the leader of the Anhui warlords, ordered Zhang Jingyao, the overseer of The Anhui province of Hunan, to lead his Seventh Division to abandon Hunan and go north to participate in the war; Wu Peifu, the leader of the direct warlords, ordered Feng Yuxiang, the defender of Changde Town, who was under the control of his direct lineage, to lead his 16th Mixed Brigade north to participate in the battle. Feng Yuxiang was unwilling to participate in such a civil war of internecine warfare that would bring calamity to the country and the people, so he did not intend to leave Xiangxi belatedly. However, Zhang Jingyao's troops had retreated from Hunan to Hubei, and Wu Guangxin, commander-in-chief of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in the Anhui dynasty, had also withdrawn east from Yichang to Wuchang, and Zhang Jingyao and Wu Guangxin seemed to have taken advantage of the opportunity to seize Hubei territory. Wang Zhanyuan, the governor of Hubei, who belonged to his direct line, had only one second division in Wuhan, and his combat effectiveness was weak, and he was afraid that he would not be able to resist and lose his territory, so he urgently called Feng Yuxiang and asked the speed of the stars to come to his aid; at the same time, Cao Kun and Wu Peifu repeatedly urged Feng Bu to open Wuhan quickly. So Feng Bu had to leave Changde and go north. After Feng Bu arrived at Hankou, the Zhiwan War near Beijing was over, and Feng Bu did not need to continue north, so Wang Zhanyuan designated the 16th Mixed Brigade to be stationed at ChenJiaji on the Yangtze River. There was a paper mill in Chenjiaji, the yard was very large, and there were very few empty houses, so the officers and soldiers had to set up tents in the courtyard to live. Hankou is one of the famous hot cities in China, and staying in a tent during the scorching days of July and August is like staying in a steamer. Mr. Feng had repeatedly asked Wang Zhanyuan to change his station, but Wang Zhanyuan always ignored it. The Beijing government had no money to pay Feng Bu grain, and once instructed Wang Zhanyuan to cooperate with the nearby salary and receive assistance, and Wang Zhanyuan refused to even give a single piece of cash, only some moldy rice that had been hoarded at the bottom of the warehouse for many years and was not even willing to eat by pigs and dogs. Zhang Jingyao's troops withdrew north by boat from Hunan, and when the warships were moored on the banks of the Chenjiaji River, Feng Bu attacked by night, but Zhang Bu did not dare to fight back and obediently surrendered his weapons. Feng Bu captured twenty-seven field guns, a whole battalion of heavy machine guns, a whole battalion of heavy soldiers, and a whole battalion of rifles and countless guns and shells. When Wang Zhanyuan saw that Feng Bu had captured so many weapons and equipment, his heart was itchy and hot, and he arbitrarily said that these booty should belong to him. On the one hand, Mr. Feng was trying to calm things down, and on the other hand, his arms were not twisted on his thighs, and he finally handed over these captured goods to Wang Zhanyuan. Mr. Feng couldn't help but hold his stomach for this. For all these reasons, Mr. Feng hated Wang Zhanyuan to the bone, and Wang Zhanyuan repeatedly issued expulsion orders, demanding that Feng Bu leave the Ejing, and Wang Feng had become incompatible with water and fire, so the direct leader Cao Kun transferred Feng Bu from Chen Jiaji to Xinyang, Henan. In the spring of 1921, when Mr. Feng learned that Wang Zhanyuan would be sent from Wuhan to Take the Jinghan Road train to Jinjing, he once summoned officers at or above the battalion commander level to discuss secretly and detain Wang Zhanyuan when he passed by Xinyang Station, threatening him to pay off the grain he had owed for half a year. Since Zhang Weixi and Wang Zhanyuan were both small townsmen in Guantao County, Zhang Weixi secretly revealed this secret plan to Wang Zhanyuan. Wang Zhanyuan then changed his route to Nanjing and transferred to the Jinpu Road train to go north. Mr. Feng was surprised by Wang Zhanyuan's sudden change of course, concluding that someone had leaked secrets, and after all kinds of visits, he knew that Zhang Weixi had done it. However, first, it was inconvenient to publicize this matter; second, because the troops were about to be pulled into shaanxi to fight, Zhang Weixi was the commander of the regiment, and he was a general with courage and knowledge, and at that time, Mr. Feng did not tolerate it. When Feng Brigade entered Shaanxi to carry out the Battle of Puyang Village, due to Zhang Weixi's paralysis and carelessness, he was deceived and deceived, causing one of the brigades at his fingertips to escape with a gun, so Mr. Feng calculated both the old and new accounts for him, and removed Zhang Weixi from his position as regimental commander.

　　The officers and soldiers trained by Mr. Feng, especially the officers, were easily not allowed to leave. If a person commits a mistake, or is removed or demoted, after a certain period of time, he may still be restored to his original position and will not affect the promotion. In the summer of 1921, Mr. Feng was promoted to the commander of the 11th Division of the Beiyang Army, and after Zhang Weixi was dismissed as the commander of the regiment, he was appointed as the director of the division's mechanical repair institute, which was a kind of demotion and demotion. In 1922, when Mr. Feng was the overseer of Henan after the end of the First Zhifeng War, in addition to the original Eleventh Division, six new corps were established, and Zhang Weixi became the regimental commander again. In the winter of 1922, Mr. Feng was transferred to the Army As an inspector, his troops were transferred to Beijing, and the six new corps were reorganized into the 7th, 8th, and 25th Mixed Brigades of the Army (the brigade commanders were Zhang Zhijiang, Li Mingzhong, and Song Zheyuan), and Zhang Weixi's regiment was organized into the 2nd Regiment of the 8th Mixed Brigade.

　　In the autumn of 1924, on the eve of the Second Zhifeng War, Mr. Feng established four more brigades in Nanyuan, Beijing, and Zhang Weixi was promoted to brigade commander (the other three brigade commanders were Sun Liangcheng, Jiang Hongyu and Shi Jingting). During the Second Zhifeng War, when The Banshi returned to Beijing and overthrew Cao Wu, Zhang Weixi's brigade served as the defensive force for the city between Dongzhimen, Andingmen, Deshengmen and Xizhimen and Fuchengmen in Beijing. After the end of the Second Zhifeng War, Zhang Weixi's brigade was organized into the Fifth Brigade of the Second Division of the Northwest Army (division commander Liu Yufen) (under the jurisdiction of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Regiments, regimental commanders Ding Zhenguo, Zhang Yinxiang, and Ni Yusheng, and the machine gun company and pistol team directly under the brigade headquarters, when I was the squad leader of the pistol team). In early 1925, the 2nd Division sailed from Beijing to Guisui (present-day Hohhot). On the way to the train, when the train on which Zhang Weixi's sapper battalion was riding passed through the tunnel, the smoke was thick and pitch black, and a new recruit woke up in a dream, jumped off the train in a panic, and was thrown to death. Mr. Feng was very angry about this, and called the brigade commander Zhang Weixi to Zhangjiakou, and personally slapped himself and beat a military baton.

　　In the spring of 1925, Duan Qirui's provisional executive government appointed Feng Yuxiang as the Northwest Border Defense Inspector and Gansu Military Affairs Inspector. At this time, the Northwest Army covered the three special regions of Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan, as well as the territory of Gansu Province (including Ningxia and Qinghai). Mr. Feng himself sat in Zhangjiakou, while Liu Yufen, commander of the Second Division, and Jiang Hongyu, chief of staff of the Northwest Border Defense Supervision Office, took over the duties of Gansu Military Affairs Supervisor and Association Office. In the autumn of 1925, Liu Yufen led the 2nd Division on foot from Suiyuan through Ningxia to Lanzhou in the name of commander-in-chief and Jiang Hongyu as deputy commander. Li Changqing, the commander of the division under Lu Hongtao, who had stepped down as the gansu overseer, and Bao Yuxiang, the brigade commander, saw that the northwest army's strength into Gansu was not large, and plotted to resist the northwest army and seize the position of gansu overseer. After Zhang Weixi's brigade, together with the Fourth Brigade of Sun Liangcheng's Third Division, the soldiers solved the rebels without bloodshed and executed Li Changqing and Bao Yuxiang.

　　In 1926, Wu Peifu and Zhang Zuolin organized the so-called "Red Alliance" to launch the Battle of Nankou and attack the Northwest Army. The Longdong town garrison in Gansu province, Zhang Zhaogui, had sixty battalions of soldiers; the longnan town guard Kong Fanjin had forty battalions; the two brigades of Song Youcai and Han Youlu in Longxi each had six and seven battalions; and the Huang Degui brigade in Agan town south of Lanzhou had four or five battalions of soldiers, all of whom were under the remote command of Wu Peifu. They saw that there was only one division of the Northwest Army entering Gansu with more than twenty battalions, and they thought that they were weak and could be deceived, so they rebelled one after another, not being controlled by the Gansu Governor's Office. However, their troops were extremely corrupt, their combat effectiveness was very fragile, and they did not have a unified command system, so they rose and fell, at different paces, and were broken by the Northwest Army. The first of them to provoke was Zhang Zhaokash, the defender of Longdong Town. He shot yang Yaodong, chief of staff of the Gansu Governor's Office, who was passing through Pingliang, for no reason, and intercepted a large amount of military supplies from the Northwest Army. Liu Yufen then ordered Sun Liangcheng, who had been promoted to commander of the Second Division, to lead the Fourth Brigade (Brigade Commander Liang Guanying) and the Inspectorate Pistol Regiment (Regiment Commander Liu Cunjian) to counterattack Longdong in self-defense. Within a month, all the sixty battalions of Zhang Zhao's potassium department, which were entrenched in more than ten counties such as Dingxi and Pingliang in the eastern part of Longdong, were wiped out. When Zhang Zhaokang's forces launched a rebellion, the rebels in Longnan and Longxi were watching from the sidelines, but did not move at the same time.

　　At the time of the Direct Feng Coalition's attack on Nankou, Liu Zhenhua, who was under the wing of Wu Peifu, vainly attempted to seize shaanxi territory, and besieged Yang Hucheng's and Li Huchen's troops who were defending Xi'an with 40,000 to 50,000 people under his "Zhensong Army", which had been running out of ammunition and food for five or six months. After longdong put down the rebellion, Sun Liangcheng led the 4th and 6th brigades of the 2nd Division and the 14th regiment of Zhang Weixi's brigade to the east to aid Shaanxi and rescue the siege of Xi'an. The 13th Regiment of Zhang Weixi's brigade was defending Ningxia. The fighting forces in Lanzhou were left with only the brigade pistol team of Zhang Weixi's brigade, the machine gun company, and the 15th Infantry Regiment. When this fifteenth regiment was founded in 1925, it was originally a juvenile regiment, and its members were all children and teenagers aged fifteen or sixteen, and the Gansu people called them "baby soldiers". The rebels in Longnan and Longxi, who had originally watched from the sidelines, saw that there were very few northwestern troops left in Lanzhou, and they were also baby soldiers, and they thought that the opportunity had arrived, so they were eager to move. The first to be launched this time was in huang degui's department in the town of Agan. Huang Degui was originally lu Hongtao's brigade commander with Li Changqing, and Li Changqing usurped the position of division commander, but Huang Degui was not convinced, and was later beaten away by Li Changqing. After the Northwest Army had picked up Li Changqing, he commissioned Huang Degui as a guerrilla commander and stationed himself at the town of Agan, forty-five miles south of Lanzhou. At that time, Huang Degui was grateful to the Northwest Army and expressed goodwill. When Zhang Weixi and the 15th Regiment prepared to attack the rebel Song Youcai's troops in the Guanshan area thirty miles south of Agan Town, the vanguard search platoon passed through Agan Town, believing that it was a friendly defense and was not ready for battle. Unexpectedly, they were suddenly blocked by Huang Degui's troops, and the entire search platoon was killed below the platoon leader, and what was even more inhumane was that they opened the dead one by one. After Zhang Weixi was reported, he was furious and his eyes were split. So he took the pistol team (I was serving as a platoon leader at the time), personally commanded the Fifteenth Regiment, and braved the rain of bullets (Zhang Weixi's hat had been shot) to storm the coal hill position held by Huang Degui's troops. It took only three or four hours to solve more than 2,000 people in Huang Degui's department, one of them was killed, and most of them were captured. Huang Degui himself and several of his entourage escaped early, slipped through the net, and defected to Song Youcai's forces, which were guarding Guanshan. Later, when Lu Dachang, the commander of the army, was serving as a battalion commander in Huangbu at the time, when the battle was fought, li Qinghan, the captain of the pistol team, had already grabbed his arm, and he threw off his cotton jacket and rolled down the mountain. The height of the coal mountain is about 700 to 800 meters, the Yellow Department position is located on the top of the mountain, and Zhang Weixi's army is attacked upwards from the foothills, full of dense forests, and the attack is easy to conceal. So Zhang Weixi ordered the pistol team that was opening the way in front: the enemy shot a gun, and was not allowed to return fire, but was only allowed to climb up with his head buried and climb to the top of the mountain and fight with a large knife. When the pistol team climbed to the top of the mountain, the enemy had already run out of bullets, and when the pistol team raised the dangling knife and shouted to kill, the enemy either killed by the neck or raised his hand to surrender. In this battle, the pistol team and the fifteen regiments suffered less than ten casualties.

　　The next day, Zhang Weixi commanded the 15th Regiment to take advantage of the victory to attack Guanshan, and the enemy crouched on the top of the mountain, condescending, and resisted. Zhang Weixi ordered that the opposing positions be interspersed with a night attack, and the enemy collapsed and scattered, and it took only two days to wipe out all three or four thousand people of Song Youcai's troops. After solving Song Youcai's department, he rested for a few days, and then proceeded to Didao (present-day Lintao County). According to the guards of Di Dao City, it was Han Youlubu. Di Dao City was deep in the pond, and it was not easy to attack during the day, Zhang Weixi ordered to climb the city from the northwest in the middle of the night, just climbed to the head of the city, and the defenders abandoned the city in a hurry and fled south. Zhang Weixi ordered a fierce pursuit, and part of the enemy collapsed, most of them were captured, and the three or four thousand Han Youlu troops collapsed and disappeared.

　　Zhang Weixi, with a regiment of baby soldiers, eliminated three rebel brigades, captured four or five thousand men, and captured five or six thousand guns in less than a month. As a result, Zhang Weixi's brigade was expanded into the 13th Division of the Northwest Army, and Zhang Weixi was promoted to division commander. It was July 1926. After resting in Di Dao for half a month, he attacked the Longnan town guard Kong Fanjin's department. Although Kong Bu had the strength of the so-called forty battalions, it was short of men, poorly trained, demoralized, and vulnerable. They commanded the operation on the periphery by the brigade commander Fan Lianbi, who, north of Tianshui, set up a number of outposts in Xinsi Town, Pan'an Town, Zhuyuanling, fuqiang (present-day Gangu), and Qin'an county towns, north of Tianshui. However, some of them collapsed at the touch of a touch, and some fled when they heard the wind, and Zhang Weixi's troops were like the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves, trotting all the way to the tianshui city. The commander of the Kongbu garrison was the brigade commander Zhao Ruishou. Tianshui consisted of five cities connected from east to west, each with its gates closed tightly, as if it were going to resist stubbornly. Zhang Weixi's troops hurriedly reconnoitred the terrain, deployed troops, tied up the ladder, and prepared to climb the city in the middle of the night. However, Kong Fanjin retreated without a fight in the first half of the night and fled south. Not even the mint's boxes of silver and copper dollars and the arsenal's large quantities of weapons and ammunition were taken away. On August 19, 1926, Zhang Weixi's troops occupied Tianshui Pass without a fight. Zhang Weixi announced to An Min on the one hand, and on the other hand, he sent the brigade commander Ni Yusheng to lead troops to pursue Kong Fanjin. Chasing to the bank of the Baishui River near Chengxian County, thousands of defeated soldiers and dependents of Kong Fanjin's troops gathered on the bank of the river in a mixed manner, and were scrambling for boats to cross the river. As a result, they were swept away by the pursuing troops and captured. Only Kong Fanjin himself, the brigade commanders Fan Lianbi, Zhao Ruishou, and a few others had already rushed to cross the other side and defected to the Hanzhong escort army to make Wu Xintian go. Zhang Weixi's forces conquered Longnan and captured tens of thousands of men and horses, a small arsenal, and a small mint. So in December 1926, Zhang Weixi's department was expanded into the Thirteenth Army of the Northwest Army, and Zhang Weixi was promoted to commander, with the thirteenth and twenty-second divisions and an independent brigade and the army's directly subordinate cavalry regiments, artillery regiments, mortar regiments, engineer battalions, heavy battalions, machine gun battalions, cadet battalions and pistol battalions (at this time I was the commander of the first company of the pistol battalion). In early 1927, Zhang Weixi was promoted to commander-in-chief of the 13th Road of the Northwest Army.

　　Zhang Weixi's Thirteenth Army trained in Longnan for more than half a year. In the spring of 1927, the large army of the Northwest Army was sent from Shaanxi, Gansu, Qingning, and Tongguan to meet the National Revolutionary Army in Wuhan, and Zhang Weixi's army was first transferred from Tianshui to Xi'an on standby. By this time, the siege of Xi'an had been lifted, Liu Zhenhua's troops had been defeated, and the remnants had retreated to western Henan. There are also many indigenous warlords of all sizes in Shaanxi, each on the other hand, who do not listen to the transfers and form many "independent kingdoms". Brigade commander Ma Zhenwu (nicknamed Ma Laojiu) divided Tongzhou Capital (present-day Dali County), Division Commander Wei Dingyi divided Sanyuan, Division Commander Xue Mou (forgetting his name) divided Jingyang, Brigade Commander Geng Jinghui divided Gaoling, Brigade Commander Geng Zhuang divided Chaoyi, Brigade Commander Duan Maogong divided Hancheng, Brigade Commander Dang Yukun (nicknamed Dang Kidnapper) divided Fengxiang Province, Division Commander Zhen Shiren divided Qianyang and Longzhou, and so on. Among them, the most harmful to the Northwest Army's eastward advance into the Northern Expedition was the Nine Departments of Ma Lao, which had long been in Tongzhou. Ma Laojiu not only did not listen to the command and mobilization of Feng Yuxiang, commander-in-chief of the Nationalist Army, but also took Yan Xishan in Shanxi as the backstage, and colluded with Liu Zhenhua to make enemies with the Northwest Army. The Capital of Tongzhou is located on the north bank of the Wei River between Xi'an and Tongguan, at the key point of the water and land hole from Xi'an to Tongguan. In order to ensure the safety of the flank of the eastward army, Commander-in-Chief Feng then used the Zhenwu Department of the Fourth Army of the Northwest Army to collect Ma Laojiu. Mabu had occupied Tongzhou for ten years, built Tongzhou City into a permanent strong fortress, built an earthen city outside the brick city, and the trenches outside the earthen city were about two inches deep and wide, and on the outer edge of the four city gates and the four city corners of the trenches, there was also a brick and stone bunker that secretly connected the city, and a large amount of reserves such as grain and grass looted from the people, and also received full assistance from Yan Xishan in Shanxi Province, so that there was no fear. Fang Zhenwu's troops besieged the city for a month and failed to succeed, and the northern expedition front was in urgent need of additional troops, so Fangbu was ordered to withdraw from the east. Commander-in-Chief Feng ordered the Han Fuqu Department of the Sixth Army of the Northwest Army to continue the siege of Tongzhou. Hanbu attacked for a month without conquering it and was also ordered to move east. Liu Ruming of the Tenth Army of the Northwest Army continued to besiege Han, and Liu Bu attacked for a month, but still could not attack. In June 1927, Zhang Weixi led his 13th Army from Xi'an to Kaitong Prefecture, and Commander-in-Chief Feng made Zhang Weixi the commander-in-chief of the Tongzhou Offensive and Siege Army, commanding the 10th and 13th armies in a unified manner, and taking a deadline of one month to conquer. Zhang and Liu's two armies attacked together for a month, with thousands of casualties and officers and soldiers, but they still could not attack. Zhang Weixi was dismissed from his post and retained from his post, and was punished with a period of one month. Zhang Weixi's subordinates demanded that a hard attack method of climbing the cloud ladder be adopted, but Zhang Weixi did not adopt it. One morning in early August, Ni Yusheng, deputy commander of the Thirteenth Army, took advantage of Zhang Weixi's lunch break to resolutely order me to lead a hundred pistol teams (at this time I was the commander of the first company of the pistol battalion of the military department) and Ordered Ou Yunxiang, director of the Ordnance Department of the Twenty Division, to lead a hundred large knife soldiers to organize a brave team and prepare to climb the city at noon in the day. When everything was ready and about to start climbing the city, Wang Pixiang (i.e., Wang Zanting), a staff officer of the military lieutenant colonel, rushed to report the matter to Zhang Weixi. Zhang Weixi hurriedly rushed from Qili Village, where the headquarters was located, to the front line of the siege, believing that a trench, an earthen city and a brick city needed to climb three lines of defense, and in the daytime, there would inevitably be excessive casualties, and it would not be easy to perform. So he ordered the climbing of the city to stop. Zhang Weixi believed that the two hundred brave soldiers who had been killed and wounded would not have any hope of success, so he decided to adopt the method of tunnel operation, digging tunnels, burying explosives under the brick city wall, and blasting the city wall. After the decision, ten tunnels were dug simultaneously on all four sides of the city. Nine of them were intercepted and destroyed by the defenders, and only the thirteenth army tunnel battalion was successfully excavated in a tunnel on the west side of the north gate, and three thousand kilograms of explosives were buried. At 2:00 p.m. on August 26, 1927, a loud roar broke the city wall into a large gap 20 to 30 meters wide. Then, the mountain artillery, field artillery, mortars, and heavy machine guns of the entire Thirteenth Army concentrated their fire on the gap and fired intensively, making the enemy dizzy. Under the cover of artillery fire, I led a company of pistols, pistols in my left hand and large knives in my right hand, and ran to the mouth of the trench. At the same time, a signal was sent to extend the fire of our artillery into the city, and the large troops continued to pour into the city like a tide. After more than two hours of street fighting, more than 5,000 people of The Nine Departments of Ma Lao were all annihilated. Ma Laojiu himself was seriously injured in a street battle, and fled for forty-five miles with the refugees out of the East Gate, dying in the town of Cangtoupu. When I broke into the Yaowang Cave in the city, I encountered intensive fire from the defenders, and my right lung was penetrated by bullets, and I was almost dying. The use of tunnel operations and the use of explosives to blast open the city wall was the first method used by the Northwest Army to attack the stronghold. In this battle, nearly 2,000 officers and men of the 13th Army alone were killed and wounded, and Zhao Fenglin, commander of the 17th Division, was also seriously wounded. A week later, Zhang Weixi personally went to the Tongdi Village Field Hospital, located ten miles from the city, to visit the wounded, to comfort the wounded officers and men one by one, and to give each officer ten yuan and soldiers five yuan silver money. When he came up to me, he saw that it was me, and he was very surprised and said to me, "Isn't that Zhang Xuanwu?" You're not dead!" yes! Great destiny, great destiny! When his quartermaster handed me ten silver dollars, Zhang Weixi hurriedly waved his hand to the quartermaster and said, "Give him more, give him fifty yuan!" "It turned out that when I was wounded in the line of fire, when the health team carried me through the artillery position on a stretcher, Zhang Weixi saw that I was covered in blood, my face was sallow, my eyes were closed, as if I had lost my breath, and he thought I was dead. At that time, although I was on the verge of death, I still had a hint of breath, and vaguely heard Zhang Weixi say in a sad tone to his chief of staff Yu Fanggao and Wang Hexiang, commander of the 20th Division: "This child (I was twenty years old at the time) can't do it, it's a pity!" "Luckily, a year later, I recovered from my injuries and was able to play intense sports.

　　After the end of the war in Tongzhou, Zhang Weixi's troops were stationed in Tongguan for about half a year. In the spring of 1928, when the second phase of the Northern Expedition was tense, Zhang Weixi was appointed commander-in-chief of the Sixth Front Of the Northwest Army, that is, the 13th Army under his command was driven from Tongguan to Zhengzhou. Zhang Weixi led the army and the 17th Division to advance first, and the 20th Division and the Independent Brigade followed behind. When the Twentieth Division advanced to Luoyang, some of the remaining indigenous warlords in Shaanxi saw the large army of the Northwest Army leaving Tongguan in the east, and they took the opportunity to launch a rebellion. Song Zheyuan, commander-in-chief of the Fourth Front Of the Northwest Army and chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Government, sent a telegram ordering the 20th Division and the Independent Brigade to stop their eastward advance and return to the division to suppress the rebellion. After the 20th Division and the Independent Brigade returned to Shaanxi, in coordination with ma Hongbin of the 24th Army of the Northwest Army, in order to concentrate superior forces, they broke through the enemy's various counties, and smoothly and effortlessly eliminated the rebels in Jingyang, Sanyuan, Gaoling, Chaoyi, Hancheng, Pucheng and other counties. After Zhang Weixi led the Army and the 17th Division to Zhengzhou, they crossed the Yellow River in the north and fought all the way to Linqing via Xinxiang, Huaxian, Puyang, and Daming. Successively, the two armies of Zhang Zongchang and Chu Yupu's Zhilu combined forces were broken, and more than 5,000 people were captured, as well as some White Russia.

　　In July 1928, the Northern Expedition came to an end, and the indigenous warlords of Shaanxi had not yet been completely eliminated. Feng commander-in-chief ordered Zhang Weixi to lead his troops back to Shaanxi to assist Song Zheyuan in quelling the rebellion. According to the brigade commander Dang Kidnappers who guarded Fengxiang Province, he was originally a subordinate of Guo Jian of the Jingguo Army, and fengxiang was divided for ten years. Fengxiang is similar to Tongzhou, and it is also a deep city with abundant grain and ammunition. Song Zheyuan sent three divisions of troops to besiege for three months, but could not go down. After Zhang Weixi led the army and the 17th Division to Xi'an, they joined the 20th Division and the Independent Brigade that had returned to Shaanxi earlier, and immediately marched to Fengxiang. Zhang Weixi learned the lessons of attacking Tongzhou and immediately adopted tunnel operations. The tunnel battalion of the Xiiith Army (I was the acting battalion commander of the battalion at the time) took only half a month to successfully excavate the tunnel on the south side of the East City Gate. On September 2, 1928, the city wall exploded, annihilating 5,000 to 6,000 defenders in one fell swoop, and the party kidnappers themselves were killed in the street battle. After Feng Xiang was pacified, zhen Shiren, the commander of the division that occupied Qianyang and Longzhou, had seven or eight thousand men, and in view of the stubborn defenders who were stubbornly resisting the city, none of them got a good end, and they knew that they could not be defeated, so they did not wait for the attack and took the initiative to surrender Kaicheng. At this point, all the indigenous warlords in Guanzhong Province, Shaanxi Province, were wiped out.

　　In mid-September 1928, Zhang Weixi was ordered to lead his troops into Hanzhong. At that time, Wu Xintian, the protector of southern Shaanxi, was the commander of the Seventh Division of the Warlords of Beiyang, who had been occupying southern Shaanxi for eight years and was also an "independent kingdom". His troops were inhospitable and corrupt, officers and soldiers smoked opium, and many soldiers had family members who could only disturb the people and could not fight. After Wu Xintian received the news that the Northwest Army had entered Hanzhong, he sent his brigade commander Gu Zhenyao to hold Chaiguanling and Jitou Pass north of Hanzhong with two regiments of troops in an attempt to resist in an attempt to resist in an attempt to resist. However, Zhang Weixi's troops only fired a few mortar shells, and the defenders were scared away. Wu Xintian heard the news and gave up Hanzhong to run east overnight. Zhang Weixi's forces successfully occupied Hanzhong. Zhang Weixi's Seventeenth Division followed the pursuit until it reached Xixiang County, only to encounter a burst of resistance from wubu's Niuyuchun Brigade. As a result, the cattle brigade was not supported, and sneaked into the Daba Mountain at the junction of Sichuan and Shaanxi to fall into the grass. Wu Xintian and the rest of the remnants continued to run east from Xixiang County, and Zhang Weixi's 17th Division continued to pursue them all the way to Baihe County, on the border between Shaanxi and Hubei, where most of Wu's troops were captured and disarmed, and some of them collapsed and scattered, and Wu Xintian himself, his family members, and some of his cronies fled east by boat to Wuhan.

　　Zhang Weixi's Thirteenth Army had more than 40,000 people, and there were more than 20 counties in the two special districts of Hanzhong and Ankang in the south of saijiang, and there was no shortage of grain and food, and the military and the people were at peace. At the end of the Northern Expedition in 1928, a national dispatch conference was held to unify the organization and number. Zhang Weixi's unit was reorganized into the 27th Army Division (I was the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 157th Regiment of the 79th Brigade of the Division).

　　In the autumn of 1929, due to Chiang Kai-shek's selfishness toward the dispatch meeting, Feng Yan and Li Zongren issued the slogan of "advocating justice" and organized the "Party Protection And National Salvation Army" to jointly oppose Chiang Kai-shek. Zhang Weixi, as the commander-in-chief of the Seventeenth Road, led his troops east along the Han River and attacked the divisions and brigades of Jiang's army, including Liu Zhi, Jiang Dingwen, Zhao Guantao, Chen Cheng, Xia Douyin, and Luo Lin, who were defending the area around Xiangfan, Gucheng, and Nanzhang. Having already conquered Nanzhang and Gucheng, and captured Cihe, Nizui, Guanlukou, Yinjiaji, and Longzhong in the outer positions of Xiangyang, it is about to take Xiangyang City and Fancheng Town. It was because Li Zongren's troops were far away in Guangxi, and it was difficult to communicate and could not coordinate operations, and Yan Xishan, who was an old traitor and a giant, betrayed his faith and did not send troops according to the agreement, resulting in the Northwest Army fighting independently on the four fronts of Jinpu, Pinghan, Longhai, and Hanjiang. Prior to this, Chiang Kai-shek also bribed Han Fuqu and Shi Yousan with heavy money, causing the two main forces of the Northwest Army, Han and Shi, to defect to Feng and surrender to Chiang, and Commander-in-Chief Feng was detained by Yan Xishan in Shanxi. The generals of the Northwest Army were discordant, agitated and uncoordinated, and the morale of the army was scattered and demoralized. Song Zheyuan's troops on the Longhai Line and Sun Liangcheng's troops on the Jinpu Line successively called off and retreated to the west of Tongguan. Zhang Weixi's forces were originally victorious on the Han River line, but due to changes in the overall situation, they had to stop the attack and withdraw to southern Shaanxi. During the retreat, several divisions of Chiang Kai-shek's army scrambled to pursue, and when they reached the vicinity of Shihua Street and Sheng Jia Chaff, Zhang Weixi commanded his 17th Division to make a fierce counterattack, crushing the Sixth Division of Zhao Guantao's army in one fell swoop, capturing more than 2,000 guns and four mountain cannons. Jiang Dingwen, commander of the Ninth Division, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy's army, hastily ordered: Suspend the pursuit and wait until the enemy has retreated far away before pursuing. Zhang Weixi's troops had to return safely to southern Shaanxi, continue to train their troops, and use military engineering to build roads between Hanzhong and Ankang and between Hanzhong and Baoji.

　　Since Commander-in-Chief Feng was detained under house arrest by Yan Xishan in Shanxi, and the Northwest Army was leaderless and the generals were discordant, Chiang Kai-shek took the opportunity to further divide and disintegrate the Northwest Army, but instructed He Yingqin to call Zhang Weixi, xu with a high-ranking official Houlu- the chairman of Hubei Province and commander-in-chief of the corps, in an attempt to induce Zhang Weixi to defect to Feng and join Chiang. Zhang Weixi was not moved and ignored it. When Mr. Feng learned of this rumor, he sent Xu Weilie, chief of the Military Justice Department of his headquarters, to Hanzhong to appease and comfort Zhang Weixi's department. Zhang Weixi summoned all the officers at all levels above the commander of the military camp and swore an oath in front of Xu Weilie: to be determined to always be loyal to Commander-in-Chief Feng.

　　In the spring of 1930, Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan once again joined forces against Chiang Kai-shek and launched the so-called "Central Plains War." Zhang Weixi was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the so-called Second Front of the Republic of China Army (Commander-in-Chief Feng Yuxiang) of the Feng Yan Coalition Army. The 13th Army of the Command Post and the two armies of Tian Jinkai and Zhang Rukui, who were stationed in the northwestern army of Junzhou and Yunyang in Hubei, marched toward Xuchang via Nanyang. In early May 1930, Wang Jinyu's Forty-seventh Division, Xu Yuanquan's Forty-eighth Division, Shangguan Yunxiang's Fifty-fourth Division, and Xiao Zhichu's Forty-fourth Division, which belonged to He Chengjun's Third Army, attacked Fan Zhongxiu's eighth front army of The Xiaoshang River south of Xuchang, and the Fan army retreated to Xuchang City. On the morning of May 18, the 47th and 48th Divisions of Chiang Kai-shek's army were besieging Xuchangcheng, and Zhang Weixi's 17th Division of the 13th Army (division commander Zhao Fenglin, who was then the commander of the 99th Regiment of the 50th Brigade) and the 16th Division (division commander Ni Yusheng) arrived and immediately attacked Jiang's army. Jiang's army withdrew and retreated to the railway station and the area around the villages of Xishang and Changbai in the south of the city. Zhao Fenglin's division attacked The Village of Qiaoshang on the left wing, while Ni Yusheng's division attacked the railway station and Changbai Village on the right wing. Zhang Weixi's troops captured the village of Moshang and the railway station and Changbai Village, and because their foothold was unstable, Jiang's army counterattacked, and they recaptured the village of Moshang and Changbai. Zhang Weixi's forces once again captured the villages of Xishang and Changbai, and Jiang's army once again recaptured the villages of Xishang and Changbai. Zhang Weixi's troops counterattacked again, and Jiang Jun counterattacked again. Such a tug-of-war repeated rush, this day came a full ten rounds. After that, Zhang Weixi's department finally gained a foothold in the villages of Xishang and Changbai. The railway station was captured by the Forty-eighth Brigade of the Sixteenth Division (Brigade Commander Wang Pixiang), and Chiang Kai-shek's army attacked many times, fiercely fighting for a day and night, and the railway station was always in the hands of the brigade. In this fierce battle of day and night alone, two brigade commanders and two regimental commanders of Zhang Weixi's sixteenth and seventeenth divisions were wounded (I was one of them), four battalion commanders were killed, four battalion commanders were wounded, and more than 3,000 officers and soldiers below the company commander were killed or wounded. In addition to the death of the battalion commander of the third battalion of the Ninety-ninth Regiment of the Fiftieth Brigade of the Seventeenth Division, three of the four company commanders were killed and one wounded. The intensity of the fighting is evident. Later, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, I never saw such a fierce battle and so many casualties. This is really the so-called "courage to fight privately, cowardice in public war, civil war insiders, and laymen in foreign wars."

　　During this period, Zhang Weixi's 16th Division, Tian Jinkai's right wing, Tian Jinkai's division, Wu Zhensheng's division, Wang Hemin's division, and Zhang Rukui's Ge Yunlong and Wei Fenglou divisions also fought fierce battles with Chiang Kai's forty-fourth and fifty-fourth divisions in the area of Fifteen Lidian west of Xuchang, and the fifteen-mile shop was once captured by Chiang Kai-shek's army. Since the Fifteen Mile Shop was a strategic point that both sides had to contend for, Zhang Weixi strictly ordered Zhang Zizhong's division, which had come to reinforcements, to counterattack and retake it within a time limit. Zhang Shi only restored the Fifteen Mile Shop overnight. But it also paid a great price, because both sides fought very vigorously, and they did not hesitate to make great sacrifices. One night, the Forty-eighth Division of Chiang Kai-shek's army, with a brigade, attacked the Linggou River, where Zhang Weixi's headquarters was located fifteen miles northwest of Xuchang, from a gap between Niuzhuangzhai and Zhangzhai about two miles northwest of the village, and was surrounded by Chiang's army because it was unprepared. Zhang Weixi personally supervised the battle on the wall of the village, commanded his guard unit pistol regiment, and made several attacks, but did not repel the Jiang army. At the moment of crisis, Zhang Weixi transferred the Forty-seventh Brigade (Brigade Commander Wang Yunshan) of the Sixteenth Division, and after a short and fierce battle, he began to kill most of Chiang Kai-shek's army, one prisoner and one to disperse, while the pistol regiment and the Forty-seventh Brigade also killed and wounded nearly a thousand officers and men.

　　Upon his arrival in Xuchang, Zhang Weixi was appointed commander-in-chief of the Southern Route Army of Feng Yan's allied forces, commanding all anti-Chiang kai-shek forces fighting on the Pinghan Front, including Fan Zhongshuo's Eighth Front Army and Ren Yingqi's Twelfth Army, totaling about 150,000 people. On June 4, at the request of Zhang Weixi, Commander-in-Chief Fan Zhongshu accompanied his entourage of 20 to 30 people on horseback to the Linggou River to attend the meeting. On the way, he encountered Jiang Jun's plane flying low and circling, and his entourage advised him to avoid the woods next to the road, and he stood still. With a roar, a bomb landed next to him, and the bomb did not explode, and he said "Stab you with urine" as he urinated on the unexploded bomb. At this moment, another bomb landed next to him, and he was seriously injured and died immediately. Commander-in-Chief Feng then sent Deng Baoshan to take over as commander-in-chief of the Eighth Front.

　　In early June, li zongren's Gui army of the Third Front of the Republic of China Army invaded Hunan and occupied Changsha and Yuezhou successively. In order to cooperate with the Gui army, Commander-in-Chief Feng ordered Zhang Weixi to launch a full-line offensive against the Jiang army on the Pinghan Line on June 10. After a brief contact, Chiang Kai-shek's army retreated south of the Luo River. Zhang Weixi commanded the various armies in pursuit, and Commander-in-Chief Feng suddenly ordered a halt on the north bank of the Luo River. Zhang Weixi and the commanders of the various armies and divisions unanimously advocated and suggested to Commander-in-Chief Feng that they take advantage of the victory and go straight to Wuhan and meet the Gui army. Commander-in-Chief Feng believed that the main force of Chiang Kai-shek's army was not on the Pinghan Line but on the Longhai Line, and if the lone army went deeper, the battle line was too long, and the troops were too dispersed, it was bound to fall into a dangerous situation where they could not take care of each other from the end, and the Chiang army on the Pinghan Line did not dare to attack the north for a short period of time because of the worries of the Gui Army, and our army was just suitable for drawing out troops to use on the Longhai Line at this time, so it was not adopted. On the Pinghan Line, the enemy and we faced each other across the river and held each other on the north and south banks of the Luohe River.

　　When the war between the enemy and us on the Pinghan Front was tense, Commander-in-Chief Feng sent Sun Lianzhongjun and Zhang Zizhong, Ge Yunlong, Wei Fenglou and other divisions to reinforce. By late May, the fighting on the Pinghan Front had become a state of silence of equal strength, while the fighting on the Longhai Line had become fierce, and Sun Jun and Zhang, Ge, Wei and other divisions were still transferred back to the Longhai Line.

　　During the confrontation between the two sides, Feng Yuxiang secretly appointed Wang Jinyu as the commander-in-chief of the 17th Road and Xu Yuanquan as the commander-in-chief of the 18th Road in order to divide and disintegrate the Jiang army, and Ordered Zhang Weixi to send Gao Shengliang Yingkui and Tuanfu Chen Shengyan as emissaries. They crossed the river with Feng's letter of appointment through our regimental defense line to meet Wang Jinyu and Xu Yuanquan. Wang Xu gladly accepted the letter of appointment, declaring that he would wait for the time to be ripe, that is, to repay his orders. They were intent on waiting and seeing, watching the wind make the rudder, and stepping on two boats, but when they did not see the rabbits and did not scatter the eagles, when the victory or defeat of the two sides was known, Jiang Sheng remained loyal to the end, and Feng Sheng turned against Jiang, which was the usual method of the miscellaneous troops. Later, because the development of the war gradually favored Jiang, Feng's wish naturally failed to be realized.

　　The Southern Route Army, which confronted Chiang Kai-shek's army on the north bank of the LuoHe River, did not engage in large-scale battles from June to August, while the Eastern Route Army on the Longhai Line and the Northern Route Army on the Jinpu Line fought repeatedly and fiercely with the main force of Chiang Kai-shek's army. It was fought until September, when the two sides were evenly matched and could not hold each other, and the Feng Yan coalition army had a slight advantage. It was at this crucial moment that Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army suddenly entered the pass to help Jiang. Yan Xishan, the old and cunning, without informing Commander-in-Chief Feng in Zhengzhou, secretly ordered all the Jin Sui troops on the jinpu and longhai fronts to withdraw from the battlefield and flee back to their old nest in Shanxi. Therefore, the main force of Chiang Kai-shek's army dealt with the Northwest Army on the Longhai Line with all its strength. Due to the sharp change in the situation on the battlefield, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse. Jiang's army divided its troops into eighteen roads, drilled gaps everywhere, and ordered those who occupied Zhengzhou first to receive a million yuan. The Northwest Army was attacked on all sides, taking care of one or the other, and was too poor to cope. Chiang Kai-shek took the opportunity to use the high-ranking official Houlu to induce differentiation. As a result, Ji Hongchang, Liang Guanying, Sun Lianzhong, and other units of the Northwest Army ceased to fight one after another, and were successively incorporated by Chiang Kai-shek into the Twenty-second, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Route Armies and transferred away from the battlefield. After the end of the two fronts of Jinpu and Longhai, Jiang's army devoted all its efforts to dealing with Zhang Weixi's Southern Route Army, and began an all-out attack on September 6. Zhang Weixi was outnumbered, and because his two wings were threatened, he ordered a retreat from Luohe North, intending to approach Zhengzhou. When retreating to the vicinity of Linying, it was blocked by Chen Cheng's troops of the 11th Division, which belonged to Liu Zhi of the Second Army of Chiang Kai-shek's Army. Wang Pixiang, commander of the Forty-eighth Brigade of Zhang Weixi's 16th Division, led a regiment of infantry to attack the 11th Division of Chiang Kai-shek's army, which was camped in the Area of Zhang, Da Liu Shu, by means of a camp. Jiang's army was not good at night fighting, still less good at white-knife warfare, and was crushed by the Northwest Army in one night, killing more than a thousand people and capturing four or five hundred people. Jiang Jun abandoned the road, and Zhang Weixi's troops continued to retreat north. When we entered wunudian north of Xuchang, we were intercepted by Hu Zongnan, the first division of Chiang Kai-shek's army, and Zhao Fenglin, commander of the 17th Division of Zhang Weixi's division, instructed our regiment to attack the enemy. Zhang Weixi and Zhao Fenglin personally visited the wall of the Five Women's Shop to supervise the battle. As soon as the charge was blown, our regiment pounced on the enemy like a fierce tiger descending the mountain, and without returning fire, the enemy turned backwards and ran southward, and our army followed and pursued. Our army must buy time to quickly retreat northward, but once it is chased down, it cannot be stopped, and I have ordered several times to stop the pursuit, and Zhang Weixi also ordered the armistice trumpet to be blown on the wall of the village. As a result, it chased for more than ten miles in one go, and it was just about to fall into twilight before it stopped. More than a hundred enemies were captured alive, and even Ding Delong, the commander of the Sixth Infantry Regiment of the First Division of chiang kai-shek's army, chased down the bag, and almost did not capture Ding Delong alive. When I returned to the Five Girls' Shop, Zhang Weixi lost her temper and, as soon as she saw me, she drank the order "Kneel!" And said: "You don't even have a little common sense as a regimental commander, and you go deep alone, until you chase it?" I said, "I've blown the stop-and-go trumpet a few times, and I can't close it for a while." It was still Master Zhao Fenglin who interceded and said, "Fortunately, I didn't suffer a loss, and I fought a victorious battle." "Zhang Weixi only made me get up."

　　When Zhang Weixi's army retreated to Xinzheng County, which was still ninety miles away from Zhengzhou, More and more troops were deployed from Jinpu and Longhai. In addition to the divisions of the former He Chengjun's Third Army, Chen Cheng's Eleventh Division, and Hu Zongnan's First Division, such as Gu Zhutong's Second Division, Zhao Guantao's Sixth Division, Jiang Dingwen's Ninth Division, Li Yunjie's Twenty-third Division, Li Yunheng's Twenty-first Division, Jiang Guangnai's Sixty-first Division, Cai Tingkai's Sixty-first Division, and many other divisions of unknown numbers, totaling no less than thirty or forty divisions, which surrounded Zhang Weixi's Southern Route Army with hundreds of thousands of people layer by layer. Zhang Weixi's troops fought in the encirclement circle for more than a week, and they could not open the situation of being surrounded. Commander-in-Chief Feng sent Feng Zhi'an, deputy commander-in-chief of the Fourth Road, to Xinzheng to assist Zhang Weixi in Zhengzhou, and Feng Zhi'an was also powerless. Commander-in-Chief Feng also sent Liu Zhen, the brigade commander of the Guard Brigade, to bring a pistol regiment to reinforcements, but the salary was to no avail. Commander-in-Chief Feng also sent Sun Liangcheng to lead a division to the Eighteen Mile River south of Zhengzhou to meet him, but in the end, because of the long distance, it could not be connected. By this time, most of the Northwest Army had already called off and accepted Chiang Kai-shek's incorporation. Commander-in-Chief Feng, in view of the fact that the general situation has gone, once sent a telegram to Zhang Weixi, saying: My brother has done his best, the matter has reached this point, you can make your own claims, come to Japan for a long time, there will be a period later. Feng's meaning, although not explicit, implied that he could break through or accept Chiang Kai-shek's adaptations in order to preserve his strength. However, Zhang Weixi replied by telegram: I am willing to be loyal to the end and will never take revenge. At this time, Liu Zhi, commander-in-chief of Chiang Kai-shek's Second Army, Gu Zhutong, commander of the First Army, and some of his divisions and brigade commanders sent emissaries to Zhang Weixi or directly to his army, division, brigade, and regiment commander to persuade him to surrender. Zhang Weixi was resolute not to surrender. However, some of Zhang Weixi's generals and some aides had already wavered. Zhang Weixi's chief of staff of the General Headquarters of the Southern Route Army, Yu Fanggao, was a classmate of Gu Zhutong, commander of the First Army of Chiang Kai-shek's Army, at the Baoding Officers' School. Chiang Kai-shek instructed Gu Zhutong to bribe Yu Fanggao with 100,000 silver dollars to persuade Zhang Weixi to lay down his arms peacefully, and in addition to ensuring the safety of his life, he was appointed to the Senate by the general of the Military Senate. At this time, Zhang Weixi's general, Ni Yusheng, deputy commander of the 13th Army and commander of the 16th Division, had already turned away from Zhang Weixi, and was greedy for life and afraid of death, and strongly advocated surrender. The Forty-seventh Brigade, to which he belonged, had moved freely to draw the troops to the side of Chiang Kai-shek's Sixth Division for reorganization. However, Zhao Fenglin, commander of Zhang Weixi's 17th Division, and his brigade, regiment, and battalion commanders, as well as Zhao Guanying's division of Ren Yingqi's army, resolutely opposed surrender. The officers above the battalion commander of the Seventeenth Division secretly gathered and proposed two methods: First, they surrounded Zhang Weixi and firmly defended XinzhengCheng. Because Chiang Kai-shek was anxious to return to Jiangnan to fight the Red Army, as long as he held out for half a month and twenty days, Chiang Kai-shek's army would certainly be able to withdraw; second, he escorted Zhang Weixi to break through the gap in the middle of the night, the first step was Benyu County, the second step was to run south to Hanzhong via Nanyang and Yunyang, and the breakthrough route was reconnoitered and made breakthrough arrangements. After making an explanation to Zhang Weixi, Zhang disagreed with both methods, believing that the overall situation had been decided, the general trend had gone, the hope of success was extremely slim, and it was too difficult to risk committing crimes and causing major deaths and injuries. He added: "I really don't want to fight a civil war anymore, let's put down the butcher knife." Zhang Weixi was afraid that the middle and upper-level officers of the Seventeenth Division would not listen to him and disrupt his plan to lay down his weapons peacefully, so he detained the division commander Zhao Fenglin, the brigade commander Shi Tongran, the regimental commander Zhang Xuanwu and Si Jifu, and the battalion commanders Gao Delin and Feng Zhiyi under house arrest. At the same time, he ordered a ceasefire; on the other hand, he demanded from Chiang Kai-shek that those units that could be reorganized should be demobilized and sent back to their places of origin, and that they should not be killed or abused; and that officers at all levels who wished to continue their duties should be retained at their original ranks or sent to military schools to study, and those who did not want to serve should be given the right to listen. At this point, more than 100,000 horses of the Southern Route Army of Feng Yan's combined army were all disarmed, except for Zhao Guanying, the cavalry division of the Yingqi Army, who was finally absorbed by Chiang Kai-shek's army after breaking through. Zhang Weixi, along with Mr. Fan Zhuxian (Fan was Zhang Weixi's small fellow villager in Guantao County, during the Great War in the Central Plains, Zhang Hired Fan to be a counselor of the General Headquarters of the Southern Route Army, and Zhang obeyed Fan Yan and had great trust) and left the battlefield accompanied by Yu Fanggao and escorted by Gu Zhutong. Chiang Kai-shek gave him a letter of appointment as a "general senator in the Military Senate," but he never went to Nanjing to take up his post.

　　In the Battle of the Central Plains, in addition to Zhang Weixi's troops laying down their weapons and Ji Hongchang, Liang Guanying, sun Lianzhong and other units being reorganized by Chiang Kai-shek, there were still several sporadic troops such as Zhang Zizhong, Liu Ruming, Zhao Dengyu, and Zhang Renjie who retreated to the southern Jin dynasty, and the group was leaderless. Feng Yuxiang had ordered Zhang Weixi to come out to unify the leadership, but Zhang Weixi refused, and was replaced by Song Zheyuan, which was the later Twenty-ninth Army.

　　After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Feng Yuxiang once asked the former officers of the Northwest Army to be the backbone of the three corps of the New Army, and recommended Lu Zhonglin, Zhang Weixi, and Shi Jingting as their commanders. Chiang Kai-shek fully agreed to this in person, and instructed He Yingqin, minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, to allocate them to soldiers, ration weapons and equipment, and pay them with grain. Behind the scenes, however, Chiang Kai-shek instructed He Yingqin not to allocate even a single soldier, not a single gun, not a single penny or a pound of grain, and of course the matter of training the new army was not blown away. The hero has no place to play, and Feng Yuxiang entered the third phase of the special class of the Army University with Lu Zhonglin, Zhang Weixi, Shi Jingting, etc. After graduating three years later, Zhang Weixi still had nothing to do. Due to the fall of his native country, he took refuge alone at the home of Zhao Fenglin, the commander of his old division in Henan County. In the autumn of 1944, Zhang Weixi went to Tianjin to visit his long-departed wife, Lao Xiao, passing through Kaifeng and encountering an old colleague of the Northwest Army, the director of the Kaifeng Appeasement Of the Wang puppet regime, and the commander-in-chief of the Second Front, Sun Liangcheng. Sun Jian invited Zhang to spend a few days in Kaifeng to say goodbye. One day, Sun Liangcheng set up a banquet to welcome Zhang Weixi, and summoned his subordinate officers above the commander of the Northwest Army, most of whom were old acquaintances of Zhang Weixi. During the banquet, Sun Liangcheng suddenly announced that Mr. Zhang Weixi had been appointed deputy director of the Kaifeng Appeasement Office. I want to go to Nanjing to attend the meeting, and Deputy Director Zhang Weixi is fully responsible for the affairs of the family. Zhang Weixi was very surprised and said, "Where did this come from?" How can this work! Sun Liangcheng said, "Just do it, if it doesn't work, you have to do it." Sun Liangcheng said, and hurriedly ran to the train to Nanjing. Zhang Weixi originally did not want to go into the water, but he could not stop the bitter pleading of those old acquaintances of the officers, and Zhang Weixi finally put on the hat of a traitor, and he lost his footing into thousands of ancient hatreds and failed to save the late festival. However, he wore this traitor hat for less than three months, and because he was condemned by public opinion and conscience, he became ill with remorse, resolutely resigned from his false post, and died of illness at the age of fifty-five.

　　Zhang Weixi had read several years of books in his childhood, and after joining the army, he was diligent and studious, reading military books, and was known as a "Confucian general" in the Northwest Army. Not only was he eager to learn himself, but he organized book clubs for his subordinate officers at any time, personally urging them to study culture and study martial arts books. After I was wounded in the Battle of Tongzhou in 1927, while recuperating at Tongguan, Zhang Weixi gave me a one-month deadline to recite the "Quotations of Zeng Hu Zhibing" in Baoben, and when I finished the limit, he personally conducted the test. When Zhang Weixi was the battalion commander, Mr. Feng entrusted him to compile a "Non-Commissioned Officer Service Book" as a normative criterion for the duties and tasks of the squad leader in the company during peacetime and wartime. This is because Zhang Weixi came from a military background and had rich practical experience in non-commissioned service, so this book was well written and deeply appreciated by Mr. Feng, and a book was printed and distributed to all non-commissioned officers and enshrined as a table. Zhang Weixi was overworked to write this book, which affected his eyesight and became short-sighted. At that time, Mr. Feng's sixteenth mixed brigade, from the brigade commander down to the brother-in-law, did not have a single one wearing glasses in the whole brigade. When Zhang Weixi asked Mr. Feng for instructions to make glasses, Mr. Feng asked him how far he could see without glasses. He replied that he could see five or six meters. Since then, the army has given him two nicknames: "LiuMida" and "Zhang Blind".

　　Zhang Weixi is good at training troops, he has a unique point for military training, and he can rarely stand out among his peers in the Northwest Army. At the end of each year-end reading, whether it is discipline, art, playground, field or internal affairs, health, military discipline, and discipline, Zhang Weixi's department is always among the best. In the harsh winter of 1923, a division under Mr. Feng's unit and three mixed brigades, a total of 18 regiments, held a night "in front of the enemy" city-building competition at the Nanyuan Training Ground in Beijing, and Zhang Weixi's regiment won the first place in the evaluation results. First, when the last emperor Puyi, who abdicated, got married, Mr. Feng once bought two hundred yuan of Jingdezhen porcelain as a congratulatory gift, and Puyi returned a large silver cup that was one meter high. Mr. Feng took the silver cup as a prize for the winner of the city-building competition and gave it to Zhang Weixi. In the spring of 1927, the 13th Army of the Northwest Army under Zhang Weixi held an all-army games in Tianshui. Zhang Weixi also took the silver cup as a prize and awarded it to Lin Jiuzhou, the winner of the 400-meter race for officers above the battalion level and the battalion commander. Since Zhang Weixi was good at training troops, from 1923 to 1924, when Mr. Feng's division and three mixed brigades were training in Nanyuan, Beijing, Mr. Feng set up a special officer and non-commissioned officer and non-commissioned officer teaching regiment in order to enhance the ability of junior officers and non-commissioned officers to lead, train and fight, that is, Zhang Weixi was concurrently the head of the regiment. Officers and non-commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers of all units of the whole army were successively transferred to further study, and the results were outstanding. After the Northwest Army entered Gansu, the whole army was armed with force and the horses were strong. The Gansu Supervision Office set up a teaching regiment for officers and non-commissioned officers, and Zhang Weixi served as the brigade commander and concurrently served as the head of the teaching regiment. During his military training in Tianshui and Hanzhong, Zhang Weixi successively set up an officer and non-commissioned officer teaching regiment, with division commander Zhao Fenglin concurrently serving as the regimental commander, while Zhang Weixi still kept the regiment under the guidance of the regiment at any time.

　　Zhang Weixi is very strict with himself, does not smoke, does not drink, does not gamble, does not prostitute, and does not marry a little wife. His requirements for subordinates were also very strict, and the prohibition of tobacco, alcohol, prostitution, and gambling was extremely serious. In September 1928, the Northwest Army was dispatched, and Zhang Weixi's 13th Army was in Fengxiang, Shaanxi Province, with more than 5,000 soldiers and demobilized; more than 500 officers were ready to be sent to the Luoyang Northwest Army Officer School to study. On the eve of departure, nine officers of the remaining officers, at the rank of platoon commander, played mahjong at night in a business to relieve their boredom, and were detected and arrested by the military judicial personnel. The next day, Zhang Weixi sentenced the nine men (four playing cards and five watching cards) to death in front of the officers and soldiers of the whole army. The execution was carried out by Zhang Weixi's military pistol battalion, which I was the acting battalion commander at the time.

　　Although Zhang Weixi led the troops very strictly, he also loved the soldiers very much, and the so-called Enwei was used together. In peacetime, he would go to the hospital once a month to visit sick officers and men in general, especially to officers and men wounded in combat, and to be more considerate and thoughtful. After each battle, within a week at the latest, he would visit all the wounded in person, ask about the wounds, touch them, and give them consolation money and souvenirs. Every year on National Day, he would gather all the officers and men who had been injured in previous years to have a dinner together, and issue commemorative medals and consolation goods to show the intention of repaying merit with reverence for virtue.

　　Zhang Weixi is deeply wise and courageous in the use of troops, and strives to fight steadily and steadily, and wins by surprise, rather than advocating a fierce attack and a fierce charge. For example, when he was ordered to besiege the Tongzhou capital in 1927, even if he exceeded the deadline set by Commander-in-Chief Feng and was punished by dismissal from his post and the punishment of wearing a crime and trying to make a meritorious deed, he still did not adopt the quick solution of climbing the ladder, suffering heavy casualties, and uncertainty, but preferred to take a slower but prudent method of digging tunnels and blowing up the city wall. The same was true when fengxiang province was attacked in 1928.

Zhang Xuanwu (1907-1984), formerly known as Zhang Minglin (张明霖), was born on November 17, 1907 (October 12, 1907 of the 33rd year of Qing Guangxu), a native of Wali Village, Xianghe Township, Biyang, Henan. In 1922, he served as a soldier under Feng Yuxiang and served as a platoon, company and battalion commander. In 1933, he joined the Sichuan Army as the head of the Tian Songyao Department. After the "77" incident, Zhang Xuanwu's unit was incorporated into the 22nd Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army to fight against The Japanese in Sichuan, and in December it was transferred to Xuzhou for defense. In March 1938, Zhang was appointed commander of the tengxian defense. Inspired by the division commander Wang Mingzhang's bold words of "the city survives and exists, the city dies and dies", Zhang led more than a thousand soldiers to firmly defend the county seat of Teng County, the northern gateway of Xuzhou. At dawn on the 16th, more than 10,000 Japanese infantry and more than 10 aircraft launched many onslaughts on the city of Tengxian, all of which were repelled by the defenders. On the 17th, the Japanese army increased to 30,000 people, accompanied by 50 or 60 mountain artillery and several aircraft, and indiscriminately bombarded the county town, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties. On the 18th, the county town fell in many places, and Xuanwu Nai led a company of soldiers to engage in street battles and white-knife battles with the enemy soldiers, competing for positions and holding out until dusk. At this time, Xuanwu was already seriously wounded, and the soldiers suffered several casualties, so several soldiers withdrew from Tengxian City with Xuanwu on their backs. During the battle, Zhang Bu resisted the crazy attack of tens of thousands of Japanese troops equipped with aircraft and artillery, held out for 4 and a half days, and killed more than 300 enemy troops, laying the foundation for the great victory of Taierzhuang. After the battle, Zhang Xuanwu was promoted to brigade commander and received a "Baoding Medal" and a "Gancheng Medal". In 1940, he was the commander of the 12nd and 2nd Divisions, and fought with the Japanese army in Zhongxiang, Suixian, Xiangfan, Yicheng, Laohekou and Dahongshan in Hubei Province, repeatedly wounding the enemy. In September 1945, he went to Luohe, Henan to accept the surrender of the 13th Independent Garrison of the Japanese Army. He later served as the commander of the Lieutenant General. December 1949 uprising in Sichuan. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as a counselor in the counselor's office of the Shandong Provincial People's Government, a member of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a member of the Provincial Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese People' He died in Jinan in October 1984.