At the end of 1930, the main force of the 18th Division of the Kuomintang Army advanced to Longgang, intending to wipe out the main force of the Red Army here.
However, they underestimated the determination of the people here to revolution, and the Red Army had a clear grasp of the terrain.
While the enemy was advancing alone, our army had quietly ambushed them in their path.
As soon as Zhang Huizan's 18th Division entered the ambush area, the Red Army immediately launched a fierce attack on them. The enemy troops scattered and fled.
In this battle, our army captured more than 9,000 enemy troops. For these soldiers who have gone astray, our army has provided them with two alternative paths.
What are these two paths, and what does this decision bring to our army?
Each has its own success
After the end of the first anti-"encirclement and suppression" battle, Zhang Huizan, who commanded the operation, was captured alive by the Red Army and temporarily placed in the custody of the government.
In his youth, he studied at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and after graduation, he went to Germany to study military science. After returning to China, Zhang Huizan served as the commander of the Nanchang garrison in Lu Diping.
After the start of the revolutionary war, Zhang Huizan began to hunt down and kill members of our party and progressives.
Later, after the troops led by Zhang Huizan were reorganized into the 18th Division of the Army, Lao Chiang awarded him the rank of lieutenant general and appointed him as the commander of the 18th Division.
After being captured, he pleaded with our army, hoping that the organization would spare his life.
The chairman was merciful, and he also thought about letting him live, but this person did many evils and aroused the anger of the people, which is really an unforgivable crime.
In 1931, at the public trial meeting of 10,000 people, the crowd was passionate, and Zhang Huizan's sins were counted one by one.
Under the strong demand of the people, in the end, Zhang Huizan was sentenced to be shot.
After learning of this news, Zhang Huizan's wife, Zhu Xinfang, tried every means to find someone from the central government and wanted to ransom him with a huge amount of money.
Lao Chiang also wrote to Chairman Mao, claiming that he could exchange 200,000 yuan in cash and "political prisoners" in Kuomintang prisons for Zhang Huizan.
However, the people were unwilling to forgive Zhang Huizan, and his sins could not be atoned for, and he could not escape death in the end.
After his death, although his wife and children were heartbroken, they did not vent their anger on our party.
They knew very well that Zhang Huizan was following a path that was opposed to the people and the revolution, and that he was to blame for all this.
In order not to repeat the mistakes of the past, Zhu Xinfang has increasingly strengthened the ideological education of the children.
Fortunately, although Zhang Huizan has done a lot of evil, his three children have not embarked on the same path as their father, and they have all become talents in different fields.
Zhang Huizan's eldest son is named Zhang Yuanqu. Zhang Yuanqu was originally his nephew, and seeing that his siblings had many children in the family, and life was very difficult, Zhang Huizan passed one of the children to his knees.
When Zhang Huizan was studying military science in Germany, he also brought Zhang Yuanqu with him and sent him to a medical school.
After Zhang Yuanqu returned to China, he came to Xiangtan Public Hospital as the vice president, and took the initiative to give up the hospital during the Anti-Japanese War, so that the hospital where he worked became a treatment point for the wounded.
He has practiced medicine all his life, and his children have also been influenced by him to engage in medical-related work, and his eldest son Zhang Mianbang even broke through the limitations of the times and established the first plastic surgery clinic in Changsha.
Zhang Huizan's second son is named Zhang Yuanmou, although he is Zhang Huizan's biological child, he is not influenced by his father. On the contrary, he was very war-averse and a staunch lover of pacifism.
Zhang Yuanmou has a smart mind and loves to study since he was a child. In the arduous years, he took the initiative to give up the superior conditions abroad, resolutely returned to his hometown, and contributed his strength to the cause of the motherland's construction.
He participated in the compilation of the national unified textbook "Principles of Transmission Process", joined our party in 1985, and won the second prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the State Education Commission.
Zhang Huizan's youngest daughter is named Zhang Yuanyi, and she is the only girl in the family.
She is interested in Western culture, studied English at Southwest Associated University and Tsinghua University, and became an excellent translator after graduation.
No matter what kind of person Zhang Huizan used to be and what kind of merits and demerits he had, his children adhered to their hearts, chose the path they liked, and shined in the field they were good at.
Volunteerism
Except for his sons and daughters, who were not affected by him, after Zhang Huizan's execution, the remaining 9,000 or so prisoners of war worried about their fate.
However, they found that our army's attitude towards prisoners of war was extremely gentle, and even friendly.
Not only that, but the Red Army, in its spirit of volunteerism, pointed out two paths for the prisoners of war. Stay here and become a Red Army soldier, or collect your money to return home on your own.
Most of the Kuomintang soldiers were also the sons of civilians from poor backgrounds, and they chose to join the Kuomintang for various reasons.
After seeing the style of the Red Army and the strict discipline of the army, many chose to stay and devote themselves to the revolutionary cause.
Among them, there were three soldiers who made great contributions to the revolutionary cause and were all awarded the rank of general after the founding of New China.
After Liu Jinxuan joined the Red Army, he followed the organization to death and charged into battle, made countless military exploits, was unanimously recognized by the organization and cadres, and officially became a party member in 1933.
During the Agrarian Revolution, he followed Marshal Peng to the Fujian and Jiangxi regions, participated in the second to fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" operations in the Central Revolutionary Base Area, and followed the Red Third Army through the 25,000-mile Long March.
After the start of the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Jinxuan's main army of the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and he shifted his focus from the revolutionary cause to the fight against foreign enemies.
In the past 14 years, Liu Jinxuan has participated in many battles such as the famous Battle of the Hundred Regiments and the Battle of Yuliao. He led his troops to be active in the front line of the Anti-Japanese War, persisted in the anti-Japanese guerrilla war, and made great contributions to the victory of the war.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Jinxuan was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
He was not carried away by this honor, never forgot his original intention, took a back seat, and continued to contribute to the cause of national construction in obscurity.
Before his death, Liu Jinxuan made a will, hoping that future generations would scatter his ashes into the waters of his hometown Xiangjiang River. This is the place where he dedicated the rest of his life, and it has become his resting place.
Among the prisoners of war who annihilated the 18th Division, there was a very famous telegraph operator named Wang Zhen.
He studied in the sixth phase of the communication department of the Whampoa Military Academy, and mastered the technology of radio communication. When the chairman learned of this, he personally approached Wang Chen, expressed his admiration for him, and invited him to join the Red Army.
Wang Zhen was moved by the chairman's sincerity and chose to stay and become a Red Army soldier.
As the first radio station captain of the Chinese People's Liberation Army personally appointed by the chairman, Wang Zhen always remembered his own work and conscientiously adhered to his post.
In the second anti-"encirclement and suppression" war, in order to obtain important information in advance, Wang Zheng stayed in front of the radio day and night, and finally intercepted and successfully deciphered the enemy's urgent telegram.
Having this important information, the morale of our troops was high and they launched a fierce attack on the enemy.
In this battle, our army won a complete victory, annihilating more than 10,000 enemy troops with minimal damage and capturing many weapons.
With this victory as the beginning, along the way, our army has always faced every battle with passionate emotions, and in the second anti-"encirclement and suppression" war, it has become an invincible legend.
The chairman once praised Wang Zheng as "the clairvoyant and ear of the Red Army" and conferred on him the rank of lieutenant general after the founding of New China.
Heroes don't ask where they come from
In Zhang Huizan's troops, there are talents in all aspects. In addition to Liu Jinxuan, who is good at fighting, and Wang Chen, a telegraph operator, there is also a military doctor named Li Zhi.
Li Zhi was originally born into a family of ordinary timber merchants, and when he was in middle school, a very severe cholera outbreak occurred in his hometown.
Many of his relatives and friends had been killed by cholera, and since then, Li Zhi has been determined to pursue a career in medicine.
After graduating from medical school, Li Zhi came to Nanchang and opened a private clinic here.
He didn't want to join the army, he just wanted to run his own clinic as he could. However, after the start of the war, Li Zhi's area happened to be in the area ruled by the Kuomintang, so he was forced to join the army and became a captain and military doctor of the 6th Regiment of Zhang Huizan's 18th Division.
After Zhang Huizan's 18th Division was annihilated, Li Zhi saw that there were nearly 1,000 wounded in the Red Army, so he took the initiative to stay in the Red Army to treat the wounded.
The organization appointed him chief of medical staff at the Fourth Hospital of the Red Army, responsible for treating soldiers wounded in this battle.
Li Zhi took over this arduous task and began to treat nearly 1,000 wounded people without sleep or food.
In 1931, Li Zhi's medical skills and consciousness were unanimously recognized by the organization. The organization officially recruited him as a member of the party and appointed him director of the 1st Hospital of the Red Army.
After the establishment of the Red Army Military Medical School, Li Zhi went to the school as a teacher.
At that time, the teaching environment was extremely limited, and Li Zhi overcame the difficulties and personally drew various schematic diagrams and made models to promote scientific knowledge to the local people.
During the Long March, Premier Zhou accidentally fell ill and fell unconscious for several days.
After careful diagnosis, Li Zhi believed that Premier Zhou was suffering from a disease called amoebic dysentery. In the absence of surgical conditions, he boldly adopted a novel treatment method to cure Premier Zhou's illness.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Zhi was awarded the rank of major general and assumed the post of Minister of Health of the Military Academy.
As the saying goes, heroes don't ask where they come from, and on the way to New China, there are many people who may have stood on the opposite side of the people, but fortunately, they woke up in time and embarked on the right path.
Although these three fighters had worked in Zhang Huizan's army for various reasons, after they chose to join the Red Army, they all contributed greatly to the revolutionary cause in different ways and left a glorious mark on the revolutionary road.
Zhang Huizan used to be an aspiring young man, but because of his weak willpower, he finally embarked on a road of no return. In contrast, it is even more commendable that the revolutionary martyrs of the older generation can always stick to their original intentions.
No matter what adversity you face, you must never forget the faith in your heart. Only in this way can there be strength in our hands, and our generation should always remember this spirit.