"Warlord" is a mixed word, there are many heroes among the warlords, and there are also many flies and dogs, in people's impressions, warlords and warlord factions, basically assume the role of villains, but there are exceptions, even if mixed in the warlords, Zhang Zuoxiang is also a hero.
Compared with his boss and sworn brother Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Zuoxiang's popularity is not particularly high, but people think that this person has great wisdom.
Ransei Yukio
Zhang Zuoxiang and Zhang Zuolin, two people who are not related by blood got together in the troubled times, and they worked together to achieve a great cause, which is a wonderful fate, and what is more coincidental is that the names of the two are so similar, perhaps it is fate, and the life trajectories of the two also have a lot of similarities.
In 1881, the Zhang family in Nanzamu Linzi Village, Jinzhou, Northeast China, gave birth to a baby boy, and the birth of a newborn was not a happy thing, because the Zhang family was too poor at that time, and the baby boy was later Zhang Zuoxiang.
Because of his poor family, Zhang Zuoxiang never even had a decent piece of clothing in his childhood, and people called him a "short-lived ghost" and "little Hanako".
Growing up to the age of 16, Zhang Zuoxiang's life made waves again, the two clans in the village fought fiercely, and Zhang Zuoxiang's cousin who had a good relationship with him was splashed with blood on the spot, Zhang Zuoxiang was also forced to leave his hometown to make a living, he didn't have any skills, and he couldn't read a few words, so he could only run to the mason as an apprentice, barely guaranteeing that he would not starve to death.
Zhang Zuoxiang felt unwilling to live like this, and he decided to take a gamble when he was young and vigorous, so he quietly ran back to the village, stabbed the enemy, and went up the mountain to become a bandit.
During this period, it happened that another big man Zhang Zuolin was also doing grass cowards, and when the two groups of people collided, they were all depressed people, but they were quite deed, Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Zuoxiang simply became righteous brothers because of their similar names.
This is the friendship of two small people in the troubled times, but no one could have imagined at that time that Zhang Zuolin would become the "King of the Northeast" in the future, and Zhang Zuoxiang would also become the No. 2 person in the Northeast, the powerful side.
Zhang Zuolin trusts this righteous brother the most, and Zhang Zuoxiang is even more loyal to Zhang Zuolin, risking death several times to save Zhang Zuolin from danger. However, this can't change the fate of Zhang Zuolin being killed in Huanggutun, Zhang Zuolin's death means that the Northeast is going to change.
At that time, as soon as Zhang Zuolin died, all forces were eyeing each other, but Zhang Zuoxiang's position was very clear, let the young marshal Zhang Xueliang take over his father's position, in Zhang Zuoxiang's view, this method is most in line with Zhang Zuolin's ideas before his death, and it is also the most beneficial to the Northeast.
Because of Zhang Zuoxiang's support, Zhang Xueliang's advantages have increased greatly, and he finally sat firmly in the position of commander-in-chief, and Zhang Zuoxiang, who has the first merit, is naturally one step higher.
Zhang Zuolin's father and son were mixed in later generations, Zhang Zuoxiang's reputation was really good in the Northeast at that time, first, he was Zhang Zuolin's old subordinate, with the highest prestige, and secondly, he assisted Zhang Zuolin's father and son during the two generations, and did a lot of practical things for the people of Northeast China.
However, the footsteps of the Japanese have been close to the door of the Northeast, in the summer of 1931, Zhang Zuoxiang's old father died, Zhang Zuoxiang rushed back to his hometown in Jinzhou to do a funeral for his father, but Zhang Zuoxiang never thought that shortly after he left, on September 18, the Northeast suffered a catastrophe, the Japanese came, but the Northeast Army chose not to resist under the instructions of the boss.
To this day, people still grit their teeth when they think of the "policy of non-resistance" of those years, and often wonder whether they would have been able to contain Japan's attack on Tohoku if they had fought hard at that time. But history has been like this, and we are very angry today, and Zhang Zuoxiang back then will only be even more angry.
The country fell
He ran back to the army, but many of his subordinates have become the ghosts of the Japanese under the gun, and before they could seriously fight, they gave away thousands of miles of fertile fields in the three northeastern provinces.
This request was denied, and the rulers at the time were busy excluding dissidents, and the fall of the Northeast turned out to be the most important thing on his mind.
Zhang Zuoxiang's achievements and power over the years of hard work have also been plundered, and the Northeast has become someone else's, so where did he, a general in the Northeast Army, go to settle down?
As a general, he can't resist foreign aggression, as a politician, he can't stabilize the country, Zhang Zuoxiang's business anger got the most serious setback, he was very disappointed in his nephew Zhang Xueliang, he was very disappointed in the government of the Republic of China, but he was even more disappointed in his life.
It is useless for him to stay without soldiers and powers, Zhang Zuoxiang chose to submit a letter of resignation, and since then he has stayed away from right and wrong, but for the stormy country, Zhang Zuoxiang's heart has never been able to let go, he is old, but there are always people who are still young, and Zhang Zuoxiang chose to resign together, as well as his son Zhang Tingshu.
The reason for Zhang Tingshu's resignation from the military was that as a general, he wanted to fight against the Japanese invaders, but his boss asked him to pacify the "civil strife" and beat his own people.
Faced with such a situation, the father and son can only be speechless, but Zhang Zuo, who has been in the army for many years, sees it more clearly than his son, he knows that there is still hope in this country, but this hope is not in the government of the Republic of China, but in Yan'an.
After the full-scale outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Tingshu hesitated, he wanted to return to the army to kill the enemy for the country, but he couldn't trust those people in the officialdom. His father, Zhang Zuoxiang, pondered for a long time and persuaded his son that if he really wanted to save the country, then go to Yan'an, go to the Red Army, and he would get what he wanted there.
Things are not so easy, there are many hostile eyes staring at their family, Zhang Zuoxiang arranged for his son to secretly go to Taiyuan to contact some progressive students and revolutionaries, and there are many old subordinates of the Northeast Army who are living in Taiyuan, Zhang Tingshu has Zhang Zuoxiang's father, and the Northeast Army is naturally willing to join and follow Zhang Zuoxiang to resist Japan.
In order to save his family's life, Zhang Tingshu did not fly the banner of the Red Army, but at that time he had already secretly joined the Red Army, which had been renamed the Eighth Route Army at that time.
Zhang Tingshu and the generals of the Eighth Route Army held a military training course in Taiyuan to train the troops, expand the ranks, and prepare for the resistance against Japan.
Full of heroes
However, the Zhang family also has to take a huge risk for this, if the matter is revealed, Zhang Zuoxiang is only afraid that he will be killed immediately, but Zhang Zuoxiang told his son that at this moment, everything is focused on resisting Japan and saving the country, and do not cherish the father and elders in the family, even if he really becomes a prisoner in the future, his son is not allowed to come back to rescue, so as not to delay the military situation.
With the encouragement of his father, Zhang Tingshu has always insisted on secretly cooperating with the Eighth Route Army to resist the war, and his identity has never been disclosed during his lifetime.
This patriotic general gave everything for the country, but he never escaped the torture of illness, because of hard work, huge pressure, irregular eating and sleeping, Zhang Tingshu has been suffering from serious liver disease.
In 1940, Zhang Tingshu, who had been sticking to the front line, suddenly fainted in the camp, and after an examination, it was found that his liver disease had seriously deteriorated, and Zhang Tingshu could only temporarily hand over the work to others and go to Hong Kong for treatment.
Although he left the battlefield, Zhang Tingshu still couldn't rest assured, he still insisted on working in the ward, and could not personally command the front, so he tried his best to organize some anti-Japanese propaganda work in Hong Kong, raised funds for the anti-Japanese war troops, and looked for channels to buy military supplies.
To Zhang Tingshu's relief, five years later, he finally saw the Japanese invaders driven back to his hometown, and his hometown of Northeast China could finally usher in peace.
But he was disappointed, the flames of the civil war soon burned all over the country, and the people who provoked the war deliberately wooed Zhang Tingshu, a famous anti-Japanese general, Zhang Tingshu on the hospital bed sternly refused, swearing not to get along with these people to the death, four years later, New China was finally established, but at that time, Zhang Tingshu had already passed away.
Zhang Tingshu died in July 1949, shortly before his death, his father Zhang Zuoxiang also died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
When Zhang Tingshu was seriously ill, he often fell into a coma, and sometimes even his family could not tell the difference, and the only thing he thought about before he died was whether the war was over.
The tempers of the father and son are very similar, they are all so upright, stubborn, and strong, but some people say that Zhang Zuoxiang is more old-fashioned, and some people have discussed in those years, why did Zhang Zuoxiang, who was originally a general of the Northeast Army, persuade his son to join the Red Army?
They can't be promoted and get rich, and they have to risk the lives of their entire families, what do these people want?
This kind of speculation is simply a shame for the Zhang family father and son, for what? If it is for the sake of fame and fortune, there is no need for the father and son to resign from their military posts with a promising future.
If they are willing to go along with the same stream, they can have a lot of money, but in front of the country, it is obvious that the father and son are not thinking about their own interests at all, but thinking about what methods can be used to save the country and the nation.
They may not be perfect people, but in the face of the righteousness of their family and country, their approach is admirable. Many times, a person's feelings for the motherland are more important than everything else, and they do not need any reason to explain it.
At that time, there were many people who abandoned everything and devoted themselves to the country, and it was their efforts that brought about the survival of the nation.