In mid-April 1940, the Invading Japanese Army concentrated about six divisions and regiments, accompanied by more than 100 artillery companies and tanks, and 70 or 80 aircraft, and attacked our army in three ways with the Zao (Yang) area, spying on its intentions, as if sweeping the main force of our Fifth Theater to relieve my threat to Wuhan.
At that time, the commander's headquarters of our Fifth Theater was stationed at the mouth of the Laohe River in northern Hubei Province, and the troops deployed in the Suizao area were: the 84th Army of the Huang Qixiang Department of the 11th Group Army was garrisoning the front of the Xiang (Yang) Hua (Garden) Highway; the 67th Army of the 29th Group Army was garrisoning the area east of the Xiang River; the 33rd Group Army Zhang Zizhong was garrisoning the west bank of the Xiang River, from Pailougang on the other bank of Zhongxiang in the south to the town of Beihekou in Yicheng County in the north; the forward position extended to the east bank of the Xiang River, leaving the 180th Division, the 179th Division, and the Ninth Cavalry Division to maneuver and contain the enemy Sun Lianzhong of the Second Army defended the area north of Tongbai Mountain on the northern front.
The enemy's offensive was launched on May 1, and the enemy advancing north along the Xiang river fought fiercely with the Xiangdong troops left by our 33rd Army on the same day, and the 180th Division, after a long day of bitter fighting, was not supported, left the battlefield, and lost contact with the headquarters of the group army. At the same time, the Japanese army attacked the Eighty-fourth Army of the Eleventh Group Army and the Xu Shaozong Division of the Thirty-ninth Group Army with the main force, and Xu Bu was defeated and retreated to the Dahong Mountains. Therefore, the Japanese army was even more urgent, planning to meet the enemy troops on the north road and carry out a large encirclement and annihilation of the main force of the fifth theater.
When the enemy approached Zaoyang, the commander of the Fifth Theater ordered the Eleventh Army to quickly withdraw north to avoid being surrounded by the enemy, while Zhong Yi, commander of the 73rd Division, who served as a cover for the retreat, was martyred in a fierce battle of disparity. Due to the martyrdom of Commander Zhong Yi, the enemy who invaded Zaoyang was thrown into the air, which bought time for the main forces of the Five Theaters to withdraw from the enemy encirclement. Judging from the enemy's situation, the commanders of the Fifth Theater ordered all corps to counter-encircle the enemy troops in the north from the outside line, and to compress the Japanese army to the center from both wings and annihilate them.
At this time, Zhang Zizhong's Thirty-third Army, which was defending the west bank of the Xiang River, still had some troops that had not yet participated in the battle. On the evening of May 2, the commander's headquarters of the Fifth Theater issued an order to the headquarters of the Thirty-third Army Group: "The enemy attacked the Laohekou in three ways, and the vanguard troops arrived at the first line of Mengjialou in Deng County to block the retreat for me." The group army sent powerful troops to quickly cross the river, attack behind the enemy's rear, cut off the enemy's rear road, and tighten the encirclement circle with the two armies of Sun (Lianzhong) and Tang (Enbo) to gather and annihilate the enemy near Xuanjiawan in the Sui (County) and Zao (Yang) areas. After receiving the order, Commander-in-Chief Zhang Zizhong was determined to cross the river, serve the country, resolutely carry out the deployment of the commander's headquarters, and intercept and annihilate the enemy army. At that time, I served as the accompanying staff officer of Commander-in-Chief Zhang Zizhong, in charge of maps, and wrote a diary of the battle, and also set out with the headquarters. Due to the dispersion of troops and the tight time, it was not easy to gather them for a while, and Commander-in-Chief Zhang personally led the special service battalion directly under the General Headquarters, the special service battalion of the Fifty-ninth Army, and the two regiments of the Seventy-fourth Division of the Fifty-fifth Army, took the lead in advancing and rushed to the front line, while other units followed suit.
At dawn on May 3, when the stars were in full swing, Commander-in-Chief Zhang led his troops to cross the Xiang River (HanShui) with two Soviet advisers (one engineer adviser and one artillery adviser) on the south side of Yicheng County. At this time, our advance troops had expelled the enemy on Matou Mountain on the east bank of the river, occupied the commanding heights, and covered the large troops to cross the river. At about 7:00 a.m., the headquarters moved into the pumpkin shop. Unexpectedly, a sleeping Japanese soldier was captured in the house. After interrogation, it was learned that this prisoner of war was an enemy who had come from Hankou and had not been rested for three days and nights, and that the large troops had gone north first, and that the follow-up troops and artillery companies had just passed in the morning. He came out to find snacks to eat, was overtired, fell asleep and was captured, and attempted suicide. After publicizing the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners of war, he was sent to the rear for resettlement.
Having breakfast at the pumpkin shop, the headquarters led a large army to continue to march north, tailing the enemy who was sneaking north. At dusk, he entered the South of Huanglong Tonai to rest. It was rainy during the day, the roads were slippery and muddy, the rice paddies were trails, and the movement of the troops was extremely difficult. The forward was already approaching the enemy, and just after dusk, the enemy of Huanglongyuan had already set the houses and haystacks on fire, and the smoke was billowing and the flames were shining, echoing with the fires in the enemy's stronghold of the Fang family as a communication signal. The headquarters sent reconnaissance to learn that the enemy's two strongholds were only ten miles apart, and that there were small enemy troops patrolling the gap in the middle from time to time. To encircle the enemy in a roundabout way, it is necessary to rush ahead of the enemy, and it is indeed not easy for large troops to pass through the gap and not to make the enemy aware of it. Commander-in-Chief Zhang immediately made a decision and issued a marching order to the vanguard troops: (i) follow one by one, and do not fall behind to stretch a long distance; (ii) wrap a white towel around his left arm as an identification mark for his own people; (iii) do not smoke, do not speak, and do not allow the sound of impact; (iv) hold the handle of the bayonet in his hand and advance rapidly with the shoulder gun; (v) when encountering the enemy, no one is allowed to shoot without orders. After the order was issued, the troops sorted out a little and then set off in an orderly manner, and all the officers and men strictly implemented the order, with the rank of man, the ring of the horse, and the quiet advance. Drizzling rain, soaking tops, early summer rainy nights, cool breeze, although in a hurry to march, but also slightly chilly attack, dark road slippery, from time to time some people and horses fell into the rice field, made a falling sound, like mud monkeys, got up and silently advanced. When crossing the enemy's blockade line in Huanglong, I encountered a small number of Japanese patrols, saw our large troops advancing in full gear, feared the prestige of our army, and hurriedly avoided it. We also did not shoot, but exchanged warning actions and safely passed through the blockade line. After passing through a village and arriving at a high-slope open area, where the horizon was vast and the troops were extremely tired, Commander-in-Chief Zhang gave the headquarters an order: Put up a guard around and sit around and rest. General Zhang stood on the central platform, said some precautions for combat marching, and then told everyone to turn their backs on their backs and not allow the sound of snoring.
On May 4, just after dawn, there was a sudden sparse sound of gunfire in front of the left, and the sentry came to report: "In the direction of Erlang Temple, my vanguard troops have made contact with the enemy. "Erlang Temple is not far from our headquarters, general Zhang Zizhong immediately ordered the special service battalion to reinforce, the headquarters directly under the pursuit of artillery battalions to shoot, and designated Yuan Shichao to command staff officers. Soon, a fierce battle sound came, our army launched a charge, after a fierce battle, the Japanese troops of the Erlang Temple were expelled, our large troops took advantage of the victory to continue to advance, fierce fighting all day, the battle ended. Inspecting the results of the battle, our 179th Division crushed the enemy's supply troops and captured a large number of trophies such as hair sacs, grass yellow tweed coats, and gas masks.
On 5 May, our large army continued to attack in the direction of Xuanjiawan in the Suizao area.
On May 7, the battle at Yangjiawan was still a small victory, killing a small number of Japanese cavalry.
After resting for three days, he received an order from the commander's headquarters: "The enemy's attack on the old river mouth was frustrated and the army group quickly returned to defeat the retreating enemy." "On the 13th, our unit was redeployed and changed from north to south.
On May 14, our unit entered the vicinity of Fangjiaji, and the battle situation suddenly changed, and our unit was originally a pursuing unit, and it was suddenly the target of the enemy's main attack. At that time, because the Japanese troops from the north were sneaking to the outskirts of Laohekou, the two armies of our grandson (Lian Zhong) Tang (Enbo) were dispatched from Nanyang and Fangcheng to join the battle, and our strength increased sharply, and after fierce fighting, the Japanese army was frustrated and retreated, and the enemy rear guard was changed to the vanguard and counterattacked our pursuing corps with all its might. More than 10,000 japanese troops were poured into the headquarters of our Thirty-third Army, which put our headquarters in a dangerous situation and a very unfavorable situation. Commander-in-Chief Zhang took the lead in crossing the river, with a thin force, with only two special service battalions and a special service regiment, and the large force on the left was commanded by Commander Huang Weigang. The Japanese army was beheaded at the waist, but it gathered more than 10,000 heavy troops, and with the cooperation of aircraft and artillery, they rushed from the north and south roads like a tide and attacked our headquarters, and the supply line in our rear was cut off by the enemy, and it was difficult to supply the wounded, and it was impossible to send the wounded back, exposing the operational position of the headquarters. He also made a mistake in judging the enemy's situation when he turned in, believing that when the enemy army was frustrated and retreating southward, it could not retreat with a large force close to the Xianghe River, put the main force of the army on the left side and the other two divisions of the army under the command of Commander Huang Weigang, and there were only special service regiments and two special service battalions of the headquarters near the headquarters, and the Seventy-fourth Division (the second regiment) and a cavalry division were close to the Xianghe River, and they happened to encounter the main force of the enemy in Turkey, fought with the enemy, and fell into passivity.
On May 14, the battle of Fangjiaji began, and four enemy planes covered the Japanese artillery company, arriving at Fangjiaji before our army, and were gathering to turn around and set off south. Commander-in-Chief Zhang led the vanguard troops of the cavalry division to the eastern end of Fangjiaji, and the two sides launched a fierce battle; after repeated attacks, the Japanese army could not hold on, and withdrew to the west to deploy the position across the water; the Japanese troops in the south turned back to cover the artillery company, and the enemy reinforcements also came one after another, and the strength of the troops was greatly strengthened, and our side was in a state of being caught between two sides. Our army consolidated the highlands at the eastern end of Fangjiaji, and Commander-in-Chief Zhang and Li Wentian, Senior Staff Officer Zhang Jing, Senator Xia, two advisers of the Soviet Union, and several senior commanders rested in three grass huts. At this time, the enemy shell hit the grass hut and caught fire, but fortunately did not hurt anyone. After putting out the fire, Commander-in-Chief Zhang still insisted on not leaving. In order to understand the enemy's situation, I once observed from a high place and saw with my own eyes two circling reconnaissance of enemy planes and enemy artillery companies firing continuously to block the pass. Our Seventy-fourth Division was crushed by the enemy, and finally the company of engineers was increased, and more than half of the casualties were killed and wounded before they passed through the village of Fangjiaji, and the impact was frustrated. The battle was particularly fierce at noon. Commander-in-Chief Zhang and other senior command personnel simply ate some boiled pea horns to fill their hunger, and the lunch was interrupted, and some of our entourage had to find some green wheat and mulberries for lunch. As night fell, the fighting took a break, and Chief of Staff Li Wentian suggested moving closer to the Ninth Cavalry Division of Jar mouth. Senior staff officer Zhang Jing sent plainclothes reconnaissance of the road and returned to report: "The enemy artillery continued to advance southward overnight, the cover troops had withdrawn, and there was no sign on both sides of the road south of Fangjiaji. Commander-in-Chief Zhang ordered, "Move closer to the Ninth Cavalry Division of Jar Mouth." ”
After dinner on May 14, Commander-in-Chief Zhang personally led two special service battalions of the headquarters to set off for the vanguard troops, followed by the sequence of the General Staff Office, the Secretariat, the Adjutant Office, the Electrical Appliance Station, and the Mortar Battalion.
Commander-in-Chief Zhang took the lead in advancing rapidly along the Fangjiaji southbound highway; not far past, our general staff office was on the march, and was discovered by the japanese troops who had suddenly arrived, and machine rifles were fired at us intensively from the west side of the highway, and suddenly the gunshots were loud, the bullets were fluttering, dragging the tracers, and bouncing on the high ground on the east side of the highway, and we were suppressed on the highway and could not lift our heads. Taking advantage of the firing gap, a few of our retinue jumped over the high ground on the east side of the highway and dispersed southward in low-lying areas. After a tight run, gasping for breath, I overheard the near front shouting "password", I answered urgently "General Counselor", listening to the accent is my own family. After we met, Chief of Staff Li said: "I fell behind the general seat, the staff office and the secretariat were attacked, the mortar battalion, although it was relatively bulky, but a little self-defense ability, the electrical station and the wounded and sick people are afraid of losses, let's count it again at dawn." "Then order me to take two soldiers and search forward. I separated the two soldiers by fifty meters and followed. After another journey, suddenly the sharp soldiers came back and reported: "In front of it is a small village, and there are sentries at the head of the village." "I led the soldiers to find out that it was Zhang Jinggao who led a row of people to rest in the village. After I sent someone to report the situation to Chief of Staff Li, the chief of staff immediately arrived, and thus learned that Commander-in-Chief Zhang, along with Senator Xia and two Soviet advisers, had rushed to the Ninth Cavalry Division. At this time, it was nearly dawn, everyone was very tired, and it was decided to wait until dawn to find them and rest on the spot first.
On May 15, before the east could turn white, we were asleep when we were awakened by the sound of gunfire, and the village guard came to report: "The Japanese army is searching and advancing in the village, and the guards have found it and fired a gun report." "Chief of Staff Li and Zhang Gaoshan led the officers and men of our headquarters to leave the village quickly and run to the mouth of the jar. At breakfast, I arrived at the headquarters of the Ninth Cavalry Division and was pleased to see that the commander-in-chief and his party had arrived at the division headquarters last night. We briefly reported to Commander-in-Chief Zhang on the attack last night, the troops being scattered, the whereabouts of the electrical appliances station unknown, and the heavy losses of our side.
After dinner, we were taking a nap when we discovered the enemy situation: the Japanese army followed into the mountain. Why did the Japanese army come so quickly? Afterwards, it was found that the special regiment of the Seventy-fourth Division suffered heavy casualties in the battle of Fangjiaji, we had no rear to rely on, the wounded were transferred with the army, and they fell behind in the night attack on the 14th and were captured by the enemy. Commander-in-Chief Zhang ordered Zhang Deshun, commander of the Ninth Cavalry Division, to stay in place to block the Advance of the Japanese Army. The commander-in-chief himself marched with only his entourage, two special service battalions, and one special service regiment. Under the two low-altitude circling and reconnaissance of the enemy planes, our headquarters abandoned the road and cut the mountain road and turned into the pumpkin shop at the river crossing point. It is planned to cross the river that day and still return to the original position in Hexi. It was a hot day, people were sleepy and tired, the mountain road was steep and narrow, and the movement was slow.
When the sun was about to set, he found that several villages on the way forward were on fire and smoke was rising, and Commander-in-Chief Zhang stopped at a hill in Dahong Mountain and ordered the reconnaissance company to send people to reconnoiter. Soon came back to report: "In the two villages on fire, there are no enemy troops and no villagers can be found. The fire is spreading. "We sat next to the commander-in-chief and could also see the flames in the distance. At this time, our radio station had been lost, our communication had been cut off, and we had lost contact not only with the commander's headquarters, but also with Commander Huang Weigang of the left echelon, and with the guerrilla forces of Li Xiannian, a friend of Xiaohong Shannei, who was close to each other. Under the circumstances of the enemy's situation, Commander-in-Chief Zhang changed the plan for crossing the river on the evening of the 15th, and ordered him to live in a village near the bottom of the mountain, headquartered in a small village with dozens of families in the southern foothills of Changshan Mountain, where the night was spent.
On 16 May, just after dawn, enemy artillery had begun to shoot at the small village, passing on the horses of the platoon, who were shelled and fled. Smoke filled the air of the mountain village. Separated only two hillsides from the small village, there was a ravine, about two thousand meters away, where the special service regiment first engaged the enemy. The special task force regiment originally belonged to the 440 regiment of the Ma guan 1st Brigade of the 74th Division (which had suffered heavy losses in the battle of Fangjiaji), and was changed to a special service regiment to accompany the headquarters when crossing the river. The battle was fierce at the beginning, with bursts of gunfire, interspersed with faint shouts of hand-to-hand combat, coming intermittently from over the valley in the southwest corner. We, the entourage, are also ready for battle. The special service battalion reinforced and went into battle. I saw the enemy lifting the cannon up the hill and aiming at the small village to bombard my headquarters, and even the flames of the gun muzzle were clearly visible. The soldiers of our special service battalion, mostly young and middle-aged people from Henan and Shandong, although they are strong and brave in battle, each of them carries only one twenty pistols and one large blade, which is not suitable for field combat, and the firepower cannot suppress the enemy, and the sacrifice is relatively large. At 10 a.m., the Japanese crossed another hill, faced each other across the stream, and launched an onslaught on our last line of defense. Our side continued to suffer casualties and attrition, and some of the front salients were broken, and the situation was extremely urgent. The commander-in-chief immediately asked Zhang Jinggao to supervise the battle on the hillside in front of him and instructed him: "No one is allowed to take a step back without my order." After Zhang Gaoshan took the people away, Commander-in-Chief Zhang personally encouraged the commander-in-chief of the special agent battalion, Zhang Company, and said, "I am the commander-in-chief, and if I am a company commander, these few hairy thieves will not be enough for me to fight a company!" Zhang Lianchang listened, didn't say a word, threw off his shirt, brandished his knife shirtless, and shouted: "Follow me in a row!" A platoon of men rushed over, a slash and kill, and drove the Japanese back to the original hillside. This platoon suffered heavy casualties, blood stained in uniform, and still insisted on fighting. After this struggle, our army's position was temporarily consolidated, and the situation eased slightly.
After a few pauses, after the enemy breathed, a new attack was launched, and in a fierce burst of gunfire, Zhang Gaoshan and Zhang Company Commander were killed one after another and buried at the foot of Changshan Mountain.
When the news of Zhang Gao's death came, at about 11 o'clock, Commander-in-Chief Zhang immediately summoned the entourage of the staff and the secretary and said: "As everyone has seen with their own eyes, I don't think it is anything, and I have now made contact with Commander Huang Weigang." He can come to relieve the siege at 4 o'clock in the afternoon at the latest, and everyone believes that I will zhang someone, until the last person, and will never leave you alone. He pointed to the northeast mountain and said, "That is Changshan, Commander Huang came from that direction, now there are enemies on three sides, you can disperse, each find a hidden place, don't move!" After saying that, Commander-in-Chief Zhang took a few people to the front hillside and personally commanded them.
I found a single bunker nearby to hide, and the Japanese launched a more violent attack, the enemy artillery poured on the hillside and small village in front, the explosion of shells, like the rolling thunder of June, shook the earth, the dust and smoke filled the air, the sun became a dim yellow disk, and the whole position was shrouded in a sea of iron and blood. Suddenly, an artillery shell was falling near the temporary command post of the senior personnel, and with a loud noise, my single bunker was almost overturned, and the thigh of Chief of Staff Wu Guangliao was injured and bleeding. At this moment, the enemy artillery suddenly became sparse, and the attack was suddenly frustrated; only to see Commander-in-Chief Zhang walking back from the high ground in front, he did not let the messengers approach him, and the messengers pointed to the left shoulder of his wounded body that had been infiltrated with blood and said: "Commander-in-chief! Commander-in-Chief Zhang touched the blood on his clothes with his hand and said, "Nothing, don't make a fuss!" Commander-in-Chief Zhang saw that Director Wu's legs were bleeding profusely and asked loudly, "Is there anyone in the General Staff Office?" Lift you down! I ran up to me and replied, "Yes!" Commander-in-Chief Zhang looked at me and said, "I'm afraid you can't do it, Staff Officer Cheng, you two are on both sides, each with an arm, Director Wu must also endure some pain, you go northeast over The Changshan Mountain!" "We are deeply touched by the fact that he took such considerate care of his subordinates, regardless of the danger to his personal lives, especially at this critical juncture of life and death, that we are reluctant to leave the Commander-in-Chief. And he repeatedly urged us, even to get angry, and we turned around and reluctantly left Commander Zhang step by step. Who knows, this place is different, but it has become an eternal trick! I looked at my watch and the hour hand was pointing to 12 noon. His Shandong Linqing accent "Go northeast, over the Long Mountain!" The sound is still ringing in the ears.
Staff Officer Cheng and I held Up Director Wu and walked away step by step, temporarily leaving the battlefield. When we went around the back of the small village and just climbed to the middle of the mountain, the sound of gunfire suddenly arose, a series of shouts of death were heard, the last hillside defense line was broken, the Japanese army rushed to the small village, and the headquarters personnel fled the village and retreated to the northeast Of Changshan. The sound of rifles and grenades exploding in unison. The enemy's artillery has extended its range, some exploding near our mountainside, and some overtaking the mountain and bouncing behind the mountain. When I looked back, the headquarters personnel who rushed out of the village were killed one after another, and almost none of them were spared. At this time, it was 13:15 on May 16, that is, the time when Commander-in-Chief Zhang Zizhong was martyred at the foot of Changshan Mountain.
We climbed over the Long Mountain under Japanese artillery fire, reached the back of the mountain, and helped Director Wu to march hard. The shell skin in Director Wu's leg was not removed, and he kept moaning, the pain was unbearable, and he stopped when he walked. On the evening of the 16th, arriving at a small mountain village, on the corner of the small mountain village, two or three hundred people had been gathered, including wounded combatants, wounded and sick, non-combatants, miscellaneous personnel, adjutants, Soviet advisers, and the head of the special service regiment, Zheng Wanliang, also included. Upon inquiry, everyone did not know the whereabouts of Commander-in-Chief Zhang. That night, we heard a broadcast from the enemy station in Wuhan: "Kill Zhang Zizhong, commander-in-chief of the Thirty-third Group Army in China." "Although everyone understands in their hearts that according to the situation, the commander-in-chief may be more fierce and less fortunate, but everyone hopes that it is not true." On a gloomy night, gunshots were constantly heard around, the village was burning, and everyone's mood was depressed and worried.
Soviet advisers suggested, "You can't stay here for long. Maybe tonight at the latest tomorrow morning, the enemy will come to attack. We are international friends, the Soviet-Japanese relations have not yet been severed, if captured on the battlefield, I am afraid that it will cause international negotiations, give us two and the interpreter three pistols, and send three brothers, we will leave this place immediately. "Until the end of May they turned a big bend and went to Chongqing via the old estuary. I never saw a consultant again.
After the six members of the consultant's party left, Director Wu temporarily designated all the assembled personnel to be under the command of Commander Zheng Wanliang and the deputy commander. That night, Commander Zheng personally led the soldiers, designated the guard positions, walked around the village, and returned to the field. But some of the vigilantes sent out quickly folded back. Seeing such confusion, Commander Zheng did not listen to the command, and said angrily: "Assemble well, get out of here!" "It was hard to find a local to lead the way, and Staff Sergeant Cheng and I found a horse, helped Director Wu ride it, and set off along the mountain village path. After walking all night, at dawn on the 17th, I got lost, but still returned to the field where I left last night, and when I looked at the scene, as the Soviet advisers judged, the enemy had attacked my assembly area, and many people were killed by the enemy.
On the evening of May 19, we crossed the Xianghe River and stayed at the Guest House of the 29th Army group in Hekou Town. At dawn on the 20th, a large boat full of personnel came from Hedong to dock, and many cars came to greet them. We hurried forward. After a short pause, we returned to the headquarters of the Thirty-third Army group of Happy Shop with the same car.
Someone in the car was heard talking about it: "Deputy Ma has been taken to the rear hospital on a stretcher, and Deputy Wang's injuries are lighter, and he is also in the car." "We immediately found Adjutant Wang, who told us about the martyrdom of Commander-in-Chief Zhang at that time. The situation was as follows: On 16 May, when the enemy's shells hit the temporary command post of senior personnel in the small village, Director Wu Guangliao was seriously wounded, and shortly after being supported by two staff officers and walking down the line of fire, the Japanese army overturned the small hill in front of it, only more than 200 meters away from the temporary command post; at this time, the senators, advisers, and so on had dispersed; the aide-de-camp of Chief of Staff Li Wentian rushed up with the chief of staff on his back, broke into the direction of the enemy's attack, and hid in the chaotic grass. Deputy Wang also rushed up and ran northeast of the small village with the commander-in-chief on his back, and Deputy Ma followed closely. Just arrived at the wheat field at the eastern end of the small village, Deputy Wang was injured, Deputy Ma took his back, did not take a few steps, Deputy Ma was also wounded, saw that the enemy had occupied the foot of Changshan Mountain, set up a machine gun to strafe over, the commander-in-chief asked Deputy Ma to put him down, lying on the ground in peace, Commander-in-Chief Zhang also said to the deputy Ma beside him before he was desperate: "To the country, to the nation, to the chief, the conscience is safe, everyone must kill the enemy to avenge!" At this time, Lieutenant Ma himself had to lie down next to the commander-in-chief in a pool of blood and pretend to die. Lieutenant Wang crawled into the wheat stack with his wounds and hid. A small group of Japanese soldiers surrounded him with rifles, kicked the horse lieutenant, recognized that he was not dead, and raised his combat knife to the head, and the horse lieutenant fainted at that time. The enemy saw that the commander-in-chief was wearing a tweed uniform, and from the portrait book brought by Deputy Ma, after examination, he confirmed that it was Commander-in-Chief Zhang Zizhong.
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