In 1935, the defeat of the Fifth Anti-"Encirclement and Suppression" of the Red Army caused Zhang Guotao, chairman of the Central Soviet Region, to lose revolutionary confidence, and he led the Red Fourth Front Army and part of the Red First Army to the south and established a separate central committee at Zhuo Mu Diao. In 1937, the organization criticized and educated Zhang Guotao's anti-party behavior, and still gave him a heavy responsibility, but in 1938, Zhang Guotao took advantage of the opportunity to worship the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum with the Kuomintang to betray the party organization and defect to the Kuomintang.
At that time, Zhang Guotao separated everyone around him, and only asked the new guards to follow him to serve in the Kuomintang team. However, this new guard was revolutionarily determined, and not only did not join Zhang Guotao, but also walked thousands of miles to Yan'an to report to Zhou Enlai, which was praised by Chairman Mao. This person was Zhang Hai, later deputy commander of the Hubei Military Region.
Zhang Guotao and Chairman Mao were in Yan'an
Born in 1915 in Sanqing Township, southern Sichuan County, Zhang Hai, like most of his revolutionary predecessors, was a child from a poor family. His father died early, and his mother struggled with her two children in that backward and war-torn era. The children of the poor have long been in charge, and Zhang Hai helped his mother reduce his burden by herding cattle and cutting firewood for the landlords, and endured the hardships of life.
In 1933, at the age of 18, Zhang Hai encountered the Red Army's "expanding red" team and seized the opportunity to change the fate of his life. When Zhang Hai was herding cattle, he once listened to Mr. Private School's lectures under the window rim, and he knew a little about some culture. Hearing the revolutionary doctrine propagated by the Red Army when recruiting soldiers, Zhang Hai was impressed.
Zhang Hai's family was too poor to open the pot, and the Red Army's behavior of making decisions for the poor people made him think that this army was different from the nationalist army that oppressed the people and robbed them of grain. After his mother agreed to his request to join the army, Zhang Hai joined the Ninth Army of the Red Fourth Front with his cousin Fu Lin. However, Zhang Hai was not assigned to the same unit as his cousin, and after this separation, the two did not meet again.
Zhang Hai
Zhang Hai is young and strong, full of hope and confidence in the revolution. Because of his courage to compete in the army, Zhang Hai was soon promoted to deputy platoon leader. At that time, most of the Red Army troops were children from poor families, and Zhang Hai, who had read books, was one of the few people with a high level of education in the team. The leader entrusted him with the task of "expanding the red", and Zhang Hai became the propaganda captain of the team.
Every time he went to a place, Zhang Hai conveyed the Propaganda Plan of the Red Army that he had memorized to the local people, and Zhang Hai, who had studied a lot of ancient Chinese, was able to analyze the propaganda theory in a simple and easy to understand, so that many peasants who had not studied could easily understand it, thus embarking on the road of joining the revolutionary army.
While propagating propaganda, Zhang Hai practiced the Red Army's purpose of "cracking down on local tycoons and dividing up the land," and everywhere he went, he and the Red Army distributed the grain hoarded by the homes of the local big local tycoons and large landlords to the poor peasants, which won the support and love of the people. The number of applicants for the army also soared, and Zhang Hai alone recorded more than two regiments, and also received the title of "Hero of Expanding Red".
As a soldier of the 81st Regiment of the elite vanguard of the Red Army, Zhang Hai once participated in the anti-"six-way siege" campaign and the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" battle, and also climbed snowy mountains and meadows with the Red Army, completing the 25,000-mile long march with great difficulty.
Zhang Hai in battle is always brave to rush to the front, and like the founding general "Xu Laohu", he always hangs "bullets can't hit brave people". However, in an anti-"encirclement and suppression" battle, Zhang Hai was blown up by the enemy's shells, and the shrapnel directly entered his head, and the blood on the door of Zhang Hai's brain flowed all over his face, and the brain plasma came out from the back of his head.
Scenes on the battlefield
Zhang Hai's comrades gathered around him and shouted his name, And Zhang Hai could vaguely hear a little voice, but he couldn't respond. Due to the attrition of the battle and the heavy casualties of the Red Army, the commanders and fighters ordered the troops to move. However, Zhang Hai's comrades-in-arms believed that at this moment, zhang Hai needed to be sent to the field hospital in the rear for rescue.
The commanders and fighters originally thought that Zhang Hai's injuries were too serious to be saved, and ordered the team to be transferred immediately. Zhang Hai's comrades-in-arms refused to concede defeat, and they argued with the commanders and fighters on the basis of reason, refused to give up their comrades-in-arms who still had a breath of air, and finally disobeyed the orders of the commanders and fighters and insisted on sending Zhang Hai to the hospital.
Zhang Hai woke up a few days later, and the hospital's medical staff informed him of a shocking news. The comrades who had sent him to the hospital at that time had just walked out of the hospital when they were hit by enemy shells, and none of them survived. The sacrifice of his comrades-in-arms made Zhang Hai feel guilty and heartbroken, and he immediately vowed to continue along the unfinished cause of his comrades-in-arms, and only by winning the victory in the revolutionary war could he be worthy of the young lives they sacrificed.
During the Long March, Zhang Hai led a small group behind the large troops, and if the enemy army came to pursue and harass, Zhang Hai led the soldiers to ambush on the road for ambush. Neither the horse bandits nor the cavalry of the Nationalist army ever bargained in Zhang Hai's hands.
Battles on the Long March
The conditions on the Long March road were too harsh, the army was seriously short of food, and the soldiers even ate the grass belt clean. There are often fighters who are left behind, and there are not a few people who freeze to death and starve to death. Zhang Hai enlivened the atmosphere in the ranks, cheered up the Soldiers of the Red Army, urged those who had fallen behind to catch up with the footsteps of the large troops, and made great contributions to the preservation of the strength of the Red Army.
During the rest of the march, the approachable Zhu De often told stories or sang songs to the Red Army soldiers around him. Zhang Hai was able to perfectly replicate The song of Mr. Zhu with a Sichuan accent, and he returned to his team to sing it to the soldiers, adding a lot of fun to the passive and bitter marching journey.
In October 1935, the Red Army's Long March ended, and the Red Army and the Red Fourth Front successfully met in northern Shaanxi, and Zhang Hai became a direct witness to this great scene. In 1936, Zhang Hai, an activist who joined the party, passed the organizational review and became an honorable communist party member. As a party member, he set stricter demands on himself, not only loving the party and protecting the party, actively responding to the party's various calls, and studying hard in the military, and his cultural level is increasing day by day.
In 1937, Zhang Hai, who was ideologically advanced and had a certain level of education, was selected by the leaders to lead the Yan'an Security Department, and after training by the Security Bureau of the Border Region Government, Zhang Hai was assigned to the side of Zhang Guotao, who was then the leader of the Yuwan Su District, as a personal guard.
At that time, Zhang Guotao had just experienced the establishment of another "Central Committee" and the oppression of Chairman Mao and Zhou Enlai, and was corrected by the party organization in the form of "unity-criticism-unity". Chairman Mao and other central leaders took turns to persuade him, but Zhang Guotao's thinking turned into a dead end, and his desire for power and ambition had long overshadowed his original intention of serving the people.
In April 1938, on the basis of the second cooperation, the two parties jointly worshiped the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum and declared the determination of the descendants of Yanhuang to jointly resist Japan. Zhang Guotao, as a representative of the CPC, had close contact with Jiang Dingwen, a representative of the Kuomintang, and once left the CPC delegation and went to the Residence of the Kuomintang alone.
Jiang Dingwen
After the sacrifice of the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum, Zhang Guotao claimed that he was going to Xi'an to discuss important matters with Lin Boqu, a party representative of the Eighth Route Army, and returned all his entourage and guard squad to Yan'an, under the pretext of lightly packing and simplifying, leaving only Zhang Hai, who had recently arrived at his side.
On the way to Xi'an, Zhang Guotao and Jiang Dingwen walked all the way, and the two met and talked closely, and Jiang Dingwen was very enthusiastic about Zhang Guotao's attitude. When Zhang Hai first came to work at the Central Committee, he did not understand whether the relationship between the leaders and the Kuomintang was so close, but only felt that Zhang Guotao talked more than usual, and did not notice other abnormalities.
After arriving in Xi'an, Zhang Guotao did not live in the residence arranged by the organization, but found a guest house by himself. At night, Zhang Guotao asked Zhang Hai to put the gun in the box on the grounds that Zhang Hai did not have a gun license, and secretly took Zhang Hai's gun. When Zhang Hai questioned Zhang Guotao the next day, he realized the problem in his veiled attitude. Zhang Hai immediately went to the office of the Eighth Route Army in Xi'an to report the situation to Lin Boqu, which attracted Lin Boqu's attention.
Lin Boqu then arrived at the Wuhan office by train with Zhang Guotao and Zhang Hai, and after Zhou Enlai, Bogu, and others refused their request to talk to Zhang Guotao in depth, they retreated to the second place and persuaded Zhang Guotao to return to Yan'an to rest or study for a period of time. Zhang Guotao did not enter the oil and salt, and in the worry of Zhou Enlai and others, he secretly left Ye Jianying's residence and moved into a small hotel.
After a morning of searching, the underground party organization in Wuhan found the traces of Zhang Guotao, conveyed the opinions of the central authorities to him, and left two comrades to "take care" of him. However, Zhang Guotao's intention to leave the party organization was already decided, and he took advantage of the fact that no one was ready to run directly to an organ unit under the Kuomintang.
After the rebels absconded, Zhang Guotao also wrote a letter to Zhou Enlai, asking his guard Zhang Hai to personally send him luggage, in effect asking Zhang Hai to join him in defecting to the Kuomintang. Zhou Enlai asked Zhang Hai's opinion, and Zhang Hai was very angry about his leadership's rebellion against the party, and he solemnly declared to Zhou Enlai that "he is not revolutionary, I still want revolution." Zhang Hai's resolute refusal to join zhang Guotao and draw a clear line was praised and praised by Chairman Mao.
Chairman Mao and Zhou Enlai
The struggle with Zhang Guotao on the Long March road was regarded by Chairman Mao as the darkest course of life in his revolutionary career, and the initiator Zhang Guotao could not even take away a guard after he betrayed the party.
After Zhang Guotao rebelled against the party, Zhang Hai became a commander and fighter in the ranks of the Eighth Route Army, participated in the Yan'an Defense War and many anti-Japanese wars, and slowly became a cadre in the army. During the Liberation War, Zhang Hai had been promoted to a staff officer position in the headquarters of the Northeast Songjiang Military Region. In 1946, the People's Liberation Army and the Kuomintang launched four battles in Siping, and Zhang Hai was commended by the leaders of the Jihei Military Region for his outstanding achievements.
In the military for many years, Zhang Hai has never given up on learning culture. After the founding of New China, he was transferred to work at the Changsha branch of the Central South Military and Political University, and later transferred to various military academies and military regions, and finally retired from the post of deputy commander and adviser of the Hubei Military Region. Because of his many meritorious service during the war, Zhang Hai also received the August 1st Medal, the Independence Freedom Medal and the Liberation Medal.