Ouzhen

Ouzhen

Ou Zhen (1899-1969), named Yuchen, was born in Qujiang, Guangdong Province (now Gantang village, Xilian Town, Wujiang District, Shaoguan City). Inspired by Sun Yat Sen's revolutionary thought, he first served as platoon leader in Guangdong army. In 1924, after graduating from the Guangdong military academy, he was incorporated into the 12th division of the 4th Army of the National Revolutionary Army and served as the battalion commander of yeting independent regiment.

After the Nanchang Uprising in 1927, he went south with Ye Ting's troops and fought fiercely with Chen Jitang and Xue yuebu in tangkeng, Guangdong Province. When Xue Yue's Department was defeated and the division was surrounded, Ou Zhen turned around and led to the collapse of the uprising troops.

After defecting from the Kuomintang, he was awarded the rank of major general on April 15, 1935, and was promoted to lieutenant general on October 5, 1936. On December 5, 1943, he led his troops to recover Changde City and became deputy commander in chief of the 27th group army. On February 13, 1969, he died of illness in Taiwan. In March, he chased Jin to become the second rank General of the army.

In his military career, Ou Zhen wrote poems from time to time, so he was known as a "Confucian general".

Life of the characters

In 1916, after graduating from Liqun primary school and Shaozhou middle school, Ou Zhen taught in zhoutianxu primary school. Ou Zhen had been teaching in Zhoutian for several years. He was deeply moved by the separatist rule of the warlords in China, which split the territory. Inspired by Sun Yat Sen's revolutionary thought, he was determined to serve the country and joined the army. He first served as platoon leader in the Guangdong army. In 1924, after graduating from the Guangdong military academy, Ou Zhen was incorporated into the 12th division of the 4th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and served as the battalion commander of yeting independent regiment under the division commander Zhang Fakui.

In 1926, the national revolutionary army launched the northern expedition from Guangdong, and Ou Zhen took part in the battle of Pingjiang and tingsiqiao in Hunan. In the battle of tingsiqiao, under the command of Mr. Zhang Fakui, Ou Zhen led his troops to attack the enemy's main position at night, and occupied the bridgehead, controlling the strategic area in and out of Wuhan. Then, the Northern Expedition army came to Wuhan and besieged Wuchang. Ou Zhen was the leader of the death squads and took the lead in attacking the city. On October 10, he took the lead and was the first to climb the city wall bravely. After more than a month's siege, Wuchang City was finally broken. After that, ouzhen rushed to Jiangxi Province to take part in the battle against the German officials of the warlord sun Chuanfang's department. Later, he followed the army in the northern expedition to Henan and fought against Fengjun in Linying. In both campaigns, ouzhen was able to reinforce the friendly forces with limited forces when the war situation was critical, so as to save the dying war situation.

In 1927, he served as the head of the 71st regiment of the 24th division during the Nanchang Uprising. Later, he went south with the uprising team, and before the battle, he defected, causing heavy damage to the Nanchang Uprising troops who went south to Chaoshan. In the fifth "encirclement and suppression" campaign, he followed Xue Yue all the way to pursue and suppress the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army.

On April 15, 1935, Ou Zhen was awarded the rank of major general; on October 5, 1936, he was promoted to lieutenant general. He served as division commander of the 90th division of the national revolutionary army.

In 1937, when the Anti Japanese war broke out, ouzhen took part in the war against Japan in the East battlefield of Songhu, Wuxi and Dongting. On June 24, 1938, he served as the commander of the Fourth Army (under the ninth group army of the ninth theater). After that, he took part in the 32nd and 32nd battle of the Jiangxi and ganxun armies.

In 1939, the European earthquake led the troops from northern Guangdong to Hunan and took part in the first Changsha battle. Ou Zhen took part in the battle of Changde in Hunan Province after he became the commander of the 58th army. On December 5, 1943, he led his troops to recover Changde City and later became the deputy commander in chief of the 27th group army.

After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Ou Zhen was appointed commander-in-chief of the 10th group army of the National Revolutionary Army and the 39th (19th) in the reorganization Commander. In 1947, he served as the commander of the third corps of Xuzhou command of the general command of the army. After being defeated by the East China Field Army of the people's Liberation Army under the command of Chen Yi and others in the battle of Menglianggu in Shandong, he transferred to the eighth special class of the army University for training. In early 1949, he served as the commander of the fourth training command. In August, he served as the deputy director of Guangdong appeasement office and acting Guangdong security commander. Later, he served as the deputy commander of Hainan defense, I went to Taiwan in 1949. After going to Taiwan, he graduated from the Institute of revolutionary practice and was a member of the Construction Planning Committee of the National Security Council.

In his later years, general Ou Zhen was homesick. Every pair of his friends and relatives said: "the iron rule of history is that when we get together for a long time, we must divide and when we get together for a long time, the peaceful reunification of the country will come."

On February 13, 1969, Ou Zhen died of illness in Taiwan. In March, he was promoted to rank two general of the army by the Kuomintang.

Anecdotes of characters

As a young man, Ou Zhen was influenced by his father who was good at poetry and writing, and had a deep literary foundation. In his military career, he wrote poems from time to time, so he was called "Confucian general". In the winter of 1937, the Japanese army landed in Hangzhou Bay and made a detour to Nanjing. The war reversed, and all combat troops in the eastern battlefield urgently withdrew. In the process of withdrawing troops, he wrote a poem called "the feeling of withdrawal"

The wind on the lake is bleak, the moon is broken, the long dike is far away, the tree road is long. The three armed forces were angry, and the people burst into tears.

The affairs of the state can last for a long time. Don't ask how difficult the future is. Sacrifice is a man's ambition, blood is not empty, bone is not cold.

In 1942, Ou Zhen returned to his hometown to visit his relatives. Seeing that his hometown's cultural and educational undertakings were very backward, he donated money to build two primary schools, one in longguixu and the other in Gantang village. Both have 26 classrooms, as well as more than 10 teachers' dormitories, academic affairs rooms and kitchens. In addition, ouzhen also subsidized the construction of roads and the purchase of grain to help the people. In order to solve the problem of nine years' drought in his hometown, Ou Zhen invested to buy land and fields, built a reservoir with an area of more than 80 mu, solved the irrigation water of 1200 Mu paddy field in the whole village, and invested to plant more than 100 mu scenic water source forest in chengjiashan near the reservoir. After the trees become forest, the mountain spring flows. The villagers call the mountain forest "Yuchen forest".

In Gantang village, Xilian Town, Wujiang District, there is a Sanniang temple with a long history. There is a pavilion at the back of the temple, which is the memorial Pavilion of Ou Zhen, a famous general of the northern expedition. On the pavilion are engraved with "records of Ou Zhen Ting" and Ou Zhen's poems.

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