Zhang Shushen

Zhang Shushen

Zhang Shushen was born in Longxi village, Dazhuang, Kaiyuan in 1909. After graduating from Kaiyuan junior high school, he was admitted to Yunnan Provincial No.1 middle school. During his study in No.1 provincial middle school, he secretly joined the Communist Party of China because of the influence of progressive thought. In September 1935, Zhang Shushen was admitted to the second team of the 11th infantry division of Kunming 5 branch of Huangpu Military Academy with excellent results, and received strict military training. In less than two years from graduating from the military academy and leaving for the battlefield to dying for his country, Zhang Shushen took part in the battle of Chongyang in Wuhan, the battle of Changsha, the battle of fenggao and the battle of Nanchang. He died on June 16, 1940 at the age of 31.

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Zhang Shushen was born in Longxi village, Dazhuang, Kaiyuan in 1909. After graduating from Kaiyuan junior high school, he was admitted to Yunnan Provincial No.1 middle school. During the period of studying in provincial No.1 middle school, he secretly joined the Communist Party of China because of the influence of progressive thought!

Character experience

After the September 18th Incident, the constant loss of territory and the increasingly serious national disaster made Zhang Shushen's mood no longer calm. He resolutely made a decision: in the face of national calamity, he abandoned his teaching and joined the army and applied for the Huangpu Military Academy!

In September 1935, Zhang Shushen was admitted to the second team of the 11th infantry division of Kunming 5 branch of Huangpu Military Academy with excellent results, and received strict military training. During his schooling, he not only studied hard and practiced military skills, but also actively participated in the activities of reading clubs organized by the CPC underground party.

On July 7, 1937, the Lugouqiao Incident opened the prelude to the all-round Anti Japanese war between the Chinese army and the people. According to the educational system, the party members of the 11th period should graduate in December 1938, and they graduated in July ahead of schedule due to the need of the Anti Japanese war. On August 2, 1938, Zhang Shushen set out from Kunming with the 33rd regiment of the new 11th division of the 58th Yunnan army. He walked day and night for 47 days and went to the front line of Anti Japanese war in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi.

In September 1938, the troops arrived in Changsha. Seeing the ruins bombed by enemy planes everywhere, the tragic scene of countless compatriots wandering and corpses everywhere, Zhang Shushen was extremely angry and immediately vowed to pay back the blood debt to the Japanese aggressors! After a short rest in Changsha, the troops were dispatched to Linxiang and Yueyang. Then, the 58th army met with the Japanese in tingsiqiao, Zhaoliqiao and Maqiao, and launched a fierce battle. Zhang Shushen, the then platoon commander of the second lieutenant, was a calm and resourceful commander. After six days of bloody fighting, he successfully broke through the encirclement. In this battle, he initially showed his command ability and was promoted to lieutenant platoon leader.

Later, Zhang Shushen was ordered to lead his troops into the battle of Tongcheng, Chongyang and Changsha. In the fierce and difficult battle for an important position, there were 164 officers and men in Zhang Shushen's company, only a dozen left. The head of the regiment called the whole regiment together and asked Zhang Shushen to select 150 of the most capable men from other companies to supplement his company. Then, Zhang Shushen was ordered to lead his troops to the Fengxin position. He personally mastered a heavy machine gun, and soldier Luo Youwen (from Yangliu village of Kaiyuan Dazhuang) set up a light machine gun on his right side. The Japanese attacked many times and were eliminated at the front of the position. The Japanese army had nothing to do, so they fired a poison gas bomb and landed in front of Luo Youwen. When they found the smoke, Luo immediately fell into a coma. Zhang Shushen rushed to pee with a towel and put soap on Luo's nose. At this time, the Japanese army dashed to the position again. Zhang Shushen fired while commanding, and forced Luo Youwen to wake up, saying in a loud voice: "the devils are rushing up again!" Luo Youwen quickly started to use his machine gun to fire hard, and the Japanese army was beaten back again. The battle lasted from the evening until the next morning, and the front of the position was full of enemy bodies.

In the Gao'an campaign, Zhang Shushen tactfully and bravely led his troops to attack the Japanese positions through three barbed wire fences at night. After a fierce battle, we completely annihilated the enemy whose number exceeded our own. In this war, Zhang Shushen personally killed a Japanese officer and captured the Japanese sun flag.

In the spring of 1940, Zhang Shushen was ordered to attend the Gannan guerrilla cadre training class held by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in Hengshan, Hunan Province, and listened to the lecture on guerrilla warfare given by Ye Jianying, chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army. After returning to the army after his study, he was promoted to major battalion commander, and was ordered to set up a new 11th division commando team composed of an engineering company, an infantry company, a mortar platoon, and a wireless communication class. Led by him, he set out from shinaoxi near Gao'an to carry out the tasks of pulling out Japanese strongholds, destroying fortifications, destroying traffic, and deterring the enemy. During this period, he led his troops to carry out more than 100 guerrilla battles, with fruitful results. He interrupted the supply of Japanese troops through the Nandang railway for nearly a month, and then cooperated with our main force to counter attack, and achieved the success of recovering the East Bank of Jinjiang River and the north bank of Liaohe River.

In June 1940, in the battle of Nanchang, Zhang Shushen was ordered to lead the troops to rush and kill quickly, and captured the important front lines of Wanshougong and dingjiazui in Xishan, the key pass in the periphery of Nanchang. He beat back the Japanese attack many times and firmly held the position. When the Japanese army took over the position, Zhang Shushen rushed to the division headquarters to fight. With the consent of division commander Lu Daoyuan, he immediately led the troops to reinforce, cooperated with the brother troops to fight with the Japanese army, and recaptured the position after bloody fighting. The Japanese army fought back madly many times, and all the positions were repulsed with heavy artillery fire. Zhang Shushen, who was seriously injured, still insisted on commanding the battle and encouraged the officers and men to hold fast to their positions and never retreat. Zhang Shushen died on June 16, 1940 at the age of 31.

In less than two years from graduating from the military academy and leaving for the battlefield to dying for his country, Zhang Shushen took part in the battle of Chongyang in Wuhan, the battle of Changsha, the battle of fenggao and the battle of Nanchang. He shared weal and woe with the soldiers. On the March, he took the initiative to carry guns for the wounded soldiers. When supplies were interrupted, he ordered his subordinates to slaughter their horses to satisfy the soldiers' hunger. He often taught the soldiers: "the people are the benefactor of nurturing us, and we should never forget them. Those who endanger the interests of the state and the people are our enemies. " "Our anti Japanese soldiers will serve the motherland to the death and recover the lost land!" He was brave and good at fighting. He took the lead and made great achievements, which won general Zhang Chong's common sense.

After the great victory in Nanchang, the military headquarters held a grand memorial service for Zhang Shushen and posthumously awarded him the rank of lieutenant colonel of the army. It also sent a special plane to send the remains back to his hometown by a deputy commander named Zhang Yunzhu for burial.

When the heroes and martyrs got off the plane in Kunming and were escorted to Kaiyuan, Kaiyuan civil and military officials and primary and secondary school teachers and students came to the station to greet them. Officials at all levels and people from all walks of life in Kaiyuan County attended a grand memorial service and burial ceremony in Zhang Shushen's hometown.

Among the nearly 200000 Yunnan soldiers killed in the Anti Japanese War, Zhang Shukun was the first revolutionary martyr pursued by Yunnan Provincial People's Government on January 6, 1984. Then, Kaiyuan Municipal People's government paid for the restoration of the martyrs' tombs. In front of the tombs, there was a stone tablet with the book "Anti Japanese martyr Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Shushen".

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