Zhang Zhen

Zhang Zhen

Zhang Zhen (1884-1963), the character of Gan Zhi. General. Fang Shengtao was once the commander of the camp and brigade of the Fujian Jingguo army and the former enemy commander of the Fujian autonomous army. During the northern expedition, he was the division commander of the fourth independent division of the national revolutionary army. Zhang Bu was renamed the first division of the army, the first division of the army and the 49th division. Zhang Zhen served as the division commander. He was called the king of Minnan. Zhang Zhen also served as the commander of "suppressing bandits" in Fujian, and took part in the war of "encircling and suppressing" the Soviet Area in Western Fujian and the Red Army many times. During the Anti Japanese War, he served as the chairman of the fourth regiment of the Military Commission of the national government. In 1949, he went to Taiwan with his family and was a member of the "strategic advisory committee".

Join the army

Zhang Zhen, born on January 12, 1884 in Dongqiao village, Sidu, Zhao'an, Fujian, studied in Zhangzhou middle school as a boy. After the revolution of 1911, he studied in the Second Artillery section of Baoding military academy. In 1917, after graduating from Baoding, Zhang Zhen went to Guangzhou to join Fang Shengtao and began his military career. Shortly after Zhang Zhen arrived in Guangdong, Fang Shengtao led the Yasukuni army to expand from Chaoshan to Fujian. At the beginning of entering Fujian, Fang made use of Zhang Zhen's social relations in Fujian, sent Zhang to contact and organize the people's army in Southern Fujian, and organized the Fujian Yasukuni army, which became a pillar of Fang after entering Fujian. He successively served as the commander of Engineering Battalion and brigade of the fourth brigade of Fujian Jingguo army. In 1922, Zhang Zhen and the representatives of the people's armed forces from all over Fujian gathered in Shanghai to invite Fang Shengtao to unite with the people's armed forces to organize the Fujian autonomous army and drive out Li Houji, a northern warlord, with the call of "Fujian people ruling Fujian". After the flag of the Fujian autonomous army was raised, Zhang Zhen became the commander of the former enemy. He appointed the leaders of the people's army everywhere as the commander of the detachment and greatly expanded the troops. In October 1922, in order to fight against Chen Jiongming's rebels, Sun Yat Sen reorganized Xu Chongzhi's troops in Fujian Province into the East Road bandits. When Xu Chongzhi led his division back to Guangdong, the Fujian autonomous forces were incorporated into the east road begging army, and Zhang Zhen served as the commander of the former enemy. In February 1923, Sun Yat Sen returned from Shanghai to Guangzhou. For the third time, he established political power in Guangzhou, rebuilt the Grand Marshal's office, and then served as the Grand Marshal of the army and navy. Zhang Zhen was appointed Deputy Chief of the Grand Marshal's office. In August 1925, the national government of Guangzhou reorganized various local armies in Guangdong into the national revolutionary army. At that time, Zhang's Department was stationed in Dongguan and Shilong, Guangdong Province, and Xuan was reorganized into an independent regiment, with Zhang Zhen as its head. In 1926, when the Guangdong national government commanded the northern expedition, Zhang Zhen's independent regiment was stationed at the border between Fujian and Guangdong. The regiment headquarters was in Shantou, and the troops were distributed in Chenghai, Huanggang and Zhao'an. Under the pretext of "training a group of local military cadres for Fujian Province when the Northern Expedition army entered Fujian", Zhang Zhen held the "Fujian army cadre school" in Zhao'an county and concurrently served as the principal.

Suppress the revolution

In October 1927, Zhang Zhen's independent regiment was organized as the fourth independent division of the national revolutionary army. On December 9, Zhang Zhen's troops entered Fuzhou. Later, he Yingqin also arrived in Fuzhou on December 18 and began to organize the Fujian government affairs committee. Zhang Zhen was appointed as a member. When he Yingqin left Fujian, Zhang Zhen was appointed commander of Fuzhou garrison. The fourth independent division was ordered to move to Jianqiao, Hangzhou, Pudong, Shanghai, and then to Nanjing. Zhang Zhen became the commander of the capital garrison. Zhang Zhen led her troops back to Zhangzhou. During his several years in Zhangzhou, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Yongchun and other places in southwest Fujian were controlled by Zhang, forming a situation of occupying power, just like an independent kingdom. In March 1929, before Zhang Zhen led her troops to join the warlord war in eastern Guangdong, the Fourth Red Army entered Fujian for the first time and wiped out the indigenous warlord Guo Fengming in Changting. Just when Zhang Zhen's troops were defeated in the Chaozhou Shantou Guangxi war, the Fourth Red Army entered Fujian again, attacked Longyan, annihilated Chen Guohui's troops left behind in Longyan, and captured Longyan. Zhang Zhen and Chen Guohui were shocked. Zhang Zhen ordered his troops to withdraw to Zhangzhou, and Chen Guohui immediately led his main force back to West Fujian. In March 1929, Chiang Kai Shek launched a war against the GUI clan. The Nationalist government announced that Zhang Zhen was the commander-in-chief of the second way of fighting against the enemy, and ordered Chen Guohui, Lu Xingbang in Northern Fujian, and Lin Shouguo of the Marine Corps, who were stationed in Longyan, to lead one division respectively under the command of Zhang Zhen and go to Guangdong to fight against the enemy. At the third National Congress of the Kuomintang held in March 1929, Zhang Zhen was elected as an alternate member of the central executive committee of the Kuomintang. Soon after he replaced the Executive Committee of the Central Committee, Zhang was re elected as a member of the fourth Executive Committee, the fifth alternate member of the Central Committee and the Sixth Executive Committee of the Kuomintang. In 1929, the Fourth Red Army entered Fujian three times. In order to use Zhang Zhen to attack the Red Army, the Nanjing government expanded Zhang's fourth independent division into a division of the third brigade and the sixth regiment, and appointed Zhang to be the commander of Fujian's "bandit suppression". Since then, Zhang's Division has been renamed as the temporary first division, the new first division and the 49th division. In December 1930, at the meeting of senior officials of the Kuomintang party, government and army held in Nanchang, Chiang Kai Shek decided to change the title of Zhang Zhenbu to the 49th Army division. During this period, Zhang Zhen also had another side of rescuing Chen Boda, a communist. Chen Boda used to be a secretary in Zhang Zhen's fourth division. In 1927, someone in Nanjing sent a telegram to Zhang Zhen, the teacher, saying that Chen Boda was also a Communist Party and wanted Zhang Zhen to deal with it on the spot. However, Zhang Zhen could not do it. She gave him 1000 yuan as a travel fee and let him go. In 1931, Zhang Zhen and the Red Army in southwest Fujian killed each other to death. However, after learning that Chen Boda had been arrested, he still took out a sum of money and sent people to Beijing to carry out activities. He said that if it was not enough, he could ask for more. Chen Boda walked out of caolanzi prison. Later, Chen Boda talked to Mao Zedong about Zhang Zhen. Mao Zedong said at a meeting: "I don't think the KMT can generalize. For example, Zhang Zhen saved Chen Boda's life... "

After leaving the field

In May 1933, Zhang Zhen petitioned for resignation and recuperation on the ground of illness. Xiao Yue, the brigade commander of the 49th division, was appointed as the acting division commander and took office in Yongding. Zhang Zhen went to Gulangyu. Later, Zhang Zhenbu was completely adapted by the 19th Route Army of the national revolutionary army. Zhang Zhen suffered from this severe blow and was depressed. She was once insane, angry and incoherent. He first lived in Gulangyu for a rest, and then traveled around Nanyang for several months. After returning from Nanyang, Zhang Zhen went to Nanjing to work as an apartment. In March 1936, the national government awarded the rank of lieutenant general to the army; in October, it won the 10th anniversary Medal of the National Revolutionary Army oath. In 1937, after the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, Zhang Zhen became the chairman of the fourth regiment of the military discipline inspection group of the Military Commission of the national government, and later became the chairman of the first regiment. Its regimental headquarters were first set up in Guilin, Guangxi, and then moved to Yong'an, Fujian. In 1945, after the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Zhang Zhen was awarded the medals of loyalty and diligence and victory. In October 1946, Zhang Zhen was promoted to General of the army and retired at the same time. After that, Zhang went back to Zhangzhou and lived in a house that his old Ministry had collected money to buy for him. However, Zhang Zhen often lived in Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, where she lived in Huang's residence. In May 1948, he served as a "legislator" of the Legislative Yuan of the Nanjing National Government. On the eve of the PLA's march into Xiamen and Zhangzhou in 1949, Zhang Zhen moved to Taiwan with her family. During his stay in Taiwan, Zhang Ren, a member of the "Military Strategy Advisory Committee" headed by he Yingqin, was elected as the executive director of the Fujian fellow townspeople's Association. On December 29, 1963, Zhang Zhen died in Taiwan at the age of 79.

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