Who is the first soldier of the national army? Some people say it's Zhang, while others say it's Zhang. In fact, this is a matter of opinion. In my opinion, the title of the first valiant soldier in the national army should be given to Zhong Song, who is brave in fighting and not afraid of death. He even defeated the Northwest Field Army under Peng's command twice and clamored to solve the problem of northern Shaanxi in World War I. Unfortunately, such a straightforward person could not live in the national army.
Zhong Song is a legendary general. In the first phase of Huangpu Military Academy, he was seriously ill and was thrown into the morgue by the school doctor. If his classmates hadn't examined him carefully, he might have been cremated directly. Perhaps because he died once, Zhong Song was quite brave in the later Northern Expedition, Central Plains War, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and other wars, and he was not afraid of death, so he can be said to be the best among the national generals.
1933, Zhong Song participated in the Anti-Japanese War of the Great Wall and undertook the task of guarding the worse. After the war, he became a brigade commander and commanded the independent brigade of the second division. In the Battle of Songhu, Zhong Song served as the division commander of 6 1, and stopped the Japanese army in Tangjiazhai and other places. The fighting was quite fierce. 6 1 Division 36 1 Head of the regiment, head of the 365th regiment, died in battle. Since then, Zhong Song has participated in the Battle of Lanfeng, the Battle of Wuhan and the counterattack in western Yunnan. It was not until the late War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression that Zhong Songcai joined the Hu Zongnan Department and became the commander-in-chief of the 36th Army with more than 80,000 people under Hu Zongnan.
During the war of liberation, he was stationed in northern Shaanxi, mainly targeting the northwest field army commanded by Marshal Peng. Zhong Song defeated Nishino twice. What happened?
The first battle is Yulin.
1during the Yulin campaign in August, 947, our army concentrated 8 brigades with 45,000 troops to besiege the Yulin national army with 0/0.5 million troops. Hu Zongnan's 60,000 troops rescued Yulin in two ways. Zhong Song bypassed the north of Mount Hengshan, crossed the desert and raided the siege troops in Yulin. Zhong Song's sudden arrival in Yulin caused heavy casualties to our army and failed to achieve the intended effect, so we had to retreat.
This battle was called "Yulin victory" by the national army, and Zhong Song himself publicly stated in the newspaper that "the problem of northern Shaanxi can be solved by World War I".
The fact is that the 36th Army led by Zhong Song went north and was isolated. The Northwest Field Army took the opportunity to organize troops to encircle the Ministry. In the Shajiadian World War I, the 36th Army lost more than 6,000 people, and was greatly weakened. The situation in northern Shaanxi was thus reversed.
The second time was the battle of Iva.
Shortly after the battle of Shajiadian, four brigades broke through the sniper organized by Marshal Xu and solved the siege of Yuncheng. Zhong Song burned more than 40,000 door panels in Yuncheng, which was really bad. 1948 In the battle of Yiwa in March, the Northwest Field Army sent two columns to attack Luochuan, but they didn't conquer it for 22 days and had to retreat. Zhong Song led the BGF 36th Division to pursue journey to the south, marching hundreds of miles every day, and repeatedly scattered the retreating PLA troops. This battle made Nishino suffer a great loss.
However, in the battle of Fengyuan in July 1948, Zhong Song asked Pei Huichang, the fifth corps, for support, but Pei Huichang did not support him. As a result, Zhong Song's stronghold quickly disintegrated, and the BGF 36 Division was almost completely annihilated. Zhong Song successfully broke through with the main force of 123 brigade.
At the summary meeting of Fengyuan Campaign, Zhong Song directly criticized the wisdom error of Xi 'an appeasement office, which made Hu Zongnan angry to death. Hu Zongnan directly gave him the punishment of "dismissal and retention". Zhong Song knew that he could no longer lead troops to fight, so he simply left for Hongkong.
Zhong Song and Hu Zongnan didn't completely fight, so Zhong Song didn't follow all the generals in Hong Kong to announce his withdrawal from the Kuomintang. Zhong Song was a subordinate of Hu Zongnan in Taiwan Province until he retired in 1965.
Zhong Song returned to the mainland to visit relatives and friends on 1988, and died in Holland in his later years at the age of 95.