Zhang is really a great star. Someone counted the top ten defeats of the People's Liberation Army, including Nanma Linqu Campaign, Xifu Campaign, Siping Campaign, Jinmen Campaign, Central Plains Breakthrough Campaign, Datong Jining Campaign, Zhangjiakou Campaign, Huaiyin Campaign, Lianshui Campaign and Diqiudian Campaign. Ma Bufang, Chen Mingren, Herry Liu, Fu, Fu, Zhang and Zhang Lingdian. It is not difficult to find that Hu Lian and Zhang Hefu were the generals with the strongest command ability in the War of Liberation.
Zhang's death has always been controversial. The People's Liberation Army said that Zhang was killed, while the National Army said that he committed suicide. What the hell is going on? We might as well listen to the professional autopsy results.
200 1 Sheng Zhengquan, a retired cadre in Rugao City, Jiangsu Province who had performed an autopsy on Zhang, published his memoir "Commander Tao Yong ordered me to perform an autopsy on Zhang". As a witness of history, this memoir reveals the whole process for the first time, and finally makes Zhang's death come to the bottom.
Sheng Zhengquan served as a health care doctor for the General of the Fourth Longitudinal Army in Hua Ye, and conducted an autopsy on Zhang Jin after the battle. His words should be credible.
According to the memory of Sheng regime, the general received a phone call from the front, saying that Zhang committed suicide. So I went up the mountain overnight and found Zhang's body for him to dissect with only 20 guards around me. At that time, four guards used four flashlights to illuminate, and the autopsy began on the hillside.
Zhang is wearing the uniform of an American general and a big hat. He was a big man with a square face, heavy eyebrows, pale face and a hard body lying motionless. Sheng Zhengquan meticulously conducted an autopsy. I checked my head first and found that there was no scar except a piece of skin on my left cheek. I unbuttoned a chest button and found two bullet holes in his chest. The bullet went straight through the heart and flew out of his back, and his body fell in a pool of blood. Both bullet holes were fatal penetrating gunshot wounds, which were fired from a distance of 200 meters. The caliber of the gun hole is small, which is in line with the caliber of the American "Canada" submachine gun used by our soldiers.
According to the habit of suicide of generals in various countries, they often hit their temples with pistols, but Zhang did not have a gunshot wound on his head. If Zhang shot himself in the heart, there could not be two loopholes. There is no trace of gunpowder on the clothes. Therefore, Zhang never committed suicide, but was killed by ordinary PLA soldiers.
Seeing the autopsy results of Sheng Zhengquan, General Tao Yong said, "I said he wouldn't commit suicide. He wanted to break through and escape, which led to this sad ending. Damn it, damn it! "
To this end, our army issued an authoritative statement on Zhang's death. On May 25th, 1947, the reporter of People's Daily reported: "Zhang, the commander of the 74th Division of the First Mechanic of the US Army, Chiang Kai-shek's elite main force, has been killed by American weapons in the hands of the PLA."
However, in the same newsletter, it is another version. "After the body was found, Lei Liqun, head of the trench regiment of the captured division, head of the 58th Brigade 172 regiment, and Zhang Guangdi, secretary of Zhang's retinue, went to identify it, confirming that Zhang's head was hit by Tom's bullet, and his blood and brains had dried up. ..... The People's Liberation Army has prepared the coffin for burial, waiting for the Zhang family to collect the coffin. "