1937 65438+At the beginning of February, the attacking troops of the 29th Army retreated one after another, concentrated in southern Hebei and northern Henan. In order to facilitate the command, Song moved the headquarters to Xinxiang, Henan. In the face of the Japanese army, the first 29 army was losing ground, although it was not on the verge of collapse. Feng Zhian left the team due to illness, and the Song generals were only Liu Ruming, Gao Shuxun, Shi Yousan and others. Just then, Song got a good news, and Zhang Zizhong came back. At the end of July, Song Lingbing gave up Beiping, but Zhang Zizhong stayed. At that time, Zhang Zizhong was reviled by the whole country, and major newspapers rushed to publish articles satirizing Zhang Zizhong as a "self-righteous" traitor, calling him the "post-Zhang Bangchang" of the Northern Song Dynasty. At this moment, it seems unpatriotic not to scold Zhang Zizhong. Don't Zhang Zizhong understand the stakes of keeping a heroic aura and a traitor's hat?

As a party, Qin Dechun once had a reminiscence article "Zhang Zizhong and Me", which was published in the second issue of the first volume of Biography of Taiwan Province Province published by 1962, and talked about this past. Qin Dechun said that after our army lost in Nanyuan, General Song went to Baoding to take command according to the telegram from the generalissimo. At that time, General Song wrote three warrants, and the chairman of the government affairs committee was represented by Zhang Zizhong. Second, the director of Peiping appeasement was replaced by Zhang Zizhong. Third, the mayor of Beiping was represented by Zhang Zizhong, who sent a telegram to the Central Committee for verification. I immediately decided to leave the Song Hall of Wuyi Library at nine o'clock that night. Before leaving, General Zhang told me tearfully that you and Mr. Song have become national heroes, and I am afraid that you will become traitors. The situation of grief has reached the extreme.

Qin Dechun, worried about Zhang Zizhong, solemnly said that this was the beginning of the war. There is still a long way to go, and a coffin should be put on it. As long as you swear to save the country, there will be a day of national understanding. Having said that, Qin Dechun must have no idea, otherwise they wouldn't "shake hands sadly". 1At the beginning of September, 937, Zhang Zizhong escaped from Beiping and returned to Nanjing with the help of Canadian John Calvin Ferguson. Accompanied by Qin Dechun, Zhang Zizhong met Jiang Zhongzheng. When he saw Zhangjiang, he stood up, admitted that he deserved it, and asked Jiang Yan to do so. To this, Jiang Zhongzheng clearly replied, I know everything about you in the north. I am the chairman of the military commission, and I am in charge of everything. A few days later, Jiang summoned Zhang Zizhong and accompanied him to see Qin Dechun. This time, for Zhang Zizhong, Jiang Zhongzheng still reluctant, promised to let Zhang Zizhong return to the army to serve the country.

At the end of 1937, Zhang Zizhong was accepted by Song as commander-in-chief of Xinxiang, but he did not immediately return to the 59th Army. Qin Dechun recalled that on the day he returned to the old army, Zhang Zizhong told everyone with tears that today, in addition to fighting the enemy together, he returned to the army to die with everyone, and all the officers and men were also sobbing and swearing allegiance to the death.