Chapter 581: The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the Northeast (5)

Zhang Zuozhou, the commander of the 25th Brigade in Yushu County, is a small person that many people have never heard of. However, Zhang Zuozhou in history has a first that few people know.

If there was no Eastern Resistance, he would have been the first Chinese general to fight against the Japanese puppet army in the 14-year War of Resistance Against Japan.

According to the records of the 918 memorabilia, on September 25, only a week after the incident, Zhang Zuozhou led his troops to retreat to Yushu County, and immediately declared resistance to Japan. Although Feng Zhanhai, the head of the Guards Regiment, issued a telegram to resist Japan one day earlier than Zhang Zuozhou, Feng Zhanhai was only a regiment commander at that time, not a general. However, he Zhang Zuozhou was awarded the rank of major general by the Beijing government in 28 years.

Zhang Zuozhou's 25th Brigade was originally one of the three best-equipped national defense brigades in the Northeast Army of Jilin. However, the 25th Brigade stationed in Elm at this time can only be described in one word, that is, "miserable". If you use two words to describe it, it should be "really miserable". If you describe it in three words, it is "too miserable".

The 25th Brigade had a total of three regiments, and Ren Yushan's regiment was attacked by the Japanese on the night of 918, and this regiment showed a rather amazing will to fight, throwing grenades at each other across the road with the Japanese army and not retreating, almost causing a squadron of the Japanese army to fall into a situation of total annihilation.

However, by the time the regiment broke out, it had already been crippled. The remaining two regiments were fully loaded, but the two regiment commanders were co-opted by Xiqia, and the two regiments at the good end were divided, and only a part of the troops fled to Yushu to join the brigade commander Zhang Zuozhou. By the time Zhang Zuozhou rushed back to the army from Jinzhou, a complete national defense brigade had been dismembered.

Fortunately, with the support of the local people of Yushu County and the county government, Zhang Zuozhou desperately replenished the troops, and by January, the number of troops had slowly recovered to about five or six thousand, but the lost weapons and equipment were never replenished. Zhang Zuozhou had no choice but to find a local blacksmith shop to make earthen guns, according to records, Zhang Zuozhou's new 25th Brigade was equipped with more than 1,000 earthen guns alone. There is also a serious shortage of other munitions, especially ammunition.

In terms of food and salary, Yushu County is not a poor county, and now it is still the top county in China's grain production, but it is still not enough to independently undertake the food, drink and Lazar of a brigade, Zhang Zuozhou has to rely on the issuance of military stamps to maintain, and he actually printed 20 million yuan of military stamps in one go.

Although the situation is grim, if you are a person who is resolute and skillful, there may be a glimmer of life. But unfortunately, although Zhang Zuozhou was able to resolutely raise the flag to resist Japan before the national righteousness, his ability really cannot be compared with the traitor Xiqia.

Zhang Zuozhou is Zhang Zuoxiang's cousin, and he was very naïve when he was a child.

For example, he was able to see the landlord's wolf dog as a wolf and beat it, and as a result, he was beaten in vain. Zhang Zuoxiang said that he wanted to avoid suspicion, so he arranged him into his brother's team, and as a result, his brother's team was laid off after a few years, and Zhang Zuozhou honestly went home to farm and planted for a year. Zhang Zuoxiang really couldn't do anything, so he had to say nothing to avoid suspicion, and took Zhang Zuozhou to his side. In the 25th year of the Zhifeng War, it was said that he made a war exploit at the Nine Gates and promoted him to the head of the regiment, which is nothing to say, so he finally encountered a victory. But later, Zhang Zuozhou followed the Jilin Army to stop Guo Songling's rebels at Shanhaiguan, and the Jilin Army was beaten by Guo Songling. But Zhang Zuozhou still made "military merits" and was promoted to major general.

And this time, without his cousin to take care of him, Zhang Zuozhou faced a tough battle, whether it was a mule or a horse, and he had to pull it out and slip away.

In order to meet Yu Datou, Zhang Zuozhou put on an inverted triangle formation. To the south of Yushu, he set up two regiments, Yang Bingzao's regiment in the area of Wukeshu and Minjiatun on the right flank, and Zhao Weibin's regiment in the area of Daxinlitun and Heilinzi on the left flank. There was a Ka Qu River between the two regiments. A Ren Yushan regiment was left behind, and he was left under the elm tree near Yushu County, in the area of the flower wall. …,

Yang Bingzao and Zhao Weibin were not regiment commanders, but battalion commanders. The two former regiment commanders ran away with Xicha, but the two battalion commanders refused to surrender and ran back with the team. Zhang Zuozhou felt that these two people were loyal and reliable, so he promoted them to the head of the regiment and put them on the front line to arm.

The attacking Yu Datou puppet army was reluctant to attack far away and went straight to Yushu County. Before anyone arrived, he gave Zhang Zuozhou a dismount first. Japanese planes first bombed Elm.

How powerful are you going to say about the bombing? It was really nothing, the Japanese army dropped a total of six aerial bombs, killing and wounding 8 horses and 2 people. However, for the recruits that Zhang Zuozhou had just replenished, the effect of danger was still very great.

As soon as the plane was blown up, Yu Datou's vanguard troops arrived, and the civil war of the Jilin Northeast Army began. Moreover, both sides of the civil war are too familiar with each other to be familiar with each other. Why? Because Yu Datou's vanguard is none other than his First Garrison Brigade, the brigade commander Liu Baolin himself has been the commander of the 25th Brigade for two months, and the backbone of the First Garrison Brigade is basically the men and horses of the old 25th Brigade. On both sides came out of the 25 brigade.

What Zhang Zuozhou didn't expect was that the same old man of the 25th Brigade, the first garrison brigade of the 25th Brigade who had defected out of the 25th Brigade was so powerful that it was beyond his imagination. After the two sides exchanged fire, Liu Baolin's 1st Garrison Brigade, which had 4,000 men, threw all its strength into attacking Zhao Weibin's regiment, which was defending the left flank position. At this moment, Zhang Zuozhou's defense problem was exposed.

Zhang Zuozhou's defense line seems to be nothing at first glance, with troops divided on both sides and a reserve behind them. But after the three regiments were scattered, there were seventy or eighty miles from north to south, and fifty or sixty miles from east to west. Such a long distance, in ancient times, it was a day's march. Regardless of Ren Yushan's regiment or Yang Bingzao's regiment on the right flank, it takes a lot of roads to come over for reinforcements, and Yang Bingzao's regiment is still separated by a Kaqu River.

Not only that, even Zhao Weibin's regiment itself scattered and occupied several strongholds from Heilin Town in the south to Xinlitun in the north.

Originally, Yu Datou had a lot of troops, and he also concentrated his forces to attack one place, but Zhang Zuozhou himself divided the team into pieces.

If Zhang Zuozhou's 25th Brigade held strong positions and strongholds that could hold it, it would be fine, once a few strongholds could not withstand the strong attack, they would immediately be broken one by one and the whole army would be defeated. What's even worse is that both sides are acquaintances, just because they are too familiar, as long as either side loses, no one is willing to resist desperately, anyway, they are brothers who have played cards together and visited the kiln.

As a result, in less than a day, Zhao Weibin's regiment, which had been stationed here for more than two months, was defeated. First the left flank collapsed, and then the right flank went wrong. Commander Yang Bingzao, who originally refused to surrender and led the team to retreat to Yushu County to share the hardships with the brigade commander, suddenly erected a white flag.

It turned out that this Yang Bingzao was the nephew of Commander Yu Datou. didn't run with his boss at the beginning, but this time it was his uncle who came, of course, it was another matter, and seeing that Zhao Weibin's regiment had also collapsed, seeing that the wind was turning the rudder, Yang Bingzao immediately surrendered with his men and horses. In this way, in just one day, the 25th Brigade of Yushu County, three regiments lost two, and most of the troops were knocked out at once.

The tragedy is not over yet. The next day, Yu Datou's army commander drove straight to the city of Yushu County.

It is said that there is only one regiment left in the three regiments, and it is impossible to win the game, so hurry up, but Zhang Zuozhou did not run. It's just that if you don't run, then quickly gather your troops to defend the city, fight to the death, and persist until Feng Zhanhai's reinforcements come to relieve the siege. However, Zhang Zuozhou placed the main force of Ren Yushan's regiment outside the city, and he only took a few companies such as the brigade headquarters guard company to defend the city. As a result, the run was not successful, and the defense of the city was not held, and the few troops led by Zhang Zuozhou were all blocked in the city.

Yu Datou's puppet army attacked the city from three directions, east, west and south, and broke through the three city gates at 11 o'clock in the morning. Zhang Zuozhou and regiment commander Ren Yushan led the team to fight and leave, but at this time he couldn't leave, and was soon surrounded by Yu Datou's puppet army in the brigade headquarters of the 25th Brigade, a pot compound. Seeing that Zhang Zuozhou had lost the upper hand, the county magistrates and gentry who were full of anti-Japanese words in the first two days hurriedly ran to the city, shouted to welcome the "bandit army", and welcomed Yu Datou into the county government. …,

On both sides were old colleagues of the Northeast Army of Jilin, and Yu Datou sent the county magistrate and these gentry to the headquarters of the 25th Brigade to persuade Zhang Zuozhou to surrender and ask him to disarm. But Zhang Zuozhou was unwilling to disarm, and put forward conditions, and the gentry ran around to spread the message, and they rubbed until dark.

Yu Dafa was furious and threatened to wait another half an hour and then not surrender, he would bombard the headquarters of the 25th Brigade with artillery. Under intimidation, Zhang Zuozhou had to lead the remaining officers and soldiers to lay down their weapons and walk out. Yu Datou didn't do too much, and allowed Zhang Zuozhou to leave the city from the north gate with these unarmed officers and soldiers.

Zhang Zuozhou went out of Yushu County, first fled to Harbin, and then transferred to Guannei through Hailar, and followed his cousin Zhang Zuoxiang to Chengde to supervise the war during the Rehe Anti-Japanese War, but he was defeated all the way, and finally fled to the Tianjin Concession with his cousin Zhang Zuoxiang, and since then he has withdrawn from the military circles.

If Zhang Zuozhou can become a successful person in the future, then as the first Chinese general to raise the flag to resist the war, he will definitely become a hero in the eyes of many people, and his "first" will definitely be mentioned by many people. Moreover, his 25th Brigade, if you don't count Wang Tiehan's forced self-defense, Zhang Zuozhou's 25th Brigade was the only one in the Northeast Army on the night of 918, and it was also the first unit to resolutely resist in China's 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and killed the Japanese squadron leader for the first time, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army. However, unfortunately, Zhang Zuozhou could only have a bleak curtain call in this historical drama. And this first, no matter how far back in history, fell on the head of Ma Zhanshan.

Chinese always like to say that heroes should not be judged by success or failure, but since Zhang Zuozhou was defeated by the puppet army, he is destined to disappear from people's memory. Perhaps his resistance was more out of personal loyalty to Zhang Zuoxiang, or perhaps his ability was indeed poor, and he stayed out of the flood of the Anti-Japanese War and did not stick to the end, but at this moment, as the first Chinese general to resist, he is still worthy of respect.