Biography of the Anti-Japanese Heroes: Living Guan Gong---Zhang Zizhong

Zhang Zizhong (August 11, 1891 - May 16, 1940), named Xin Chen, later changed to Xin Chen, Han nationality, native of Linqing, Shandong Province, commander-in-chief of the Fifth Theater Right Group Army and the 33rd Group Army, general of the Chinese Kuomintang with the rank of Army Lieutenant General, posthumously awarded the rank of second-level general, famous anti-Japanese general and national hero. From 1937 to 1940, he successively participated in the Battle of Linyi, the Battle of Xuzhou, the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Suizao and the Battle of Zaoyi. Unfortunately, he died in a battle with the Japanese army in Xiangyang in 1940. After the founding of New China, the Central People's Government posthumously recognized General Zhang Zizhong as a revolutionary martyr. In 2009, he was named one of the "100 Heroic Model Figures Who Made Outstanding Contributions to the Founding of New China." Teacher Wang Ao has accumulated and compiled manuscripts for many years, and used the form of storytelling to show a series of great achievements of our anti-Japanese heroes. At the historical moment of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 2019, he dedicated it to the audience and commemorated the heroes who sacrificed for the founding of the People's Republic of China.