Chapter 42 Zhang Zhongliang

Zhang Zhongliang (1907-1983), born in Fangxiangkou, Sigou, Yaoxian County.At the age of eighteen, he graduated from the county B vocational school and taught in Xiangshicun Junior Primary School. Joined the Communist Party of China in 1931.Beginning to use the teachers of Shirenbao Primary School as a cover, secretly recruited underground party members and mobilized the masses to resist food and donations.Later, he organized and led the "handover to farmers" movement.Arrested by the Kuomintang reactionary authorities.After being released from prison, he served as Secretary of the CPC Yaoxian County Committee.

In July 1933, in conjunction with Wang Taiji's uprising, a peasant uprising was launched in Agushe.Organized the Yaoxian guerrilla team and served as the deputy captain.After Wang Taigu's uprising failed, he led the guerrillas and moved to Xuejiazhai, the revolutionary base of Zhaojin. In August 1933, after the Chenjiapo meeting, guerrilla warfare was carried out under the leadership of the temporary general headquarters of the Red Army on the Shaanxi-Gansu border.After the establishment of the Red Forty-two Division.Served as political commissar of the Third Route Guerrilla Brigade, political commissar of the 42nd Division of the 26th Red Army, and the 1st Red Regiment of the 42nd Division of the Red 26th Army.

In 1934, as a special commissioner of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Special Committee, he established the first village party branch in Qiutouyuan, Ning County, Gansu Province, successively established party and government organs in Chunhua and Ning counties, and developed organizations such as peasant associations and red guards. In September 1935, he was detained by the "Left" erroneous "Suppression of Rebels". After being rescued by the Central Committee and the Central Red Army who arrived in northern Shaanxi on the Long March, he entered the Central Party Branch to study.He personally listened to Chairman Mao Zedong's report and was cordially received by Vice Chairman Zhou Enlai.During the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the security commander and commissioner of the Guanzhong Division.After a military conference in Yan'an, Chairman Mao met Zhang Zhongliang and instructed him that "the enemy in Guanzhong is very powerful. You can't just fight hard, but you have to learn to fight political instruments. Disintegrate the enemy."He carried out Chairman Mao's instructions and effectively promoted various struggles against the enemy in the Guanzhong Division.

In the spring of 1947, appointed by Chairman Mao and Vice Chairman Zhou.After stabilizing the situation in Longdong, he served as the political commissar of the Fourth Army of the Northwest Field Army and participated in the liberation of Wazijie, Xifu, Fengyuan, Libei, Fumei and Lanzhou.After the liberation of Lanzhou, he liberated Xining with the Northwest Field Campaign. After liberation, he successively served as Secretary of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Gansu Provincial Committee, and Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee.In the second plenary session of its eighth session, he was elected as an alternate member of the Communist Party of China.At the Twelfth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he was elected as a member of the Central Advisory Committee.When he was the Secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, although he made the mistake of being aggressive and exaggerated, he had the courage to take responsibility, conducted self-reflection many times, and remembered this profound lesson. During the "Cultural Revolution", he was attacked and persecuted.

Retired to the second line in 1981 and died of illness in Nanjing, Jiangsu in 1983.