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Lt. General Zhu Yaohua, A Hero of Anti-Japanese War 抗战英烈朱耀华将军


Lt. General Zhu Yaohua, A Hero of Anti-Japanese War 
At the end of 1930, the central Red Army led by Zhu De and Mao Zedong captured Lt. General Zhang Huizan (1885-1931, from Dongxiang, Changsha, Hunan Province), former commander of the Nationalist 18th division and commander of the national army, in the first encirclement and suppression campaign. According to the secret agreement between the National government and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China located in Shanghai, the conditions to redeem Zhang Huizan included the releasing of a number of Communists in prison. All the 54th Brigade under Zhang huizan's command, which had not been wiped out by the Red Army, would surrender to the Red Army, with the exception of officers. Yuan 200,000 in silver dollars. A number of loads of Western medicine and salt, also under the Nationalist blockade. Agnes Smedley recorded some of these conditions in her book entitled The Great Road—Chu Teh and His Time. On February 7, 1931, Tu Zuochao, the representative of the CCP Central Committee (from Dongxiang, Changsha, Hunan), Li Xiangwu, the representative of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and Huang Xingyi, the representative of the Nationalist government, flew from Shanghai to Nanchang by a seaplane. But Zhang Huizan had been executed on January 28. Huang Xingyi designed to let Tu Zuoshao and Li Xiangwu off. Wei Chaopeng, a volunteer of Qing-Hong Gang, rescued and escorted Tu Zuochao and Li Xiangwu back to Shanghai in end February or beginning of March, 1931. Zhu Yaohua (1888-1952, from Dongxiang, Changsha, Hunan) was promoted to the post of commander of the 18th division. In October, 1937, in the battle of defending Dachang, Shanghai, there was no ammunition and food left. Lt. General Zhu decided to kill himself so to die for China. At the moment of his pulling the trigger, his guard rushed to his rescue. The bullet penetrated his right chest and also injured his right arm. Shanghai Paulun hospital was run by Germany, Japan's ally. The German hospital director exerted his utmost to have Lt. General Zhu saved. Lt. General Zhu continued the war of resistance against Japan. After the civil war broke out in 1946, he retired and lived in seclusion in his Dongxiang countryside. After the liberation of the whole country, Mr. Zhu declined to be a member of the CPPCC, saying that although one servant didn’t serve two masters, he would never oppose the people's government. In 1952, Zhu was executed for encircling and suppressing the Red Army in the 1930s. Up to now, Lt. General Zhu Yaohua has not been paid respect to at any Anti-Japanese War museums in China, except at Tu Zuochao Exhibition, nor at the Memorial Hall of Martyrs in Taiwan, which is also dedicated to General Zhang Zizhong, General Tong linge, Lt. General Dai Anlan and other martyrs of the Anti Japanese War. In the attached photo taken in Changsha in February 2014, the sight of Zhu Ningqi, daughter of this patriotic hero, was full of expectation, which one can’t bear to see.