Zhang Guangcai, 1900 12, was born in a poor peasant family in Hujiatian Village, Ta District, Huangpi County, Hubei Province. When he was born, he had three rooms at home, raised a cow with others, owned two fields, and rented a stone to farm. There are nine people in the family, including parents, brothers and sisters, sisters and brothers. My father is a farmer and lives by renting out the land of the landlord. Since Guang Cai was seven years old, his family life has become more and more difficult. In good years, you can barely maintain food for four or five months. If the harvest is not good, his life will be difficult to maintain. Therefore, borrowing usury every year, the debt is getting heavier every year. One year on the thirtieth night of the twelfth lunar month, the landlord came to the door to force debts, and his father was afraid to come back. The landlord waited until late at night before leaving angrily. The following spring, during the spring ploughing season, Zhang Guangcai was herding cattle in the suburbs, and the landlord came to knock him down and forcibly took the cattle away. Seeing that spring ploughing is just around the corner, his family's land can't be planted any more, so he has to beg. When others had finished planting the land, he lent the cow to Guang Cai's family and barely cultivated the land. As the season has passed, the harvest in autumn is worse than in previous years. After paying the rent, the food can't make ends meet Creditors have come to collect debts, so they have to sell rations to pay off their debts. They have no choice but to sell their only three houses. A family of nine people had no place to live, so their parents took the family out to beg. After going out to beg for three months, my father fell ill because of hunger and cold, and didn't return to his hometown until the 29th of the twelfth lunar month. On the seventh day of the first month, my father died. Having no money to buy a coffin, I had to bury my father with a door panel. After my father died, my mother and sister-in-law dug wild vegetables in spring to satisfy their hunger, and spun shoes in winter to make a living.

Zhang Guangcai grew up in such a poor family. He has been herding cattle for his uncle's family since he was nine years old and has been working for three years. He can't go to school to study, and his cousin studies, so he listens and remembers.

When Zhang Guangcai 12 years old, he was an apprentice in the brick kiln of Luohan Temple. Because he was born in a bitter and cold family, he studied hard and practiced hard as an apprentice. It took only half a year to learn the technology of making bricks and tiles. In the second year, he went to Guangshan, Henan Province to work as a kiln burner for a year and learned a full set of kiln burning techniques. Later, he returned to his hometown in Hubei and burned the kiln in Huang An, Macheng, Jinniu, Chen Jiawan, Luohan Temple, Hanchuan, Youhu, Zhaojiayan and Gezikou for 14 or 15 years. In the long life of kiln burning, his technology has been continuously improved and he has become a skilled craftsman. Long-term life as a worker helped him to develop a hard-working and thrifty character of relying on the collective and daring to struggle.

1926, the northern valve of the National Revolutionary Army captured Wuhan and established the Wuhan Interim Government. At that time, Zhang Guangcai was working in Hanyang, and the victory of Northern France inspired him. He agreed with the slogans of "Down with Imperialism", "Down with Northern Warlords" and "Down with Local tyrants and evil gentry" put forward by China * * Production Party, and actively supported the policy of "Land to the tiller" put forward by * * Production Party in the agrarian revolution. His hometown, Huangpi County, also started to fight, with great momentum and wide influence. 1April 927 12, Chiang Kai-shek rebelled against the revolution and slaughtered the industrial workers who produced party member and the revolution, making him realize the reactionary nature of Chiang Kai-shek. It also made him clearly realize that the * * * Production Party is the organization of the advanced working class and the only leader of the oppressed poor working people. Only by following the * * * production party can we get rid of poverty and oppression and realize liberation. Later, he himself analyzed that he could take part in the revolution for three reasons: first, he hated the landlord class; The second is dissatisfaction with the old society; The third is the influence of the revolutionary situation and the party's policies.

In June 1928, when the revolution was at a low ebb, Zhang Guangcai invited many workers from his hometown to return to his hometown to take part in the revolution.

From June 65438 to July 0928, Guang Cai joined the farmers' association in his village and actively organized farmers to fight local tyrants, divide fields and organize Red Guards. Because of his firm stand, positive work performance and courage to struggle, Liu Zhide, a member of the county party committee, introduced him to the China * * * Production Party only three months after he joined the revolution. Later, he was transferred to the Huangpi County Committee as the secret traffic work within the party. 1autumn of 929, transferred to the special service team. 1June 930, member of the advance team of the Action Committee. In August, the Action Committee was dissolved and he returned to the Huangpi County Committee as an armed traffic worker. In June of the same year 165438+ 10, he attended the political training class organized by the county party committee, studied for a week, and criticized the left-leaning influence ideologically. After graduation, he returned to Taqu as the chairman of the Revolutionary Committee, 193 1 as the secretary of the Taqu District Committee, and in April of the same year, as the secretary of the Huanggang County Committee of Hubei Province. In the meantime, Zhang Guangcai earnestly studied the Party's policies, conscientiously carried out the instructions of the Party committees at higher levels, publicized the Party's policies and propositions at the grassroots level, United the masses, organized red guards and guerrillas in the border areas, launched armed struggles, and mobilized the masses to establish Soviet political power in districts and townships, which made important contributions to opening up revolutionary base areas. However, based on the situation at that time, Guang Cai believed that only armed struggle could seize and consolidate political power. So he asked to be organized to work in the army. With the consent of the organization, he served as an independent county magistrate of Huanggang County.

193 1 year 1 1 month, Zhang Guangcai led an independent regiment of Huanggang to join the Gongsi Army, and was organized into 30 regiments of 10 division, serving as the political commissar of the regiment. In 65438+February, he switched with Mei Guangrong, political commissar of the 32nd regiment of 2 1 Division, and became the political commissar of the 32nd regiment. When he first arrived in the regular army of the Red Army, he was very enthusiastic and bent on doing a good job. However, he is unfamiliar with military work, lacks experience, does not know where to start the political work of the army, and does not understand strategy and tactics. However, he was not intimidated by the difficulties. On the one hand, he went deep into the company to understand the situation, on the other hand, he learned from old comrades. The 32nd Regiment has just been adapted from a local independent regiment, with poor equipment, but the cadres and soldiers are still in high spirits. He believes that high ideological awareness of military cadres and soldiers is a good condition. They should learn war in the war and constantly equip themselves in the war. Soon, the 32nd Regiment went north with the division, and experienced the battles of Renheji, Tofu Shop, Wangjiaweizi and Hancuodu. Zhang Guangcai resolutely carried out the orders of his superiors, did a good job in the political and ideological work of the troops from reality, and ensured the victory of the battle. Therefore, many weapons and ammunition were captured and equipped in every battle, and the morale of the troops became more and more prosperous, and the political quality was greatly improved.

1June, 932, Zhang Guangcai was transferred to the 73rd Division of the 25th Red Army as a political commissar. After reorganization, the troops participated in the battles of Renheji, Hongshiyan and Macheng. After Macheng Campaign, the enemy besieged the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Soviet areas four times. At that time, Zhang Guo Tao, the leader of GongSiJun, was not clear-headed and his slogan was not clear. The enemy advanced step by step, converging in different ways, looking for the main force of our army to fight, but Reng Zhang commanded the troops to deal with them in the same way. When the enemy began his encirclement and suppression campaign, the leaders hesitated, missed the favorable opportunity and were forced to fight a war of attrition with the enemy. At that time, the troops were influenced by Zhang's left-leaning mistake. Some cadres think that "left is better than right", and only pay attention to class background at home, and clean up cadres and soldiers who are born in rich families; Do not trust intellectuals and mistakenly eliminated some leading cadres at or above the regiment level; Some reactionary officers were killed abroad, and the prisoners were not allowed to stay and were all dismissed. These leftist practices led to the Red Army not insisting on the Soviet army in Hubei, Henan and Anhui, and had to leave the Soviet area for the Western Expedition.

1July, 932, after the Red Army of Hubei, Henan and Anhui left the Soviet area, the 73rd Division also marched westward with the brigade. During the Western Expedition, the 73rd Division fought with the team, participated in 39 battles, crossed the Qinling Mountains and Bashan Mountains, and entered Sichuan. After the troops entered Sichuan, after the rectification movement, they won several victories in succession and defeated the warlords Tian Shunke, Deng Xihou, Liu Chenghou and other teams. The Soviet area expanded rapidly and the troops also developed rapidly in the battle. At that time, the four divisions that entered Sichuan were organized into four armies (Wang Weizhou organized mass uprisings through local party committees and set up another thirty armies). With the development of the army, the original 73rd Division was reorganized into the Red 31st Army in the spring of 1933, with Zhang Guangcai as the political commissar of the army. In the autumn of the same year, he served as commander-in-chief of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Military Region, and in February 19, he served as political commissar of the Red Fourth Army. 1in April, 934, he served as the political commissar of the 30 th Red Army, and cooperated with the brothers to smash the six-way attack of Liu (Cheng Hou) and Xiang warlords. In 65438+February of the same year, Zhang Guangcai was appointed commander of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Military Region. /kloc-in the spring of 0/935, large troops were transferred, and the independent division of the provincial military region was co-edited with the Red Thirty Army. He was also appointed as a political commissar of the army, and was ordered to attack Hu Zongnan, and successively captured Song Fan to cover the Red Army and the Fourth Army.

After the Red Army joined the Fourth Army, it continued northward, while the 33 rd Army, as a guard, remained motionless in Matang. Soon, the Fourth Army arrived in Bulgaria, disobeying the command of the CPC Central Committee, and continued to fight south in Lushan and Maogong counties. Later, the 33rd Army was co-edited with Wu Gongjun, and Guang Cai was transferred to the Sichuan Military Region as the deputy commander. Later, he returned to Xikang and served as deputy director of the Northwest Bureau Grain Bureau, actively raising grain and preparing winter clothes tents to meet the second army, so as to cross the grass and go north. After crossing the grass with the troops, Zhang Guangcai was transferred to the Red Fourth Front Army Red University Senior Class in June, 1936, 10 to the Security Central Red University Senior Class, 165438. After the Xi Incident in February 65438, Hongdu was changed to Kangda, and Zhang Guangcai studied in the Second Team until the Lugouqiao Incident in July 937. During his study in Hong Da and Kang Da, Zhang Guangcai worked hard and actively participated in the struggle against Zhang's line in combination with ideological reality. While studying, he listened to Commander-in-Chief Zhu De's talk about Party building and Zhang's wrong line. He integrated theory with practice and realized the importance of implementing the Party Program and party constitution. Every party member must abide by the Party's discipline. In his study, he actively exposed Zhang's wrong line, criticized the extreme personal heroism influenced by Zhang's wrong line, and firmly stood on the correct line of the CPC Central Committee headed by Chairman Mao.

1in July, 937, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, and Zhang Guangcai was assigned to work in the former General Political Department. In September of the same year, he was transferred to Yangquan Workers Guerrilla as the general tactical instructor. 165438 10, Yangquan fell, and he returned to work in the inspection team of the organization department of the General Political Department as the head of the third section of the General Political Department. 1938 In June, he was transferred to the cadre political team of the Southeast Shanxi District Committee as an instructor, and in August, he was transferred to the former General Armament Factory as a political commissar. Military cadres do general leadership work, but they do not care about their positions, personal gains and losses, and material interests, but obey organizational distribution. Every time he accepts a new job, he learns from scratch. At work, he persisted in working hard and completed the tasks assigned by the organization. In the construction of arsenal, he overcame many difficulties, studied technology, learned from workers, United workers to fight together, completed the production task and made contributions to the equipment of the army.

1939 10, Zhang Guangcai was elected as the official representative to attend the 7th National Congress of the directly under the authority Party at the former CPC headquarters. /kloc-0 left his post in May, 1940, and/kloc-0 went to Yan 'an to prepare for the Seventh National Congress in June. However, because the conference was postponed, the organization decided that he would go to the Central Military and Political College to study. 194 1 year1month, he spent half a year recuperating from typhoid fever.

1942 10, go back to the Central Party School to attend the rectification study. During his study, he repeatedly studied more than 20 documents of the Party, and reviewed and reflected on his own thoughts and style in combination with his ideological practice. In particular, listening to the reports of Chairman Mao and other central leaders inspired him ideologically, eliminated the ideological repression that existed since the anti-Zhang line, further liquidated the remnants of Zhang's wrong line, and thus improved the level of policy theory.

1in April, 945, Zhang Guangcai attended the Seventh National Congress in the Communist Party of China (CPC), and realized more deeply that the greatness of the correct line of the CPC Central Committee headed by Chairman Mao and the unprecedented unity of the whole party are the fundamental guarantee for us to win new victories.

1In August, 945, after War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Zhang Guangcai was ordered to work in the northeast.1In February, 946, he served as the commander of Jibei Military Division of Jiliao Military Region. 1946 In May, after our army withdrew from Jilin, the North Hebei Army Division was established again in June, and Zhang Guangcai was appointed as the deputy commander and logistics minister of the division. Under the leadership of the Northern Hebei prefectural party committee, we will persist in the construction of local armed forces, strive to develop and strengthen local armed forces, persist in the armed struggle of the masses in the border areas, encircle bandits, defend land reform, safeguard democratic political power, ensure social stability, and strengthen the construction of base areas.

1In late June, 946, Kuomintang troops occupied Dehui and Jiutai counties west of Songhua River in northern Hebei, and squadrons belonging to Yushu and Lan Shu counties east of Songhua River defected to the enemy. There were 7 mutinies in 6 districts of Yushu County 10 alone, and 237 people defected to the enemy. Some leaders defected to the Kuomintang army with weapons, while others defected to bandits and killed cadres and the masses. Zhang Guangcai resolutely carried out the decision of the Northern Hebei prefectural party committee on counterinsurgency, led the district and county local armed forces and security teams, and with the cooperation of the main forces, it took only ten days to quell the counterinsurgency in Northern Hebei, suppressed the ringleaders in the counterinsurgency, and quickly put down the turbulent northern Hebei.

In the early days of the establishment of northern Hebei, there were more than 4000 bandits in the whole region. They formed gangs in the eastern mountainous areas, robbed houses, raped and plundered, and disturbed social order. In order to ensure the safety of people's lives and property, Zhang Guangcai organized the local armed forces in northern Hebei according to the instructions of the northern Hebei prefectural party committee on fighting bandits, and went into the mountains to fight bandits with the cooperation of the main forces. After several times of encirclement and suppression, by the end of 1946, bandits in northern Jilin were basically eliminated and social order was stabilized.

1947 65438+ 10 From mid-March, the main force of the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces stationed in Beiman fought for the "Linjiang Four Guarantees" of the Liaodong Military Region and crossed the Songhua River three times. Northern Hebei is at the forefront of the struggle against the enemy. Under the unified command of the "East General", the troops of the North Hebei Army Division also crossed the river to cooperate with the main force. Zhang Guangcai was then the deputy commander of the North Hebei Army Division, responsible for logistics supply. With the support of the local government, he set up a warehouse and organized two warehouse lines to receive troops, transport food and grass, and rescue and transport the wounded, which not only ensured the supply of the troops belonging to the North Hebei Army Division, but also benefited the supply of the main forces.

1in April, 947, the enemy works department of Dongbeiju organized the third detachment of the Democratic Allied Forces to enter the north of Hebei Province, led by Ma Yifei, and under the unified command of the northern Hebei Army Division, insisted on carrying out tasks against the enemy at the forefront. The North Hebei Army Division decided that Zhang Guangcai would be responsible for the work of the third detachment. Under his command, the third NLD detachment not only fought against the enemy in Liangjiazi and Caitun, but also completed the special task of protecting our workers from entering enemy-occupied areas and preventing enemy agents from sneaking in.

On August 3rd, 1947, enemy commandos invaded the kiln where Yongbei county government is located from Wula Street. At that time, Zhang Guangcai was carrying out a mission in Dakouqin, and the Yongbei county government sent someone to report to Zhang Guangcai for support. Zhang Guangcai led his troops to the kiln to surround the enemy commandos. The enemy commandos are vulnerable. When they saw our reinforcements, they retreated in panic, leaving behind the looted materials and our captured personnel. Only two hours after the enemy commandos entered the kiln, they were defeated by Zhang Guangcai, so that directly under the authority in Yongbei County did not suffer great losses, and the county party committee and government soon returned to the kiln to work as usual.

In the logistics work, Zhang Guangcai not only set up a rear warehouse in He Shan to ensure the supply of troops, but also cooperated with Commander Lei Zhen to set up rear hospitals in He Shan and Lan Shu to treat the wounded and sick, which contributed to the development and growth of our army. Later, a field hospital was established on the basis of the hospital behind the Hebei Army Division.

1948 In February, Zhang Guangcai was transferred to the Jilin Military Region as deputy chief of staff, and in August of the same year, he was transferred to the Seventh Office of the Military Industry Department of the Northeast Military Region as political commissar. 1948+0 1 In June, the whole northeast was liberated, and Zhang Guangcai entered the customs with the army and started a new battle.

1September, 949, Zhang Guangcai was transferred back to work in Hubei, serving as deputy political commissar of Hubei Military Region and member of Hubei Provincial Committee. During this period, under the direct leadership of the Central South Military Region and the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, he opposed hegemonism, mobilized the masses to reduce rent and refund money, organized militia to maintain social order and defend land reform, and under the leadership of the Party Committee, he constantly expanded troops, supported the front line and expanded the ranks of field troops.

1955 Zhang Guangcai was awarded the rank of Major General by the Central Military Commission and served as the deputy political commissar of the Wuhan Military Region. During the "Cultural Revolution", Zhang Guangcai was persecuted by the Gang of Four and sent to Enshi. He died on April 8, 1969 at the age of 70.