193 1 year, participated in the Great Wall Campaign against Japanese invaders. After the fall of Northeast China, he was transferred to Shanhaiguan with the troops, but he never gave up his determination to fight against the Japanese aggressors.
1936 1, Zhang Zhiyi was admitted to the Nanjing artillery captain training class and returned to the army as the deputy company commander after graduation. Introduced by Li Huachun of Northeast National Salvation Association, he joined the vanguard of people's liberation. In the same year 65438+February 65438+February, he participated in the "Xi Incident". In the second year, Zhang Zhiyi took part in the Huaihe River Campaign and Taierzhuang Campaign.
1in July, 938, Zhang Zhiyi, who was actively demanding anti-Japanese, joined the Eighth Route Army with the help of progressives. In the same year, in June of 10, he joined China gloriously and moved to Yan 'an. Zhang Zhiyi first served as the captain of Yan 'an Anti-Dai District, and later served as the staff officer of the Education Department of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the head of artillery, the battalion commander of independent artillery battalion of the military region, and the minister of training department of Yan 'an Artillery School.
In the famous Hundred Regiments War, he served as a gunner and participated in the tough battle of Jingxing Coal Mine. At that time, he was the battalion commander of the independent artillery battalion of the Jinchaji Military Region, and led his troops to participate in many battles such as Shangshe, Jiean, Lingshan, Kou, Dangbu, Dongzhuang and Xingtang. He launched an artillery training team, participated in the large-scale production activities in Nanniwan, cultivated land production, and cut back on food and clothing. He was highly praised by Deputy Commander Xiao Ke and made positive contributions to consolidating and developing the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area and winning the victory in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
During the War of Liberation, he successively served as the rear chief of staff of the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces, the first head of the Second Artillery Corps, the brigade commander, the deputy chief of staff of the Fourth Field Artillery Corps, the chief of staff of the Special Forces Command, the deputy commander of the Second Artillery Corps and the commander of the Fifth Artillery Corps. Participated in and commanded battles in Siping, Chengzi Street, Dehui, Jilin, Zhangwu, Liaoyang and Anshan. During the Liao-Shen Campaign and the Heping-Jin Campaign, he participated in and directed the attacks on Yixian, Jinzhou, Taiyuan and Xinxiang. During the Liaoshen Campaign, he initiated and directed the history of 100 artillery attacks on enemy positions in the history of our army. Zhang Zhiyi also participated in the establishment of Yan 'an Artillery School and served as the training director of Yan 'an Artillery School. He personally compiled the earliest training courses and regulations of our army's artillery, trained a large number of senior artillery commanding cadres, participated in four southward operations from 65438 to 0949, and served as the artillery commander of the fifth division in Guangxi.
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Zhang Zhiyi successively served as commander of Mudanjiang No.1 Artillery Training Base, president and secretary of No.4 Artillery School, and artillery chief of staff of Central South Military Region. 1950, once again shouldering the heavy responsibility of refitting and training 20 regiments of artillery against the DPRK. He served as an artillery consultant of the China Military Advisory Group during the War to Resist Legal Aid to Vietnam, and trained a large number of artillery cadres for Vietnam. After returning to China, he served as deputy commander of Guangzhou Military Region artillery, acting commander, deputy commander and consultant of jinan military area command artillery.
He was awarded the second-class medal of independence and freedom, the second-class medal of liberation and the medal of honor for independent meritorious service, and 1964 was promoted to the rank of major general.
1997 is dead.