Raw courage of a 'one-eyed general'

When war veteran Zhang Xu, nicknamed the "one-eyed general", used to recount his amazing tales of battlefront bravery to college students, his audience stood riveted.

Zhang, who died last year at the age of 87, often recalled the battle that cost him his eye.

It happened in February 1938, when Zhang was with a group that successfully ambushed a Japanese army unit near Taiyuan, Shanxi province. They were soon besieged by the Japanese reinforcement.