Yizhang County (simplified Chinese: 宜章县; traditional Chinese: 宜章縣; pinyin: Yízhāng Xiàn) is a county in Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Chenzhou.
[2] Located on the southern margin of the province, it is adjacent to the south of the city proper in Chenzhou, and near the northern border of Guangdong.
[3] In early 1928 Zhu De's troops, survivors of the Nanchang Uprising, Little Long March and Battle of Shantou, found refuge here with the local warlord.
It was from here that a rested and bolstered communist column marched to the Jinggangshan Mountains in April to join the hold-outs from another uprising.
The 1902-meter peak of Shikengkong (石坑崆), on the interprovincial border, stands some 50 km south of the county town.