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Today, we are talking for you about the story of Hao Mengling, a patriotic general of the Anti-Japanese War.
Martyr Hao Mengling
General Hao Mengling was born in 1898 in Gaocheng, Hebei Province. Hao Mengling's family was generally well-off, because his family was related to Wei Yisan, so he entered the army under his command. After decades of military career, Hao Mengling grew from a grassroots soldier to the commander of the Ninth Army of the National Revolutionary Army. Hao Mengling spent his early military career in warlord melee and civil war. Tired of the civil war and unwilling to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, he once asked for retreat but was refused.
Wei Yisan
In 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, and in the case of the peril of the anti-japanese army and the nation, Hao Mengling, who was eager to kill the enemy, asked Miao to go to Shanxi to fight.
In October 1937, the Battle of Xinkou began, and the Japanese general Itagaki Seishiro gathered elite troops to attack Shanxi. Because the Chinese army was backward in weapons and keen on position warfare, it suffered heavy casualties in the battle, but it was unable to resist the enemy's attack. In the early morning of the 16th of that month, Commander Hao Mengling, who was supervising the battle on the front line in Southern Huaihua, was unfortunately shot and killed at the age of 39.
Martyr Liu Jiaqi
Also killed along with the general were Liu Jiaqi, commander of the 54th Division, and Zheng Tingzhen, commander of the Independent Fifth Brigade. The stars fell, the whole country mourned, Hao Mengling held his determination to die before leaving, and left a suicide note for his family. Throughout his life, he regarded the civil war as a disgrace and a foreign war as an honor. On October 20, Wei Lihuang, who was serving in the Second Theater of Operations, sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek reporting on the martyrdom of the general, after which the Nationalist government issued an order to posthumously award Hao Mengling a general in the army.
General Hao Mengling was the first military commander to be martyred after the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance. When the general's mother was in Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to express his condolences. The coffin of the general was transported from the front to Taiyuan, and Fu Cunhuai, deputy commander of the 34th Army, paid tribute to Yan Xishan on behalf of Yan Xishan. All walks of life in the Three Jins mourned this general who sacrificed for the country. Yan Xishan specially allocated 10,000 yuan as Hao Mengling's funeral expenses.
On October 24, the coffins of the three generals arrived in Wuhan, and the flags of the three towns in Wuhan were lowered to half-mast to mourn. Chiang Kai-shek paid 20,000 yuan as a pension to the families of the three martyrs. In November, the general's bones were buried in Zhuo Daoquan, Wuhan, where a memorial service attended by 10,000 people from all walks of life was held on the 16th.
Later, in order to commemorate General Hao Mengling, a street in Wuhan was named "Hao Mengling Road".
The National Government has issued a pension and special fee to Hao Mengling's family, plus donations from all walks of life in Wuhan amounting to more than 60,000 yuan. Later, due to the soaring prices and currency depreciation in the years of war, the Hao family's life was once in a difficult situation. Later, on the application of Feng Yuxiang and the Kuomintang Deng Jiayan, Chiang Kai-shek once again came up with a grant to fund it.
Deng Jiayan
General Baoding graduated from the Military Academy, although he was a soldier in the old era, he did not own private property and had no bad habits for officials. After the general's death, because of the changes in the situation, the family life was once impossible to continue. General Hao Mengling's incorruptibility and patriotism were enough to make many soldiers of the same era feel ashamed.
Baoding Military Academy Memorial Hall
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