On the battlefield of the War of Resistance Against Japan, a large number of generals with outstanding contributions emerged in our country, who were either resolute or tragic, leading the soldiers to earn a future for their motherland with their blood.
Among these anti-Japanese generals, there is a famous general whose merit is indelible, he is the general who annihilated the Japanese army the most among the generals of the military-level units in the War of Resistance, killing more than 33,000 Japanese troops in total, and he has the praise of "Jungle Fox" and "Oriental Rommel", he is the second-level general of the army, Sun Liren.
Sun Liren is not only a good fighter in war, but his strategic thinking is also particularly outstanding, or his strategic vision is very advanced. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he has been committed to the development of the modernization of the national army, and has established a perfect military service system and a reserve officer system. But today we will not talk about such a serious topic, let's talk about Sun Liren's family, after all, the iron man is also tender.
Many people could not have imagined that such a general with such outstanding achievements in the military field was actually a high-quality student at Tsinghua University, a first-class famous university in China. What is even more unexpected is that he is not only a Tsinghua student, but also admitted to Tsinghua at the age of 14.
Sun Liren studied at the Department of Civil Engineering, and after graduation, he studied at public expense and went directly to Purdue University to study civil engineering in the third year. Smart and highly educated, Sun Liren directly entered the American Bridge Company as an engineer, and could have had a safe and bright future, but the increasingly tense situation in china has been affecting his thoughts.
In 1925, Sun Liren resolutely decided to start studying the military, and he wanted to serve the motherland from the army. After studying at the Virginia Military Academy in the United States for 2 years, he went to Western countries to learn advanced military ideas, and returned to Shanghai in 1928 to begin his military career. At this time, Sun Liren already had a wife, and like most celebrities in the Republic of China period, it was the product of arranged marriages. When Sun Liren was 20 years old and still at Tsinghua University, his family asked him to marry Gong Xitao, the daughter of the Gong family of the Wang clan in Hefei.
Although it is an arranged marriage, Gong Xitao is not a traditional woman who does not go out of the door, she also has a new education and has worked as a student at the South Girls' Normal School. But gong Xitao is still influenced by his family after all, and coupled with the fact that Sun Liren has been running back and forth abroad during his studies, Gong Xitao can only stay at home to serve the parents of both sides, and the husband and wife get together less and leave more.
In 1928, as soon as Sun Liren returned to China, he immediately went to his hometown to pick up Gong Xitao and come to Shanghai, but Gong Xitao himself was reluctant to give up his grandfather and grandmother, and the elders did need to be taken care of, so Gong Xitao still stayed in his hometown. Unexpectedly, Gong Xitao's stay directly caused Sun Liren to have two more wives behind.
In 1930, 17-year-old Zhang Jingying (also known as Sun Zhang Qingyang's lawyer), who had just graduated from Nanjing Huiwen Girls' High School, married Sun Liren in Nanjing, which was Sun Liren's second wife. When the grandson father learned the news, he jumped to his feet in anger, and the old two only recognized Gong Xitao, a daughter-in-law, and asked his son to quickly take his wife back.
Sun Liren did love and respect Gong Xitao, but he also had pity for Zhang Jingying; plus Zhang Jingying was young and still his newly married wife, so it was inevitable that his mind would be more focused on this side. Although Zhang Jingying also respected Gong Xitao, Gong Xitao always felt like an outsider, so he simply returned to his hometown after staying for two months.
Later, sun liren's father and grandmother died, Sun Liren's brothers separated their families, and Sun Liren's industry was all given to Gong Xitao. It's just that Gong Xitao has always been reluctant to live with Sun Liren, and after the victory of the War of Resistance, Sun Liren once again took Gong Xitao back, but Gong Xitao would rather live with Sun Liren's younger brother Sun Shuping's family than be sandwiched between Sun Liren and Zhang Jingying. Sun Liren could not, but could only buy Gong Xitao a lot of gifts as compensation.
Another reason why Gong Xitao did this is because the husband and wife have different positions. Everyone knows that Sun Liren is a member of the Nationalist Army, but Gong Xitao was once the director of the Women's Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress of The Qinglong Factory in Dongxiang, Hefei, and everyone should be able to taste something when they hear this. Therefore, later Sun Liren withdrew to Taiwan, but Gong Xitao insisted on staying in the interior.
After Sun Liren went to Taiwan, Zhang Jingying felt very guilty because she had been unable to have children, and took the initiative to help him take in nurse Zhang Meiying as his aunt. Later, Zhang Meiying gave birth to 4 children for Sun Liren, except for the second son Tianping, the other 3 were admitted to Tsinghua University; and although Sun Tianping was not admitted to Tsinghua University, he was admitted to Fu Jen University, or the United States Villanova University Electronic computer engineering, the United States William and Mary College of Business Administration double master's degree.
By the way, Sun Liren's other 3 children have the highest education is not a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University, the eldest daughter Sun Zhongping is a doctorate from Cornell University in the United States, the eldest son Anping is a master of physics from tsinghua institute of physics, and the second daughter Sun Taiping is even more incredible, and is a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.
Through Sun Liren's family, we can see that although he is not a person who ends from the beginning, he himself has worked hard enough, respected his original wife enough, loved and cared for other wives enough, and also had strict teachings for his children, worthy of the name of a famous general.
Reference: "My aunt is Mrs. Sun Liren Yuanbei"