Dai Anlan once made a battle achievement in Taierzhuang, defeating the main force of the Japanese Ninth Division at the Battle of Wuhan, attacking and killing Major General Masao Nakamura at the Battle of Kunlun Pass, and leaving a name in the bloody battle of Gubeikou Qingshi.
At the Battle of Kunlun Pass, General Dai Anlan was praised by Chiang Kai-shek as the "standard young general of our time" and the first Chinese soldier to receive the American Medal in World War II.
Unfortunately, General Dai Anlan was seriously wounded in the defense of Tonggu and died on the way to lead the 200th Division back to the motherland.
Before his death, the 38-year-old commander of the Dai Anlan Division left a last word: "The infantry commander Zheng Tingji will bring the troops back to the motherland!" ”
A few years ago, a media outlet interviewed a surviving veteran of the 200th Division, who had been Commander Dai's communications officer.
As soon as Dai Anlan was mentioned, the veteran's tears could not stop flowing, and a sentence was repeated in his mouth: "It's too tragic, the division commander died too tragically..."
When the reporter asked about the difficult and difficult road back to China, the veteran stopped his tears and gave a thumbs up: "If it weren't for Commander Zheng, these people in our 200th Division would have been the bones in that forest." ”
Here is a brief introduction to the 200th Division of the Nationalist Army in the mouth of the veterans.
Its predecessor was the Tank Battalion directly under the Central Military Commission, which was reorganized into an armored regiment in March 1937, with Du Yuming, who later became famous as its regimental commander, and the following year, the regiment was expanded to the 200th Division.
The 200th Division was the first mechanized division of the Nationalist Army, belonging to the "treasure" in the army, and thus its commander also belonged to the "high match", division commander Du Yuming, deputy division commander Qiu Qingquan, and chief of staff Liao Yaoxiang.
A few months later, the 200th Division was again expanded into the newly formed 11th Army, with Du Yuming promoted to deputy commander of the New 11th Army, and Dai Anlan, deputy commander of the 89th Division, succeeding him as commander of the 200th Division.
At that time, the infantry commander of the 200th Division was Zheng Tingji.
When Master Dai Anlan was dying, why did he entrust such an important matter to Zheng Tingji?
The reason is simple, it can be summed up like this - he knows the bottom of Zheng Tingdi's ability and has great trust!
Zheng Tingdi graduated from the fifth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, in the Battle of Xinkou, Zheng Tingdi was shot several times in the bloody battle with the Japanese Kou White Blade, and his whole body was stained red with blood, but "fu da life is great", it is difficult not to die, from then on, Zheng Tingji and the Japanese formed a "death vendetta".
In the Battle of Kunlun Pass, Zheng Tingdi finally gave a fierce breath, but also paid a great price, seven of his nine infantry companies were either wounded or killed, and the fierceness of the battle situation can be imagined.
Many years later, as long as Zheng Tingji remembers that battle and thinks of his brother who fell by his side, he will still feel sad, and before that, Zheng Tingji always thought that he was an iron heart.
Zheng Tingdi learned after the war that The Japanese Major General Masao Nakamura, known as the "Steel Army", was killed by his own unit, and was so excited that he raised a machine gun and released it into the air, taking out all the bullets in one breath.
In early 1942, the Chinese Expeditionary Force went to Burma, and the 37-year-old Zheng Tingdi served as the infantry commander of the 200th Division, a capable general of Dai Anlan's division.
Today, Commander Dai Anlan handed over the 200th Division to Zheng Tingji, who was in danger and was deeply responsible.
Zheng Tingdi finally completed the "will" of Dai Division Commander, he led the remnants of the 200th Division, and fought with the elite japanese troops several times larger than himself, and finally broke through the last line of defense of the Japanese army on June 2, 1942, broke through the Japanese siege, and brought the troops back to the motherland.
This is the famous Langke Big Breakout.
However, after Zheng Tingdi's bloody anti-Japanese battlefield and nine deaths, his glorious military career came to an abrupt end in October 1948.
During the Liaoshen Campaign, Zheng Tingdi was then the commander of the Kuomintang 49th Army. With the total annihilation of his "old commander" Liao Yaoxiang, Zheng Tingdi was also defeated and captured.
The former anti-Japanese fighters, because they were no longer selectively involved in a civil war that should not have happened, helplessly became the martyrdom of Chiang Kai-shek of the Kuomintang.
At the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center in Beijing, Zheng Tingji, Wang Yaowu, Du Yuming and other Huangpu students gathered inside the high wall.
After a period of study, Zheng Tingdi's thinking has undergone a fundamental change, he actively responded to the government's call, deeply reflected, actively worked, and was an active member among the students of Gongdelin.
However, there was one thing that made him sleepless at night and did not think about tea and dinner, because his wife Feng Lijuan suddenly made a divorce request.
In fact, Feng Lijuan also has unspeakable suffering, heavy family living burdens, financial constraints, these can still be endured, the most unbearable is the negative impact of the "identity of the family of war criminals" leadership.
In order to make a living for the whole family and the future of her children, she finally proposed to divorce Zheng Tingji, who was still in Gongdelin.
Although Zheng Tingji agreed to his wife's divorce request, he still hoped that one day he would be able to "break the mirror and reunite".
In February 1961, after his release from prison, Zheng Tingji, Together with Puyi, Du Yuming, Song Xilian, Wang Yaowu, Zhou Zhenqiang, and Yang Botao, seven others became the commissioners of literature and history of the CPPCC.
Zheng Tingji did not expect that Feng Lijuan would soon be transferred to the CPPCC and responsible for typing, and for Feng Lijuan, there was another arrangement that she could not understand.
The leader of the unit specially arranged for someone to move the typewriter into her residence, let her work and type from home, and the reason given made it impossible for her to ask more, let alone refuse, which is "because of the need for confidentiality."
Feng Lijuan found that it was Zheng Tingdi who came to her house to send materials and take materials at both ends of the three days, and there was never a second person.
But Zheng Tingji is as clear as a mirror to all this.
Because he knew that in order to get them back into marriage, the head of the central committee personally inquired about it, and the LEADERS of the CPPCC also did a lot of work from it, and as for their arrangement, Zheng Tingji sent and collected manuscripts to Feng Lijuan every day, which was to provide them with the opportunity to contact them.
In the end, Zheng Tingdi and Feng Lijuan remarried, and on the day of the remarriage family banquet, Zheng Tingdi invited Du Yuming, Liao Yaoxiang and Wang Yaowu and others.
Zheng Tingdi sighed with emotion, as a former rival of life and death, New China not only did not care about the previous suspicions, magnanimous, but also worked so his own family affairs and tried his best to help, Zheng Tingji was grateful, and had a deeper understanding of the phrase those who win the hearts of the people win the world.
"Boys have tears and do not flick", Zheng Tingji has always looked down on the tearful soldiers, when he was shot several times in the Xinkou Battle, the pain was unbearable, he did not shed a tear; Dai Anlan's division commander sacrificed in front of him, he turned his sad tears into the anger of killing the enemy.
However, this anti-Japanese tough guy made an exception today, and his tears couldn't stop flowing out.
Du Yuming, Liao Yaoxiang and Wang Yaowu were also touched by the scene, and their gratitude for the new China was overflowing with words, they were as emotional as Zheng Tingji, frequently raising a glass, not drunk and not returning...
Zheng Tingdi later served as an adviser to the Beijing Huangpu Military Academy Alumni Association, and did a lot of effective work to contact huangpu students in Taiwan, organize cross-strait exchanges, and promote the reunification of the motherland.
On June 9, 1996, Zheng Tingdi died of illness in Beijing.