In life, some things cannot be inherited, and some things cannot be taken away. It is also appropriate to apply this sentence to Huang Baitao and his wife Liu Biyun, son Huang Xiaoxian, and daughter Huang Lizhen. However, this is always accompanied by too many sad scenes.
Huang Baitao (September 9, 1900 – November 22, 1948), male, Han ethnicity, also known as Huang Botao, character Huanran, hanyu, originally from Mei County, Guangdong (now Meijiang District, Meizhou), born in Tianjin. General of the National Revolutionary Army. During the Liberation War, he served as the commander of the Seventh Corps of the Nationalist Army. He was killed in the Battle of Huaihai on November 22, 1948. In January 1949, he was posthumously awarded the title of Second Rank General of the Army by the Nationalist Government. He has been awarded the Order of Guanghua Baoding and the Order of the Blue Sky and The White Sun.
Today, people's evaluation of Huang Baitao is already quite positive: it is not an exaggeration to call him a model of professional soldiers if it is only measured by the standards of soldiers, but after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he insisted on his faith and eventually became a victim of the Liberation War. This is because, unlike most senior Kuomintang generals, Huang Baitao has no bad habits, he obeys the law and is always diligent, which is in stark contrast to the drunken and dreamy generals around him.
Huang Baitao's family origin is like this: Huang Baitao's ancestral home is in present-day Meizhou City, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, Jinshan Street, Xiaoxi Lip Residence Committee Xia Shi Jiao Sell Chai Ping Lane HuangWu No. 5. His grandfather Huang Fengshan was the commander-in-chief of Cao Prefecture in Shandong, shandong, in the Qing Dynasty; his father Huang Zongjun later joined the army from Congrong and served as the commander of the Huai Army, stationed in the Hebei region, so the family moved to Tianjin to live. Although the family moved, Huang Baitao was born in such a military family, which clearly inherited the genes inherited from his ancestors, and this has also become a kind of capital for becoming a soldier and being able to perform well on the battlefield.
Before Huang Baitao died, he said such a sentence: "The ancients said: 'Victory is a toast to each other, and defeat is to save each other with death.'" We can't do it, we can't beat the Communist Party. Here, he saw through the "we" he was in, but he took out a piece of paper and wrote on the piece of paper that "Huang Baitao is loyal to the country", and asked Yang Tingyan, deputy commander of the 25th Army, to transfer the piece of paper and the words on the piece of paper to Chiang Kai-shek.
At that time, after the end of the Battle of Nianzhuang, Huang Baitao broke out with Yang Tingyan, but on the way, he was hit by a stray bullet, knowing that he could not go, and after finishing the paperwork, he took out his pistol and fired a shot at himself. But when he fell, he did not lose his breath, the blood flowed, his whole body convulsed, Yang Tingyan looked unbearable, so he made up a shot for him, which was a pain for him.
After Huang Baitao's death, the Kuomintang Central Daily published on January 20 the "Announcement of the General Baitao Memorial Meeting for The Former Commander of the Capital and the Martyrs of the Rebellion": it is scheduled to be held for three days at the Chinese funeral home on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd. It is said that at his funeral, Chiang Kai-shek allocated 100,000 yuan to his wife and children with a pension of 100,000 yuan and sighed: "The spirit of Huangpu is not dead!" He was posthumously recognized as a general in the Army. Behind this is the difficult process of Huang Baitao's body being transported back to Nanjing.
There is a legend that goes like this: After Huang Baitao's death, Yang Tingyan was still a little unbearable, found a local farmer, and falsely claimed that Huang Baitao, who had changed his soldier's clothes when he fled, was a brother-in-law, was his fellow countryman, and now he was killed, and if he did not bury his body, he would be worthy of his family. The peasants were touched by Yang Tingyan's words, and together with Yang Tingyan buried Huang Baitao under a tree, Yang Tingyan made a good mark, and then fled, but was quickly captured by the People's Liberation Army.
Subsequently, Yang Tingyan learned from a prisoner that as long as the wounded soldiers of the Kuomintang army were willing to go home, the People's Liberation Army had let them go. He pretended to be pitiful and constantly pestered the Plaster army that escorted him, saying that he was a recruit who had just been arrested, that there were old mothers and children, and that the whole family relied on him, and now that he was injured and could not move, following the PLA was a burden, and it was better to be gracious and let him go home to farm. At first, the People's Liberation Army that escorted him did not agree, but later, seeing that his leg was indeed injured and it was difficult to walk, they took what he said about "having an old mother at home" as true and let him go.
After Yang Tingyan returned to Nanjing, he informed his superiors and Huang Baitao's family that at the behest of Huang Baitao's wife, Liu Biyun, the "Ministry of National Defense" sent Huang Baitao's aide-de-camp Li Wenzheng and more than a dozen other people dressed in plain clothes to return to the mill village, find the farmer at that time, and exhumate Huang Baitao's body. At that time, the body was decaying and the face was deformed, making it difficult to identify who it was. Li Wenzheng and others spent 50 silver dollars, bought a coffin, falsely claimed that Huang Baitao was a local farmer, and only then did he cross the sea in secret, evade the inspection of the People's Liberation Army, and transport Huang Baitao's body back.
Although the "public sacrifice" ceremony was very moving, it was not coincidental at the point in time, that is, on January 21, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to announce his "retirement" and return to Fenghua, although he still manipulated the power of the party, government and army behind the scenes, but he was already insufficient. Therefore, there is such a saying, that is, Chiang Kai-shek did not personally preside over Huang Baitao's funeral, and where to bury Huang Baitao's body has become a question that no one has thought about. Because after Chiang Kai-shek's dismissal, the officials of the Nanjing government were so busy fleeing with their families that they could no longer care about the "final placement" of Huang Baitao's coffin.
Huang Baitao's wife Liu Biyun was very anxious, and Yang Tingyan, Li Wenzheng and others began to look for a cemetery for Huang Baitao, and three days later, when they passed the cemetery of Li Wenzhong, the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty, at the Jiang Wang Temple in Nanjing, they saw a lush grove of trees, and chose Huang Baitao's tomb site next to Li Wenzhong's tomb. Because this area was sparsely populated and inconvenient, coupled with the "cover" of Li Wenzhong's tomb and the choice to be buried at night when no one noticed, Huang Baitao's tomb "quietly" appeared here, little known, and finally well preserved to this day.
There is also a type of theory: Later, Liu Biyun buried Huang Baitao's body in her residence——— Xujiahui, Shanghai. But this was difficult to do in that chaotic year, and besides, Liu Biyun could not move the cemetery for Huang Baitao during that time. In December 1949, Chiang Kai-shek was defeated, and Liu Biyun came to Taiwan with Huang Xiaoxian and Huang Lizhen. After graduating from high school, Huang Xiaoxian was assigned a well-paid job, and Huang Lizhen became a journalist.
Originally, the family's life should have been very good here, but Huang Xiaoxian was not angry, and soon he committed an accident, which led to his mother Liu Biyun kneeling in front of Chiang Kai-shek's official residence, holding the Qingtian White Sun Medal left by his father Huang Baitao, and shouting "Leave people under the knife". It turned out that after being assigned to work, Huang Xiaoxian had a homosexual affair with a man named Yang Shirong, and Yang wanted to get rid of his entanglement, but he couldn't figure it out, and not only killed Yang, but also brutally burned Yang's body. The killing paid for his life, and Huang Xiaoxian was sentenced to death.
This was a thing of 1960. The Qingtian White Sun Medal left by Huang Baitao exchanged a life for Huang Xiaoxian. Liu Biyun asked Chiang Kai-shek to look at Huang Baitao's sake, spare Huang Xiaoxian not to die, and leave the only bloodline for the Huang family. Chiang Kai-shek said: "Huang Baitao has made outstanding achievements and is a pity that his tutoring is not strict. Liu Biyun said that there was a reason for the incident, Huang Baitao led the soldiers to fight outside for many years, and finally died on the battlefield, where is the time to teach his son? Chiang Kai-shek felt that Liu Biyun was right, and then operated Huang Xiaoxian to escape death, and huang Xiaoxian was released from prison on parole in 1969.
This is what happened after Huang Baitao, his son clearly did not inherit the little military genes that he had inherited, but after he was released from prison, he changed his mind, became a new person, married his wife and had children, and with the help of friends, opened a trading company, and the business became bigger and bigger, and then the family moved to the United States.
Interestingly, taiwan province built the Wuzhishan National Army Demonstration Cemetery in 1982, and only Huang Baitao, who was dressed in a crown, was buried in the Admiral District, and in 1983, Liu Biyun died of illness and was buried with him. However, in 1987, the cemetery added a "special district", stipulating that those who had been awarded the Qingtian Day or the National Light Medal could enter the "special district", but Huang Baitao's tomb was still in the original general area. The reason is that some people think that Huang Baitao's Qingtian White Sun Medal has been used by Liu Biyun as a "death-free gold medal", and that Huang Xiaoxian has changed his life and should be "written off", and Huang Baitao cannot enter the "Special Xun District".
People don't know what Huang Xiaoxian would think when he heard this, but one thing is certain, that is, in 2006, when he came to Nanjing with his wife, son and grandson from the United States to visit Huang Baitao's grave, he was already full of gray hair and had difficulty supporting his grandson who was in his forties. Perhaps, he understood better than the average person that he did not seem to inherit his father's military genes, but he was accidentally protected by his father, and it was only a hard dream to keep his father's clothes after his mother's death, because they could not take away his father's body on the mainland. In the middle of this, it is clear that the two sides of the Strait have made him and his family cry.
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