"This War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is a war of national survival, and only sacrifices can be made. If you repeatedly retreat, retreat to the Yellow River, there will be no trace of soldiers, and there will be no officers. This is called my dead country alive, I live the country dead. Everyone should have the determination to fight with the enemy without me, and with the determination of having an enemy and without me. "--Hao Mengling.
Hao Mengling was born in 1898 to a peasant family in Gaocheng, Hebei Province. Hao Mengling studied in a private school for 3 years, because his family was poor, he had to drop out of school and go home to farm. At the age of 14, he went to a Cantonese store to work as a miscellaneous worker, because the boss often abused him, and then abandoned the store to join Wei Yisan.
Wei Yisan was the commander of the 30th Army of the Feng Army and a distant relative of Hao Mengling's family. He sent Hao Mengling to the Army School and the Baoding Military Academy for further study. After graduating, Hao Mengling became a battalion commander, because of his excellent military ability, he was later promoted to the position of regimental commander, brigade commander, division commander, and army commander.
The country is in difficulty, and I should participate in the War of Resistance Against Japan
In May 1937, Hao Mengling repeatedly requested to be demobilized and returned to The Field because of his strong opposition to the civil war, but the authorities did not accept his request and transferred him to the Sichuan Army General's Study Class for further study.
In early July, on his way to the Sichuan Army Academy, Hao Mengling heard that the Lugou Bridge Incident had broken out, so he immediately returned to the garrison and asked his superiors to go north to resist the Japanese. He added: "I am a Chinese soldier, I can't just fight a civil war, and it doesn't help the country at all." The Japanese invaded and occupied the northeast, and the common people mourned everywhere.
Now that the Japanese are going to invade and occupy Chinese land, our country has reached a time of life and death. I must fight, I must fight the enemy! ”
Hao Mengling decided to go north and handed in his petition, which was finally approved by his superiors.
In September of the same year, Hao Mengling led his troops north to resist the Japanese. When he set out, he had already made up his mind to repay the country with death. When the troops passed through Wuhan, he spent time with his family in between, he looked at his children, gently touched the children, and said in a serious voice: "Children, I love you!" But love our country more. Now that the enemy is killing our compatriots and occupying our land every day, we should fight, and if the enemy continues to occupy the land, you will not have a good life in the future. ”
Hao Mengling wrote a family letter before leaving, left it to her eldest daughter Huiying, and told her to open and read the letter after 3 days. Fifteen-year-old Hui Ying did not understand her father's thoughts at all, and had to open the letter to read. Hao Mengling stopped her daughter, and the two sides tore the envelope apart during the robbery and threw it into the spittoon. Hao Mengling looked at the torn letter and said goodbye to his family with some sadness. Afterwards, the eldest daughter Hui Ying fished out the letter, and after spelling it out, it turned out to be a will left by her father, which read:
This time, I went north to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance, and I already had the determination to die. In case I die, you must obey your mother's instructions and be filial to the elders in the family. As for the cost of your schooling, I personally do not have it. When the country defeats the invaders in the future, you can enter the school of the remnants. It was written on September 15, 1937 by Hui Ying, Hui Lan, Yin Huai, Yin Nan and Yin Sen
He will have a mortal heart, and he will not have the thought of greed
Hao Mengling led the 9th Army to Shijiazhuang quickly, and after arriving, it was incorporated into Wei Lihuang's 14th Group Army. At that time, The Yanmen Pass in Shanxi had been lost, and the Xinkou Pass in northern Jin had become an important pass to resist the enemy's attack on Shanxi.
In order to defend Taiyuan, Yan Xishan, commander of the 2nd Theater, decided to conduct a battle at Xinkou and repeatedly asked Chiang Kai-shek to send the Central Army into northern Jin to assist in the war. Chiang Kai-shek finally assigned the 14th Army to jin to assist in the battle, and Yan Xishan, as commander-in-chief, was fully responsible for the Battle of Xinkou.
In October, Hao Mengling led his troops to Xinkou first to lay out a defensive line, and he actively commanded the troops to help the Jin army in Yuanping Town get out of trouble. During the battle, after he witnessed the barbarism and arrogance of the Japanese army, he was even more determined to resist Japan to the end. On October 10, the Battle of Xinkou was about to begin.
Hao Mengling is very strict in his life and does not have any bad habits. And he is good at reading, and he has a large number of ancient books in the family. He also loved sports all his life and was interested in a variety of sports.
Hao Mengling was not only brave and good at fighting, but also very strict in governing the army; he forbade the generals and soldiers in the army to have any bad habits, and he never used relatives in the army, and was rewarded by his superiors with all the parts to his subordinates. When the troops are camped in villages, they are never allowed to disturb the common people. He also stressed in the troops that drinking water should be full of tanks, sweep the ground and then go out, and be clean before it is considered the standard.
On October 11, the Battle of Xinkou officially began. After the commander of the enemy's 5th Division, Itagaki Seishiro, was severely damaged by the Eighth Route Army, his sense of revenge was very strong, and he gathered a large number of armed forces, such as aircraft, artillery, heavy tanks, etc., organized a dense network of firepower, and violently attacked the defensive position of Xinkou.
In the face of such a strong enemy and intensive firepower, Hao Mengling was unusually calm, and he personally went to the front line to direct the battle. On the 12th, the Japanese army captured the central position of our army. The fighting was fought fiercely. The two sides engaged in as many as 13 tug-of-war battles in the central position. The casualties of the enemy and us were very heavy. Under the superior firepower of the enemy, our army suffered an average of more than a thousand casualties every day. After the 9th Army regained its position, several regiments had only one battalion left.
At this time, Hao Mengling stood up and loudly encouraged the officers and men: "This War of Resistance is our national war, the victorious country survives, and the defeated country dies. Everyone present here should hold the firm determination that I am invincible, that there is no enemy without me, that I will die and that the country will survive and that the country will survive. The duty of our Chinese soldiers is to defend the family and the country. Now that the land of the state has been encroached upon and the people have been killed, we soldiers have not fulfilled our responsibilities. So! We must fight the enemy at the cost of our lives! ”
In the early morning of October 15, when the 322nd Regiment had only about 100 men left in the battle, Hao Mengling stood on top of the regiment's position again and said to the officers and men:
A few days ago, we were still defending this position with a regiment of troops, and now there are only about 100 people left. Organized into a company, the task is still to hold this position, even if it is to the last person to fight, it must be held to the position. He will have a mortal heart, and he will not have the thought of greed. As long as we don't die for a day! The heavy responsibility of resisting Japan is not over in one day! Fight now! Before I set out from home, I had left a will not to fight off the intruder and not to survive. At this moment, I stand with you in this position and will never take a step back. If I take a step back, whoever you are, you can shoot me with one shot; whoever you are, if you take a step back, I will shoot him!" Will you accompany me to this position?
All the officers and men present shouted loudly: "Swear to die and hold your position!" ”
Hao Mengling said in a thunderous voice, "Good! There will be a mortal heart, and there will be no greed for life! Soldiers of the whole army, let us fight to the end! ”
Standing there, dying there, the first commander to die in the War of Resistance
On the night of the 15th, Hao Mengling received orders from his superiors, and he led 7 brigades to raid the enemy by night, and that night, the troops were divided into left and right sides to raid, forming an encirclement and attack. At 3 o'clock in the middle of the night, Hao Mengling personally went to the front line to command the operation and captured a number of mountains in succession. Liu Jiaqi, commander of the 54th Division, also followed Hao Mengling in the former army to supervise the battle.
At 5 a.m., the sky slowly brightened. Hao Mengling was very worried that after dawn, the newly occupied position would be threatened by enemy artillery fire, and decided to quickly annihilate the remnants of the enemy. Hao Mengling commanded his troops to pursue the enemy, and the enemy position was chaotic, and had to use all his heavy weapons to cover the retreat.
At this time, Hao Mengling and Liu Jiaqi pursued the enemy with guns, only more than 200 meters away from the enemy's line of troops. When the two of them were walking on a narrow mountain road, Hao Mengling was hit in the waist by the heavy machine guns of the retreating enemy, and when he fell to the ground, he still shouted: "Kill the enemy and repay the country!" "Then martyrdom. Liu Jiaqi wanted to come to the rescue after seeing Hao Mengling being shot, but unfortunately he was also shot by the enemy and died heroically.
General Hao Mengling was the first commander to die in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japan. When the bad news came, the whole country mourned.
On October 24, General Hao Mengling's coffin was transported back to Wuhan. More than 4,000 people from all walks of life in Wuhan went to the station to greet the general. On November 15, a solemn memorial meeting was held in Wuhan, and the flag was flown at half-mast throughout Wuhan, and then General Hao Mengling was buried in Zhuo Daoquan, Hongshan, Wuchang, with a state funeral ceremony.
Chairman Mao Zedong held a memorial service in Yan'an in March 1938 to highly praise Hao Mengling and other generals for their dedication to the country.
Listen to what he says and watch his deeds. General Hao Mengling's position declaration did not have much flowery rhetoric, but the soldiers on the position were enthusiastic after listening to it, and looking at the real deeds of this general, you will definitely be moved by this. "Will have the heart of death, and the soldier will not have the thought of greed for life" Just by looking at this sentence, life and death have been put aside.
When General Hao Mengling said it, he was so loud and clear that he had to do what he said. He was a senior general in the Chinese army at that time, a model for Chinese soldiers, the soul of the army, and the backbone of the nation. The total victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan also depended on having such a general and relying on such a national backbone. Look at what the general has said, the rhetoric coming out of his mouth is so plain, it was written by him with his own life and blood!
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