It is said that the original flag was not red, but because the ancestors who sacrificed heroically put the flag in their arms before the sacrifice, the flag became red with blood, so in order to commemorate the ancestors who sacrificed, the flag was designed to be red. Red in China represents the positive resistance spirit of countless revolutionary ancestors, as well as their blood shed to protect the country.
China has a history of five thousand years, and it has developed into a big country after years of precipitation, but looking back at China's several dynastic changes, there is always a painful memory of grief and indignation.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was the most tragic and indignant period of history in the hearts of the people of the Chinese, in which countless heroic martyrs were sacrificed, although many martyrs died, but some people survived the war and finally became famous generals of the War of Resistance in our country.
But what was their later life like? What kind of life did their descendants live? And the person I want to introduce today is a special famous general of the War of Resistance in our country - Wei Lihuang.
Changsheng General Wei Lihuang
Wei Lihuang was born in 1897 in Wei Village, Hefei, Anhui Province, his father was an official under the Qing government bureaucracy, the family was relatively well-off, coupled with his father's high requirements for him, so Wei Lihuang studied in a local private school at a very young age.
In 1905, the plague broke out throughout the country, and Wei Lihuang's father failed to escape the disaster due to years of hard work, and the burden of the family fell on the shoulders of Wei Lihuang's eldest brother, Wei Lihuang in order to live up to the expectations of his father and eldest brother, he studied very diligently, which also laid a solid cultural foundation for his future career.
Later, in 1917, Wei Lihuang was selected to be Sun Yat-sen's personal guard, which also stimulated Wei Lihuang's patriotism, and Wei Lihuang also learned a lot from Sun Yat-sen.
In the subsequent military life, Wei Lihuang can be described as "full of achievements", he has participated in the Northern Expedition, xi'an Incident, the War of Resistance Against Japan and the expedition to Burma and other large-scale Chinese wars, Wei Lihuang's bravery and fearlessness in these wars have made the Japanese army feel frightened, plus he can always lead the team to victory, and people also affectionately call him "Changsheng General".
Kennai assists Zhu Yunyan
Among the senior generals of the Nationalist Army, Wei Lihuang was a special being; he was initially Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand man, but later, the two went their separate ways, and were even jokingly called Wei Lihuang the biggest "undercover" of our party among Chiang Kai-shek.
It all starts with that "wedding of the century." Wei Lihuang and his wife Zhu Yunyan met at the Chongshi Girls' School in Zhenjiang, and the two quickly established a relationship at first sight, which is also a coincidence, Wei Lihuang and Zhu Yunyan's wedding date coincided with Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling's "wedding of the century.".
Under such a festive coincidence, the relationship between the four was quickly brought closer, and Zhu Yunyan and Song Meiling had both gone to the United States to study, and similar experiences made the two ladies become good friends.
In fact, these two have their own intentions, Zhu Yunyan wants to use Chiang Kai-shek's influence to make her husband have a better career, and Soong Meiling also wants to help Chiang Kai-shek win over talents, the intentions of the two are not broken, the ideas coincide, so the two get closer and closer, and even talk about nothing.
At the end of 1929, Chiang Kai-shek was about to go to war with Shi Yousan, and there was no general in the Nanjing area that Chiang Kai-shek liked, and it was at this time that Song Meiling proposed to let Wei Lihuang serve as the general who defended the city.
In this way, Wei Lihuang was appointed commander of the third column, and Wei Lihuang was also appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek and became Chiang Kai-shek's confidant and favorite general, and was even known as the "Five Tiger Generals" along with Chen Cheng, Gu Zhutong, Liu Zhi, and Jiang Dingwen.
Until 1939, when Zhu Yunyan died of illness, Wei Lihuang did not have Zhu Yunyan's concern and completely tore his face with Chiang Kai-shek, in fact, Wei Lihuang had already expressed many dissatisfaction with What Chiang Kai-shek had done, but he had always been hindered by the relationship between Zhu Yunyan and Song Meiling's friend.
In the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, Wei Lihuang had a good battle at the beginning, oppressing the Japanese army all the way and making it impossible to cross the Yellow River, but Chiang Kai-shek ignored the war situation and insisted that Wei Lihuang had an unusually friendly relationship with the Eighth Route Army, and directly removed Wei Lihuang from his post, which directly led to heavy losses overnight.
After Zhu Yunyan's death, in order to help Chiang Kai-shek retain talents, Song Meiling intended to marry Kong Xiangxi's second daughter to Wei Lihuang, but Wei Lihuang did not want to talk about his children's love at this time, so he politely refused on the grounds that he had a heart in the United States.
But later, in order to avoid causing unnecessary public opinion, Wei Lihuang really found a wife in the United States, named Han Quanhua, to accompany Wei Lihuang through the remaining years.
Three sons and two daughters
In fact, Wei Lihuang had also married three wives in addition to Zhu Yunyan, but it was Zhu Yunyan who helped Wei Lihuang the most, but it was a pity that Zhu Yunyan died of illness.
After Wei Lihuang and Chiang Kai-shek drifted apart, Wei Lihuang admired the bravery of the Red Army, and in the subsequent war, he was even more covered by the Red Army to flee at the expense of his life, which further strengthened Wei Lihuang's determination to cooperate with the Communist Party to resist Japan, and also laid the groundwork for joining the Communist Party later.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the civil war also unfolded, good birds chose trees to live in, and Wei Lihuang was completely dead to what Chiang Kai-shek did, and in the later Liaoshen Campaign, Wei Lihuang did not carry out some orders against Chiang Kai-shek, and since then he has also been imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek for a long time.
It was not until Taiwan's new acting president took office that Wei Lihuang returned to the mainland. Wei Lihuang, who returned to the mainland in 1955, was warmly welcomed by China's leaders, and even appointed him to senior posts such as members of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, and became a leading cadre at the vice state level.
Wei Lihuang and his four wives had three sons and two daughters, of which his youngest son, Wei Daoran, was the most famous of his siblings and the only one to inherit his father's military career.
According to informed sources, Wei Daoran has been running around the battlefield with Wei Lihuang since he was a child, and in the time he heard and watched, Wei Daoran also felt the cruelty and ruthlessness of the battlefield, and his heart was full of emotions, and later became an excellent pilot with the support of his father, and even more became an excellent engineer in China.
Under the influence of his father, Wei Daoran repaid the motherland with the most practical actions like his father. Wei Daoran's excellence also attracted the attention of the British, and even when Wei Daoran had not yet graduated, he had already thrown a rich olive branch to him, but Wei Daoran did not accept it.
In a long conversation with Premier Zhou, he decisively chose to return to China. He didn't care how rich the British side was, he had the same patriotism as his father, and he wanted to serve his father in his own way
brief summary:
Looking back on Wei Lihuang's legendary life, whether he was in the Kuomintang or the Communist Party, his patriotism has never changed.
Although not every one of the children taught by Wei Lihuang became an excellent engineer like his younger son, other brothers and sisters were also influenced by Wei Lihuang, worked diligently in their respective posts, always down-to-earth, and continued to contribute to the construction of the motherland in another way.