Here is a small road on the Han River, and the prosperous path is now bustling with shops on both sides, surrounded by crowds of people, and at the end of the road there is a blue sign with the name of the road engraved on it , Hao Mengling Road.
83 years ago, Hao Mengling slept forever in the coffin after being hit by two bullets, and after experiencing the battlefield of drifting around the world and raining bullets, he chose Wuhan as the end point of his fallen leaves.
Because in that year, the starting point for him to join the army with ambition to kill the enemy was the Wuhan Railway Station. As the first highest-ranking general to die on the anti-Japanese battlefield, after his soul returned home, the whole country fell into grief, and Xian Xinghai personally wrote a eulogy to show his remembrance.
"Five noes" general
In 1898, Hao Mengling was born in a poor rural family in Zhuanghe Village, Gaocheng, Hebei Province, and because his family was too poor, Hao Mengling's academic career had just begun, and he was forced to drop out of school. Forced by life, Hao Mengling had to consider where he should go next, and he had no choice but to go to someone else as an apprentice.
The name of the apprentice is actually to spend effort to beg for food, requiring both eye color and strength. The quality of life depends entirely on the boss's mood, so he is often beaten and abused by the boss.
Unable to bear it, Hao Mengling defected to Wei Yishan, who saw that the boy was clever and clever, sent him to Lu Xiao to study, and then studied at the Baoding Military Academy. There, Hao Mengling was exposed to a wealth of military education, and when he returned from graduating from the Baoding Military Academy, he directly entered Wei Yishan's unit as a regimental commander.
In 1926, Hao Mengling went to the northwest to join Feng Yuxiang and was promoted to brigade commander of the 26th Brigade of the 4th Army. In the subsequent Northern Expedition War and the Central Plains War, Hao Mengling gave full play to his military talents, and repeatedly built up his achievements, and after the war, he became the commander of the 9th Army of the Northwest Army.
In the army at that time, smoking and drinking was a common thing, and gambling and prostitution were everywhere, and Mo said that the military commander, even a company commander, was also full of tricks.
In the concept of some of them, being a soldier is to improve their quality of life, and since they have already fought with their lives on the battlefield, they should enjoy it as they please. At that time, there were even two-gunneries, meaning that they held a smoking gun in their left hand and a rifle in their right arm, and hanger Lang was walking on the road and living happily.
But in front of Hao Mengling and his subordinates, none of this could be achieved. To this end, he formulated five high standards for himself - no gambling, no drinking, no smoking, no prostitution, and no concubines, and implemented these five standards into the army, which is regarded as an iron discipline in the army, and no one dares to violate them.
Once a general in the army committed one of these crimes, took a concubine and married a little wife, which was not uncommon at that time, which caused Hao Mengling to be furious, and directly removed him from his military post and kicked him out of the army in accordance with the regulations.
Twice disobeyed, disarmed and returned to the field
In addition to the high standards set by himself, Hao Mengling also maintains a high degree of bottom line and principles in personal thought. He never liked infighting, and never fought.
In his ideological conception, if Chiang Kai-shek had launched the Northern Expedition before for the sake of national peace and the reunification of rivers and mountains, then Hao Mengling could have been born to fight, and even regarded death as a return. But now that the country has been clearly unified, Japan's iron hooves have broken through the northeast, and now it is flaunting its might and unscrupulous life on the territory of our country.
In the face of the war provoked by Japan on its own initiative, Chiang Kai-shek turned a deaf ear to it, still adhered to his principle that what is outside must be at peace before inside, and forced the Red Army on the anti-Japanese front to die, and if hao Mengling did not understand and did not agree.
In 1934, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Hao Mengling to launch the fifth encirclement and suppression operation against the Central Soviet Region, Hao Mengling was unwilling to go, but also unwilling to openly oppose Chiang Kai-shek's orders, a telegram was sent directly to Chiang Kai-shek, requesting to be disarmed and returned to the field, which Was explicitly rejected by Chiang Kai-shek.
In 1935, Guiyang, Dushan, Zunyi and other areas needed to build the Sichuan-Qianqian and Sichuan-Yunnan Highways, and Hao Mengling and the Ninth Army were fully responsible. After going all out to build the highway, Hao Mengling took on the responsibility of maintenance in the later stage, so in May 1937, Hao Mengling, who could not bear it, sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek again, the content was the same as that of that year, still asking for demobilization and returning to the field, but was again rejected, and was also transferred by Chiang Kai-shek to the Sichuan Army University for further study.
Please resist the Battle of Xinkou
When Hao Mengling went to the Sichuan Land School, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out. Hao Mengling, who was boiling with blood, immediately stopped his journey to Sichuan, and Italie Chiang Kai-shek asked to join the anti-Japanese resistance. Hao Mengling then led the Fourth Army to Shijiazhuang, and under the fierce attack of the Japanese army, Yanmen Pass had been lost, and Xinkou became the most important first line of defense in Shanxi.
In September 1937, the Japanese army gathered key firepower and prepared to break through Xinkou and enter Taiyuan in one fell swoop. The commander-in-chief of the campaign was Wei Lihuang, and under his mobilization, Hao Mengling's Ninth Army held on to the key defensive line of Xinkou.
On October 11, the Japanese army took the initiative to attack and launched a comprehensive campaign, and the Japanese commander-in-chief Itagaki Seishiro, in accordance with the strategic deployment plan, in order to quickly take the Xinkou defense line, directly dispatched the elite Japanese army and tank artillery, and even used fighters to occupy the air superiority, and carried out a multi-faceted attack on Hao Mengling's troops.
Under the leadership of the mobilization of Hao Mengling's front-line command, the Ninth Army fought to the death against the Japanese army and vowed not to retreat, only the 204 positions at that time were fought, and the change of ownership was changed 13 times in one day.
On October 16, just after dawn, our troops suffered heavy casualties at this time, but under these circumstances, Hao Mengling still took the lead in launching a counterattack, hitting the enemy by surprise and once again fighting for many positions previously occupied by the enemy.
At this time, Hao Mengling immediately made a decision and decided to take advantage of the victory to pursue and launch a comprehensive counterattack against the Japanese army. But when Hao Mengling heroically took the lead in the assault, because he was too close to the enemy, he was hit by the enemy's machine gun, and the cold bullet ended his life.
The news of Commander Hao Mengling's sacrifice on the battlefield spread throughout the country, and all walks of life in the military were deeply saddened. Chairman Mao even more sincerely sighed: "As a military commander, he is in front of the soldiers on the battlefield, and although the hero has passed away, he is actually the first person in our country's military commander." "Xian Xinghai, a famous musician in China, composed the song "Song of General Hao Mengling" to express his thoughts on General Hao Mengling.
brief summary:
Hao Mengling's spirit and story will forever be recorded in the annals of history, the hero's story needs to be learned, and the hero's spirit needs to be remembered. Although there is a long way to go on the road of national rejuvenation, with a heroic figure like General Hao Mengling standing up and guiding us forward, the most rugged road and the most rugged difficulties will be unstoppable.