It sounds like a fantasy that a husband would not know his wife, but this really happened to The Founding Major General Zhang Xingzhong. Zhang Xingzhong, a native of Tangjiahui, Jinzhai, Anhui, was born in 1913, joined the guerrilla army at the age of 14, and officially joined the Red Army a year later. Because of his bravery in battle and many meritorious service, by 1930 he was already a platoon leader in the Red Army. One day at the end of the year, Zhang Xingzhong's cousin Zhang Xingyu brought him a message and asked him to come to his home, saying that there was something to discuss.
Zhang Xingzhong
Zhang Xingzhong went to his cousin's house after dinner, and when he arrived here, he learned that his cousin came to him to let him go on a blind date. Zhang Xingzhong was very unhappy when he heard this, and said to his cousin: "Now that the battle is so tense, I am not sure that one day I will be glorious, and then will I not pit the girls of others?" Zhang Xingyu said that Zhang Xingzhong reluctantly agreed to meet first. But when he learned that the woman's name was Wang Mingjia, the daughter of the famous landlord Wang Sanye in the neighborhood, Zhang Xingzhong threw a sentence to his cousin: "I can't marry the daughter of the landlord's family." ", say lift your feet and go.
Zhang Xingyu grabbed his cousin and said that Wang Mingjia was different from the daughter of an ordinary landlord. It turned out that although Wang Mingjia was born into a landlord family, he accepted progressive ideas during his studies and longed for revolution. Coupled with the fact that the revolutionary situation in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District was very good at that time, Wang Mingjia wanted to join the Red Army, and there were very few female fighters in the Red Army at that time, plus she was from a landlord family, so she failed to do so. Wang Mingjia's father was very angry and angry when he learned of this, and in order to cut off his daughter's idea of joining the Red Army, his father set a family affair for her, and the man was the eldest young master of the landlord's family in a neighboring village.
Wang Mingjia did not like this unlearned young master at all, and his heart was very bitter. At that time, Zhang Xingzhong's cousin Zhang Xingyu was working in the Wang family and had a good relationship with Wang Mingjia, and after learning of her idea, he gave her an idea: marry a Red Army, become a family member of the Red Army, and then join the revolution easily. Wang Mingjia asked her who she married? Zhang Xingyu said: "I have a cousin named Zhang Xingzhong, who is now a platoon leader in the Red Army, who is one year younger than you, and who is very loyal, so you can meet first."
Zhang Xingzhong listened to his cousin's words and had a good feeling for Wang Mingjiadun, a qianjin lady of the landlord's family, who had a comfortable life, but was willing to suffer hardships in the Red Army, which made him very admirable, so he met with Wang Mingjia. At that time, the people in the Dabie Mountain area were very poor, and they could not even afford to use kerosene lamps, and they could only light a few pine branches at night to illuminate, which was commonly known as Song Mingzi by the locals. The lighting effect of this kind of thing can be imagined, and it was more nervous at that time, so Zhang Xingzhong could not clearly see Wang Mingjia's appearance.
His cousin asked him what he thought of Wang Mingjia, and Zhang Xingzhong said he had no opinion. One night three days later, Wang Mingjia hid from his family and was taken to Zhang Xingzhong's house by Zhang Xingyu, and Zhang Xingzhong worshiped heaven and earth. However, in the middle of the night, the troops suddenly came to inform them that there was an urgent task and that Zhang Xingzhong should return to the team immediately. Before leaving, Zhang Xingzhong said to Wang Mingjia: "I am a member of the Red Army, I can't help myself, and I will come back to see you when I have the chance." After saying that, he went back to the troops.
General Zhang Xingzhong later recalled: "On the night of the wedding, like the first time we met, Matsu Akiko was also a point, and they were not embarrassed to look at each other carefully, but only remembered the general appearance." Since then, due to the continuous encirclement and suppression of the Dabie Mountain area by the Nationalist army, Zhang Xingzhong has been fighting everywhere with his troops, so he has never had the opportunity to go home. Because Wang Mingjia was a family member of the Red Army and had culture, he and Zhang Xingzhong were sent by the local Soviet government to work as a hygienist in the Red Army units after 3 months of marriage.
In September 1932, Zhang Xingzhong was wounded in the leg while fighting the enemy in Xiaogan, Hubei Province, and was admitted to the Red Army Hospital. Zhang Xingzhong felt that she was a bit familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen her. At that time, Zhang Guotao was carrying out a "purge" in the Red Fourth Front, and no one dared to speak much. More than a month later, Zhang Xingzhong was able to walk on the ground, and one afternoon, he went out to move his legs and feet, and saw the female nurse washing bandages by the river, so he helped her dry on a bamboo pole. The two couldn't help but talk.
Zhang Xingzhong asked: "Listening to the accent, you seem to be from the mall, aren't you?" She said yes, the family lives in the south of the bamboo. Zhang Xingzhong asked her what her name was, she said that her name was Wang Mingjia, and Zhang Xingzhong was sure that she was his wife who had been separated for two years. Unexpectedly, this short time together was reported, and Wang Mingjia was called to talk that night, and because she was not born well, she was killed within a few days. Zhang Xingzhong was released after being imprisoned for half a month because he was from extreme poverty, and his position was demoted from company commander to stretcher bearer.
Zhang Xingzhong and his second wife, Xu Fusheng
This incident caused a great blow to Zhang Xingzhong, and he had always regretted it in his heart, if he had not met Wang Mingjia in the first place, she would not have been killed by mistake. Unable to let go of his thoughts about Wang Mingjia, Zhang Xingzhong refused many people's offers for more than ten years. It was not until 1943, under the introduction of Liu Bocheng's wife Wang Ronghua, that he married Xu Fusheng, a full 11 years after Wang Mingjia's death. In 1964, Zhang Xingzhong was awarded the rank of major general.