In 1946, a woman in Guangdong,
Sold the family property,
After settling down her father-in-law, she took her four children on the road to Shanghai, and she wanted to go
Pay tribute to your husband,
Let the children also look at the father.
The money in the woman's hand was not much, she thought that the money in her hand could buy five tickets, who knew that it was not enough, the woman had to find the ship manager, hoping that the other party could
Be accommodating.
When she found the manager, she said her situation, and then told the other party the name of her husband, who knew that the manager on the ship heard her husband's name directly
Exempted her and the children from their ferry tickets.
It turned out that her husband was the anti-Japanese hero Xie Jinyuan, and she was Ling Weicheng.
Ling Wei
Ling Weicheng was born in Shanghai to a family
Merchant's House,
It can be said that he is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and has received higher education, and met Xie Jinyuan when attending a wedding.
The two fell in love with each other at first sight and soon became lovers, in
In 1929
A wedding was held and they became husband and wife. After marriage, he raised four children, and in the year of separation, Ling Weicheng
Pregnant with the youngest son.
In 1936, Xie Jinyuan had a premonition
Volatile situation,
For the safety of his wife and children, he arranged for someone to send his pregnant wife and three children back to his hometown.
Tell your wife when they are separated,
I will pick you up immediately after the victory,
After sending away his wife and children, Xie Jinyuan threw his soldiers into the battlefield with his whole heart.
When the Battle of Songhu broke out, Xie Jinyuan had already become one
The head of the 524th Regiment,
At that time, after two months of fierce fighting, 100,000 nationalist troops suffered heavy losses and had no choice but to retreat, and Xie Jinyuan was
With more than 400 people, he stood guard in the Sihang warehouse.
Xie Jinyuan
They had no reinforcements, so yes
Lone Soldier,
In order to confuse the enemy, Xie Jinyuan called them eight hundred people, which is why we later learned that they were
"Eight Hundred Heroes"
Origin.
At that time, they were clinging to the warehouse, blocking the twenty thousand enemy troops in front of the warehouse,
The Japanese suffered heavy casualties,
At that time, after Chiang Kai-shek successfully retreated, he asked Xie Jinyuan to retreat to the public concession with his soldiers, and then the British consulted with the Japanese army to let the Chinese soldiers retreat.
Because the Japanese army could not capture the warehouse, it had to agree, who knew the warehouse when it retreated
There were only about four hundred people,
So forced the concession to detain the fighters, after that
He circled the lone soldiers again.
During this period, the Puppet Government of Wang kept negotiating with Xie Jinyuan, but Xie Jinyuan would rather die, and eventually lost his patience with the enemy and bribed Xie Jinyuan's men.
Mutilate it.
After the news of Xie Jinyuan's murder spread, Shanghai residents spontaneously went to mourn.
The funeral is not worse than the state funeral,
When Ling Weicheng received the news, he felt that the world had collapsed.
A few years of life in the countryside have long been the former official wives
Ordinary women,
Despite the grief, she still had to pick up her spirits, and the whole family now depends on her.
She first took the children and went to Chongqing to collect them
Husband's pension of 50,000,
Then he asked to see Chiang Kai-shek, hoping that he could help the children go to school and study, but then he was pushed away by Chiang Kai-shek.
She had no choice but to take the child back to her hometown, and then she gave the money to her father-in-law, and then bought her own land to support herself and her children.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, Ling Weicheng wanted to take his children back to Shanghai, not only to pay tribute to her husband, but also to find a job and let the children
Get a better education.
Ling Weicheng and the children
This is where the scene at the beginning of the article appears.
After returning to Shanghai, she wanted to gather her husband
Former subordinates,
To understand the situation in the last few years of her husband's life, I published a search notice in the newspaper.
The main story is that she is the widow of Xie Jinyuan, who has come to Shanghai and lives in the Xinxin Hostel.
After the newspaper was published, it was there in just a few days
Dozens of lone veterans,
When he came to the hostel, when Ling Weicheng saw them, he felt heartache.
He was imprisoned by the Japanese army that year
More than four hundred brave men,
Under the coercion of the Japanese army, they went to work as coolies, and when the anti-japanese war was won, they returned to Shanghai.
But these surviving lone soldiers have no one to take care of them, and the government has not treated them
to carry out placement,
They all live on the streets, begging for a living.
Looking at these helpless veterans in front of him, Ling Weicheng said:
I am the wife of your regimental commander, and your regimental commander is gone, but I will take up the burden.
She first took these veterans and seized a building at No. 466 Wusong Road
A place to live.
It was a small three-story building, the second floor she lived with her children, the third floor was divided into small rooms for the veterans to live in, and the first floor was rented out for some expenses.
After settling down, she went to Nanjing again to ask to see Chiang Kai-shek, who knew that this time Chiang Kai-shek did not see her, only to let Song Meiling tell her that the Shanghai government would resettle them.
She had to return to Shanghai, but the Shanghai government did
Always kick the ball,
If she doesn't do practical things, she can only do it
Asking for people everywhere,
All veterans with crafts will be arranged to go out to work.
Then another one was opened
Four-Line Lone Army Service Agency,
She also took over a dock, but this move offended the local green gang, and when she tried to drive a public line and run a bus, she was stopped by the police and arrested more than thirty veterans.
In order for the veterans to get out of prison, they could only quit the docks, fortunately, their Four-Line Lone Army Service Society business was still good, but after a year of operation, the veterans in charge of managing the money ran away with the money, and Ling Weicheng ran away again
It's a desperate situation.
At that time, because of the war ahead, the small business was losing money, only
Shut down the Four-Line Lone Army Service Agency,
Watching Ling Weicheng running around for them, four of the veterans couldn't bear it, and under the pretext of going back to their hometown to do some illegal things, by the time she knew, the four veterans had already been shot, and Ling Weicheng could only do it
Collect the bodies for them with tears.
In 1948, Ling Weicheng took the remaining veterans to circle the ground near her husband's cemetery and the lone army camp, and then leaned on it
Rent out for days.
After the liberation of Shanghai, for the sake of the livelihood of the lone soldiers, Ling Weicheng wrote to Chen Yi
A letter of distress,
When Chen Yi learned that there were still survivors of the Eight Hundred Heroes, but their lives were difficult, his eyes immediately turned red.
He immediately ordered that the house at No. 466 Wusong Road and the land enclosed by Ling Weicheng be handed over to her for use.
Don't rent and account for the relevant government departments, treat them kindly.
After that, Ling Weicheng and the surviving veterans settled down, and then those lone veterans, some who had not settled in Shanghai, returned to their hometowns, and every time they left,
Ling Weicheng would give them a lump sum of money.
Although the veterans have left one after another, Ling Weicheng has not forgotten them, and whoever has some difficulties in the family, she will help them, even if she divides her rations.
She also has a list of surviving veterans, who died she will cross out the name, on January 6, 1991, Ling Weicheng died, before dying, the list will be told to her children,
Let them be sure to help these veterans as much as possible.
In 2021, the last surviving veteran died, and the eight hundred heroes came to an end.
But the world's deeds about them have never dissipated, and the admiration for them has always been there, and they will always be our heroes.