During the early period of the Republic of China, there were some warlords with relatively strong strength who did not obey the leadership and management at all. At that time, the situation was very chaotic, and the warlords often started fighting because of a small contradiction, and the leaders were also weak and could only turn a blind eye. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Sichuan army on the mainland was very united, and millions of brave soldiers came out of Sichuan to resist Japan and defend our country. One of them had to say that he was Wang Mingzhang, the hero of the War of Resistance, who was the highest commander of the 1st and 2nd Divisions at that time. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he has been actively participating in the War of Resistance Against Japan, he is notoriously not afraid of death in battle, and no one in the whole army does not know his name, but in the defense of Fujian County, he was heroically martyred. After the Battle of Xuzhou, Li Zongren, commander of our army, learned of general Wang Mingzhang's deeds, held a special solemn funeral for him, and asked the soldiers to follow Wang Mingzhang's example to learn. In the defense of Fujian County, what did General Wang Mingzhang do on the battlefield, and why did the commander pay so much attention?
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Men should defend the country
General Wang Mingzhang was a native of Sichuan, and at an early age he had participated in the Sichuan Road Preservation Movement and the Second Revolution. After the incident in the three eastern provinces, the contradictions between the mainland and Japan have been rising, and what is most unexpected is that Lao Jiang has been practicing the policy of "outside the country must first be safe inside", and Lao Jiang has also pointed the muzzle of the gun at his own people. These practices of Old Jiang made Wang Mingzhang very dissatisfied, and the last thing he wanted to see was that his own people beat his own people, but Old Jiang was always his superior, and he could only obey the command when he had no choice.
In 1935, our Party finally proposed the strategy of stopping the civil war and unifying with the outside world; our Party has always advocated cracking down on the Japanese aggressors, and after Wang Mingzhang learned of this, he also very much agreed with our Party's approach. After the Xi'an Incident, Wang Mingzhang wanted to end the civil war even more, believing that the whole country should unite and turn all its guns at the Japanese invaders.
After the outbreak of the July 7 Incident, the situation of the mainland's War of Resistance was formed, and the Sichuan army on the mainland was also the first to respond, and immediately rushed to the front line to block the Japanese invaders, and General Wang Mingzhang also led his own troops to rush to the front line to fight. Before going to war, in order to encourage the soldiers, the people on the mainland all sent the Sichuan army out of the province to resist Japan, and Wang Mingzhang was also determined to drive out these hateful Japanese invaders, and if he could not drive these people out, he would definitely not live alone.
Before going to the battlefield, he also returned to his hometown and said goodbye to his family. Then he led his troops resolutely on the road of anti-Japanese resistance, and General Wang Mingzhang certainly could not imagine that this was the last time he would see his family.
General Wang Mingzhang
By the time of 1938, Nanking on the mainland had completely fallen and been easily occupied by the Japanese invaders, and the most hateful thing was that the Japanese invaders had carried out a brutal massacre here. At that time, the Kuomintang leaders actually escaped from the battlefield, which caused the loss of our Yellow River defense line and allowed most of Shandong to be occupied by the Japanese invaders.
Subsequently, the Japanese invaders launched a plan to go south, and they launched a fierce battle with our soldiers here in Xuzhou. If the Japanese army occupied Fuji County, then Xuzhou on the mainland would inevitably fall into the hands of the Japanese invaders, and the soldiers of our army must guard Fuji County.
At this critical juncture, General Wang Mingzhang stood up, willing to lead his troops to fight here. The Japanese troops attacking Tengzhou were their Tenth Wing. This unit can be said to be the most elite unit of the Japanese army, and it was relatively strong in the unit at that time, and this unit has very rich combat experience, even the weapons are the best, and the combat effectiveness can be said to be very strong.
Looking at the troops led by Wang Mingzhang, the weapons and equipment were simply inferior to those of the Japanese army, and their entire unit was very short of even heavy machine guns, and there were only four mortars. However, at that time, the Japanese army not only had aircraft, artillery, and tanks, but even some heavy machine guns were stronger than our army, and the strength of its troops was also several times that of Wang Mingzhang's troops.
Sichuan Army warriors
Li Zongren, the commander-in-chief of Xuzhou at that time, that is, the commander of the Fifth Theater, gave Wang Mingzhang a death order, that is, he must guard Fuji County, no matter what method is used, he must drag the Japanese army, only in this way can he create opportunities for Xuzhou's side. The leaders of our army also know the current situation, and if the Sichuan army led by Wang Mingzhang cannot stop the attack of the Japanese army at all, it is also to let Tang Enbo's troops support them.
Waiting for reinforcements
In 1938, under the cover of their aircraft, the Japanese army launched a full-scale attack on Teng County, where Wang Mingzhang was stationed, and he had been encouraging the soldiers to stay in the city of Fujian County, and then the soldiers blocked all the city gates. The Japanese army began to shell our positions, and this time the Japanese army also laid a bloody bomb on our army for more than two hours, and under the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese army, the eastern city gate was successfully blown open by the Japanese invaders.
When the Japanese commander saw that this place was blown open, he immediately arranged more than a dozen submachine guns, aimed at the gap and strafed, and the troops behind them were not idle, and immediately launched an attack on this place.
The soldiers defending the city were not afraid of life and death, and when they saw these Japanese invaders, they were not afraid at all, and when the enemy rushed in, the soldiers of our army frantically threw grenades at here. Soon, the Japanese invaders who entered the city were all wiped out by the soldiers of our army, and the enemy did not dare to come easily, so they withdrew from the city. But the Japanese invaders did not want to give up at all, they launched three more attacks on our army, but they were all repelled by the heroic Sichuan army, the Sichuan army was holding rifles and only a few machine guns, and the enemy launched a fierce battle, in the face of the enemy's attack, there are many Sichuan army fighters with large knives and the enemy to carry out white-knife warfare, in the face of weapons and equipment and strength of the enemy, some Sichuan army fighters pull like grenades, they will die with these hateful enemies.
Anti-Japanese propaganda posters
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese reorganized their ranks and launched another attack on our army, and with the spirit of the soldiers who were not afraid of sacrifice, they repelled the enemy hard; after this, the Japanese army did not give our army a chance to rest, and soon concentrated all its troops to attack the eastern city gate, and the enemy also knew that it was easier to attack here.
The Sichuan army defending the city was also not flustered, and after seeing the Japanese army launch an attack, it had also been resisting the Japanese army, and the Sichuan army once again forced the Japanese army to retreat. By now, the battle had been fought for a whole day, and the ground was full of corpses of Japanese soldiers, and during these two days of fighting, the ace troops of the Japanese army had not been able to attack Fuji County. Although the Sichuan army was inferior in terms of weapons and equipment and strength, they had been resisting the Japanese army with their spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice, and now the morale of the Sichuan army had increased greatly, and they had been waiting for reinforcements.
At this time, Tang Enbo's troops had already received the news that they would support the Sichuan army, but he did not send any troops at all. He also knew that Fuji Prefecture was already surrounded by Japanese troops, but he did not listen to his superiors' orders at all, and found an excuse to get rid of it, which delayed the fighter. Moreover, at that time, the distance between Tang Enbo's troops and Teng County was very close, but he did not send troops to support, which led to the fujian county into a desperate situation, the defenders of Fujian County had experienced two days of fierce fighting, lost a lot of troops, even the food in the city was not much, Wang Mingzhang's troops not only had to face the cruel enemy, but also had to endure the torture of hunger, which made the defending soldiers seriously reduce their combat effectiveness.
The Japanese army saw that our army was very tired, so he quickly ordered an attack on the Sichuan army position. Under the fierce attack of the Japanese army, the soldiers of our army could not resist, and soon the frontal positions of Fuji County were occupied by the Japanese, and General Wang Mingzhang, in order to cope with the attack of the Japanese army, immediately accelerated the construction of defensive positions, and also encouraged the soldiers to definitely hold here.
Li Zongren, a general of the Nationalist army
The Japanese army was also stubbornly blocked by the defenders of the city, which made their commanders very unhappy, and they gathered all their forces to attack the front of our position. Because the enemy's weapons and equipment are too advanced, and they have also transferred more than a dozen aircraft to the headquarters, this time the enemy also used armored troops.
At present, the situation in Fujian County is not optimistic, and our army has suffered heavy losses under the bombardment of enemy aircraft, and even ordinary people have not been able to escape the enemy's artillery fire. Under the cover of artillery fire, the enemy charged at the broken city gates in the east, and the Sichuan army braved the possibility of sacrifice at any time to meet the Japanese army. Moreover, he also launched a very cruel white-knife battle with the Japanese army, and the close-range fighting between the two sides made the battlefield very tragic, whether it was the enemy or our army, with heavy casualties.
At such a critical time, a small number of Japanese troops actually launched an attack from other directions, and the strength of our army's defense here was very small, but the soldiers did not flinch for these reasons, and also blew up a lot of Japanese vehicles with grenades, and also launched a fierce counterattack against the Japanese army, and under the heroic battle of the soldiers, they finally succeeded in repelling these Japanese troops. At this time, General Wang Mingzhang saw that reinforcements had not arrived for so many days, and he also knew in his heart that it was impossible to count on reinforcements.
The Japanese army launched so many attacks, all of which were resisted by our army, and at this time every soldier of our army was very tired. The Japanese army saw this opportunity and decided to concentrate its firepower again and launch an attack on Wang Mingzhang's army, and under the cover of strong firepower, the Japanese army finally broke the city gate with their armored troops.
Japanese bombing
But this did not affect the mentality of the soldiers of our army, the whole Sichuan army was ready to have a street battle with the Japanese army, at this time General Wang Mingzhang personally climbed the city wall, where he commanded the fighters to attack the Japanese invaders in the west, because there were no defensive measures on this side of the city wall, and the soldiers all died heroically in the battle with the Japanese invaders.
The Japanese army also successfully occupied the city wall, and General Wang Mingzhang led his troops to prepare to move into the center of the city for combat. However, the Japanese army also found that our army has always been under the command of Wang Mingzhang, so they took up the submachine gun and strafed the past, General Wang Mingzhang was very unfortunate, he was shot by the enemy's machine gun, his abdomen has been bleeding, and the soldiers of our army rushed to help Wang Mingzhang.
However, the soldiers who came to the rescue were all rejected by General Wang Mingzhang, who felt that he could not hold on any longer and was unable to return to heaven at all. After the general's death, the remaining fighters were not discouraged and had been engaged in a fierce struggle with the Japanese army. The Japanese army's side was a great advantage in both weapons and equipment and strength, and the Sichuan army responsible for guarding Fuji County was almost completely destroyed. Although the Japanese army occupied this place, but the price they paid was also very large, in the Battle of Fuji County, the Sichuan army soldiers successfully delayed the speed of the Japanese army to attack Xuzhou, providing sufficient time for the soldiers on the front line, and this battle also laid a certain foundation for the future Battle of Taierzhuang.
Funerals
After Old Jiang heard this news, he was also very sad, and he immediately issued an order for his subordinates to transport the body of the division commander Wang Mingzhang. At this time, the Japanese army did not know that General Wang Mingzhang had died, and they did not pay attention to this when dealing with the battlefield.
Soldiers of our army
Soon, General Wang Mingzhang's men changed their clothes and went into the county seat, preparing to find the body of his division commander. The local people also knew how great the merits of Master Wang was, so he helped the soldiers of our army to find the remains together, and it was also with the help of these ordinary people that they found the remains of General Wang Mingzhang together. At this time, General Wang Mingzhang had been sacrificed for more than ten days, the body had rotted, and the soldiers of our army had no time to consider it, so they could only transfer the body out and put it in a relatively safe place.
The soldiers returned with the "golden buttons" on the remains, reported to the leader at that time, and later identified and confirmed that he was General Wang Mingzhang. Because the delay was too long, the body had begun to decay, and the burial must be completed as soon as possible, when the commander Li Zongren rushed to the largest coffin shop at that time to find a good coffin for him.
After learning that it was for General Wang Mingzhang's deeds, the owner of the coffin shop was willing to take out the treasure of the town shop in the shop, and the commander Li Zongren decided that this coffin was the best coffin for the general, so he also asked the boss about the price. The boss also knew that this coffin was for General Wang Mingzhang, he knew that General Wang Mingzhang was sacrificed for the common people, and he was willing to sacrifice the coffin to show his heart. Hearing these words said by the boss, commander Li Zongren was also very moved, and the boss's feats were deeply admired by us.
After General Wang Mingzhang's body was buried in the coffin, he immediately sent someone to transport it to Wuhan. Later, when the people knew that General Wang Mingzhang's coffin was sent to Wuhan Station, many ordinary people came to send General Wang Mingzhang. The Kuomintang government also held a public ceremony for General Wang Mingzhang, and many soldiers also took the initiative to gather in Wuhan to send a tribute to the general.
Old Jiang also posthumously presented General Wang Mingzhang as a general and also raised three plaques for him. After hearing these news, the mainland leaders also admired him very much and personally wrote down the elegy for him. After the end of the public sacrifice, the body of General Wang Mingzhang was also sent back to his hometown, on the way home, where General Wang Mingzhang passed, the people will greet, and some places are the remains of General Wang Mingzhang, the scene is very spectacular.
Wang Mingzhang's wife heard the news of General Wang's sacrifice before, and for a while she couldn't accept it at all, until when he examined the body, he found that the sweater worn by General Wang was knitted by his own hand, and finally believed that her husband had sacrificed, so she cried loudly. Later, the body of General Wang Mingzhang was also buried in the cemetery, and a public funeral ceremony was also held for General Wang Mingzhang.
In order to let future generations remember the merits of General Wang, the mainland donated funds to make a statue for him, and the ceremony of exposing the statue of General Wang was held particularly solemnly, and tens of thousands of people came to the scene, and everyone came to commemorate this revolutionary martyr who sacrificed his life for the people.
The Japanese suffered a crushing defeat
After this, the Japanese army wanted to conquer our Taierzhuang in one fell swoop and marched into Xuzhou, but what the Japanese army did not expect was that our army gave them a heavy blow here.
A fierce battlefield
With the powerful offensive of the Japanese army, the positions north of Taierzhuang were occupied by the enemy, under such great pressure, the soldiers of our army and the Japanese army launched a battle of equal strength, after a night of fierce fighting, the Japanese army was repelled by our army, but the situation of our army was not very good, and the casualties were very heavy.
After that, the Japanese army did not want to give up attacking our army, and the enemy gathered all the tanks and stormed our positions, and when the soldiers of our army saw these tanks, they chose to take the bombs and die with these tanks.
After a week of bitter fighting, our army was seriously damaged, but the offensive of the Japanese army did not weaken, and the soldiers of our army also expressed their determination to coexist and die with Taierzhuang. At such a critical time, the twenty regiments of our army arrived at Taierzhuang and immediately counterattacked the enemy, and with the cooperation of the defenders, the Japanese army was surrounded by our regiments, and the enemy had no time to retreat, and was completely destroyed by our army.
If it were not for General Wang Mingzhang's troops blocking the Japanese army, it would have bought time for the Chinese army to assemble, and it would have created favorable conditions for subsequent battles.
Establish schools
General Wang Mingzhang has had a wish all his life, that is, to run a school and cultivate talents for China. General Wang's family also knew of his wish, and in order to accomplish this, General Wang's family donated all the money for the purpose of running a school. Later, the school was also established, and the name of the school was still named after General Wang, in honor of General Wang's patriotic deeds.
Block the Japanese army
After General Wang's death, he also left three sons and a daughter, and his eldest son later married the daughter of the Kuomintang major general. His second son, Wang Daoyi, later went to Hubei to work as a member of the local political standing committee.
After the death of General Wang Mingzhang, his wife also did not remarry for the rest of her life and has been concentrating on educating her children. His youngest son followed his mother south to visit his relatives in Macau, and the state also considered General Wang Mingzhang to be a great hero in the heroic resistance, and allowed them to visit their relatives in the south. But when they came here, they had run out of money with them, and when there was no way, they could only live begging for food. In desperation, they can only tell others their true identity, they are the widow of the famous anti-Japanese general Wang Mingzhang, after people know about this matter, they are very shocked, and the major newspapers are also rushing to report it.
Subsequently, his youngest son prepared to go to Taiwan with his mother, and after arriving in Taiwan, General Wang personally served as an instructor in the Air Force Literature Course, and his younger son did not marry a wife in his lifetime.
In 2005, his youngest son also returned to his hometown, settled down here, every year he would go to worship his father, whenever he came to his father's tomb, he would bow three times to his father, although his father had been dead for so long, but he always remembered how great his father was.
Statue of Wang Mingzhang
For General Wang Mingzhang, he was willing to sacrifice his own life in order to protect the common people, and in order to drive the enemy out, he gave up his small family, resolutely rushed to the front line, and used his life to resist the attack of the Japanese army, he is the national hero of our country. We must always remember his exploits, and we must not forget the suffering caused to us by the enemy.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, there were many heroes like this, who sacrificed their homes to defend the country and faced the unreasonable invasion of the enemy, they were not afraid, and they fought fiercely against the cruel enemy. It is precisely because our country has these great heroes, who are not afraid of sacrifice, that our army can drive the enemy out of our country.
We must also let foreigners dare not underestimate our country, and because of their dedication, we have a peaceful and stable life now. They are all well-deserved heroes, worthy of all of us to respect them, we want to pay tribute to the heroes of the revolution, in the past other countries can not bully our country, let alone in the future, I believe that their motherland will become stronger and stronger.
Pay tribute to all the anti-Japanese heroes and wish your country prosperity day by day.
Video link: Wang Mingzhang, a fierce general of the Nationalist army, resisted 40,000 Japanese troops with 3,000 Sichuan troops, laying the foundation for future victories