In the winter of 1935, a gunshot broke through the silent snowy night.
The Kuomintang general Zhang Lingfu returned to Xi'an to visit his relatives, and when he saw her husband return, his wife Wu Hailan was very happy.
"I want to eat dumplings."
Hearing Zhang Lingfu say this, Wu Hailan hurriedly went to the courtyard to cut leeks. Zhang Lingfu also followed her and also came to the courtyard. Wu Hailan turned her back on her husband and cut leeks while humming a small song.
Zhang Lingfu behind him quietly pulled out his pistol, and his eyes were cold.
The black muzzle of the gun was pointed at his wife Wu Hailan.
With a "bang", Wu Hailan, who was preparing to get up, immediately fell into a pool of blood. Before dying, her eyes were full of doubt, incomprehension, surprise, and surprise.
In the face of the condemnation of the world, Zhang Lingfu said: He did not kill the wrong person, Wu Hailan should be killed.
Some people say that the reason why Zhang Lingfu killed his wife fiercely was because his wife put a "green hat" on herself.
However, Wang Yuling, the fourth wife that Zhang Lingfu later married, said that Zhang Lingfu killed Wu Hailan for another reason. After listening, everyone thought that this statement was more convincing.
What exactly did Wang Yuling say? Behind Zhang Lingfu's murder of his wife, what kind of secrets are hidden?
The son of a peasant became colonel
Wu Hailan was Zhang Lingfu's second wife, and his wife was Xing Fengying. Just by listening to the name, you know that this woman is a virtuous wife and mother who abides by tradition and has three virtues.
This is true. At that time, Zhang Lingfu was not called Zhang Lingfu, but Zhang Zhonglin.
Zhang Lingfu's hometown is in Chang'an County, Shaanxi Province, and the family is not rich, so when he was very young, his father set up a doll kiss for him in the neighboring village next door, that is, Xing Fengying.
Originally, I thought that my son would engage in agricultural labor like himself, and he would marry his daughter-in-law early and set his heart to plant crops. Unexpectedly, Zhang Lingfu has been a piece of learning material since he was a child, and his grades have been very good.
In addition to studying well, Zhang Lingfu also wrote well.
In 1921, Zhang Lingfu was 18 years old and attended Chang'an Middle School in Shaanxi Province.
During that time, as long as he had time, Zhang Lingfu went to the Forest of Steles of the Confucius Temple in Xi'an to copy the stele, and over time, he not only practiced a good hand, but also had his own style. Even the famous calligrapher Yu Youren of the Republic of China period saw Zhang Lingfu's words and praised them one after another: "The future life is terrible!" The afterlife is terrible! ”
After graduating from middle school, Zhang Lingfu worked as a teacher for a while. During this period, under his father's arrangement, he and Xing Fengying held a wedding.
Xing Fengying dressed as a rural woman, Zhang Lingfu, who had received new ideas, could only be called respectful of this wife, and did not have much deep feelings.
As a traditional rural woman, Xing Fengying has neither much deep learning nor profound thoughts, and her educated husband often does not speculate more than half a sentence. Two people have the truth of husband and wife, but there is no love between husband and wife.
After teaching books for a while, Zhang Lingfu began to be confused about life and the future. He felt that this kind of stable life was not what he wanted.
So he taught and studied, and in 1923, at the age of 20, Zhang Lingfu was admitted to the history department of Peking University.
When Zhang Lingfu arrived in Beijing, he came into contact with the larger world and his thinking began to change.
With the turmoil in society and the continuous outbreak of war, Zhang Lingfu deeply realized the true meaning of the phrase "Xiucai has not done anything in ten years, and the warlord will change the sky as soon as he is gone".
On the other hand, Zhang Lingfu's family could no longer afford to pay for college.
In 1926, Zhang Lingfu dropped out of Peking University and threw himself into the pen.
After dropping out of school, he heard that Hu Jingyi was holding a training regiment for the officers of the Nationalist Second Army stationed in Henan in Kaifeng, Henan, and he and his classmates gladly went there. Here, he met the first Bole in his life, Yu Youren.
"Go to the Whampoa Military Academy, now the country needs talents like you."
Listening to Yu Youren's suggestion, Zhang Lingfu applied for the Whampoa Military Academy and was successfully admitted as a fourth batch of cadets.
Zhang Lingfu, who has been very bright since he was a child, has achieved very good results in both Wen and Wu. During his time at the Whampoa Military Academy, he was well aware of various military courses and martial arts techniques, and his excellence soon attracted chiang kai-shek's attention.
Chiang Kai-shek has always been very generous in his treatment of "love generals", and under his "booing han and asking for warmth", Zhang Lingfu was quickly included in his command.
After graduation, he was incorporated into the 21st Division of the National Revolutionary Army, and later participated in the Northern Expedition and met with the Red Army soldiers.
During this period, Zhang Lingfu repeatedly performed miracles. He rose all the way from infantry platoon leader trainee, platoon leader, company commander, and battalion commander.
In 1933, Zhang Lingfu was transferred to the First Division of the National Revolutionary Army, a unit of the National Revolutionary Army, which had the title of "The First Division under Heaven", and served as the colonel of the First Regiment of the Independent Brigade.
Zhang Lingfu not only became a confidant of the division commander Hu Zongnan, but also a beloved general of Chiang Kai-shek's concubine.
For a time, the scenery is immeasurable.
That year, Zhang Lingfu was 30 years old, which was the best time in a man's life. The spring breeze in his career is proud, and his peach blossom luck also follows.
The gentle wife was killed instead
He wrote well, was very good at fighting, and was quite valued by the leaders, and Zhang Lingfu was very handsome and very popular.
Someone once commented on Zhang Lingfu's appearance: "Eyebrows like distant mountains, eyes like Lang Xing", although Zhang Lingfu has a wife in his hometown, there are still people who zhang Luoluo introduces him to him, hoping that his daughter can marry him.
Wu Hailan entered Zhang Lingfu's world in this way.
In 1933, Zhang Lingfu followed the troops to Sichuan to fight against the Red Fourth Front, where he met Wu Hailan.
Wu Hailan was completely different from his wife Xing Fengying. As the youngest daughter in the family, she is very loved by her father. Her father let her receive a new-style education from an early age, very open-minded, and proficient in poetry and books, and had a unique temperament of poetry and bookishness.
And Wu Hailan looks very beautiful and is recognized by everyone in the school. When she was 17 years old, Wu Hailan came out of nowhere, and the people who came to her door to ask for relatives broke the threshold of her home, but Wu Hailan did not even have a favorite.
Until she met Zhang Lingfu and saw him for the first time, Wu Hailan knew that she would marry him.
Both men were highly educated and had no obstacles to ideological communication. The appearance is also quite comparable, in the eyes of outsiders, it is simply a pair of bi people.
After a period of understanding, Zhang Lingfu and Wu Hailan held a wedding in Guangyuan, Sichuan. In order to give Wu Hailan a perfect wedding, Zhang Lingfu spent thousands of dollars and invited a famous chef in Sichuan to entertain guests, and the wedding was very beautiful.
After marriage, the two people were in love, Qinse and Ming, and became the object of envy of others.
Zhang Lingfu, as a northerner, especially loves to eat noodles. As the saying goes, if you want to tie a man's heart, you must first tie his stomach. In order for her husband to be able to eat a bite of rolled noodles, Wu Hailan secretly learned the art, and from then on, as long as Zhang Lingfu returned home from the conquest, he would eat the hand-rolled noodles made by his wife.
In the second year of marriage, Wu Hailan gave birth to a daughter, named Zhang Qingfang. The two people who originally loved each other have since become a happy and harmonious family of three.
Later, Zhang Lingfu followed the troops to fight in the north and south, and Wu Hailan lived in Xi'an with her children, waiting day and night for her husband to return home to visit his relatives.
In 1935, Zhang Lingfu heard that a regimental commander of the army had returned to Xi'an, so he asked him to see his wife and children.
Unexpectedly, after the regimental commander returned, he told Zhang Lingfu: "Your wife is so beautiful, I saw her wearing a cheongsam and entering the movie theater arm in arm with a young man, and the two of them looked very intimate!" ”
I don't know if it is because of this seemingly joking remark, Zhang Lingfu changed the gentleness of the past when he was on the Spring Festival holiday, and his face was gloomy from the time he returned home.
Chinese New Year's Eve that night, when the family was Chinese New Year's Eve meal, Wu Hailan was also busy preparing a rich dinner for the family.
"I want to eat dumplings stuffed with leeks, so you can wrap me dumplings!"
Wu Hailan had been busy with various household chores, and she did not notice that Zhang Lingfu was in a mood that was wrong, so she got up and went to the backyard yard to cut leeks.
Zhang Lingfu immediately followed up, and just at the moment when Wu Hailan finished pulling out the leek and got up, Zhang Lingfu pulled out a pistol and fired a shot at his wife, and Wu Hailan died on the spot.
Looking at his wife who was lying in a pool of blood, the expression on Zhang Lingfu's face was a little sinister, and there was also some pain.
What is strange is that after Zhang Lingfu shot and killed his wife, he did not secretly bury her well or bury her on the spot, he was like a person who had nothing to do, after sending his daughter to his hometown, he returned to the army.
This matter was soon known to Wu Hailan's family. Wu Hailan's brother wrote a letter to the Xi'an Women's Association accusing Zhang Lingfu of brutally killing his wife.
Coincidentally, this letter was seen by Zhang Xueliang's wife Yu Fengzhi, who was very angry when she accepted the new idea, and after returning to Nanjing, she told her girlfriend Song Meiling about it.
Song Meiling was indignant, and as a minister of women, she always advocated equality between men and women. Moreover, she was still engaged in the new fashion movement and the feminist movement. In her opinion, no matter what Wu Hailan did wrong, he should not be shot dead by Zhang Lingfu.
Soong Mei-ling told Chiang Kai-shek that Zhang Lingfu must be strictly punished. In the face of his beloved general, Chiang Kai-shek somewhat hated iron not steel. However, the public opinion at that time had pushed the matter to the cusp of the storm, and the leader of the group had openly killed his wife at home.
After Hu Zongnan, who had always been a heavy instrument, learned of this incident, he secretly wanted to suppress this matter. However, due to the help of Soong Mei-ling behind the scenes, Chiang Kai-shek had to strictly handle this matter.
"I didn't kill her wrongly, she should die," Zhang Lingfu said in response to Hu Zongnan's suggestion that he turn himself in.
"Now is not the time to pursue who is wrong and who is right, you kill your wife, it is your fault." 」 Hu Zongnan was a little angry.
Under the repeated persuasion of Hu Zongnan, Zhang Lingfu himself went to Nanjing to turn himself in. Along the way, Zhang Lingfu was neither bound nor escorted. He was like a tourist who traveled from Luoyang, Zhengzhou, Xuzhou and other places to Nanjing Prison more than half a year later.
In 1936, Chiang Kai-shek sentenced Zhang Lingfu to death.
Not long after, Zhang Lingfu was changed to ten years in prison and imprisoned in the First Army Military Prison.
As a result, less than a year later, Zhang Lingfu was released, saying that he was allowed to go to the front line and make meritorious deeds.
After coming out, he changed his name from Zhang Zhonglin to Zhang Lingfu to hide his eyes and ears, and then joined Wang Yaowu's Fifty-first Division.
What about knowing the truth
Zhang Lingfu knew that all this was thanks to Chiang Kai-shek's grace of not killing. After he came out, he served him even more diligently. In various battles such as the Battle of Songhu and the Defense of Nanjing, Zhang Lingfu's figure can be found.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Lingfu's "wife-killing" label had long been erased, and he was replaced by the commander of the 74th Army.
At that time, the National 74th Army was simply a trump card among aces, not only well-equipped, but also the best of the best. As a military commander, it can be seen that Chiang Kai-shek has a heavy weight for Zhang Lingfu.
In addition to serving as a military commander, Zhang Lingfu also served as the commander of the Nanjing Garrison, with the title of "Leader of the Imperial Forest Army".
After many years, Zhang Lingfu, who was under one person, married two more wives. Among them, the fourth wife, Wang Yuling, told the secret behind Zhang Lingfu's shooting of Wu Hailan that year.
In 1945, the two were married at the Golden Gate Hotel in Shanghai.
The groom, Zhang Lingfu, is 42 years old.
The bride, Wang Yuling, is 17 years old.
According to Wang Yuling in his later years, Zhang Lingfu loved himself very much, and would tell her stories before going to bed, take her to watch movies, teach her to ride horses, and tell her some interesting things about the battlefield.
The two men have a huge age gap, but they have nothing to talk about.
Zhang Lingfu once said: "I have a good wife, if I go to ask for food, my wife will bring me a bowl." This is something that cannot be bought with gold and silver treasure. ”
Wang Yuling was very touched to hear this, but in her heart, she had always been grumpy about that incident, like a fish in her throat.
What did Wu Hailan do that year, so that Zhang Lingfu had to kill her?
Finally, one day, Wang Yuling asked this question, but she did not ask directly, but said: "If I find a boyfriend outside again, what will you do?" ”
As smart as Zhang Lingfu, how could he not know what Wang Yuling wanted to express, but he just sat there and did not say a word.
Seeing that Zhang Lingfu did not speak, Wang Yuling pretended to be relaxed and said: "If I really do this kind of thing, whatever you do, I promise you that my family will never sue you." ”
Looking at his young wife, Zhang Lingfu felt that he was a little old for a moment. After a while, he said slowly, "She took my things, I asked her, gave her a chance, but she never spit out." ”
According to Zhang Lingfu, before shooting Wu Hailan that day, the two had already had an argument, but no matter how Zhang Lingfu persuaded, Wu Hailan just wouldn't open his mouth.
According to Wang Yuling's memories and descriptions, Wu Hailan's death was not because she cheated, but because she took Zhang Lingfu's "things". As for what "thing" it was, Zhang Lingfu did not tell Wang Yuling in the end.
But it wasn't until much, long, long time later that Zhang Lingfu and Wu Hailan's daughter, Zhang Qingfang, told the media that her mother and uncle's real identities were underground parties.
For this statement, some people still express doubts, Zhang Lingfu has been fighting outside for many years and rarely returns home, how did Wu Hailan get his military documents?
At the same time, some people also said that if this statement is not true, then the claim that Wu Hailan derailed is even more untenable.
Wu Hailan knows Dali, is not a woman like watery Yang Hua, and the two have a daughter who is less than two years old. If you really don't love, Wu Hailan can tell each other frankly, and the two are good to get together and disperse.
And Zhang Lingfu asked her, she has been silent, how to explain?
On May 16, 1947, Zhang Lingfu received orders to lead the reorganized Nationalist 74th Army into the East China Battlefield and fight against the East China Field Army commanded by Su Yu.
This main Kuomintang force, known as the "ace of aces", was completely annihilated in the Battle of Menglianggu, and Zhang Lingfu was also killed here.
With the death of Zhang Lingfu, the truth about his shooting of his wife Wu Hailan has forever become a secret.