In 1988, 88-year-old Sun Liren lay in a rocking chair and looked at the sky quietly.
He was thinking about the scenery of his homeland, thinking about the battlefield fighting, remembering the company of the red face, and lamenting the injustice of fate.
As a famous anti-Japanese general, he should have enjoyed the hard-won peace after the war.
But the most surprising thing is that he was imprisoned for 33 years, and now he has just been freed, known as "Zhang Xueliang's second".
Born into a noble family, ambitions are high
Sun Liren was a senior general of the Kuomintang, capable of literature and martial arts, and the vanguard of a hundred battles, and if he did not join the army, then he must be an excellent scholar.
Born in the Guangxu period, Sun Liren's ancestral home was Lujiang County, Anhui Province, and his grandfather and father were all high-ranking officials in the Qing court, and they lived in an environment with strong feudal ideas from an early age.
Because he was an official eunuch family and had a strict tutor, when Sun Liren first could speak, his father taught him to recite famous classics and cultivate his cultural accomplishment.
At the age of twelve, Sun Liren was admitted to Tsinghua University with the first place in his hometown, and at that time his age was the youngest of all the candidates.
Entering Tsinghua University gave Sun Liren the opportunity to contact various advanced educational ideas and was also influenced by Western culture.
Sun Liren's study in Tsinghua can be described as extremely hard, his ancestors were all high-ranking officials and celebrities, and his family also placed great hopes on him.
If Tsinghua's study makes Sun Liren full of Britain, then Tsinghua's sports training has a directional change in Sun Liren's life.
Sun Liren has been thin since he was a child, and he is considered to be weak in the male group, but if Tsinghua University wants to graduate, in addition to passing the cultural class, the sports score is also extremely strict.
In order to successfully graduate, Sun Li has made sufficient efforts in sports, long-distance running, frog jumping, and various fitness, so that he has become a tall boy in just one year.
He is also familiar with a variety of sports, basketball, tennis, volleyball, etc., and he is also the captain of many sports.
In 1921, the Fifth Far East Games was held in China, which was at a critical juncture in the Sino-Japanese men's basketball finals.
After defeating the fierce rival Philippines, if the Chinese team wins the Japanese team, it will be the men's basketball championship of this Games, and it is also the first time that the Chinese men's basketball team has won the world games championship.
A tall and handsome defender on the pitch ended the match with a jump shot after breaking through the opponent's clamp block.
The Chinese team won this championship, and tens of thousands of people cheered. Newspapers reported at the time that "Chinese threw the sick man of East Asia into the Pacific Ocean on the basketball court."
The killer defender was Sun Liren, who was a student of a higher education institution and a sportsman.
But in the near future, his fame resounded throughout the international anti-fascist battlefield, and he was a well-known warrior.
Sun Liren's vision is very far, and the education and ideas he came into contact with during his time at Tsinghua University are all encouraging students to devote themselves to serving the country and actively making progress.
However, looking at China at that time, the oppression of feudal ideology and the aggression of imperialism made Sun Liren eager to go out and find the key to saving the country.
After graduating from Tsinghua University, Sun Liren obtained a quota of publicly-funded study abroad, first studying civil engineering at a foreign university, and then resolutely turning to military studies.
It is no accident that Sun Liren wanted to join the army, and the outbreak of the "May Fourth Movement" gave Sun Liren a great touch.
He saw the students who had no power to resist in the face of oppression. If you want to save the country, you must first have a gun.
After studying abroad for two years and becoming familiar with the environment and language, Sun Liren was admitted to the United States Vigna Military Academy.
The Vigna Military Academy is known as the "Southern West Point", which has cultivated a large number of military talents, and Sun Li's study at the Vigna Military Academy, in addition to military theory, also has the cultivation of military skills.
In the training, with his excellent physical fitness, he is excellent in all subjects, and the exercise of Tsinghua physical fitness has cultivated his strong character and will never accept defeat in the face of difficulties.
After Sun Liren left the Vigna Military Academy, he conducted military studies and further studies in many countries, accumulating considerable rich experience.
After returning to China, he chose the Kuomintang, which was in the midst of the upsurge of saving the country and the people, hoping to make the country change through his own efforts.
He has experienced hundreds of battles and made meritorious achievements
In 1928, when the warlords in the country were in chaos, Chiang Kai-shek became the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition and began a crusade.
Sun Liren also returned to China at this time, serving as an ordinary soldier on the Northern Expedition, and soon after, because of his outstanding ability, he became the military training team leader of the Central Party Affairs School.
Sun Liren received an orthodox Western-style education, and he knew where to start and how to train soldiers.
His training program was so different from the past that he was questioned a lot, and around Chiang Kai-shek, there were not a few people like Sun Liren who had a foreign background.
However, Chiang Kai-shek's nepotism, such as Sun Liren, cannot touch the center of power, and naturally cannot be reused.
Therefore, his military training captain was only a temporary post and had no real power, so that Sun Liren's training was resisted.
Later, Song Ziwen, minister of finance, organized a personal armed force called the Tax Police Corps.
This armed force was dedicated to protecting Song Ziwen and the people around him, and Sun Liren, who was good at Western-style training, was naturally taken under the command of Song Ziwen.
The Tax Police Corps is equipped with all American equipment, even the military uniform is biased towards the American style, and Song Ziwen is very interested in learning that there is a military training director with novel training in the national military system.
After seeing and investigating with his own eyes, it was decided to make Sun Liren the head of the tax police regiment, and Sun Liren's new training also made this armed force exert great combat effectiveness.
In the daily exercises and competitions in the army system, the achievements of the tax police corps are almost among the best, and in the entire national army system, Sun Liren's training methods have spread, and they were once referred to and studied by the system.
In 1937, when the Battle of Songhu began, Sun Liren led his tax police regiment to face the enemy who was several times more redundant than himself, relying on the powerful terrain to alternately cover, repelling several enemy attacks and killing and injuring the enemy's living forces.
Once, when the night was dark, Sun Liren led his men back to the front of the enemy, preparing to destroy a pontoon bridge on the way to hinder the advance of the Japanese Kou.
Unexpectedly, the action was exposed, and it was attacked by the Japanese Kou, and although it quickly retreated, it was covered by enemy fire and finally did not escape.
Unfortunately, he was injured by a bomb and fell unconscious, with as many as 13 wounds on his body, and when he was carried out of the battlefield, he was already covered in blood.
Later, after being secretly arranged by Song Ziwen to go to Happy Valley Hospital in Hong Kong for treatment, he was in a coma for three days and three nights before gradually waking up.
The scars of soldiers are the best honor, and after this battle, Sun Liren's position in the national army was established, and the reputation of the tax police corps became famous.
Sun Liren, who had only been recuperating for a few months after being injured, looked at the anxiety of the mainland battlefield and then looked at the fall of Shanghai, which he was defending, and his heart was like a knife.
So he could not care about his body that had not yet healed, returned to the battlefield to continue to resist the Japanese, and in February 1938, the Defense Of Wuhan began.
Sun Liren dragged his body, which was still recovering, and commanded the tax police regiment to snipe step by step, gradually approaching the command center of the Japanese Kou.
The people of the Taxation Police Corps had already suffered heavy casualties during the Battle of Songhu, and at this time there were only more than a thousand people left, and Sun Liren charged with his subordinates to pull up strongholds, save compatriots, and kill Japanese Kou, and the achievements of the Taxation Police Regiment were getting higher and higher.
After the battle of Wuhan, Sun Liren contributed to the party-state and was promoted to division commander of the Sixty-sixth Army.
The Sixty-sixth Army was one of the aces of the Nationalist Army, and its prestige was great, but Sun Liren's promotion should have been celebrated, but he had a sad face.
The reason is very simple, the tax police regiment was absorbed, Sun Liren had no one to use, and the tax police regiment had 6 regiments at the highest number of people, and its combat effectiveness was extraordinary.
However, now he is the commander of the division, and the number of troops under his command is only 3 regiments. And that's not even counting some non-combatants, typical of light rises and dark descents.
To say that sun Liren's situation, on the ordinary people may have long been dissatisfied or protested.
However, Sun Liren's own belief was that he had died of external humiliation, and he had been waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to show his fists and feet to conquer the four sides.
In 1942, the Japanese attempted to make a major change in the situation on the battlefield and cut off China's supply routes in Burma.
Under this crisis, the Chinese Expeditionary Force was established, and Sun Liren, with this army, entered the hinterland of the southwest and began a battle in which he was famous.
In the expeditionary war, the Battle of Ren'anqiang was quickly launched, and in the Battle of Ren'anqiang, we had only a thousand people, and we fought a fierce battle with the main force of the enemy's thirty-third division of more than 7,000 people.
Two hundred and four men were sacrificed and three hundred and eighteen wounded, occupying almost half of the strength of our warring forces.
We killed and wounded more than a thousand soldiers led by enemy Captain Nakaji Yoshiyanagi, and saved the lives of seven British soldiers.
Later, Sun Liren led the New First Army to break through a highway in China and India, passing through the jungles of the Hukang and Menggong Valleys.
The main force of the Japanese army was severely damaged, its plan of action was blocked, and more than 10,000 people of the 56th Division were forced to retreat, and only more than 20 people escaped.
In a valley southwest of the Menggong Valley, more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers with live ammunition were starved to death in the mountains and forests, and Sun Liren adopted a strategy of encircling and not fighting.
In the face of the Japanese charge, they were only trapped in the mountains and forests, and after a long time, they achieved a classic victory without any effort.
The expedition won great victories, washed away the humiliation after the Opium War, and greatly enhanced our international reputation.
Sun Liren's glorious military achievements in Burma have attracted worldwide attention, and he was the only famous anti-Japanese hero in China during World War II, known as the "Fox of the Jungle".
The expedition hurt the Japanese, who knew that the method of cutting off the route would be difficult to implement, so they began to retreat.
At that time, the civil war was in full swing, and if the Japanese army retreating from Yunnan burma could be depleted in strength, it would also be of great help to the domestic battlefield.
After Sun Liren entered Burma for the second time, he was even braver than the last battle, and used the momentum of destruction and decay to beat the Japanese army to death.
Framed and imprisoned for half a lifetime
Sun Liren's performance on the battlefield of the expedition made Chiang Kai-shek begin to look at him with admiration and began to reuse it.
During the Liberation War, Sun Liren met with communist troops in the northeast region.
For a time, neither side could help anyone, and coupled with the defeat of Du Yuming's command in the northeast at that time, Sun Liren took advantage of this to make a speech and was rejected.
Friction gradually arose between the two, and then Du Yuming used a trick to transfer them out of the northeast, until the end of the Liberation War, Sun Liren did not participate in any major battles.
After the Kuomintang returned to Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek continued to make Sun Liren the commander-in-chief of Taiwan's defense and the commander-in-chief of the army.
Because of Sun Liren's military training method, the troops retreating to Taiwan quickly came out of the mood of defeat in a vain attempt to one day fight back to the mainland.
It is such a capable and loyal person to the party-state, but he has been framed by people with ulterior motives, and Sun Li's rights in Taiwan are far greater than on the mainland.
He was in charge of almost half of the Nationalist army, and had even begun to rival Chiang Kai-shek.
And Sun Liren is completely a predatory soldier, no one is afraid, and he will make straightforward moves against any dissatisfaction or injustice.
It was at this time that corrupt elements within the party began to frame Sun Liren in an attempt to get him out of the wilderness, and they could not stop those corrupt elements from dividing up the resources within the Kuomintang.
In 1955, there was news within the Kuomintang that Sun Liren and the United States secretly wanted to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek's rule and support himself as chairman of the Nationalist government.
As soon as this news spread, Chiang Kai-shek was immediately like a needle in a haystack, because with Sun Liren's ability at this time, if this were the case, Chiang Kai-shek might not be able to stop Sun Liren.
So Chiang Kai-shek began to imprison Sun Liren for 33 years, and the reason why he did not directly kill Sun Liren was that, on the one hand, there was no conclusive evidence.
On the other hand, he is also in a high position of power, and the loyal people under him are unknown, and once killed, the consequences are uncontrollable.
Beauty accompanies future generations to fame
May he win the hearts of one person, the white head will not be separated, sun Liren's life, there are two confidants with red faces, which is the greatest happiness in the second half of his life.
Despite the injustice brought by fate, there are still people who are willing to face him.
Beginning in 1955, Sun Liren was imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek at No. 18 Shangshang Road, Taichung City.
Chiang Kai-shek did not have any severe punishment for Sun Liren, but only restrained his steps, could not get out of this house, and everything else was agreed within a reasonable range.
Sun Liren, who had been imprisoned for half his life, also had the opportunity to enjoy a moment of tranquility, but he definitely did not expect that the time was so long.
At this moment, the woman who accompanies Sun Liren is his confidant Zhang Jingying, who has passed more than half a hundred, and has been childless under his knees, which is also a heart disease in Zhang Jingying's heart.
He knew that Sun Liren did not want children before, because he was afraid that he would die on the battlefield at some point and would not be able to bring anything to his descendants.
So isn't it time? Zhang Jingying knew that her body was no longer able to have children, so she introduced the nurses around Sun Liren to Sun Liren as a concubine after her mediation.
Now that the two women are serving together as a husband, Sun Liren is quite fond of them all, and looking at the red face that is willing to accompany him, Sun Liren feels the happiness that cannot be achieved.
Long years of imprisonment have made Sun Liren's savings almost exhausted, and the things that can be used up in the family have been discarded, even if only one piece of jewelry for the two red faces is left.
In desperation, they began to rely on themselves, panning for gold in the land, relying on the sky to eat, and the ladies who had never done farm work soon had blood blisters on their hands.
Looking at Sun Liren, who was still working hard to plan the ground, they didn't say anything, maybe being able to accompany him was the greatest wealth.
Sun Liren translated books at home and earned money part-time, and the two wives went out to sell their own vegetables, lychees and so on.
Sun Liren has a good hand of flowers, and the roses of Sun Liren in Taiwan are the most famous. As a result, he received the title of "General Rose".
Sun Liren had four children in his lifetime, all of whom were born in captivity, and Sun Liren's education of them was as strict as when he was a child.
The children's academic and personal cultivation are strictly controlled, so that when the children later mention Sun Liren when they grow up, they will still have an instinctive fear of their fathers.
But they all understood that it was fatherly love, and without sun liren's teachings, there would be no them now.
The eldest daughter, Sun Zhongping, has a unique career in nuclear energy, and later worked as an engineer in the United States and later became the manager of acer alliance China.
Sun Anping was the eldest son of Sun Liren, graduated from Tsinghua University, and his main job as an adult was to collect all favorable evidence and try to rehabilitate his father.
After his second son, Tianping, returned to the United States, he has been actively promoting cross-strait relations, and was invited back to watch the ceremony during the 70th anniversary of the National Day anti-Japanese war military parade in 2015.
The youngest daughter is also a tenured professor at Duke University, a family of four scholars, Sun Liren has the company of a confidant with a red face in the second half of his life, and has a bright lintel with his children, which seems to have no regrets.
Just when Sun Liren was about to die, he used his last breath to shout out a sentence of "I was wronged"! So is this really the case? The mystery of history will eventually be solved.