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In 1937, after learning that Nankai had been bombed, Zhang Xihu wrote a family letter to Zhang Boling, but Zhang Boling received this family letter at the same time as Zhang Xihu's death notice. After reading the notice, Zhang Boling was silent, and then said: Die well! Good to die!
Zhang Boling is known as the "father of Nankai", he was determined to serve the country from an early age, and when he was young, he felt that only education could save the country, so he devoted himself to education, established Nankai University, and cultivated countless elite students.
As the fourth son of Zhang Boling, Zhang Xihu grew up in Nankai and was also deeply affected by the atmosphere at that time, determined to be a staunch patriot.
After the 918 incident, Zhang Xihu and 8 classmates set up a bicycle communication team, led by military training instructors, to participate in the front line of the Great Wall to participate in the anti-war activities.
Looking at the batch of refugees who fled from the northeast one after another, Zhang Xihu deeply felt the pain of the destruction of the country and the death of the family. He was so sad that he decided to abandon his pen and defend his family and defend the country, and dedicate his own strength.
Therefore, he made an agreement with his classmates to apply for the Air Force together after graduation.
Therefore, after graduating from high school, Zhang Xihu was admitted to the Central Aviation School with his classmates and became a student of the third phase at that time.
At the same time, Shen Chongjie of Tsinghua University, Le Yiqin of Qilu University, Meng Guangxin and Mao Yingchu of Jinling University, Chen Enwei of Soochow University, Jiang Xianxiang of Zhijiang University, Sun Zhongyue of Peking University, and Zhang Guangming of Beijing Normal University joined the Central Aviation School. They all entered aviation school in this wave of patriotic service.
At that time, most of the students who could be admitted to the aviation school were either rich or expensive, and in today's terms, they were all a group of rich second-generation people, but when the national disaster came to an end, they resolutely gave up a good life and chose to be a high-risk occupation of the air force, and used their lives to defend the land.
At his son's graduation ceremony, Zhang Boling, as a parent representative, delivered a speech saying: "Today's foreign troubles are serious, my parents should follow the example of their mother-in-law's embroidery, and graduate students should learn from Yue Fei to be loyal to the country." ”
After graduating, Zhang Xihu was assigned to the 30th Squadron of the Air Force and stationed in Jiangxi.
He and his family gathered less and more, and could only rely on letters to communicate, and when he learned that Nankai School was bombed by the Japanese army, he comforted his father to take care of his health. The Battle of Linglu had already broken out, and Zhang Xihu was ready to go to the battlefield.
On August 14, 1937, Japan carried out a wild bombardment of Nanjing on the mainland, and Nanjing was in danger. Zhang Xihu's unit received an urgent order to support Nanjing as quickly as possible, despite all difficulties.
In order to seize the initiative in the war and eliminate the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai before the Japanese reinforcements arrived, the superior ordered Zhang Xihu's flying squadron to do everything possible to eliminate the Japanese troops stationed in Nanjing.
Zhang Xihu is well aware of the arduous and dangerous task. Therefore, on the eve of his departure, he wrote a two-page farewell letter to his parents: the child failed to serve his parents and felt deeply filial piety, but the teachings of his father did not dare to forget. Today, the country is in difficulty, and the son is about to go to the front line to serve the country loyally and filial piety.
Due to the immaturity of meteorological observation conditions at that time, Zhang Xihu encountered a dangerous situation after taking off under harsh conditions, and the plane eventually crashed over Linchuan, and Zhang Xihu was martyred at the age of 26.
At the same time as receiving the family letter, Zhang Boling also received Zhang Xihu's death notice. After seeing the notice, Zhang Boling was silent for a long time, and suddenly said in a loud voice: Die well, die well. This sentence contains Zhang Boling's feelings of losing his beloved son, and even more praises his son's dedication to the country, because his son has realized the sentence "There is no courage in the battle, not filial piety.".
In the face of the concern of the people around him, Zhang Boling instead comforted everyone and said: "I have long thought that this child will promise the country with his body, and now he really promises the country with his body, which is also expected." This is to ask for kindness, there is no need to be too sad. "
Loyalty and filial piety have been difficult since ancient times, in that turbulent era, in order to save the country, countless people endured the pain of leaving their relatives, leaving their lovers, and bravely embarked on the battlefield. In order to fight against the enemy army and defend the country, there are too many Chinese have paid their precious lives for this, and Zhang Xihu is just one of them.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, according to statistics, almost all of the more than 1,700 pilots of the Central Aviation School died on the battlefield, with an average age of less than 30 years old, and they shot down a total of 1,167 Japanese fighters and bombers, making outstanding contributions to the War of Resistance Against Japan.