In 1949, near the end of the Huaihai Campaign, the defeat of the Kuomintang was decided, and Chiang Kai-shek announced his withdrawal to Taiwan.
On the occasion of the evacuation, Chiang Kai-shek ordered a large amount of gold, cultural relics, and treasures to be taken away, and on the evacuation list, the beautiful ladies of three high-ranking officers were specially written.
He also ordered these three people under his subordinates not to forget and must take them to Taiwan together.
What is the origin of these three officers' wives that would make Chiang Kai-shek not forget to take them with him when he was retreating in a panic? What was their situation after arriving in Taiwan?
One. Huang Wei's wife Cai Ruoshu
Huang Wei, born on February 28, 1904, was born in a farming family in Shengyuan Township, Guixi, Jiangxi, and his father died early.
Having lost his father at an early age, he has a stubborn personality and is honest and honest.
Therefore, as a diehard, after the Huaihai Campaign, he was reformed for 27 years before being released, and he was also the last batch of labor reform prisoners to be released.
During his 27 years in a labor camp, his wife never gave up.
He and his wife Cai Ruoshu are in free love, his wife Cai Ruoshu is a big show, gentle and beautiful, she was more beautiful than many stars of the era.
When the Battle of Huaihai broke out in 1948, Huang Wei, who was cultivating in Lushan, received an order from Chiang Kai-shek to immediately return to Wuhan.
Huang Wei entrusted Cai Ruoshu and his three children, including the newborn Huang Huinan, to the people around him.
Before he was transferred to the front, he also agreed with Chiang Kai-shek to return to his military school after the Huaihai Campaign. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek also agreed, who would have thought that he had not returned home after nearly 30 years of fighting this war.
During the Huaihai Campaign, the Kuomintang army was exhausted, and Chiang Kai-shek refused to give up.
The People's Liberation Army captured Huang Wei alive, and Chiang Kai-shek, after learning that Huang Wei had been captured, feared that the army would break up, and announced that Huang Wei had died in battle.
After the defeat of the Kuomintang, the Kuomintang troops withdrew to Taiwan, and in low 1948, Chiang Kai-shek sent people to bring Cai Ruoshu and her four children to Taiwan.
Cai Ruoshu, who arrived in Taiwan, did not want to believe the fact that her husband had died, washed her face with tears every day, and held a grand memorial service in order to make the world believe that Huang Wei had sacrificed.
In the 50s of the last century, Cai Ruoshu secretly returned to Hong Kong and was overjoyed to learn that her husband was not dead. Even to avoid Chiang Kai-shek's eyes and ears, he secretly returned to the mainland with a few children.
Cai Ruoshu, who returned to the mainland, got a job in a library in Shanghai, and did not have Huang Wei after the first amnesty list came out in 1959, and he was not included in the country's last amnesty list in 1975.
After Huang Wei returned, Cai Ruoshu seemed to be in a better mood and fell into the symptoms of gain and loss.
Cai Ruoshu's mental symptoms became more and more serious, and he also suffered from auditory hallucinations, and under such mental pressure, he gradually collapsed.
One night, he sneaked out of the house, walked to the moat and jumped in.
Two. Ye Xiazhai, wife of Hu Zongnan
Hu Zongnan was born in 1896 in a poor family in Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province.
In early 1947, Hu Zunnan, who had just been promoted to a second-class general, asked Chiang Kai-shek to marry.
Hu Zunnan never married in order to wait for Ye Xiazhai to return to China.
At that time, Ye Xiazhai was sent to the United States to study, and also received a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin.
Finally, at the age of 51, Hu Zunnan finally waited for Ye Xiazhai to return to China.
After the outbreak of the three major battles, the PLA grew bigger and fiercer, and the Kuomintang became bigger and more defeated.
As Chiang Kai-shek's confidant, he has always lost in the battle with the People's Liberation Army, which makes Chiang Kai-shek suspicious.
In 1949, after Chiang Kai-shek was defeated and retreated to Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek, fearing that Hu Zongnan would rebel, fled to Taiwan with the former Northwest King and his wife, but their life was not the life that people saw as officers and officers' wives.
Because Hu Zongnan's previous salary was spent on military management, there was no longer much money to flee to Taiwan.
Chiang Kai-shek did not trust him and never used him, and although he was transferred by Chiang Kai-shek as a strategic adviser, he did not have real power, but was snubbed.
In 1959, although Hu Zongnan retained his status as a soldier, he did not hold any actual position.
Although the conditions were difficult, Hu Zongnan did not allow Ye Xiazhai to go out to work, divided his salary into three, and often took him and his children out for sightseeing.
Under such difficult conditions, Ye Xiazhai did not abandon Hu Zongnan, she sold her jewelry and cultural relics, and gradually maintained her family, but when the days slowly improved, Hu Zongnan's body appeared in condition.
In 1962, Hu Zongnan died of a heart attack in Taiwan, and Hu Zongnan's death plunged Ye Xiazhai into extreme sadness.
In her later years, Ye Xiazhai raised her three children as adults in order to replace the family, and she forcibly endured sadness to work, and she also retired until the vice president of the university, and there was a beginning and an end.
He eventually died in Taiwan in 1981.
Three. Zhang Lingfu's wife Wang Yuling
Born in Chang'an County, Shaanxi Province in 1903, he was admitted to the history department of Peking University, but dropped out because he could not afford the tuition.
After dropping out of Peking University, he joined the Hu Jingyi Training Corps, and was later admitted to the Fourth Military Academy of Whampoa.
In 1945, Zhang Lingfu, who was promoted to military commander, married his third wife, Wang Yuling.
Later, due to the outbreak of the Battle of Menglianggu, the Kuomintang troops at that time were distracted, and Zhang Lingfu, who had just been married for a year as Chiang Kai-shek's confidant, was sent to the battlefield.
In 1947, their son was born, and Zhang Lingfu's troops on the battlefield were heavily surrounded by the PLA, and the Kuomintang had no soldiers to reinforce them, and finally died on the battlefield unwilling to revolt.
At that time, Wang Yuling, who had just reached the full moon of her child, heard about her husband's sacrifice, washed her face with tears every day, fainted several times crying, and Chiang Kai-shek also lost a beloved general.
So in 1949, when he was defeated and retired to Taiwan, he brought Wang Yuling's mother and son to Taiwan, when Wang Yuling's mother and son first went to Taiwan and lived well, but after a long time, Chiang Kai-shek did not care about them, the economy was very difficult, and life was very difficult.
For the future life of her and her son, Wang Yuling with the help of Sun Liren, rushed to the United States, with a half-work-study life, studying abroad in the accounting department of New York University.
After graduation, Wang Yuling did not choose to return to China to work, but found several jobs in the United States, and finally chose an airline to do financial management, and later brought his mother and son to the United States to reunite.
In 1973, Wang Yuling accepted the invitation of Zhou Dongli to return to the motherland for a visit and return to his roots, but Wang Yuling did not agree at that time.
Until 1992, Wang Yuling officially returned to the embrace of the motherland with his son, enjoying his old age in peace, and his life was greatly improved in the embrace of the motherland.
In 2005, on the 60th anniversary of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Wang Yuling received the badge in place of her husband Zhang Lingfu.
In 2021, he died of illness.