Tip: It is said that there are many factors in life that make fate impossible to decide by oneself, and the subjectivity and objectivity of this factor are always entangled, making it difficult to distinguish for a while, and then becoming sad and sad in the yin and yang errors! Looking back at Zheng Dongguo's experience, one thing is completely certain, that is, his love with Chen Bilian is to die to die, to die forever, and never to "live" again, but surrender has allowed him to come back from the dead and "live" in the bright world. Although Zheng Dongguo's march to the light is not the same as Chen Bilian's deathly love, it also tells such a truth: what people need to live in a lifetime is often not life and death, wealth and wealth in the sky, but the ability and wisdom to judge right and wrong, as well as the courage and perseverance to go to the light and beauty.
Zheng Dongguo (1903-1991), Zi Guiting, Han ethnicity, Hunan Shimen people, graduated from the first phase of the Huangpu Military Academy, participated in the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition, was one of the first Kuomintang generals to participate in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and a lieutenant general in the National Revolutionary Army. In 1933, he led his troops to participate in the Gubeikou War of Resistance against the Great Wall, and after the "July 7 Incident", he successively led his troops to participate in the Battles of Baoding, the Great Victory of Taierzhuang, the Battle of Wuhan, the Great Victory of Kunlun Pass, the Battle of Western Hubei, the Second Battle of Changsha, etc., and repeatedly defeated the enemy and made outstanding achievements; in 1943, he was transferred to the commander of the New First Army of the Chinese Army stationed in India, leading the allied forces to retake northern Burma and raise their prestige abroad; in 1945, he returned to China and successively served as deputy commander of the Third Front, deputy commander-in-chief of northeast security, acting commander-in-chief, etc., and in 1948 at the important moment of the Liaoshen Campaign. Break away from the Kuomintang camp.
Life and death love and hate is an important choice that is difficult to escape in life, Zheng Dongguo also has the same experience, in the face of life and death, in the face of love and hate, he has been said to be "dead" by others, giving people the feeling that he said it is not counted, others said it, but in fact, in the face of these two choices, he has been his own master, and left some marks worth remembering.
Let's start with life and death.
After October 1947, the Northeast People's Liberation Army launched the Autumn Offensive and the Winter Offensive successively, a large number of effective forces of the Kuomintang army were annihilated, the traffic on The Beining Road was cut off, and the Kuomintang war situation in the northeast took a sharp turn again. Shocked by the news, Chiang Kai-shek flew to Shenyang on January 10, 1948, held a military conference, and decided to set up the headquarters of the "suppression of bandits" in the northeast, appoint Wei Lihuang as deputy director of the northeast and commander-in-chief of the "suppression of bandits," and at the same time appoint Zheng Dongguo and Fan Hanjie as deputy commanders-in-chief. Subsequently, as the situation on the battlefield changed, Chiang Kai-shek and Wei Lihuang proposed that Zheng concurrently serve as the commander of the 1st Corps and the chairman of Jilin Province, and undertake the task of holding Changchun.
At this time, Changchun was already surrounded by the People's Liberation Army on all sides, and many of Zheng Dongguo's staff and friends advised him not to obey his orders, and he himself was quite hesitant in his heart. In late March, at the repeated urging of Jiang and Wei, he had to fly to Changchun, and thus began the most painful period of his life.
At that time, there were about 100,000 people stationed in Changchun, including the New 7th Army, the 60th Army, the direct subordinate units of the 1st Corps, and the local security forces, and there were also 500,000 citizens. In addition to controlling the airfields outside the city, the defenders were cut off from the outside world, and there was a shortage of food and fuel in the city, and people were scattered, morale was low, and the situation was difficult.
After Zheng Dongguo arrived in office, he hoped to rely on the strong city defense of Changchun to stick to it for a long time. In late May, he dispatched some troops to attack the city, preparing to search for some grain on the outskirts of the city. The People's Liberation Army took the opportunity to counterattack. The Nationalist defenders suffered heavy losses, and the airfield was controlled by the Platon Army. Subsequently, he made some tentative breakthroughs, but all of them ended in failure, and with the middle of October, the People's Liberation Army conquered Jinzhou, cutting off the throat of the Northeast Kuomintang army to Guannei, and hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops in Changchun, Shenyang and other places suddenly became turtles in an urn.
The bitter and helpless Zheng Dongguo accepted Chiang Kai-shek's strict order to lead his troops to break through to Shenyang, but the soldiers lost their perseverance and confidence in battle because of long-term hunger and physical weakness, and the breakthrough could only stay on the table, and it was difficult to have practical action. On October 16, Zheng Dongguo once again summoned his subordinates to formulate a breakthrough plan and decided to operate at dawn the next day. However, that night, Zeng Zesheng led the 60th Army to declare an uprising, disrupting his deployment and forcing the breakout to be stopped.
Zheng Dongguo, who was completely desperate for the breakthrough, was still determined to serve the "party-state" to the end, refused the DEMAND that the People's Liberation Army stop resisting, led a special task force to hold the central bank building, and personally wrote a farewell letter with Chiang Kai-shek. In the newly filmed "Armageddon", there are only four words - goodbye in the next life. The actual gist is: "The overall situation cannot be recovered, and the shame of the revolution will be left behind." ”
At first, Chiang Kai-shek saw these four words and was very touched, believing that Zheng Dongguo's behavior was worthy of praise and study. However, the fact is that the officers and men under Zheng Dongguo are no longer willing to make martyrdom for the corrupt Kuomintang regime, and on the morning of the 19th, all the officers and men of the New 7th Army announced that they would lay down their weapons. In the early morning of the 21st, the troops directly under the corps guarding the Changchun Central Bank Building held Zheng Dongguo hostage in the name of breaking through and surrendered their weapons, and Changchun was liberated. In this way, Zheng Dongguo is "alive" again.
How can a dead person come back to life? Hearing the news, Chiang Kai-shek's face was very hanging, and on the 22nd, the Central News Agency reported: "Changchun was lost, Zheng Dongguo was heroic and fierce, and on the morning of the 21st, the last bullet was issued, and all 300 officers and men under it were killed." Zheng Dongguo's "death" was concocted in this way, and a high-ranking lieutenant general of the National Revolutionary Army, his life and death were not decided by himself, but by his superiors or leaders. In this way, in the Kuomintang, the living Zheng Dongguo became a "dead" person.
Let's talk about love and hate or love. Poets say that after love is separated, there will always be a little bit of hate. When Zheng Dongguo "died", his wife was Chen Bilian, his second wife. We can't say that the love between Zheng Dongguo and Chen Bilian finally became hatred, but after they separated, there was still a little bit, and it was precisely because of this little bit of "hate" that Zheng Dongguo finally made his love.
Zheng Dongguo and Chen Bilian
When Zheng Dongguo was besieged in Changchun, Chen Bilian wrote him a family letter like this, the original text is as follows:
Guiting:
For the sake of your safety for several months, people must not forget at any time, and sleep and eat restlessly. Gui Ting, weak and haggard is not years, but sorrow, for several months my body has deteriorated, much thinner than before! Gui Ting, you are trapped in this isolated city, does it matter... You are so careless, you are doing it with your life, what is it for? I am very sad to think of all this, and I am still suffering from this, what else can I say! Heaven bless you with peace. It should be very peaceful, because you have always been good to everyone, your heart is better, and you should have a good reward: the autumn wind rises, and you are more worried about people.
Lotus on
September 6
This family letter can be described as affectionate, and it is not difficult for people to see the deep friendship between Zheng Dongguo and Chen Bilian through it. Chen Bilian was born in 1916, a native of Shangrao, Jiangxi. Growing up to be a great beauty in ten miles and eight townships, she is not only beautiful, but also educated, a woman who combines beauty and talent. In 1933, Zheng Dongguo, who had participated in the Great Wall War of Resistance, passed south through Nanjing and met Chen Bilian at the home of a fellow villager.
At this time, Zheng Dongguo was 30 years old, but he was already a brigade commander, a Huangpu concubine of Chiang Kai-shek, and in the eyes of many people, he belonged to the category with a promising future. But in terms of marriage, he was not very satisfied, and the original wife was called Qin La'e, who was arranged by his family when he was 15 years old. Today, many people think that arranged marriages are unfortunate, but the arranged marriages of Zheng Dongguo and Qin La'e have become an exception. After marriage, the two had a very good relationship and soon had 2 sons and 1 daughter. Subsequently, Zheng Dongguo joined the army and separated from his wife, and fate at this time carried out a teasing on his love, and Zheng Dongguo, who participated in the Central Plains War, suddenly received the news of his wife's death - Qin La'e died of a serious illness.
Qin La'e's departure devastated Zheng Dongguo, and it took him three years to come out of his sad state of mind, and his encounter with Chen Bilian allowed him to have a second love. At that time, he went to visit his hometown Xiao Zhongzhen, and Chen Bilian was The cousin of Mrs. Xiao Zhongzhen, and the two met in front of Xiao Zhongzhen's hospital bedside, attracted each other, and soon fell in love, and married in the autumn of that year. At that time, Chen Bilian was only 17 years old, and because of his beautiful appearance, his combination with Zheng Dongguo caused a lot of sensation in the army. Judging from the old photos left now, she is also quite stunning. Zheng Dongguo has gained the heart of a beautiful person in this way.
The next few days were roughly like this, Zheng Dongguo continued to travel east and west as a soldier, conquering the north and south, leaving Chen Bilian alone at home, and also leaving her full of thoughts. But this did not affect her to become a virtuous helper of Zheng Dongguo, who helped Zheng Dongguo to take good care of children and the elderly, and gave Zheng Dongguo a safe home. The feelings of the two are thus more harmonious and loving.
Zheng Dongguo first connected Chen Bi to live in Yunnan, and it was not until after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War that the two settled in Shanghai. But the fly in the ointment is that it may be the reason for the gathering of less and more, and the two have not had children. To make up for this deficiency, Chen Bilian later adopted her brother's daughter, who became her and Zheng Dongguo's only adopted daughter. It is reasonable to say that a family is already very happy at this time, but behind this very happy there are also some foreshadowings of crisis.
Zheng Dongguo was sent to the northeast by Chiang Kai-shek, and Chen Bilian was separated from him again, and his "death" in Changchun made Chen Bilian even more sad. At that time, Chen Bilian did not know that a day before the Kuomintang published the report, the People's Daily had already published another news article entitled "Zheng Dongguo Led his Troops to Surrender and Changchun was Completely Liberated," and washed his face with tears all day.
In the end, the paper of the Central News Agency did not cover the real fire, Chen Bilian learned that Zheng Dongguo was still alive, and the two were reunited in Harbin shortly after -- shortly after Zheng Dongguo surrendered, he went to the Harbin Liberated Area to study, and Chen Bilian was approved to accompany him. Those who "died" enjoyed the beauty of being alive again, and Chen Bilian was heavily fooled by the news of the Kuomintang at this time. And this reunion also gave her some understanding of the weather in the north.
Chen Bilian's father, Mr. Chen Hongzao, joined the League in his early years, studied in Japan, opened law firms in many places, and was a famous barrister in the Republic of China period. Chen Bilian is not only proficient in English, but also writes well and looks beautiful. In our words today, it is a model or representative of white and rich beauty. Zheng Dongguo's resurrection from the dead, although she once again felt the happiness of love, but she grew up in the south, but she could not stand the northern climate, and because of the superior family environment and Zheng Dongguo's childlessness, she suddenly became somewhat "fragile".
In October 1948, Zheng Dongguo (center) led his troops to surrender and arrived in Harbin.
After returning from Harbin, Chen Bilian and Zheng Dongguo spent a quiet time in Shanghai, and in 1952, Zheng Dongguo was invited to Beijing to serve as a counselor to the Ministry of Water Resources. What people did not expect was that when Zheng Dongguo and Chen Bilian discussed the matter of moving to Beijing, Chen Bilian, who had lived with him for nearly 20 years, played a "miss temper" and was unwilling to go to Beijing with him on the grounds that he could not accept the climate of Beijing. Unable to do Chen Bilian's work, Zheng Dongguo had to go to Beijing alone, and surprisingly, a year later, he received Chen Bilian's divorce agreement from Shanghai!
Looking at Chen Bilian's name that had been signed in the agreement, Zheng Dongguo was somewhat angry, but after careful consideration, he finally agreed, and the two divorced. So many hardships and hardships and strong winds and waves have come over, and I didn't expect that the ship of marriage would finally turn over in the ditch of Chen Bilian because of "water and soil dissatisfaction". In the face of love, Zheng Dongguo more or less produced some meanings that he was "said" dead in Changchun and was alive. Both things made him feel helpless and painful, and accompanied by light and excitement, so his life was very much caught in this kind of good or bad news, which became a unique feeling that ordinary people could hardly experience.
In the mid-1950s, Zheng Dongguo and Gu Xianjuan took a group photo of their newlyweds
The later ending was this: Zheng Dongguo, who was alone in Beijing, was introduced to marry his third wife, Gu Xianjuan. Gu Xianjuan, who is originally from Zhejiang, was 35 years old when she married Zheng Dongguo, and also took her ex-husband's daughter, but this did not affect her relationship with Zheng Dongguo. After marriage, the two were very affectionate after marriage and gave birth to a daughter. Unfortunately, Gu Xianjuan died of illness in 1972 due to ill health, and Zheng Dongguo became single again. Chen Bilian, who is alone in Shanghai, married a businessman Zhong Mou, but unlike Zheng Dongguo's misfortune, her life after marriage was not good, and after the company run by Zhong was public-private, their lives began to become tight. Soon, Zhong was sentenced again, and there was no job after he was released from prison, and their lives were even worse. In the 1970s, in order to make a living, he left Shanghai for the countryside of Suzhou, but Zhong Mou died soon because he could not bear the blow of life. Chen Bilian could only return to Shanghai again, relying on his brother to live, and was alone again.
Is it still possible to remarry? Chen Bilian, who had been dissatisfied with Beijing's water and soil, came to Beijing and euphemistically proposed the idea of remarriage with Zheng Dongguo, although he was supported by the children of the two families, but Zheng Dongguo resolutely refused. The reason is that some people, once they miss it, become forever missed; some things, once missed, become irreparable. When he needed Chen Bilian's company the most, Chen Bilian chose to leave him, and his 19-year marriage with Chen Bilian had been frozen in the cold of Beijing in the fifties. Life can't leave a door for a person forever, and love can't make a person willful at any time. In this way, he completely broke off the leading edge with Chen Bilian.
In 1991, Zheng Dongguo died of illness in Beijing at the age of 88. Chen Bilian, who learned the news, came from Shanghai to participate in the farewell ceremony of the body, it was January, the weather in Beijing was particularly cold, but she said that the most memorable time in her life was the 19-year marriage life with Zheng Dongguo, and the biggest mistake she made in her life was that she should not divorce Zheng Dongguo that year. In this way, with this regret that she could not make up, she died of illness in 2006 at the age of 90.
Confucius said that "unknown life knows death", and life and death are assigned to the same position here. But in real life, life is indeed greater than death in many cases, that is to say, objective life is always greater than subjective death. This is because man can either live to death or die to die, but in the process of decision,He himself is born.
It is said that there are many factors in life that make fate unable to be determined by themselves, and the subjectivity and objectivity of this factor are always entangled, making it difficult to distinguish for a while, and then becoming sad and tragic in the yin and yang errors! Looking back at Zheng Dongguo's experience, one thing is completely certain, that is, his love with Chen Bilian is to die to die, to die forever, and never to "live" again, but surrender has allowed him to come back from the dead and "live" in the bright world. Although Zheng Dongguo's march to the light is not the same as Chen Bilian's deathly love, it also tells such a truth: what people need to live in a lifetime is often not life and death, wealth and wealth in the sky, but the ability and wisdom to judge right and wrong, as well as the courage and perseverance to go to the light and beauty.
The pictures in this article are from the network, thanks to the original author!