Since ancient times, we have had strong generals who can step on the battlefield, and there are also literati and elegant guests who can write dragons and snakes, but there are not many double-faced talents who are both civil and military. In the period of the Republic of China, it was a period of historical interpretation of great changes, and there was a special one among the generals who came to power one by one in the history of the Republic of China. He was not only able to write a good handwriting called Pulling Clouds, but also was able to take the lead in the battle against the Japanese, and this person was the legendary Confucian general Que Hanqian in the Kuomintang.
The battle of Songhu will see the real chapter
The Japanese army wanted to create a gap from Shanghai, so that it could penetrate directly into East China and create pressure in China and internationally. Against this background, the Battle of Songhu broke out. At this time, Que Hanqian was serving as the commander of the 79th Regiment of the 14th Division, and in the Shanghai Luodian Defensive Campaign, he led his soldiers to launch countless fierce tug-of-war battles with the enemy. Although Que Hanqian's 79th Regiment suffered heavy casualties, it did not retreat from the fight, which also made the arrogant Japanese disgraced. Que Hanqian was subsequently promoted to commander of the 40th Brigade.
Subsequently, the 14th Division of Que Hanqian's division was ordered to move to Tangkou in the north and south, and in the face of the unstoppable fierce offensive of the Japanese army in the early stage, the defense line was several times urgent and precarious. Que Hanqian led the troops to hold their positions and did not flinch in the face of a strong enemy. Even when he was advised to retreat for safety, he resolutely held his post for three months.
However, based on strategic considerations, the whole army finally decided to retreat. In the process of evacuation, the 14th Division retreated in an orderly manner through the Qingyang Port and Kunshan lines, while the 40th Brigade of Que Hanqian took on the heavy responsibility of breaking off the rear and waged a desperate struggle with the Japanese army at the Qingyang Port Highway Bridge position, and it was not until the main force of the whole army was safely transferred that he led the 40th Brigade to withdraw from the battlefield.
Bloody battles
In May 1944, Que Hanqian, who was already the commander of the 54th Army, received an order to take Tengchong City, which was occupied by the Japanese. As far as the situation at that time is concerned, the difficulty is not how to lay down Tengchong but how to hold Tengchong.
Que Hanqian led his troops to occupy Tengchong City, and he also knew that the most difficult time had just come. The Japanese army attacked the city wall position occupied by the 108th Regiment of the 36th Division, and the two sides engaged in a fierce white-knuckle battle. The 108th Regiment was forced to withdraw from its ramparts due to heavy casualties. More than 500 people of the second battalion of the regiment died heroically. Que Hanqian urgently asked dozens of bombers of the US 114th Air Force to take turns bombing. After the war, I cleaned up the battlefield and found that in the basement, more than 30 officers and soldiers of the Japanese command, including Yasumi Kurashige, the deputy wing commander Ru Okunakasa, the senior captain Liu Aomitsu, and the senior captain Shimokawa Nakazo, were all suffocated in the basement by the bombed buildings.
In the face of the frenzied attack of the Japanese, Que Hanqian ordered the Japanese to be put in to fight street battles, so that the Japanese large-scale firepower weapons would not come in handy. So the divisions fought with the Japanese army in the city, and the Japanese army counterattacked with all their might, fighting flesh and blood. In Tengchong City, after a month of fierce street fighting, full of devastation and ruins, more than 6,000 Japanese troops since the beginning of the war, except for about 300 people who fled the city, the rest were killed and committed suicide in the city.
For the fleeing enemy, Que Hanqian ordered the commander of the 2nd Pre-Division Fang Cheng to lead a regiment of troops to pursue the enemy, and all the other enemies were killed except for a dozen prisoners. By September 14, the Tengchong Annihilation War was completely victorious, the enemy was captured or killed, and there was no escape, and the Tengchong War also convinced the Japanese, and some Japanese instructors called it the most successful annihilation war in Chinese history.
Calligraphy life
Que Hanqian once said to people that he has moved forward in fame in his life, but he does not value fame, only calligraphy is accompanied, which can be called his second life. And Zhao Hengti, the former governor of Hunan Province and a celebrity, once wrote two poems to perfect Que Hanqian: the giant attracts the ink and flies, and the scale stretches flat and stretches the iron to paint the sand. has won the Qianqiu Huaisu seat, dripping with true qi to walk the dragon and snake.
Que Hanqian's words are majestic and magnificent, and his pen is powerful, showing the spirit of a soldier. Mr. Wu Zhihui, a former famous calligrapher, was full of praise for his characters, and also named Que Hanqian's characters Bayunti.
In 1959, Que Hanqian, who followed Chiang Kai-shek, held a personal calligraphy exhibition at Zhongshan Hall in Taipei. The original "Song of Righteousness" written by this war-torn general and the thousand-character text of line, grass, Kai and Li, won praise from experts and won unanimous praise.