In 1950, shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China, a newly married peasant girl came to the local public security organ in Tongjiang, Sichuan Province, and reported her husband to the public security personnel on duty: My husband's behavior and conversation are different from those of farmers, not like ordinary people!
Based on the girl's report, the local armed personnel successfully arrested Wang Lingyun, who was living in seclusion in the countryside under the pseudonym "Zhang Keming", and then sent Wang Lingyun from the local government to the Beijing Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center for reform.
So what is Wang Lingyun's identity that will make his wife suspicious and finally arrested and sent to a war criminals' center?
In fact, Wang Lingyun is not a simple person, he is not an ordinary peasant, but a lieutenant general in the Kuomintang army.
Legendary achievements, suppressed bandits, fought against the Red Army, and achieved remarkable results in the War of Resistance Against Japan because he dared to fight and fight, it is no exaggeration to say that Wang Lingyun was an anti-Japanese hero, but he lost to Su Yu in the War of Liberation and finally disappeared silently, which became a mystery at that time and has no answer so far.
Wang Lingyun
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="159" > early experience</h1>
On September 27, 1899, Wang Lingyun was born in a small village in Yiyang, Henan Province, and this traditional village, Mangzhuang Village, is now an intangible cultural heritage. In this small village, Wang Lingyun came out, and Sun Dianying, who was also a lieutenant general, also studied in this village, and he was taught by Wang Lingxiao, who was Also Wang Lingyun's brother.
Wang Lingyun's father was a parent who paid attention to etiquette, maintained a family, and was more open-minded. In addition, the family foundation of the Wang family was not bad before, and the family had a hundred acres of good land. Wang Lingyun had the opportunity to go to school, he entered a very good primary school in Yiyang County to study, thinking that after completing his studies, he would go to the examination for meritorious name.
However, the Xinhai Revolution broke out, Yuan Shikai took the opportunity to jump out and take advantage of the fire to loot, the Qing Dynasty was extinguished, there was no hope of obtaining a meritorious name, and the family's conditions were deteriorating because the harvest was too poor for years of drought, so Wang Lingyun ran to become a soldier and wanted to break through a reputation in the army.
Wang Lingyun first went to the arsenal unit under the Beiyang warlord Wu Peifu, who was gaining power at that time, but Wang Lingyun, who had been studying for a long time, was difficult to adapt to the intensity of wu Peifu's troops training soldiers, and Wu Peifu, who was known as the "general who always won", of course, the soldiers under his hands were more powerful, and Wang Lingyun stayed for three months and ran back home.
Wu Peifu
Wang Lingyun, who ran back to Yiyang, went to find Xu Xueyi, and Xu Xueyi arranged for him to continue his studies. After graduation, he defected to Zheng Guohan.
Zheng Guohan was originally the governor of Yiyang County, Henan, and he was bent on improving the lives of the people and restoring the original vitality of the Central Plains under the influence of the "Ding PengQi Famine".
Zheng Guohan, who was in the official field, was different from the people who were officials in the same period, he did not like to embezzle money, but he was upright and was a great Qing official, but in that decadent era, it was difficult for Qing officials to survive, because of the strict investigation of opium, Zheng Guohan was framed, and He was sentenced to ten years in prison. The Beiyang government released him not long after because of the difficulty of violating public opinion and the turmoil of public opinion, but Zheng Guohan resigned his official in anger and began to form a vigilante group to establish his own armed forces.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="215" > seriously affected</h1>
Wang Lingyun had read books, and his personal ability was also very prominent, and he was soon noticed by Zheng Guohan, and under mutual appreciation, Zheng Guohan took Wang Lingyun and began to suppress bandits. At that time, it was a chaotic world, and there were many bandits, all of which were forced out by natural disasters and man-made disasters.
In the process of suppressing bandits, Wang Lingyun's military strength was also continuously improved, and he became a well-known rising star in Henan, and his official position was getting higher and higher. From captain, all the way to the rank of major battalion commander of the Guard Battalion. After that, he successively served as the detachment leader and chief captain of the Yiyang City Defense Corps, and has always insisted on eliminating and recruiting bandits.
As the land of the Central Plains, Henan has a large population since ancient times, and it has encountered natural disasters that are rare in a hundred years in a chaotic world, and there are many bandits, armed forces, and warlords in small groups in Henan with a large population base. In the era when the Beiyang government was in power, Henan could be said to be the number one place in the chaotic region.
Even when Wu Peifu presided over the situation in Henan, he was so angry that he jumped to his feet and scolded his mother. In the midst of such chaos, Wang Lingyun relied on his solid achievements in suppressing bandits and slowly climbed upwards.
Wu Peifu's army
At that time, the bandits liked to pull the banner of the revolutionary party, saying that they were going to oppose the warlords, protect the party and save the country, and called themselves the "Party And National Salvation Army." In fact, all the work is some burning and looting, which is simply a loss of conscience.
Wang Lingyun began to fight with Zheng Guohan and the bandits. However, soon after, Zheng Guohan was killed by bandits, which made Wang Lingyun very sad, after all, Zheng Guohan was his own guide, and he could only show his fists and feet by his appreciation. Therefore, he deeply resented the so-called "national protection army" at that time, and spared no effort to fight the bandits.
Under the persecution of bandits, some people who are willing to use their brains have some ghost ideas, like a moat, to dig a man-made stream around the village. For the bandits, a few steps will be taken, but the grain they have grabbed cannot cross the "village creek". This greatly annoyed the bandits: Well, if we can't grab the food, we will go and kidnap the meat tickets of the rich people, and you will take the money to ransom people, or you will not even find the corpse.
In this way, Wang Lingyun's business is particularly good, with armed forces in hand, he will be invited by landlords and squires to protect their lives and property, just like our bodyguards today.
Bandits also know how to keep up with the times, and they have banded together to kidnap rich and powerful lords. The bold ones are directed at the wives of high-ranking officials, and they specialize in picking pregnant women. Among the rich and powerful, whose wife is pregnant, it is really walking on thin ice and fearful every day. I am afraid that my wife will be kidnapped, and if I am not careful, I will end up with a broken family.
In this context, Wang Lingyun really could not see that bandits were so rampant, so he began to lead his troops to take the initiative to attack those bandits who were pulling the tiger skin of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, but were not revolutionary but specialized in kidnapping tickets. However, the bandits in Yiyang are also really difficult to entangle, making the landlords miserable: they can't fight and run, and they can't move and are kidnapped, who can bear it.
So the landlords also united, and they joined forces to embarrass the county magistrate. At this time, the county magistrate was also bitter: "Let you pay for the organization of forces to deal with the bandits, and as a result, you will not be able to do anything one by one, and now the bandits are rampant, and they have come to put pressure on me, and I will not do it." In this way, the landlord ousted the county magistrate.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="217" > is beginning to show sharpness</h1>
Wang Lingyun was already well-known at that time, serving as the captain of the Yiyang City Defense Corps, and after the county magistrate was driven away, he was even more powerful, and his power and strength grew rapidly. How did he do it?
First of all, we will never compromise on the demands made by the bandits to kidnap tickets, and we must resolutely crack down on them. Because he said: "Can't raise tigers for trouble, give the bandits money and food, let them buy weapons to strengthen their power, and then come back to rob us?" ”
Soon, Wang Lingyun became the people's favorite, and everyone felt that his attitude was very useful against bandits. Moreover, Wang Lingyun is not only a bandit, but also prefers to recruit security and incorporate bandit armed forces. In this way, the strength of the bandits was constantly weakening, while Wang Lingyun's armed forces were rapidly expanding. It's a good deal to kill two birds with one stone.
In 1930, after years of operation, the Yiyang City Defense Corps was expanded and the bandit suppression headquarters of Linru, Yiyang, Pingping, and Liberty were established. Wang Lingyun, who was the commander-in-chief at the time, was favored by Wan Xuancai, chairman of Henan Province, and took up the position of commander-in-chief of the four counties. In the following time, Wang Lingyun seized the opportunity to actively recruit troops and horses, recruit bandits, expand the armed forces, and the team quickly increased to more than 6,000 people, and he became a small warlord with greater local power.
People are afraid of being famous pigs and afraid of strong, and Wang Lingyun's power is favored by the Kuomintang. So he was called by Zhang Xiao of Henan to go to Zhao'an, and Zhang Xiao's hands were full of bandit forces, which sounded like green forest good men, so he was called "the old thief head of the Central Plains" at that time. For the nature of Wang Lingyun's troops, Zhang Xiao was very interested, after all, he had all such "talents" under his hands.
But Wang Lingyun was not happy, and in this place in Henan, he knew that Zhang Xiao had actually done a lot of things that harmed others and himself, and after he went, he was bound to be a dwarf. However, Zhang Xiao said: "Now that the Beiyang warlords have passed, although you Wang Lingyun also have a certain armed force under his command, it is certainly no problem to dominate Yiyang, but what is the difference between this and the pension?" It is better to follow me out of the mountains and make meritorious achievements. ”
At that time, Feng Yuxiang, the leader of the Northwest Army, was notoriously a fierce defector, specializing in pit big brothers. Under his agitation, the Northern Expedition successfully defeated the Beiyang warlords, Chiang Kai-shek, Li Zongren and others gradually rose and became unstoppable. Compared with being absorbed by the revolutionary party, it is certainly unwise to go back and cling to the one-acre and three-quarter land in Yiyang.
Zhang Xiao
Even if his heart was not happy, but the individual was small and powerless in the face of the times, he could only conform to the development of the times, so Wang Lingyun was sent to the 20th Road Third Division as a major general division commander, and followed Yang Hucheng to attack Luoyang and Xin'an, which Song Zheyuan was holding. Later, because the 20th Route Army was reorganized by Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Lingyun served as the brigade commander of the 225th Brigade of the 75th Division, and the rank was still major general.
In February 1931, Wang Lingyun's 225th Brigade was renamed the Special Agent Brigade and was transferred to the Linru area to assist the Ninth Division in "suppressing bandits" in Wang Lingyun's old line of "suppressing bandits" and combating the forces that had not yet been absorbed.
In 1932, the Kuomintang seized the opportunity to launch the Huangguang Campaign, and Wang Lingyun's department was also among them. In the end, it was defeated, and the troops were once again reorganized into the 227th Brigade of the 76th Division, and Wang Lingyun was still the brigade commander of the Major General. Until the Battle of Songhu, Wang Lingyun had been wrapped up in the Kuomintang troops and participated in many "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army's land reform areas.
During this transitional period, Wang Lingyun entered the Nanjing higher education class for training from 1934 to 1935, and in early 1937, he took a vocational training and studied at the Army University General Officers' Workshop.
Wang Lingyun actively fought in the army and accumulated a lot of battle achievements. During this period, he often studied hard, so that Wang Lingyun's ability and resume increased a lot, but due to his origin, Wang Lingyun was not flattered at all.
I thought that by virtue of my military achievements, I would be able to make steady progress within the Kuomintang and gain the trust of old Chiang Kai-shek. However, many elderly figures of the Kuomintang hated Wang Lingyun's origins and looked down on him. And the Communist Party has been an old rival for many years, and it is even more impossible. Wang Lingyun originally wanted to make a meritorious career, but where should he go today?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="219" > contribution to the anti-Japanese resistance</h1>
At this time, in the second half of 1937, the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out in full swing. Wang Lingyun was in a dilemma, before the national righteousness, he gritted his teeth, simply went to defend his homeland and fight the Japanese invading army, so before the Battle of Songhu, he led his troops to Shanghai to participate in the war.
On August 13, the Nationalist and Japanese armies exchanged fire in Shanghai, and Wang Lingyun led his troops to build fortifications and prepare for battle to show their talents on the anti-Japanese battlefield. The times create heroes, and now when the nation is in crisis, it is easiest to get ahead. Wang Lingyun is also a person who has read books and received higher education, and he understands this best.
On October 16, just a few days before the Battle of Songhu began, Chiang Kai-shek abruptly promoted Wang Lingyun to the commander of the 76th Division, a veritable promotion, from major general to lieutenant general.
Subsequently, the battle on the battlefield of Songhu was fierce, Wang Lingyunbu and the Japanese army also launched a fierce battle on the fushan town front, the first day of contact, Wang Lingyun felt the almost ferocious combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, so he rolled up his sleeves, shirtless, as a division commander, he took the lead in charging and killing the enemy.
Wang Lingyunbu, who was originally a bandit from Henan, saw that the division commander was still taking the lead in fighting, and suddenly his arrogance was everywhere, and he was not afraid of death, and launched a deadly struggle with the Japanese army.
Under the premise that the quality of the armaments and officers and men was inferior to that of the Japanese, Wang Lingyun took his Seventy-sixth Division and fought fiercely with the Japanese for four days and four nights, and when the logistics could not keep up, the Henan soldiers who were not accustomed to eating seafood could only rely on crabs to feed their stomachs and continue to fight with the enemy.
After the battle was fought, Wang Lingyun's troops, who had withdrawn from the front, were amazed by the magnitude of the casualties, and when the troops were reorganized, there were more than a thousand people left in one division. Wang Lingyun, who was from Henan, and the troops he led did not publicize their exploits, they were bandits before, but now they are national heroes, and this is enough.
Battle of Songhu
According to Wang Lingyun's recollection, "Our soldiers from Henan died on the battlefield and buried them on the spot, without even a tombstone made of wooden rows. "Thousands of heroic souls are buried in their bones like that. Regardless of their origins, their sins as bandits were gone.
After the war, Chiang Kai-shek saw that Wang Lingyun's troops were so fierce, and then thought of the overall situation of China's War of Resistance, and was greatly shaken, changed the number of the Seventy-sixth Division, personally inscribed "Fushan Iron Army" to Wang Lingyun, and added troops to Wang Lingyun, quickly recovered his vitality, and reorganized and expanded Wang Lingyun's troops. After that, the New Seventy-sixth Division, under the leadership of Wang Lingyun, moved to various places and fought fierce battles with the Japanese army. There are countless battles, large and small.
In 1942, Wang Lingyun first served as the deputy commander of the Second Army, whose overall quality and equipment were extremely good, and then promoted to commander. He led his troops to join the Chinese Expeditionary Force and entered the Burmese War of Resistance. He led his army to cross the Wujiang River and joined the New First Army, leaving a strong mark in the history of the Expeditionary Force's War of Resistance, so he also won the "Blue Sky and White Sun Medal", and later the "American Silver Freedom Medal", and Chiang Kai-shek also praised Wang Lingyun as a general who always won.
After the fall of Henan, Wang Lingyun's mother in Luoyang was taken to Chongqing after several twists and turns, and Chiang Kai-shek personally inscribed "Guangci Fraternity" to the Queen Mother in order to win over the hearts of the people, hoping that Wang Lingyun could be more loyal to himself.
Chiang Kai-shek
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After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang-Communist Civil War soon broke out, and Wang Lingyun's opponent, from the heinous Japanese invading army, once again changed into an old opponent before the War of Resistance, but the Red Army evolved several times and became the People's Liberation Army.
During the civil war, Wang Lingyun, together with Du Yuming, Hu Lian and others, was known as a firefighting general. Where the war was tight, he led reinforcements, went back and forth to save the fire for three years, and the two people of su Yu, the god of war of the People's Liberation Army, fought one by one to save, which can be described as blossoming everywhere in the land of China.
However, due to the lack of timely rescue when rescuing Zhang Lingfu's troops, he did not follow Shangfeng's orders, resulting in the total annihilation of the Seventy-fourth Division. Later, Chiang Kai-shek was greatly angered and dismissed Wang Lingyun from his post for investigation and investigation on the charge of rushing to aid. Later, Wang Lingyun was affected by the factional struggle for power of the Kuomintang and abandoned the city and fled. Although it has not yet been completely reintegrated, it has also fallen into power.
After the Kuomintang defeated and retreated to Taiwan, I don't know whether it was because Wang Lingyun was born, not taken away by the Kuomintang, or his own will, anyway, he did not leave the mainland in the end.
The old mansion where Wang Lingyun lived
After the founding of New China, Wang Lingyun changed his name to Zhang Keming, exchanged 48 taels of gold for an ordinary peasant girl to get married, and began to live a simple peasant life. It can be seen from this that the reason for staying on the mainland should be the latter, that is, Wang Lingyun is tired of the struggle for power within the Kuomintang.
After getting married, Wang Lingyun did not do farm work, but paid attention to the content of the newspaper. It turned out that he paid attention to the suppression of bandits in order to watch his unfinished dream of suppressing bandits slowly come true in the hands of the Communist Party. Wang Lingyun's wife also found her husband unusual, so she privately went to the public security organ to report it.
When Wang Lingyun was transforming in Gongdelin, Beijing, he was elected as a member of the study committee because of his good performance. After that, he was released from prison and became a commissioner of the Cultural and Historical Materials Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. However, in the special era of 1968, he was forced to run away from home again, and this time there was no news of him, and to this day, his whereabouts are still unknown.
Wang Lingyun after liberation
Although the merits of the anti-Japanese resistance cannot be denied, Wang Lingyun also had a lot of negative news. Even because of the incident of female students at Henan University, he was grouped together with Tang Bo'en in the "Water Drought Locust Soup".
It turned out that in the late stages of the Kuomintang civil war, the president of Henan University took students from Henan to Changsha to escape the war. On the way, they encountered Kuomintang troops and were robbed of being aunts and wives. Ye Shi once mentioned that when Wang Lingyun encountered a fleeing student, he snatched two of the most beautiful female students as his aunts. However, the reason why Ye Shi is called Ye Shi is that it is difficult to determine how Wang Lingyun did it, whether it was robbed or both sides voluntarily.
Wang Lingyun is missing, but his controversy has left a lot. Regardless of his character and origin, he was indeed an outstanding military commander. In his lifetime, he also made great contributions to the anti-Japanese resistance, which is indelible.