His father, Wang Bojun, was a native of Yuzhou, Henan Province. In his early years, he participated in the May Fourth Movement, and then followed Feng Yuxiang to participate in the Northern Expedition, and was introduced by Yu Youren to join the Kuomintang. He served in the army to lieutenant general. Before the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the colonel of the Staff Office of General Ji Hongchang's 10th Army, and then as the chief of staff of the 25th Division of the 26th Route Army of General Sun Lianzhong.
After the "July 7 Incident", his father was ordered by the commander of the army to act as the commander of the division as a staff officer of the 30th Division, led his troops to Hebei to support the Lugou Bridge Anti-Japanese War, and fought fiercely with the Japanese army in Liangxiang, Fangshan, Liulihe, and Zhuozhou for more than a month. Subsequently, as the deputy commander of the 27th Division, he was ordered to lead the division to aid Shanxi, defend Niangziguan with friendly forces, and launch a fierce counterattack against the Japanese army. Later, he led his troops to participate in and support the famous Battles of Taierzhuang, the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Xuzhou, and the Battle of Western Hubei.
The picture shows Wang Bojun's battlefield armor
From the day of the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance, my father's diary was uninterrupted. In his diary, he clearly recorded the deeds of our soldiers in the Battle of Taierzhuang who fought bravely despite their sacrifices. The father wrote in a diary:
From mid-March onwards, the Japanese army, in a posture of arrogance, decided to crush the Chinese army in the area south of the West Grand Canal. Unexpectedly, the anti-japanese army of Taierzhuang fiercely resisted and surrounded it with weak troops. At its height, its chariots attacked one of the battalions of our 27th Division, caught off guard. Dozens of chariots arrived in a row. Most of the officers and men of the battalion were crushed to death under the tracks of the chariot, and the battalion commander Wang Jingshan was crushed into meat cakes. But those who were not crushed scrambled to grab the chariot and throw a grenade at its firing hole. As many as twelve of its chariots were destroyed. But my officers and men were beaten to death, and there were many people in the car. So majestic, so singing and crying! There were even more officers and men guarding Taierzhuang fighting in the alleys of the house, fighting with mortar shells against the wall, and the blood and flesh flew around and how tragic! Our officers and men can withstand such a fierceness, but the Spirit of Sacrifice of the Japanese Army is far inferior to that of our Army! ”
The picture shows part of Wang Bojun's diary
When his father fought, he regarded death as a homecoming, and his oath with his subordinates was "buried in the ditch, buried in the dead road, and the wolf pulls the dog to chew the living coffin." "After fighting the Japanese army for many years, he had a total of forty-four knife wounds and gunshot wounds caused by fighting with the Japanese army, and the next time was a critical moment of life and death. Judging from the wounds, many times as long as a little bit, you will die on the battlefield. Father often told us that we might die at any time during the War of Resistance, and then there would be no existence for us. Father always guiltily mentioned that in the battlefield of fire and smoke, he had witnessed countless times the comrades around him who were like brothers fighting one by one, sacrificing or crippling. Some of them are newly married, some are new fathers, and some of them still have elderly parents in their families. These warriors, at the first command, did not hesitate to charge like death squads and die on the battlefield; and although he was a pioneer, he died nine times in his life, and he was only lucky, and he could talk about any heroism or merit.
When I was young, some of my classmates knew about my father's deeds and would always say to me enviously: Your father was an anti-Japanese general and a hero. When I heard this, I went home and reported to my father: My classmates are saying that you are great. But my father was angry and sad, and reprimanded me, saying, "Do you know, I am not honorable at all, nor am I proud." Over the years, when I think of the dead soldiers and their families, I feel guilty and have trouble sleeping, because the real credit is my dead comrades and soldiers. At my order, they rushed to the forefront in spite of themselves, and the dead and wounded fell like rolling beans, and the blood stained the entire battlefield red, so to speak, an inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood. Many of them became unsung heroes, and their corpses were strewn around. After the sacrifice, the state failed to ensure the livelihood of the family, and after the war, it did not receive compensation from the Japanese. Families may be displaced and miserable; old mothers and fathers of martyrs may have no food to eat and turn into asking for food; their wives and children may be bullied, starved to death or sick. On the contrary, you are now living well, with no worries about food and clothing, and you can go to school without worry, how can I say that I am a hero, and how can I talk about my own merits?! ”
When I grew up later, I often heard my father mention these past events, and I also felt the sadness in my father's heart. Therefore, my father never wanted to talk about his own merits, did not want to write about his own battlefield deeds, but repeated to me over and over again: to remember those real heroes, those patriotic soldiers who sacrificed, but also to pay tribute, pray, and cherish the families of those martyrs.
When I went abroad from Taiwan to study in Britain, I was sponsored by Sun Lianzhong, Chiang Kai-shek's national policy adviser to the Presidential Office. His wife, Luo Yufeng, the granddaughter of the former King Zaiyi of the Qing Dynasty, once told me: "Commander Sun always said that your father was heroic on the battlefield and never asked for credit. Even before my father died, on behalf of General Sun Lianzhong, Lady Sun kept bowing and saying, "What a good person." ”
In early 2011, I cut out a copy of the Jingdezhen vase that Chiang Kai-shek had given to Lieutenant General Nenebo, the former commander of the North China Front of the Japanese Army, in 1952, and that genbo's eldest daughter returned her "heirloom" to Taipei. At that time, I remembered what my father told me when I was a child that he had fought many battles in North China with the division commanded by the Japanese general Genjihiro, and each time the battle was fierce, with corpses all over the field and heavy casualties. After the Japanese Emperor announced his surrender, on October 10, 1945, his father accompanied the commander Sun Lianzhong (commander of the Eleventh Theater) to participate in the surrender ceremony of the Japanese army in North China at the Beiping Taihe Temple, and lieutenant general Hiroshi Nemoto, the supreme commander of the Japanese army in North China, led the army to salute Sun Lianzhong, who represented the Chinese side, signed and submitted the surrender. This was the first time my father had seen the invading generals stained with the blood of his soldiers and compatriots outside the battlefield, and he felt a deep pain in his heart!
The picture shows the newspaper clippings
The picture shows the surrender ceremony of Beiping, and the commander of the Japanese North China Front, Lieutenant General Motomoto Hiroshi, signed the surrender letter
The picture shows the surrender ceremony of Peiping, where General Sun Lianzhong accepts the salute of the Japanese army, signs it, and submits the surrender
The picture shows Lieutenant General Wang Bojun dressed up
My father also told me that before the liberation of the mainland in early 1949, my father, acting as acting commander, with 20,000 troops of the 68th Army, retreated to the xiamen seashore, because the commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Liu Ruzhen (the brother of Liu Ruming, commander-in-chief of the 33rd Group Army), had already gone to Taiwan, and the Kuomintang was unable and had no intention of transporting this army of non-concubine generals to Taiwan. One night, when he heard the soldiers clamoring for the shooting of two gendarmes who had fled the sea in a boat, the gendarmes shouted that they had seen a warship on the sea and wanted to ask the ship to transport everyone to Taiwan, so they held a meeting of officers, and everyone unanimously suggested that the father of the family go on board the ship to order the captain (the captain was at most a colonel) to transport everyone to Taiwan for a lifetime; so the father took 2 servicemen and some diaries (the father's attendant carried his diary for many years) and rowed the warship on the small boat. I didn't expect to see my old friend, Admiral Tombaugh. Tang Enbo asked his father to report to Chiang Kai-shek with him, saying that he could not and could not bring the remaining troops to Taiwan without military orders. This time, he was sent to Japan at chiang kai-shek's order to pick up Nemoto Bo to come to Taiwan as Chiang Kai-shek's military adviser (Chiang Kai-shek Tang Enbo and Nemoto Bo were both old friends of the Japanese cadet school). Indignant, his father wanted to get off the ship and go to Xiamen to live and die with the soldiers, but he was held by Tang Enbo to death; taking the fact that his father, wife, sons and daughters were already in Taiwan, and said that if he did not move, he would take military orders! In desperation, he was taken to Taiwan by Tang Enbo, and that night he slept with his sworn enemy on the battlefield. When my father told me about it in the 60s, he still had mixed feelings and tears.
Wang Taisheng (Sino-British Cultural Exchange Society) wrote in London in August 2015
<h3>Related Stories:</h3>
In 1938, Soviet warplanes surprised the Japanese army in Taiwan and set a record for long-distance bombing
Revealed: What contributions did the rogue tycoon Du Yuesheng make in the War of Resistance?
The achievements of the Chinese Air Force in the War of Resistance Against Japan: 568 Japanese aircraft were destroyed in the air