Many celebrities in history have had the experience of changing their names. Especially in the period of the revolutionary war, many revolutionaries in our Party expressed their yearning for the future of the revolution by changing a more allegorical name. There were also some people in the Kuomintang army who changed their names for various reasons. Zhang Lingfu, a Kuomintang general known as the "famous anti-Japanese general", also changed his name.
Zhang Lingfu, formerly known as Zhang Zhonglin. However, he changed his name not to express his ideals and beliefs, but because he killed his wife. After Zhang Lingfu returned home, he lied to his wife that he wanted to eat dumplings. When his wife went down to the field to cut vegetables, he shot her and killed her. This wife murder case has caused great sensation and controversy in society and the army. In desperation, he could only change his original name.
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The woman who was killed was named Wu Hailan. In fact, Wu Hailan is only Zhang Lingfu's second wife, not the original wife. Zhang's original wife was named Xing Fengying. Before Zhang Lingfu entered the Whampoa Military Academy, her parents decided to marry their sons according to their own preferences. Zhang Lingfu has always disliked an old-fashioned woman like Xing Fengying.
Shortly after the two were married, Zhang Lingfu left home to study at Peking University, and then was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy. During the time when he was studying abroad and joining the army, Zhang Lingfu met all kinds of women who had received a new-style education and had progressive ideas, and he disliked Xing Fengying even more. He asked Xing Fengying to stay in his hometown and help him take care of his parents. I made new friends outside.
After graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, Zhang Lingfu was incorporated into the Kuomintang army. In 1933, Zhang Lingfu served as a colonel in the Independent Brigade of the First Division of the National Revolutionary Army led by Hu Zongnan. He led his troops in Sichuan and engaged our Party's Red Fourth Front. It was also in this year that he met Wu Hailan.
Wu Hailan is the daughter of a coppersmith family in Guangyuan County, Sichuan. The Wu family's business is very good, and the family property is relatively solid. Wu Hailan, like her brother Wu Zhengyou, got the opportunity to go to school. Wu Hailan, who has a prominent appearance and has received a formal education, is sought after by many local people.
Wu Hailan, a young girl in the county town, and Zhang Lingfu, a handsome general in the army, got to know each other under the matchmaking of friends. The two men, who were talented and feminine, soon came together. In the winter of 1933, Wu Hailan put on a red wedding dress and married Zhang Lingfu. At first, the marriage between the two was still very beautiful and happy. In 1934, Wu Hailan gave birth to Zhang Lingfu as his eldest daughter.
In 1935, the Red Fourth Front in Sichuan was strategically transferred and reached the northwest region. Hu Zongnan also led the troops, trailing the Red Army and moving to the northwest. Wu Hailan and other officers' families also moved with the army and made unified arrangements to settle down in Xi'an. Wu Hailan did not expect that after leaving Sichuan Guangyuan this time, she would never have the opportunity to go back again.
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Zhang Lingfu was a soldier who needed to follow the troops around and stay in the army often, separated from his wife. Only after applying for family leave from a superior can he return home to be reunited with his wife and daughter.
One day, Zhang Lingfu returned from the army, and Wu Hailan was very happy and greeted her husband with a warm greeting. Zhang Lingfu looked at his wife who was busy before and after and said to her very calmly, "I haven't been back for a long time." Kind of wanted to eat the dumplings you made. ”
After hearing her husband's words, Wu Hailan was busy responding. Let Zhang Lingfu accompany his daughter to the field to cut vegetables and prepare dumpling fillings. However, Wu Hailan, who was immersed in joy, did not see that after she turned around, her husband's eyes were secretive. Otherwise, she might have escaped.
When Wu Hailan buried his head in picking vegetables, Zhang Lingfu took off the gun around his waist and walked out of the room. In the courtyard, he raised his pistol and shot at the back of Wu Hailan's head. Wu Hailan was shot in the head and died on the spot. After killing Wu Hailan, Zhang Lingfu did not wait for his wife's funeral to end and returned to the army.
Wu Hailan's brother Wu Zhengyou, who was far away in Guangyuan, Sichuan, learned that his sister had been killed by Zhang Lingfu for no reason. He was shocked and angry. Therefore, Wu Zhengyou wrote a letter of accusation, reflecting the fact that "his sister Wu Hailan was ruthlessly killed by the husband of a Kuomintang officer" to the women's association in Xi'an.
At that time, Song Meiling and others set up women's associations throughout the country to protect and fight for women's rights and interests. Zhang Lingfu, the commander of the Kuomintang Central Army, killed his wife, and soon caused a sensation in the female circles of Xi'an, especially among the female dependents of officers. Everyone proposed that the murderer should be severely punished and justice should be sought for the tragic death of Wu Hailan.
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At that time, Zhang Xueliang's wife Yu Fengzhi happened to be in Xi'an. The women's association in Xi'an handed wu Zhengyou a letter of complaint to her, hoping that she would help to get justice for Wu Hailan. After seeing the contents of the letter, Yu Fengzhi was also very angry. Therefore, she took the letter of accusation back to Nanjing and handed it to Song Meiling.
Later, Song Meiling told Chiang Kai-shek about "Zhang Lingfu's killing of his wife and making a lot of noise in Xi'an." In order to calm the people's anger and safeguard the reputation of the Central Army, Chiang Kai-shek ordered that Zhang Lingfu be sent to the Nanjing Military Tribunal for investigation.
After the incident was exposed, it also caused a great sensation and discussion in the army. In desperation, Zhang Lingfu could only leave the army and return to his hometown to hide from the limelight. After learning of Chiang Kai-shek's order, Zhang Lingfu returned to Nanjing and voluntarily surrendered to the Nanjing Military Tribunal. In court, Zhang Lingfu told the reason why he killed his wife.
Earlier, in the army, Zhang Lingfu was chatting with a colleague who had returned from visiting relatives and asked him: "Have you seen my wife?" How are they doing? The colleague smiled and said, "I saw your wife watching a movie with a man." ”
Although colleagues are joking. However, this made Zhang Lingfu feel very uncomfortable, and he had the idea of "his wife being unfaithful" in his heart. This unfounded suspicion made him determined to kill his wife who shared the bed with him. In the end, Zhang Lingfu was sentenced to ten years in prison, held in a model prison in Nanjing.
A year later, the "918 Incident" broke out, and the Central Army expanded its troops. Chiang Kai-shek pardoned Zhang Lingfu, who was serving a prison sentence, and recalled him to the army. A year ago, the murder of his wife had caused a sensation in the army, and in order to reduce the impact and establish his prestige, he changed his original name from "Zhang Zhonglin" to "Zhang Lingfu". He gradually became the commander of the most elite reorganized Seventy-fourth Division in the Central Army.
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Just because of a word from a colleague, just because of a doubt in his heart. With unfounded suspicions, Zhang Lingfu killed his wife who gave birth to children for herself and slept in the same bed. So heartless and unrighteous, it is repugnant. Because of the cover-up of Chiang Kai-shek and others, Zhang Lingfu escaped punishment. In the end, he also died on the battlefield, paying the price for his past actions.