Wang Yaowu's only daughter, Wang Luyun, was invited to Beijing in 65 years to visit her father, and the father and daughter finally bid farewell
Years later, when Yi Wenxian, a villager in the citrus grove, saw Huang Huizhen from Hong Kong, he would probably remember the scene when He was a child, Miss Wang Ling's family went down the river with them to dig crabs.
At that time, the Japanese invading army, which was already a grasshopper in the autumn, tried in vain to make a final struggle and destroy the Zhijiang airfield in western Hunan Province, which had an important supporting role in the entire Far East war situation.
The Kuomintang mobilized 300,000 troops, led by General Wang Yaowu, to fight with more than 100,000 Japanese troops from the west in the Xuefeng Mountain area of western Hunan Province.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > anti-Japanese hero Wang Yaowu</h1>
Wang Yaowu was born in 1904 in a peasant family in Shangwangzhuang, Tai'an, Shandong Province, where his father and brother died early, and the young Wang Yaowu and his mother depended on each other for their lives.
How bitter such a day can be imagined, but her mother is very knowledgeable and works hard, not only to let Wang Yaowu eat, but also to send him to study.
As an adult, Wang Yaowu first went to Tianjin to work, and then went to Shanghai to work as a clerk. In the big city can access a lot of domestic and foreign information, Wang Yaowu realized that the Chinese nation is sinking, so in 1924 he resolutely decided to go to Guangzhou to apply for the Huangpu examination, and successfully became the third batch of Huangpu students.
Before graduating, Wang Yaowu embarked on the battlefield of the Eastern Crusade, and his ability to lead troops was outstanding, and he was already a captain and company commander in less than a year. Married Zheng Yilan, the daughter of a judge, in Fuzhou.
The two had a strong relationship after marriage. In the decades that followed, Wang Yaowu never hugged left and right like his colleagues, and of course Zheng Yilan was really beautiful. Wang Yaowu has a happy and happy family. He and Zheng Yilan have six sons and a daughter with a total of seven children.
From the July 7 Incident, from the August 13 War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to the defense of Wuhan at the Battle of Wanjialing, Wang Yaowu was one of the very few Nationalist generals who could gain something from the Japanese army.
In 1939, Wang Yaowu was promoted to the commander of the 74th Army, and under the leadership of Wang Yaowu, this unit participated in the Battle of Shanggao, the Battle of Western Hubei, and the Battle of Changde, and won the Flying Tiger Banner, which symbolized the highest honor of the Nationalist Army, making the name of the 74th Army an anti-Japanese brigade recorded in history.
Wang Yaowu's most famous battle was the Battle of Xiangxi in April 1945.
The Kuomintang mobilized 300,000 troops, including the 74th Army, led by General Wang Yaowu, to fight against more than 100,000 Japanese troops advancing west in the Xuefeng Mountain area of western Hunan Province.
In the face of the defeated Japanese invaders, the morale of the soldiers and people in western Hunan was high, and they contributed to the work, and in only half a month, they built trenches, a large number of pillboxes, and air raid shelters with a total length of several kilometers according to the mountainous terrain, and the trenches built with glutinous rice and triple soil provided by the local people were extremely hard, and there was only a small gap in the shells.
Even the Japanese fighters said: "[In the Battle of Western Hunan], the Chinese army was extremely fierce in firepower and the position was very cleverly constructed. ”
The Battle of Western Hunan lasted 55 days and nights, and finally the Japanese army was completely defeated and retreated to the pre-battle area. The Japanese suffered 27,000 casualties, of which 12,498 were killed.
The Chinese army suffered 20,660 casualties, of which 7,817 were killed, less than two-thirds of the Japanese casualties.
This battle was the last battle of the War of Resistance Against Japan, which ended in the victory of the Chinese army, and the so-called "Chinese army was still losing the battle until Japan announced its surrender" is unreliable.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > the whole family to Hong Kong</h1>
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wang Yaowu was promoted to chairman of Shandong Province by military merit, but he was quite dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's continued civil war.
In 1948, Jinan was liberated and Wang Yaowu was captured.
Before the battle began, Wang Yaowu had left a message to Zheng Yilan, if anything happened, take the child to Hong Kong. It is also because of this sentence that Wang Yaowu's descendants did not go to Taiwan.
Zheng Yilan and his seven children went to Shanghai first via Qingdao, Wang Yaowu may not have thought that the "accident" would really happen, there was no preparation at all, the situation in Shanghai was chaotic, the family could not buy a ticket to Hong Kong, fortunately, one of Wang Yaowu's aide-de-camps helped, Zheng Yilan and the children were able to make the trip.
There is a highly circulated saying that Zheng Yilan and this lieutenant ran to Hong Kong to get married after rolling up Wang Yaowu's family wealth. It's not worth a fight at all.
After Zheng Yilan arrived in Hong Kong, in addition to taking care of her children, she also wanted to rescue her husband. For this reason, he was also defrauded of tens of thousands of yuan by scammers in Hong Kong. Later, because it was very expensive to take care of a bunch of children in Hong Kong, the idea of "rescuing" her husband was stopped.
However, after Wang Yaowu received amnesty in 1959, he waited for a divorce agreement, perhaps listening to reactionary propaganda to draw a line between the child and the husband who "joined the Communist Party", or perhaps after 11 years of waiting, the feelings faded, and the two forgot about each other.
In Hong Kong, the family did not stay long, except for Wang Luyun, who was married in Hong Kong, the family later went to Settle in Costa Rica in Central America. Zheng Yilan's six sons all married local women and now have little contact with the country.
According to Wang Luyun, the daughter of Wang Yaowu, the only one with ties to the mainland, her brother's children are mostly in the doctorial profession and have little impression of the motherland. If there are no accidents, you should be living in Central America.
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Born in 1935, Wang Luyun caught up with the War of Resistance Against Japan from the time she can remember, and throughout her childhood, she accompanied her father Wang Yaowu to Guiyang, Guilin, Changsha, and Hankou.
Although Wang Luyun was a girl, when he was a child, when he saw his father put on a military uniform, he clamored to become a soldier on the battlefield, until one time Wang Yaowu was annoyed, he drew his gun and put it on the sky, and shot down a crow, which frightened little Wang Luyun. But she was still willing to listen to her father talk about the experience of fighting devils on the battlefield.
According to Wang Luyun's recollection in his later years, "My father would occasionally come home, and when he came home, he would always pick me up first, because I was his only daughter." He was a benevolent father. As a soldier, he always has a bit of a temper, but his tone is usually stable and his personality is cheerful. He likes to play with children and laugh. ”
After Wang Yaowu was defeated and captured in the Liberation War, Wang Luyun followed his mother to Shanghai via Qingdao, and settled in Hong Kong after a short stay. In Hong Kong, Wang Luyun married business-minded architect Wong Chun-fai.
After their marriage, the couple engaged in the real estate business, leaving the family the first and still the largest low-density eco-friendly residential bungalow complex in Hong Kong, "Splendid Garden", and another spectacular high-end large-scale real estate - "Kang Paradise".
After Wang Yaowu's amnesty, in 1965, under premier Zhou's arrangement, Fei Yimin, then director of the Ta Kung Pao, contacted Wang Luyun, who was living in a low-key life in Hong Kong, and invited her to visit her father in Beijing. Wang Luyun and his then seven-year-old daughter, Huang Huizhen, took the train to Guangzhou and then transferred to Beijing by plane.
At the hotel, Wang Luyun not only met her father, but also met du Yuming, Zheng Dongguo, Song Xilian, Liao Yaoxiang and five or six "old uncles", she went to the friendship store to buy cigarettes, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, peanuts, candy, everyone sent a pocket, everyone was very happy.
Wang Yaowu suffered from Parkinson's disease, and Wang Luyun brought medicine from Hong Kong that the doctor had instructed her to buy.
At that time, Wang Luyun already had three daughters and no sons. Wang Yaowu specifically asked: "There are no boys, and the in-laws didn't treat you well, right?" "How is the little daughter?" Listening to his father's old Tai'an accent, Wang Luyun couldn't help but shed tears.
This meeting lasted about a week, and this parting was the farewell of the father and daughter. Wang Yaowu died in Beijing three years later.
Wang Luyun later gave birth to two daughters, three of the five golden flowers have doctors, although the eldest and the third are not doctors, but one is a member of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the other is doing business in Hong Kong. Nowadays, together with his grandchildren, Wang Luyun's descendants have studied in major universities around the world.
As the only daughter of Wang Yaowu, Wang Luyun is also the only child of Wang Yaowu's descendants who remains in Hong Kong, has many connections with the mainland, and cares about and loves Chinese culture.
She has devoted herself to education in recent years. According to her, she has set up two kinds of international scholarships, one of which is the "General Wang Yaowu Scholarship" established at Stanford University in 2006, which is preferentially awarded to mainland students.
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Huang Huizhen is the eldest daughter of Wang Luyun and Huang Zhenhui, and is one of the most influential of Wang Yaowu's grandchildren.
Huang Huizhen is a member of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a director of Nanshan Group, and has joined hands with mainland enterprises, and she also has a large construction investment in Laizhou, Shandong. Today's commemoration of General Wang Yaowu is generally invited by Huang Huizhen;
The second sister, Huang Huiqi, read a doctorate in physics and later took over the family business.
The third sister, Wong Wai Kwan, is engaged in the cultural industry and was the chairman of Hong Li College in Hong Kong; the fourth sister, Wong Wai King, is a doctor of sociology and has a bookish temperament; the fifth sister, Wong Wai Ting, is a doctor of psychology and is now settled in South Korea.
In recent years, Relying on the tourism advantages of Phoenix Mountain, Shangwangzhuang Village in Tai'an has vigorously developed rural self-help tours and picking agriculture. A village history museum was established at the mouth of the village, and many villagers loved to read about The deeds of General Wang Yaowu's anti-Japanese resistance.
In 2017, the secretary of the party branch of Shangwangzhuang Village informed Huang Huizhen of the construction of the village history museum and the repair of the Wang family tree, and Huang Huizhen not only actively provided information after learning about it, but also told the Wang clan descendants in Costa Rica about the news.
On November 3 of the same year, after more than 20 hours of airplanes and more than two hours of high-speed rail, Wang Yaowu's fifth son, Wang Zhiyong, came to the foot of Mount Tai with his family and set foot on his homeland where he may not have much memory.
During this trip, he successively visited Wang Yaowu's cemetery in Babaoshan and many of his former residences. In addition to Shangwangzhuang, he also went to the Shandong Post and Telecommunications Museum in Jinan.
It was the residence of Wang Yaowu, then chairman of Shandong Province, between 1946 and 1948, where Zheng Yilan lived before he led his children out of Shandong.
Entering the museum courtyard, Wang Zhiyong was like a dream, standing still from time to time, pointing to the flower bed, saying that this place was originally a carriage and horse shed, pointing to the wooden ladder on the first floor, saying that there were sentries guarding on both sides, pointing to the secondary staircase from the second floor to the third floor, saying that the nurse had led her childhood self through here.
Wang Zhiyong came with his grandchildren, the two little ones who may have only a quarter of Chinese ancestry, but whose hair is still jet black.
In an interview with local media in Shangwangzhuang, Wang Zhiyong said that when he was 5 years old, he saw his father for the last time, and it has been more than 60 years since he left China, but his mother has never let him forget his father.
He is now an overseas Chinese living abroad, but he deeply feels that the heroes of the War of Resistance are the backbone of the Chinese nation; Their deeds and spirit are powerful forces that inspire us to move forward.
He will certainly pass on Wang Yaowu's patriotic spirit to his descendants who live in Costa Rica, and Shangwangzhuang Village will always be their home.
Wang Zhiyong also specifically quoted the speech of the "Commemorative Medal for the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" --
"A nation with hope cannot do without heroes, and a country with a future cannot do without pioneers. All national heroes, including the heroes of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, are the backbone of the Chinese nation, and their deeds and spirit are a powerful force that inspires us to move forward. ”