Speaking of the Kuomintang army generals who were martyred in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (including posthumously), people will first think of Zhang Zizhong, Hao Mengling, Tong Linge, and Zhao Dengyu, and few people seem to know the name "Wang Jiaben".
In fact, Wang Jiaben's legendary experience is not inferior to the above few people.
Wang Jiaben was born in a family of officers, and his father Wang Guodong was a well-known officer at that time, graduated from the Yunnan Daowu Hall, and was always an alumnus with Elder Zhu. However, when Wang Jiaben was 17 years old, his mother and father died of illness one after another, and the family fell in the middle of the road, and Wang Jiaben barely completed his studies under the sponsorship of his uncle.
Later, with the support of his father's friend Fan Shisheng, Wang Jiaben was admitted to the Yunnan Daowu Hall, inherited his father's legacy, and worked under Fan Shisheng's account after graduation.
Wang Jia was a young man with progressive thoughts, and after Chiang Kai-shek rebelled against the revolution, Wang Jia had sympathy for the Communist Party. After the failure of the Nanchang Uprising, Mr. Zhu had no place to stand, so he went to Fan Shisheng, who was also a famous general of the Dian Army, for help. Fan Shisheng's 16th Army was stationed in northern Guangdong, and he received Zhu Laozong and his subordinates under the pseudonym Wang Kai to the military headquarters.
Wang Jiaben was the commander of the 301st Regiment of the 16th Army at the time, and he fell in love with General Manager Zhu at first sight, and President Zhu also admired this hot-blooded young man very much and often told him the truth of the revolution. Wang Jiaben often said to his relatives: "I believe that the Communist Party will definitely achieve the final victory, because they represent the interests of the people." ”
Under the influence of Zhu De, Wang Jiaben also transformed his troops, treating ordinary soldiers as his own brothers, never deducting a penny of soldiers' salaries, and when marching and fighting, seeing soldiers injured, Wang Jiaben would let out the horses he rode and walk on his own.
Wang Jiaben had issued four prohibitions to his subordinates, as long as one was violated, he would be killed! One is a person who escapes from the battlefield, the second is a gambler with officers and soldiers, the third is a person who rapes women, and the fourth is a person who disturbs the people for no reason. As long as someone dared to violate it, Wang Jia would have used a red pen to tick off this person's name and shoot him on the spot. Because Wang Jia was strict in his army, some disobedient officers secretly called him "Wang Butcher".
Wang Jiaben was not only the "butcher" of corrupt officers, but also the "butcher" of the Japanese devils. On January 5, 1942, the 18th Wing of the Japanese 3rd Division attacked Liuyang in an attempt to invade Changsha. The 98th Division of Wang Jiaben, stationed nearby, swore to resist to the death, killing the ghosts and bleeding into a river, and the leader of the 18th Wing of the Japanese Army, Kyōji Tsuchiya, and more than a thousand of his men were all annihilated.
After the Japanese army was destroyed, the corpse became a big problem, this is easy to do, Wang Jiaben threw the japanese army corpses into a large pit, and then invited craftsmen to carve five big characters on the stone - "Wokou Mass Grave".
Wang Jiaben was a decent soldier and did not insult the corpses of the Japanese army, which made the Japanese very moved, and once wrote a poem praising General Wang Jiaben: "Yang Ming Fistula Brigade, the county name Xiuwen." Komoto buried the enemy, and felt the Japanese. Five thousand years of Chinese civilization, the two kings (Wang Yangming, Wang Jiaben) have been consistent. ”
It seems that Japanese people still know how to be grateful, which is rare!
In August 1944, japan captured Hengyang and continued to march south in an attempt to enter Guangxi. Wang Jiaben led his troops to garrison the area around Cold Water Beach, vowing to resist the Japanese army to the death.
The Battle of Cold Water Beach determined whether the Japanese army could open up Southeast Asia, so the Japanese army did not hesitate to take all the heavily armed weapons. In the early morning of September 7, more than 1,000 Japanese troops disguised as nationalist troops attacked the headquarters of the 79th Army, and when Wang Jiaben found out, he immediately led the army to retreat, and at the same time transferred the 98th Division to resist the devils.
After a day of fighting, when the army withdrew to the mountain pass shop in Dong'an County, it encountered a large number of Japanese troops. The army was small and the weapons were poor, and soon they could not be supported by the Japanese attack, all the soldiers of the pistol platoon were killed, and Wang Jiaben was also seriously injured in the head in the bloody battle, and his hands were also scarred by the Japanese bayonets.
Seeing that the Japanese army was more and more encircled, Wang Jiaben knew that there was no hope of breaking through, grabbed his bayonet, and rushed into the devil's position. Wang Jiaben faced hundreds of Japanese troops alone, rushed left and right, and killed more than a dozen Japanese troops, but in the end, he was difficult to defeat with two fists and four hands, and after being stabbed several times by the Japanese army, he fell to the ground and was martyred.
After the war, the Nationalist government held a solemn memorial meeting for Wang Jiaben and posthumously awarded the army general. At the memorial service, all the officers and men of the 79th Army cried in unison, shouted slogans, and vowed to defeat the Japanese devils and avenge Commander Wang!
After Wang Jiaben's death, someone sorted out his belongings, only a few boxes of books, a blood-soaked business card, and three silver dollars, which were his entire inheritance.
Some people have counted that in the eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Nationalist army fought a total of 22 large-scale battles with the Japanese army, and Wang Jia had fought 9 of them, ranking first among the senior generals of the Nationalist army.