In May 1940, General Zhang Zizhong, who had participated in many well-known battles such as the Linyi Defense War and made great achievements, unfortunately died in the course of the battle between Xiangyang and the Devil, and he was only 49 years old that year.
The news soon spread throughout the country, and countless people were saddened by the hero's sacrifice.
Throughout his life, he has always maintained the determination to resist Japan that "he must die".
He wrote a suicide note early on, which read: "Dying for the country and the nation will never change in the slightest, and I hope that everyone will encourage you." ”
Zhang Zizhong
Although he was a senior Kuomintang general, Zhang Zizhong's performance in the process of resisting Japan was seen by the people of the whole country, and personally, he was also fundamentally different from many moth-style senior Kuomintang generals.
Many senior Kuomintang generals were disorganized and polygamous concubines occurred from time to time, but Zhang Zizhong, who had made many achievements in battle, was an exception, and in his life, only Li Minhui was a wife.
They had three sons and a daughter, and the second son, Zhang Lianjing, died of illness in 1934.
At the time of general Zhang Zizhong's death, only two sons and one daughter were still alive.
His daughter Zhang Lianyun, who is over ninety years old, is still very talkative, although she is behind the door, she also keeps her self-sufficiency in mind, and she can solve it by herself, and she will never trouble others.
Zhang Lianyun
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Zhang Lianyun was deeply influenced by his father and never put "famous doors" on his lips</h1>
Zhang Lianyun was born in 1923, and she was only 17 years old the year her father died.
Most of the families of senior Kuomintang generals were prosperous, and Zhang Lianyun's family was no exception, and when she was a teenager, her parents always taught her: "When dealing with people, don't rely on your own family, and don't go around because your family has money." ”
In her impression, her father was very serious with their brothers and sisters when he was alive, often stretching his face, and the words he mentioned most in his family education were: "Don't squat at home, and don't go to hangers." ”
Growing up in such an environment, Zhang Lianyun had pressure that other children had never had.
Zhang Zizhong once said to his children: "Grandchildren and grandchildren should not forget the seven seven, you must be a person who is useful to the country." ”
Although Zhang Lianyun did not spend much time with his father, his powerful aura has always stayed in Zhang Lianyun's mind, which may also be the hometown of General Zhang Zizhong, so he also pays great attention to the cultivation of traditional morality of children.
After the news of her father's several battles and several victories on the front line came, Zhang Lianyun instantly understood her father's good intentions, she knew that at the time of the country's life and death, her father would always be on the front line, and there would be a danger to his life at any time, and the gentleness in his letter may be that he knows that he is facing the most severe danger at any time.
Sure enough, this letter became Zhang Zizhong's last words to his daughter.
Zhang Zizhong loved his daughter the most in his short life, because there was a sentence in the letter, called "the heart of sijia is extremely heavy", when Zhang Lianyun read this letter to his mother, Li Minhui also fell silent, she knew that her husband was such a strong person, if he was not determined to die, how could he write such a sentence.
Soon after, bad news came.
However, although the Zhang family had a nervous heart, most of them thought that this was a misinformation, and it was very normal for such news to appear during the war years, for example, the family of Commander Li Zongren received rumors that "General Li Zongren died" many times.
However, in May of that year, Zhang Zizhong's remains had been snatched back from Chen Jiaji by the Nationalist army, and the soldiers were very affectionate towards the general and transported his body to the bank of the Xiang River overnight.
It was not until this time that the news of Zhang Zizhong's death was finally officially confirmed.
When the body is placed in front of them, the Zhang family seems to have collapsed, and the uterine cancer of General Zhang's wife Li Minhui has also reached an advanced stage, and the family does not dare to tell the news directly to the mother, Zhang Lianyun and his brother can only wear filial piety at home, as long as they go to the hospital, they will change into the clothes they usually wear, for fear of being detected by their mother.
However, Li Minhui's condition deteriorated more and more seriously, and Zhang Ziming still told the truth: "The fifth brother was sacrificed. ”
When the mother heard these words, she closed her eyes in despair, and Zhang Lianyun, who was beside her, saw that her mother was so sad, and she also cried into tears, and the husband and wife could be reunited in heaven, but how could the remaining children be good?
Logically, it is normal to achieve something after the door, but for Zhang Lianyun, every step is a step out on his own.
Shortly after his father died on the battlefield, his mother died on hunger strike for seven days.
As if in an instant, Zhang Lianyun instantly fell from "behind the door" to a lonely person, and the burden of life was immediately suppressed.
At the time of the war, Zhang Zizhong had already informed his daughter and niece to postpone their coming to the front, and then Zhang Lianyun received a letter from his father, in which General Zhang specifically instructed his daughter: "Girls in the big era should seek knowledge, and they should also seek economic independence, not like your brother." ”
At that time, Zhang Zizhong's youngest son was only 6 years old, and Li Minhui entrusted him to a lieutenant general when he was conscious, and zhang Weiguo was sent to the Soviet Union by Premier Zhou to study with Zhu Laozong's daughter and Zhang Wentian's son.
After returning to China, he became an engineer at the Tianjin Fuel Oil Company, and is now retired and lives in Tianjin.
Zhang Lianyun firmly remembered his father's testament, although in the era of war, but there was no self-hatred, nor did he have any irrational behavior, the past has become a foregone conclusion, the father hopes that the children will uphold his legacy.
She picked up the book and read it hard.
Finally, she did not disappoint her father's hopes, was admitted to the journalism department of Fudan University, and graduated from the journalism department of Fudan University in 1948.
Because the surname Zhang is more common, Zhang Lianyun has never told others about his family lineage, and outsiders have never noticed anything, and the heroic deeds of her father Zhang Zizhong may have become a shadow in the depths of her soul, which has always accompanied her growth path.
Therefore, after graduation, Zhang Lianyun spent her life like an ordinary person, she worked as a teacher in Beijing Zizhong Primary School and Beijing Primary School, always diligently taught and educated people, and dedicated her complete youth.
However, this is not enough.
Zhang Lianyun has a special advantage: he is eager to learn.
Perhaps it was her father's death on the battlefield that gave this seventeen-year-old girl a different momentum, and since then, she has fully demonstrated the characteristics of studiousness, and while working hard to cultivate the next generation for the motherland, she has also studied medicine.
Therefore, since 1960, ms. Zhang Lianyun has worked in the Beijing Municipal Education Bureau for a period of time, and then transferred to the office of Beijing Jishuitan Hospital as the director, and later concurrently served as the deputy director of the Pediatric Department of Beijing Second Medical College, and the development is very comprehensive.
Not only Zhang Lianyun, her eldest brother Zhang Lianzhen has changed a lot after his father's sacrifice, he will take the whole family to read the family training three times in front of his father's portrait every morning, and each time he will meditate for ten minutes.
Later, before liberation, he also worked in the state financial department, and personally achieved great achievements.
Perhaps it was the blessing of the ancestors, Zhang Lianzhen gave birth to seven sons and later all of them grew into the pillars of the country, which is also closely related to Zhang Zizhong's education, and the descendants of the Zhang family all kept Zhang Zizhong's teachings in mind and never changed.
None of them received special care.
Zhang Lianyun initially received special care requests, but her personality is very strong, like her own father, she is not willing to accept such care, and she hopes to be able to go down step by step with her own efforts.
Whether in education or medicine, she was a meticulous person.
At the age of seventy-one, Zhang Lianyun, who was heavily organized, was also elected vice chairman of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and worked diligently and earnestly for a lifetime.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > relatively ordinary life, but an extraordinary life</h1>
At a time when generations of Kuomintang revolutionaries have taken the revitalization of China as their mission and made great contributions to China's revolutionary construction and reform, their political character and feelings for the people have also continued to shine.
Previously, in the list of exemplary figures of the first Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, Zhang Lianyun's name appeared.
In her profile, she is the former vice chairman and secretary general of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, and also the vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, these two titles, both of which were won by her own efforts, in the final introduction, there is a "daughter of the famous anti-Japanese general Zhang Zizhong".
She also has deep feelings for the country.
On the eve of the liberation of Peiping, she used her father's memorial fund to establish the "Zizhong Primary School" in the local area, which in addition to teaching and educating people, also played an important role: it was a secret stronghold for the work of underground party members in Beiping, and it also provided a solid guarantee for underground party members active in the local area.
After all, no one dared to touch the former residence of General Zhang Zizhong.
Therefore, after the peaceful liberation of Peiping, she deservedly became the principal, and Zizhong Primary School continues to this day, always witnessing the road to the country's rejuvenation.
Now, in the living room of Zhang Lianyun's home, you can still see several watercolor paintings and crayon drawings, which are not valuable items, but gifts sent to her by students of Zizhong Elementary School, and there is a group photo hanging on the wall of the living room.
This group photo is a group photo of all the teachers and students of Zizhong Elementary School in October 1949, and according to the time calculation, the children of that year are now in their seventies.
For the identity of Zhang Zizhong's daughter, Zhang Lianyun is very proud, but he will never use this to accumulate wealth or fame for himself.
In her mind, her father was an ambitious man from an early age, and she and her descendants should learn from him.
Zhang Zizhong's family has always been relatively well-off, so when he was seven years old, he was able to enter a private school to study, and when he was admitted to the Jinan Law and Politics School to study law, he also saw the great powers running amok in China, so he said to the students around him: "The country has reached such a point, we still have to study in front of the case, it is really unwilling!" ”
In that summer, he ignored the opposition of his family and went to join the army with five classmates, when the Kuomintang generals knew that they were all rich children and would certainly not be able to bear the suffering of the front, so they advised them to simply go back to study.
After a long time, the classmates who went to the military camp with him really couldn't bear the hardships and went back, but Zhang Zizhong still insisted on being on the front line, and the battle was very brave, so he was promoted quickly.
Everyone thought that Zhang Zizhong was a very serious person, but Zhang Lianyun said: "Father is not like this." ”
When Zhang Lianyun's second brother unfortunately died of typhoid fever, he was not yet seventeen years old, and after his father rushed home, he cried and wept with the items he used before his death, and the pain of losing his son was burned into his heart, and he often felt remorseful, thinking that he did not take good care of the children.
At that time, although Zhang Zizhong was serious on the issue of right and wrong, he also had a great change in his life, and as long as he had time to come back, he would ask everyone about their homework and studies.
Later, at the end of the Battle of Xuzhou, Zhang Zizhong wrote a letter to Zhang Ziming: I will not die for a day, and I will do my duty to kill the enemy in one day.
He became more and more fierce in the subsequent battles, and repeatedly led his troops to inflict heavy damage on the Japanese army, these Japanese soldiers hated and feared Zhang Zizhong, and all hoped to capture him alive, and the officers and men under his command also respected Zhang Zizhong even more, and called him "Living Guan Gong".
When Zhang Zizhong died, Zhang Lianyun was not yet seventeen years old, and she only knew that her father had been hit by seven bullets at that time.
In that year, after my father's heroic martyrdom, thousands of people in Chongqing wept and worshipped the heroic souls, more than a thousand people from all walks of life in Yan'an held a solemn memorial meeting, and Chairman Mao also wrote down the link of "serving the country with all his loyalty."
For Zhang Lianyun, what his father asked him to do was not to do anything that stood tall in the sky, but to do everything seriously and contribute to the country, which was enough.
If compared with Zhang Zizhong, Zhang Lianyun's life is indeed very plain, but if General Zhang has a spirit under the spring, he will definitely be proud of such a daughter.
After all, Zhang Zizhong's name cannot be overshadowed by few people in the history of the Anti-Japanese Resistance.
Today, Zhang Lianyun is more than ninety years old, but she does not feel decadent because of her age, she is still very talkative, in order to enrich her spare time, she also went to the university for the elderly to study calligraphy.
In the minds of reporters, Zhang Lianyun has always maintained a strong spirit, and her thinking is quick, very talkative, which is the role of decades of knowledge constantly sublimating in her mind, many social topics, she can talk endlessly for a few minutes.
The old man also knew the purpose of the reporters, and she would also tell some stories about General Zhang Zizhong, but many times she was separated from herself, and she respected such a father, but she did not want her body to be stained with aura.
The spirit of General Zhang was also imperceptibly passed on to his descendants, and he often said: "Seek comfort according to your conscience." Zhang Lianyun is the same, in her life, she has embodied self-esteem and self-improvement to the extreme.
The aide-de-camp who guarded Zhang Zizhong's mausoleum for ten years recalled: "The general would write medical skills before the battle, burn it after the battle, and in the last battle, he knew that the enemy was cruel, so he wrote two letters." ”
The content of the letter also inspired Zhang Lianyun at all times, and she did it.