1950, it was less than a year since The People's Republic of China announced its establishment.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek had already led the remnants of the Kuomintang to retreat to Taiwan Island, and defended the island with the help of the strait, hoping that one day he could counterattack the mainland and regain power, but this was just a dream of a defeated general.
Although Chiang Kai-shek left, there are still a large number of remnants of the Kuomintang in the vast Chinese mainland, and they are no longer able to compete with our party's army.
But some of these people are in trouble and bring deep pain to the local people; some are lurking in various cities in our country, waiting for an opportunity to destroy - eradicate these remnants of the Kuomintang, which has become an important task.
On this day, an ordinary farmer woman came to a police station in Tongjiang, Sichuan. The woman was not very good-looking and claimed to be living in a nearby village. She had just gotten married, but her subsequent words made the police in the station alert.
The woman said seriously to the police: "I think my husband is different from others. He is not like our local farmer. He must not be an ordinary person!"
After some investigation, the woman's husband Zhang Keming did have another background. His real identity was Wang Lingyun, a former lieutenant general of the Kuomintang, who served as the commander of the Second Army, and was the commander of the nd Army.
How did this former senior Kuomintang general transform into a farmer by hiding his identity?
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1899, Wang Lingyun was born in a village in Yiyang County, Henan Province. His family is a well-known wealthy family in the local area, with large areas of farmland and a very wealthy family.
Because of this, Wang Lingyun's parents provided him with a good education.
When Wang Lingyun was young, the Qing Dynasty collapsed under internal and external troubles. Foreign powers were busy dividing China's wealth, while domestic warlords seized territory everywhere. It was an era of turbulent and chaotic situation.
As the saying goes, the times create heroes. Born in such an era, Wang Lingyun developed a very strong interest in leading troops to fight since he was a child. He did not like to recite the traditional scriptures with his husband in a private school, but entered the new school that had just emerged in China and met a large number of friends who had the same ambitions as him.
However, the good times did not last long. Just when Wang Lingyun and his friends dreamed of leading troops to kill the enemy one day and making achievements, Henan Province suffered a severe drought for several consecutive years, and the grain harvest in the fields was poor. Even a large family like Wang Lingyun's family reached an extremely embarrassing situation.
In order to have a good meal, Wang Lingyun had no choice but to enter the troops of the local warlord Wu Peifu and became an unknown big-headed soldier.
Although he could have a bite of food in the army, Wang Lingyun also felt the cruelty of the army for the first time. As a new recruit, he not only had to face all kinds of hard training every day, but also had to deliver water, tea and wash clothes to veterans in the class. He would be beaten and scolded by veterans at any time. The young master, who was once a wealthy family, witnessed the cruelty of society for the first time.
But because of this, Wang Lingyun grew up quickly in the army. The weak temperament on his body disappeared, and was replaced by the murderous aura of a soldier, which laid the foundation for him to rise up in the army later.
was incorporated by the Kuomintang
At that time, there was chaos in Henan Province. As the largest warlord in the local area, Wu Peifu did not have the ability to control this agricultural province since ancient times.
In countless mountainous areas in Henan, there are a large number of robbers and bandits. These people occupy the mountains and become kings, bullying the weak and afraid of the strong will cause harm to the people. The local people are suffering.
And Wu Peifu's army was not much better. Most of these soldiers put on military uniforms for a meal. Most of them had no cultural knowledge, and many of them even did nothing different from those of bandits.
After Wang Lingyun stayed in Wu Peifu's army for a few years, he could no longer bear such a dark life, so he returned to his hometown in anger.
Fortunately, not long after, Wang Lingyun saw the dawn in the darkness: a man named Zheng Guohan pulled Wang Lingyun out of the quagmire.
Zheng Guohan had been an official in the Henan government before, but he was very ill of evil. He strictly investigated the local opium trafficking during his term, which touched the interests of a large number of local people.
Under the collusion between officials and bandits, Zheng Guohan was arrested and imprisoned for a time, and was released with the support of the local people.
After this, Zheng Guohan, who was disheartened by the officialdom, resigned from his position, and instead developed an armed force of thousands of people in the local area to wipe out the bandits and defend the safety of the country. The number mixed brigade .
It is under this background that Wang Lingyun joined Zheng Guohan's team.
Zheng Guohan admires this spirited young man very much. The old and the young often gather together to discuss the art of war. Zheng Guohan also taught Wang Lingyun unreservedly what he learned throughout his life. On a great day, Wang Lingyun officially became Zheng Guohan as his teacher. From then on, the master and disciple went to fight together to kill the enemy, and their relationship became deeper and deeper.
As the bandit suppression operation proceeded, local public security improved day by day, but at this moment, Zheng Guohan unfortunately died in a combat operation. Wang Lingyun inherited Zheng Guohan's will, but took a unique approach.
Every time the bandit suppression is victorious, Wang Lingyun will select some conscience from the surrendered bandits to join his team.
Just like that, Wang Lingyun's power grew day by day, and even attracted the attention of the Kuomintang.
One day, an unusual guest came to Wang Lingyun's brigade department. He was Zhang Jin, one of the famous Revolution , the close partner of the founding father, Mr. Sun Yat-sen.
Zhang Zheng has been paying attention to Wang Lingyun for a long time and believes that this young man has outstanding talent and will definitely have great potential in the future. Therefore, he came to the door in person to hope that Wang Lingyun can join the Kuomintang.
, and Wang Lingyun was also very grateful to Zhang Jin for his kindness, so he led the team to the Kuomintang.
Resistance War meritorious officials
1937, the War of Resistance broke out in full swing. After Wang Lingyun's troops were also sent to the battlefield to fight against the Japanese army.
At that time, Japan assembled heavy troops in the Shanghai area, and the Battle of Songhu was about to begin.
Just before the outbreak of the war, Wang Lingyun was ordered to be appointed as the commander of the 76th Division, and was promoted to lieutenant general. He was ordered to lead his troops to Shanghai to resist the Japanese attack.
This extremely tragic battle lasted for more than three months. China and Japan invested more than one million troops. Countless soldiers died heroically in this battle, which severely hit the Japanese's arrogance and turned Japan's dream of "occupying all of China in three months" into a pool of bubbles.
And the 76th Division led by Wang Lingyun was also attacked by the Japanese army.
Due to the far difference in firepower between the two sides, Wang Lingyun's troops were hit hard at the beginning, and the front line retreated step by step, and the situation was extremely critical.
At this critical moment, Wang Lingyun, as the division commander, rushed out of his command post, picked up a rifle and rushed to the combat position.
When Wang Lingyun's subordinates saw that his leaders rushed up, they shouted and rushed towards the Japanese army. The two armies launched an extremely tragic battle on the position.
As Wang Lingyun's old subordinate, most of the troops he brought from Henan were bandits and Mud-legged . He has always been fearless. Under the tenacious battle of these people, the Japanese attack was repelled again and again. After the battle of
, one of Wang Lingyun's division suffered heavy casualties, with only more than a thousand people left, and countless soldiers sprinkled their blood on the land of Shanghai.
After this battle, Chiang Kai-shek was also moved by Wang Lingyun's army's tenacious combat capabilities and personally wrote a large plaque "Fushan Iron Army" to Wang Lingyun's division headquarters to show praise.
In order to protect this powerful force, the National Government dispatched a large number of troops to supplement Wang Lingyun's troops. Since then, the 76th Division led by Wang Lingyun has traveled to major battlefields across the country, fighting with the Japanese army more than 100 times, and making great achievements.
, and Wang Lingyun was once again promoted to commander of the Kuomintang's Second Army because of his bravery, becoming one of the few senior generals among the Kuomintang.
became an abandoned son
After Wang Lingyun was promoted to commander, he became a veritable "fire-fighting team member" in the Kuomintang because of his ability to fight. He led his troops to fight everywhere and even stepped out of the country. As a member of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, he went to Myanmar to fight against the Japanese army. In the eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wang Lingyun participated in countless battles and was praised by Chiang Kai-shek as the "ever-victorious general."
However, such an outstanding general with extraordinary military capabilities is not satisfactory within the Kuomintang.
As a general who defected to him halfway, Wang Lingyun was once very difficult within the Kuomintang, which was full of factions. Those so-called "direct generals" of Chiang Kai-shek could not fight, but their political struggles were all good.
Although Wang Lingyun was able to win battles, he lacked political talent. He was always excluded by Chiang Kai-shek's direct descendants and never got a step further.
During the War of Liberation, Wang Lingyun also became a powerful general on the battlefield of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Even General Su Yu, the founding general of our army, recognized Wang Lingyun's combat capabilities very much.
However, during the Battle of Menglianggu, Chiang Kai-shek's direct line, Zhang Lingfu, led by Zhang Lingfu's 74th Division was surrounded by our army, and Wang Lingyun failed to arrive in time to rescue Zhang Lingfu's entire army was wiped out.
This incident made Chiang Kai-shek furious and removed Wang Lingyun from office on the spot to investigate and investigate. Since then, Wang Lingyun has been in a slump. In addition, many people in the Kuomintang have taken the opportunity to take advantage of the situation. This general who had made countless military achievements has faded out of the political stage within the Kuomintang, and his military power has also been taken away, becoming an idle person.
As a party with serious political corruption and everyone is busy fighting for power and profit, the failure of the Kuomintang is inevitable. In just four years, the Kuomintang's millions of troops were destroyed under the offensive of our army, and Chiang Kai-shek, who was once powerful, also fled to Taiwan Island, in shame.
At this time, Wang Lingyun was left in the mainland because he had long been forgotten by Chiang Kai-shek and did not get the opportunity to follow Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan.
changed his name and surname, but was reported by his wife
. Wang Lingyun, who was left in the mainland, changed his name to Zhang Keming in order to escape the arrest of our army and came to a small village in Sichuan Province to live an incognito life.
As a former senior Kuomintang general, Wang Lingyun also accumulated an amazing wealth. After working as a farmer here for several years, Wang Lingyun took out forty-eight taels of gold and entrusted the locals to find him a wife .
In that backward era, it was very common to spend money to find a wife, but the local people were still shocked by the huge sums of money Wang Lingyun took out.
People are talking about it, and they are speculating how such a "farmer" who is not good-looking will have such a huge sum of money.
After getting married, Wang Lingyun's wife gradually discovered something was wrong. As a farmer, her husband rarely saw him go to the fields to work. Whenever he was free, his husband did not drink and gamble like others, but read books and newspapers all day long.
What is even more suspicious is that my husband spends a lot of money every year, but he never tells himself where the money comes from.
Although Wang Lingyun's wife has low educational level, she has great doubts about her husband over time.
Just as the new China was just established, our party was searching for the remnants of the Kuomintang. Under such circumstances, Wang Lingyun's wife came to the local public security organs and reported the abnormality of her husband to the police.
After hearing this, local police also thought Wang Lingyun was very suspicious, so they secretly deployed armed personnel to arrest Wang Lingyun unexpectedly.
After interrogation, people discovered that the man who claimed to be a farmer turned out to be a senior general of the Kuomintang. Later, Wang Lingyun was sent to Gongdelin, Beijing for transformation.
mysteriously missing
In Gongdelin, Wang Lingyun was very positive in accepting the transformation. Because of his good performance, he even received many praises and served as a study committee member.
Several years later, Wang Lingyun was finally released in a pardon. He chose to stay in Beijing and entered National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and became a data clerk and lived a dull life.
However, the good times did not last long. Soon after, our country came to a ten-year turbulent period, and Wang Lingyun also got into trouble because of his former Kuomintang general.
For security reasons, Wang Lingyun chose to escape from home on a dark and windy night, leaving Beijing, a surging city, and disappeared from now on...
Wang Lingyun is undoubtedly a soldier with outstanding capabilities. He once fought bravely on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War to defend his country and made important contributions to fighting the Japanese invasion.
Wang Lingyun was also very unfortunate. He chose to stand on the side of the Kuomintang, but was excluded and suppressed by his own people, and eventually became a prisoner.
Although he is talented and capable, he is unable to withstand the torrent of the times and eventually becomes an inconspicuous wave in history.
References:
"Wang Lingyun, an anti-Japanese general who was recruited from the revenge: The battlefield of Songhu emerged and led the 2nd Army to counterattack the Japanese army on the border"-
