readx; After Wang Mingzhang's body was returned, the Central People's Political Axe decided: posthumously present Wang Mingzhang as an army general, give him a state funeral, award a state funeral fee of 40,000 yuan, publicize his life deeds to the National History Museum, and build a tomb and ancestral hall in Xindu County, Sichuan Province, to show the martyrs and comfort the loyal soul. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wang Mingzhang's body was transported to Xuzhou by all the officers and soldiers of the 151st Regiment.

Due to the blockade line when the initial transportation was opened, the body was only hastily decorated, and after arriving in Xuzhou, the body had to be changed to a container. Li Zongren searched all over Xuzhou City, and finally found a good large coffin in a first-class coffin shop.

There are a few words "King of the Coffin" pasted on this coffin, which means "it means that this coffin is the best of the best." These words are not surprising, but here they are very puzzling. The incomprehensible point is that if these four words are read in reverse order, it will become a "coffin among the kings".

Wang Mingzhang's bell, traditional Chinese. Moreover, in the army, sometimes when "Zhong" is written, in order to save the pen, "in" is written. Seeing such a coincidence, everyone couldn't help but be amazed while grieving.

After the body was buried in Xuzhou, it passed through Wuhan, Yucheng and Chengdu, and people from all walks of life along the way greeted the coffin and paid a grand public sacrifice.

At 10 a.m. on 8 May in Wuhan, more than 6,000 representatives from more than 80 units attended the ceremony. The main priest of Yingling is composed of He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi, Chen Panling, Yan Daogang, Wu Guozhen, Guo Chen, Huang Wenzhen, and Guo Moruo. People's representatives Wu Yuzhang and Dong Biwu and representatives of the Eighth Route Army Luo Binghui and Qi Guang attended the ceremony.

In Yucheng, on the afternoon of May 23, thousands of representatives from various institutes, ministries, and various organs and organizations in the city and county gathered at Chaotianmen Wharf to welcome the cowards into the city. He Guoguang led the attachés to board the national ship to preside over the initiation ceremony, read out the memorial message, and laid a wreath, and then moved to the shore. At this time, the bands on the shore played mourning music in unison, the warships in the river fired six gun salutes, and the foreign steamers lowered their flags at half-mast. The procession of welcoming spirits is several miles long, and there are no less than 100,000 people in the middle of the road.

In Chengdu, on the morning of June 12, Wang Zhangxu, acting chairman of Sichuan Province, presided over the opening ceremony and the welcoming ceremony, and more than 100,000 people from all walks of life participated in the ceremony, marching for 10 miles. From Niushikou, Chunxi Road to Purification Street, the Sichuan Provincial Party Auditorium, and the slogan of the Anti-Japanese War shook the sky.

Jin Hong, the adjutant general of the 41st Army, held high the flag of the general's surname first, followed by the statue pavilion, the bloody clothes pavilion, and the spirit coward, which was escorted by a regiment of soldiers. General Wang's bloody clothes were the uniform worn when he was martyred, and his clothes were covered with blood, with thirteen bullet marks. The coward was placed on top of a gun cart, drawn by four tall white horses, and flanked by two companies of pistolmen. Behind the hearse were General Wang Mingzhang's wife, children and family. The flag was lowered at half-mast throughout the city, and banquets and entertainment were stopped. All businesses and households compete for road festivals, and thousands of people empty alleys compete to watch the grand ceremony. An Air Force plane circled low over the coffin and distributed leaflets.

Purified Street is full of yellow and white cloth strip ceiling, along both sides of the street are tied with wooden strips of bamboo into a long shed, both sides of the hanging from all walks of life sent to the couplet, each end of the street stands a memorial arch. The main gate and the second gate of the auditorium are also set up together. On the archway of the gate, hang Wang Mingzhang, dressed in military uniform, bloody battle, Teng County, five hearts, high oil painting. Above the oil painting, there are five-colored neon lights winding into four big characters of "national glory". Several patios from the gate to the auditorium are covered with white cloth ceilings, and the walls on both sides are hung with couplets of important party, government and military officials. The main entrance of the auditorium hangs the inscription of Right Ren and Kong Xiangxi. In the middle of the auditorium hangs a two-foot-high portrait of Wang Mingzhang, and above the portrait is a portrait of Sun Yat-sen. On both sides of the statue are the elegiac couplets sent by Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren, and the coffin is parked under the statue.

After the Chengdu public sacrifice, the soul returned to his hometown of Xindu County.

On August 8, all walks of life in Xindu County formed the "Preparatory Meeting for the Coffin of Master Wang from All Walks of Life in Xindu Experimental County", and decided to welcome the coffin at one o'clock in the afternoon of August 30, and hold a public sacrifice and burial ceremony to welcome the soul from August 30 to September 1, and the whole city stopped entertainment for three days, and each family lowered the flag at half-mast for three days.

On the morning of the 30th, all the staff of the organs and corporations in the urban area, the students of the schools in the urban area, the volunteer police team in the urban area and the attached city, the Zhuangding team, the volunteer supplementary team, the guard team, all the monks of Baoguang Temple, Wang Mingzhang's relatives and friends, the responsible persons of the party, government and army, brought their own dry food, each of them as a whole team, and lined up on both sides of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway from the drinking horse river, with a total length of more than three miles. Along the way, incense cases were set up at the entrance of each street, and a huge horizontal sign of "All walks of life in Xindu Experimental County greeted Master Wang's Lingyu" was hung, and the trees along the way were full of firecrackers. People from all walks of life held fragrant fruits in their hands, and thousands of people were in tears, and batch after batch flocked to both sides of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway. Thousands of empty alleys along the way from the north gate of Xindu County to Guihu Lake are waiting solemnly.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the huge silk inscription came into the eyelids, and on the silk was Li Zongren's inscription of "the bell coffin of the king general" seven big characters.

Under the escort of Commander-in-Chief Sun Zhen, the cadet horse team and the military band, and in the mournful mourning music, Ling Yu slowly came along the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway.

At this time, the county magistrate Chen Kaisi greeted the coward, bowed three times and saluted, and paid silent tribute, and the responsible persons of the party, government, military, and academic circles and Wang Mingzhang's relatives and friends marched forward one after another, and walked around the main streets of the city for a week.

At around five o'clock, Lingyu entered Guihu Square. Thousands of people were crowded in the square, slogans came and went, tragic and passionate, and the sound of firecrackers was deafening. The mourning hall made of yellow and white cloth is in the middle opposite the gate of Guihu Lake. The mourning hall hangs a portrait of the king's inscription, and the two sides of the mourning hall are lined up with the central, provincial, municipal and county circles and townships to escort the couplet.

Sun Zhen, Wang Wenzhen, Chen Kaisi and Wang Mingzhang's relatives slowly moved the spirit into the mourning hall.

The couplets lined up in a long queue:

Chen Shaoyu, Wu Yuzhang and others jointly wrote a pair of elegiac couplets:

"Fighting to defend the lonely city and treating death as home, is the true character of a revolutionary soldier; Determined to annihilate the enemy, martyr the country, and bring glory to the Chinese nation. ”

Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Zhou Enlai, Ye Jianying, He Long, Liu Bocheng and other joint couplets:

"A brigade guarding the lonely city and sacrificing for the cause of national liberation is really a descendant of Yan and Huang, and it will go down in history; Tens of thousands of people were indignant, resisted the imperialist aggression, destroyed history, and rejuvenated China. ”

Chiang Kai-shek, chairman of the Military Committee of the National People's Political Axe, wrote an inscription: "National glory"!

Bang Lian: "Fight to defend the country, the strong man will not return, and fight for loyalty to the universe; Hearing the drums and thinking of the generals, the national mourners cried together, and the statue of the forbearance mark was clear. ”

Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, and two deputies: "Junzhen Three Gorges Hao fought hard to make the wall of the urn city into an iron wall; I am sorry that the commander of the fifth district led the athletes to drive away the ugly captives, and swore to comfort the loyal soul with Kai. ”

"The blood is sprinkled in Tengcheng, the ambition is difficult to pay, and it is a pity that the talents die more; The coffin returns to Shu Dao, and the loyal soul does not return, so it should help the ghosts to calm the widows. ”

Lin Sen, chairman of the National Political Axe, wrote an inscription: "Zhuang Jiejie".

Bang Lian: "The cloud dark Lu Tian's soul returns to Shu Dao; Loyal to the party and the country. ”

Sun Zhen, Wang Wenzhen, Chen Kaisi and Wang Mingzhang's relatives slowly moved the spirit into the mourning hall. The ceremony ended with the deafening sound of firecrackers.

At this time, the crowd of people flocked to the mourning hall, looked at the statues and bloody clothes, and couldn't help but bow deeply, and many people knelt down to pay tribute to the general who died on the battlefield.

At the same time at the memorial service, Zhao Weibin, Zou Shaomeng, Wang Lin, Mu Jiawen and other martyrs who died in Teng County were also commemorated.

On September 1, General Wang Mingzhang's loyal remains were laid to rest in a new cemetery outside the west gate of the county seat.

Heroes are eternal, and the name of heroes is immortal!

In the battle of Tengxian, there were also many officers and soldiers who will go down in history forever with Wang Mingzhang.

Zhao Weibin, the word Xiangxian, the chief of staff of the 122nd Division, is a native of Chengdu. When the teenagers entered school, it was the time of the First Sino-Japanese War and the eventful autumn of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the nation was on the verge of extinction. At school, he was deeply influenced by anti-imperialist patriotic thoughts, and deeply cherished the ambition of "the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband" and "pledge the country with his body".

After the Xinhai Revolution, the eighteen-year-old Zhao Weibin joined the student army, and later transferred to the Sichuan Army Officer Academy. After graduation, he worked in various armies in Sichuan, and later served in this position.

Zhao Weibin has a strong literati popularity in his surname and hobbies, and also has a strong foundation in Chinese studies. At any time, I can read books such as the 24 histories, various sub-books, and poetry collections of famous writers. For the works of the sages and famous generals, they are even more desperate to buy, and they are put on the right side of the case. Such as Yue Zhongwu Wang Collection, Mr. Wenshan Collection, Shi Gebu Collection, etc.

He was killed at the age of forty-four and was posthumously awarded the rank of lieutenant general after his death.

During the previous Battle of Taiyuan, Zhao Weibin wrote a long letter to his son Shicheng, nicknamed Tie Song, which could represent his thoughts, surname, and integrity:

"Tie Song: When I went out, I didn't get a letter from home because I was on the move, and I thought about it! Has your school's notice arrived? I hope you will tell me.

To Shaanxi is to urge the advance, Xi'an camp said that Taiyuan can be supplemented, to Tongguan and other troops to cross the river and Sun Junchang to Shaanxi, and was urged to die, to this place, still nothing, Yan's new guns and new artillery, are transported to the rear, the Jin army is fleeing, 150,000 people are now only 20,000 or 30,000, Yu Jun took the guns home, this remnant warlord hateful, is really too unpopular to the extreme

You don't have to ask anything now, just bury your head and only read your books, as long as you learn to be a sound worker and a sound technician, I will have no hatred, and besides, the technology you learn is the necessary tool for the future war of resistance?

My safety, I know myself, so many people have been sacrificed, what am I afraid of, but unfortunately my physical strength is not strong, and I can't go directly to the front line to fight, otherwise it would be a good opportunity.

When I say these things, I don't have to let my grandmother know, and you don't have to tell people that you have a goal, a wish, and go to the destination, anyway, your creation is better than mine, your future is naturally better than mine, and your luck is naturally better than mine.

I was unfortunately born in a transitional era, and I did not have the perseverance to break through the circumstances, and I have always been governed by the circumstances, and I have no complaints, but if you brothers know it, it will be worthy of my painstaking efforts.

It was said that I got on the car today, because the car was not enough, I was late, I was alone, I would talk to you casually, and there was no other meaning, don't misunderstand.

On my behalf, I asked my grandmother and Grandma Liu how they were doing.

Bin ten, twenty-four, night in Taiyuan. ”

Zou Shaomeng, whose name is Mutao, is a colonel and staff officer of the 124th Division, and was born in a poor peasant family in Lede Township, Rong County, Sichuan Province.

When he was young, he studied in a private school, and at the age of 24, he was admitted to the Sichuan Army Lecture Hall. After graduation, he served in Tian Songyao's department for many years, serving as a major staff officer in 1925, a lieutenant colonel battalion commander in 1928, a lieutenant colonel chief of staff in 1934, and a colonel chief of staff of the 124th Division of the 41st Army in 1935. In the defense of Tengxian County, he followed Wang Mingzhang and others to fight in the streets of the city until the last moment. At the age of forty-three, he was posthumously awarded the rank of major general after his death.

On the sixth day before the fall of Teng County, Zou Shaomeng sent his last letter from Teng County. The uniqueness of this letter lies in the fact that there are not many impassioned words, and it is more important that it is a soldier in the line of fire who has forgotten himself, and from the perspective of a father, he accuses his eldest son, who is currently in elementary school, of "ranking in the C class", and from the responsibility to the country, society, and himself, he teaches his son not to "blindly talk about it when he is young".

An ordinary family letter, but it has such a height and glory beyond the family, both worried about the country and the people, and worried about the family, the heart of the fist is about to come out, and it jumps on the paper.

After Zou Shaomeng's death, this letter was published in the Chengdu newspaper at that time, and a number of young students and patriots asked the newspaper office one after another. At that time, the 41st Army stationed in Mianyang reproduced this letter into 5,000 photos and distributed it. This simple language is still touching to read:

"Ning Er is like a meeting: I received your grandfather's hand Yu before, and I learned that your grades in the second semester of last year were very bad, and I was ranked C. I think that your talent is not very bad, as long as you are a little diligent, although the best class is not available, the best forgiveness is possible. Now that I am ranked in the third class, it really adds to my infinite worries. Thinking back to the last time you wrote to Yunyun, I was taught by my grandparents not to be playful, to study diligently, but because I had a lot of homework and was preparing for an experiment, it was all a lie, which made me feel more and more worried. When you are young, you will blindly talk about it, and you will have no achievements when you grow up, and it will not help the country and society. The country must have such a citizen, so why should the family have such children? Wangru is determined to be upward in everything, very competitive, not to play blindly, not to review his homework so that everything is left behind, and he is not ashamed. Because I am a soldier and engraved on the front line of the war of resistance, in case I am unfortunate enough to die in battle to complete my duty as a soldier, then the responsibility of defending the country and rejuvenating the Chinese nation in the future lies with you. Whether you can shoulder this heavy responsibility depends on how well you cultivated and attained when you were young. I hope that you will savor this purpose, and I don't know where to ask your grandfather to explain it to you. Remember not to forget, what is your thinking after seeing the letter, and how is the situation of your grandfather's family and how you have entered the school this year, I hope to report the letter, and I will ask you this way.

Near the good father Meng Shou showed the Republic of China on March 11, the 27th year of the Republic of China, and said that the military number of Teng County, Shandong. ”

In addition to these soldiers who died in battle, there is another person who can still leave a name in the history of the Chinese nation's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Teng County Magistrate Zhou Tong!

When the city was broken, Zhou Tong led some people to highlight the city, and went to the Yimeng Mountains to carry out guerrilla warfare, and continued to fight bravely with Yue himself.

It's just that later he had many frictions with the armed forces led by another political party, so his affairs were obliterated by history.

However, this still cannot erase the contribution made by county magistrate Zhou Tong in the Tengxian protection battle in early 1938.

Many people, like Zhou Tong, made indelible contributions in the War of Resistance, but for various reasons, their exploits were not publicized, so that many people could not even know their names and their deeds.

But no matter what their doctrine is, no matter what their political beliefs are, at least in this war that is related to the peril of the nation, they are the real heroes of the real nation and this country!

(To be continued)