Hao Mengling (1898-1937), whose courtesy name is Xijiu, was from Gaocheng, Hebei Province. On February 18, 1898 (the first lunar month of the 24th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty), he was born in a peasant family. Hao Mengling had been studying in a private school for three years and abandoned farming. At the age of 14, he went to a Guangfu store in Zhengding County to be an apprentice. Because he could not bear the abuse of his boss, he went to the northeast to join Wei Yisan. Wei Yisan was a relative of Hao Mengling's family and was the commander of the 30th Army of the Fengtian Army at that time. He first

Hao Mengling was sent to the Army Officer's School and Baoding Officer's School to study, and after graduation, he became battalion commander and promoted to regiment commander, brigade commander, division commander, army commander and other positions. On October 15, 1937, Hao Mengling led the Ninth Army of the National Revolutionary Army to the north to participate in the Battle of Xinkou, Shanxi. During the battle, he led the way, personally went to the front line to command, and was finally shot and died. Hao Mengling was the first commander who died on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.

1. I should go to the war of resistance

In May 1937, Hao Mengling once again requested to return to the field because of opposing the civil war, but the authorities decided to transfer him to the Sichuan Army University to study in the general class. In early July, Hao Mengling was on his way to Sichuan Army University when he learned that the Lugou Bridge Incident had occurred. He resolutely returned from Chongqing to the army and requested to go north to fight against Japan. He said: "I am a soldier, and I have only fought a civil war for half my life, and it has no benefit to the country. The Japanese invaders occupied the Northeast, and the people are full of righteous indignation. Now that the Japanese invaders are about to destroy China, our country is at the last moment of life and death. I should go to the war of resistance and fight against the enemy." After that, he wrote a letter to volunteer, determined to lead my troops north, and finally approved. At that time, Hao Mengling was the commander of the Ninth Army of the National Revolutionary Army.

In September of that year, Hao Mengling led his troops from Guiyang to fight against Japan. Before leaving, he had made up his mind to serve the country with death. When he was passing Wuhan and taking the scoop to say goodbye to his family, he stroked his children and said earnestly: "I love you, but I love our country even more. Now the enemy is slaughtering our compatriots every day, and everyone should kill the enemy. If the country perishes, you will not have a good life." He also wrote a letter, and handed it to his eldest daughter Huiying, asking him to take it apart three days later. The fifteen-year-old Huiying didn't understand his father's mood and insisted on taking it apart. Hao Buyun, the father and daughter tore the letter into pieces during the robbery and threw it into the spittoon. Hao Mengling said goodbye to his family. Afterwards, his daughter took the letter out of the spittoon and pieced it together. When he saw that it was a will left by the general, and the identifiable content was:

This time I went north to fight against Japan, and I was determined to die. If I died, I would have to follow my mother's instructions and be filial to my grandmother. As for you to go to school, I personally have no money. In the future, the country will win, and you can go to the surviving school.

Stay at Huiying, Huilan, Yinhuai, Yinnan, Yinsen Wuer

Father left on September 15, 1937

After Hao Mengling led the Ninth Army to Shijiazhuang from Wuhan, he was incorporated into the 14th Army of Wei Lihuang. At that time, Yanmen Pass in Shanxi had been lost, and Xinkou in northern Shanxi became the first line of defense for Shanxi to resist the Japanese invasion. In order to defend Taiyuan, Yan Xishan, the commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone, decided to organize a battle in Xinkou and repeatedly asked Chiang Kai-shek to send the Central Army to Jin to fight. Chiang Kai-shek agreed to send the 14th Army into Jin. Yan Xishan immediately appointed Wei Lihuang, the commander-in-chief of the 14th Army, as the commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone, and was fully responsible for commanding the Xinkou Battle.

In early October, General Hao Mengling led his troops to Xinkou to deploy defense in advance and actively sent troops to reinforce the Jin army in Yuanping, who was besieged by the Japanese invaders. After hearing and witnessing the barbaric behavior and arrogance of the Japanese invaders, he became more determined to fight to the end. On October 10, the Xinkou Battle was about to officially begin, and Hao Mengling wrote his final will for his wife Ju Renqiu:

When I set out from Wuhan, I left a will and my children. This War of Resistance was the last moment of the survival of the nation and the country. I was determined to sacrifice and would become a benevolent if I didn’t succeed. In order to strive for the final victory and make the Chinese nation live in the world, success does not have to be with me. I sacrifice first. After I sacrifice, as long as the country exists, the education of my children will certainly not be a problem... If I sacrifice after I sacrifice, I hope you will be filial to my mother and educate my children, and take care of my brothers and sisters, so I will also have honor to sacrifice. Those who are soldiers will die for the country and die can be said to be a place to be!

The calligraphy and the wife of the wife are good at the wife, the wife of the wife is still the one who is good at the word "正" and the double ten chapters are in Xin's mouth.

Hao Mengling was rigorous in dealing with the world, without smoking, drinking, gambling, and prostitutes. He was diligent in reading and purchased a large number of rare ancient books, including the Twenty-Four Histories half-wall-high, various military tactics, photocopied inscriptions of the Sutra, reference books such as Kangxi Dictionary, Ciyuan, etc. He often used the historical stories of loyal ministers and righteous men such as Wen Tianxiang, Shi Kefa, Yue Fei, Su Wu, and his subordinates and their children. He especially praised Wen Tianxiang and was able to recite "Song of Righteousness" and "Crossing the Zero Dingyang". He loved sports throughout his life, and was interested in playing ball, skating, swimming, etc.

Hao Mengling was strict in governing the army. He was not allowed to take concubines and prostitutes, nor was he allowed to take drugs or gamble, nor did he use relatives in the army, and he was given rewards to his subordinates. The troops camped in the countryside and never disturbed the people easily. They often camped with straw in the open air, and they would definitely send the borrowed straw and other items back to the people. He emphasized that after drinking water, he filled the jar, swept the ground, and went out again, using the standard of not seeing the traces of the army camping. He once excerpted a military song from a military quotation, and published the entire army to recite and sing. The lyrics were:

All the three armies listen carefully,

Marines require love for the people,

Don't pick up fish ponds when carrying water.

Don't knock on the door.

On October 11, the Xinkou Battle officially started. After being severely damaged by the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army in Pingxingguan area, he concentrated all his elite troops and formed a dense firepower network for "three-dimensional war" with aircraft, cannons, tanks and other excellent weapons and equipment, and attacked our Xinkou position with all his strength. At that time, the first thing he was the Ninth Army, which was deployed in the central region, and Hao Mengling served as the commander-in-chief of the central region. Facing a strong enemy, Hao Mengling personally came to the front line to command the battle. On the 12th, the Japanese army captured our position in the central region. The battle was extremely fierce. Both sides were in the northwest of Xinkou and northeast of Huaihua.

A fierce tug-of-war broke out on the 204th high ground, and it changed hands 13 times in a day and night. Both sides of the enemy and us suffered heavy casualties. Under the bombardment of the enemy's superior firepower, our army suffered an average of more than 1,000 casualties per day. After the Ninth Army regained the positions occupied by the enemy, some regiments had only one battalion of troops left. General Hao still encouraged the officers and soldiers and said: "This war of resistance is a national war. If the victory is the country, the country will survive, and if the defeat is the country will perish. Everyone should have the determination to have me invincible, the enemy has no one, the country will live, and the country will live, and the country will die. The duty of the soldiers is to protect the country and the people will live. Now that the country is not a country, the people will live without a living, it means that our soldiers have not fulfilled their responsibilities. To put the country on the rock and save the people from water and fire, the officers and soldiers must use their lives and fight bravely."

At dawn on October 15, when the 322nd Regiment fought to the point where only more than 100 people were left, General Hao Mengling went to the regiment's position and spoke to more than 100 officers and soldiers: "...At the time before, our group guarded this position, but now more than 100 people are left, and we will form a company. If one person is left, we must guard this position. Even if one person is left, we must also guard this position. We will have the will to die, and the soldier will not be greedy for life. If we don't die for a day, the responsibility of fighting against Japan will not be over. Before we set off, I had already written a will at home that I would never defeat the Japanese army.

Survival. Now I will stick to this position with you and never retreat first. If I retreat first, no matter who you are, you can shoot me; no matter who you are, as long as you take a step back, I will shoot him immediately! Do you dare to stay here with me?" The officers and soldiers replied in a thunderous voice: "Stand to the position to the death!" He said happily: "Okay, you will have the will of death, and the soldiers will not be greedy for life." He encouraged the officers and soldiers with this motto, and wrote the eight big words "Stand there, die there" to tell the soldiers of the army.

On the night of the 15th, Hao Mengling was ordered to command seven brigades, attacking the enemy from the front at night, and attacking the left and right wings at the same time, in order to seize the effect of attack. At 3 o'clock in the evening, Hao Mengling personally visited the front line, rushed forward, and defeated several hills in a row. Liu Jiaqi, the commander of the 54th Division, also followed Hao Mengling to supervise the team. By 5 o'clock, it was already dawn. Hao Mengling was worried that the newly captured position would be threatened by the enemy's air and artillery fire after dawn, so he decided to chase after the victory and annihilate the remaining enemies immediately, so he bravely rushed to the army. Under the pursuit of our army, the enemy's formation was in chaos and had to retreat with machine guns and howitzers. At this time, Hao Mengling and Liu Jiaqi were already in front of the scattered line, only more than 200 meters away from the enemy. Suddenly, Hao and Liu were shot and fell down. When the two generals were still calling their troops to kill the enemy and serve the country, and then died heroically. At the same time, Zheng Tingzhen, the commander of the Independent Fifth Brigade, were also the commander of the Independent Fifth Brigade.

General Hao Mengling was the first commander who died on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War in the early days of the War of Resistance. The bad news spread and the whole country mourned. When the coffin arrived in Wuhan on October 24, more than 4,000 representatives from all walks of life in Wuhan went to the station to welcome the spirit. On November 15, all walks of life in Wuhan held a grand memorial service, and the city lowered half of the flag to mourn. He Chengjun, the head of the Wuhan camp, represented Chiang Kai-shek, was the preacher. Then, General Hao Mengling's coffin was buried in Zhuodaiquan, Hongshan, Wuchang at the state funeral ceremony. On December 6, the National Government issued a special commendation order, posthumously awarded Hao Mengling as General of the Army, and Liu and Zheng each posthumously awarded him as Lieutenant General of the Army, and explicitly ordered "to be given preferential treatment, and to keep his life and deeds in the History Museum, and to be honored with honors and eternal." In order to commemorate the martyrs, the North Road in the Japanese Concession in Hankou was named Hao Mengling Road (now Jilin Road).

At the meeting of the memorial to the enemy's fallen soldiers in Yan'an on March 12, 1938, Chairman of the CPC Central Committee highly praised Hao Mengling and others' dedication to the country and the nation. He said:

In the past eight months, both sides of the land and air fought bravely; the country achieved great unity; millions of troops and countless people joined the front line, and hundreds of thousands of them sacrificed gloriously and heroically in the performance of their sacred missions. Among these people, many were Kuomintang, many were Communists, and many were other parties and non-party members. We sincerely mourned these dead and expressed our eternal commemoration. From Hao Mengling, Tong Linge, Zhao Dengyu, Rao Guohua, and Liu Jiaqi, to every soldier, they all gave the Chinese a noble and great model. The Chinese nation is by no means a group of sheep, but rich in the people.

The great nation with national self-esteem and human justice is for national self-esteem and human justice, for the sake of national self-esteem and human justice, and for the sake of the Chinese, we must live on our own land, and we will never let the Japanese fascists achieve their lawless purpose without paying a major price. Our method is to use war and sacrifice, use war to fight war, and use revolutionary justice to fight barbaric aggression; this spirit has been proved by the thousands of years of history of our nation, and now it will be another great proof. General Hao Mengling and dozens of others sacrificed for this... General Hao Mengling and others' passion will not be in vain. Who can say that the Japanese robbers were driven out of China is not inevitable?

Chiang Kai-shek also wrote a memorial for the two generals of Hao Mengling and Liu Jiaqi who were killed in Xinkou:

Alas! The island barbarian snakes and pigs recommended food to the upper country. After eating Taixian, they seized the Northeast. They were greedy and insatiable. The soldiers suppressed Jin and attacked Jin. They said that I was no one. The army was the leader of the army, leading the army, galloping everywhere. Liu Jun followed him like a shadow, and my teacher was a force of strength, and his thunder were thunder. Before he could go to the enemy, he would rather die than kill the thief, and swear to avenge the national humiliation. He would kill the enemy, and his morale was greatly boosted.

No scent of the selves.

Musician Xian Xinghai wrote "The Emotions of General Hao Mengling". On October 16, 1939, the Xinhua Daily published a short comment to commemorate the general, praising "The general's death is a great loss to our nation, but this glorious death is more important than Mount Tai." On the occasion of General Hao Mengling's death, Feng Yuxiang wrote a special article to commemorate the general, praising the general as a model of the people, a model of soldiers, and a model of revolutionary party members.

On September 13, 1983, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China issued a martyr certificate to commend the dedication of patriotic soldiers and recognized Hao Mengling as a revolutionary martyr. The Wuhan Municipal Government also renovated the tomb of the general in Zhuodaoquan, Hongshan, Wuchang.
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