Hu Mengjin graduated from a normal school in the 1930s. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he joined the New Fourth Army Field Service Corps and devoted himself to the Anti-Japanese War until his death in Shandong in 1947.
One of the family letters was written in 1939, when Hu Mengjin returned to his hometown from the front line to reunite with his wife Zhang Hui. Before leaving, he left his wife this sincere and heartfelt letter: "Dearest Hui. Ha: We are saying goodbye again! Maybe you won’t be happy when you hear the sound of farewell! My dear, who doesn’t want the reunion of flesh and blood, who doesn’t remember the sweetness of family, you must know that the country and the nation are important, and the individual’s future is important. I have to leave my loved ones and go to a foreign country..."
"Hui, my dearest person, you are an advanced among women. Please don't be attached to my outing this time. You must know your lover's I am not abandoning you on purpose, but I am working hard for the revolution and for the independent, free and happy New China... My dear, when you have nothing to do, you can improve your knowledge by reading more books and newspapers! , think more about ways to work, don’t have daydreams, and don’t worry too much about me outside..."
Chu Zhaonan, an old man in Wukang, Zhejiang, donated a precious family letter from which his second brother Chu Dinghou received It was written on the battlefield of the Battle of Changsha in Japan.
In late December 1941, the Japanese army attacked Changsha with heavy troops and launched the third Changsha Battle with the Japanese army. Chu Dinghou, then the platoon leader of the 121st Regiment of the 41st Division of the National Revolutionary Army, was ordered to He led his troops to guard the north bank of Liuyang River to prevent the enemy from invading the south.
While holding on to his position, he wrote a letter to his elder brother: "...Yesterday afternoon, the division commander personally went to my brother's position to reconnoiter the terrain, and ordered me to go alone. Defend the village stronghold on the north bank of the Liuyang River, and order my brother to defend this place. I ordered my brother and the enemy to die in battle.
If he can hold on here for seven days, there will be a way.
Therefore, I led my troops to the defensive position yesterday evening (the 25th) and worked all night to build fortifications and obstacles. Fifty meters behind the position was a large river. The river widened and became deep. There were no boats or bridges. This was really Han Xin's backwater.
…However, the officers and soldiers of our army’s divisions are determined to die and will never let the enemy cross the south bank of the Liuyang River.
My brother told the soldiers, “Don’t let him cross the river! "In a word, if the enemy doesn't come this time, it will be over. If the enemy comes, he will fight hard...
Shortly after writing this letter, Chu Dinghou led his lone army to fight bloody battles with the Japanese invaders day and night until the entire platoon of officers and soldiers died heroically. .