After Wang Yaowu was captured, two tractors were found in his home, and his answer was emotional
"Fight to Jinan Province, capture Wang Yaowu alive" is the slogan of the People's Liberation Army in the Battle of Jinan, and many people know it when they bring it up, but they don't know much about Wang Yaowu and his people.
Wang Yaowu, a native of Tai'an, Shandong, was successfully admitted to the Huangpu Iii Phase at the end of 1924, and after graduation, he participated in the Northern Expedition and the Central Plains War.
In 1932, he participated in the fourth "encirclement and suppression" of the Central Soviet Region, and was promoted to major general brigade commander because of his stubborn defense of Yihuang, Jiangxi, and was soon promoted to division commander.
After the July 7 Incident, Wang Yaowu led his troops to participate in many large-scale battles in the frontal battlefield, and was promoted to lieutenant general for his merits, known as the "First General of the Huangpu Phase III".
In June 1939, Wang Yaowu took over from Yu Jishi as the commander of the 74th Army, which was known as the head of the five main forces of the Kuomintang Army, and since then, the anti-Japanese scene has added a prestige of "Anti-Japanese Iron Army".
After Japan's surrender in September 1945, Wang Yaowu served as the surrendered commander of the Hengyang area of Changsha and accepted the command knife of the commander of the Japanese 20th Army.
However, Wang Yaowu, who had made many achievements in the War of Resistance Against Japan, repeatedly failed on the road of civil war that followed Jieshi.
During the Liberation War, Wang Yaowu served as the commander of the Second Appeasement District, the chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government, and the commander of the provincial security.
In February 1947, his troops were defeated at the Battle of Laiwu, losing more than 60,000 troops and capturing his deputy commander Li Xianzhou.
In May, Wang Yaowu's reorganized 74th Division was annihilated and Zhang Lingfu was killed.
From March to April 1948, his troops were again defeated in the towns of Jiaoji Road, and more than 80,000 people were annihilated.
By this year, it was already the third year of the Liberation War, and almost all of the more than 100 counties and towns in Shandong were liberated, leaving only an isolated city in Jinan, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered Wang Yaowu to lead an army of 100,000 to hold Jinan, and also drew up a "battle plan" for sending more troops.
On September 16, the People's Liberation Army launched an attack on the city of Jinan, on the 17th, it broke through the Maoshan Ridge, the "Eastern Gate" outside Jinan, and on the 19th, Wu Huawen, commander of the Kuomintang Reorganized 96th Army and commander of the Western Front, led an uprising of more than 20,000 people.
On the 23rd, the general attack on jinan city officially began, and the whole city was conquered in only 8 days, annihilating more than 100,000 Kuomintang troops.
Although the city of Jinan was breached, it took a lot of effort to capture Wang Yaowu.
According to the plan, the militia, public security cadres, and masses in the counties surrounding Jinan practiced joint defense vigilance, added guard cards at various traffic arteries, ferry terminals, and stations, and interrogated the Kuomintang troops who had absconded and slipped through the net, and finally captured Wang Yaowu alive in Shouguang.
Before that, Hua Ye raided Wang Yaowu's home, but only found two tractors, which was quite surprising.
Wang Yaowu replied that this was sent by a foreign friend and used when returning home to farm after the country was at peace.
It turned out that he had long been ready to understand jia and return to the field, to follow the pastoral life of "a cow in thirty acres of land, a hot kangtou for his wife and children".
These words made Mr. Chen and others present sigh with emotion.
Realistically speaking, Wang Yaowu is one of the few upright soldiers in the Kuomintang; he grew up in a poor family and worked as a hard worker for many years, bearing hardships and standing hard work for others. To his subordinates, he is approachable, loves and unites, so he is supported by officers and soldiers; for his peers, he is uncoordinated; to his superiors, he is absolutely obedient;
It was also this personality that laid the foundation for his repeated military achievements during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but it also determined that he became a victim of the Chiang Family Dynasty after the War of Resistance.
What is even more rare is that Wang Yaowu is not corrupt, does not eat empty pay, does not drink the blood of soldiers, and he uses the money he earns from his own business.
No wonder a general of our army lamented: "A general who does business and does business and uses the money he earns to maintain relations between all parties is really a talent."
On the night of Wang Yaowu's capture, he explained his escape and analyzed the reasons for his failure in the Battle of Jinan.
He believes that the main reasons for the loss of Jinan are low morale, Wu Huawen's uprising, and the loss of the airport.
He also had a deeper understanding: "The Kuomintang is always backward, and you are always progressive. You go one foot further, and the Kuomintang goes further. I saw you rectify the wind, and I also called the lower rectification, and it turned out that nothing happened. Because they only say and don't do anything, in addition, the four major elements of politics, economy, culture, and military are inferior to you, so the Kuomintang cannot do it. ”
"The Kuomintang can't do it" - At this time, Wang Yaowu finally told the truth.
Later, when he was undergoing reform at the War Criminals Management Center, he saw that the Kuomintang generals were gathering here one after another, so he wrote a couplet: "Come in early, come in late, come in early, come in early, go out first and then go out and go out first", and the horizontal criticism is: "All are coming."
Because of his good attitude toward reform, Wang Yaowu was released by the first batch of amnesties in 1959, served as a commissioner of culture and history, and died in Beijing in 1968 at the age of 64.