A character to be talked about today is actually a little special, he is the first military commander to liberate Nanjing, many people may not know much about him, why people who have made such great merits are few people know, after the founding of the country, he not only did not participate in the awarding of titles, but almost suffered the disaster of killing, this military commander is named Wu Huawen, let's take a good look at his story.
Wu Huawen's family background is not recorded in detail, but it is mentioned that he attended Shuangjian Primary School in 1916, and from this detail, Wu Huawen's origin should not be bad, because the children of poor families cannot afford to read.
After that, Wu Huawen joined Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army and became the service soldier of Feng Da's warlords, and after thirteen years of the Republic of China, after Feng's escort, Wu Huawen was able to go to the Beiyang Army University for further study, and as a result, after further study, Wu Huawen turned his face and did not recognize anyone, directly defected to Han Fuyu, and served as the leader of the teaching regiment of the Third Route Army under him.
After the end of the Northern Expedition, Wu Huawen was absorbed by chiang kai-shek and became a pistol brigade commander, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he led his troops to blow up the Luokou Iron Bridge on the north bank of the Yellow River, preventing the Japanese army from going south, and fighting with the Japanese army many times, but because of the civil war policy of Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorial government, Wu Huawen also mutilated many communists and the families of anti-Japanese soldiers.
Because he was not from the Huangpu clan, Wu Huawen has not been reused, and throughout his life he was just a general of the miscellaneous army, in 1943, Wu Huawen defected to wang Jingwei, the leader of the Traitors, and became the commander of the Third Front Army of the puppet army, during which time Wu Huawen did a lot of reprehensible things, such as the no-man's land massacre he created in the Shandong region.
Within a few years of defecting to the Japanese, the Japanese were beaten back to their hometown, wu Huawen was once again absorbed by the old Chiang Kai-shek, became the commander of the Fifth Route Army of the Nationalist Army, under the jurisdiction of Wang Yaowu, the troops were stationed in Xuzhou and Bengbu, and the following year his troops were reorganized into the Seventh Column, because they were ostracized, Wu Huawen began to contact the People's Liberation Army and find his own way out.
When the Battle of Jinan began, Wu Huawen was also on the verge of collapse; under the ideological transformation of our party, he abandoned the dark and surrendered to the light, and decided to lead the whole army to revolt, and the whole process of the uprising was very smooth, but it was regrettable that Wu Huawen did not detain him when old Chiang Kai-shek inspected the troops, otherwise it would be a great achievement to treat him as a surrender.
At that time, Wu Huawen's defense area was on the western front of Jinan and the airfield, and his uprising caught Wang Yaowu by surprise, and it was too late to ask for help, which led to the hasty end of the Jinan campaign, and the entire north was also liberated, and a very interesting thing happened at that time, Wang Yaowu wrote to Wu Huawen and asked him why he did not bring himself to the uprising, Wu Huawen secretly thought in his heart that you Wang Yaowu is a regular army of the concubines, and I will definitely be shot by you if a miscellaneous general pulls you to revolt.
After receiving ideological reform, the Thirty-fifth Army threw itself into the Battle of Crossing the River, while Wu Huawen led his troops to directly attack Nanjing, successfully planted the flag of the People's Liberation Army in the city of Nanjing, and stole the first merit.
After that, the Thirty-fifth Army was withdrawn, Wu Huawen also transferred to Zhejiang, the generals who were awarded the medal in 1955 were all soldiers on the post, Wu Huawen obviously did not meet this condition, so he did not participate in the award, and because of the tragic case created by Wu Huawen in Shandong that year, there were constantly petitions from shandong's public opinion representatives to kill him, considering that Wu Huawen was credited with the liberation of Nanjing, our party did not pursue responsibility, and in 1962 Wu Huawen died of illness in Shanghai at the age of 58.