In 1918, Wu Zhengjun was born in Yingcheng, Hubei Province, and the Wu family was a wealthy local family with more than a dozen department stores. As a child of a wealthy family, Wu Zhengjun is not interested in inheriting the family business as a boss, he likes to read and like to do things that he thinks are meaningful. Wu Zhengjun has been clever and clever since he was a child, and he has the ability to never forget, and people call him a little prodigy. Wu Zhengjun has been ambitious since childhood, determined to be a great hero like Yue Fei and Wen Tianxiang.
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In October 1938, the Invading Japanese Army captured Yingcheng. The Japanese army burned and plundered in Yingcheng, and wu Zhengjun witnessed the atrocities of the Japanese Kou and resolutely signed up for the New Fourth Army from Rong. In the New Fourth Army, Wu Zhengjun successively served as a staff officer of the regimental headquarters of the 5th Division and a staff officer of the Headquarters of Shanyingcheng in Hubei. After Wu Zhengjun joined the army, his family urgently arranged a family affair for him, and his wife Wang Yuanxian rushed to the army to become a relative with him.
Due to the frequent battles and the grim situation of the War of Resistance, Wu Zhengjun sent his wife back to his hometown the next day after marriage. In the past few years, Wu Zhengjun has followed the troops from east to west and turned to battlefields in various places, rarely seeing his wife and family.
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On March 9, 1939, the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army received information in advance that 50 or 60 Japanese troops escorted a convoy of dozens of ships to transport supplies from Yingcheng along the Fushui River to the Song River in Jingshan. It is also reported that there were also some ammunition on board. When the Japanese convoy arrived at the Zhoujia River downstream of the Gong'an Pillar at the junction of Jingshan and Yingcheng, the 5th Division decided to ambush this Japanese army, first to combat the arrogance of the Japanese Kou and second, to engage in some ammunition and materials.
The ambush mission was commanded by Cai Songrong and Huang Dinglu, and Wu Zhengjun personally led the ambush of the Japanese army. In the ambush battlefield, it is selected on the public security pillar, which is condescending and easy to ambush. More than fifty soldiers brought with them more than two dozen pistols, twenty long guns, and a light machine gun, divided into three squads and placed in three strongholds.
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When the Japanese fleet entered the pre-ambushed position, Wu Zhengjun and others attacked at the same time. Suddenly, machine guns, rifles, and pistols were fired at the same time, and grenades exploded on the Japanese ships, causing the Japanese to panic and dizzy: some were shot into the water, some were killed and wounded on the ship, some hurriedly hid under the deck, and some jumped into the water and fled to the opposite shore. After a few moments of fierce fighting, most of the Japanese army was completely annihilated, and the remnants of the devils fled carrying the body of a Japanese officer.
In this ambush, the Japanese army killed more than 20 Japanese troops, captured two "three eight" rifles, and there was no ammunition on board. However, the warriors accidentally killed the Japanese imperial prince Nakamura gang guards who came to labor, and among the captured booty were a white horse ridden by Nakamura, a yellow tweed army coat, and a military blanket. On the military coat and military blanket, the name of nakamura's helper is printed. There are three gun holes in the military carpet, which are where Nakamura was shot. In addition, there is a pair of boots and a turtle shell pistol. After Wu Zhengjun handed over the booty, the regimental commander gave him the military blanket as a souvenir.
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After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1945, Wu Zhengjun took his wife Wang Yuanxian to the army, which was the second time they met after they got married. At this time, several years have passed since they got married. In April of the following year, Wang Yuanxian gave birth to a son, and because Wu Zhengjun was then serving as a staff officer at the headquarters of the New Fourth Army's Jing (Shan) An (Lu) Ying (City), he named his son Wu Jing'an (later renamed Wu Jun'an).
Soon after, due to the tension of the war, Wu Zhengjun sent his wife Wang Yuanxian and son back to Chen He's hometown. On the day of his departure, Wu Zhengjun wrapped his son, who was not yet a month old, in the captured military blanket, and sent his wife and children all the way to the ferry. Wu Zhengjun hugged his son for a while and handed it to his wife, and asked his wife to take care of them and take good care of their flesh and bones.
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In August 1946, two months after Wu Zhengjun sent his wife and children back to his hometown, the Wu family received bad news. Wu Zhengjun led his troops to fight in Fang County when he was unfortunately captured by the enemy army, and his whereabouts are unknown. Since then, the Wu family has never received any news about Wu Zhengjun, and the Wu family believes in their hearts that Wu Zhengjun has probably died.
A month after Wu Zhengjun's arrest, his wife Wang Yuanxian left his son Wu Jun'an, who was less than a hundred days old, to remarry him, and never came back to see his son, and Wu Jun'an, who was still in his infancy, was raised by his uncle. Wu Jun'an had never met his father and had no impression of his mother. When his mother left, she took her father's only photograph and a pistol wrapped in red silk, leaving him with only the military blanket wrapped around him.
Growing up, Wu Junan has been searching for his father's whereabouts and the truth about his father's sacrifice. When his father was arrested in Fang County, what happened to him in the end? Is he still alive? Wu Jun'an always hoped that his father was still alive and could see him again. But Wu Junan searched for decades and traveled all over the villages of Fang County, still finding nothing.
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In 2009, Wu Jun'an came to Gele Mountain in Chongqing and accidentally found his father's name in the list of martyrs of Gele Mountain. By consulting the materials preserved in the memorial hall, Wu Junan finally found out the truth about his father's sacrifice. It turned out that in 1946, Wu Zhengjun was shot and wounded in the leg while commanding the battle in Fangxian County, and he could not walk when the troops broke through, so he had to hide in the homes of the people in Fangxian County.
Soon after, Wu Zhengjun was arrested for betrayal by traitors. After his arrest, Wu Zhengjun was imprisoned in Yichang, Hubei Province, and Wanxian County, Sichuan (present-day Wanzhou District, Chongqing), where he was subjected to inhuman torture. In prison, he and his fellow inmates successfully organized an escape from Wanxian Prison, allowing more than 100 New Fourth Army soldiers to successfully escape the clutches of the devil. Wu Zhengjun had already escaped from prison when he escaped from prison, but was arrested again when he returned to rescue his injured fellow inmates.
After Wu Zhengjun was arrested again, the enemy secretly escorted him to Chongqing's Zha di Dong, and his fellow prisoners saw him suddenly disappear, thinking that he had been killed. Wu Zhengjun was imprisoned in Zha di Dong for several years until He was killed on November 27, 1949, at the age of 31. It has been exactly 60 years, Wu Junan finally knows the truth of his father's sacrifice, and he can't help but shed tears.
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On March 26, 2010, Wu Jun'an cut the military blanket left to him by his father into three sections, one donated to the Chongqing Hongyan Revolutionary History Museum, one stored under the tombstone of the Yingcheng Octagonal Monument Cemetery where his father Wu Zhengjun fought, and one section was left to two granddaughters, hoping that the granddaughter would always remember this history and remember the heroic deeds of the elders.
In 2014, the military blanket donated by Wu Jun'an was rated as a national third-class cultural relic. In 2015, Wu Jun'an died of illness.
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Although the old man Wu Jun'an has passed away, the touching story of this military blanket has forever remained in people's hearts and remembered in people's hearts.
[This article is written by Barnyard Shi Hou, mistakes and omissions, Jingxi readers correct]