Wu Huawen is also a legendary figure with the number one name in Shandong.
At the age of 16, he betrayed his family and defected to Feng Yuxiang. Wu Huawen was born in 1904 in Lijia Village, Ye County, Shandong Province, and at the age of 8 moved with his parents to Mengcheng County, Anhui Province. Because of his well-behaved and cleverness, he was valued by Feng Yuxiang, and in 1923, he entered the Beijing Teaching Regiment to study, and then was sent by Feng to the Army University opened by the Beiyang warlords for further study, and after graduation, he returned to Feng Yuxiang's department as the chief of staff of the division.
At the age of 26, he betrayed Feng Yuxiang and defected to Han Fuyu. In 1930, he abandoned Feng Yuxiang and defected to Han Fuyu, and successively served as the head of the senior teaching regiment, the commander of the pistol brigade, and the commander of the Jinan garrison. In January 1938, his unit was reorganized by Chiang Kai-shek into the Independent Twenty-eighth Brigade, and he served as the brigade commander. After the fall of Lunan Taierzhuang, its unit was reorganized into the New Fourth Division, with Wu as the commander of the division and the commander of the Shandong Security First Division. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he led his troops to fight against the Japanese army in Tai'an, Wande, Humen, Liuhe and other places. In 1939, the Japanese army "May Day sweep", he led his troops in Linqu to fight the enemy fiercely, severely damaged the Japanese army, was praised by the Eighth Route Army.
At the age of 39, he defected to Japan as a traitor. In 1943, he defected to the traitor Wang Jingwei, met with the commander-in-chief of the Japanese invasion of China, Okamura Ningji, and was appointed commander-in-chief of the Japanese and puppet Third Front, coordinating the Japanese army to attack the Eighth Route Army. Wu Hua's Ministry of Culture wantonly brutalized the families of Communists and anti-Japanese personnel. Indiscriminate torture of civilians who could not afford military food. Wu Huawen's hands were stained with the blood of the Communist Party and the people, and he committed a heinous crime!
At the age of 41, the Japanese surrendered, but the traitors could not succeed and once again defected to Chiang Kai-shek. He served as commander of the Fifth Route Army and commander of the southern section of the Jinpu Railway, carrying out Chiang Kai-shek's order to "prevent the communist army from occupying railway traffic".
From 1945 to 1948, he stepped on two boats, only to preserve his strength. In October 1945, one of them was defeated by the People's Liberation Army. In order to get out of the predicament and preserve his strength, he contacted the CCP in July 1946 and expressed his willingness to stand on the side of the people. In March 1947, Chiang Kai-shek launched a major attack on the Liberated Areas of Shandong, and Wu Huawen continued to follow Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the Nationalist Reorganized 84th Division.
The 44-year-old uprising defected to the Communist Party. In July 1948, he was sponsored by Wang Yaowu as the commander of the reorganized 96th Army to defend the western front of Jinan. In August 1948, the Chinese People's Liberation Army surrounded Jinan, and under external pressure and internal urging, he finally led 20,000 officers and soldiers to revolt on the battlefield on September 16. After that, he led the army to participate in the Battle of Huaihai and the Battle of Crossing the River, and made contributions to the liberation of the Chinese people, and was awarded the First Class Liberation Medal of the People's Republic of China in 1955. He was also awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
He has four wives, of whom the eldest wife is a military command agent, and the third aunt is an underground spy of the CCP. After liberation, he took four wives and many children to live in hangzhou's West Lake, a "paradise on earth", and died of illness in Shanghai in 1962, and Premier Zhou personally went to his funeral. Even the Cultural Revolution failed to bring him to order. You say legend is not legendary?!
Wu Huawen did have a set of soldiers to fight, no matter where there will always be some battle achievements, the first to rush into the presidential palace can be said to be a miracle, but in the historical records, it is generally not mentioned which unit first "liberated" here, and lowered the blue sky and white sun flag. Because Wu Huawen's background is indeed too complicated.
Although he led the troops well, what was even more frightening was his strategic vision and political skill. First, he was well aware of the truth of the regime in the barrel of a gun, and like the Eight Roads, the troops fought more and more. Second, he maneuvered between the various forces and gained the greatest benefit through the struggle between the various parties. Third, I know that the icing on the cake is not as good as sending charcoal in the snow, and the timing of surrender is really good, and all parties must be like a grandfather to offer this king! Fourth, he did have a set of troops, and there were always many henchmen who were willing to follow him, and in those years of chaos and chaos, a team of 20,000 people, all forces must pay enough attention! To put it simply, his "emotional intelligence" is too high! Throughout modern history, only Premier Zhou can have a higher political skill and emotional intelligence than this!
He died in Shanghai at the age of 58.