The commander of the Red Army division captured a soldier, and many years later, the division commander became a general and the soldier became a founding lieutenant general
In the first anti-encirclement and suppression struggle in 1930, the Red Army fought a victorious battle, completely annihilated the enemy's bottom 18th Division, division commander Zhang Huizhen and more than 9,000 people under the whole division were annihilated or captured by the Red Army, this battle shattered the enemy's first "encirclement and suppression" of the Central Soviet Area, the enemy commander-in-chief Lieutenant General Zhang Huizhan was captured, which caused a sensation at the time, greatly boosting the confidence of the Red Army soldiers in defeating the enemy, as captured soldiers, many of them joined the Red Army, one of them was a prisoner, and at that time he was just an ordinary soldier. Unexpectedly, decades later, he became the founding lieutenant general, and he was General Wang Yi.
Wang Yi, a native of Wujin, Jiangsu Province, was born in 1909, and at the age of 19 he was admitted to the Communications Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, and after graduation, he was first assigned to the Ninth Division, and later transferred to Zhang Huizhan's 18th Division, and soon accompanied the troops to participate in the "encirclement and suppression" of the Central Soviet Region.
As a soldier with a conscience, he deeply resented the corruption of the Nationalist army, expressed sympathy for the Red Army, and was unwilling in his heart for this military operation, but as a soldier, obeying his superiors was a natural duty, and his heart was very contradictory. Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for him to be non-contradictory.
In the Battle of Longgang, Zhang Huizhan and his 18th Division were all annihilated or captured by the Red Army, and Wang Yi was also one of the captives, and the captive of Wang Yi was a very remarkable figure, he was Su Yu, the commander of the 65th Division of the Red Army and later became the founding general.
Wang Yi was a radio operator of the army at that time, and when he was captured, he was accompanied by a British-made radio, there was no radio in the Red Army at that time, the soldiers did not know what it was, so at first it was not taken seriously, it was damaged to a certain extent, and when Su Yu stopped it, the radio was damaged somewhat seriously, and Wang Yi quickly repaired it after permission, although he made great efforts, he only repaired the receiver, but what he did not expect was that this "half" radio that could only receive newspapers and could not send newspapers played a great role.
Wang Yi, who joined the Red Army, used this "half" radio station to spy on the enemy's situation in the second anti-encirclement and suppression struggle not long after; after the Red Army learned of the enemy's deployment, it quickly adjusted its army and won successive victories in the battle against the enemy, and finally won a second great victory against the encirclement and suppression.
At the military and civilian celebration meeting, the chairman let Wang Yi take the stage, introduced himself to everyone, and praised him as the "clairvoyant" and "downwind ear" of the Red Army, and there was a round of applause from the audience.
In the ensuing anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggles, the Red Army captured a number of radio stations, and on this basis, Wang Yi served as the radio captain of the headquarters of the Red Army, trained many radio operators, and the use of radio stations provided very good convenient conditions for the Red Army's operations. Later, Wang Yi served as the director of communications and participated in the Long March.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Yi came to Yan'an, served as the political commissar of the communications school, and was in charge of the work of the radio station of the Yan'an headquarters; he and many technicians of our army studied intensively and successfully deciphered some important secret telegrams of the Japanese army, and some of the contents of the secret telegrams were about the movement and combat arrangements of the Japanese army invading China.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Yi successively served as vice minister of posts and telecommunications, minister of communications, president of the Military Electronics Research Institute, and later deputy chief of the general staff, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955, and General Wang Yi made great contributions to the development of new China's communications cause.