On July 7, 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, which was the beginning of a full-scale war of resistance, and Wang Yaowu, who was then serving as the Kuomintang 51st Division, received orders to lead his troops to Shanghai to participate in the Battle of Songhu.
After the fall of Shanghai, Wang Yaowu led his troops to Nanjing to participate in the defense of Nanjing.
Later, Wang Yaowu led his troops to participate in the Battle of Lanfeng and the Battle of Wanjialing, and in 1939, he was promoted to the commander of the Kuomintang 74th Army.
After 1941, under the leadership of Wang Yaowu, the 74th Army successively participated in the Battle of Shanggao, the Second Battle of Changsha, the Battle of Changde, the Battle of Xuefeng mountain, etc. During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the 74th Army participated in almost all major battles on the frontal battlefield, and in each battle, there were more conspicuous performances, so the 74th Army was known as the "Anti-Japanese Iron Army", and Wang Yaowu naturally became a famous "famous anti-Japanese general"
With such an astonishing performance, Chiang Kai-shek was naturally very satisfied with Wang Yaowu, and after 1946, Wang Yaowu successively served as the commander of the Second Appeasement District, the director of the Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Party, Government, and Army Unification Headquarters, and the chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government.
This is Chiang Kai-shek's weight and trust in Wang Yaowu.
After the Battle of Jinan in 1948, he was captured by our army and later placed in Beijing Gongdelin Prison for reform, when Luo Ruiqing sent a message to him: "Chairman Mao said that your merits are merits, and your deeds are excessive. Your anti-Japanese merits will always be remembered by us Communists, and as long as you are at ease with reform, you will soon return to the people. ”
Wang Yaowu's heart knot was opened, he threw himself into reform, and in 1959, because of his good performance, he became one of the first Kuomintang war criminals to be pardoned.
After Wang Yaowu was pardoned, someone asked him who he most wanted to see, and after thinking for a moment, Wang Yaowu said the name of Su Yu, the founding general.
What kind of relationship does Su Yu have with Wang Yaowu?
The two men formed a grudge in 1934, when Su Yu was the chief of staff of the Red Tenth Army, and in December 1934, the Red Tenth Army and the enemy engaged in fire in the Tanjiaqiao area in the eastern foothills of the Huangshan Mountains.
While fighting, the Red Army retreated backwards, and after consultation with the leaders of the Tenth Red Army, it was decided to take advantage of the favorable terrain on both sides of the road from Wuniguan to Tanjia Bridge to fight an ambush battle against the enemy.
The Red Army was preparing to ambush the first brigade of supplements led by Wang Yaowu at that time, and he was the brigade commander at the time.
On December 23, Wang Yaowu led his troops into the ambush circle, and Xun Huaizhou, then commander of the 19th Division of the Red Tenth Army, immediately led his troops to launch an attack, Wang Yaowu did not panic at all, he commanded the troops to detour and occupy a favorable position, the Red Army team due to improper command, this ambush battle was fought into an encounter, and in the end, the Red Army retreated in defeat.
Wang Yaowu won the victory, and because of this battle, he was favored by Chiang Kai-shek.
For the Red Tenth Army, the situation of the troops was very unsatisfactory, in early 1935, the Red Tenth Army was besieged in the Huaiyushan area, almost the entire army was destroyed, only Su Yu with more than 700 people, highlighting the heavy siege.
This battle had a great impact on Su Yu, and later after Su Yu's death, he also instructed him to sprinkle some of his ashes in the Tanjiaqiao area.
After this battle, the two never met again, and when the two met again, it was already the Battle of Laiwu in 1947, and during the Battle of Laiwu, Su Yu also became a very good military expert in our army, under his command, Wang Yaowu was greatly defeated, and the Li Xianzhou group was completely destroyed.
In 1948, after the Battle of Eastern Henan, the situation of Huaye's troops in East China changed greatly, Wang Yaowu insisted on staying in Jinan, and when Yanzhou between Jinan and Xuzhou was conquered by our army, Wang Yaowu understood that Jinan had become an empty city.
At this time, the Kuomintang troops entrenched in Jinan had already lost morale to the People's Liberation Army.
After the official outbreak of the Battle of Jinan, Wang Yaowu was defeated, in fact, it was a matter of time, and later, Jinan was conquered, regrettably, Wang Yaowu fled in disguise.
In order to arrest Wang Yaowu, the Shouguang County Public Security Bureau built a large wooden bridge in the northwest corner of Tuntian Village according to the orders of the superiors, which is a bridge that must be passed by the Cangwei Highway.
On September 28, when Liu Jinguang and Liu Yumin of the Political Guard corps of the Public Security Bureau were on duty, two rubber-wheeled carriages suddenly drove toward Damuqiao, and there were two women and five men on the cars, who called themselves Jinan people and now wanted to go to Qingdao.
The public security bureau personnel sensitively believed that the identity of these five people was not simple, so they decided to escort them back to the public security bureau, and after arriving at the public security bureau, they began to interrogate several people separately.
Wang Yaowu's disguised person said at this time that he wanted to go to the toilet, and the person next to him handed him a handful of snow-white foreign hand paper, which was nothing unusual today, but in China at that time, wiping his ass with straw paper or white raw soft grass paper was too rare.
The staff immediately judged that this person was an official, and the official was not low.
After interrogating him, Wang Yaowu could not hold back, he said: "I have reached this point and simply tell the truth!" I'll tell you the truth, I'm Wang Yaowu! Those men were my guards, and I was going to talk to the county commissioner. ”
On September 30, Wang Yaowu was sent to the East China Military Region, and in October, the East China Bureau of the Communist Party of China, the East China Military Region, and the Shandong Provincial People's Government issued a commendation order to reward the meritorious personnel and units who captured Wang Yaowu.
After Wang Yaowu was arrested, he remained trembling and trembling, but later Luo Ruiqing conveyed Chairman Mao's meaning to him and said that he would entertain him, and Wang Yaowu was also relieved, and later, under the arrangement of the Enemy Work Department of our party, he used the form of a radio to appeal to his former colleagues who resisted and the officers and men of Chiang Kai-shek's army to lay down their weapons and throw themselves into the camp of light.
Chiang Kai-shek heard Wang Yaowu's broadcast in Nanjing at that time, and when he smashed the radio, he was furious: "Wang Yaowu is my student, and I do not treat him thinly." Now he is against me in difficult times, and he wants those below to oppose me. ”
In 1959, after Wang Yaowu was pardoned, Premier Zhou Enlai was very concerned about his life and arranged for him to be the commissioner of literature and history of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and in 1966, under the care of Zhou Enlai, Wang Yaowu had a new marriage.
In 1968, Wang Yaowu died of illness at the age of 64.