In mid-1940, Xu Xiangqian, then commander of the First Column of the Eighth Route Army stationed in Shandong, was instructed by the central authorities to go to Yan'an to attend an important meeting. At that time, because it was necessary to pass through some enemy-occupied areas to go to Yan'an, in order to ensure the safety of the chief, the party committee and the military region of the Jiluyu District of the CPC attached great importance to it, and in order to ensure that there was no mistake and to prevent the enemy from receiving intelligence to concentrate on attacking Xu Xiangqian to cross the river, it was decided to cross the Wei River in two places.
According to the decision of the superiors, under the leadership of Wen Yunzhi, then political commissar of the First Military Subdistrict of the Jiluyu Military Region and political commissar of the Anti-Japanese People's Army in North China, a route crossed the river in Yuancun, Nanle County, in the east of Shigu Bay, nanle County, and sang really, once discovered, it could confuse the enemy and coordinate Xu Xiangqian to cross the river downstream of the Wei River.
After Wen Yunzhi crossed the Wei River, he must cross the Zhanghe River at Cai Xiaozhuang in Wei County, and then rendezvous with Xu Qianqian and cross the railway from Linhuan Pass into the Taihang Mountains. At the same time, he sent troops to protect Xu Xiangqian and others from Daming County's Dongyuan Bay to secretly cross the river, then cross the Zhanghe River directly to Wei County, cross the railway and blockade ditch at Linhuan Pass, enter Liao County in the Taihang Mountains, and reach the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. The CPC Jiluyu District Party Committee and the Military Region instructed: The enemy situation is complicated, and no matter what the situation arises, it is imperative to ensure the safety of Xu Xiangqian and other chiefs.
In the early morning of the same day, Wen Yunzhi and his party came to the riverside, and two warriors who were familiar with water nature crossed to the other side of the Wei River and tied a large thick rope to a tree to connect the two sides. Wen Yunzhi and others boarded five or six small boats according to the agreed time, facing the rapids, and the migrant workers on board quietly rowed to the opposite shore with large thick ropes. At dawn, the boat had just paddled to the center of the river, when it suddenly found that the patrol boat of the Japanese Kou was flowing down the river from west to east, and the searchlight was as bright as day. When the enemy spotted a boat crossing the river, he immediately called for a stop, and the machine guns opened fire at the same time.
Wen Yunzhi was on the second ship, and while urging the shipwrights to work hard to get the ship to dock, he commanded the soldiers on the ship and the team that responded on the other side to return fire on the enemy. The battle began, and the sirens and gunshots of the Japanese patrol boats intertwined and resounded through the night sky. Japanese troops from the Yuancun stronghold and the Dragon King Temple in the lower Wei River also came to support.
During the battle, several fighters fell into the water at the expense of wen Yunzhi, but still insisted on commanding the battle, and the ship slowly sailed to the opposite shore. At this critical moment, the enemy's intensive and frantic fire broke the thick rope connecting the two sides of the strait, and the ship lost its reliance and quickly overturned, and the personnel fell into the water. Wen Yunzhi did not know the nature of water, coupled with a leg injury, died in the rough wei river, at the age of 36.
Later that day, Xu Xiangqian, who crossed the river northeast of The Daimyo, although he also encountered enemy attacks, the enemies who attacked were mainly Japanese troops stationed in Xiaotan Town and dozens of puppet troops. A large number of enemies of the Dragon King Temple sent troops to Jishigu Bay in Yuancun first, reducing the pressure on Xu Xiangqian to cross the river northeast of Daming, and bought time for Xu Xiangqian to cross the Wei River, and he had crossed the river safely.
According to the memorial hall of the Chinese min Anti-Japanese War, Wen Yunzhi "at dawn on the 21st, when he rushed to cross the Wei River through Yuancun and the Dragon King Temple, he was attacked by enemy patrol boats, and in order to cover Xu Qianqian's safe breakthrough, he unfortunately died in battle." The "Heroic Martyrs of China" also records that Wen Yunzhi rushed to cross the Wei River in the territory of present-day Nanle County, and died to cover for General Xu Qianqian.
Wen Yunzhi, zi Yongzhi, was born in 1904 in Wenjiapu, Bahe Town, Hushui County, Hubei Province, to a family of scholars. He is the cousin of Wen Yiduo, a famous Chinese scholar and patriotic democracy fighter, and the father of Wen Lishi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a famous materials scientist after the founding of New China.
Wen Yunzhi was intelligent since childhood, and was admitted to the Two Lakes Normal School at the age of 15. His cousin Wen Yiduo called him "Shui Shui Yan Hui". In 1926, Wen Yunzhi joined the Party and traveled east to Japan, where he studied at Waseda University and Tokyo Institute of Technology. After returning to China, under the pseudonym Ji Hua, he went to Tianjin to organize the student movement and was one of the most influential student leaders at that time.
At that time, Tianjin broke out "one or two. Viii. "Student Salvation Movement, the cultural circles organized the Tianjin Branch of the Cultural Workers Association (later renamed the Cultural Professionals Association) centered on the Law And Business School, and Wen Yunzhi served as the executive committee member to help establish the Tianjin Students' Federation. Subsequently, he was assigned by the organization to do united front work in the local power faction of Hebei Province, Zhang Yinwu. In the same year, he went to Linxian County, Anyang, and Tangyin in northern Henan to carry out anti-Japanese activities, organized anti-Japanese forces, and sought to unite Wang Changjiang, deputy commander-in-chief of the Hebei Nationalist Army, and Huang Yuyu, a Kuomintang garrison, and other places. In October 1938, Zhu Cheng, commander of the 11th Regiment of the Nationalist Army, established the Hebei Nationalist Army Jinchayu Border District Office in Lingchuan, Shanxi, and served as the director of the Political Department of the 11th Regiment of the Ministry.
Subsequently, Zhu Chengbu was reorganized into the North China Anti-Japanese Nationalist Army, with Wen Yunzhi as the party representative and director of the political department, and rebuilt the party organization in the army with some of the military and political backbones brought by the First Branch of the Anti-Japanese University. Later, he served as the political commissar of the First Military Subdistrict of the Jiluyu Military Region and the political commissar of the Anti-Japanese People's Army in North China, and also served as a member of the party committee of the Jiluyu Military Region, leading the army and the people to crush the Japanese and Kou for many times.
After training, this anti-Japanese contingent greatly improved its political quality and combat effectiveness, and under the direct command of Wen Yunzhi, it carried out a series of battles and annihilated a large number of enemies. A new situation emerged in the anti-Japanese situation here, and hundreds of large and small battles were fought in the Taihang Mountains, annihilating more than 10,000 Japanese troops, capturing a large number of weapons and ammunition, eliminating the puppet army Gao Zi Dengbu, attacking the stubborn bandit Dong Liangjian' department, opening up the Huixian anti-Japanese base area, and becoming the main armed force in Yudi to resist Japan.
In April 1940, the North China Anti-Japanese Nationalist Army was ordered by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to be transferred to Jiluyu to open up guerrilla warfare in the plains and establish anti-Japanese base areas. After arriving in Jiluyu, Wen Yunzhi served as the political commissar of the First Military Subdistrict of the Jiluyu Military Region and the political commissar of the North China Anti-Japanese People's Army, and the troops were active in puyang, Neihuang, and Huaxian counties, and together with Zhu Cheng, led the army and the people to smash the Japanese and Kou on many cruel sweeps and established anti-Japanese base areas in the sand area.
However, unfortunately, Political Commissar Wen Yunzhi died heroically and was buried in the Weihe County Anti-Japanese War Martyrs Cemetery, and a monument was built for him, and his wife Li Xingjie took her young children.
Wen Lishi, the son of the martyr Wen Yunzhi, was born on March 23, 1936, and was admitted to the Department of Physics of Nankai University in 1952 after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and then obtained the quota of studying in the Soviet Union with excellent results, and graduated from the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Moscow Iron and Steel Institute in 1960 and obtained the qualification of metallurgical engineer. He is a researcher at the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, an expert in thin film and nanotechnology, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a famous materials scientist, a solar energy technology giant, a researcher at the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a doctoral supervisor.
Academician Wen Lishi has a wide range of knowledge, proficient in Russian, German, English three foreign languages, no matter which language is used to make reports, he has been commended by the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the Chinese Academy of Sciences "Seventh Five-Year" major scientific research tasks advanced workers, received special government allowances from the State Council, and served as the chief engineer and scientific adviser of ANCIonCoating.Inc in the United States. However, on February 23, 2010, he was invited to Shenzhen Han's Laser to give a lecture on the development of the solar energy industry, due to the tight schedule, long continuous work overwork, sudden cerebral hemorrhage during the lecture, fainted on the podium, after treatment was ineffective, he died in Shenzhen at 17:30 on April 6, 2010, at the age of 74.