An epidemic in early 2020 caught China off guard, and for a time the reasons were unknown, the shortage of equipment, and the sudden increase in the number of infected people came under pressure from all sides of the world, as if China had become the target of public criticism.
Even so, we still sorted out our thinking in thousands of clues, lockdowns, home isolation, screening and testing, and the scene of support from all sides is staged every day. Soon, we snuffed out the virus in the cradle, pouring out the greatest national strength in exchange for peace in all directions.
Today, the virus is still raging in countries around the world, and China has become a pure land. An epidemic has allowed the world to see the "Chinese speed" and also let outsiders understand the "Chinese spirit". Many people say that Chinese are very able to endure hardships because our nation has come out of suffering, and we deeply understand that "years are quiet" and precious.
The 25,000-mile Long March of that year amazed the world and proved ourselves. Faced with the difficult situation of encircling and chasing soldiers in front, the Red Army used its life to step out of a bloody road.
But in the process, there was a special figure - Wu Qiwei, who was a sworn enemy of the Red Army's Long March and the commander of the Kuomintang Group Army, but participated in the founding ceremony in 1949. Why can we tolerate a "sworn enemy" attending such an important occasion? What's so special about him?
A general who frequently encounters nobles
Wu Qiwei was born in 1891 and is a native of Guangdong. He is tall and looks more like an actor. He was born into a poor family with many siblings. To say that the reason why Wu Qiwei was able to achieve the position of commander of the Kuomintang group army later, he should thank two people in his life.
Although he was born into poverty, in Wu Qiwei's growth career, he has encountered noble people to help him many times, which can be described as a very lucky person.
The first nobleman was his uncle. Wu Qiwei was the fourth oldest in the family, and his parents, who had many children, had no time to take care of him, and from the age of ten, he left home to live with his uncle. At that time, Wu Qiwei's uncle opened shops in Lianping, Huizhou and other places, and he helped as a buddy in the shop.
Although Wu Qiwei is still young, he is sharp in his work and loves to use his brain. His uncle was also very fond of him, not only taking care of his food and clothing, but also funding him to graduate from high school.
After graduating from high school, he went to another place to continue to be a shop guy. During this period, he met a second nobleman and sponsored him to enter the Baoding Army Officer School. After graduation, he joined the army as a probationary platoon leader.
The god of luck seems to have been following him, because the first army he entered was the First Division of the Cantonese Army, which was brave and good, and had great achievements. He was well educated here, both politically and militarily.
The First Division fought many battles, and he also followed the team on the expedition, gaining a lot of valuable combat experience in actual combat, laying a solid foundation for his future career.
In 1926, Wu Qiwei participated in the Northern Expedition, although he was slightly older in the team at that time, but without the slightest fear of rushing to the front line, many battles down, he led the team to win repeated victories, got the recognition and praise of superior leaders and peers, and the Fourth Army he led was called "Iron Army".
After the end of the Northern Expedition, his contributions were obvious to all, so he was promoted one after another and joined Chiang Kai-shek's central army.
A sworn enemy of the Red Army on the Long March
Wu Qiwei was highly valued by Chiang Kai-shek and appointed commander of the Fourth Army, focusing on the encirclement and suppression of the Red Army in the Jiangxi region. Although Wu Qiwei had excellent performance in previous battles, he still underestimated the strength of the Red Army, and the first encirclement and suppression operation was attacked by the Red Army on both sides, and the damage was heavy.
But to Wu Qiwei's surprise, Chiang Kai-shek did not blame him for the defeat, but encouraged him, hoping that he could learn a lesson next time and turn defeat into victory. But in fact, Chiang Kai-shek has his own calculation in his heart, for Chiang Kai-shek, Wu Qiwei has not been his own person, and the clams compete with each other to win and win, and no matter who wins or loses, it will have little impact on him.
So Wu Qiwei followed Chiang Kai-shek in the fifth encirclement and suppression operation, and was incorporated into the Seventh Column, and the Central Red Army that fought against it this time was led by a temporary leader with insufficient actual combat experience.
After the failure of the Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression Campaign of the Red Army, it had no choice but to carry out a strategic shift and begin the Long March. Wu Qiwei can be described as a sworn enemy on the Long March of the Red Army. The Red Army marched twenty-five thousand miles, and he chased twenty thousand miles.
Because during the Long March, the Red Army decided to change its plan and turn the direction of travel to Qianbei, where the Kuomintang troops were weak, which was somewhat unexpected by Chiang Kai-shek, so he ordered Wu Qiwei to pursue him in the rear.
Although the team led by Wu Qiwei attacked fiercely at any cost, it still seemed inadequate in the face of famous generals such as Peng Dehuai, so although he pursued him all the way, he was still defeated repeatedly.
However, although it did not affect the pace of the Long March in the end, the back-and-forth tug-of-war also added a lot of trouble to the Red Army's Long March. But the brilliant general didn't always turn his guns on his countrymen.
It can only be said that at that time, the positions of the two sides were different and the goals were different, so that everyone could only meet each other, but later, the sworn enemy of the Red Army's Long March did make great achievements in resisting the Japanese invaders.
From the counterpart of the Red Army to the famous anti-Japanese general
When the Songhu Anti-Japanese War broke out in 1937, Wu Qiwei rushed to the battlefield as the deputy commander of the 19th Group Bureau and has been on the front line of the anti-Japanese resistance.
In the face of the rapid and fierce attack of enemy aircraft and artillery, Wu Qiwei exerted his excellent command skills, and did not let the fighters harden their hands, but adopted a roundabout "concealment tactic" - hiding when the enemy was bombarding indiscriminately, only fighting with the other side. After all, at that time, our combat equipment was limited, and if we rushed to confront, we would only suffer heavy casualties, and when the enemy approached, the bayonet against the bayonet would be evenly matched, so that the strength of the troops would not be wasted.
Although the Battle of Songhu ended in defeat, Wu Qiwei led his legion to face the enemy's strength that was a hundred times stronger than his own, but still caused a certain blow to the Japanese army, and his performance in the battle was also praised and recognized by people from all walks of life.
In the Battle of Wanjialing the following year, Wu Qiwei, as commander-in-chief of the Ninth Army, held a stalemate with the Japanese for more than 120 days along the southern foothills of Ruichang and Lushan. More than 10,000 enemy troops were annihilated with military equipment several times different from those of the Japanese army, and dozens of vehicles were captured.
This fierce battle, which lasted for 4 months, was won an unprecedented victory and was later called the "Great Victory of Wanjialing". Although the merits of this battle were ultimately attributed to Xue Yue, it was Wu Qiwei who actually carried out strategic deployment and front-line command.
In addition, the well-known "Great Victory in Western Hubei" was also under the command of Wu Qiwei, who ordered Hu Lian to hold the fortress to the death, so that the Japanese army spent a lot of time and troops still failed to capture, and had no choice but to retreat. Wu Qiwei also won the "Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun" for his victory in this battle.
By the time of the second Kuomintang-Communist civil war, Wu Qiwei was tired of this endless tug-of-war from the bottom of his heart and had been unable to find an illness, and the People's Liberation Army took this opportunity to persuade him ideologically, and slowly Wu Qiwei also accepted this change, and united seven Kuomintang military and political personnel in eastern Guangdong to successfully revolt, to which Chairman Mao and President Zhu personally called to welcome him.
On October 1, 1949, Wu Qiwei attended the founding ceremony as a representative of the South China People's Liberation Army.
brief summary:
Wu Qiwei's life was fortunate and ups and downs, in fact, he has always stood on the side of the country in his heart, but because the political factions invested in the early days were different, he once stood against the people. But the wisdom and heroism he showed in the War of Resistance Against Japan was obvious to all.
As the ruling party of the People's Republic of China, the Communist Party has always been tolerant of right and wrong, even in the face of the former antagonistic object, as long as he has the heart to change, we will still gladly accept and welcome, and Wu Qiwei is indeed a rare military material.
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