In September 1948, the weather in Jinan was particularly hot, and Wang Yaowu, who was then the commander of the Second Appeasement District of the Kuomintang, was also extremely irritable and had been walking around the headquarters. At that time, Jinan was already surrounded by plausies of the People's Liberation Army, and it was only a matter of time before it was captured.
Wang Yaowu also told Du Yuming a month ago that he would stick to Jinan, but he knew in his heart that with these troops in front of him, Jinan could not be defended at all. Coupled with the wild rumors outside, "Break into Jinan Province, capture Wang Yaowu alive", which makes Wang Yaowu's heart even heavier.
Wang Yaowu was worried, and the office door suddenly slammed, and these noises pulled Wang Yaowu back to the real world. Wang Yaowu fixed his mind and said, "Come in." ”
The person who walked in was Liu Qinli, then the chief of the Jinan Municipal Police Bureau, who held a folder in his hand and respectfully placed it on Wang Yaowu's desk and said: "The commander has a document about prison inmates here, which you need to sign." ”
After Wang Yaowu opened the folder, he did not sign it, but was stunned. Liu Qinli whispered to Wang Yaowu: "The commander is in an urgent situation now, and you have made a decision earlier. After hearing Liu Qinli speak
Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Yaowu
Wang Yaowu strode to his desk and picked up a pen, ticked off the "secret tailor" in the document, and then wrote the four words "all released" in the blank space next to it, pausing for a moment, Wang Yaowu was still a little uneasy. He also commented in the blank space below: "Do not stay in the city, immediately send out of Jinan separately!" Then he put down his pen and closed the folder.
Liu Qinli immediately took the folder and went outside the door, opened the folder before going out, looked at it, suddenly turned around and walked back quickly. Surprised, he asked Wang Yaowu: "Commander, do you really want to do this..." Liu Qinli had been stating to Wang Yaowu the stakes in this matter.
Wang Yaowu immediately interrupted Liu Qinli's speech and said, "That's it! To release all the underground parties, there is no need to do absolutely nothing." But Liu Qinli still stood in the same place with a puzzled face, and Wang Yaowu suddenly raised his voice and said, "I am the commander who does as I say, and I will bear any consequences." ”
At this moment, Liu Qinli was still persuading Wang Yaowu to change his mind, but he did not expect Wang Yaowu to suddenly touch the pistol around his waist and shouted: "Let go, hurry up and do it." Wang Yaowu rarely got angry, and seeing Wang Yaowu like this, Liu Qinli was frightened, crawled with a rolling belt, and quickly left Wang Yaowu's office.
Why did Wang Yaowu do this? Is it to leave a way back for yourself? Or did Wang Yaowu's conscience discover it?
Looking back at Wang Yaowu's growth experience, we will find the reason behind it. In 1904, Wang Yaowu was born in Wangzhuang, Tai'an County, Shandong Province, to an ordinary peasant family, although the world was very chaotic at that time, but Wang Yaowu's family was still living a fair life.
However, the moon has clouds and sunshine, people have bad luck, in Wang Yaowu's childhood, his father and brother died of illness, and the young Wang Yaowu and his mother depended on each other for their lives. Although life was very difficult, Wang Yaowu's mother saved money by saving money. Wang Yaowu was sent to a private school to study, where Wang Yaowu received his initial enlightenment education.
Wang Yaowu
Later, due to his family's poverty, Wang Yaowu could only drop out of school to work. At the age of 19, Wang Yaowu came to Tianjin and worked as a handyman in a tobacco company under the introduction of relatives. In order to find a way out, he came to the big city of Shanghai and found a career in a candy store to make a living.
The young Wang Yaowu did not want to live like this for a lifetime, and later heard about the enrollment of the Whampoa Military Academy, and Wang Yaowu applied for the Whampoa Military Academy with full ambition and became one of the third batch of cadets of the Whampoa Military Academy. During his studies in school, Wang Yaowu worked hard and performed well in his homework.
After graduating from school, he was assigned to the Fourth Company of the Third Regiment of the First Division of the National Revolutionary Army as a second lieutenant platoon leader. Later, Wang Yaowu participated in the Second Northern Expedition and the Central Plains War, and made outstanding achievements in the battlefield, and was promoted to regimental commander in 1931.
Wang Yaowu was a fierce enemy of the Red Army during the Ten Years' War. In 1932, Wang Yaowu participated in the fourth encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, and because of his military achievements in Yihuang, he was promoted to the commander of the First Supplementary Brigade.
1934 was the year of Wang Yaowu's flying Huang Tengda. In September 1934, according to the order of the central government, in order to alleviate the pressure faced by the central Red Army, Xun Huaizhou led the Red Seventh Army to western Zhejiang and formed the Red Tenth Army with the Red Tenth Army and local armed forces in the Gansu District of Fujian, Zhejiang and Gansu.
The Red Tenth Army was chaired by Fang Zhimin and Liu Yuxi was the commander of the regiment, and there were three divisions under its jurisdiction, namely the 19th, 20th, and 21st Divisions, and the division commanders of the three divisions were Xun Huaizhou, Liu Yuxi, and Hu Tiantao. Among them, the 19th division is composed of veterans and has strong combat effectiveness, while the 20th and 21st divisions are composed of new recruits and lack combat experience.
After the formation of the Red Tenth Army, Chiang Kai-shek was rested and immediately sent troops to surround and suppress the Red Tenth Army. Among them was the Supplementary First Brigade led by Wang Yaowu, which, although its name was very common, was an elite Kuomintang unit, and the brigade commander Wang Yaowu was able to fight well, so its combat effectiveness was very strong.
In the pursuit of the Red Tenth Army, the Supplementary First Brigade had gone deep alone. By the time it reached Tanjia Bridge at the eastern foot of the Yellow Mountains, the First Supplementary Brigade had already pulled away from the main force. Seeing this opportunity, the regimental commander Liu Yuxi prepared to fight a beautiful ambush battle and completely annihilate the supplementary First Brigade.
Unfortunately, Liu Yuxi misestimated the enemy's strength, coupled with a major mistake in command, arranged the newly formed 20th and 21st Divisions to fight an ambush in the front, while the 19th Division, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, was arranged to intersperse behind the supplementary First Brigade. During the ambush, a small soldier accidentally fired his rifle because of nervousness, and the ambush battle turned into an encounter.
Before Wang Yaowu reached Tanjia Bridge, he had already given way to a regimental hall in advance to prevent being surrounded by the Red Army. When the battle began, Wang Yaowu immediately ordered his soldiers to quickly occupy the high ground on both sides of the valley. Using superior firepower to launch a charge against the Red Army, although the Red Army was brave and tenacious, the defensive line was soon torn open by Wang Yaowu.
After occupying the commanding heights, Wang Yaowu completely reversed the situation on the battlefield and changed from passive to active. When Xun Huaizhou arrived with the commander of the 19th Division, Wang Yaowu had completely occupied the favorable terrain, and Xun Huaizhou saw this situation.
Immediately lead the troops to launch a charge, trying to regain the commanding heights. After several hours of bloody fighting, although Xun Huaizhou regained the commanding heights, the troops suffered heavy losses and were unable to attack again. It was even more unfortunate that Xun Huaizhou was shot and killed in battle, and a genius-level general was lost.
The battle was fought from morning to afternoon, Fang Zhimin saw that it was impossible to recover the defeat, and could only order a retreat, at this time Wang Yaowu supplemented the first brigade was also exhausted and could not fight anymore, so it gave up the pursuit, and the Red Tenth Army was basically exhausted. After the battle, Wang Yaowu was promoted to division commander for his merits.
The Red Tenth Army was forced to carry out the transfer, but the weather was particularly cold, and many of the soldiers were still wearing single clothes, so many were frostbitten and lost their combat effectiveness. Later, due to the mistake of the red tenth army commander Liu Yuxi, the red tenth army was completely surrounded by the enemy Fang Zhimin, Liu Yuxi, and Hu Tiantao were captured by the enemy respectively.
Su Yu and Wang Yaowu
In the end, only Su Yu led 400 people to break through the siege, leaving behind the seeds of the Red Tenth Army, and from then on Su Yu opened the road of the God of War, and many years later captured Wang Yaowu in the Battle of Jinan.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Yaowu led the Fifty-first Division and rushed to the front to participate in the Battle of Songhu, especially in the Battle of Luodian. In the Battle of Luodian, Wang Yaowu repeatedly launched night battles against the Japanese army, which made the Japanese army miserable, and even eliminated more than 5 million Japanese troops in one battle.
After the Battle of Songhu, Wang Yaowu participated in the Defense of Nanjing and the Battle of Lanfeng. In the later Battle of Wanjialing, the Japanese army was severely damaged, and more than 10,000 Japanese troops were eliminated with the cooperation of other units. It is also an example of the Chinese army completely annihilating one Japanese division and regiment at a time during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which is of particularly great significance!
Battle of Songhu
With his performance in this battle, Wang Yaowu was promoted to deputy commander of the 74th Army, and a year later became the commander of the 74th Army. In the later stages of the War of Resistance, Wang Yaowu commanded the Battle of Xuefeng Mountain, in which 28,000 Japanese troops were killed under Wang Yaowu's command.
Wang Yaowu fought from the outbreak of the War of Resistance to the victory of the War of Resistance, and it can be said that he filled the whole field. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a slogan was circulated in the Japanese army, "Rather touch the King of Yan, do not touch the Old King", which shows how powerful Wang Yaowu was in the War of Resistance.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek brazenly provoked a civil war against the wishes of the people of the whole country, and Wang Yaowu followed Chiang Kai-shek to participate in the civil war. He was later captured by the People's Liberation Army during the Battle of Jinan. Moreover, after the Huaihai Campaign began, Wang Yaowu, together with 12 captured senior Kuomintang generals, wrote a "Letter to the Officers and Men of the Kuomintang," which played an important role in the Battle of Huaihai.
After the founding of New China, Wang Yaowu and other senior Kuomintang generals were transformed in the Gongdelin Forest. When Wang Yaowu first came to Gongdelin, he saw his former friends Du Yuming, Wen Qiang and others. Du Yuming was more familiar to everyone, and Wen Qiang was a Kuomintang lieutenant general, and before he was captured, he was the deputy chief of general staff of the Kuomintang Xuzhou Forward Command Post.
Wang Yaowu once again asked Wen Qiang how the Kuomintang reacted after he was captured. Wen Qiang smiled and said, "Chiang Kai-shek scolded you for being a soft-boned and hypocrite!" After hearing this sentence, Wang Yaowu directly fainted.
Fortunately, the rescue was timely, and nothing major happened. It can be seen how much this sentence hurt Wang Yaowu. However, after that, Wang Yaowu actively accepted the reform in Gongdelin and became a study committee member of the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Institute.
He was later pardoned in 1959 for his good performance during the reform. Wang Yaowu had always had a wish before he was pardoned, hoping to meet his opponent Su Yu.
Not only are heroes cherish heroes, but also because they heard Su Yu's evaluation of themselves during the transformation of Gong Delin, Wang Yaowu was simply impressed after listening to Su Yu's evaluation, and it turned out that the person who knew him best was an opponent on the battlefield. Later, after many times, the two finally met, talked about wine, and met with a smile and a vendetta.
In 1968, Wang Yaowu died of illness in Beijing, and after his death, his ashes were buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.