On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and the fourteen-year-long War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ended in the victory of the Chinese nation, and for this hard-won victory, countless people with lofty ideals threw their heads and spilled their blood and paid their precious lives, but fortunately we won the final victory, but just when the people of the whole country were immersed in the yearning for a better life, the Chiang Kai-shek government disregarded the desire of the people of the whole country for peaceful nation-building and disregarded the sincerity of our party's peaceful coexistence, and brazenly launched a civil war. The land of China, which has just ended the War of Resistance Against Japan, has once again fallen into the flames of war!
The three-year-long war of liberation in history finally ended with the victory of our party, but the war is bound to be accompanied by bloodshed and sacrifice, and there are countless heroes and sons of our party who sacrificed themselves at the hands of Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary government, many of whom died generously on the eve of the imminent liberation of the whole country and the coming light, and the slag hole and the white mansion in Chongqing Gele Mountain are the best witnesses of this history!
There is a way to "see the small and know", and we will explore this tragic history from the experience of an ordinary COMMANDER and fighter of the People's Liberation Army!
The COMMANDER and fighter of the People's Liberation Army was named Wu Zhengjun
Wu Zhengjun was born in 1918 in Yingcheng, Hubei Province, the Wu family is a local famous family, generations of business, accumulation of good, shops and real estate countless, unfortunately, the Wu family incense gradually withered, people are thin, to Wu Zhengjun's generation, it is only he a "single seedling", Wu parents and elders regard it as a treasure, for its famous teachers, teach him to read and write, teach him to be a person, hope that he can inherit the ancestral business, the Wu family will carry forward the Wu family!
Under the careful education of the elders, Wu Zhengjun gradually grew into a brave and resourceful person with great righteousness, but he was always not interested in doing business, nor was he willing to inherit his ancestral property, and he felt that he should have greater things to do! After the outbreak of the "Lugou Bridge Incident", Japan opened the prelude to an all-out invasion of China, Hubei Yingcheng also quickly fell, a group of Japanese troops rushed into Yingcheng to burn and loot, no evil, Wu Zhengjun, who witnessed the atrocities of the Japanese army, planted the seeds of hatred in his heart, he knew what he was going to do, he wanted to join the army, for his hometown fathers and fellow countrymen, for the people of the whole country!
After that, Wu Zhengjun ignored the opposition of his family and resolutely joined the army and was determined to serve his homeland
At that time, the unit chosen by Wu Zhengjun was the New Fourth Army under the leadership of our Party, and he believed that only a well-disciplined and vigorous army like the New Fourth Army could lead the people of the whole country to victory in the War of Resistance, because of the bravery of the battle and the high level of education, Wu Zhengjun soon grew into an excellent commander and fighter of the New Fourth Army!
Wu Zhengjun's parents saw that he had an iron heart to stay in the army, so they hurriedly arranged a family affair for him, sent the woman to the army to marry her, and the day after they became relatives, Wu Zhengjun sent his wife back to his hometown, and from then on he beat the devils without distraction!
One day in 1939, Wu Zhengjun got the news that soon there would be a Japanese army escorting supplies passing through their defense zone, and their superiors asked them to completely annihilate this Japanese army and seize the batch of materials, Wu Zhengjun took the initiative to ask for help, and led fifty soldiers to ambush the Japanese fleet where they had to pass, waiting for the arrival of the Japanese army, on March 9, several transport ships and fifty or sixty Japanese troops "arrived as promised", and after they entered the encirclement of our army, Wu Zhengjun resolutely ordered that the Japanese army be frantically strafed, and the Japanese army was caught off guard.
But quickly reacted, launched a counterattack on our army, Wu Zhengjun watched the Japanese army protect a Japanese officer in the middle, he shot and killed the Japanese officer, the leaderless Japanese army was quickly completely destroyed under the attack of our army, Wu Zhengjun led his men to seize the supplies and immediately retreated.
Wu Zhengjun, who returned to the unit, began to count their booty, and found that in addition to some guns and ammunition, there was also a military blanket embroidered with the four characters of Nakamura Gangwei, which was the Japanese officer's, and later the superior gave the military carpet as a reward to Wu Zhengjun.
On the second day of Wu Zhengjun's total annihilation of the Devil's Transport Team, the Japanese army carried out a crazy sweep of the defense area of Wu Zhengjun's unit, and later Wu Zhengjun learned that the Japanese commander who was killed by him was an extraordinary person, had a relationship with the Japanese emperor, and seemed to be a prince, so the Japanese army would look for the "murderer" like crazy.
On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and Wu Zhengjun finally waited for this day!
Shortly before the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wu Zhengjun took his wife from his hometown to the army, according to Wu Zhengjun's rank at that time, he could live in the army with his family, in April 1946, Wu Zhengjun's wife gave birth to a son, the Wu family was followed by someone, Wu Zhengjun was ecstatic, named his son Wu Jun'an, soon, Chiang Kai-shek brazenly launched a civil war, the front of the war was tight, Wu Zhengjun entrusted someone to send his wife and children back to his hometown, and when he was leaving, he wrapped the military blanket around his son.
Shortly after Wu Zhengjun's wife returned home, the Wu family received the news that Wu Zhengjun was wounded and captured, and since then Wu Zhengjun has been heard from, and everyone in the Wu family thinks that he has been martyred, and Wu Zhengjun's wife does not want to be widowed, leaving her young son and running away alone.
Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like shuttles, and in the blink of an eye, decades have passed, and Wu Jun'an has also changed from a baby waiting to be fed to an old man who is more than half a hundred years old and full of wind and frost!
For many years, Wu Jun'an has been looking for the traces of his father Wu Zhengjun, he has visited fangxian county where his father was captured many times, and there has been no news of his father, until he saw the name of his father Wu Zhengjun in the list of martyrs in Gele Mountain in Chongqing, he did not know that his father was imprisoned in the slag cave, and at this time it was sixty years since Wu Zhengjun was sacrificed!
In order to get more information, Wu Jun'an went to the Geleshan Archives to go through the archives, and learned that Wu Zhengjun was imprisoned in a prison in Wanxian County, Sichuan Province, after being injured and arrested in Fangxian County, Wu Zhengjun in prison still insisted on fighting, leading more than a hundred captured fighters to escape from prison successfully, and later in order to save a wounded soldier, Wu Zhengjun was arrested again, and was detained as the object of "key care", on November 27, 1949, on the eve of the liberation of Chongqing, Wu Zhengjun was heroic and righteous, only 31 years old!
brief summary:
After learning the news of his father, Wu Jun'an, who was more than half a hundred years old, could not cry, and years of searching finally had results, he did not expect that his father still had such a tragic history after his arrest, according to the People's Daily, in 2010, Wu Junan divided the military blanket captured by Wu Zhengjun into three pieces and donated one of them to the Chongqing Hongyan Museum.
Cao Zhi once wrote a "Seven-Step Poem", which said that "originally it was born from the same root, and he was too anxious to fry each other", wu Zhengjun, who did not sacrifice himself in the hands of the Japanese army, was killed by his own compatriots, which was really lamentable!
References: People's Daily, Seven Steps poems
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